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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Best AI IDE right now?

Ask HN: Best AI IDE right now? 2 by funerr | 2 comments on Hacker News. I've been using Cursor for the last couple of months but I'm feeling like I might be hitting the limits of Cursor. I'm seeing a lot of forgetting and problems with my codebase getting larger, and it having problems with my mono repo structure. 1. Is there a better AI IDE that remembers when I correct it about structural issues I have with it? 2. Is there an AI IDE that is test-first? helping me see if I break something over time? 3. Any IDEs you recommend me checking out? or tips on fixing cursor?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: As an eng leader, how useful is AI-generated internal documentation?

Ask HN: As an eng leader, how useful is AI-generated internal documentation? 2 by hsiYwko | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN! This past weekend, I built a tool called GitSummarize, it's an open-source ai-powered documentation tool. Given any public GitHub repository it generates high-quality documentation from the codebase using Gemini 2.5 Pro. Specifically, it tries to extract the tribal knowledge, business logic/rules embedded within codebases. Pro Tip: You can replace "hub" with "summarize" in any repository URL to access its documentation. I created this because there was a steep learning curve to understanding some of the open-source codebases out there while getting started with contributing. Having detailed documentation would have been super helpful in those situations. This project was heavily inspired by GitIngest and GitDiagram so make sure to check those out as well! Give it a try and I would appreciate any feedback! Would also love to know how us...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Did GitHub remove the raw diff

Ask HN: Did GitHub remove the raw diff 3 by withinboredom | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm either going crazy, or GitHub removed/moved the raw diff ability. You used to be able to get a raw diff from a PR by just adding ".diff" to the url, but it appears it doesn't work anymore. I generally use this when receiving a PR and don't want to go through the hassle of checking out their branch, so I would just grab the raw diff and apply it locally. This seems to have gone away though. Is this a bug or something? Has anyone else noticed this issue and found a work around?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Looking to Break into Cybersecurity – Where Do I Start?

Ask HN: Looking to Break into Cybersecurity – Where Do I Start? 3 by OulaX | 3 comments on Hacker News. I have a degree in Computer Science and currently work as a frontend web developer. I live in a developing country where there’s no shortage of software developers who build systems for both personal and governmental use. However, many of these systems have serious gaps when it comes to security. What’s really missing here are skilled cybersecurity specialists. From a career perspective, I see this as an opportunity to grow locally and contribute where there’s a real need. That said, I’m not sure how or where to begin. I’ve done some research, but getting started in cybersecurity doesn’t seem as straightforward as in other fields. I’d really appreciate any advice or tips on how to get started and move in the right direction!

New ask Hacker News story: Novel Logic-Enhanced LLM for Improved Symbolic Reasoning

Novel Logic-Enhanced LLM for Improved Symbolic Reasoning 3 by N3Xxus_6 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I’m experimenting with a novel approach that integrates symbolic logic directly into a transformer’s attention mechanism. By using a custom spaCy-based logic parser, I generate a “logic mask” that guides the self-attention layers to focus on logical constructs. In preliminary tests with a fine-tuned LLaMA 3 8B model, this method has shown promising improvements on symbolic reasoning tasks (e.g., achieving around 62% on the FOLIO dataset). I’m eager to hear thoughts and suggestions from the community on further refining this approach. Also please note I don’t have a PhD nor masters in machine learning. Happy to take any criticism good or bad. :) https://ift.tt/AGKrW0y

New ask Hacker News story: For a solo funder, I think social is to connect on the internet

For a solo funder, I think social is to connect on the internet 4 by jeyzolo | 1 comments on Hacker News. As an independent developer, I write code at home every day. I have been wondering if I am too out of the market and want to go out. Thinking of my social scope, it seems that my social scope is about housewives and church friends, and it is actually difficult to get in touch with more people. I shot on Twitter, etc., communicating more with people on social media may be more important.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Which Opens Source Software have the sexiest code?

Ask HN: Which Opens Source Software have the sexiest code? 5 by milkoolong | 1 comments on Hacker News. I heard reading well-written code can improve my skills. Instead of reading top-rated projects on GitHub, which I do, I thought to ask the community to share their favorite OSS they believe to have examplary code.