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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Anyone want to collaborate on a local-first AI-based research assistant

Ask HN: Anyone want to collaborate on a local-first AI-based research assistant 2 by venkatram-s | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN Community, I'm Venkatram, a sophomore who's on a mission to build a local alternative to proprietary third-party AI-based research assistants. The idea is to turn documents into researchable assets that contain as much as information as the original information does, but it's more reusable. Well, quite frankly, this is still under a WORK IN PROGRESS, so i'm still figuring on how it can be properly used, and I got to be honest here, i definitely need some help to build this, so if you wish, you are welcome! TlDR: NotebookLM, but Locally with your OWN AI Model Github: https://ift.tt/owa9iV3

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: MicroVM setup for VS Code Dev Container-like experience?

Ask HN: MicroVM setup for VS Code Dev Container-like experience? 2 by Erndob | 2 comments on Hacker News. My current setup is just doing my entire development in a dev container that is running locally. I open VS Code, I open the local folder in a dev container. The local folder gets mounted into container for persistent changes. The container dockerfile is my setup of dev dependencies. Within the container I can do whatever global installs I want that persist between sessions, and the project edits persist on host machine. That works and I like the setup. I can run CLI codent agent in the terminal of VS Code, while still having good dev experience. Now, I would like to have basically this flow but be MicroVM based, where the main thing I solve is allowing me to run docker inside that microvm, as docker-in-docker does not work well. Additionally if I could use secrets without them being exposed in the microvm itself, that would be amazing. But I've spent a good amount of time ch...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Do you waste AI assisted time looking for answers?

Ask HN: Do you waste AI assisted time looking for answers? 2 by Haeuserschlucht | 0 comments on Hacker News. Do you ask AI your most challenging problems, it delivers some good answers and you act on none of them? Are you secretly assuming problems would solve themselves in your sleep?

New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: Anthropic won't reset usage limits for those who downgraded

Tell HN: Anthropic won't reset usage limits for those who downgraded 2 by vintagedave | 0 comments on Hacker News. On March 27, I contacted Anthropic Support reporting I hit usage limits very early. On 13 April, I emailed again asking about usage issues (like many others): I started that Monday with 72% of my usage used. On 17 April, after three weeks of the first open support thread, disappointed in their replies to the second, and exactly six days before their published post-mortem and their promise to reset usage limits, I downgraded my account from Max to Pro, and updated the support thread with that info. > Today we are resetting usage limits for all subscribers. -- Yesterday's post: https://ift.tt/strY8vP I followed up today to ask if this applied to me, noting, > Does this [reset usage promise] apply to my account? And how many weeks worth of usage is reset, please? I note there was ongoing impact for significant time. Their reply: > Unfortunately, this subsc...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Any Developer from Wales?

Ask HN: Any Developer from Wales? 3 by danver0 | 1 comments on Hacker News. how's the dev job market there ? or do you work in UK ?

New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: Claude 4.7 is ignoring stop hooks

Tell HN: Claude 4.7 is ignoring stop hooks 33 by LatencyKills | 16 comments on Hacker News. I've been using Anthropic's hook features [0] since they were introduced. It allows me to inject determinism into my workflows. This worked perfectly until 4.7. Now, Claude routinely ignores the hook rules. For example, I have a stop hook that prevents Claude from stopping if a source file has been changed and no tests have been run. Here's the relvant part of the script: # Source edits made without a subsequent test run -> block the stop. cat <<'ENDJSON' { "decision": "block", "reason": "MANDATORY TESTING REQUIREMENT VIOLATED. You modified source files after the last test run (or never ran tests this turn). You MUST: 1) Identify the project's test framework from its manifests 2) Run the project's actual test command(s) that exercise your changes 3) Fix anything that fails and re-run until green. If no tests exist for the...

New ask Hacker News story: Can non-developer build commercial products with AI

Can non-developer build commercial products with AI 2 by rkorlimarla | 5 comments on Hacker News. I honestly think that even with AGI or ACI; without deep understanding of technical architectures and fundamentals , the last 10 miles will be tough! When I tried to build products using Claude Code, i had to interject , either to correct the code or suggest alternative SW designs, for the last few miles. And then operations/maintenance definitely required deeper intervention. Thankfully, I am faily technical - Wondering, if anyone else was able to accomplish this, being totally hands-off?