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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Show your micro-SaaS (September 2026)

Ask HN: Show your micro-SaaS (September 2026) 3 by genekrapivin | 0 comments on Hacker News. HN is a fantastic founder community. We, the people, love transparency, numbers, and analyzing bootstrapped business models. What is your current project? Share your wins, losses, and tech stack. Share monthly recurring revenue (MRR) if you feel like.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: UK Rescue Rocket Sheds/Houses Information

Ask HN: UK Rescue Rocket Sheds/Houses Information 10 by burnt-resistor | 6 comments on Hacker News. I can't seem to find pictures or significant details (nothing on Wikipedia) about the coastal buildings purportedly used to contain shipwreck rescue rocket apparatus. Many of the buildings still exist and are Grade II listed. Anyone have any additional anecdotal/local/oral tradition information that isn't found in the little blurbs online on the few websites mentioning them?

New ask Hacker News story: Cutting (Claude Code) token spend on dynamic workflows 80%

Cutting (Claude Code) token spend on dynamic workflows 80% 2 by gojkoa | 0 comments on Hacker News. Discovered something very interesting by chance a few days ago, and thought it might be interesting for other people running dynamic workflows with claude code. The workflow scripts themselves are javascript. Claude code knows the format and it can make a tool that composes workflows instead of going through LLM each time. I got it to do that, and with a few more tweaks it got the token spend for workflow execution and monitoring down to about 20% of what it was before, significantly speeding it up (most of our workflows used to take 5-6 hours, they now take 20-40 minutes). We got Claude to analyze the workflows from the past few weeks (the workflow execution is on disk, in ~/.claude/projects) and identify commonalities between them. It turned out to be effectively 3 kinds of workflow steps, done in a million ad-hoc ways. - a code change agent/implementer/worker - this takes a task fr...

New ask Hacker News story: MITx is ending access to its courses for learners in Iran on September 8

MITx is ending access to its courses for learners in Iran on September 8 4 by mahdihabibi | 1 comments on Hacker News. I received an email from MITx today saying that, following changes announced by the U.S. Department of the Treasury on August 24, MITx will no longer be able to provide course access or related services to people in Iran or ordinarily resident in Iran. The cutoff is September 8, 2026. This is just sad. MITOCW has been my primary resource for learning engineering math and has been absolutely amazing. I wonder if I can keep using it using a VPN. And what will happen to those who already enrolled in a course?

New ask Hacker News story: Astra still fails at creating acceptable Rotational Ambigram

Astra still fails at creating acceptable Rotational Ambigram 2 by das_vicky | 1 comments on Hacker News. I have tried quite few different prompts, but Astra still fails to create decent Rotational Ambigram. Anyone tried?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How do you build organic traction as an indie dev?

Ask HN: How do you build organic traction as an indie dev? 3 by charm137 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I have recently become a fulltime indie gamedev. While I'm willing to trust myself on technical and creative output, the topic of getting the word out that I might release something interesting and worth people's time seems to have become increasingly daunting. Most popular technical channels like HN / specific sub-reddits require active community participation and "karma-farming" just to be able to post something, which is hard for me to spend time on (I'd rather work on my stuff). Twitter(X) / Bluesky have low visibility for gamedev topics. All text-focused websites seem to have become really hard organic marketing channels especially after AI slop came in. IG / Tiktok / Twitch would be channels I'd rather use when I get into the actual spending-marketing-dollars mode (i.e., inorganic; which is also when I'd get into Steam / App Store level marketing...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Why isn't there a cursor for video games development

Ask HN: Why isn't there a cursor for video games development 2 by JimsonYang | 1 comments on Hacker News. So I was prototyping with claude code and Godot engine, and I thought it was weird that this specific category of AI isn't as big as video gen creative suites. Like theres big names like runway and higgsfield but when it comes to video games there's no major company trying to make a one stop shop using AI to make video games. I'm sure it isn't because of a lack of trying, I'm sure developers thought about it as one of the first things to automate. If I had to guess there's a couple reasons: 1)Quality-making a good game requires extreme attention to detail all of which is non coding related. The animations on idle characters, how the background characters look, the sound design and clever story. 90% of gaming is art 2) backlash from players. I think this is an important factor but not the dominant factor. For reasons like games like Slotbound have had ...