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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Would you pay for a privacy-first social platform?

Ask HN: Would you pay for a privacy-first social platform? 4 by sammiej | 7 comments on Hacker News. I'm researching demand for an end-to-end encrypted social platform focused on private groups (family/friends) rather than public feeds. Core thesis: "They don't own you" is becoming a movement. People want: - E2E encryption (platform can't read content) - True deletion (cryptographic, not just "marked as deleted") - Subscription model (no ads, no data mining) - Open source (verifiable claims) The gap: Signal is for messaging, Discord isn't private, Facebook is surveillance capitalism. Nothing serves the "private social groups" use case with real privacy. Before building, I need to validate if this is a real pain point or just something that sounds nice but nobody would actually switch for. 2-min anonymous survey: https://forms.gle/bfZYPfxMUBCc1iACA Honest feedback appreciated—especially if the answer is "this wouldn't work becaus...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Should I learn Docker to deploy my app in VPS?

Ask HN: Should I learn Docker to deploy my app in VPS? 3 by danver0 | 3 comments on Hacker News. for more context, my primary language is javascript, but lately i started learning Golang,in the past i only use normal hosting providers to host my nodejs apps

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Best way to find chill job where I can learn and grow as a swe

Ask HN: Best way to find chill job where I can learn and grow as a swe 5 by digitdiglet | 1 comments on Hacker News. Just got laid off from a chill swe job. It was remote. F. What is the quickest way to get a chill remote job where I have responsibilities and autonomy? 5YOE in JS Fullstack/ Python. SF. On student visa.

New ask Hacker News story: The Abstraction Trap: Why Layers Are Lobotomizing Your Model

The Abstraction Trap: Why Layers Are Lobotomizing Your Model 2 by blas0 | 1 comments on Hacker News. The "modern" AI stack has a hidden performance problem: abstraction debt. We have spent the last two years wrapping LLMs in complex IDEs and orchestration frameworks, ostensibly for "developer experience". The research suggests this is a mistake. These wrappers truncate context to maintain low UI latency, effectively crippling the model's ability to perform deep, long-horizon reasoning & execution. --- The most performant architecture is surprisingly primitive: - raw Claude Code CLI usage - native Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations - rigorous context engineering via `CLAUDE.md` Why does this "naked" stack outperform? First, Context Integrity . Native usage allows full access to the 200k+ token window without the artificial caps imposed by chat interfaces. Second, Deterministic Orchestration . Instead of relying on autonomous agent loops th...

New ask Hacker News story: Working on decentralized compute at io.net sharing what we're learning

Working on decentralized compute at io.net sharing what we're learning 2 by plutodev | 2 comments on Hacker News. I’m part of the Developer Crew at io.net, where we’re working on decentralized compute for AI workloads and agent-based systems. My focus here isn’t promotion, but sharing practical learnings from the builder side things like how AI agents behave when compute is modular, what breaks in real usage, and how developers actually think about decentralized infra in production. I’m here to learn from the community, contribute where I can, and exchange notes with others building or experimenting in this space. Happy to answer questions or dig into specifics if useful.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Feeling irrelevant in back end. How to pivot to automotive software?

Ask HN: Feeling irrelevant in back end. How to pivot to automotive software? 2 by culopatin | 3 comments on Hacker News. I have a decade of mixed experience: 10+ years in IT, 2 years on a professional motorsports team (Tony Kart, Ducati, Miata), and 4 years in software (refactoring old .NET to Spring Boot/Angular and some greenfield projects). I self-taught my way into dev and finished a CS degree while working. I’m currently at a {big_slow_corp} and feeling the AI squeeze trying to switch jobs. My exp is not public facing so the “experience building scalable apps to disrupt the market” requirement I think is my weakness. I’ve also realized my heart isn’t in web frameworks. I’m the guy bored on a plane talking to his gf about flap software, throttle response, and suspension geometry like a kid showing a toy to his mom. I want to move "closer to the metal", ECUs, controlling machinery, I’d love ML applied to machinery, even infotainments!, but my professional resume is stri...