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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Do global AGENTS.md with coding principles make sense?

Ask HN: Do global AGENTS.md with coding principles make sense? 2 by endorphine | 1 comments on Hacker News. For example, greenfield advice like: "prefer clear over clever code. Strive for maintainable, simple and testable code etc". Do these kind of vague advice make sense to have on an AGENTS.md file? And if so, any reason to not have it in the global one?

New ask Hacker News story: Tadpole the Language for Scraping 0.2.0 – Complex Control Flow, Stealth and More

Tadpole the Language for Scraping 0.2.0 – Complex Control Flow, Stealth and More 4 by zachperkitny | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hello, I posted a few weeks ago about my custom scraping language. It definitely got some traction, which was very exciting to see. Github Repo: https://ift.tt/Odbw8JD Docs: https://tadpolehq.com/ The past 2 weeks, I've been focusing my efforts in introducing specific stealth actions, more complicated control flow actions and a lot of various evaluators for cleaning data. Here is an example for scraping from `books.toscrape.com` main { new_page { goto "https://ift.tt/keyLRbP" loop { do { $$ article.product_pod { extract "books[]" { title { $ "h3 a"; attr title } rating { $ ".star-rating"; attr "class"; extract "star-rating (One|Two|Three|Four|Five)" caseInsensitive=#true; func "(v) => ({'one': 1, 'two': 2, 'three': 3, 'four': 4, 'five': 5}[v.toLow...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Share your vibe coded project

Ask HN: Share your vibe coded project 2 by firefoxd | 2 comments on Hacker News. Many hn users often partially talk about their use case of AI. Orchestrating agents, managing code and PRs. But they rarely talk about the project itself. If you have any of those projects, or just heavily AI assisted project, please share it here.

New ask Hacker News story: See The Software "Engineer" Gig Of The Future. It's Orwellian AF

See The Software "Engineer" Gig Of The Future. It's Orwellian AF 2 by burnerToBetOut | 0 comments on Hacker News. Uncle Sam — by proxy — Wants You! Big Brother does, too… ____ The Non-Negotiables: How We Work … • … We leave video links open while we eat lunch. Our pets and kids know our coworkers … ____ If the graphics on their site [1] are anything to go by, that company is essentially a defense contractor. The CTO running that Onebrief shop is the guy [2] that prompted the prediction I made in another post [3]. Coincidentally, I came across a blog post recently [4] where the blogger describes the above job description's way of working playing out IRL. [1] https://ift.tt/Z7JAnqU [2] https://ift.tt/2avPgqd [3] https://ift.tt/kQG5uv6 [4] https://ift.tt/su54DSp

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Ranking sliders on a personal blog?

Ask HN: Ranking sliders on a personal blog? 2 by incognito124 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi, A few months ago, I came across a personal blog here on HN with the main feature being about ~4 sliders that change the weights of all posts and rank them in real time. I think some of the sliders were for "popularity", "recency" and perhaps "author's score". I also think, but I'm not sure, that the blog featured general ML topics. I played with the sliders for sometime and had a great time exploring the blog, but I have since failed to find it again. I should've bookmark it then. Does anyone have some clue about it? Much appreciated

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What's the best realtime, local, TTS solution? Live call interpretation

Ask HN: What's the best realtime, local, TTS solution? Live call interpretation 3 by Wright007 | 1 comments on Hacker News. So I'm trying to build a system that listens to calls as they're happening. All implementations antigravity/codex/cursor throws out have been really janky and ineffective. Spent a couple days prompt engineering without finding an elegant solution. Anybody have insights?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What explains the recent surge in LLM coding capabilities?

Ask HN: What explains the recent surge in LLM coding capabilities? 5 by orange_puff | 1 comments on Hacker News. It seems like we are in the midst of another AI hype cycle. Many people are calling the current coding models an "inflection point", where now the capabilities are so high that future model growth will be explosive. I have heard serious people, like economics writer Noah Smith, make this argument [0]. But it's not just the commentariat. I have seen very serious people in software engineering and tech talk about the ways in which their coding habits have change drastically. Benchmarks [1] alone don't seem to capture everything, although there have been jumps in the agentic sections, so maybe they actually do. My question is; what explains these big jumps in capabilities that many serious people seem to be noticing all at once? Is it simply that we have thrown enough data and compute at the models, or instead, are labs perhaps fine-tuning models to get rea...