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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Anyone else feeling uneasy with the latest developments in AI?

Ask HN: Anyone else feeling uneasy with the latest developments in AI? 3 by sensitivekt9q3 | 4 comments on Hacker News. I'm feeling extremely depressed and anxious lately. After seeing Astra saturating ARC-AGI-3 and blowing through many other benchmarks, it's hard to believe we won't have a strong form of AGI by the end of this year, or the next one at the latest. I don't understand why we're not seeing a MASSIVE clamor for a pause in the further development of AI strength. Even if we don't know how to coordinate and enforce such a pause yet (at the multi-nation level), it seems we're not spending any effort in figuring how to. I see a lot of people dismissing warnings from the frontier companies themselves as nothing but "marketing and generating hype". I myself can't call "marketing and hype" the kind of capability I see before my very eyes and interact with every day, at work and in everyday life otherwise. Posts like the recent...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: 3.5 inch diskette read errors, would a period correct drive do better?

Ask HN: 3.5 inch diskette read errors, would a period correct drive do better? 5 by rietta | 5 comments on Hacker News. My first attempt at restoring 1991 Learning Company Spellbound for DOS for my children is dubious. Despite being stored nowhere near magnetic sources, there are read errors on the 3.5 inch floppies and Linux could not mount them. ddrescue extracted data but I have not confirmed it works. The box also have 5.25 inch disks but I do not have a reader online at the moment, that is its own project. My technical question is this, the USB 3.5 inch drive I have is a "USB Portable Diskette Drive" that was Made in China but has no obvious sponsoring branding. If I take the time to bring back to life a more period correct system with an actual IDE floppy drive would it read the disks more accurately? My goal is to get more of this good DOS and early Windows educational software working for my children. This particular title is meaningful because I have the actual bo...
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New ask Hacker News story: Do you ever struggle to find another programmer to work on a project/pair with?

Do you ever struggle to find another programmer to work on a project/pair with? 2 by rizsyed1 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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New ask Hacker News story: Bun rewrite and FLT formalization had nearly identical resource usage

Bun rewrite and FLT formalization had nearly identical resource usage 4 by Zsfe510asG | 1 comments on Hacker News. The Bun rewrite took 11 days and used 5.9B tokens: https://ift.tt/iy1CJZO The FLT formalization took 11 days (!) and used 6B tokens. Why the similar numbers? Why are the numbers so low? 6B is just enough for 6 agents at 1000 tokens/s running for 11 days.
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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.
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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?
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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...
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