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New ask Hacker News story: Booking.com and Weaviate

Booking.com and Weaviate 2 by CShorten | 0 comments on Hacker News. Vector search looks easy, until you hit production scale. I'm super excited to share a new episode of the Weaviate Podcast with Başak from @bookingcom on production-scale vector search, RAG, and agentic AI with @weaviate_io! The podcast begins by discussing Booking's tipping point into adopting vector search and emerging use cases. The scale of Partner-to-Guest messaging alone is insane! There are nearly 250,000 such exchanges daily , and Booking's Agent is already helping with 10s of thousands of these! Başak describes how the team navigated increasing scale and workload complexity. They ran an exhaustive evaluation of Weaviate with 100M embeddings and tests often left out of common ANN benchmarks. This includes Filtered Vector Search, Multi-Threaded Concurrency, and testing with simultaneous Reads and Writes. The podcast concludes with Başak's career journey to Booking and her thoughts on Travel A...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Could free/low cost LLMs be a momentary thing?

Ask HN: Could free/low cost LLMs be a momentary thing? 4 by senda | 8 comments on Hacker News. Say they(OpenAi Etc)don’t find a way to reduce the cost of running these LLMs. Will we shift towards slower/worse LLMs running locally? Or maybe enterprise ones only used by large corporations for specific tasks? Will the era of using these to generate code end? Is the assume that the inference problem will be solved?
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Do you know what data your AI coding agent sends to the cloud?

Ask HN: Do you know what data your AI coding agent sends to the cloud? 2 by lbrauer | 0 comments on Hacker News. Every session my AI coding agent reads files, runs commands, makes API calls. I have no idea exactly what ends up in the cloud. Is anyone actually tracking this at a granular level, or do we just trust the tool?
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Do you still spend time maintaining Claude.md / AGENTS.md files?

Ask HN: Do you still spend time maintaining Claude.md / AGENTS.md files? 5 by david_d8912 | 8 comments on Hacker News. For people using coding agents regularly: do you still invest time in user-level and repo-level instruction files like CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, etc.? It's not a surprise that you don't expect the rules there to be followed even with less than 100 lines of changes. Yet still see folks like Karpathy post rules around with hundreds of stars. Tell me if you're still spending the effort of trying claude.md, and are they effective, what're you writing in it. Update: I'm more of talking about behavior rules here (coding standard, comment style, Do this and Don't do that, etc.). For facts like project directories, important doc ref, commands, sure that always helps.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What LLM models are you using and why?

Ask HN: What LLM models are you using and why? 2 by rubyn00bie | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hello, HN! I'm wondering what y'all are using for your daily driver these days and why ? I've found myself using GPT-5.5 more than Opus 4.7 for work; which, has been a pretty big reversal. Previously, I was using Opus 4.6 for everything, and GPT-5.4 was only ever in the picture to provide a second opinion (with Grok a distant 3rd only when I wanted to throw some "chaos" into the mix). The reason I've personally pivoted, is I've found GPT-5.5 to be a bit more consistent, predictable, and tends to write in a way I find less tiresome (even if the code isn't quite as good as Opus 4.7). For personal projects, I've started experimenting with DeepSeek V4 and have been pretty blown away by it because of it's cost to quality and I've found the 1M token window to be incredibly helpful for long-running tasks. Though I may also have an over abundance of fear...
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New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: Mindie.dev is scraping emails from profiles to send spam

Tell HN: Mindie.dev is scraping emails from profiles to send spam 5 by stackghost | 0 comments on Hacker News. Got the following from hello@mindie.dev ---- Hey Stackghost — Saw your HN comment about freelance time tracking / invoicing. TimeChat is a Telegram bot: type "1.5 acme bug fix" after work, end of month it auto-generates the PDF invoice for your client. Side-by-side vs Toggl: mindie.dev/vs/toggl. For HN readers I'm running EARLY10: $1/mo (was $7). One-click checkout: timechat pro 2-mo trial If it's useful, I'd love your feedback. Free tier covers solo testing if you want to start there: https://ift.tt/W7wn6qu Not relevant? Reply STOP and I'll never email again. — the Mindie team mindie.dev ---- I went back through my comment history and I don't believe that I have ever mentioned freelancing, time tracking, or invoicing in a comment except once when I mentioned an invoice peripherally a year ago. Thus, mindie.dev is scraping emails from profiles ...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: When did computers stop being fun?

Ask HN: When did computers stop being fun? 28 by klez | 31 comments on Hacker News. Of course I don't mean they stopped being fun for everyone. My impression is that they've been on one side "corporatized", and on the other became a vehicle for mindless entertainment. I don't care for coding new stuff. Everything I may need either already exists or is too complex to do on my own (and no, I won't vibe-code it, what's the fun in that?) I don't even code for work anymore since I moved to a project/service management role. Basically, the spark I felt some 25 years ago seems to be completely gone. Any suggestion on getting it back?
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