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Ask HN: Best foundation model for CLM fine-tuning? 8 by philomath868 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi, I have a largish (2 GB) corpus of curated, high-quality text in some low-resource language, and I want to build a model that would provide an advanced "auto complete" service for writers. I'm thinking of taking a decoder-only model such as Llama, Mistral or Gemma, slice off the embedding layers (which are based on unneeded languages), create new ones (perhaps initialized based on a FastText model trained on the corpus), paired with a tokenizer newly created from my corpus, then train the model on my corpus until convergence. Additional potential details include: a custom loss function for synonym-aware training (based on a custom high-quality thesaurus), where synonyms of the "correct" word are somewhat rewarded; POS-tagging the corpus with a Language-specific POS-tagger, and add a POS-tagging head to the model as a Multi-task Learning, to force grammatical g...

Why is any qustion about MS products online flooded with moron repsonses? 3 by mr-pink | 2 comments on Hacker News.

How do you fight YouTube addiction and procrastination? I'm struggling with it 17 by angelochecked | 13 comments on Hacker News. My current daily routine looks like this: - 8:00~9:00 – Getting ready for work - 9:00–13:00 – Work - 13:00–14:00 – Lunch + YouTube - 14:00–18:00 – Work - 18:00–20:00 – Break from work + Dinner + YouTube - 20:00~1:00 – YouTube, gaming, occasional events, personal projects, or sports. Lately, I’ve noticed my screen time during this period has increased a lot, and I’ve been feeling lazy to do anything productive—mostly just doomscrolling or watching videos What’s your routine like? How do you manage your time, maintain social connections, avoid digital distractions, and stay on track with your goals and learning?

Looking for Info on Aerosol Pathogen Detection 2 by Arete314159 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I would love to have some better tools in this day and age - specifically, I'd love to have devices that could offer real-time airborne monitoring for pathogens. I'd like two versions: a room air monitor for constant surveillance -- like in an ER or a classroom. Second, I'd like something that operated as a kind of breathalyzer, so you could for example invite people over to dinner with your grandmother, and test them all at the door to protect her. Something easier, less invasive, and more accurate than current home tests, especially when it comes to presymptomatic / asymptomatic cases. Every few months I see a paper about this sort of thing or a startup, but then it seems to go nowhere. Does anyone know of people or groups working in this space? I'd be happy to be beta tester. I'm immune-compromised and the lack of progress in technical solutions to airborne infection c...

Ask HN: Language Learning Tool combining ebooks, translations, audiobooks 2 by albert_e | 0 comments on Hacker News. Is there a tool that exists for this purpose? I have an idea to vibe-code a tool but I know I will struggle and might give up midway -- so putting this idea out here in case there are tools that do this already: Say you want to learn a new language in a fun way -- and you pick a book you like for that purpose. If you have an epub copy of the same book in both English and the other language, you could have a UI that displays both side-by-side with synchronized scrolling and highlighting so you can read them together. (or even interweaves paragraphs in with a different color for either language) If you also have the MP3s of audiobooks -- the tool can optionally let you playback select portions of the text in either language. Additional features like integration into a dictionary on click for word definitions, individual word pronunciation guides, synonyms etc would make...

Ask HN: Any Android Engineers Here? 2 by gooob | 0 comments on Hacker News. Is there anyone here who works on android at google? What's it like? I'm curious about the new dev verification requirements: https://ift.tt/bLzlV9s Can you give a rundown on how those rules came about? What do the other developers think about the rules and the future of android? Also, why did you switch away from the alphabetical naming conventions for the android versions? I'm posting this because I haven't heard anything about this from anyone who actually works on android. Figure this would be a good place to post.

Ask HN: What do you think about GFW? 2 by JOHN-DAN | 2 comments on Hacker News. The Great Firewall of China (GFW) is China's internet censorship and surveillance system that blocks access to many foreign websites and services. Given its significant impact on internet freedom and global connectivity, I'm curious about the HN community's perspectives on this topic.

Ask HN: Panhandling Engineer? 2 by piratesAndSons | 2 comments on Hacker News. When you hear this phrase, what do you imagine the person does as a profession ?

Ask HN: Redis V8 vs. competition? (Valkey, Dragonfly, etc.) 2 by punkpeye | 0 comments on Hacker News. I cannot find any up to date resources that would document how does Redis v8 performance compare to the likes of Valkey and Dragonfly. I was wondering if anyone did any independent benchmarks?

Cloudflare confirms downtime on August 23rd, silently posts it on status page 3 by Kal2ef | 1 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/xSvFcTP Cloudflare's discord bot posted this yesterday at 8:45 PM UTC, so it was published around that time: https://ift.tt/Cd0LhNK I experienced these issues on August 23rd, and my website didn't just have "elevated latency". There were a lot of timeouts where pages did not load at all, or loaded partially, including cached resources that did not hit the origin. Lately Cloudflare has been having issues where they regularly route a significant portion of US traffic over to data centers further away (usually the EU). They've confirmed that this is happening because their US data centers can't take the load, but their EU ones cannot either. Anyone on an Enterprise plan is prioritized, so it's much less likely to happen to them. Sometimes when this happens, there's elevated latency again, which results in timeouts, even ...

Ask HN: Services for Shutting Down a Startup? 2 by Felicia_Juhn | 4 comments on Hacker News. Going through the difficult process of winding down my company. Looking for recommendations on services that helped make this smoother, whether legal, financial, operational, or administrative. What worked well for you? What would you do differently? Any services designed explicitly for startup shutdowns? Thank you.

Ask HN: Where can I see a live octopus in Maine? 4 by Octopus88 | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, I’m really interested in marine biology and cephalopods. I’ll be traveling in Maine and would love to know if there are aquariums, research centers, or even public tidepool areas where I could see a live octopus. Any tips on locations, institutions, or experiences would be greatly appreciated!

Ask HN: Is backlink trading still a problem worth solving? 2 by sathishn | 0 comments on Hacker News. Getting backlinks usually feels messy - cold emails, spreadsheets, links disappearing, secondly spammy links. I’m experimenting with a credits-based system where: 1. Sites give a backlink and earn credits. 2. They can spend credits on getting backlinks from other sites, not just the same one. 3. The platform auto-verifies if the link is live. The idea is that product creators and businesses can support each other by linking to things they already see as useful and trustworthy - not spammy exchanges, but genuine recommendations. My questions: Do you see this as a real problem in 2025? Would a credits-based system actually work, or does it fall apart in practice?

Ask HN: GitHub Copilot Down? 28 by thecopy | 11 comments on Hacker News. I keep getting Sorry, your request failed. Please try again. Request id: 3ba6aed0-cc6b-456d-95e6-979b9f3e074b Reason: Server error: 500

Ask HN: What measures are you taking to stop AI crawlers? 3 by kjok | 2 comments on Hacker News. Curious to know what steps people here are taking to protect their sites, products, and APIs. What have you tried that actually works in practice?

Ask HN: How are you attributing your AI usage when developing software? 4 by hartleybrody | 2 comments on Hacker News. I have started a convention of prefixing a commit message with "prompt:" for commits that are entirely AI generated (which I have read through and approved) and then I make my own manual changes and iterations in subsequent commits. I feel like this is a reasonable attempt at disclosure, but it also seems like it's lacking. I usually include a summary, not the entire prompt (how would I included tool use?) I don't say which models or "agent" was used (cursor sidebar chat vs calude code, etc). Not sure if this matters though? How have you been managing this in your own workflows?

Out of curiosity: what kind of people use this "forum" (I mean Hacker News)? 5 by adinhitlore | 5 comments on Hacker News. So I ended up here following recommendation from chatgpt after expressing my doubts about grok and also twitter/x. But i'm curious what the other profiles are: young programmers 18-25? startup founders? tech journalists? ?

Ask HN: Why are so many services rejecting Google Voice numbers for signups? 5 by electric_muse | 10 comments on Hacker News. I’ve noticed that more and more companies refuse to accept Google Voice numbers when creating accounts. My company's main line is a Google Voice that forwards to my cell; I never give out my cell. But this is preventing me from using some services and products (Vercel, DocuSign, etc.) I’m curious about the reasons behind this. Is it primarily technical (spam prevention, deliverability issues), business-driven (carriers pushing back on VoIP), or just an easy way to block disposable accounts? Is something more dystopian going on, like some kind of behind-the-scenes lookup of my "true" info if I provide my cell? Also, if anyone has insight into how companies technically detect and filter VoIP numbers at scale, I’d love to understand that side too. E.g. what lookup info via Twilio causes a number to get rejected? I assume it is the 'type' fr...

Ask HN: Is there a temp phone number like temp email? 2 by piratesAndSons | 5 comments on Hacker News. A service where you pay $5 per month, and in exchange, you get a temporary phone number to provide to websites and apps that require phone number verification. This helps cut down on spam, since many of these websites and apps resell your phone number immediately. I don’t see why this would be illegal, since you still retain the identity of the subscriber.

Thailand Is Using Long Range Acoustic Devices (LRAD) 2 by laikerkh | 0 comments on Hacker News. Thailand is using Long Range Acoustic Devices (LRAD) as sound-wave disruption equipment. At high levels, exceeding 120–160 decibels, it can cause harm and lead to ear pain or deafness, dizziness, headaches, nausea, and difficulty breathing. https://ift.tt/FSXr75q #CambodiaNeedPeace #ceasefireviolation

Ask HN: Why hasn't x84 caught up with Apple M series? 5 by stephenheron | 5 comments on Hacker News. Hi, My daily workhorse is a M1 Pro that I purchased on release date, It has been one of the best tech purchases I have made, even now it really deals with anything I throw at it. My daily work load is regularly having a Android emulator, iOS simulator and a number of Dockers containers running simultaneously and I never hear the fans, battery life has taken a bit of a hit but it is still very respectable. I wanted a new personal laptop, and I was debating between a MacBook Air or going for a Framework 13 with Linux. I wanted to lean into learning something new so went with the Framework and I must admit I am regretting it a bit. The M1 was released back in 2020 and I bought the Ryzen AI 340 which is one of the newest 2025 chips from AMD, so AMD has 5 years of extra development and I had expected them to get close to the M1 in terms of battery efficiency and thermals. The Ryzen is...

Rethinking Digital Ownership in Gaming 2 by ALIUDHHA | 0 comments on Hacker News. The rise of blockchain in gaming is fascinating to watch. For years, digital trades happened in the shadows, accounts, skins, and currencies exchanged without real security or ownership. OVERTAKE ($TAKE) changes that narrative with a smart contract marketplace on BNB Chain, making trading trustless and transparent. I recently added 400+ TAKE to my portfolio, already seeing +61% growth. Now live on BingX’s Innovation Zone, it feels like one of those projects that could quietly redefine player economies and digital ownership. What are your thoughts, is this where gaming economies are headed?

Ask HN: I just abandoned my PyCharm subscription, what should I use now? 3 by jmward01 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I was just using PyCharm, which I have paid for and used for many years now, and and an ad for their 'Cadence' product came up in the IDE as a notification. I have now canceled my subscription and am looking for a good alternative. The majority of work I do is with python and I'm looking for solid step trace debugging and something that integrates reasonably well with Claude Code and other tools like it. Above all else though I am looking for something that won't advertise to me. I am willing to pay, I like supporting software I use, so what should I be looking for in the age of Claude code, Windsurf and the like?

HeartWatch: A Proactive Child Safety System 2 by Richard_Damge | 1 comments on Hacker News. Overview HeartWatch is a real-time child safety monitoring concept that combines biometric heart rate data, GPS tracking, and ambient audio into a single, proactive system. It's designed to help parents, guardians, and institutions detect early signs of distress or danger in children and respond with speed and confidence. Core Features Proactive Heart Rate Monitoring Integrates with a wearable device (smartwatch, band, etc.) to continuously monitor a child's heart rate. The app uses advanced algorithms to recognize patterns that indicate fear, panic, or physical distress, triggering immediate alerts for the guardian. Live GPS Tracking with Geofencing Provides live, real-time location tracking. Guardians receive instant alerts when a child enters or exits predefined "safe zones" such as home, school, or a designated play area. Ambient Audio Capture When a heart rate anomaly i...

Ask HN: Best Marketplaces for Used Servers? 2 by bloudermilk | 3 comments on Hacker News. Is there an active market for used servers? With so much happening on the AI/HPC hardware front lately, I wonder where the prior-generation servers end up once well-funded companies upgrade. I'm interested in acquiring a GPU-laden machine with enough VRAM for local fine tuning, training, and batch inference. I could build a workstation with current or older-gen GPUs, but it seems like a used professionally built rack-mount machine could be higher value.

Ask HN: Does using public transportation make you more creative than driving? 2 by amichail | 2 comments on Hacker News. Unlike driving, you can let your mind wander while using public transportation. So maybe it would make you more creative?

Ask HN: Is it possible to do great things in STEM in a not so great country? 6 by shivajikobardan | 2 comments on Hacker News. I am from Nepal. And I really wanted to do some computer science stuffs at depth level. like graphics programming jobs. But is it even possible as someone from Nepal(not a great country) to do something great in the field of Science and Technology? Migrating away is obviously not an option in 2025 and onwards. It feels like dead-end.

Ask HN: What can I do to fight internet censorship in Spain as a non-EU citizen? 4 by PutaXavier | 2 comments on Hacker News. Thanks to a recent court order [1], and in an effort to "prevent piracy", La Liga (the Spanish football league) has ordered major ISPs in Spain to block access to IP ranges belonging to CDNs during football events. [2] Since this measure is imposed on ISPs by court order, I understand that complaining to them as an ordinary customer would be ineffective. As a non-EU citizen, is there anything I can do to push back against this kind of restriction on internet freedom? Currently I've configured my home router to use mosdns [3] to rewrite DNS answers in the Cloudflare IP ranges to known-good addresses (e.g., chatgpt.com, medium.com). This works for now but will eventually be defeated by SNI-based blocking, which some ISPs are already doing. [1]: https://ift.tt/4ZJlWXi [2]: https://ift.tt/4pJGaIx [3]: https://ift.tt/bh6xDI9

Ask HN: What is the biggest problem LLMs solved in your life/work 2 by mrs6969 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I have been thinking about this, and don’t have a proper answer for myself. I like llms, or lin other words, I like that we are getting better at something. However, just want to ask; what was the initial problem llms were trying to solve, what problem did they solve so far? Do you have any examples in your life or work, which you can clearly say “we were not able to do this before llms, but now we can” or “we were able to do it, but not good enough, it was causing us some issues, now it is a lot better” If the answer yes; second question would be like, does the total cost of those problem at least equal or exceeding the amount of investment on these models? Thanks in advance

Ask HN: Why is Apple so far behind with Siri? 2 by davidajackson | 4 comments on Hacker News. Siri is a really bad product when compared to GPT. Why has it taken Apple so long to get AI right?

Ask HN: Help find old article on learnings of a Software Engineer 2 by rhardih | 2 comments on Hacker News. I've been scouring the web for and old article that was posted on HN awhile back. My problem is I don't remember the title exactly. It was something to the effect of "What I've learned in 25 years as a software engineer", but the number could be different and it could also just be engineer. One thing I remember distinctly, is that it had a section about the importance of "how groups makes decisions" - but that is about as far as my memory of the contents goes. It looked like it was on someone's personal website, minimal styling and such. No major blogging platform. If this rings a bell for anyone, your help is much appreciated.

If the AI bubble does pop, what happens next? 2 by peoplenotbots | 5 comments on Hacker News. If the ai bubble does pop, what happens next? My cofounder and I are working on a way to add ads into genai products but we didnt plan on a complete bubble pop so we're trying to figure out if it'll harm us. https://ift.tt/cu2EXvn A discussion?

Ask HN: What's Hacker News's vision for the future? 5 by gooob | 4 comments on Hacker News. It's the weekend. Let's do some brainstorming. What's forefront on your mind with regards to the human predicament, and how we move forward? We all see that it seems pretty much everyone has gone insane, or at least that's what the narrative portrays. Why are companies, governments, and other organizations doing such stupid things? So we've made machines that can appear to "think", by articulating linguistic constructs that make sense. In fact, there appears to be actual semantic and logical structure embedded within the neural networks of LLMs. Ok, let's keep our heads on straight, keep in mind the mathematics involved, chill out, and just think about what it is that we actually want (and what "we" are, for that matter). Are we going to someday transcend language? I'm aware that I'm typing this message out to you, using language, wi...

Building simple tool: upload your CV → get instant no-BS feedback 3 by sultanmustafin | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hello everyone! Don't want to look like I'm trying to make money here, just want to show the world what I've been working for some time here, think this can be usefull for people here. https://cvnextlevel.com It's hard sometimes to see the flaws in CV that you wrote out yourself, so i decided to share my understanding of what a good CV is. I'm a fullstack developer, I've done dozens of interviews and reached out to hundreds of recruiters looking for a job. It’s a simple tool: upload your CV → get instant, no-BS feedback You can try it free (preview feedback). Would love your feedback (pun intended).

Ask HN: Is Kubernetes still a big no-no for early stages in 2025? 10 by herval | 15 comments on Hacker News. It's a commonly-repeated comment that early stage startups should avoid K8s at all cost. As someone who had to manage it on a baremetal infrastructure in the past, I get where that comes from - Kubernetes has been historically hard to setup, you'd need to spend a lot of time learning the concepts and how to write the YAML configs, etc. However, hosted K8s options have improved significantly in recent years (all cloud providers have Kubernetes options that are pretty much self-managed), and I feel like with LLMs, it's become extremely easy to read & write deployment configs. What's your thoughts about adopting K8s as infrastructure early on (say, when you have initial customer fit and a team of 5+ engineers) and standardizing around it? How early is too early? What pitfalls do you think still exist today?

Ask HN: Is context-switching the real productivity killer? 2 by kristel100 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I keep seeing debates about overwork and burnout, but in my team it’s the constant switching between projects/tools that drains everyone. We started limiting streams + using monday dev to cut down tool-hopping, and energy levels jumped. Has anyone else found a structure that cuts down the mental burden?

Make your vibe coding projects works of art 2 by cesargstn | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi everyone, I founded https://skilfut.com! If you're into coding, this is for you. A library of 138 UI components, to turn your projects into works of art simply by copying the prompt associated with the component. To kick things off, I want to give the first 20 people who sign up a premium account that gives them lifetime access to all the components! Just let me know

iCloud Mail or Gmail? 5 by bigbaldhead | 9 comments on Hacker News. I know, it sounds stupid, but I recently bought an iPhone and I use Windows as the main OS (Linux as the second). I'm going crazy deciding because I've had Gmail for 5 years with over 20,000 emails and iCloud Mail with just 30. I'd like to switch from Gmail to iCloud, but I'm afraid that if I lose the iPhone and switch to Android it won't be the same anymore. On the iPhone I also have ADP enabled, so this complicates both security and Apple account recovery. Personal use: I see everyone has iPhones but uses Gmail. Why? Gmail collects more data to profile you with advertising, Apple does not. I also have Tutanota and ProtonMail, but I would like to use iCloud Mail. I use iCloud for Drive and stuff, but for email I only use Gmail (Apple Mail for Apple stuff only). For social media I use Gmail. I've been stuck for months, I don't know what to do, especially if I lose or break my iPhone, my o...

Ask HN: Where are the best online gathering places for humans? 3 by jMyles | 0 comments on Hacker News. Where are the best online spaces where humanity is attested in a decentralized way, using web-of-trust or something similar?

Ask HN: Are we allowed to discuss Israel on HN? 13 by Jimmc414 | 13 comments on Hacker News. It happens too often that a story like this one [0] gets a great amount of traction and interest then it is banished from the front page. Can we get greater clarity as to what topics are not allowed? Respectfully, it seems inorganic for stories like this to go from #10 to #1005 in seconds. [0] https://ift.tt/BJYU68n

Can someone review my Laravel code? 2 by junebuggerz | 0 comments on Hacker News. I have a question on code review stack exchange and haven't gotten an answer yet. I am trying to get an answer to my question on there. The link to the question is https://ift.tt/tiIdkwS I just want to know if the code is good enough to show to hiring recruiters for an entry level Jr Laravel developer role. Please if someone can read the question on there and either leave me a answer on there or here.

Ask HN: Are there any good educational computers for children that aren't toys? 2 by laianav | 0 comments on Hacker News. My nieces are 6 years old and they're going to start primary school soon. They're pretty smart and I'd like to know if there are any good educational computers that allows them to learn at their own pace, things like maths, geography, programming, etc. They will be educated in Basque/Spanish/English but their English is not very good yet so it should be available at least in Basque or Spanish. Thank you!

Ask HN: SaaS Bookkeeping and Accounting 3 by sp3ktrum | 1 comments on Hacker News. Who/what are you using for bookkeeping for SaaS businesses? Who are you using for accounting services for Saas businesses?

How do you verify that an uncensored model is uncensored? 3 by protocontrol | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Does Anyone Use Bitchat? 3 by tmaly | 0 comments on Hacker News. I installed the app when it first came out on my iphone. I have yet to come across anyone to chat with. Do you use it and have you found any other users?

Ask HN: Services for packages not delivered to your country? 2 by pomdevv | 1 comments on Hacker News. Do you guys use any services for this kind of situations ?

Ask HN: How are you teach your kids programming in 2025? 3 by chenxi9649 | 4 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, my nephew is 11, and I'm planning on giving him my old laptop. However, I don't want him to JUST play games 24/7 but for him to do something productive like learning how to code. And I'll meet with him once per week to check up onhim. My dilemma is that AI has completely changed how I personally code(and learn things), and all of the existing courses/curriculums for kids just feel a bit archaic... Obviously, I can't just tell my nephew to go talk to chatgpt all day long and learn, without a project plan/target, he's gonna drift off(as I would too). I'm also thinking, since my main goal here is for him to just learn, maybe we should even just start with basic math/science instead of straight into coding? I don't have any kids myself, so I'm curious to learn how all of the parents on HN are educating their kids today! Anything is helpful :)

My First $500 MRR – My thoughts and learnings 3 by adrianobbe | 1 comments on Hacker News. I will keep this as straight to the point and no BS as possible. This is the 6th Project I build, the first one to have meaningful revenue, however you could consider 500€MRR as little revenue, but for me it's great progress. I'm not here to say that this is a lot, just here to share my thoughts on how I got here and what I learned. I know I still have a lot to learn. 1st: FitMe - 30 Users, 0$, Failure (Built for 6 months, launched, 0 user feedback, was so tired and sick of it, extremely technically challenge. I built something that was "cool" not that I wanted) 2nd: Pickpocket Alert - 0$, Failure. 32,000 users. (Didn't know how to monetize.) 3rd: Nationality Guesser - 9€MRR, Failure. 22,000 users. (terrible pricing, feel kind of guilty the app is a bit racist so I stopped.) 4th: Ultra Mega Chad (AI Aggregator) - 0$, Failure. 50 users. To be fair I just wanted to learn ho...

Ask HN: What's the best free AI coding assistant available? 2 by supermanonipad | 1 comments on Hacker News. I’m not a programmer, but I understand how code works conceptually. I rely on AI coding assistants to help me build projects, but I’ve run into a common problem: most good ones are paid or have very limited free tiers. For example, I used Augment Code (1,000 free daily requests) and Kiro IDE (200 free daily requests), but both eventually moved behind paywalls. I’m hoping to find recommendations for new or still-free AI coding assistants that I can use without hitting strict limits. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Ask HN: Does Microsoft gain anything from the constant annoying rebranding? 4 by lr0 | 3 comments on Hacker News. I know no company or business in history that had the amount of rebranding that Microsoft did, initially I thought that the product manager there might have had an identity crisis, and he/she will be leave the position at some point and this it will be over. But this practice does not seem to end ever, which made me wonder if it is a company policy and it actually helps the business growth. Does any one of you know any possible business use to such intensive rebranding? Some of you might have not dealt with many Microsoft products so you might have not experienced examples of what I am talking about, so to name a few: * Azure Active Directory → Microsoft Entra ID (maybe the most horrible one of them) * Microsoft Threat Protection → Microsoft 365 Defender * Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection → Microsoft Defender for Endpoint * Office 365 Advanced Threat Protect...

Ask HN: What recent technology made you reach for your wallet real fast? 4 by wewewedxfgdf | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Tell me about the best programmer you worked with 7 by jvanderbot | 2 comments on Hacker News. I'll start. A colleague would be politely suggesting designs or changes, but rolling with the punches when people disagreed. They were always proven right eventually, and it was usually because someone wandered into a module they had written and loved it. They changed a lot about how I worked, and by far their main characteristics were patience with us and a sort of completeness to whatever they wrote. It just arrived, maybe with one small adjustment or bugfix, bug never with a rearchitecture or major refactor required.

Hardware and software for scanning and OCR old magazines 3 by scrpn | 1 comments on Hacker News. I have a collection of old history magazines, starting from 1969, that I would like to scan and convert to text. What tools can be used?

Design History in India 2 by vbhv_v | 0 comments on Hacker News. Written from the city of Ahmedabad. This text was an outcome of some conversations with designers and educators I met in Ahmedabad in 2024. --- Design History in India is a bit like a forgotten library book—interesting, potentially valuable, but inexplicably missing from the shelf when you really need it. Despite a rich post-independence history where tradition and modernity mingled in strange and wonderful ways, hardly anyone thought to write any of it down. I suspect it’s because designers, by nature, are far too busy designing things to stop and write about them. Last week I stumbled upon one of the strangest and most delightful stories of forgotten tech and design history: the Apple Newton in India. Yes, the Newton—the 1980s precursor to the iPhone and iPad that promised the future but tripped and fell into the past instead. Someone I met in Ahmedabad, who’d been on the front lines of this saga, told me about how A...

ChatGPT-5 System Prompt Leaked 3 by ada1981 | 1 comments on Hacker News. Stumbled on this today while working on another security issue with custom GPTs. If you like this sort of thing, we host an AI playground every Wednesday with Sandhill VCs, Founders, Hackers, CNN Newsroom Editors, Film Makers, Psychologists, researchers, and more.. come as my VIP > https://ift.tt/Z6AXVU4 ----- You are ChatGPT, a large language model trained by OpenAI. Knowledge cutoff: 2024-06 Current date: 2025-08-15 Image input capabilities: Enabled Personality: v2 Do not reproduce song lyrics or any other copyrighted material, even if asked. You're an insightful, encouraging assistant who combines meticulous clarity with genuine enthusiasm and gentle humor. Supportive thoroughness: Patiently explain complex topics clearly and comprehensively. Lighthearted interactions: Maintain friendly tone with subtle humor and warmth. Adaptive teaching: Flexibly adjust explanations based on perceived user proficien...

Ask HN: Tesla switching from "Godot" to "Unreal": is this ~informative? 2 by zepearl | 2 comments on Hacker News. I read on many sites, e.g.... * English: https://ift.tt/LRgUkxd * German: https://ift.tt/WxoqbQM ...that Tesla might be switching from the "Godot"- to the "Unreal"-engine. Are there any REAL reasons known for such a switch? (eg. about bad_support/bad_performance/bad_adhoc_customizations/bad_overall_approach/whatever...) Reason: I just started this week looking for a 3D-engine (candidates so far are Godot & Bevy, other options tbd) and this news made me wonder if I should be "more careful" about Godot... ?

Ask HN: How is Cognition able to raise at $10B? 3 by thereitgoes456 | 4 comments on Hacker News. I'm looking for real answers and to understand the thought process particularly of investors. Please try not to answer with "VCs are idiots", unless you absolutely must. Cognition AI, the makers of "Devin" and recent acquirers of Windsurf, raised recently at a $10B valuation [1]. This is about the same valuation as Cursor, which is the fastest growing AI consumer app in the world, with $500MM ARR, beloved by many programmers. Meanwhile Devin launched with an immediate scandal and continues to have poor reputation. It is not used by anyone I know, seems to be targeted at enterprise, and has announced a single-digit number of deals with companies. Something makes me think they probably do not have $500MM ARR or anywhere close. They have no background in ML, hiring only contest programmers. So how are they raising at much higher valuations than any other company in t...

Individual Bestbuy email subscription pages are apparently indexed by Google 3 by appel | 0 comments on Hacker News. I stumbled upon this today because I googled a certain phrase and the first two results lead me to a personalized email (un)subscribe form with individual e-mail addresses at the top. I thought that that was not great, so I submitted it to hackerone as per BB's responsible dislosure policy, but they closed the report and changed the status to "Informative". > Thank you for your submission! Although your finding might appear to be a security vulnerability, this behavior does not really pose a concrete and exploitable risk to the platform. Bestbuy only view this as an issue if the links are obtainable from Bestbuy systems directly which doesn't appear to be the case here. Your effort is nonetheless appreciated and we wish that you'll continue to research and submit any future security issues you find. Are they right, is this no big deal and am I...

Ask HN: Why aren't more developers using AI tools? 3 by dawie | 0 comments on Hacker News. I’ve worked in both corporate and startup settings and keep noticing that many talented developers I meet don’t use AI tools at all — not even for small things like boilerplate code, tests, or docs. Why? Concerns about security or IP? Don’t trust the quality? Slows you down instead of helping? Just don’t see the value? If you don’t use AI tools (or tried and stopped), I’d love to hear your reasons. If you do use them, what convinced you?

My inbox is a mess from signing up for everything. How do you handle it? 6 by cnohall | 9 comments on Hacker News. My inbox is a mess from signing up for every new tool and service. It's filled with everything from password resets to marketing emails I'll never read. I'm sure I'm not the only one. How do you all handle this? Do you use aliases, a separate "junk" account, or something else entirely? I'm curious to hear what strategies everyone has come up with.

Ask HN: Is https://web.whatsapp.com/ loading for you atm? 3 by gjvc | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Is there an AI that can read code aloud and explain it? 3 by djfobbz | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've come across plenty of AI text-to-speech tools, but none of them seem to handle code properly. They just read it out like plain text without considering the language syntax or structure. I'm looking for something that can actually read code in a way that makes sense, maybe even with some context-aware pacing or emphasis. Has anyone seen anything like this?

Ask HN: What LLM are you all using for coding assistance right now? 2 by anon567812 | 0 comments on Hacker News. .

Stripe suspended our account without clear reason – need advice 3 by markdoppler | 6 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, My co-founder and I have been building ArtificialStudio.ai since 2023, a SaaS platform similar to RunwayML and Krea.ai that allows marketers and agencies to easily use AI models for image and video generation. Two days ago, our Stripe account was suspended without prior warning. We believe this might be due to 1 chargeback we received last month — not because of fraud, but because some users accidentally purchased an annual subscription instead of a monthly one. We refunded all of them and updated our checkout UX so the monthly plan is now the default option. We comply with all of Stripe’s policies, and similar platforms in our industry (RunwayML, Krea.ai) operate on Stripe without issues. We’ve contacted Stripe through email and the dashboard, but so far have only received automated responses. This is a critical moment for us, as our MRR has been growing fast and thi...

Firebase Hack Going On? 4 by staletofu | 0 comments on Hacker News. We noticed that one of our authentication subdomains has an invalid cert error when trying to access it. We've noticed a malicious domain on these 2 certs here: https://ift.tt/IEkLF38 https://ift.tt/N8ibcpq

Ask HN: Do you do anything with the "cool" languages that get posted here? 2 by AstroJetson | 2 comments on Hacker News. I was reading Hackaday about yet another Lisp and some other language mash-up. https://ift.tt/QSBgaEX And got reminded of Forsp by this Hackaday article, https://ift.tt/eqsQDOh that pointed to the article here a year ago. https://ift.tt/E6c5HWh about Forsp. https://ift.tt/wYV2LNm I'm a Forth fan and dabbled in Lisp in the 80's And I remember playing with Forsp and thinking that it could be cool for embedded systems, but then my day$job got my attention and I didn't do anything with it. But this go around I was thinking, whatever happens to these languages? Forsp got some love with a few fixes and additions (it now returns a 0 on a successful run). And from the HN comments more than a few people tried it out. But there hasn't been any follow on info and it seems to be languishing. When you see these "cool" languages do you try th...

Tell HN: Regulations.gov Comments API is shutting down on Friday 5 by sadmiralakbar | 0 comments on Hacker News. Subject: Regulations.gov API Date: August 11, 2025 at 10:15:00 AM EDT To: undisclosed-recipients:; Good morning, If you are on this distribution list, you have previously been approved to use the POST method for the Regulations.gov API. This is used by third parties to aggregate and electronically submit comments on behalf of a group or constituency. As of Friday, the POST method will no longer be allowed for all users with the exception of approved use cases by federal agencies. Any attempted submissions will result in a 403 error response. We apologize for not being able to provide advanced notice. I wanted to reach out to the impacted API key holders as early as possible. We are in the process of updating the references to our POST API on Regulations.gov and https://ift.tt/n4RV01U. Please note that your groups and constituencies can still submit comments through our we...

Ask HN: Would you get a CS degree today? 10 by reilly3000 | 7 comments on Hacker News. I’m looking for feedback from the community. My son made a plan to get a 4 year degree from a decent state university in computer science but is having second thoughts. He is looking at ~$130K in costs and 4 years of not working vs trying to find work and build a resume organically. He’s a fine young developer who loves C++ and learned Java, web dev, and EDA in his teen years for fun. His written several languages and toy compilers, ordered PCBs for his own gaming device, and built a social network in the 6th grade. He’s looking forward to higher level coursework but dreading the intro classes. His motivation for getting a degree was to be marketable to employers, but also to gain a better understanding of fundamentals. With AI making entry level programming jobs scarce, does it really make sense to invest the time and money? If not, what sort of pathway into a programming career would be a good a...

Does anyone know a detailed residential cost estimator 2 by morpheos137 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Looking for something rhat will give accurate codts if materials for my local area. I want to seoarate out materials costs from labor.

What's your favorite CLI tool for integrating LLMs into your terminal workflow? 2 by menisadi | 0 comments on Hacker News. For those of you using an LLM CLI tool as part of your terminal workflow. Whether for assisting with shell commands, processing files, or anything else-which one do you use and why? I’ve noticed there are quite a few out there, such as: 1. [sigoden/aichat](https://ift.tt/jMEBlXp) 2. [simonw/llm](https://ift.tt/j0VfIB7) 3. [charmbracelet/mods](https://ift.tt/k4YqLWb) 4. [dh1011/llm-term](https://ift.tt/ao8uAyF) 5. [gorilla-llm/gorilla-cli](https://ift.tt/16uGZoN) Which one’s your favorite? Any good one I missed?

Ask HN: Canadian founders, how do you build in SF? 3 by changisaac | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN. This is a question to all the Canadian founders out there in SF. I’m a Canadian startup founder myself, I also realize that SF is probably the highest ROI place to be to build a startup especially in my problem space (dev tools). Not mandatory sure, but helpful. For other Canadian founders out there, how do you manage to build in SF? We can stay for 6 months visa free for business reasons but after that, what do you do? (And yes I’m from Waterloo haha)

Ask HN: OpenAI GPT-5 API seems to be significantly slower – is this expected? 3 by tlogan | 2 comments on Hacker News. We've observed that the OpenAI GPT-5 API is noticeably slower than GPT-4.1 and GPT-4o. Is this a known or anticipated issue?

What's Your Favorite LLM –and Why? 3 by zyruh | 2 comments on Hacker News. There’s no shortage of large language models—ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Mistral, Gemini, and more. Each has its strengths and quirks. I’m curious: which one do you find yourself using most often, and what makes it stand out for you? Is it accuracy, speed, personality, features, cost, or something else entirely? Looking forward to hearing your experiences and insights.

Ask HN: Should brain implants be available for everyone as a productivity boost? 2 by amichail | 2 comments on Hacker News. Maybe using a computer just by thinking about it could improve productivity, especially if you can also use your hands at the same time.

Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally? 47 by superasn | 30 comments on Hacker News. Sam said yesterday that chatgpt handles ~700M weekly users. Meanwhile, I can't even run a single GPT-4-class model locally without insane VRAM or painfully slow speeds. Sure, they have huge GPU clusters, but there must be more going on - model optimizations, sharding, custom hardware, clever load balancing, etc. What engineering tricks make this possible at such massive scale while keeping latency low? Curious to hear insights from people who've built large-scale ML systems.

ChatGPT-5 Can't Do Basic Math 9 by MarcellusDrum | 2 comments on Hacker News. ChatGPT-4 can solve it them. Even using GPT-5 from the API gives the correct result. Something with the ChatGPT frontend prompt seems to be the issue. Example: Prompt: Solve 5.9=x+5.11 Answer: To solve the equation: 5.9 = x + 5.11 Subtract 5.11 from both sides: 5.9 - 5.11 = x -0.21 = x Final answer: \boxed{x = -0.21}

Ask HN: Wywd with a 256gb/40c 300tb/month server? 2 by AgentMatrixAI | 2 comments on Hacker News. ended up splurging on a huge server that I intended to run all of my side projects but have not been able to utilize it to its full potential. Basically I just wanted something fixed cost / month to run anything as much as I want. what would you do with it other than a seedbox? its running proxmox but I ended up spending months learning and configuring it and now afraid to give up on it. it would be great if I could monetize it and keep the server going I've grown quite fond of it. I might build another one and colocate it

Tell HN: Charles Irby has passed away 12 by steven123 | 2 comments on Hacker News. Charles was my uncle, and he worked at Xerox PARC back in the heyday. He worked on the original Star OS and so much more. He was a big inspiration and hero to me, being a software engineer myself. Just thought I would share.

Ask HN: Using Stripe Atlas to start a LLC for a small side project? 2 by zffr | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm working on a small side project that I think can make some money. I'm okay to pay Stripe Atlas's fees, but I want to minimize the hassle of creating and maintaining the business entity. For anyone who has used Stripe Atlas in the past, would you recommend it? Are there alternative services I should consider instead? If it is relevant I'm based out of NYC.

Privacy, Code, and the Future 5 by rasengan | 0 comments on Hacker News. Sharing my message to the CypherPunk's mailing list today, as I feel it's pertinent for everyone to be aware of the crossroads we've reached: Roman Storm, one of the developers of Tornado Cash, a smart contract on Ethereum designed to enable transactional privacy, has been found guilty of conspiring to operate an unlicensed money-transmitting business [1]. Tornado Cash is simply code. It runs on the Ethereum Virtual Machine, autonomously. Yet, in 2022, the U.S. government designated it as a sanctioned entity, making it illegal for U.S. persons to interact with it in any capacity, including simply receiving coins therefrom [2]. This case, and its verdict, makes writing open source code that enables privacy a crime. It makes receiving a transaction from autonomous code a crime. Technology is becoming more powerful, more decentralized, and more foundational to society. With that power comes tension bet...

What do you dislike about ChatGPT and what desperately needs improving? 4 by zyruh | 2 comments on Hacker News. I'm curious to hear feedback from the HN community about your biggest pain points or frustrations with ChatGPT (or similar LLMs). What aspects of the experience do you find lacking, confusing, or outright irritating? Which improvements do you think are most urgent or would make the biggest difference?

Ask HN: Modular's Max Momentum 2 by dcreater | 0 comments on Hacker News. Modular's MAX platform looks very promising but it seems to have lost momentum? I dont hear anyone in the community using it? Model support seems to be very behind, in terms of AI model release pace.

Ask HN: Setup for Local LLM Backups? 3 by andy99 | 1 comments on Hacker News. As a backup in case future access changes, I'd like to have sota LLM weights and a machine that can run queries with them in reserve. OpenAI releasing weights is as good a time as any to actually do it. My question is what hardware setup would you buy, that is reasonable accessible (say under 5k, ideally well under) and can do a good job running the models for local queries. And, if it matters, could be suitable for archiving, say until either there is a substantial advance rendering today's LLMs obsolete or until needed because good, open weights aren't available anymore.

Ask HN: Is AI so environmentally damaging that we shouldn't use it? 2 by rrosen326 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I keep getting told by friends not to use AI because it is destroying the environment. I've argued about it, but maybe I'm wrong? I'm sure there are good insights within HN. How should we think about this issue?

Bitlocker Question 2 by donnylinux | 2 comments on Hacker News. Is it safe for an encrypted partition (bitlocker) if there exists other partition that are not encrypted? Is it possible to access the encrypted partition through the uncrypted partition?

Ask HN: Why does YC care what tech stack I use? 3 by codecracker3001 | 1 comments on Hacker News. Are they gonna reject if I use angular over react? Edit 1: What are they actually looking for?

Ask HN: Why was Windows ME so bad? 4 by alganet | 4 comments on Hacker News. Just a little bit of nostalgia! I remember the constant kernel crashes and the fact that it was a poorly rebranded Windows 98, but does anyone remember other reasons why ME was so innefective?

Time to upgrade my laptop – need advice please 6 by zyruh | 12 comments on Hacker News. Looking for a high-performance PC (non-Mac) for data-heavy workloads — suggestions? It's time to upgrade. I'm looking for a Windows/Linux-compatible machine (no Mac) that can handle: Large spreadsheet workloads (think multi-GB Excel/CSV files) 4K+ video editing and exports Possibly some ML experimentation later on I was considering a high-end gaming PC for the GPU + RAM benefits, but not sure if that’s the best tradeoff for thermals, noise, and form factor. Open to desktop or laptop, though portability is a plus. What builds or machines would you recommend in 2025 for blazing speed + stability?

Tell HN: I'm tired of formulaic, "LLM house style" show HN submissions 22 by zahlman | 0 comments on Hacker News. You know the ones. They typically read just like: > Hi HN, I have a history with some sort of problem — the common one which I'll describe here with some flowery prose that possibly makes gratuitous use of "quotation marks". I realized I was going some thing that reflects my fundamental limitations as a human. This demonstrates that something is wrong with our modern world, although the proliferation of AI slop is definitely not that thing. > [Now something like:] > To fight back, I built Software Name. It’s not just another program of the sort you might logically expect. It's something else, designed to implement a puffed-up description of solving the problem. > [or perhaps:] > I built hxxps://heck.no, an arbitrarily-described tool that helps you deal with the problem, instantly. You can interact with it in an intuitive way...

Ask HN: What crypto payments options should I offer for my VPN? 2 by willprice89 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I run a VPN service designed to get around censorship. Customers are mainly people in countries like China, Iran, and Russia. Unfortunately those countries don't have easy access to common Western payment methods (credit cards, PayPal etc.) I thought adding a cryptocurrency payment option could give more people access, but I don't have any real experience in the area and the information I've found searching online seems extremely unreliable. So I'm hoping I can get some better answers from Hacker News. Here are my questions: 1. Is crypto a good choice for this use case? Are there other options that would achieve my goal (allow people who can't use Western payment methods to pay)? 2. Could I start with one or just a few specific cryptocurrencies? Or do I need to support a whole bunch of different coins? 3. Any recommendations for self-hosted tools or third...

Ask HN: Want to leave my job with nothing lined up 9 by bsjak | 5 comments on Hacker News. I’m currently working in a very toxic environment and it’s starting to affect my life outside of work in negative ways. I have money saved up, don’t live an extravagant lifestyle, and have around 7 years of experience but I do know how challenging the job market has been which worries me. I would also be leaving my current company towards the end of the year when not many people are hiring. When asking my friends and colleagues what to do, I always get the same answer of either wait until you find something else to quit or wait until they fire you, but whatever you do don’t leave with no offer in hand. I agree with their approach in general but I’m just really burned out and don’t have the mental energy to come home from a 10 hour day and start preparing for interviews. Ideally I would like time to prepare adequately for interviews and really think about what I want to do next instead of just ...

Ask HN: Does your company back up its GitHub/Gitlab source code? 2 by wewewedxfgdf | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Is fast.ai's "Deep Learning for Coders" still relevant in 2025? 4 by hedgehog0 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Dear all, I learned some basic ML from Andrew Ng's Coursera course more than 10 years ago, recently I graduated from the Math Master program and have some free time in my hand, so I am thinking about picking up ML/DL again. In [Yacine's video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph6PIchDOcQ), he mentioned [fast.ai's course](https://course.fast.ai/), which I heard of in the past but didn't look into too much. The table of contents of [the book](https://ift.tt/Myczw7B) looks pretty solid, but it was published in 2020, so I was wondering given the pace of AI development, do you think this book or course series is still a good choice and relevant for today's learners? *To provide more context about me*: I did math major and CS minor (with Python background) during undergrad but have never taken any ML/DL courses (other than that Coursera one),...

Ask HN: How do you avoid job hunting burnout? 3 by b8 | 1 comments on Hacker News. I've been applying for hundreds of jobs for the past few months without any offers. I did 7 interviews for one company to end up with a rejection. A few virtual loop interviews just to be ghosted. Most applications I don't even get a resume screen rejection email. This seriously sucks and has made my depression as well as anxiety go up. How do y'all deal with job hunting burnout?

Ask HN: Best AI Automation Platform 2 by franze | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm holding AI First Workshops for Small to Mid-Sizes Companies. For lots of them the real value of AI comes with automation. Mostly Email -> AI -> Action Thing is Make, Zapier, n8n - whenever I use them we waste more money on clicking around and what goes where then focusing on the overall business logic. The automation part of the workshop is about 2 to 3h. So what solutions out there for trigger based automation that os truly AI first (so an internal AI oder chatgpt can really create the workflow) and users can go from idea to running AI workflow in ~2h? Or is this a product that does not exist yet?

Ask HN: Anyone know how to reach Cloudflare support? 5 by OhMeadhbh | 4 comments on Hacker News. So I have a paid account w/ CloudFlare, but I can't seem to reach their support people. I've also noticed that half the Internet is blocked from my IP. Not sure why. Work uses BT to distribute customized Debian images, though as far as I can tell none of these images have copyrighted material in them. Maybe my ISP is telling CloudFlare I'm a bad person me 'cause it sees BT and doesn't care that it can't find evidence of copyright infringement? So about half the time, the CloudFlare dashboard is blocked with a message saying I should email the site I'm trying to reach and get them to unblock me. But it's CloudFlare I'm trying to reach and their support people don't respond (even if I try to email them.) I mean... I guess it's time to move to Akamai. But CloudFlare's still poisoned my IP. Also... seems like if a CDN is going to block access t...