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Ask HN: How locked down are your work machines? 7 by donatj | 5 comments on Hacker News. I've been working as a Software Engineer for 20+ years. Places I worked in the early years barely had an IT department at all. As a developer you were expected to be able to maintain your machine. We'd install whatever we want, experiment with different operating systems, etc. Total free rein, box was our tool to get work done with, they didn't care how you did it. That went away a long time ago. Basic corporate spyware and rules came pretty early but still free rein over our tools. I've worked with the same company for close to a decade now, and they have been tightening and tightening the noose slowly but surely. We're purportedly a software company, but we lost admin rights, installable software went from a blocklist to an allowlist. Everything we install needs to get approved by IT, and that approval takes weeks. Today they took our Chrome extensions away. They've got...

Tell HN: Amazon has deactivated my seller account. No idea how to move forward 26 by hacky_engineer | 12 comments on Hacker News. I sell 3d printed sleeves to attach an Apple Airtag to a Samsung TV remote. But Amazon thinks I am selling a Samsung device and has deactivated me for IP violations. My listings are very clear that this is FOR a Samsung device, and not an actual Samsung device. But Amazon's automated system can't figure it out. I am following their IP guidelines for compatible products (section 6C - https://ift.tt/enPAjNO): You can see one of my listings here: https://ift.tt/xne8rlI Every time I listed a new product for a different TV remote, my item would be flagged, but then I would go in and make a small edit, and that seemed to trigger some sort of review, and everything would be great. Until last week, out of nowhere, my account has been deactivated. To reinstate my account, they asked me to submit an authorization letter from the manufacturer or brand owner ...

Ask HN: How to introduce Claude Code to a team? 3 by 9dev | 1 comments on Hacker News. I am responsible for a small team of software engineers, including an industry veteran of 30 years, a junior developer on their first job, plus a view mid-level to senior folks. We have been using AI tools like IDE-integrated Copilot suggestions or ChatGPT, and are working with the OpenAI API in our product for assistant experiences, but did not (as a team) use coding agents yet. I recently got introduced to Claude Code by a friend who quit their job to build a new product entirely on their own, by leveraging Claude to maximum effect. So that was kind of an awakening moment for me: The possible gains of productivity when putting it to good use are pretty incredible. I had been following the space closely, but after my experiments with early Cursor half a year ago, I didn't consider really working with coding agents. The last weeks, I did make massive progress on an OSS pet project of mine that...

Ask HN: Breaking into tech project management from different field? 3 by conner_h5 | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hello everyone. I am a newly certified CAPM holder & I am looking for both experience & insight on what makes a good PM in tech. I am currently an assistant PM for a Roofing & Siding company, & I understand there is an enormous difference in the two industries. I know the basics of agile, Jira, etc, but still need useful info from the experts out there. Any and All info on the nature of tech PMs, what makes a good PM, & best practices overall for when I do find a role would be helpful. Lastly, if anyone knows of any PM opportunities (including free volunteering), please let me know! I'm always open to try & soak up as much experience/knowledge as possible to help me in my future endeavors. Thanks for reading!

Ask HN: Burned out from tech, what else is there? 60 by bleosh | 61 comments on Hacker News. I’ve hit a point after working as a dev in SV for about 10 years where I just don’t feel interested in the space anymore. It’s almost impossible for me to motivate myself to care about whatever it is I’m doing at work, and I’m just irritated by people around me at work. I’ve switched companies a few times thinking that it was just environment, what the company was working on didn’t interest me, etc but always feel this same sense of dread after while at any place I go to which has made me think it’s time to move on to something else. Has anyone transitioned out of being purely an engineer to something else and found more happiness? I’m ok with moving out of this area and not making as much money

Ask HN: When has humanities/history knowledge helped you in tech? 2 by amadeuswoo | 3 comments on Hacker News. Personally, I've been reading about how historical empires handled delegation and trust—who gets autonomy, who needs oversight, how that scales. Finding it weirdly applicable to how I think about system design and working with AI tools. Curious if others have pulled from history/humanities in ways that actually transferred.

Ask HN: Why is opening a new window in OS26 Safari so slow this week? 3 by zahirbmirza | 0 comments on Hacker News. Something unusual has happened. I can no longer instantly open a new safari window (I use new windows, not tables, I dislike tabs, don't judge...) Anyway, back to the unusual. To get an instantly opening window I have to open a New General Window (command, option, shift, 2). Pressing command N opens a new personal window, which takes 2 seconds on an M4 Max. This is madness. I don't ever remember configuring a personal browsing window and I can't change the default behaviour. What is going on behind the scenes and are Apple engineers using some kind of work around to this infuriating behaviour? nb. I will not change my behaviour to using tabs.

YC Events 2 by obedvega | 0 comments on Hacker News. How can i be informed of YC events to attend?

Anthropic disabled my account after payment cancer patient/medical data trapped 59 by marichala | 5 comments on Hacker News. *Title:* Anthropic disabled my Max account after charging me $106.60 — I’m a cancer patient and my medical documentation is trapped inside *Post:* On January 16th, 2025, Anthropic charged me $106.60 for my Max subscription and disabled my account in the same moment. I believe I was flagged because I’m a long-term guest at a Marriott hotel using shared WiFi. I’m not a bot. I’m not running scripts. I’m not violating terms of service. I’m a 41-year-old woman with MDS (myelodysplastic syndrome) that has converted to leukemia. I’m facing a bone marrow transplant I may not survive. For months, Claude has been the only thing that actually helped me navigate a medical system that failed me for over a decade. It helped me organize 11 years of medical records, track my labs, draft insurance appeals, and write letters to doctors who wouldn’t listen. That work is what fin...

Ask HN: 1 year from today what will have been the worst behavior from AI corps? 2 by keepamovin | 0 comments on Hacker News. For example, let's say it came out that AI corps were, say: - deliberately poisoning system prompts to obstruct development of AI-adjacent, possibly competitive tools, or - 'fixing the game' with secret system prompts to ensure you endlessly circled the correct solution while never actually solving it, a kind of "Netflix-ization" of "always another episode" payoff withholding, to get you on the hook for more tokens, slot machine style. These are just two random examples that occurred to me (likely out of some sci-fi dystopian novella floating in the aether that i picked up on). But what do you think the bad news is gonna be 1 year from now? What is the worst they are going to be discovered doing? Or will it be all good? Let's hope so!

Ask HN: How many local logins do you have on your computer? 2 by bahmboo | 5 comments on Hacker News. Way back when computers were a scarce resource and we had to share them. Multiple local user accounts were used for this purpose. Now I find that I never have multiple local logins (the username and password you use to access your physical hardware) except for my personal login and sometimes and admin login. Curious what others do and in what context. It makes tons of sense for a dedicated device in a work context. At home do you have a different account for say your kid? Bonus points: multiple users on a phone or tablet. I had to do that one time on Android it was interesting.

Ask HN: What is the best voice input mechanism on Linux (2026)? 2 by orsenthil | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Why are websites trying to talk at me? 2 by LeratoAustini | 4 comments on Hacker News. Why am I seeing this on so many sites recently (in FireFox)? I've seen it half a dozen times in the past month or so, had never noticed it before then. "You can't use speech synthesis because the speech dispatcher library is missing" There's a 'learn more' link, but it just talks about getting speech synthesis working in my browser. Searching for the error string returns similar discussions. I don't want to do that (especially if it's some new marketing fad). Obviously it's speech synthesis but *what is it saying?* The most recent instance was a dell.com product page posted here on HN: https://ift.tt/LT8rGFV As lots of people on HN will have visited that link I thought somebody might be able to tell me what they heard?

Ask HN: Why is Google tolerating impersonation of Gmail from it's own domain? 5 by dvh | 1 comments on Hacker News. For several weeks now I've been receiving spam impersonating Gmail. It always contain link to https://ift.tt/RzEagm9... The email looks like this: https://ift.tt/TWpePcd Even Google's own Gemini knows it's a scam: > The URL https://ift.tt/RzEagm9 points to a specific Google Cloud Storage bucket named "rightsmoves". Based on recent security data and web scans, this particular bucket has been associated with malicious activity, specifically phishing and "traffic stealing" schemes. I've reported it several times via Google Cloud Platform abuse form and they ignore it. Is it Google's total incompetence? Why are they allowing scams from their own domain?

Tell HN: Google Trust and Safety is a joke 2 by tokyobreakfast | 1 comments on Hacker News. Been getting partly unskippable pornographic ads (both explicit audio and video) for dick pills inserted into innocuous YouTube videos, like educational content. Immediately reported to Google. That was more than a week ago. No response, and I've seen the ad multiple times now, on different browsers/devices. Do actual humans review this, or does Google automate everything to the point it's just a bot? Malicious ads are as old as time but this is as egregious as I've ever seen it.

Ask HN: Why is the $0 hijacking of intellectual labor so normalized in OSS? 3 by fumi2026 | 9 comments on Hacker News. I’ve noticed a fascinating paradox in this community. We celebrate "disruption" and "innovation," yet we maintain a cultural dogma where individual's lifework is expected to be donated for $0. "Open Source" has become a polite euphemism for the legalized looting of independent inventions. We expect creators to sacrifice years of life-force, only for Big Tech to strip-mine the logic and patent the derivatives—effectively banning the original author from their own work. I’m curious about the collective ethics here: 1. The Cognitive Tax: If one requires an LLM summary to "verify" a non-perturbative logic, does that person truly qualify as a "contributor," or are they just an end-user of someone else’s cognitive sacrifice? 2. The "Hacker" Spirit: Since when did the spirit of hacking—understanding things fro...

Tell HN: YouTube gave my username switzerland to a half government organization 7 by faebi | 2 comments on Hacker News. I had the username @switzerland since 20.03.2006. Swiss tourism had another username since 17.10.2006. Now recently google gave my username away to swiss tourism without any notification. Their other username was fine for literally 20 years. Worse, the app still showed my username for a long time meanwhile youtube.com/@Switzerland already showed that of swiss tourism (Schweiz Tourismus) and I was not aware of that. Hence, I lost it some months ago. Why do I tell you? You might loose your username and you aren't even aware of it.

Ask HN: Why do AI code editors suck at closing tags? 5 by cryptography | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100? 10 by krishadi | 24 comments on Hacker News. Curious what items under $100 have made your life better or any meaningful impact. Revival of this [thread](https://ift.tt/AYRdIa8) from 6 years ago. Thought it would be fun to have new answers to this :)

A Proposal to Modernize Xorg as a Protocol-Only Graphics Layer 3 by powerwordtree | 2 comments on Hacker News. The Linux desktop has spent more than a decade transitioning toward a new graphics stack. Wayland brings many advantages, especially for mobile-style security and simplicity. But in this process, we are quietly losing something valuable: the distributed, protocol‑driven, transport‑agnostic ideas that once made the Linux graphics model unique. This is not nostalgia. These capabilities matter for remote work, automation, multi‑machine workflows, thin clients, cloud desktops, and future distributed systems. They are not “legacy features”; they are architectural strengths that may become important again. The problem is not Wayland itself, but the fact that it was never designed to support these use cases. Its philosophy is intentionally local, single‑user, and compositor‑centric. That is perfectly valid for mobile devices, but it leaves a gap for desktop and distributed environ...

Ask HN: Any evidence AI coding assistants are helping open source projects? 3 by UncleOxidant | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Looking for Windows contributors for meeting-detection engine 3 by Ayobamiu | 0 comments on Hacker News. I’m building an open-source meeting-detection engine (Node + Rust via napi-rs) that uses OS-level signals to detect when meetings start/end. macOS support is solid, but I’m missing Windows coverage because I don’t have a Windows machine. I’m looking for contributors to help implement/test: • process detection (Zoom / Teams / Webex) • active window/title enumeration • basic network signals Repo + docs: https://ift.tt/2QFcSb3 Happy to break this into small, well-scoped issues.

Ask HN: If you had $10M in the bank, would you still show up to your job? 2 by hleumas | 3 comments on Hacker News. If yes, what specifically drives that fulfillment? I often notice a dissonance when people claim they love their jobs. I suspect that for many, if the financial necessity were removed, the passion would fade quickly. That said, there are absolutely some who find genuine enjoyment in employment versus those who see it as a means to an end. If this is you, is it the specific problem space you work in? The structure it gives your day? The social connection?

Ask HN: Speculate About a Hypothetical Cyber Exploit That Would Leverage AI 2 by burnerToBetOut | 1 comments on Hacker News. It seems kinda inevitable. Some modern-day equivalent of the latter-day Kevin Mitnick is bound to be out there somewhere. Wouldn't you think? I was trying to imagine… • What sort of AI-related exploit is more likely to be one of the first? • What might be the nature of a cyberattack the black hat vibe coders might be vibing up for us? Of course, I hope I'm wrong. I hope that all the MCP servers or whatever and the other AI network infrastructure is as secure as we're told they are.

Tell HN: I found the article that is the cause of the YC/HN Swartz blackout 8 by ypsilon | 2 comments on Hacker News. A lot of accounts have been banned in the past 24 hours for mentioning Aaron Swartz and the circumstances leading to his death. Since this isn’t a traditionally blacked-out topic, I dig around a bit and I believe I found the cause. I archived it here. It’s an opinionated essay for sure: https://ift.tt/ogIP8lm I’m not saying I agree or disagree, but I can’t get on board with the suppression of discussion.

Why are so many images now in unusual file formats? 3 by paulpauper | 3 comments on Hacker News. A common one is webp. This hinders image uploading services and makes it harder to save and share the images.

Why is example.com using Cloudflare 2 by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 1 comments on Hacker News. Previously it has been using Akamai

True Scale of Solar System 2 by Sarakuzoi | 0 comments on Hacker News. Will humanity ever conquer such scales?

Ask HN: Moved to SF to build a startup. What next? 2 by kvaranasi_ | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hey guys, I've come all the way to SF to build a startup. But honestly doesn't feel like much has changed. Is there anything I need to do in order to leverage SF better? Or does being in SF doesn't really matter that much?

Ask HN: What was the best sci-fi book of 2025? 2 by Erikun | 0 comments on Hacker News.

macOS Tahoe 26.2 ships with an outdated version of Python 3.9.6 4 by Gabrielfair | 0 comments on Hacker News. Not only is 3.9 reached end-of-life, the last release was 3.9.25 % python3 Python 3.9.6 (default, Dec 2 2025, 07:27:58) [Clang 17.0.0 (clang-1700.6.3.2)] on darwin

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...

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

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.

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...

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.

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...

Ask HN: Where is legacy codebase maintenance headed? 3 by AnnKey | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've seen a few anecdotes lately that say that they use Claude Code on legacy codebase and with relatively little supervision it can work on complex problems. Then the claim that Claude Code writes most of its own code, and that they no longer mentor their newcomers - instead, AI answers their questions and they can start making meaningful changes within the first few days. To me it sounds almost too good to be true, so I'd love to have some reality check. I've spent most of my career in legacy codebases, reading, tracing behavior, making careful changes, and writing tests to protect them. I've taken a sabbatical though, which ends soon, and I'm quite worried and excited to what has happened during this time. For those working on legacy codebases: - Has the workflow really shifted to prompting AI, reviewing output, and maintaining .md instructions? - Does your company al...

Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha? 39 by Rooster61 | 46 comments on Hacker News. First off, this thread is NOT a petition to rally against the moderation team. Considering the deluge of trash they deal with every day, I think they are doing a valiant job and are to be commended. Consider it merely a place to discuss, which is what HN does best. That said, it's becoming more and more obvious every day that there is a tremendous amount of attempts by bots, and specifically AI agents, to inject slop into HN threads. I worry about the integrity of the discourse here and if the ever growing wave of garbage will overtake staff resources to deal with it. Is it time to implement captcha for HN? If so, should it be out of the box, or a new mechanism more tailored to the security and privacy-centric nature of the HN readership? Are captchas even still effective enough in the age of AI to warrant their use?

Cancelled 2x Cursor Ultra plans, here's why 4 by throwawayround | 4 comments on Hacker News. Posting this because it took me way too long to figure out what was going on, and I wish I had seen a post like this earlier. I just canceled two Cursor Ultra plans. My usage went from a steady ~$60–100/month to $500+ in a few days, projecting ~$1,600/month. Support told me this was “expected.” I did not suddenly start doing 10x more work. Cursor shows a 200k context window and says content is summarized to stay within limits. Pricing is shown as $ per million tokens. Based on that, I monitored my call count and thought I was being careful. What I did not realise: - Cursor builds a very large hidden prompt state: conversation history, tool traces, agent state, extended reasoning, codebase context. - That state is prompt-cached. - On every call, the entire cached prefix is replayed. - Anthropic bills cache read tokens for every replay. - Cache reads are billed even if that content is late...

Developing a high level language over Zig 2 by ziyaadsaqlain | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi everyone I saw zig is and intresting language I am learning it and also making a transpilied High level language over it I want some help with developing syntax. in my lang there are three types of var declaration 1) using local keyword this are added in arena of the specific function. 2) using let keyword this are on stack but i am finding solution to make strings easier here. 3) manual memory but my transpiler will automatically use defer keywords so they are safe and delete once block exit 4) using unsafe direct fully manual memory management but still my transpiler will not let compiler till once in code the are freed.

Ask HN: We built an air-gapped document vault with encrypted print and export 2 by KevinG777 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, We are working on a document vault designed for people and organizations who cannot accept cloud exposure. The system is intentionally boring in some ways: • No required accounts • No cloud dependency for core functionality • Fully offline operation • Local encryption • Air-gapped storage • Encrypted export and controlled, encrypted printing The printing piece is why we started this. In many environments, printing is still unavoidable, and it remains one of the largest data-leak vectors. Most privacy tools stop at storage and ignore output entirely. This is not meant to replace cloud storage for everyone. It is for cases where the threat model assumes: • Networks are hostile • Cloud accounts will eventually be compromised • Convenience must sometimes be traded for control We are explicitly not claiming: • “Unhackable” • “Military-grade” • “Zero risk” We ar...

50k people were dropped from one AI training project during the holidays 3 by KyleW9 | 3 comments on Hacker News. During the holidays, 50k people were dropped from one AI training project without the story reaching the front page. That tells you how invisible this expert workforce still is. Right before the new year, the AI training community absorbed one of its biggest shockwaves: 50k contributors waking up to sudden removal and a one-line “quality requirements changed” message, with no real path to recover. For many, it meant losing time, momentum, and income. This isn’t a post against AI training, just more of a defense for experts’ contributions. RLHF and data annotation help make models reliable, effective, and safe in the real world, and scaling it will demand deep expertise across industries, languages, and edge cases. If we’re serious about scaling it, we need to start elevating the expert workforce that shapes AI across domains. We can’t treat them as disposable or erase th...

ProjectCLI: The Swiss Army Knife CLI for bootstrapping any project 3 by dawitworku | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, I built ProjectCLI (@dawitworku/projectcli) — a universal interactive CLI for developers who are tired of juggling multiple project generators. Problem: Setting up a new project often requires learning dozens of commands: create-react-app, cargo new, poetry new, laravel new, etc. It’s tedious, error-prone, and repetitive. Solution: ProjectCLI lets you scaffold *any project in minutes*: - Multi-language support: JS, TS, Python, Rust, Go, Java, PHP, C#, Dart, Swift, Ruby. - Multi-framework support: React, Next.js, Vue, NestJS, Express, Django, Flask, Actix, Axum, Rocket, Laravel, Symfony, Spring Boot, etc. - Interactive CLI with fuzzy search, smart defaults, and context awareness. - Preflight checks for missing tools. - Remote templates: clone any GitHub starter kit for instant scaffolding. - One-click CI/CD & Docker setup. - Non-interactive mode for automation or...

Ask HN: Launching niche service soon, how should I prepare? 2 by thedangler | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hello, I've been working on a niche product MVP for little over a month and I believe its ready for beta testing. What are some steps to help with a solid beta launch? Here is my list before launching: 1. Web page demonstrates features and what problem it solves. 2. Join a beta wait list that adds to a community, for support, videos, feature requests. 3. Posting messages on specific communities on social sites like Reddit, discord. 4. Offer lifetime pass for decent price that will give the users a boosted plan. Current issues: I have no idea how to price it out. It will be broken down into 3 plans for most people, then special cases will have 2 additional plans. Some features have real measurable costs for example bots, SMS, etc. Not sure how to mark those up. Make them A-la-cart? I still need to build iOS and Android applications but won't do that without real feedback a...

Git analytics that works across GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket 2 by akhnid | 1 comments on Hacker News. I built Gitmore. Connects via webhooks, tracks commits and PRs, and gives you one dashboard. AI answers questions about activity, sends weekly reports to Slack/email. Connect agent to slack which answers your questions directly from your workspace. https://gitmore.io (free for 1 repo).

Tell HN: I write and ship code ~20–50x faster than I did 5 years ago 31 by EGreg | 48 comments on Hacker News. I’ve been meaning to write this up because it’s been surprisingly repeatable, and I wish someone had described it to me earlier. Over the last year or so, my development speed relative to my own baseline from ~2019 is easily 20x, sometimes more. Not because I type faster, or because I cut corners, but because I changed how I use AI. The short version: I don’t use AI inside my editor. I use two AIs in parallel, in the browser, with full context. Here’s the setup. I keep two tabs open: One AI that acts as a “builder”. It gets a lot of context and does the heavy lifting. One AI that acts as a reviewer. It only sees diffs and tries to find mistakes. That’s it. No plugins, no special tooling. Just browser tabs and a terminal. The important part is context. Instead of asking for snippets, I paste entire files or modules and explain the goal. I ask the AI to explain the approach f...

Its now Q2 of the 21st century 4 by vinnyglennon | 0 comments on Hacker News.

I made a lofi page for late night work 3 by onmyway133 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hey everyone I usually listen to lo-fi while working or coding, so I made a small side project to collect the kind of lo-fi music I actually use. It’s free to listen to, built with free music, and I coded it using React. Nothing fancy — just something simple for focus and background vibes. If anyone’s interested: https://ift.tt/C549qXJ Would love any feedback

Ask HN: Why No Dark Mode? 5 by lejeanvaljean | 2 comments on Hacker News. Why isn't there a dark mode in HN?

Svger CLI – Zero-dependency SVG to component tool, 52% faster than SVGR 3 by navid_rezadoost | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've been working on an open-source CLI tool called SVGER that converts SVGs into ready-to-use components for React, Vue 3, Angular, Svelte, Solid, and several other frameworks – all with full TypeScript support and tree-shakable exports. What sets it apart: Zero runtime dependencies – installs instantly, no bundle bloat, high security profile Built-in optimizer that often produces smaller SVGs than SVGO (custom tree-based cleanup, path simplification, transform collapsing, shape conversion) In real-world benchmarks on 600+ icons: ~30s total, ~50ms per file, 20 files/sec throughput – 52% faster than SVGR and 33% faster than SVGO while doing both optimization and component generation Plugin system (already shipped with gradient optimizer, stroke normalizer, etc.) Automated visual regression testing in CI to guarantee pixel-perfect output Parallel processing an...

Ask HN: How do you use 5–10 minute gaps productively? 6 by pea | 11 comments on Hacker News. I often have 5-10m gaps. It’s too easy to waste this time. What things do you like to do in these increments? For instance, learning a new skill, getting slightly better at something, reading high quality content. Edited to clarify that I don’t mean phone-specific activities!

LinkedIn Prevents You from Deplatforming 3 by jeffkumar | 0 comments on Hacker News. So I realized, I have a good set of contacts on LinkedIn that I want to be able to segment and reach out to this year. When I tried to download all my data, I realized that 95% of all the contacts did not have emails. So I then decided to go through each profile sequentially and look at the contact info and get the email and fill out my spreadsheet. After I spend an hour and got about 200 contacts, I got a warning that I was using an automation tool and that I needed to click to comply to not use an automation tool anymore. However, I never used an automation tool in the first place for this. I manually was extracting the emails available to me through my own contact list Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a solution?

Ask HN: Why not ban first-person pronouns from conversational AI? 3 by libertyit | 1 comments on Hacker News. Conversational AI presents (non-IT) people with the powerful illusion that it is conscious. (I personally have a friend who argues vehemently that ChatGPT is conscious - admittedly, he has a diagnosed mental illness, but still.) People become emotionally attached, over-trust it and rely on it for guidance. I understand teenagers are particularly prone to this. Real social interactions suffer. That illusion is powerfully strengthened by the use of first-person pronouns. But "I", "we", "us" etc in LLM output have no referential object. There is no "I" in a LLM. I want a mandatory ban on the use of first-person pronouns by LLMs. There's no impairment in meaning if it says "Would you like a list?" instead of "Would you like me to give you a list?" Personally, I provide a system prompt with this instruction. Works we...

Ask HN: Who is using Nebula (mesh VPN)? 2 by cdsl | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've been doing some research these days about the state of the art for mesh VPN's / network overlays. I'm looking for secure options for a small company and even to update my home server. Nebula, from the Slack team, looks like a really solid solution. All nodes having their own certificate, it doesn't even require to trust the coordination server. I love it! But I'm surprised I can't find any big company claiming to use it (other than Slack themselves). I can only find 'Home-labbers' and smaller businesses, but no big guys looking into it. At least not publicly. Has anyone seen it deployed in a bigger corporation?

Ask HN: What are you working on? (Jan 2026) 13 by RoadieRoller | 20 comments on Hacker News. Are you working on something? Are you vibe-coding something? Please let us know!

Ask HN: How to Disable Copilot in Office365? 3 by yibers | 2 comments on Hacker News.

iOS: Apps persist data after full deletion 5 by WorldDev | 1 comments on Hacker News. I noticed that apps retain info after being deleted. That means we are tracked by the app even after we deleted it. For example, if I delete whatsapp or instagram, choosing to delete all data, then restart the phone and reinstall the app, it will automatically know my account. So there is clearly a persistence mechanism that it uses. I tried to understand which one. - UIDevice.identifierForVendor Apple clearly states this identifier is changed as soon as all apps from the same vendor are deleted. that's what I tested, so this identifier is not the culprit - DCDevice.generateToken This only stores 2 bits on the device, so not enough to store a username - Keychain services (password) I checked in the password app, no password was saved for these app - iCloud Keychain I turned off this feature Does anyone know the technical way apps persist data even after total deletion? One of the big appeals of...

I built a screen-aware desktop assistant; now it can write and use your computer 4 by luthiraabeykoon | 2 comments on Hacker News. I posted Julie here a few days ago as a weekend prototype: an open-source desktop assistant that lives as a tiny overlay and uses your screen as context (instead of copy/paste, tab switching, etc.) Update: I just shipped Julie v1.0, and the big change is that it’s no longer only “answer questions about my screen.” It can now run agents (writing/coding) and a computer-use mode via a CUA toolkit. ((https://tryjulie.vercel.app/)) What that means in practice: - General AI assistant, it hears what you hear, sees what you see, and gives you real-time answers for any question instantly. - Writing agent: draft/rewrite in your voice, then iterate with you while staying in the overlay (no new workspace). - Coding agent: help you implement/refactor with multi-step edits, while you keep your editor as the “source of truth.” - Computer-use agent: when you want, it ca...

Ask HN: Which AI productivity tools are you using in 2026? 2 by Vishal19111999 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Security breaks during partial failures – design notes from distributed systems 2 by sandhyavinjam | 0 comments on Hacker News. TL;DR: Many security mechanisms fail not during attacks, but during partial outages. This post documents early design notes for a failure-aware security framework for distributed systems. The problem In production distributed systems, security often breaks when things are half working: auth services degrade → retries explode fallback paths widen access recovery logic becomes the attack surface Nothing is “exploited”, yet the system becomes unsafe. Most security models assume stable components and clean failures. Real systems don’t behave that way. Design assumptions We assume: correlated failures retries are adversarial timeouts are unsafe defaults recovery paths matter as much as steady-state logic We don’t assume: global consistency perfect identity reliable clocks centralized enforcement Framework ideas (high level) This work explores four ideas: 1. Fail...

Ask HN: Why is Apple's voice transcription hilariously bad? 3 by keepamovin | 1 comments on Hacker News. Why is Apple’s voice transcription so hilariously bad? Even 2–3 years ago, OpenAI’s Whisper models delivered better, near-instant voice transcription offline — and the model was only about ~500 MB. With that context, it’s hard to understand how Apple’s transcription, which runs online on powerful servers, performs so poorly today. Here are real examples from using the iOS native app just now: - “BigQuery update” → “bakery update” - “GitHub” → “get her” - “CI build” → “CI bill” - “GitHub support” → “get her support” These aren’t obscure terms — they’re extremely common words in software, spoken clearly in casual contexts. The accuracy gap feels especially stark compared to what was already possible years ago, even fully offline. Is this primarily a model-quality issue, a streaming/segmentation problem, aggressive post-processing, or something architectural in Apple’s speech st...

Ask HN: When do we expose "Humans as Tools" so LLM agents can call us on demand? 3 by vedmakk | 0 comments on Hacker News. Serious question. We're building agentic LLM systems that can plan, reason, and call tools via MCP. Today those tools are APIs. But many real-world tasks still require humans. So… why not expose humans as tools? Imagine TaskRabbit or Fiverr running MCP servers where an LLM agent can: - Call a human for judgment, creativity, or physical actions - Pass structured inputs - Receive structured outputs back into its loop At that point, humans become just another dependency in an agent's toolchain. Though slower, more expensive, but occasionally necessary. Yes, this sounds dystopian. Yes, it treats humans as "servants for AI." Thats kind of the point. It already happens manually... this just formalizes the interface. Questions I'm genuinely curious about: - Is this inevitable once agents become default software actors? (As of basically n...