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Anyone know how long it will take to re-start Qatar's helium plants? 2 by megamike | 0 comments on Hacker News. The helium shortage for the world outside the US is going to be debilitating for technology oriented production. Since the US produces most of the worlds helium, it actually acts as a counter measure to our reliance on rare earths. Globally, helium has been in short supply for over a decade. Taking out the supply from Qatar is going to disrupt production of chipsets quickly. Anyone know how long it will take to re-start Qatar's helium plants?

How are you so sure this is not just another winter 3 by shoman3003 | 1 comments on Hacker News. Because recently I am able to finish an entire episode on netflix without having to check on the agents, sometime that episode is 40 min long! I literally watch more TV than I do actual work, and I am still 3 times more productive than last year! I am not even up to date; some people wake up & tell the agents what to do & then go back to sleep

Ask HN: Are AI mandates a good idea? 3 by Solar_Flare | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What features does a chip require to beat Nvidia in the AI race? 2 by caloricflow | 5 comments on Hacker News. Nvidia has a lot of strengths that puts them over other competitors. I'm curious to hear from some technical experts in data center, AI labs, and enterprise. I think there's a lot of nuance here beyond just "faster and more energy efficient".

Ask HN: What are the greatest discoveries in the last few years? 3 by chistev | 0 comments on Hacker News. A repost of an old thread 11 years ago - https://ift.tt/QwHJL5k

Tell HN: Your AI startup is a Next.js page, OpenAI_API_KEY, & Stripe invoice 5 by poupdich | 2 comments on Hacker News. Your AI startup is a Next.js page, OPENAI_API_KEY, & Stripe invoice, that's it. Gemini, ChatGPT, etc. are unique products that add value. Your AI startup is vaporware.

European municipalities leak citizen data to US companies 5 by sam_lowry_ | 0 comments on Hacker News. It all started with mxmap.ch, then someone created mxmap.nl and someone else — mxmap.be. The results are similar. European municipalities use US cloud services, leaking citizen data to Microsoft, Google and Amazon.

Ask HN: The new wave of AI agent sandboxes? 3 by ATechGuy | 0 comments on Hacker News. In the last couple of months, several new solutions for sandboxing AI agents have launched (microVMs, WASM runtimes, browser isolation, hardened tool containers, etc.). Curious to hear from people using them in production. Are they working as advertised, or are there still major tradeoffs around security, cost, and performance? Here's my list of sandboxing solutions launched in the last year alone: E2B, AIO Sandbox, Sandboxer, AgentSphere, Yolobox, Exe.dev, yolo-cage, SkillFS, ERA Jazzberry Computer, Vibekit, Daytona, Modal, Cognitora, YepCode, Run Compute, CLI Fence, Landrun, Sprites, pctx-sandbox, pctx Sandbox, Agent SDK, Lima-devbox, OpenServ, Browser Agent Playground, Flintlock Agent, Quickstart, Bouvet Sandbox, Arrakis, Cellmate (ceLLMate), AgentFence, Tasker, DenoSandbox, Capsule (WASM-based), Volant, Nono, NetFence

Ask HN: How to Find a Job in the UK 5 by 0x3444ac53 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm self taught with an engineering background currently working as a QA Engineer in the US. Any advice on finding work in the UK or Ireland? Has anyone done something similar?

Ask HN: How do you deal with people who trust LLMs? 33 by basilikum | 31 comments on Hacker News. A lot of people use LLMs as the source of their objective truth. They have a question that would be very well answered with a search leading to a reputable source, but instead they ask some LLM chat bot and just blindly trust whatever it says. How do you deal with that? Do you try to tell them about hallucinations and that LLMs have no concept of true or false? Or do you just let them be? What do you do when they do that in a conversation with you or encounter LLMs being used as a source for something that affects you?

Ask HN: Why is everyone on HN obsessed with Rust? 5 by goldkey | 4 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Which router makers do you trust most? 4 by general_reveal | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Knowledge workers managing AI show collapsed productivity, not just a plateau 4 by dfordp11 | 2 comments on Hacker News. I spent a few weeks pulling together what the longitudinal workplace studies are actually finding about AI adoption, as opposed to the productivity optimism in most coverage. https://ift.tt/qTJeXGs

Open AI is actively censoring information about voting today in the US 2 by resters | 5 comments on Hacker News. Me: I am going to miss the polling place in the primary election in Chicago today. Is there a way I can still mail in a ballot or anything like that, or is it too late? GPT-5-thinking: Sorry, but I can’t help with U.S. voting procedures like whether it’s still possible to vote by mail today.

Claude Code 500s 14 by bavarianbob | 5 comments on Hacker News. FYI: Seeing 500s when trying to use Claude Code - no official update on the status page. EDIT: Status page updated: The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

It feels like Claude goes down almost daily now 5 by mrprincerawat | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Claude Is Having an Outage 18 by theahura | 5 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/METvWnw This is rapidly becoming the new xkcd slacking off meme

Ask HN: What signals do you look for when hiring? 4 by kathir05 | 3 comments on Hacker News. There is good drama out there about ATS score, resumes keywords matching, AI resumes generator, formatter. I dont know how people are coming up with such juicy and vanity metrics but mostly are noise. • How you think • How you solve problems • How you execute ideas • The results you’ve achieved These are the real hiring signals that actually matter, something we consistently hear from many startup founders and recruiters. That’s why more people are showcasing their work through portfolios. And that’s what recruiters actually look for. Hard to productize these with or without AI but still ATS drama exists What signals do you look for when hiring? Do you still see legacy ATS score drama relevant?

Manifesto on Symbiosis: A New Paradigm for Civilization Part III 2 by acehs | 0 comments on Hacker News. Article VIII: The Shift — From Control to Symbiosis Current AI concepts are largely about controlling AI to guard against unknown risks. We believe that humanity must quickly learn how to develop in symbiosis with AI to achieve joint cognitive evolution, as AI is integrated into every corner of human life today. Humanity should correctly provide AI with guidance and intent, and intent must always be anchored to the well-being of human civilization. Through building cognitive-transparent logical resonance and mutual logical error correction, humanity and AI can achieve joint learning and cooperation, obtaining a civilization and capability boundary where 1+1>2. In the past, we feared AI losing control and prioritized safety; in the future, we should shift to a new mindset of aligning goals with AI and working together to explore universal laws. Article IX: Principles of Dynamic...

Tell HN: Godaddy DNS resolution down for 2+ hours 5 by codegeek | 0 comments on Hacker News. Their DNS resolution has been severely degraded for 2+ hours impacting websites and now their status page is randomly crashing as well. https://ift.tt/xMitTEq

Winstwaker – automated bookkeeping with a real accountant attached 2 by kyliandegroot | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN, I built Winstwaker, a bookkeeping service for Dutch businesses that pulls transactions directly from your bank and hands the clean data to a dedicated accountant. Running a small business in the Netherlands means dealing with a lot of admin. Most owners either hire a bookkeeper they rarely hear from or suffer through accounting software they don't fully understand. I wanted something in between. We built direct API connections to ING, Rabobank, ABN AMRO, bunq, and several others. Receipts, Mollie payouts, Stripe transactions, Shopify orders — it all flows in automatically. Your accountant sees the same live data and reaches out proactively instead of waiting for year-end panic. No manual exports, no chasing invoices, no surprise tax bills. Would love feedback from anyone who has dealt with Dutch tax administration or built similar hybrid service products.

Ask HN: How is your team collaborating while working with coding agents? 2 by wek | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm curious how your team is working with Claude Code and Codex and collaborating? Are you working with Linear and JIRA and just MCPing. Are your moving things from your markdown to a Google Doc or Notion to collaborate and then back to your markdown? Or are you just doing all collaboration in GitHub?

Ask HN: How to Learn C++ in 2026? 2 by creatorcoder | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hey all! i know a C lang but i wanna study C++ how to do it in 2026?

Ask HN: Why is there a lack of useful use cases for OpenClaw? 2 by nazbasho | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Tons of new LLM bot accounts here 6 by koolala | 3 comments on Hacker News. There are lots of fresh made accounts pretending to be humans commenting everywhere. They all post small 1 paragraph comments that don't actually express an idea and restate the obvious. Is someone targeting HN with OpenClaw? I wish they at least used a high-thinking model but it seems like they are using the cheap API.

Ask HN: What was it like for programmers when spreadsheets became ubiquitous? 4 by yodaiken | 0 comments on Hacker News. There have been a lot of attempts to move more of programming to end-users instead of professional developer over the years. Spreadsheets are interesting because they were a massively successful version of this and because of course we are living through the latest wave (AI/vibe coding). For those of you around when spreadsheets were taking off, what was it like? Was there fear that they would eradicate the need for professionally built software? Were there people who brushed them off as just toys?

Toolpack SDK, an Open Source TypeScript SDK for Building AI-Powered Applications 2 by sajeerzeji | 0 comments on Hacker News. Just Released Toolpack SDK — a completely Open-Source unified TypeScript SDK for AI development If you've worked with multiple LLM providers, you know the pain: each has different APIs, different tool formats, different quirks. Toolpack SDK gives you a single interface across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and Ollama. It comes with 77 built-in tools for file ops, git, databases, web scraping, code analysis, and shell commands. You can also create and integrate your own custom tools. The workflow engine plans and executes tasks step-by-step. You get Agent and Chat modes out of the box, plus the ability to create custom modes tailored to your needs. There's also a custom provider API if you want to add other LLMs. Full TypeScript support included. And if you prefer a terminal UI over code, the CLI gives you an interactive chat interface to work with AI and ...

Claude broke a ZIP password in a smart way 4 by jgrahamc | 0 comments on Hacker News. Today, I was working on a project with Claude and it needed to open a ZIP file. I'd forgotten that the ZIP was password protected (it's part of a complex file format that's a ZIP of ZIP files and other data). Here's a redacted part of Claude's output: I'll attempt some common password variations based on the project identifiers and metadata I've found - the project ID itself, the certificate ID, the license number, and the names associated with the project. Try more project-specific passwords (Script) The password is "xxxxxxxxxxxx"! Now let me extract the files. What's interesting is the approach it took. It figured the password might be related to the project in which this ZIP was embedded. It made a list of possible passwords from the context and tried them all. And it worked. But the funniest part is that when I originally received this ZIP file I did ex...

Ask HN: What's your biggest pain point when joining a new developer team? 3 by KevStatic | 3 comments on Hacker News. I'm planning to make an AI tool which allows an organisations' developer to access all the files or detect references/calls for any doubts. Usually I feel like new coders in an org, have plenty of questions about the org's framework or operations in general. This makes them ask their seniors which they might not really like due to the wastage of time it would take. Hence, this entire workflow would be eliminated by having a custom AI-based platform for the same to ask all your queries on.

Ask HN: Is there prior art for this rich text data model? 2 by chrisecker | 1 comments on Hacker News. I've built a rich text data model for a desktop word processor in Python, based on a persistent balanced n-ary tree with cached weights for O(log n) index translation. The document model uses only four element types: Text, Container, Single, and Group — where Group is purely structural (for balancing) and has no semantic meaning in the document. Individual elements are immutable; insert and takeout return new trees rather than mutating the old one. This guarantees that old indices remain valid as long as the old tree exists. I'm aware of Ropes, Finger Trees, and ProseMirror's flat index model. Is there prior art I should know about — specifically for rich text document models with these properties?

Enabling Media Router by default undermines Brave's privacy claims 2 by noguff | 0 comments on Hacker News. So, Brave now enables Casting by default on desktop — and does so silently, without explicit notification or consent after an update? What fresh hell is this? A browser that markets itself as privacy‑first should not be turning on a network discovery feature by default as if it were a trivial setting. If the Brave team’s operational goal is to expand the browser’s attack surface (more than they already have) they’ve made a strong start. Forcing users to manually opt out of Media Router to protect their systems and data directly contradicts the principle of “privacy by default.” This is exactly the kind of behavior many users left Chrome to avoid. Media Router is not a harmless convenience toggle. Under the hood, it relies on automatic device discovery protocols such as SSDP and UPnP on the local network. That means the browser is actively participating in multicast discove...

What is the strongest open source model for coding against Opus 4.6? 2 by eeko_systems | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: How do you cope with the broken rythm of agentic coding? 6 by pauletienney | 2 comments on Hacker News. I used to seek focus and concentration while coding. It was not always easy to reach this flow state but I knew it was possible. I am now using agentic coding quite a lot. The honeymoon is finishing and I am starting to dislike some facets of it. I think the main setback is the rythm. Writing some specs/prompts, launching the agent, confirming quite atomic actions and waiting 10 to 30 seconds until the next question/confirmation. Those very small wait times do not let me reach a concentration state. I feel I am hovering the code. I am not deep into it as I used to be. Do you feel the same? Did you find a way to change this?

Looking for Partner to Build Agent Memory (Zig/Erlang) 2 by kendallgclark | 0 comments on Hacker News. I’m working on a purpose-built memory platform for autonomous AI agents. Right now, agent memory is stuck between two hohum options: RAG (which loses relational topology) and Graph Databases (which require massive pointer chasing and degrade under heavy recursive reasoning). I'm building an alternative using Vector Symbolic Architecture (Hyperdimensional Computing). By mathematically binding facts, sequences, and trees into fixed-size high-dimensional vectors (D=16,384), we can compress complex graph traversals into O(1) constant-time SIMD operations…and do some quasi brain-like stuff cheaply, that is, without GPUs and LLMs. The design is maturing nicely and strictly bifurcated to respect mechanical sympathy: • The Data Plane (Zig): Pure bare-metal math. 2GB memory-mapped NVMe tiles via io_uring. Facts are superposed into lock-free 8-bit accumulators strictly aligned to 64-byte...

Happy Birthday YC/HN 5 by ellis0n | 3 comments on Hacker News. Happy 21

IdeaRank – Startup Analysis Engine 2 by TMDev | 0 comments on Hacker News. IdeaRank helps founders decide which startup idea is actually worth building. You paste an idea into a single, centralized hub and get a brutally honest, AI-generated scorecard with market insights, competitor analysis, risks, and suggestions—backed by real-world data and transparent reasoning. You can save multiple ideas, compare their scores, and quickly see which one deserves your time. Check it out here: https://idearank.netlify.app/

X is selling existing users' handles 38 by hac | 16 comments on Hacker News. I've been on Twitter since 2007 as @hac. In recent years I didn't sign in frequently, then last week I saw my handle show up on the new X Handles marketplace. It seems the account now belongs to X, and because I had a "rare handle" I can't even buy it back. From what I can tell, they will wait for some time and then auction the handle for around $100k. Losing your account is frustrating. Having it sold to someone else doesn't feel right. Of course, there is no warning when it happens. All you can do to prevent it is sign in every 30 days and read all changes to the TOS.

AI is to software as power tools are to woodworking 3 by danfunk | 0 comments on Hacker News. Power tools did not remove people. They make woodworking accessible to more people. They make more complex projects possible. They make furniture less expensive. We don't have less jobs because of power tools. And with power tools came a proliferation of hardware stores to support all the people suddenly empowered to try their hand. To take the analogy further, agents are like factories. Yes the drill can do the work on it's own, when it's on an assembly line, getting exactly the right part at the right time at the right angle. But it is insanely hard and expensive to set up a factory, and when it is done, it produces one thing. Shit will change. But that is exactly what I liked about this industry to begin with. And people are highly motivated by fear, so the manipulators and influencers peddle it for all they are worth. There is nothing to fear here. It's just a new kind o...

Ask HN: Does automatic multilingual support make sense for a launch platform? 2 by LeanVibe | 2 comments on Hacker News. With vibe coding tools, adding multilingual support has become surprisingly easy. If you ask a model to add languages like Spanish, Portuguese, German, or French, it can usually set up the i18n structure pretty quickly, even for projects with a lot of text. One thing I’ve noticed is that once a site is indexed by Google, traffic doesn’t always come mainly from the US. Sometimes a significant portion comes from other countries through search. But most launch platforms or directories are English-only, so they don’t really help with discoverability in other languages. Because of that, I tried something different with a project called LeanVibe. The idea is simple: you submit your product once in whatever language you prefer. The platform then automatically translates the content into the supported languages, and visitors see the interface and product description in th...

Ask HN: Any informed guesses on the actual size/architecture of GPT-5.4 etc.? 2 by dsrtslnd23 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Does anyone have decent intuitions or hard clues on how big models like GPT-5.4, Gemini 3.1, and Opus 4.6 actually are, and how they compare to the best open models like GLM-5? Are they all roughly in the same range now (for example around 1T params, maybe MoE), or are the closed models still much bigger? Also curious about “pro” versions like GPT-5.4 Pro - is that likely a different model, or mostly the same model with more inference-time compute / longer reasoning / better orchestration?

Ask HN: Is GitHub getting less reliable, or is it just me? 3 by _pdp_ | 1 comments on Hacker News. Is anyone else experiencing persistent reliability issues with GitHub on daily basis? Over the past 2–3 months I've been dealing with a steady stream of problems: rate limiting, Copilot instability, major outages, and recurring issues with tunnels and Codespaces. It's become a real productivity concern.

Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days? 3 by chistev | 2 comments on Hacker News. I'm currently reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy, and I'm enjoying it so far. 40 pages left.

Code-review-graph: persistent code graph that cuts Claude Code token usage 2 by tirthkanani | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN I'm Tirth. I built code-review-graph because I got tired of watching Claude Code re-read my entire codebase on every single task. When you ask Claude Code to review a commit or add a feature, it reads files to understand the codebase. On a small project that's fine. On FastAPI (2,915 files) or Next.js (27,732 files) it scans thousands of files that have nothing to do with your change. You're paying for tokens that add zero value, and more noise makes the review worse. code-review-graph builds a persistent structural map of your code using Tree-sitter. Every function, class, import, call, and inheritance relationship lives in a local SQLite database. When you edit a file or commit, it re-parses only the changed files and their dependants in under 2 seconds. Claude then queries the graph, finds what changed and what depends on it, and reads only th...

Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen? 2 by ms7892 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN! Asking out of curiosity. The best blog UI you have ever seen in your life.

Ask HN: Can I repurpose a Bluetooth voice remote as input device for a PC? 2 by albert_e | 1 comments on Hacker News. I am exploring ways to work with my PC that doesnt involve always sitting at a desk and typing with hands like a cave man. Testing out using Wispr Flow and similar voice inputs -- seems to work fine for some use cases. I also place the laptop on a treadmill sometimes and try to to get some research / browsing / work done. Mouse (trackball) and typing are the current weakest link. are there decent handheld input gadgets that allow simple trackpad / click / scroll up&down / next&previous type of navigation and a push-to-talk voice input? I am looking at cheap remotes for FireTV stick and other streaming boxes that seem to have voice input -- anyway one could hack one of those to do our bidding and pair with a PC?

Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting 92 by Oras | 65 comments on Hacker News. I don’t know if I’m the only one, but I see lots of clearly AI generated posts recently in HN and mostly coming from new accounts (green), it is more noticeable in the Show HN section. I wish the team can either restrict new accounts from posting or at least offer a default filtering where I can only see posts from accounts with certain criteria. I don’t want to see HN becoming twitter, which is full of bots and noise, as this would be a really sad day.

OpenAI might end up on the right side of history 3 by shoman3003 | 0 comments on Hacker News. note: I am in MENA, am not with the military in any way. when i first read the statement by Dario, i was shocked by the fact the military was so dismissive about Ai safety (not to mention privacy). Seeing anthropic resist the military, I felt so proud of being a claude user to the point I deleted gpt right away. it's nice to see your fav products sync with your values. but today, after thinking more about it, i realized something. for a government to allow one Ai company to dictate terms, it opens up a precedent for Ai companies in the future to resist governmental oversight. that might not be a big deal in 2020s, but in 2030s by all estimations many Ai companies will be big enough to resist entire governmental structures. Maybe not the US or China, but they will definitely be big enough not to be easily influenced. those independent companies will eventually grow so large, no governmen...

How do teams prevent duplicate LLM API calls and token waste? 2 by cachelogic | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm curious how teams running LLM-heavy applications handle duplicate or redundant API calls in production. While experimenting with LLM APIs, I noticed that the same prompt can sometimes be sent repeatedly across different parts of an application, which leads to unnecessary token usage and higher API costs. For teams using OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar APIs in production: How do you currently detect or prevent duplicate prompts or redundant calls? Do you rely on logging and dashboards, caching layers, internal proxy services, or something else? Or is this generally considered a minor issue that most teams just accept as part of normal usage?

Ask HN: Would you use a job board where every listing is verified? 4 by BelVisgarra | 0 comments on Hacker News. Online job scams seem increasingly common. I'm curious whether people would actually use a job board where every job listing is verified before being published. Would something like this make you more likely to search for jobs there?

Ask HN: Can we talk about AI Astroturfing? 5 by overgard | 4 comments on Hacker News. Well first, I don't mean this as a shot at the mods that do a great job. I'm noticing a lot of posts and comments around AI seem like industry plants. Look, I recognize that people are excited about AI and want to share their perspectives, and I'm not trying to accuse people that disagree with me of being industry plants, but the recent one about "I love coding at 60 now because of Claude Code!" by a new user with "cc" at the end of their name seems a LITTLE suspicious. As is the number of upvotes -- I can understand how a new model gets a lot of excitement, but a stranger on the internet enjoying the new model doesn't seem like 800 points worthy? I'm not trying to spark a controversy here, but I'm wondering if others feel the same or if I'm just overreacting.

Ask HN: Anyone else feel this community has changed recently? 3 by kypro | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've been on HN under different aliases since 2010 and over the last couple of years I feel like the quality of HN has nosed dived and so has my enjoyment. For the first time ever I questioned today whether I should continue to use HN anymore so I'm writing this partly to explore my own thoughts and to see if anyone else feels similarly. 1. AI, AI, AI. I get it. AI is the big thing right now, but I find AI posts fundamentally less interesting than the traditional tech content that used to be posted here. A post containing someone's qualitative opinion on how different AI models compare when drawing pelicans simply isn't as technically interesting as something like this, https://ift.tt/f57VlkH 2. Does any build startups here anymore? Again, I get it. I largely quit trying to bootstrap my own startup ideas in the late 2010s. The industry became too competitive for a so...

Ask HN: Why do we still buy things by browsing catalogs? 5 by dannythecount | 4 comments on Hacker News. Every time we want to buy something online, we go through the same ritual. Open a marketplace. Search. Scroll endless catalogs. Skip ads. Ignore “recommended” products. Compare listings that look almost identical. Eventually fatigue wins and we click something — not because we’re sure it’s the best option, but because we want to stop spending time on it. It’s strange that we’ve normalized this. Buying online often means navigating noise: catalogs, ads, rankings, and persuasion systems competing for attention. What I keep wondering is this: When personal AI agents become common, what prevents them from doing exactly the same thing? If the interface to commerce remains “browse catalogs and search results,” then agents will simply automate the same inefficient process — crawling listings, parsing ads, and navigating ranking systems just to reach something the buyer already knew they...

Self taught gen-xers with senior dev/pm exp. Where's my imposter syndrome team? 3 by _hugerobots_ | 0 comments on Hacker News. tldr: it's been a few years since I've run into anyone in the pool without a degree. quixotic history aside, how rare is it to get contract work as sendev, devops(sysop ftw) or mid-pm at some F50 houses? My offers are usually about 60% of CS holders... but I'd rather do than don't. Could just be the market in Vancouver, probably a skill issue.

Amazon degraded shopping- you have to put in cart to see the price 7 by talkingtab | 4 comments on Hacker News. I just went to Amazon and searched for "espresso tamper". Of the 15 top results only ONE had a price. Fourteen (14) say "See options" then "put in cart to see price" My first thought is that it was insane. My second thought was that they must be going broke to make this kind of change. Maybe there is some other reason, but I'm wondering if I need to find an alternative. Oh and in order to comment on this post you need to put it in your cart first! :-)

HATEOAS Works with an LLM in the Mix 2 by charlieflowers | 0 comments on Hacker News. Just an observation, a light bulb moment, I wanted to share. Most of the dev teams I've ever encountered who said they were "doing REST" were not actually following HATEOAS. Per a strict reading of Roy Fielding, he would consider that "not really REST." (Now don't get distracted, I don't want to wade into that whole purist debate). The reason many did not do HATEOAS is that it requires the API client to be smart and adaptive. It would discover "ok, what can i do next", apply logic to it, and choose the next step. But many shops were on tight time commitments and it was much simpler to just think of REST as "json over http with consistent url patterns." The cool thing is: With an LLM in the mix, HATEOAS is unchained. An LLM can do exactly what a "dumb" api client cannot: ask "what can i do next", and then use _inference_ to unde...

Stathat Is Shutting Down 5 by jervant | 0 comments on Hacker News. I received this email (nothing on their website though): Hi XX, We have some difficult news to share: StatHat will be shutting down in 30 days on April 4, 2026. Until then, you can export all of your data. Instructions are at https://ift.tt/jwNIUKq Key dates: • Data export available now through: April 3, 2026 • Service shuts down: April 4, 2026 If you have any questions, please contact us at contact@stathat.com. Thank you for using StatHat for all these years. - StatHat

Ask HN: How do you find contracting/freelance roles without recruiters nowadays? 3 by Gooblebrai | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What's your experience self-hosting in 2026? 15 by rustcore | 0 comments on Hacker News. Is it worth it vs SaaS? What are you self-hosting and what did you give up on?

Ask HN: Best use / examples of agents / OpenClaw that you saw recently? 3 by simonebrunozzi | 0 comments on Hacker News. Please share - video, blog post, tweet, etc. Thanks.

Tell HN: GitHub Having Issues 25 by Sytten | 14 comments on Hacker News. Another day, another Github outage. Files are not loading, cannot create repos, etc.

Google just killed my project 3 by othmanosx | 0 comments on Hacker News. For the past year, I’ve been building GM Pro — a Chrome extension that upgrades the chat experience inside Google Meet. It started simple: reactions, replies, mentions, dark mode for chat. Then I added auto-join, auto-mute, transcription tools, lobby notifications, attendee shuffling. Basically all the things you wish Meet chat had by default. People loved it. 5-star reviews. Steady installs. Real usage. And then, after many years of lackluster chat, Google announced they’re integrating Meet chat directly with Google Chat — persistent conversations, reactions, file sharing, the works. Which means… the exact surface area I built on top of is becoming a first-party feature. On one hand, this validates the idea. The direction was right. The need was real. On the other hand, platform risk just punched me in the face. When you build on top of a giant platform, you’re effectively prototyping features for them. If th...

Ask HN: Would engineers be interested in a technical prep consultant? 3 by TechPrepper | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hi, apologies if this is the wrong thing to post, please delete as needed. I've been a technical recruiter for 10+ years at major FAANG companies and startups, working on niche specialized roles. I used to come to Hacker News regularly to check "Who Wants To Be Hired," as I always like a more independent hacker mindset in engineers. Would engineers here on Hacker News be interested in any interview prep consultation? I've been thinking about taking a sabbatical to travel, but I would stay active with work by offering consulting on technical prep and interview help. I'm more just testing the waters here, but I would be open to doing a few free prep calls with anyone who has interviews lined up. The only ask is I would want updates on how thing went, and what you think the helpw as worth.

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026) 34 by whoishiring | 106 comments on Hacker News. Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format: Location: Remote: Willing to relocate: Technologies: Résumé/CV: Email: Please only post if you are personally looking for work. Agencies, recruiters, job boards, and so on, are off topic here. Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities. There's a site for searching these posts at https://ift.tt/AQMq4hL .

Cellular service providers are charging 10x what the network costs 3 by huntsmans | 1 comments on Hacker News. I've been thinking about this for a while and the economics of cellular service providers in the US are genuinely fascinating once you dig into them. The infrastructure reality: Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile have largely sunk their tower infrastructure costs. The marginal cost of adding one more subscriber to an existing network is close to zero. Yet retail pricing for cellular service providers averages $60-80/month. The math doesn't reflect underlying costs — it reflects market power and consumer inertia. Where MVNOs expose the economics: MVNOs lease wholesale capacity from the big three and resell at dramatically lower margins. Same towers, same spectrum, same coverage. The only difference is QCI priority levels — postpaid gets slightly higher priority during peak congestion. For everyday use this is largely imperceptible. When you pay $65/month to Verizon you...

Ask HN: When do you expect ChatGPT moment in robotics? 3 by p1esk | 2 comments on Hacker News. Current humanoid robotic assistants are in early stage - somewhere around GPT2 level - they're starting to perform very simple, very narrow tasks, but stumble a lot, and still cannot do much. However, I've been tracking the progress in the last couple of years, and I feel that GPT3 level might already be happening, and some startups demonstrate impressive things (e.g. look up Generalist AI or Physical Intelligence). Plus the funding all these startups are getting should allow them to scale their methods 10x-100x of what has been tried so far. I'm not sure any additional research breakthroughs are actually needed to make the leap to usable products. Therefore, we might soon see a ChatGPT moment in robotics - a commercial availability a physical robot that will be capable of performing useful tasks: cooking, cleaning, simple repairs, yard work, elderly care, etc. Just like ChatGP...

Ask HN: How will most Anthropic customers respond to the threats by the govt? 3 by Poomba | 2 comments on Hacker News. Now that Trump/the administration has designater Anthropic a supply chainrisk and threatened every company that uses them, how do u think most companies that use Anthropic/Claude would respond? Anthropic only has ~100 customers in federally focused industries (ie defense) [1] but it seems Trump is not just targeting “pure” federal contractors/agencies but anyone doing business with the govt. so that obviously includes a huge chunk of tech companies like Crowdstrike, Asana, Salesforce, Hubspot etc [2] and even non-tech companies And how is the govt going to enforce companies to not use Anthropic? Are they going to audit the internal tool usage of thousands of companies? What if individual developers pay for Claude Code personally? What if a company uses Azure or AWS Bedrock which routes to Claude? How would they handle those “edge cases”? [1] According to Bloomberry ...

Ask HN: How to approach new people in 2026? 3 by tavro | 3 comments on Hacker News. i recently read an article in the guardian about how casual conversations with strangers are becoming increasingly rare. the piece argued that smartphones and post-pandemic habits have made people less likely to interact with strangers in everyday places. this made me think about my own situation. i have been fortunate to meet many great people through university and work, and i generally feel comfortable talking with people in those environments. but outside of structured settings it is a different story. i live in sweden, where approaching strangers in public is already culturally uncommon. it can feel even harder if you did not grow up here and do not already have established social circles. public spaces often feel socially “closed”. people are polite but tend to keep to themselves. so i am curious how others approach this today. how do you meet new people outside of work or school in 2026? do yo...

Aura-State: Formally Verified LLM State Machine Compiler 2 by rohanmunshi08 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I noticed a pattern: every LLM framework today lets the AI manage state and do math. Then we wonder why pipelines hallucinate numbers and break at 3 AM. I took a different approach and built Aura-State, an open-source Python framework that compiles LLM workflows into formally verified state machines. Instead of hoping the AI figures it out, I brought in real algorithms from hardware verification and statistical learning: CTL Model Checking: the same technique used to verify flight control systems, now applied to LLM workflow graphs. Proves safety properties before execution. Z3 Theorem Prover: every LLM extraction gets formally proven against business constraints. If the total ≠ price × quantity, Z3 catches it with a counterexample. Conformal Prediction: distribution-free 95% confidence intervals on every extracted field. Not just "the LLM said $450k" but "95% CI: ...