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My GLM-5.1 coding agent scored 94.3% on LiveCodeBench Lite (348/369) 3 by univence | 0 comments on Hacker News. I’ve been building Univence, a custom autonomous coding agent platform powered by GLM-5.1. We are building this to be a true Replit/Vercel competitor, but with zero vendor lock-in. You can build and develop entirely on our platform alongside our SOTA agent, but you own the code and can deploy it seamlessly to any 3rd-party host like DigitalOcean, Netlify, AWS, or your own VPS. To prove the core agent's capability, we just ran it against the LiveCodeBench Lite dataset (Python split). Here is the breakdown over a blind 369-problem run: Total: 348/369 passed (94.3%) Easy: 138/141 passed (97.9%) Medium: 152/156 passed (97.4%) Hard: 58/72 passed (80.6%) (Note: We achieved that 80% on Hard by engineering the agent's constraints to strictly prioritize optimal time complexities like O(n log n) over brute-force O(n^2), avoiding the Time Limit Exceeded errors that usually tr...

Ask HN: How are you handling data retention across your stack? 2 by preston-kwei | 0 comments on Hacker News. For people building SaaS with data across multiple systems (S3, DBs, caches, etc), do you actually have a clean way to manage retention/deletion across all of them? (Especially when each customer has custom policies) Or is it more a mix of lifecycle rules, cron jobs, and manual cleanup? How are you doing this today? I feel like this is a blocker in enterprise deals when selling to regulated industries.

Hey, it's Earth Day today 4 by burnt-resistor | 1 comments on Hacker News. Let's think and act a bit more wisely to protect the only place we can provably live, eh?

Need advice: Back end engineer → infrastructure: how do you make the transition? 5 by gokuljs | 1 comments on Hacker News. I’ve been a backend-heavy engineer for about 4 to 5 years, mostly in startups. For about 3 months I’ve been reading and building small things, but I’m not sure if I’m progressing or just spinning. I also don’t really have people around me in these areas, so I’ve mostly been trying to figure this out on my own, including using tools like GPT and Claude, but I still feel unclear. My work includes APIs, some real-time systems like WebRTC and streaming, and debugging production issues such as latency, buffering, and reliability. I’ve used AWS, Docker, Redis, and similar tools. I’m trying to move toward more systems-oriented work, such as infrastructure, distributed systems, or AI infrastructure like inference pipelines and data flow. The problem is I feel stuck and scattered. I keep jumping between directions such as infrastructure, SRE or platform work, and AI infr...

Claude Code is no longer a part of the Pro plan 11 by csoham | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Anthropic bans orgs without warning 10 by alpinisme | 1 comments on Hacker News. I work at at an agricultural technology company. On Monday, everyone in our org woke up to emails saying that their Claude accounts had been suspended (~70 users). At first -- since the email was to me, with a link to a Google Form if I personally wanted to appeal -- I thought it must be an individualized ban (at least after deciding it wasn’t a phishing attempt). I couldn’t figure out why, but it set me searching my mind for possible triggers in my recent activity. On Slack, though, it quickly became apparent this was actually an organization-wide ban. And none of us had been warned, including our account admins. We submitted the Google Form, but that was just a black hole. We’re waiting to hear back still a day and a half later. But this is insane for a number of reasons: 1. Banning an organization for the behavior of an individual is a recipe for disaster in a business context. Disgruntled employees,...

Getting back into photography, ditching the phone camera in 2026? 3 by eigenhombre | 4 comments on Hacker News. I've been looking through twenty-five-odd years of my own photos. The collection includes scanned 35mm and medium format images; digital pictures from a few Canon Powershot generations and a 20D SLR; and about five iPhones. I've noticed that the non-cell-phone pictures tended to be better, and that in general I seemed to have quite a bit more fun with photos taken with, well, "real" cameras. Probably the best ones were taken with the 20D, which for its time was a really nice camera, for which I was able to bring over some lenses from my film days. I wouldn't rule out more film photography but I think of that as a somewhat separate track. I'd like to get a digital camera that captures a bit more of what I enjoyed about film photography - that high image density, looking through a physical viewfinder, not necessarily curating images in real time... ...

Tell HN: Do not include co-authored-by Claude in your commits 3 by throwaw12 | 0 comments on Hacker News. By including co-authored-by claude you are helping AI companies to exclude it from their training set. Make sure you don't include Claude contributions in the commit messages, if model is so good, they should dogfood and use it for training their models

Recommended GPU Repairshop in Europe (Germany) 2 by DogRunner | 0 comments on Hacker News. I got a RTX 3080 20 GB from China, which probably has memory issues at higher temperatures. Repasting/repadding didn't resolve the issue. I don't want to reball the memory modules and so I am looking for a repair shop, which is located in the EU (for tax and shipping cost reasons). It's really tough to find one. Krisfix.de was the only known good repair shop, but they decline to work on 3000 series since 2026.

Ask HN: Is GitHub's #1 repo fake? build-your-own-x 491K stars 2 by throwawaysoso | 1 comments on Hacker News. GitHub's #1 most starred repo is build-your-own-x [1] with 491K stars. That's twice the starts of React or Linux or Python. Yet, Yet I almost never hear about it on HN or anywhere else. Even the few HN posts about it are very suspicious. A post with 800 points usually has over 400 comments that go very deep, but now look at the build-your-own-x's hn submission [2]. It has 867 points, 64 comments, barely a discussion. Btw, it's S2022 Backed by YC. [1] https://ift.tt/PcCxTMp [2] https://ift.tt/8fF7e2w

I Built a 22k-Line App with Zero Coding Experience. Or, how to control agents 2 by JasonGravy | 0 comments on Hacker News. There’s a lot of hype (and hate!) right now around "Vibe Coding". And rightly so. The idea that you can build out software entirely by kicking back and commanding AI agents to do the typing for you is an incredibly exciting concept, but most people trying this are hitting a brutal reality after just a few days: AI Code Rot. First it works. Then it fails. And you have no idea how to fix it. I decided to build an app: a complex dinner scheduling engine. It imports recipe URLs and outputs schedules, shopping lists, and a host of tips for feeding big groups that I’ve developed after 15 years of running a weekend supper club. Central to the project was importing URLs and breaking down (often badly written) steps into machine-understandable units which could be timed and rebuilt into slick schedules. I was told more than once that this would be ‘impossible’....

Ask HN: What makes a good Product Manager 7 by chairhairair | 2 comments on Hacker News. The tech PM role is… difficult to define, but we’ve all worked with good PMs and bad PMs - it’s usually quite quick to tell where someone falls on the spectrum once you’ve worked with them for a few weeks. But, I find it difficult to describe the difference.

Claude UI Feature Request 2 by simon_acca | 0 comments on Hacker News. Putting this here in the hope that someone at Anthropic reads it. Searching through old conversations is difficult with the current app and web interface. Could you have the model provide a bunch of tags relevant to the conversation like “cooking” or “purchase advice” or “music”, so that we are able to browse conversations by topic? Thanks!

Surely no brand is more hated by web users that Cloudflare 3 by chrisjj | 0 comments on Hacker News. The only time they see it is when it impedes their access to a site. Yet still the operator emblazons this brand on the interstitial. Why? Does he think he's Tony Stark in Sokovia, or what?

Ask HN: Does magic link authentication use HTML canvassing? 2 by trinsic2 | 2 comments on Hacker News. Many sites are starting to use magic link auth more often and I am wondering if its a trend to also glean more information from the account holder. I dont like this auth process because it forces me to have to use the email system to authenticate every time which adds to the amount of time it takes to log-in. With Claude.ai, the auth process at least gives you an option to use a code to sign in with after you get the email. The problem is, the email doesn't contain the code. You have to click on a link which opens a web page to gain the code and it appears at that point it wants to do an HTML canvassing operation. I feel like that is a violation of privacy to do this at the point of trying to log into a service I pay for. I'm wondering if I am off base or if anyone notices this, or finds a difference in the process. and if its happening, what can be done about it. Also I wo...

Ask HN: Anyone know of that "levels of AI programming" blog post? 3 by tuvix | 4 comments on Hacker News. I was browsing HN comments a while ago and ran into a wonderful blog on the levels of AI involvement in programming. It started at 0 I think, with no AI involved and went to around 7 where LLMs direct other LLMs and no human is involved. I wanted to reference these levels in the README of an open source project I'm creating as part of it was hand-programmed while using AI as a kind of search engine, while another part was crafted by AI with me reviewing code and providing a spec. Any help is greatly appreciated!

Do I Stop Learning Coding? DSA? 3 by s_u_d_o | 5 comments on Hacker News. Hey. I don’t know how to start this. It’s all over me. I’ve been trying to learn Coding, Data Structures, Algorithms, Design Patterns, Best practices etc… but will I still need that? Am i wasting my time? Can really AI do all this, and actually do it better? Are we in an Era, where one should only need to learn the ‘basics’ of development, so that I can understand some LLM generated code? Where do we go next? How will DEV interviews look like in 5 years? Is LeetCode still a thing now? Did I waste all my time? What happened to those days where we’d spend hours watching youtube videos, taking online bootcamps, reading documentation all just to be able to develop our app or do something. All is thrown to the garbage now? This is a frustration post. I don’t do what to do next. I just loved coding, and enjoyed code-crafting. Anyone has the same crisis? How are you coping? What are you doing next?

Ask HN: How do you search the web programmatically these days? 2 by coreyp_1 | 2 comments on Hacker News. For the first time in a long time, I need to query a search engine programmatically, and found that most of them block the use of curl, etc. So, my question is simple: how do you solve the problem? I've tried searxng with mediocre success, but it seems a bit heavy to have to be running a complete separate service for this one thing that I only need every once in a while. I haven't tried using a service that requires an API key, simply because I'm not sure which direction to go or who to go with. Just thought I would ask here first.

Tell HN: Security Incident at Porter (YC S20) 4 by leetrout | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hug ops to the team. Justin is great and I know they have to be stressed from all of this. Email I got from Porter follows, trimmed for HN character limit. Full text at https://gist.github.com/leetrout/2d172d2b95e8d24af0f3de0d0b03561e --- What happened On April 13th, 2026, the Porter team detected unauthorized activity originating from a stale AWS access key in our infrastructure. Upon detection, we immediately revoked all affected credentials and engaged our incident response processes, which included a comprehensive investigation. Since April 13th, we have seen no further evidence of unauthorized activity within Porter networks and systems. Working closely with Cloudflare and Amazon, we have substantially completed the investigation of our environment and are continuing to prioritize supporting customers in their response efforts. We have determined that the threat actor operated between 03:23...

Ask HN: How did you get your first users with zero audience? 3 by arikusi | 1 comments on Hacker News. Solo developer, no audience, no network, no community presence.I've shipped working products (open-source) but every distribution channel has a cold start problem. you need traction to get traction. Even posting about your work requires reputation you can only build by posting. For those who built something with no existing audience to launch to: what specifically worked to get your first real users? Less interested in theory, more in "I did X and it actually moved the needle."

Aliens.gov Resolves – To a WordPress "Site Not Found" Error 9 by ascarola | 2 comments on Hacker News. After a month of "Stay tuned! " from White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly, the U.S. government's long-awaited UFO disclosure portal has achieved a major milestone: it now returns what appears to be a WordPress multisite configuration error instead of nothing. Progress. The domain was registered by CISA on March 17th amid much fanfare following Trump's directive to release classified files on UAPs, extraterrestrial life, and "any and all other information connected to these highly complex but extremely interesting and important matters." The Pentagon got involved. Avi Loeb wrote a think piece. A cottage industry of fake mirror sites (aliens-gov.online, aliensgov.online, etc.) sprang up overnight. The actual government site? SITE_NOT_FOUND. To be fair, this is likely a CMS multisite DNS/mapping issue — the server is live, the c...

Ask HN: How do you maintain flow when vibe coding? 5 by fny | 0 comments on Hacker News. It's been a year now since I made Claude Code my daily driver, but I feel exhausted by all the context switching from managing 2-3 agents at a time. I know some people advocate for letting agents run wild, but in my experience that leads to subtle bugs that compound and reviews become 100x more painful. What have you done to retain some semblance of flow, stay organized, and limit spinner staring?

Durable Object alarm loop: $34k in 8 days, zero users, no platform warning 9 by thewillmoss | 0 comments on Hacker News. Sharing this as a warning to anyone using Cloudflare Durable Objects with alarms. Root cause: My DO agent's onStart() handler called this.ctx.storage.setAlarm() on every wake-up without checking whether an alarm was already scheduled. Combined with 60+ preview Worker deployments each creating independent DO instances, this created a runaway self-health-check loop. Timeline: - April 3: loop began (zero DO usage before this date) - April 4-5: peaked at ~930 billion row reads/day - April 11: found it, fixed it - April 15: $34,895 invoice due with no billing response yet The fix: // Before (dangerous) async onStart() { await this.ctx.storage.setAlarm(Date.now() + 60_000) } // After (safe) async onStart() { const existing = await this.ctx.storage.getAlarm() if (!existing) { await this.ctx.storage.setAlarm(Date.now() + 60_000) } } Other things worth doing: - Strip D...

Ask HN: Is Claude Getting Worse? 5 by sahli | 10 comments on Hacker News. It feels like most Claude Code users have already noticed a quality drop in the Claude models. As a Claude Pro subscriber (Web version; I don't use Claude Code), I’ve seen a clear decline over the last couple of weeks. I can’t complete tasks in a single turn anymore. Claude often stops streaming because it hits some internal tool-call/turn limit, so I have to keep pressing “Continue.” Each continuation has to re-feed context, which quickly burns through tokens and quota. The model also makes more mistakes and fails to fully complete tasks it used to handle reliably. This is especially frustrating because Sonnet 4.6 was a real step up: it could produce long, correct code in one pass much more often. That seems basically gone now. As a paying Pro user, I honestly find myself using free alternatives like DeepSeek and Z.ai (GLM) more than Claude lately. I’ve also stopped touching Opus entirely—it’s so token-hu...

Any engineers here with experience of clinical data standards? 2 by kalturnbull | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm building an open-source initiative for a personal health record app. I used to work on a national platform for NHS Scotland, so this is a subject I'm passionate about. I'm hoping to chat to engineers with experience of openEHR or FHIR. For context: https://plotline.care

Is anyone actually using OpenClaw? 32 by misterchocolat | 32 comments on Hacker News. I don't use it personally, and neither does anyone in my circle...even though I feel like I'm super plugged into the ai world

Ask HN: My ISP is telling my neighbors their slow internet is because of me 2 by skarz | 2 comments on Hacker News. I have about 54TB of Internet Archive torrent backups on my home servers. I am on an unlimited gig plan with Mediacom and typically upload about 10 terabytes a month. I have been doing this for over a year and have never once gotten any sort of notification or complaint from Mediacom. Note: I live in a gated community and my daughter confirmed he was wearing a Mediacom shirt and drove a Mediacom truck. My neighbor (see below) confirmed a Mediacom tech rep was at her house per her support ticket. Well, today I came home and my underage daughter told me the internet wasn't working and also said someone from Mediacom came to the house and was asking questions about our internet usage and what I do for a living and stuff like that. He asked her if she had been downloading stuff. He said he was in the area investigating network congestion and that he identified the prob...

GitHub gave webhook secrets away in webhook call 3 by time4tea | 0 comments on Hacker News. Couldn't see this on a Web page... From an email: We're writing to let you know that between September 2025 and January 2026, webhook secrets for webhooks you are responsible for were inadvertently included in an HTTP header on webhook deliveries. This means that any system receiving webhook payloads during this window could have logged the webhook secret from the request headers. Webhook deliveries are encrypted in transit via TLS, so the header containing the secret was only accessible to the receiving endpoint in a base64-encoded format. We have no evidence to suggest your secrets were intercepted. This issue was fixed on January 26, 2026. Please read on for more information. User privacy and security are essential for maintaining trust, and we want to remain as transparent as possible about events like these. GitHub itself did not experience a compromise or data breach as a result...

Ask HN: Are Web Agencies Cooked? 7 by mijustin | 2 comments on Hacker News. I'm curious about what's going on in the agency world right now. I worked at web agencies for a lot of my career, and I'm thinking about the kinds of projects we would get: build a website, build a simple app, build internal tools, maintain a WordPress site, build a website theme, etc... It feels like a lot of that is being taken over by LLMs and tools like Claude Code? Are agencies feeling cooked right now? If you're at an agency, what's happening in your world?

Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable 5 by morpheuskafka | 1 comments on Hacker News. Fiverr (gig work/task platform, competitor to Upwork) uses a service called Cloudinary to process PDF/images in messaging, including work products from the worker to client. Besides the PDF processing value add, Cloudinary effectively acts like S3 here, serving assets directly to the web client. Like S3, it has support for signed/expiring URLs. However, Fiverr opted to use public URLs, not signed ones, for sensitive client-worker communication. Moreover, it seems like they may be serving public HTML somewhere that links to these files. As a result, hundreds are in Google search results, many containing PII. Example query: site:fiverr-res.cloudinary.com form 1040 In fact, Fiverr actively buys Google Ads for keywords like "form 1234 filing" despite knowing that it does not adequately secure the resulting work product, causing the preparer to violate the GLBA/FTC Safeguar...

AI Home Architecture Startup Looking for Back End/ML Infra Engineer 2 by AtmosXR | 3 comments on Hacker News. I run a YC company called Drafted.ai that allows people to design a house with the help of our AI. We've had 120k+ people come to the site and 20k+ signups since launching 3 months ago. We’ve raised $17M since starting the company 8 months ago, from Buckley Ventures (Josh Buckley), YC, Convective (Bill Clerico), Patrick Collison, Ben Silbermann, Jack Altman, Starship Ventures, Moses Moody, Ryan Tedder, Kevin Mahaffey, Charlie Songhurst. We are looking for a killer infrastructure/backend engineer who can help with the core product infra and model training infra. We have a major gap to fill with someone who is fast-paced, detail-oriented, and hungry to grow. The experience we are looking for: 1. Experience building and scaling GPU-based inference services, optimizing for both low latency and high resource utilization. 2. Experience with job orchestration and load balancing...

Why most AI projects feel useless 4 by vaishcodescape | 2 comments on Hacker News. I don't know or if its just me but I believe that AI projects are just becoming wrappers one by one new tools pop up being similar but still get attention

Ask HN: What are you using OpenClaw or agents for? 6 by bmau5 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

How many "real" high functioning autists vs. 1%ers with some attitude are there? 2 by sonicvroooom | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: On autistic spectrum, best way to live? 3 by beaunative | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've been highly logical and obsessive with reading since early childhood, and I got into programming pretty early and built Flash animation since kindergarten. I've always had issues with my peers and teachers, I got bullied quite often, and it was a source of emotional distress. I felt the constant need to work on things that intrigues me, and I'd read books like encyclopedia, I didn't know that then, but I now suspect myself to be on the spectrum. I believe many in the HN community have or suspected themselves to be on a spectrum as well? It's pretty traumatizing growing up because most other kids don't think the way you do, this usually means your teachers don't think like you as well. I used to think it's purely based on the metrics of intelligence alone, but now it seems it's more to do with being on the spectrum. If you've been on the spectrum a...

Ask HN: What are all the bad things that AI companies have done which we forgot 2 by Imustaskforhelp | 0 comments on Hacker News. I was writing a comment recently when I realized just how bad the graphs in GPT 5 video are. I had almost forgotten about it. I wish to create a very minor website which can talk about all of these, I feel like there are some perverse incentives which make these companies show out the good and hide out the bad and our news cycle just keeps on moving and we all follow it. Also there can be some remarkable mentions as well which I wish to list Here are some other examples: OpenAI turning from non profit to open. Claude code software getting leaked (Anthropic) X/Grok generating non consensual deepfakes issue (XAI) OpenAI's deal with Military and backstabbing basically and now pushing for new laws. The graph thing by OpenAI being so horrendous which I mentioned earlier. Suchir balaji's death (I genuinely recommend searching this up if someone hasn...

Ask HN: Former grok-code-fast-1 users, what coding model are you using now? 2 by whycombinetor | 2 comments on Hacker News. I get good, cheap, fast feature coding success with grok-4.1-fast for planning and grok-code-fast-1 for execution. But according to the Openrouter usage stats, grok-code-fast-1 is now old hat - usage dropped off a cliff in mid-Feb. What are you using now? (That's around the same price per token) (AND also blazing fast (100+tps)? is that possible?) (I'm finding Minimax M2.5 usable, but I think I still prefer grok-code-fast-1. Opus rocks but is expensive - good to have in the quiver for planning a big refactor.)

Do founders' political views affect how you see a product? 3 by rishikeshs | 3 comments on Hacker News. There is a product I really like. Love using it, love tinkering with it, and I buy into the overall vision. Founder has also always been pretty respectful publicly. But I recently came across some of their political views and now I just feel a bit weird about it. Nothing changed about the product, just how I feel. Do you separate the product from the founder? Does this change whether you keep using something? Or only if it starts showing up in the product? Don’t ask what the product is. It doesn’t matter and I’m not going to share.

Ask HN: Agentic Permutation of Testing Paths In A System 4 by davidajackson | 0 comments on Hacker News. Given a system with N components and M pairwise connections between said N components, there exists infinite sequences of [component, command, ...] for a series of operations. A component displays data and a command obviously executes a command. Has anyone here done research on using an agant to select happy paths to test based on user intent? Is there literature on this? Seems like a cost, compute, intent optimization problem. Assume latency is a restriction. Seems like something some AI research folks here can chime in on. I have my own opinions but want to hear what the community thinks.

Is VC the new PMF strategy? 3 by networkOne | 0 comments on Hacker News. It seems that companies use VC funds as the main advertising for their company these days. In fact, without capital raising it is hard to set yourself apart from the rest of the budding companies started in their thousands each day. The receiving of VS funds now seems the only way one can create any virality in the marketplace. People still have a plea to the expert-from-out-of-town in that they feel... "well VCs are very experienced people who know what to look for when investing", which is counter-intuitive when faced with the realisation that VCs fund 19 losers for every 1 unicorn. People want a company to be big before it has a marketplace-chance of being big. An press release of "ABC Co., a startup tech firm, has a $25M investment from Vulture VC Fund resulting in a $1B valuation" carries considerably more viral weight that a PR stating "ABC Co., a startup tech firm, has a business...

Open Source card game cuttle.cards has its world championship Saturday at 1pm ET 2 by aleph_one | 0 comments on Hacker News. Cuttle is a combat card game of mysterious origins dating back to the 1970's. It feels like playing Magic or Yugioh!, but it's played with a standard 52-card deck. https://cuttle.cards is an open source (code: https://ift.tt/95JSIUe) project that lets people play Cuttle online, for free. The project is under active development and has a competitive format with 4 seasonal championships each year, followed by a world championship tournament. The Cuttle World Championship is tomorrow, April 11th, at 1pm ET. You can watch it live on Twitch (https://ift.tt/vMD8wgK) or Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/live/mBj04alF1Z8?si=amIR5flmW7zewmL9) and chat with the players on the Cuttle discord (https://ift.tt/BdRVtNf). *RULES* ### Goal The goal is to be the first player to have 21 or more points worth of point cards on your field. The first player to reach the goal ...

Ask HN: Hiring in the age of AI-assisted coding: what works? 5 by nitramm | 3 comments on Hacker News. I saw the HackerRank (YC S11) hiring post (https://ift.tt/hDOq8SG) and it made me realize I no longer understand how to evaluate candidates effectively. Specifically, we are changing hiring across 3 dimensions: > Tasks: Real-world tasks on code repositories vs standard algorithmic-style puzzles > Evaluation: AI fluency, orchestration skills vs functional correctness > Candidate experience: Agentic IDE vs a simple code editor In the “old world,” you could ask multiple questions and triangulate skill from answers. Now it seems like evaluation depends heavily on tools and models that keep changing month to month. So I’m curious: > What signals actually correlate with strong engineers today? > How do you design interviews that don’t become obsolete with the next model release? > Are algorithmic interviews still useful at all? Would love to hear from people who have re...

Ask HN: Does Sam Altman know how to code? 5 by shchess | 4 comments on Hacker News. Asking for my friend, they claim coworker testified at news But think deeply based on his activity sama

Any Open Source projects in need of documentation writer? 5 by tree666 | 2 comments on Hacker News. Curious about projects where a volunteer doc writer could make some impact.

Ask HN: Local-first meetings recorder and transcriber? 3 by dandaka | 1 comments on Hacker News. I am looking for local-first a meetings recorder that - supports on-device models - transcribes to MD - detects ongoing meetings - open source I was actively using Char/Hyprnote, but they have stopped supporting local models. Big fan of handy.computer UX, maybe something along those lines. Anyone using something good?

Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related? 3 by meander_water | 0 comments on Hacker News. I don't have anything against AI, but HN (and everywhere else) seems to be drowning in AI atm. Seems like every man and his dog is building an AI agent harness. And power to you (and your dog) if that's you. But it would be refreshing to hear about some non AI related projects people are working on.

Ask HN: S3(AWS) vs R2(CF)–Which is better? 3 by wasimsk | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Founders/investors, what AI bet you made in 2022 and how it is going? 3 by kjok | 0 comments on Hacker News. In 2022, many founders and investors made strong bets on AI: new companies, pivots, or funding theses. Now that we have had time to see what actually played out, what did you bet on and how is it doing today? We learn a lot from failure, so especially interested in (and would appreciate) honest stories about what did NOT work and why.

Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2026) (Non AI) 3 by cousin_it | 16 comments on Hacker News. Tell me about your latest non-AI project and I'll check it out

GPT 5.4 in practice – Stinks? 2 by sjt-at-rev | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Digital Ocean blocked my account 3 by ugly_munchkin | 3 comments on Hacker News. Digital Ocean blocked my account. They said my "deployment and actions were in violation of our Terms of Service" which is remarkable because all I did was create a single droplet and run a basic setup script on it. The next day — blocked, shut down, deleted. No warning, no explanation, no appeal. Their Terms of Service allows them to delete your servers, your data, everything — at any time, for any reason, including none at all. The tiniest perceived risk to them outweighs any amount of loss to you. They won't tell you what you did wrong. They won't give you time to retrieve your data. They just delete everything and wish you well finding another provider. Here is their response when I asked for an explanation: Hello, Greetings from DigitalOcean! Thanks for reaching out, my name is Raveel from DigitalOcean Support. We reviewed the information you have shared with us so far and we have...

Skunk: a Rust based language that compiles to Go 2 by stickynotememo | 1 comments on Hacker News. There isn't really. But I wouldn't be surprised if there was. Rust is Rust. Go is Go. These sorts of languages aren't necessary. Please use your Claude tokens for something else.

Claude Code limits are starting to feel like a psychological trick 2 by trinsic2 | 3 comments on Hacker News. I signed up for the Claude Code Pro Subscription about a month ago. and I have been really careful about my limits because I burned through them pretty easily about two weeks ago, but this week Im already at 10% and have been barley using it.. Since there is no transparency around the metric for these limits they could easily change the metric and it wouldn't be easy to measure it. I'm thinking about canceling my sub because there is no clear way for me to understand this metric but wanted to see what others thought about this.

Ask HN: How do you handle marketing as a solo technical founder? 4 by lazarkap | 1 comments on Hacker News. I've shipped multiple products over the past few years. Every single one followed the same pattern: build, post, get 12 likes from friends, a bit of organic traction, then nothing. Back to coding a new thing. I know I need marketing help but giving equity to someone I met online feels like a huge risk. At the same time hiring a paid marketer when you have zero revenue feels just as scary. And I'm not dancing on TikTok, that's for sure. Have any of you actually taken on a marketing co-founder? What made you say yes to that person specifically? Was it their track record, the way they pitched, a trial period first?

Zooming UIs in 2026: Prezi, impress.js, and why I built something different 5 by tinchox6 | 0 comments on Hacker News. There are essentially two established ways to use zooming in web interfaces today. They serve different purposes and make different tradeoffs. I built a third one, so I'll try to be fair about what each does well and where it falls short. * Prezi Prezi pioneered the zooming canvas for presentations and remains the market leader in that space. It recently added AI-powered generation and text editing tools. It's a polished product with real traction. But Prezi is a closed platform, not a library. You can't use its zoom engine in your own app. Pricing starts at $15/month for meaningful features, and exporting to PowerPoint flattens all zoom effects into static slides. A recurring complaint from users is that the zooming and panning transitions cause motion sickness. And fundamentally, Prezi uses zoom as a storytelling device between pre-arranged frames. It...

Trading Bot 3 by TiaMane | 0 comments on Hacker News. I want to create a trading bot, is it worth the stress?

Ask HN: LLM-Based Spam Filter 3 by michidk | 0 comments on Hacker News. Is there a spam filter software out there that connect via IMAP to inboxes and uses LLMs to classify them? I currently use MailWasher Prot but their spam classification is really not that great.

Ask HN: I don't get why Anthropic is limiting usage 2 by ud0 | 4 comments on Hacker News. I’m trying to understand the rationale behind Anthropic limiting certain types of third-party usage, e.g., OpenClaw From a naive perspective, more usage should mean more revenue since customers pay per token. So why restrict it? If a third party is generating heavy usage, isn’t that ultimately beneficial for revenue and growth? What other factors are they considering that are not immediately obvious? If I sold shoes, I'd be happy to sell more regardless of how many resellers are down the chain.

Offering 1 free hour on marketing and distribution for early builders 3 by zonementale | 0 comments on Hacker News. I see a lot of projects launching right now with decent products great idea but weak marketing or distribution. So I’ll make a simple offer: I’m giving 1 free hour to a few builders who pitch me their project the best. If you think your project has potential but you’re stuck on positioning, distribution, GTM, or traction, send me your best pitch.

Write Your Own Copy 5 by operatingthetan | 0 comments on Hacker News. Every day I'm seeing people making websites for the sole purpose of posting to HN, and it's all AI. The site, the words, the ideas. Obviously that person had the idea to begin with, but the execution is slop. These people are putting their names on this stuff, and everyone in the world right now is learning to recognize the tells of AI writing. The tone, the abstractness, the specific phrasing. We all know it. It's a turn off. So my idea is simple: write your own copy. That's an advantage now. It's becoming scarce today. Be real. Whatever that means to you.

Ask HN: How Do You Relax? 4 by azeirah | 1 comments on Hacker News. Bit of a different question than most of what usually gets discussed on HN, but I find myself occupied with work a lot and while I enjoy it a lot, it's draining. On top of that, I have ADHD, which makes it more difficult for me to really relax. What do you do for relaxation?

Ask HN: Are agents _still_ writing most of your code? 3 by etamponi | 2 comments on Hacker News. At the beginning it was very cool to see them write a lot of code for me, in particular while I was ramping up on a new codebase. But I am seeing myself using agents less and less as I get more acquainted with the codebase. I might use them as a glorified copy n paste or to get a tool running. And they're indeed very useful to get the gist of a part of the code I don't fully grasp. But I am back to writing I'd say 90% of the code myself. Is this your experience as well?

Ask HN: Thought Exercise regarding RX dependency 2 by Bender | 0 comments on Hacker News. Many of the prescription drugs as far as I know come from China and India. Should trade be cut off from China and India: - how long would each country have until they run out of prescription drugs? pharmacy, lab and national guard stockpiles - how long would it take each country to ramp up their own production of said drugs? - would some countries just let their supplies run out? Eugenics, allowing blood pressure rebounds and strokes among other things to run their course to reduce long term health care costs. just something that crossed my mind after listening to Doomberg for a while.

Ask HN: Should we collectively stop spell checking and fixing grammar 2 by sankalpnarula | 1 comments on Hacker News. I know this sounds strange, and this could have been a reddit post, but I have realized ever since I went back to not rewriting things for polish using AI. I have had more positive feedback from the community and any personal/professional email. people prefer reading short emails which doesn't have to be confusing. people dont wanna read AI slop. It sounds nice sure, but lately no one cares about the english language being nice everyone just wants to have a conversation/discussion with an actual human. I personally am gonna just stop fixing grammar, and not care about it! Thanks for listening to my rant. Written by a human, who's still in college, and might not get a job. :/ crying in the corner

Ask HN: Can I say, "Thank You"? 6 by ghastmaster | 0 comments on Hacker News. Thank you. To Y Combinator staff and all the Hacker News commenters, I say this. If you are reading this, I probably do not need to explain. Regards, Me

Ask HN: How relevant is low code according to you in today’s world with Claude? 3 by kinj28 | 1 comments on Hacker News. Disclaimer: I run a low code service and still many customers use us. But am curious what’s the developer /cto perspective on this? We do have a AI assistant to help build on top of platform but the primary appeal of low code was don’t bother about code and care about the app which with agentic sw development may also be achieved.

Ask HN: Should there be a temporary ban on new accounts? 8 by l33tbro | 4 comments on Hacker News. Something something AI and quality of this forum. I'm not arguing that this is a good solution. But our user experience is being increasingly disrupted by squinting at comments and trying to parse their syntactic and semantic structure to discern if this account is a person or not. That is not what this place should be, and I think that is something we all agree on. A new account ban sounds rash and I agree that this could be a really dumb idea. I'm also certain dang et al will have considered it amongst other approaches. But this place is becoming less compelling by the day, and at least this measure plugs the holes until there is a strategy in place to address the issue of bots and agents being able to create accounts and spam and shill the ever-living fuck out of this once great site. Why even is there an urgency for new users? Especially given that many now are guaranteed t...

Ask HN: European Tech Alternatives? 28 by BrunoBernardino | 10 comments on Hacker News. I've used https://ift.tt/ya5oj3n in the past but I've found it impossible to submit anything there (I've got one submission "Waiting for Review" since July 2025), and I haven't really seen updates in categories/apps for at least 6 months, which is, at a minimum, strange. I've also reached out to the owner a couple of times (via chat and via email) over the last year and never got a reply. Has anyone else had a similar experience? If so, is there any other kind of listing you look for EU alternatives to US software/hardware? Thanks!

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026) 36 by whoishiring | 92 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/bEx71rZ .

Ask HN: What happens when you block/mark as spam a call or text? 4 by dsalzman | 0 comments on Hacker News. I’ve been getting more and more spam calls and texts. I always try to block and mark as spam but the same “people” just call back from other numbers offering business loans. “Anthony Schmidt” is a prolific dialerbot. What is happening on the backend here and why can this not be fixed?