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Ask HN: How should I convert Microsoft Word documents to Markdown? 4 by lkrubner | 3 comments on Hacker News. I took over a project that was built by an overseas team. They set up a data ingestion process. They have a step in the ingestion where they use Libre Office (in headless mode) to convert Microsoft Word documents to PDFs. Later we convert all PDFs to Markdown. They felt that it was best to convert everything to a PDF, and then convert all of the PDFs to Markdown. What I notice is that LibreOffice can create very complex PDFs when the Microsoft Word document has: 1. tables 2. multiple columns 3. strikethrough text I am thinking we should go straight from Microsoft Word to Markdown. What is the right software for that?

Ask HN: Are You a Workaholic? 3 by julienreszka | 0 comments on Hacker News. I know I am. I need to chill. Sloth bad but the opposite too.

Ask HN: What is your #1 practical lesson or "aha" moment from coding with AI? 3 by johndavid9991 | 6 comments on Hacker News. As a developer, my own workflow has shifted completely over the last few months, but I feel like I'm still uncovering the best patterns. I'm curious about the specific inflection points where things clicked for others. Was it a shift in how you prompt, a change in your tech stack, or learning when not to trust the output?

Ask HN: Do you use Claude Code, Codex, or something else? 3 by JohnDSDev | 3 comments on Hacker News. Do you use Claude Code, Codex, or a different vibe coding/agentic engineering tool for most of your work? Why?

Ask HN: What technique do you use to make Claude Code deterministic? 3 by hbarka | 4 comments on Hacker News. I’m curious to hear from the HN community how you tamed this probabilistic non-deterministic genius generate a deterministic and repeatable result 100% percent of the time.

Ask HN: Are people optimistic about the future? 3 by JohnDSDev | 1 comments on Hacker News. Do you think humans in the future in general will be more or less happy than they are now?

Ask HN: What's a simple app you'd build if you had a weekend? 2 by akashwadhwani35 | 2 comments on Hacker News. I know apps like this already exist, but I’d make one that sends you a single positive affirmation once a day as a notification. Nothing else. No streaks, no subscriptions, no journaling, no extra features. That’s all it does.

Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage? 17 by amichail | 21 comments on Hacker News. Maybe there will even be more interest in the invention and use of more advanced algorithms and data structures that use less memory?

Ask HN: Do you find it annoying to share your availability over text/DMs? 5 by siddhibee | 1 comments on Hacker News. For those of you who network or set up a lot of meetings: do you find it annoying to find and send your available times in casual contexts (text, LinkedIn, DMs)? Switching between a messaging app and my calendar just to figure out when I'm free is enough friction that I sometimes end up delaying my responses by a few days / miss sending availability entirely. Curious whether others hit this, how you handle it, or whether it's a non-issue for you.

Ask HN: How do you separate intentional test boilerplate from real duplication? 5 by rafaepta | 1 comments on Hacker News. I am maintaining an open-source project (deterministic open source duplicate-code detector) and a user asked for a feature which I don’t have a clear answer on how to implement. This seems a very hard problem to solve: -Tests repeat the same scenario. For a structural detector, this flags as repetition (duplication). However, tests are not something people want to delete from the codebases. -The repetitions from tests (on purpose) end up looking like undesired code duplication and the tools canno tell which is which. -One way to solve this would be something like a human in the loop (kind of how linters allow user to accept something once, while keeping the default first run zero-config). Wonder how you have seen this handle and if anyone have any ideas. Here is the the repo: https://ift.tt/UabntTX And here is the issue with more detail: https://ift.tt/hF6ICgr

Ask HN: Do we even need code anymore? 2 by lasky | 3 comments on Hacker News. No one looks at code anymore. English -> Binary.

Ask HN: How have you gotten burned by coding agents? 2 by baddash | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Has anyone had success with SBIR grants and what is the process like? 4 by lyfeninja | 2 comments on Hacker News. I'm considering applying to a phase I topic that is a pretty good fit for our tech and we should meet all basic requirements (U S. Based, small business, etc.), but I'm unsure if the juice is worth the squeeze. If anyone has any experience applying and going through the process I'd love to hear about it. Things I'm curious about... - how competitive is it? - how detailed should proposals be? - am I guaranteed to hear back? - how long after closing is a decision made? Thanks in advance.

Ask HN: What is the meaning of life? Why are we here? 4 by chistev | 6 comments on Hacker News.

UK government built an AI tool to digitise historic planning records 2 by brokebroadbeat | 0 comments on Hacker News. A few useful links: - https://ift.tt/JxVBqNR - https://ift.tt/udIFeGT - https://ift.tt/YDyTdZV

Tell HN: Musk doesn't "have" a Trillion, he has the leverage 4 by ggm | 1 comments on Hacker News. I wish a competent economist could blog that Musk (and the other uber rich) don't have liquid cash to pile up on their yacht the way the graphics imply. Even the act of selling his stake in tesla and X and spacex would alter the value of the holdings, alter the tax income for some nation state, the act of printing the money would in turn demand time and effort, shipping the money would incur costs. Having the effective influence over investment disposition of $1T is amazing but it isn't actually the same thing qualitatively as "one trillion dollars" nor is it just a quantitative function over "1 million dollars". Because it's 1/30th of the entire US economy (around $30t) and so materially alters 3% of the value of the US working capital, and a little over 1% of the entire US stock market at $75t) In order to have the money he'd create a...

Ask HN: What are your best Claude hacks? 3 by akashwadhwani35 | 0 comments on Hacker News. One workflow I like: collecting high-quality research papers on a topic, uploading them to Claude, and turning it into a temporary expert on that domain.

Ask HN: Would you want to know when and how you die? 3 by JohnDSDev | 4 comments on Hacker News. If you had a time machine, and the only thing you could use it for was to go see yourself in the future die would you use it or not? Why or why not?

Ask HN: How do you stay at the bleeding edge of AI tooling? 2 by otekengineering | 7 comments on Hacker News. HN is great, especially compared to reddit (unless i'm missing the best subreddits?), but even here there's comments from people who don't know how to ride a bike pontificating about how useless/dangerous/etc bikes are and telling me how important it is not to forget how to run. where's the forum for bicycle enthusiasts? there's undoubtedly a lot of good harnesses and tooling squirreled away on self-hosted git repos, and that's the crowd i want to chew the fat with examples of the type of perspective i'm looking for in a social network to parasocially stalk, https://ift.tt/qvbOGsd https://ift.tt/AyTwax8

Ask HN: Do you remember when you gained consciousness? What was it like? 5 by kelseyfrog | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: How are you adapting technical interviews in this agentic era? 3 by jcgr | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Newer macOS runs slower on Intel (undeniably) – on purpose or "accident"? 5 by srevenant | 6 comments on Hacker News. FIRST: if you feel the urge to say "get a PC" or "try linux" please don't. This is about apple/mac/macos hardware. suggestions to linux or other things isn't helpful. I have a macbook pro, 32G ram, lightning fast nvme drive. There is NO REASON to upgrade the hardware. I've followed the upgrade path to their latest (Tahoe) and they announced this is the last. But it has become UNBEARABLY slow and painful for some operations. Most notably screen sharing drives it into the ground. I've tried all sorts of things from os settings to whatever--short of redoing the heat paste on the CPU itself. I even installed Fedora on a generation before mine without the security chip (the first gen touch bar). Fedora was /lightning/ fast. (I even re-installed fresh from Tahoe, no difference). It is undeniable: Apple has made the newer MacOS ...

Tell HN: Claude is completely unusable for biology 4 by Protostome | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've found that doing basic biology research with Claude has become extremely difficult. I'm not talking about anything remotely related to developing a bioweapon, just straightforward immunology questions that almost always end up being flagged. I completely understand the need for guardrails, but in practice they can significantly reduce the tool's usefulness for legitimate scientific research. It sometimes feels like the model is better suited for "vibe coding" than for serving as a serious research assistant. What's more funny is that you can use claude code together with molecular design models like RFdiffusion and Alphafold to develop a real bioweapon, but since this is in the realm of software, the prompts do not get flagged at all. Those models can even run on consumer GPUs so the limit of access is almost not there. Has anyone else had a similar experien...

What I have done with Claude Code in the last 60 days being a non tech person 3 by sahiltll | 2 comments on Hacker News. I am a non tech person. Currently working as Product Marketing in a Series B startup. I am a Non Tech person. What I have built:- - Custom wordpress theme live on - https://thelatexlab.com, page speed score is 95+. - Project Tracking micro SaaS using Next.js, Supabase, Vercel, Posthog, Google Auth - used by 45 Users - - Made Two more custom wordpress theme for other businessess. - Made $4K in last 2 months. I am just mind blown if a non tech person like me can do this much then what's the ceiling for people who are Technical. And what it will be in next 1-2 years. Excited and scared both.

Ask HN: What does your local LLM setup looks like? 2 by the-mitr | 0 comments on Hacker News. What models and hardware you are using? For what purpose? What were the challenges? Any tricks that helped you in doing this? This might help new users like me setup theirs.

Ask HN: Year of Linux Desktop is fun with LLMs 2 by mirekrusin | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm wondering if others are also having recently blast using Linux desktop thanks to Claude/Codex/Grok CLIs? As 20y daily Mac user, occasionally using Linux as desktop, my personal daily OS now gravitated towards Linux desktop in recent months quite a lot. I attribute it purely to LLM CLIs. Even my old 2012 Intel iMac 27" on Linux became really good and pleasant machine to use. After dusting it off and setting it up I don't want to give it away anymore. Solutions to quirks/customizations seem to be few prompts away and it's actually fun to do as well. Things like brightness on Apple Studio/iMac not working are not only solved in few minutes but solved really well (native OSD indistinguishable from system volume, perfect latency, mapped to gamma 2.2 perceptual curve etc), Magic Keyboard/macOS key bindings muscle memory which normally was painful is solved in few minutes, Steam...

Is there a name for the type of comments agents add where they leak the prompt? 4 by xdennis | 1 comments on Hacker News. This is a stupid example to illustrate what I mean. Say you have this code: def create_background(width: int, height: int) -> Image: ... You tell the agent to use default values for create_background, the same as in create_screen. It changes the code to: # Now create_background params have default values, the same as create_screen in screen.py def create_background(width: int = DEFAULT_WIDTH, height: int = DEFAULT_HEIGHT) -> Image: ... The unnecessary comment is a staple of vibed code, but the tone also annoys me because it leaves behind the prompt. It words comments based on what it was asked to do, not in a timeless manner. I keep telling people in code reviews to remove unnecessary comments, and I feel I lack the vocabulary to express why this is bad.

Ask HN: How to avoid stressing yourself because of a micromanager? 3 by ciwolex | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: If you had a trillion dollars, what would you do? 3 by brudgers | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What would you do with a trillion dollars 4 by brudgers | 2 comments on Hacker News.

DigitalOcean Ending Student Credit Promotion 2 by thepotatodude | 0 comments on Hacker News. Students need compute, please consider helping the next generation.

Ask HN: Show your AI coded games [June 2026] 5 by franze | 5 comments on Hacker News. They get lost in SHOWN HN too often. This thread is for them. Unfinished is ok. Just show them.

Meta Down 81 by reportinglurker | 74 comments on Hacker News. Meta is currently down, facebook, insta. The outage is not registered on https://metastatus.com/ , possibly implying a greater outage.

Are jobs and the world going to be like this, moving forward? 5 by chand190 | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hi, I'm an intern at one of the big tech's, and it feels like, not to be dramatic, I'm staring into an abyss. I effectively spend 8-9 hours a day using claude code to do my work. For roughly 10-15% of my daily salary worth of tokens, I am able to finish 80% of my job. This is a topic discussed quite commonly but it really feels like work is getting enshittified; it isn't cognitively engaging at all. Beyond that I feel extremely worried about ai diffusing into the world. I don't think I, or most people, can compete with a technology that can run autonomously for hours on end, that's improving at the rate it is, that has basically infinite knowledge, and has the smartest and wealthiest people investing their resources heavily into. I'm not sure what sorts of white collar jobs will have durability. With how physical AI is developing I wouldn't be surp...

Sophia NLU Home Assistant – On Device, Low Compute, No Internet, Voice Assistant 2 by aquila416 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Sophia NLU is an on device, low compute, Rust based natural language understanding engine that acts as a conversation agent. It offers the fluidity of a LLM without the compute, requiring only 160MB of RAM, no GPU. Handles unlimited devices, multiple intents, ambiguity, contextual awareness, millisecond latency, doesn't connect to the internet, and never calls home. Upgrade to v1.2 just released with details at: https://ift.tt/DA1vqXs This upgrade comes with many improvements: * Sophia will now ask for clarification if it's uncertain which entity you meant. * State persistence. For example, if you ask how many lights are on in the kitchen, you can now say "turn them off for me" in the next message and Sophia will remember which lights you mean. * Help improve Sophia! When Sophia doesn't correctly understand a message, simply tell Sophi...

I vibe coded a world cup cheer guide for fans 2 by shark-salvo | 0 comments on Hacker News. I don’t use hackernews so just created this account to share, since I thought this was fun and timely. I’m lucky to have a few tickets to world cup matches this year, and have been wondering who I’ll be likely to see in the knockout stages. So I vibe coded a simulation website with Claude, you can check it out here: worldcupcheerguide.com You can select which matches you’ll attend, and also add preferences on teams you’d like to see. Then for every match, it will tell you who to cheer for to have the best odds of seeing the best or most exciting teams. For good measure, I’ve also included a Probabilities tab that shows the most likely teams to end up in every match of the tournament, as well as the most likely matchups. The whole thing runs in browser and is hosted for free on github pages. The link to the github is on the page. Enjoy!

Ask HN: Releasing code under AGPLv3, but want to block LLM reconstruction? 2 by zionsati | 0 comments on Hacker News. I am preparing to release a software project under the AGPLv3. The goal is traditional copyleft reciprocity - if you use it or host it, share your changes. However, I am realistic about the current legal landscape. Big tech corps are treating public code as free raw material for LLM training under the banner of "Fair Use". I am concerned that a company will ingest my codebase and use an LLM to effectively launder the logic, allowing their users to prompt a clean, closed-source recreation of my software without triggering the AGPL. Do we have a licence specifically to prevent this but still keep OSS healthy and alive? Do we have a llm.txt / robots.txt that LLM scrapers respect? I feel that the whole OSS model is under threat here, even more than before (e.g. big corps earn billions from Linux instances without having to pay any software licensing cost, but t...

Will the next high value profession be people who can think independently? 5 by ciwolex | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Why would someone want to learn code when AI does it better and faster? 4 by manimonji | 3 comments on Hacker News. I know it sounds like I'm some sort of self-taught "prompt engineer" but actually I spent some time learning to code, and a mistake I made was focusing too much on learning different frameworks and syntax etc etc. But it's impossible to consistently program and only learn syntax and no problem solving. So I learned a bit that too. But it hurt me very bad when I found out, not only AI is better than me in syntax, so it is in problem solving (however I sometimes catch their mistakes, but they're generally better than me). And they are rapidly becoming better. Recently I don't learn as much new stuff about programming and etc. For example, today I used beam search without knowing what it is and how it works, and I know it's something that I'd rarely use again and it and It's obvious that I used AI. Have you seen that meme about someon...

Ask HN: Would it be useful to have a slop button in addition to flag? 2 by BugsJustFindMe | 1 comments on Hacker News. In these modern harrowing times, more and more posts are proving to be AI slop, and many people are averse to that. Do you think it would it be useful to have a way to indicate that you believe a post is slop separate from the existing flag button?

Authorization via Gmail and Apple ID Banned in Russia 2 by levleontiev | 0 comments on Hacker News. The Russian State Duma adopted a bill in its second and third readings that introduces administrative fines for violating user authorization rules on local internet resources. The use of foreign services is now strictly restricted. Ixbt.com reports . Under the new requirements, user registration must be carried out exclusively via a Russian phone number, the "Gosuslugi" portal, the Unified Biometric System, or other information systems owned by Russian citizens and companies. Using Gmail, Apple ID, and other foreign email services is considered a violation of the law. Fines for legal entities violating the law have been set at up to 700,000 rubles. Liability is also being introduced for violating rules on the use of recommendation algorithms on internet platforms. Companies may face fines of up to 1.4 million rubles for repeated violations. The document also strengthens pena...

Ask HN: Are you still using your Vision Pro? 33 by y1n0 | 22 comments on Hacker News. Almost two years ago there was a thread on this (https://ift.tt/Oq7Xusj). I'm curious now that more time has passed what people think?

Ask HN: How to escalate a rejected Google extension? 2 by modzu | 0 comments on Hacker News. I submit an extension (an adblocker) to Google Chrome's web store. Google keeps rejecting it for dubious reasons. The first rejection was claim it was "spam". When I appealed, the review came back that it contained "additional functionality" because it uses "modifies network traffic". Well of course it does! When I asked the reviewer how I could achieve the stated functionality of blocking ads without the use of "declarativeNetRequest" I simply received the same canned response. I submit a totally new update that simplified the code and included comments, and references to other open source projecs that use the exact same mechanisms. Again it was rejected. On this appeal I asked if it could be escalated to a senior reviewer who could possibly reply with more context. Same canned response and rejection. I can't help but think Google has some int...

Ask HN: I made an image watermarking tool. What are the issues open-sourcing it? 3 by minimaxir | 2 comments on Hacker News. A couple months ago, I found that a) visual image watermarking is trivially defeated by AI image editing so invisible image watermarks are likely the future and b) the only steganographic image watermarking tools are hard-to-use open-source tools or proprietary tools like SynthID. So as an experiment I tried using agents to create a novel image watermarking approach…and it unexpectedly worked: mostly imperceptible, tamper resistant, higher capacity, doesn't use a neural network, and real time encode/decode. I want to open-source it as there are very many legitimate uses for image watermarking. However, as of late there has been a lot of discourse about image watermarking on both sides, namely a) invisible image watermarks can be used to faciliate dystopian user tracking (https://ift.tt/6josnSb ) and b) tools to strip AI image watermarks are unethical/antis...

Ask HN: Job market for SDMs/Engineering Managers. Any reliable data? 4 by ed_balls | 1 comments on Hacker News. I’m trying to find reliable data on the job market for Software Development Managers/Engineering Managers. It’s easy to find broad tech hiring reports, but hard to break the data down by role, company type, location, or tech stack. Anecdotally, it looks worse than the market for SDEs. Many companies are flattening management structures. Managers are taking on more teams and more direct reports. Coinbase is the extreme example. Does anyone know of good datasets, job-board analyses, or reports that track this? I wonder if I should go back to IC or maybe I should become Software Agent Manager ;)

Tell HN: Helium is the best browser I ever used 4 by prmph | 3 comments on Hacker News. Helium (https://ift.tt/81U96kt) is Chromium-based, with all the Google odiousness removed, emphasizing minimalism, privacy, zero telemetry, built-in uBlock Origin, and no sync or AI features. I am just a regular user that was looking for a Firefox alternative for a long time. I do not know why Helium does not get more attention. It's so fast all the time even with several hundred tabs, it never crashed, it is strongly privacy and safety protecting, I do not have one complaint about it. Here are some ways the others fall short: - Firefox and all its derivatives are frequently incredibly sluggish, even on the same machine at the same time other browsers based on Chromium and Webkit are fast. I really wanted to like them, but I just gave up finally. I can't even use Mullvad browser now. - Safari's interface and UX seems somewhat clunky to me. I tried Orion; it shows a lot of promise as m...

New Biochemistry-Based Metabolic Protocol Seeking Alpha Concierge Members 2 by joshwprinceton | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN - I've developed a cutting-edge weight loss / metabolic protocol based on some of the top scientific publications over the past year, with support of an industry veteran MD. If you are interested in trying it out - it is only one week per month and we offer a 100% money-back guarantee. josh@useraad.com + you can learn more at useraad.com - happy to answer any questions! Edit: I did it myself and lost 5-7 pounds during the week and have kept it off.

Ask HN: How to get my contact info off US political party's list 3 by kaycebasques | 1 comments on Hacker News. I donated to one of the main political parties in the USA a few years back. I must have left my email and phone number, or they found it. Big mistake. Now I get hundreds of emails and texts from random political candidates, none of whom I have ever said I explicitly support, or really have any context about whatsoever. So it seems like the political party has my email and number in some central list, and they distribute it to all of their candidates to use. Is that correct? Is there anything I can do to get my contact info off this terrible, terrible list?

Does anyone know since when we are close to building in space? 3 by kingleopold | 1 comments on Hacker News. Spacex and all future datacenters plans, since when we have remotely close to any building and mainting tech for big project in space? does just sending satellites counts as datacenter level building and related? Cars still can't even fully drive themselves in the road that are designed specifically for them. but now they will be building datacenter in 3D space with insane complexity and power levels? With what tech? Makes no sense

Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI? 9 by andrehacker | 6 comments on Hacker News. Most of us were amused when DALL-E and its peers went mainstream, and we were quick to point out the obvious flaws. Then ChatGPT hit the scene and again, many of us dismissed it as a parlor trick that would never amount to much. Using LLMs for coding initially was a only small step up from basic code completion, and a welcome farewell to Stack Overflow. I am curious: what was the specific moment that you went from those quaint, dismissive observations to a slightly panicked, "Uh Oh" realization of what these models can do?

Ask HN: Spent thousands, got no customers. What's wrong with my site? 4 by petebay | 2 comments on Hacker News. With the recent surge in AI-generated content, I built a website called Voloshow that generates images and videos using AI. However, it has been live for almost a month and still hasn’t attracted a single user. I’m not sure what I did wrong. website is called Voloshow (https://voloshow.com/).

Laid off. Broke. Depressed. & idk how to market my SaaS 7 by touseefbuilds | 13 comments on Hacker News. I live in a third-world country with a family who's dependent on me. I used to work as a Software Engineer specializing in MERN Stack. I was laid off a month ago, didn't have any saving cos I was already hand-to-mouth, supporting a family of 5 with funding my brother's University fee. I am really depressed and have done nearly everything I knew to market my SaaS products but nothing's working. Tried: 1. Submitting my product on SaaS directories + on LTD ones (got rejections & some didn't respond), 2. Built in Public (no response), 3. Got Permanently Banned from Reddit (cos I did self-promotion as I wasn't aware - my mistake, i accept), 4. Wrote Articles & submitted on GSC, almost a month has passed & still not indexed, 5. Cold outreach (0 response rate, did personalized outreach, researched about each person + their products & menti...

Ask HN: Why Ask HN has only 14 questions now? 7 by throwaw12 | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Is it possible to send a message in Morse code by un-following someone on x.com? 3 by savhascelik | 6 comments on Hacker News. Do you think that’s possible? I’m really curious about this. Has anyone ever received a message like that? Come on, science must be able to figure this out

Life saving / first aid posters 2 by cpu_ | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi, While visiting someone, I observed a first aid poster on their fridge (I forgot to ask for the source from the host at that time). Similar to https://lifesavingfirstaid.com.au/posters/ Do you have any other references or similar resources, please?

Ask HN: A Brief History of LLMs 3 by menomatter | 1 comments on Hacker News. Does anyone have suggestions for a book or an article that goes over the modern history of ML/LLM and how the field reached the inflection point that paved the path to the current state.

Why Fossil DVCS is so awesome for the lone developer; A podcast 2 by techman001 | 0 comments on Hacker News. See my youtube video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGYWkJUAl8E

I hadn't coded in 30 years. Then I built a space game with Godot 2 by CosmicGoldRush | 0 comments on Hacker News. Two years ago, I accidentally discovered the Godot Engine for making games. My coding experience was 30 years back. I was a radar designer and I spent years making software for simulating propagation of electromagnetic waves. I even got a scientific prize for it. I followed the tutorial on the Godot website and I was hooked. I did not have a plan for the game. It grew organically. However I had a vision: with Earth's resources getting scarcer, Humanity will have to go beyond Earth and even beyond our own solar system in order to mine for resources. It will face celestial dangers, probably aliens, and also bad humans, ie, Pirates. It started with a single astronaut collecting gold ore. Then of course I added mining robots. For fun, I added meteor storms, and a laser gun to shatter the meteors. Then I designed villains as pirates, so it made sense to develop autono...

He Blew the Whistle on DOGE. Then His Brakes Were Cut 12 by dtjb | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: In the old days, computers used to get constantly faster and cheaper 2 by wewewedxfgdf | 0 comments on Hacker News.

I'm Done Using AI 5 by nyxtom | 0 comments on Hacker News. I think I'm done using LLMs altogether for coding. I've lost the ability to maintain any kind of flow state, the majority of the time I've spent thrashing on architectural changes that I could have done myself, tests that get manipulated into passing, and having to sift through the magic 8-ball of skills that are intended to get work done (all caps dont do this, please do that). LLMs appear to be fruitful as essentially a research search engine but I'm pretty much done with them for coding. This has been an enormously expensive waste of time and to add to it a general atrophy of skill.

Anyone seen a CC- serial prefix on legacy networking hardware? 19 by Throwaway_sys | 6 comments on Hacker News. don't want to file a decom report with a gap so I figured I would ask here. On a contract job clearing out a data center doing routine stuff like taking inventory and audits before we decommission hardware. The issue is there is one node that keeps coming back that isn't in the documentation. ip is in the 46.28.x.x range Its not in the facilities registry though. Ran it through RIPE and ARIN to find nothing. The latency is what is getting me though. 0.4 round trip every time. Tested from multiple machines including a phone on LTE to get the same response time. That should theoretically mean I am right next to the machine which doesn't make sense across three different connections. Checked the physical hardware and it's nothing I've ever seen before. Not standard 1U or 2U ports maybe proprietary. serial format is: CC-[4 digits]-[2 digits]-[6 alphanumeric...

The AI tool discovery problem 3 by meenabhagvat | 2 comments on Hacker News. I've spent the last few months researching and categorizing hundreds of AI tools. One thing that surprised me is that building AI products seems to be getting easier, while getting discovered is getting harder. Every week, new tools launch for writing, coding, design, research, video, and automation. Yet most users end up using the same handful of products because discovering alternatives is difficult. I've noticed that users often search for solutions to problems rather than specific products. They want to "transcribe meetings" or "generate presentations" rather than find a particular tool. For founders building AI products: How are you solving the discovery problem? What's driving the most meaningful users for you today—SEO, communities, social media, partnerships, directories, or something else?

The AI cost is going to create a new excuse for mass layoffs 4 by user2132141 | 3 comments on Hacker News. So everyone always talks about the scenario where for example a CEO fires 3 out of 5 devs because the remaining 2 can just use AI to do the same amount of work. When that happens, people get pissed because it’s obvious corporate greed. You’re firing people just to make more profit by not having to pay those extra devs, not because you can't afford them. But I’ve been thinking about a different angle that’s way more messed up and likely where we are heading soon. Just recently, I've read about companies that had monthly AI bills get into millions of dollars. Some smaller companies could really be facing bankruptcy if they don't cut costs. Firing 3 devs just to keep the lights on then stops looking like "greed" and looks like survival, basically avoiding going out of business. You could make a moral argument "just stop paying for the AI and keep the hum...

My client is replacing me with Claude for all DevOps/infra and most feature dev 10 by goatwrangler | 1 comments on Hacker News. The last straw was showing up on Monday to a new vibe coded kubernetes cluster and migration plan for all cloud run services. One week after his vibe coded feature and vibe hotfixes kept the sites up and down for over a week before I stepped in and simply reverted the Claude junk. I chose not to support the new direction so he's moving forward without me.