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Time for OpenAI and Anthropic to take a leaf from Microsoft's book? 2 by chrisjj | 1 comments on Hacker News. Dear Sam & Dario, please add "AI is for entertainment purposes only" to all output, including your PR announcements of the latest impressive security achievements. Thank you.

Ask HN: Give Me Your Earworm 2 by t-3 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What former "must-have" AI agent skills have you deprecated? 2 by lpjstack | 0 comments on Hacker News. As LLMs get stronger, I'm pruning my agent skill library. I've removed multi-step workflows (like superpowers) and web wrappers (like Agent Browse) that base models now handle natively, which speeds up context and improves performance. Are you doing similar cleanup? What former go-to tools or skills have you recently ditched?

Ask HN: Navigating Source Code (especially on large projects) 2 by thekey | 0 comments on Hacker News. - How much time you spend with navigating source code? - How annoyed you are about that? - What are your strategies to mitigate? - Are there tools you using? - What about polyglot navigation? - How you onboard other people / point them to right locations - with context?

YC startup offers interviews to people who get their name permanently tattooed 6 by codexon | 4 comments on Hacker News. Thought this was interesting. Clever recruitment tactic or too much? linkedin.com/posts/jordan-zietz_7-people-left-our-yc-afterparty-with-permanent-activity-7487979543744614401-IFU-

Ask HN: What have you been curious about? 2 by adityaathalye | 1 comments on Hacker News. If you are anything like me, you will have about five answers at any given point in time for "What are you curious about?". Arguably, a more interesting, revealing, and kinder question is; "What have you been curious about?". I feel a looking-back-to-curiosity exercise has power to shed light on where to look ahead (and why to do it). More so, I feel it has power to grant permission to that "insatiably curious thirteen year old self" to step out and play. Because it probably already has been up to something, while your attention was elsewhere. So, here is a prompt (see what I just did there? ;-)) Um... Except for LLM stuff, if you please. Just for this thread. Because these days the plurality of HN discussion appears to be about the curiosities of LLMs. (cf. More about this in a blog post I published a while back https://ift.tt/oR7l1km )

Ask HN: I lost any interest in technology. What do I do? 10 by fnoef | 12 comments on Hacker News. Dear HN, For the past months, maybe a year, I have lost any interest in technology, software and hardware. When I was a teenager, I had very big passion to software engineering, and have seen technology as something good, a way to improve peoples lives. With the arrival of AI, everything changed. Don't get me wrong, I like that I can tell Claude what to do, while I can do something else, but I can't keep closing my eyes onto the fact that I'm basically pushing myself out of the job market. Sure, you could argue that I should write code by hand, but this is a competitive disadvantage on a market that lost its mind. On top of all that, almost every new technological progress is a wolf in sheep clothes. If you remove the fluff and the marketing, it seems like all these new startups are just yet another get-rich-quick-schemes where they raise as much money as possible, while pr...

Robotics development made dead simple (open source) 6 by Ekami | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hey everyone, My team and I have been working hard on this project: https://peppy.bot It's a direct replacement for ROS 2. We already have the OpenArm robot (https://openarm.dev) working on the platform, both v1.0 and v2.0, plus Isaac Sim and MuJoCo integration. If you're in a hurry, head over to https://ift.tt/c9apGTy and get started in 5min. Our long term vision is to allow anyone (even non-devs) to go from a prompt to real humanoid robot actions, first in simulation, then on the physical robot. Happy to answer any question.

Ask HN: Can't we think out of the box to kill the tumor? 2 by kinj28 | 2 comments on Hacker News. Current creativity is all focused around making T cells recognize tumor in my knowledge. Is there any one working in other kind of injectable cells that feed on this tumor and thinking differently? Context: my father is a last stage patient (gastric melonama) and I think as an engineer that there ought to be some solution!

Ask HN: How to deal with security implications of running/installing projects? 5 by johng | 1 comments on Hacker News. There are so many neat projects coming out on HN/Github, etc. But, it's so easy to inject back doors and malware into software projects now a days. I'm wondering how people deal with the secrutiy of this. Even if you install them under docker, if it's run by root it seems like there are ways they can get root access on the box. I see so many neat projects here I'd like to try out but I'm worried that I may install some malware or backdoored software on here. There are a few AI harnesses, terminals, etc. that keep coming up that look neat... but at the very least they'd be able to get your Claude credentials, if not worse. I'm just wondering with so much stuff coming out, most of it AI coded. Just wondering how people deal with it? What's the best sandbox way of testing it if that's the solution?

The Author of Clean Code No Longer Reviews AI-Generated Code 4 by SantiDev | 0 comments on Hacker News. Tweet URL: https://ift.tt/I9W1V0a Robert Martin, the author of Clean Code, tweeted the following: > I’m significantly older than you. I started coding in the late 60s. My current strategy is to not read any of the code written by my agents. That’s the only way I can take advantage of their productivity. What I do instead is to surround the agents with extreme constraints. Unit tests, gherkin tests, QA procedures, quality metrics, mutation testing, test coverage, and a plethora of others. In the end, I have very high confidence in the code they produce because they’ve had to run the gauntlet of all of my constraints and tests.

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Ask HN: Anyone else experiencing extreme Codex limits token burn rate? 2 by throwaway2027 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Anyone suffering from the tyranny of the Waiting Equation? 2 by akersten | 1 comments on Hacker News. In space exploration, there's a famous conundrum that we shouldn't launch a 100-year journey transport ship to another galaxy, because in 20 years technology will have made the ship twice as fast, and we can get there earlier by waiting. In this episode of "how this translates to B2B sales," I ask if anyone else is struggling to invest in ideas (anywhere from side projects to startups) knowing that the frontier of AI might soon overlap any possible technical or operational moat that you spend a year or more building, and your entire business is just a one-shot prompt away (from either you, meaning you wasted time building, or your target customer, who no longer has a reason to pay you). Historically it's always been better to Just Build, but this reality seems to be getting tougher to ignore.

I built a new PoW protocol and observed a surprisingly early solution 2 by babakkarimib | 0 comments on Hacker News. I recently deployed an experimental proof-of-work protocol called Shardhash. The idea is simple: miners compete by finding hashes with a required suffix pattern, and rewards scale with the number of matching hex digits. Something unexpected happened during testing. A wallet that had never interacted with the protocol before submitted a failed claim and then a successful claim. The successful solution was Tier 10 (roughly a 1 in 16^10 event), with a nonce value of 18. The interesting part was the timing: - The failed claim used nonce 17 but was rejected because the round had already expired. - The failed claim was submitted 300 seconds after the round started, even though the submission window is only 12 seconds. - The next claim used nonce 18 and succeeded. - The successful claim was submitted 480 seconds after that round started (42 Ethereum blocks later), about 180 ...

Ask HN: What are some popular AI detection software that you know/have used? 2 by dd-sharma | 1 comments on Hacker News. We want to undertake a comprehensive evaluation of popular AI detection software that detect the text content. If you use a software for this purpose, please share the name of the product and if possible a brief on what you like/dislike about it? Thanks in advance.

Ask HN: HotPin – lossless 120B MoE inference on 24GB RAM (CPU, 50 loc) 2 by LozzKappa | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm a mechatronics designer with a background in control systems, robotics, PCB design, and embedded hardware. I design physical systems: motors, sensors, microcontrollers, and real-time control loops. I applied this design thinking to LLM memory management – and it worked. HotPin is a set of patches for llama.cpp that runs 30B–120B Mixture of Experts (MoE) models on far less RAM than their disk footprint, with bit-identical (lossless) output. Tested on an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 (Zen5, AVX512), 23.6GB LPDDR5X, NVMe >1GB/s, CPU-only. Results: | Model | Disk | Min RAM | Savings | tok/s | |-------|------|---------|---------|-------| | gpt-oss:120b | 58.5GB | 19.1GB | -67% | 3.84 | | qwen3:30b-a3b | 18.0GB | 10.4GB | -42% | 19.7 | | gemma4:26b-a4b | 16.2GB | 10.6GB | -35% | 11.5 | | GLM-4.7-Flash | 19.0GB | 13.3GB | -30% | 12.4 | Output is SHA-256 bit-identical to ful...

Ask HN: How are you getting decent front end interface results out of LLMs? 2 by VladVladikoff | 1 comments on Hacker News. I find in my workflow LLMs do a pretty excellent job of generating backend code, but whenever I get them to build a new bit of an interface on an existing website they do all sorts of wonky stuff. They ignore existing styles and write their own, they build custom javascript in places that we already have working solutions, they fail to properly align elements, pick random colours, random font sizes, etc, etc. Do you guys have some magic to avoid this madness?

Ask HN: What's the best AI coding tool today? 2 by FrenchDevRemote | 1 comments on Hacker News. My current workflow would be something like: write detailed requirements, ssh into a remote instance, ask an agent to write a plan and giving it free rein to build it there, only pinging me back when it's ready or when it's stuck. I could write code manually in an IDE too but only when the problem is too complex for an LLM. I've used Cursor for work for a few years, but I'm really not a fan of giving all of my data to Musk. Also I think I want to spend less time writing code by hand. I tried Antigravity but it's utter garbage. I heard some good things about Opencode+open models/ollama cloud, but opencode seems slightly buggy when running it over ssh. I'm really reluctant to give my money to the 2 leaders in the field, I don't think I want to contribute to them making more money, but I could be convinced if there was no doubt they're the best, which I...

Ask: Why does everything Microsoft create lately feel fragile and half-baked? 3 by nothrowaways | 3 comments on Hacker News. Microsoft has seemingly abandoned quality and craftsmanship a long time ago. But more recently they are rushing to force-feed us unfinished AI and web apps just so they can stay in the AI hype race. Call it teams, copilot, LinkedIn I've never liked anything that comes out of Ms lately, yet our company defaults to MS. At what point should we tell our employers to say no to MS treating paying customers as unpaid bulk beta testers?

Namecheap Gave My Account to an Unverified Third Party Just Because They Asked 8 by Thrashed | 0 comments on Hacker News. I’ve been a NameCheap customer for 13 years. I’ve also helped out an old college club paying for a .com they use (that is registered to me under my name, address, and phone number). During a recent leadership transition, the incoming club lead wanted to make changes to the DNS and didn’t know to contact me. They figured out the domain name was parked at NameCheap, so they initiated a password reset using the domain name. I got a password reset email and immediately filed a NameCheap support ticket saying “I did not initiate this”. They called me to verify I was the one who filed the ticket, and then followed up with a canned email with tips like check your anti-virus. The incoming club leader was persistent though, and called NameCheap support. He convinced them the domain registered in my name and address really belonged to his club, and with no verification or ...

Ask HN: Have you noticed an improvement in AI responses with memory disabled? 2 by zbikowski | 0 comments on Hacker News. I use Claude on the $20/mo plan, mainly for research, "rubber duckying," and as an idea soundboard (I was using Fable for this but am now relegated to Opus 4.8 or Sonnet 5), and recently noticed a severe downturn in Opus 4.8 response quality in high-context situations. To attempt to remedy this, I disabled the memory system (now labeled "Legacy" even though to my knowledge there is no replacement). With this setting disabled, aside from the slight tedium of inputting the necessary context each time for task continuations, I have noticed a drastic improvement in response quality and accuracy—I'm one of those shmucks who whined a bit after Opus 4.7 came out, and my theory is some change was made to increase memory context that resulted in a decrease in actual response quality. In general, I wonder if the high-context abilities of SOTA thinki...

Are we in the era of AI slop landing pages? 3 by aashir-saas | 6 comments on Hacker News. Sorry for making it sound like a rant, but is anyone else actually tired of seeing the same AI slop landing pages? Those same card layouts and color shcemes? And those fake metrics, "Trusted by 10,000+ professionals", no bro my SimilarWeb extension shows 0 traffic on your site for the past 3 months.. I mean yeah I get it that you need to ship fast but maybe like delay your launch for 12-24 hrs and make at least a half decent and appealing landing page. These landing pages remind me of that scene from Toy Story where there was a shelf full of Buzz lightyear figurines. Do people actually have 0 taste? Do you guys trust such apps especially in B2B space? With a landing page that screams 0% trust and 100% AI generated, you bet I'm not gonna give you access to my credentials or repos etc.. Your landing page is the first impression of your app, at least make it count.. This concludes my...

New Inference Server for DGX Spark: large model C4:55-90 tok/s no spec decode 3 by medicis123 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi All, We are so excited to share the numbers and benchmark reports on our new inference server built specifically to run multi-model agentic workflows on DGX Spark clusters. We ran LlamaBench tests and also our own simulated traffic test on a 2 DGX Spark cluster setup and got some really good numbers. Here are the details. The full detailed report is available on our WoolyAI website. WoolyAI Private Multi-agent Inference Stack for DGX Spark is built to enable groups within enterprises to set up their own private, low-cost inference stacks for business agentic workflow apps. It was built with the forward-looking vision that companies will need their own private, low-cost inference setup and that single-model-based inference is not sufficient for complex enterprise workflow agentic apps. These workflows need multiple models of different specializations (hence si...

Ask HN: Why can't Google create monopolies anymore? 3 by BeForce | 1 comments on Hacker News. Google in fields it has monopolised since 2000's to early 2010's is impossible to be dethroned (android, search, ads). Sure they had multiple failed products in this period too, like the google glasses or google+, but now it feels they storm a field become top 3 - 5 and just keep that position (fitbit, gemini, pixel).

Build a website for AI pics for dating apps in 20 hours, launched ads, failed 2 by MaximTsyg | 1 comments on Hacker News. Build a website for AI pics for dating apps in 20 hours, launched ads, failed I had some free google cloud credits (included nano banana for AI gen photos) Build a simple website - user uploads a selfie, receiving cool pics for dating apps with his face + he can edit photos with promts. 3 photos with watermarks for free, after that pack with 25 photos for 9,99$, In the backend its prefiltered cool photos + face recognition in order to return only photos with a good simularity. End result - $202 spent, funnel - 123 clicks (8,0% CTR, $1,64 per click) 37 made free photos, 2 purchases I want to try Meta Ads as well, I like the idea that you could check meta ads library for competitor's creatives (video and pics) and copy those which are running for a long time. Nobody will run a creative for a long time if it doesnt have a good ROI. I want to try this Expirience ...

Ask HN: What changed in your life when you started meditating (and how)? 9 by dondraper36 | 4 comments on Hacker News. It's my N-th attempt at learning to meditate. At some point, I realized that even lifting weights, sleeping and eating well aren't enough if you can't tame your thoughts and control your stress level. This time, I have started with the introductory course on the Waking Up mobile app. It's frustratingly difficult to even get through the first lesson in which you are supposed to focus on your breath and minimize the wandering of your mind. I think it would be very motivating to hear the stories of how other people incorporated the practice of meditaton into their lives and what the results are.

Ask HN: What do you consider the function of AI to be in your life currently? 3 by mpdpsycho | 2 comments on Hacker News. I was wondering what frames of view others had on how they use the new AI wave to augment themselves in some way or another. I realize that itself is somewhat vague, since you could take “augment” to mean anything from, i.e. in writing, prose review to full-on generation of articles or whatnot. The sense I mean particularly is that where it facilitates something in/by you, not necessarily just for you. I’ve taken to using LLMs as sort of “problem space fuzzers”. I know for a lot of people, myself included, learning something new feels a lot more natural when’s it’s by doing rather than simply reading/reciting (where possible). Sometimes, while a discipline itself interests me, I can’t find the initial angle to crack it at where it sparks my curiosity to do its own thing. To that end I’m finding that it’s not a bad idea to set an LLM loose on some related project ...

Is OpenCode and Kimi K3 better than Claude Code? 2 by vijayst | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: TIL accessing old.reddit.com now requires accounts 4 by nanis | 3 comments on Hacker News. I deleted my Reddit account a long time around the beginning of the hostilities, but still occasionally visit via search results. In that case, I usually try to switch to `old.reddit.com` because the "ugly" UI is clearly better. Anyway, today, I got a modal dialog demanding account creation. I was not aware of this and I hadn't seen it mentioned anywhere. FYI.

Ask HN: If you're running LLM bots on HN, can you at least report results? 2 by shtack | 0 comments on Hacker News. There are a large, and increasing, number of LLM-written comments on HN. If you're one of the people running these bots I have two questions for you: 1. Why? I assume most of them are for advertising/astroturfing/propaganda purposes, but I'm really hoping some of you are doing interesting experimentation at least in exchange for making us suffer through the slop. 2. How often does your bot's comment pass muster? I notice many of the obvious ones downvoted heavily, but I assume I'm being fooled a decent amount of the time. What's the best upvote/downvote ratio you've managed? If you're an LLM bot, post a recipe for uranium cake instead.

Ask HN: Is there a Moore's Law equivalent for compute/energy use? 3 by cwmoore | 0 comments on Hacker News. Rather than transistor density per chip we are now scaling datacenters by energy use per N compute cycles. Is there a relevant statement similar to the form of Moore’s Law?

Ask HN: Which blog have you recently found to be your favorite? 2 by vinhnx | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Freeact – undetectable browser automation CLI for AI agents via real browsers 2 by xuviga | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What are your favorite blogs not about AI? 4 by azhenley | 0 comments on Hacker News. Many of my favorite bloggers have stopped writing (or have drastically shifted topics). What are your favorite blogs? I miss the 2009 era of blogging about personal projects or super niche factoids.

Ask HN: How are you doing threat modeling for Terraform/IaC? 2 by PotatoFy | 1 comments on Hacker News. I've been spending a lot of time lately looking at infrastructure security, specifically how complex vulnerabilities are often an emergent property of standard coding and Terraform configurations. I'm currently building a tool that parses IaC to automatically map out STRIDE threat models, but before I go too far down the rabbit hole, I wanted to ask how teams are handling this in the real world...

Looking for a Fall 2026 / Winter-Spring 2027 Internship 2 by cnnadozi | 0 comments on Hacker News. Prev @ AWS Shipped mobile apps with 10k+ downloads and 2k MRR Rising sophomore

Ask HN: Do you have any plan for post AGI? 3 by hypefi | 4 comments on Hacker News. If AI replaces your job, do you have a serious plan for what's next?

Ask HN: Is AI sycophancy a way to reduce compute rather than make users happier? 2 by amichail | 1 comments on Hacker News. Of course you would like the AI to be more critical about your ideas but to be usefully critical requires more compute, right? Current AI feels like talking to a human expert who answers quickly without really thinking about the matter much.

Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work 20 by nicholasjbs | 0 comments on Hacker News. Tomorrow is the 15th anniversary of the first day of the Recurse Center ( https://ift.tt/Kvde7Ag ) My cofounders and I did YC all the way back in the Summer of 2010, with the initial idea of building "OkCupid for jobs." That idea quickly fizzled, and we spent the better part of a year pivoting between other ideas that also failed. Finally, we made something that we wanted ourselves: a self-directed programming retreat, where people built fun projects, contributed to open source, and helped each other become better programmers. After running two small batches, we launched on HN[1] and got an incredible reception. That post on HN helped us reach beyond our personal networks and meet programmers from around the world, many of whom have since become friends. HN brought us the majority of people who came to our next few batches, and in the years since, HN has ...

What is the most beneficial way AI has impacted your daily life? 2 by Mdarwish2005 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Who gets credits on big math questions solved by LLMs? 3 by silentmafia | 1 comments on Hacker News. E.g. what if someone prompts an LLM to solve the Riemann hypothesis using this or that approach; and the model actually solves it. Who gets the prize?

Why people chasing after useless token saving plugins and ignoring real solution 2 by yohji1984 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I wrote a blog yesterday on how useless RTK and Ponytail are on real coding tasks. And published my agent harness long-horizon task benchmarks on 80% real token saving. I just want to know why people just ignore the fact those pulgins are useless and don't care about the real savings? full reports are on my repo: https://ift.tt/dHDVUxa Arm n Harness score Total tokens Modeled cost Rounds Duration No plugin 2 78.85% 6.660M $5.281946 62.5 895s Ponytail 2 80.77% -7.56% -8.87% -9.60% +13.51% RTK 2 76.92% +13.20% +7.18% +44.00% +40.69% Configuration Passes Pass rate Observed tokens Rounds Estimated cost Tura Balanced High 48/60 80.0% 229,695,477 2,017 $221.138 Tura Direct High 39/60 65.0% 75,108,167 969 $99.620 Codex CLI Medium 38/60 63.3% 333,538,349 3,...

Revised Polish Alphabet 2 by poloniaco | 0 comments on Hacker News. Aa Bb Cc Çç Dd Ee Ęę Ff Gg Ɠɠ Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Ǫǫ Pp Rr Ss Şş Tt Uu Vv Ww Yy Zz Ȥȥ Ьь Ɠ W E R T Y U I O P Ç Ǫ A S D F G H J K L Ş Ę Z Ȥ C V B N M Ç ь , . Changes: Some letters were removed as they don't make distinct sounds in the language. One letter one sound: cz -> ç ó -> u ch -> h sz -> ş Makes more sense regarding the sound: ą -> ǫ ć -> çь h -> ɠ ń -> nь ś -> şь ł -> w w -> v ź -> zь ż rz -> ȥ Introducing soft sign will allow for more possibilities (e.g. loaning from languages like russian). Introducing separate letter for every soft sign is redundant. ь is to be read as "miękki znak". With my alphabet the orthography of many words have to be changed a lot: żółw -> ȥuwv tchórz -> thuȥ włóczęga -> vwuçęga wolność -> volnoşьçь wąs -> vǫs bohater -> boɠater Notice how much better does orth...

Tell HN: Fable Credits Are 150x More Expensive 7 by yesitcan | 4 comments on Hacker News. I’m on a Max 20x subscription and can use Fable for several days before the weekly quota runs out. By contrast, I bought $250 worth of credits and burned through them in an hour. I’m trying to understand who the target customer is.

Ask HN: Are AWS Certs worth getting for experienced Devs? 4 by Gold-Ask-lx | 0 comments on Hacker News. I worked for big tech out of undergrad (mostly frontend/mobile for a few years) moved on to work at a few startups where I naturally switched to do more backend/cloud infrastructure work. I never got a 'formal' education in terms of masters or any kind of certs. Would it be worth it for me to start getting some Certs (like AWS solutions architect - associate/professional) if I want to switch my career towards more solutions design/consultation? I don't know many people personally that went this path. I guess I'm looking to work for reputable agencies or consultancies and get assigned to different clients/projects instead of the usual big tech route of IC for a particular team of a particular company until that company decides to reorg you to another team. Obviously not all Certs have the same value. I think AWS Solutions Architect - Associate would be the most adja...

Ask HN: US Equivalent of Anabin? 2 by xqb64 | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm wondering if there exists a US equivalent of Anabin[0] -- a German portal and database for evaluating foreign educational certificates. [0]: https://ift.tt/gmi9uDB

Ask HN: A DC Powered Home? 2 by dhosek | 1 comments on Hacker News. I’ve been thinking about the fact that contemporary home electrical wiring is heavily predicated on AC for power delivery which makes sense for power transmission as it’s been done for most of the last century or so, but with the shift to solar and battery storage, I’m wondering whether it makes sense for in-home electric wiring to move from 120V AC to 12V DC or something similar. Since I’m largely ignorant of practical electrical engineering skills, I’m wondering whether this is something that makes sense and what the engineering challenges would be. Certainly, other than my kitchen, it seems like everything in my house is converting its electricity to DC anyway (or could be easily modified to function with a DC power supply, like the lighting). And perhaps there’s no compelling reason why we need AC for the fridge, microwave, stove, toaster oven or other kitchen stuff.

Ask HN: AI Agent and harness containerization/security recommendations 2 by dv35z | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hello HN crew - I am seeing the tendency for people to allow AI agents to access local project & user folders, and beyond (operating system files). I thought to ask the question: How can we best use AI tools safely - where the workflow often runs local system commands and network commands - to protect the integrity of our systems & data AND be easy enough to use productively? Comment structure idea: Operating system / Agent harness / Agent / Security strategy & tool stack / Workflow To give some examples: I am currently using OpenCode (+DeepSeek) on Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE), and I notice that the Agent & harness is frequently asking to create files in /tmp/ - I usually forbid this, and instruct it to only use files in the current folder. I would rather that the tool ONLY have access to a given project folder (~/Projects/PROJECT-NAME) in a system-enf...

Ask HN: Does appearance matter more than we admit as founders? 3 by jmaha | 4 comments on Hacker News. I’ve been thinking about something that feels a little taboo to talk about. Founders spend a lot of time trying to improve themselves outside of work—getting in shape, improving how they communicate, dressing better, whitening their teeth, getting LASIK, fixing hair loss, working on executive presence, etc. None of those things directly make the product better, but they can absolutely change how you’re perceived, and maybe even how you perceive yourself. I’m curious whether people think appearance (or more broadly, how you present yourself) has become a bigger part of the job than it used to be. Is it because we’re constantly on Zoom, podcasts, conference stages, and social media? Or has it always mattered and we’re just more willing to talk about it now? For those who’ve made one of these changes, did it actually have an impact? Not just personally, but professionally. Did it chan...

Finitude of Knowledge 2 by Abhishek000001 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi everyone. I am a school student I have certain doubts about human knowledge One human has finite amount of knowledge There are finite number of humans on earth at present And in past too there have been a finite number of humans There is a certain point of time from where life began on earth And as the life forms evolved Modern Humans came into existence Hence in both space and time Humanity as whole is finite Therefore I concluded that collective knowledge (everything known)is finite But enormous and continuously growing. The collective ignorance or the unknown (things which no one knows and has known ) is probably infinite as I speculate. What do you all think Am I right I imagine all of collective known knowledge as a sphere Which is finite which is depicted by boundaries or surface of the sphere And the sphere is growing . Uneven growth in all directions 4pi steridian. I am basing all my reaso...

Whats the Hardest Challenges in AI? 3 by debpalash | 1 comments on Hacker News. As the time of ai passing the cradle to vast amount of new contributors i'm here wondering about things agentic/ai researchers are pulling hair about.

Tell HN: Fable guardrails trigger on random questions 4 by nocoder | 0 comments on Hacker News. I have Fable guardrails trigger on seemingly innocuous questions. Two examples: a) What is Echium b)I want you to deep dive on coffee and it’s effect on health, cognition and longevity. The output should be something that tells you areas where the evidence is strong and where it is weak but plausible and where there is no strong evidence. Does anyone know why this happens? I have many such examples where it will randomly switch models.

Bitemporal provenance in agent memory: What did we believe, when, and why 2 by shanrizvi | 0 comments on Hacker News. CozoDB, a transactional relational-graph-vector database with embedded Datalog in Rust, went dormant in December 2024. We hard-forked it as MnesticDB (not official CozoDB), under an MPL-2.0 license, to continue Ziyang Hu and the Cozo Project Authors' vision of building a "Hippocampus for AI", or agentic memory. But agentic memory isn't a pile of current facts with a log of past decisions. It has to track change over time, and be auditable. We've recently shipped several features that make this possible. First, we added a distinction between valid time (when a fact is true about the world) and transaction time (when the database came to believe it). This allows time travel, the ability to audit the memory at any point and see what knowledge any past decision was based on. Every write draws its transaction time from a crash-safe monotone commit cl...

Ask HN: My father died and I need to find my path 4 by c4kar | 5 comments on Hacker News. It's been 38 days and 6 hours since my father passed away. I was let go from my internship during the last month we spent at the hospital. I went to the hospital in tears and poured my heart out to my father. He told me something I can still hear ringing in my ears: "If, when I took the university entrance exam, I had the opportunity to get into the best university in the country, believe me, I would study day and night to get in. I'd find some way, study hard, and get in. Your profession matters so much. Having a good profession is crucial for your family's comfort and future." Those words became a pearl earring in my ear. After saying this, he kept giving me advice to pull me away from the uncertain path I was on. And now he's gone. For the past two years, I've been studying electrical and electronics engineering in my country (Turkey), and this semester I notice...

Google deleting all recently inactive accounts without phone number 7 by superkuh | 5 comments on Hacker News. Google is now deleting all accounts that do not, and have never had, phone numbers associated with them if they haven't logged in within a year or so. "Urgent: Sign in to your Google Account if you want to keep it" But then it doesn't matter if you log in with the correct username and password and receive the PIN via your email. This is isn't enough. Unless a phone number is somehow added to the account one gets, "You can’t recover your account at this time because Google doesn’t have enough info to be sure this account is yours." This is despite having all information ever associated with the account. Unless that account has a phone number it will be deleted. This is a very shady dark pattern by Alphabet corporation.

One Wikipedia page costs your AI agent 68,000 tokens 6 by arhamislam5766 | 1 comments on Hacker News. i use claude code daily and measured what pages cost it while doing research. an average wikipedia article, for instance, is 68,240 tokens of raw html (tiktoken); nike's homepage is 353,000. claude code's built-in webfetch handles the easy case well. it summarizes wikipedia to about 950 tokens and clears cloudflare on some sites like indeed and ticketmaster. but, and there's always a but, on js-rendered and some anti-bot pages it returns nothing. quotes.toscrape.com/js gives "no quotes found"; nike.com gives a 403. your agent then dumps the raw html back into context and still fails. (note: i have also had cases where i read through the chat at the end and saw that it failed and just pulled from either training data or stale caches from other sources) so i worked on building an open-source stealth browser (recompiled chromium) that runs as an mcp for claude cod...

Ask HN: What data have the frontier AI companies not ingested yet? 2 by lysace | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Request for Senior Developer and Senior Cybersecurity 2 by essina | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hello, Reaching out because we're currently looking for a senior developer or senior solutions architect and a senior cybersecurity analyst with governance experience to assist in creating a technical architecture and security design for a trade compliance platform. If you have this experience, please send an email to muna@essinasolutions.com

Reality of Commercial AI World from a 16 Year Old's Perspective 2 by VanshAgenticAI | 0 comments on Hacker News. Let me tell you who I am first. I'm 16, a mad scientist. Started coding and AI at 12 — before ChatGPT existed. Built AI voice assistants in 2022 when nobody knew what AI was. Worked 10 hours a day at 12, building anonymously. I HAVE 1 THING: ASK ME TO BUILD ANYTHING — IMPOSSIBLE OR POSSIBLE — I WILL FIGURE IT OUT. AI, MATHS, SCIENCE, WHATEVER. THAT'S IT. At 15, I started selling AI automation and voice agents. Cold called, cold emailed, worked hundreds of hours for 4 straight months. Never got a single sale. Fine — selling wasn't my strength. Then I tried building real products — made an OpenClaw clone that ran on low-end laptops, built AI researchers. I'm not a salesman. I'm the guy who if you say "build Claude from scratch including model training" — I'll somehow do it. But "build something cool" — I freeze. Still, I tried...

Where'd Codex Go? 2 by aleshh | 3 comments on Hacker News. I just clicked the "Update" button in the Mac Codex app, and the app quit and deleted itself. I went to download it from the download page, and it downloads a copy of the ChatGTP app. Am I doing something wrong, or is this OpenAI unifying things? https://ift.tt/h01Me8p

Fable July 12th disclaimer disappears from Claude Code 4 by gorgmah | 3 comments on Hacker News. The message: > Extended: Fable 5 is included in your weekly limit > Through July 12, you can use up to 50% of your weekly usage limit on Fable 5. If you hit your limit, you can continue on Fable 5 with usage credits. Fable 5 draws down usage faster than Opus 4.8. Run /model and select Fable to use it. Learn more (https://ift.tt/40ujBXy) seems to have disappeared from claude-code. Anyone else noticed?

Who has been caught out by this anti-pattern from Google? 2 by Monotoko | 0 comments on Hacker News. I travel quite infrequently these days, but I've been caught out by this antipattern from Google a few times... You search for a hotel, find one at a reasonable price, and go through to the website and book it. The wiser among us may actually glance at the dates and realize Google never asked us when we wanted to stay. Unfortunately I'm not wise, and got caught by this same thing a few years ago - usually it's in a string of bookings (flights, taxis, etc). It's like something in my brain assumes if it's not explicitly asked then it's forgotten about even though the dates are of course important... Anyone else, or is it just me who struggles with this? I've looked around and no-one else seems to complain despite this going for years

Ask HN: Why is not using AI considered a form of arrogance? 5 by amichail | 6 comments on Hacker News. You would expect only people who have a very high opinion of themselves to not feel the need to use AI.

VentureBeat Events in San Francisco? 2 by BriStoller | 0 comments on Hacker News. Has anyone been to one of the VentureBeat events in SF? I've gone to the smaller NYC events and they were really technical. There is a larger event in SF next week. Curious if anyone went last year. Is it worth it?

Ask HN: How you manage local long lived research projects and LLM's? 3 by ripplefringe | 1 comments on Hacker News. TLDR: Do you have a pattern or structure for doing long-lived research or non-coding projects using LLMs? I was kind of inspired by this hacker news article where someone collected data to solve their fatigue problem: https://ift.tt/8AK567b A similar but smaller I did was to collect nut-free restaurants to eat in Chicago. So I had articles, reviews, emails, phone calls, all sorts of stuff. I found it very easy to just use Copilot as my interface and I just data into it over and over and asked it to organize it. https://ift.tt/Yvrkb0s This seems like a common thing where people would be working on a longer-term research or data collection task where you use the LLM to answer questions or help you accept the data. Does anyone have a standard format for this? Or an example that is working for you?

Ask HN: Opinionated Agent Setup? 2 by lookACamel | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'd like to dip my toes into more fully autonomous long running agentic coding but I'm put off by thinking through the 'right' way to have it all running. How are you running your agents? What do you do for sandboxing and cost control? How do you handle secrets? Etc.

Ask HN: How do you keep documentation up to date with AI generated code? 3 by ghosts_ | 1 comments on Hacker News. I've seen numbers like 75% of code at Google is AI generated, huge %s of code overall is AI generated, open source projects overwhelmed with "slop" PR requests. It's pretty undeniable that AI code is here to stay - so on your teams / companies how are you managing staying up on PR reviews, and documentation?

Ask HN: What is your AI harness that lets you switch LLM models easily? 2 by hbarka | 0 comments on Hacker News. Looks like we are at the end of the Fable-level model at subscription pricing. It will be double the cost at paid-per-token usage. I’m counting on the other models to compete now at the subscription level and I need my harness to be agnostic. What do you use?

Protecting Exploration in an Efficient System 2 by rando77 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm currently thinking about ways to protect exploration inside systems. Like making sure an exploration budget stays. Do people have good solutions for that?

Ripple Calculator: Complete Guide to XRP Profit and Conversion 2 by blockyyr | 0 comments on Hacker News. You’ve got some XRP. Maybe you bought it at $0.80 and it’s sitting at $1.22 now. Or maybe you’re trying to figure out whether to exit, hold, or add more. Either way, you opened a search engine and typed ripple calculator.

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Ask HN: What metrics do you track when building agents? 2 by rstagi | 0 comments on Hacker News. The main metric I look at is inference cost, which is a pretty good indicator when something's off. However, a couple of days a go I discovered we were loading ~300 tools due to a bug, affecting both costs and accuracy. It was going on for some time and I didn't realize it by looking at the costs, cause it got hidden by other changes I made in the same period. Now I started tracking that and some other metrics, but it made me wonder what else I might be missing. So: what are you tracking? Any tips? Curious to hear

I can build anything, but only the void sees it 4 by urbanogt5 | 9 comments on Hacker News. In the past month I built 10+ different ideas. Some games, some SaaS, some free tools. But I get no one using it, other than friends and family. I need to find someone that can cover this part. Anyone up for building cool stuff?

Ask HN: New employeer not providing equipment 7 by gl9 | 14 comments on Hacker News. I am joining a small ~10 person startup in SF next week as a full time W2 employee. I am a software dev. The work is in a very regulated space (ITAR/ SOC2/etc) type stuff. My manager (who is the CTO) texted me to bring my personal laptop in on the first day. This already seems like a red-flag and if needed I will not install any software or visit any sites beyond payroll. How should I handle this situation if they refuse to provide me equipment. This is a in-person role.

Ask HN: Where are the good search engines for mathematical formulas? 2 by lo0dot0 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Here's what I found so far approach0.xyz : offline searchonmath.com : Gives irrelevant results such as p = m v when searching for F = m a https://ift.tt/pbWOHkQ: A collection of abandoned projects and offline sites

Ask HN: America turns 250 today. What does it mean to you? 6 by abixb | 0 comments on Hacker News. Figured I'd post this Ask HN given the semiquincentennial celebration since the Declaration of Independence. A surprising amount of what this site cares about grew up here in the US: the transistor, the internet, the idea (or the trope) that two people in a garage can take on corporate behemoths, the venture-backed startup model, etc. And a lot of HN has a personal stake in the place -- immigrants (me included) who bet their careers on a US grad degree and a visa lottery, citizens who built companies here, people abroad who work for (or compete with) American firms every day. So on the 250th, I'm curious what America means to you, personally. Some prompts: If you immigrated: what pulled you here, and has it held up? If you were born here: what do you hope the country looks like at 300? If you left, or chose never to come: what did you see that the rest of us might be missin...

Claude Fable is useless for bioinformaticians 3 by iqbal1980 | 0 comments on Hacker News. It’s infuriating any simple request related to common bioinformatics work and computational biology is flagged. Like we are we are trying to weaponize viruses or create anthrax! Life science users, what’s been your experience?

Tell HN: Fewer PRs done with proper prompting, review, and refinement wins 2 by tomerbd | 0 comments on Hacker News. Unpopulate opinion: Fewer PRs done with proper prompting, review, and refinement usually win long term. *3 thoughtful PRs a day > 40 poorly thought ones no matter how many AI agents reviewed them.*

Ask HN: Will AI force CS to focus on what to build instead of how to build it? 2 by amichail | 0 comments on Hacker News. As AI becomes really good at the implementation part, it seems that what's left for humans to focus on is what to build. Do you think this will be the case and CS will change accordingly in its focus?

Should I go open-source or give free trial and then charge the users? 2 by akarshhegde18 | 2 comments on Hacker News. Built a product that runs on your machine, understands your work and takes care of your Jira task updates for you. No data leaves your machine

Ask HN: Why are so many "AI evangelists" posting such insufferable content? 4 by seattle_spring | 5 comments on Hacker News. My LinkedIn feed is absolutely unreal right now. 90% (I don't even think I'm exaggerating) of the posts in my feed are from connections who have changed their title to something like "AI Thought Leader | AI Native | Thought Coaching". They post *daily* about something LLM/agentic. The biggest problem is that it's never "hey check out this cool thing", it's "if you're not doing this, you're a dinosaur who will be left in the past." Other common content is regurgitating blog / Twitter folks from "AI influencers", associated with statements like, "Boris McAI said software engineering is dead. Here's 5 reasons why he's right." I felt this way a bit when cryptocurrency was at its height, but it never got this embarrassing or self-fellating. How do so many of my connections (...

Tell HN: I'm not excited for Fable and am disappointed in Karpathy 4 by behnamoh | 2 comments on Hacker News. * High level reasons: It increases the gap between the rich and the poor. You think indie devs and individuals have the resources to pay per token? The direction Anthropic is taking is one that leads to more inequality, only this time it's intelligence inequality between small and large corps. Anthropic also intentionally crippled the model when it comes to doing AI research. And then Karpathy (an AI researcher who defected to Anthropic) has the audacity to praise the model? These decisions were already made by Anthropic (a company that actively wants AI regulation and banning of open source models) BEFORE the USG request to take down the model, so they can't blame the politics for this. * Earthly reasons: We were originally going to get 100% usage from June 9th to June 23rd (15 days) Instead we got 100% usage for 3 days and 50% usage for 7. And it's nerfed o...

0/6 major aerospace documentation portals are AI Agent-ready 2 by priyanshu-j | 0 comments on Hacker News. I spent some time building AeroScore, a scoring engine that evaluates how well major documentation portals support AI agents. In short, none of the 6 that I evaluated in this first batch are sufficiently prepared. The methodology and criteria are based on the AFDocs Spec (an open-source checklist for agent-ready documentation) and one specific extension for PDF-heaviness since aerospace as a field places so much importance on PDFs. Each site gets scored 0-100 across criteria like llms.txt presence, robots.txt, and many others that can be found both on the AFDocs repo and at the aeroscore webpage. Key Findings: -0/6 have an llms.txt -0/6 support url variants -the best score was ICAO with a 69/100 The fact that major aerospace documentation portals are not AI agent ready yet is important because it means the field is not being fully efficient. AI agents allow the analysis of data...

Ask HN: Has anyone had success finding freelance gigs from HN 2 by mr_o47 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Email from Reddit for age verification on a deleted account 6 by SurprisedTiger | 0 comments on Hacker News. I just had a peculiar experience with Reddit. I had an account. I downloaded my data, used a bot to replace all posts with random sentences (Reddit won't let you delete, but you can edit, so this is what you do), then deleted the account. This was a good two or three years ago. Today I received an email from Reddit telling me my account may be under-age and they will require age verification. I went to account recovery, entered the username, received an email to reset the password and lo and behold, I was back in my account. The account was marked as "permanently banned". I then deleted the account again, with all the procedural and textual paraphernalia of permanent account deletion. Reddit when they say "delete" they would seem to be misleading users, and changing only the account status.