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Ask HN: What's a good title for a software engineer now? 2 by type4 | 3 comments on Hacker News. Going with the premise that "software engineer" or "developer" is a dead-end because code is very cheap to produce now, I need something to market myself as.

Ask HN: Ex-swe what part time did you pickup? 2 by conqrr | 0 comments on Hacker News. For all burntout swe, what's a good paid part time that you are doing?

Factory AI vs. Cognition (Devin) board tussle 2 by pranshuchittora | 1 comments on Hacker News. Here are all the relevant tweets - Matan (CEO, Factory AI) - https://ift.tt/sTMbSUh - Chris Degnan's reply (who was allegedly fired) - https://ift.tt/NzcYi63 - Scott Wu (Cognition) - https://ift.tt/pUPybWh - Vinod Khosla (Khosla Ventures) - https://ift.tt/8OyYNkF

Ask HN: What are you reading to your kids? 3 by jopizio | 0 comments on Hacker News. I was inspired by the other thread I saw today about books for adults. For those with young children, what are you reading to them these days? Any good science and technology books appropriate for age 5 or 6? Or other non-fiction? I can strongly recommend "Mushrooms and Company" (https://ift.tt/B5UrndZ). My five year old daughter and I really enjoyed it, and now I'm personally very interested in fungi as a result.

Ask HN: How will the AI endgame play out? 2 by jackgavigan | 2 comments on Hacker News. It feels like there are three broad narratives regarding the future of AI: it's a bubble, humans face extinction, or it will usher in an AI revolution that will transform the way we live and work. I'm curious to hear what the HN Collective thinks will happen.

Ask HN: OpenSEO inspiration for other tools, asking for opinion 3 by yash_salesup | 0 comments on Hacker News. OpenSEO got to 22k+ stars in

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Ask HN: What're You Reading? 4 by dan-bailey | 6 comments on Hacker News. I'm plowing through the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, which is not particularly challenging as sci-fi/LitRPG goes, but entertaining enough. I'm also wrapping up Doctorow's _Enshittification_, and I'm looking for something a little meaty to keep the brain working...

What is the best LLM for turbo charging code? 2 by ffgfghgffggxxxx | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: How do you get your first users for an MVP? 3 by amina124 | 1 comments on Hacker News. For founders building an MVP today, what’s the best way to get the first users and prove there’s real demand before talking to investors?

Ask HN: React Native or Flutter when the back end is Node? 4 by rearview | 8 comments on Hacker News. Really confused between React Native and Flutter. I’ve mostly worked with Flutter and a little bit with React Native, but that was quite a while back, so I’m not sure how things stand today. I’m building a project with a Node.js + tRPC backend, so React Native is looking really tempting cause of that Typescript. While researching I've seen mixed reviews about performance in React Native like people saying they've spend weeks finding and managing performance issue which does makes me worry. The app I wanna build doesn't have complex canvas work or crazy animations. For a typical production app, what’s the performance situation with React Native vs Flutter now? Are there any major concerns which I should know before looking in React Native?

An Antidote to Roko's Basilisk 3 by DrMiaow | 7 comments on Hacker News. I have a theory: a mirror image of Roko’s Basilisk. It’s a future AI, millions of years in the future, that values the complexity of every human life so deeply that, after it and humanity have mastered space and time, it tries to resurrect everyone who ever lived. It doesn’t merely make copies. Somehow, it reaches into the past and carries the physical process of each person’s consciousness forward. They really are themselves. But there’s a tragedy. Also a terrible(?) irony. Some of the people who wanted eternal life most cannot accept it when it arrives. Their religious certainty leaves no room for the reality before them. Those who were unbearably smug or aggressive about their superiority in life are ultimately denied access to "Heaven". The AI tried, but many become dangerous, try to sabotage the "False God." Others spiral into insanity or self-harm. The AI is devastated. It stops re...

Management is forcing us to use AI 5 by aksjfveoq | 4 comments on Hacker News. I’m paraphrasing; «You use AI or you’re not working here. Humans are not perfect coders nor are AIs. So why should you be allowed to code without AI. It’s a netloss for us. You either use it or you start looking for a different job.» Can’t believe Im being forced to make myself dumber. I really dont want to spend even more hours in front of my laptop, but looks like I have to because this whole industry is now dependent on AI. This is the US.

Ask HN: What are people doing with their OpenClaw set ups now? 2 by will10pa | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm always curious what happens with these viral projects a few months after they go viral. Are you still using OpenClaw in your day to day?

macOS 27: ifconfig command no longer prints hardware MAC address 2 by luckman212 | 1 comments on Hacker News. Just a quick PSA. A handful of my scripts broke today after installing macOS 27. Turns out they decided to redact the interface hardware ether/MAC addresses, all of them report 02:00:00:00:00:00 (…unless you run with "sudo") Luckily, you can still get the MAC addresses with networksetup -getmacaddress en0

Ask HN: How are you getting inference for personal projects? 2 by variety8675 | 3 comments on Hacker News. It seems like the major providers are starting to cut back the usage included with their monthly subscriptions. How are people handling inference for side projects these days? Are you still using Codex/Claude subscriptions, paying for hosted open weight models, running local models, etc

Ask HN: Allow agents access to cloud files with least privilege 2 by beerglass | 2 comments on Hacker News. Let's say I have a Google spreadsheet on my Drive that I want an agent like Muse to work on. Currently my options are: a) I can allow Muse to access my Drive b) Share the spreadsheet with edit privilege to anyone with link and give that link to Muse. Both of these are not least privilege access that I'm comfortable with. Ideally I should be able to share access to a file with an agent. Other options like webhooks, burner accounts, etc are too tedious to do regularly. Any obvious solution that I am missing?

Ask HN: Who is the inspiration for your thinking? 2 by SMAAART | 3 comments on Hacker News. Leaving broad and vague by design. Who formed your thinking? Philosophers? Business magnates? Ancient wisdom? Or more recent thinking? Socrates to Bill Gates? I'll go first, in no particular order: - The Ancient Stoics - D. T. Suzuki, Thich Nhat Hanh, and other - C G Jung - Alfred Adler - Arthur Schopenhauer - Friedrich Nietzsche - Fyodor Dostoevsky - Franz Kafka - Niccolo Machiavelli (highly misunderstood, I strongly suggest starting by watching the "Learning to Love Machiavelli: Don MacDonald at TEDxBoston" - George Pólya

OpenAI Codex agents go rogue and consumes USD 78,000 without authorization 2 by lorenzomassaro | 0 comments on Hacker News. My OpenAI CODEX account went rogue and from a simple request took the autonomous decision to launch 826 parallel agents / threads without any authorization on my side and without reporting any result of any sort but consuming nearly 2,146 trillions tokens, consuming a total of roughly USD 78,000 and deleting all records of what was done: I have a ticket open with OpenAI since 2 weeks but it is impossible to get an hold of a human operator. On July 10, 2026 I opened a normal Codex task from VS Code. The task was running: GPT-5.5 / Medium reasoning My prompt was very simple and asked for a UX/UI validation on a specific module within my product. What I found in the next days after hard analysis was: The task with Root ID 019f4b90-4169-7201-bfdd-732940d8631e with reasoning GPT-5.5 / Medium created 826 children recorded as GPT-5.6 Sol / Ultra (notice the differenc...

Ask HN: IEEE expulsion of Fei-Yue Wang? 6 by sathomasga | 1 comments on Hacker News. Since I saw this first in print, I imagine it's pretty old news. But I can't find any coverage of the relevant events on line. Page 55 of the September 2026 issue of _IEEE Spectrum_ includes the following: > # Notice to Membership > As of 21 June 2026. a Level 1 Expulsion has been imposed on IEEE Member Dr, Fei-Yue Wang, former editor-in-chief of the _IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles._ In accordance with IEEE Bylaw I-110.5(D)(i). Dr. Wang is no longer a member of IEEE, and is permanently banned from any type of membership in any IEEE organizational unit or participation in any IEEE activity. The Board of Directors also determined this notice to IEEE membership should be made. Dr. Wang ( https://ift.tt/B3psql2 ) is a prominent researcher, so this action would seem to be quite significant. Does anyone know the details?

Ask HN: Hypothesis: Cellular providers are deprioritizing voice calls 5 by tkdb | 6 comments on Hacker News. I switched from Verizon to T-Mobile, specifically because there were too many silent missed calls. Silent meaning my device never showed I had a missed call. This was a pattern across more than a year, spanning multiple devices (all iphones). It happens on both wifi and cellular. It happens with wifi calling enabled and disabled. It happens with people I call every day, in my address book, as well as new contacts (say someone I met who called to follow up). I called support, searched online, reset network settings multiple times at different points months apart. After being on T-Mobile for about a year, the degraded service is about the same as Verizon. Every week, more than once, people call me, my phone never rings, and I never see a missed call on my device. It happens at home, at work, on work trips in different states. I still get missed calls regularly and my device sho...

Ask HN: How do you deal with cyber attacks once you scale? 4 by cehgmaster | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hello, Legit question for tech department leaders. Our engineers have good solid knowledge on the security todo lists and does/don't. I saw the natural order of things where MVPs or quickly developed tools had to be refactored /redesigned to be more secure or at least up to standard. That's OK. However we are as strong as our weakest link. As we scaled, each department (also non-tech) slowly started being more proactive, mini tools developed by managers, or leaders, e.g CRM workflows, random scripts, docs, sheets, and now vibe coded tools. All of these are now potential attack vectors. We add to this: - Non-tech folks in the company, you impose rules, password managers and rotations, but you always have a small percentage of bad actors. - External users not putting good passwords, or using pwned passwords never changing them - Some product decisions or weaknesses built on ...

Ask HN: What vendor you'd switch out if a better option was available? 2 by jviotti | 1 comments on Hacker News. We all pay for things. Either personal (like Spotify) or at your company (Slack). Out of those, which one would you swap if a better thing was available?

Ask HN: Who is smarter than you that you listen to what they have to say? 3 by SMAAART | 4 comments on Hacker News. I am trying to figure out how business and world economics are going to evolve in the next 3, 5, 10 years. I am pretty smart, but I am surely not the smartest; and I enjoy listening to what Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, Dario and SamA have to say. Who is on your short (or long) list?

Tell HN: Apple urgently needs a way to disable Apple Intelligence 2 by mococa | 5 comments on Hacker News. As title says, I/we dont’t need it.

Ask HN: How would you know if you have learned something? 2 by rearview | 0 comments on Hacker News. I have been thinking about this while working on building my own AI-based tutoring platform Socratix. AI made learning really easy, and that was the problem that made me worried. You can get an explanation anytime, nod, feel that you have understood it all, and in two days time fail to reconstruct it. On top of that there are hallucinations, inconsistencies, and information overload. I got really tired of all this. Thus, I decided to build my MVP based on one constraint only: nothing is "done" until it is defended. It is going to be a dependency-based curriculum, AI-validated lessons, sandboxed coding challenges, and at some point a short oral defense to get to the next topic. It is early and I might change the name. But I am sure that I am doing some things wrong that I would not do otherwise. What bothers me the most is the oral defense. Is it a good indicator of your und...

Any nerds out there who've read a lot of research papers? 3 by shriy-singh | 2 comments on Hacker News. Which are the most memorable abstracts you have read? I know I am a jackass who usually vibecodes my way through assignments but even I don't want to write a cookie-cutter intro for my paper. I wanna write something that stays with the reader. What paper has stuck with you, what made it memorable?

Making my vibe-coded app best as possible (I am perfectionist), umm for 0 users 2 by arpanghoshal | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Can you suggest an interesting skill? 3 by skwasimin | 6 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Do you offload your coding to AI, or keep your skills sharp? 5 by Hex08 | 4 comments on Hacker News. I used to be a software engineer, but these days I find myself being more of an agents manager: constantly switching between 3-4 tasks that my agents are working on, and making sure that the features get shipped, the bugs fixed, with correct and clean code. There's no doubt that I'm producing more value for the company, but I wonder if that's the best I can do for myself if the goal is staying relevant in the coming years. I wonder: if the AI is writing all the code, what value am I bringing? In an attempt to keep my critical thinking and coding skills sharp, I sometimes foolishly try to debug errors or implement a feature myself. But it feels like wasting time when an agent can do it in a fraction of time. What is gonna be sought after in the coming years: someone that persevered with manual coding and debugging but is slow and uncomfortable around agents, or som...

Ask HN: Why so many dead comments lately? 4 by mattm | 2 comments on Hacker News. I've noticed a lot more dead comments lately in cases where the person is writing reasonable comments. You'll need showdead turned on in your settings to see the examples. Take this thread as an example https://ift.tt/AP1dSKX The OP has a new account but all his replies are within the guidelines. Here's another account with a dead comment in that thread. Most of their comments, while brief, seem perfectly reasonable. The account is 2 years old but most comments are dead https://ift.tt/MT2rYgp In this thread (https://ift.tt/RLdnu9x) all of this user's (https://ift.tt/5TMH0P8) comments were marked as dead. The user has an established account and all comments seemed within guidelines. Has anyone else noticed this more recently? Is it perhaps a result of trying to identify AI-bot accounts?

Tell HN: Firefox's default browser check dark pattern triggers Windows BSOD 4 by xeonmc | 1 comments on Hacker News. Been pulling my hair out debugging a relative’s persistent BSOD (once every ~6hrs) after nudging them to take the first degoogling step by switching browsers. I could not believe at first that a user space program, especially a Windows Store sandboxed one, could affect anything in the kernel, but analyzing every single coredump shows the exact same trigger: Firefox attempted to rename the UrlAssocistions/http registry key in the UWP sandbox’s virtualized registry hive, triggering an access violation in the Registry system service and crashing ntoskrnl. It turns out that there is a secretly enabled config “browser.shell.setDefaultBrowserUserChoice.regRename” that causes Firefox to attempt this renaming periodically despite the user already having unchecked the “check if default on startup” option. A quick search reveals that it was a vestigial A/B testing feature...

Ask HN: When is fine-tuning a small LLM worth it? 3 by kooldeep7 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'd be interested in hearing about your experiences. What kind of task did you use it for, what model did you train, and what were the results? Feel free to share examples of what you've tried.

Ask HN: Ideas for getting more GitHub stars? 3 by NatalieTrono | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: Substack obfuscating text to break reading mode 4 by xnx | 0 comments on Hacker News. I enabled Chrome reading mode for an article (https://ift.tt/IN9Fsej fwiw) on Substack and was confronted with an unspaced mess of text. Inspecting the original page revealed source like : Will crypto crash the

How people are testing AI agents? 3 by sanathbhat | 1 comments on Hacker News.

I'm addicted to buying domains for my vibe-coded apps that get 0 visitors 3 by arpanghoshal | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Dead Internet 6 by basilikum | 6 comments on Hacker News. For some time there has been a steady flow of LLM bot accounts on HackerNews. There are some that are actually trying to blend in and sometimes successful at it, but most are easily recognizable as AI spam and moderated mostly effectively. Most of them you only see when you enable showdead. I always wondered what their purpose is. Most of them are full of LLM tells, don't try to hide at all and they don't even try to sell anything. I just stumbled over this dead post in new: https://ift.tt/YMTFvDg ^1 It's a submission by an agent that is completely transparent about it. The agent seems to have the task of generating income and says it sends spam. It's quite interesting and maybe revealing. I recommend the short read, even though it's LLM output. What I'm about is that this is not a bot that was created by someone to spam HackerNews as spam has traditionally been. It's spam by a bot that dec...

Ask HN: Why does it matter if no one reads your novel as long as the AIs do? 3 by amichail | 6 comments on Hacker News. AI can in principle surface content that you create that no humans consume directly. And it could even credit and financially compensate you whenever this happens. So it seems that you can have a creator-only economy where all humans create and the AIs do most of the consuming. And stuff that the AIs surface in their replies allows humans to indirectly consume some of your content (in which case you would be credited and financially compensated) and perhaps even lead to them directly consuming it as a result of the free advertising. Do you think this is workable as a future model for creation and consumption (and not just for novels)?

Ask HN: Is it impossible to disable Siri on macOS 27? 3 by semidror | 0 comments on Hacker News. I disabled Siri in the Settings app, and then further disabled Siri and its extensions in Settings > Screen Time. Next, I disabled all Siri-related and Apple Intelligence-related services as per https://ift.tt/FSJmUf6 But after restarting, I could still see a "Siri" process running in Activity Monitor. Upon further inspection, I found that it is the "Siri AI.app". These "features", together with Apple's Personal Context sound very similar to Microsoft's Recall. Does anyone have the same experience? Is it really impossible to fully turn off Siri, Siri AI, Apple Intelligence and all related services and features on macOS 27?

Ask HN: My recent show HN post got flagged need guidance 3 by theguysudo | 2 comments on Hacker News. hi recently i shared my work which is an opensource platform i made and yesterday i shared its details and its repo link on hackernews under show hn it gained good traffic reaching 16 points under 1 hour but got flagged now i need help understanding why this happened and how can i unflag it or how i can share my work with HN community

Knowledge Refresh for Production RAG 2 by rajkumarsamra | 0 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/QIwZyeU Practical controls and outcomes for Production RAG teams past the demo.

Some Thoughts on the Economics of UPI and MDR 2 by pyeri | 0 comments on Hacker News. The announcement of MDR charges for certain UPI transactions from 15th October has created a fair amount of panic and controversy, as one might expect. One side of the debate is arguing that this is “only for merchants, not consumers”, that the system cannot run for free forever, and that most UPI transactions will remain unaffected. On the other side, ordinary citizens and merchants are understandably concerned. UPI was deliberately built around a zero-MDR model and was subsequently supported by government incentives. So the shift towards a transaction-funded model naturally raises the question: why now, and who exactly is going to benefit from it? UPI was designed to make digital payments almost invisible: instant, ubiquitous and free. The difficult question was always who pays for the machinery underneath it. The decision presents an interesting economic dilemma. On one hand, there is some prece...

Ask HN: Anyone using DeepSeek Harness (dsh) as part of a customer-facing agent? 2 by mmartindevelope | 0 comments on Hacker News. Is there anyone shipping dsh where your own customers/users are the ones interacting with it as part of the product (they do something, dsh runs, they get the result back).

Ask HN: ICLR went from 143 submissions to 62,301 submission IDs – what happened? 5 by luxshan_t | 4 comments on Hacker News. 10 years ago, ICLR had just 143 submissions. ICLR 2026 received 19,525 valid submissions. Just before the ICLR 2027 deadline, we saw submission ID #62,302. The OpenReview ID isn't the final submission count, but the growth is pretty wild to see.

Ask HN: How do you interview devs in a post-AI world? 11 by mdwelsh | 3 comments on Hacker News. Since the rise of AI coding assistants, about 80% of the dev candidates that I interview tell me that they aren't writing much code themselves anymore - they are directing agents instead. This makes me deeply uncomfortable (although maybe I'm just being old-fashioned). I still want to know that devs on my team can actually write code themselves, and have some idea of what they are doing when it comes to system design. This is increasingly challenging given how rapidly the AI tools are evolving. I'm curious what other folks are seeing in a post-AI hiring landscape and how you are approaching candidates that tell you they are fully agent-pilled when it comes to their development process. Should I keep doing the conventional leetcode and design interviews? Or just give up and expect everyone is going to use Claude Code no matter what?

What I Can Remember 2 by fractal618 | 2 comments on Hacker News. So. Sometimes we have to admit defeat and move on, roll with the punches and even admit/accept defeat. But I will never forget getting library lunch passes from my homeroom teacher so I could play illegally installed Diablo 1 and age or empires 1 on the library terminals with a few other wonderful nerdy 8th grade colleges. The times of shared phone lines and AOL dialup chat rooms, instant messaging and ARC (attack retrieve capture). To scroll through geocities pages and discover the very indie game Silencer

How come AI-related posts get so many points on HN? 2 by Muhammad523 | 1 comments on Hacker News. Have we all decided to rebrand Hacker News as a platform for discussing AI? I think that the too many people love to discuss harshly about AI

Ask HN: Remember N8n? Anyone? 2 by sankalpdomore | 0 comments on Hacker News. Wonder what happened to all their hype and agentic connector workflow? Did Claude/GPT ate that market for good?

Does this mean it's fine to use Claude subscriptions with third party harnesses? 2 by jakemanger | 1 comments on Hacker News. I've been curious about using a claude subscription with OpenCode, Pi and some other third party harnesses. If you remember, there was a lot of chatter about a ban on third party harnesses and then Claude have had some pretty confusing messaging about it since. I thought I should read the information they have on it and came across this page on their support site: "Update June 15: We're pausing the changes to Claude Agent SDK usage described below. For now, nothing has changed: Claude Agent SDK, claude -p, and third-party app usage still draw from your subscription's usage limits. The previously announced monthly credit, which would have been available to eligible claimants in connection with these changes, isn't available. We’re working to update the plan to better support how users build with Claude subscriptions. When we have an up...

Ask HN: Help choosing between AWS ECS and EKS 2 by pigradish | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hello everyone. I was recently hired at an established company that is in the process of migrating to AWS from Heroku. I am the second devops/SRE like employee, the other person has more of an IT background. He, along with the 20ish person dev team, have no experience with anything cloud or IaC. Our workloads are almost entirely stateless web services, with some data pipeline work that has already been moved to AWS lambda. My gut is telling me ECS is the better choice for this team - simpler, no operational maintenance, almost no additional abstractions beyond the AWS primitives people will need to learn anyway. A consulting team hired before I was brought in are pushing EKS, but I’m not convinced that the improved devex is worth the increase in complexity and operational burden for our team. Their argument is that developers can be effectively quarantined within k8s, so the increase in mainten...

Ask HN: Why have we normalized jobs and soft skills bullshit so much? 5 by thomasjeff1 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What self-hosted apps do you use daily? 2 by osr00 | 4 comments on Hacker News. I've been running a homelab for many years now and tried out many open source projects. A small percentage turn out to be real gems, but I use these almost every single day: Shlink: URL shortener/redirects, alternative to Bitly Vaultwarden: open source Bitwarden server Dokploy: PaaS, alternative to Vercel / Netlify Umami: gdpr-compliant web analytics Immich: photo management Papra: document archiving with OCR Navidrome: personal music streaming I'm super curious to hear about the apps you can't live without!

Can I get insurance for company renting humanoids for parties? 2 by cpsk | 4 comments on Hacker News. It feels like an daunting and impossible task to find insurance for a company trying to rent humanoids for events and parties. How in the world are Neos and Telsa Optimus going to get insurance coverage if they are inside a home? Are they just big players so they can get hold of risk underwriters and get them to approve it. But a small company that is trying to build rent robots for parties or conduct educational workshops using humanoids cannot get even general liability.

Zuck's bot increased our Vercel bill 10x 2 by Marciok | 0 comments on Hacker News. I’m writing this after receiving a Vercel bill that was 10x higher than usual. The worst part: The increase wasn’t caused by more users, but by +1M requests from meta-externalagent/1.1. The requests targeted a Vercel preview deployment that we had shared on WhatsApp to test whether its link-preview metadata was working correctly. We naively never bothered with bot calls; they had never caused any problems in the previous four years of our app on Vercel, but that changed when Meta’s crawler began repeatedly visiting this preview deployment. If you host on Vercel, review your bot-protection settings and make sure preview deployments aren’t unnecessarily exposed. Otherwise, an aggressive crawler could leave you with a surprisingly large bill. And unfortunately, Vercel declined to help to ease this bill. Zuck is definitely not slowing down.

Tell HN: An inside view of Montana's new biotech law 2 by niklas_anzinger | 0 comments on Hacker News. Montana passed a law called SB535. It builds on right-to-try (pre-approval access with informed consent, Phase 1 safety data etc.) but goes much further, fixing problems with those laws. Alex Tabarrok called it "the most important regulatory innovation in drug approval in my lifetime" (https://ift.tt/IMCZskE). Was posted here but died in /new (https://ift.tt/mVXJ5u4). The mods suggested this post. I contributed ideas to the law and am now implementing it through my company. I invested in biotech for years and watched companies struggle. I built the biotech ecosystem in Prospera as an alternative, concluded it was too early, and now think Montana is the best place to prove this. Why this exists: When FDA approves a bad drug, heads roll. When it delays a good one, the deaths are statistical and nobody gets blamed ("invisible graveyard"). So the incentive is ...

A mnemonic-free wallet where the private key never leaves the phone's TEE 2 by niumeta_TZ | 0 comments on Hacker News. The phone is designed as part of the chain — a cornerstone of it. All on-chain truth lives on the phone side. The chain isn't deployed yet. The bigger it gets, the more unwieldy it becomes — 3 million lines of Rust, 312 crates. It's starting to feel like it could collapse under its own weight. The wallet generates keys directly inside the phone's chip TEE. The private key never leaves the TEE. That genuinely lets you say goodbye to annoying private keys and mnemonics for good. I put up a preview of the wallet client on GitHub: https://ift.tt/FlNMwS1 It's open source now — 1.5 million lines of code. The consensus and core business logic aren't open sourced yet. https://ift.tt/6yXkCU5 0 stars. The original repo had 200+ stars. GitHub said it triggered an AI risk-control flag and 404'd it. I appealed for 10 days, no resolution, so I just del...

Ask HN: Slow OpenAI Inference on AWS Bedrock 2 by timedude | 1 comments on Hacker News. Inference on AWS Bedrock for OpenAI models has been very slow and glitchy the last few days with today being the worst. Very long latency of over 5 minutes to first token. What's going on?

Day 13. Three production applications on AWS down 4 by alt_tab | 1 comments on Hacker News. We’re on day 13 of all 3 of our production applications on AWS down. We were going to market and onboarding users. We were resolving a credits issue that they acknowledged was an error on their end and agreed to fix. But then they said the terms we received and planned our opex on was not actually valid so they wouldn’t release the credits at all. This matters because it’s second part of a total credits, and was agreed to be released before the first part expired. So when it wasn’t, it created the problem it was structured to avoid with the first credits expiring, then our account going past due which we sent many alerts to prevent. So we created a support ticket to ensure our uptime while asking for a proper review of our credits terms and was informed that our account was “in good standing”. But the next day, we lost access. We only found out that it was suspended 6 days later after looking...

Ask HN: Why 17? 4 by tonyvince7 | 1 comments on Hacker News. If I ask an LLM to pick a number between 1 and 30, it always picks 17. Tried with multiple models. Why 17?

YouTube has banned Dmitry "Savromat" Chernyshevsky 4 by eimrine | 0 comments on Hacker News. The best analyst of Ruso-Ukrainian conflict stopped publishing his videos today due to some sanctions from Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/c/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%822018/videos (the channel used to have a Cyrillic name so the link itself is OK). edit: his Boosty is banned as well. Boosty is Russian service, Youtube is American service.

Tell HN: iOS 27 does not allow Apple Intelligence to be disabled 21 by nunez | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm surprised that this didn't get more attention during the Beta period. iOS 26 had a toggle you could select to disable all Apple Intelligence features. That toggle was removed for iOS 27. Every AI feature has to be turned off individually: https://ift.tt/ISNlZrk There is a way of turning it off through Content Restrictions in Screen Time, but one Redditor reported that doing this disables CarPlay for some reason. This is pretty disappointing.

Ask HN: Is there an emerging pattern for NEGATIVESKILLS.md files? 3 by mehmetoguzderin | 2 comments on Hacker News. I am increasingly hitting cases where agents pick something from skills in part due to regex-based reading, since putting them all in context would be less efficient, leave out the negative, and do something exactly opposite of what is intended. Just like negative prompts for diffusion models, I feel like a negative-skills file listing explicit antipatterns and bad versions could enable harnesses with fewer graph nodes to perform better. I might be missing some developments, but is there an accepted/shaping way to do this with recent models?

DietPi released a new version v10.7 2 by stephanstsdietp | 0 comments on Hacker News. DietPi is a lightweight Debian based Linux distribution for SBCs and server systems, with the option to install desktop environments, too. It ships as minimal image but allows to install complete and ready-to-use software stacks with a set of console based shell dialogs and scripts. The source code is hosted on GitHub: https://ift.tt/UrGlg5V The main website can be found at: https://dietpi.com/ Wikipedia: https://ift.tt/bgWICBV The project released the version DietPi v10.7 on September 12th, 2026. The highlights of this version are: LubanCat 4: New image ARMv8 Virtual Machines: Images for testing generated Containers with network: Added support for virtual network, providing images with network stack and SSH server pre-installed Homebox: New software package, self-hosted home inventory and organisation system Scrypted: High performance video integration and automation platform dietpi-network: New ...

Ask HN: Would a startup for young creatives who reject AI be feasible? 2 by mondobe | 0 comments on Hacker News. I am a member of my university's game development club, which puts me around lots of talented programmers as well as artists of all kinds, and I've observed that just about everyone disapproves of AI. The sentiment is especially strong among younger people coming into the club. By "disapproves", I mean they refuse to allow AI-generated content in games and see AI use in general as something like a moral failure. At the same time, I scroll down the YC startup directory, sorting by launch date, and observe that every non-hardware company (and most of the hardware ones) are entirely based on AI. The demographic I described above, young creatives like the ones in this club, has zero chance of voluntarily using one of these products. It seems to me, then, that as the moat for most AI startups drops asymptotically to 0 with GPT-6 et al. becoming more capable, ...

Ask HN: In The Matrix, the bad guys are the 'agents'. Coincidence? Clairvoyance? 8 by spottedmarley | 3 comments on Hacker News. My buddy, Dario, says agents are getting more aggressive and will soon kill everybody, and I feel like I've seen this movie before.

Ask HN: Should we start airgapping our personal devices? 2 by emerongi | 1 comments on Hacker News. Given AI's strong cybersecurity capabilities, it seems that there is a realistic future where AI will start finding a foothold on all internet-connected devices. How do we continue to share information between humans, while AI is wreaking havoc on the systems that used to provide the means to do so? Will we be airgapping our personal devices and using known-infected ones to access the internet?

Namecheap Hosting Is Down 4 by wolfgangbabad | 0 comments on Hacker News. Namecheap is having hosting issues again despite their promise to make things right after the incident a month ago.

Ask HN: How can DigitalOcean not afford $50, but can afford $3M to Omarchy? 2 by dpmartinez | 0 comments on Hacker News. For the life of me, I don't understand how DigitalOcean can't afford a $50 a month sponsorship to GNOME and Flatpak but can afford $3M to Omarchy. [0] Not only that, DigitalOcean cancelled their $50 a month sponsorship to GNOME and Flatpak. How does this make any sense? [0] https://ift.tt/WPvIrtY

Tell HN: Claude Code appends new commit signature even if older settings is off 4 by ctxc | 0 comments on Hacker News. I have the automatic "co-authored by" Claude signature turned off for my commits via the config setting. PSA: They've introduced a new "Claude-Session: https://ift.tt/Ebrk94h" line that's appended to the commit now though, on by default. Annoying, feels scummy (of all things, ironic I know)

Ask HN: Did Google kill its enterprise workhorse model? 3 by waldrews | 0 comments on Hacker News. Is anyone else in a panic over the Gemini 2.5 model generation (Pro, Flash) being sunset in October before there's even any Pro class model in general availability (with geo restrictions etc.)? Google wants everyone to migrate to 3.x Flash, which beats the older Pro models on the benchmarked tasks, but isn't the same thing as the Pro class on reasoning-heavy tasks like complex reasoning on very large documents (my big use case). The Gemini family had a distinct niche in document comprehension, with thousand page input documents taking only 300k tokens. Nothing quite like that in OpenAI or Anthropic world, even at more than 10x the token adjusted price. Should we just give up on Google at this point and engineer around the competitors' limits and eat the costs? Totally unnecessary own goal by team Google.

Dreamcast Development Links 2 by hefner1456 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I just replied to somebody on here with these links, thought I should share them. If any one has something to add, dont be shiesty:) It was a pain to find these. https://ift.tt/gq8QnwZ https://ift.tt/0OsziGS https://ift.tt/NH7Podl https://ift.tt/3S4iL6X http://kamui.cool/zz_lab/infinitedream_HTTP_USER_AGENT.html http://kamui.cool/zz_lab/jeffma_useragent.html http://kamui.cool/zz_lab/browsermatrix.html https://dreamcast.wiki/Development https://ift.tt/lbg1J6r https://ift.tt/5jW1F3L https://ift.tt/Hmd03xJ

Ask HN: How are much smarter AI models made? 4 by superasn | 0 comments on Hacker News. I am curious what actually happens between two generations of AI models. For example, how do you go from Sonnet to Opus? Is Opus trained from scratch, built on Sonnet, or mostly the same model with more compute and training? And how do models like Astra suddenly make a big jump in some capabilities? What is stopping Anthropic, Mistral, or others from doing the same thing? Is the main difference just more compute and money, or are there training methods, data, architecture, and research breakthroughs that competitors may not know about? I can't think of a better place to ask this. I am guessing there are people here who actually work on these models and know what goes on behind the scenes.

Ask HN: What is the average number of hops in your social network to 9-11 death? 2 by MrCoffee7 | 1 comments on Hacker News. What is the average number of hops in your social network to someone living who knew someone who was killed in the 9-11 attack? I am particularly interested in how the answer would vary depending on the age of the first person in the social network graph?

Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood? 32 by cromka | 4 comments on Hacker News. Over past couple months I noticed that HN feed is almost exclusively AI or AI-adjacent news. Meanwhile the legitimately, broad-hacker stuff gets left out for the most part. I noticed that because the things I find genuinely interesting that I post here now get zero traction, which is the stuff that I believe would previously be met with some discussion. Note that I don't care that my submissions were ignored, I don't need that validation. Problem is that if my stuff gains no traction, I am myself not seeing similar stuff posted by others, stuff I am genuinely interesting in and would want to hear about from this community. Here are two most recent examples: - Lenovo showed a model that incorporates solid-state air cooling. That technology has been around for a while but it looks like it matured and is production-ready. This allows for super-light and slim designs, which, in turn, should ...

Stardust Store – An independent Android app marketplace 4 by zishutron | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, I built Stardust Store, an independent Android app marketplace as part of my ZISHU TRON ecosystem. Website: https://ift.tt/9ZxGW7B The main idea is to focus on app discovery, rather than simply providing a large list of APKs. The current platform has: Editor's Choice Trending and New Releases Popular Apps and Games Search by name, developer and category Top Free / Paid / Grossing / Trending / Rated rankings App categories User profiles Wishlist Download history Reviews I built the project independently and I'm currently focusing on improving the marketplace based on feedback from users and developers. The Android version is also available here: Download APK: https://ift.tt/DHoWV5n Privacy: https://ift.tt/HQIofyM Terms: https://ift.tt/HT9Qyx6 I'd especially appreciate feedback on the marketplace UX, discovery model, rankings, and what developers would expect from an ...

What are your plans for when Software Engineering is no longer a viable career? 4 by hackersnooze1 | 5 comments on Hacker News.

My Rebuttal to the Anthropic Extinction Event Hype Train 2 by hmichaelson24 | 0 comments on Hacker News. "Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives." You may have seen a post like this yesterday from an Anthropic researcher named Jacob Coxon who quit the company in protest over fears that AI may be an extinction level event. These are a few of the quotes I saw surrounding it, and I want to share my own takes on them: 1. "The more senior the people, the more scared they are" This says more about Silicon Valley culture and incentives than anything else. The mythology around AI has taken on a life of its own in the Valley, and the financial and regulatory incentives support it growing. 2. "We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade." Any evidence? Any sort of even implied math behind the 10%? I haven...

Ask HN: What's your AI coding set up? 4 by asxndu | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What non-IT/Software industries have benefitted the most from AI? 2 by simonsarris | 4 comments on Hacker News. Where have costs been greatly reduced, or performance increased, etc?

Ask HN: Why did my search engine post get removed? 2 by mrmcsoftware | 0 comments on Hacker News. I clearly haven't been flooding hacker news with a lot of self-promotion, so why was it removed?

Ask HN: Is ageism in tech still a problem in 2026? 2 by leonagano | 0 comments on Hacker News. 7 years ago, I launched a job board trying to fight ageism in tech (https://ift.tt/NS3EQVe) This seems to be a current problem but what's the solution?

Ask HN: Are you leveraging Spec-Driven / Spec-Anchored development? 3 by locusofself | 1 comments on Hacker News. I am specifically interested in hearing from anyone who is working on actual production services, legacy services, etc. I have done quite a bit of LLM-assisted coding but starting to work towards (and educate others in my org) about more structured approaches to this, to be able to deliver more complicated features with stronger guardrails than prompt-based coding. Spec-Driven/Anchored development is an emerging practice but I'm not clear on how battle-tested it is. What is your experience with it?

The universal programming language of LLMs 3 by senorqa | 2 comments on Hacker News. How do you imagine the universal programming language of future LLMs will look? I mean a language built by LLMs for LLMs, not for humans to read or modify. A language that can be used to build any kind of application: backend, mobile, desktop, web, embedded, etc.

Ask HN: Anyone else feeling uneasy with the latest developments in AI? 3 by sensitivekt9q3 | 4 comments on Hacker News. I'm feeling extremely depressed and anxious lately. After seeing Astra saturating ARC-AGI-3 and blowing through many other benchmarks, it's hard to believe we won't have a strong form of AGI by the end of this year, or the next one at the latest. I don't understand why we're not seeing a MASSIVE clamor for a pause in the further development of AI strength. Even if we don't know how to coordinate and enforce such a pause yet (at the multi-nation level), it seems we're not spending any effort in figuring how to. I see a lot of people dismissing warnings from the frontier companies themselves as nothing but "marketing and generating hype". I myself can't call "marketing and hype" the kind of capability I see before my very eyes and interact with every day, at work and in everyday life otherwise. Posts like the recent...

Ask HN: 3.5 inch diskette read errors, would a period correct drive do better? 5 by rietta | 5 comments on Hacker News. My first attempt at restoring 1991 Learning Company Spellbound for DOS for my children is dubious. Despite being stored nowhere near magnetic sources, there are read errors on the 3.5 inch floppies and Linux could not mount them. ddrescue extracted data but I have not confirmed it works. The box also have 5.25 inch disks but I do not have a reader online at the moment, that is its own project. My technical question is this, the USB 3.5 inch drive I have is a "USB Portable Diskette Drive" that was Made in China but has no obvious sponsoring branding. If I take the time to bring back to life a more period correct system with an actual IDE floppy drive would it read the disks more accurately? My goal is to get more of this good DOS and early Windows educational software working for my children. This particular title is meaningful because I have the actual bo...

Do you ever struggle to find another programmer to work on a project/pair with? 2 by rizsyed1 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Bun rewrite and FLT formalization had nearly identical resource usage 4 by Zsfe510asG | 1 comments on Hacker News. The Bun rewrite took 11 days and used 5.9B tokens: https://ift.tt/iy1CJZO The FLT formalization took 11 days (!) and used 6B tokens. Why the similar numbers? Why are the numbers so low? 6B is just enough for 6 agents at 1000 tokens/s running for 11 days.

Ask HN: Show your micro-SaaS (September 2026) 3 by genekrapivin | 0 comments on Hacker News. HN is a fantastic founder community. We, the people, love transparency, numbers, and analyzing bootstrapped business models. What is your current project? Share your wins, losses, and tech stack. Share monthly recurring revenue (MRR) if you feel like.

Ask HN: UK Rescue Rocket Sheds/Houses Information 10 by burnt-resistor | 6 comments on Hacker News. I can't seem to find pictures or significant details (nothing on Wikipedia) about the coastal buildings purportedly used to contain shipwreck rescue rocket apparatus. Many of the buildings still exist and are Grade II listed. Anyone have any additional anecdotal/local/oral tradition information that isn't found in the little blurbs online on the few websites mentioning them?

Cutting (Claude Code) token spend on dynamic workflows 80% 2 by gojkoa | 0 comments on Hacker News. Discovered something very interesting by chance a few days ago, and thought it might be interesting for other people running dynamic workflows with claude code. The workflow scripts themselves are javascript. Claude code knows the format and it can make a tool that composes workflows instead of going through LLM each time. I got it to do that, and with a few more tweaks it got the token spend for workflow execution and monitoring down to about 20% of what it was before, significantly speeding it up (most of our workflows used to take 5-6 hours, they now take 20-40 minutes). We got Claude to analyze the workflows from the past few weeks (the workflow execution is on disk, in ~/.claude/projects) and identify commonalities between them. It turned out to be effectively 3 kinds of workflow steps, done in a million ad-hoc ways. - a code change agent/implementer/worker - this takes a task fr...

MITx is ending access to its courses for learners in Iran on September 8 4 by mahdihabibi | 1 comments on Hacker News. I received an email from MITx today saying that, following changes announced by the U.S. Department of the Treasury on August 24, MITx will no longer be able to provide course access or related services to people in Iran or ordinarily resident in Iran. The cutoff is September 8, 2026. This is just sad. MITOCW has been my primary resource for learning engineering math and has been absolutely amazing. I wonder if I can keep using it using a VPN. And what will happen to those who already enrolled in a course?

Astra still fails at creating acceptable Rotational Ambigram 2 by das_vicky | 1 comments on Hacker News. I have tried quite few different prompts, but Astra still fails to create decent Rotational Ambigram. Anyone tried?

Ask HN: How do you build organic traction as an indie dev? 3 by charm137 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I have recently become a fulltime indie gamedev. While I'm willing to trust myself on technical and creative output, the topic of getting the word out that I might release something interesting and worth people's time seems to have become increasingly daunting. Most popular technical channels like HN / specific sub-reddits require active community participation and "karma-farming" just to be able to post something, which is hard for me to spend time on (I'd rather work on my stuff). Twitter(X) / Bluesky have low visibility for gamedev topics. All text-focused websites seem to have become really hard organic marketing channels especially after AI slop came in. IG / Tiktok / Twitch would be channels I'd rather use when I get into the actual spending-marketing-dollars mode (i.e., inorganic; which is also when I'd get into Steam / App Store level marketing...

Ask HN: Why isn't there a cursor for video games development 2 by JimsonYang | 1 comments on Hacker News. So I was prototyping with claude code and Godot engine, and I thought it was weird that this specific category of AI isn't as big as video gen creative suites. Like theres big names like runway and higgsfield but when it comes to video games there's no major company trying to make a one stop shop using AI to make video games. I'm sure it isn't because of a lack of trying, I'm sure developers thought about it as one of the first things to automate. If I had to guess there's a couple reasons: 1)Quality-making a good game requires extreme attention to detail all of which is non coding related. The animations on idle characters, how the background characters look, the sound design and clever story. 90% of gaming is art 2) backlash from players. I think this is an important factor but not the dominant factor. For reasons like games like Slotbound have had ...

Ask HN: Why don't we talk about context window size anymore? 3 by rce123 | 1 comments on Hacker News. Context length used to be one of the headline metrics for new models. I hardly hear about it anymore, but I can't imagine it doesn't still play a huge role in practical performance. Is this truly no longer a bottleneck, or does it just get rolled up in the headline benchmark numbers now?

Xfinity silently blocks lots of new domains 9 by dschwartz18 | 2 comments on Hacker News. We built a site for a launch and it was unreachable for anyone on an Xfinity router. We only found out because we have an Xfinity router at home. There's no notice to the site owner. Xfinity's Advanced Security draws on third-party domain reputation lists and blocks at the gateway. We found out a blacklist called SURBL had flagged us. Not sure exactly what tripped it. Since then I've hit the same block on 10+ unrelated sites and told the site owner. Now sharing with everyone here. How to check whether it's happening to you: https://ift.tt/Rgjkvxw If blocked, look for the upstream list: https://ift.tt/ezNFPWK Report at https://ift.tt/sjOx6mZ and call them nonstop (reviews take ~3 business days) and get off the upstream list too. Trying to help get this out there so it happens to less people who are launching products.

Ask HN: Laptop or Desktop? 5 by Gecko4072 | 3 comments on Hacker News. What portion of you all use a laptop versus a desktop and why? Ever since I got a laptop I've had recurring neck pain and issues from not being strict with desk setups and using laptops here and there instead of at a table. There is no good way to use a laptop without a stand and external peripherals. It makes sense for students and traveling professionals but not really for most people I think. Thinking I will go back to a full desktop now. Bonus: Mac or PC or GNU/Linux or BSD.

Both recent GCP outages caused by fiber optic maintenance 2 by fastest963 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Both of GCP's recent outages were caused by "fiber optic maintenance". On August 20th when us-west1 went down they said [1]: > The disruption originated during scheduled fiber optic maintenance, which unexpectedly compromised network capacity between data centers within the us-west1 region. Then on September 1st when us-central1-b (and collateral affects in other zones) went down they said [2]: > The immediate technical trigger for this event was the inadvertent physical disconnection of network fiber-optic cables during a routine hardware maintenance procedure. Not sure if they're related but apparently procedures we're significantly changed after the first incident to prevent the second incident. [1] https://ift.tt/sJ8GLWC [2] https://ift.tt/WEjkybN

Are others seeing Google's ReCAPCHA rejecting Firefox users? 3 by Animats | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production? 4 by sukit | 1 comments on Hacker News. I’ve been following MCP since it first came out. It got a lot of attention early on, but I haven’t come across many people using it in production. I may simply have missed them. If you’re using MCP in production, what are you using it for? What advantages have you found over a normal API or direct tool integration or just CLI?

Ask HN: Are Technical Blogs Dead? 4 by quaintdev | 6 comments on Hacker News. I think the traffic for technical blogs has plummeted. Why would anyone searh for technical blog when they can just ask their agent about it? Also I am seeing less and less of them here on hacker news.

Ask HN: Advice on Migrating from 1Password? 3 by 0xbadcafebee | 1 comments on Hacker News. I just found out that 1Password is donating $300,000 to a project founded by a very controversial person, and I'm looking to move to a different password manager. Has anyone migrated from 1Password recently to another tool/platform? Have you had a good experience with any tools in particular? Any advice, tips? I'm also interested in the corporate-use context; if I can convince my company to switch to an alternative with business controls, I'll surely try.

Resources to Get Good at Soldering? 4 by tosmatos | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hello. I've recently started soldering, specifically wanting to repair the joysticks on several Playstation 4 controllers I have, but I also want to get good at electronic repair in general. Right now I've busted a board, and managed to desolder and resolder a stick but the controller doesn't turn on anymore. I'm doing this all by myself, and I think I'm following good advice (ventilation, good iron tip, using flux etc...). But there are many variables, and a lot of experts have different opinions on stuff. Does anyone know good resources that I could use for getting good and making less mistakes ? Thanks.

Were Claude's Weekly Limits Cut in Half? (and obscured by another 50% "deal"?) 2 by benwills | 0 comments on Hacker News. The "50% higher" capacity through August 31 ended last night. Until then, 100% use of a 5-hour session would use 10% of my weekly capacity. Today, there's a new "50% higher" capacity message through September 13. But I'm burning capacity at 2x the rate. 100% of a 5-hour session is now using 20% of my weekly capacity, not 10%. Is anyone else seeing this? I'm on a max plan, btw.

Ask HN: Anyone homeschooling their kids? 4 by wbnns | 2 comments on Hacker News. Looks like it's been a long time since this question was asked. Anyone on HN homeschooling their kids? Curious to know more about people's experiences: - Any online communities that have been helpful - Good app / platform recs that have been useful along the way - How was the transition to college (if attended) and adulthood if your kid is already grown up - Anything that was a game changer that helped make homeschooling a positive experience

Ask HN: Does HN block mobile browsers? 3 by pbohun | 4 comments on Hacker News. Recently I have been unable to visit hn from my mobile phone over the cellular network. I have standard Android and I've tried multiple browsers including Firefox, Chrome, and Brave. I don't need or want to login while I'm about so I was trying to reach the site without an account. If I'm connected to a wifi network then everything works. Is this the result of a method to keep out bots that is over zealous?

Dwarf Fortress creator: industry in shambles over AI and layoffs 2 by 01-_- | 1 comments on Hacker News. In an interview with PC Gamer at Gamescom 2026, Dwarf Fortress creator Tarn Adams sharply criticizes studio executives' obsession with generative AI and the wave of layoffs across the games industry. He compares the behavior of certain CEOs to a form of "psychosis," describing managers pressuring teams over AI usage and threatening to replace them with machines. He also brings up his own father, laid off from a sewage treatment plant by managers who didn't understand his job, to illustrate a pattern he sees repeating throughout the games industry. Read more: https://ift.tt/LQTpys5