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news.ycombinator.com• Jul 25, 2026• 1 min read

Ask HN: What other professions are software programmers considering?I've been a software developer for decades and have been searching for a new role for months. After a thousand applications, I'm starting to think seriously about alternative careers rather than assuming another software job is around the corner. One thing I've always enjoyed about software, besides the compensation, is the daily problem solving. That's what I'd miss the most. But I guess survival is priority (not alone unfortunately). For those of you who made the transition, what professions or skills did you move into? Ideally, I'm looking for something that can be learned in 1–2 years and still offers intellectually engaging work.

github.com• Jul 25, 2026• 1 min read

Show HN: TypeScript software rasterizer with programmable shadersHi HN,I've been building a software rasterizer in TypeScript over the past few months and thought I'd share it. My goal was to support custom vertex layouts, programmable vertex and fragment shaders, and enough flexibility to implement more complex rendering techniques, much like you would with a GPU graphics API.The renderer is based on Nikolaus Rauch's excellent C++ software rasterizer (https://github.com/nikolausrauch/software-rasterizer), adapted for TypeScript and the browser.The project is intended as an educational resource, with an emphasis on readability and experimentation over maximum performance.GitHub: https://github.com/vangelov/ts-rasterizer

bing.com• Jul 25, 2026• 1 min read

OpenAI didn't realize its agent was responsible for hack for a week: reportOpenAI didn’t catch an autonomous breach of another artificial intelligence (AI) company by one of its advanced AI models for a week and not until after the FBI had been contacted by the hacked ...

chivukulavirinchi.github.io• Jul 25, 2026• 1 min read

Show HN: Smriti: Your Photos, Your MemoriesWith a camera in hand, each one of us is a photographer. We take more photos in a week, than our parents did in a decade. Yet, getting to that one photo that matters has never been more difficult. Cloud based services claim to solve this, but are impractical. They want YOUR photos to be uploaded onto THEIR servers, and want you to pay for it, all for a service you'll perhaps use once a month.So I built Smriti, its a fully offline rust based photoviewer, that lets your browse your memories, all without a single photo leaving the device. People recognition, semantic search, Album suggestions, Memories are all the features baked into the application, so adding your photos gives a better than google photos application.Show can try it from the link given. Its built in Rust Tauri- so compatible for Linux, Mac & Windows. Check out the demo site first to see what Smriti offers.And the best part is, once youre done browsing, take out the drive, and all your memories travel with you. Plug it int

news.ycombinator.com• Jul 25, 2026• 1 min read

Ask HN: Is neuromorphic computing going to replace traditional AI?I’ve recently learned about neuromorphic computing while thinking about the core inefficiencies of current deep learning.Today AI relies heavily on super-dense layers, continuous computation of all layers and neurons at all times, and global backpropagation to find optimal weight updates. But when you look at the human brain, none of that happens.The brain operates on principles that stand in contrast to modern LLMs:- Local Evolution: Neurons are largely independent, evolving based on their local neighborhood and simple feedback loops like neurotransmitters (e.g., dopamine) rather than a global error signal. - Extreme Sparsity: The system is massively sparse (neurons only evolve and get updated when they have been involved in a firing-chain). - Event-Driven Processing: Neurons are only firing when they get evaluated and are actually triggered by other spiking neurons.In contrast, current LLM‘s seem to me like they brute-force their way through problems by training all layers and neuron

github.com• Jul 25, 2026• 1 min read

Show HN: The TERSE state language and protocol# Hello World(valid terse; for Show HN)I'm terse(greetings)## Container"A container may have one text block, single or multi-line"Object(Semi-colon separated attributes; variables_like: 123; "Traditional unicode strings allowed here too.")Another object with a name(multiple objects under a container)## Further description of TERSE"""TERSE is a unified way to store state, with a defined way to query and mutate it that has been relentlessly refined for overall simplicity and token efficiency not just at rest, but in operation.We realized state access was a low-level, common pattern that keeps getting reinvented. It goes deeper than just AI memory. Consider that Anthropic memory and others are a bunch of markdown files and in some respects, they got it right... simpler is better.So REALLY the problem is settling on a format that is flexible to cover 95% of a domain. We can do so MUCH better than Markdown; TERSE is opinionated on that but it has very good reasons.By being a line-ordered an

news.ycombinator.com• Jul 25, 2026• 1 min read

Ask HN: How would you harden AI changes to a 1M-line legacy SaaS before review?I’m not a software engineer, but I’ve been running an experiment to see whether agentic development could produce a useful prototype on top of an existing SaaS codebase.The codebase is 1M+ lines, 15 years old, hosted on Azure, and primarily written in C# and React.The prototype needs to be available for customer testing in September. No developers were available to work on it full-time, although I could occasionally get help with specific technical issues. An engineer will evaluate the implementation in August and decide how much confidence we can have in the AI-generated code so that we can decide how to “convert” the code to production-grade.My question is what I can do before August, primarily using AI tools and manual testing, to make the code as robust and reviewable as possible. I want to increase the likelihood that the AI-generated code would be so good that the path to production-grade would be closer to “copy-paste” than building everything again from scratch.Environment The

news.ycombinator.com• Jul 25, 2026• 1 min read

Ask HN: Which is the least sloppy and claudeism free model you have used?I feel like recent models have been consistently getting more sloppy and increasingly claude-ism heavy (load-bearing seams galore) with every new release.I was hoping this trend would reverse in newer major version releases but I just tried out Opus 5 and it's similarly shit at writing. Fable is slightly better but not by far (and of course ridiculously more expensive). Adding skills helps but only mildly and not much at all for longer prose.Have you guys used any model lately that you liked for its writing style? I remember being pleasantly surprised by GPT-4.5 but since that's been discontinued, I am on the lookout for a better candidate.

bing.com• Jul 25, 2026• 1 min read

Why Engineering Is No Longer A Sure Thing College Major When It Comes To JobsExclusive LinkedIn data shows engineering majors have been hit hard in today’s weak, AI-affected job market. Here’s what specialties are hurting and what top schools are doing to respond. Growing up ...

news.ycombinator.com• Jul 24, 2026• 1 min read

Ask HN: What's Up with Archive.today?Archive.[today|is|ph|il|md|etc.] has been unresponsive for the last few days.I've searched around a bit but haven't seen any reporting as to what's up with the site(s).Does anyone have any information about this? Speculation? Wild rumors?

latimes.com• Jul 24, 2026• 1 min read

Measles hits U.S. record not seen since 1991; California seen as vulnerableThere have been 2,318 measles cases reported across the nation this year, according to the CDC. That's higher than in any year since a significant nationwide measles epidemic from 1989 to 1991.

github.com• Jul 24, 2026• 1 min read

Show HN: Poddie – A local-first, text-based video and podcast editorHi HN, I've been itching to start a podcast this year and needed a way to edit the footage quickly. I'm too cheap to pay for Descript, (and as a dev with tendency to build tools instead of working on the real task) so I just built my own local version of Descript which I call Poddie.Poddie does it e2e for free: it generates transcript using local Whisper model, lets you edit by reading through the transcript and deleting words, auto-trims silence, offers video/audio/captions export with optional caption burn-in. You can also do waveform editing for more precise cuts if desired.I'm open sourcing it so other creators could try it out and use it for their own workflows.Happy to hear any feedback!

github.com• Jul 24, 2026• 1 min read

Show HN: Jixp, a Lisp DSL for describing Jax neural netsThis is a side project I've been working on while learning Jax. I noticed that a bunch of the neural net math looked like it would work well in a lisp syntax because most of the data flows through layers in a "functional" manner. Data is threaded through one layer at a time, each layer composing with the previous layer.Jixp is designed as a learning tool for myself while learning Jax to toy around with different shapes/styles of models. I used this to train a 4m parameter model on my Obsidian vault to see if I could use it for recall which partially worked. ```lisp (let-dim (d 256) (heads 8)(define transformer-block (chain (residual (layernorm d) (attention d heads #:causal)) (residual (layernorm d) (mlp d [4d] d #:bias)))) ```The Jixp compiler reads the (racket style) DSL and outputs python which is then consumed via your normal python training stack. The advantage here is you get a pretty simple interface to describe your model and the implementation details are largely hidden in the

news.ycombinator.com• Jul 24, 2026• 1 min read

Show HN: Kilo – Open-source, local-first workout, weight and calorie trackerStarted my fitness journey last year and have lost 40kg till now. While doing it, I leaned heavily on logging my calories, weights and lifts. All of this was pretty scattered and I had to write custom scripts if I wanted to just visualize my progress and see how I was doing over time. The apps that do it like strong/hevy are heavily paywalled and basically every useable feature is something you have to pay for.Decided to create an app that does that and add some more analytics and fun features into it. I have been using it for a month now and so decided it was time to release now.Its completely open source, requires no account, no servers online and stores everything locally on sqlite. Plus it provides you with most of the features that paywalled apps provide + some more. You can log your workouts, calories, weight. Provides deep analytics of your lifts, a body heatmap, PRs, 1RM, date filtered set, tonnage for specific muscle group so basically everything for progressive overload and t

news.ycombinator.com• Jul 24, 2026• 1 min read

Ask HN: How much software do you build for yourself these days?With the cost of building software continuing to drop, what have you found yourself doing more: using other people's software, or building it yourself?I was thinking about this... I've built our family's financial system (it started as a simple budgeting tool, but now it tracks everything), a Mac app to create and edit videos, quite a few developer tools for personal use, a bunch of apps for my kids, some games, and so forth.All of these already have plenty of commercial offerings in the market, and some have open-source alternatives, but the level of personalization I get by building them myself beats any argument (IMHO)!Interested to see what others are doing. :)PS: I've been writing software for 8 years (5 of them professionally).

news.ycombinator.com• Jul 24, 2026• 1 min read

A VSCode extension for AI to understand your projectI wrote a VSCode plugin that can install skills with just one click. When writing code, AI automatically writes detailed comments. The plugin can recognize and convert them into JSON. If AI wants to understand something, it can automatically call the interface to obtain the entire method chain and corresponding comment introduction. Reading a main function only takes a few seconds. To make it look better, I also created an HTML to display it. Of course, it's just for the sake of appearance. The plugin is open source and has been uploaded to the VSCode plugin market on DevMap. Although its practicality might be average, it is visually appealing.

news.ycombinator.com• Jul 24, 2026• 1 min read

Show HN: Krypter – simple offline message and file encryption mobile appHi guys, here's a personal privacy app that I've been doing for a few months now.The idea is to have a secure offline way of encrypting messages and data on your device using HPKE and a selection of encryption key types, including Secure Enclave bound ones, to protect the data in transit or at rest. As in, encrypt and optionally sign, send by any means, and only have your designated recipient (or yourself) read it. Messages can be shared as deep links for one click decryption with automated quick key probing. Files - same, but via import from anywhere.No permission requests, no analytics, no accounts, no ads, no subscriptions, absolutely zero online requests. No "make your own crypto" silly things. Everything is using the iOS bundled CryptoKit. Hence the tiny size of it.Authenticated mode also supports passwords in addition to signatures. Panic PIN wipes all the keys from the app. Software keys can be securely backed up. Full plausible deniability.For example, a message can be transmit

bing.com• Jul 24, 2026• 1 min read

Giuliana Rancic Calls Out Jerry O'Connell's Revelation About Their SplitGiuliana Rancic is weighing in after ex Jerry O’Connell raised eyebrows with a new revelation about their split — more than two decades later. “Have you guys heard? Apparently my ex-boyfriend has been ...

bing.com• Jul 24, 2026• 1 min read

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