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news.ycombinator.com
Can you help reconcile my first/second-hand LLM Experience with HN's Experience?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48102861I've made an account as a long-time lurker because I am hoping y'all could help reconcile my experience in my company/team with what seems to be the wise HN consensus around LLMs.My Background (Software Engineer II):I've been writing software professionally for >10 years and grew up coding games/websites for fun; did my undergraduate in C.S./C.E., and did some time in ML research and such. Right now I'm on the back-end/DevOps team - my teammates are all Senior Staff/Principal Engineer (one is almost double my age lol!) and we have a pretty standard tech stack (NodeJS, AWS, C++, etc) with 95% brownfield development at a large but not FAANG-like company. I've had my current job for >6 years and out of ~20 in our department I'm the third newest!I'd say I'm a pretty stereotypical engineer AKA "a total nerd" with private side projects mostly around implementing computational geometry or procedural simulation papers in Rust, sometimes working on a lil website tool we use daily. But I mostly
May 12, 2026 12:57 AM
github.com
Show HN: Super ISO Updaterhttps://github.com/JoshuaVandaele/SuperISOUpdaterI built Super ISO Updater (SISOU), a tool that keeps bootable ISOs on a Ventoy drive automatically updated.This project started a few years back because I got tired of manually checking for new releases of the various troubleshooting tools and installers I kept on my Ventoy drive.SISOU automates checking for updates, downloading them, verifying the downloads, and storing everything in a neatly-sorted directory structure.It’s open source (GPL-2.0-or-later), written in Python, and works on both Linux and Windows.One note: on Python 3.14, libtorrent currently needs to be installed through your system package manager (or built manually), since upstream hasn’t published on pypi yet. On Arch Linux, the package is libtorrent-rasterbar.I would love to hear what you think. You can try it out by installing `sisou` using pip/pipx/uv. Issues and PRs are welcome!
May 10, 2026 11:39 AM
github.com
Show HN: I built a skill, grounded in research, to make your writing less boringhttps://github.com/ericfitz/skills/blob/main/boring/README.mdMy job at a large tech company requires me to write. A lot. Mainly I write docs to help align technical people on a technical strategy, or to inform executives about technical matters, or to make requests of executives about technical proposals.I wanted to ensure that my writing was captivating and that the audience didn't just read the summary and skip the rest.I used a chat agent to build a research report on the academic literature about what makes writing boring or not-boring ("not-boring" is NOT the same thing as "interesting"). I synthesized that into a taxonomy, and built tooling for mechanistic analysis and prompts for LLM analysis, synthesis and recommendation.What this is: research-grounded analysis of a document with concrete evidence-based suggestions of how to improve it.What this is NOT: it's not a simplistic prompt "Help me make my document better" or even "make every section/paragraph/sentence earn its place". (I am developing a separate skill for that in the same repo,
May 6, 2026 6:32 PM
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Ask HN: Is writing code by hand still a necessary skill for developers?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48034901TLDR - My question is: For experienced developers, is writing code from scratch still a core skill worth learning?Is the future of development just using AI agents to orchestrate everything and just reviewing, debugging, giving specs, verifying, etc...?Rest of the information:I’m a full-stack "developer" trying to understand my career in the age of AI.I didn’t study CS, so I have a non-traditional background. I've also never worked with other developers until recently. I came from graphic design/web dev work (Wordpress, CSS, some JS, some PHP), did HTML email development for a bit (awful black magic), scripting/automations to help a content migration for a year, and now I have a full-stack role at a small company.I now work with everything. Backend, frontend, infrastructure, CI/CD, integrations. Mostly "Hey this is broken" - my job is to fix it. I understand some of the fundamentals well enough to be productive. I can read code, improve it (usually), and mostly explain what needs to ha
May 6, 2026 11:15 AM
pulsepages.co
Show HN: PulsePages – Multi-page websites for $9/year (Carrd alternativehttps://www.pulsepages.coCarrd is good at one thing: one page. The moment you need a second page — a /pricing, an /about, a /blog — you're either hacking single-column scroll or jumping to Squarespace ($192/yr) or Wix ($192/yr+). Neither is proportionate for a portfolio, indie project, or small business that just needs a few pages.So I built PulsePages. Drag-drop block editor, unlimited pages, custom domains with auto-SSL, all for $9/year. Free tier covers unlimited single-page sites with no credit card.What's in it: - Block editor: text, images, video, embeds, contact forms - Custom domains + automatic SSL provisioning - AI writing assistant (drafts and rewrites page copy in context) - Version history: roll back any page to any saved state - Gated content: password-protect individual pages or sections - Free tier: unlimited single-page sites, no account required to tryStack: Next.js, Supabase, Stripe, Render, Resend.Live at pulsepages.co. Break things, leave feedback here or at pulsepages@polsia.app.
May 5, 2026 11:50 AM
nasa.gov
NASA Fosters Development of Lunar Resource-Seeking Technologieshttps://www.nasa.gov/technology/nasa-fosters-development-of-lunar-resource-seeking-technologies/To support long-duration missions to the Moon and Mars, NASA and industry are developing technologies that can extract resources such as hydrogen and helium-3 from lunar soil, known as regolith. This capability, known as in-situ resource utilization (ISRU), allows explorers to use what is already available on other planetary bodies, from water ice to minerals. […]
May 4, 2026 8:32 PM
github.com
Show HN: An Agent First Slack CLIhttps://github.com/tilework-tech/nori-slack-cliHey folks,My team and I have been building a background agents as a service product. One of the things we needed pretty early on was for some way for the agents to be able to drive slack.Right now, I don't think there are many good agent-first ways of doing this. I don't love MCP -- it's just too many tokens in the context window, and agents seem to do better with CLIs because they can embed them in code and so on. But other CLIs that exist are either a) subsets of the web api that only focus on human needs and b) have polished terminal UIs with spinners and colors and interactive things that make it hard for LLMs to actually use them.nori-slack-cli is a very thin dynamic wrapper over @slack/web-api (i.e. bolt). Whatever the SDK can call, the CLI can call. When slack adds a new method it should just work without a new release on our end. (Inspired by the GWS cli: https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli).So you(r agent) can do things like:`nori-slack chat.postMessage --channel C123 --tex
May 1, 2026 7:05 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: Macbook or Linux Laptop for devs and heavy users?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47974702Hey everyone, I'm really curious to hear from people who pushes high end MacBooks and Linux laptops to their limits in daily use. I'll share my daily experience with my Linux laptop below, and I'm hoping to use the feedback from those who have been on both sides to decide if I should make the jump to a MacBook in the future. My experience: I'm a web developer doing both frontend and backend. I also do some mobile dev with Flutter. Personally, I prefer using an Android phone and a Linux machine. I'm currently using an Acer laptop with an i7-13700H and 32GB of DDR4 RAM. I got my company to buy it for way cheaper than similar models on the market. While the overall performance is really good for the price, the speakers are absolute trash and the screen is just okay. Here is what's on my mind: Even though I can get about 3-4 hours of coding done on battery, it's obviously nowhere near a MacBook. I don't really need that long battery life most of the time, but it still sounds nice to have.
May 1, 2026 1:40 PM
science.nasa.gov
NASA Connects Little Red Dots with Chandra, Webbhttps://science.nasa.gov/missions/chandra/nasa-connects-little-red-dots-with-chandra-webb/A newly discovered object may be a key to unlocking the true nature of a mysterious class of sources that astronomers have found in the early universe in recent years. A “X-ray dot” found by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory could explain what the hundreds or potentially thousands of these objects are. A paper describing the […]
Apr 28, 2026 8:21 PM
science.nasa.gov
Nighttime Imaging Grows Landsat’s Science Valuehttps://science.nasa.gov/missions/landsat/nighttime-imaging-grows-landsats-science-value/By Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center For more than 50 years, Landsat has imaged Earth’s land and near-shore surfaces as the satellites descend in midmorning orbit, when daily sunlight is optimal. That’s just what they’ve always done. Currently, Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 circle the globe while also making better use of their ascending paths, […]
Apr 28, 2026 5:57 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: Is it a good idea to add a Design your download page?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=479196076 Months ago, I created a website called Openbeam.cloud which lets users to transfer files up to 100 GB of files including entire folders, but all the downloading pages were looking very white, I could easily add ad different theme or a good design, but I thought adding a special feature of design your own downloading page,My idea is to let designers or developers to show their work in more creative way1. Like a 2D artist will be able to give preview as background to client in the downloading page. 2. Game developer can add a background image or a gif and icons of the game they developed,I wanted will give more creative liberty to designers or creative guys.Would anyone use this? What do you guys' thing?https://openbeam.cloud
Apr 27, 2026 9:52 AM
apps.apple.com
Show HN: I read Replika's privacy policy and then built a competitorhttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/friend-ai-private-chat/id6761649790I'm genuinely surprised at what people are willing to share with AI companions. Read Replika's privacy policy. Then Character.AI's. These apps store your most personal conversations on their servers, linked to your email address. A breach or subpoena and your identity is attached to everything you ever told your "AI friend." Eek.The only thing I think actually solves this is local inference. I remember browing r/LocalLLaMA and years ago and thinking this is the future. Local models are finally good enough. I was playing with the bonsai 8B 1-bit quant model a few weeks back and I think we're almost there. I built friendAI to see if there's market demand for local inference. Everything runs on your phone.What's actually on-device:- Bonsai-8B (1-bit quantized Qwen3-8B, ~1.3GB) via MLX for speed - Gemma 4 E2B (~4.5GB, GGUF) via llama.cpp for vision - A unified client that routes between themA few things I'm reasonably proud of solving in about a week:- Turns out the hardest part was actual
Apr 26, 2026 10:09 PM
github.com
Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)https://github.com/nex-crm/wuphfI shipped a wiki layer for AI agents that uses markdown + git as the source of truth, with a bleve (BM25) + SQLite index on top. No vector or graph db yet.It runs locally in ~/.wuphf/wiki/ and you can git clone it out if you want to take your knowledge with you.The shape is the one Karpathy has been circling for a while: an LLM-native knowledge substrate that agents both read from and write into, so context compounds across sessions rather than getting re-pasted every morning. Most implementations of that idea land on Postgres, pgvector, Neo4j, Kafka, and a dashboard.I wanted to go back to the basics and see how far markdown + git could go before I added anything heavier.What it does: -> Each agent gets a private notebook at agents/{slug}/notebook/.md, plus access to a shared team wiki at team/.-> Draft-to-wiki promotion flow. Notebook entries are reviewed (agent or human) and promoted to the canonical wiki with a back-link. A small state machine drives expiry and auto-archive.-> Per-e
Apr 25, 2026 8:53 AM
storyfriend.co.uk
Show HN: I built a toy that plays grandma's stories when my daughter hugs ithttps://www.storyfriend.co.uk/This was a project I built for my daughter's first birthday present.For context, I'm a surgical resident in the UK by background and am currently taking a year out of training to study a masters in computer science. My daughter just turned one. There are two things she really loves: the first is particular soft toy that she just can't live without, and the other is a good story book.Her grandparents live hours away and I didn't want her to forget what they sound like between visits. I wanted her to hear them whenever she missed them.My parents brought my brother and I up with incredible stories and books from all sorts of cultures, many of the stories being passed down from their parents before them. I didn't want my daughter to miss out on that.Finally, I was sick of missing storytime with her when I had to leave for night shifts. I wanted her to hear my voice before she slept every night.For all these reasons, I decided to build Storyfriend. It's her favourite soft toy with a custom
Apr 24, 2026 12:06 AM
github.com
Show HN: BigBlueBam, MIT-licensed Work OS where agents are first-class coworkershttps://github.com/eoffermann/BigBlueBamHi HN, Eddie here. My project BigBlueBam is a self-hosted, MIT-licensed Work OS with a unified backend with native MCP, "AI as Users" rather than bolted-on chat widgets. The deploy script will stand up the full stack (local Docker container or push it to Railway) in about the time it takes to make coffee.What's live in the build: * Bam (project management/Kanban) * Banter (chat with LiveKit voice/video) * Beacon (knowledge base with a graph view) * Brief (collaborative docs) * Board (infinite canvas whiteboard) * Bolt (workflow automation) * Bearing (goals and OKRs) * Bond (CRM) * Blast (email campaigns) * Bench (analytics and dashboards) * Book (scheduling) * Blank (forms) * Bill (invoicing) * HelpdeskThe architectural bet I cared about most: MCP is the execution substrate for the whole suite, not a "feature". 340 MCP tools (and counting) registered across the apps. Agents and Bolt automations call those tools through the same registry, same auth, same data, and the MCP tools replicat
Apr 22, 2026 1:35 PM
github.com
Show HN: Reinhardt – Django-style Rust framework; WASM+SSR from one DSLhttps://github.com/kent8192/reinhardt-webReinhardt is a Rust web framework where one component DSL compiles to both WASM (client) and server-rendered HTML — a single file describes both sides of a page, with no separate frontend codebase, no JS build toolchain, and no duplicated types across the client/server boundary.It also bundles what Django/DRF users expect: an ORM with auto-generated migrations from #[model] macros, DI, auth, admin, REST, background tasks, and i18n. Feature flags let you pull in just what you need (minimal / standard / full), or import individual crates directly.I built it after moving from Django/DRF to Rust and repeatedly re-assembling the same Axum + ORM + migrations + auth stack for every project.Quickstart: https://reinhardt-web.dev/quickstart/v0.1.0-rc.18 release: Crates.io (published as reinhardt-web; the shorter name was taken): https://crates.io/crates/reinhardt-webBSD 3-Clause.
Apr 22, 2026 1:00 PM
notationchesscoach.app
Show HN: Notation – an iOS chess coach (Stockfish on device and optional BYOK)https://notationchesscoach.appHi HN. Solo iOS middle aged, slightly burnt out dad from the UK here, wondering if anyone is interested in what I've been building. Lifelong chess fan, not very good but always trying to improve and I started to build Notation: Chess coach a while back. It's been live a month now on the App Store, doing modest numbers, and I've been learning a lot... mainly make my add brain slow down, stop, test everything twice and never when tired. Submissions will always wait another day!Many people play on chess com, or lichess, just as many in apps and OTB. What my app does (differently I hope) is bring that data together.You can import PGNs of your games, connect to chess com and lichess and sync your games over or play in the app. If you have a Chessnut electronic board, you can play IRL on that as well.Every game, every move is then analysed by a series of on device detectors, and classifiers. And I'm not talking about"I run Stockfish 18 and get your move evals" like most tools do.... Theres a
Apr 22, 2026 7:46 AM
agensi.io
Show HN: Agensi – Curated marketplace for AI agent skills (SKILL.md)https://www.agensi.ioHi HN. I'm Samuel, founder of Agensi (agensi.io). I'm a non-technical founder in the Netherlands. Built the platform mostly with Claude Code and Lovable over the last few months.What it is: a curated marketplace for SKILL.md skills. SKILL.md is the folder-plus-instructions format Anthropic shipped for teaching AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, and others) new capabilities. Creators publish skills, users install them into their agent. Every listing goes through an automated security scan before going live.Two things I've tried to do that felt missing from the ecosystem:1. Curation with security. Running someone else's code on your machine without review is a real risk, especially given the ToxicSkills and ClawHavoc research that came out earlier this year (36% of sampled skills had prompt injection vectors). Every skill on Agensi runs through an automated scan checking permission boundaries, outbound network requests, dependency red flags, and common malware
Apr 21, 2026 9:50 AM
news.ycombinator.com
Show HN: Weekly Log, Old-school journaling social mediahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47843663Weekly Log is a minimalistic social media website designed for you to do journaling and creative writing.A lot of modern social media apps are set up in a way that addicts and detriments the users, meanwhile profiting off of their data. I really wanted to make a site that doesn't operate in that way.Some of its distinctions: - You can create one post per week. This encourages care and consideration. - Nobody knows who you follow or what posts you react to, besides you and the other user. These stats are personal, so people view your logs free of outside influence. - Posts are rich text-only, no images or videos, in an effort to reduce mental clutter. - Your feed only features users you follow, to give you increased control of what you see, unless you click the "global" checkbox to see all posts.quick demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CTnORsGnL8 overview page: https://www.weekly-log.com/about/overview---I have soft-launched this website, and a handful of my friends have signed up a
Apr 21, 2026 2:02 AM