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Show HN: Monkdev is a toolkit and methodology for coding with LLMshttps://github.com/oeo/monkdevI'm sure many people have some solutions similar to this but I've been using some variation of this since roughly the release of Opus 3 to get higher quality results. Like, significantly higher. So I decided to make it into a more structured package.Problem: bad decisions and short sighted solutions due to the LLM not having enough context before acting. They'd read one file, or a few segments of a set of files using a super conservative offset and limit, guess about the rest, apply a patch, run a unit test and then tell you with its entire chest that the code is production-ready.Those bandaids over time became debt, drift, complexity. Unnecessary LOC in a codebase where I find myself wondering is this thing even making me more efficient or should I be in VIM more often and just save myself the API costs (I use OpenCode + OpenRouter and have been known to blast through hundreds of dollars a day in spend using Frontier models).I found that, for whatever reason, LLMs respond to role-playMay 26, 2026 7:08 PM
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Tell HN: The Threat to US Citizen's ID / Voting Is Private Serviceshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238426THE REAL RISK AROUND VOTER ID NOW COMES FROM PRIVATE ENTERPRISEThis post has been condensed due to character limitations on HN posts.[...]What's happening is that private entities are curating the databases and operating automated adjudication services which the government contracts to utilize. "But it's little things, administrative things." Yeah maybe, but look where they are in the kill chain. During approximately the week surrounding 15-May-2026 I was denied the "privilege" of scheduling an appointment at the United States Post Office by one of these "administrative things" and there is no particular reason to think that the government runs this service themselves, relying entirely on compute and data which they control. So THIS is how the woodpecker destroys civilization; or at least our representative democracy. There is no appeal. There is no overt denial at the time of service either.Here's how it works in real life:The United States federal government operates Login.Gov, a sinMay 22, 2026 4:54 PM
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Show HN: Darc – grep-like memory search tool for coding agentshttps://github.com/0xjunha/darcHi HN, I’m Junha Park. I've been experimenting with agent memory, especially how to make agents run more reliably on large tasks.I built Darc, an open-source shared memory search tool for coding agents, with a different approach from most agent memory systems we can see today. It is an index + (lexical) search tool over agent session history, rather than a managed memory system. No embeddings, no agent-aided consolidation, no injection hooks.How it works: Darc archives Codex / Claude Code session rollouts that already exist under ~/.codex and ~/.claude, indexes them into a single SQLite DB, and exposes session/turn/tool call/file-level search commands over them.Why I built this: I've tried using different agent memory tools and they were useful, but sometimes I found them nosiy. I kept turning memory on/off depending on the task. For example, when I ran iterative code review rounds, I saw reviewer agents report "no findings" with "memory cited" memos, where the cited memory came from rMay 21, 2026 3:26 PM
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Valgrind-3.27.1 Is Availablehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48221619Just a minor point release, mainly for a regression that I introduced :-(The following bugs have been fixed or resolved in this point release.519574 valgrind 3.27 "--fair-sched=yes" does not work 519613 Valgrind incorrectly unpacks the result of sys_port (port_getn) on error, leading to a ~60s wallclock time delay on every call n-i-bz Update vg-lifespan (copyright) years n-i-bz Use SSizeT for VG_(readlink) result in VG_(realpath)May 21, 2026 12:33 PM
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Show HN: atrium – a resumable, tiling workspace manager for Claude Code, Codexhttps://getatrium.devatrium is a macOS desktop app that provides a fully resumable workspace manager with a variety of heterogenous panes including terminals, browsers, tasks, notes, and more.Over the last couple of months, I've been building an AI development tool that treats CLI AI dev harnesses as first class citizens. With Claude's SDK pricing changes on the horizon, I wanted to avoid getting locked in to paying API rates for something I already had a subscription for.It started after my computer crashed and iTerm didn't restore my sessions, so I set out to solve that problem initially. I liked it and added functionality till it became my daily driver. I ended up with atrium and I'm enjoying it so much I thought maybe others would, too.A little about the principles I started following as I built:Organization - everything fits into a hierarchy of workspaces, rooms, panes (agents, terminals, browser, notes, source control, etc), and stacks within a highly customizable mosaic.Persistence - everything, incMay 20, 2026 2:44 PM
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Show HN: Proposalkit.io – you write the content, we control the designhttps://proposalkit.io/This is a proposal creation and analytics software for small agencies. Who is it for: a five person web design studio sending a $15K-ish project proposal after a discovery callI've been long wanting to start building my own businesses, and this is my first true attempt to do so. I've built systems on top of platforms like Airtable and Shopify before, but this is the first time I've attempted to do the thing most people think when they think of SaaS.Landing site: Astro on Cloudflare PagesApp: React & Cloudflare WorkersDatabase: Postgres on Railway + Cloudflare HyperdriveMisc: Sentry, WorkOS, Paddle, Postmark, Umami, Clarity, Github ActionsThis is an extremely cheap setup where I effectively only pay for the domain and the small cost of keeping that Postgres server up. Could've gone for a free service like Neon for my db, but it didn't play well with JDBC in my last project. I enjoy using the Cloudflare stack a lot compared to AWS.How it differs from other proposal software is the emphasMay 20, 2026 11:30 AM
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Show HN: Website Performance Scanner Specifically for WordPresshttps://scan.gethyperpress.com/Hi HN, Kevin Gilleard here from GillyTech. I run a digital agency that deals with a lot of WordPress sites and have always been interested in optimizing my WP instances (going back 16 years).I love to find ways to optimize for speed, security and stability and found myself using a ton of different tools to do performance audits. GTmetrix and Google Page Speed Insights are my go-to's as a starting point. But there were other things I needed to check like security headers, which builder (if any) is used on the site, WooCommerce, caching plugins, CDNs, WAF, etc. So I decided to make my own performance scanner with persistent reports that can be shared with clients and bring those tools together in one custom app. It shows a number of metrics that are specifically important for optimizing WordPress against the three S's: Speed, Stability and Security.Necessarily this scanner will reject your website if it isn't WordPress, so there is some unique exclusivity here. Full transparency: we do oMay 19, 2026 5:28 PM
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Ask HN: What are your plans for the AI future?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48193860With AI ever increasing in ability I have been thinking about not only my future but the future for all of us involved in the tech sector and beyond. So I have to ask: what are your plans for the future when your job is obsoleted or devalued by AI?I work in manufacturing and do a lot of physical work and troubleshooting. At first I felt confident that AI would not displace me any time soon. However, that changed after the former president walked around confidently asking AI every technical question we spent time working on, trying to see where it could augment engineering and maintenance. It failed mostly, but it made me realize that people want to replace me. I do see a future where many of my skills could be replaced by a random person receiving a detailed walk through from AI using an AR headset.I feel that a lot of people today believe we are mostly fine. They feel AI isn't THAT good and there will still be a need for programmers and auto mechanics. However, there is no slow down iMay 19, 2026 2:35 PM
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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
objo.dev
Show HN: Objo Studiohttps://objo.devObjo Studio is a new development environment for building desktop and command line apps. It has a visual designer, a debugger, a compiler, and a modern BASIC-like language called ObjoBasic. The aim is simple: make it enjoyable to build real applications for macOS, Windows and Linux and learn how to program.I've been working on Objo Studio in one shape or another since about 2019. I've always loved tools that let you move quickly from idea to working prototype and that abstract a lot of complexity and get out of your way. This has been tried before (VisualBasic, Xojo, etc) but have either been abandoned, become expensive or lost focus on hobbyists.The whole stack is written in C#. There's a custom stack-based VM that is roughly on-par with Python for speed but this is not a high performance tool. It's an all-in-one IDE for visually developing cross-platform desktop apps. It tries to make it simple for users, abstracting runtimes and libraries to help newcomers learn but also let them thMay 11, 2026 3:38 PM
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Hubble Survey Sets Up Roman’s Future Look Near Milky Way’s Centerhttps://science.nasa.gov/missions/roman-space-telescope/hubble-survey-sets-up-romans-future-look-near-milky-ways-center/The Milky Way’s galactic bulge, the bulbous region that surrounds the galactic center, contains a dense collection of stars, planets, and other free-floating objects. This region has been studied for decades with numerous ground-based and space-based telescopes, including NASA’s Hubble and James Webb space telescopes. Soon, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be the […]May 11, 2026 2:00 PM
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Show HN: Ant – A from-scratch JavaScript runtime in 9 MBhttps://github.com/themackabu/antHey HN! I have been working on Ant for a while now, would love to share around now.What is Ant? It's my JavaScript runtime, built from scratch over many hours of work. Much effort has gone into keeping the binary size small, around 9MB at the moment (6.5 MB with -Os). On my M4 Pro, the hono coldstart bench (examples/npm/hono/bench-coldstart.js) lands around 5ms, about 2.4x faster than bun, and 5.8x faster than node.To keep things small, the engine ("Ant Silver") is hand-written, not a wrapper around V8/JSC/SpiderMonkey. The JIT is still a work in progress but it uses a fork of MIR as the backend.Ant currently targets the WinterTC Minimum Common API, while also passing 100% the javascript-zoo compat-table tests, and is sitting around 64% on test262.Why did I build Ant? Well, I wanted a runtime small enough to ship with CLI's and small Docker containers without having to drag along 50 to 100mb of just runtime. Ant in its current state is performant enough in some cases to compete with v8May 9, 2026 2:31 AM
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NASA, Industry Advance High Performance Spaceflight Computinghttps://www.nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/nasa-industry-advance-high-performance-spaceflight-computing/For decades, NASA has advanced on-board spacecraft computer processors that coordinate and execute the functions needed to support mission success. Space computing originated in the 1960s with the Apollo Guidance Computers, which were pivotal for guidance, navigation, and control computations during NASA’s first Moon missions. For decades, radiation-hardened processors have been the backbone of the […]May 8, 2026 5:05 PM
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Show HN: Mobile-ink, an open-source mobile infinite drawing canvashttps://github.com/mathnotes-app/mobile-inkHello everyone, I have been working on this for a year and it is such a difficult problem. mobile-ink is an open-source mobile infinite drawing canvas. There is not a strong open-source drawing engine beyond toy demos. Thus, mobile-ink aims to solve this problem and provide a state-of-the-art mobile note-taking canvas package.mobile-ink uses native Skia/Metal to address issues with native rendering, pencil latency, eraser behavior, page virtualization, preview caching, memory stability, page interactivity, etc. It has many advanced features such as shape-snapping, primitives to integrate figures, custom backgrounds, pdf import, stroke selection, smooth zoom/scroll, and more.The package is iOS + React Native as of now.May 8, 2026 5:01 PM
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AniTroves – An anime database with a custom LLM-based discovery hubhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057592I’ve always felt that traditional anime databases rely too heavily on rigid tag-based searches. If you’re looking for a specific "vibe" or a very niche trope that isn't a primary tag, you usually end up scrolling through pages of irrelevant results.I built AniTroves (https://anitroves.com) to experiment with a more conversational, LLM-driven approach to series discovery.The Tech Behind the Hub:LLM Integration: Instead of a generic API wrapper, I've been working on a custom hub (https://anitroves.com/ai-hub/) that uses specialized models to understand series lore and character archetypes for roleplay and discovery.Anipick Engine: This is the logic layer that maps natural language queries to our database entries.Technical Transparency: I’ve implemented a structured llms.txt (https://anitroves.com/llms.txt) to provide a machine-readable source of truth for other crawlers and AI models.I’m currently the technical administrator and I'm handling the SEO and server scaling (managed on HostingMay 8, 2026 2:00 AM
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What You Need to Know About Shared Equity Mortgageshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8b21e3e53f4492b289a4d3dc6797d6&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.investopedia.com%2Fterms%2Fs%2Fshared_equity.asp&c=8106744072680552666&mkt=en-usJulia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Doretha Clemons, Ph.D., MBA, PMP, has been a corporate IT executive and professor for 34 ...May 5, 2026 6:00 PM
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Donkey Kong Bananza's Next DLC Event is Right Around the Cornerhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8b614466694c57a56047255db8b9f7&url=https%3A%2F%2Fgamerant.com%2Fdonkey-kong-bananza-dlc-event-may-2026%2F&c=4630705472925483538&mkt=en-usMarc Deschamps has been writing about video games and popular culture for more than a decade. A reporter at GameRant, Marc has also been published at sites like IGN, Nintendojo, and ComicBook. Gaming ...May 5, 2026 1:30 AM
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Show HN: Diom – Backend primitives (queue, rate limit, etc.) in one Rust binaryhttps://github.com/svix/diomHey HN, my name is Tom and I'm the founder of Svix. We've been working on Diom (https://diom.com) for the last 6 months, and I'm excited to finally share it on HN!Diom is a single Rust binary that replaces Redis, RabbitMQ, Kafka, and a lot of custom code for many common use-cases. It's open-source, self-contained, and has no external runtime dependencies.While building Svix, we had to reimplement the same backend primitives that everyone reimplements when building a service: robust caching, rate-limiting, idempotency, and more. We also constantly felt the tension between building something custom on top of existing infra (like Redis and Postgres) and adding more dedicated services (like RabbitMQ and Kafka) which we would then need to configure, operate, back up, and maintain. This was even worse for us because Svix is open-source, so additional infrastructure meant additional burden on our customers.Six months ago we finally decided to build Diom. It's a self-contained open-source servMay 3, 2026 12:38 PM
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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 --texMay 1, 2026 7:05 PM
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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
