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  1. Ask HN: Why haven't people vibe coded popular 80s word processors as TUI apps?

    Is it due to potential IP issues?

    2 points by amichail 1
  2. Ask HN: What do AI improvements at these labs look like?

    I'm struggling to understand what improvements at labs look like. Some part of it is more training data, more weights, more post training. That all seems.straightforward to me. But what % of improvements come from that…

    2 points by xyzsparetimexyz 0
  3. Ask HN: How can DigitalOcean not afford $50, but can afford $3M to Omarchy?

    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…

    2 points by dpmartinez 17
  4. Ask HN: How to benefit from DeepSeek for enterprise use?

    As the title says. I've recently been experimenting with the reasonix harness (reasonix.io) for a personal project, and, I am completely blown away by the extremely cheap cost. This just feels exactly how using AI…

    2 points by brunooliv 0
  5. Ask HN: Are we losing our engineering literacy?

    I see more and more posts get traction on HackerNews of a kind that promote non-engineering "magical thinking" world view around LLMs and modern technology. I can very clearly remember how this kind of mystification…

    2 points by smugglerFlynn 1
  6. Ask HN: Why does account age matter?

    When a person posts from a single purpose account or a sock puppet for the precise reason of obscuring their anonymity, why does some user always attack them for having a new account as if they the person was also…

    2 points by lemmeasku 4
  7. Ask HN: What is Y Combinator's position on Flock's standing today?

    I know they funded them and all, things change/don't. Curious to know if they maintain their original stance and what it was if so.

    2 points by chirau 0
  8. Ask HN: On the Contest of Meat and Machine

    I have worked in both production and R&D in my career. My experience provides the general sense that there is an inherent tension between exploration vs exploitation. My production managers were interested purely on…

    2 points by joebig 0
  9. Ask HN: What if anyone could sell AI tokens from their idle GPU?

    I have an idea: what if everyone could turn their own GPU into an API and put it on a network for other people to use? Then we could build something similar to OpenRouter. I’m also thinking about offering a $10/month…

    1 points by edurights-team 2
  10. Ask HN: Career paths to consider if I am better at supporting than creating?

    I have a BS/MS in computer science and somewhere around 9 years of experience, where the first half was spent working as a backend developer and the second half I've been working in product owner roles. I switched from…

    1 points by _override 26
  11. Ask HN: If AI writes the code, what matters?

    AI is getting pretty good at writing code. Not all of it, obviously, but enough that I keep wondering what this does to the job of a software engineer. If writing the code is no longer the hard part, what is?…

    1 points by andrewstetsenko 4
  12. Ask HN: What is your team's development practice?

    I am curious to know how the development practices of your teams have changed in the past 6-12 months. I am specially interested in small startups where about 10-20 developers working to ship products to customers in…

    1 points by dnw 2
  13. Ask HN: Should we start airgapping our personal devices?

    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,…

    1 points by emerongi 6
  14. Ask HN: MacBook Pro (Max) equivalent Linux laptop?

    Looking for recommendations :)

    1 points by apples_oranges 1
  15. Ask HN: C or C++?
    1 points by skwasimin 4
  16. Ask HN: What happens when an agent crashes between side effect and recording it?
    1 points by druhinbala 0
  17. Ask HN: Who Are You?

    Software engineer isn’t a great job anymore and the practice won’t be exciting or lucrative in and of itself ever again. So, who are you in this world? Who will you be and what will you offer? Disallowed answers:…

    1 points by whatnoww 2
  18. Ask HN: What would make you pay $1 per month for a social media?

    Current social media platforms are free while using ads and selling data. Are there any specific features in a new platform which you would find worth it to pay $1 per month?

    1 points by busymom0 4
  19. Ask HN: What Makes a CTO? (heltes.com)
    1 points by heltale 0
  20. Ask HN: What would "slowing down" AI look like?

    What would the second degree effects be? Are token prices about to skyrocket? Do the IPOs not happen? Does the bubble burst and everything dependent on this continuous growth stop? Or does everyone who got laid off…

    1 points by AbstractH24 3
  21. Ask HN: For Enterprise coding agents, what's your company doing to control cost?

    For those of you with enterprise pay-as-you-go plans, what's your company doing to keep costs from exploding? Do you have monthly limits? How do those limits spread across vendors? Does everyone have the same limit?…

    1 points by m0rde 13