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Ubuntu 26.10 Drops Btrfs, XFS and ZFS /Boot with Secure Boot

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/ubuntu-2610-secure-boot-grub-change
1•josephcsible•51s ago•0 comments

Anthropic is adding monthly API credits to Claude Max and Team subscriptions

https://twitter.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2107895957933408429
1•bartekurbanski•2m ago•0 comments

Stop telling people to delete their social media

https://rmpr.xyz/Stop-telling-people-to-delete-their-social-media/
2•RMPR•2m ago•0 comments

Aim – Agentic Idea Management for Automated Research

https://imhgchoi.github.io/agentic-idea-manager/
1•gmays•2m ago•0 comments

Post-Quantum Crypto: BSI Concerned About McEliece

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Post-Quantum-Crypto-BSI-Concerned-About-McEliece-11478462.html
1•wodniok•4m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Sheetstream, write a million row XLSX in Node with 82 MB of RAM

https://github.com/anzal1/sheetstream
1•AnzalAbidi•6m ago•0 comments

To Kodak yourself out of business

https://ghuntley.com/kodak/
1•ghuntley•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: An independent execution recorder for coding agents

https://github.com/altrace-dev-role/rashomon
1•rishi_g25•7m ago•0 comments

DeskWM: A Skeuomorphic Wayland Compositor

https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/1wzzxjn/deskwm_windows_are_sheets_of_paper_on_a_wooden/
2•Teever•7m ago•0 comments

METR is not a meaningful check on Anthropic

https://www.verysane.ai/p/is-metr-a-meaningful-check-on-anthropic
1•Muhammad523•7m ago•0 comments

European colonization of Americas cooled Earth's climate (2019)

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/31/european-colonization-of-americas-helped-caus...
1•mooreds•9m ago•0 comments

Common Dry Cleaning Chemical Linked to Parkinson's Disease (2023)

https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/common-dry-cleaning-chemical-linked-to-parkinsons-disease
2•mooreds•10m ago•0 comments

Windows Hybrid Intelligence

https://twitter.com/satyanadella/status/2107898018112647313
1•afshinmeh•11m ago•0 comments

Converting a TP-Link Festa F52-Outdoor into an Omada EAP225-Outdoor

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1•micw•12m ago•0 comments

I tried to move my notes out of Emacs. I failed. Again

https://baty.net/posts/2026/10/i-tried-to-move-my-notes-out-of-emacs-i-failed/
2•speckx•12m ago•0 comments

SpaceX credit risk jumps on worries over its borrowing spree

https://www.ft.com/content/4f2417d3-3de6-4f62-bd3a-8c8f740a4b29
3•JumpCrisscross•12m ago•0 comments

It escapes into the world and threatens civilisation

https://testflight.apple.com/join/sKcmUdAq
1•marc0janssen•12m ago•1 comments

Google AI Edge Foresight – offline, private meeting transcripts

https://developers.google.com/edge/foresight
2•shadowtree•15m ago•0 comments

New Tricks for the R Sweave Drivers

https://blog.r-project.org/2026/09/18/new-tricks-for-the-r-sweave-drivers/index.html
1•andrewstetsenko•17m ago•0 comments

The solar boom is rapidly transforming emerging economies

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2•boshomi•18m ago•0 comments

Kevin Kelly – The Influence of Science Fiction on Science

https://kevinkelly.substack.com/p/the-influence-of-science-fiction
1•rmason•19m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Botscent – Library to Detect Agents on your site

https://botscent.nibnalin.me
1•nibnalin•21m ago•0 comments

How to turn your AI into a world-class designer

https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-to-turn-your-ai-into-a-world
2•rmason•21m ago•0 comments

Thinking for Oneself (1851) [pdf]

https://la.utexas.edu/users/hcleaver/330T/350kPEESchopenThinkingTable.pdf
2•Ambolia•25m ago•0 comments

NASA Releases Artemis II Lunar Science Data

https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/10/07/nasa-releases-artemis-ii-lunar-science-data-images/
1•laybak•26m ago•0 comments

Bringing Internet Explorer's "Interpage Transitions" to Modern Browsers

https://www.bram.us/2026/10/07/ie-page-transitions/
1•recursive-call•29m ago•0 comments

A New AI Agent Oriented Programming Language

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Show HN: Lessong - Turn any song into a language lesson

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3•eschnou•32m ago•1 comments

A nuclear clock synchronized to 229Th

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11122-1
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'Jonathan' Is the Oldest Land Animal on Earth

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4•gumby•38m ago•0 comments
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Show HN: JavaFactory – IntelliJ plugin to generate Java code

https://github.com/JavaFactoryPluginDev/javafactory-plugin
44•javafactory•1y ago
Hi HN,

I built a code generator plugin for IntelliJ that uses LLMs to create repetitive Java code like implementations, tests, and fixtures — based on custom natural-language patterns and annotation-based references.

Most tools like Copilot or Cursor aim to be general, but fail to produce code that actually fits a project structure or passes tests.

So I made something more explicit: define patterns + reference scope, and generate code consistently.

In this demo, 400 lines of Java were generated in 20 seconds — and all tests passed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReBCXKOpW3M

GitHub: https://github.com/JavaFactoryPluginDev/javafactory-plugin

Comments

geodel•1y ago
Feels very Java like. Factories, repositories, utils, patterns etc. Good stuff.
asdffdasy•1y ago
yoDawgMemesFactory
javafactory•1y ago
thank you. i think this tool have really room to grow, but still concept of manipulate each task is quite usefule
cess11•1y ago
The guide is a 404.

"404 - page not found The

master branch of

javafactory-plugin does not contain the path

docs/how-to-use.md."

How do I hook it into local models? Does it support Ollama, Continue, that kind of thing? Do you collect telemetry?

javafactory•1y ago
1. Im sorry. i it was typo on path, i fixed it so you can see now.

2. from now, i only allow to use gpt-4o, because the requests involve relatively long context windows, which require high-quality reasoning. Only recent high-performance models like GPT-4o or Claude Sonnet are capable of reducing the manual workload for this kind of task.

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but still, if user want to use other models , i can make adapter features for various models

cess11•1y ago
Thanks.

Right, so it can't be used on proprietary code or in settings where personal data might occur.

javafactory•1y ago
That's right. Unfortunately, the system currently forces the use of GPT-4o.

To be honest, I didn’t realize that model selection would be such an important point for users. I believed that choosing a high-quality model with strong reasoning capabilities was part of the service’s value proposition.

But lately, more users — including yourself — have been asking for support for other models like Claude Sonnet or LLaMA.

I’m now seriously considering adding an adapter feature. Thank you for your feedback — I really appreciate it.

cess11•1y ago
likis•1y ago
What LLM is it using? Is it something local? Or does it call out? It wasn't obvious from the docs, and I didn't want to dig through all of the code to figure it out. Should probably be clearly stated on the front page.

But the project looks interesting, I have been looking for something similar.

trollied•1y ago
It uses openai.
javafactory•1y ago
This uses OpenAI's GPT-4o model.

The requests involve relatively long context windows, which require high-quality reasoning. Only recent high-performance models like GPT-4o or Claude Sonnet are capable of reducing the manual workload for this kind of task.

simpaticoder•1y ago
If the trend continues a program will look like "JavaFactory("<prompt>").compile().run();".
winrid•1y ago
I've always wondered how long until we reach this. If every pc can run models locally, with a given seed and prompt it could be the ultimate compression. It's also hilarious.
imhoguy•1y ago
Although very lossy compression, each invocation will be different, so that will inevitably circle back to "strong-static-LLM" prompts. What? wait..!
woodrowbarlow•1y ago
LLMs at their core do produce reproducible results with a given seed. it's all the workflow stuff people do on top that tends to break reproducibility.
dibujaron•1y ago
This is not the case for LLMs running on GPUs (which is most of them); GPUs are non-deterministic for this use-case due to the floating point math involved. there is no way to get perfectly deterministic output from OpenAI despite the presence of seed and temperature parameters.
javafactory•1y ago
Thank you — I’ll consider adding that feature.

Actually, I'm currently thinking about creating a small community for sharing pattern definitions.

AugustoCAS•1y ago
A side comment, I have found that configuring a few live templates in IntelliJ helps me to write a lot of the repetitive code just a handful of keystrokes regardless of the language.

Structural refactoring is another amazing feature that is worth knowing.

javafactory•1y ago
I think IntelliJ is a great tool on its own. Recently, they even added a feature that auto-injects dependencies when you declare them as private final — super convenient.

I can’t help but wonder if the folks at JetBrains are starting to feel a bit of pressure from tools like Cursor or Windsurf

zikani_03•1y ago
I've also got some mileage from live templates for repetitive code. However, at some point I built[0] an IntelliJ IDEA plugin to help me generate setters and field assignments that I felt live templates weren't a good solution for (for my case). I don't know if JavaFactory solves this kind of problem, keen to try it out.

[0]: https://github.com/nndi-oss/intellij-gensett

p0w3n3d•1y ago
As a programmer I feel bad if tests don't fail at the first run... It might show that they are not testing...
javafactory•1y ago
Your point is valid. In real-world work, tests should focus on parts that are difficult to verify, and if everything passes on the first try, it's often a sign that something deserves a closer look.

That said, what I wanted to highlight in the example was a contrast — tools like Cursor and other general-purpose models often fail to even generate simple tests correctly, or can't produce tests that pass. So the goal was to show the difference in reliability.

diggernet•1y ago
Related to this, consider that when an LLM writes tests for code, it's writing them based on what the code actually does, not what it's supposed to do. This is equally true when the code itself was written by the LLM. Sure the tests pass, but that doesn't prove the code is correct.
I can't speak for other people but I regularly work with code that is not owned by my organisation and getting approval to send it out to some remote, largely unaccountable, corporation is likely to be impossible under the conditions which we operate.

Together with the CEO I've also decided that we do not do this with our own code, it stays on machines we control until someone pays for some artifact we'd like to license.

I'm well aware that many other organisations take a different position and push out basically everything they work on to SaaS LLM:s, in my experience defending it with something about so called productivity and something about some contract clause about the SaaS pinky promising to not straight up take the code. But nothing stops them from running hidden queries against it with their in-house models parallel with providing their main service, and sift out a lot of trade secrets and other goodies from it.

It's also likely these SaaS corporations can benchmark and otherwise profile individual developers, information that would be very valuable to e.g. recruiting agencies.

diggernet•1y ago
And I work for an organization that does everything they can think of to make it virtually impossible for anyone to leak code outside, but is now mandating Copilot use to the point of including it in personal performance goals.
redditor98654•1y ago
Do you already have some common templates ready to be used somewhere?