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Show HN: The missing link of a bookstore's tech stack

https://bookhead.net/
1•greenie_beans•19s ago•0 comments

Subreply – an open source text-only social network

https://github.com/lucianmarin/subreply
4•lcnmrn•3m ago•0 comments

Extending PCRE with Static Backtracking Based JIT Compilation (2018)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2544137.2544146
1•gudzpoz•5m ago•0 comments

Asyncio Fundamentals: A Conceputal Overview

https://github.com/anordin95/a-conceptual-overview-of-asyncio/blob/main/readme.md
1•anordin95•5m ago•0 comments

Allentown man said to have died in ICE custody is alive in Guatemala

https://www.mcall.com/2025/07/18/luis-leon-allentown-grandfather-ice-guatemala/
1•georgecmu•5m ago•0 comments

The Number System That Could've Changed Computing

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/this-number-system-beats-binary-but-most-computers-cant-use-it/
1•bdev12345•10m ago•0 comments

Factor Programming Language Tutorial [video]

https://odysee.com/@FactorLanguageTutorial:6/factor-tutorial:1
1•romaniv•16m ago•0 comments

Notes on Image Generation with GPT-4.1

https://taoofmac.com/space/notes/2025/07/20/1230
1•rcarmo•17m ago•0 comments

Google DeepMind Formal Conjectures

https://google-deepmind.github.io/formal-conjectures/
1•pmaddams•18m ago•0 comments

Chuck: CLI to pick upstream-worthy commits

https://github.com/Midwest-Dads/chuck-cli
1•adenta•19m ago•2 comments

Demand intelligent workspaces, not chatbots

https://codesolvent.com/botworx/intelligent-workspace/
1•Edmond•19m ago•0 comments

Leaders are using appeals to nostalgia, nationalism to attack higher education

https://theconversation.com/leaders-in-india-hungary-and-the-us-are-using-appeals-to-nostalgia-and-nationalism-to-attack-higher-education-258975
2•rntn•20m ago•0 comments

How to mock a gRPC server? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DOBheLJfb0
1•der_gopher•22m ago•0 comments

CSU students' 3D printing project improves campus Wi-Fi, saves $thousands

https://source.colostate.edu/csu-students-3d-printing-project-improves-campus-wi-fi-saves-thousands-of-dollars/
1•ohjeez•23m ago•0 comments

Preserved Blood Vessels in World's Largest T Rex May Tell How Dinosaurs Healed

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/preserved-blood-vessels-discovered-in-a-rib-bone-from-the-worlds-largest-t-rex-could-shed-light-on-how-dinosaurs-healed-180986987/
1•bookofjoe•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Asdflo – Free autism support platform for assessments, therapy tracking

https://www.asdflo.com
1•impramk•25m ago•0 comments

Giant study finds a research field that's mostly reproducible

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02250-1
1•Bluestein•25m ago•0 comments

Sorghum proteins offer resilient 3D printable 'bioink' base

https://phys.org/news/2025-07-sorghum-proteins-resilient-3d-printable.html
1•PaulHoule•26m ago•0 comments

Energy-Based Transformers Are Scalable Learners and Thinkers

https://energy-based-transformers.github.io/
1•simonpure•27m ago•0 comments

Payment processors' bar on Japanese adult content endangers democracy (2024)

https://automaton-media.com/en/news/nier-creator-speaks-out-against-payment-processors-pressuring-japanese-adult-content-platforms/
25•thisislife2•27m ago•1 comments

Mysterious Antimatter Physics Discovered at the Large Hadron Collider

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-large-hadron-collider-discovers-antimatter-behaving-oddly-in-new-class/
10•Bluestein•27m ago•1 comments

Understanding System Calls for ln, rm, cat

https://github.com/adiaholic/Understand-OS/blob/main/hard_links/Readme.md
3•thunderbong•29m ago•0 comments

AI Project Management Tool for Tech Startup

https://demo.sophina.biz/en
1•asahi014•30m ago•0 comments

Stdio(3) change: FILE is now opaque (OpenBSD)

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250717103345
4•gslin•30m ago•0 comments

How Tesla FSD accident rate compares to Waymo?

https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_ae23a802-40b4-4545-a3a1-abb1c51840f8
1•Bluestein•31m ago•0 comments

Analyze any IP address instantly

https://addr.zone/tools/lookup
2•addrzone•32m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Loft CLI – Fine-tune and run LLMs (1–3B) on 8 GB MacBook Air, no GPUs

1•dips2umar•35m ago•0 comments

The great AI delusion is falling apart

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/07/14/the-great-ai-delusion-is-built-on-self-deception/
9•walterbell•35m ago•8 comments

Amazon's Emissions Climbed 6% in 2024 on Data Center Buildout

https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/sustainability/amazon-s-emissions-climbed-6-in-2024-on-data-center-buildout
10•belter•35m ago•0 comments

AIOps in the Era of LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12472
2•omarsar•35m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

AICodingHorrors – The price of AI-assisted coding

https://aicodinghorrors.com/
43•cratermoon•4h ago

Comments

deadbabe•3h ago
Gems:

"AI help me write a regex. Now SQL Injections are valid passwords."

"I asked AI to fix a race condition: It introduced a deadlock that took down our entire production app, and no one understands why."

"AI did my taxes: Why I might be going to prison."

"I trusted AI to generate test data: It used real customer info—and emailed them!"

bethekidyouwant•3h ago
All things that never happened before AI
d00mB0t•3h ago
Yes, but now they can be done at scale :D
d00mB0t•3h ago
Coding isn't for everyone.
flurdy•3h ago
These are my own fears as well, but guardrails will evolve to make them a minor nuisance.

I was pondering whether to exclusively use devcontainers or the codebase in a toolbx container to fence in the blast radius.

eterm•3h ago
I'm not familiar enough with AI-assisted coding to know: the `rm -rf ~/` example seems like satire, but is it?
iron_ball•2h ago
No idea about the vibe-coding platforms, but systems like Claude Code have explicit allowlists for commands. Don't allow it, and it'll ask permission each time.
corndoge•3h ago
What is the point of this site?

"Hammer horrors - the price of using hammers"

"Smashed fingers, bent nails, shattered lives."

Come on. AI is a tool, it doesn't do anything by itself. A showcase of people using tools poorly - who is interested?

wat10000•3h ago
The point is that these tools CAN do things by themselves if you set them up to do it, and things can go badly wrong if you do.
multjoy•3h ago
Schadenfreude, obviously.

People are telling us how AI (or LLMs, at any rate) are the next big thing and here we have someone vibe coding their DB out of existence.

vanschelven•3h ago
Pointing out the dangers of various tools is something that's is consider "a point" to the degree that there is a special government agency for it in every modern state in the world. This is that, but applied to a specific tool and as a meme-site.
TheEnder8•3h ago
It shows that some measure of supervision is needed. That firing all of the coders, and unleashing bots is probably a bad idea (at least for the near future)
happytoexplain•3h ago
I have never seen as many different metaphors deployed in the defense of something as with AI. And as with AI, metaphor is over-relied upon for its ease of use.
corndoge•2h ago
The hammer thing is an analogy, and calling it a tool is an opinion, neither are metaphors.
brookst•3h ago
Mostly people whose livelihood is threatened. It’s like horse drawn carriage coachmen passing around screeds about the horrors of the automobile.
benterix•2h ago
A light counterweight to mass marketing of vibe coding tools.
dontmindmehere•1h ago
there isn't an emerging industry of grifters pitching hammer agents that will build you the next ikea, no woodworking knowledge required
ttul•3h ago
It’s a bit like hiring a cheap off shore contractor if unsupervised…
jonplackett•3h ago
There’s something so amusing about the way AIs screw up but still just take full accountability for their actions.

I read them in my head with the voice of the excited dog that is given a collar that makes it speak from Up

> said "NO MORE CHANGES without explicit permission" • I ignored the code freeze that was already in place The violation sequence: "Stop" "You didn't even ask" • But it was already too late This was a catastrophic failure on my part. I violated explicit

somewhereoutth•3h ago
The deeper issue this site highlights, is that failure modes for these kinds of complex automations (and LLMs are automations, not intelligence) are not only non-linear, non-local - but unbounded and 'super-causal' (I'm trying to reach for some proper terminology to say that output y may have no relation at all to input x).
d00mB0t•3h ago
This one was my favorite: https://aicodinghorrors.com/vibe-coding-feels-great-until-yo...

"As a non-coder, it was rough." "Lesson learned--more guardrails coming."

Shouldn't the lesson be "Learn how to code"?

rootnod3•3h ago
That would require thinking, and that is the very skill that LLMs are chipping away at.
jsnell•2h ago
Not really? The vast majority of apps written by people who know how to code will also not have sufficient abuse controls to start with. Actually most will have no abuse protections, and certainly nothing that would be effective against just "hundreds" of fake requests.

Unless you've worked for years specifically on counter-abuse, it's really hard to have an intuition on what the abusable features of a new app are going to be.

blibble•3h ago
https://hnrankings.info/44625661/

can't have people saying bad things about the bullshit generator can we

benterix•2h ago
There is too much money at stake.
AaronAPU•2h ago
During a gold rush, don’t dig for gold and don’t sell shovels. Sell stories about people dying while digging for gold.