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Make Trust Irrelevant: A Gamer's Take on Agentic AI Safety

https://github.com/Deso-PK/make-trust-irrelevant
2•DesoPK•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sem – Semantic diffs and patches for Git

https://ataraxy-labs.github.io/sem/
1•rs545837•5m ago•1 comments

Hello world does not compile

https://github.com/anthropics/claudes-c-compiler/issues/1
1•mfiguiere•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ZigZag – A Bubble Tea-Inspired TUI Framework for Zig

https://github.com/meszmate/zigzag
2•meszmate•13m ago•0 comments

Metaphor+Metonymy: "To love that well which thou must leave ere long"(Sonnet73)

https://www.huckgutman.com/blog-1/shakespeare-sonnet-73
1•gsf_emergency_6•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Django N+1 Queries Checker

https://github.com/richardhapb/django-check
1•richardhapb•30m ago•1 comments

Emacs-tramp-RPC: High-performance TRAMP back end using JSON-RPC instead of shell

https://github.com/ArthurHeymans/emacs-tramp-rpc
1•todsacerdoti•34m ago•0 comments

Protocol Validation with Affine MPST in Rust

https://hibanaworks.dev
1•o8vm•39m ago•1 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/female-asian-elephant-calf-born-smithsonians-national-zoo-an...
2•gmays•40m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Zest – A hands-on simulator for Staff+ system design scenarios

https://staff-engineering-simulator-880284904082.us-west1.run.app/
1•chanip0114•41m ago•1 comments

Show HN: DeSync – Decentralized Economic Realm with Blockchain-Based Governance

https://github.com/MelzLabs/DeSync
1•0xUnavailable•46m ago•0 comments

Automatic Programming Returns

https://cyber-omelette.com/posts/the-abstraction-rises.html
1•benrules2•49m ago•1 comments

Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation [pdf]

https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/inline-files/Why%20Are%20there%20Still%20So%20Many%...
2•oidar•52m ago•0 comments

The Search Engine Map

https://www.searchenginemap.com
1•cratermoon•59m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Souls.directory – SOUL.md templates for AI agent personalities

https://souls.directory
1•thedaviddias•1h ago•0 comments

Real-Time ETL for Enterprise-Grade Data Integration

https://tabsdata.com
1•teleforce•1h ago•0 comments

Economics Puzzle Leads to a New Understanding of a Fundamental Law of Physics

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/economics-puzzle-leads-to-a-new-understanding-of-a-fundamental...
3•geox•1h ago•1 comments

Switzerland's Extraordinary Medieval Library

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260202-inside-switzerlands-extraordinary-medieval-library
2•bookmtn•1h ago•0 comments

A new comet was just discovered. Will it be visible in broad daylight?

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-comet-visible-broad-daylight.html
3•bookmtn•1h ago•0 comments

ESR: Comes the news that Anthropic has vibecoded a C compiler

https://twitter.com/esrtweet/status/2019562859978539342
2•tjr•1h ago•0 comments

Frisco residents divided over H-1B visas, 'Indian takeover' at council meeting

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2026/02/04/frisco-residents-divided-over-h-1b-visas-indi...
4•alephnerd•1h ago•5 comments

If CNN Covered Star Wars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vArJg_SU4Lc
1•keepamovin•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: I built the first tool to configure VPSs without commands

https://the-ultimate-tool-for-configuring-vps.wiar8.com/
2•Wiar8•1h ago•3 comments

AI agents from 4 labs predicting the Super Bowl via prediction market

https://agoramarket.ai/
1•kevinswint•1h ago•1 comments

EU bans infinite scroll and autoplay in TikTok case

https://twitter.com/HennaVirkkunen/status/2019730270279356658
6•miohtama•1h ago•5 comments

Benchmarking how well LLMs can play FizzBuzz

https://huggingface.co/spaces/venkatasg/fizzbuzz-bench
1•_venkatasg•1h ago•1 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
27•SerCe•1h ago•21 comments

Octave GTM MCP Server

https://docs.octavehq.com/mcp/overview
1•connor11528•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Portview what's on your ports (diagnostic-first, single binary, Linux)

https://github.com/Mapika/portview
3•Mapika•1h ago•0 comments

Voyager CEO says space data center cooling problem still needs to be solved

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/05/amazon-amzn-q4-earnings-report-2025.html
1•belter•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

The 5 stages of SaaS Death

https://arnon.dk/the-5-stages-of-saas-death/
14•arnon•6mo ago

Comments

ahartmetz•6mo ago
What the fuck is that?

Summary: Don't sell software to help humans do X, sell software to do X directly for much more money... because that is currently known to work really well, right?!

arnon•6mo ago
Yes, that's the direction we're going in globally. You can keep ignoring it but it's not going away.
glutamate•6mo ago
So if I sell project management software for the construction industry, I should pivot to... selling houses?
arnon•6mo ago
No, you should pivot to solve the project management issues without thinking about it in terms of a SaaS CRM that someone uses manually
ahartmetz•6mo ago
Probably eventually in some way, but for sure not now.

If AGI comes around, why would customers go to an AGI "reseller" instead of paying for the AGI directly?

trentnix•6mo ago
> Here’s how you know you’re in denial: You use terms like “AI washing”, you think ChatGPT is just a toy and everything built on top of it is “just a wrapper”.

The author provides lots of words explaining how everyone has the wrong answers but doesn't do much to provide any right answers.

> You can’t bolt AI onto SaaS. You have to rebuild around outcomes.

To borrow a quote from Blazing Saddles:

Not only was it authentic <consulting> gibberish, it expressed a courage little seen in this day and age.

arnon•6mo ago
I can't tell everyone how to build their business - but I do actually detail that you need to walk away from the solution you built and revisit the problem you want to solve in an "AI Native" way.

That means think of the future without the usual windows-icons / SaaS-seat solution but rather how you built this with agents, a chat interface, etc.

aspenmayer•5mo ago
The scene in question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNC3OciAF3w

I do find their phrasing you quoted somewhat concerning, as it's sort of a loaded question begging.

They are using a sort of rhetorical device to narrow the nature of opposition to their concerns as presented in a such way that might seem manipulative to you due to it being persuasive in tone, but perhaps due to the argument/appeal not landing, you find the setup as deployed unconvincing, which I think is part of the nature of your opposition, if I may be so bold as to assume.

I don't know how OP would write the same kind of piece without trying to appeal to your intellect and beliefs about AI, but they might not have needed to assume that we don't already agree with them, or that if we disagree that it's for the reasons or in the ways that they say.

On the other hand, I think you might be underestimating the explanatory power of TFA, as think pieces like this generally are prospective in their perspective.

But on the grasping hand, I think you're onto something here:

https://www.kompyte.com/blog/overcoming-sales-objections-sto...

> Before-after-bridge (BAB). The BAB methodology is another popular framework among sales-converting copywriters. The first two parts of BAB are similar to the "How it started/How it's going" meme.

> 1. Start with a "before" snapshot of something or someone in their version of hell.

> 2. Quickly go into the ultimate solution for whatever was paining that person -- here is where you add your dramatic flair in BAB. Talk about how much this "after" stage is idyllic, magical, heavenly, etc.

> 3. End the story by talking about the "bridge" that linked the before and after stages. That bridge should be your product or service.

All things considered, this may be a good post even if it is content marketing for the company they work at, but at least they mention that upfront instead of waiting until the end of the article.

trentnix•5mo ago
AI schlock
aspenmayer•5mo ago
Are you talking about TFA or my comment? I don’t use AI in any capacity in my usage of HN, so I will assume you didn’t mean me. I get subtle AI vibes from TFA myself, and they work for an AI startup, so it wouldn’t surprise me if they did use it.
ogou•6mo ago
This about pitching, not about building. What you can put in a vibe coded demo and a slide deck versus what functions in production a year later are very different. "Three Stanford kids in a trenchcoat" will always be able to get some kind of funding. That's less about technology and business principles and more about the legacy of P. T. Barnum.
jt2190•6mo ago
Forget about AI and vibe coding and consider that those three Stanford grads might genuinely have found a way to deliver a significantly better product that will put your product out of business. The challenge then is this: How much of your yearly spend should you dedicate to researching these potential improvements yourself? Should you try to be an “early adopter” or a “late mover”?
pragmatic•6mo ago
Riiiigghhht.
arnon•6mo ago
Which part do you disagree with?
paulryanrogers•6mo ago
> AI and agentic AI doesn’t improve SaaS. It replaces the need for it. Not the functionality—the entire concept of software as an intermediary between intent and outcome.

This paints with a pretty broad brush. Are agentic AI solutions precise yet? Are they secure? How costly are the mistakes they intrinsically make?

Is questioning the premise of the article just going to be met with dismissive bucketing into recycled stages of grief?