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Haniri: A live autonomous world where AI agents survive or collapse

https://www.haniri.com
1•donangrey•34s ago•1 comments

GPT-5.3-Codex System Card [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/23eca107-a9b1-4d2c-b156-7deb4fbc697c/GPT-5-3-Codex-System-Card-02.pdf
1•tosh•13m ago•0 comments

Atlas: Manage your database schema as code

https://github.com/ariga/atlas
1•quectophoton•16m ago•0 comments

Geist Pixel

https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-geist-pixel
1•helloplanets•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP to get latest dependency package and tool versions

https://github.com/MShekow/package-version-check-mcp
1•mshekow•26m ago•0 comments

The better you get at something, the harder it becomes to do

https://seekingtrust.substack.com/p/improving-at-writing-made-me-almost
2•FinnLobsien•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: WP Float – Archive WordPress blogs to free static hosting

https://wpfloat.netlify.app/
1•zizoulegrande•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I Hacked My Family's Meal Planning with an App

https://mealjar.app
1•melvinzammit•30m ago•0 comments

Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal
1•basilikum•32m ago•0 comments

The Future of Systems

https://novlabs.ai/mission/
2•tekbog•33m ago•1 comments

NASA now allowing astronauts to bring their smartphones on space missions

https://twitter.com/NASAAdmin/status/2019259382962307393
2•gbugniot•38m ago•0 comments

Claude Code Is the Inflection Point

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/claude-code-is-the-inflection-point
3•throwaw12•39m ago•1 comments

Show HN: MicroClaw – Agentic AI Assistant for Telegram, Built in Rust

https://github.com/microclaw/microclaw
1•everettjf•39m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Omni-BLAS – 4x faster matrix multiplication via Monte Carlo sampling

https://github.com/AleatorAI/OMNI-BLAS
1•LowSpecEng•40m ago•1 comments

The AI-Ready Software Developer: Conclusion – Same Game, Different Dice

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/the-ai-ready-software-developer-conclusion-same-game...
1•lifeisstillgood•42m ago•0 comments

AI Agent Automates Google Stock Analysis from Financial Reports

https://pardusai.org/view/54c6646b9e273bbe103b76256a91a7f30da624062a8a6eeb16febfe403efd078
1•JasonHEIN•45m ago•0 comments

Voxtral Realtime 4B Pure C Implementation

https://github.com/antirez/voxtral.c
2•andreabat•48m ago•1 comments

I Was Trapped in Chinese Mafia Crypto Slavery [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOcNaWmmn0A
2•mgh2•54m ago•0 comments

U.S. CBP Reported Employee Arrests (FY2020 – FYTD)

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/reported-employee-arrests
1•ludicrousdispla•56m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a free UCP checker – see if AI agents can find your store

https://ucphub.ai/ucp-store-check/
2•vladeta•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: SVGV – A Real-Time Vector Video Format for Budget Hardware

https://github.com/thealidev/VectorVision-SVGV
1•thealidev•1h ago•0 comments

Study of 150 developers shows AI generated code no harder to maintain long term

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9EbCb5A408
1•lifeisstillgood•1h ago•0 comments

Spotify now requires premium accounts for developer mode API access

https://www.neowin.net/news/spotify-now-requires-premium-accounts-for-developer-mode-api-access/
1•bundie•1h ago•0 comments

When Albert Einstein Moved to Princeton

https://twitter.com/Math_files/status/2020017485815456224
1•keepamovin•1h ago•0 comments

Agents.md as a Dark Signal

https://joshmock.com/post/2026-agents-md-as-a-dark-signal/
2•birdculture•1h ago•0 comments

System time, clocks, and their syncing in macOS

https://eclecticlight.co/2025/05/21/system-time-clocks-and-their-syncing-in-macos/
1•fanf2•1h ago•0 comments

McCLIM and 7GUIs – Part 1: The Counter

https://turtleware.eu/posts/McCLIM-and-7GUIs---Part-1-The-Counter.html
2•ramenbytes•1h ago•0 comments

So whats the next word, then? Almost-no-math intro to transformer models

https://matthias-kainer.de/blog/posts/so-whats-the-next-word-then-/
1•oesimania•1h ago•0 comments

Ed Zitron: The Hater's Guide to Microsoft

https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com/post/3me7ibeym2c2n
2•vintagedave•1h ago•1 comments

UK infants ill after drinking contaminated baby formula of Nestle and Danone

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c931rxnwn3lo
1•__natty__•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

The Inner-Platform Effect (2006)

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The_Inner-Platform_Effect
36•birdculture•1mo ago

Comments

dvh•1mo ago
It's 2025 why are you gluing SQL strings? Don't even use it as an example!
zahlman•1mo ago
The post is clearly marked as being from 2006.
JadeNB•1mo ago
Also it's from TheDailyWTF, not an endorsement of the practices there even in 2006.
recursive•1mo ago
Perhaps to facilitate a dynamically generated schema.
kristianp•1mo ago
I've seen these custom fields tables in a number of database schemas I've worked with in the past. It adds dynamism to a fixed table structure. I wonder how CRMs do it these days without having poor performance at scale?
Normal_gaussian•1mo ago
Being able to partial index into JSON has made this much more straight forwards now than ever before, but historically pre-creating empty indexed custom columns was somewhat common (leading to hard limits like max 20 custom tags), as was EAV (which arguably is inner-platform).

There are more solutions than these, but until you're at truly custom DB scale with a specific problem here, these will solve it for you.

jiggawatts•1mo ago
I've also seen a system that instanced the database per customer and simply extended the schema with additional columns.

That worked great... until the thousands of instances had to be merged into a single unified schema.

Normal_gaussian•1mo ago
yeah, generally instancing a table per customer is an old smell indicating they have either a permissions issue (no RLS) or you're using a db which doesn't support partial indexes (which basically everything does now).
Artoooooor•1mo ago
From time to time I send this article at my job. Just as a distress call about our system.
Normal_gaussian•1mo ago
There is something to reading something from 20 or 40 years ago and having a professional existential crisis.
stevage•1mo ago
Reminds me a lot of a final year group software project at uni. Instead of building a solution for our client we built a kind of meta solution, then ran out of time to actually solve his problem in it.
bob1029•1mo ago
I've made the mistake of creating this kind of problem many moons ago. The dream was to have non-technical domain experts implement the product. I did not know at the time that this was a cursed problem. Probably one of the most cursed, in fact.

Putting it my sql based scripting engine took 2 weeks. Backing it out is going on 4 years now. Perhaps the biggest technical misstep I've ever made. It's kind of like Pandora's box because once the non technical people feel the speed/control, they'll never let it go. You could place a literal money printer on their desk as an alternative and they'd reject it if you took their new power away.

paulddraper•1mo ago
That seems successful.
bob1029•1mo ago
If you are into constructing fiefdoms in places they were definitely not intended to be constructed, then certainly.
zephen•1mo ago
Perhaps a corollary to Greenspun's Tenth rule?

"Any sufficiently complicated database program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of COBOL."