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English to Snacklish Translator

https://exogen.github.io/snacklish/
1•twalichiewicz•53s ago•0 comments

Tell Abu Hureyra (prehistoric archaeological site)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell_Abu_Hureyra
1•dieselgate•2m ago•0 comments

Questions users ask AI assistants

https://frigade.com/blog/ten-common-product-problems-2026
1•pancomplex•3m ago•0 comments

YT Bans ASMR Artists, Accusing Them of Making 'Sexually Gratifying' Content

https://www.404media.co/youtube-asmr-ban-sex-and-nudity-policy/
2•johnbarron•4m ago•0 comments

Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale

https://blog.cloudflare.com/smaller-faster-safer-models/
1•ascorbic•5m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Claude multisession

1•nunep•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mstat a temperature and stat tracker for macOS in Zig and SwiftUI

https://git.cafe/versecafe/mstat
1•versecafe•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Pushyourthing. Everyone mashes one button to push links up

https://pushyourthing.com
1•canerbo•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Trawl – a self-hosted engine for scraping sites behind challenge walls

https://trawl.germondai.com/
2•germondai•6m ago•0 comments

Roma Holocaust Memorial Day

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roma_Holocaust_Memorial_Day
1•zerr•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Laurie, play chords from your laptop keyboard

https://laurie.fm/
1•adhivd•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: HostBlock – A menu bar app that blocks ads and malware (for my grandma)

https://hostblock.app
1•dotspencer•9m ago•0 comments

Visa to buy anti-fraud startup for $2.4B

https://www.paymentsdive.com/news/visa-to-buy-biocatch-for-24b/826816/
1•brandonb•10m ago•1 comments

Europe's summer heat has broken the Bell curve

https://www.intellinews.com/europe-s-summer-heat-has-broken-the-bell-curve-as-record-el-ni-o-buil...
1•cybermango•10m ago•0 comments

A Chinese LLM attacked our lab, so we made it work for us

https://jesta.ai/blog/darkreasoning
2•speckx•11m ago•0 comments

Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years

https://changelog.complete.org/archives/44456-celebrating-45-years-of-kermit-with-the-first-new-c...
2•roryirvine•11m ago•0 comments

The super El Nino is here

https://www.intellinews.com/the-super-el-nino-is-here-454081/
3•cybermango•11m ago•0 comments

The Download: reward hacking explained, and suspected Iranian cyberattacks

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/03/1141039/the-download-reward-hacking-water-cyberattacks/
1•joozio•12m ago•0 comments

You don't need to be a developer to build a real product today

https://initacademy.oyakoo.store/
2•zooboole•13m ago•1 comments

Europe enters the Pyrocene age of fire that makes its own weather

https://www.intellinews.com/europe-enters-the-pyrocene-age-of-fire-that-makes-its-own-weather-458...
3•cybermango•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Add secure widgets on your Windows Desktop or write your own

https://www.desktop-dashboard.com
1•Nair0•15m ago•0 comments

Orchard: An open framework for scalable agentic AI

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/orchard-an-open-framework-for-scalable-agentic-ai/
3•andsoitis•15m ago•0 comments

ASCII Today

https://ascii.today/
2•andsoitis•17m ago•0 comments

Satyress – Robots That Work

https://www.satyress.com/
1•petethomas•18m ago•0 comments

Amazon Reportedly Plans to Consolidate Nova AI Models

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-amazon-nova-ai-model-consolidation-aws/
3•gmays•18m ago•0 comments

Time-to-first-token: A 10-week, 30-minutes-a-day roadmap for LLM inference

https://github.com/patchy631/time-to-first-token
1•simonpure•19m ago•0 comments

The Great Chinese Oil Mystery

https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/2026/07/china-iran-usa-oil-prices/688086/
1•idontwantthis•19m ago•1 comments

The Race to Build an American Alternative to Cheap AI from China

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-race-to-build-an-american-alternative-to-cheap-ai-from-china-2e99...
1•fortran77•20m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Latex.to – LaTeX to PDF via Full Tex Live in the Browser

https://latex.to/
2•Wdorf•20m ago•0 comments

Why Are There Statues of Beavers on Top of This Oxford Street Shop?

https://londonist.com/london/history/oxford-street-beavers
2•bookofjoe•21m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own?

https://epoch.ai/MirrorCode
25•yusufozkan•57m ago

Comments

jdw64•35m ago
I'm curious about that too.

I'm building a language with AI, and when I leave the AI running on its own, it keeps generating code in strange directions. I wonder what kind of structure AI-only code would have.

ivan888•29m ago
Is it like self driving cars, where 100% non-human code would be arguably safer?

But then it always comes down to having some human who is accountable for verifying the behavior. I think ultimately we just need a better set of languages and frameworks to minimally encode the types of applications we want to build today, so that human comprehension and verification of the source code becomes easier.

LetsGetTechnicl•27m ago
How would 100% non-human code possibly be safer?
micromacrofoot•18m ago
well if driving is supposedly safer when automated, why not code
ModernMech•13m ago
It’s supposedly safer than the average driver, not safer than professional drivers.
LetsGetTechnicl•5m ago
Is it actually safer? If you can't understand the code you can't verify it's safety, and AI code often has bugs in it. You can't trust implicitly.
jdw64•21m ago
I've noticed that when only AI writes the code, there are cases where it ends up being unusable by humans. For small code snippets or function-level units, AI is often much better than me. But when I look at the whole picture, AI tends to perform poorly.
onlyrealcuzzo•5m ago
Also building a language with AI.

It's decent at design and implementation, but strangely terrible at language consistency - and expectedly architecture.

Steering it on language consistency is easy. Steering it on architecture has required me to learn a lot more about compilers than I wanted to do for this project (since that's a lot more than I wanted to take on for something that was supposed to be a "fun" "side" project).

looksjjhg•26m ago
Why just the commercial ones !??
jph•14m ago
I'm experimenting with large-ish software projects using Claude Fable. The results are surprising to me.

- Project portfolio management software. Good results so far. This is unsupervised experimentation: Fable researches feature ideas and plans them, then Opus 5 implements them in a loop. The features include things such as an auth server, full-text search, audit logging, resource leveling, HA/DR, IaC, and more.

- FHIR & SNOMED medical software experimentation in demo-only environments. This has mixed results so far. This is supervised experimentation: the FHIR specifications and SNOMED specifications are thorough and I'm in the loop. Fable plans OK, but Opus 5 is thrashing quite a lot, going down many rabbit holes.

swframe2•13m ago
Running a Loop on the well defined goal seems promising: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EtxdB7gpFqY
Jdstanhope•12m ago
I have been using Claude to build a clone of Bash in Rust (https://github.com/jdstanhope/huck). It has been goin going on now for 81 days, 2600 commits and I have covered a good chunk of the features such that I can source by .bashrc with a number of extensions. It has been doing pretty good but it will sometimes spend hours to do few line fix and other times pushback on making big changes despite have over 3000 tests.

That being said, I am still guiding it on a regular basis and only recently let it run open ended trying fixing small to medium size bugs. The next stage will be try let it run in a loop trying to fix the 100 issues it has identified as well as getting most of the bash test suite to pass.

thisisauserid•8m ago
I believe they can make ANY software project the largest it can be!

This solution should look for more problems.

marginalia_nu•5m ago
Yeah came here to say the same thing. The Hard Problem of software engineering isn't making a complex monstrosity with millions of lines of code and endless feature creep, but not doing that.