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Show HN: LLM control of deterministic coder – Sif 1.0 – LLMs as vibe coders

https://github.com/Mac-at-SifSys/Sif-1.0
2•tmbird•1h ago
Was looking to speed up coding and reduce token usage. Theory is an LLM can provide a plan to a deterministic local coder faster and with less token use than writing the code itself, and so far that's panned out. Revisions and teaching the coder new local skills can take time and tokens in the short run, but Sif remembers the new skills and doesn't have to be taught those skills again. Name: Sif 1.0 License: Apache 2.0 Developed and tested on Windows. Most of my testing involved converting Python to C++, though I have experimented with general coding tasks. Python to C++ conversion has worked well so far. Takes about 250-300 tokens for a frontier model, 400 to 500 tokens for a flash open source model to produce the plan. If Sif has experienced all requirements before, can produce one shot conversion with no repairs needed. Several test/benchmark reports can be found in the repository highlighting successes and failures along the way if interested. For those who are interested, I would greatly appreciate any feedback offered.

Google DeepMind Boss Hassabis Moves to Chair Role in Shakeup

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-05/google-deepmind-boss-hassabis-moves-to-chair-r...
1•htrp•1m ago•0 comments

Pokee-Isaac 28B: 10M-token context, deployable on a single GPU

https://twitter.com/Pokee_AI/status/2084682445648216383
1•handfuloflight•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I made alchemical-cosmological PCB badges

https://github.com/KaiPereira/Alchemical-Cosmological-Badges
1•kaipereira•2m ago•0 comments

Hologram v0.11: Regular Expressions, Client Stacktraces, and More

https://hologram.page/blog/hologram-v0-11
1•bartblast•2m ago•0 comments

Jeff Dean Leaving Google

https://twitter.com/JeffDean/status/2085034604172603724
3•bifftastic•3m ago•0 comments

Google's Chief Scientist Is Leaving After 27 Years–To Start His Own AI Company

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/googles-chief-scientist-is-leaving-after-27-yearsto-start-his-own-ai-...
2•lairv•3m ago•0 comments

Same $24 AWS Lightsail VM, Different Bang for Buck by Region

https://webbynode.com/articles/bang-for-buck-2-aws-lightsail-24-dollar-vm
1•gsgreen•4m ago•0 comments

Measure coding agents in hardened environments

https://boundarybench.com/
2•aviramha•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Diffing Binary Files

https://withkord.com/diff
2•wennyyustalim•5m ago•0 comments

Google Is a Scammer's Paradise

https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/05/absentee-landlord/
1•hn_acker•6m ago•0 comments

The World Is Running Out of River Sand, and That's an Issue

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-worlds-rivers-are-running-out-of-sand
1•thunderbong•7m ago•0 comments

Google chief scientist Jeff Dean leaving in AI reshuffle

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/05/google-chief-scientist-jeff-dean-leaving-company-after-27-years.html
3•adolph•7m ago•0 comments

How do newborns react to the smell of their fathers?

https://www.npr.org/2026/08/04/nx-s1-5910665/how-do-newborns-react-to-the-smell-of-their-fathers
1•Brajeshwar•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AppScout – App Store downloads, revenue and widgets

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/appscout-app-metrics/id6770866569
1•degisner•8m ago•0 comments

Gödel, Escher, Elisp: The Beauty of Macros

https://www.chiply.dev/post-elisp-macros-are-beautiful
1•ibobev•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Shadow Blocker Blocklist – DNS blocklist from per-platform research

https://github.com/CorleoneSalute/SHADOW-BLOCKER-BLOCKLIST
1•Corleone612•12m ago•0 comments

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping down

https://www.axios.com/2026/08/05/google-deepmind-demis-hassabis-ai
43•ot•12m ago•7 comments

The next chapter of our AI momentum

https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/message-ceo/next-chapter-ai-momentum/
5•colesantiago•12m ago•2 comments

Jeff Dean leaving Alphabet

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/technology/google-researchers-ai-startup.html
15•louiereederson•13m ago•0 comments

anydoc: Rust library that converts 14 document formats to Markdown

https://github.com/firecrawl/anydoc
1•amplitudes•14m ago•0 comments

ViperJS – a JavaScript engine in safe Rust, zero deps, 84% of test262

https://github.com/MerlijnW70/viperjs
1•MerlijnW70•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Everfree -AI cowriter note app on GitHub backend & Evernote migration

https://everfree.vercel.app/
1•adi2907•15m ago•0 comments

At 45-Years-Old, C-Kermit Gets Its First New Release in 15 Years

https://fossforce.com/2026/08/at-45-years-old-c-kermit-gets-its-first-new-release-in-15-years/
2•speckx•16m ago•0 comments

Rainy Day Thoughts on AI

https://third-bit.com/2026/08/04/rainy-day-thoughts-on-ai/
2•meetpateltech•16m ago•0 comments

Negative-Interest Tech Debt

https://jesseduffield.com/Negative-interest-tech-debt/
2•lwhsiao•18m ago•1 comments

Adding Recursive Functions to Futhark

https://futhark-lang.org/blog/2026-08-05-recursion.html
1•Svip•19m ago•0 comments

Inside the Long, AI-Powered Quest to Perfect Pringle-Making

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/inside-the-long-ai-powered-quest-to-perfect-pringle-making-ab37a231
1•thm•19m ago•0 comments

Tiny Black Holes May Be Exploding Stars Across the Milky Way

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260729051515.htm
1•jandrewrogers•20m ago•0 comments

Fontstash: Light-weight online font texture atlas builder

https://github.com/memononen/fontstash
1•klaussilveira•20m ago•0 comments

The power of key paths in Swift

https://www.swiftbysundell.com/articles/the-power-of-key-paths-in-swift/
1•conferza•21m ago•0 comments