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Fully homomorphic encryption and the dawn of a private internet

https://bozmen.io/fhe
184•barisozmen•5h ago•52 comments

When Root Meets Immutable: OpenBSD Chflags vs. Log Tampering

https://rsadowski.de/posts/2025/openbsd-immutable-system-logs/
7•todsacerdoti•35m ago•2 comments

NIH is cheaper than the wrong dependency

https://lewiscampbell.tech/blog/250718.html
155•todsacerdoti•6h ago•83 comments

Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1029767/08f1d17c020e8292/
68•pabs3•5h ago•41 comments

ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action

https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-agent/
573•Topfi•16h ago•386 comments

Mistral Releases Deep Research, Voice, Projects in Le Chat

https://mistral.ai/news/le-chat-dives-deep
530•pember•18h ago•112 comments

The End of Windows 10: a toolkit for community repair groups

https://therestartproject.org/end-of-windows-10-toolkit-for-repair-groups/
32•T-A•3d ago•37 comments

Arva AI (YC S24) Is Hiring an AI Research Engineer (London, UK)

https://www.arva.ai/careers/ai-research-engineer
1•OliverWales•1h ago

My favorite use-case for AI is writing logs

https://newsletter.vickiboykis.com/archive/my-favorite-use-case-for-ai-is-writing-logs/
185•todsacerdoti•9h ago•121 comments

Data on How America Sold Out Its Computer Science Graduates

https://ifspp.substack.com/p/data-on-how-america-sold-out-its
43•haskellandchill•5h ago•19 comments

My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures

https://sankalp.bearblog.dev/my-claude-code-experience-after-2-weeks-of-usage/
254•dejavucoder•14h ago•197 comments

Perfume reviews

https://gwern.net/blog/2025/perfume
226•surprisetalk•1d ago•119 comments

Hand: open-source Robot Hand

https://github.com/pollen-robotics/AmazingHand
379•vineethy•21h ago•100 comments

Claude Code Unleashed

https://ymichael.com/2025/07/15/claude-code-unleashed
81•ymichael•2d ago•44 comments

Extending That XOR Trick to Billions of Rows

https://nochlin.com/blog/extending-that-xor-trick
54•hundredwatt•3d ago•6 comments

TCP-in-UDP Solution (eBPF)

https://blog.mptcp.dev/2025/07/14/TCP-in-UDP.html
18•todsacerdoti•3d ago•3 comments

DIY Telescope Mods That Transformed My Astrophotography

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efmzr_K4ApQ
10•karlperera•3d ago•1 comments

Self-taught engineers often outperform (2024)

https://michaelbastos.com/blog/why-self-taught-engineers-often-outperform
276•mbastos•18h ago•225 comments

A look at IBM's short-lived "butterfly" ThinkPad 701 of 1995

https://www.fastcompany.com/91356463/ibm-thinkpad-701-butterfly-keyboard
71•vontzy•3d ago•20 comments

RisingWave: An Open‑Source Stream‑Processing and Management Platform

https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave
34•Sheldon_fun•2d ago•4 comments

Fixing a Direct3D9 bug in Far Cry (2018)

https://houssemnasri.github.io/2018/07/07/farcry-d3d9-bug/
15•anotherhue•6h ago•0 comments

All AI models might be the same

https://blog.jxmo.io/p/there-is-only-one-model
197•jxmorris12•15h ago•101 comments

USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021)

https://overengineer.dev/blog/2021/04/25/usb-c-hub-madness/
141•pabs3•6h ago•98 comments

Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models Tech Report 2025

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/apple-foundation-models-tech-report-2025
214•2bit•15h ago•154 comments

Apple bans entire dev account, no reason given

https://twitter.com/rameerez/status/1945784476723810739
105•eecc•3h ago•62 comments

Astronomers Discover Rare Distant Object in Sync with Neptune

https://pweb.cfa.harvard.edu/news/astronomers-discover-rare-distant-object-sync-neptune
34•MaysonL•9h ago•6 comments

Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/17/anthropic-tightens-usage-limits-for-claude-code-without-telling-users/
325•mfiguiere•12h ago•202 comments

Archaeologists discover tomb of first king of Caracol

https://uh.edu/news-events/stories/2025/july/07102025-caracol-chase-discovery-maya-ruler.php
146•divbzero•4d ago•35 comments

Run TypeScript code without worrying about configuration

https://tsx.is/
75•nailer•15h ago•45 comments

Modular Interpreters and Visitors in Rust with Extensible Variants and CGP

https://contextgeneric.dev/blog/extensible-datatypes-part-2/
15•PaulHoule•2d ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Claude Code Unleashed

https://ymichael.com/2025/07/15/claude-code-unleashed
81•ymichael•2d ago

Comments

0_gravitas•4h ago
How much does it seem like this will be affected by the recent headline saying that Max rate-limits are getting shadow-tightened?
ipnon•4h ago
It's pretty clear to me that every member Big Token is converging on practically identical models and they're now just competing on compute efficiency based on their particular capital situation. So in the short-term products like Terragon might be nerfed. But in a year or two (2027!) it's hard to imagine OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Mistral, and so on not all having terminal modes with automatic background agent creation and separate Git branching. At that point it's a race to the bottom for consumer prices.
cheema33•3h ago
This article reads like an ad for the author’s product.
futuraperdita•3h ago
This article is an ad for the author's product.
meowface•2h ago
It definitely is.

But, hey; it worked on me. I'm going to try it, since I've been looking for exactly this.

mike_hearn•41m ago
Good. Advertising is valuable and important. It's how people learn about new products and services. Articles like this are part of why I come to HN. And I wanted something like Terragon for ages. It's an obvious idea, clearly where the industry needs to go, and if it's well implemented then I'd be happy to use it. OpenAI has been trying the same thing with Codex.

Of course, the question is price. It's "free during beta".

chadcmulligan•3h ago
How are people using Claude to use this much API? I use it to write the occasional bit and the free one seems enough - I've only once been told to come back tomorrow.
serf•3h ago
write any project with a lot of math and memory shuffling and the structure will generally start eating lots of tokens.

write any project that has a lot of interactive 'dialogues', or exacting and detailed comments, eats a lot of tokens.

My record for tapping out the Claude Max API quickly was sprint-coding a poker solver and accompanying web front end w/ Opus. The backend had a lot of gpgpu stuff going on , and the front end was extremely verbose w/ a wordy ui/ux.

chadcmulligan•2h ago
So you write the whole thing using Claude? Any walkthroughs/YouTube things to show how to do this? Not sure I want to, but I'm curious
stpedgwdgfhgdd•2h ago
Pro was not sufficient when i started to: Use git worktrees, type every command in plain english in CC.

For example “commit and push”

mcintyre1994•2h ago
How good is it at writing commit messages out of interest?
input_sh•1h ago
Not great by default, it just lists the files that were added or modified and "signs" itself at the bottom. I see no value in its commit messages compared to just scrolling down and seeing the actual diff.

You can make it somewhat better by adding instructions in CLAUDE.md, but I did notice those instructions getting ignored from time to time unless you "remind it".

See for yourself: https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%F0%9F%A4%96+Gene...

nurettin•2h ago
They continue conversations in huge contexts which quickly slurps up their credits and instead of changing their workflow and adapting, they shovel more cash into it so it burns brighter.
brainless•2h ago
I am using Claude Code full-time for about 6 weeks* with the $20/month subscription. I am trying out building different products from ideas I have already had. It frees me a lot of time to talk about my founder journey.

I have not needed multiple agents or using CC over an SSH terminal to run overnight. The main reason is that LLMs are not correct many times. So I still need time to test. Like run the whole app, or check what broke in CI (GitHub Actions), etc. I do not go through code line by line anymore and I organize work with tickets (sometimes they are created with CC too).

Both https://github.com/pixlie/Pixlie and https://github.com/pixlie/SmartCrawler are vibe coded (barely any code that I wrote). With LLMs you can generated code 10x than writing manually. It means you can also get 10x the errors. So the manual checks take some time.

Our existing engineering practices are very helpful when generating code through LLMs and I do not have mental bandwidth to review a mountain of code. I am not sure if we scale out LLMs, it will help in building production quality software. I already see that sometimes CC makes really poor guesses. Imagine many such guesses in parallel, daily.

edit: typo - months/weeks

eisbaw•1h ago
you just rick rolled me!
wg0•1h ago
My trick is - ask for a plan. Revise the plan. Then ask only to work on a single step of the plan making progress incremental then ask for tests for that step and keep hitch hiking in incremental steps.
mnky9800n•1h ago
Yes and this also helps to highlight which problems I should be solving and which problems Claude code can solve. Like tbh building efficient data structures is not Claude’s thing he seems happy to just hack together some nonsense that leads to spaghetti being shot into all corners of your repo. But by iteratively building up plans and todo lists i find Claude is able to resist the temptation to hack everything all at once to solve the immediate problem in front of his face.
Quarrel•46m ago
If there is barely any code in those repos that you wrote, how can you license them under the GPL? You don't hold the copyright for it.

This genuinely isn't an attack, I just don't think you can? The AI isn't granted copyright over what it produces.

cess11•5m ago
Looking at ChatInterface.tsx/handleSendMessage in https://github.com/pixlie/Pixlie/commit/3c0bd23ff16c0fcdac80..., I'd have rejected this if it came up in a PR and would not consider this production quality software.

Rewriting it to something sane would be harder and more time consuming than just writing a decent implementation upfront.

stpedgwdgfhgdd•2h ago
This is the dream, but we are not yet there. For any reasonable complex code base, CC needs guidance, like avoiding duplicate code/use library function. Write more tests. Sometimes there is a much more elegant solution for a problem. Claude will find it, but you need to hint and ask.

If people use Claude without a critical eye, our code bases will grow immensely.

bapak•1h ago
> If people use Claude without a critical eye, our code bases will grow immensely.

Sounds like the baseline for programming in teams. People are more likely to write their own helpers or install dependencies than knowing what's already available in the repository.

barrenko•1h ago
It's a lot of work, but it's a different type of work.
nikisweeting•2h ago
Whats the benefit of this over the Claude code github action? https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code-action

It's already great at spinning up 5+ agents working on different PRs, triggered by just @mentioning claude on any github issue.

stavros•1h ago
I guess this uses your subscription, when the GH action doesn't. That alone is a significant benefit, as I've turned the action off due to cost.
k1m•37m ago
I think GH action can also now use your subscription https://x.com/alexalbert__/status/1943332121814405412
eisbaw•1h ago
Noise? Iterating in PRs - if humans are involved.

That said, Terragon here (which is akin to Codex and Jules) are often "too autonomous" for my taste. Human in the loop is made more difficult -- commenting may not be enough: I can't edit the code from those because the workspace is so ephemeral and/or remote.

thatscot•1h ago
When I work side-by-side with Claude to fix bugs or ask it to fix problems. It constantly makes mistakes, like the other day it got the concept of batchItemFailures on an sqs queue completely wrong.

How are people just firing them off to build stuff with any confidence?

eisbaw•1h ago
https://ghuntley.com/stdlib/ applies to claude as well.

AI won't magically know your codebase unless it is pretty vanilla - but then you teach it. If it makes a mistake, teach it by adding a rule.

You have to confine the output space or else you quickly get whatever.

deanc•54m ago
One might argue it should know others codebases though. The fact it wouldn’t know function signatures for AWS SDK isn’t hugely promising and reflects my own experiences using LLMs
eisbaw•1h ago
Claudia helps regarding managment and session mental switching.

I added a web server ontop, so I can use Claudia from my phone now: https://github.com/getAsterisk/claudia/pull/216

UnreachableCode•1h ago
Am I the only person who hasn't found the time, money, permission from work, resources, etc to be able to produce software like this? I'm still at my corporate 9-5 where they're still making the decision on whether we're allowed to use copilot yet.
mnky9800n•1h ago
I do stuff after work to keep up to date. Like scrolling hacker news and as my gf says “shitposting on LinkedIn”. But also I’ve been building some apps with Claude code. It’s fun actually. But I also do other stuff like gym and cycling and Russian language learning.
dr_kiszonka•58m ago
I am in a situation where everyone uses it but is ashamed to admit it. I often spot people secretly glancing at GH copilot chat or Chat GPT.
olmo23•58m ago
They gave us copilot and honestly for me it's been a bit of a double-edged sword. I often use it with Claude 4 as model. What I noticed is that the tool is able and eager to make large sweeping modifications to the code base where I would be apprehensive and look for an easier way.

For example: changing the type signatures of all functions in a module to pass along some extra state, a huge amount of work. I ended up reverting the changes and replacing the functionality with thread local storage (well, dynamically scoped variables).

So, definitely not a panacea, but still well worth the money.

mike_hearn•43m ago
No, lots of people are in that situation. Either due to IP or cost concerns. $200/month/developer is a non-trivial expensive for most companies, given that they aren't easily able to monitor developer productivity, and as people keep observing it's not clear that the $200/month price point is sustainable given how easy it is to ramp up usage what would cost $2000/month on the API.
davedx•1h ago
Are all these Claude Code articles adverts for people building wrappers around Claude Code? I'm starting to get quite sceptical about how good it actually is
khalic•53m ago
Claude code is very good, no idea about the wrapper and don’t really care. The “hidden” adverts do get on my nerves though
machiaweliczny•50m ago
I disagree. It's pricy and does crap code unless precisely instructed. Maybe because I was prompting in non-english langauge
mike_hearn•45m ago
Don't do that. Quality of all models tanks in non-English unfortunately. It's fine for chat and translation tasks but their cognitive capacities does reduce a lot.

One of the next features I'm expecting wrappers to add on top is auto-translation. In many work contexts it makes more sense to translate what the user said to English, process that and translate the answer back than ask the model to speak the language natively.

johnfn•1h ago
This sounds fantastic. I found myself nodding along the entire time as the author's experience matched mine. I'm really surprised it isn't more popular here on HN; I can only think that most people haven't really used Claude Max yet.
ksynwa•54m ago
Can someone explain to me like I'm from 2020 what these multiple agents are for? Is it something like starting five different Claude Code sessions in parallel to fix five different issues? Or are they collaborating in some capacity?
mike_hearn•46m ago
Five different issues. They don't (yet) collaborate. However, Claude Code does let the model farm out subtasks to "sub agents" which is basically just forking the chat history in order to manage context explosion. Claude often does this to find things in the codebase - it effectively instructs a sub-instance of itself to work out where something is, the sub-conversation terminates with an answer and the main context window only contains the answer. It can also do this in parallel.

So, it's kinda both. Terragon works on separate tasks in parallel, Claude Code farms out subtasks and sometimes also in parallel.

bananapub•37m ago
> Is it something like starting five different Claude Code sessions in parallel to fix five different issues?

yes

socketcluster•4m ago
I tried Claude Code with my custom serverless BaaS. The results were excellent. See https://saasufy.com/

I've been struggling to convince users to use the provided Web Components instead of React but now with Claude Code, the frontend language/framework doesn't matter; it's increasingly irrelevant.

The frontend language is Claude Code. What is behind is irrelevant so long as it works. The backend platform is irrelevant as well, so long as it works efficiently and is serverless.

This is the ideal situation I've been waiting for. My opinionated platform is no longer opinionated because soon anyone will be able to use it without understanding it.