Dev Systems
Real-time analytics: Oldcastle integrates Infor with Amazon Aurora and Amazon Quick Sight
This post is cowritten with Avdhesh Paliwal from Oldcastle. Oldcastle APG is one of the largest suppliers of construction materials in North America, including asphalt and concrete. The company also provides construction and paving services across more than 150 facilities. As the company migrated from on-premises systems to Infor Cloud ERP hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS), they faced a critical challenge: maintaining the real-time operational reporting capabilities that hundreds of users acro
Modernizing the Facebook Groups Search to Unlock the Power of Community Knowledge
We’ve fundamentally transformed Facebook Groups Search to help people more reliably discover, sort through, and validate community content that’s most relevant to them.We’ve adopted a new hybrid retrieval architecture and implemented automated model-based evaluation to address the major friction points people experience when searching community content.Under this new framework, we’ve made tangible improvements in search engagement and relevance, with no increase in error rates.People around the
Show HN: Egregore – Shared memory and coordination for multiplayer Claude Code
hi HN — we're Cem and Oguzhan. today we are releasing Egregore (https://github.com/egregore-labs/egregore) as an open-source shared memory and coordination substrate for teams using Claude Code. MIT, runs locally, `npx create-egregore@latest --open`. Here's a 90-second walkthrough: https://shorturl.at/e1RX2we were essentially working on dynamic ontology systems (how to organize unstructured data given context / starting conditions dynamically). s
Show HN: simple_ans – Asymmetric Numeral Systems Compression in Python/C++
The Asymmetric Numeral Systems (ANS) algorithm (Duda et al, 2015) is perhaps the most practical way of getting near optimal compression ratios for independent and identically distributed random sequences of symbols from a known discrete probability distribution. Simplest example: a random sequence of 0’s and 1’s with probability p of getting a 1. Shannon’s entropy formula gives us the expected compression ratio for such a sequence, but realizing that compression ratio efficiently in a computer p
Show HN: Libretto – Making AI browser automations deterministic
Libretto (https://libretto.sh) is a Skill+CLI that makes it easy for your coding agent to generate deterministic browser automations and debug existing ones. Key shift is going from “give an agent a prompt at runtime and hope it figures things out” to: “Use coding agents to generate real scripts you can inspect, run, and debug”.Here’s a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cDpIntmHAM. Docs start at https://libretto.sh/docs/get-started/introduct
OPC Workflow – Three Markdown files that enforce discipline on AI coding tools
I've been using Claude Code and Cursor for several months on a real project. The tools are
impressive, but I kept running into the same failure modes:1. Long sessions cause context drift — the AI gradually ignores the original design
2. The AI writes fake tests — empty assertions, mocking the thing being tested
3. No research phase — the AI guesses how a framework works instead of reading the docsOPC Workflow is my fix: three markdown files you put in your project and trigger as slash
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Show HN: How Are You-elderly fall detection app I built solo with AI in 6 months
I am writing the post, because I want to show that with AI, really complex and meaningful projects can be done, if the proper tools were used the proper way.
I needed a project that I can use, so that I see how far I can go with only AI usage. I needed something doable, but relatively complex.
And then I remembered an idea my wife shared with me, a few years ago: an app that monitors her grandfather's behavior and sends a notification if he stops moving. at that time, AI integrations were
Ask HN: What's the best AI model for system design nowadays?
I'm specifically asking about software system design tasks like:<p>Designing backend architectures
Tradeoff analysis (DB, queues, caching, others)
Infra diagrams
Documentation<p>My current pick would be Claude Opus 4.6, because I've found it strong at structured reasoning and long context<p>But I'm curious what others are using today
Show HN: Git-native solution for documenting software architecture
This is a very early POC to gain feedback for a project I've been working on for the last couple of months.<p>Let me know what you think!<p>Based on an ODI (Outcome Driven Innovation) research on current pain points documenting software architecture.
Show HN: A book that builds GPT-2, Llama 3, DeepSeek from scratch in PyTorch
I'm a software engineer who works with LLMs professionally (Forward Deployed Engineer at TrueFoundry). Over the past year I built up implementations of five LLM architectures from scratch and wrote a book around them.The progression:- Ch1: Vanilla encoder-decoder transformer (English to Hindi translation)
- Ch2: GPT-2 124M from scratch, loads real OpenAI pretrained weights
- Ch3: Llama 3.2-3B by swapping 4 components of GPT-2 (LayerNorm to RMSNorm, learned PE to RoPE, GELU to SwiGLU, MHA to
Capacity Efficiency at Meta: How Unified AI Agents Optimize Performance at Hyperscale
We’re sharing insights into Meta’s Capacity Efficiency Program, where we’ve built an AI agent platform that helps automate finding and fixing performance issues throughout our infrastructure. By leveraging encoded domain expertise across a unified, standardized tool interface these agents help save power and free up engineers’ time away from addressing performance issues to innovating on new products.We’ve built a unified AI agent platform that encodes the domain ex
Post-Quantum Cryptography Migration at Meta: Framework, Lessons, and Takeaways
We’re sharing lessons learned from Meta’s post-quantum cryptography (PQC) migration to help other organizations strengthen their resilience as industry transitions to post-quantum cryptography standards.We’re proposing the idea of PQC Migration Levels to help teams within organizations manage the complexity of PQC migration for their various use cases.By outlining Meta’s approach to this work — from risk assessment and inventory through deployment and guardrails — we hope to contribute practical
Ask HN: How to test a distributed Job Runner with an at-most once execution
Hey everyone.
I'm currently building a distributed job runner that can guarantee an at-most once execution under crashes & system failures.I'm still in the early stages, building it from scratch.
Think of it as Sidekiq, but with at-most-once execution guaranteeHas anyone done something related to this for a side project and how did they test & validate it.
Also, has anyone built something like this for work to be used in Production? any ideas you can share?What i plan to do for
Show HN: Agentfab – A Distributed Agentic Platform
Hi HN,I’m the creator of agentfab, a distributed agentic platform that features task decomposition, multi-agent orchestration, model heterogeneity with custom agentic fabrics, bounded review loops, and a bespoke self-curating memory system that enable shared context.My background is in engineering at hyperscalers where I worked extensively with foundational distributed systems. I started agentfab because I wanted an agentic coding tool that could effectively decompose and parallelize work across
Ask HN: Sanity-check my numbers on EVs and solar power
I've been thinking a lot lately about solar power, and specifically about the supposed need for expensive and heavy steel structures to hold panels in place, at least in some applications. And I've also been thinking about electric vehicles, and about how electric engines are much more efficient than internal combustion engines, even before considering whether the source of energy is renewable.And the idea occurred to me: why not just put solar paneling on the roof of the vehicle itsel
What if Time at the subatomic level has multiple arrows?
I’ve been wondering about one thing: what if the electron isn't "blurred" in space, but simply distributed across an infinite number of time-arrows simultaneously?
Is it possible that quantum superposition is merely an observational effect of viewing such a multi-vector system from the perspective of our single timeline?
And if so, wouldn't superconductivity become a problem of temporal synchronization rather than thermodynamics?
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Databricks Delta Sharing: Enabling Cost Efficient Cross Cloud Data Access
What Is Delta Sharing?Delta sharing is an open protocol for secure data sharing that allows organizations to share live data stored in Delta Lake with external consumers—across cloud providers such as Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud—while keeping the data in its original location. Consumers access the same up‑to‑date data without the provider having to copy or move it to another cloud. Why Delta Sharing Matters in Multi‑Cloud ArchitecturesIn multi‑cloud environments, data sharing typically lea
Building a Scalable IoT Platform for Facility Management with Azure Serverless Services
The platform follows a microservices architecture with six independently deployable services, all built on Azure Functions v4 with TypeScript. Each service is containerized and deployed to Azure Container Apps.┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ Enterprise IoT Platform │ ├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ │ │ ┌──────────────────┐ ┌──────────────────┐ ┌──────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ IoT Portal U
Show HN: Django-security-hunter – Django security scanner CLI
I built a lightweight CLI tool for Django and Django REST Framework projects to help detect common security issues early in development.It focuses on problems like:unsafe production settings
exposed or misconfigured APIs
missing security configurations
common security risks in Django projectsThe goal is to make security checks simple and part of everyday development or CI workflows.GitHub: https://github.com/abu-rayhan-alif/djangoSecurityHunter
Show HN: Superpowers-UML – UML-Enabled Superpowers
Superpowers-UML modifies Superpowers to ensure a software development workflow in which AI agents design through UML modeling, for Claude Code users.