Dev Systems
Show HN: Pacwich – lightweight new monorepo tooling on top of Bun, NPM, or pnpm
I developed a package simply called bun-workspaces that worked on top of Bun workspaces directly with zero required config, using plain package.json scripts for orchestration.I have re-developed this package into pacwich, which
supports Bun, npm, or pnpm. I decided it would be a better direction for it to be decoupled from a particular package manager, so it needed a new name (but I wanted to keep my logo).I write about the development strategy and my engineering philosophy (including disclosing
Show HN: Alpenglow, a Linux distribution that boots to login in 0.6s
Alpenglow is a general-purpose (focused on appliance use right now) Linux distribution focused on fast boot times, small system size, and minimal runtime overhead.The project supports both traditional root-on-disk installations and diskless immutable deployments from the same codebase. In diskless mode the entire system runs from an initramfs with a read-only root and optional persistent state. In rootfs mode it behaves like a conventional Linux installation with package management and writable
Ask HN: How are you enabling your employees to do AI dev in the cloud?
Sure, us engineers can Claude Code up a storm locally on our laptops these days. But now with everyone trying to vibe code everything, there's quite a few people that don't have a "proper" local dev environment to do that same kind of development. Let's just take running a test suite. Our devs need a pretty beefy environment to run that.So ideally, these environments are just in the cloud. But Claude Code web, is so "environment lite" that it really isn't
Show HN: Intelligrade – EU Based Digital Exams
Hey HN!I am Kevin and together with my co-founder Steven I have built Intelligrade over the last 2 years. Steven is a teacher and he got sick of having to deal with outdated, overly expensive and inadequate tooling to create, conduct and grade exams. Most of them don't respect privacy either or are US based which generally disqualifies them from usage in many parts of the EU.So we set out with a mission: Create a tool for teachers and schools that covers exams E2E. The reality is that teach
Show HN: Numax - a portable runtime for distributed apps
Hi, over the past few months I've been working on this project: Numax is a small Rust runtime that does three things: it runs WebAssembly modules in a sandbox, has a built-in local key-value store, and syncs everything across nodes with CRDTs and gossip.
Basically, you write a wasm module, run it on two machines, and they converge (I hope !).
It's a decentralized system... I hope someone finds it interesting!
There's a whitepaper I've put a lot into, and I think the code isn&
Revolutionizing Document Intelligence: Scaling Construction Industries with AI-Driven Extraction
IntroductionGenerative AI (GenAI) is poised to transform the construction industry by addressing chronic challenges such as low productivity, cost overruns, schedule delays, and labor shortages. By automating the analysis of drawings, specifications, contracts, and project documentation, GenAI can reduce manual effort, accelerate decision-making, and improve coordination across architects, engineers, contractors, and suppliers. Industry studies indicate that AI-powered workflows can increase pro
Powering the world’s first AI arts museum
<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Gallery_A__Data_Pavilion.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Rafik Anadol Studio opens Dataland, the first museum of AI arts, powered by Google Cloud and supported by Google Arts & Culture.
Ask HN: Does your mind drift while waiting for AI prompts to finish?
I've been a software engineer for 9 years now, and I noticed a very new weirdness in my workflows. Once I finish the architecture of a project and i have my context engineering prompt ready, I hit SEND, and then is just void lol. I have realized that between that time of waiting till AI is done, my mind drifts, I go use other apps, search random stuff and if AI fucks things up I go back and forth supervising it. I feel like this whole experience has generated some kind of fatigue and comes
Show HN: The Ruby AI Newsletter
Now on its 32nd edition, the Ruby AI Newsletter tracks what’s happening at the intersection of Ruby, Rails, and AI coding agents.YC recommends Rails for new startups, YC’s internal software like Bookface, Work at a Startup, and the software that runs the accelerator all run on Rails. Garry has been a vocal advocate for Ruby on Rails for agentic startups, calling it a "crazy unlock". And there is an incredible ecosystem forming around RubyLLM. Ruby and Rails gives agents conventions, st
Ask HN: How do you deal with the feeling of "loss of control" with AI coding?
I have to admit that newest models and harness tools have gotten really good and produce working code really fast with even mediocre prompts "wish programming".The problem is more on my side than the LLM side. I feel I am 1) losing control of my project, even my hobby ones, because LLM outputs code so fast that I am 2) too lazy to manually review all of them, even if, indeed, I had the overall architecture design choices and sometimes straight up pseudo-code in natural language. But NL
Show HN: ELDC – Natural language identification, faster than FastText and CLD2
I want to introduce ELDC, an efficient language detector, written in C, designed to maximize speed and accuracy within a relatively constrained memory footprint.ELDC is the latest iteration of the ELD software I made years ago. This version is available as an executable, a library, and a Python package.This is my first C software, or anything compiled for that matter, I previously built this in pure PHP, JavaScript, and Python.Highlights:
- Performance: In my benchmarks, it runs faster than CLD2
Show HN: Fata – Spaced repetition to fight skill rot from AI coding
Hi HN, I'm Djoumé. I've been a developer for over 20 years, and like a lot of you I've been coding almost exclusively through an agent in the past few months.It's been amazing to vibe code prototypes in any stack, but when it comes to building something reliable/scalable, I couldn't effectively guide the agent unless I knew the technology. And the scariest part is that I'm seeing a lot of my technical skills decreasing due to AI coding.Reflecting on my journey,
Reducing SMS OTP fraud with Vonage network-powered solutions and Amazon Cognito
User authentication remains one of the most targeted touchpoints in application security. With the industrialization of fraud threats by generative AI, cybercrime costs are expected to reach $23 trillion in 2027, an increase of 175 percent from 2022. 20 percent of fraud is attributed to synthetic identity and authentication exploits, with account takeover (ATO) surging 141 percent since 2021. But the damage goes beyond security. SMS One-time passcodes (OTPs) achieve only approximately 80 percent
Why your AI UX keeps breaking (and what to do about it)
I ran a webinar on this recently and had more to say than the time allowed, so this is the written version: the argument I was making, some context on the demo, and the questions that came up from people watching. The recording is below if you'd rather watch than read.The thesis: AI products are being let down by the user experience, not the model. Over the past nine months, I've spoken to engineering and product teams at more than 40 companies across a range of industries, all of whom are shipp
Scaling the UK government’s AI vision
<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/GoogleLondon_2_1.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Today at the Google Cloud Summit London, we discussed why Google Cloud is the foundation for the UK government’s Augmented Planning Decisions tool.
Introducing AI Transport v0.2.0
Version v0.2.0 of @ably/ai-transport reorganises the SDK to better support a wide range of interaction patterns. Everything in an AI session – input, output, agent lifecycle, control signals – is captured durably, allowing you to easily build the sophisticated interaction patterns that support modern AI user experiences.When we first built @ably/ai-transport, we modelled an AI conversation the way most people first picture it: as a request and a response. A client sent a prompt, the server strea
How Samsung achieved real-time pricing with AWS Lambda Response Streaming
This post is co-authored with Sathish Kumar and Christopher Chan from Samsung ecommerce. In high-traffic ecommerce, achieving real-time pricing is critical to prevent price inconsistency. Pricing inconsistency creates cart shock and erodes trust. This isn’t broken software, it’s a symptom of architectural latency that you can address using AWS Lambda Response Streaming and Amazon CloudFront for systems aggregating data from multiple backend sources. In this post, we walk through the legacy archi
I built a bookkeeping app for UK sole traders as a new developer using AI
About a month ago I started building QuarterPerfect — a bookkeeping tool aimed at UK sole traders and landlords, specifically designed around the MTD ITSA changes coming into effect this year (first quarterly deadline: 7 August).A bit of background on me firstly.I'm not a senior developer. My previous project was a small roster app that converted an XLSX shift rota into a calendar with annual leave support — mostly built for me and a few colleagues at work. Nothing with real users, nothing
Show HN: Artie – Real-time data replication to your data warehouse, self-serve
Hey HN, cofounder of Artie here. I’ve been working on real-time database replication using CDC (Postgres/MongoDB into Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift) with my wife for the last three years. Last time I posted here, people had to book a call with us to get access, but that’s no longer the case. You can connect your source and destination and start streaming immediately.I encountered this problem firsthand as a heavy data warehouse user at prior jobs. Our warehouse data was always lagged and an
Show HN: HelixDB – A graph database built on object storage
Hey HN, it’s been just over a year since we launched HelixDB (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43975423), a project a friend and I started in college. It’s an OLTP graph database built on object-storage, with native vector search and full-text search (FTS).Why graph, vector and FTS? Graph databases provide a natural cognitive model for data, vectors allow for a semantic understanding of the entities and relationships in the graph, and FTS provides more specific filtering. Many