Dev Systems
Show HN: Puppetflow a free browser automation platform
Hi HN,I'm Jess, dev based in France. Been building software for ~15 years, and for almost a year now I've been working on Puppetflow, a source-available browser automation platform built around Puppeteer, with a big focus on observability a...
Show HN: Open Session, the open-source cloud agent-orchestrator
Open Session is an open-source cloud-based agent orchestrator. Self-host and use it with any model you like (or all of them).Open Session started as an internal app at Tella (YC S20). It’s become our most important tool. The whole team uses it, and n...
MAPS: Netflix’s Multimodal Asset Personalization at Scale
By Emma Yanyang Kong, Aditya Deshpande, Asad Abbasi, Bowei Yan, David Fagnan, Ashish Rastogi, Dhaval Patel, Ray ZhangIntroductionThe Netflix experience is a journey of discovery. Every visual cue, from the artwork on a title to the video previews tha...
Encoding Myself into the System
Lately, I’ve been thinking more seriously about what AI and automation may mean for my role as a software engineer.I’m a principal engineer at a large organization, and for more than a decade I’ve led a project that has always felt particularly close...
Show HN: Hostflip – a macOS /etc/hosts switcher that detects external edits
Hi HN — I built hostflip, a native macOS menu bar app for switching /etc/hosts profiles. It is free and open source under the MIT license.The problem I wanted to solve was not just editing hosts entries. It was sharing /etc/hosts...
Show HN: Reconstruct distributed LLM training traces
When we train large language models, there are a lot of systems challenges and different sharding schemes one can use. While there are many great resources on scaling LLMs out there (https://huggingface.co/spaces/nanotron/ult...
Show HN: Ecdeos – P2P Web/Native Distributed OS on Entity Core Protocol
Hello, I wanted to share an update of the current progress of the Entity System.https://ecdeos.org is one domain in a constellation of peers/sites that is the main project of the Entity System, a Tauri Rust/WASM browser engine and...
7 ways to kick-start back to school using Gemini in Workspace
Get a jump on this semester by using Gemini in Google Workspace to organize your notes, track deadlines, prep for projects, and more.
Gallup scales real-time coaching for thousands with Amazon Bedrock
How Gallup turned 90 years of workplace science into an AI assistant that gives leaders personalized guidance in seconds, powered by Amazon Bedrock. Gallup delivers analytics and advice to help leaders and organizations solve their most pressing prob...
Closing the AI agent trust gap with graduated autonomy
How much to trust an AI agent is now a daily operational question. Agents read customer data, open tickets, process refunds, and delete accounts, yet most teams pick up a binary: full access or read-only. Full access is risky because agents fail unpr...
Show HN: I built a SaaS without knowing how to code – am I an idiot?
It's called learnfrom.co, a platform for creating, hosting and selling online courses.I started building it because I wanted to solve a problem I had with existing course platforms. I kept running into things I wanted to change, so I started bui...
Architecting for uncertainty - part 1: thriving in a VUCA world requires frequent deployment
This is the first in a series of articles based on my talk Architecting for Fast Flow: Thriving Amid Uncertainty.In this series, I define the term fast flow and explain why it has become an essential software delivery capability.I discuss how fast fl...
MetaRoCE: A New RDMA Transport Built for AI-Scale Ethernet
Training and serving frontier AI models depends on fast, reliable networks that move data between GPUs without wasting compute cycles. To meet this challenge at scale, Meta designed MetaRoCE – a clean-sheet RDMA transport protocol purpose-built for A...
MTIA 300: Meta’s First Training Chip with Built-in NICs and Communication-Offloading Engines
MTIA 300 is the first of Meta’s family of in-house training and inference accelerators optimized for training ranking and recommendation models.We’re sharing how MTIA 300’s built-in NIC chiplets allow it to meet the communication needs associated wit...
How a global payment processor preserved AWS RAM shares and Lake Formation permissions during an AWS Organizations migration
Accounts move between organizations in AWS Organizations whenever a business changes shape. A merger folds one estate into another. A divestiture carves one out, and some companies run more than one organization by design. The moves take more care wh...
Show HN: Praxos – team messaging with built-in memory
Hey HN! What does a regular workflow at a startup look like?Probably like this:> One founder talks to customers> Another founder builds> A customer asks for something. The first founder explains it to the second. The second founder explains...
Show HN: Kandelo – a POSIX-compatible multi-process WASM kernel for the browser
Kandelo is an open-source, Wasm-based multi-process kernel that runs POSIX programs in browsers and Node.js.Kandelo is still experimental, but it already runs a substantial range of existing software.Do you have use cases for this?We are trying Kande...
Coding Agents killed my identity. How do you feel?
I always was a nerdy, deeply technical programmer. Contributing-to-open-source-and-reading-papers-in-my-spare-time type of programmer.Programming is like a game of chess for me: winning (i.e. delivering a product) is important, but only if I played t...
Speed limits, GenAI coding agents and Autobahns - part 2: raising the safe speed
Part 1 developed a driving metaphor for GenAI-based development: you are the driver, the coding agent and its harness are the car, and your code and delivery system are the road.And in the same way that the road determines how fast you can drive, the...
Ask HN: Do teams really need to use GitHub?
Enterprises can self-host, sure. Open source projects uses it for the the network effects of GitHub. But why does a small software team need to use GitHub?I understand the ecosystem argument. Once you've got your repos, CI/CD, PRs, code rev...