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Show HN: Objo Studio. A modern visual RAD IDE for desktop and web
I posted Objo Studio here some months ago when it was much earlier in development and it didn’t get much attention. Since then it has changed quite a bit, so I thought it was worth showing again.Objo Studio is my attempt to build a modern version of...
Show HN: STXT, indentation-based format with schemas and no escape characters
STXT is a human-first text format for documents: it has very few rules and is designed around simplicity and readability. The goal is a language that people write naturally, and machines parse securely and reliably.Compared with XML, you keep namespa...
Show HN: Dbmask – Discover, mask, and verify sensitive data in SQL databases
Hi HNI developed *dbmask*, an open-source Python tool designed to discover sensitive columns in SQL databases, masking them with deterministic fake values, and validate the masking results.The motivation behind this tool stems from a common issue I e...
From zero-shot forecast to purchase order with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Authors: Hyunsoo Kim, Chloe Kwak Learning level: 300 – Advanced Post type: Best Practices Every inventory manager faces the same question each morning: How much should I order today? The answer depends on dozens of variables (sales history, upcoming...
Show HN: BlindLock – Passwords hidden in a photo, sealed to your TPM/SE
Hi everyone, I'm David, the solo developer and owner of BlindLock. This is my second post here.BlindLock is more than a year of work. Not a weekend hobby project I threw together. I've put a hell of a lot of time, heart, and nerves into it....
Building on AI Landing Zones: Operationalizing Enterprise AI with the Citadel Architecture
From AI Foundations to a Shared Operating ModelIn my previous article, AI Azure Landing Zone: Shared Capabilities and Models to Enable AI as a Platform, I explored how organizations establish secure, governed environments for AI workloads. Building o...
From OSDU to Ontology: Why Oil & Gas AI Readiness Lives at the Meaning Layer
The five-answer problemAsk a simple question inside a large operator: “How is this asset producing against plan, and what’s the constraint?”Now watch five systems answer five different things. The production historian knows a “well” as a set of...
AI Agent ROI Framework
Introduction AI agents are rapidly becoming a core component of enterprise transformation strategies. Organizations are deploying agents to assist employees, automate business processes, improve customer experiences, accelerate decision-making,...
Building resilient real-time streaming workers with Amazon DynamoDB leases
Consider a real-time transcription service processing 500 concurrent meetings. Each worker processing these meetings requires a dedicated outbound WebSocket connection to an upstream streaming source. When a single worker fails, it drops 100+ connect...
Testing application resilience with Amazon SQS and AWS Fault Injection Service
When your application can no longer send or receive messages through an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue, downstream processing can stall. The cause might be a misconfigured Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy, a network partiti...
Validating multi-Region DR for Terraform Enterprise with AWS FIS
In October 2025, Athenahealth, a major North American Electronic Health Record (EHR) provider, discovered a gap. An AWS regional service event in us-east-1 made their single-Region HashiCorp Terraform Enterprise (TFE) deployment inaccessible to their...
Why human syntax breaks LLMs (and how to fix agentic coding)
Full technical essay with benchmarks & AST breakdowns: https://aslang.dev/blog/why-llms-struggle-with-python-and-rustOver the past two years, watching coding agents generate code, we kept noticing an identical failure pattern:...
Show HN: AI means the end of software as we know it
As agents scale in intelligence per token per watt, software architecture is starting to shift: away from CRUD databases and directional tree structures, toward multidimensional hypergraphs where knowledge, governance, and code are all the same kind...
Show HN: I was tired to check my mums WhatsApp last online, to see if she is ok
Ever since my father passed away, my mother has been living alone in our family home. She’s now over 70 years old. I live in another city, and so does my sister. Of course, we call her regularly, but at the same time, she doesn’t want to feel like sh...
Show HN: Correctness as spectrum not as binary in distributed system
In distributed system correctness is not about a program being complied well with the computer and it’s network, it’s only correctness can be only specified by it’s definition, assumptions and failure model.One of the area in which we can see this ha...
Why WebSocket ordering breaks down once you're in production
WebSocket guarantees message order, but only within a single, open connection. When that guarantee breaks in production and not in local testing, the cause is almost always one of four things:An async message handler reordering messages in your own c...
Show HN: Casefile – Git why for AI-assisted development
During my work at Brokk last year we developed a task-slicing system. The idea was to have a bunch of tasks where each task can be implemented and verified in isolation. So I can mentally focus only on one task at a time with checking the evidence it...
Show HN: DrawDB Pro – design database schemas for your team and agents
2 years ago I launched drawDB on here. It was my very first project that I open-sourced and it ended up going kinda viral. A month ago I launched drawDB Pro for solo devs and teams. It was actually my manager that encouraged me to go build it to help...
Show HN: TERMy – A fast terminal assistant that does not use LLMs
I love research and development, you may have heard of me because of PJON (Padded Jittering Operative Network). It is a network protocol I started developing in 2010, which was recently implemented in silicon by the ETH Zurich university thanks to th...