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Show HN: I turned my iPhone and a $20 smart plug into an f-stop timer
I am a film photographer and do some darkroom printing and always wanted one of the proper, advanced f-stop timers, but never really wanted to spend a couple hundred dollars on one. Eventually I figured my phone was already perfectly capable of doing...
Show HN: Delegator – Stop juggling coding-agent sessions
I wanted to share Delegator with the HN community. delegator gives you a personal inbox to manage your tasks that is completely local to your machine.Backstory: Like everyone else, I've been experimenting with different AI-assisted development...
A token is not a message: stop storing AI responses like event logs
How you store a streamed AI response decides what a client sees when the client joins partway through. A human agent taking over a support conversation, a refreshed browser, and a second device all need the response generated so far, and depending on...
Architecting for uncertainty - part 3: GenAI as an amplifier
This is the third 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...
Show HN: Lask – A task runner with a type system and pinned Docker environments
I implemented a task runner called Lask. Let me introduce it to you.Lask is a lightweight task runner with a statically typed DSL. It runs by calling Docker from Lask on the host.Makefiles or shell scripts I wrote often failed to run on my colleagues...
NTS: Authenticated Time at Meta
Meta’s public time service now speaks NTS (Network Time Security, RFC 8915) at nts.meta.com. Packets are authenticated, so a device can verify the time came from us and was not modified on the way.Our NTS servers hold no per-client state. Cookie keys...
Ask HN: How do you choose the right architecture?
Software engineers often tell me that vibe coding frequently chooses the wrong architecture. So does anyone have advice for helping it choose the right one or otherwise avoiding pitfalls?For example a front post page right now is getting lit up for u...
Show HN: Our space game has a built-in RISC-V emulator that runs Linux
(Edit: original URL was https://againstallodds.games/, but we've switched it to https://againstallodds.games/blog/2026/10/03/our-risc-v-emul... in response to user requests for explanation.)We&#x...
Show HN: Our space game has a built-in RISC-V emulator that runs Linux
We're a tiny indie studio, all with a background in the demoscene and for about 3 years now we're developing a space planet terraforming game called SEEDS - Echoes Beneath the Sands.Our protagonist Naxiah is stranded on a small, desolated p...
Deploy Oracle Database step by step on Amazon EVS with FSx for ONTAP
This post provides step-by-step procedures to deploy Oracle Database on Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP as NFS datastore storage. You will provision storage volumes, mount NFS datastores, install Oracle, an...
Architect highly available Oracle Database on Amazon EVS and FSx for ONTAP
Enterprises with existing VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) investments want to migrate their Oracle databases to AWS without rearchitecting applications or retraining operations teams. Oracle on Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) can take advant...
Deploy open source Regional availability tools in your VPC
When you build multi-Region architectures on AWS, one question comes up early: “What services are available in each AWS Region?” The answer shapes architecture decisions, from which AWS Regions to expand into, to how you design for resilience. For te...
Show HN: Rhubarb – build, edit, publish custom JavaScript/D3 data visualizations
Last July, I was beginning to consider branching out on my own to take on data analytics work as a consultant.As I experimented with AI, I realized how incredible it was at building custom data visualizations. The problem was that the AI outputs coul...
Show HN: Dapr Dev Dashboard, a local tool for Dapr developers (incl workflows)
I'm Marc Duiker, Dapr community manager and developer advocate at Diagrid (a company founded by the co-creators of the Dapr OSS project).I've created a new free local dashboard for Dapr developers that provides insights into everything they...
Accelerating airline retailing innovation: how Datalex modernized with AWS Experience-Based Acceleration and agentic AI
Datalex, a leader in airline ecommerce solutions, set out to answer a question facing every established product-based business: how do you build for where your industry is going, not only where it is today? For more than two decades, Datalex has powe...
Show HN: EventSend – Event tracking and routing for solo founders and SaaS teams
I was tired of learning about failed payments by my customers and not from my system, so I built an event tracker that allowed me to have a searchable feed of the important events happening for my apps and route the ones I cared about to my phone so...
Launch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine for agents
Hey HN, Anders and Tom here. We're building Magnitude, an inference engine for agents that optimizes itself to run as fast as possible on your hardware. It works on Mac, Linux, and Windows on any hardware and is up to 2x faster than llama.cpp.We...
Build and govern AI agents across a multitenant organization
Preview features: This article uses generally available Microsoft Agent 365 together with capabilities that are currently in preview, including Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance, multitenant agent management, and the Azure API Management dedicated AI...
Running multi-day AZ evacuation drills with ARC Zonal Shift
Running a multi-day Availability Zone evacuation drill with ARC Zonal Shift is an effective way to prove your application can withstand a sustained impairment. Multi-Availability Zone deployment is an architectural best practice for building resilien...