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In LLM era, can software startup survive?

Nowadays, vibe coding is everywhere. Turning an idea into software is just matter of tokens. I was joking the other day. Creating a tax return softwar is much faster than purchasing Turbotax at Costco.Large companies still have compute resources and customer bases. For startup, users are expecting open source and free software. Posts of subscription or one-time purchase software on Reddit will...

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Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?

I haven’t owned a TV in years and would like one that respects my privacy. Are there any TV’s which do this well? I am looking for something in the 60”to 80”range and would like a 4k display with at least 60hz display. I don’t mind paying a premium.I have heard good things about Apple TV as a better alternative to most smart TV native apps. Would some TV’s pair better with this than others for...

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Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN

https://hackerbooks.org

Saw Karpathy's HackerTube and wanted the same thing for books. So I had Claude build one (Opus 5.5).It's ~16.5k books that at least two different HN commenters brought up, from 2007 till now. Each book links back to the comments that mentioned it. Data is downloadable from the about page.To be clear: Claude wrote almost all of it, including the data pipeline and the site. I mostly steered and...

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Ask HN: How do you manage your personal agents?

Now we have so many different and powerful agents: OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, Muse, Dots, Claude Code, Codex,… more coming. I let everyone run separately but have to copy and paste the same questions from one to another to check their responses. There should be better ways to coordinate all of these agents. What are your opinions?

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Show HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rust

https://github.com/ivankovic/omnidiff

I have been researching what the ultimate diff tool would look like, based on actual diffs in open source repositories.OmniDiff can diff: code (25 languages), config, images, PDFs, archives, cursors, fonts...It's fast. It can diff C++ files of tens of thousands of lines in under 100ms, on a 2023 ThinkPad T14s.It's open source. AGPLv3.It's based on real diffs. I looked at the 7400 repositories...

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