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Re:Show HN: I made a TV for old cartoons on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @03:17PM (#49997511)
got the idea to build this while i was watching Pink Panther
Re:AI didn't simplify software engineering: It just made bad engineeri... on Saturday March 14, 2026 @12:05PM (#47378052)
me and my team have wasted so many hours (days) working on some product features which was "definitely going viral" only to be forgotten after a few weeks

I believe if we had something like this we could go to market early and understand the user behaviour to build a more scalable and robust system once we were sure if it was even of worth

Re:AI didn't simplify software engineering: It just made bad engineeri... on Saturday March 14, 2026 @11:39AM (#47377763)
this is where years of experience working with freshers and junior devs helps, AI is smart enough to exactly do if you clearly tell it what to do and how

unless you understand every inch of system and foresee what issues can be created by what kind of change, things will break when using AI

Re:AI didn't simplify software engineering: It just made bad engineeri... on Saturday March 14, 2026 @11:23AM (#47377609)
"Coding was never the hard part. Typing syntax into a machine has always been the least interesting part of building a system."

and I think these people are benefitting from it the most, people with expertise, who know their way around and knew what and how to build but did not want to do the grunt work

Re:Ask HN: Are AI "Chatbot Wrappers" ruining EdTech? I'm testing a pro... on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @08:24AM (#47136844)
I believe it is the way it is because it would cost too much otherwise. You can use the live API for continuously monitoring what the user is doing and if they are stuck but that would be expensive.
Re:Dictionary Compression is finally here, and it's ridiculously good on Monday February 23, 2026 @08:17AM (#47121939)
This article explores the emergence of dictionary compression as a standard for web data transfer, enabling massive reductions in payload sizes for JavaScript, HTML, and WASM. By referencing previously downloaded content or custom dictionaries, servers can send only the unique 'diffs' of a file rather than the entire asset. This technology is now widely supported in modern browsers and backends, offering a significant performance leap for returning users.

TLDR generated at https://toolong.co/s/v0lnbfh1

Re:Claude Sonnet 4.6 on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @12:48PM (#47050477)
Opus 4.6 but cheaper
Re:I Quit My Job at OpenAI on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @10:15AM (#46975971)
"I once believed I could help the people building A.I. get ahead of the problems it would create. This week confirmed my slow realization that OpenAI seems to have stopped asking the questions I’d joined to help answer."

i see it happening everywhere

Re:Radmon.org – free radiation monitoring website for enthusiasts on Friday January 30, 2026 @09:30AM (#46824827)
I would suggest you to also use English together with local language just like Flightradar

Show HN: Watermark – Browser based image/video watermarking with FFmpeg.wasm

Posted by a_void_sky on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @12:34PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://watermark.akatski.com

Hi HN!I built (vibe coded) a completely browser-based watermarking tool that processes images and videos locally without any server uploads. Link: https://watermark.akatski.comEverything runs client-side - React + Vite, deployed on Cloudflare Pages. No backend, no file uploads, no tracking (except GA).Would love feedback on the UX and any performance improvements for video processing!Built this...

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Re:FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub on Friday December 26, 2025 @01:50PM (#46394956)
they waited for more than 1.5 years and they did not forgot
Re:Understand CPU Branch Instructions Better on Monday July 07, 2025 @06:07AM (#44488615)
its such a fascinating thing that most people just ignore i too wrote (using AI) an article on Branch Prediction after i found out that most of my team members only read this in college but never understood
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @03:42AM (#44441116)
do you really want to mention "zone" against all the zones in the zone column?
Re:GCP Outage on Thursday June 12, 2025 @03:27PM (#44262118)
asia-south is working for me
Re:Why Your CPU Is a Fortune Teller on Sunday June 08, 2025 @07:30AM (#44216293)
it "should" be elementary but it isn't, I got the idea to publish something on this because I recently had a conversation with a few new hires
Re:Builder.ai Collapses: $1.5B 'AI' Startup Exposed as 'Indians' on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @01:37AM (#44177540)
Nobody has mentioned that they were reselling the AWS credits they had. We had them as our billing partner with very good discounts. The day it happened, AWS sent us a mail to remove them as our billing partner.
Re:Show HN: Novella – A platform for AI-generated stories on Thursday May 15, 2025 @08:03AM (#43994128)
I'd love feedback on the design, user experience, and any feature suggestions before I publicly launch. Happy to answer questions!
Re:Ask HN: What's your go-to message queue in 2025? on Thursday May 15, 2025 @07:51AM (#43994032)
Kafka for communication between microservices, and MQTT (VerneMQ) for IOT devices
Re:Show HN: I made a Wikipedia mobile app, but scrollable and AI summa... on Thursday May 15, 2025 @06:56AM (#43993694)
the link is broken

Show HN: Novella – A platform for AI-generated stories

Posted by a_void_sky on Thursday May 15, 2025 @06:47AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://novella.akatski.com

Hi HN! I built Novella, a platform that lets you read AI-generated fiction across different genres, created by different models.What is Novella? Novella is a web application that showcases AI-generated fiction.Why I Built This? I wanted to explore how different AI models (LLM) can be used for creative fiction.

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Re:Microsoft Confirms $1.50 Windows Security Update Hotpatch Fee Start... on Thursday May 01, 2025 @04:34AM (#43855040)
incentivizing themselves for building a broken system, you can do anything if you have a majority of market share
Re:Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail on Thursday May 01, 2025 @04:23AM (#43854975)
it is, when the regulating authority is centralised