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Ask HN: How to balance incremental SaaS building with a big long-term vision?

HelloI’m building a SaaS product and struggling with a common tension: having a clear long-term vision while only being able to make progress in small, incremental steps.How do you decide what to build this week without losing sight of where the product should be in a few years? What mental frameworks or heuristics help you avoid both over-architecting early and drifting without...

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Have you installed Claude Code Github App and tried assigning the issues using @claude? In my experience it has done better than Github Copilot
Great resource, definitely a good place to take the next step. As I looked into detail, the natural question came (based on software developing experience), how do I evaluate the correctness of output produced by LLM given the inputs. Clearly, unit test with fixed in/out pairs won't help so learning methods to evaluate as we develop iteratively will be very useful.

Thanks for sharing the article!

Ask HN: How to Learn to Build Agentic AI Systems (Like Claude Code)

Hello folks,I’m trying to learn how one can build agentic AI systems similar to Claude Code, and eventually adapt that knowledge toward domain-specific use cases (e.g., “Claude Code for healthcare, finance, education, etc.”).For those of you who’ve studied or built these kinds of systems, I’d love to hear your recommendations on:• Foundational learning: What books, courses, or papers provide...

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Re:12-factor Agents: Patterns of reliable LLM applications on Thursday April 17, 2025 @01:54PM (#43720170)
Thank you, I will take a look
Re:12-factor Agents: Patterns of reliable LLM applications on Thursday April 17, 2025 @03:32AM (#43714035)
May be if you pick a real-world agent workflow (toy from your production experience, trim it down), and showcase how all these factors will come along in a project.

I am inspired by the simplicity of these 12 factors and definitely want to learn more with an example that embraces these factors.

Re:12-factor Agents: Patterns of reliable LLM applications on Thursday April 17, 2025 @03:18AM (#43713973)
I am wondering how libraries like DSPY [0] fits in your factor-2 [1]

As I was reading, I saw mention of BAML > (the above example uses BAML to generate the prompt ...

Personally, in my experience hand-writing prompts for extracting structured information from unstructured data has never been easy. With DSPY, my experience has been quite good so far.

As you have used raw prompt from BAML, what do you think of using the raw prompts from DSPY [2]?

[0] https://dspy.ai/

[1] https://github.com/humanlayer/12-factor-agents/blob/main/con...

[2] https://dspy.ai/tutorials/observability/#using-inspect_histo...

Ask HN: Running Local LLMs on MacBook Pro M1 Max?

Hello CommunityI’m experimenting with running local LLMs and would love to learn from those of you who’ve spent more time in this space. I’m particularly interested in performance tuning, reasoning capabilities, and enabling agent-style workflows using local models.My setup: • MacBook Pro (2021) • Chip: Apple M1 Max (10-core CPU: 8 performance + 2 efficiency cores) • GPU: Apple M1 Max...

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Re:Ask HN: How Are People Designing Apps in the Age of AI? on Saturday September 14, 2024 @05:33AM (#41538620)
Yes, I love using the code and AI tools like Claude, Github CoPilot are great at it. But when solving a business problem, we still need to "see it" before start writing the code (at least this is my preferred way)

Ask HN: How Are People Designing Apps in the Age of AI?

In the age of AI, I’m curious to know how people are designing apps, especially if they’re solo founders or small teams. Are there tools out there that can help design app workflows from end to end? What does the process look like for solopreneurs who are juggling both development and design?Specifically, with frameworks like TailwindUI, TailwindCSS, and ShadCN being mature and widely...

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Show HN: Chrome Extension that estimates Nutrition for dishes on DoorDash

https://bettermenu.live/extension/

Hey everyone! Ever found yourself craving some grub but unsure about its nutritional value? We've been there too!Embarking on a humble journey, we're actively refining our methods to provide even more accurate and detailed nutrition data, hand in hand with our restaurant partners. Join us on this journey towards healthier eating, one dish at a time!You can find the extension here:...

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This is good project. I built my first chrome extension using https://crxjs.dev/vite-plugin/getting-started and there was lot of fiddling to et styles working.

This could also be because this is my first browser extension development. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/bettermenu-for-door...

There is still lot more work to do, so I will checkout your project. Thanks for sharing!

Re:Ask HN: Best email client for a Mac? on Monday September 24, 2018 @12:16PM (#18058924)
Spark works great for me too!

Ask HN: How do you manage your time with multiple projects?

This question is not about multitasking (doing multiple things at the same time). This is question is more of a framework for short-term and long-term learning.I will explain this with my situation:I am working on a personal project (say P1) that I would like to ship soon (may be in 2 months). I also have few more ideas of new projects that I would like to work on sooner. I would also like...

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Re:Ask HN: What are some of the ways to learn codebases on Monday January 23, 2017 @11:22AM (#13463255)
thank you. Could you elaborate on this method please?

Ask HN: What are some of the ways to learn codebases

Last time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8263402 article appeared in 2014, I wanted to see if there are methodologies that people have adopted not listed in this article? I would like to hear your experiences. Feel free to contribute here or at https://gist.github.com/hhimanshu/714962f4205d7dddc7e5991a86412805. I would make notes and update the page. Thanks

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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2017? on Monday December 26, 2016 @06:46PM (#13260385)
I have made one side project ever since 2013 (I am working from 2011 and made few failed project, but learnt a lot). In 2013, we had exactly same problem - tracking expenses and do personal budgeting. My wife was using spreadsheets and I created a software (using Python and Flask) and released a webapp. Later we realized that an app would be much more useful, so rewrote the backend (Java EE) and front-end(Objective C), but never released it. We have however 3 years worth of our own data (never did analysis or charts). Lately, we feel that since our app never made to App Store, it crashes every 7 days and I need to reinstall/use XCode to do this work (very painful). I plan to rewrite again in Scala (my latest favorite) and use React-Native to build the app. This time I would like to publish it
I enjoy working with Akka to build reactive applications. Clean, Readable, Testable

How to build an RSS Reader?

Hello there, I need a help. I want to build an RSS reader (or shall I call as RSS feed engine) to learn how it works. This purely for educational purposes.I tried looking around the web and honestly could not found much material on the topic. In a nutshell, think of that I want to build something like feedly or Google Reader.I do not get resources on how to build one. The closest I could get...

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Re:Ask HN: How are some people exceptionally productive? on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @10:17AM (#10041210)
I do not consider myself as very productive (and still try to learn from others). Some things that has helped me are

1. Increased water intake/Eat Well. I drink 1st bottle (300ml) with black tea (usually Oolong) and then refill with hot water. I make sure I am drinking water while I work. I am vegetarian and I take almost no sugar. I have replaced sugar with raw honey in my chai :-). I try to have more plant-based diet.

2. Take breaks. When I am stuck with the problem, I take either water-refill break/pee break/short walk to get me away from the problem, but possible solutions find me where ever I am.

3. Start day early. I usually like to start my day between 5.30AM-6AM. But I do not jump on emails/office work. I have a separate to-do list to learn/read different things (mostly technical). I start my day with it. That's my kick.

4. Less scanning. I use Asana in the Calendar view. As soon as I reach the office, I make sure the world is not crashing. I add tasks that need my attention and close the email. Then I add things I like to do (and aren't listed in my today's task). I start hunting these tasks. If I have some dependency on others(Ops for example), I create tasks/email them and move on with my agenda

5. Exercise. Not doing very much these days, but try to run for 20-25 minutes every evening, to have physical workout > mental workout (This is a key to good sleep)

6. Sleep well. I try to get somewhere between 7-8 hours every night. I need to learn to improve this area.

At the end of the day, I prefer a fulfilled day -> A day where I produced value to my company Plus I learned something new. That produced happiness which leads to productivity. Iterate.

Re:Ask HN: Concurrent Programming Projects for beginners? on Saturday December 20, 2014 @12:14PM (#8777158)
colefichter, Thank you so much for your help. I really appreciate it. I would try to build one of the projects

Ask HN: Concurrent Programming Projects for beginners?

I have spent a lot of time writing web applications from backend-to-front end (I am sure there is lot more to learn there), but I got bored and wanted to learn something I never learned(and wanted to).I am talking about Concurrent Programming. I mostly work with Java but in order to learn Concurrency, I picked Erlang and I want to invest my time learning this language and do some projects to...

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Re:PopcornTime official website is back on Thursday April 03, 2014 @01:26PM (#7524441)
This always confuses me. Is it legal to stream movies in US using torrents? meaning can I use popcorn-time.tv in US without any legal issues?

My Gmail Account Hacked. How do I secure it?

This happened with me in first time since I am using GMail (since 2005).I was in Starbucks using my laptop in the afternoon for an hour.I didn't notice anything major until I tried log into GMail and GMail notified that my account is disabled for security reasons. I ignored(stupid me!) and reset the passwordMeanwhile few days ago GMail service disruption happened and I noticed I am received lot...

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Re:Ask HN: Best books/tutorials you read in 2013? on Monday December 16, 2013 @04:59PM (#6918128)
Clean Code

Refactoring

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