Ask HN: Which companies gained a competitive edge purely via engineering?
For example: WhatsApp or Crash Bandicoot (1996)?
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Re:Claude Opus 5
on Saturday July 25, 2026 @05:27AM (#49046022)
definitely not comment from Antrophic...
Re:Building an Open-Source Robot Vacuum – Meet Oomwoo
on Thursday July 02, 2026 @09:58AM (#48761731)
Lmao this repo is 20 days old, but description is written like it's Linux.
Re:Ask HN: Which companies gained a competitive edge purely via engine...
on Friday June 19, 2026 @06:40AM (#48597046)
I recommend to read about WhatsApp how they scaled to nearly 1 billion users with only about 50 engineers. Also check how they optimised BE system.
Re:An interview with an Apple emoji designer
on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @10:47AM (#48556118)
Also no thief emoji or pirate emoji. Can someone enlighten me why we don't have it?
Re:Running local LLMs offline on a ten-hour flight
on Monday April 27, 2026 @11:13AM (#47922729)
To be honest, I think possibility to work and travel is con rather than perk of current times.
Re:Schedule tasks on the web
on Friday March 27, 2026 @06:36AM (#47540991)
lmao
I feel like AGI test would be sense of humor. Somehow I cannot force any LLM to output any even normal level joke.
Re:Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @04:42AM (#46972926)
use linux
Ask HN: "Bible" like books in any field
What’s the go-to “bible” book in any field that can take someone from beginner to intermediate—in that field, whether it’s programming, gardening, or welding?For example: Mixology -> Cocktail Codex by Alex Day
Re:Show HN: Dayflow – A git log for your day
on Thursday September 25, 2025 @07:09AM (#45371497)
What kind of problem is this solving? Why would I install spyware on my machine? lmao
Ask HN: What's solution to periodic Deep Research using LLM?
Hi, what's current solution for Deep Research that will run in defined interval. I wanted to use OpenAI Deep Research model but API is extremely confusing. So maybe there is something else more generic and lean? Like I don't want to be vendor dependant (so any config on 3rd party ui is out of the scope). I'm also happy to code long standing solution but I need place where to start. Cheers
Re:SkiftOS: A hobby OS built from scratch using C/C++ for ARM, x86, an...
on Thursday September 18, 2025 @05:29AM (#45287520)
Anyway, congrats, this is huge! :)
Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
on Thursday September 18, 2025 @05:22AM (#45287476)
Maybe Mattermost is solution?
Re:SkiftOS: A hobby OS built from scratch using C/C++ for ARM, x86, an...
on Saturday September 13, 2025 @07:46AM (#45231316)
How devs can create something like this with normal time constrains? I couldn't squeeze this kind of project having day to day 9 to 5 job as dev.
Re:GrapheneOS and Forensic Extraction of Data (2024)
on Friday September 12, 2025 @05:46AM (#45220454)
I thought about this for a moment, reminds me of ANOM company. But isn't GraphaneOS open source?
Changing USB pins layout sounds like interesting idea.
Re:Anthropic Services Down
on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @12:51PM (#45200447)
Funny, my friend told me the same thing happens to Figma.
Re:The Last Programmers
on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @08:16AM (#45180892)
6 split screen Claude CLIs? Bro will be out of hair pretty soon
Re:Signal Secure Backups
on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @05:35AM (#45179694)
I was always thinking it was a feature not a bug
Re:OpenAI eats jobs, then offers to help you find a new one at Walmart
on Friday September 05, 2025 @09:48AM (#45138552)
Finally some common sense here. This is exactly my thoughts, how come in age of instant information flow people cannot gather together under one idea. How French Revolution could happen without Messenger and WhatsUp? People had to walk and talk about idea.
AI CEOs are talking like they are oracles but they just need to please stakeholders.
Ask HN: Do custom ROMs exist for electric cars, for example Teslas?
I always wondered, in age of almost digital cars, is custom ROM a thing? Like root access and custom features?
Re:We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own
on Monday September 01, 2025 @04:27AM (#45090732)
Sorry, but I was thinking that Apple was forced to allow side load? And now you're telling me that Good Guy Google is disallowing this? How this is legally possible?
Re:Valve Software handbook for new employees [pdf]
on Sunday August 24, 2025 @05:00AM (#45002604)
Anybody working for Valve here? Can somebody confirm how many % percentage of this is BS?
Re:Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels
on Monday August 18, 2025 @02:37PM (#44943845)
How this is possible for iOS? Can someone share technical details on this iOS implementation? IMO this cannot be done without validating user privacy and giving app some crucial screen reading permissions.
Ask HN: How it's like to work on products like MS Excel?
Hi all, just being curious, how it's like to work on Excel? How big is your team? What's unusual is in this product?
What stack did they use to create this AI influencer with the same face?
Re:What stack did they use to create this AI influencer with the same ...
on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @02:27AM (#38443319)
Does anyone of you know what stack has been used to create this good looking AI pictures with the same face on each photo? Recently I was playing with some AI gen. tools for photos but this is next level