Curious how others find early stage startups to join. Thinking first engineer that a startup is hiring to maybe first 20 employees.

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I’ve found it hard to vibecode in the same repo with a team given thousands of lines of code are being committed each day. How do multiple vibecoders work together efficiently? What are strategies you use to manage this?

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I have recently installed this extension on FF: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;port-authority&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;port-authorit...</a> and yesterday I visited this website: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ceac.state.gov&#x2F;genniv&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ceac.state.gov&#x2F;genniv&#x2F;</a> and I got a notification that the website tried to do a port-scan of my private network.Is this a common thing? I have just recently installed the extension, so I am not sure if there are a lot of other websites who do it.Since looking into it, I noticed that uBlock Origin already has the default list &quot;Block Outsider Intrusion into LAN&quot; but it wasn&#x27;t enabled.

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I don&#x27;t want a trojan horse in my living room, I want a good ol&#x27; TV that&#x27;s good at just being a screen. No &quot;smart&quot; features but great image quality.PS: I&#x27;m also open to smart TVs that can be &quot;jailbroken&quot; or severely restricted to remove all their &quot;smartness&quot;.My use case: Watch shows streamed from my laptop via HDMI, play games, etc.

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I’ve been talking to a lot of freelancers, contractors, and creators in India who earn from abroad.One pattern keeps showing up:
→ Getting paid has become almost frictionless thanks to tools like Skydo and Infinity.
→ But the moment compliance enters (GST, TDS, FEMA filings, CA coordination), everything feels stuck in the past.People told me about juggling spreadsheets, pinging accountants on WhatsApp, and panicking near deadlines. The contrast is striking: the money rails have modernized, but the compliance rails are still manual, fragmented, and stressful.It made me wonder:
→ Why did cross-border payments modernize so quickly, but compliance got left behind?
→ Is it the complexity of regulations, lack of incentives for builders, or just that “tax” isn’t an exciting problem to solve?Are there examples anywhere (India or elsewhere) where this has been done well?For transparency: I co-founded taxtap.in ↗ to try solving this for Indian freelancers and contractors. This post isn’t meant as a pitch — I’m more interested in hearing from this community. If you’ve built in fintech, struggled with Indian compliance, or just have thoughts on why this gap exists, I’d love to learn from you.

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Just wrapped up my first Go project and wow, what a language. I&#x27;m a WebDev but I studied both C and C++: Go feels like the smart, minimalist cousin that cuts the fluff but keeps the power.- Compilation is instant
- Syntax is clean and predictable
- The tooling is chef&#x27;s kiss (go run for example)To test the waters, I built something fun:Datacmd that is a CLI tool that turns CSV&#x2F;JSON&#x2F;API data into beautiful terminal dashboards with a single command.No GUI. Just pure terminal magic:datacmd --generate --source=data.csv
Supports pie charts, gauges, tables, live system metrics, and it&#x27;s built on top of termdash.I see termdash was missing pie charts, tables and radar chart, so I tried implementing myself.GitHub: github.com&#x2F;VincenzoManto&#x2F;datacmd
Feedback and PRs welcome (probably there a lot of bugs), I’d love to grow this into a go-to tool for devs who live in the terminal.

My first project in Go is a terminal dashboard (what a programming language)

I&#x27;m an experienced (10+) fullstack developer who was recently laid off and find myself at an interesting crossroads. Rather than immediately jumping back into the job search, I&#x27;m considering this an opportunity to explore building something on my own or working on exciting ideas that could turn into meaningful products. I am looking for I
ideas for solo products that could be built and launched relatively quickly and problems worth solving that don&#x27;t require a large team initially.
Also looking for opportunities to collaborate on interesting projects with other developers. Have you built successful solo products? What problems are you seeing in your day-to-day work that could use better solutions? Any advice for someone making this transition?

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It&#x27;s been almost 3 years since chatgpt. Progress was great but this does not seem like it&#x27;s going to replace almost all jobs in few years? What am I missing? This thing might be decade away from fully replacing a software engineer. Anything else? how many more decades?Did top insider tech people and VCs lied to us again?

Where is the exponential growth part of AI?

Hi Friends :)
Looking for a Co-Founder&#x2F;CTO. We&#x27;re raising $15m to build Self Evolving Deep Research agents :)
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Seda — Co-Founder &amp; CTOLocation: San Francisco, CA (in person)
Compensation: Founder-level equity + competitive salary (we’re raising a ~$15M seed)About Seda:The next frontier of AI is creating agents that can self-evolve, discover, and create new science, inventions, ideas, and content that humanity has not seen before.We’re building Seda – The Discovery Engine for the Internet.Seda is a self-evolving discovery agent that researches, generates, evaluates, and iterates—creating its own rewards and continuously updating its dataset—to surface truly novel insights and discoveries.Our approach: self-evolving agents coordinated with human evaluators. We’re making an algorithm for discovery: ambient research → gap generation → next-question selection → continuous exploration&#x2F;exploitation.Seda makes discovery guided and collaborative: pause and steer an investigation, branch lines of inquiry, inject new knowledge at any step, and publish results to a shared feed where communities verify novelty, extend work, and evaluate impact. The outcome is a living map of what the worlds curiosity—constantly refined by people and machines.The RoleAs Co-Founder &amp; CTO, you’ll own the technical vision, research agenda, and engineering execution to turn the discovery algorithm into a category-defining product.Send your GitHub&#x2F;Google Scholar&#x2F;portfolio&#x2F;resume to Talha@getseda.com. Include “CTO” in the subject.

Seda – Discovery Engine for the Internet – Co-Founder/CTO – Raising $15M

Just like AI text has tells like the em dash and certain phrases, what are some clues that code is AI generated?

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Wonder how being used feels like? One way to experience that is to discover that your terminal silently started to send command outputs to LLMs.Today, I got an LLM suggestion on how to fix a syntactic error after following an attempt to run a test.So, I went on to Warp&#x27;s Discord to ask what&#x27;s going on, and sure enough, their &quot;Friendly support bot&quot; and I discovered that.&gt; Warp has introduced features like Prompt Suggestions and Next Command that use LLMs to provide contextual suggestions. These features are part of Warp&#x27;s Active AI system, which proactively recommends fixes and next actions based on your terminal session, including errors, inputs, and outputs.&quot;Proactively&quot; here also means without explicit user consent.I did enjoy Warp, but that breach of trust is so enormous I&#x27;m removing it just now.This tells volumes about ethics and what&#x27;s important.Ref: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.warp.dev&#x2F;agents&#x2F;active-ai

Warp sends a terminal session to LLM without user consent

I run a small open-source project Deepkit (Trademark 017875717) I&#x27;ve been building for many years. It&#x27;s not huge, just a few thousand users compared to the big OSS names, but to me it was worth protecting, so I trademarked the name in the EU and US a few years back. I had hoped to be protected from other corporations this way and live peacefully.A $160M-funded company named Deepki (Trademark 1751952) came along and filed for cancellation at EUIPO since they needed the trademark now after getting lots of funding. They won. Now my trademark is gone.The frustrating part? The EU actually does allow open-source (even free projects) to have trademarks, but you have to prove &quot;genuine use&quot; in the EU for the goods&#x2F;services your trademark covers. Which seems to force you in collecting user sensitive data otherwise you are entirely unable to prove that you have actual users in the EU. I generally try to collect as little information as possible (also because I don&#x27;t care where my users are coming from). I had google analytics running for some time on the main page (not documentation), but most of the time it didn&#x27;t work and it seems most of my users block it anyway.Here&#x27;s what I gave the EUIPO and why they said no:- Google Analytics for my site with a full country breakdown from 2018–2023. A few hundred to ~1,800 EU visitors per year per country. They said that’s &quot;too small&quot; to count as real commercial exploitation for my Class 9 software. Also, they said they couldn’t tell which goods those visits were actually for.- npmjs + GitHub stats - hundreds of thousands of downloads and thousands of stars. Rejected because there&#x27;s no location data, so they couldn&#x27;t confirm if the usage was in the EU. In some cases, they said the timeframes weren&#x27;t even clear.- They basically kept repeating that they couldn&#x27;t clearly link any of the usage to the specific goods&#x2F;services my trademark was registered for.The conclusion:&gt;Conclusion: It follows from the above that the EUTM proprietor has not proven genuine use of the contested mark for any of the goods and services for which it is registered. As a result, the application for revocation is wholly successful and the contested European Union trade mark must be revoked in its entirety. According to Article 62(1) EUTMR, the revocation will take effect from the date of the application for revocation, that is, as of 18&#x2F;03&#x2F;2024.&gt;COSTS: According to Article 109(1) EUTMR, the losing party in cancellation proceedings must bear fees and costs incurred by the other party.They even admitted there&#x27;s no strict minimum for usage, and free software can count, but in their eyes my EU traffic was too low and not clearly tied to the trademarked goods.I also have the US trademark for the name. This same company tried to register in the US around 2022 (Trademark #79379273) and got blocked because it was too similar (decision made by USPTO). But a few months ago they somehow got it registered there too (Trademark #7789522), not sure how they did that now.Now I&#x27;m sitting here wondering:- Is it even worth getting a second opinion and appealing in the EU? I mean the project is very small.- Should I fight the US registration?- Or should I just walk away from trademarks altogether for my open-source projects. I lost so much money because of this already.- And for OSS projects in general, is there even a practical, privacy-friendly way to prove EU usage without generating revenue?- Is it even worth holding the trademark if proving EU usage is this brittle for OSS? If the trademark can be deleted just like that even after spending a few thousands dollars on lawyers. Probably a skill issue, but still, damn.It sucks to lose the name I&#x27;ve been building for years to a corporation with $160M behind them, especially when this is just a side project I do in my spare time, and to them I&#x27;m a nobody. If nothing else, maybe my case can be a cautionary tale for other OSS maintainers.

VC-backed company just killed my EU trademark for a small OSS project

When I was in India last year, I used UPI. Paying or splitting bills was as simple as scanning a QR code. Every shop had it, from street food stalls to restaurants. It just worked.In Singapore, I saw how much could be done with the digital ID system. Filing forms, healthcare, banking—it felt like everything was one login away.In the US, even a short hospital visit can cost thousands of dollars. It made me wonder why some basic things that clearly work elsewhere are missing here.What have you seen abroad that felt obvious, but doesn’t exist where you live?

What services or apps did you see abroad and wonder: why don't we have them?

Its been the perfect setup. Might do a tutorial on how to set it up if enough people like it

Dagger and opencode and agnostic agents and SSH app = most portable dev kit

On August 7, 2025, a new build problem started hitting many Android apps on F-Droid. Many Android apps on F-Droid have been unable to publish updates if they use Android Gradle Plugin (AGP) 8.12.0 or Gradle 9.0.The root cause: Google’s new aapt2 binary in AGP 8.12.0 started requiring CPU instructions (SSE4.1, SSSE3) that F-Droid’s build farm hardware doesn’t support. This is similar to a 2021 AGP 4.1.0 issue, but it has returned, and now affects hundreds of apps.As an example, my open-source app MBCompass hit this issue. I downgraded to AGP 8.11.1 with Gradle 8.13 to make it build, but even then, F-Droid failed due to a baseline profile reproducibility bug in AGP. The only workaround was disabling baseline profiles and pushing yet another release.This has led to multiple “maintenance” versions in a short time, confusing users and wasting developer time, just to work around infrastructure issues outside the developer’s control.References:- F-Droid admin issue: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;fdroid&#x2F;admin&#x2F;-&#x2F;issues&#x2F;593" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;fdroid&#x2F;admin&#x2F;-&#x2F;issues&#x2F;593</a>
- Catima example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;CatimaLoyalty&#x2F;Android&#x2F;issues&#x2F;2608" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;CatimaLoyalty&#x2F;Android&#x2F;issues&#x2F;2608</a>
- MBCompass case: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;CompassMB&#x2F;MBCompass&#x2F;issues&#x2F;88" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;CompassMB&#x2F;MBCompass&#x2F;issues&#x2F;88</a>

F-Droid build servers can't build modern Android apps due to outdated CPUs

Where are the best online spaces where humanity is attested in a decentralized way, using web-of-trust or something similar?

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I&#x27;m currently seeing &gt;99% packet loss to news.ycombinator.com (2606:7100:1:67::26):<pre><code> 13. br06-te1-2.lwdc.americanis.net 0.0% 231 14.3 17.2 14.0 172.5 19.5
 14. sdtc.sd-me01.te0-1.host1.20546.americanis.net 99.6% 231 12.9 12.9 12.9 12.9 0.0
 15. 2606:7100:1:67::26 99.1% 231 11.8 11.8 11.8 11.8 0.0
</code></pre>
Checked from both US and EU connections, same result, would be a very odd coincidence if it was a problem on my end. Trace looks like the uplink provider is having issues?IPv4 seems to be unaffected.

HN meta: 99% packet loss on news.ycombinator.com

I do not think I can list all of the related areas of Art. Like pencil sketching. Perspective projection. Isometric projection. There is something like technical engineering drawing but I am unsure whether that helps for learning animation and stuffs. I would love any feedback. I am basically planning to collect some books instead of joining on site training institutes in Kathmandu which are expensive and worthless.

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I am the CTO of a SaaS company. The software we make isn&#x27;t software for software developers. So we aren&#x27;t building it for ourselves, and except for in some niche or contrived cases, don&#x27;t have a reason to dogfood it.We have a strong product management team, and a strong engineering leadership. From my perspective, we generally work on the right things, and get them done reasonably quickly to a reasonably high standard.Whenever I put the word out for feedback, questions, or suggestions for things we could improve on, something that always comes up is &quot;we need to improve developer understanding of how our customers use the product&quot;. I&#x27;m sure this isn&#x27;t unique to us.We have tried many things over the years, I wouldn&#x27;t say I&#x27;ve found a silver bullet for it. We&#x27;ve tried things like visiting customers in person, encouraging devs to reach out to customers, encouraging devs to pair with customer-facing staff internally on meetings. We&#x27;ve also pointed to existing bug trackers and customer feedback forums as a place where devs can hear the word of the customer that&#x27;s already been written down. All these things help a little bit, but the general vibe of &quot;devs don&#x27;t really understand how the customers use the product or why&quot; persists.Interested to hear how other companies approach this!

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I&#x27;m going to finish a degree in mathematics next year (in Europe).The catch: I&#x27;ll be 37 when I finish. I had a change of careers later in life.I&#x27;m a bit lost on what to pursue professionally. I&#x27;ve looked into getting a Master&#x27;s in quant&#x2F;finance or AI research but I&#x27;ve read you need to be a young genius in order to get an interview in most of the prop shops, and for AI I don&#x27;t know how feasible that path is right now for a regular guy like me.I get the impression that I need some graduate program after my degree in order to pick up programming and other &quot;useful&quot; skills, and to be honest, I&#x27;m kinda looking forward to it.If you are in some sort of industry that uses math or math-adjacent skills I&#x27;d love to know what would you do in my situation, any advice will be golden.Thank you!

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I&#x27;ve used Jira at dayjobs, and presently am using clickup at my small business (we are on a paid plan). I like clickup, but it is _too slow_. It is soooo annoying to wait 5(!) seconds for every page load. I wish I could get a simpler, less-featured version, with uglier graphics, that loads in 0.2 sec. If you have made something like this, send me a link and I&#x27;ll try it out.If clickup folks see this: please make it load faster.

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Sam said yesterday that chatgpt handles ~700M weekly users. Meanwhile, I can&#x27;t even run a single GPT-4-class model locally without insane VRAM or painfully slow speeds.Sure, they have huge GPU clusters, but there must be more going on - model optimizations, sharding, custom hardware, clever load balancing, etc.What engineering tricks make this possible at such massive scale while keeping latency low?Curious to hear insights from people who&#x27;ve built large-scale ML systems.

Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally?

Many bookmarking tools were created, and then most got sucked into the tech&#x27;s &quot;how do I make more money cycle?&quot; and died.My favorite was delicious, and then Pocket. Even Google had a bookmarking extension.Is saving links no longer considered fashionable?Yes, AI, but how does it go back to my favorite that I need to either read or revisit?Should I vibe code one?

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Ask HN: Do you think programming as a job will end soon and if so, how soon?

I&#x27;ll start. A colleague would be politely suggesting designs or changes, but rolling with the punches when people disagreed. They were always proven right eventually, and it was usually because someone wandered into a module they had written and loved it.They changed a lot about how I worked, and by far their main characteristics were patience with us and a sort of completeness to whatever they wrote. It just arrived, maybe with one small adjustment or bugfix, bug never with a rearchitecture or major refactor required.

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I know, it sounds stupid, but I recently bought an iPhone and I use Windows as the main OS (Linux as the second). I&#x27;m going crazy deciding because I&#x27;ve had Gmail for 5 years with over 20,000 emails and iCloud Mail with just 30. I&#x27;d like to switch from Gmail to iCloud, but I&#x27;m afraid that if I lose the iPhone and switch to Android it won&#x27;t be the same anymore.On the iPhone I also have ADP enabled, so this complicates both security and Apple account recovery. Personal use: I see everyone has iPhones but uses Gmail. Why? Gmail collects more data to profile you with advertising, Apple does not. I also have Tutanota and ProtonMail, but I would like to use iCloud Mail.I use iCloud for Drive and stuff, but for email I only use Gmail (Apple Mail for Apple stuff only). For social media I use Gmail. I&#x27;ve been stuck for months, I don&#x27;t know what to do, especially if I lose or break my iPhone, my only Apple device. and I can&#x27;t buy another one, never lost or broken a phone in my life, I&#x27;m always attentive as if it were a child