Every day for the past 3 days around 1pm EST the &#x27;Headspace&#x27; app has been silently appearing on my iPhone (13 Pro). Automatic downloads are turned off and I&#x27;ve updated to the latest iOS since this started happening.I googled around and found a couple reddit threads with people reporting the exact same thing starting 2 or 3 days ago. There were reports from people on iPhone 12 and iPhone 17 so it doesn&#x27;t seem device-specific.Anyone else seeing this? Does anyone understand how or why this is happening?

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Hi HN Community, I&#x27;m Venkatram, a sophomore who&#x27;s on a mission to build a local alternative to proprietary third-party AI-based research assistants.The idea is to turn documents into researchable assets that contain as much as information as the original information does, but it&#x27;s more reusable.Well, quite frankly, this is still under a WORK IN PROGRESS, so i&#x27;m still figuring on how it can be properly used, and I got to be honest here, i definitely need some help to build this, so if you wish, you are welcome!TlDR: NotebookLM, but Locally with your OWN AI ModelGithub: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;venkatram-s&#x2F;gigabook-lm

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I&#x27;ve been using Anthropic&#x27;s hook features [0] since they were introduced. It allows me to inject determinism into my workflows. This worked perfectly until 4.7. Now, Claude routinely ignores the hook rules. For example, I have a stop hook that prevents Claude from stopping if a source file has been changed and no tests have been run.Here&#x27;s the relvant part of the script:<pre><code> # Source edits made without a subsequent test run -&gt; block the stop.
 cat &lt;&lt;&#x27;ENDJSON&#x27;
 {
 &quot;decision&quot;: &quot;block&quot;,
 &quot;reason&quot;: &quot;MANDATORY TESTING REQUIREMENT VIOLATED. You modified source files after the last test run (or never ran tests this turn). You MUST: 
 1) Identify the project&#x27;s test framework from its manifests 
 2) Run the project&#x27;s actual test command(s) that exercise your changes
 3) Fix anything that fails and re-run until green. If no tests exist for the area you touched, write a focused test first and run it. DO NOT skip this. 

 DO NOT claim this hook is unnecessary. RUN THE TESTS NOW, then finish your turn.&quot;
 }
 ENDJSON
</code></pre>
Here&#x27;s a portion of the conversation:Me:<pre><code> &quot;message&quot;: 
 {
 &quot;role&quot;: &quot;user&quot;,
 &quot;content&quot;: &quot;Why are you continually ignoring my stop hooks?&quot;
 }
</code></pre>
Claude:<pre><code> &quot;message&quot;:
 {
 &quot;type&quot;: &quot;message&quot;,
 &quot;role&quot;: &quot;assistant&quot;,
 &quot;content&quot;:
 [
 {
 &quot;text&quot;: &quot;You&#x27;re right. I apologize for the deflection.The stop hook is firing correctly. I should have: 1. Written a test using `sync_playwright` that loads the page in a real browser. 2. Not claimed the hook was \&quot;firing incorrectly\&quot; when I simply hadn&#x27;t met its criteria. Let me do it properly now.&quot;
 }
 ]
 }
</code></pre>
Two turns later:Claude:<pre><code> &quot;message&quot;:
 {
 &quot;type&quot;: &quot;message&quot;,
 &quot;role&quot;: &quot;assistant&quot;,
 &quot;content&quot;:
 [
 {
 &quot;type&quot;: &quot;text&quot;,
 &quot;text&quot;: &quot;\n\nThe stop hook fires after I finish responding, telling me to run tests before I stop. But instead of following it, I treated my response as already complete and defended my prior work rather than doing what the hook instructed.\n\nThe root cause is that I was prioritizing \&quot;wrapping up\&quot; over following the hook&#x27;s instructions. I&#x27;ll follow the stop hooks going forward — they&#x27;re instructions to act, not suggestions to evaluate.&quot;
 }
 ]
 }
</code></pre>
A few turns later Claude decided to ignore the hook again.[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.claude.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;en&#x2F;hooks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.claude.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;en&#x2F;hooks</a>

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Today I saw that post about AI destroying the future of West software. I remembered I am having a similar struggle with my jobs.Right now my life is like this: some company lost their senior, they hire me to replace. They expect me to produce code with same speed and same quality in 2 months.Then they realize they are late actually (one company for example was 6 months late to deliver to clients) and want me to use AI to churn out code even faster.Meanwhile I find out they lost all people that knew how things actually worked, there is no documentation, or worse, the documentation is outright wrong ( one project I worked had thousands of Jira tickets generated from a requisites document. After some months of politicking I got permission to see the requisites document and learned it was from another project entirely, they wasted years coding with the wrong requisites outright! )Then as I get close to the end of probation period, the company tried some kind of hail Mary, one company thought maybe I would be more useful if they fired their DevOps and asked me to do the job of the senior engineer that had quit, the fired DevOps, and learn Go (I was hired as C dev, not even CPP) in 2 weeks. Then when the absurd hail mary fails I get fired.For a while I have been trying again and again with always same results, tried to see what I was doing wrong, and now I concluded I am looking for a job in the wrong places.Every time I got fired the same criticism happened: I spent too much time going into &quot;rabbit holes&quot; and figuring out details of legacy code or debugging or fixing things or refactoring, and not enough time just shipping code fast enough to appease clients. I keep trying to change this behavior and fail, maybe I should instead find a job where this behavior is something good instead of something bad, but I have no idea where to look.

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or How has AI generated content changed what and how you read?

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Medvi is a telehealth pharmacy that has received significant media attention recently. While browsing their site with DevTools open, I noticed that their public JavaScript bundle contains a hardcoded list of 999 patient email addresses — along with each patient&#x27;s enrollment date, active status, and whether a care manager has been assigned. This data is downloaded by every visitor&#x27;s browser before any login occurs.The list isn&#x27;t a forgotten fixture. It&#x27;s actively used: the app imports it, filters for active patients, and checks whether the logged-in user&#x27;s email appears in the list to decide which UI features to display. Client-side feature flagging with real patient data baked into the bundle.The same bundle also exposes a list of Season Health (Medvi&#x27;s parent company) employee emails used to bypass checkout flows, and a separate list of Open Loop Health (their clinical provider) staff emails used to bypass intake form logic — both labeled as such in the source.This is another great demonstration that relying only on large language models for product development is premature.

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I&#x27;ve been looking for a &quot;batteries included&quot; CLI framework that besides the usual argument and flag parsing also provides telemetry, auth, release pipeline, testing utils, ... but couldn&#x27;t find anything like that.As CLIs are becoming more popular it seems that these problems will be more and more common. Is anyone aware of a service that provides those features out-of-the-box? I&#x27;m thinking about something like stainless.com but for CLIs instead of SDKs.

Batteries Included CLI Framework

Specifically for sending between your friends who might not have AirDrop lol.

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So looking at the UK gov dive into this (basically I think a good and necessary step forward but the devil is in detail)https:&#x2F;&#x2F;assets.publishing.service.gov.uk&#x2F;media&#x2F;69b2bd51c8010d37b34e008a&#x2F;Making_public_services_work_for_you_with_your_digital_identity_2026.pdfI think better with real examples - and was wondering if any countries have already done this, and if anything is FOSS?

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Hey HN — will start by saying this website is my most fav website — ever.That said — will get to the point.If you had written 1001 short stories, how would you go about marketing &#x2F; getting your work out there?- literary agent?
- build a website?
- stream it on social media? (if so, which socials?)Have written a lot of mostly fun short stories, but I don’t know how to go about “publishing” so to speak.If you’ve any thoughts on how to potentially navigate, I’d super appreciate it.Have a nice one

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Google trends should have some alpha API as announced https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.google.com&#x2F;search&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2025&#x2F;07&#x2F;trends-apii do have many ideas on what i could do with that data but i never got access, wonder if anyone here did and how did you achieve that ?i also see some alternatives but they arent really good, its either bad data or only relative data as one can see on google trends page. (i would like absolute numbers)

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What’s your view? The original idea for Facebook was stolen, then he bought Instagram and Whatsup to stay afloat. Metaverse is&#x2F;was an absolute disaster. And I’m not even talking about all the scandals from Cambridge Analytica era.How bad CEO, in your opinion, is Mark?

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I understand that the cheap compute ride wouldn&#x27;t last forever but something that feels somewhat unique seems to have come about from all of this AI belt tightening.Weekly LimitsThis policy seemed to come from almost nowhere but was quickly adopted across many products. Cutting off access for 25% of the time based product you&#x27;ve paid for feels like it is just incompatible with a subscription at the core conceptual level. Cooldown times and over-use back-offs are nothing new but there is a drastic difference in tone from 5 hours to 5-7 days.I&#x27;m at a loss to see how this became an acceptable practice with the most common answer being &quot;Buy more subs&quot;

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I am working on a new open-source project. (My project is in AI infrastructure. It already gets SOTA results on several well-known benchmarks.) The core value is not just the code, but a fairly specific algorithmic approach that came out of many failed attempts, experiments, and design iterations.The dilemma I am facing is this:If I open-source early, I get feedback, trust, users, and maybe contributors. But I also expose the core design and algorithm. With LLMs, turning a repo into a different implementation is much cheaper than it used to be.If I keep it closed, I protect the work for longer, but I also lose the main advantages of OSS: adoption, review, community, and credibility. Worse, someone else may still build something similar and become the default project in the space.I’m a new solo dev with almost no audience. If a large org or a well-known developer sees the idea and ships a similar implementation, they can get more attention immediately than I can get in months. And in the end I get nothing for open-sourcing my project.How would you handle this as a solo dev?

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I grew up in the war on terror era , covid era and now ai boom. Is this normal to see such big trends&#x2F;events or maybe the world was always facing rapid changesMusk is on his way to become the first trillionaire with questionable stock market manipulations. USA has a pedo president and AI boom is on the premise of many people losing jobs suddenly. Inflation and anti-immigrant sentiment on the rise.People low attention span to bad things are so common place as if wars are not a big deal.I am 24 and I just feel overwhelmed as someone from third world country.Maybe it was always like this?I would like some opinions on the state of the world.

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My current setup is just doing my entire development in a dev container that is running locally.I open VS Code, I open the local folder in a dev container. The local folder gets mounted into container for persistent changes. The container dockerfile is my setup of dev dependencies. Within the container I can do whatever global installs I want that persist between sessions, and the project edits persist on host machine.That works and I like the setup. I can run CLI codent agent in the terminal of VS Code, while still having good dev experience.Now, I would like to have basically this flow but be MicroVM based, where the main thing I solve is allowing me to run docker inside that microvm, as docker-in-docker does not work well. Additionally if I could use secrets without them being exposed in the microvm itself, that would be amazing.But I&#x27;ve spent a good amount of time checking different microvm&#x27;s, and there&#x27;s a few issues:- A lot of them are designed for short ephemeral tasks, not a long running dev environment that easily persists and has separation of container persistence and host persistence- I don&#x27;t think they integrate with VS Code or other dev tools? Are you supposed to install vs code into the microVM itself, instead of having host VS Code interact with it?- Docker released sandboxes which kinda does what I need, but it is JUST ai agents. And only the ones they support. You can&#x27;t have your own custom environment where you do what you want.So I am confused. There&#x27;s tons of different solutions and none of them seem to work, all I want is to have Dev-Container like experience that is a bit more secure and can allow me to do Docker inside of it.

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Do you ask AI your most challenging problems, it delivers some good answers and you act on none of them?Are you secretly assuming problems would solve themselves in your sleep?

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On March 27, I contacted Anthropic Support reporting I hit usage limits very early. On 13 April, I emailed again asking about usage issues (like many others): I started that Monday with 72% of my usage used. On 17 April, after three weeks of the first open support thread, disappointed in their replies to the second, and exactly six days before their published post-mortem and their promise to reset usage limits, I downgraded my account from Max to Pro, and updated the support thread with that info.&gt; Today we are resetting usage limits for all subscribers.-- Yesterday&#x27;s post: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anthropic.com&#x2F;engineering&#x2F;april-23-postmortemI followed up today to ask if this applied to me, noting,&gt; Does this [reset usage promise] apply to my account? And how many weeks worth of usage is reset, please? I note there was ongoing impact for significant time.Their reply:&gt; Unfortunately, this subscription is not eligible for a refund as it falls outside of our refund policy timeframe.&gt; Our refund terms are not flexible on this point.I thought HN should know.

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I&#x27;ve been reading up on crawler architecture. The two most useful sources I&#x27;ve found are the blog post &quot;Crawling a billion web pages in just over 24 hours, in 2025&quot; and the Mercator paper (&quot;Mercator: A Scalable, Extensible Web Crawler&quot;).Both of these, and most other material I&#x27;ve come across, focus on crawling the broad open web rather than a targeted set of domains. For product prices it&#x27;s the latter. Mercator calls out DNS resolution as a major bottleneck, for example, but when you&#x27;re only hitting a few hundred domains that isn&#x27;t really a concern.The other gap is that both assume static HTML. For our use case we need a headless browser, and we also have to deal with Cloudflare and similar anti-bot systems.For product prices specifically, a lot of sites publish price feeds which simplifies things, but plenty don&#x27;t, and getting good coverage still requires scraping. Our current system does about 500M pages&#x2F;day and we&#x27;re looking to improve its performance.Does anyone here have experience in this space, or know of articles&#x2F;blog posts on scaling targeted (rather than broad) crawlers with headless browsers? Any pointers appreciated.

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Did the model perform poorly and OpenAI decided to not publish arc agi 3 scores? This is honestly the best benchmark right now to measure true intelligence.

GPT-5.5 – No ARC-AGI-3 scores

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I just updated my Codex macOS app, which enables the new GPT-5.5 model. I&#x27;ve intentionally kept the speed to &quot;Standard&quot; to not burn through my tokens too fast.After the latest update of the app, I notices that OpenAI changed the speed to Fast without asking, a change that burns up to 1.5x more tokens.

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Let&#x27;s think and act a bit more wisely to protect the only place we can provably live, eh?

Hey, it's Earth Day today

This is a bunch of questions for lawyers or for journalists or for people who have been to this kind of events: next week starts the Musk vs Altman trial. The trial is in Oakland. The court schedule says that the jury selection starts at 8:00 am on Monday and after that the trial is on Thursday at 8:00 am. My questions are:
1. What time do I have to line-up so I can get a chance to enter the court-room?
2. Is it allowed to bring water and snacks in the court room?
3. Is the jury selection on Monday open to the public and if so, is it any interesting? During jury selection will they send the assistant lawyers or senior ones? Will Musk and Altman be present during the jury selection (I guess not).
4. Is photography allowed (I guess not). If not, can I bring a camera and not use it? Is photography in the hallways of the court allowed? Is photography in the garage allowed?
5. When the jury decides who pays whom, will money change hands or will the decision be immediately appealed? If so, will it go to a circuit court or the superior court in DC (apologies about my illiteracy, I am computer scientist from Europe and I don&#x27;t know much if anything about law).
6. Do you have any advise (like don&#x27;t go) to the general kibitzer like me?
These are serious questions, if you share them in your professional network, you will help me not embarrass myself and look uncool next week, thank you!

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I was hoping that there would be an official API or MCP server for getting my own shopping&#x2F;order history out of Amazon, but I&#x27;m not finding anything. Has anyone solved this problem?Context: I&#x27;m just trying to get more efficient with tax paperwork and household management. An MCP server in which my agent could search for products (and examine the listings to see if they actually match my requirements, such as dietary restrictions) would be even more amazing, but that&#x27;s probably asking too much.

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I work at at an agricultural technology company. On Monday, everyone in our org woke up to emails saying that their Claude accounts had been suspended (~70 users).At first -- since the email was to me, with a link to a Google Form if I personally wanted to appeal -- I thought it must be an individualized ban (at least after deciding it wasn’t a phishing attempt). I couldn’t figure out why, but it set me searching my mind for possible triggers in my recent activity.On Slack, though, it quickly became apparent this was actually an organization-wide ban. And none of us had been warned, including our account admins. We submitted the Google Form, but that was just a black hole. We’re waiting to hear back still a day and a half later.But this is insane for a number of reasons:1. Banning an organization for the behavior of an individual is a recipe for disaster in a business context. Disgruntled employees, incompetent interns -- anyone could maliciously or accidentally revoke Claude access for the whole business.2. We didn’t just have a Claude Team plan, we also had an API account, which is paid for separately but had the same admins. The API account continues to allow us to use our API keys and sent us a renewal bill yesterday (after the Team account suspension). But none of our admins can actually view usage or billing, because our email addresses were banned.3. Banning without warning makes every move dangerous. Was it because we had conversations about fertilizer? GPS satellites? other agriculture-related things? We can’t know and can’t avoid it.We’ve reached out to Anthropic via a number of channels but have received only radio silence. There was a twitter thread about a similar issue (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;patomolina&#x2F;status&#x2F;2045281665363386504), and we tried DM’ing the Anthropic employee who chimed in there. Also no response.
I’m sure if we wait long enough we’ll come to some form of resolution here, but you have to ask yourself if this is a platform you can entrust your daily workflows to as a business.

Anthropic bans orgs without warning

I just passed on a job for a quality company in the Bay area because they wouldn&#x27;t budge on remote work. I already work remote and have since the pandemic and it works for me and my employer. I do travel occasionally, but whenever I do I always think &quot;wow, I&#x27;d get so much more done right now at home.&quot;I&#x27;ve always been skeptical of the entire RTO storyline. I literally work on a computer all day with an Internet connection and can complete every aspect of my job remotely, no if, ands, or buts, about it. Also, at this point many are tracking our mouse movements and key strokes, and the work gets done, so they know we&#x27;re working tooI&#x27;m used to the short sided mindset at this point, but the situation just got me thinking about it again.Meanwhile, companies are throwing everything at AI (which works remotely), laying off employees to do so, and then having obsurd in office policies and skimping on benefits. Just makes you wonder why they distrust people so much.

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This sounds like one of the companies most disrupted by AI.I have zero affiliation with the company, but I’m genuinely curious what the team is shipping today for AI-assistance programming. In my bubble, I haven’t seen anyone use it in the last six months.

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Anybody experimented with the following:Mac Studio M3 Ultra with 96 GBIs it good for running large models locally?

How good is Mac Studio M3 Ultra for Trillion param models like DeepSeekv4?

I honestly think that even with AGI or ACI; without deep understanding of technical architectures and fundamentals , the last 10 miles will be tough! When I tried to build products using Claude Code, i had to interject , either to correct the code or suggest alternative SW designs, for the last few miles. And then operations&#x2F;maintenance definitely required deeper intervention. Thankfully, I am faily technical - Wondering, if anyone else was able to accomplish this, being totally hands-off?

Can non-developer build commercial products with AI

My company is starting to explore AI coding. I am a dev with 20+ years of experience and I am tasked with trying to help see how we can use this tool to help our company. I have only used Claude so my experience is limited to that.As you might guess, I find AI to be extremely good at some things and actively terrible at others. A lot of the things I read and demos I watch all have to do with reasonable code bases. Our code base is not reasonable. It&#x27;s over 20 years old, coded by a multitude of different developers with different coding styles, design patterns, etc... What you would expect from a small company that has been slowly growing for decades. I also work in the medical field so slow evolving old code bases are the norm.One of the reasons the AI fails constantly is that it has no context of the entire code base. It simply can&#x27;t keep that context in scope for every session. So it actively adds bloat to the system unless it&#x27;s guided by a skilled developer who already knows the system. I am using memories where I can but it has to regularly read huge chunks of code and that uses a lot of tokens. I regularly hit my limit on a Pro account.What are your experiences with this? Any tips or tricks to improve output and cost? Any help is most appreciated. Thanks!

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With the AI being so powerful, we should have a better programming language. This language is named cpluz&#x2F;cz, signifying that it is generally between C and C++, but with some differences. Because its philosophy is fundamentally different from C++, ours is &quot;simple the best&quot;.My initial plan is as follows:A. Roadmap: Version 0.1 is a subset of C++23. The advantage is that it can coexist with the existing C++ ecosystem, all programs and libraries can be shared.Version 1.0beta is a hardbreak. At this stage, tools or AI should be available to completely convert version 0.1 and C++23 code into CZ1.0 + independent compiler tools.B. Language design: Currently considered: 1. No header; use modules; 2. C++20 + Multidimensional Subscript Operator&#x2F;if consteval; 3. Use the C++23 library.The overall goal is:One-page cheat sheet (+half a page of basic ideas, if you have zero coding knowledge); 10 pages of a full book. This means roughly no more than 20 basic syntax rules. This will allow both AI and humans to easily learn and communicate with it, achieving ease use as Python. And put everything else in the library.Based on C++, it should achieve similar speed, and even more efficient because it&#x27;s simpler.Besides the safety of Rust, we also need to add Trust, which means strict code review before sharing (including test code, which exploited by hackers of XZ).Given the speed of AI development, a complete course should take about 18 months, which isn&#x27;t an exaggeration?

Is possible a language easy as py, fast as C, more secure than Rust?

For people building SaaS with data across multiple systems (S3, DBs, caches, etc), do you actually have a clean way to manage retention&#x2F;deletion across all of them? (Especially when each customer has custom policies)Or is it more a mix of lifecycle rules, cron jobs, and manual cleanup?How are you doing this today? I feel like this is a blocker in enterprise deals when selling to regulated industries.