I am joining a small ~10 person startup in SF next week as a full time W2 employee. I am a software dev. The work is in a very regulated space (ITAR&#x2F; SOC2&#x2F;etc) type stuff.My manager (who is the CTO) texted me to bring my personal laptop in on the first day. This already seems like a red-flag and if needed I will not install any software or visit any sites beyond payroll.How should I handle this situation if they refuse to provide me equipment. This is a in-person role.

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I&#x27;m a bit annoyed by the feeling that we&#x27;re kind of stuck when it comes to using LLMs for programming.I use Claude Code and Codex, but I haven&#x27;t been able to enter flow state like I can when I hand write code.This is kind of ironic to me since AI should be a bicycle for the mind, but right now it feels like a bicycle that just brakes abruptly every couple minutes. I stop, wait, review, prompt again.Is there anyone exploring something fundamentally different than the prompt response loop we have today?I actually think the idea of a tab model is directionally better than prompt response.Would love to hear about any startups, personal experiments, etc.

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It is the 250th anniversary of the founding of America, and this great experiment in nation building is still going. Whether you&#x27;re at home with your family or out celebrating with the national pastime of blowing up a little piece of our beautiful country, Happy July 4th to all - the young and the old, the residents and visitors, those here for work and play.

Happy Independence Day

Here&#x27;s what I found so farapproach0.xyz : offlinesearchonmath.com : Gives irrelevant results such as p = m v when searching for F = m ahttps:&#x2F;&#x2F;search.mathweb.org&#x2F;: A collection of abandoned projects and offline sites

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Figured I&#x27;d post this Ask HN given the semiquincentennial celebration since the Declaration of Independence.A surprising amount of what this site cares about grew up here in the US: the transistor, the internet, the idea (or the trope) that two people in a garage can take on corporate behemoths, the venture-backed startup model, etc. And a lot of HN has a personal stake in the place -- immigrants (me included) who bet their careers on a US grad degree and a visa lottery, citizens who built companies here, people abroad who work for (or compete with) American firms every day.So on the 250th, I&#x27;m curious what America means to you, personally. Some prompts:If you immigrated: what pulled you here, and has it held up? 
If you were born here: what do you hope the country looks like at 300? 
If you left, or chose never to come: what did you see that the rest of us might be missing?Finally, what the most romantic ideal you have of America that you think would be worth sharing?Happy 4th of July, HN!

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In the past month I built 10+ different ideas. Some games, some SaaS, some free tools. But I get no one using it, other than friends and family.I need to find someone that can cover this part. Anyone up for building cool stuff?

I can build anything, but only the void sees it

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Today I noticed the inclusion of emojis in Craigslist&#x27;s listings&#x2F;categories: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.craigslist.org&#x2F;area&#x2F;sfbay" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.craigslist.org&#x2F;area&#x2F;sfbay</a>.Now, Craigslist, as a legacy of the 1990s web, has for a long time stubbornly maintained its minimalist style, to the point where several &quot;modern&quot; startups have popped up to try and offer Craigslist-like services to new generations.So why this change? And what&#x27;s with the timing? It&#x27;s coinciding with the wanton proliferation of emojis everywhere courtesy of everyone&#x27;s favorite GPT. At a time where people are beginning to feel emoji fatigue, Craigslist, of all places, has decided to put them front and center.Has Craigslist succumbed to the modern algorithmic context of competing for attention? Is this a small concession so they can largely keep their legacy look while still participating in the zeitgeist?When and with what intention was this emoji introduction initiated?And most importantly, how do you feel about the entire thing?

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I would love to gain deeper context as to farming, regulation issues and further context relating to it. If it’s possible to get in contact with a farmer or be pointed to a community if it exists, it would be really helpful.

Where can I find or get in contact with farmers specifically in the US?

My LinkedIn feed is absolutely unreal right now. 90% (I don&#x27;t even think I&#x27;m exaggerating) of the posts in my feed are from connections who have changed their title to something like &quot;AI Thought Leader | AI Native | Thought Coaching&quot;. They post *daily* about something LLM&#x2F;agentic. The biggest problem is that it&#x27;s never &quot;hey check out this cool thing&quot;, it&#x27;s &quot;if you&#x27;re not doing this, you&#x27;re a dinosaur who will be left in the past.&quot;Other common content is regurgitating blog &#x2F; Twitter folks from &quot;AI influencers&quot;, associated with statements like, &quot;Boris McAI said software engineering is dead. Here&#x27;s 5 reasons why he&#x27;s right.&quot;I felt this way a bit when cryptocurrency was at its height, but it never got this embarrassing or self-fellating. How do so many of my connections (more than 800 at this point) have literally zero shame? Hell it&#x27;s not even first-degree connections.

Ask HN: Why are so many "AI evangelists" posting such insufferable content?

I think I just launched my 14th. No, buying a domain and doing nothing with it doesn&#x27;t count.To count as a startup you:- You launched a website or
- You turned on Stripe payments or
- You formed a LLC or Corp
- You started paid advertising
- You got 1+ paying customer
- You raised $1+ dollar from outside funders

How many failed startups have you launched?

I finally decided to try out Fable 5 using the standard Claude.ai interface. I have a go-to test prompt that answers simple kids&#x27; questions in an absurdly scientific style. I asked a pretty straightforward one: &quot;Why don&#x27;t cats and dogs get along?&quot;Immediately, the interface bumped me from Fable 5 to Opus 4.8 with a warning: &quot;...The safeguards are intentionally broad right now and may flag safe and routine coding, cybersecurity, or biology work...&quot;Since the question has absolutely nothing to do with coding and definitely doesn&#x27;t touch on cybersecurity, it seems the system thought that figuring out why cats and dogs fight could somehow lead me to engineering a bioweapon.It reminds me of what someone said about Java applets back in the 90s: &quot;Secure means useless.&quot;

Fable 5. Safety Taken to an Extreme

Unpopulate opinion:
Fewer PRs done with proper prompting, review, and refinement usually win long term.*3 thoughtful PRs a day &gt; 40 poorly thought ones no matter how many AI agents reviewed them.*

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Just hit this today and I&#x27;m furious. I installed the Cursor iOS app to see what it had.I&#x27;ve been on `Privacy Mode (Legacy)` for a long time, which is the &quot;Do not store my code&quot; setting. A year or so ago they marked this as &quot;Legacy&quot; and hid it under a &quot;Extra options&quot; menu. They added a new Privacy Mode which is significantly more wishy-washy about what it might store - it includes a clause of &quot;Code may be stored for Background Agents or Other Features&quot;, so I&#x27;ve never touched it or wanted to enable it.pic: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;us1.discourse-cdn.com&#x2F;cursor1&#x2F;optimized&#x2F;3X&#x2F;0&#x2F;9&#x2F;09412f800cb07a713d13c034f40eaf28e165e8f4_2_1032x1000.jpegUpon installing and logging in to the iOS app, my account was changed to the softer Privacy Mode and the previous setting I was on has disappeared from all menus. I contacted support and they&#x27;ve said:&gt; Really sorry about this. When you set up the mobile app, the prompt to turn on Cloud Agents switched you from Privacy Mode (Legacy) to our current Privacy Mode,&gt; without making clear what that meant or that it&#x27;s hard to undo. That wasn&#x27;t right, and we&#x27;re working on making that prompt clearer.&gt;&gt; To be straight with you: I&#x27;m not able to switch your account back to Privacy Mode (Legacy). The option to move back isn&#x27;t available in the app today.So just a PSA I guess; do not install or set up the app if you want to keep your privacy settings.I honestly don&#x27;t understand how it&#x27;s legal to make logging into the iOS app change your privacy settings at all. Making the option then disappear from all menus so you can&#x27;t get it back is doubly ridiculous.

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SponsorBlock had 7 critical vulnerabilities. Private data of 82k users was accessible.Full details: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paste.rs&#x2F;jVLQb.txtData not leaked. Waiting for developer response.

SponsorBlock Critical Security Vulnerabilities

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It’s infuriating any simple request related to common bioinformatics work and computational biology is flagged. Like we are we are trying to weaponize viruses or create anthrax!Life science users, what’s been your experience?

Claude Fable is useless for bioinformaticians

I think I’m going to get rid of my phone and internet  and enjoy retirement

Well it's been 3 years of unemployment and $250k in debt

I had been running a small (3 people) software company for about 4 years. Since closing down, I recently hung out at a friend&#x27;s company to see what they were working on (15 ppl). To preface: I&#x27;m a heavy user of Claude (rarely write code by hand), but what I&#x27;m seeing in person has been rather shocking to me, and I wanted to calibrate with others.In particular:
- the code is not the source of truth anymore; it&#x27;s ask claude to write, and ask claude to explain
- LoC, abstractions, and all those &quot;software development principles&quot; does not seem to matter to people
- Code review is not done by humans
- Actually understanding the problem deeply seems to be offloaded to claude
- Some developers are running like 5+ simultaneous claude sessions, and no code is being looked at
- Explosion of llm-generated testsFirst off, is this similar to what&#x27;s going on at your company?If this company is representative, it feels like software development is going from a precise occupation that requires high degree of understanding to something probabilistic and offloaded understanding (to eventually not an occupation at all honestly).I&#x27;m interested to hear other folks&#x27; perspectives.

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Hi HN — I’m launching the research preview for Cadreen.Cadreen is infrastructure for intelligent workflows — software that can remember, decide, act, ask permission, and leave an audit trail. It includes APIs, SDKs, CLI tooling, memory, governance, tool execution, audit trails, and chat access.The idea is that useful AI systems need more than a model call. They need orchestration: what to remember, when to act, when to ask permission, what tools to use, and how to leave an audit trail.Available now:- APIs &amp; docs- TypeScript, Python, and Go SDKs- CLI- Cadreen usable as a model&#x2F;provider in chat interfaces (managed model selection with BYOK coming soon)- Coming next: “Accomplish Anything,” a chat interface for non-developers to use the same infrastructure directly.Feedback welcome — especially from people building agents, copilots, or AI workflow systems.https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;timothy-billingrails&#x2F;cadreen-sdks&#x2F;

Cadreen – memory, governance, self-healing, and execution as one system

I was just laying in bed getting some work done and my house started shaking. Camano Island, north of Seattle. Anyone else?

Seattle Just Had an Earthquake

I believe someone recently posted sort of a secure harness&#x2F;wrapper for running coding agents in a secure sandbox. I can&#x27;t find the project.Of course I can make my own wrapper with systemd-nspawn, kata or bspawn, but I believe I saw a decently well-maintained project just a while back. Does anyone have a suggestion or link? It&#x27;s become extremely hard to find things on GitHub with all the generated projects.

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I&#x27;ve been a dev for close to 9 years now, always spending my time inside VSCode.When the AI extension came in, I started writing less code, reading more.When Claude Desktop app came in, I did not like it, stuck with the VSCode extension.Then the app got better, and the extension got worse. so I switched my focus to that instead of the code editor.I now view the diffs in the Claude app instead of VSCode, and only switch to VSCode for a more thorough review.Now VSCode ships with a new view, similar to that of Claude.I rarely open VSCode now. I rarely write code now.I miss writing code.

I'm opening VSCode less and less every day

Hello all. My focus has been trying to find a way to mimic execution reality in institutional trades (even done by algos). Things like how queue position, hidden liquidity, venue rules, and partial fills affect the trade - real world conditions.I&#x27;ve created a program called ordersim to help, but we&#x27;ll get to that later. Right now, i&#x27;m interested in hearing how traders deal with these conditions that can&#x27;t typically be simulated in backtesting. Thanks!

How do you test institutional (or algo) trades under real market conditions?

For software engineers and related fields, I know what procrastination has traditionally looked like, and how it manifests.Now, things like codex, cursor, claude code can remove some kinds of friction but also change workflows.So are you procrastinating less? More? Differently?What does it look like?

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I want to get rid of doom scrolling, still getting to use Youtube and Instagram. I&#x27;m trying to add a custom filter on Adguard that should block shorts.
Do you think it could work?

Getting Rid of Scrolling

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In the AWS Console:Cloudwatch -&gt; Logs -&gt; Log ManagementIt shows &quot;There are no log groups.&quot;when there should be many log groups. Occurring in at least us-east-1 and us-west-2.Status page has no mention of it: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;health.aws.amazon.com&#x2F;health&#x2F;statusI&#x27;ve verified I&#x27;m in the correct region and account. Dashboards, alarms and other Cloudwatch resources seem normal.Anyone else seeing the same thing?

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Then what? What do you plan to do? The strategy is the &quot;Everyone becomes Levels-io&quot;. The takeaway is &quot;marketing games is big now, the only thing.&quot; 2026 was always giong to be my Year of Marketing, as BrowserBox reached stability last year and it&#x27;s bascially: small edges, maintenance, minor updates, customer deployments and customer tweaks.But I have so many product ideas. I am just cranking them out. If you check my GH activity, even before AI I was always &quot;cranking them out&quot; - just, less capable and less often. And more focused on the &quot;technical PoC&quot; (like DOwnloadNet, which nevertheless people found surprisingly cool and it marketed itself, even tho it was literally &quot;done in a weekend&quot; before AI).Obviously one of these products is eventually gonna hit megabank. I&#x27;ll figure out the marketing. Optimize the funnel. Refine all the sales. BrowserBox provides a foundation layer, but I want more hypergrowth. So I&#x27;m pushing.Now I&#x27;m thinking - once it does happen - what will I spend my time dooing? Espeically, with AI?I&#x27;m thinking:- get AI to teach me all the maths I didn&#x27;t make time for these years.- use AI to improve my foreign language skills- maybe some hardware&#x2F;robotics stuff, idk.I&#x27;m curious if anyone else is thinking of this - freed from the burden, the grind, the glory of pure creative software expression (admittedly for makin that sweet bank), what are y&#x27;all gonna do with the time (and intelligence) now widely and generally available?Also - @dang - your &quot;AI comment detection&quot; is hallucinating. A bunch of my replies, to people&#x27;s comments, on my own posts have been &quot;evanescoed&quot; away. These replies were, on the Grave&#x27;s of my Ancestors and Former Tragically Depressed Friends and Lovers - hand-written by me. Something is arotten in the AI detection game, seems, rn.Ninnies - warm up your flagging batons - I sense you haven&#x27;t had enough outlet today yet. Let&#x27;s go!

Ask HN: Once you make your money from vibe coding innumerable products, then?

What are your suggestions for an open-source developer efficiency product to get more engagement and reach. The product is for software developers right now