What is going on in the world of pure IOS&#x2F;Android app development?How is AI&#x2F;LLMs affecting app development?
what has changed in App Development in the past 2-5 years?
What does a career in only app development look like nowadays?Thank you!

Ask HN: What Is the State of App Development in 2026?

You should read this before you install any #npm package. Because the author mentioned the taking advantage of the #AI #hallucinations but forgot that attackers can also &quot;instruct&quot; AIs to make reference to a malicious packagehttps:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.gaborkoos.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;2026-05-29-How-to-Evaluate-an-npm-Package-2026-Edition&#x2F;?utm_source=reddit&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=how-to-evaluate-an-npm-package-2026-edition&amp;utm_content=r_netsec#infosec #cybersecurity #ethicalhacking #news #privacy

NPM Packages Attacks

As someone who picked up coding around the time AI and agents started becoming more mainstream, I realize I don’t have much knowledge about the best way to architect applications, and I often end up going with whatever the agent recommends. I wanted to check with the community: do you have any recommendations on what I should be doing to get better at overall architecture planning?I do ask AI a lot of questions, but it would be good to have a non-AI frame of reference that I can rely on. I find that having a structured starting point really helps me challenge and evaluate some of the outputs.

Ask HN: Any advice on how to learn good software architecture practices?

better place to ask over &#x2F;r&#x2F;LocalLLaMA

Ask HN: If I cancel Codex today whats the next best local inference agent?

We are facing flooding and surge in PRs across the teams. AI reviewer tools are good, but not exactly helping in efficiency. Almost all developers are experiencing velocity gains in programming but it&#x27;s not resulting into eventual productivity or velocity in roadmap. How are you or your org dealing with all this?

Ask HN: How is your org managing PR review load as AI multiplies code output?

TLDR: Don&#x27;t sign up for Dreamina. Bad UX. Difficult to cancel. Doesn&#x27;t issue refunds. No human customer service.===I signed up for a free 7 day trial of the video generation service. I used it on day one.On day six, they charged me. I canceled the auto-renewal on the website and emailed all of their support channels (Dreamina, Capcut, and Bytedance) to ask for a refund.No human read these emails. Their AI kept sending me around in circles and never acknowledging the request for a refund.More than two weeks later.... either their AI support agent got updated, or a real human finally read my emails. They told me I need to file for a refund via a Google Form.I hate companies that make it difficult to cancel and get refunds. Netflix is super duper easy to cancel. Weirdly, I never actually cancel.If Dreamina doesn&#x27;t refund me, this will be the last $9 they (and their parent companies) ever earn from me.==========We completely understand wanting to get your refund sorted out. To make sure your request is handled securely and by the right team, we’ve moved all refund processing to a dedicated portal.Please submit your request here: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;forms&#x2F;d&#x2F;e&#x2F;1FAIpQLScKikiMUFq....Once we have the complete information, the relevant team will be able to move forward for further processing. Please allow up to 21 days for our team to process your request.To ensure a swift and accurate resolution for your current issue, please reply directly to this email (instead of starting a new one). This will keep all relevant information in one thread and allow us to assist you more effectively. Thanks for your understanding and cooperation.Sincerely,
Dreamina Support Team

FYI: Dreamina is shady; do not use

I&#x27;m seeing an enormous contingency of my LinkedIn connections change their titles to &quot;AI Engineer.&quot; I know for a fact that they&#x27;re not working on any models or even AI workflows, they&#x27;re just building apps and backends using AI tools like Claude.Is that what &quot;AI Engineer&quot; means nowadays? Is that what companies are looking for when they open recs for &quot;AI Engineer&quot;? Should I be marketing myself as an &quot;AI Engineer&quot; just because I&#x27;m very efficient using modern AI tooling to build good non-AI software?

Ask HN: What Is an "AI Engineer"?

Does using claude code make you more&#x2F;less likely to use front end frameworks?I&#x27;ve been using it for a while to develop internal tools and I&#x27;ve been really impressed at how you can build complex applications with just pure HTML&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;JSPreviously I&#x27;d use React but now its not as clear to me the reason I would do that since either way I would just be developing through Claude.It feels almost like the framework is just an implementation detail.I find myself using a lot less libraries in general as well.It kind of gives you a bit of NIH syndrome since the time cost is so low to roll your own sometimes.

Ask HN: Does Claude Code remove the need for so many front-end frameworks?

Ask HN: What's the hardest problem you've ever solved?

Generally curious how folks are using LLM APIs today.Are folks doing anything bespoke, unique or different?I think we&#x27;ve seen a lot of usage with harnesses, CLIs, Cursor&#x2F;Windsurf etc which uses the APIs underneath.If you are using the API itself, what does your architecture look like with said API?

Ask HK: How are you building AI apps today?

Ask HN: What Are You Thankful For?

I built a Linux CLI tool that encrypts and decrypts folders using AES-256-GCM. It also hides file and folder names and stores the mapping in an encrypted file.Repo: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sahilPadmani&#x2F;ACE-files-encryption

C++ CLI for folder encryption with AES-256-GCM and USB-based key loading

Using a throwaway account right now for obvious reasons.I have a friend at my company that has access to some insider stuff who (subtley) tipped me off that I&#x27;m on the chopping block for upcoming layoffs.Obviously, I&#x27;m trying to resume-spam now, but I am pretty sure that cold applying to companies doesn&#x27;t work anymore, because every job posting is immediately botted to shit (and a lot of job postings are fake anyway).So...what do people actually do to find work now? Is it really just going through your metaphorical Rolodex and bothering friends&#x2F;previous coworkers and asking if that can forward your resume?

Ask HN: I found out that I'm about to be laid off. How do people find jobs?

I asked this in 2024 and would love to see the change: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=41748125

Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?

Text from the email:garnix is shutting downHi everyone,We wanted to let you know that garnix is joining forces with Shopify.We are sad to announce that, as part of this transition, the hosted garnix service will shut down on July 15th 2026. But we are open sourcing the garnix codebase, available here (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;garnix-io&#x2F;garnix-ci); we hope this will help you smoothly move to using your own instance or a shared one. If you are interested in operating a public community instance, please get in touch — we’d be happy to talk.We will also be deleting all user data on July 15th. This includes build artifacts. Be sure to download what you want to keep before then.Thank you all for using garnix and for the feedback and support over the years. While we are excited about our next step at Shopify, we will also miss working with this community. From the very first, with generous donations in our Open Collective days and thoughtful feedback, you&#x27;ve been great.Note: the GitHub link does not resolve as of posting. I suppose it will shortly.

Garnix, the Nix CI, is shutting down

There seem to be a lot of opinion pieces about GenAI on the front page lately. How do others feel about this?I feel conflicted. I understand that GenAI is one of the biggest topics in tech right now. Yeah it makes sense that it gets a lot of attention. But I would find it a loss if the front page became too heavily skewed towards commentary on a single topic... more so when there are so many other technical areas worth discussing.

Ask HN: How do you feel about posts about GenAI taking over the HN front page?

Hey all, I built brinicle, an in-process C++ vector engine with a python wrapper that consumes substantially less memory, while staying quite fast.
On 1.2 million Amazon products, it achieves sub-ms P99 latency.
It also supports lexical search, and hybrid search.
In the hybrid search, we did not try to build two indexes and then fuse results, we create ONE HNSW Graph and utilize it for semantic, lexical, and hybrid search.
benchmark comparisons: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brinicle.bicardinal.com&#x2F;benchmark
hybrid search benchmark comparisons: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brinicle.bicardinal.com&#x2F;search_benchmark
Repository::
github.com&#x2F;bicardinal&#x2F;brinicle

A disk-first C++ vector engine

See this project https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Sphere-AI-Lab&#x2F;orbit.

Train 1T parameter LLM with 8 GPUs?

The problem:1. You try email routing provided by cloudflare.2. It does not work for you3. Somehow you get your DNS into an odd state. email routing is disabled because it is misconfigured.4. You cannot delete your dkim record without first disabling email routing.5. You cannot disable email routing because it is already disabled because it is misconfigured!!6. Cloudflare only allow &quot;guided&quot; support for free accounts, and guides you to &#x2F;dev&#x2F;null for attempting this kind of problem.

Do not use Cloudflare DNS regsitrar

I&#x27;ve been wondering, why don&#x27;t we have a chrome fork that only accepts sites hosted in the EU? If a site is hosted in the EU then it can be fully regulated by the EU.This would make it easier for citizens to know that their data is is safe (according to EU standards) and avoids the regulatory complexities of trying to enforce rules in other countries.Thoughts?

Ask HN: Why not have an EU browser?

Ask HN: Thoughts on the current state of tech meetups in the SF Bay Area?

sqlit is a lazygit-style TUI for SQL. Connect and query your database from the terminal in seconds, no config files or documentation to read first.It supports all the major databases: SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, MariaDB, FirebirdSQL, Oracle, DuckDB, CockroachDB, ClickHouse, Snowflake, Databricks, Supabase, Cloudflare D1, Turso, Athena, BigQuery, Spanner, Redshift, IBM Db2, SAP HANA, Teradata, Trino, Presto, Apache Flight SQL, Apache Impala, SurrealDB, and osquery.A few things that come built in:- Keyboard focus: Context aware keybindings always visible- Docker integration: auto-detects and connect to running database containers- Vim-style query editor with customizable keybindings.- Fuzzy filter in results window.- SSH tunnels, OS-keyring credential storage, password manager integration.- Autocomplete for tables, columns, and procedures.- Cloud CLI integration (browse external DBs via Azure &#x2F; AWS &#x2F; GCP CLIs).- Themes (Rose Pine, Tokyo Night, Nord, Gruvbox).Install: `pipx install sqlit-tui` (also works with `uv tool install` and `pip`).Built with Python and Textual. First shared here in December (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46276002) - a lot has shipped since.Repo: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Maxteabag&#x2F;sqlitFeedback welcome, especially on what&#x27;s still missing for daily-driver use.My goal is to make an aesthetic tool that makes it easy and enjoyable to connect and query data, and do that one thing only, really well.

Sqlit – A lazygit-style TUI for SQL databases

Say you’re making a chess game. A valid board only has one piece per square, or zero. But, you have an algo that generates boards by moving pieces around and during that algo you may move a piece on top of another and then later decide to move one of them to get back to valid.Do you try to use some existing Board type and just avoid in your algo those invalid states (like by using a stack or some data structure to avoid iteratively moving pieces one at a time).Do you have a separate InvalidBoard type that allows multiple pieces per square?I think it’s context dependent but I’m curious how you’ve seen this handled in different ways.

Ask HN: How do you model temporarily invalid data structures

I came across this breathlessly written article, the beginning of which I will reproduce below, so as to not give its author any more engagement:Title: &quot;Linux Memory Had One Maintainer for 26 Years. He Just Quit. Now What?&quot;Subtitle: &quot;One person held the code that runs every Android phone, cloud server, and supercomputer for 26 years. On April 21, he posted one message and then was silent.&quot;Last non-paywalled sentence: &quot;Two weeks later, at a developer summit in Zagreb, the memory management team tried to figure out how to replace him. They couldn’t.&quot;This sounded very alarmist so I did a quick search (note: I&#x27;m not a Linux kernel expert or enthusiast by any measure). What I found seemed fairly tame:Andrew Mortan&#x27;s transition announcement: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lwn.net&#x2F;ml&#x2F;all&#x2F;20260421094216.8dfe14a8c62f2420fa5aace1@linux-foundation.org&#x2F;May 7 announcement of new maintainer: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lwn.net&#x2F;Articles&#x2F;1070994&#x2F;Can someone familiar with the matter confirm that I was right to dismiss the original article as alarmist engagement bait, or is there reason for worry?