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Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 09:10:42

No, AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive Curing Your AI 10x Engineer Imposter Syndrome 05 August 2025 AI A few months ago I went through a bit of a mental slump. I've always been confident of my abilities as an engineer, but I couldn't help but feel like my skills were falling hopelessly behind as I scrolled places like LinkedIn and Twitter. If these sources were to be believed, engineering had moved on from the medieval practice of typing code into an editor. Real engineers were now

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Consider using Zstandard and/or LZ4 instead of Deflate

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 18:18:37

One of the issues we have with .PNG is slow read/write times. There are now new lossless open source codecs without patent concerns, such as Zstandard (maintained by Facebook) or LZ4: https://facebook.github.io/zstd/ https://github.com/lz4/lz4 Zstandard is used by the new Khronos KTX2 GPU texture format specification. I propose that it be added as an option to a future version of .PNG. The possible speedups are quite significant, and for users that read and write a lot of .PNG's as part of th

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AI is not making engineers 10x as productive

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 21:10:42

No, AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive Curing Your AI 10x Engineer Imposter Syndrome 05 August 2025 AI A few months ago I went through a bit of a mental slump. I've always been confident of my abilities as an engineer, but I couldn't help but feel like my skills were falling hopelessly behind as I scrolled places like LinkedIn and Twitter. If these sources were to be believed, engineering had moved on from the medieval practice of typing code into an editor. Real engineers were now

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SAML Shield: Drop-in protection that works for any stack

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 23:05:56

Security with a simple API call. Compatible with any language or system. Easy-to-implement without any code rewrites to your identity provider or existing SAML setup.

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AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-12 09:10:42

No, AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive Curing Your AI 10x Engineer Imposter Syndrome 05 August 2025 AI A few months ago I went through a bit of a mental slump. I've always been confident of my abilities as an engineer, but I couldn't help but feel like my skills were falling hopelessly behind as I scrolled places like LinkedIn and Twitter. If these sources were to be believed, engineering had moved on from the medieval practice of typing code into an editor. Real engineers were now

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Build Your Own Lisp

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-12 17:55:20

Build Your Own Lisp Learn C and build your own programming language in 1000 lines of code! If you're looking to learn C, or you've ever wondered how to build your own programming language, this is the book for you. In just a few lines of code, I'll teach you how to use C, and together, we'll start building your very own language. Along the way we'll learn about the weird and wonderful nature of Lisps, how to develop a real-world project, concisely solve problems, and write beautiful code! T

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Why Greptile just does code reviews and doesn't also generate code

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-13 16:43:57

Alternative title: Why Greptile Doesn’t Generate Code Remembering Enron (1985-2001) I am Daksh - a co-founder of Greptile, the AI code reviewer that catches bugs in pull requests for thousands of software teams. The month I was born, October 2001, was also the month Enron collapsed. For those unfamiliar, Enron was an energy company founded in 1985. It was one of the most valuable companies in the US public markets at the turn of the century. In 2001, it was discovered that under investor pres

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DrawAFish.com Postmortem

news.ycombinator.com Alden Hallak 2025-12-13 20:10:22

DrawAFish.com TL;DR: Incident Duration: ~6 hours (2AM–8AM EST) ~6 hours (2AM–8AM EST) Impact: Username vandalism (slurs) Offensive fish approved / safe fish removed Root Causes: Legacy 6-digit admin password exposed in past data breach Username update API lacked authentication JWT not tied to specific user Mitigation: Manual reversal of mod actions, fixed authorization logic, backups reviewed Manual reversal of mod actions, fixed authorization logic, backups reviewed Takeaway: hwoopsy dais

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OpenIPC: Open IP Camera Firmware

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-10 09:41:50

OpenIPC is an alternative open firmware for your IP camera. OpenIPC is an open source operating system from the open community targeting for IP cameras with ARM and MIPS processors from several manufacturers in order to replace that closed, opaque, insecure, often abandoned and unsupported firmware pre-installed by a vendor. OpenIPC Firmware comes as binary pre-compiled files for easy installation by end-user. Also, we provide full access to the source files for further development and improve

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Software needs an "independent auditor"

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-14 10:43:57

Alternative title: Why Greptile Doesn’t Generate Code Remembering Enron (1985-2001) I am Daksh - a co-founder of Greptile, the AI code reviewer that catches bugs in pull requests for thousands of software teams. The month I was born, October 2001, was also the month Enron collapsed. For those unfamiliar, Enron was an energy company founded in 1985. It was one of the most valuable companies in the US public markets at the turn of the century. In 2001, it was discovered that under investor pres

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Drawafish.com Postmortem: Whoops

news.ycombinator.com Alden Hallak 2025-12-14 14:10:22

DrawAFish.com TL;DR: Incident Duration: ~6 hours (2AM–8AM EST) ~6 hours (2AM–8AM EST) Impact: Username vandalism (slurs) Offensive fish approved / safe fish removed Root Causes: Legacy 6-digit admin password exposed in past data breach Username update API lacked authentication JWT not tied to specific user Mitigation: Manual reversal of mod actions, fixed authorization logic, backups reviewed Manual reversal of mod actions, fixed authorization logic, backups reviewed Takeaway: hwoopsy dais

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ScreenCoder: An intelligent UI-to-code generation system

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-14 21:12:27

ScreenCoder: Advancing Visual-to-Code Generation for Front-End Automation via Modular Multimodal Agents Yilei Jiang1*, Yaozhi Zheng1*, Yuxuan Wan2*, Jiaming Han1, Qunzhong Wang1, Michael R. Lyu2, Xiangyu Yue1✉ 1CUHK MMLab, 2CUHK ARISE Lab *Equal contribution ✉Corresponding author Introduction ScreenCoder is an intelligent UI-to-code generation system that transforms any screenshot or design mockup into clean, production-ready HTML/CSS code. Built with a modular multi-agent architecture

Topics: code generation html py python

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Read your code

news.ycombinator.com Elie Teyssedou 2025-12-15 03:33:20

If you’d told me 2–3 years ago that in 2025, one of my top pieces of advice for the new generation of developers would be “read your code” (we’re not even talking about re-reading it)… I’m not sure I would’ve believed you. What This Article Covers I’m not here to lecture anyone, but if you’re aiming to build serious projects these days, it might be worth learning how to approach AI coding tools the right way. This post covers: Three critical risks of poor vibe-coding practices Two effective

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Open IP Camera Firmware

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 15:41:50

OpenIPC is an alternative open firmware for your IP camera. OpenIPC is an open source operating system from the open community targeting for IP cameras with ARM and MIPS processors from several manufacturers in order to replace that closed, opaque, insecure, often abandoned and unsupported firmware pre-installed by a vendor. OpenIPC Firmware comes as binary pre-compiled files for easy installation by end-user. Also, we provide full access to the source files for further development and improve

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Typed languages are better suited for vibecoding

news.ycombinator.com Onur Solmaz 2025-12-15 10:55:31

This post has made it to the Hacker News front page, see the discussion there. My >10 year old programming habits have changed since Claude Code launched. Python is less likely to be my go-to language for new projects anymore. I am managing projects in languages I am not fluent in—TypeScript, Rust and Go—and seem to be doing pretty well. It seems that typed, compiled, etc. languages are better suited for vibecoding, because of the safety guarantees. This is unsurprising in hindsight, but it wa

Topics: claude code guarantees projects python

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A parser for TypeScript types, written in TypeScript types

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 20:12:58

tsints a parser for typescript types, written in typescript types (no js here!) testimonials please no please I beg you — @jakebailey.dev EM WHAT THE FUCK ur deranged hell yeah i cant wait to do ludicrous shit with ts7 speeds why are you like this usage code like this import type { Parse } from "./parser/index.ts" ; type _ = Parse < "{some:[ts, 'type']}" > ; evaluates to a @babel/parser -style AST type _ = { type : "TSTypeLiteral" ; members : [ { type : "TSPropertySignature" ; key :

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Writing a good design document

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 18:21:54

How to write a good design document This essay is a version of the response I gave to my friend Vik's call for suggestions: had a lot of people ask how they can learn to write design docs, and i didn’t have a good answer besides “work at a place with writing culture and smart senior engineers”. anyone have more useful advice? https://t.co/7F9BV31shv — vik (@vikhyatk) August 31, 2024 Definition A design document is a technical report that outlines the implementation strategy of a system in th

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Mystery packages with QR codes spark new wave of scams

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-12-15 15:12:00

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust WTF?! A new twist on package-related scams is drawing concern from federal authorities, as the FBI warns Americans to be vigilant when receiving unexpected parcels containing QR codes. According to a recent alert, criminals have begun exploiting the ubiquity of QR codes as a tool for financial fraud and identity theft. The scheme unfolds when an individual receives a package that's addressed to the

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Show HN: My Bytecode Optimizer Beats Copilot by 2X

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-12 06:15:25

Even amid the AGI race, a specialized tool really outperforms general‑purpose models. And even when this specialized tool is a side-project and at a very early stage. I am building as a side-project a tool called SuperVM. It optimizes bytecode and machine code similarly to how a LLM would do but instead of using statistical systems, it uses deterministic systems and reasons from facts instead of probabilities (nothing new here these things have been around forever). All the generated code is

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Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 11:34:36

Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest Where to start See below for links to the 2024 winning IOCCC entries. Check out the index.html web pages for each winning entry. They have most of the information you need to compile and run the winning program. Take a look at the winning source code and try to figure out how it works. You might also want to check out the author’s remarks for even more details. You may download all winning entries in the form of a compressed tarball, for

Topics: 2024 code ioccc prize source

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Writing a basic service for GNU Guix

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 16:43:42

According to the Shepherd Services documentation, the start and stop fields of shepherd-service take G-Expressions. But what's a g-expression? Well, because Guix uses Scheme for both higher-level actions–like defining packages–and lower-level actions–like building derivations generated by packages– it needs a faculty for embedding lower-level code in higher-level code. So in the start field of wesnoth-shepherd-service : (start #~(make-forkexec-constructor/container (list #$(file-append package

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Hiding secret codes in light protects against fake videos

news.ycombinator.com Patricia Waldron 2025-12-15 14:40:27

Fact-checkers may have a new tool in the fight against misinformation. A team of Cornell researchers has developed a way to “watermark” light in videos, which they can use to detect if video is fake or has been manipulated. The idea is to hide information in nearly-invisible fluctuations of lighting at important events and locations, such as interviews and press conferences or even entire buildings, like the United Nations Headquarters. These fluctuations are designed to go unnoticed by humans

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The /o in Ruby regex stands for "oh the humanity "

news.ycombinator.com Jp Camara 2025-12-15 12:37:51

Your code using the /o modifier Source: wikipedia Hi there! Do you like Regex? Do you like performance? Do you like creating confounding bugs for yourself rooted in the mechanics of the Ruby VM itself? If you said yes to all of the above, have I got a feature for you! But first, let’s start with a story. The cliffs of insanity I was recently reviewing some code, and part of the functionality was about matching. A class took an array of strings, and you could call a method to see if an input

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6 Weeks of Claude Code

news.ycombinator.com Puzzmo Blog 2025-12-15 10:20:59

6 Weeks of Claude Code Jul 30, 2025 - Orta Therox It is wild to think that it has been only a handful of weeks. Claude Code has considerably changed my relationship to writing and maintaining code at scale. I still write code at the same level of quality, but I feel like I have a new freedom of expression which is hard to fully articulate. Claude Code has decoupled myself from writing every line of code, I still consider myself fully responsible for everything I ship to Puzzmo, but the ability

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Anthropic says OpenAI engineers using Claude Code ahead of GPT-5 launch

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-15 12:08:03

Anthropic says it has revoked OpenAI's access to the Claude API after ChatGPT's engineers were found using Claude's coding tools. Claude Code is better than any other coding tool in the AI coding industry, also known as "Vibe coding." With Claude, you can create web apps from scratch, and it's also pretty efficient with infra-related work. Not just vibe coders who don't know how to code use Claude, but also professional engineers. In fact, Claude Code is also used in Claude's development at

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Cerebras Code

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 23:04:38

We are launching two new plans designed to make AI coding faster and more accessible: Cerebras Code Pro ($50/month) and Code Max ($200/month). Both plans give you access to Qwen3-Coder, the world’s leading open-weight coding model—running at speeds of up to 2,000 tokens per second, with a 131k-token context window, no proprietary IDE lock-in, and no weekly limits! Cerebras Makes Code Generation Instant Even with the best frontier models, you still end up waiting around for completions. And as

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Deep Agents

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-16 08:28:45

Using an LLM to call tools in a loop is the simplest form of an agent. This architecture, however, can yield agents that are “shallow” and fail to plan and act over longer, more complex tasks. Applications like “Deep Research”, “Manus”, and “Claude Code” have gotten around this limitation by implementing a combination of four things: a planning tool, sub agents, access to a file system, and a detailed prompt. Acknowledgements: this exploration was primarily inspired by Claude Code and reports o

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Long Term Support

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-17 14:28:11

Long Term Support The intent of the developers is to support SQLite through the year 2050. At this writing, 2050 is still 25 years in the future. Nobody knows what will happen in that time, and we cannot absolutely promise that SQLite will be viable or useful that far out. But we can promise this: we plan as if we will be supporting SQLite until 2050. That long-term outlook affects our decisions in important ways. Cross-platform Code → SQLite runs on any platform with an 8-bit byte, two's com

Topics: bit code developers future sqlite

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Proton now offers a two-factor authentication app

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-19 04:18:36

Things have been busy for the privacy-first company, Proton. Just last week, they released the AI chatbot Lumo, and today, the company rolled out Proton Authenticator, its open-source and multiplatform 2FA app. What’s 2FA again? Two-factor authentication is a login method that adds an extra layer of security to further make sure that you are the legitimate owner of the account you’re trying to access. With 2FA activated, you’re usually asked for a code from a 2FA app after entering your passwo

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Show HN: The easiest accessibility (a11y) checker for VSCode

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-17 00:49:37

Be-a11y VSCode Extension A Visual Studio Code extension for running accessibility audits using be-a11y. This extension allows you to analyze your project or a remote website for accessibility issues directly from VSCode. Results are presented in a convenient way and can be saved for further review. Features Run accessibility audits on the current workspace (local project) or any URL View results directly in VSCode Save the latest accessibility report to a file All actions available in the

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Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome

Consider using Zstandard and/or LZ4 instead of Deflate

AI is not making engineers 10x as productive

SAML Shield: Drop-in protection that works for any stack

AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive

Build Your Own Lisp

Why Greptile just does code reviews and doesn't also generate code

DrawAFish.com Postmortem

OpenIPC: Open IP Camera Firmware

Software needs an "independent auditor"

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Read your code

Open IP Camera Firmware

Typed languages are better suited for vibecoding

A parser for TypeScript types, written in TypeScript types

Writing a good design document

Mystery packages with QR codes spark new wave of scams

Show HN: My Bytecode Optimizer Beats Copilot by 2X

Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest

Writing a basic service for GNU Guix

Hiding secret codes in light protects against fake videos

The /o in Ruby regex stands for "oh the humanity "

6 Weeks of Claude Code

Anthropic says OpenAI engineers using Claude Code ahead of GPT-5 launch

Cerebras Code

Deep Agents

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Proton now offers a two-factor authentication app

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