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Ask HN: Am I the only person who hates mobile apps but adores computer software?
Be it as a user or a programmer I can't stand android/ios or anything that runs on a phone. The lack of keyboard, small screen, retarded cpu, horrible ecosystem android/ios is just too much. In a way i'm happy the "mobile craze of 2010-2020" is long gone (followed by th...
Out of curiosity: what kind of people use this "forum" (I mean Hacker News)?
So I ended up here following recommendation from chatgpt after expressing my doubts about grok and also twitter/x. But i'm curious what the other profiles are: young programmers 18-25? startup founders? tech journalists? ?
Grok: Thousands LOC a day in C is a big deal even if the "coder" uses LLM?
Since I got addicted to vibe-coding (to the unilluminated "vibecoding = using LLM to generate code), I asked grok couple of days ago if getting thousands or more LOC/day in complex language like say C is a lot or not, especially since the project involves AI (so it's 4-digit loc numbe...
Why is Delphi so popular according to the Tiobe index?
From place 183 to top 10 in 5 years? Essentially beating PHP and Rust (kind of expected for rust as it&#x27;s a new language).<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tiobe.com&#x2F;tiobe-index&#x2F;<p>I attribute it entirely to the growth of African countries (growing economy, growing population) who have adopted ...
I'm happy with Bluesky but what happened to Threads (and also "x"?)
So recently I decided to give Bluesky a go and while it&#x27;s far from perfect (e.q. those hong kong girls who take photos hiding their faces and ask you about crypto are all over bluesky too), YET: it&#x27;s fantastic in most other ways - exposure, light non-sluggish interface, free speech within ...
Vibecoding is scarily powerful: minutes to get C and Python recursive pdf-to-txt
I know at first glance pdf-to-txt doesn&#x27;t mean someone is senior dev, but since it&#x27;s done in minutes and:<p>* 180 lines of code ~120 of which in C; * it&#x27;s actually recursive and has pseudo-try-catch + memory liberation so it&#x27;s more professionally coded than a total noob. * my fin...
Ask HN: What's your current "ecosystem"/dev stack/tools that you use to build?
Assuming you&#x27;re a developer of course, in my case:<p>Programming: Python 3.11, cygwin&#x2F;gcc 11.5.0, visual studio 2017 community, Arduino legacy 1.8.19, postgresql 13.<p>These ^ are often used if not on a daily basis.<p>As to software that i have installed but almost never use or use it but ...
Ask HN: How high is the bar for AGI? what problems are "AGI-complete"?
I guess the nomenclature behind &quot;AGI&quot; and &quot;ASI&quot; is still debatable and i just watched an interview with Sundar Pichai (on Lex Fridman) where he brilliantly almost mocked the term, essentially describing it as a recent invention, neologism mostly used to mean &quot;our ai will soo...
Ask HN: What in your opinion is the best model for vibecoding? My thoughts below
So I&#x27;ve been vibecoding for like years but over the past 1-2 weeks it became an obsession to a point my eyes are literally red and inflamed right now since I can&#x27;t stop it (slightly humours...i was feeling worse off yesterday, the redness is now gone).<p>anyways my takes:<p>1. The #1 place...
Lovable.dev Is Absolutely Amazing
If you don&#x27;t know what this is: a web AI agent, that is: based on my extremely limited experience with it it seems like the goal is to simplify web development.<p>So in other words Lovable should finally make it possible for non-devs to make websites and also to greatly simplify the process if ...
GPT5 is the best coding LLM because other LLMs admit it?
So I vibe-code a lot these days and recently i decided to give the same prompt to several llms, then get their codes and later give each code to every single one of them to ask which one they think is the most useful without telling them that they or the other 2 llms wrote it. The overall consensus ...