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Is it possible? Do you know success cases w/o spending 20+k $ on auditors? My customers bombards me with question about certification of my app Perfect Wiki, I need help with finding the best way to show them that my app could be trusted.

As we saw in last few HN posts Meta’s Ray-Ban creepy privacy violation stories are real and alarms are ringing. Which countries will crack down first?

Can anyone recommend an alternative to Claude Design? I've been trying OpenDesign (https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design) using GPT5.5 which seemed promising, but so far the results have nowhere near the same level of polish or consistency as Claude Design from what I can tell.

Any recommendations?

I wanted to try codex after 5 months of claude code max subscription. And then I went back to my previous projects on claude design only to realize I don't have access to them anymore.

This is a first. I never lost access to any of my past sessions because I unsubscribed in any of the LLM apps.

I actually wanted to try out codex previously, but had similar experience with my credits. They gave extra credits equivalent to my montly subscription price, with some time limit because claude has so many issues that month. And as soon as plan ended. I lost access to the credits. Even after resubscribing, I still don't have access to those credits.

I have sympathies towards the engineers, especially the ones that are putting themselves on X. But only when someone with large following has some issue, they sort it out.

Having worked at a billing company, I can see how complex contracts sound good for the growth/sales folks but are also horrible for engineers actually implementing those contracts. Their complex rate limiting which is now a norm, identifying other harnesses to count them against extra usage are all probably not easy to implement without very rough edge cases. But all the "bugs" are just where the user gets screwed is what is problematic.

I just wanted to post this here, after tagging them multiple times on X to alert other users.

Made my language called XS. It's a general-purpose language, currently at v1.2.15 as of this writing. Would like feedback and how I can improve it! Website it at https://xslang.org. There is a playground to try XS out in, and fully complete docs as well. Enjoy!

I know what you're thinking... and I still can't believe it, but...

This morning, our database flagged a duplicate UUID (v4). I checked, thinking it may have been a double-insert bug or something, but no.

The original UUID was from a record added in 2025 (about a year ago), and today the system inserted a new document with a fresh UUIDv4 and it came up with the exact same one:

b6133fd6-70fe-4fe3-bed6-8ca8fc9386cd

We're using this: https://www.npmjs.com/package/uuid

I thought this is technically impossible, and it will never happen, and since we're not modifying the UUIDs in any way, I really wonder how that.... is possible!? We're literally only calling:

import { v4 as uuidv4 } from "uuid";

const document_id = uuidv4();

... and then insert into the database, that's it.

Additionally, the database only has about 15.000 records, and now one collision. Statistically... impossible.

Has that ever happened to anyone?! What in the...

In recent weeks, I have noticed a lot of tech companies announcing layoffs due to AI. As this continues, when will you be concerned?

Microsoft laying off 10% of their workforce, 15%, 20%, 30%? Google laying off 10%, 15%, 20%, or more?

HN readers like to use the cope of "it's just pandemic over-hiring" — when do you think that explanation will no longer hold?

When will you say: "Now it has nothing to do with Covid-era over-hiring; the industry has fundamentally changed."

If this happens and a significant number of white-collar jobs are eliminated, who would buy things to keep the economy funded?

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?

I get they need to show a path to profitability to please investors, but this is out of control. It runs some operation and then "times out" and hits the usage limit, before it even finishes or even outputs anything. Totally useless now.

I guess the window for "free useable claude" has been closed. Nice while it lasted.

AI hallucinations are getting ambitious.

A couple people recently emailed, asking whether the Klein bottle business was still operating after my death.

“Huh?” I thought. “I ain’t dead yet.”

After some digging, I discovered the source: an AI-generated review of The Cuckoo’s Egg circulating on Facebook. Alongside the usual synthetic praise and fabricated details, it confidently announced that I had died in May 2024.

Apparently AI has now advanced to the point where it can kill people off before they notice.

Mark Twain once wrote, “Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” I never expected to field-test the quote personally.

source: https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=989939243570691&id=100076638743004

Cheers, -Cliff

Please don't turn this into an inflammatory post.

Regardless of "AI" being good or bad (it's not even just one thing as many of you know), I feel like the "What are you working on?" posts are drowning in things that use AI for something and/or are clearly "AI slop".

I'd like to look at things other humans have been doing (even if they used a bit of some kind of AI for assistance), that aren't a product or tool that uses AI for something.

I know it exists (and I use and build some), but it's incredibly hard to find nowadays. Can you help me?

Thank you.

"Starting June 15, 2026, Agent SDK and claude -p usage on subscription plans will draw from a new monthly Agent SDK credit, separate from your interactive usage limits."

Details: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15036540-use-the-claude-agent-sdk-with-your-claude-plan

The Claude app and Claude Code have been an unusable and buggy mess for me lately, has anyone else been experiencing this? Most of my messages get swallowed after sending them or the responses get interrupted or dropped. Sometimes entire conversations disappear from the sidebar only to reappear later. I’ve learnt that when a message appears not to have gone through or have errored midway, it often comes back with a valid response if I wait a bit and then restart the app.

I wonder if it has anything to do with Anthropic eagerly embracing vibe coding.

I've been interested in learning how to make electronic music (e.g. Geometry dash, Undertale, Daft Punk, C418), but there doesn't seem to be any real documentation or tutorials on how to start.

To summarize my question: a.) What are the first 3 steps (or more) to learn to compose music? b.) Any links, resources etc. to share?

Thanks for your time and interest.

https://x.com/farreldarian/status/2054424419179896952

There are a growing number of products/features to manage agent sessions. Few built-ins, new app, but this I made specifically for tmux users running Claude Code and OpenCode.

It automatically detects all sessions without configuration

I built this since Feb 2026, but I haven't yet properly documented the features.

Dropping this here to see if anyone might be interested