Hacker News with Generative AI: Application Development

Qt 6.9 Released (qt.io)
Qt 6.9 is now available, with new features and improvements for application developers and device creators! As some of the highlights, upgrading to Qt 6.9 brings emoji rendering in existing applications up to the latest standards, order independent transparency for Qt Quick 3D, significant enhancements to address modern OAuth2 requirements, and multiple new performance features across all platforms and devices.
Debugging an Undebuggable App (bryce.co)
An experiment of adding recommendation engine to your app using pgvector search (silk.us)
The reason I am excited about the latest genAI and vector search developments is that you can “plug in” these new technologies into your existing applications and their data, without having to re-platform or re-engineer your entire stack first. You can keep your existing application code and database design exactly as it is and then just add new genAI & vector search features where it makes sense.
Transactional Object Storage? (mbrt.dev)
I was frustrated by the gap between stateless and stateful applications in the cloud. While I could easily spin up a stateless application as a “serverless” function in any major cloud provider and pretty much forget about it, persisting data between requests was a game of pick two among three: cheap, strongly consistent, portable.
Complicated app settings are a threat to user privacy (theconversation.com)
Integrating AI CodeGen with Low Code Application Development (codesolvent.com)