Hacker News with Generative AI: Collaboration

Zulip 10.0: Organized chat for distributed teams (zulip.com)
We’re excited to announce the release of Zulip Server 10.0, containing hundreds of new features and bug fixes!
Ask HN: Best practices to put Claude Code and OpenManus and Windsurf together (ycombinator.com)
We are creating best practices in our company for doing vibe coding at scale.
Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline (github.com/suitenumerique)
Welcome to Docs! The open source document editor where your notes can become knowledge through live collaboration
Cradle – Open-Source Collaborative Threat Intelligence Hub (cradle.sh)
Owl: Optimized Workforce Learning for multi-agent collaboration (github.com/camel-ai)
🦉 OWL is a cutting-edge framework for multi-agent collaboration that pushes the boundaries of task automation, built on top of the CAMEL-AI Framework.
The ZeroMQ Process: C4 (gitbooks.io)
When we say ZeroMQ we sometimes mean libzmq, the core library. In early 2012, we synthesized the libzmq process into a formal and reusable protocol for collaboration that we called the Collective Code Construction Contract, or C4. You can see this as a layer above the license (e.g. MPLv2). These are our rules, and I'll explain the reasoning behind each one.
Help Me Help You, Maintainers (matduggan.com)
Anybody who has worked in a tech stack of nearly any complexity outside of Hello World is aware of the problems with the current state of the open-source world.
Show HN: Leaflet.pub – a web app for creating and sharing rich documents (ycombinator.com)
Hi HN!<p>For the last 8 months we've been working on leaflet.pub, a web app for making delightful documents. We're trying to strike a balance between Notion and Google Docs — very fast, ultralight and easy to share, but also supporting rich blocks and multiple pages.
SMBC Parts Ways with Hiveworks (smbc-comics.com)
BYD cars now have an on-vehicle DJI drone launch platform (theverge.com)
EV maker BYD unveiled “Lingyuan,” a vehicle-mounted drone launching system developed in collaboration with DJI that is available for all of the company’s vehicles, reports Chinese state media outlet Xinhua.
Microsoft Retiring Skype (microsoft.com)
We will be retiring Skype in May 2025 to focus on Microsoft Teams (free), our modern communications and collaboration hub.
Should open source development platforms be a public utility? (xot.nl)
Perhaps open source collaboration platforms like Codeberg should be considered a form of public utility, maintaining a public infrastructure, with public financial support, and public oversight.
Project Scripts (paul-samuels.com)
Try creating a cli executable in your project that exposes common project tasks that are written in the project’s core language. This allows better contribution and less single points of failure with pockets of knowledge in the team.
Codenearby – Find Coding Partners and Build Together (ycombinator.com)
Have you ever struggled to find the right developer to collaborate with on a project?
Obsidian is now free for work (obsidian.md)
People in over 10,000 organizations use Obsidian for work.
Looks Like It's Time for All of Us to Come Together and Here's Why It Matters (ycombinator.com)
Open source projects could sell SBOM fragments (thomas-huehn.com)
Scanning source files for licensing information (because the package managers‘ metadata is insufficient) is a lot of work, and a lot of wasted effort, because only rarely do companies pool their resources.
Show HN: Tools for Math Research (sugaku.net)
A platform for mathematics researchers to explore literature, find collaborators, and engage with mathematical content through advanced computational tools.
LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab (theregister.com)
FOSDEM 2025 LibreOffice is a big, mature chunk of code now, but that doesn't make it impossible to teach it impressive new tricks. Some of them could make it more important than ever.
LibreOffice goes collaborative and WASM as ZetaOffice (theregister.com)
LibreOffice is a big, mature chunk of code now, but that doesn't make it impossible to teach it impressive new tricks. Some of them could make it more important than ever.
Initiative from Google, OpenAI, Discord, others could transform trust and safety (platformer.news)
Recently when I’ve written about efforts to make platforms safer, it has been in the context of those efforts seeming to fail.
A tale of distros joining forces for a common goal: reproducible builds [video] (fosdem.org)
Java: RedHat X IBM Annoucement (redhat.com)
Today, we’re sharing that Red Hat and IBM will join forces to secure the future of the Java application ecosystem for our customers.
My Co-Founder threw away 90% of the code I wrote (ycombinator.com)
TL;DR: This is an appreciation post for all those co-founders who take our messy, hacky code, and somehow transform it into maintainable, production-ready software.
Show HN: Bindle – Self-Organizing Folders and Chat with Your Documents (bindle.work)
Bindle is the easiest way to organize and AI chat with everything in your workspace, no matter what you do.
One Million Checkboxes the Viral Game That Defied Convention (corecursive.com)
What if internet trolls could become your greatest collaborators? Nolen Royalty discovered this unexpected truth when his simple checkbox game went viral.
Show HN: Val Town Projects (val.town)
Today we’re releasing Val Town Projects in public beta to unlock a whole new level of complexity for what you can build in Val Town. Projects are groups of vals, files, and folders that are versioned collectively, and deployed on our serverless platform. They support powerful workflows, such as feature branches, that make it easy to build and deploy large applications.
Alibaba, Datadog, and Quesma Join Forces on Go Compile-Time Instrumentation (opentelemetry.io)
Standards are only useful if they’re widely adopted, and adoption is only effective if the available tooling facilitates it. I imagine SI units would not have been too popular when they were introduced if you had to build your own scales to weigh things in Kilograms!
Trae.ai IDE (trae.ai)
TraeTrae is an adaptive AI IDE that transforms how you work, collaborating with you to run faster.
Evo: Version control that works the way you think (github.com/crazywolf132)
Evo is a modern, offline-first version control system that focuses on what matters most: helping developers write great code together.