Hacker News with Generative AI: Development

Clockwork Pico Calc (clockworkpi.com)
The ClockworkPi v2.0 series offers you an efficient and cost-effective MCU development solution.
I started a devblog about mixing SwiftUI and C++ to make a Twitch app (kulve.org)
I figure the tech stack of Kulve is unique enough to be interesting, so seems like a good place to start for my first blog post. Kulve is a SwiftUI application that heavily leverages the Swift/C++ interop that got introducted with Swift 5.9. While it's not perfect, it offers just enough to be able to reliably blend the two languages together.
China is in third phase of its development (tphuang.substack.com)
Recently, I happened to land on this amazing chart and something dawned on me; we are in a new phase of China’s economical development.
I just got an ad in VS Code (postimg.cc)
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The new Framework 13 HX370 (world.hey.com)
The new AMD HX370 option in the Framework 13 is a good step forward in performance for developers.
Development on Apple Silicon with UTM (rkiselenko.dev)
In this article, I'll show you how to use UTM VMs virtual machines to create Linux development environments on Apple Silicon.
WordPress Feature API (github.com/Automattic)
The WordPress Feature API is a system for exposing WordPress functionality in a standardized, discoverable way for both server and client-side use.
Show HN: Plandex v2 – open source AI coding agent for large projects and tasks (github.com/plandex-ai)
💻  Plandex is a terminal-based AI development tool that can plan and execute large coding tasks that span many steps and touch dozens of files. It can handle up to 2M tokens of context directly (~100k per file), and can index directories with 20M tokens or more using tree-sitter project maps.
Podman Quadlets with Podman Desktop (podman-desktop.io)
Containers are typically deployed in Kubernetes clusters. However, for smaller-scale use cases such as on a single-node server or during development, Kubernetes can be overkill.
Show HN: Zero-codegen, no-compile TypeScript type inference from Protobufs (github.com/nathanhleung)
Zero-codegen TypeScript type inference from protobuf messages.
Behind the 6-digit code: Building HOTP and TOTP from scratch (dogac.dev)
A while ago, I have started working on authorization and authentication at work. This taught me a lot about how modern authentication systems work. However I have always thought One-Time Password logins are the most mystical ones. A six-digit code that changes every time and can be used to verify your identity. How does the server know the newly generated one, and how is it really secure?
Firebase Studio (firebase.studio)
Firebase Studio accelerates your entire development lifecycle with AI agents. Build backends, front ends, and mobile apps, all in one place.
Dockerfmt: A Dockerfile Formatter (github.com/reteps)
Dockerfile format and parser, and a modern version of dockfmt. Built on top of the internal buildkit parser.
Try: Test anti-framework via CL Condition System (github.com/melisgl)
Try is an extensible test anti-framework with equal support for interactive and non-interactive workflows.
AWS MCP Servers (github.com/awslabs)
AWS MCP Servers — specialized MCP servers that bring AWS best practices directly to your development workflow
Aurora: Maintenance-free, reliable and fast OS, stable like a Chromebook (getaurora.dev)
Get onboard. Aurora is the ultimate desktop OS for your developer workstation or the perfect maintenance-free OS for everyone. Let's gaze at the stars together, fellow traveller.
How Kerala got rich (aeon.co)
Fifty years ago it was one of India’s poorest states, now it is now one of the richest. How did Kerala do it?
Our own worst best customer (antithesis.com)
At Antithesis, our job is to break software before it breaks in production – ours included. We’ve spent years stress-testing our systems with property-based testing and deterministic simulation, not just because it makes our software more reliable, but because it actually makes us faster.
Framework 13 AMD Setup with FreeBSD (euroquis.nl)
The FreeBSD Foundation exists to support the FreeBSD community and the FreeBSD project. Some of its projects are aimed at improving the experience of FreeBSD on specific hardware. There is an ongoing, and expanding, laptop experience project. To expand that project further, the foundation has provided Framework laptops to a bunch of developers working on the FreeBSD laptop and desktop experience. I’m one of those developers, and here are some initial notes on the process. The notes assume experience with FreeBSD.
Show HN: We made an MCP Server so Cursor can build things from REST API docs (npmjs.com)
The Apidog MCP Server allows you to use your API documentation from Apidog projects as a data source for AI-powered IDEs like Cursor. This means Agentic AI can directly access and work with your API documentation, speeding up development and making your workflow more efficient.
Brain scans of infants reveal the moment we start making memories (singularityhub.com)
Kids form fleeting memories at around 12 months, even as their brains are rapidly rewiring themselves.
Show HN: My Attempt to Organize the World of AI Dev Tools (danvoronov.com)
These IDEs offer a superior coding experience compared to traditional IDEs.
Sex differences in brain structure are present at birth (psypost.org)
New research published in Biology of Sex Differences has found that sex differences in brain structure are already present at birth and remain relatively stable during early postnatal development.
Life Altering PostgreSQL Patterns (mccue.dev)
Believe it or not, I don't think that title is clickbait.
For climate and livelihoods, Africa bets big on solar mini-grids (knowablemagazine.org)
To the people of Mbiabet Esieyere and Mbiabet Udouba in Nigeria’s deep south, sundown would mean children doing their homework by the glow of kerosene lamps, and the faint thrum of generators emanating from homes that could afford to run them.
Show HN: CodeVideo – Two years in the making to build an event-sourced IDE (codevideo.io)
Deploy from local to production (self-hosted) (github.com/bypirob)
Deploy your projects directly from your local computer to your production server easily.
What's cooking on Sourcehut? Q1 2025 (sourcehut.org)
Hello all! We’re back with another “What’s cooking”, after another too-long hiatus since September. We did promise to resume monthly updates, but in hindsight that seems a bit ambitious given everything on our plate. For now we’re going to aim for the more modest ambition of publishing updates quarterly.
Ask HN: Best Windows/Linux developer laptop in 2025 (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: Best Windows/Linux developer laptop in 2025
USAID's chief economist has resigned. Here's why (npr.org)
In November 2022, Dean Karlan was hired to lead the first Office of the Chief Economist of USAID. His role and that of his 30-plus staff was to help design more cost-effective programs and to help the agency produce more evidence to guide future policies.