Hacker News with Generative AI: Development

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.
Operating Systems, Software, Development, Chromebooks
11 points by miles 3 days ago | 5 comments
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?
India, Economics, Development, Social Progress
380 points by lordleft 5 days ago | 299 comments
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.
Software, Testing, Development
12 points by matesz 6 days ago | 0 comments
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.
FreeBSD, Hardware, Laptops, Open Source, Development
65 points by hggh 8 days ago | 33 comments
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.
AI, Software, REST API, Development
102 points by goargp 10 days ago | 73 comments
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.
Brain Science, Memory, Infants, Development
130 points by Brajeshwar 12 days ago | 67 comments
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.
Artificial Intelligence, Programming, Tools, Development
101 points by dan_voronov 13 days ago | 30 comments
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.
Neuroscience, Biology, Sex Differences, Development
9 points by amichail 13 days ago | 0 comments
Life Altering PostgreSQL Patterns (mccue.dev)
Believe it or not, I don't think that title is clickbait.
PostgreSQL, Databases, Programming, Development
26 points by thunderbong 17 days ago | 11 comments
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.
Climate Change, Renewable Energy, Africa, Development
117 points by rntn 18 days ago | 90 comments
Show HN: CodeVideo – Two years in the making to build an event-sourced IDE (codevideo.io)
Software, Programming, Development, IDE, Open Source
69 points by fullstackchris 19 days ago | 20 comments
Deploy from local to production (self-hosted) (github.com/bypirob)
Deploy your projects directly from your local computer to your production server easily.
Software, Deployment, Development, Tools
137 points by bypirob 25 days ago | 67 comments
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.
Software, Open Source, Community, Development
13 points by pabs3 26 days ago | 1 comments
Ask HN: Best Windows/Linux developer laptop in 2025 (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: Best Windows/Linux developer laptop in 2025
Hardware, Laptops, Development, Operating Systems
62 points by edtech_dev 28 days ago | 74 comments
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.
Government, Economics, USAID, Policy, Development
36 points by herbertl 34 days ago | 18 comments
We Designed TigerBeetle's Docs from Scratch (tigerbeetle.com)
We recently rebuilt TigerBeetle’s docs site from scratch.
Software, Documentation, Development
15 points by todsacerdoti 35 days ago | 0 comments
Xcode Constantly Phones Home (lapcatsoftware.com)
Building StopTheMadness Pro in Xcode is usually very fast, because my project doesn't use any Swift. It's a combination of Objective-C, which compiles much more quickly than Swift, and JavaScript, which doesn't need to be compiled. However, sometimes the builds were very slow for some strange reason. Checking the Xcode build transcripts, I found that the delay was in the "Gather provisioning inputs" build phase.
Xcode, Development, Performance, Optimization
150 points by lladnar 37 days ago | 59 comments
Devenv Telemetry Warning (chaos.social)
Software, Development, Security, Privacy
40 points by todsacerdoti 46 days ago | 10 comments
A Libertarian Island Dream in Honduras Is Now an $11B Nightmare (bloomberg.com)
Nestled within a tropical forest on a sun-drenched Honduran island, Prospera is technically a city. But entering it feels like crossing into another country.
Politics, Economics, Honduras, Real Estate, Development
52 points by impish9208 47 days ago | 30 comments
Retaking the web browser, one small step at a time (andregarzia.com)
Browsing the web is a 3D tug-of-war between developers, companies, and users. These forces were never balanced, but we have reached quite a lowest point for users in the last decade. Our beloved web browsers feature roadmap has catered more for web developers and the companies behind each browser project than for the user themselves. We used to call those apps User Agents, but they have been less of an agent on behalf of users these days.
Web Browsers, User Experience, Technology, Development
92 points by surprisetalk 53 days ago | 81 comments
Football Manager 25 canceled in a refreshing show of concern for quality (arstechnica.com)
Developer's big overhaul of long-running franchise is a brave, long process.
Gaming, Development, Football
4 points by Tomte 54 days ago | 1 comments
Fake VS Code Extension on NPM Spreads Multi-Stage Malware (mend.io)
In a recent discovery, our research team uncovered a fake VS-code extension—truffelvscode—typosquatting the popular truffle for VS-code extension. This extension serves as a trojan horse for multi-stage malware.
Cybersecurity, Malware, Software, Programming, Development
186 points by tomabai 55 days ago | 98 comments
Is USAID mainly serving US interests? (2013) (cepr.net)
An op-ed in Bloomberg Businessweek yesterday lays out the case for USAID reform, highlighting the case of contractors in Haiti (and citing this blog) as an example. The piece, by Charles Kenny of the Center for Global Development, also examines the politicized nature of USAID practices.
Foreign Aid, Politics, USA, Haiti, Development
16 points by isolli 58 days ago | 19 comments
Managing Secrets in Docker Compose – A Developer's Guide (phase.dev)
A practical guide to securely managing secrets in Docker Compose for production deployments
Docker, Security, Development, DevOps
62 points by thunderbong 59 days ago | 13 comments
Show HN: Tclint – chip design inspired dev tools for Tcl (github.com/nmoroze)
tclint is a lint tool for Tcl. It analyzes Tcl source files and reports issues that may cause bugs, inhibit readability, or affect performance.
Software, Programming Languages, Tools, Development
12 points by nmoroze 61 days ago | 1 comments
Dungeon Crawler Carl (mattdinniman.com)
Games, Development, Creative Projects
11 points by throwaway019254 62 days ago | 4 comments
Tmux-inspect: debug objects in tmux popups with jless (github.com/raine)
A Node.js library for inspecting objects during development using tmux popups and jless.
Node.js, Development, Debugging, Tmux
7 points by rane 67 days ago | 0 comments
Working with Files Is Hard (2019) (danluu.com)
Files are fraught with peril
Software, Files, Programming, Operating Systems, Development
203 points by nathan_phoenix 69 days ago | 119 comments
Show HN: Turn Figma into working apps without coding (Designer –> Production) (builder.io)
If you’ve ever turned Figma designs into a functional application, you know just how complex that process can be.
Design, Development, Web Development, No-Code, User Interface
11 points by antonoo 70 days ago | 2 comments
Sex Begins in the Womb (2001) (nlm.nih.gov)
Sex differences occur throughout the life span, although their specific expression varies at different at stages of life.
Biology, Sex, Development, Genetics, Health
9 points by thunderbong 71 days ago | 1 comments