Hacker News with Generative AI: Software Development

AI Can't Even Fix a Simple Bug – But Sure, Let's Fire All Our Engineers (nmn.gl)
Reddit discovered the funniest thing in tech this week, and it shows exactly how broken the AI narrative is.
Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Software Development, Humor
9 points by namanyayg 14 hours ago | 0 comments
A Run of CRDT Posts (jhellerstein.github.io)
Over the next few days, I'm going to post a number of observations about CRDTs: Convergent Conflict-free Replicated Data Types. These are data structures that aspire to help us with coordination-free distributed programming, a topic that interests me a lot. How can developers (or languages/compilers) deliver distributed programs that are safe or correct in important ways, without employing expensive mechanisms for coordination that make the global cloud run as slowly as a sequential computer?
Distributed Programming, Data Structures, Software Development, Programming Languages
9 points by pfarago 15 hours ago | 1 comments
Async from scratch 3: Pinned against the wall (natkr.com)
So, we've covered polling. We've tackled sleeping (and waking). Going back to the definition, that leaves us with one core concept left to conquer: pinning!
Async, Programming, Technical Articles, Software Development
37 points by todsacerdoti 15 hours ago | 0 comments
Practicing graphical debugging using visualizations of the Hilbert curve (akkartik.name)
For a while now I've been advocating for a particular style of programming: Use tools that don't change too often. Use tools that don't keep historical accidents around indefinitely. Minimize moving parts. Avoid additional third-party libraries, and forswear native libraries entirely.
Debugging, Visualization, Software Development, Programming Languages
30 points by akkartik 17 hours ago | 1 comments
Some Life Lessons from VAX/VMS (2013) (davewentzel.com)
Operating Systems, Software Development, History
26 points by TMWNN 1 day ago | 8 comments
JEP 519: Compact Object Headers (openjdk.org)
Change compact object headers from an experimental feature to a product feature.
Java, Programming Languages, Software Development, OpenJDK, JEP
71 points by Skinney 1 day ago | 10 comments
Building software on top of large language models (simonwillison.net)
I presented a three hour workshop at PyCon US yesterday titled Building software on top of Large Language Models. The goal of the workshop was to give participants everything they needed to get started writing code that makes use of LLMs.
Software Development, Programming, Workshops
33 points by gregorymichael 1 day ago | 0 comments
An upgraded dev experience in Google AI Studio (googleblog.com)
Google AI Studio is the fastest place to start building with the Gemini API, with access to our most capable models, including Gemini 2.5 preview models, and generative media models like Imagen, Lyria RealTime, and Veo. At Google I/O, we announced new features to help you build and deploy complete applications, new model capabilities, and new features in the Google Gen AI SDK.
Generative AI, Machine Learning, Software Development, AI Models
190 points by meetpateltech 2 days ago | 110 comments
Collaborative Text Editing Without CRDTs or OT (mattweidner.com)
Collaborative text editing is arguably the hardest feature to implement in a collaborative app. Even if you use a central server and a fully general solution to optimistic local updates (server reconciliation), text editing in particular requires fancy algorithms - specifically, the core of a text-editing CRDT or OT.
Software Development, Algorithms
273 points by samwillis 2 days ago | 78 comments
Qt Bridges: Hiding C++ and bringing Qt UI to any language (devclass.com)
At the Qt World Summit in Munich the Qt Company, maker of a widely used UI framework, unveiled its plan to bring Qt UI to any programming language, starting with Java, C#, Rust, Swift and Kotlin, and extending a technology that already exists for Python.
Cross-Platform Development, UI Frameworks, Programming Languages, Software Development, Qt
4 points by coffeeaddict1 2 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: OpenHands, an open source alternative to Devin, Codex, and Jules (github.com/All-Hands-AI)
Welcome to OpenHands (formerly OpenDevin), a platform for software development agents powered by AI.
Open Source, AI, Software Development, Generative AI
11 points by rbren 2 days ago | 1 comments
Things that have a bigger impact than coding assistants (wordpress.com)
Here are 5 factors that make a bigger difference to software development outcomes than “A.I.” coding assistants, but teams don’t address because they’re “old news, granddad!”
Software Development, Coding Assistants, Artificial Intelligence
110 points by flail 2 days ago | 59 comments
Ship Code to Kubernetes in Seconds: How mirrord kills 30-min CI Loops (metalbear.co)
For cloud-native applications, moving code from a developer’s local machine to a staging or testing environment is rarely straightforward.
Kubernetes, CI/CD, Cloud-Native, DevOps, Software Development
10 points by vfiftyfive 2 days ago | 0 comments
AI can't replace devs until it understands office politics (theregister.com)
AI can't replace devs until it understands office politics
Artificial Intelligence, Software Development, Workplace Culture
6 points by samizdis 2 days ago | 0 comments
Modern Python Boilerplate – good package basic structure (ycombinator.com)
TL;DR: Python Boilerplate repo for fast package building with all best practices
Python, Software Development, Best Practices, Open Source
8 points by lambda-science 2 days ago | 0 comments
How we made our OCR code more accurate (pieces.app)
Discover how Pieces enhanced its optical character recognition (OCR) engine to improve accuracy, speed, and real-world application for software developers.
Software Development, Accuracy, Code Optimization
50 points by thunderbong 2 days ago | 45 comments
Rust turns 10: How a broken elevator changed software forever (zdnet.com)
Rust 1.0 shipped in May 2015. Here's how it came about and why it marked a turning point in the world of software development.
Rust, Programming Languages, Software Development, History
11 points by thunderbong 2 days ago | 1 comments
Disabling kernel functions in your process (2009) (chadaustin.me)
Detecting and reporting unhandled exceptions with SetUnhandledExceptionFilter seemed logical, and, in fact, it worked... for a while. Eventually, we started to notice failures that should have been reported as a last-chance exception but weren't. After much investigation, we discovered that both Direct3D and Flash were installing their own unhandled exception filters! Worse, they were fighting over it, installing their handlers several times per second!
Programming, Windows, Debugging, Security, Software Development
34 points by rolph 2 days ago | 6 comments
The value isn't in the code (2022) (jonayre.uk)
Okay, I’ll admit that calling your software worthless was a shameless clickbait tactic. However, I will assert that it’s not as valuable or indispensable as you might think it is. You need two things to solve a problem using software, skill and time.
Software, Software Development, Time Management, Skill
139 points by fragmede 2 days ago | 76 comments
Open Source Maintainers Demand Ability to Block Copilot-Generated Issues and PRs (socket.dev)
Open source maintainers are urging GitHub to let them block Copilot from submitting AI-generated issues and pull requests to their repositories.
Open Source, Artificial Intelligence, GitHub, Software Development, Copyright
14 points by gpi 3 days ago | 0 comments
Why Good Programmers Use Bad AI (nmn.gl)
AI code generation is error-prone. Why, then, are programmers still using it?
AI, Programming, Software Development
8 points by namanyayg 3 days ago | 1 comments
I spent 15 years developing a tool to make sense of software version numbers (ycombinator.com)
Over 15 years ago, I had a strange idea: what if software version numbers weren’t just arbitrary labels, but followed deeper patterns - almost like coordinates in a space?
Software Development, Version Control, Programming, Tools
30 points by a1tern 3 days ago | 5 comments
Allow us to block Copilot-generated issues (and PRs) from our own repositories (github.com/orgs)
GitHub, Software Development, Open Source, AI Tools, Code Review
64 points by pera 3 days ago | 4 comments
Ask HN: When do you just give up and ship it? (ycombinator.com)
Products are never really finished, they're always evolving and growing and changing, for better or worse. At what point do you draw the line, call it quits on further breaking changes, and ship it? Asking for a friend.
Software Development, Product Development, User Experience, Software Release
16 points by 90s_dev 3 days ago | 14 comments
Ask HN: Don't You Mind That LLMs Are Mostly Proprietary? (ycombinator.com)
I'm not sure if it's just me getting older or what, but something strikes me as odd about the future of programming and software engineering: LLMs are impressive, but you have to pay to use them.
Open Source, Software Development, Business Models
18 points by dakiol 4 days ago | 18 comments
The Ignorability of Attributes in C++ (brevzin.github.io)
Attributes turned out to be unsuitable for solving problems because they are ignorable. I found this a very frustrating introduction to read. Because, on the one hand, it’s true — C++ attributes are, today, completely unsuitable for solving any problem. How did we actually get into this situation? How did we decide that attributes must be useless?
C++, Programming Languages, Software Development
10 points by fanf2 4 days ago | 0 comments
Jonathan Blow on Removing Dependencies (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
Software Development, Programming, Dependencies, Jonathan Blow
20 points by anonymousab 4 days ago | 5 comments
A Zero-Level Set Preserving Technique for SDF Computation (jcgt.org)
Computer Graphics, Algorithms, Software Development
6 points by ibobev 4 days ago | 0 comments
Vibe coding is changing the indiehacker landscape (wonderful.dev)
Indie Hackers, Programming, Software Development, Community, Web Development
9 points by welder 4 days ago | 1 comments
Greenspun's 10th rule and the sad state of software quality (github.com)
Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.
Software Quality, Programming Languages, Software Development, Humor
11 points by mivanchev 4 days ago | 0 comments