by splatzone ·
Can anyone recommend an alternative to Claude Design? I've been trying OpenDesign (https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design) using GPT5.5 which seemed promising, but so far the results have nowhere near the same level of polish or consistency as Claude Design from what I can tell.
Any recommendations?
by nothrowaways ·
As we saw in last few HN posts Meta’s Ray-Ban creepy privacy violation stories are real and alarms are ringing. Which countries will crack down first?
by xs-lang ·
Made my language called XS. It's a general-purpose language, currently at v1.2.15 as of this writing. Would like feedback and how I can improve it! Website it at https://xslang.org. There is a playground to try XS out in, and fully complete docs as well. Enjoy!
by pycassa ·
I wanted to try codex after 5 months of claude code max subscription. And then I went back to my previous projects on claude design only to realize I don't have access to them anymore.
This is a first. I never lost access to any of my past sessions because I unsubscribed in any of the LLM apps.
I actually wanted to try out codex previously, but had similar experience with my credits. They gave extra credits equivalent to my montly subscription price, with some time limit because claude has so many issues that month. And as soon as plan ended. I lost access to the credits. Even after resubscribing, I still don't have access to those credits.
I have sympathies towards the engineers, especially the ones that are putting themselves on X. But only when someone with large following has some issue, they sort it out.
Having worked at a billing company, I can see how complex contracts sound good for the growth/sales folks but are also horrible for engineers actually implementing those contracts. Their complex rate limiting which is now a norm, identifying other harnesses to count them against extra usage are all probably not easy to implement without very rough edge cases. But all the "bugs" are just where the user gets screwed is what is problematic.
I just wanted to post this here, after tagging them multiple times on X to alert other users.
by paulpauper ·
I get they need to show a path to profitability to please investors, but this is out of control. It runs some operation and then "times out" and hits the usage limit, before it even finishes or even outputs anything. Totally useless now.
I guess the window for "free useable claude" has been closed. Nice while it lasted.
by piratesAndSons ·
In recent weeks, I have noticed a lot of tech companies announcing layoffs due to AI. As this continues, when will you be concerned?
Microsoft laying off 10% of their workforce, 15%, 20%, 30%? Google laying off 10%, 15%, 20%, or more?
HN readers like to use the cope of "it's just pandemic over-hiring" — when do you think that explanation will no longer hold?
When will you say: "Now it has nothing to do with Covid-era over-hiring; the industry has fundamentally changed."
If this happens and a significant number of white-collar jobs are eliminated, who would buy things to keep the economy funded?
by mittermayr ·
I know what you're thinking... and I still can't believe it, but...
This morning, our database flagged a duplicate UUID (v4). I checked, thinking it may have been a double-insert bug or something, but no.
The original UUID was from a record added in 2025 (about a year ago), and today the system inserted a new document with a fresh UUIDv4 and it came up with the exact same one:
b6133fd6-70fe-4fe3-bed6-8ca8fc9386cd
We're using this: https://www.npmjs.com/package/uuid
I thought this is technically impossible, and it will never happen, and since we're not modifying the UUIDs in any way, I really wonder how that.... is possible!? We're literally only calling:
import { v4 as uuidv4 } from "uuid";
const document_id = uuidv4();
... and then insert into the database, that's it.
Additionally, the database only has about 15.000 records, and now one collision. Statistically... impossible.
Has that ever happened to anyone?! What in the...
by specwiseai ·
I'm Afrid, 14 years old, building SpecWise AI solo from Bangladesh. Struggling to get my first paying customer. Would love to hear what actually made users stick around for you.
by david927 ·
What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
by CliffStoll ·
AI hallucinations are getting ambitious.
A couple people recently emailed, asking whether the Klein bottle business was still operating after my death.
“Huh?” I thought. “I ain’t dead yet.”
After some digging, I discovered the source: an AI-generated review of The Cuckoo’s Egg circulating on Facebook. Alongside the usual synthetic praise and fabricated details, it confidently announced that I had died in May 2024.
Apparently AI has now advanced to the point where it can kill people off before they notice.
Mark Twain once wrote, “Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” I never expected to field-test the quote personally.
source: https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=989939243570691&id=100076638743004
Cheers, -Cliff