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Show HN: A deterministic code-rewrite engine that learns from one example
by heavymemory | 2025-12-09 09:18:48+00:00
I built a tool that learns structural code transformations from a single before/after example.

It isn’t a transformer or LLM — it doesn’t generate code. It extracts the structural pattern between two snippets and compiles a deterministic rewrite rule. Same input → same output, every time.

Examples: • console.log(x) → logger.info(x) generalises to console.log(anything) • require(“x”) → import x from “x” • ReactDOM.render → createRoot • custom project conventions

The rules apply across an entire codebase or through an MCP plugin inside Claude Code, Cursor, or plain CLI.

It runs entirely on CPU and learns rules in real time.

Tool: https://hyperrecode.com I’d really appreciate feedback on the approach, design, or failure cases.
by goku12 | 2025-12-09 09:18:56+00:00
Honestly, that doesn't sound so bad, compared to what social media does to children. The combination of feed manipulation and content poisoning has devastating effects on the emotional wellbeing even adults. I hope that they get preoccupied on hacking their way onto those sites, rather than on their contents. This is notwithstanding the serious privacy concerns that this age-based ban raises.
Show HN: Repack AI – Turn Any Article/Video URL into 10 Social Content Pieces
by azureray | 2025-12-09 09:20:45+00:00
I’ve been building a small MVP called *Repack AI*. You paste in an *Article or Video URL*, and it instantly generates a content pack for 10+ social platforms — including text, visuals, and short faceless videos.

*Current capabilities:* - Platform-specific text: X/Twitter threads, LinkedIn summaries, IG/Threads captions - Auto-generated visuals + short vertical videos (TikTok/Reels/Shorts style) - Works with article URLs, newsletters, and (early testing) YouTube links

It’s early-stage, so outputs may need light editing. I’m mainly looking for feedback from people who publish or repurpose content regularly.

Try it here (free Credits included): https://repackai.co/

Happy to hear what works, what feels missing, and what you'd expect next.
by nopinsight | 2025-12-09 09:22:16+00:00
AI agents might be able to automate 80% of certain jobs in a few years but that would make the remaining 20% far more valuable. The challenge is to help people rapidly retrain for new roles.

Humans will continue to have certain desires far outstripping the supply we have for a long time to come.

We still don’t have cures for all diseases, personal robot chefs & maids, and an ideal house for everyone, for example. Not all have the time to socialize as much as they wish with their family and friends.

There will continue to be work for humans as long as humans provide value & deep connections beyond what automation can. The jobs could themselves become more desirable with machines automating the boring and dangerous parts, leaving humans to form deeper connections and be creatively human.

The transition period can be painful. There should be sufficient preparation and support to minimize the suffering.

Workers will need to have access to affordable and effective methods to retrain for new roles that will emerge.

“soft” skills such as empathetic communication and tact could surge in value.
by psychoslave | 2025-12-09 09:22:25+00:00
Yeah but actually it’s really a keyword artefact in that case. It’s more surprising that with all the emphases in the doc about readability, it will stick to an identifier like "arrow", when "which", "that" or "through" would make it far approachable. At least I would guess so.

-- what we don’t care to use later, we brush under the mat/rug [2,3] local mat = 5 -- nub, as the essence or core of an issue, argument etc. [1] % through(function(nub) return -nub end) ^ through(function(nub) return nub + 10 end) ^ through(function(nub) return nub * nub end) ^ through(print) -- 25

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nub

[2] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/sweep-un...

[3] https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/brush+(something)+under...
by harishpanwar9 | 2025-12-09 09:22:39+00:00
This is a fascinating perspective — and honestly, it feels like one of those shifts we’ll only fully recognize in hindsight. The idea that software development could transition from months of coordination and engineering overhead to rapid iteration with small, high-leverage teams is both exciting and a little uncomfortable.

The 90% cost reduction isn’t just about efficiency — it’s about access. If the barrier to shipping software drops this dramatically, we’re likely standing at the edge of a new wave of innovation driven not just by engineers, but by domain specialists who previously couldn’t justify the investment.

The most interesting takeaway here is that technical mastery may become less of the moat, while contextual and domain intelligence becomes the real differentiator. That flips the traditional power structure in tech.

2026 might really be the year where “build fast, throw away, rebuild smarter” becomes normal instead of reckless.

Curious to see how fast organizations adapt — and who gets left behind simply because they assumed disruption would arrive slower.
by mesenga | 2025-12-09 09:22:40+00:00
Beddel is not an AI tool. It is the Logic Governance infrastructure that should have been built before we plugged LLMs into the internet.

By moving logic into the runtime and keeping the agent definition minimal, you eliminate the "token bloat" associated with complex reasoning loops. You validate locally, execute deterministically, and only pay for the intelligence you actually need.

#SoftwareArchitecture #DeclarativeProgramming #IntentDrivenDevelopment #SystemDesign
by card_zero | 2025-12-09 09:23:37+00:00
If we say that seconds "pass", at what rate do they pass? Could they pass at some rate other than one second per second? That would entail outer seconds (second seconds, if you like). Which also have their own rate at which they pass, so now we need a third-level "flow of time", and so on.

So to say seconds "pass" is describing something else. They aren't moving.
by KellyCriterion | 2025-12-09 09:24:01+00:00
Thats great, congrats!

Open question: I'm wondering that there are no such tools alreay? Isnt the space already overdeveloped, Id say? Do the current creators most of this stuff manually, still these days? I do not now about TikTok Backend, but I would expect them to have such functions integrated already?

if you get traction with this, you could easily sell this! :-)
by bux93 | 2025-12-09 09:24:20+00:00
XLOOKUP is so nice though. The other stuff I can live without, especially the UI on data connections changing all the time and the connections breaking anyway.

Word 97 was basically feature complete though (if buggy - the same bugs persist today of course), including track changes and compare/merge documents. The killer feature now is being able to work on the same document with multiple people and seeing their changes in realtime. You used to be able to do this on-prem but that product (Office Online Server) got killed. I wonder why.
by dusted | 2025-12-09 09:24:54+00:00
I've thought a lot about law-as-code, but my conclusion is always that bad actors will be given an advantage by being able to brute-force the code until they find a way to get away with whatever obviously-immoral-harmful stuff they want (imagine giga-corps spending a few millions on hardware to brute-force tax law - ROI probably even better than tunneling through mountains to grab stonks first..).

In the end it reminds me of a quote by Edmund Burke: "Bad men obey the law only out of fear of punishment; good men obey it out of conscience - and thus good men are often restrained by it, while bad men find ways around it."
by arp242 | 2025-12-09 09:24:58+00:00
He talks about "throw[ing of] slurs" and "denying rights to others", "wishing violence on people because of their heritage", and that type of thing. Does not besetting people with slurs count as "diversity" now?

Do you think these people will be able to do good technical work if they're constantly beset by this kind of thing? Or do you think they will retreat to somewhere where they don't have to do with that?

And secretively hiding who you are is not a solution. No photographs. No video meets. No YouTube videos. Can never discus anything personal. No conferences.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-12-09 09:25:01+00:00
Thank you for your response which I really appreciate but I have still some doubts regarding it which I hope you can clear.

Basically Katie, I am not worried about the sysadmin confidence side of things which are actually an delight for me to work with but rather that to me the problem feels as if even if I vet some of my customers, if someone truly wants to shut down my business lets say, all they need to do is create an account and be faithful if I vet them and then just run malicious servers basically to gain a lot of abuse reports, maybe given directly to hetzner who from what I've heard can shut down your whole account if done.

Can you understand the dilemma I am presented with? I am willing to cooperate with hetzer team a lot and I am a single person team right now so I am interested in what are some response times that you want from me if I someday report abuse regarding this situation.

So my questions are:

1. Can an account be suspended if abuse reports come in, if so, is there any way to strike a mutual deal of understanding where I can cooperate to literally any amount with hetzner team for them to understand my use case perhaps

2. How early do you expect a response from lets say any abuse report, would 24 hours be an reasonable amount?

I just want, Katie, the ability where if any issues/report come, you might transfer it to me and I can fix them but the ability of deleting my server becomes hard as I am worried about that a single bad apple can ruin it for all my other customers basically and its this worry which is making me worry if hetzner can be the right choice because maybe hetzner team might not understand my use case and it might hurt the business and I am waiting for your response basically, if hetzner can be the right choice for me (which I genuinely want it to, hetzner feels so good and I would love to be your customer!)

Have a nice day Katie! And I hope that we can come to an understanding from both sides (I am willing to cooperate and go a long way as much as I can as a single person) and I hope hetzner team can cooperate too so that we can build something together!
by licorices | 2025-12-09 09:25:02+00:00
I wonder if it is time to look into some more native support for toasts in browsers.

Some implementation that allows for browser level customization(timing, etc), as well as a notification center in the browser, and that integrates well with screen readers.

I like toasts from a visual perspective. They can look good(not always, of course), and they can convey small bits of information that could otherwise be displeasing to view in some designs. However, god have I missed a ton of notifications because of them disappearing too quick, and no way to view previous ones, or anything like that. I'm not visually impaired or anything, so I can't really comprehend the extent and issues people who do may have with toasts, and see what would be needed to make them accessible for them(if it's even possible), but would love to hear about it.
by bosschow | 2025-12-09 09:26:25+00:00
Tried it — the “paste URL → get 10+ pieces of content” workflow is actually pretty smooth.

The Twitter thread + LinkedIn summary were solid enough to use with minimal editing. The faceless video generator is interesting too, though still a bit rough (as expected for an MVP).

As someone who repurposes a lot of long-form content, this could save a meaningful amount of time if the quality keeps improving. Curious to see how far the multi-platform angle can go.
by lloeki | 2025-12-09 09:26:26+00:00
I used to notice and somewhat - but not solely - rely on icons, especially nice designed sets.

It seems though that a combination of samey-sameness (greyscale, shape, etc...) and the constant bombarding of attention-grabbing imagery (emoji, gif, ads...) has desensitised me from visual cues and I zero in on text instead now.
by listenallyall | 2025-12-09 09:26:40+00:00
But wouldnt these spreadsheets be tracking something like total revenue? If a doctor is spending time on admin tasks instead of revenue-generating procedures, obviously the hospital has accountants and analysts who will notice this, yes?

I'll contrast your experience with a well-run (from a profitability standpoint) dentist's office, they have tons of assistants and hygienists and the dentist just goes from room-to-room performing high-dollar procedures, and very little "patient care." If small dentist offices have this all figured out it seems a little strange that a massive hospital does not.
by randomtoast | 2025-12-09 09:27:23+00:00
One problem is that the idea of being "well-structured" has gone overboard at some point over the past 20 years in many companies. As a result, many companies now operate highly convoluted monolithic systems that are extremely difficult to replace.

In contrast, a poorly designed microservice can be replaced much more easily. You can identify the worst-performing and most problematic microservices and replace them selectively.
by kburman | 2025-12-09 09:28:01+00:00
Have a question related to this, if a photon has zero proper time between emission and absorption, how should I think about the influence of later-created photons or fields on it?

In our frame, we can interact with a photon long after it's emitted send it through a filter, bounce it off a mirror, measure it, etc. But from the photon's own “no proper time” perspective, does it make sense to ask how something created after its emission could affect its path?
by klez | 2025-12-09 09:28:47+00:00
> it feels better to choose to listen to a particular album rather than putting endless playlists on shuffle.

Isn't that something you can do with streaming services as well?

I understand that many people choose to go with playlists, but it's not like the choice of listening to full albums has been taken away (yet).

Sure, the implementation is lackluster, with gaps between tracks when there shouldn't be one (really annoying on ambient/atmospheric/drone tracks), but still better than nothing.
by seec | 2025-12-09 09:28:50+00:00
It's not specific to the internet. It's just that basically everyone came into the internet when it became cheap and easy enough to use. However, previously it was only a subset of people who were willing to put in the effort because it offered some benefits to them.

It is simply the typical effect of regression to the mean of large groups. Previously there was the illusion of meshing because the group was more homogenous. Diversity is touted as a panacea, but it actually has many deleterious effects, the most obvious being the reduction of what is deemed acceptable/normal behavior and speech.

It is not surprising that everyone looks like an NPC because bringing everyone into the fold requires a redefinition of what is considered the acceptable norm. It systematically goes through narrowing the definition to artificially create the illusion of homogeneity (necessary to reduce conflicts).

This is the same process happening to society at large. Psychology is just a replacement for religion, and the various diagnostics just serve as a tool to police what is acceptable behavior. This is very much the same thing as the various religious scriptures, using moral arguments, appeals to emotions, and enforced tribalism to promote the “correct” way to live one's life.

The endless discussion of psychologists around diagnostics is hopeless; they are just gurus replacing preachers, but instead of using gospels and mythological stories, they use pseudoscientific bullshit to categorize/label behaviors and argue for what they believe should be the norm.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-12-09 09:28:56+00:00
> prescribing it as a general view

I didn't get that read at all. I read it as their journey of understanding how the world works and how they've reached their opinions on personal autonomy.

Your replies feel as if they're trying to paint turbobrew's comments as something more than they are; as some kind of prescribed doctrine, as opposed to an individuals opinion.

But that may just be because I happen to strongly agree with turbobrew's commentary.
by ghoul2 | 2025-12-09 09:29:17+00:00
As a RA-ship student in the US, I still had taxed withheld on my meager grad student "salary", and was required to file a 1040NR-EZ. I obviously did not want to spent 50$ at H&R block, to claim like 200$ back. Fortunately the local library had sessions where you could grab a blank form (the library had boxes full of them), and someone walked a bunch of us (i think there were like 40 in the room), to filling it out. The session mailer had already listed the stuff we were supposed to bring with us at the session. Even if someone forgot, they could leave a place holder and take care of it later.

The session was an hour long, and I was done with my return by the end of the hour. I dropped it off in the mail on my way back from the library and that was the end of it. From the subsequent year onwards, a pre-printed form arrived in the mail with like 90% of the stuff prefilled, and it took like 5 minutes to fill out the rest and drop it in the post box.

I honestly didn't think it could have been any easier - of course, not having taxes withheld from a far-below-minimum wage salary would have been nicer.
by blobbers | 2025-12-09 09:30:05+00:00
I am shocked by the number of people who are dismissive of AI, or have stuck to the whole copy and paste into a chatbot approach to development.

I'm finding this stuff, when given proper guidance, can reproduce experiments I've run incredibly fast. Weeks of typing done in minutes of talking to Claude Code.

In the working world, a lot of the time what matters is getting results, not writing 'perfect' code the way software engineers would like to.

concerns: - security bugs - business logic errors that seem correct but are wrong

as long as you have domain experts, I suspect these will gradually go away. hopefully LLMs can be trained not to do insecure things in code.
by sigmoid10 | 2025-12-09 09:30:09+00:00
Well, almost. Because these usual descriptions you give here are approximations. Yes, to the first order, gravity is expressed as the effect on time in general relativity. So you could describe how planets move simply by calculating how they move differently through time. But in the full picture, the way you move through space or near strong gravitational fields also influences your experience of space itself. So the ultimate realization is that gravity is space and time. Or spacetime. Basically exactly what the article says when it references general relativity. And it holds as well for quantum particles. They experience spacetime just as well as we do. The ultimate question is, does spacetime itself also come quantized when you look close enough? This is the true head banging one that noone knows.
by azureray | 2025-12-09 09:30:11+00:00
You're right — I'm not fully sure either whether creators truly need a tool like this. But I wanted to experiment and see what happens in the real world, rather than assume the answer.

Right now everything is still manual. If I see real usage, my plan is to add automation on top of it — things like reading from RSS feeds or a YouTube channel, generating content packs automatically, and even publishing to social platforms on behalf of the creator to help them grow.

Do you think that direction makes sense?
by zozbot234 | 2025-12-09 09:30:48+00:00
> Does not besetting people with slurs count as "diversity" now?

It depends whom you ask! There are certainly some people both off- and on-line who seem to think that uniformly slurring all white, male, cis-sexual, whatever folks as "oppressors" - and even occasionally suggesting, apparently as a serious political proposal, that "Whiteness" (whatever that means) is something that should be forcibly done away with - is an effective way of advocating for diversity.
by benchly | 2025-12-09 09:30:49+00:00
You might be interested in The Order of Time by Carlo Ravelli. Time and gravity are certainly linked, but from what I took away from the book (which is a lot to digest, even as non-mathy as it tries to be) is that Time is really heat. Heat moves only from hot to cold, dispersing in some entropic fashion as we move toward the final state of the universe, but in the meantime we can measure that time/heat "flows" at different rates, depending on how near or far you are from large bodies.

I likely need to reread it, though, as some of its ideas are a bit above my weight class when it comes to understanding physics. But, you may enjoy it!
by ownagefool | 2025-12-09 09:31:07+00:00
I suspect they were more referring to curmudgeons not patching.

I was engaged after one of the worlds biggest data leaks. The Security org was hyper worried about the cloud environment, which was in its infancy, despite the fact their data leak was from on-prem mainframe style system and they hadn't really improved their posture in any significant way despite spending £40m.

As an aside, I use NATs for some workloads where I've obviously spent low effort validating whether it's a great idea, and I'm pretty horrified with the report. (=
by kkfx | 2025-12-09 09:31:58+00:00
Hem... Geographical distance isn't a sensible parameter when computers are involved, because what matters is informational distance. Knowledge isn't transmitted through physical proximity but through the exchange of information.

The problem here is that most companies and workers lack the IT skills to operate as a virtual company or a learning organisation, so onboarding is complicated and gaining experience is difficult. Skilled workers are frustrated by the inefficiency of less competent colleagues and the organisation itself, while all the friction points are highly visible rather than hidden within in-person collaboration.

This can't be studied without comparing virtual companies/learning organisations to companies from the time of Taylor/Weber/Fayol.
by Saline9515 | 2025-12-09 09:32:00+00:00
The vast majority of Israel's Jews don't come from Palestine and descend very remotely from Hebrews. It's akin to say that Christians owe a right to Palestine as well because Christians, who are a successful "jewish fork", lived there before.

The justification of the Irgun terrorism because of the Arab riots is comical - then does that mean that groups such as the Hamas are justified in their existence as they resist against the Israeli colonizers? The Irgun was a political organization at its core, which also heavily targeted the British administration, including assassinations and bombings.

I think that it's not "one-sided" to say that Israel should stop supporting the colonization and dismantle the current colonies. Which is simply an application of the international law.
by sergiur | 2025-12-09 09:32:16+00:00
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