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Ask HN: What does Vibe Coding mean for non-programmers?
by Nio1024 | 2025-12-01 06:53:10+00:00
From what I’ve seen:

Vibe Coding is mainly a tool for building product prototypes.

It’s a great way to explore AI and learn.

It’s not suited for serious, production-grade products.

My take: different skills shine in different areas. If you’re a non-programmer, focus on what you’re good at — understanding users, marketing, distribution, attracting developers — instead of trying to become a programmer yourself.
by js-j | 2025-12-01 06:53:10+00:00
I like freebsd a lot, too. In production we use debian (without systemd!), and here's the uptime of one of our servers:

$ uname -a

Linux deb2 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt25-2 (2016-04-08) x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ uptime

08:50:41 up 2512 days, 17:15, 1 user, load average: 18.70, 20.46, 21.43
by Dylan16807 | 2025-12-01 06:53:30+00:00
> We shouldn't get rid of good hardware because it's too old, that's wasteful.

Depends on how much power it's wasting, when we're looking at 20 year old desktops/laptops.

> 32 bit is still valid for many applications and environments that don't need >3GB~ ram.

Well my understanding is that if you have 1GB of RAM or less you have nothing to worry about. The major unresolved issue with 32 bit is that it needs complicated memory mapping and can't have one big mapping of all of physical memory into the kernel address space. I'm not aware of a plan to remove the entire architecture.

It's annoying for that set of systems that fit into 32 bits but not 30 bits, but any new design over a gigabyte should be fine getting a slightly different core.

> For example, routers shouldn't use 64bit processors unless they're handling that much load, die size matter there

I don't think that's right, but correct me if I missed something. A basic 64 bit core is extremely tiny and almost the same size as a 32 bit core. If you're heavy enough to run Linux, 64 bit shouldn't be a burden.
by telecomhacker | 2025-12-01 06:54:00+00:00
What an insane ride it's been building this thing.... After coming back from a 2 week trip to Japan to visit my old study abroad friends and professor this past May, I decided to build https://nipponhomes.com then https://nipponhomes.com/analytics . Out of transparency, I'm losing like $2k/year in raw cloud costs (Vercel, Supabase, Zyte, OpenRouter, AWS, etc.) but I am so humbled in how much I've learned just by building this. Tbh, I realize that I am so fortunate to have the time and money to experiment with something like this, as I know many people out there are really struggling with the current market (heck I am getting rejected left and right too by my dream companies). Documenting here some of my learnings to share:

1. I learned how to create a lightweight, custom multi-modal recommendation system; I also ended up getting 2nd place for in Liquid AI's hackathon with this. (https://github.com/angelotc/lfm2-vl-embeddings) . Turns out you just need an MLP or attention layer to fuse two sets of dense embeddings.

2. Queues + async workers are a must for processing things at scale (listings in my case). Kinda go into it more in this video: https://youtu.be/qXOk7_3vZgQ?si=Mk1l3dYhzdQuvFe3&t=360

3. You need proxies (Zyte, BrightData, OxyLabs, etc.) to scrape at scale if you don't want to build your own proxy rotation system.

4. Wasn't getting sign ups until I added this feature where after a person views 3 listings, they have to sign up. That like 10x'd my signups (#growthhackingiguess)

Ps. I kinda built this out of depression tbh lol as I got rejected to Meta for the 2nd year in a row and Open AI for the 3rd time. The site currently has 8k monthly users, which is super cool, but tbh I don't know if I want to keep working on it anymore as I'm not really learning anymore, and just adding shit here and there. I know the site isn't perfect yet, and I'm getting some interests from major banks, japan real estate consultants ( the folks that help you buy the houses), and competitors (they want the data) in case you folks were interested on who is reaching out.
by rohan2003 | 2025-12-01 06:54:30+00:00
but dockerfile is not the complete setup you need to configure a lot of other things, and in a lot of cases dockerfile is not even getting generated correctly, try out gitpod they generate devcontainer.json which is a standard format across different platforms, but generating a devcontainer.json or Dockerfile has never been easy for agents specially when the repositories are complex.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-12-01 06:55:19+00:00
Seems more likely that Trump is only loyal to himself. It would explain favoring Russia when it suits him and invading Venezuela due to the Epstein thing and/or fixation on oil.

> Given the US military superiority and how weak Russia is supposed to be, Russia should be on its knees right now.

The problem with this supposed quandary is that the US military isn't fighting Russia.
by strken | 2025-12-01 06:55:22+00:00
Really depends what the moral objection is. If it's "no machine may speak my glorious tongue", then there's little to be said; if it's "AI is theft", then you can maybe make an argument about hypothetical models trained on public domain text using solar power and reinforced by willing volunteers; if it's "AI is a bubble and I don't want to defraud investors", then you can indeed argue the object-level facts.
by spijdar | 2025-12-01 06:55:37+00:00
Wow, imagine seeing this just after booting up my PWS running NT (and RH Linux...). NT 4, but one day I do want to try 2k.

My immediate question which isn't (I think) answered in the repo is how do you interface the NVMe? Can you put NVMe on PCI as opposed to PCIe? How?

In the meantime, I'll just add the desire to do this to the other Alpha-related intrusive thoughts I have, like getting that port of OpenSolaris/Illumos to Alpha to run...
by lmm | 2025-12-01 06:56:14+00:00
> Still, that option exists

Yes and no. If you get yourself into a position where you have servers deployed on version x.y of whatever Linux distribution you went with and now can't or won't upgrade from that, the vast majority of the time you're going to be exactly as stuck as if you were on FreeBSD. If you wanted to benefit from paid RedHat backports you had to decide to deploy your application to LTS RedHat on day 1, and the vast majority of people don't.
by notJim | 2025-12-01 06:56:24+00:00
You can't call something a bad-faith argument just because you disagree with it. I mean, you can, but it's not at all convincing.

As I said, if AI companies reproduce copyrighted works, they should be sued, just like a human artist would be. I haven't experienced that in my interactions with LLMs, but I've never really tried to achieve that result either. I don't really pirate anymore, but torrents are a much easier and cheaper way to do copyright infringement than using an AI tool.
by anovikov | 2025-12-01 06:56:55+00:00
Too much demand, all of a sudden. Money got printed and i went from near bankruptcy in mid-Feb 2020 to being awash with money by mid-June.

And it continued growing nonstop all the way through ~early Sep 2024, and been slowing down ever since, by now coming to an almost complete stop - to the point i ever fired all sales staff because they were treading water with no even calls let alone deals, for half a year before being dismissed in mid-July this year.

I think it won't return - custom dev is done. The myth of "hiring coders to get rich" is over. No surprise it did, because it never worked, sooner or later people had to realise it. I may check again in 2-3 years how market is doing, but i'm not at all hopeful.

Switched into miltech where demand is real.
by cchianel | 2025-12-01 06:58:21+00:00
I haven't; from a quick reading, InfoBax is for when you have an expensive function and want to do limited evaluations. Timefold works with cheap functions and does many evaluations. Timefold does this via Constraint Streams, so a function like:

var score = 0; for (var shiftA : solution.getShifts()) { for (var shiftB : solution.getShifts()) { if (shiftA != shiftB && shiftA.getEmployee() == shiftB.getEmployee() && shiftA.overlaps(shiftB)) { score -= 1; } } } return score

usually takes shift * shift evaluations of overlaps, we only check the shifts affected by the change (changing it from O(N^2) to O(1) usually).

That being said, it might be useful for a move selector. I need to give it a more in depth reading.
by tavavex | 2025-12-01 06:58:32+00:00
The question can be easily inverted for the other side: if any user accidentally damages a service's functionality in any way, can they always be criminally liable? Can this be used by companies with no security or thought put into them whatsoever, where they just sue anyone who sees their unsecured data? Where should the line be drawn?

To me, this is subjective, but the URL situation has a different feel than something like SQL injection. URLs are just references to certain resources - if it's left unsecured, the default assumption should be that any URL is public, can be seen by anyone, and can be manipulated in any ways. The exception is websites that put keys and passwords into their URL parameters, but if we're talking solely about the address part, it seems "public" to me. On the other hand, something like wedging your way into an SQL database looks like an intrusion on something private, that wasn't meant to be seen. It's like picking up a $100 bill of the street vs. picking even the flimsiest, most symbolic of locks to get to a $100 bill you can see in a box.
by nurettin | 2025-12-01 06:58:59+00:00
I've been a customer since sonnet 3.5. It is coming to the point where opus 4.5 usually does better than whatever your instructions say on claude.md just by reading your code and having a general sense of what your preferences are.

I used to instruct about coding style (prefer functions, avoid classes, use structs for complex params and returns, avoid member functions unless needed by shared state, avoid superfluous comments, avoid silly utf8 glyphs, AoS vs SoA, dry, etc)

I removed all my instructions and it basically never violates those points.
by tibbar | 2025-12-01 06:59:04+00:00
Wow. That is ... too painful and true to life to really be funny at this point. But, ok, still funny.

To be fair, I meant something a little different -- something like -- learn how to be a robot priest who can get it to follow the desperate prayers of humans. And, like, how to unstick the robot arm when it accidentally punches through a wall. Etc.

Not that that is particularly comforting, in an existential sense. Maybe buys you a couple years till you have to pivot again.
by SilverElfin | 2025-12-01 07:00:20+00:00
> Perhaps true if you go east far enough, seems objectively wrong for the majority of the west though.

Much of the (American) millennials generation believes a story that they’re worse off. I feel it is a convenient story for people to tell themselves and blame someone else for their perceived losses. But I pulled up several articles supporting my claim with a quick search, even though the opposite narrative is more widespread.

Example article about how inflation adjusted net worth is higher for millennials than it was for boomers at the same age:

https://www.newsweek.com/millennials-financially-better-off-...

Galloway isn’t necessarily wrong in the individual data points he raises. But if you look at the sum of all of the factors - higher rents, more student debt, etc but also the positive things - the net worth in the end is higher for millennials. And remember this is inflation adjusted already.
by drtgh | 2025-12-01 07:01:15+00:00
Why do you talk about home networks "unsupervised" when we are talking about public networks, access points, created to hunt people?

Do you notice that your proposed solutions try to fix a problem, isn't it? The open letter does not propose solutions; it merely denies them.

It is needed to be sincere with people, those "incidents" have happened for a long time, and unfortunately will keep happening (given the history), bad actors hunting, yesterday the CAs, and tomorrow? So if one connect to an open wifi one may fall victim to a trap, probably not at home but in an Airport or other crowded places with long waits, and even if you do not browse another app in background will be trying to do it.

It was needed many years to make people just sightly aware, and now they -if the text is real- pretend to undo it. But to be sincere I really do not mind much, I just perceive that open letter as malicious.
by SeriousM | 2025-12-01 07:03:05+00:00
I met my wife also at school at 16y and we're so glad and happy to be with each other since, 25y+. You put it in the right words:

> Zero drama, mutual respect and affection, both still preserving some independence to maintain a „self".

Just the income is from me alone which frees her up to have enough time for our kids.

Having such a long time and deep relationship is quite rare, I guess.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-12-01 07:03:29+00:00
It could be the Nobel Prize. It could be embarrassment that he is failing to deliver on a very smug campaign promise. It could be that Putin proxies bought a load of Trump crypto. It could be that MBS made it a condition of some investment. It could be that a man famous for having no attention span just decided to run with the advice of his most pro-Russia advisor.

We can't know for sure, but it certainly doesn't imply anything about Russia's status as a paper tiger.
by powerclue | 2025-12-01 07:03:59+00:00
Some folks have moral concerns about AI. They include:

* The environmental cost of inference in aggregate and training in specific is non-negligible

* Training is performed (it is assumed) with material that was not consented to be trained upon. Some consider this to be akin to plagiarism or even theft.

* AI displaces labor, weakening the workers across all industries, but especially junior folks. This consolidates power into the hands of the people selling AI.

* The primary companies who are selling AI products have, at times, controversial pasts or leaders.

* Many products are adding AI where it makes little sense, and those systems are performing poorly. Nevertheless, some companies shove short AI everywhere, cheapening products across a range of industries.

* The social impacts of AI, particularly generative media and shopping in places like YouTube, Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, etc are not well understood and could contribute to increased radicalization and Balkanization.

* AI is enabling an attention Gish-gallop in places like search engines, where good results are being shoved out by slop.

Hopefully you can read these and understand why someone might have moral concerns, even if you do not. (These are not my opinions, but they are opinions other people hold strongly. Please don't downvote me for trying to provide a neutral answer to this person's question.)
by tavavex | 2025-12-01 07:04:03+00:00
Telemetry is a lot harder of a sell if you're talking about "improving the user experience". Whereas Clippy was a case of "we assume this will help UX for new users -> it seems pretty harmless -> include it in our product", something like telemetry can only be simplified to "having mountains of telemetry data will help us because 0.0001% of it may be useful in resolving an issue -> this 0.0001% is so useful that every user should by default uplink their actions to Microsoft, regardless of any privacy concerns (which we know of ahead of time) -> enable it for everyone, they need to sacrifice a bit for the greater good". The intentions behind the two are similar only if you look at them in broadest possible terms.
by Lamprey | 2025-12-01 07:04:34+00:00
Alternatively, you can download Firefox Nightly instead of regular.

"about:config" just works in Nightly. No fuss.

You can sideload extensions in Nightly, too, after you activate the developer options. I don't think they've added that to regular, as yet? At least not with as much flexibility.

Anyway, I'm gonna try this mobile desktop mode thing and see how it goes. Thank you to everyone!
by Maxion | 2025-12-01 07:04:55+00:00
The big ones are also diesel, run at different RPM. ~3500 RPM For the smalle gas ones and around 1800 RPM for the big diesel ones. The noise characteristcs are also different. The big diesels produce more low frequency noise, whereas the small gas generators are literally lawn mower / leaf blower engines and sound the same.

The enclosures of the big generators remove mainly lower frequency sound, making them perceptually even quieter.
by lutoma | 2025-12-01 07:06:00+00:00
If they were genuinely just attempting to "troll" by spamming (which is a pretty lame thing to do to begin with), they wouldn't have had to use a racist slur in their message. The fact they did makes their intent pretty clear.

If a project taking a stance against people spamming the n-word makes you lose respect for them, that says a lot more about you than the project.
by yorwba | 2025-12-01 07:06:03+00:00
Yes, "new math" is neither magical nor unrelated to existing math, but that doesn't mean any new theorem or proof is automatically "new math." I think the term is usually reserved for the definition of a new kind of mathematical object, about which you prove theorems relating it to existing math, which then allows you to construct qualitatively new proofs by transforming statements into the language of your new kind of object and back.

I think eventually LLMs will also be used as part of systems that come up with new, broadly useful definitions, but we're not there yet.
by Atlas667 | 2025-12-01 07:07:35+00:00
Someone at the top isnt necessarily autocratic. To preside is not autocracy. Both of them freed the slaves.

> These are inherently synonyms for each other. As soon as you have anyone deciding how resources are allocated, they're taking them from whoever did the work to create them to begin with.

Nah, this is a very wrong take. If that were true what are portfolio managers doing? If they ran away with your money what would happen? Thats just a tiny little example.

There are millions of other examples where trust is employed without theft because the consequences matter.

> The best you can hope for is voluntary interactions...

Thats the deep problem with capitalism. It intends to be free but its own laws allow it to quickly be dominated by a few. And then the rest of us are supposed to trust the very-corruptible government to aid us? Capitalism REALLY is just oligopoly with extra steps. They know this and count on it.
by tavavex | 2025-12-01 07:08:01+00:00
In what way could it be ad hominem? Where did I attack the poster? I did make an assumption of why they were arguing against it in such strong terms, but how does an assumption make for a personal insult on the author?

I realize they also brought up points about why they thought this was bad. The rest of my comment was spent replying to those points.
by docdeek | 2025-12-01 07:08:43+00:00
I was under the impression that German healthcare was essentially free (government funded) at the point of delivery, with additional top-insurance carried by most people similar to how it is in here in France.

Here I am self-employed and pay about 100 euros a month in top-up insurance (mutuelle) for myself and a couple of kids. Of course, the healthcare costs more, that’s why my taxes are high; but the insurance cost is about €1200 a year, not €2200 a month.
by m-xtof | 2025-12-01 07:09:20+00:00
LLMs are fundamentally inadequate to the tasks we desire to project them into. Not because they're dumb or unimpressive, but question-answering isn't collaboration. A model can remix everything humanity has ever written. It cannot act, observe, and adapt. That's where the utility we're chasing actually lives. No amount of scaling closes the gap.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-12-01 07:09:42+00:00
This is the type of business that's going to be hit hard by AI. And the type of businesses that survive will be the ones that integrate AI into their business the most successfully. It's an enabler, a multiplier. It's just another tool and those wielding the tools the best, tend to do well.

Taking a moral stance against AI might make you feel good but doesn't serve the customer in the end. They need value for money. And you can get a lot of value from AI these days; especially if you are doing marketing, frontend design, etc. and all the other stuff a studio like this would be doing.

The expertise and skill still matter. But customers are going to get a lot further without such a studio and the remaining market is going to be smaller and much more competitive.

There's a lot of other work emerging though. IMHO the software integration market is where the action is going to be for the next decade or so. Legacy ERP systems, finance, insurance, medical software, etc. None of that stuff is going away or at risk of being replaced with some vibe coded thing. There are decades worth of still widely used and critically important software that can be integrated, adapted, etc. for the modern era. That work can be partly AI assisted of course. But you need to deeply understand the current market to be credible there. For any new things, the ambition level is just going to be much higher and require more skill.

Arguing against progress as it is happening is as old as the tech industry. It never works. There's a generation of new programmers coming into the market and they are not going to hold back.
Show HN: Can you spot AI-generated content? (spoiler: probably not)
by amiban | 2025-12-01 07:10:54+00:00
I built this quiz after realizing how good AI has gotten at mimicking literature, speeches, and images. It's one strike and you're out. It includes AI-generated Shakespeare, fake MLK speeches, photorealistic images, and movie dialogue. I got several of my own questions wrong while building it.

This isn't about testing your English degree, it's more about showing how well AI can now forge canonical cultural references. We've hit a point where the fakes are genuinely convincing. Where AI still slips up: Over-explanation (real Shakespeare is more economical) Generic metaphors vs. specific imagery Too polished (humans are messier)

But these tells are fading fast! Built with React, ~50 questions (for now). The images are tough if you haven't already seen them before. Curious what scores people get.
by omnicognate | 2025-12-01 07:11:36+00:00
Nobody said his company was "founded on family wealth". They said he had that wealth available as a cushion to fall back on should his ventures fail. They also never said "every person from a rich family can make a trillion dollar business". They claimed that those who found successful businesses are disproportionately from wealthy backgrounds, and provided a supposed mechanism: a greater ability or willingness to take financial risks knowing there is a limit to how far they can fall if they don't pan out.

Personally, I don't have any view on whether that is correct or not but it's obviously the claim that was made. It seems plausible but I'd want to see some actual data to believe it, not just anecdotes about a few of the most famous founders. Your points about low wage jobs and other trillion dollar companies are simply not relevant to it, and if biographies of Elon Musk contain information that would refute it you haven't said what or how.

Knowing you are an extremely accomplished man and fully capable of parsing this, I have to wonder why you seem blind to it.
by abhgh | 2025-12-01 07:11:39+00:00
Thanks for the example. Yes, true, this is for expensive functions - to be precise functions that depend on data that is hard to gather, so you interleave the process of computing the value of the function with gathering strategically just as much data as is needed to compute the function value. The video on their page [1] is quite illustrative: calculate shortest path on a graph where the edge weights are expensive to obtain. Note how the edge weights they end up obtaining forms a narrow band around the shortest path they find.

[1] https://willieneis.github.io/bax-website/