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by almosthere | 2026-02-05 00:05:24+00:00
Think about it differently - let's say a free OSS product can be installed and you can use ALL features except for LDAP (because that's the paywalled portion that requires you to buy it for $25k / month.)

Well, with claude, you can download the code, tell it to implement LDAP authentication, and smile all the way to the bank. And for said fortune 500 company, employing an employee to spend 100% of their time maintaining the app at 10k per month is a 15k savings! And because it _doesn't really take 100% of their time_ it's really only like $500 per month? And to be completely honest, how man times did you get Jira to fast-track your issue?

I get it however, the manager angle. It's still a distraction. But the article being referenced still shows revenue going down.

There's definitely a lot of cope in here, mostly because SaaS is keeping them employed... be ready, the crush is "almosthere".
by dapangzi | 2026-02-05 00:05:52+00:00
Checked the project out, while basic from an engineering perspective, does feel like it meets a niche, and how's that a crime?

I'm inclined to buy once I see others test it (I hate being a beta tester, no offense intended).

$250 for this is *stupid* cheap, given your competitors' *stupid* prices.

Feels like a lot of info is missing here, you getting banned from Instagram.

What was the nature of the post?

edit: Also, have you considered a spring-loaded x-y controller or touchpad x-y controller? I find these indispensable.
by taeric | 2026-02-05 00:06:04+00:00
Has been said many times, but Google+ was hoping to be as good as Google Reader and Google Buzz already were for people. Was a surprisingly good social layer on top of article aggregation that largely worked by leveraging GMail.

What they were not, of course, was a replacement for the "town hall" dream of social capture that places like Facebook are hoping for.

And, I'm a bit hazy, but didn't Youtube try and force comments to be tied to your google identity?
by fragmede | 2026-02-05 00:06:18+00:00
> I lived in SF for a few years and found the tech community's disinterest in art to border on allergy.

That has to do with the crowd you ran into. Burning Man is many things, but among those, it does have a lot of art. Did you go to SF Museum of Modern Art? or any of the art anything's? Same with sports. There are a ton of nerds that call it sportsball and think they're clever, but at the same time, the Superbowl is this weekend and there's a lot of sport-related things happening around the Bay Area that you wouldn't know about if you didn't look for it. So I'd be wary of drawing conclusions from such a limited sample set.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2026-02-05 00:06:48+00:00
Which higher-paying jobs were those, which have not and are not presently under the same threat of disappearing?

When you replace 7 jobs with 1 job, 6 jobs don't magically appear, much less ones which match the qualifications of those 6 people.

How many non-AI companies using AI are increasing headcount as a result, compared to those which don't use AI? Did the Washington Post just hire 33% more people, or did they eliminate 33% of their positions?
by munificent | 2026-02-05 00:06:58+00:00
> We are entering a golden age in which all computer science problems seem to be tractable, insomuch as we can get very useful approximations of any computable function.

Alternatively, we are entering a dark age where the billionaires who control most of the world's capital will no longer need to suffer the indignity of paying wages to humans in order to generate more revenue from information products.

> the real kicker is that we now have general-purpose thinking machines that can use computers and tackle just about any short digital problem.

We already have those thinking machines. They're called people. Why haven't people solved many of the world's problems already? Largely because the people who can afford to pay them to do so have chosen not to.

I don't see any evidence that the selfishness, avarice, and short-term thinking of the elites will be improved by them being able to replace their employees with a bot army.
by sanjayjc | 2026-02-05 00:07:06+00:00
I'm with wolvoleo. I'm forced to use MS Office at work but install only LO on my personal machines. It may lack features or pizzazz but as a reliable, unfussy authoring tool, it serves my needs very well.

> pointlessly going against expectations

If you're referring to the ribbon, I'm not sold on its superiority. The vast majority of other software still uses the familiar menu structure, which is what LO uses too.

Granted, well meaning educational programs expose students to MS Office and its paradigm, from an early age. For their sake, I eagerly await a coding assistant AI powerful enough to reskin LibreOffice to look just MS Office, ribbon and all.
Show HN: Toktrack – 1000x faster AI CLI cost tracker (Rust and SIMD)
by mag123c | 2026-02-05 00:07:31+00:00
Did you know Claude Code deletes your session data after 30 days? I found out the hard way when I tried to check my spending history.

My session files hit 3GB (2000+ files) and existing tools took 40+ seconds. Rewrote it in Rust with simd-json + rayon.

- First run: ~1s (vs 40s+)
- Daily use: ~0.04s (1000x faster, cached)
- TUI dashboard with daily/weekly/monthly breakdown
- Supports Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI - Persistent cache
— history survives even after CLI deletes files

GitHub: https://github.com/mag123c/toktrack

Feedback welcome!
by evanelias | 2026-02-05 00:07:50+00:00
Personally I've always called this style "declarative schema management" since the input declares the desired state, and the tool figures out how to transition the database to that state.

sqldef is really cool for supporting many database dialects. I'm the author of Skeema [1] which includes a lot of functionality that sqldef lacks, but at the cost of being 100% MySQL/MariaDB-specific. Some other DB-specific options in this space include Stripe's pg-schema-diff [2], results [3], stb-tester's migrator for sqlite [4], among many others over the years.

The more comprehensive solutions from ByteBase, Atlas, Liquibase, etc tend to support multiple databases and multiple paradigms.

And then over in Typescript ORM world, the migrators in Prisma and Drizzle support a "db push" declarative concept. (fwiw, I originated that paradigm; Prisma directly copied several aspects of `skeema push`, and then Drizzle copied Prisma. But ironically, if I ever complete my early-stage next-gen tool, it uses a different deployment paradigm.)

[1] https://github.com/skeema/skeema/

[2] https://github.com/stripe/pg-schema-diff

[3] https://github.com/djrobstep/results

[4] https://david.rothlis.net/declarative-schema-migration-for-s...
by pixl97 | 2026-02-05 00:08:09+00:00
>Lets take Figma as an example, Imagine you have 1000 employees, 300 of them need Figma, so you are paying 120k per year in Figma licenses.

I mean in an example that almost happened... "you are paying 120k per year in Figma licenses, Adobe buys it, you are paying 500k per year in Figma licenses"

At least up until the point of vibe coding it was still worth the SaaS provider charging at least as much if not slightly more than you doing it yourself because most businesses weren't going to anyway.
by chickensong | 2026-02-05 00:09:33+00:00
So this is a client/server thing to control KVM via libvert and provision SSH keys to allow LLM agent access to the VMs?

How does the Ansible export work? Do the agents hack around inside the VM and then write a playbook from memory, or are all changes made via Ansible?

If Ansible playbooks are the artifact, what does features does Fluid offer over just having agents iterate on an Ansible codebase and having Ansible drive provisioning?
by christofosho | 2026-02-05 00:09:39+00:00
It's definitely sort of that. You can run your own server, as well, though this comes with its own limitations (and inherently takes away from the want for more players). Most of the developers have varying goals with the project. When I was working on the project, my care was primarily for making the game as close to the original as possible using "replays" by dedicated players before the original shut down. It was fun to write code for something that felt like it would give some folks a nostalgia hit.

I think optimally, you'd do something more akin to a "group ironman" with some friends. This guarantees you've got others around.
by thierrydamiba | 2026-02-05 00:10:18+00:00
I'm building a benchmark for coding agent memory following your philosophy. There are so many memory tools out there but I have not been able to find a reliable benchmark for coding agent memory. So I'm just building it myself.

A lot of this stuff is really new, and we will need to find ways to standardize, but it will take time and consensus.

It took 4 years after the release of the automobile to coin the term milage to refer to miles driven per unit of gasoline. We will in due time create the same metrics for AI.
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by observationist | 2026-02-05 00:10:38+00:00
It's awesome when unions serve the function intended. It's not awesome when there's mandatory contracts, 5 men standing around while a 6th holds a bucket, a 7th a shovel, an 8th a painbrush, while the 9th is driving a steamroller, etc. and they use cheap, inappropriate "repairs" that degrade on a predictable rolling 2 year basis. Noble institutions can be as corruptible as governments and private businesses and so forth, all it takes is one person willing to bend, a little, and poof, there's a tidy little predictable sinecure for a decade, with one or more middleman doing the subcontracting out to a union shop, or w/e. Peoples' capacity for grift and graft is endless.
by georgeecollins | 2026-02-05 00:10:58+00:00
I don't think vibe-coding will replace anything. However, what if AI tools can make skilled developers more productive, particularly at simple tasks in unfamiliar environments? You could see that reducing the engineering costs of simple utility applications. There are tons of pitfalls that many here have pointed to but also maybe opportunities to do things that wouldn't have been cost effective.

Also: In my life the easier it has gotten to create and run software, the more software people have wanted and the more they have been willing to spend on it.
by j_bizzle | 2026-02-05 00:11:10+00:00
The coincidental timing between the rapid increase in the number of emergency fixes coming out on major software platforms and the proud announcement of the amount of code that's being produced by AI at the same companies is remarkable.

I think 2-3 years is generous.

Don't get me wrong, I've definitely found huge productivity increases in using various LLM workflows in both development as well as operational things. But removing a human from the loop entirely at this point feels reckless bordering on negligent.
by simoncion | 2026-02-05 00:11:18+00:00
> ...they are down ~12% for the year.

Given how unstable stock prices typically are over the short term, and given that we're currently something like thirty-five days into the year, I don't consider that fact to mean much.

Also, wow, your comment is almost exclusively metaphors. I've not seen the like since the last all-hands email from the CEO.
by danparsonson | 2026-02-05 00:11:30+00:00
OK, so if you don't mind, let's take your family as a good example of what I'm saying, and let's further posit a world where Britain completely halts all immigration today, so from some near future point, every child born in Britain is born of British-born parents. Now let's suppose that you have children, and that they remain in Britain, marry locals, and have children of their own, onwards forever, never leaving the country except for holidays.

Since, as you say, your hypothetical children would not be purely British, at what point are your descendents 'pure Brits'? Is it 50 years from now? 100? 500? Now think about what life was like in Britain 50, 100 and 500 years ago. How close would you say the lives of children today are, compared to children in those times? Closer than to children born today in, say, Norway? Consider that 1986 is as far away from today as it was from 1946; someone born today is as distant from someone born in the 80's, as someone born in the 80's was from the end of World War 2.

And think about British culture in the 90's and 00's - it was heavily influenced by US culture at that time; today I imagine things like K-Pop are having an increasing influence. Britain (as indeed most other nations) has for thousands of years been a melting pot of different cultural inputs. In fact, the very notion of 'Britain' has changed over time - the British empire once spanned the globe and included places as diverse as India, South Africa and Singapore. Even the Britain of today is not a single country; would you say that, say, Northern Irish and south-eastern English people are culturally homogeneous?

So, while I do agree that telling me you were born in Britain, or China, or Zimbabwe would help me to calibrate broad expectations about you, I can't see how any of those things is or ever was 'pure' in any way.
by scottyah | 2026-02-05 00:11:30+00:00
From what I gather, space beats ground because of permitting processes, land costs, electricity costs, etc. Containers would be cool, but energy and connectivity would be the problem there. Deploying in space gives you:

- Full blown solar (no atmosphere in the way)

- 24/7 solar power

- Almost no regulations or dealing with other humans/threats (pirates go after container ships, what would they do if millions of dollars of CPUs were floating around?)

- very stable, proven comm links (ships would be going through satellite anyway)

All you have to do is figure out cooling, pay for transport, and the fun problem of docking/attaching.
Also shielding will probably be a bigger issue than they think, you can't just put a normal chip up in space because the magnetosphere and atmosphere do crazy amounts of shielding that don't really work in the small scale. I assume the GPUs would need a lot more fault tolerance.
by theturtletalks | 2026-02-05 00:11:41+00:00
It’s not as far-fetched as people think. I see so many comments here doubting you can vibe code a full CRM or e-commerce SaaS, but a skilled AI-assisted programmer absolutely can, especially if they're aware of strong open-source alternatives already out there.

For Salesforce-like CRM, there's Twenty[0], a good-enough alternative. For Shopify-style e-commerce, Medusa[1] is a headless commerce platform.

The real power comes from using AI to study how these projects implement specific features (payments, inventory, customer dashboards, etc.) and adapt them to your stack. AI excels at finding the "seams" (those connection points where a feature ties into the tech stack) and grasping the full implementation. The trick is knowing precisely where the feature lives in the code (files, functions, modules), because AIs often miss scattered pieces otherwise. That's what I'm building at opensource.builders[2]: turning OSS repos into a modular cookbook with structured "skills" that point to exact details for reliable remixing and porting.

SaaS companies are forever beholden to raising their market cap, even in solved spaces like cart, payment processing, and CRMs. Most businesses run on CRUD apps anyway, and if your core app exposes an API, you can build any customization you need on top of it. People here discounting how valuable it is for a business to have the software that runs their business on a tech stack they understand and something they truly own.

[0] https://github.com/twentyhq/twenty

[1] https://github.com/medusajs/medusa

[2] https://opensource.builders
by evanelias | 2026-02-05 00:11:47+00:00
Be sure to look at the actual sqldef command-line tool, not the trivial copy-and-paste demo on their website. Declarative schema management is best used combined with a Git repo.

In the big picture, declarative schema management has lots of advantages around avoiding/solving schema drift, either between environments (staging vs prod) or between shards in a sharded setup (among thousands of shards, one had a master failure at an inopportune time).

It's also much more readable to have the "end state" in your repo at all times, rather than a sequence of ALTERs.

There are a bunch of other advantages; I have an old post about this topic here: https://www.skeema.io/blog/2019/01/18/declarative/

It's also quite essential when maintaining nontrivial stored procedures. Doing that with imperative migrations is a gateway to hell. https://www.skeema.io/blog/2023/10/24/stored-proc-deployment...
by direwolf20 | 2026-02-05 00:11:56+00:00
I STILL REMEMBER WHEN SOME MARKETING IDIOT DECIDED THAT VISUAL STUDIO NEEDED TO SHOUT AT YOU. IT TOOK THREE MAJOR VERISONS BEFORE VISUAL STUDIO STOPPED LOOKING LIKE THIS COMMENT. OF COURSE THERE WASN'T A SETTING TO MAKE IT NORMAL AGAIN.
by notepad0x90 | 2026-02-05 00:12:44+00:00
Who's the adversary? That's the main question. If the US is, then a better choice of fighters won't make much difference. Most likely it's russia, and it's arctic warfare.

The smart move, both for canada and EU nations isn't to build up conventional military (although nothing wrong with that, if done in parallel), but to build up a nuclear force. First strike capabilities. ICBMs, ICBM deterrents, submarines and trans-continental bombers.

France and the UK have nuclear capability already, it will cost a lot, but it isn't impossible to achieve in less time than it would take to bootstrap military force that can conventionally take on either the US, China or even Russia.

The problem is, unlike Iran and North Korea, Europe and Canada don't yet see themselves as vulnerable as they really are. If a madman like current madman decided to attack the US's allies, nukes are not off the table. Matter of fact, not only do the insane people in the US with power crave such levels of carnage, they crave it. And in their minds, taking out a small city in europe or canada will save lives in the long run and is a quick way to achieve victory.

There is a reason the current dictator in the US is trying to bring the 'golden dome' and "dominating our hemisphere". I suspect in the long run, these people will really want to invade europe and "purify it" from those "pesky" brown people, after they're done with the US. ICBM capable (and by the numbers too) Europe and Canada is the most peaceful outcome for everyone involved. If denmark had nukes, there wouldn't have been any talk of invading greenland.

Currently, the US provides nuclear capability for nato to the most part. but if self-defense against the US and Russia is the priority for europe, preparing for land and aerial attacks makes little sense. A standing continental military for europe, or even a capable military for canada costs a lot of money, the US spends $800B, and China like $300B on military, that's going to hurt!

No one has ever even attempted the invasion of a nuclear capable country. If canada had nukes, they hardly need ICBMs, they could probably use trebuchet from across the border and attack seattle and new york state probably (just kidding of course)
by wat10000 | 2026-02-05 00:13:16+00:00
I don't think it's unique, but it doesn't seem to be the norm. Most people seem to just accept how people behave without thinking about it too much. When they respond to "how are you?" used as a greeting, they just do it, they're not calculating the right answer.

As far as permanence goes, I'm probably more than halfway through my lifespan at this point and there's no sign of any improvement there. Like I said, as a skill I do just fine. But that deeper understanding isn't there and I doubt it will be.
by pjjpo | 2026-02-05 00:13:34+00:00
One issue I found is that for new projects, it is much harder to market now. shownew is flooded and subreddits have turned up their spam filters high so quality projects will have trouble getting eyes without significant social activity before wanting to share. So the bar for introverts writing (not vibing) good OSS feels like it has gone up in an unfortunate way.
by 10yearsalurker | 2026-02-05 00:14:45+00:00
Wow. This explains a huge amount, I’m slightly stunned. I had always assumed people were speaking metaphorically when they talked about seeing with the mind’s eye. I think I’m about a 4.8 on the scale shown here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia. Can definitely relate to @spacedcowboy’s "orrery" model, though in my case it generally received as a source of annoyance, not a superpower sadly :) and to the sdam you describe @deafpolygon.
by branon | 2026-02-05 00:15:29+00:00
Paris/ins3 (the RuneScape botting-related owner of AHK) had a fairly checkered past from what I understand, but most of it was before my time.

The direction RSBot took under his leadership was less than ideal. I lamented the loss of RSBot 2 and local scripts. The subsequent versions, dependent on the SDN, were never as good.
by evanelias | 2026-02-05 00:15:56+00:00
That's totally fine, there are many workloads where Postgres is the best choice! I'm not forcing you to use it, I was just responding to the comment upthread about lack of advantages. It's kind of bonkers that the anti-MySQL crowd is so rabid that any attempt to explain legitimate use-cases for MySQL is met with a barrage of downvotes, especially in a submission that is directly about MySQL specifically :/