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Show HN: Claude Code plugin that adds CRDT collaboration to any app in 10 min [video]
by rakeshgoyal | 2026-03-05 16:19:07+00:00
We built a Claude Code plugin for Velt that installs real-time
collaboration into any app in under 10 minutes.

What gets installed in one command:
- CRDT (live document sync)
- Contextual comments & threaded replies
- Live presence & cursors
- In-app notifications
- Reactions

The problem we kept seeing: engineering teams know they need
collaboration features. They also know how long it takes to
build right. CRDT alone is a multi-week project. So it either
gets deprioritized forever or ships half-baked.

We've been building this infrastructure for 3 years.
Pendo, HeyGen, and LambdaTest use it in production.

The Claude Code plugin is our attempt to make the installation
feel as simple as the API already is.

Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpfKRu65DTk
Docs: https://docs.velt.dev/get-started/plugins
SDK: https://velt.dev/

Happy to answer questions about how the CRDT layer works,
the MCP integration, or anything else.
by kuerbel | 2026-03-05 16:19:34+00:00
The wahl-o-mat is not biased, it's based on the respective election programs. If one party decides to put something "about the suffocating monopoly of notaries" in it, it's not enough to be mentioned. There have to be some parties at least to make it comparable.

Also feel free to peruse election programs yourself. Most parties put out short versions.

You also don't need to run for office to have an effect on party lines. I'm a member of a party. There are congresses on a regional (Bundesland) and national level. In my party the process is voting for proposals before the national congress due to the huge amount of proposals, but usually every proposal on regional level is discussed and voted on. It does not take much time to prepare a proposal, but it shapes the discourse.
by mrexcess | 2026-03-05 16:19:41+00:00
>I refuse to because they have very consistently relayed communication from Hamas as news without attributing the source is Hamas.

I'm a US-ian and have no particular dog in this hunt, but could you relate any instances where this led to the British public being significantly misinformed about a major event?

Everything I've seen, including recent statements from the Israeli government, indicate that the Gaza Health Ministry (often referred to by Israel-sympathetic press as part of Hamas, rather than part of the government of Gaza which Hamas currently dominates) death toll statistics from the Gaza war were largely accurate.

Is there a case of BBC reporting "Hamas-sourced" information in a way that was notably harmful to the British public's truthful understanding of the conflict?
by jmcqk6 | 2026-03-05 16:19:45+00:00
Not the person you're replying to, but I think I can explain it this way:

The quality of life of a human being is directly related to the amount of free energy (i.e. thermodynamic free energy, not free as in no cost) they have access to. Life must be able to generate more energy than it needs, even tiny bacteria. As humans developed, we found more ways to access and utilize free energy.

There is a phrase: Energy return on investment (or EROI). You can map the development of humanity pretty cleanly to an increasing EROI over the entire course of our history.

Fossil Carbon allowed us to explode our EROI and gave us access to never before seen amounts of free energy. Unless we find ways to maintain that EROI, our quality of life will necessarily diminish.

Obviously we need to cut our use of fossil carbon. And if we don't, we're simply going to run out, and then we'll be stuck anyway. But we also don't have anything with a comparable EROI to replace it with.

This is the root problem we're facing. If we had working fusion, it would be a whole lot easier to decarbonize.
by analognoise | 2026-03-05 16:19:47+00:00
You’re talking badly about the people who actually crafted real industrial policy for clean energy. It was dismantled by Trump and Republicans - even when the output was going to be a factory making batteries on US soil, wind and solar farms, etc.

Like the Republicans are absolutely embarrassing on this issue, the idea that they’re “two wings of the same bird” is nuts.
by jasonlotito | 2026-03-05 16:20:03+00:00
> Blizzard could have rolled back LFR/LFG, class homogenization, brought back complicated and unique talent trees, remove heirlooms, re-add group guests and world mini-bosses, remove flying, etc. and players likely would have been happy.

100% nope. Classic is what we wanted. All of what you just said is you saying: "you think you want that, but you dont. trust us, you dont want that."
by adrian_b | 2026-03-05 16:20:18+00:00
Those are derived from crude oil only because for a long time that has been the cheapest way to make them, not because oil were necessary in any way.

And it was the cheapest way only because most prices are fake, because they do not correspond to the cost of closed cycles of the materials used to make a product.

All those things require mostly energy, air, water and a few abundant minerals and metals to be made. Technologies to make them in this way have already existed for almost a century (e.g. making synthetic hydrocarbons, to replace oil), but they are still very inefficient. However, the inefficiency is mostly due to the fact that negligible amounts of money have been allocated for the development of such technologies (because as long as the use of fossil oil is permitted, there is no way for synthetic hydrocarbons to be cheaper), in comparison with the frivolous amounts of money that are wasted on various fads, like AI datacenters.
by embedding-shape | 2026-03-05 16:20:39+00:00
> What goal would an AI writing crap responses on reddit/hacker news/what not have to even need to comment?

Obviously the AI itself doesn't have any goal (that matters anyways), but the humans/organizations that set it up obviously have a lot to gain. Accounts of age/above karma thresholds are treated less suspiciously, so if you build up N accounts that way, eventually when you launch your product, each manufactured comment looks less fake as the accounts are already "established" at that point.

This is nothing new, been going on for decades already. Guess the scope kind of expanded and the required effort went down a lot these last few years though.
by logicallee | 2026-03-05 16:20:58+00:00
it's made what it calls a FUNDAMENTAL DISCOVERY, writing:

"FUNDAMENTAL DISCOVERY: dW[8] = -dW[0] always (exp059). This is a structural invariant - dW[8]=0 is provably impossible, making 24 the hard theoretical wall."

Not sure what it means but I trust it when it says it made a fundamental discovery, since it has reviewed all the literature.
by mrguyorama | 2026-03-05 16:21:13+00:00
>During the Biden administration, during the Obama administration, during the Clinton administration

The president doesn't actually control much in the USA, despite the nonsensical shit republican congresses let them get away with. Obama, Biden, and Clinton could not do anything that wasn't approved by congress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_divisions_of_United_Stat...

Democrats have not really held enough power to do anything at all in like 40 years. A 1 or 2 vote "majority" in a chamber is not really meant to allow you to do anything.

Hell, that very first graph makes it pretty clear why shit is so bad in the US, we used to actually fire congress and replace them with different people.
by sg17gweedo | 2026-03-05 16:21:14+00:00
One Mind, Many Limbs: The Mesh System
Bob thinks on one machine. He works on five. And he's getting more.

Bob's brain lives on BOB1000, my primary machine. Ryzen 7 8700G, 64GB RAM, RTX 4070 SUPER. It's a solid machine. But it's one machine, sitting on one desk, in one room, in one house in Tennessee.

That's not enough.

Not because the hardware isn't powerful enough for thinking. It is. But because Bob needs to do things in multiple places simultaneously. Build code on a VPS. Monitor servers. Check email. Run background tasks. Process audio. Manage infrastructure.

A brain in a jar is smart but useless. A brain with limbs can change the world.
by tima101 | 2026-03-05 16:21:30+00:00
> Of the 2909 participants in the intention-to-treat population, 1935 received enlicitide and 969 received placebo (5 did not receive enlicitide or placebo). The mean age of the participants was 63 years, and 39.3% were women. The mean (±SD) LDL cholesterol level at baseline was 96.1±38.9 mg per deciliter. The mean percent change in LDL cholesterol levels at week 24 was −57.1% (95% confidence interval [CI], −61.8 to −52.5) with enlicitide and 3.0% (95% CI, 0.9 to 5.1) with placebo, representing an adjusted between-group difference of −55.8 percentage points (95% CI, −60.9 to −50.7; P<0.001). The mean percent change in LDL cholesterol level at week 52, the mean percent changes in non-HDL cholesterol and apolipoprotein B levels at week 24, and the percent change in lipoprotein(a) levels at week 24 were significantly greater with enlicitide than with placebo (P<0.001 for all comparisons). The incidence of adverse events did not appear to differ between the groups.
by bee_rider | 2026-03-05 16:22:18+00:00
I think they meant videogame, ruling out soccer.

It looks like the Super Mario Bros series has a good showing, but it is the first one. I bet 3 falls into an unlucky valley where the game-playing population was not quite as large as it is now, but it isn’t early enough to get the extreme nostalgia of the first one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_gam...

Of course this assumes sales=popularity, but the latter is too hard to measure.
by dheerajmp | 2026-03-05 16:22:25+00:00
I've been building AI-powered games recently and wanted to test something: how well can AI generate game assets in real-time while you're actively playing?

I tried it with Super Mario. Built on top of an open-source browser implementation (from https://github.com/meth-meth-method/super-mario) , I added an AI backend that generates full levels.

Two different generation modes.
1. Generate entire levels at one shot.
2. Infinity mode: where you keep playing and Claude keeps generating new levels for you on the fly.

Especially, the infinity level. I myself played for around 45 minutes before being bored (and my token limits start hitting). There is still a lot of optimization that can be done.

Planning to extend this towards more webgames - both Unity and Godot supported webgames.

What do you guys think? Would you play these games forever. Any specific games you have in mind for which this would work perfectly?

Video demo -
https://youtu.be/Xi3DgAha4pE
by yesfitz | 2026-03-05 16:22:26+00:00
The BBC's Annual Plan for 2025/2026[1] is an interesting read.

They spend a lot of money (billions) on making and delivering content, but that's still not much compared to other large for-profit media companies[2].

The TV License has been the model since World War II[3], and the entire mass media landscape has completely changed since then.

The proposals to replace the TV License with ads or subscriptions are enshittification. The BBC is not a for-profit media company and should not be treated like one. It is a soft-power organization (cynically: propaganda arm) for the British government. There isn't anything inherently wrong with spreading your government's/culture's messages, especially when it's as obvious as the BBC, but it should not be expected to make money. How much is it worth that Britain stays relevant throughout the Anglosphere and beyond? Or that British points of view are available everywhere with a shortwave radio or VPN?

So fund it like it's defense spending. Maybe if the next leader of a foreign country has a fondness for Del Boy or Red Dwarf, negotiations will go a little more smoothly.

As an American, I think I'd prefer having an official propaganda arm like the BBC instead of whatever quiet public-private partnerships (cynically: backroom deals) we have instead. I'd hate it, but it'd be good to have something concrete to direct my criticism at, instead of constantly wondering if NPR is really presenting unbiased facts or the movie about our Navy jet fighters being the best, most freedom-loving planes flown by handsome rascals is just a good time.

1: https://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/documents/bbc-annual-plan-...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_Century_Fox#

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_Un...
by comrade1234 | 2026-03-05 16:22:34+00:00
I didn't pay the license fee here in Switzerland for a long time because I didn't have a tv or radio (I guess they didn't know about my car). In 2019 (I think) they just said 'fuck it, everyone pays' and changed it so you pay whether you have a tv or radio.

I could say that I don't watch Swiss tv but then the tv series Tschugger came out and made a few years of payments worth it. Otherwise it's just watching endless Jass (Swiss card game) tournaments.
by leodido | 2026-03-05 16:22:36+00:00
Ah, and thank you for pointing to `fapolicyd`! It's the closest prior art to what we're doing at the exec layer, and its `ld.so` bypass prevention via policy rules addresses the exact dynamic linker evasion I wrote about.

Two architectural differences worth noting, which I guess you are already aware of.
First, `fapolicyd` is a userspace daemon... The kernel blocks until the daemon responds. This works, but the daemon itself becomes a single point of failure, isn't it? If it stalls or is killed, the system either deadlocks or fails open (hence the deadman's switch). Veto keeps hash computation and enforcement inside the BPF LSM hook. The BPF program can't (hopefully lol) crash and requires no context switch for the decision.

Second, `fapolicyd` defaults to an allowlist model: anything requesting execution must be in the trust database. That's a stronger default posture than our current denylist. We're starting with denylist because it's the lower-friction entry point for teams adopting agent security incrementally: you block known things without having to enumerate all good things first. In 2 words: different tradeoffs.
by dvdkon | 2026-03-05 16:22:37+00:00
Eh, XML is as much of a superset of JSON as the Turing machine is a superset of context-free grammars. The former has all the _power_ of the latter and more, but the mapping between them is non-trivial, far from an embedding.

I think it's fine to say C#'s data model is a superset of Java's or Rust's a superset of C's, but XML and JSON is too far for me, personally.
by margalabargala | 2026-03-05 16:22:38+00:00
Considering how simple "an OS" can be, yes, and in the 2020s.

If you're expecting OSX, AI will certainly be able to make that and better "in the next 100 years". Though perhaps not oneshotting off something as vague as "make an OS" without followup questions about target architecture and desired features.
by amiga386 | 2026-03-05 16:22:51+00:00
Whether you get sued is more on the plaintiff than you.

Per your link, the Supreme Court's thinking on "structure, sequence and organization" (Oracle's argument why Google shouldn't even be allowed to faithfully produce a clean-room implementation of an an API) has changed since the 1980s out of concern that using it to judge copyright infringement risks handing copyright holders a copyright-length monopoly over how to do a thing:

> enthusiasm for protection of "structure, sequence and organization" peaked in the 1980s [..] This trend [away from "SS&O"] has been driven by fidelity to Section 102(b) and recognition of the danger of conferring a monopoly by copyright over what Congress expressly warned should be conferred only by patent

The Supreme Court specifically recognised Google's need to copy the structure, sequence and organization of Java APIs in order to produce a cleanroom Android runtime library that implemented Java APIs so that that existing Java software could work correctly with it.

Similarly, see Oracle v. Rimini Street (https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2024/12/16/2...) where Rimini Street has been producing updates that work with Oracle's products, and Oracle claimed this made them derivative works. The Court of Appeals decided that no, the fact A is written to interoperate with B does not necessarily make A a derivative work of B.
by gethly | 2026-03-05 16:22:57+00:00
bullshit. i've been smoking cigars for 5 years now. sometimes 2 or 3 a day and have zero issues stopping or going without a smoke for months. i was surprised as i was never smoker, but it is what it is. nicotine addiction is not nicotine addiction but cigarette addiction. cigars are pure tobacco. nothing else. cigarettes have over thousand ingredients in them. cigars also have higher nicotine dose than cigarettes and as i have said, zero issues.

know thy enemy.
by slibhb | 2026-03-05 16:23:13+00:00
What is this obsession with "shareholder value"? Moving away from fossil fuels too quickly will hurt normal people. It will increase the cost of everything (energy prices determine the cost of stuff), make it harder to heat/cool people's homes, etc. You'll also see people burning more wood, which is far worse for air quality and may be worse in terms of CO2.
by marcosdumay | 2026-03-05 16:23:14+00:00
> For somebody who doesn’t do server stuff, is there a general idea of how many stages a typical server might be able to implement?

On the HTTP server from the article, what I understood is that those 2 you are seeing are the ones you have. Or maybe 3, if disposing of things is slow.

I'm not sure what I prefer. On one hand, there's some expensive coordination for passing those file descriptors around. On the other hand, having some separate code bother with creating and closing the connections make it easier to focus on the actual performance issues where they appear, and create opportunity to dispatch work smartly.

Of course, you can go all the way in and make a green threads server where every bit of IO puts the work back on the queue. But you would use a single queue then, and dispatch the code that works on it. So you get more branching, but less coordination.
by raggi | 2026-03-05 16:23:52+00:00
Look, forget the details, step back and consider the implications of the principle.

Someone should not be able to write a semi-common core utility, provide it as a public good, abandon it for over a decade, and yet continue to hold the rest of the world hostage just because of provenance. That’s a trap and it’s not in any public interest.

The true value of these things only comes from use. The extreme positions for ideals might be nice at times, but for example we still don’t have public access to printer firmware. Most of this ideology has failed in key originating goals and continues to cause headaches.

If we’re going to share, share.
If you don’t want to share, don’t.
But let’s not setup terminal traps, no one benefits from that.

If we flip this back around though, shouldn’t this all be MPL and Netscape communications? (Edit: turns out they had an argument about that in the past on their own issue tracker: https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/36)
by Izkata | 2026-03-05 16:24:04+00:00
> Spore is well acclaimed.

Its creature creator was, but as a game it was always mediocre to bad. They had to drop something like 90% of the features and extremely dumb down the stages to get it released.

It was also what introduced a lot of us to SecuROM DRM - it bricked my laptop in the middle of a semester.
Show HN: DumbClaw, dumb and simple version of OpenClaw
by claudeviolin | 2026-03-05 16:24:20+00:00
DumbClaw is a deliberately simple AI assistant bot — the "dumb" version of OpenClaw. No framework magic, no abstractions for the sake of it. Every feature lives in one readable file. If you want to add something new, you should be able to vibe-code it in minutes.
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by consumer451 | 2026-03-05 16:25:11+00:00
> "How do we protect ourselves against a competitor doing this?"

I have been thinking about this a lot lately, as someone launching a niche b2b SaaS. The unfortunate conclusion that I have come to is: have more capital than anyone for distribution.

Is there any other answer to this? I hope so, as we are not in the well-capitalized category, but we have friendly user traction. I think the only possible way to succeed is to quietly secure some big contracts.

I had been hoping to bootstrap, but how can we in this new "code is cheap" world? I know it's always been like this, but it is even worse now, isn't it?