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What is the best coding harness as of June 2026?

alxh — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 07:36:30 +0000

With models changing so quickly, does everybody keep jumping from codex to claude code etc. or is something slowly winning market share? where do you stand?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48641595

Points: 1

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Best way to integrate your devtool with companies

deepakcoder — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 06:56:38 +0000

I have an idea for a devtool that will make understanding new codebases easier, makes code review easy, and potentially can set up dev environments for running that specific application or microservice.

If I host the entire thing on my cloud, it becomes a trust, transparency and compliance issue. If I give the entire thing like a docker image, my ability to create a subscription model ceases.

Any idea?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48641310

Points: 1

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Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do

ayi — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 06:33:52 +0000

After using Claude Code at work for months I wanted to use it on my own projects too. Most probably because my vpn was on I got banned after 1 hour of usage. I got my 120$ back. 1 month later I signed up with vpn off. But this time probably because I used the same credit cart (and that's the only card I can use) they banned me again.

Even after I contacted support I got a generic "we have determined that we cannot reinstate your account at this time due to a violation of our Usage Policy" answer.

I'm not using it for anything unusal. "Summarize that markdown file", "how can i refactor payment module" kind of questions mostly. I couldn't even move to real coding because 1 hour was only enough for investigation.

My last chance is HN to get some visibility on my case. My Boris sees it or some other Anthropic employee.

Do you guys have any tips on getting my account back?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48641160

Points: 31

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Open source, global vs. proprietary but for US in US, which is fundable in SaaS?

avijeetsingh16 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 06:17:13 +0000

Hi, I run an open source Earth Memory project https://emem.dev [ https://github.com/Vortx-AI/emem ], idea is to be an open protocol for AI agents to leverage Earth Intelligence. I recently saw Mireye.com , would love to understand shall we also pitch ourselves as SaaS for AI or our focus on open source protocol might be a huge payback in longer run. Thanks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48641049

Points: 2

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Ask HN: NIST Randomness Beacon Interruption?

hash0 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 05:39:07 +0000

Gentlepeople,

the NIST Randomness Beacon has seen an unannounced, unacknowledged outtage from pulse ID #1827762 (2026-06-11T16:57:00.000Z) to #1827763 (2026-06-22T17:03:00.000Z). I reached out to beacon@nist.gov (and via twitter/x.com) but got no reply whatsoever.

Gemini hallucinated a story about a government shut-down and that the tech community was well aware of that - without proof, of course.

Question: Does anyone have accurate information as to what caused this outtage?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48640773

Points: 3

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Ask HN: Do you use web apps on your smartphone?

julienreszka — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 05:35:40 +0000

or are you ony using native apps? do you have examples of web apps that you enjoy using?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48640748

Points: 2

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AI Code Stitcher - Agentic AI Avoidance.

aihatterer — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 05:26:49 +0000

Hey guys, just letting you know that the latest version of the code stitcher is available, and has many new features including a major overhaul of the stitch viewer / file version history including it's own linter and editor facilities.

https://github.com/ue-patcher/code_stitcher/releases

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48640679

Points: 2

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What do you think it work best Reddit vs. X

thepopson — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 05:13:13 +0000

I'd like to hear from you guys

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48640586

Points: 1

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Discussion – has anyone build a firewall for AI models yet?

Akhiljp — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 03:51:48 +0000

Trying to figure out if there are already companies that have build firewall like products for AI models. Assuming everyone will now start hosting open source models to control their destiny, I wonder if this is a large market for startups to go after.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48640044

Points: 2

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Ask HN: Has Codex gotten slower recently?

aurenvale — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 02:53:49 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48639619

Points: 6

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Tell HN: I never bought anything from clicking on a paid ad

julienreszka — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 02:00:22 +0000

I really wonder who clicks ads

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48639228

Points: 9

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The biggest problem I see with people trying to sell to Pharma

rshadow117 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:55:15 +0000

Y'all are trying to solve the wrong problems. Come to me to ask

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48638728

Points: 2

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Ask HN: How do you make AI writing usable?

david_shi — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:11:23 +0000

Every time I ask the latest models to write something, it defaults to LLMisms like contrastive negation and long unnecessary lists.

Is there a way to desloppify AI writing, or is this just the new status quo?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48637755

Points: 4

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Ask HN: How do you make the LLM generate good code?

bjourne — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:51:35 +0000

Lately, I wanted to see if I could get the bot to help me organize my music collection. Specifically, I want it to code a Python function that takes the path to an audio file of a song and returns the name of the canonical (i.e., first) album of that song. If one ignores remasters, live recordings, bootlegs, etc., this is an easy heuristic surjective mapping: Smoke on the Water -> Machine Head, Come as You Are -> Nevermind, Fools Gold -> The Stone Roses.

I can code this function quickly using the MusicBrainz API and I believe most other HN readers can too. Yet many hours later, no matter how I prompt the bot I can't get it to do it. This is what ChatGPT generates---other bots reply with similar garbage:

https://chatgpt.com/share/6a396ea9-44d4-83eb-bdfd-216dfcc87e99

They complain about how the problem is ambiguous (is not) or how MusicBrainz doesn't have the data (it does). Am I prompting the bot incorrectly or not using powerful enough coding models? The results are very underwhelming.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48637538

Points: 2

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Ask HN: Why do we use depth first search on comment threads in HN?

robertclaus — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:57:47 +0000

When I read the comments on a HN post I generally want to get a sense for how the community is reacting to the content and whether I missed any interesting implications. However, almost always I have to scroll through a long comment thread about one response before seeing another separate response. Is there a setting for this or a reason I'm overlooking that HN shows comments this way?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48636078

Points: 3

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Ask HN: What is today's "Bitcoin in 2010"?

TimCTRL — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:53:53 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48636039

Points: 2

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Ask HN: What are some rock solid open source vector databases

ciwolex — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:19:01 +0000

New to vector dbs and AI. Looking for some open source mainstream options for vector dbs similar to how Postgresql is for relational dbs and how MongoDB is for NoSQL

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48635544

Points: 2

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Ask HN: What do you think is the future of mental health therapy?

mmarian — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:16:42 +0000

I find the online discourse around it fascinating. On one hand, you have practitioners talking about how LLMs don't help much and actually pose risks. On the other, I have found them incredibly helpful, and I see people on Reddit sharing the same opinion.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48635506

Points: 2

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Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

blahaj — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:00:42 +0000

Doesn't matter what domain and how big or small.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48635274

Points: 5

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Where are all the supposed productivity gains going on HN?

MichaelZuo — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:36:34 +0000

At best, average credibility across HN from what I can see has remained roughly the same, though it realistically went down a bit compared to 3 years ago. (When GPT-4 became widely used with decently useful outputs)

Same for the average credibility of submissions, YC startup batches, and so on.

The average level of detail of HN comments is not any higher either.

There are more comments and more submissions per day, but that seems due to more accounts?

So observably, overall productivity gains seem to be nil, or even slightly negative.

It may be that HN and YC is perfectly insulated from broader societal productivity, but I doubt that.

What could explain it?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48634961

Points: 2

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