New comment by langs in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

langs — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:33:24 +0000

nope. any rewrite will be an AI rewrite soon.

New comment by langs in "Ask HN: How do solo devs protect their work in the age of vibe coding?"

langs — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:58:17 +0000

I vide-coded some, but the core is hand-craft arch/algorithm, that's the most valuable part I want to protect.

Ask HN: How do solo devs protect their work in the age of vibe coding?

langs — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 01:33:26 +0000

I am working on a new open-source project. (My project is in AI infrastructure. It already gets SOTA results on several well-known benchmarks.) The core value is not just the code, but a fairly specific algorithmic approach that came out of many failed attempts, experiments, and design iterations.

The dilemma I am facing is this:

If I open-source early, I get feedback, trust, users, and maybe contributors. But I also expose the core design and algorithm. With LLMs, turning a repo into a different implementation is much cheaper than it used to be.

If I keep it closed, I protect the work for longer, but I also lose the main advantages of OSS: adoption, review, community, and credibility. Worse, someone else may still build something similar and become the default project in the space.

I’m a new solo dev with almost no audience. If a large org or a well-known developer sees the idea and ships a similar implementation, they can get more attention immediately than I can get in months. And in the end I get nothing for open-sourcing my project.

How would you handle this as a solo dev?

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New comment by langs in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

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Ask HN: How do solo devs protect their work in the age of vibe coding?