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Parin – A 2D game engine between raylib and Godot, written in Dlang
Hacker News15d agoToolOther
Laminar (YC S24) – RL-trained model that finds errors in agent traces
Hi HN, we’re Robert and Din from Laminar (https://laminar.sh). We’ve been building open-source observability for AI agents since 2024. Recently, we released flow-1, a model trained with RL to find errors in agent traces. On our benchmark (https://laminar.sh/blog/flow-1), it matches GPT-6-sol in detection quality while being 23x cheaper. This makes it affordable to analyze every production agent trace, without sampling.Here’s a one-minute walkthrough: https://youtu.be/KJa3h6ZJNLQWe also put together a post with example traces and analyses from flow-1 and other models: https://laminar.sh/blog/flow-1-in-actionAgent observability is crowded, so instead of a bullet list of how Laminar differs from X, we’ll explain how we’re solving agent observability from first principles.Agents now run for many steps and fail implicitly. An agent can click the wrong button or cite the wrong document while every call completes successfully. These errors are the most useful ones to catch and understand. To find them, you need to understand what the agent was trying to do and inspect its LLM calls and tool results. Simply looking at the final agent output is not enough.Collecting traces alone doesn’t solve this. A lot of agent observability platforms are still data collectors at their core. You can end up paying to store traces that nobody has time to read or extract value from.Using another LLM to inspect traces is THE solution, but capable models are expensive at scale and cheaper ones often miss errors or flag unrelated things.So we built our model to solve exactly this problem. We finetuned a small OSS model and then post trained it with RL on thousands of synthetic investigations of realistic agent workflows in software, legal, customer support, etc. We got a model that is both good at agent trace analysis and very cheap to run.flow-1 runs inside a harness we call Signals. It acts as a coding agent, treating an agent tr
Hacker News11d agoToolAI
How do you deal with AI output of your boss?
So, my boss goes on a rampage. You can clearly see the joy and at the same time the rage and impatience. AI is the tool he always wanted. We are too slow. Process is out of the window. No need for sprints anymore. No planning, just doing. All people downstream must somehow adapt.Whenever i see now his automated messages in slack, my natural reaction is: why do i even bother reading that? Thats for machines to read. He does not need me? Clearly i am not made for that. What is he expecting me to do? To confirm how great the AI did the job? Should i remember all these perfect presentations AI has created and integrate it into my doings into the coming weeks?I am torn. Should i really free my AI and deal with all this incoming text? Is this the way to react on this perfection?I am not mad at him, it clearly frees him of all the burder of dealing with people.I just dont know how to deal with this output personally. It is not for humans.I feel left alone. This is not a company anymore. Everyone is talking to AI now. This feels like chaos. Where everyone can do everything and stepping into each other's domain and it is perfect. The only way AI is stopped at are the ACLs.And because AI does everything for me, i don't remember things anymore, as i have no emotion connected with it. Feels like bad schooling and memoizing and get through it and you can't as it so dry and lifeless.So, how people deal with it in a company context? How have they setup their machines to react and still be up to date without reading the constant stream of changes coming from others?
Hacker News13d agoArticleAI
How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?
I saw this LinkedIn post from a Meta engineer and it resonated with me:https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ali-hamie_im-an-engineer-at-m...> I'm an engineer at Meta and I never felt this uncomfortable doing my job. I'm writing code these days and it all feels like a black box. This new standard of shipping with AI is moving so fast that if we're going to spend our time checking each line of code, it's going to take forever. That means you can end up with systems you've built where you don't truly understand how all the code works. You understand the high level, but not every detail. And maybe this is becoming the new standard. It goes against every instinct of being a software engineer. I'm used to understanding what I'm building. Now I'm trying to figure out how much I need to understand before I'm comfortable moving forward. Are other engineers feeling this too?How are you handling this?
Hacker News12d agoToolAI
I built a task system to handle the drudgery so I could focus on tasks
I'm a software engineer from the east coast (who has lived in Boston, NY, the bay area, UK, France), and I built a task system called 3 & Done. It's the place you trust to store everything you need to do. It accepts voice input for rapid entry, as well as text (it stores the audio locally so you can listen to jog your memory) and emails you every morning with the three most important things for you to do that day, and why, based on what you've said about the task: deadlines, urgency, sitting too long.I've been at software engineering for about 44 years now... Grew up with it, which was unusual when I started, and I was always good about getting into the zone and doing things. The career started small, small company, then back office, the dot com startups, then smaller companies again after the bust, a non-profit, and eventually YouTube (Google at the time, but just barely) and Meta (just Facebook when I was there).When I hit the startups, and later big tech, it was no longer enough to just be an engineer, to have drive, to be good, you had to be organized, you had to follow through, get stuff done, and that's where the task systems started. Twenty-five over the years (and yes, I've actually counted), from Moleskine notebooks with Getting Things Done, evernote (remember evernote?), bug trackers, todoist, asana, google keep, among others.When I managed on the Facebook News Feed, I got into gantt charts (for me and my team), spreadsheets, OmniPlan... I remember apologizing to my director for being so disorganized (because I felt I was making a mess of it), and he told me that I was the most organized engineer he knew.That was because I was doing all of the work in the background, the trimming, the sorting, the reviews, but it was just so much work. Which was why I changed from system to system. Each time it built up, and I had to spend more time looking at things I couldn't or didn't get done, when I was rushed and could
Hacker News12d agoToolAI
KiviDB, a faster Redis-compatible memory database and vector cache
Hi all,So I have been working on this project KiviDB from February 2026. It started as a project for me to understand rust, having a product with no GC pauses, memory blow up after snapshots and getting OOM on running pods, and that was actually an issue I faced with Dragonfly. I wanted to have something picking the best of Rust, but also picking the best parts of other alternatives like Garnet and Dragonfly. I used AI a lot, but I was the one making the design decisions based on the tests that claude picked from my history of troubleshooting sessions as part of my job. KiviDB supports both RESP2 and RESP3 protocol. I had some founders credits on my AWS account which helped me with the infra, and running instances I could perform benchmark on.Its keyspace is sharded across threads, it is multi-threaded in nature, and performs best on Linux due to io_uring, I used the tokio_uring crate for this. It also has tokio fallback for other OS's. I hadn't open sourced it until recently as I felt it was not ready yet, the best way to learn it was to build a cloud managed service for it across all three widely used cloud providers i.e AWS, GCP and azure. Since I used to mainly work with cloud, I had some insights on what would be the best ways for the deployments, how to conduct failovers, manage SLAs, etc. And that's what I took help from claude to fast pace it. The website does look like AI slop but it works for now, given my limited resources, that's all I had. You may check it out at : https://kividb.io, I open sourced the core engine under AGPLv3, didn't want to have just source available, because that is available with other tools too. It supports apprx 98-99% of the redis 8.10 commands, few have issues and you can find them at https://github.com/kividbio/kividb/issues, contributors are welcome.Now the numbers, for the final benchmark, I used 2 c7gn.metal servers, in the same placement group in us-east1, and I us
Hacker News12d agoToolAI
Finding and engaging with relevant niche X threads quickly for promotion
Difficulty surfacing public X threads matching a product's niche and drafting quick replies to join conversations instantly for networking or marketing.
X13d agoToolMarketing & Sales
Shopify sellers must manually update inventory costs after deliveries
Ecommerce businesses and agencies using Shopify face manual, error-prone updates to item costs after each delivery following the shutdown of popular tools like Stocky.
X12d agoToolE-Commerce
Writers lack modern tools better than Scrivener for deadlines and calls
Authors and writers need improved software for discovering writing opportunities, meeting deadlines, and managing creative projects beyond outdated tools like Scrivener.
X13d agoToolDesign & Creative
Job seekers waste time on unfit applications and poor resume tailoring
Job applicants struggle to determine if a role is worth their time and to create tailored resumes that actually get callbacks, often dealing with privacy issues in existing tools and repetitive manual work.
X11d agoToolHR & Career
Secure and traceable nightly builds for open-source OS with AI agent integration
Need for nightly packages and ISOs that are signed only by CI, fully traceable to commits, and allow controlled computer use by AI agents like Claude.
X11d agoOtherDev
Niche athletes need simple personal tracking apps for training like freediving
Individuals in specialized fitness activities such as freediving lack tailored, easy-to-use apps for logging and tracking personal training progress without complex features.
X14d agoToolSport & Fitness
Validating SaaS ideas through direct founder conversations on Reddit
Founders struggle to get honest feedback on SaaS ideas without guessing user needs, requiring real conversations in niche communities to identify what users actually want.
X15d agoOtherVC & Startups
Podcast hosts lose track of post-recording tasks like follow-ups and releases
Small podcast producers, especially solo or part-time ones, have trouble managing episode tracking, guest communications, release schedules, and follow-ups after recording sessions.
X12d agoToolMedia
Maintaining engagement in building in public when no exciting progress occurs
The hardest part of building in public is sharing progress when nothing exciting happened, leading to inconsistent audience engagement and motivation for solo founders.
X11d agoOtherProductivity
Creating complex AI-generated virtual experiences without significant effort
Users want zero-effort, one-click setups for AI virtual libraries instead of step-by-step guides, as inbound requests persist despite free resources.
X12d agoToolAI
Personalized Weekly Horoscope Summary & Action Planner
Users want personalized weekly horoscopes combined with actionable advice tailored to their zodiac signs, delivered interactively since existing content is generic and fragmented. [Trending: "horóscopo semanal" with 200+ searches in BR]
Google Trends12d agoToolOtherBR
Daily Puzzle Helper for NYT Connections Game
Players seek daily hints and solutions to NYT Connections puzzles; a dedicated high-quality hints/solver app or website can fill gaps left by limited official tools. [Trending: "nyt connections hints" with 500+ searches in GB]
Google Trends12d agoToolOtherGB
Medical Condition Impact Tracker for Driving Licence Updates
Drivers with medical conditions need a centralized solution to track regulation changes and renewal requirements for their driving licenses, as updates are fragmented and confusing. [Trending: "liverpool echo" with 100+ searches in GB]
Google Trends12d agoToolLegalGB
Manage and communicate local power outage updates efficiently
Residents and businesses need timely, centralized notifications and management tools during regional blackouts to coordinate safety measures and service restoration. [Trending: "stromausfall schleswig holstein" with 5000+ searches in DE]
Google Trends12d agoToolProductivityDE