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Ask HN: Is it worth building a non-AI software company?
I have a product idea around cloud security and I have been working on it for the past few months. Quit my job about 4 months ago to work on it full time.
But lately, I am getting distracted because I keep wondering that whatever I am building can be built by anyone with the help of AI. Moreover, I see big companies launching AI models focusses around cyber security. for ex: the sec-gemini model released yesterday by google.
I can't shake the feeling that I am not building anything novel and someone with basic software engineering background can replicate the idea with the help of AI.
what are your thoughts on it?
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43591633
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The Age of Abundance
Article URL: https://tomblomfield.com/post/1743528547367/the-age-of-abundance
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43591594
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Feed Readers Beat Doomscrolling
Article URL: https://danq.me/2025/03/22/feed-readers-beat-doomscrolling/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43591573
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Imagine a World Without Stories
Article URL: https://www.grayscaleadz.com/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43591549
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C++ vs. Python vs. Perl vs. PHP performance benchmark (2016)
Article URL: https://blog.famzah.net/2016/02/09/cpp-vs-python-vs-perl-vs-php-performance-benchmark-2016/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43591532
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To Hell with Not Writing
Article URL: https://chavanniclass.wordpress.com/2025/04/05/be-messy/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43591528
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The Best Refactoring You've Never Heard Of
Article URL: https://www.pathsensitive.com/2019/07/the-best-refactoring-youve-never-heard.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43591507
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Flow: A static type checker for JavaScript
Article URL: https://flow.org/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43591468
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Against Economics (2019)
Article URL: https://davidgraeber.org/articles/against-economics/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43591438
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The UK games industry has a class problem
Choosing the Right Implementation between ArrayList and LinkedList
Article URL: https://dev.java/learn/api/collections-framework/arraylist-vs-linkedlist/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43591391
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Are AI Models Advanced Enough to Translate Literature?
The FAT12 File Truncation Bug
Article URL: https://www.brutman.com/Adventures_In_Code/FAT12_File_Truncation_Bug/FAT12_File_Truncation_Bug.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43591353
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Novel Logic-Enhanced LLM for Improved Symbolic Reasoning
I’m experimenting with a novel approach that integrates symbolic logic directly into a transformer’s attention mechanism. By using a custom spaCy-based logic parser, I generate a “logic mask” that guides the self-attention layers to focus on logical constructs. In preliminary tests with a fine-tuned LLaMA 3 8B model, this method has shown promising improvements on symbolic reasoning tasks (e.g., achieving around 62% on the FOLIO dataset). I’m eager to hear thoughts and suggestions from the community on further refining this approach. Also please note I don’t have a PhD nor masters in machine learning. Happy to take any criticism good or bad. :)
https://marqcodes.com/logicEnhanced.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43591349
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How Do Lobsters Grow?
Article URL: https://shipsinthenight.substack.com/p/how-do-lobsters-grow
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43591307
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HN: Built a free anxiety AI therapist (beta)
Article URL: https://anxiety-chat.com
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43591296
Points: 1
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America's Future Is Hungary
Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/viktor-orban-hungary-maga-corruption/682111/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43591292
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Designing Babies
Article URL: https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2025/02/21/designing-babies
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43591267
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Pytest for Neovim
Article URL: https://github.com/richardhapb/pytest.nvim
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43591246
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Building Your AI Q&A Bot for Webpages Using Open Source AI Models
Article URL: https://teckrize.blogspot.com/2025/04/building-your-ai-q-bot-for-webpages.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43591228
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