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Hacking the Postgres Statistics Tables for Faster Queries
Article URL: https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/hacking-the-postgres-statistics-tables-for-faster-queries
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43762112
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Anthropic analyzed 700K conversations – found AI has a moral code of its own
Ten Books Every Network Engineer Should Read
Article URL: https://networkphil.com/2024/05/21/10-books-every-network-engineer-should-read/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43762102
Points: 1
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Tiny, hackable telepresence robot for under $100
Article URL: https://hackaday.com/2025/04/17/tiny-hackable-telepresence-robot-for-under-100-meet-goby/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43762099
Points: 2
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US Steel – Portfolio of Possibilities
Article URL: https://www.flickr.com/photos/40547462@N00/albums/72157621237512593/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43762095
Points: 2
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Building for Production
Article URL: https://pgdog.dev/blog/building-for-production
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43762063
Points: 2
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Using liquid air for grid-scale energy storage
Article URL: https://techxplore.com/news/2025-04-liquid-air-grid-scale-energy.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43762049
Points: 1
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Tree Transplanting, the Old Way and the New Way
Article URL: https://www.core77.com/posts/136478/Tree-Transplanting-the-Old-Way-and-the-New-Way
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43762043
Points: 2
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M2 iPad Air Runs Windows 11 ARM via Emulation, Thanks to EU Rules
Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/04/22/m2-ipad-air-runs-windows-11-arm/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43762032
Points: 4
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The eukaryotic cell emerged as an evolutionary algorithmic phase transition
Article URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250421163507.htm
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43762005
Points: 1
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Abusing DuckDB-WASM by making SQL draw 3D graphics (Sort Of)
Article URL: https://www.hey.earth/posts/duckdb-doom
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43761998
Points: 25
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Show HN: I built a tool with AI to lay out furniture on floor plans
I was facing a possible move and wanted an easier way to visualize how my furniture might fit into different apartments. The tools I found were complicated and didn't do what I needed, so I used AI (Augment) to create a tool for it callled FurniMapper [0] and a demo/tutorial [1].
I'm a product manager, used to be a dev and can still code. I'm not an LLMs-to-AGI guy, and I still find these models unbelievably useful - I would have never spent the time to build this otherwise.
[0]: https://furnimapper.pages.dev
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OewO1WTooBA
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43761990
Points: 2
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Empowering Developers with HTML-Aware ERB Tooling
Article URL: https://speakerdeck.com/marcoroth/empowering-developers-with-html-aware-erb-tooling-at-rubykaigi-2025-matsuyama-ehime
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43761551
Points: 1
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U.S. Pushes $900M for Small Modular Reactors
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/small-modular-reactor-united-states
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43761546
Points: 1
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China can offer Trump the trillions of investment dollars America needs
Nanoscale Makes a Power Play
Article URL: https://cacm.acm.org/news/nanoscale-makes-a-power-play/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43761538
Points: 1
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EIF3D safeguards homeostasis of key signal paths in human primed pluripotency
Article URL: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adq5484
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43761526
Points: 1
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I vibe-coded a small tool for myself – someone paid for it before it was ready
First time trying the whole “vibe coding” approach — build something fast, minimal setup, just to solve a tiny-but-annoying problem for myself. I work with remote teams and kept running into the same thing: meetings scheduled on public holidays because my calendar wasn’t blocked. So I built a tiny tool that connects to Google Calendar and does that automatically.
Over the weekend, while I was still polishing a few things, I checked my Paddle dashboard and saw I had money. Someone found it on Google, signed up, and paid. No welcome email. No alert. Just vibes.
It’s called Autolidays — lightweight, quiet, and automatic. This was a one-person, nights-and-weekends thing, took less than a month. Vibe coding is wild — the speed is insane, but there’s still a gap to close when it comes to getting something truly production-ready. Curious to see where this path leads.
Check it out and lmk what you think https://autolidays.com
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43761515
Points: 1
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Is Tech to Blame for Anxious Kids? A Summary of 'The Anxious Generation'
Article URL: https://www.insta.page/read/the-anxious-generation
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43761489
Points: 1
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Show HN: SDK for AI Coding with Long Running Tasks
It seems that using Cursor has become really repetitive. My workflow typically goes like this: - Get a task to accomplish on a codebase - Research the web and codebase to create a plan - Send the entire plan to cursor and sit back for it to finish
This flow works really well with a high level of accuracy for the most part and it's becoming obvious that the margin between where it is today and "perfect" is quickly closing.
Because of this flow, I feel that I can replicate it through an SDK that uses a AI cli coder tool with low level control.
In this SDK, you can also use the best coder in the world per: https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/
As shown here:
```python from cloudcode import Local import os
def main(): # Use the current directory cwd = os.getcwd() example_file = "example.py"
# Initialize the Aider SDK in architect mode agent = Local( working_dir=cwd, model="o3", # Main (planner) model editor_model="gpt-4.1", # Editor model for implementing changes architect_mode=True, use_git=False, api_key=os.getenv("CLOUDCODE_API_KEY") ) # Create or overwrite a simple Python file to modify using the SDK agent.create_file( example_file, """def add(a, b): return a + b """ )
# Run a coding task using the two-model workflow result = agent.code( prompt="make this function super cool. just make the math functions better", editable_files=[example_file] ) # Print the results print("\nTask completed!") print(f"Success: {result['success']}") print("\nChanges made:") print(result["diff"]) # Display cost information print("\nTask completed!") if __name__ == "__main__": main()
```
Given that you can mimic your workflows from cursor and claude code into this sdk, you shouldn't have to sit around on your computer waiting for the long running task to finish.
That's why I built in a Sandbox class that mounts the ai coder into a remote sandbox directory instead of a local folder so you can deploy an ai coder to the cloud, enabling use cases such as coding from your phone and the browser.
I have already found so many low-handing fruit use cases for this sdk to automate prompting, information gathering, and auto-docs as shown in our github https://github.com/LMSystems-ai/cloud-coding
But I want to take it a step further.
You can get started for free today with this sdk and see our favorable pricing model here: https://docs.cloudcoding.ai/pricing
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43761446
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