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Ask HN: How can we democratize agentic coding

Hacker News - Mon, 06/15/2026 - 12:37am

One of the beauties of the tech industry is that anyone can learn how to program. Most languages are open source and a lot of the foundational software that make up the bedrock of the most powerful tools today are also free and open source. It’s telling that agents were primarily trained on effective unix.

I think no one can deny that frontier models, especially playing around with Fable, that institutions will be separated by those that are willing to spend and those that can’t afford to. The dynamic feels dramatically different from the previous age where anyone learn how to Google effectively to be frontier productive. Will open source models eventually be good enough or will compute be cheap enough that this won’t be a concern? For some reason this is keeping me up at night. Fable feels like an end of an era for what was solidly a democratized profession.

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Show HN: Prela – A Compositional and Controllable Query Language

Hacker News - Mon, 06/15/2026 - 12:32am

I'm excited to share "take 2" of the Prela query language.

After sharing the previous version here, I've received some valuable feedback, the main one being the weird unicode-based syntax throwing people off.

Prela now has a more familiar SQL-like syntax while adhering to the algebraic principle, which makes the language compositional and controllable, all the while keeping the core engine under 1k lines of code.

The engine has also been rewritten from Julia to Rust, resulting in both simpler code and faster performance (not just because "Rust fast Julia slow", but for some pretty deep compiler-level reasons that I'll hopefully write about at some point).

In the long run, I think the value of Prela is not as a single query language, but as a demonstration of the power of relation combinators which can be implemented in any language, just like iterators.

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Bretisilocin

Hacker News - Mon, 06/15/2026 - 12:19am
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Ask HN: What does your local LLM setup looks like?

Hacker News - Mon, 06/15/2026 - 12:17am

What models and hardware you are using? For what purpose? What were the challenges? Any tricks that helped you in doing this?

This might help new users like me setup theirs.

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Catjam 2026

Hacker News - Mon, 06/15/2026 - 12:11am

Article URL: https://itch.io/jam/catjam-2026

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Building Software vs. Building a House

Hacker News - Sun, 06/14/2026 - 11:57pm

I have a few rantings and opinions to submit to Hackernews on why the SWE terminology is outdated.

I submit software engineers and vibe coders need a new name. Just call everyone Builders. You were never really an engineer with stamps, and now, a vibecoder can design software and call himself a software engineer without all the crap that you have been through to get where you are today. Its confusing and doesn't make sense long term.

This is the new playing field. We now have crap builders who build houses that will fall down, develop water damage, flood the basement, have squeaks in the floor, burn the house down from loose wires. OR... you have good builders. They take pride in the home they build. They meet with the trades daily. They know exactly what each of the trades are doing. They know the house will stand for a hundred years because his eyes were watchful throughout the build. He saw every load of dirt that was dumped and compacted, every nail in the roof sheathing sunk.

The good builder may even put the tool belt on occasionally and do the dirty work. They may adjust the framing because they know how it will affect the final product. They may apply reinforcing where the engineer overlooked a weak spot. They may adjust windows mid frame because he knows something later in the assembly will cause massive problems. They thoughtfully placed outlets in high usuage areas, or bumped up the amperage of a circuit because they know the equipment that will be used one day in that location.

Everyone is going to have access to the same great sub base. But that's not the measure of what makes a good house. No matter how good the sub base is, they don't care about the house. The builder must care. The builder with field expirence will never loose his value, and houses will never build themselves.

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