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tommy_axle commented on Ask HN: Have any successful startups been made by 'vibe coding'?    · Posted by u/nomilk
nomilk · 6 days ago
Interesting. Are any at the point where they accept payment, i.e. generate revenue?
tommy_axle · 6 days ago
Not sure, most were probably created just for this hackathon so I'd expect few if any. It's just a good way to see how far one can take it with vibe coding. It's easy to crank out smaller apps these days so marketing and distribution will be more important going forward.
tommy_axle commented on Ask HN: Have any successful startups been made by 'vibe coding'?    · Posted by u/nomilk
tommy_axle · 6 days ago
One way to gauge is by taking a look at some of the projects submitted for Bolt's contest at https://worldslargesthackathon.devpost.com/project-gallery
tommy_axle commented on Claude Code is all you need   dwyer.co.za/static/claude... · Posted by u/sixhobbits
lvl155 · 14 days ago
If Anthropic is smart they would open it up to other models now to make it default for everyone. Otherwise you are banking on Sonnet remaining the best coding model.
tommy_axle · 14 days ago
This piece is also covered by a bunch of other cli/tui agents (like codex-cli and opencode) allowing you to switch between Claude and other models (comes in handy depending on the task) so it really all depends on the setup you like. As mentioned in the sibling comment there are ways to get it to work with Claude Code too.
tommy_axle commented on Cucumber lets you write automated tests in plain language   cucumber.io/... · Posted by u/nateb2022
genericspammer · a month ago
IME? BA?
tommy_axle · a month ago
Most likely "In my experience" and "business analyst"
tommy_axle commented on Replit's CEO apologizes after its AI agent wiped a company's code base   businessinsider.com/repli... · Posted by u/jgalt212
teamonkey · a month ago
> The fact that an AI coding assistant could "delete our production database without permission" suggests there were no meaningful guardrails, access controls, or approval workflows in place. That's not an AI problem - that's just staggering negligence and incompetence.

Why not both?

1) There’s no way I’d let an AI accidentally touch my production database.

2) There’s no way I’d let my AI accidentally touch a production database.

Multiple layers of ineptitude.

tommy_axle · a month ago
To a non-developer, or no code review, couldn't the AI model also generate buggy code that then made it's way to production and deleted data just the same?
tommy_axle commented on Everything Is Down    · Posted by u/daxfohl
tommy_axle · 2 months ago
npm package registry definitely down. Happened to be doing a package install and it kept 504'ing
tommy_axle commented on The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs   qz.com/tech-layoffs-tax-c... · Posted by u/booleanbetrayal
demosthanos · 3 months ago
We're not talking about a tax deduction in the sense of a special privilege, we're talking about simple calculations of profit.

Before this change, tax for software development was calculated against:

* Profit = Revenue - Expenses

And software developer salaries fell neatly into Expenses unless you were looking for an R&D tax credit.

After this change, tax for software development is calculated against this new equation:

* Profit = Revenue - (1/5 * YearlyExpenses[-1]) - (1/5 * YearlyExpenses[-2]) - (1/5 * YearlyExpenses[-3]) - (1/5 * YearlyExpenses[-4]) - (1/5 * YearlyExpenses[-5])

Which means that if you are in Year 1 of operation, your values for YearlyExpenses[-2:-5] are all 0 and you only get to deduct 1/5 of your actual operating costs for the year from your "profit". So you can be in the hole but still owe taxes on your "profit" for the year because what you spent money on was classified as R&D.

tommy_axle · 3 months ago
Wasn't there something when this went into effect about the mid-year being the start so it is 10% in years 1 and 6?
tommy_axle commented on Why does JSON have commas?   simonsafar.com/2025/json_... · Posted by u/Tomte
paulmooreparks · 5 months ago
I wrote my own language mainly to get rid of commas and colons, and I added comments while I was at it.

https://github.com/paulmooreparks/Xfer/tree/master/ParksComp...

tommy_axle · 5 months ago
Neat. Did you have any thoughts on json5 or hjson?
tommy_axle commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
tommy_axle · 5 months ago
Working on some starter templates for going from plain English requirements to a ready-to-use applications in a few minutes. Are you a small team looking to go from Excel to something a bit more streamlined but would like to avoid a time-consuming and costly process? Schedule a live demo today. https://genatron.ai
tommy_axle commented on Ask HN: Is Washington Post correct in saying Signal is unsecure?    · Posted by u/killjoywashere
mikequinlan · 5 months ago
If it is know that secret agencies are using Signal, then it is almost certain that other agencies are working to exploit that.

An obvious attack on Signal is to get one of your people a job working there, or to bribe/blackmail and existing employee, and have them install a backdoor or other exploitable code (maybe a secret weakening of the encryption?).

tommy_axle · 5 months ago
That raises an interesting question. Are all of these agencies using the build from the Play/iOS stores or is there a build based on the audited public repo?

u/tommy_axle

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