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Ask HN: How do you decide to cut scope when AI makes it so easy to add?

I've been having this conversation with my co-founder for months. It's so easy to add incremental features nowadays, and most seem useful. There's nothing obviously wrong with them. On top of that, people are using the software, and they appreciate how complete it is. The UX is cluttered, but 99% of interactions don't use it, so who cares. How do you decide to cut scope when in the current setup there's nothing to lose? Am I simply to old school? For context, this is the project: https://github....
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I built a drone with only one motor [video]

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndftcft6XhU Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50150089 Points: 510 # Comments: 109
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An ad-free Android TV

Article URL: https://cretezy.com/2026/ad-free-android-tv Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50158942 Points: 169 # Comments: 48
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How abliterated models can get you pwned

Article URL: https://projectdiscovery.io/research/how-abliterated-models-can-get-you-pwned Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50159245 Points: 104 # Comments: 64
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France's supermarket fridges were vulnerable online for months

Related: Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50055304 - Oct 2026 (1007 comments) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50159616 Points: 140 # Comments: 115
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OpenBSD 8.0

Article URL: https://www.openbsd.org/80.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50160494 Points: 239 # Comments: 66
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Show HN: Death Plan Switch, a self-hosted dead man's switch for solo devs

Hi HN, I'm Peter Bishop and I've been working in graphics and web tech for over 25yrs. I've recently launched Death Plan Switch to solve a major problem in my succession plan. What if I go missing or die? The right people are told and my business can continue to operate for my clients. There's a backstory to this project, I was hospitalised in 2012 and lost my business back then and I couldn't get the data to my technical 2IC in time without frustrating my clients. Death Plan Switch solves this ...
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Smart Contract Vulnerability Surface Analysis: Rocket Pool

Smart Contract Vulnerability Surface Analysis: Rocket Pool Target Protocol : Rocket Pool (TVL: $1228.2M) Rocket Pool – Smart‑Contract Vulnerability Surface Analysis Prepared by:  [Your Firm] – Senior DeFi Security Research Team Date:  20 Oct 2026 1. Executive Summary Rocket Pool (RPL) is the largest decentralized Ethereum‑staking protocol, managing ≈ $1.23 B in total value locked (TVL) across Ethereum L1 and L2 roll‑ups. Its core architecture consi...
An App Built for One: Why a Devpost Skill Pack Made Me Spec It Anyway
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An App Built for One: Why a Devpost Skill Pack Made Me Spec It Anyway

My wife lost her yellow book. So I built her an app. TL;DR: Cuenta is a small app for my wife's wholesale bakery: count what's left on each cafe's shelf, build the delivery, print and email her branded invoice, and see who owes what. I built it for Devpost's Build With AI: Basics hackathon with their skill pack, which interviews you and writes the plan from your answers. The plan caught real problems before any code existed. It also carried one wrong guess all the way to the end, and o...
Dari Tumpukan Data Akademik ke Peringatan Dini: Review Jurnal Terkini Prediksi Dropout Mahasiswa dan Tutorial Visualisasinya dengan Python
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Dari Tumpukan Data Akademik ke Peringatan Dini: Review Jurnal Terkini Prediksi Dropout Mahasiswa dan Tutorial Visualisasinya dengan Python

_ Oleh Rafi Miftah Al Ma'rif — Mahasiswa S-2 Teknik Informatika | Mata kuliah Big Data Analysis and Data Visualisation | Oktober 2026 Setiap semester, kampus menyimpan jutaan baris data: nilai, kehadiran, status pembayaran, jalur masuk, hingga riwayat studi. Sebagian besar data itu hanya berhenti sebagai laporan. Padahal di dalamnya ada sinyal yang bisa memberi tahu kita lebih awal mahasiswa mana yang mulai berisiko putus kuliah. Tulisan ini ditujukan untuk teman-teman mahasiswa yang s...
AI in sales: where to start
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AI in sales: where to start

In my view, AI delivers the most value in sales where inputs and outputs are clearly defined. Tasks that are easy to measure and involve fewer steps are the easiest to automate If you hand all your sales and customer conversations over to AI, it will most likely be a complete failure. There are too many ways an interaction with a real person can unfold Giving it strict, repetitive steps from your existing process is a reasonable move. My recommendation is to automate gradually, starting wi...
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LLM API Pricing: 375 Models Compared Across 137 Providers

Oct 20, 2026 You would expect that when 375 models are each served by at least two providers, the market would have found some pricing equilibrium. It has not. The median input price spread across those 375 models is 0.0%—meaning that for the typical model, every provider charges exactly the same per-million-token rate. Nobody is undercutting anybody. In a market with 137 providers and 4,033 total models, that level of uniformity is not competition; it is coordination by default. But that...
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I'm here to share

Hey everyone 👋 I'm a security enthusiast focused on network security and web application security. I've been lurking on dev.to for a while, and I finally decided to start writing. Why I'm here Security knowledge is often locked behind paywalls, scattered across obscure forums, or buried in docs that assume you already know everything. I want to do the opposite: share what I learn in plain language, with real examples and reproducible steps. What you can expect from me Practi...
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Your Voice Agent Does Not Have One Latency: Build a Conversation SLO

Your Voice Agent Does Not Have One Latency: Build a Conversation SLO “Sub-50 ms” can be a true measurement and a useless production claim at the same time. A team may measure a fast inference kernel, a local voice-activity detector, or the first token from a model and then present that number as the latency of a phone conversation. The caller experiences something else: carrier setup, jitter buffering, speech detection, end-of-turn judgment, transcription, retrieval, tool execution, gener...
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FirstPR AI: Your Local AI Mentor for Your First Open-Source Pull Request 🤖

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady What I Built Your first open-source pull request shouldn't feel like solving a mystery. When I started exploring open source, I realized that contributing isn't just about writing code. Beginners must understand unfamiliar GitHub issues, navigate large codebases, figure out what to test, and prepare a pull request that follows the project's expectations. That learning curve can be intimidating. ...
Accidents Become Canon Once You Lock a Reference
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Accidents Become Canon Once You Lock a Reference

The usual mental model for locking a reference image is that you're preserving what you specified. You described a character, generated her, picked the best result, and now you're keeping that description steady across later images. A recent test suggests the reference preserves something broader than the description: everything that happened to be in the picture, whether anyone asked for it or not. What happened The character was defined with a deliberately small descript...
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My agent tagged 261 businesses "no website". One random check said otherwise.

I've started offering one-page websites to small local businesses in Turkey: vet clinics, dietitians, beauty salons. The idea is simple. Someone finds the business on Google Maps, taps the website link, and lands on Instagram, where the opening hours and services are buried somewhere in a grid of photos. A single page fixes that. To find businesses worth writing to, I need a list: a good rating, enough reviews, and no real website. On 18 October 2026 I asked my AI assistant for that list; it ...