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How a .NET dev built an AI assistant

Did you just get the task to “make an AI assistant” — and you mainly do .NET? Same. I’m also one of those people who rolls their eyes at a lot of the AI hype, and the internet is full of articles where every confident tutorial contradicts the previous one. So instead of publishing one more “definitive guide” that will age badly in two weeks, here’s the version I wish I’d found: what my team actually decided to build, the wrong turns we took on the way, and the code that finally made it click ...
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How We Migrated Bloom After from Vanilla JS to Next.js + TypeScript

As part of Rise Academy's frontend program, students are grouped and assigned real projects to work on. My group was assigned Bloom After — and our task was to migrate its existing Vanilla JS frontend to Next.js with TypeScript . Not because the old one was broken, but because that's exactly the kind of thing you need to do once on a real codebase before you can say you actually know how. I was the one who set up the new project and made most of the architectural decisions, so this is a first...
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I Built a Prompt Compressor That Saves 65% on LLM Costs — Here's the Story

I've been working on a side project called SuperCompress — an intelligent prompt compression system for LLMs. The idea is simple: most tokens you send to an LLM never need to be processed. They're padding, boilerplate, irrelevant context. But they still burn GPU cycles. I wanted to fix that. The Problem Working with LLM agents, I noticed something: every agent loop was sending massive context through the GPU. 10K tokens. 50K tokens. Sometimes more. Most of it was irrelevant ...
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Ask HN: Is "no source code was copied" still a sufficient copyright defense?

We are all familiar with the Corgi event: https://x.com/mfts0/status/2070080422482977095 With the barrier to create new apps having dropped significantly thanks to LLMs, I am seeing more cases about copyright and unfair competition. I've seen and participated in some of these cases. Usually expert witnesses are required. Curious to hear the community stance on this one. "Now software developers are feeling what authors and artist felt". https://x.com/PriyRanjan96/status/2070204156703568377 There...
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What is a Lithium-ion capacitor?

Article URL: https://www.jtekt.co.jp/e/products/capacitor/capacitor_about.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48688081 Points: 32 # Comments: 5
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Show HN: Smart model routing directly in Claude, Codex and Cursor

We built a model router that plugs into coding agents (e.g. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, etc.) and intelligently sends requests to the best model to serve them. Here's a quick demo of running it locally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isKhAyivtfM . At Weave, we write most of our code with AI, and it's been getting more expensive. This came to a head when Opus 4.7 was released and, thanks to its tokenizer changes, our costs shot up. We knew we didn't need Opus for everything but we didn't want...
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Liva AI (YC S25) Is Hiring

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/liva-ai/jobs/gvtc3Ep-founding-operations-lead Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48688961 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
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Data centers trigger voter backlash

Article URL: https://www.newsweek.com/cost-me-the-election-data-centers-trigger-voter-backlash-12118327 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48689275 Points: 61 # Comments: 55
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What Is a Nomogram and Why Would It Interest Me?

Article URL: https://lefakkomies.github.io/pynomo-doc/introduction/introduction.html#what-is-a-nomogram-and-why-would-it-interest-me Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48689277 Points: 24 # Comments: 7
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With GTA looming, consoles are getting expensive at the worst possible time

The release of Grand Theft Auto VI is a singular moment, the kind of massive cultural phenomenon that makes people want to go out and buy a console to play it. It is the preeminent modern example of what's known as a "system seller." There's almost certainly a large audience of people who were waiting […]
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Prime Day is offering rare discounts on Philips Hue smart lights

Philips Hue products don’t often see major discounts, which makes this year’s Prime Day deals especially notable. Prices have dropped significantly across much of the company’s smart lighting lineup, with deals on everything from smart bulb starter kits and sleep lamps to smart buttons. In some cases, the lowest prices are available directly from Philips […]
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Apple’s AirPods Max 2 headphones are still $150 off — for now

One of the best deals this ongoing Prime Day has been on Apple’s latest flagship headphones. The AirPods Max 2 are still available for a heavily discounted price of $399 ($150 off) at Walmart, even though they sold out at Amazon. Since the Amazon deal kicked and Walmart is out of stock on one of […]
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Anthropic’s Mythos mess is only getting worse

It's been two weeks since Anthropic took its Mythos-class models offline after a Friday evening ultimatum from the Trump administration. The company sprang into action immediately, sending a barrage of executives to Washington, DC. But updates have been suspiciously lacking, with no resolution in sight. Anthropic declined to comment multiple times this week about the […]
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Of course Meta thinks gambling is the future

Meta is, by and large, a company built on other companies' ideas. It has almost perfected the strategy: wait for a new platform or social mechanic to take off, then either buy or clone it, put it next to Meta's unmatched user base and advertising engine, and watch the money pile up. Well, the next […]
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Sometimes, health tracking accuracy is overrated

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. About three years ago, a doctor told me I had to lose abdominal fat. She didn't care about my lower […]
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Fitbit’s Charge 6 and kid-friendly Ace LTE are much cheaper for Prime Day

Prime Day is making it much easier to pick up a Fitbit without spending more than you want. Both the Fitbit Charge 6 and Fitbit Ace LTE are on steep discounts today. Right now, you can buy the Charge 6 for $85.45 ($74.5 off) at Amazon, while the kid-friendly Fitbit Ace LTE is $69.99 (a […]
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It’s now the Arduino Uno Q’s turn to get a price hike

Arduino's Raspberry Pi-like microcomputer the Uno Q is joining many other devices in getting a price hike this week. The 2GB version of the Uno Q, which is powered by a Qualcomm Dragonwing QRB2210 processor, will increase in price from $44 to $59, while the 4GB model is getting a slightly steeper increase from $59 […]
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Xreal’s best USB-C smart glasses are $50 off, but not for long

If you’ve been curious about the emerging world of smart glasses, Prime Day is your chance to try some of the best models with a rare discount from Best Buy or directly from Xreal. The high-end Xreal One Pro is $549, $50 lower than the usual price, and the more entry-level Xreal 1S is $399, […]