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• AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making

  Supposedly 70% of software projects failed even before AI. So are AI projects better or worse than that? Also like people have asked about the 70% failure rate, how do you define failure/success. https://medium.com/@trienpont/why-do-over-70-of-software-projects-fail-deb4f48f18e6. - Source: Hacker News / 1 day ago

• Gpu.ai $1k Grand Prize Buildathon August 22nd 2026: Build on Free Cloud GPUs

  Hey guys! GPU.ai is hosting a buildathon with free cloud GPUs on August 22nd 2026 -- register at gpu.ai/buildathon -- all projects will be open-sourced. Learn more: https://medium.com/@john_64490/gpu-ai-1-000-grand-prize-buildathon-on-august-22nd-2026-build-ai-apps-on-free-cloud-gpus-fe27ece9783c?sharedUserId=john_64490. - Source: Hacker News / 2 days ago

• I built a privacy-first crypto portfolio tracker after the Ledger breach

  Back in the day I used the now-defunct site coin.fyi or coinexplorers.com to track my portfolio. When they disappeared, I looked at the alternatives — and none of them adapted to my necessities. The main one: a private, encrypted portfolio management platform in the style of ProtonMail. One where the service provider itself cannot see what I hold. So I decided to create my own.... - Source: Hacker News / 3 days ago

• Must actively fund open source AI [pdf]

  Insurance companies basically are banks, in that while they make low profit margins they wield such vast amounts of capital, some of which they invest in, they might as well be financial service institutions. There's also other categories of entities (pharmacy benefit managers, wholesalers and distributors) that also get a cut.... - Source: Hacker News / 4 days ago

• The Tower Keeps Rising

  A friend of mine built just built a project for doing something like that, although it's built on enforcing a spec rather than elegance: https://medium.com/@joeldg/architecting-out-of-the-vibe-how-to-enforce-compliance-in-ai-coded-apps-42b9d0113321. - Source: Hacker News / 5 days ago

Playcode.io mentions (19)

• AMA: I'm Eric Ries (The Lean Startup) & Author of New Bestseller Incorruptible

  «Please shut up and take my money». Jokes aside - can’t wait. Your book The Lean Startup helped me so much. I read it tens of times. It’s one of the reason I got great traction with mine startup https://playcode.io - AI App Builder on our custom cloud. Thank you Eric. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI

  I built a complete clone if fly.io infrastructure: VMs, networks, etc. So I have my Vercel on bare metal machines to maintain full-stack apps on https://playcode.io. It took more than a year. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown

  I completely rebuilt this sync engine + orm with relations, lazy loading etc, using Vue + Pinia in https://playcode.io. Google Linear’s videos, they explained in detail their architecture. Yes, I spent a few months. But it worth it. Every new field, model I need to add, it is so straightforward. I do love frameworks and foundations. They make live easier later by a lot. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust

  Don’t get me wrong, but 7K LoCs means it is still an early attempt to make a coding agent. It starts easy “ah it can edit and read files!”, but it requires a lot of extra effort to make properly for many edge cases, especially caching, price optimizations, etc. I’ve been implementing custom coding agent in https://playcode.io for 3 years already. Far beyond of 7K LoCs. So when you compare to “shitty slow” Claude... - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• I Am Building a Cloud

  - k8s is insane peace of software. A right tool for a big problem. Not for your toys. Yes, it is crazy difficult to setup and manage. Then what? - cloud has bad and slow disk. BS. They have perfectly fast NVME. Something else? That’s it. Why I am so confident? I used to setup and manage kubernetes for 2 years. I have some experience. Do I use it more? Nope. Not a right tool for me. Ansible with some custom Linux... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago