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Vite+ an excellent toolchain for AI agent development

2026-10-20 @ 06:40:49Points: 23Comments: 13

Show HN: Death Plan Switch, a self-hosted dead man's switch for solo devs

2026-10-20 @ 04:37:43Points: 51Comments: 45

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 problem, it's free to download and use or study under the MIT license.

I've been using it for the last few weeks. It was authored with the help of Claude Code after writing an extensive MD document and it passed 42 unit tests.

I hope you get some use out of it, or it inspires your own succession plans. My clients are telling me this is a strong sales feature when they trust me with their hosting and technology accounts.

Happy to answer any questions.

Kind regards, Peter Bishop.

Go will reject certificate chains containing eight distrusted SPKIs

2026-10-20 @ 03:05:07Points: 74Comments: 23

OpenBSD 8.0

2026-10-20 @ 02:06:40Points: 233Comments: 66

France's supermarket fridges were vulnerable online for months

2026-10-20 @ 00:00:49Points: 136Comments: 112

Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50055304 - Oct 2026 (1007 comments)

WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator

2026-10-19 @ 23:22:18Points: 345Comments: 79

How abliterated models can get you pwned

2026-10-19 @ 23:08:52Points: 103Comments: 64

An ad-free Android TV

2026-10-19 @ 22:32:37Points: 165Comments: 48

OpenBSD 8.0 release will have inteldrm/radeondrm/amdgpu drivers from Linux 6.18

2026-10-19 @ 21:11:45Points: 147Comments: 31

Putting Linux on my RTX Spark laptop because I don't have a Microsoft account

2026-10-19 @ 21:08:18Points: 224Comments: 116

One Hash Bloom Filters

2026-10-19 @ 20:50:08Points: 93Comments: 11

Android apps running native on macOS

2026-10-19 @ 16:45:30Points: 308Comments: 166

MiniMax M3.1 Flash

2026-10-19 @ 16:39:09Points: 451Comments: 192

DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order

2026-10-19 @ 16:16:46Points: 184Comments: 158

Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier

2026-10-19 @ 15:31:34Points: 248Comments: 172

Agentic Monitoring

2026-10-19 @ 14:52:04Points: 89Comments: 15

Plex vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild to drop a cryptominer

2026-10-19 @ 13:36:43Points: 188Comments: 92

Wine ported to OpenBSD

2026-10-19 @ 13:35:34Points: 551Comments: 184

Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?

2026-10-19 @ 11:24:34Points: 404Comments: 542

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ali-hamie_im-an-engineer-at-m...

> I'm an engineer at Meta and I never felt this uncomfortable doing my job. I'm writing code these days and it all feels like a black box. This new standard of shipping with AI is moving so fast that if we're going to spend our time checking each line of code, it's going to take forever. That means you can end up with systems you've built where you don't truly understand how all the code works. You understand the high level, but not every detail. And maybe this is becoming the new standard. It goes against every instinct of being a software engineer. I'm used to understanding what I'm building. Now I'm trying to figure out how much I need to understand before I'm comfortable moving forward. Are other engineers feeling this too?

How are you handling this?

I built a drone with only one motor [video]

2026-10-19 @ 09:05:07Points: 507Comments: 109

Starcraft: Ashfall

2026-10-19 @ 01:18:02Points: 421Comments: 128

Nordwand Mono – A monospace font for coders and adventurers

2026-10-18 @ 14:48:01Points: 134Comments: 24

Weball: Play Katamari on Websites

2026-10-18 @ 12:39:56Points: 171Comments: 11

Restoration of Retinal Regenerative Potential

2026-10-18 @ 11:32:38Points: 26Comments: 0

Refurb weekend II: Alpha Micro Eagle 300 and friends

2026-10-18 @ 04:48:47Points: 13Comments: 0

RuneScape Bench: MMOs for Agents [video]

2026-10-17 @ 23:24:05Points: 188Comments: 67

Porting video games to VHS

2026-10-17 @ 21:12:16Points: 35Comments: 21

How Do Fungi Keep the Planet Healthy?

2026-10-17 @ 20:27:22Points: 42Comments: 6

It's still ok to enjoy programming

2026-10-17 @ 19:53:20Points: 565Comments: 494

The fire retardant in the seafood chain

2026-10-17 @ 19:37:54Points: 136Comments: 44

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