hhimanshu

Hello

I’m building a SaaS product and struggling with a common tension: having a clear long-term vision while only being able to make progress in small, incremental steps.

How do you decide what to build this week without losing sight of where the product should be in a few years? What mental frameworks or heuristics help you avoid both over-architecting early and drifting without direction?

Interested in practical approaches and lessons learned.

Thanks!

Hello folks,

I’m trying to learn how one can build agentic AI systems similar to Claude Code, and eventually adapt that knowledge toward domain-specific use cases (e.g., “Claude Code for healthcare, finance, education, etc.”).

For those of you who’ve studied or built these kinds of systems, I’d love to hear your recommendations on:

• Foundational learning: What books, courses, or papers provide the best grounding for understanding LLM-based systems and their decision-making?

• Architectural patterns: What design patterns are worth studying for things like context management, memory, reasoning, and orchestration?

• Build vs. deploy: How do you think about building internal systems vs. packaging/distributing them as APIs, SDKs, or products?

• Open source projects: Which ones are most valuable to study for internals (decision making, evals, context engineering, tool use, etc.)?

• Evals and observability: What tools or products help evaluate quality, measure system behavior, and observe performance in real-world use?

• Models: Which models are best suited for “thinking” (reasoning, planning, decomposing problems) vs. “doing” (execution, coding, retrieval)?

• Learning path: How would you approach going from theory → prototype → production-quality system?

My goal is to discover high-quality resources that one can truly spend time learning from and building with—through iteration and practice—while also sharing what I learn so others on the same path can benefit.

Thanks in advance for sharing your experiences and guidance!

Hello Community

I’m experimenting with running local LLMs and would love to learn from those of you who’ve spent more time in this space. I’m particularly interested in performance tuning, reasoning capabilities, and enabling agent-style workflows using local models.

My setup: • MacBook Pro (2021) • Chip: Apple M1 Max (10-core CPU: 8 performance + 2 efficiency cores) • GPU: Apple M1 Max (24-core GPU) • Memory: 64GB LPDDR5 (Hynix) • Main display: 3024x1964 Liquid Retina XDR • External display: Dell S2721QS (3840x2160) • Model Identifier: MacBookPro18,4

I use LM Studio, but even with quantized 7B models, my machine often slows down or hangs during inference. I’m hoping to get better performance and explore more advanced use cases.

My questions: 1. What local LLM software are you using successfully on Apple Silicon? 2. How do you improve inference speed? Any success with specific quantizations, runtimes, or swap/virtual memory tricks? 3. What reasoning models have worked well for you, especially for: • Coding • Understanding specific domains (e.g., health insurance, legal, science, finance)? 4. Which local models support agent-style workflows, including: • Function calling / tool use • JSON or structured output • Multi-step planning and reasoning 5. Could you share your setup, resources, or references that helped you get started or scale up? 6. If you’ve built a local inference box (outside your main machine), how did you approach it? DIY build advice, parts lists, or tutorials would be hugely appreciated!

I’m learning and iterating, and would love to go deeper into running capable models offline. Any guidance would be super helpful—thanks so much in advance!

In the age of AI, I’m curious to know how people are designing apps, especially if they’re solo founders or small teams. Are there tools out there that can help design app workflows from end to end? What does the process look like for solopreneurs who are juggling both development and design?

Specifically, with frameworks like TailwindUI, TailwindCSS, and ShadCN being mature and widely available, why does designing quickly and efficiently still feel like a challenge? Is there a gap between the tooling available and the ability to build great UX fast?

Also, how do people handle UX variants when designing and iterating on their apps? Do tools exist that simplify managing and testing different versions of the UI?

Would love to hear about how people are approaching app design, especially in small or one-person teams, and whether there are tools or processes that bridge this gap effectively.

This question is not about multitasking (doing multiple things at the same time). This is question is more of a framework for short-term and long-term learning.

I will explain this with my situation:

I am working on a personal project (say P1) that I would like to ship soon (may be in 2 months). I also have few more ideas of new projects that I would like to work on sooner. I would also like consistently add value to P1 in long term.

Additionally, I have curiosity about information retrieval (currently reading a book and plan to start an open-source project to learn how the fundamentals work).

To add more to this, I have a full-time work to do.

As you could see, there are so many things that I do (at least I feel) and so many other things that I plan to do. I try to manage all of this work with Asana tasks, but still I feel that I could be more effective. I look for inspiration and see people like Elon Musk and wonder how do they manage to run multibillionaire companies? We all have 24 hours in a day.

So my questions are

1. How you manage multiple projects efficiently?

2. This is an art and I would love to learn this skill

3. What resources (books, courses, talks, your experience) you would recommend to learn and gain this art?

Thanks for reading this far, appreciate your time spent

Last time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8263402 article appeared in 2014, I wanted to see if there are methodologies that people have adopted not listed in this article? I would like to hear your experiences. Feel free to contribute here or at https://gist.github.com/hhimanshu/714962f4205d7dddc7e5991a86412805. I would make notes and update the page. Thanks

Hello there, I need a help. I want to build an RSS reader (or shall I call as RSS feed engine) to learn how it works. This purely for educational purposes.

I tried looking around the web and honestly could not found much material on the topic. In a nutshell, think of that I want to build something like feedly or Google Reader.

I do not get resources on how to build one. The closest I could get it

- http://rss.softwaregarden.com/aboutrss.html - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_syndication - http://www.whatisrss.com/

Could someone please guide me in this effort?

I have spent a lot of time writing web applications from backend-to-front end (I am sure there is lot more to learn there), but I got bored and wanted to learn something I never learned(and wanted to).

I am talking about Concurrent Programming. I mostly work with Java but in order to learn Concurrency, I picked Erlang and I want to invest my time learning this language and do some projects to further strengthen my understanding.

I admit, that I love Erlang for the parts I read so far. I like syntax(its not verbose) and a very different approach to programming.

I want to ask what projects a beginner can work on related to Concurrent Programming Model. I am blank headed right now and need guidance.

Please enlighten me with your advices and experience. Books, resources, videos, etc all are very much welcomed here.

Thanks a lot in advance

I have been thinking to write blogs for what I learn during weekends.

I am looking for blogging platforms where I can share what I learn, share code snippets.

Please share your advices on what tools to use

Thank you

This happened with me in first time since I am using GMail (since 2005).

I was in Starbucks using my laptop in the afternoon for an hour.

I didn't notice anything major until I tried log into GMail and GMail notified that my account is disabled for security reasons. I ignored(stupid me!) and reset the password

Meanwhile few days ago GMail service disruption happened and I noticed I am received lot less emails that I used to get(may be 5-10%).

Then I started noticing that people complained that I am not replying to their emails, while I was not even receiving them.

Also, When I am sending emails, I get the message http://imgur.com/5U1nFXM&VrIjeVi&WTe9BIU

30 minutes ago, I accidentally checked my Gmail Trash and OMG! all my email are here. What happened?

One of the email caught my attention saying "Your Google Play Order Cancellation Receipt from Jan 21, 2014". What? This is not me for sure.

http://imgur.com/5U1nFXM&VrIjeVi&WTe9BIU#2

I called Google Play Help Center and made sure that this account is cancelled. Now I am sure that my account is hacked, so I googled to know why all my emails are going to Trash and Google told me to check my filters (https://support.google.com/mail/answer/63601?hl=en). Guess What? Google was right

This person set up the filters to make sure I don't know what he has ordered http://imgur.com/5U1nFXM&VrIjeVi&WTe9BIU#1

I am not sure who this person is except that this person was in the Starbucks since the order time is around the same time I was there.

I have changed my Gmail password but I would like to know what approaches/advices/suggestions people have to secure Gmail or any service that needs password

P.S I am not going to login to any website in Starbucks or public Wi-Fi.