What builders are talking about
What developers discussed most on Hacker News in the last four days. Ranked by Hacker News points · updated daily.
Updated 24 Oct, 7 PM ET
DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, the software that runs its own models at scale (opens the original source in a new tab)DeepInfer is the inference framework, the software that runs a trained model to answer requests, behind DeepSeek's large services. The release supports DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash under the Apache 2.0 licence.
2331 points on Hacker News
DeepSeek · Original source (opens in a new tab)
Wiz used AI to find serious flaws in PHP, the language behind much of the web (opens the original source in a new tab)Wiz says the bugs, found with help from Gemini 4 Argon and GPT-5.6 Sol, could let attackers take over servers, affect PHP versions back to 5.4, and were patched on 21 October.
428 points on Hacker News
Corgi keeps watch over your coding agents from one terminal window (opens the original source in a new tab)Like tmux, Corgi runs many terminal sessions in one window, and it shows whether each agent, such as Claude Code or Codex, is working, finished or waiting for you. It runs on macOS, Linux and WSL.
125 points on Hacker News
Omnara, an open-source platform for running AI agents on your own servers (opens the original source in a new tab)Omnara calls itself a self-hostable alternative to Claude Managed Agents and OpenAI's Agents API, so teams can run AI agents on machines they control. It uses the Apache 2.0 licence.
107 points on Hacker News
Omnara · Original source (opens in a new tab)
Claude now works inside Google Docs, Sheets and Slides (opens the original source in a new tab)
Claude opens in a sidebar next to your file to fix text, write formulas, build charts and pivot tables, or add slides that match your deck. It is in public beta on all paid Claude plans.
84 points on Hacker News
Anthropic · Original source (opens in a new tab)
Rust off Rails is a web framework made only of instructions for coding agents (opens the original source in a new tab)Instead of a code library, it ships about 60 Markdown files telling coding agents how to build a full web app in Rust, with one fixed set of tools and one way to do each thing.
75 points on Hacker News
Rust off Rails · Original source (opens in a new tab)
LayerFS gives each AI coding agent its own short-lived workspace on shared history (opens the original source in a new tab)Each agent works in its own complete, writable workspace on top of the project's shared history, commits what it changed and then goes away, so many agents can work at once. Version 1.0.0 is out.
69 points on Hacker News
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Trail of Bits releases two agent plugins for fixing bugs without breaking other things (opens the original source in a new tab)
One plugin has an AI agent reproduce a reported bug, write a fix and test it; the other checks whether a change breaks something that used to work. Trail of Bits says this one flags 25% fewer false alarms.
53 points on Hacker News
Trail of Bits · Original source (opens in a new tab)