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Ask HN: Does enterprise GenAI adoption come from constraint, not intelligence?

Most GenAI discussion still centers on making models more capable — more creative, more general, more “intelligent.”But while working on enterprise automation, we’ve been arriving at a different conclusion:Enterprise adoption seems to come from constraint, not intelligence.In practice, over 80% of enterprise data is unstructured: emails, documents, messages, transcripts, speech-to-text. When LLMs are used freely on this data, results are hard to trust or automate.We’ve had more success applying

Show HN: Cover letter generator with Ollama/local LLMs (Open source)

I built an open source web app that generates cover letters using local AI models (Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM, etc.) so your resume and job application data never leaves your machine.No placeholders. No typing. Letters are ready to copy and paste.The workflow is: 1. Upload your resume (PDF) - it gets parsed and cached in your browser. 2. Paste the job description 3. Get a personalized cover letter in ~5 secondsIt connects to any OpenAI-compatible local LLM endpoint. I use it with Ollama + llama3.2,

Show HN: A Multi-agent system where LLMs challenge each other's answers

Hey HN,I've been experimenting with forcing multiple LLMs to critique each other before producing a final answer.In practice, I kept working around single-model limitations by opening multiple tabs, pasting the same question into different models, comparing responses, and then manually challenging each model with the others' arguments. (Maybe some of you can relate.) It worked sometimes, but it was cumbersome, slow, and hard to do systematically and efficiently.Based on my own experime

We built a guardrail layer to keep LLMs from breaking production databases

Over the last few months I’ve been building something we originally created for internal use, but eventually realized others were running into the same problem.Once you let LLMs generate SQL against real databases, traditional safeguards (read-only users, RBAC, views) start to break down in subtle ways:• LLMs can infer sensitive data via aggregates and joins• “Read-only” doesn’t prevent data exfiltration• Regex masking fails without context• It’s hard to audit why a query was run once it happens

Ask HN: How are you using Nvidia cards on Linux with its VRAM issues?

I recently discovered that on Linux, NVIDIA GPUs will not seamlessly access system memory if the GPU's memory gets full where as on Windows it does.After 25 years on Windows I recently switched to Linux over the holiday break and came across this with my GeForce 750 Ti which only has 2 GB of GPU memory.After opening a few Firefox and Ghostty terminals (both apps are hardware accelerated), I notice system instability and things crash or my Wayland compositor (niri) starts failing in unpredic

Show HN: AuthForge – open-source auth for AI agents (early preview)

Hi HN,I'm building AuthForge - authentication infrastructure for AI agents. Early preview at https://auth-forge-web-two.vercel.app: When AI agents need to access your tools (Slack, GitHub, Jira), how do you handle auth? Current options are expensive proprietary platforms or DIY OAuth with security risks.: - Zitadel for identity/SSO - Ory Hydra for OAuth 2.1 (MCP-specific flows) - Cerbos for policy engine (time/context-based rules) - HashiCorp Vault for token management -

Show HN: Apache TacticalMesh – Open-source tactical mesh networking for defense

Hi HN!I built an open-source tactical mesh networking platform for military and first responders.THE PROBLEM: Soldiers and firefighters lose communications when infrastructure fails (jammed, destroyed, or non-existent). Current solutions cost $50K per radio and create vendor lock-in.THE SOLUTION: Apache TacticalMesh - automatic message relay through mesh peers. When you can't reach base, your radio finds someone who can and routes through them. Like Waze for military comms.TECH STACK: • Fas

Show HN: tmpo – CLI time tracker with Git integration and local-first storage

I built tmpo because I was losing money tracking freelance hours in Google Forms. It's a CLI time tracker that auto-detects your project from Git and stores everything locally.Key technical decisions:- Pure Go implementation with modernc.org/sqlite (no CGO, easier cross-compilation)- Auto-detection via git rev-parse for project names- Local SQLite database in ~/.tmpo/ (nothing leaves your machine)- Single binary, zero dependenciesNew features since I started:- Milestone track

Show HN: Weekly newsletter with tactical frameworks from 50 $1M+ founders

Hi HN,I've spent the last 6 months interviewing founders who scaled to $1M+ ARR to understand what actually worked vs. what just sounds good in retrospect.The surprising finding: Almost none of them had a grand vision at the start. They just solved one specific problem exceptionally well, then expanded.Some patterns I found: - They talked to 10-20 customers per week in early days (not surveys, real conversations) - They picked narrow niches first ("X for dentists" beats "X fo

Ask HN: How good do I need to be to work at a startup?

I want to work at a startup, but I don't know how to stand out. Any advice? I'm a senior atm but if I could I'd drive down to SF tomorrow to start work...I build a lot and love it but some of these applications say things like "what are you the top 1% at?". I don't go to a target school and have no idea how to market myself. My skills / interest are in vision + interactivity AI applications. For ex: building a full stack local llm app to control a 3D blender sc

The Gemini AI Studio "Context Tax": How a 10-word prompt cost me £121

I’ve been utilizing Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro via the AI Studio front-end to develop a new platform. The 1M+ context window is, technically speaking, a game-changer for "stitching" together a 55,000-line codebase. However, I recently discovered a predatory billing architecture that I’m calling the "Context Tax."If you use the AI Studio UI, you might be walking into a massive bill without a single warning.Here is how it happened, and the UK/EU privacy "pro-tip" I

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