3作者: kalyfacloud29 天前原帖
Hey HN,<p>I&#x27;m a solo developer from Nigeria. I built Quran Unlock - an app that blocks distracting apps (TikTok, Instagram, etc.) until you complete your daily Quran reading.<p>The idea came from my own struggle with phone addiction. I wanted to read Quran daily but kept getting distracted. So I built this for myself, then shared it.<p>Some stats after 2 months: - 123K+ users - 64.9% returning user rate - 31M events tracked<p>Tech stack: - React Native - Firebase (Auth, Firestore, Analytics, Cloud Messaging) - RevenueCat for subscriptions - iOS Screen Time API + Android UsageStats<p>App Store: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.apple.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;quran-unlock&#x2F;id6754449406">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.apple.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;quran-unlock&#x2F;id6754449406</a><p>Play Store: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=com.app.quranunlock&amp;hl=en">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=com.app.quranu...</a><p>Would love feedback from the HN community!
1作者: ImDelivered29 天前原帖
chat with the entire Wikipedia library (and your own docs) without a single bit of data leaving my machine.<p>What makes it different? Standard RAG often picks the wrong chunks or gets confused by similar articles. Hermit uses a Multi-Joint Architecture:<p>Entity Extraction: It understands who or what you&#x27;re asking about before searching. JIT Indexing: It dynamically indexes only the relevant articles into an ephemeral FAISS index for every query. Verification Gate: A final joint verifies the premise against the source text to kill hallucinations. It runs on GGUF models via llama-cpp-python and supports any ZIM file (Kiwix).<p>Check it out: [https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;0nspaceshipearth&#x2F;Hermit-AI] I&#x27;d love to hear your thoughts on the multi-joint pipeline approach!
3作者: krupan29 天前原帖
I hadn&#x27;t thought about these in a while, but what happened to Topcoder, Code Jam, etc.? I did some quick research and saw that those two shut down in 2023, but there wasn&#x27;t much explanation as to why. I thought of this because people keep talking about how productive they are with LLM coding tools, and I thought it would be fun to put the people proclaiming this (along with their LLM tools) up against people not using LLMs in a topcoder competition. Turns out, those competitions don&#x27;t exist anymore and I&#x27;m sad.
4作者: canxerian29 天前原帖
As the title implies I&#x27;m experiencing a lull.<p>I&#x27;m a software engineer in games and big tech for a combined 15 years. Coding is my biggest passion and I&#x27;ll still do it when I retire.<p>However, a large part of me wants to get into an entirely different industry.<p>I&#x27;ve identified the reason to be how intellectually unstimulating coding has become (due to vibe coding).<p>The AI tools are incredible - but in terms of learning and self development, vibe coding as an education form lacks depth and the classic sense of mastery. I feel like I&#x27;ve learned 90% of everything there is to know about vibe coding. The last 10% is just marginal gains.<p>I live for the thrilling moments in software development - I was in the industry early enough to roll out software on our own server racks. As a game dev, I regularly implemented algorithms (such as path finding, physics integrations and rendering logic). I also got to work with Mixed Reality headsets and help define UX paradigms.<p>I feel like there&#x27;s now a stigma around DIY coding - one should simply use an off-the-shelf solution or AI.<p>I get so much pleasure in doing deep work, but nowadays, any feature that takes more than 2 days to implement gets eyebrows raised.<p>Am I overthinking it?