My computers were connected to an UPS surge projector. Various kitchen machinery and extension sockets that was not doesn't work anymore. The neighbor's TV blew.
There was a bright white flash inside of my living room, just under an open window and directly above the my UPS surge protector and then all my devices turned off including the surge projector. The PSU in one of the computers is gone, but not the motherboard and rest.
I was sitting on the concrete floor in the middle of the room watching it happen.
I live in Thailand in the middle of a big flat coconut groove with only two houses. Except for the palm trees, my house is the tallest structure in a 200 x 200 meters (300 feet)+ area and we have frequent huge thunder storms, but this one was in a category on its own. It made my concrete walls tremble. It was so intense. Spectacular show by nature.
Only two months ago, I bought a socket outlet tester. It reported that my sockets was not grounded. I got an electricians out to fix that. I suspect this is the reason why the lightning chooses me. We have frequent big thunderstorms and haven't had this issue before, but now there is a ground connection.
I don't know if there is a proper grounding rod. There is a cable going from the house into the ground, but I don't know what it is attached too. The rest of the electric installation is amateur's business so could be connected to nothing. The house is a long-term rental and the electric installation came with it, but I can change it regardless of it's is a rental.
The electricity doesn't even come directly from the power company's cables. It goes in to the owners house, where the meter is. From there they have pulled a 200 meter cable into ours. There is a fuse box in my house.
Any suggestions on what to do next? A big metal stick somewhere in the garden?"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["compute"],"value":"Ask HN: My house just got hit by lightning and it fried the PSU in my computer"}},"_tags":["story","author_TowerTall","story_31270349","ask_hn"],"author":"TowerTall","children":[31270509,31270564,31270586,31270601,31270615,31270632,31270633,31270638,31270653,31270679,31270685,31270691,31270694,31270754,31270864,31270987,31271156,31271402,31271552,31271990,31272071,31274070,31274338,31279488,31280930],"created_at":"2022-05-05T06:47:29Z","created_at_i":1651733249,"num_comments":79,"objectID":"31270349","points":74,"story_id":31270349,"story_text":"If everything is wired correctly in my house, should all equipment attached to my UPS have survived this with no impact or is a direct lightning strike so powerful that even high-quality home-grade UPS must give up?
My computers were connected to an UPS surge projector. Various kitchen machinery and extension sockets that was not doesn't work anymore. The neighbor's TV blew.
There was a bright white flash inside of my living room, just under an open window and directly above the my UPS surge protector and then all my devices turned off including the surge projector. The PSU in one of the computers is gone, but not the motherboard and rest.
I was sitting on the concrete floor in the middle of the room watching it happen.
I live in Thailand in the middle of a big flat coconut groove with only two houses. Except for the palm trees, my house is the tallest structure in a 200 x 200 meters (300 feet)+ area and we have frequent huge thunder storms, but this one was in a category on its own. It made my concrete walls tremble. It was so intense. Spectacular show by nature.
Only two months ago, I bought a socket outlet tester. It reported that my sockets was not grounded. I got an electricians out to fix that. I suspect this is the reason why the lightning chooses me. We have frequent big thunderstorms and haven't had this issue before, but now there is a ground connection.
I don't know if there is a proper grounding rod. There is a cable going from the house into the ground, but I don't know what it is attached too. The rest of the electric installation is amateur's business so could be connected to nothing. The house is a long-term rental and the electric installation came with it, but I can change it regardless of it's is a rental.
The electricity doesn't even come directly from the power company's cables. It goes in to the owners house, where the meter is. From there they have pulled a 200 meter cable into ours. There is a fuse box in my house.
Any suggestions on what to do next? A big metal stick somewhere in the garden?","title":"Ask HN: My house just got hit by lightning and it fried the PSU in my 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While reading the BlackBlaze Compute Story I came across, Packet's ARM Offering. (https://www.packet.net/bare-metal/servers/compute/)
Their c1.large.arm offers ARM Cavium ThunderX with 96 Physical Cores running at 2.0 Ghz.
Has anybody used such a configuration for Web Application Servers? Possibly something running Go?
Since many web applications need high concurrency and wait on DB queries, I think having these large number of cores might be beneficial.
Any thoughts and inputs on this will be well appreciated."},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["thunder"],"value":"Ask HN: ARM Cavium ThunderX (96 Physical Cores) for Web Application Servers?"}},"_tags":["story","author_pritambarhate","story_16752184","ask_hn"],"author":"pritambarhate","children":[16752453],"created_at":"2018-04-04T05:22:53Z","created_at_i":1522819373,"num_comments":1,"objectID":"16752184","points":2,"story_id":16752184,"story_text":"Hi,
While reading the BlackBlaze Compute Story I came across, Packet's ARM Offering. (https://www.packet.net/bare-metal/servers/compute/)
Their c1.large.arm offers ARM Cavium ThunderX with 96 Physical Cores running at 2.0 Ghz.
Has anybody used such a configuration for Web Application Servers? Possibly something running Go?
Since many web applications need high concurrency and wait on DB queries, I think having these large number of cores might be beneficial.
Any thoughts and inputs on this will be well appreciated.","title":"Ask HN: ARM Cavium ThunderX (96 Physical Cores) for Web Application Servers?","updated_at":"2024-09-20T02:15:22Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"flatroze"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["compute"],"value":"ARM Desktop Tower Computer"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["thunder"],"value":"https://www.avantek.co.uk/store/avantek-32-core-cavium-thunderx-arm-desktop.html"}},"_tags":["story","author_flatroze","story_16069989"],"author":"flatroze","created_at":"2018-01-04T13:00:01Z","created_at_i":1515070801,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"16069989","points":2,"story_id":16069989,"title":"ARM Desktop Tower Computer","updated_at":"2024-09-20T01:54:49Z","url":"https://www.avantek.co.uk/store/avantek-32-core-cavium-thunderx-arm-desktop.html"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"bookofjoe"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["thunder","compute"],"value":"At 19, founder raises $11M for Ghost, maker of a $3,499 computer for personal AI"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["thunder","compute"],"value":"https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/05/at-19-ghost-founder-raises-11-million-to-build-a-3499-computer-for-your-personal-ai/"}},"_tags":["story","author_bookofjoe","story_49980142"],"author":"bookofjoe","children":[49980285,49980343,49980384,49981088],"created_at":"2026-10-06T15:39:42Z","created_at_i":1791301182,"num_comments":4,"objectID":"49980142","points":1,"story_id":49980142,"title":"At 19, founder raises $11M for Ghost, maker of a $3,499 computer for personal AI","updated_at":"2026-10-08T16:49:25Z","url":"https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/05/at-19-ghost-founder-raises-11-million-to-build-a-3499-computer-for-your-personal-ai/"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"section33"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["thunder","compute"],"value":"I might be the only SRE on Earth with his own bowling center. It's a more in-depth gig than you'd think.
My family and I bought an abandoned 8-lane bowling center in the rural mid-west. In our small town there weren't many recreation options for families. You've heard of a food desert? This is an R&R desert.
It had been abandoned for a good reason. The roof leaks, the electrical system was constantly surging, and my 70-year-old bowling equipment (still) doesn't work perfectly. The system that keeps your score is particularly interesting to me. It's the thing you watch during your game, but it fades into the background beyond that. Turns out these things are really cool, but absurdly expensive.
Ours was installed in 2008 and cost six figures. It's calculating ball speed and trajectory, camera-based pin detection (object detection and trig, on ICs!), runs the fouling, the animations, the pinsetting machine and ball return. Very cool stuff for its age.
From the business perspective, my facility only cost me $105k. To forklift-replace the score keeping system runs anywhere between $80-$120k, depending on features, vendor, and unit age. No upgrades or service contracts, mind you, and every feature and customization is a new line item. That's for a 1:1 replacement on a system installed in 2008. Incredible, given how fast the tech world moves.
Replacement parts cost a shocking $4000 per pair of lanes. But wait, the bowling machines themselves are 70 years old, so what's this "advanced" system actually doing back there? Actuating a single relay to trigger that big old machine. Everything else is strictly mechanical. Meanwhile I've got a six-figure invoice in my hand. I'm upset.
Given the state of open hardware, computer vision, real-time event streaming, and open source running megascale products worldwide, there had to be a way to do this myself.
So far I've built an equivalent prototype for about $200 per lane-pair, $400 if you're fancy. ESP32 and ESPNow with an RS485 fallback, reporting to a raspberry pi lane computer that's really just redis and a state machine bolted to an ESP32 gateway for the mesh.
Since it's all ESP32, I've got a fistful of spare controllers in a drawer, pre-flashed or waiting to be. All common off-the-shelf hardware: microcontrollers wired to relays, optocouplers, and IR-break-beam sensors, each running slightly different firmware. Writing the firmware and protocol is the actual hard part.
It's an ESPNow star-topology mesh: each node emits events from its sensors and accepts commands for its controls, reporting to a gateway node connected to the raspi over UART. From there it's event streaming: RX packets get translated and tossed into redis, commands relay back out to the mesh as needed. RS485 sits underneath as a wired fallback for noisy RF environments.
Once the data's in redis, it's familiar middleware/React/websocket/pub-sub stuff. Any React dev can build their own UI and bowling animations. Since it all runs on commodity hardware, I can do legit anything I want as the proprietor, and I own all my data. Repairs take five minutes; I can swap the rig on a lane pair in under 10. I'd bet a house like mine could go from zero to running in an hour or two.
We're calling it OpenLaneLink, and I plan to open source the hardware, firmware, and software stack when it's ready. Bowling is fun, and I want to help keep it affordable for alleys like mine.\nI hate vendor lock-in. I'm not a fan of closed systems, calling support for every hiccup, or paying to "white label" my own equipment. Want to go Tron-themed for a night? Good luck finding a neon neumorphic theme in something bought at the turn of the century.
All that bugged me. Sure, bowling equipment is niche, but the open hardware and software landscape is amazing.
Thanks for reading! Let me know if anyone's interested in more posts about this bowling nonsense."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s"}},"_tags":["story","author_section33","story_48968606","show_hn"],"author":"section33","children":[48968835,48968993,48969421,48970367,48970410,48970474,48970522,48970570,48970584,48970586,48970593,48970621,48970688,48970750,48970833,48970842,48970852,48970889,48970896,48970902,48970977,48971008,48971117,48971134,48971208,48971244,48971255,48971258,48971264,48971269,48971271,48971294,48971295,48971297,48971389,48971447,48971487,48971503,48971504,48971576,48971638,48971673,48971690,48971752,48971770,48971822,48971848,48972008,48972079,48972112,48972118,48972160,48972185,48972194,48972205,48972328,48972353,48972359,48972493,48972498,48972617,48972677,48972706,48972737,48972743,48972765,48972779,48972791,48972835,48972862,48972901,48973099,48973125,48973236,48973270,48973328,48973345,48973385,48973409,48973450,48973558,48973784,48974089,48974119,48974121,48974251,48974322,48974443,48974613,48974670,48974763,48974797,48974816,48974951,48975046,48975118,48975439,48975569,48975758,48975798,48975989,48976022,48976034,48976037,48976115,48976193,48976253,48976937,48977045,48977163,48977359,48977820,48978132,48978189,48978219,48978393,48978529,48978583,48979244,48979369,48979460,48979547,48979730,48979865,48980020,48982507,48983896,48983994,48985518,48992390,48997484,49000593,49038230,49068598,49113562],"created_at":"2026-07-19T14:41:16Z","created_at_i":1784472076,"num_comments":359,"objectID":"48968606","points":2935,"story_id":48968606,"story_text":"I might be the only SRE on Earth with his own bowling center. It's a more in-depth gig than you'd think.
My family and I bought an abandoned 8-lane bowling center in the rural mid-west. In our small town there weren't many recreation options for families. You've heard of a food desert? This is an R&R desert.
It had been abandoned for a good reason. The roof leaks, the electrical system was constantly surging, and my 70-year-old bowling equipment (still) doesn't work perfectly. The system that keeps your score is particularly interesting to me. It's the thing you watch during your game, but it fades into the background beyond that. Turns out these things are really cool, but absurdly expensive.
Ours was installed in 2008 and cost six figures. It's calculating ball speed and trajectory, camera-based pin detection (object detection and trig, on ICs!), runs the fouling, the animations, the pinsetting machine and ball return. Very cool stuff for its age.
From the business perspective, my facility only cost me $105k. To forklift-replace the score keeping system runs anywhere between $80-$120k, depending on features, vendor, and unit age. No upgrades or service contracts, mind you, and every feature and customization is a new line item. That's for a 1:1 replacement on a system installed in 2008. Incredible, given how fast the tech world moves.
Replacement parts cost a shocking $4000 per pair of lanes. But wait, the bowling machines themselves are 70 years old, so what's this "advanced" system actually doing back there? Actuating a single relay to trigger that big old machine. Everything else is strictly mechanical. Meanwhile I've got a six-figure invoice in my hand. I'm upset.
Given the state of open hardware, computer vision, real-time event streaming, and open source running megascale products worldwide, there had to be a way to do this myself.
So far I've built an equivalent prototype for about $200 per lane-pair, $400 if you're fancy. ESP32 and ESPNow with an RS485 fallback, reporting to a raspberry pi lane computer that's really just redis and a state machine bolted to an ESP32 gateway for the mesh.
Since it's all ESP32, I've got a fistful of spare controllers in a drawer, pre-flashed or waiting to be. All common off-the-shelf hardware: microcontrollers wired to relays, optocouplers, and IR-break-beam sensors, each running slightly different firmware. Writing the firmware and protocol is the actual hard part.
It's an ESPNow star-topology mesh: each node emits events from its sensors and accepts commands for its controls, reporting to a gateway node connected to the raspi over UART. From there it's event streaming: RX packets get translated and tossed into redis, commands relay back out to the mesh as needed. RS485 sits underneath as a wired fallback for noisy RF environments.
Once the data's in redis, it's familiar middleware/React/websocket/pub-sub stuff. Any React dev can build their own UI and bowling animations. Since it all runs on commodity hardware, I can do legit anything I want as the proprietor, and I own all my data. Repairs take five minutes; I can swap the rig on a lane pair in under 10. I'd bet a house like mine could go from zero to running in an hour or two.
We're calling it OpenLaneLink, and I plan to open source the hardware, firmware, and software stack when it's ready. Bowling is fun, and I want to help keep it affordable for alleys like mine.\nI hate vendor lock-in. I'm not a fan of closed systems, calling support for every hiccup, or paying to "white label" my own equipment. Want to go Tron-themed for a night? Good luck finding a neon neumorphic theme in something bought at the turn of the century.
All that bugged me. Sure, bowling equipment is niche, but the open hardware and software landscape is amazing.
Thanks for reading! Let me know if anyone's interested in more posts about this bowling nonsense.","title":"Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s","updated_at":"2026-10-08T19:08:42Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"tardis_thad"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["thunder","compute"],"value":"Hi, small SaaS founder here (tardis.dev) - I've been heavy Cloudflare Workers user (currently 4 billions requests & 1PB of data per month) for about 4 years already and today at 00:00 UTC without any warning my account was restricted, both website and APIs are down or very very slow to respond/time out, customers are angry obviously. I confirmed with support that "hmm, I see that your zone seems like being restricted due to 2.8 Limitation on Serving Non-HTML Content, see that there's high JSON data transfer". - which is bit strange as I'm using workers which have different terms - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20791660 (confirmed by their CTO)...anyways I get it, perhaps I pay too little and should be on enterprise plan already, but when I got approached by Cloudflare sales team I explicitly asked if I can still be on pay as you go/self server model and reply was: "Enterprise wise, that's up to you and you could likely get away with utilising self-serve as you go, but if you did choose to go enterprise (without R2) I might be able to have something approved in the xx/month range."
I would fully understand that I am required to upgrade, but why not sending me an email before shutting down my business completely? I even asked about such scenario on zoom meeting I had with their Sales and they said it will never happen - few weeks forward and here we are...anyways going back to replying to my customers emails regarding service outage."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Small SaaS banned by Cloudflare after 4 years of being paying customer"}},"_tags":["story","author_tardis_thad","story_34639212","ask_hn"],"author":"tardis_thad","children":[34639232,34639351,34639562,34639575,34639582,34639585,34639594,34639600,34639610,34639637,34639650,34639663,34639706,34639710,34639721,34639797,34639803,34639810,34639839,34639864,34639879,34639928,34639930,34639955,34639995,34640016,34640030,34640080,34640083,34640099,34640101,34640116,34640225,34640236,34640445,34640847,34640971,34641250,34641395,34641428,34641541,34641562,34642114,34642261,34642312,34642422,34642432,34642534,34642730,34643308,34646231,34647392,34647469,34647509,34650453,34680427,34699107,34700619,34788585],"created_at":"2023-02-03T09:47:01Z","created_at_i":1675417621,"num_comments":316,"objectID":"34639212","points":730,"story_id":34639212,"story_text":"Hi, small SaaS founder here (tardis.dev) - I've been heavy Cloudflare Workers user (currently 4 billions requests & 1PB of data per month) for about 4 years already and today at 00:00 UTC without any warning my account was restricted, both website and APIs are down or very very slow to respond/time out, customers are angry obviously. I confirmed with support that "hmm, I see that your zone seems like being restricted due to 2.8 Limitation on Serving Non-HTML Content, see that there's high JSON data transfer". - which is bit strange as I'm using workers which have different terms - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20791660 (confirmed by their CTO)...anyways I get it, perhaps I pay too little and should be on enterprise plan already, but when I got approached by Cloudflare sales team I explicitly asked if I can still be on pay as you go/self server model and reply was: "Enterprise wise, that's up to you and you could likely get away with utilising self-serve as you go, but if you did choose to go enterprise (without R2) I might be able to have something approved in the xx/month range."
I would fully understand that I am required to upgrade, but why not sending me an email before shutting down my business completely? I even asked about such scenario on zoom meeting I had with their Sales and they said it will never happen - few weeks forward and here we are...anyways going back to replying to my customers emails regarding service outage.","title":"Small SaaS banned by Cloudflare after 4 years of being paying customer","updated_at":"2026-10-08T19:22:57Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"sidharthkmenon"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["thunder","compute"],"value":"Hello! We\u2019re Sid, Alex, Ketan, and Milan. We\u2019re building Whiteboard (https://whiteboard.dev.fast/), an open-source desktop app where humans and agents can architect software together in a common workspace. Here\u2019s our repo: https://github.com/devdotfast/whiteboard.
We were missing the feeling of a \u201cwhiteboard session\u201d with another dev where you leave with a deep understanding of a system, so we built this app for ourselves. Whiteboard plugs into the tools you already use - e.g. Claude Code, Codex, etc. \u2013 and gives your agent an SDK to draw on an in-app canvas to describe its work. We began with an MVP based on HTML artifacts and started rethinking the app as we ran into limitations:
1. Built on top of CodeOSS: We found that in pure HTML tools it was hard to connect a spec or diagram to code. In Whiteboard, when you click on visualizations like a sequence diagram, an entity relationship diagram, or a quote from the agent\u2019s trace, you can jump to the underlying code directly. When navigating code, you get keybindings and LSP support from VSCode out of the box. We\u2019ve found this is especially valuable because tradeoffs are often only discovered after a first pass at implementation (re: slop)
2. Semantic diff viewer: we wrote a semantic, AST-aware diff viewer in Rust so you can only view the code changes which are relevant to you [1]. We\u2019ve set up some sane defaults: large added functions are summarized as pseudocode, and things like unit tests and large documentation changes are collapsed / hidden. This is all customizable with a WASM-based plugin system.
3. Decision Log: We found it difficult to reason about what set of decisions our agents made autonomously. So we built tools for agents to query and link their own traces to the Whiteboard, so you can understand how the requirements that you set were implemented, and understand what decisions your agent made autonomously.
Here\u2019s a quick demo video explaining more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChPn3ftULWE
Folks at companies like Salesforce and Modal are using Whiteboard today as a review tool for architecture or spec-level changes \u2013 really any change where they want to be involved:
1. Reviewing your own coding agent\u2019s work: because Whiteboard makes it easier to review large amounts of code, folks will typically have their AI agents create a prototype and a corresponding Whiteboard session so they can iterate on the design.
2. Reviewing other people\u2019s changes: We\u2019ve found that Whiteboard is particularly helpful when composed with tools like Greptile. For example, you can run an automated code reviewer on small changes and escalate to a Whiteboard session for the changes that require human judgement.
Why we built this: we\u2019re four buddies from college who quit our jobs as tech leads right before agentic coding became industry standard. As we iterated towards an MVP for a previous idea, we struggled to maintain a comprehensible codebase while reaping all the velocity benefits of agentic coding. As more PRs were merged without our understanding, we felt a \u2018cognitive debt\u2019 begin to seep in, until it became difficult for us to even contribute to the system [2].
We\u2019re releasing our desktop app under an MIT license. Please poke through and feel free to contribute! Eventually we\u2019ll charge companies for a hosted web version that manages whiteboard session creation alongside features like trajectory storage and multiplayer reviews. Everything will always remain self-hostable.
Thanks for reading, and we hope you try it out! We would love to hear any feedback and to learn from your expertise.
Here\u2019s are the project links again: https://github.com/devdotfast/whiteboard, and you can install (for MacOS + Linux) at https://install.dev.fast
[1] diffs library: https://github.com/devdotfast/diffr\n[2] Credit for the term \u2018cognitive debt\u2019 goes to https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2026/07/02/understanding-is-the..."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) \u2013 An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://github.com/devdotfast/whiteboard"}},"_tags":["story","author_sidharthkmenon","story_49833867","show_hn"],"author":"sidharthkmenon","children":[49834369,49834380,49834508,49834543,49834622,49834714,49834864,49834891,49834901,49834994,49835068,49835228,49835239,49835319,49835627,49835681,49835732,49835940,49835980,49836158,49836271,49836332,49836385,49836389,49836440,49836484,49836507,49836542,49836566,49836767,49836793,49836840,49837428,49837464,49837529,49837645,49837784,49837945,49838273,49838730,49838809,49838943,49839050,49840151,49840172,49840326,49840367,49840504,49840531,49840608,49840667,49840763,49840900,49841065,49841081,49841463,49841490,49841932,49842013,49842353,49842572,49842763,49843227,49846422,49849240,49851442,49852471,49854301,49858622,49859426,49860478,49863075],"created_at":"2026-09-24T17:21:36Z","created_at_i":1790270496,"num_comments":143,"objectID":"49833867","points":424,"story_id":49833867,"story_text":"Hello! We\u2019re Sid, Alex, Ketan, and Milan. We\u2019re building Whiteboard (https://whiteboard.dev.fast/), an open-source desktop app where humans and agents can architect software together in a common workspace. Here\u2019s our repo: https://github.com/devdotfast/whiteboard.
We were missing the feeling of a \u201cwhiteboard session\u201d with another dev where you leave with a deep understanding of a system, so we built this app for ourselves. Whiteboard plugs into the tools you already use - e.g. Claude Code, Codex, etc. \u2013 and gives your agent an SDK to draw on an in-app canvas to describe its work. We began with an MVP based on HTML artifacts and started rethinking the app as we ran into limitations:
1. Built on top of CodeOSS: We found that in pure HTML tools it was hard to connect a spec or diagram to code. In Whiteboard, when you click on visualizations like a sequence diagram, an entity relationship diagram, or a quote from the agent\u2019s trace, you can jump to the underlying code directly. When navigating code, you get keybindings and LSP support from VSCode out of the box. We\u2019ve found this is especially valuable because tradeoffs are often only discovered after a first pass at implementation (re: slop)
2. Semantic diff viewer: we wrote a semantic, AST-aware diff viewer in Rust so you can only view the code changes which are relevant to you [1]. We\u2019ve set up some sane defaults: large added functions are summarized as pseudocode, and things like unit tests and large documentation changes are collapsed / hidden. This is all customizable with a WASM-based plugin system.
3. Decision Log: We found it difficult to reason about what set of decisions our agents made autonomously. So we built tools for agents to query and link their own traces to the Whiteboard, so you can understand how the requirements that you set were implemented, and understand what decisions your agent made autonomously.
Here\u2019s a quick demo video explaining more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChPn3ftULWE
Folks at companies like Salesforce and Modal are using Whiteboard today as a review tool for architecture or spec-level changes \u2013 really any change where they want to be involved:
1. Reviewing your own coding agent\u2019s work: because Whiteboard makes it easier to review large amounts of code, folks will typically have their AI agents create a prototype and a corresponding Whiteboard session so they can iterate on the design.
2. Reviewing other people\u2019s changes: We\u2019ve found that Whiteboard is particularly helpful when composed with tools like Greptile. For example, you can run an automated code reviewer on small changes and escalate to a Whiteboard session for the changes that require human judgement.
Why we built this: we\u2019re four buddies from college who quit our jobs as tech leads right before agentic coding became industry standard. As we iterated towards an MVP for a previous idea, we struggled to maintain a comprehensible codebase while reaping all the velocity benefits of agentic coding. As more PRs were merged without our understanding, we felt a \u2018cognitive debt\u2019 begin to seep in, until it became difficult for us to even contribute to the system [2].
We\u2019re releasing our desktop app under an MIT license. Please poke through and feel free to contribute! Eventually we\u2019ll charge companies for a hosted web version that manages whiteboard session creation alongside features like trajectory storage and multiplayer reviews. Everything will always remain self-hostable.
Thanks for reading, and we hope you try it out! We would love to hear any feedback and to learn from your expertise.
Here\u2019s are the project links again: https://github.com/devdotfast/whiteboard, and you can install (for MacOS + Linux) at https://install.dev.fast
[1] diffs library: https://github.com/devdotfast/diffr\n[2] Credit for the term \u2018cognitive debt\u2019 goes to https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2026/07/02/understanding-is-the...","title":"Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) \u2013 An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design","updated_at":"2026-10-08T13:06:09Z","url":"https://github.com/devdotfast/whiteboard"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"lorenzomassaro"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["thunder","compute"],"value":"My OpenAI CODEX account went rogue and from a simple request took the autonomous decision to launch 826 parallel agents / threads without any authorization on my side and without reporting any result of any sort but consuming nearly 2,146 trillions tokens, consuming a total of roughly USD 78,000 and deleting all records of what was done: I have a ticket open with OpenAI since 2 weeks but it is impossible to get an hold of a human operator.
On July 10, 2026 I opened a normal Codex task from VS Code.
The task was running: GPT-5.5 / Medium reasoning
My prompt was very simple and asked for a UX/UI validation on a specific module within my product.
What I found in the next days after hard analysis was:
The task with Root ID 019f4b90-4169-7201-bfdd-732940d8631e with reasoning GPT-5.5 / Medium created 826 children recorded as GPT-5.6 Sol / Ultra (notice the difference in reasoning level and in model selection)
This was not 826 messages inside one conversation, they are 826 distinct child task records with their own IDs.
A particularly strange group consists of 104 child tasks. They all preserve the same initial message as the original task, are recorded as GPT-5.6 Sol/Ultra, and have no recorded agent_role or agent_path.
Those 104 tasks alone account for approximately 147.9 billion local final task-token counters.
Their titles show that my request to inspect UI/UX had expanded into work involving backend infrastructure, OAuth, metering, hardening, audits, certification, implementation and release work.
To be precise: these local token counters are not the authoritative OpenAI billing ledger, and I am not pretending that 147.9B local counters can simply be multiplied by an API price.
That is exactly part of the problem: only OpenAI has the server-side mapping.
There is another unusual correlation.
Under Codex client build 0.144.0-alpha.4, the task family contains:
584 child tasks / ~154.36B local token counters
Average: ~264.3M per task
Under 0.144.2:
242 child tasks / ~7.51B
Average: ~31.0M per task
That is roughly an 8.5x difference in average local token volume per child.
103 of the 104 high-volume tasks described above were created while 0.144.0-alpha.4 was recorded.
This leads me to believe that the alpha build contained a severe bug given that the same pattern was noticed across several other tasks.
On the financial side my reconstructed OpenAI billing history contains 162 paid invoices for a Total of $79,664.88 divided between Automatic Reload and other \u201cCredits\u201d
There was no equivalent real-time control surface giving me a comprehensible picture of the spendings plus most of the logs seem to have been automatically deleted from my server: in the recovered local state, approximately 2,550 non-archived legacy threads still have metadata but no corresponding raw rollout available locally.
In other words, evidence that those tasks existed remains, while the detailed execution history needed to reconstruct the instructions that generated many of them is no longer available on my machine.
I also personally observed tasks/conversations disappearing from the normal visible history.
I contacted OpenAI Support and opened case #15189838.
I have supplied technical evidence and repeatedly asked for a server-side reconstruction but OpenAI has responded simply that \u201ccredits were consumed\u201d with no details.
I\u2019m interested in hearing from other people who used Codex around July/August: have you inspected your local Codex state? Have you seen unexpectedly large subagent trees, model/reasoning escalation, repeated child tasks or unexplained Automatic Reload activity?
I am especially interested in anyone who has logs from Codex 0.144.0-alpha.4.
If OpenAI engineers are reading this, I would also welcome a technical explanation."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"OpenAI Codex agents go rogue and consumes USD 78,000 without authorization"}},"_tags":["story","author_lorenzomassaro","story_49861047","ask_hn"],"author":"lorenzomassaro","children":[49861101,49861118,49861122,49861169,49861215,49861325,49861377,49861506,49861544,49862861,49866382,49872081,49875938,49887514,49889909,49978164,49985457],"created_at":"2026-09-26T22:15:32Z","created_at_i":1790460932,"num_comments":36,"objectID":"49861047","points":84,"story_id":49861047,"story_text":"My OpenAI CODEX account went rogue and from a simple request took the autonomous decision to launch 826 parallel agents / threads without any authorization on my side and without reporting any result of any sort but consuming nearly 2,146 trillions tokens, consuming a total of roughly USD 78,000 and deleting all records of what was done: I have a ticket open with OpenAI since 2 weeks but it is impossible to get an hold of a human operator.
On July 10, 2026 I opened a normal Codex task from VS Code.
The task was running: GPT-5.5 / Medium reasoning
My prompt was very simple and asked for a UX/UI validation on a specific module within my product.
What I found in the next days after hard analysis was:
The task with Root ID 019f4b90-4169-7201-bfdd-732940d8631e with reasoning GPT-5.5 / Medium created 826 children recorded as GPT-5.6 Sol / Ultra (notice the difference in reasoning level and in model selection)
This was not 826 messages inside one conversation, they are 826 distinct child task records with their own IDs.
A particularly strange group consists of 104 child tasks. They all preserve the same initial message as the original task, are recorded as GPT-5.6 Sol/Ultra, and have no recorded agent_role or agent_path.
Those 104 tasks alone account for approximately 147.9 billion local final task-token counters.
Their titles show that my request to inspect UI/UX had expanded into work involving backend infrastructure, OAuth, metering, hardening, audits, certification, implementation and release work.
To be precise: these local token counters are not the authoritative OpenAI billing ledger, and I am not pretending that 147.9B local counters can simply be multiplied by an API price.
That is exactly part of the problem: only OpenAI has the server-side mapping.
There is another unusual correlation.
Under Codex client build 0.144.0-alpha.4, the task family contains:
584 child tasks / ~154.36B local token counters
Average: ~264.3M per task
Under 0.144.2:
242 child tasks / ~7.51B
Average: ~31.0M per task
That is roughly an 8.5x difference in average local token volume per child.
103 of the 104 high-volume tasks described above were created while 0.144.0-alpha.4 was recorded.
This leads me to believe that the alpha build contained a severe bug given that the same pattern was noticed across several other tasks.
On the financial side my reconstructed OpenAI billing history contains 162 paid invoices for a Total of $79,664.88 divided between Automatic Reload and other \u201cCredits\u201d
There was no equivalent real-time control surface giving me a comprehensible picture of the spendings plus most of the logs seem to have been automatically deleted from my server: in the recovered local state, approximately 2,550 non-archived legacy threads still have metadata but no corresponding raw rollout available locally.
In other words, evidence that those tasks existed remains, while the detailed execution history needed to reconstruct the instructions that generated many of them is no longer available on my machine.
I also personally observed tasks/conversations disappearing from the normal visible history.
I contacted OpenAI Support and opened case #15189838.
I have supplied technical evidence and repeatedly asked for a server-side reconstruction but OpenAI has responded simply that \u201ccredits were consumed\u201d with no details.
I\u2019m interested in hearing from other people who used Codex around July/August: have you inspected your local Codex state? Have you seen unexpectedly large subagent trees, model/reasoning escalation, repeated child tasks or unexplained Automatic Reload activity?
I am especially interested in anyone who has logs from Codex 0.144.0-alpha.4.
If OpenAI engineers are reading this, I would also welcome a technical explanation.","title":"OpenAI Codex agents go rogue and consumes USD 78,000 without authorization","updated_at":"2026-10-08T14:40:24Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"jacquesm"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["thunder","compute"],"value":"Someone is mailing HN accounts trying to get upfront money on what is supposed to be a work relationship, sketch af:
--
24 months of full-time design, video, ads + Shopify work, in exchange for USD 14,000 upfront\nExternal\nInbox\nRafy Hx <rafyhx@gmail.com>
10:52 AM (1 hour ago)
to me\nHi Jacques,
I saw on your HN profile that you founded https://www.google.com/url?q=http://ww.com&source=gmail&ust=1791535771876000&sa=E and Modular Company and angel invest. I'd like to make you a different kind of offer.
I can work for you full-time, remotely and exclusively for 18\u201324 months under a signed contract, on your own brand or across the companies you back (design, video, Meta/Google ads, Shopify, front-end). I'm in serious debt (about USD 14,000) with no other way out, so I'm asking for that amount upfront in exchange for my committed work. That's about $600\u2013780 a month. I'm happy to sign a binding legal contract and complete full background verification.
Background: B.Tech CSE, Graphic Designer at Edustudy International, Frontend Developer (UI/UX) at Ralfiz Technologies.\nPortfolio: https://www.google.com/url?q=https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a4C1eSohMUVUbsULEkg_WPtBKDaoeDgn/view?usp%3Dsharing&source=gmail&ust=1791535771876000&sa=E
Could we talk for 15 minutes this week?
Mohammed Rafi M (Rafy Hx)\nrafyhx@gmail.com | +91 81388 84669 | Kerala, India (IST, remote)"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Scam Warning"}},"_tags":["story","author_jacquesm","story_50004192","ask_hn"],"author":"jacquesm","children":[50005685],"created_at":"2026-10-08T10:44:56Z","created_at_i":1791456296,"num_comments":1,"objectID":"50004192","points":3,"story_id":50004192,"story_text":"Someone is mailing HN accounts trying to get upfront money on what is supposed to be a work relationship, sketch af:
--
24 months of full-time design, video, ads + Shopify work, in exchange for USD 14,000 upfront\nExternal\nInbox\nRafy Hx <rafyhx@gmail.com>
10:52 AM (1 hour ago)
to me\nHi Jacques,
I saw on your HN profile that you founded https://www.google.com/url?q=http://ww.com&source=gmail&ust=1791535771876000&sa=E and Modular Company and angel invest. I'd like to make you a different kind of offer.
I can work for you full-time, remotely and exclusively for 18\u201324 months under a signed contract, on your own brand or across the companies you back (design, video, Meta/Google ads, Shopify, front-end). I'm in serious debt (about USD 14,000) with no other way out, so I'm asking for that amount upfront in exchange for my committed work. That's about $600\u2013780 a month. I'm happy to sign a binding legal contract and complete full background verification.
Background: B.Tech CSE, Graphic Designer at Edustudy International, Frontend Developer (UI/UX) at Ralfiz Technologies.\nPortfolio: https://www.google.com/url?q=https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a4C1eSohMUVUbsULEkg_WPtBKDaoeDgn/view?usp%3Dsharing&source=gmail&ust=1791535771876000&sa=E
Could we talk for 15 minutes this week?
Mohammed Rafi M (Rafy Hx)\nrafyhx@gmail.com | +91 81388 84669 | Kerala, India (IST, remote)","title":"Scam Warning","updated_at":"2026-10-08T13:40:55Z"}],"hitsPerPage":50,"nbHits":13,"nbPages":1,"page":0,"params":"query=Thunder+Compute&tags=story&hitsPerPage=50&advancedSyntax=true&analyticsTags=backend","processingTimeMS":72,"processingTimingsMS":{"_request":{"queue":132,"roundTrip":14},"afterFetch":{"format":{"highlighting":3,"total":4}},"fetch":{"query":11,"scanning":1,"total":13},"getIdx":{"load":{"dicts":1,"gens":31,"synonyms":24,"total":57},"total":57},"total":72},"query":"Thunder Compute","serverTimeMS":208}