Don't be a meat proxy

You're frustrated with relying on AI output in conversations and code reviews, feeling it lacks value and understanding. The effort of reading, validating, and writing a response in your own words is what adds value.

Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork

Qwen Studio offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.

Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code

The user uses coding assistants to fast-forward through boring parts of projects, but manually types generated code to understand and adapt it, valuing comprehension over productivity. This workflow helps them build a mental model of their codebase and detect potential issues, allowing them to work faster and more efficiently.

Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library

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Bonsai is a UI library for building performant, reactive web applications in OCaml, inspired by Elm. It allows for composable state machines and incremental rendering, making it easy to manage state and UI updates.

Less Coffee, Better Sleep

Reducing coffee intake to one cup a day improved sleep, mood, and energy by allowing the body to reset its caffeine levels. Without excessive caffeine, the user now sleeps well, feels refreshed, and experiences a stable mood.

What DMARC Protects You From, and What It Does Not

DMARC is a protocol that checks if an email's visible From address matches the domain that authorized the message. It evaluates SPF and DKIM results to determine if the message is genuine.

Rust project goals: Immobile types and guaranteed destructors

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Rust proposes introducing new traits like Move and Forget to make explicit what operations are possible on a type, allowing types to opt out of being moved or forgotten. This change aims to simplify immovable types and enable safe scoped spawn for async, while eventually deprecating the Pin trait.

Octane – React's programming model, compiled

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Octane is a performance-first framework that compiles ahead of time, eliminating virtual DOM and dependency arrays. It allows for seamless migration from React, keeping components as plain functions with hooks and context.

Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF

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San Francisco as one giant isometric pixel painting — the city's real 3D geometry redrawn tile by tile by a fine-tuned image model.

The AI Productivity Gap

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AI has improved engineering team productivity but not as dramatically as expected. Senior developers spend most of their time figuring out what code to write, and AI hasn't yet made this part easier, limiting productivity gains.

PISIGuard: Protect your personal and sensitive info when you chat with AI

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I built PISIGuard because I've been horrified at how much personal & sensitive information people (including myself) are feeding AI on daily basis. It is cumbersome to censor information by hand, so obviously very few do that at varying degrees of consistency. I wanted something practical that will hide personal & sensitive data, and of course without routing them through yet ...

The true power of regular expressions (2012)

As someone who frequents the PHP tag on StackOverflow I pretty often see questions about how to parse some particular aspect of HTML using regular expressions. A common reply to such a question is: You cannot parse HTML with regular expressions, because HTML isn’t regular. Use an XML parser instead. This statement - in the context of the question - is somewhere between very misleading and ...

Show HN: ssh ssh.place

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The canvas is wider than your terminal, so scroll to pan around. shift+←/→ jumps a whole screen. This canvas is color only. The server turns down anything with a character in it, so you cannot write text here. Draw something instead. Your cooldown is tied to your SSH key, so reconnecting will not reset it. This page only reads the canvas. It changes over SSH and nowhere else.

Why we write our own C and C++ inference engines

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LocalAI's C++ ports of certain models offer significant footprint savings and comparable performance to their Python counterparts. These ports, such as vllm.cpp and depth-anything.cpp, achieve parity with the original models in terms of output and throughput.

MPs demand answers on Fujitsu's inclusion in lucrative frameworks

The website is using Cloudflare security and blocked my action, possibly due to a trigger like a certain word or SQL command. I was trying to perform an action when this page came up, and the Cloudflare Ray ID is needed to report the issue to the site owner.

CP/M-386 – CP/M for 386 protected mode, derived from CP/M‑68K

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CP/M-386 BDOS is compatible with CP/M-68K 1.3 and CP/M 2.2, with added extensions for direct video access and high-resolution timing. It can be built on NetBSD, FreeBSD, and most recent Linux distributions, including CentOS, Fedora, and Ubuntu.

The Shape of Things to Come

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The author explains how to build a software factory using Claude, Beads, and coding agents, and shares their experience with Wheelhouse, a harness for their game Wyvern, which has allowed them to automate tasks and create a city of agents. The author also makes predictions about the future of software development, including the death of CI/CD and the rise of model welfare, and shares their ...

Show HN: A Handwritten Blogging Platform

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Autoregressive Language Model on the 6502 Processor

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The user trained a tiny Mamba-based autoregressive language model and ran it on a BBC Micro from the 80s using a custom inference engine, generating text with a vocabulary of 26 letters and a space character. The project demonstrated the importance of mechanical sympathy in designing ML models, considering hardware constraints, and showed that a Mamba-based model can run inference on 8-bit ...

Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM

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Kakehashi is a tool that runs Darwin CLI tools natively on Linux aarch64 by translating BSD syscalls and mapping a freestanding libSystem. It aims to provide a cost-effective alternative to running Darwin tools on macOS, with a focus on correctness and performance, and is suitable for use in CI environments.

Why Book Corners won't sync contributions back to OpenStreetMap

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Book Corners initially planned to contribute user-submitted libraries back to OpenStreetMap, but discovered that the process would require significant documentation, licensing, and operational responsibilities. Due to these costs, Book Corners has decided to suspend the contribution process, prioritizing its core purpose of helping people discover and share little free libraries.

How do you rewrite C/C++ projects to Rust?

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Teams should consider Rust for existing C or C++ systems where maintainability is expensive, such as performance-sensitive codebases or security-critical components. An incremental migration, starting with isolated modules, is often the safer path to build confidence and reduce risk.

Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management

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The user read an article by Brennan Kenneth Brown about Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) and found it to be misleading. The user argues that Brennan's article fails to critically examine the effectiveness of PKM systems and tools like Obsidian.

Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust

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Developers are struggling to trust AI tools due to their unpredictability and lack of transparency, which can lead to broken processes and decreased productivity. To build trust, teams need to establish a more deliberate and explicitly-defined workflow that preserves human judgment and provides the right context for AI agents.

Convergence is not enough

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Getting into trouble with data representations in Automerge.

SwiftUI After 7 Years

Situational Awareness and the Impending Stock Market Volatility

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Situational Awareness's asset price fluctuations are a result of market forces driving AI-related stocks up and down due to over-leveraging and over-concentration. This volatility is expected to continue as AI assets appreciate in value, driven by reflexivity, leverage, and fear of wealth loss.

Show HN: We Fixed UniFi's Slow PPPoE Performance with PPPoE Half-Bridge

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At ArcBox Labs, our office has a 5 Gbps PPPoE connection behind a UniFi gateway, and we could never get anywhere close to that speed, and our UDM Pro Max is beginning to struggle and even affecting operation stability: The overwhelming majority of UniFi gateways, from the UDM Pro/SE/Pro Max and UXG Pro to the EFG, ship with CPUs that support neither PPPoE nor NAT hardware acceleration. As a ...

Read the novels and forget everything else

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Patrick O'Brian, a renowned author, was exposed as a liar who fabricated his biography, including his Irish childhood and naval experience. Despite this revelation, his Aubrey-Maturin novels continue to be widely read and admired for their historical accuracy, witty dialogue, and vivid descriptions of 19th-century life.

Show HN: I created a project management system

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is.team is an AI-native project management platform launched in 2026 where built-in AI and external agents work alongside humans on the same board. It replaces complex tools like Jira, Asana, and Linear with a single infinite canvas workspace. Built-in AI features include a card assistant for conversational task management, a workflow planner that generates entire boards from a prompt, AI ...