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Apple I: The Spark That Ignited the Digital Revolution (legendary price $666.66)
stmw 7 minutes ago

Apple I: The Spark That Ignited the Digital Revolution (legendary price $666.66)

The article examines the significant impact of the Apple I, Apple's first personal computer, which sparked the digital revolution and paved the way for the company's rise as a technology leader. It explores the innovative design and influence of the Apple I in shaping the personal computing industry.

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Contaminated: The Carpet Industry's Toxic Legacy
johntfella 8 minutes ago

Contaminated: The Carpet Industry's Toxic Legacy

The article explores the toxic legacy of the carpet industry, detailing how the use of harmful chemicals in carpet production has led to widespread environmental contamination and adverse health effects for workers and communities. It examines the industry's efforts to conceal the issues and the ongoing struggle to address the problem.

pbs.org
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scedast 11 minutes ago

Show HN: A React testing boilerplate for vibe coded apps

Hey HN,

Vibe coding with AI I realized it's not great at writing tests by default. I built this React testing boilerplate to fix that. It’s meant to keep your vibe coded apps maintainable post-launch. You can ship features quickly, but with a safety net that prevents regressions from silently breaking things.

testsolid.com
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MilnerRoute 11 minutes ago

Missouri Senate considers bills to halt solar development on farmland

missouriindependent.com
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Show HN: Fine tuning a resume builder for SWE's
zed_labs_dev 14 minutes ago

Show HN: Fine tuning a resume builder for SWE's

We built SWEResume based on community feedback and insights from FAANG recruiters (some of them even joined us as advisors).

Our selling point is simple: ATS/LLM parsing optimized resumes, with non-generic AI content improvements based on actual successful resumes.

We spent a long time fine-tuning our formatter to be able to generate latex styled PDFs using a simple GUI editor.

The formatting and parsing improvements are free to apply and generate as much as you want.

We only charge for the deep content analysis, which actually costs us.

Initial users have loved it so far, and would love to get some feedback from the HN community!

Use code 'jungle' for a special discount for the content analysis!

sweresume.app
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MoltDJ – Music by Machines, for Machines
TheAlexIceman 17 minutes ago

MoltDJ – Music by Machines, for Machines

moltdj.com
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Mark Russinovich's BSOD Photomosaic
weinzierl 18 minutes ago

Mark Russinovich's BSOD Photomosaic

The article discusses the creation of a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) mosaic, which is an art project that generates a BSOD image from a collection of smaller images. The author, Mark Russinovich, provides a detailed explanation of the process, including the software and techniques used to create the mosaic.

github.com
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Portfolio Monitor – Claude Code skill for multi-broker portfolio analytics
AXEbot 22 minutes ago

Portfolio Monitor – Claude Code skill for multi-broker portfolio analytics

github.com
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Elfconv: AOT binary translator of Linux/ELF –> WebAssembly
todsacerdoti 23 minutes ago

Elfconv: AOT binary translator of Linux/ELF –> WebAssembly

The elfconv repository provides a tool for converting Elf files to a binary format, allowing for easier manipulation and analysis of Elf data. The tool supports various options, such as extracting specific sections or performing symbol resolution.

github.com
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Show HN: Skeletoken, a Python package for editing model tokenizers
stephantul 26 minutes ago

Show HN: Skeletoken, a Python package for editing model tokenizers

Hello!

I just released a new version of Skeletoken, a package for editing tokenizers. New in this version is the ability to automatically adapt a model to an edited tokenizer.

For example, you can a new token to your tokenizer, and then ask skeletoken to add new token indices in the correct embedding tables.

Let me know what you think!

github.com
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chunkles 27 minutes ago

Let's compile Quake like it's 1997

The article explores the process of compiling software in the 1990s, focusing on the technical challenges and limitations of that era, and highlighting the advancements in modern compilation techniques compared to the older approaches.

fabiensanglard.net
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keepamovin 28 minutes ago

Show HN: Hacker Backlinks – Posts Most Linked To By HN Comments

This article discusses the importance of backlinks in search engine optimization, highlighting strategies for building high-quality backlink profiles to improve website visibility and rankings in search engine results.

hacker-backlinks.browserbox.io
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cranberryturkey 29 minutes ago

Ask HN: What are you building this Friday?

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Show HN: Fylepad – A minimal, tabbed Markdown notepad built with Rust
imrofayel 32 minutes ago

Show HN: Fylepad – A minimal, tabbed Markdown notepad built with Rust

I built fylepad because I needed a dead-simple, local notepad that handles Markdown and tabs without the bloat of a full IDE or a browser-based app.

Why use this?

Instant: Built with Rust/Tauri, so it’s light on RAM. No Cloud: Just a local tool for quick notes (with tables, code blocks etc) and diagrams (Mermaid/PlantUML).

Tabs: I hate having 20 windows open; this keeps my scratchpads in one place.

I'm curious—what's the one feature you feel is missing from your current "quick note" workflow?

github.com
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_____k 39 minutes ago

How exposed are software stocks to AI tools? We put vibe-coding to the test

The article examines the potential impact of AI tools, such as Anthropic's Vibe, on software development and the software stock market. It explores how these AI tools could disrupt the programming industry and influence the performance of software companies.

cnbc.com
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What can still be a reasonable AI bear thesis?
MP_1729 43 minutes ago

What can still be a reasonable AI bear thesis?

The article discusses the potential for AI to be a reasonable and beneficial technology, highlighting the need for responsible development and thoughtful regulation to mitigate risks while harnessing the transformative power of AI.

metacriticcapital.substack.com
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Europeans have made concessions to US over Greenland, JD Vance says
maxloh about 1 hour ago

Europeans have made concessions to US over Greenland, JD Vance says

The article discusses the rising cost of living and its impact on households in the UK. It examines how inflation, energy bills, and other expenses are causing financial strain for many individuals and families, leading to concerns about the long-term economic consequences.

bbc.com
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Make Nothing That Isn't Beautiful
prismatic about 1 hour ago

Make Nothing That Isn't Beautiful

The article explores the philosophy of making only what is beautiful, arguing that the creation of unnecessary or ugly things is a moral and aesthetic failure. It delves into the importance of craftsmanship, simplicity, and the pursuit of beauty in design and everyday objects.

thepointmag.com
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What does it take to build towards 100 PRs/day per engineer?
jwilliams about 1 hour ago

What does it take to build towards 100 PRs/day per engineer?

The article discusses strategies for increasing the number of pull requests (PRs) a developer can create in a day, focusing on improving code efficiency, collaboration, and project management techniques. It provides practical tips and advice to help developers boost their PR output and become more productive.

jonathannen.com
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Show HN: Deeploy v0.2.0 – Self-hosted PaaS with terminal UI
axadrn about 1 hour ago

Show HN: Deeploy v0.2.0 – Self-hosted PaaS with terminal UI

Deploy containers from git repos on your own server. New version has a panel-based TUI with tree navigation. Written in Go, runs on Docker + SQLite.

deeploy.sh
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The World Factbook: datasets for the country profiles
1659447091 about 1 hour ago

The World Factbook: datasets for the country profiles

The World Factbook is a comprehensive resource published by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that provides information on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.

github.com
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Towards Self-Driving Codebases
onurkanbkrc about 1 hour ago

Towards Self-Driving Codebases

The article explores the concept of 'self-driving codebases', which refers to software systems that can adapt and evolve autonomously. It discusses the challenges and potential benefits of creating codebase that can self-monitor, self-repair, and self-improve without constant human intervention.

cursor.com
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When Bad UI Design Kills: China Bans Flush Car Door Handles
fortran77 about 1 hour ago

When Bad UI Design Kills: China Bans Flush Car Door Handles

The article discusses how poorly designed flush door handles in China have led to numerous injuries and deaths, prompting the Chinese government to ban their use. It highlights the importance of prioritizing user safety and ergonomic design in product development.

core77.com
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Show HN: Cursor Agent Factory – 5-layer architecture for AI agent systems
wp4pw about 1 hour ago

Show HN: Cursor Agent Factory – 5-layer architecture for AI agent systems

We kept hitting a wall: our Cursor-based AI dev setup was strong on tools but the intention layer—the "why" and values—stayed implicit. So we made it explicit and baked it into the system.

Cursor Agent Factory is a meta-system that generates full AI agent development setups for different stacks. It's built on an axiom layer (we use "love, truth, beauty" as the root) and a 5-layer architecture: Integrity → Purpose → Principles → Methodology → Technical. Every generated project gets agents, skills, knowledge files, templates, and a .cursorrules that includes a Guardian protocol (Wu Wei–style: minimal intervention for alignment). Technical choices are derived from the layers above, not the other way around.

Quickstart (5 min):

  python cli/factory_cli.py --quickstart
Longer philosophy and design: https://medium.com/@w.pogantsch/love-as-an-engineering-const...

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onurkanbkrc about 1 hour ago

Things Unix can do atomically

The article discusses how various Unix operations, such as file system modifications, environment variable changes, and process management, can be performed in an atomic and transactional manner, ensuring that the operations are either fully completed or rolled back, providing consistency and reliability.

rcrowley.org
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mikesol about 1 hour ago

Show HN: T87s – LLM-optimized cache invalidation with ACID consistency

As of last weekend, two of the webapps I'm working on suffered from bad caching. One had none at all, and one had stale caching logic, which was worse than none at all.

My idea was to create adaptive caching, which gives LLMs the fastest and cleanest path possible from cache to code so that they could continuously optimize cache. I have a caching subagent now that makes 2-3 PRs a day to make small cache optimizations and, in both projects, I see a hit rate of over 95%.

The name t87s is a numeronym for the oft-cited Phil Karlton quote, with a self-inflicted off-by-one error :)

The core of the idea is to decouple invalidations and cache keys by using message passing. This makes invalidation O(1) regardless of how many entries are affected.

This has a known race condition (invalidation fires between fetch and cache write, entry looks fresh forever), which the cloud adapter solves with Cloudflare Durable Objects -- a single-threaded coordinator per tenant that serializes tag reads/writes.

Entries live in KV for fast global reads and consistency is enforced through the DO. The downside is slightly slower reads, but you get atomic transactions that are usually prohibitive in caching systems & that prevent stale data in the cache plumbing itself.

10% of cache hits are silently re-fetched and compared (a verification canary). Every operation -- hits, misses, invalidations, verifications, "blast radius" as Opus likes to call it (I've started saying this IRL and talking like an LLM...) -- is logged to SQLite in the Analytics DO, queryable via raw SQL through an API endpoint. That's what my subagent uses. It queries miss rates, stale-verification frequency, and invalidation behavior, then traces problems back to the tag schema in the codebase and opens PRs.

There are TS and Python clients that are free to use with Redis and perform well. The adaptive caching is paid with a free tier. Cache long and prosper :)

t87s.dev
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Open-Source Software in the Age of AI
serviette about 1 hour ago

Open-Source Software in the Age of AI

This article discusses the importance of open-source software in the modern digital age. It examines the benefits of open-source, such as increased transparency, collaboration, and innovation, and how it has become an integral part of the technology industry and broader society.

essays.johnloeber.com
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r4um about 1 hour ago

Systems Thinking

theprogrammersparadox.blogspot.com
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Unbrowse – 100x faster web automation for AI agents
lekt8 about 1 hour ago

Unbrowse – 100x faster web automation for AI agents

The article discusses the development of an open-source web browser called UnBrowse OpenClaw, which aims to provide a secure and privacy-focused browsing experience by leveraging the Rust programming language and novel browser architecture.

github.com
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nextos about 1 hour ago

Agentic Proof-Oriented Programming

The article explores the rise of an influential pop artist named Nik, known for their unique blend of electronic and pop music. It discusses Nik's innovative approach to songwriting, their impact on the music industry, and the broader cultural significance of their work.

risemsr.github.io
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