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Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class

2025-12-13 @ 23:25:05Points: 24Comments: 55

Linux Sandboxes and Fil-C

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Flat-pack washing machine spins a fairer future

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Recovering Anthony Bourdain's (really) lost Li.st's

2025-12-13 @ 21:18:01Points: 85Comments: 27

Purdue University Approves New AI Requirement for All Undergrads

2025-12-13 @ 20:54:32Points: 46Comments: 37

Want to sway an election? Here’s how much fake online accounts cost

2025-12-13 @ 20:48:09Points: 121Comments: 74

Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith

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I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model

2025-12-13 @ 20:19:53Points: 82Comments: 23

The Rise of Computer Games, Part I: Adventure

2025-12-13 @ 20:19:10Points: 39Comments: 6

VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits

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Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? [video]

2025-12-13 @ 18:39:53Points: 97Comments: 109

EasyPost (YC S13) Is Hiring

2025-12-13 @ 17:01:25Points: 1

I tried Gleam for Advent of Code

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Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?

2025-12-13 @ 15:37:16Points: 190Comments: 236

I've had a fairly steady process for doing this: look at each route defined in Django, build out my `+page.server.ts`, and then split each major section of the page into a Svelte component with a matching Storybook story. It takes a lot of time to do this, since I have to ensure I'm not just copying the template but rather recreating it in a more idiomatic style.

This kind of work seems like a great use case for AI assisted programming, but I've failed to use it effectively. At most, I can only get Claude Code to recreate some slightly less spaghetti code in Svelte. Simple prompting just isn't able to get AI's code quality within 90% of what I'd write by hand. Ideally, AI could get it's code to something I could review manually in 15-20 minutes, which would massively speed up the time spent on this project (right now it takes me 1-2 hours to properly translate a route).

Do you guys have tips or suggestions on how to improve my efficiency and code quality with AI?

A Giant Ball Will Help This Man Survive a Year on an Iceberg

2025-12-13 @ 15:25:33Points: 36Comments: 32

A Lisp Interpreter Implemented in Conway's Game of Life (2021)

2025-12-13 @ 03:06:53Points: 87Comments: 3

GNU Unifont

2025-12-12 @ 20:57:34Points: 323Comments: 73

What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?

2025-12-11 @ 19:28:40Points: 286Comments: 222

Useful patterns for building HTML tools

2025-12-10 @ 21:08:41Points: 231Comments: 70

Researchers seeking better measures of cognitive fatigue

2025-12-10 @ 19:13:49Points: 99Comments: 27

Cat Gap

2025-12-10 @ 04:09:04Points: 22Comments: 2

Go Proposal: Secret Mode

2025-12-09 @ 21:10:52Points: 153Comments: 65

Pig Video Arcades Critique Life in the Pen (1997)

2025-12-08 @ 21:27:20Points: 7Comments: 2

A 'toaster with a lens': The story behind the first handheld digital camera

2025-12-08 @ 13:04:17Points: 77Comments: 45

Using Python for Scripting

2025-12-08 @ 08:52:03Points: 84Comments: 69

From Azure Functions to FreeBSD

2025-12-08 @ 08:02:08Points: 62Comments: 4

TigerBeetle as a File Storage

2025-12-07 @ 18:51:20Points: 16Comments: 1

Java FFM zero-copy transport using io_uring

2025-12-07 @ 15:19:25Points: 95Comments: 43

Photographer built a medium-format rangefinder

2025-12-06 @ 22:29:29Points: 160Comments: 36

Cryptids

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