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https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/02/07/you-are-here.html
1•mltvc•4m ago•0 comments

Why social apps need to become proactive, not reactive

https://www.heyflare.app/blog/from-reactive-to-proactive-how-ai-agents-will-reshape-social-apps
1•JoanMDuarte•5m ago•0 comments

How patient are AI scrapers, anyway? – Random Thoughts

https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2026/02/07/how-patient-are-ai-scrapers-anyway/
1•samtrack2019•5m ago•0 comments

Vouch: A contributor trust management system

https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch
1•SchwKatze•5m ago•0 comments

I built a terminal monitoring app and custom firmware for a clock with Claude

https://duggan.ie/posts/i-built-a-terminal-monitoring-app-and-custom-firmware-for-a-desktop-clock...
1•duggan•6m ago•0 comments

Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/
1•guerrilla•7m ago•0 comments

Y Combinator Founder Organizes 'March for Billionaires'

https://mlq.ai/news/ai-startup-founder-organizes-march-for-billionaires-protest-against-californi...
1•hidden80•8m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Need feedback on the idea I'm working on

1•Yogender78•8m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw Addresses Security Risks

https://thebiggish.com/news/openclaw-s-security-flaws-expose-enterprise-risk-22-of-deployments-un...
1•vedantnair•9m ago•0 comments

Apple finalizes Gemini / Siri deal

https://www.engadget.com/ai/apple-reportedly-plans-to-reveal-its-gemini-powered-siri-in-february-...
1•vedantnair•9m ago•0 comments

Italy Railways Sabotaged

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr4rx04xjpo
2•vedantnair•10m ago•0 comments

Emacs-tramp-RPC: high-performance TRAMP back end using MsgPack-RPC

https://github.com/ArthurHeymans/emacs-tramp-rpc
1•fanf2•11m ago•0 comments

Nintendo Wii Themed Portfolio

https://akiraux.vercel.app/
1•s4074433•15m ago•1 comments

"There must be something like the opposite of suicide "

https://post.substack.com/p/there-must-be-something-like-the
1•rbanffy•18m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why doesn't Netflix add a “Theater Mode” that recreates the worst parts?

2•amichail•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Engineering Perception with Combinatorial Memetics

1•alan_sass•25m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Steam Daily – A Wordle-like daily puzzle game for Steam fans

https://steamdaily.xyz
1•itshellboy•27m ago•0 comments

The Anthropic Hive Mind

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropic-hive-mind-d01f768f3d7b
1•spenvo•27m ago•0 comments

Just Started Using AmpCode

https://intelligenttools.co/blog/ampcode-multi-agent-production
1•BojanTomic•28m ago•0 comments

LLM as an Engineer vs. a Founder?

1•dm03514•29m ago•0 comments

Crosstalk inside cells helps pathogens evade drugs, study finds

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-crosstalk-cells-pathogens-evade-drugs.html
2•PaulHoule•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Design system generator (mood to CSS in <1 second)

https://huesly.app
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Show HN: 26/02/26 – 5 songs in a day

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1•dmje•31m ago•0 comments

Toroidal Logit Bias – Reduce LLM hallucinations 40% with no fine-tuning

https://github.com/Paraxiom/topological-coherence
1•slye514•33m ago•1 comments

Top AI models fail at >96% of tasks

https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-failed-test-on-remote-freelance-jobs/
5•codexon•33m ago•2 comments

The Science of the Perfect Second (2023)

https://harpers.org/archive/2023/04/the-science-of-the-perfect-second/
1•NaOH•34m ago•0 comments

Bob Beck (OpenBSD) on why vi should stay vi (2006)

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=115820462402673&w=2
2•birdculture•38m ago•0 comments

Show HN: a glimpse into the future of eye tracking for multi-agent use

https://github.com/dchrty/glimpsh
1•dochrty•39m ago•0 comments

The Optima-l Situation: A deep dive into the classic humanist sans-serif

https://micahblachman.beehiiv.com/p/the-optima-l-situation
2•subdomain•39m ago•1 comments

Barn Owls Know When to Wait

https://blog.typeobject.com/posts/2026-barn-owls-know-when-to-wait/
1•fintler•39m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: How Do You Write?

4•helloworlddd•9mo ago
I realised it's faster for me to write quickly and then rewrite a corrected and refined version a second time than it is for me to take my time making corrections as I go. It made me wonder if other people have any tricks that help them write efficiently.

Comments

apothegm•9mo ago
Everyone’s brains work differently. I do best writing an outline and then fleshing it out. Some people just need to go straight through start to finish. Etc.

Most people do better with a draft pass plus an editing pass than just a single draft, though. Even if your first drafts tend to be fairly polished, an editing pass rarely hurts.

treetalker•9mo ago
In combination with your technique, I find that one or more nights of sleep between the drafts work wonders.

I also like dictating a first (or subsequent draft) into a digital voice recorder to spit ideas (or rephrasings) out; then having my computer transcribe the dictation; then automatically adjusting the text (with premade regex sequences and/or on-the-fly find and replace); then reorganizing the structure; etc. In this regard, my workflow is just a modern version of ancient rhetorical principles (the canons of rhetoric, etc.).

One of the best techniques I've found and implemented (and one of the best regexes to automatically apply to dictations) is to put every sentence on its own line in a plain text file, with blank lines between paragraphs. This makes reorganizing my thoughts / general editing much easier and faster (e.g., using keyboard shortcuts to move lines up and down in Sublime Text).

Also, for easily planning out and automatically applying regex sequences (and more!) check out TextSoap for macOS. It's easily one of my favorite apps of all time. There is also an Alfred integration.

cc101•9mo ago
My writing technique looks somewhat like vibe programming (that is if I understand what vibe programming is). Basically, I force myself to put down on paper the idea that is motivating me to write. It does not matter if there are major problems with the idea. I force myself to get it down on paper. Then I make it right by review and edit again and again, and again. I have probably re-read and edited this paragraph a dozen times already.

Works for me.

MilnerRoute•9mo ago
I've heard professional writers recommend your way. I think it was Stephen King who said "First I wear my writer hat" (to get something out there to work with) -- "and then I wear my editor hat."

There's even a phrase for it. Anne Lamott wrote a really good book for aspiring (fiction) writers -- and one of the chapters urged them to accept and aspire to "shitty first drafts."

https://wrd.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/1-Shitty%20First%...