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The only U.S. particle collider shuts down

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/particle-collider-shuts-down-brookhaven
1•rolph•40s ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why do purchased B2B email lists still have such poor deliverability?

1•solarisos•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Remotion directory (videos and prompts)

https://www.remotion.directory/
1•rokbenko•3m ago•0 comments

Portable C Compiler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_C_Compiler
1•guerrilla•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Kokki – A "Dual-Core" System Prompt to Reduce LLM Hallucinations

1•Ginsabo•5m ago•0 comments

Software Engineering Transformation 2026

https://mfranc.com/blog/ai-2026/
1•michal-franc•6m ago•0 comments

Microsoft purges Win11 printer drivers, devices on borrowed time

https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/printers/microsoft-stops-distrubitng-legacy-v3-and-v4-pr...
2•rolph•7m ago•0 comments

Lunch with the FT: Tarek Mansour

https://www.ft.com/content/a4cebf4c-c26c-48bb-82c8-5701d8256282
2•hhs•10m ago•0 comments

Old Mexico and her lost provinces (1883)

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77881/pg77881-images.html
1•petethomas•13m ago•0 comments

'AI' is a dick move, redux

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2026/note-on-debating-llm-fans/
2•cratermoon•15m ago•0 comments

The source code was the moat. But not anymore

https://philipotoole.com/the-source-code-was-the-moat-no-longer/
1•otoolep•15m ago•0 comments

Does anyone else feel like their inbox has become their job?

1•cfata•15m ago•0 comments

An AI model that can read and diagnose a brain MRI in seconds

https://www.michiganmedicine.org/health-lab/ai-model-can-read-and-diagnose-brain-mri-seconds
2•hhs•18m ago•0 comments

Dev with 5 of experience switched to Rails, what should I be careful about?

1•vampiregrey•21m ago•0 comments

AlphaFace: High Fidelity and Real-Time Face Swapper Robust to Facial Pose

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.16429
1•PaulHoule•22m ago•0 comments

Scientists discover “levitating” time crystals that you can hold in your hand

https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2026/february/scientists-discover--levitating--t...
2•hhs•24m ago•0 comments

Rammstein – Deutschland (C64 Cover, Real SID, 8-bit – 2019) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VReIuv1GFo
1•erickhill•24m ago•0 comments

Tell HN: Yet Another Round of Zendesk Spam

2•Philpax•24m ago•0 comments

Postgres Message Queue (PGMQ)

https://github.com/pgmq/pgmq
1•Lwrless•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Django-rclone: Database and media backups for Django, powered by rclone

https://github.com/kjnez/django-rclone
1•cui•31m ago•1 comments

NY lawmakers proposed statewide data center moratorium

https://www.niagara-gazette.com/news/local_news/ny-lawmakers-proposed-statewide-data-center-morat...
1•geox•32m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw AI chatbots are running amok – these scientists are listening in

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00370-w
3•EA-3167•32m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI agent forgets user preferences every session. This fixes it

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6•fliellerjulian•35m ago•0 comments

Introduce the Vouch/Denouncement Contribution Model

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/10559
2•DustinEchoes•37m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SSHcode – Always-On Claude Code/OpenCode over Tailscale and Hetzner

https://github.com/sultanvaliyev/sshcode
1•sultanvaliyev•37m ago•0 comments

Microsoft appointed a quality czar. He has no direct reports and no budget

https://jpcaparas.medium.com/microsoft-appointed-a-quality-czar-he-has-no-direct-reports-and-no-b...
2•RickJWagner•38m ago•0 comments

Multi-agent coordination on Claude Code: 8 production pain points and patterns

https://gist.github.com/sigalovskinick/6cc1cef061f76b7edd198e0ebc863397
1•nikolasi•39m ago•0 comments

Washington Post CEO Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/technology/washington-post-will-lewis.html
13•jbegley•40m ago•3 comments

DevXT – Building the Future with AI That Acts

https://devxt.com
2•superpecmuscles•40m ago•4 comments

A Minimal OpenClaw Built with the OpenCode SDK

https://github.com/CefBoud/MonClaw
1•cefboud•41m 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%...