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Open Source RUM (Real User Monitoring)

https://www.basicrum.com/
1•ssttoo•3m ago•0 comments

Yes I Understand How LLMs Work

https://kemendo.com/yes-i-understand-how-llms-work.html
1•AndrewKemendo•3m ago•0 comments

Microsoft barred from sponsoring foreign workers for US residency

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/trump-administration-targets-microsoft-in-new-immigra...
2•rbanffy•4m ago•0 comments

Atticus – hold-to-talk voice assistant for macOS that runs on Claude -p

https://github.com/SaarthurR/atticus-mac
1•SaarthRanka•5m ago•0 comments

Tandem Himalaya Server S7000

1•combarbala•6m ago•0 comments

MASS: Recursive Self-Improvement Through Multi-Agent Self-Supervision

https://pub.sakana.ai/mass/?href=
1•jonbaer•8m ago•0 comments

Beijing residents dispose of drones ahead of ban on ownership

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-12/beijing-residents-dispose-drones-ahead-of-ban-on-ownership...
2•uxhacker•8m ago•0 comments

I made an open-source Boom 3D clone. Wanna check it out?

https://github.com/JVGS1111/open-boom
1•joaoviniciusgs•10m ago•1 comments

Models as Insider Risks in the Super Intelligence Era

https://twitter.com/satyanadella/status/2108931348857827686
2•MrBuddyCasino•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Preloop – GitHub Actions locally in microvms and SSH/pause failures

https://github.com/preloopdev/preloop
2•Bnjoroge•12m ago•0 comments

Beta.getmonero.org

https://www.getmonero.org/2026/09/08/announcing-the-getmonero-org-beta.html
2•Cider9986•13m ago•0 comments

Local Indexing to reduce tool calling and token usage

https://tedhaley.ca/pensieve/
2•TedHaley•16m ago•0 comments

HashiCorp archives the Boundary open source repo

https://github.com/hashicorp/boundary
2•vmatsiiako•17m ago•0 comments

Danny Ische draws pixels, cross-stitch and paperclips – all with a trusty pencil

https://www.creativeboom.com/work/danny-ische-draws-pixels-cross-stitch-and-paperclips-all-with-a...
2•andsoitis•19m ago•0 comments

Qt An E2EE post-quantum messenger core in Rust (10k connections on 124MB RAM

https://github.com/moral666/QT
2•moral666•27m ago•0 comments

Whatever became of holography? (2011)

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/whatever-became-of-holography
15•cainxinth•29m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Plimsoll, a self-hosted sandbox for code your AI agent writes

https://github.com/plimsollmark/plimsoll
3•cagster•32m ago•0 comments

X Once Again Marks the Spot

https://daringfireball.net/2026/10/x_once_again_marks_the_spot
2•neural_thing•33m ago•5 comments

I deploy my project easily

https://cx-shipd.netlify.app
2•CX-Designs•35m ago•0 comments

UTXO Bitcoin Composition Engine

https://github.com/Artur7897/bitcoin-composition-engine
2•hreczynski1984•39m ago•0 comments

Governments are mishandling the affordability crisis

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/10/08/governments-are-mishandling-the-afford...
8•andsoitis•40m ago•2 comments

OVI-CODE – An extendable and keyboard-driven coding agent for your terminal

https://ovicorps.github.io/ovi-code/
2•ovicorps•41m ago•0 comments

Undersea cables: the battle for the ocean floor

https://www.ft.com/content/f5ca2cc7-dcbd-40cd-a173-9b9da94cb655
2•snarky-comments•42m ago•0 comments

The Oldest Bridge (archeology)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWSlI9HZqZQ
2•brudgers•42m ago•0 comments

Data Centers around the world (12,000+)

https://www.datacenters.com/locations
2•andsoitis•45m ago•0 comments

GE-RCV1: open the garage with the gate remote

https://blog.jacq.cc/guides/ge-rcv1-garage-gate-remote/
2•xx__yy•47m ago•0 comments

TeX Preview in VSCode with Overleaf Sync

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=HemantBanke.tex-side-preview
2•Hyena0•53m ago•1 comments

Testing Your Website's Fonts with Tor Browser

https://ohaodha.ie/blog/tor-as-a-tool-for-testing-fonts/
2•ohaodha•56m ago•0 comments

Illustration Beyond Proof

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/11/illustration-beyond-proof/
5•smilelamp•57m ago•0 comments

Show HN: BraiNOTES, handwritten notes on your lecture PDFs in a browser tab

https://github.com/swimmingbrain/brainotes
2•swimmingbrain•57m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

I Miss Visual Basic

https://micro.webology.dev/2025/05/11/i-miss-visual-basic/
19•speckx•1y ago

Comments

lysace•1y ago
There has been so much VB love here lately. Here are some counterpoints:

In the 90s, when you saw that a Windows app needed Visual Basic DLLs, you kind of knew that the app in question was very likely created by a complete amateur.

The best apps tended to be tiny and written in C by wizards.

pvg•1y ago
Some miss old handy tools, others miss the old gatekeeping.
lysace•1y ago
Gatekeeping or not, it was a useful indicator. There was so much crap.
rbanffy•1y ago
I’ve seen terrible programs written in all sorts of languages.
lysace•1y ago
And there were no patterns, particulary between 1992-1995, for MS Windows apps?
tptacek•1y ago
Bracketing this with '92-'95 makes the claim so much funnier.
rbanffy•1y ago
One thing VB allowed was horrible visual design. When you wrote a Windows app in C or C++, you are happy when the button appears in the UI and you leave it alone at that point. VB allowed people to customise their buttons with all sorts of colours and patterns no sane UI designer would attempt.
pvg•1y ago
Same with Hypercard, perhaps even more so since Hypercard let you respond to UI gestures the standard UI didn't really use like mouseovers.
rbanffy•1y ago
HyperCard, at least initially, didn’t have color, so it somewhat limited how horrendous the UI could be.
tptacek•1y ago
[Nobody][1] [ever][2] [wrote][3] [crap][4] [in][https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendmail] [C][6].
guidedlight•1y ago
Most apps in the 90’s/early 00’s were tiny. They did one thing well.

It’s in that context, VB did really well. The thing that VB didn’t do well is scale due to language limitations, but for tiny apps it didn’t matter.

mattl•1y ago
When you go to a modern website and you see it downloads 900kb of JavaScript just to show you the homepage, how do you feel about that?

I was a VB developer for a few years. I'm trying to remember the name of the tool we used to bundle VB applications into a single binary. It wasn't a Microsoft tool.

lysace•1y ago
> When you go to a modern website and you see it downloads 900kb of JavaScript just to show you the homepage, how do you feel about that?

That shipping sites like that should cause you to pay some kind of tax. Use that tax income to invest in software security.

mattl•1y ago
I saw a thread the other day on creating a website without JavaScript and so many people were saying it couldn’t be done.
rbanffy•1y ago
I like the idea of an IDE with integrated GUI builder. We had a couple - I used NetBeans to make Java ME applications for phones.

Shouldn’t be too hard to build a framework that loads a GUI definition and auto-binds UI events to functions according to a naming convention. I wouldn’t be surprised if there isn’t already such a thing for Python.

guidedlight•1y ago
VB UI’s tended to be fixed and designed for a world where everyone ran a 4:3 640x480 VGA monitor. This made VB’s UI builder very easy to achieve good results.

I’m not sure the same approach would work today.

rbanffy•1y ago
Just replace pixels with millimetres and we are safe.

At some point it got anchors in the widgets so you could position it at a distance of another control or the window border (at least). The same effect can be done with layout managers and other tricks.

jenkstom•1y ago
Why not Delphi? And why not Lazarus?
mattl•1y ago
> Why not Lazarus?

I've never heard of this or if I have, I don't remember it.

It's an open source IDE that's Delphi compatible. The author of the article is trying to make a Mac app.

* Downloads are from an ad-ridden SourceForge page.

* I download Lazarus I don't get a nice little Mac app... I get a folder full of stuff

* Starting the app, macOS tells me “lazarus” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash.

* On the project screenshots page, ReactOS is shown before macOS and macOS screenshots are from a while ago.

Contrast that experience with... VSCodium, the open source community version of VSCode.

* Download is from GitHub, no ads.

* Downloads a disk image with a familiar pattern

* Drag the VSCodium app bundle to my Applications folder

* I get prompted if I want to open it as it's something downloaded... and VSCodium opens (slowly at first) -- up pops a message saying I've downloaded the x86 version by mistake and I should download the ARM64 version and there's a link to do it... downloading the correct version and it opens instantly.

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All of this to say... with any project, open source or proprietary there is a sense of native/correctly packaged for your OS that's obvious, and if a project doesn't do that I wonder if anyone is using it for that OS.

TrackerFF•1y ago
VB.NET works just fine, no? Granted it is 13-14 years since I last time touched VB.NET, but slapping together apps in visual studio was a breeze. If something serious hasn't happened since then, it should still be easy.
gschizas•1y ago
Modern VB.NET (and C#) suffer from overcomplication, from trying to do too much. And at the same time, not doing enough.

There are (at least) three ways to make a desktop application (Classic Windows Forms, XAML and other, more different XAML, for what used to be Metro/Windows Store apps). Not all functionality overlaps between them.

There are a plethora of (paid) custom controls which reimplement the wheel for all of those (because Microsoft didn't bundle in some elementary Windows controls)

That being said, I personally miss LightSwitch.

neonsunset•1y ago
You are confusing platform-specific(!) GUI frameworks with the languages themselves, which have been long "divorced" from the platform they initially targeted.
jperoutek•1y ago
VB.NET is still a supported platform by microsoft, with the GUI builder and everything. We still use VB.NET exclusively at my current job, for better or for worse. With the addition of tools and libraries like DevExpress, its honestly not a bad setup.
mattl•1y ago
IIRC, VB.NET disregarded the 20+ years of VB developers for the most part.
nom•1y ago
VB will always have a special place in my heart.

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dyl000•1y ago
I was a real big fan of vb.net! Built so much with it.
sph•1y ago
I started with VB6, but I was not a great fan of the language. Soon, I moved to MSVC++6 with MFC, and even though it had its own RAD system for designing dialogs, it was so half-arsed and limiting compared to Visual Basic. You couldn't even change the foreground colour of a label!

I still remember the envy when I found out Delphi developers were not subject to these silly restrictions, and their GUIs were always so colourful.