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Skip the A/B Test

https://digitalseams.com/blog/skip-the-a-b-test
1•bobbiechen•21s ago•0 comments

Why Blender Changing to Vulkan Is Groundbreaking [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cta91Y53gs
1•mdtrooper•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: HTML and TailwindCSS Section builder (free – AI powered)

https://veltify.site/section-builder
1•thehadiahmadi•1m ago•0 comments

What Made William F. Buckley So Unusual

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/bill-buckley-sam-tanenhaus-republicans/682792/
1•mdp2021•2m ago•0 comments

Apple Developer Event Will Show It's Still Far from Being an AI Leader

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-06-01/apple-s-wwdc-2025-plan-macos-tahoe-apple-intelligence-ai-ios-26-games-app-mbdlzqpz
1•mfiguiere•2m ago•0 comments

Final Version Perfected (FVP) Instructions

http://markforster.squarespace.com/blog/2021/11/16/the-final-version-perfected-fvp-instructions-reposted.html
1•kzemek•2m ago•0 comments

LibriVox

https://librivox.org/
2•bookofjoe•4m ago•0 comments

'bugs are 100x more expensive to fix in production' is a fairy tale

https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/22/bugs_expense_bs/
1•rafaepta•4m ago•0 comments

The Rise of Judgement over Technical Skill

https://notsocommonthoughts.com/blog/ai-and-judgement/
1•kohlhofer•4m ago•0 comments

I Built a Collection of Open Source Alternatives to Popular SaaS Software

https://youmightnotneed.co/open-source
1•quentinvcr•9m ago•1 comments

The Rise and Fall of High Performance Fortran (2011)

https://cacm.acm.org/research/the-rise-and-fall-of-high-performance-fortran/
1•susam•9m ago•0 comments

The Oldest Line in the World (2006)

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/14/world/europe/the-oldest-line-in-the-world.html
1•susam•13m ago•0 comments

Undercover Journalist Unpacks Essential Tools to Escape Detection [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iaAgup85gk
3•billybuckwheat•15m ago•0 comments

The Ukrainians Just Pulled Off the Most Successful Operation of the War

https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-update135-update-the-ukrainians
3•mpweiher•18m ago•0 comments

Open AI Can Stop Pretending

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/05/openai-nonprofit-pbc/682979/
2•kmdupree•19m ago•0 comments

Man vs. Machine: Deep Blue

https://www.kasparov.com/timeline-event/deep-blue/
1•susam•20m ago•0 comments

Claude Code: An Agentic cleanroom analysis

https://southbridge-research.notion.site/Claude-Code-An-Agentic-cleanroom-analysis-2055fec70db1802d85e5e78d7ddeecfd
1•sebg•22m ago•0 comments

Pledge with a Reëxecing Process

https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/pledge-with-a-re-xecing-process
1•ingve•23m ago•0 comments

Trump's gamble puts the dollar at risk as the reserve currency

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/trumps-gamble-puts-the-dollar-at-risk-as-the-worlds-reserve-currency/
13•MilnerRoute•24m ago•5 comments

Dissolving the Fermi Paradox

https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02404
2•fanf2•25m ago•0 comments

Two dead and hundreds arrested in France after PSG Champions League win

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgqyg325gno
2•donsupreme•27m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Postman for MCP Servers

https://github.com/faraazahmad/mcp_debug
1•faraaz98•29m ago•0 comments

It was time for a dim bulb current limiter

https://blog.jgc.org/2025/06/it-was-time-for-dim-bulb-current-limiter.html
2•jgrahamc•31m ago•0 comments

CQRS and Event Sourcing for the Rest of Us

1•odinellefsen•35m ago•0 comments

OneDrive File Picker Flaw Provides Apps Full Read Access Entire OneDrive

https://www.oasis.security/blog/onedrive-file-picker-security-flaw-oasis-research
2•ano-ther•35m ago•0 comments

Ukrainian spies hid drones in wooden sheds

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/ukraine-stages-major-attack-russian-aircraft-with-drones-security-official-says-2025-06-01/
2•misja111•36m ago•0 comments

Carbon footprint from Israel's war on Gaza exceeds 100 countries

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/30/carbon-footprint-of-israels-war-on-gaza-exceeds-that-of-many-entire-countries
1•lr0•37m ago•3 comments

Paperclips

https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html
2•tomrod•39m ago•1 comments

Built an open-source web scraper for AI agents – seeking feedback

https://github.com/any4ai/AnyCrawl
1•ntbperst•40m ago•2 comments

P-1's attempt to build an engineering brain

https://www.ibm.com/think/news/physical-ai-age-p-1-engineering-brain
2•sirregex•42m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Text Formatting in Notepad begin rolling out to Windows Insiders

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/05/30/text-formatting-in-notepad-begin-rolling-out-to-windows-insiders/
6•thunderbong•1d ago

Comments

trinix912•1d ago
Am I the only one who thinks these features would be a better fit for WordPad instead of Notepad? They could've made a WordPad from scratch with Markdown, RTF, DOC(X), and ODT at this point and it would've been more complete than shipping a half-baked Markdown implementation in Notepad. Plus, it wouldn't break the decades old assumptions by users that Notepad is for plain unformatted text and WordPad is for formatted/rich/"enhanced" text.
bonki•1d ago
My thoughts exactly. I think this has mostly to do with marketing because pretty much nobody uses Wordpad and most people hate it, while everybody uses Notepad or a replacement (Notepad++ or similar) which usually already has a lot more features, including markdown support. So from their perspective I can understand this decision, even though I don't think that this is where Notepad should be heading. On Windows, I use NP++ and other tools if I need more features, but I specifically use Notepad for when I don't want fancy stuff and slow startup times, often for the sole reason of getting rid of formatting of copy'n'pasted text. Notepad is stupid, but that can be a good thing. If I want something else I use something else.
ddingus•1d ago
Nobody needs formatting in notepad.

Guess I will now always fetch a text editor. Having the simple character only notepad is great. It is general purpose stripping tool. Paste there, pick up just text, move on.

Doing that, and editing text files are the two things I use the program for.

Adding formatting breaks the paste to strip function, leaving only editing text files, and now I don't know what the program will insert.

Who decides this stuff?

In 11 we are already getting a ton of low value, many believe high cost and risk features we do not want. Continuing to piss in the OS is not helpful.

It took quite a bit of tinkering to get rid of both the nag ad and Copilot installer appearing every morning.

I won't need to do that with notepad thankfully.

But it would not surprise me a bit to learn Notepad includes a key logger to improve things by learning more about how we edit text files...

Clowns. Seriously.