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Interop 2025: A Year of Convergence

https://webkit.org/blog/17808/interop-2025-review/
1•ksec•9m ago•0 comments

JobArena – Human Intuition vs. Artificial Intelligence

https://www.jobarena.ai/
1•84634E1A607A•13m ago•0 comments

Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder

https://thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/concept-artists-in-games-say-generative-ai-references-on...
1•KittenInABox•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PaySentry – Open-source control plane for AI agent payments

https://github.com/mkmkkkkk/paysentry
1•mkyang•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Moli P2P – An ephemeral, serverless image gallery (Rust and WebRTC)

https://moli-green.is/
1•ShinyaKoyano•28m ago•0 comments

The Crumbling Workflow Moat: Aggregation Theory's Final Chapter

https://twitter.com/nicbstme/status/2019149771706102022
1•SubiculumCode•33m ago•0 comments

Pax Historia – User and AI powered gaming platform

https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PMu-pax-historia-user-ai-powered-gaming-platform
2•Osiris30•34m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a RAG engine to search Singaporean laws

https://github.com/adityaprasad-sudo/Explore-Singapore
1•ambitious_potat•39m ago•0 comments

Scams, Fraud, and Fake Apps: How to Protect Your Money in a Mobile-First Economy

https://blog.afrowallet.co/en_GB/tiers-app/scams-fraud-and-fake-apps-in-africa
1•jonatask•39m ago•0 comments

Porting Doom to My WebAssembly VM

https://irreducible.io/blog/porting-doom-to-wasm/
1•irreducible•40m ago•0 comments

Cognitive Style and Visual Attention in Multimodal Museum Exhibitions

https://www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/15/16/2968
1•rbanffy•42m ago•0 comments

Full-Blown Cross-Assembler in a Bash Script

https://hackaday.com/2026/02/06/full-blown-cross-assembler-in-a-bash-script/
1•grajmanu•47m ago•0 comments

Logic Puzzles: Why the Liar Is the Helpful One

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/knights-and-knaves/
1•wasabi991011•58m ago•0 comments

Optical Combs Help Radio Telescopes Work Together

https://hackaday.com/2026/02/03/optical-combs-help-radio-telescopes-work-together/
2•toomuchtodo•1h ago•1 comments

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https://github.com/ppomes/myanon
1•pierrepomes•1h ago•0 comments

The Tao of Programming

http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html
2•alexjplant•1h ago•0 comments

Forcing Rust: How Big Tech Lobbied the Government into a Language Mandate

https://medium.com/@ognian.milanov/forcing-rust-how-big-tech-lobbied-the-government-into-a-langua...
3•akagusu•1h ago•0 comments

PanelBench: We evaluated Cursor's Visual Editor on 89 test cases. 43 fail

https://www.tryinspector.com/blog/code-first-design-tools
2•quentinrl•1h ago•2 comments

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BztF7MODsKI
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Make Trust Irrelevant: A Gamer's Take on Agentic AI Safety

https://github.com/Deso-PK/make-trust-irrelevant
7•DesoPK•1h ago•4 comments

Show HN: Sem – Semantic diffs and patches for Git

https://ataraxy-labs.github.io/sem/
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Hello world does not compile

https://github.com/anthropics/claudes-c-compiler/issues/1
35•mfiguiere•1h ago•20 comments

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3•meszmate•1h ago•0 comments

Metaphor+Metonymy: "To love that well which thou must leave ere long"(Sonnet73)

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1•gsf_emergency_6•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Django N+1 Queries Checker

https://github.com/richardhapb/django-check
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Emacs-tramp-RPC: High-performance TRAMP back end using JSON-RPC instead of shell

https://github.com/ArthurHeymans/emacs-tramp-rpc
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Protocol Validation with Affine MPST in Rust

https://hibanaworks.dev
1•o8vm•2h ago•1 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/female-asian-elephant-calf-born-smithsonians-national-zoo-an...
5•gmays•2h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Zest – A hands-on simulator for Staff+ system design scenarios

https://staff-engineering-simulator-880284904082.us-west1.run.app/
1•chanip0114•2h ago•1 comments
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What I learned building an AI coding agent for a year

https://jamesgrugett.com/p/what-i-learned-building-an-ai-coding
30•vinhnx•7mo ago

Comments

asadm•7mo ago
why has nobody solved the code editing in a robust way yet. I think all the implementations so far have been hacky. I also had to write my own basic one a few times[1].

I guess diffusion-based models can prove good for this usecase?

1. https://github.com/asadm/vibemode/blob/main/source/editor.js

esafak•7mo ago
The most robust way is not to index. Then you can't go wrong, but it is slower. People seem to be ok with it since the ML part takes longer -- for typical codebases, at least.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44106944

jsnell•7mo ago
I don't see how indexing is related to this? The question is about how to get the LLM to reliably apply the edit it wants to make. Even when the full current version of the file is in the context, this is one of the flakiest bits of the current LLM workflows.
esafak•7mo ago
In my mind the concern was about the LLMs mental model of what the files look like, which affects edits. I see where you're coming from too.
skydhash•7mo ago
> why has nobody solved the code editing in a robust way yet.

Mostly because code editing is not the problem. When coding the solution exists out of the coding space. Code only remove ambiguity. It may conflict with earlier interpretations or the current interpretation is flaky, which leads to bugs, aka actual behavior differs from expected behavior (which also exists out of the coding space).

So trying to solve things within the coding space is an incorrect approach since the beginning of computation. And trying to merge natural languages (great for exploring problems) and formal languages (great for specifying instructions) was seen as foolishness by Dijkstra [0].

The reason natural languages are great for problem solving is that we can redefine what things means easily, changing the semantic of terms as our understanding evolves. And when we've settled on a set of semantics and a process, we translate that to formal notation so it stays fixed. An analogy is sketching (where we freely edit lines and just try stuff) and oil painting where every brush stroke is purposeful.

[0]: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667...

nunez•7mo ago
Why do blog post authors decide to use AI art with nonsense text in it? It's a dead giveaway and looks sloppy, IMO. Unless the new normal is that images with gibberish text are fine now.

I immediately stop reading whatever I'm reading when I see this. I'm left to assume that the post I'm reading was also heavily AI-assisted and isn't a true representation of the author's writing ability or their actual thoughts.

I'd much rather see a post full of grammatical errors and stock art from an author with a story to tell that actually put the work in than a grammatically/syntactically milquetoast piece in the style of a million other milquetoast pieces.

TL;DR: "If they can't be bothered to actually write this, then I can't be bothered to read it," is what I think when I see AI slop art.

jahooma•7mo ago
I wrote every word! Though I did have some suggestions from Opus haha
iFire•7mo ago
Oh no achivement acquired!

jahooma failed the turing test as a human :'( The human text is seen as ai text.

I don't know what to think about this.

jahooma•7mo ago
Current AI's could never have such deep thoughts haha
egamirorrim•7mo ago
Looks really cool! But I have to able to bring my own LLM. In a space moving this fast by the time my enterprise has finished vetting a tool that wants to be it's own LLM/process my data itself, it's already out of date.

I'd love to be able to connect Azure AI and Vertex to this (for the full range of models it uses)