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Lessons I'd Tell My 12-Year-Old Self

https://henriquegodoy.com/blog/reflections
1•henriquegodoy•28s ago•0 comments

Tintin: Why a Belgian Boy Reporter Feels Like He Belongs to the World

https://medium.com/@jessenazario/tintin-why-a-belgian-boy-reporter-feels-like-he-belongs-to-the-world-0bd579443420
1•thunderbong•4m ago•0 comments

Lina Khan explains the FTC to Twitch streamers [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVayhzmuSFE
1•momojo•5m ago•0 comments

Beware of 'Swiper,' a Fox at Grand Teton Park with a Penchant for Footwear

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/us/beware-of-swiper-a-fox-at-grand-teton-park-with-a-penchant-for-footwear.html
3•JumpCrisscross•6m ago•0 comments

Iceberg, the Right Idea – The Wrong Spec – Part 2 of 2: The Spec

https://database-doctor.com/posts/iceberg-is-wrong-2.html
1•karsinkk•6m ago•0 comments

My favorite use-case for AI is writing logs

https://newsletter.vickiboykis.com/archive/my-favorite-use-case-for-ai-is-writing-logs/
3•todsacerdoti•7m ago•0 comments

Replacing bread with oat β-glucan bread fails to lower diabetes risk markers

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-06-daily-bread-oat-glucan-key.html
2•PaulHoule•8m ago•0 comments

Reducing the Cybersecurity Risks of Portable Storage Media in OT Environments [pdf]

https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.1334.ipd.pdf
1•gnabgib•8m ago•0 comments

GitHub abused to distribute payloads on behalf of malware-as-a-service

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/07/malware-as-a-service-caught-using-github-to-distribute-its-payloads/
1•coloneltcb•10m ago•0 comments

Created a Jeopardy trainer using archived questions

https://github.com/ammiranda/jeopardy_archive_trainer
2•ammiranda•11m ago•1 comments

I want to help automate your business insights

https://www.trynexus.io/
1•nikpil•22m ago•1 comments

Humans used to have straighter teeth – what changed?

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/health/article/crooked-teeth-human-evolution-jaw-size
1•bookofjoe•23m ago•1 comments

The Silicon Valley push to breed super-babies

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/16/orchid-polygenic-screening-embryos-fertility/
2•pabs3•23m ago•2 comments

Running NetBSD on my Amiga 4000

http://sandervanderburg.blogspot.com/2025/02/running-netbsd-on-my-amiga-4000.html
3•doener•24m ago•1 comments

Running Linux on my Amiga 4000

http://sandervanderburg.blogspot.com/2025/01/running-linux-on-my-amiga-4000.html
1•doener•25m ago•0 comments

Conferences, Clarity, and Smokescreens

https://infrequently.org/2025/06/conferences-clarity-and-smokescreens/
1•pragmatic•25m ago•0 comments

What everyone gets wrong about AI customer support

https://www.mux.com/blog/all-the-wrong-ways-to-think-about-ai-customer-support
1•dylanjha•28m ago•0 comments

No vegan milk is equivalent to dairy, nutritionists conclude

https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/article/plant-based-milk-cows-nutrition-ct7dlbxgl
1•josephcsible•29m ago•2 comments

Using Typst to Typeset Novels

https://splinterton.com/blog/typst_notes/
2•raybb•33m ago•0 comments

Pair-Instability Supernova

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair-instability_supernova
1•dustingetz•33m ago•0 comments

Reflections from Toxic Engineering Teams

https://resync-games.com/blog/engineering/toxic-teams
2•kadhirvelm•35m ago•1 comments

Mammals Evolved into Ant Eaters 12 Times Since Dinosaur Age, Study Finds

https://news.njit.edu/mammals-evolved-ant-eaters-12-times-dinosaur-age-study-finds
6•zdw•35m ago•0 comments

23andMe is out of bankruptcy. You should still delete your DNA

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/17/23andme-bankruptcy-privacy/
3•1vuio0pswjnm7•36m ago•0 comments

Im using p5.js in production for a simplistic video/type editor

https://www.typecut.xyz/
2•ghostuniversity•38m ago•0 comments

Accelerate Generative AI Inference with Nvidia Dynamo and Amazon EKS

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/accelerate-generative-ai-inference-with-nvidia-dynamo-and-amazon-eks/
1•dtap•38m ago•0 comments

Robots in China are riding the subway to make 7-Eleven deliveries

https://www.popsci.com/technology/robots-in-china-subway-7-eleven-deliveries/
2•domofutu•39m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: (Semi) Automated LinkedIn Connection Reviewer

1•bix6•39m ago•0 comments

Colombia Bets Big on Instant Payments with Central Bank's BRE-B

https://thecitypaperbogota.com/business/colombia-bets-big-on-instant-payments-with-central-banks-bre-b/
1•raybb•45m ago•0 comments

Amazon EKS ultra scale clusters

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/under-the-hood-amazon-eks-ultra-scale-clusters/
2•ra7•46m ago•0 comments

Nuxt 4.0

https://nuxt.com/blog/v4
2•CharlesW•47m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Vibe scraping and vibe coding a schedule webapp for a conference on my phone

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/17/vibe-scraping/
6•simonw•3h ago

Comments

dbushell•3h ago
The web app makes 176 requests and downloads 130 megabytes.

It's also <div> soup and largely inaccessible.

These and other issues could be fixed fairly quickly with a little care (if anyone cares).

simonw•2h ago
!!!

Yeah, it turns out those speaker avatar images are 1MB+ PNGs! And there are 170 of them.

What a fantastic cautionary tale about vibe-coding on a mobile phone (where performance analysis tools aren't easily available.)

I just fixed that with Codex - thanks for the tip: https://chatgpt.com/s/cd_6879631d99c48191b1ab7f84dfab8dea

As far as accessibility goes... yeah, the lack of semantic markup is pretty shocking! I'll remember to prompt for that next time I try anything like this.

I just tried it in VoiceOver on iOS and the page was at least navigable - the buttons for the days work - but yeah, I'd be very ashamed to ship something like this if it wasn't a 20 minute demo (and I'm a bit ashamed even given that.)

I'm running "Make open-sauce-2025.html accessible to screenreaders" in Codex now to see what happens.

dbushell•2h ago
would have been fun to see how conference wifi handled that :)
dbushell•2h ago
it's concerning these vibe coding tools must be coerced into semantic markup

could that be solved by prefixing every prompt with a reminder?

simonw•2h ago
Definitely. If I had a Claude.md or agents.md or whatever in that repo saying "make mobile friendly sites that use semantic HTML and are accessible for screenreaders" I bet I'd get much better results from them.
yen223•12m ago
> it's concerning these vibe coding tools must be coerced into semantic markup

These things are becoming more and more humanlike every day

simonw•2h ago
OK, Codex seemed to do a decent job of fixing up the accessibility, I just shipped its changes: https://github.com/simonw/tools/issues/36