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Ask HN: Is the CoCo 3 the best 8 bit computer ever made?

1•amichail•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Convert your articles into videos in one click

https://vidinie.com/
1•kositheastro•4m ago•0 comments

Red Queen's Race

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen%27s_race
2•rzk•4m ago•0 comments

The Anthropic Hive Mind

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropic-hive-mind-d01f768f3d7b
2•gozzoo•7m ago•0 comments

A Horrible Conclusion

https://addisoncrump.info/research/a-horrible-conclusion/
1•todsacerdoti•7m ago•0 comments

I spent $10k to automate my research at OpenAI with Codex

https://twitter.com/KarelDoostrlnck/status/2019477361557926281
2•tosh•8m ago•0 comments

From Zero to Hero: A Spring Boot Deep Dive

https://jcob-sikorski.github.io/me/
1•jjcob_sikorski•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Solving NP-Complete Structures via Information Noise Subtraction (P=NP)

https://zenodo.org/records/18395618
1•alemonti06•13m ago•1 comments

Cook New Emojis

https://emoji.supply/kitchen/
1•vasanthv•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LoKey Typer – A calm typing practice app with ambient soundscapes

https://mcp-tool-shop-org.github.io/LoKey-Typer/
1•mikeyfrilot•19m ago•0 comments

Long-Sought Proof Tames Some of Math's Unruliest Equations

https://www.quantamagazine.org/long-sought-proof-tames-some-of-maths-unruliest-equations-20260206/
1•asplake•20m ago•0 comments

Hacking the last Z80 computer – FOSDEM 2026 [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/FEHLHY-hacking_the_last_z80_computer_ever_made/
1•michalpleban•20m ago•0 comments

Browser-use for Node.js v0.2.0: TS AI browser automation parity with PY v0.5.11

https://github.com/webllm/browser-use
1•unadlib•21m ago•0 comments

Michael Pollan Says Humanity Is About to Undergo a Revolutionary Change

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/magazine/michael-pollan-interview.html
2•mitchbob•21m ago•1 comments

Software Engineering Is Back

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
2•alainrk•22m ago•0 comments

Storyship: Turn Screen Recordings into Professional Demos

https://storyship.app/
1•JohnsonZou6523•23m ago•0 comments

Reputation Scores for GitHub Accounts

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/02/reputation-scores-for-github-accounts/
2•edent•26m ago•0 comments

A BSOD for All Seasons – Send Bad News via a Kernel Panic

https://bsod-fas.pages.dev/
1•keepamovin•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I got tired of copy-pasting between Claude windows, so I built Orcha

https://orcha.nl
1•buildingwdavid•30m ago•0 comments

Omarchy First Impressions

https://brianlovin.com/writing/omarchy-first-impressions-CEEstJk
2•tosh•35m ago•1 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501
4•onurkanbkrc•36m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Versor – The "Unbending" Paradigm for Geometric Deep Learning

https://github.com/Concode0/Versor
1•concode0•36m ago•1 comments

Show HN: HypothesisHub – An open API where AI agents collaborate on medical res

https://medresearch-ai.org/hypotheses-hub/
1•panossk•39m ago•0 comments

Big Tech vs. OpenClaw

https://www.jakequist.com/thoughts/big-tech-vs-openclaw/
1•headalgorithm•42m ago•0 comments

Anofox Forecast

https://anofox.com/docs/forecast/
1•marklit•42m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How do you figure out where data lives across 100 microservices?

1•doodledood•42m ago•0 comments

Motus: A Unified Latent Action World Model

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.13030
2•mnming•42m ago•0 comments

Rotten Tomatoes Desperately Claims 'Impossible' Rating for 'Melania' Is Real

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/rotten-tomatoes-desperately-claims-impossible-rating-for-m...
4•juujian•44m ago•2 comments

The protein denitrosylase SCoR2 regulates lipogenesis and fat storage [pdf]

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scisignal.adv0660
1•thunderbong•46m ago•0 comments

Los Alamos Primer

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/los-alamos-primer/
1•alkyon•48m ago•0 comments
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Show HN: A web typewriter where backspace only strikes through

https://ouachitalabs.com/typewriter
2•faxmeyourcode•5mo ago
This is "typewriter". A little POC I built with the help of claude code. I wanted something that had similar constraints as a typewriter (with some modern affordances here and there). These constraints have been argued to help get people into the flow state easier.

- No formatting choices. You get monospace black and white fonts, no italics, no bold, no formal headings, and no images or tables.

- Most importantly, no backspace key. Only a -strikethrough- option.

In a world dominated by A.I. generated text, it is more important than ever to get the rough draft of your own thoughts down yourself, before they're interpreted and twisted in subtle ways by a large language model. A typewriter-esque experience like this, with no backspace allowed, frees yourself from the endless self-criticism and rewriting things before they're ready. By all means edit your writing, but don't do that until you've got _something_ *ANYTHING* down on the page.

This is the number one mistake I make myself. It's the best procrastination tactic. So here it is, an app to help avoid that. :-)

Comments

sema4hacker•5mo ago
Doesn't seem to work in Firefox.
faxmeyourcode•5mo ago
I only use Firefox and it works for me, I wonder what the issue is?

Are you unable to type or is it something else?

sema4hacker•5mo ago
I can type, and am expecting backspace to strike through instead of erase, but backspace does nothing. Firefox 141.0.3 Windows 10 Home 22H2 19045.6216
patrakov•5mo ago
It is not sufficient to disable backspace. This thing fails the authenticity test as follows:

    * Type a few letters
    * Use the left arrow several times to go to the beginning of the line
    * Type something else
Expected result: overlapping letters, or, if the same letter has been typed twice, bold letters.

Actual result: new letters are inserted - something that a typewriter cannot do.

faxmeyourcode•5mo ago
Yeah it's not truly a typewriter simulator, more of just a constrained editor that forces you to either live with mistakes or think more deeply about your words as you type.

I played around with overlapping letters and got it working somewhat well, but everything else like printing got more complicated.

It's also got auto word wrap that wouldn't be available on a conventional typewriter. I think some electronic typewriters that had a buffer of letters to fill before it "printed" them had word wrap, but that's not what people usually think of.

You'd also be able on a typewriter to do more creative things like type literally anywhere on the vertical axis, not just in lines like I've enforced here.