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Dramatic slowdown in melting of Arctic sea ice surprises scientists

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/20/slowdown-in-melting-of-arctic-sea-ice-surprises-scientists
1•bilsbie•3m ago•0 comments

How to stop feeling lost in tech: the wafflehouse method

https://www.yacinemahdid.com/p/how-to-stop-feeling-lost-in-tech
2•research_pie•15m ago•0 comments

Microsoft Invented a Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes

https://defector.com/it-took-many-years-and-billions-of-dollars-but-microsoft-finally-invented-a-calculator-that-is-wrong-sometimes
1•rhabarba•16m ago•0 comments

Tom Cruise becomes Guinness record holder for his fiery Mission Impossible stunt

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2025/6/hollywood-legend-tom-cruise-becomes-record-holder-for-his-fiery-mission-impossible-stunt
1•wslh•17m ago•0 comments

A Systematic Study of Post-Training Quantization for Diffusion LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14896
1•badmonster•17m ago•0 comments

Creating 3D Worlds with HTML and CSS

https://keithclark.co.uk/articles/creating-3d-worlds-with-html-and-css/
2•razodactyl•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: StripeMeter – Open-Source Usage Metering for Stripe Billing

https://github.com/geminimir/stripemeter
1•geminimir•30m ago•0 comments

Is the 'love hormone,' oxytocin, also the 'friendship hormone'?

https://news.berkeley.edu/2025/08/11/is-the-love-hormone-oxytocin-also-the-friendship-hormone/
2•gmays•30m ago•0 comments

Meta Freezes AI Hiring After Blockbuster Spending Spree

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-ai-hiring-freeze-fda6b3c4
6•polrjoy•32m ago•2 comments

Calculate YouTube Playlist Length

https://ytplaylist-len.sharats.dev/
1•gurjeet•34m ago•0 comments

Fire burning inside 325ft tall tree after three days

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czxp4x1ykwpo
1•1659447091•34m ago•0 comments

People use smart assistants for weather, timers and music – same as a decade ago

https://sherwood.news/tech/people-use-google-amazon-and-apples-smart-assistants-for-weather-timers-and/
3•elsewhen•40m ago•1 comments

Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 226

https://webkit.org/blog/17282/release-notes-for-safari-technology-preview-226/
2•feross•40m ago•1 comments

Virtuous Machines: Towards Artificial General Science

https://explorescience.ai/blog/virtuous-machines-ags
4•ChiefExplorer•41m ago•0 comments

Brandon Sanderson invents ChatGPT? The Story of a Prompt Engineer [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtkmFN26VuU
2•nevster•43m ago•0 comments

The Department of Class Solidarity

https://classsolidarity.org/
1•hentrep•44m ago•0 comments

The Bulgarian and Soviet Virus Factories (1991)

https://bontchev.nlcv.bas.bg/papers/factory.html
1•Jimmc414•45m ago•0 comments

LLMs Can't Tell Time, Winning Builders Budget for This Early

https://viveksgag.substack.com/p/llms-cant-tell-time-winning-builders
2•vivganes•53m ago•0 comments

Developers, Not Operators

https://victorwynne.com/developers-not-operators/
5•xdevweeknds•55m ago•0 comments

Featured VPN Chrome Extension Captures User Screen

https://koi-security.webflow.io/blog/spyvpn-the-vpn-that-secretly-captures-your-screen
2•twapi•56m ago•0 comments

Post Election Audits

https://electionlab.mit.edu/research/post-election-audits
1•bediger4000•56m ago•0 comments

CBA begins children's book anchored support groups for adults

https://childrensbookforall.org/activities/support-groups
1•chbkall•58m ago•0 comments

Word Embedding Demo

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/WordEmbeddingDemo/index.html
1•promiseofbeans•1h ago•0 comments

Retrieval Embedding Benchmark (RTEB)

https://huggingface.co/spaces/embedding-benchmark/RTEB
1•fzliu•1h ago•0 comments

Microsoft scales back Chinese access to cyber early warning system

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/microsoft-scales-back-chinese-access-cyber-early-warning-system-2025-08-20/
1•c420•1h ago•0 comments

How Mintlify uses Claude Code as a technical writing assistant

https://mintlify.com/blog/how-mintlify-uses-claude-code-as-a-technical-writing-assistant
2•skeptrune•1h ago•0 comments

Why does my regular expression work in X but not in Y?

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/119905/why-does-my-regular-expression-work-in-x-but-not-in-y
3•Bogdanp•1h ago•0 comments

Instant Updated News

https://getinstantnewsnow.com/
1•mattysue•1h ago•0 comments

Advice for Tech Non-Profits

https://mitchellh.com/writing/advice-for-tech-nonprofits
2•ksec•1h ago•1 comments

PrivGuard – an AI prompt/data-leakage scanner (feedback welcome)

https://privguard.io/
1•zeroblind•1h ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Code review can be better

https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-08-04-code-review-can-be-better/
54•sealeck•2h ago

Comments

hydroxideOH-•1h ago
I use the GitHub Pull Request extension in VSCode to do the same thing (reviewing code locally in my editor). It works pretty well, and you can add/review comments directly in the editor.
cebert•1h ago
I use this a lot too. Also, if you open a PR on the GitHub website and press the “.” key, it opens the review in VSCode, which I consider a much better web experience.
reilly3000•19m ago
TIL thanks.
ivanjermakov•1h ago
It's better, but still quite deep vendor lock-in (in both GitHub and VSCode).
hydroxideOH-•22m ago
Well my employer chooses to use GitHub so I don’t have a choice there. And it’s vendor lock-in VSCode but that’s already my primary editor so it means there’s no need to learn another tool just for code review.
ivanjermakov•1h ago
I find the idea of using git for code reviews directly quite compelling. Working with the change locally as you were the one who made it is very convenient, considering the clunky read-only web UI.

I didn't get why stick with the requirement that review is a single commit? To keep git-review implementation simple?

I wonder if approach where every reviewer commits their comments/fixes to the PR branch directly would work as well as I think it would. One might not even need any additional tools to make it convenient to work with. This idea seems like a hybrid of traditional github flow and a way Linux development is organized via mailing lists and patches.

MutedEstate45•55m ago
Agree with your pain points. One thing id add is GitHub makes you reapprove every PR after each push. As an OSS contributor it’s exhausting to chase re-approvals for minor tweaks.
Ar-Curunir•52m ago
Hm that’s not the case for my repositories? Maybe you have a setting enabled for that?
pie_flavor•52m ago
This is a security setting that the author has chosen to enable.
irjustin•51m ago
mmmm this is up to each repo/maintainer's settings.

To be fair you don't know if one line change is going to absolutely compromise a flow. OSS needs to maintain a level of disconnect to be safe vs fast.

faangguyindia•26m ago
Essentially, you are turning fork/branch induced changes to "precommit" review like workflow which is great.

I was on a lookout for best "precommit" review tool and zeroed on Magit, gitui, Sublime Merge.

I am not an emac user, so i'll have to learn this.

koolba•9m ago
> When I review code, I like to pull the source branch locally. Then I soft-reset the code to mere base, so that the code looks as if it was written by me.

This is eerily similar to how I review large changes that do not have a clear set of commits. The real problem is working with people that don’t realize that if you don’t break work down into small self contained units, everybody else is going to have to do it individually. Nobody can honestly say they can review tons of diffs to a ton of files and truly understand what they’ve reviewed.

The whole is more than just the sum of the parts.