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AI Job Cuts Debacle Sees Biggest Australia Bank Reverse Tack

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-21/commonwealth-bank-reverses-job-cuts-decision-over-ai-chatbots
1•petethomas•1m ago•0 comments

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•5m 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•16m 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•17m 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•18m ago•0 comments

A Systematic Study of Post-Training Quantization for Diffusion LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14896
1•badmonster•18m ago•0 comments

Creating 3D Worlds with HTML and CSS

https://keithclark.co.uk/articles/creating-3d-worlds-with-html-and-css/
2•razodactyl•30m ago•0 comments

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

https://github.com/geminimir/stripemeter
1•geminimir•31m 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•32m ago•0 comments

Meta Freezes AI Hiring After Blockbuster Spending Spree

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-ai-hiring-freeze-fda6b3c4
6•polrjoy•34m ago•3 comments

Calculate YouTube Playlist Length

https://ytplaylist-len.sharats.dev/
2•gurjeet•36m ago•0 comments

Fire burning inside 325ft tall tree after three days

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czxp4x1ykwpo
1•1659447091•36m 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•41m ago•1 comments

Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 226

https://webkit.org/blog/17282/release-notes-for-safari-technology-preview-226/
2•feross•42m ago•1 comments

Virtuous Machines: Towards Artificial General Science

https://explorescience.ai/blog/virtuous-machines-ags
4•ChiefExplorer•42m ago•0 comments

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtkmFN26VuU
2•nevster•44m ago•0 comments

The Department of Class Solidarity

https://classsolidarity.org/
2•hentrep•46m ago•0 comments

The Bulgarian and Soviet Virus Factories (1991)

https://bontchev.nlcv.bas.bg/papers/factory.html
1•Jimmc414•46m 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•54m ago•0 comments

Developers, Not Operators

https://victorwynne.com/developers-not-operators/
5•xdevweeknds•57m 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•57m ago•0 comments

Post Election Audits

https://electionlab.mit.edu/research/post-election-audits
1•bediger4000•58m ago•0 comments

CBA begins children's book anchored support groups for adults

https://childrensbookforall.org/activities/support-groups
1•chbkall•1h 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
Open in hackernews

SimpleIDE

https://github.com/jamesplotts/simpleide
20•impendingchange•2h ago

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impendingchange•2h ago
A lightweight, professional VB.NET IDE built with GTK# 3 on Linux using .NET 8.0. SimpleIDE provides a modern development environment specifically designed for VB.NET projects on Linux systems.
TheCleric•2h ago
I truly don’t mean this as an insult, but it always catches me off guard that people are still using VB in 2025.
zoom6628•43m ago
Still using COBOL too. I know of a system that has both! Once it works reliably most businesses want to treat code like plumbing - don't touch it until it's broken.
herman_toothrot•2h ago
The screenshot links are 404ing for me here.
impendingchange•1h ago
Updated. Thx.
robertherber•1h ago
I did learn programming with VB many years ago. It definitely holds some sentimental value for me although I wouldn’t consider using it today.
impendingchange•1h ago
Definitely a great deal of nostalgia for me. Years ago, I had written this project up from scratch and later lost all my source code in an accident.

I learned about vibe coding two months ago and, wow, writing this with Claude has been lots of fun. Almost to the point in the project of having full AI integration in the IDE.

tombert•1h ago
Interesting, I didn't actually know that VB.NET ever got ported to Linux with the rest of .NET Core.

Does it still have the drag-n-drop GUI feature to make graphical apps, or is that a strictly Windows thing?

impendingchange•1h ago
Well, that would certainly be a stretch goal. Right now its all code.
impendingchange•1h ago
And what makes this project significant is there's a lack of VB.NET tools on Linux.

It has been challenging trying to get Gtk 3 widgets to play nice. Finally just rolled my own custom-drawn editor, treeview, and listbox. Going to release them later in a library.

tombert•1h ago
This isn't meant to be a passive aggressive dig, but a genuine question...why make an VB.NET IDE?

I think it's cool that you did it, it's just not a language that I've seen get a lot of love.

impendingchange•1h ago
VB.NET's verbose syntax actually makes it PERFECT for AI assistance. And it is being developed with full AI integration.

And, Linux lacks any such tools. Not even VS Code has a plugin for VB.

ethan_smith•1h ago
The WinForms designer (drag-n-drop GUI) isn't fully supported on Linux - SimpleIDE likely focuses on code editing rather than visual design, as the .NET MAUI/WinForms designers remain Windows-centric despite .NET's cross-platform capabilities.
jp0d•1h ago
I learned VB .net when it first came out back in 2003 (might have been earlier). VB was quite widely used back then and now days it's declined in popularity a lot. I checked the repo insights and it's a single person who's built this and has been maintaining it. Their contribution and dedication is definitely commendable even though the language isn't popular these and even more so on Linux! This is pure selfless programming!
impendingchange•1h ago
Haha, I laughed when you said this. I've only been writing it for a little over two months now. But thank you!
gentooflux•30m ago
Seeing as how it's written in VB.Net, and 3 more of his 5 total public projects are also VB.Net, I don't think "selfless" really fits; I'll bet this project very much scratches this man's own itch.

Dedicated for sure though, and commendable, especially since it's FOSS.

mrcsharp•20m ago
Absolutely love this! I learned programming with VB.NET and it still holds a special place in my heart.