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GPT-5.3-Codex System Card [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/23eca107-a9b1-4d2c-b156-7deb4fbc697c/GPT-5-3-Codex-System-Card-02.pdf
1•tosh•7m ago•0 comments

Atlas: Manage your database schema as code

https://github.com/ariga/atlas
1•quectophoton•10m ago•0 comments

Geist Pixel

https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-geist-pixel
1•helloplanets•13m ago•0 comments

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1•mshekow•20m ago•0 comments

The better you get at something, the harder it becomes to do

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2•FinnLobsien•22m ago•0 comments

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Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal

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1•basilikum•26m ago•0 comments

The Future of Systems

https://novlabs.ai/mission/
2•tekbog•27m ago•1 comments

NASA now allowing astronauts to bring their smartphones on space missions

https://twitter.com/NASAAdmin/status/2019259382962307393
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Claude Code Is the Inflection Point

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The AI-Ready Software Developer: Conclusion – Same Game, Different Dice

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/the-ai-ready-software-developer-conclusion-same-game...
1•lifeisstillgood•36m ago•0 comments

AI Agent Automates Google Stock Analysis from Financial Reports

https://pardusai.org/view/54c6646b9e273bbe103b76256a91a7f30da624062a8a6eeb16febfe403efd078
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Voxtral Realtime 4B Pure C Implementation

https://github.com/antirez/voxtral.c
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOcNaWmmn0A
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U.S. CBP Reported Employee Arrests (FY2020 – FYTD)

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2•vladeta•55m ago•1 comments

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1•thealidev•57m ago•0 comments

Study of 150 developers shows AI generated code no harder to maintain long term

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9EbCb5A408
1•lifeisstillgood•57m ago•0 comments

Spotify now requires premium accounts for developer mode API access

https://www.neowin.net/news/spotify-now-requires-premium-accounts-for-developer-mode-api-access/
1•bundie•1h ago•0 comments

When Albert Einstein Moved to Princeton

https://twitter.com/Math_files/status/2020017485815456224
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Agents.md as a Dark Signal

https://joshmock.com/post/2026-agents-md-as-a-dark-signal/
2•birdculture•1h ago•0 comments

System time, clocks, and their syncing in macOS

https://eclecticlight.co/2025/05/21/system-time-clocks-and-their-syncing-in-macos/
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McCLIM and 7GUIs – Part 1: The Counter

https://turtleware.eu/posts/McCLIM-and-7GUIs---Part-1-The-Counter.html
2•ramenbytes•1h ago•0 comments

So whats the next word, then? Almost-no-math intro to transformer models

https://matthias-kainer.de/blog/posts/so-whats-the-next-word-then-/
1•oesimania•1h ago•0 comments

Ed Zitron: The Hater's Guide to Microsoft

https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com/post/3me7ibeym2c2n
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UK infants ill after drinking contaminated baby formula of Nestle and Danone

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c931rxnwn3lo
1•__natty__•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Android-based audio player for seniors – Homer Audio Player

https://homeraudioplayer.app
3•cinusek•1h ago•2 comments
Open in hackernews

simonw has vibe-coded 124 useful tools

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/4/highlighted-tools/
17•doppp•5mo ago

Comments

anotherhue•5mo ago
I think we're witnessing the evolution of the one-liner.

Most of these have extremely limited scope, and are probably not going to be invested in long term as software requires, they're throwaway.

Which is exactly what horrible find to xargs to inline perl was.

I personally feel less annoyed by this vibe mania when I think of them this way.

Note: two of them seem at face value to be equivalent to gpg or imagemagick CLI calls but hyper (over IMO) specialised.

Disposal8433•5mo ago
I had the same reaction. It's a big stretch to call a "tool" 500 lines of JS that could be replaced with a few Bash calls, a regexp, or a small self-contained Python+UV script. Even worse when it's limited in functionality.

We failed at creating automation tools for the users (even if Apple tried that with AppleScript or Automator), but vibe coding throwaway scripts is not the answer.

simonw•5mo ago
I can't run a few bash calls or a Python+UV script in Mobile Safari on my phone. That's very much a goal of most of these as well.

I actually have a separate collection of vibe-coded UV+Python scripts on that site here: https://tools.simonwillison.net/python/

Sherveen•5mo ago
Love it. I've got a lot of these sorts of micro-tools, too, CLIs, etc.

Even better when you have them all in a repo w/ an agent like Codex or Claude Code to constantly tweak/remix them as needed.

000ooo000•5mo ago
>useful tools

https://tools.simonwillison.net/bullish-bearish

Come on..

simonw•5mo ago
I should note that "124 useful tools" is commentary in the Hacker News title submission here - the point of the linked post is that most of them are not useful so it highlights some of the ones that are.

That aid I've found the bullish-bearish one totally useful myself, it finally helped me remember which was which!

theshrike79•5mo ago
TBH using a bull and a bear for up/down is stupid.

Why not giraffe and mouse or something clearer?

simonw•5mo ago
The title here is inaccurate: this post is about how I've vibe coded 124 things and most of them are non-useful... but a small subset of them are genuinely useful and worth highlighting.
swah•5mo ago
Remembering the tools when they are needed is hard, I guess? I have this issue with tools that I only used once[1] or one full day but go for weeks forgotten.

[1]Which now make sense to make since cost is almost zero...

rpgbr•5mo ago
Good for him.
Tarsul•5mo ago
I just checked his Hacker News Multi-Term Histogram[0] and I like it! E.g. if you compare Python to Java from 2015 on, you can clearly see that Java was up front in 2015 and since about 2023 Python is winning (although by less than I imagined). There are probably quite a few terms that might be interesting. [0]https://tools.simonwillison.net/hacker-news-histogram
dSebastien•5mo ago
I think that vibe coding shines bright right now when it comes to creating such little/simple tools.
antisthenes•5mo ago
Yes, or even just being a one-stop shop for example one-liners and config files for simple linux programs/tools.

Hey LLM, give me some examples for X Y Z tools, and provide doc snippets for the command line parameters being used in the examples.

Rather than spending 2-3 hours scouring the Internet and having 50 tabs open, you can have it in minutes.

krapp•5mo ago
Why would it take hours scouring the internet with 50 tabs open to find one-liners and config files for simple linux programs?

If you have to resort to this kind of hyperbole to make vibe-coding seem useful, maybe it isn't that useful?