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Beyond Agentic Coding

https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/beyond-agentic-coding
1•todsacerdoti•1m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw ClawHub Broken Windows Theory – If basic sorting isn't working what is?

https://www.loom.com/embed/e26a750c0c754312b032e2290630853d
1•kaicianflone•3m ago•0 comments

OpenBSD Copyright Policy

https://www.openbsd.org/policy.html
1•Panino•4m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw Creator: Why 80% of Apps Will Disappear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uzGDAoNOZc
1•schwentkerr•8m ago•0 comments

What Happens When Technical Debt Vanishes?

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11316905
1•blenderob•9m ago•0 comments

AI Is Finally Eating Software's Total Market: Here's What's Next

https://vinvashishta.substack.com/p/ai-is-finally-eating-softwares-total
1•gmays•9m ago•0 comments

Computer Science from the Bottom Up

https://www.bottomupcs.com/
2•gurjeet•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a toy compiler as a young dev

https://vire-lang.web.app
1•xeouz•11m ago•0 comments

You don't need Mac mini to run OpenClaw

https://runclaw.sh
1•rutagandasalim•12m ago•0 comments

Learning to Reason in 13 Parameters

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04118
1•nicholascarolan•14m ago•0 comments

Convergent Discovery of Critical Phenomena Mathematics Across Disciplines

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22389
1•energyscholar•14m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Will GPU and RAM prices ever go down?

1•alentred•15m ago•0 comments

From hunger to luxury: The story behind the most expensive rice (2025)

https://www.cnn.com/travel/japan-expensive-rice-kinmemai-premium-intl-hnk-dst
2•mooreds•16m ago•0 comments

Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi...
5•mindracer•17m ago•2 comments

A New Crypto Winter Is Here and Even the Biggest Bulls Aren't Certain Why

https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/a-new-crypto-winter-is-here-and-even-the-biggest-bulls-are...
1•thm•17m ago•0 comments

Moltbook was peak AI theater

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1132448/moltbook-was-peak-ai-theater/
1•Brajeshwar•17m ago•0 comments

Why Claude Cowork is a math problem Indian IT can't solve

https://restofworld.org/2026/indian-it-ai-stock-crash-claude-cowork/
1•Brajeshwar•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Built an space travel calculator with vanilla JavaScript v2

https://www.cosmicodometer.space/
2•captainnemo729•18m ago•0 comments

Why a 175-Year-Old Glassmaker Is Suddenly an AI Superstar

https://www.wsj.com/tech/corning-fiber-optics-ai-e045ba3b
1•Brajeshwar•18m ago•0 comments

Micro-Front Ends in 2026: Architecture Win or Enterprise Tax?

https://iocombats.com/blogs/micro-frontends-in-2026
2•ghazikhan205•20m ago•0 comments

These White-Collar Workers Actually Made the Switch to a Trade

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/white-collar-mid-career-trades-caca4b5f
1•impish9208•20m ago•1 comments

The Wonder Drug That's Plaguing Sports

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/ostarine-olympics-doping.html
1•mooreds•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Which chef knife steels are good? Data from 540 Reddit tread

https://new.knife.day/blog/reddit-steel-sentiment-analysis
1•p-s-v•21m ago•0 comments

Federated Credential Management (FedCM)

https://ciamweekly.substack.com/p/federated-credential-management-fedcm
1•mooreds•21m ago•0 comments

Token-to-Credit Conversion: Avoiding Floating-Point Errors in AI Billing Systems

https://app.writtte.com/read/kZ8Kj6R
1•lasgawe•22m ago•1 comments

The Story of Heroku (2022)

https://leerob.com/heroku
1•tosh•22m ago•0 comments

Obey the Testing Goat

https://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/
1•mkl95•22m ago•0 comments

Claude Opus 4.6 extends LLM pareto frontier

https://michaelshi.me/pareto/
1•mikeshi42•23m ago•0 comments

Brute Force Colors (2022)

https://arnaud-carre.github.io/2022-12-30-amiga-ham/
1•erickhill•26m ago•0 comments

Google Translate apparently vulnerable to prompt injection

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tAh2keDNEEHMXvLvz/prompt-injection-in-google-translate-reveals-ba...
1•julkali•26m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Your very own humane interface: Try Jef Raskin's ideas at home

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/your-very-own-humane-interface-try-jef-raskins-ideas-at-home/
130•zdw•4mo ago

Comments

rxhanson•4mo ago
Without knowing about Jef Raskin's ideas, I implemented something really similar to one of them in one of my Mac apps, Superkey. This idea in the Canon Cat was that you hold down a key and type text that you want to select anywhere in a document, then let go to select it - typically faster than reaching for a mouse or hitting arrow keys. In the Canon Cat it was an additional key (the leap key), below the space bar.

For the implementation in Superkey, you can select a key to use for this, like caps lock. The way I use it is I hold the caps lock key and type text, then the app uses OCR and optionally the macOS Accessibility API to search for matching text. Releasing the key or hitting enter will click (or double or triple click, etc) on a match.

Raskin's idea was of course more text-editing focused, and tapping on the leap keys will also move the cursor. I typically use Superkey to navigate UIs quickly, kind of as though UIs all have keyboard shortcut navigation. There are also limitations that Superkey faces, like not having access to offscreen parts of a document.

bigwheels•4mo ago
Brilliant idea for power users. Are there any comparable apps for Linux or Windows?

Edit: Supposedly there isn't one for windows, wow. https://www.reddit.com/r/windowsapps/comments/1cfw3bw/iso_ap...

rxhanson•4mo ago
Not that I'm aware of, but I do have plans to at least bring some version of this to Windows at some point.
pazimzadeh•4mo ago
what happens if there are multiple matches in the document?
rxhanson•4mo ago
In Superkey, all of the matches are highlighted yellow, and the selected one is highlighted green with a line to it from the text field. You can keep typing to narrow down the match, or you can navigate matches using the arrow keys (and optionally, cycle through them with the semicolon key, which is what I use). There's a screenshot at https://superkey.app.

For the Canon Cat, I'm actually not sure as I've only watched videos of this functionality there.

pazimzadeh•4mo ago
just downloaded Superkey and am trying it

how do I cycle using the arrow keys? currently using the arrow keys moves the cursor for the text in the search box

edit: tab seems to work. but sometimes Seek only works on one monitor (the one which has a window is selected), sometimes it finds results on both

rxhanson•4mo ago
Up and down arrow keys will cycle matches.

At the moment the Accessibility API results are limited to the frontmost window; it's on my todo list to expand this to additional windows and displays. Also, the green line will only be drawn on results on the main display - another item I plan on fixing.

classichasclass•4mo ago
(author) Next one in sequence. You can leap forwards or backwards. On the Cat, there is also a LOCAL LEAP for within the current document only.
rxhanson•4mo ago
Good to know, that's what I was expecting. I'll have to give the Cat a spin! Also, thanks for this article and the Jef Raskin one - I thoroughly enjoyed them and their depth. I was in the middle of reading the book version of folklore.org (Revolution in the Valley) and these were a pleasant surprise.
classichasclass•4mo ago
Thanks for the kind word! They were fun to write.
treetalker•4mo ago
> you can select a key to use for this

Might be a good use for a foot pedal I have lying around!

drivers99•4mo ago
I made a PCB for a keyboard and built it with forward and backward leap keys, “use front” keys etc, copying the Canon Cat. Now I “just” have to write the actual text editing software/OS for whichever microcontroller I end up using, and a case to hold it all together.
hackshack•4mo ago
Consider checking out this fellow's project. He's making an e-ink text editor: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5jL92TrQ803IKtdFwmUC...
drivers99•4mo ago
Oh yeah I’m subscribed to that channel and have been following along. That has some characteristics I’m interested in, but using my own hardware lets me make different decisions, like adding the leap keys I mentioned, and use full sized keys.
Philpax•4mo ago
Hmm, I think I'd want that to be a toggle, not a hold; it seems like it would be difficult to type a longer search keyword/phrase while holding down a key.
rxhanson•4mo ago
You can also set a keyboard shortcut to activate it as a toggle.
OhMeadhbh•4mo ago
Ha ha ha, suckers! I still have my Canon Cat from '87 and use it most days. I don't have to use emulation!

Seriously though... I did a contract for Jef in the early 80s and he showed me the Swyft card. Was happy to buy one of these things when it hit the shelf (though figuring out where to buy it from was kind of difficult.)

The keyboard doesn't have as good a feel as you might expect, so emulation will let you use a decent, modern keyboard. I still have a large box of floppies so that's not an issue. In the 90s I hacked together some FORTH code to read / write documents over the serial port, but it's a bit fragile.

Anyway... It's worth checking out. The only thing I would change would be up and down arrow keys. I think Jef had a philosophical problem with this which is why it never shipped with them. It's usable without them, it just seems a bit weird.

Surprised the article didn't mention the book "The Humane Interface" which was the book Jef wrote with the philosophical underpinnings of Swyft and IA/Canon Cat. Worth a read. Might be up on the Internet Archive.

pavlov•4mo ago
Ars published an earlier long article about Raskin’s work which does discuss the book too:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/jef-raskins-cul-de-s...

ddingus•4mo ago
My take on his book is it contains many tools one can use to reason about UX issues effectively. Parts of the book are dated, but that does not seem to take away from otherwise solid user interface discussion.
oliverchan2024•4mo ago
Honestly, I'm looking forward to hearing your experience with the Canon Cat, and does it match what's said in this article? It's very difficult to find specific operation videos of the Canon Cat, and they are also quite hard to understand.
OhMeadhbh•4mo ago
Oh. Okay. I should do some videos.
kragen•4mo ago
A shame THE/Archy and RCHI aren't mentioned!