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The CSS Handbook, 2025 edition

https://flaviocopes.com/the-css-handbook-2025-edition/
1•indigodaddy•10m ago•0 comments

Wearable Electrochemical Platform for Continuous Sweat Lactate Detection

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smll.202502655
1•PaulHoule•12m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is there no way to incrementally backup from Google photos?

3•mijoharas•13m ago•2 comments

Everyone builds apps for where the night starts. We built one for where it ends

https://myaftr.com/
1•Jessenet•14m ago•1 comments

American students are getting dumber

https://www.slowboring.com/p/american-students-are-getting-dumber
4•JumpCrisscross•15m ago•1 comments

The pattern language of software architecture

https://metapatterns.io
1•t-3•15m ago•0 comments

Apple steps up war of words with European regulators

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly930y90lro
2•tchalla•17m ago•0 comments

As Good as a Coin Toss: Human Detection of AI-Generated Content

https://cacm.acm.org/research/as-good-as-a-coin-toss-human-detection-of-ai-generated-content/
2•pseudolus•21m ago•2 comments

Thundering Herd Problem: Preventing the Stampede

https://distributed-computing-musings.com/2025/08/thundering-herd-problem-preventing-the-stampede/
1•pbardea•21m ago•0 comments

Grepctl: Semantic Search for Your Data Lake

https://github.com/gregorymulla/grepctl
2•GregoryMulla•22m ago•1 comments

Ron DiMenna, Founder of Ron Jon Surf Shop, Has Died

https://spacecoastdaily.com/2025/09/obituary-ron-jon-surf-shop-founder-ron-dimenna-who-turned-sur...
2•NaOH•24m ago•1 comments

US Intel officials "concerned" China will soon master reusable launch

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/09/us-intel-officials-cite-reusable-launch-as-difference-maker...
1•pseudolus•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Minimalist automatic Prettier formatting plugin for Vite

https://github.com/kekyo/prettier-max
1•kekyo•24m ago•0 comments

How Climate Change Is Fueling Your Sugar Addiction

https://grist.org/food-and-agriculture/how-climate-change-is-fueling-your-sugar-addiction/
1•sizzle•25m ago•1 comments

Predicting the Future: The Supergroup of AI, Humans, Hedgehogs and Foxes

https://www.newsweek.com/nw-ai/predicting-future-supergroup-ai-humans-hedgehogs-foxes-2132146
1•T-A•27m ago•0 comments

Bayes vs. Frequentists – An Empirical Test in Code

https://software.rajivprab.com/2019/12/29/bayes-vs-frequentists-an-empirical-test-in-code/
2•whack•28m ago•1 comments

Building ventilation invented by ancient Persians/Romans making modern comeback

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/what-on-earth-solar-chimneys-1.7636962
2•bookofjoe•28m ago•0 comments

Food Defect Levels Handbook

https://www.fda.gov/food/current-good-manufacturing-practices-cgmps-food-and-dietary-supplements/...
1•georgecmu•31m ago•0 comments

Your Kitchen Is Full of Microplastics. Here’s How to Eat Less of Them

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250919-how-to-eat-less-plastic
1•sizzle•31m ago•0 comments

Don't Purchase Your iPhone with AppleCare+

https://ssg.dev/dont-purchase-your-iphone-with-applecare/
2•sedatk•40m ago•2 comments

One like, one writing opinion (thread)

https://bsky.app/profile/p-h-lee.bsky.social/post/3lusg3yqdk22v
1•colinprince•42m ago•0 comments

Trump links autism to Tylenol and vaccines, claims not backed by science

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trump-expected-link-autism-with-tylen...
10•geox•42m ago•7 comments

Wan-Animate: Unified Character Animation, Replacement with Holistic Replication

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14055
1•walterbell•42m ago•0 comments

Verified Steam game steals streamer's cancer treatment donations

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/verified-steam-game-steals-streamers-cancer-treatm...
2•akyuu•44m ago•1 comments

Cyberattack Forces Brussels Airport to Cancel More Flights

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/world/europe/brussels-airport-delays-europe-cyberattack.html
3•corvad•48m ago•0 comments

Designating Antifa as a Domestic Terrorist Organization

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/designating-antifa-as-a-domestic-terroris...
59•Kye•49m ago•43 comments

Google enters second court battle against DOJ over alleged monopoly – CBS News

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-ad-tech-monopoly-trial-remedy/
1•corvad•49m ago•0 comments

Blue Origin wins NASA deal to ferry VIPER rover to lunar South Pole

https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/22/blue-origin-wins-nasa-deal-to-ferry-viper-rover-to-lunar-south-...
1•corvad•51m ago•0 comments

Roboneo.art: Your Ultimate AI Art and Image Generation Studio

https://roboneo.art
1•yelo1900•54m ago•1 comments

Show HN: I built a tool to stop customer churn before it kills MRR

https://www.lowchurn.com
1•ProgrammerByDay•56m ago•1 comments
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Show HN: Perfect your presentation with a panel of AI reviewers

https://review.thorntale.com/
9•ellenfkh•1h ago
Hi HN!

We (Thorntale) are a startup building presentation tools, we noticed that while people disliked the tedium of making slide decks, a lot of people actively dread presenting those decks, especially if it's a high-stakes call or if they're inexperienced. Speaking from experience, practice helps a lot, but it can feel embarrassing to give the same pitch to your friend or cofounder for the tenth time.

We built this prototype https://review.thorntale.com/ as a way to practice; upload a PDF deck, give your presentation, and the selected AI "personas" will analyze the slides and transcript and provide feedback. At the moment, we've tuned "personas" to give you feedback from the perspective of an investor, a teacher, or a marketing/branding lead (as well as a few entertaining extras.) If you have a particular use case, shoot us a comment, we're refining the persona system and planning what else to build there.

The tool is totally free and doesn't require signup or login; we'd love any feedback if you check it out!

https://review.thorntale.com/

Comments

esafak•1h ago
I'd just upload my presentation to my AI tool myself, forget about the personas, and describe the intended audience instead.

If the value proposition is in the personas, I do not see it. On a related note, presentation quality is hard to gauge, so such a tool may be hard for you to monetize. Prospects may wonder if is it any better than just doing what I suggested, and by enough to pay for?

ellenfkh•1h ago
It's definitely the next step -- adding the ability to tune the intended audience and (for instance) give them your specific context. The personas are a shortcut for more generic feedback, for if you don't know your audience very well, or for kicking the tires.
scrollaway•1h ago
Question to you folks, do you have any luck with ai tools that are able to generate clean PPT based designs (or some other non-PPT tool that can generate clean PDFs)?

Like, with Claude Code I can generate a bunch of web pages based on a core design and components. But doing consistent presentations is very difficult unless you have a super simple template.

ellenfkh•1h ago
Our main tool (app.thorntale.com) is this concept! But yeah, the problem we've noticed is that without a lot of constraints, the generated presentations look very disjointed and tend to be incoherent.

My theory is that while Claude and similar can generate html-based documents fine, presentation slides are such an unconstrained medium that it's closer to image generation than code generation, so getting it to have a stable style is much more difficult. We constrained our app to a Notion-like architecture for this reason.

0914730732674•47m ago
Marp (Markdown Presentation) works well for me:

https://marp.app/

https://github.com/marp-team/awesome-marp

And outlining is easier than in Powerpoint, even if one doesn't use an LLM.