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I'm writing a history of Visual Basic, Chapter 1 is up

https://evilgeniuslabs.ca/blog/visual-basic-history-chapter-1-launch
3•speckx•1h ago

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vunderba•1h ago
Why on earth would you use an AI-generated image [1] (let me be clear: POOR AI IMAGE) for the banner of this project?

If you're going to use genai, you need to make sure it actually looks acceptable. Do at least one careful pass over it before publishing. Just look at the details:

- The text on the book spines doesn’t even spell “Microsoft” correctly.

- Dartmouth is spelled "Darmouth". SIGH.

- The screenshot on the CRT monitor doesn't remotely resemble any version of Visual Basic I’ve ever used and I’ve been using it since Visual Basic for DOS.

Using an image like this sets the tone and impression for the entire book going forward. Right now, that first impression isn’t good.

[1] - https://evilgeniuslabs.ca/uploads/content/2026/05/6fd5a7b327...

Old Job Is Still Running You. You Just Don't Work There Anymore

https://www.derekneighbors.com/2026/05/05/your-old-job-is-still-running-you
1•speckx•1m ago•0 comments

Google Gemini app does not respect chat history preferences

1•great_psy•2m ago•0 comments

Walt Disney and the Romance of Building (A Ton of Apartment Buildings)

https://www.governance.fyi/p/walt-disney-and-the-romance-of-building
1•bigbobbeeper•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: What the OpenAI Agent Phone might feel like

https://kouh.me/openaiphone
1•mrkn1•2m ago•0 comments

How AI agent memory works

https://memory.cobanov.dev/
1•cobanov•4m ago•0 comments

Bitter Lessons from the ISSpresso

https://mceglowski.substack.com/p/bitter-lessons-from-the-isspresso
1•zdw•4m ago•0 comments

Supreme Court denies Apple breathing space in Epic fight

https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/05/06/supreme-court-denies-apples-hopes-for-breathing-space-...
1•benoau•7m ago•0 comments

Saved ~40GB of db space wasted on unused indexes

https://peerlist.io/raviojhax/articles/how-unused-indexes-ate-41gb-postgres
1•raviojha•7m ago•0 comments

March Amtrak Up 21%; Flying Up 7% Since 2019

https://ti.org/antiplanner/?p=23854
1•speckx•7m ago•0 comments

Programming Still Sucks

https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp
1•jeromechoo•7m ago•0 comments

Batch API is terrible for one agent. It might be great for a fleet

https://eran.sandler.co.il/post/2026-04-27-batch-api-is-terrible-for-one-agent/
1•gmays•11m ago•0 comments

Surveva: Global Social Polling

https://surveva.com/
1•faisalalothaina•11m ago•1 comments

A Mutation Gave Humans the Gift of Speech. These Mice Have It, Too

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/science/a-mutation-gave-humans-the-gift-of-speech-these-mice-h...
3•jonas21•11m ago•0 comments

Show+HN:YouTube Transcript API

https://youtubetranscript.us/
1•nikitarogers•11m ago•0 comments

Recondo – Logging Proxy for Coding Agents (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini)

https://github.com/recondodev/recondo
1•andmerm•11m ago•0 comments

DeepSeek could be valued at up to $50B in first fundraising

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1•cmitsakis•14m ago•0 comments

What Happens When Fraud Tempts UK Workers? (2025)

https://www.cifas.org.uk/workplace-fraud-trends-2025
1•gnabgib•16m ago•0 comments

An agent OS built as narrow workers on iii primitives

https://www.agentsos.sh/
1•rohitghumare•17m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Should coding agents fall back to another model when one fails?

https://www.zot.sh/#model-fallback
5•patriceckhart•19m ago•0 comments

Relm4: An elm inspired rust GUI framework based on GTK4

https://github.com/Relm4/Relm4
2•AlawamiAZ•21m ago•0 comments

Are you allowed to put that SoC 2 logo on your website?

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2•gearnode•22m ago•0 comments

Ascynd – AI video clipper that runs on your machine

https://ascynd.io/en/blog/building-ascynd-in-rust
2•niels_•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a personalized portfolio builder for your values

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1•chibg10•24m ago•0 comments

1 in 8 workers say selling company logins is justifiable

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2•speckx•25m ago•0 comments

Learning the Integral of a Diffusion Model

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1•benanne•27m ago•0 comments

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3•ascorbic•28m ago•0 comments

Embed Arbitrary Payloads into JPEGs Without Special Tools

https://swharden.com/blog/2026-05-02-jpeg-payload/
1•freediver•28m ago•0 comments

Solidity vulnerability findings open dataset

https://huggingface.co/datasets/daveytea/x23-solidity-vulnerabilities-audit-findings
1•daveytea•29m ago•1 comments

MySQL 9.7 Is Out and the Community Wins

https://blogs.oracle.com/mysql/mysql-9-7-is-out-and-the-community-wins
2•jonbaer•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Dez brings back Zed's Text Threads

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1•gslepak•30m ago•0 comments