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Google rejects claims of AI in Search hurting web traffic

https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/artificial-intelligence/google-denies-ai-search-hurt...
1•vednig•1m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Sdfs

1•hari_vardhan•4m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Are there any developers prefer writing code manually?

1•trowa159•8m ago•0 comments

Roundup of July 2026 Bootstrapper Events

https://bootstrappersbreakfast.com/2026/06/23/roundup-of-july-2026-bootstrapper-events/
1•skmurphy•8m ago•1 comments

Fake Windows: highly realistic LED screens that simulates sunlight into a room

https://twitter.com/iPaulCanada/status/2070560999300559283
4•aurenvale•12m ago•0 comments

The Real Cost of Using AI in 2026

https://adlrocha.substack.com/p/adlrocha-the-real-cost-of-using-ai
1•adlrocha•14m ago•0 comments

Hungary holds first post-Orban Budapest Pride march

https://www.dw.com/en/hungary-holds-first-post-orban-budapest-pride-march/a-77736596
2•bushwart•15m ago•0 comments

I-Regexp: An Interoperable Regular Expression Format

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9485
1•tonyg•15m ago•0 comments

Can we create a shield to protect Earth from solar storms?

https://physicsworld.com/a/can-we-create-a-shield-to-protect-earth-from-solar-storms/
1•visha1v•16m ago•0 comments

You have violated the rules of our community [Humor]

https://www.mangialardi.it/you-have-violated-the-rules-of-our-community/
1•rm30•21m ago•1 comments

Itcss: Scalable and Maintainable CSS Architecture (2021)

https://www.xfive.co/blog/itcss-scalable-maintainable-css-architecture
1•toilet•23m ago•0 comments

The US Lock of the Web

https://ache.one/notes/the-us-lock-of-the-web
1•enz•23m ago•0 comments

Flick – Self-hostable file sharing with human-friendly codes (Go/Next.js)

https://github.com/Flick-Corp/flick
1•dellixou•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: CCA-F Gotchas – exam pitfalls turned into an earworm playlist

https://suno.com/playlist/8ee4368a-294e-4369-8896-c9eba40768ce
1•dvaughan•23m ago•0 comments

Chinese tech hub's shift into robotaxis leaves drivers by the wayside

https://www.ft.com/content/b1445598-e5e3-4530-9e82-e0155c44106b
1•bazzmt•23m ago•1 comments

A Transformer Becomes an LLM

https://bharad.dev/blog/from-transformer-to-llm
1•bharadwajp•23m ago•0 comments

6 Facts About Europe and Air Conditioning

https://heatmap.news/daily/europe-air-conditioning
1•salonium_•27m ago•0 comments

Policymakers can prep for a potential AI job apocalypse

https://www.wordsinsearchlight.org/p/how-policymakers-can-prep-for-a-potential
1•m-hodges•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Hikaru Labs – A private, 100% local alternative to iLoveIMG

https://hikarulabs.xyz
2•CFBL•27m ago•1 comments

Can China build its own ASML?

https://nikkei.shorthandstories.com/can-china-build-its-own-asml/
3•pieterr•43m ago•0 comments

China's CXMT Is Set to Challenge DRAM Incumbents

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/chinas-cxmt-is-set-to-challenge-dram
5•pieterr•48m ago•0 comments

Authority is the degenerate case: what else propagates through the link graph?

https://zenodo.org/records/20981883
1•JasonDuke•49m ago•0 comments

Why growth harder to find: good ideas aren't becoming rare, but hard to share

https://www.nber.org/papers/w35182
1•oliculipolicula•54m ago•0 comments

Wouter van Oortmerssen on Surviving in Early Access and Escaping Minecraft

https://report.wand.com/interviews/voxray-voxile-interview
2•mikelabatt•56m ago•0 comments

Inference, Diffusion, World Models, and More – YC Paper Club [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE1ZgJdt4uM
2•frenchmajesty•56m ago•0 comments

Guess what, lawmakers? The Runtime Is the Regulator

https://www.mikehyland.com/blog/ai-governance-zero-trust-runtime
1•mjhyl•57m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Which Induction Cooktops Have the Best User Experience (UI/UX)?

1•evolve2k•58m ago•1 comments

Be the First to Test It

1•carlostkd•59m ago•0 comments

AI Is the Best Thing to Happen to Security

https://badshah.io/blog/ai-is-the-best-thing-to-happen-to-security/
2•ilreb•1h ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Who here would agree to replace parliaments with LLMs?

3•julienreszka•1h ago•4 comments
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Show HN: Better Graphs – Teach agents to stop making plain Matplotlib slop

https://temataro.github.io/better-graphs/
6•tem_alThor•1h ago
https://github.com/temataro/better-graphs

I want to teach good Matplotlib taste to agents and humans. This repo contains: 1. Agent instructions + design motifs (Claude Code skills + a CLAUDE.md). 2. An online "blog" tutorial of the same skills, for people. 3. minerva.mplstyle, my opinionated sane matplotlib defaults.

Inspired by Tufte's book: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (a gift from my boss!), plus data-to-viz.com and the python-graph-gallery. Aiming for halfway to the gorgeous plots in the paid matplotlib-journey.com, but free and open to share with friends. :)

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tem_alThor•1h ago

  This repo is three things in one:
  1- A set of instructions and design motifs AI agents can incorporate into their understanding of what makes a good Matplotlib graph through SKILLs and a CLAUDE.md.
  2- An online 'blog' tutorial for a human audience to learn the same skills (to remind me how to do specific things or teach an intern/coworker the same idea).
  3- An included mplstyle file that contains my opinionated set of sane default configurations for matplotlib: minerva.mplstyle.
My biggest inspiration was Tufte's The Visual Display of Quantitative Information which my boss gifted me a couple years ago, data-to-viz(dot)com and the python-graph-gallery were the big references for "which chart for which data", and to be fair those are by the same author as a paid course I couldn't justify paying for to myself called matplotlib-journey(dot)com. My is to try to get half the way to the amazing plots they show you but free, open-source so I can share it with friends

I'd genuinely be interested just to use this post as a way to survey the HN community on what things levelled-up your own Matplotlib graphing or what finally made general science/quantitative data communication click.