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Electron apps: web browsers in a trenchcoat

https://ssg.dev/electron-apps-web-browsers-in-a-trenchcoat/
2•sedatk•2h ago

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fishfasell•2h ago
In the age of AI, I very strongly feel Electron will succumb to eventually fading into obscurity. It's clunky, resource intensive, and a PITA to work with. Getting Claude or other frontier models to write a WinUI/ Swift app is going to be common place and preferred over Electron for most use cases. Electron filled the gap of being able to write desktop apps but only being armed with JS knowledge.

A company I worked for wrote a kiosk app in Electron, which was a focal point of the business. The pains the devs encountered with development and support is a perfect example of "just because you can write it in JS doesn't mean you should"

Supplement that binds to microplastics may remove them from our body

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2580139-supplement-that-binds-to-microplastics-may-remove-th...
1•littlexsparkee•2m ago•0 comments

One probable outcome of an open-weight-model-dominant world is full AI communism

https://xcancel.com/deanwball/status/2078133895766114412?s=46
1•rvz•2m ago•0 comments

Databricks hits $188B valuation, extending its run as AI's favorite second act

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/17/databricks-hits-188b-valuation-extending-its-run-as-ais-favorit...
2•Brajeshwar•6m ago•0 comments

Frame: A New X11 Server Implementation Written in x86_64 Assembly

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Frame-X11-Server-Assembly
2•Bender•6m ago•0 comments

Gnome OS Safe Mode Improving the System Reliability

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-OS-Safe-Mode
2•Bender•6m ago•0 comments

Micro-drone achieves first insect kill on the way towards eradicating mosquitoes

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/drones/autonomous-micro-drone-achieves-first-air-to-ai...
1•rmason•7m ago•0 comments

North Sea hits record 20.4°C amid marine heat wave

https://nltimes.nl/2026/07/17/north-sea-hits-record-204degc-amid-marine-heat-wave
3•tcp_handshaker•8m ago•0 comments

How to Dox Anyone

https://xcancel.com/i/article/2073823066111590866
2•illliillll•8m ago•0 comments

SpaceX and the myth of independent Wall St research

https://www.ft.com/content/ce345155-d897-4f49-b7c8-13680e3b5434
4•JumpCrisscross•14m ago•0 comments

I wanna make $1M for a thousand indies

https://notes.erlend.sh/3mqvs3zg6zs26
2•erlend_sh•15m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Do you have any plan for post AGI?

5•hypefi•16m ago•6 comments

Sometimes the most resilient thing a system can do isn't retry

https://madflojo.substack.com/p/sometimes-the-most-resilient-thing
2•theanonymousone•17m ago•0 comments

A new wavelet codec for thumbnails/preview (200B–36KB)

https://github.com/lieff/miniwtpc
2•lieff•18m ago•2 comments

Relationships and Power in Startup Ecosystems (2019)

https://siliconhillslawyer.com/2019/02/18/relationships-and-power-startup-ecosystems/
1•robocat•18m ago•0 comments

Pull your calendar availability in 3 seconds

https://www.trytimely.co/
2•jketteringham•18m ago•1 comments

The Camden Fourteen – Identifying America's First Veterans

https://fhdforensics.com/camden-burials-identifications/
1•rmason•26m ago•1 comments

Wp2shell: Pre Authentication RCE in WordPress Core

https://slcyber.io/research-center/wp2shell-pre-authentication-rce-in-wordpress-core/
1•tjwds•29m ago•0 comments

Intel Starts Shipping High-NA EUV Silicon

https://morethanmoore.substack.com/p/intel-starts-shipping-high-na-euv
2•zdw•32m ago•0 comments

Give Agents Homeplace via SSH

https://www.xshellz.com/
2•stfnon•32m ago•1 comments

Why huge pages matter for Postgres?

https://clickhouse.com/blog/huge-pages-clickhouse-managed-postgres
1•saisrirampur•32m ago•0 comments

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna Has Nowhere to Hide from AI

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ibm-ceo-arvind-krishna-has-nowhere-to-hide-from-ai-c9ff290f
2•johnbarron•38m ago•0 comments

Sync.md – keep AGENTS.md, Claude.md, .cursorrules in sync by meaning, not diff

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=sync-md.sync-md
1•anzilzedex•39m ago•0 comments

Against Mind-Blindness: Recognizing and Communicating with Diverse Intelligences [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHkFmUwW0kM
2•lioeters•39m ago•0 comments

Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (2010)

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-work-dioxygen-difluoride
3•downbad_•43m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Waylou / a multi-provider CLI coding agent / fork of Gemini CLI

https://github.com/helis-d/waylou
1•Emirhan123•43m ago•1 comments

Tool to benchmark AGENTS.md file on swe tasks

https://github.com/emiliolugo/clawmark
1•emiliolugo•43m ago•0 comments

Apple dethrones Nvidia to regain title of world's most valuable company

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/17/apple-nvidia-most-valuable-company
4•Brajeshwar•44m ago•0 comments

Tutorial: Introduction to Formal Verification with Lean (Part 1)

https://hashcloak.com/blog/tutorial-introduction-to-formal-verification-with-lean-(part-1)
3•birdculture•48m ago•0 comments

No President Has Embarrassed This Country the Way Trump Did Last Night

https://newrepublic.com/post/213195/trump-primetime-speech-no-embarrassed-country
13•petethomas•48m ago•1 comments

Valve's 14-Year Journey to Make the Steam Machine

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-07-17/valve-s-14-year-journey-to-make-the-steam-m...
1•HelloUsername•48m ago•0 comments