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A Software Factory Is No Substitute for Maturity

https://www.nibzard.com/dark-factory
1•nkko•4m ago•0 comments

NIMO Holo-Optical Glasses

https://www.nimoar.com
1•mertbio•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PolyTrip – crowd-funded group trip planning with AI

https://polytrip.co/
1•Maorperry1•6m ago•0 comments

Cross-Model LLM Code Review: Should you use Claude to review Codex or vice versa

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21656
1•mil22•8m ago•1 comments

Google AI Studio's "Delete" button is misleading [video]

https://www.tiktok.com/@user6510076090944/video/7670062915185085719?is_from_webapp=1&sender_devic...
1•Bitu79•9m ago•0 comments

Bluesky's new CEO wants to grow it all

https://www.theverge.com/podcast/974387/bluesky-toni-schneider-interview-ai-atproto-atmosphere
1•thm•13m ago•0 comments

No data centers in my backyard

https://jasmi.news/p/no-data-centers-in-my-backyard
1•theahura•13m ago•0 comments

Appgp.tv – building protocols for the AI-native web

https://appgp.tv/
1•mrxai•13m ago•1 comments

Nearly Half of the Company Websites We Checked Had No Security Headers

https://ciphercue.com/blog/nearly-half-of-companies-send-zero-of-7-basic-security-headers
1•adulion•13m ago•0 comments

Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04)

https://short-stories.co/@raybradbury/there-will-come-soft-rains-6k8vr4xxlnmj
1•askvictor•16m ago•0 comments

Redbrix – A browser-based MySQL editor for non-technical users

https://redbrix.io/
2•AndyGriff•17m ago•1 comments

I RL-finetuned an LLM to unslop my writing

https://castform.com/blog/unslop/
1•stevekrouse•18m ago•0 comments

Wikimedia Foundation hired the union busters its own encyclopedia warned about

https://medium.com/regarding-wikipedia/the-wikimedia-foundation-hired-the-union-busters-its-own-e...
3•akolbe•20m ago•0 comments

Why Large Language Models Fail at Tabular Prediction

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.02412
4•sbulaev•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Paranoia – Get a cold, adversarial review of your code

https://github.com/subvertnormality/paranoia-local
1•Grahf•22m ago•0 comments

Free Raycast Alternative? Introducing Tinycast

https://github.com/abue-ammar/tinycast
1•michael-sumner•22m ago•0 comments

Good Assistant, for turning long-term goals into daily progress

https://good-assistant.ai
1•jensabacik•23m ago•1 comments

Bartłomiej Kubkowski swims for 56 hours across the Baltic Sea

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/08/03/polish-man-swims-100-miles-baltic-sea-sweden-po...
1•thunderbong•25m ago•0 comments

Learning-Rust.Github.io: Rust Programming Language Tutorials for Everyone

https://learning-rust.github.io
2•dumindunuwan•25m ago•1 comments

Scilab: Open-source software for numerical computation

https://www.scilab.org/
3•Tomte•28m ago•0 comments

DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X

https://github.com/ryanzhou/deepseek-v4-flash-mi300x
3•zhoutong•28m ago•0 comments

The end of the EU is near, and it's going to get ugly

https://newsletter.doomberg.com/p/final-countdown
3•simonebrunozzi•28m ago•1 comments

Bending Spoons is acquiring Airtable for $1.285B

https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/bending-spoons-makes-first-post-ipo-acquisition-with-...
1•maguay•34m ago•0 comments

"Clean" Code, Horrible Performance

https://www.computerenhance.com/p/clean-code-horrible-performance
1•FrojoS•36m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Servitor – simplest way to run local dev containers

https://sndsabin.github.io/servitor/
1•havu12•39m ago•0 comments

Bending Spoons to Acquire Airtable

https://twitter.com/fedesimio/status/2084539635829465266
2•jbegley•40m ago•0 comments

Homebench – Benchmark local LLMs for speed, memory, and quality

https://github.com/david-g-3654/homebench
2•davai-g•40m ago•0 comments

AI Appliances: AI Agents and Agencies in YAML

https://leanpub.com/kdeps
1•jjuliano•41m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Clawx – A package manager where packages are agent tasks

https://github.com/debarshibasak/clawx
1•debarshri•43m ago•0 comments

57,000 tines lighter than Loom (download the HTML)

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/kex0qo53gkxy8jb4cqaox/deck-recorder.html?dl=0&e=1&noscript=1&rlkey...
1•astonfred•45m ago•0 comments
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You Can Build Tools Yourself

https://jlopes.eu/blog/build-your-own-browser-tools/
2•offeringofpie•1h ago

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offeringofpie•1h ago
Why do free online tools ask you to sign up?

It's a sales funnel, and that data is worth a lot to them. You are the product.

With a bit of knowledge, persistence, documentation, you too can stop relying on dubious tools. This way you'll also learn how small the wizard behind the curtain is.

ventana•45m ago
> Once upon a time, I wanted to resize about forty screenshots. The first few search results either wanted an account before they would touch a file, or did three of them and then asked me to register for the rest.

> Resizing or converting an image can be accomplished by using browser APIs and a few bits of JavaScript, like <canvas> and toBlob.

This is an example of thinking in terms of "services" that do something big for you, end to end. An alternative approach is to think in terms of "small tools", each of which will do one thing and do it well, and then you combine them into something big – that's what we call the "UNIX way".

There is absolutely no need to implement a web page with JavaScript to resize a bunch of screenshots; it's just a trivial for loop in a shell, calling ImageMagick for each file.

Of the whole list of tools the author implemented for their own usage, there are some tools that indeed belong to the browser, but there are some other tools that just don't need to exist as a separate browser based app because doing it right in a shell is easier.