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Wysiwid: What you see is what it does

https://essenceofsoftware.com/posts/wysiwid/
12•auggierose•3d ago

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wild_egg•2h ago
It's kind of funny but the "concept design" as described is actually just well-designed OOP.

If your OOP code is a soup if Nouns, you and your AIs are all going to have a bad time.

trjordan•1h ago
I feel like the main missing point of every "coding will go away" articles (which this mostly, but not fully, is) misses that applications of any reasonable complexity are not fully defined anywhere but their code. That drives everything about modern software.

We've always had the ability to tie the code extremely directly to user experiences. The first problem is that it creates massive code duplication. The second (related) problem is that it creates an enormous, unsquashable number of bugs. There's no internal consistency.

Modern apps are COMPLEX. The abstractions and internal, non-user structure is the only reason they're maintainable at all. I'm working an a 6-month-old, 4-person codebase, and LLM-driven refactors, with me in the drivers seat, miss stuff all the time. If I forget that feature exists in this tiny codebase, how do organizations of any size function? Abstraction, interfaces, etc. -- software design.

The future is probably closer to "LLMs help clean up codebases" than "LLMs own the codebase," because the 2nd statement is effectively equal to "I will rewrite my code in English." English is a _bad_ language for describing complex systems. We could do better than Python, sure, but it's already _far_ better than English for the kind of cross-cutting behavior-and-dependency description software requires. It's valuable to have tools that translate intent into compact, high-quality code, but you still end up working with code as the fundamental artifact.

UTF-8 is a brilliant design

https://iamvishnu.com/posts/utf8-is-brilliant-design
308•vishnuharidas•5h ago•140 comments

Emacs: A Paradigm Shift

https://edoput.it/2025/04/16/emacs-paradigm-shift.html
89•Karrot_Kream•2h ago•3 comments

QGIS is a free, open-source, cross platform geographical information system

https://github.com/qgis/QGIS
264•rcarmo•6h ago•69 comments

FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch arch

https://ffglitch.org/gallery/
28•captain_bender•1h ago•6 comments

Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/many-hard-leetcode-problems-are-easy-constraint/
379•mpweiher•8h ago•329 comments

EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy

https://www.weplanet.org/post/eu-court-rules-nuclear-energy-is-clean-energy
570•mpweiher•5h ago•426 comments

Corporations are trying to hide job openings from US citizens

https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/5498346-corporate-america-has-been-trying-to-hide-job-opening...
249•b_mc2•7h ago•197 comments

The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody

https://www.tftc.io/treasury-iexpanding-patriot-act/
577•bilsbie•11h ago•433 comments

Reduce bandwidth costs with dm-cache: fast local SSD caching for network storage

https://devcenter.upsun.com/posts/cut-aws-bandwidth-costs-95-with-dm-cache/
9•tlar•3d ago•0 comments

3D modeling with paper

https://www.arvinpoddar.com/blog/3d-modeling-with-paper
223•joshuawootonn•9h ago•31 comments

First 'perovskite camera' can see inside the human body

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025/09/first-perovskite-camera-can-see-inside-the-human-body/
32•geox•3d ago•8 comments

Show HN: Aris – a free AI-powered answer engine for kids

https://www.aris.chat
12•andrewdug•1h ago•10 comments

How FOSS Projects Handle Legal Takedown Requests

https://f-droid.org/2025/09/10/how-foss-projects-handle-legal-takedown-requests.html
78•mkesper•6h ago•7 comments

Rust: A quest for performant, reliable software [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_-6KI3m31M
82•raphlinus•15h ago•28 comments

Show HN: I made a small site to share text & files. Free, no ads or registration

https://www.dum.pt/
32•MarsB•3h ago•34 comments

Unauthorized Windows/386

https://virtuallyfun.com/2025/09/06/unauthorized-windows-386/
20•Bogdanp•3d ago•2 comments

Humanely dealing with humungus crawlers

https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/humanely-dealing-with-humungus-crawlers
68•freediver•6h ago•33 comments

Proton Mail suspended journalist accounts at request of cybersecurity agency

https://theintercept.com/2025/09/12/proton-mail-journalist-accounts-suspended/
112•lehi•2h ago•50 comments

How to Become a Pure Mathematician (Or Statistician)

http://hbpms.blogspot.com/
62•ipnon•3d ago•69 comments

Windows-Use: an AI agent that interacts with Windows at GUI layer

https://github.com/CursorTouch/Windows-Use
99•djhu9•3d ago•18 comments

OpenAI Grove

https://openai.com/index/openai-grove/
66•manveerc•7h ago•64 comments

Oq: Terminal OpenAPI Spec Viewer

https://github.com/plutov/oq
84•der_gopher•8h ago•11 comments

Building a Deep Research Agent Using MCP-Agent

https://thealliance.ai/blog/building-a-deep-research-agent-using-mcp-agent
67•saqadri•2d ago•16 comments

Advanced Scheme Techniques (2004) [pdf]

https://people.csail.mit.edu//jhbrown/scheme/continuationslides04.pdf
90•mooreds•7h ago•11 comments

VaultGemma: The most capable differentially private LLM

https://research.google/blog/vaultgemma-the-worlds-most-capable-differentially-private-llm/
76•meetpateltech•7h ago•15 comments

Why do browsers throttle JavaScript timers?

https://nolanlawson.com/2025/08/31/why-do-browsers-throttle-javascript-timers/
45•vidyesh•5h ago•26 comments

I don't like curved displays

https://blog.danielh.cc/blog/curved
54•max__dev•4d ago•72 comments

ARM is great, ARM is terrible, and so is RISC-V

https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10858-arm-is-great-arm-is-terrible-and-so-is-risc-v
28•edward•1h ago•0 comments

Vector database that can index 1B vectors in 48M

https://www.vectroid.com/blog/why-and-how-we-built-Vectroid
81•mathewpregasen•6h ago•41 comments

Racintosh Plus – Rackmount Mac Plus

http://www.identity4.com/2025-racintosh-plus/
127•zdw•4d ago•31 comments