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AI fatigue Is real and nobody talks about it

https://siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-fatigue-is-real
49•sidk24•43m ago•29 comments

RFC 3092 – Etymology of "Foo" (2001)

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3092
12•ipnon•30m ago•1 comments

GitHub Agentic Workflows

https://github.github.io/gh-aw/
12•mooreds•1h ago•2 comments

Matchlock – Secures AI agent workloads with a Linux-based sandbox

https://github.com/jingkaihe/matchlock
82•jingkai_he•6h ago•35 comments

Curating a Show on My Ineffable Mother, Ursula K. Le Guin

https://hyperallergic.com/curating-a-show-on-my-ineffable-mother-ursula-k-le-guin/
45•bryanrasmussen•4h ago•14 comments

Why E cores make Apple silicon fast

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/02/08/last-week-on-my-mac-why-e-cores-make-apple-silicon-fast/
103•ingve•3h ago•102 comments

Reverse Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600

https://github.com/joshuanwalker/Raiders2600
36•pacod•5h ago•1 comments

Dave Farber has died

https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/nanog@lists.nanog.org/thread/TSNPJVFH4DKLINIKSMRIIVNHDG5XKJCM/
84•vitplister•3h ago•11 comments

DoNotNotify is now Open Source

https://donotnotify.com/opensource.html
273•awaaz•7h ago•44 comments

Show HN: It took 4 years to sell my startup. I wrote a book about it

https://derekyan.com/ma-book/
31•zhyan7109•3d ago•7 comments

Slop Terrifies Me

https://ezhik.jp/ai-slop-terrifies-me/
124•Ezhik•4h ago•114 comments

Beyond agentic coding

https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/beyond-agentic-coding
182•RebelPotato•13h ago•67 comments

Rabbit Ear "Origami": programmable origami in the browser

https://rabbitear.org/book/origami.html
52•molszanski•4d ago•3 comments

Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory

https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt
274•yi_wang•13h ago•132 comments

A11yJSON: A standard to describe the accessibility of the physical world

https://sozialhelden.github.io/a11yjson/
30•robin_reala•5d ago•4 comments

Show HN: Fine-tuned Qwen2.5-7B on 100 films for probabilistic story graphs

https://cinegraphs.ai/
55•graphpilled•3h ago•16 comments

OpenClaw Is Changing My Life

https://reorx.com/blog/openclaw-is-changing-my-life/
41•novoreorx•8h ago•81 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023)

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
337•valyala•21h ago•67 comments

The Legacy of Daniel Kahneman: A Personal View (2025)

https://ejpe.org/journal/article/view/1075/753
30•cainxinth•3d ago•8 comments

We mourn our craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
454•ColinWright•20h ago•609 comments

Bitcoin tumbles below $70K, heavy losses in cryptocurrencies in last three weeks

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-05/bitcoin-drops-below-70-000-as-forced-deleverag...
19•heresie-dabord•1h ago•11 comments

I write games in C (yes, C) (2016)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
212•valyala•21h ago•230 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/
160•swah•5d ago•306 comments

The Architecture of Open Source Applications (Volume 1) Berkeley DB

https://aosabook.org/en/v1/bdb.html
64•grep_it•5d ago•8 comments

Kolakoski Sequence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolakoski_sequence
4•surprisetalk•5d ago•0 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
256•mellosouls•23h ago•412 comments

Roger Ebert Reviews "The Shawshank Redemption" (1999)

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-the-shawshank-redemption-1994
49•monero-xmr•9h ago•61 comments

Arcan Explained – A browser for different webs

https://arcan-fe.com/2026/01/26/arcan-explained-a-browser-for-different-webs/
10•walterbell•6h ago•0 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
209•surprisetalk•20h ago•218 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
204•AlexeyBrin•1d ago•43 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: Perfect your presentation with a panel of AI reviewers

https://review.thorntale.com/
10•ellenfkh•4mo ago
Hi HN!

We (Thorntale) are a startup building presentation tools, we noticed that while people disliked the tedium of making slide decks, a lot of people actively dread presenting those decks, especially if it's a high-stakes call or if they're inexperienced. Speaking from experience, practice helps a lot, but it can feel embarrassing to give the same pitch to your friend or cofounder for the tenth time.

We built this prototype https://review.thorntale.com/ as a way to practice; upload a PDF deck, give your presentation, and the selected AI "personas" will analyze the slides and transcript and provide feedback. At the moment, we've tuned "personas" to give you feedback from the perspective of an investor, a teacher, or a marketing/branding lead (as well as a few entertaining extras.) If you have a particular use case, shoot us a comment, we're refining the persona system and planning what else to build there.

The tool is totally free and doesn't require signup or login; we'd love any feedback if you check it out!

https://review.thorntale.com/

Comments

esafak•4mo ago
I'd just upload my presentation to my AI tool myself, forget about the personas, and describe the intended audience instead.

If the value proposition is in the personas, I do not see it. On a related note, presentation quality is hard to gauge, so such a tool may be hard for you to monetize. Prospects may wonder if is it any better than just doing what I suggested, and by enough to pay for?

ellenfkh•4mo ago
It's definitely the next step -- adding the ability to tune the intended audience and (for instance) give them your specific context. The personas are a shortcut for more generic feedback, for if you don't know your audience very well, or for kicking the tires.
scrollaway•4mo ago
Question to you folks, do you have any luck with ai tools that are able to generate clean PPT based designs (or some other non-PPT tool that can generate clean PDFs)?

Like, with Claude Code I can generate a bunch of web pages based on a core design and components. But doing consistent presentations is very difficult unless you have a super simple template.

ellenfkh•4mo ago
Our main tool (app.thorntale.com) is this concept! But yeah, the problem we've noticed is that without a lot of constraints, the generated presentations look very disjointed and tend to be incoherent.

My theory is that while Claude and similar can generate html-based documents fine, presentation slides are such an unconstrained medium that it's closer to image generation than code generation, so getting it to have a stable style is much more difficult. We constrained our app to a Notion-like architecture for this reason.

scrollaway•4mo ago
Send me an email, would love to chat.
0914730732674•4mo ago
Marp (Markdown Presentation) works well for me:

https://marp.app/

https://github.com/marp-team/awesome-marp

And outlining is easier than in Powerpoint, even if one doesn't use an LLM.

scrollaway•4mo ago
Looks very cool! Are there UI tools that work with it though or is it all text based?