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Pretext

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/29/pretext/
10•lumpa•2h ago

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sublinear•1h ago
While this is very cool, I'm having a hard time seeing this on a production web page.

If there is a dependency on JS for styling, the dev still has to write some fallback CSS. The broader decision making from marketing and design will be to go for consistency, and that means not using this library the moment QA turns off JS (or simply witnesses a slow download of the JS) and opens a bug.

I can also see people being so picky about the precise lines on which words land on that it forces the dev to abandon usage of this. Yes, I do see some options in the docs, but who will maintain all that when someone just wants to change a word or requires dynamic content?

New Apple Silicon M4 and M5 HiDPI Limitation on 4K External Displays

https://smcleod.net/2026/03/new-apple-silicon-m4-m5-hidpi-limitation-on-4k-external-displays/
189•smcleod•3h ago•86 comments

The Cognitive Dark Forest

https://ryelang.org/blog/posts/cognitive-dark-forest/
357•kaycebasques•9h ago•164 comments

Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder

https://techfixated.com/a-1977-time-capsule-voyager-1-runs-on-69-kb-of-memory-and-an-8-track-tape...
448•speckx•13h ago•177 comments

Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week

https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/smart-glasses-ai-meta-courts-20260326.html
142•Philadelphia•3h ago•47 comments

ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state

https://www.buchodi.com/chatgpt-wont-let-you-type-until-cloudflare-reads-your-react-state-i-decry...
416•alberto-m•8h ago•304 comments

15 Years of Forking

https://www.waterfox.com/blog/15-years-of-forking/
91•MrAlex94•2d ago•6 comments

Interview: Nobonoko, Master of the Minimal Sequencer

https://fi-le.net/nobo/
19•fi-le•2d ago•1 comments

Pretext: TypeScript library for multiline text measurement and layout

https://github.com/chenglou/pretext
243•emersonmacro•1d ago•46 comments

C++26 is done ISO C++ standards meeting, Trip Report

https://herbsutter.com/2026/03/29/c26-is-done-trip-report-march-2026-iso-c-standards-meeting-lond...
196•pjmlp•11h ago•150 comments

Claude Code runs Git reset –hard origin/main against project repo every 10 mins

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/40710
217•mthwsjc_•6h ago•146 comments

The road signs that teach travellers about France

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260327-the-road-signs-that-teach-travellers-about-france
69•1659447091•8h ago•23 comments

Gonon: Building a Clock with No Numerals

https://tonygaeta.com/perceptor/code/gonon
7•nullpath•3d ago•4 comments

About the Atmosphere

https://toni.org/2026/03/27/about-the-atmosphere/
39•Kye•2d ago•4 comments

"Roadrunner": a bipedal, wheeled robot for multi-modal locomotion [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kae-UAME1U
7•surprisetalk•4d ago•1 comments

I'll buy your electronics to feed our robot

https://www.dayworkx.com/
75•skholinn•3d ago•15 comments

Coding Agents Could Make Free Software Matter Again

https://www.gjlondon.com/blog/ai-agents-could-make-free-software-matter-again/
135•rogueleaderr•6h ago•124 comments

The RISE RISC-V Runners: free, native RISC-V CI on GitHub

https://riseproject.dev/2026/03/24/announcing-the-rise-risc-v-runners-free-native-risc-v-ci-on-gi...
128•thebeardisred•3d ago•31 comments

More on Version Control

https://bramcohen.com/p/more-on-version-control
66•velmu•9h ago•15 comments

LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

675•hrncode•20h ago•390 comments

Kyushu Railway Company Train Varieties

https://www.jrkyushu.co.jp/english/train/index.html
72•NaOH•10h ago•9 comments

Ohm's Peg-to-WASM Compiler

https://ohmjs.org/blog/2026/03/12/peg-to-wasm
45•azhenley•3d ago•15 comments

Show HN: Crazierl – An Erlang Operating System

https://crazierl.org/demo/
50•toast0•8h ago•11 comments

Neovim 0.12.0

https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/tag/v0.12.0
326•pawelgrzybek•11h ago•180 comments

Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit

https://github.com/austin-weeks/miasma
304•LucidLynx•19h ago•218 comments

The rise and fall of IBM's 4 Pi aerospace computers: an illustrated history

https://www.righto.com/2026/03/ibm-4-pi-computer-history.html
81•zdw•12h ago•24 comments

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics

https://news.umich.edu/nitrile-and-latex-gloves-may-cause-overestimation-of-microplastics-u-m-stu...
531•giuliomagnifico•19h ago•239 comments

There is No Spoon. A software engineers primer for demystified ML

https://github.com/dreddnafious/thereisnospoon
81•jmatthews•6h ago•18 comments

Show HN: QuickBEAM – run JavaScript as supervised Erlang/OTP processes

https://github.com/elixir-volt/quickbeam
87•dannote•1d ago•13 comments

Police used AI facial recognition to wrongly arrest TN woman for crimes in ND

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/29/us/angela-lipps-ai-facial-recognition
379•ourmandave•14h ago•163 comments

AyaFlow: A high-performance, eBPF-based network traffic analyzer written in Rust

https://github.com/DavidHavoc/ayaFlow
91•tanelpoder•13h ago•5 comments