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Vim's UserGettingBored Autocmd

https://evanhahn.com/usergettingbored-vim/
24•zdw•5d ago

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hmokiguess•1h ago
In some ways this reminds me of some cars that can detect when the driver needs a break. Wish it was a real thing, it’s easy to get lost in work sometimes.
QuantumNomad_•38m ago
Maybe you could use something like this to make it real:

> Building a Real-Time Concentration Tracker using MediaPipe and OpenCV

> A simple AI project that measures focus and attention using your webcam — with Python, OpenCV, and MediaPipe.

https://medium.com/@jiyasisdiya/building-a-real-time-concent...

loa_in_•20m ago
Making computers understand what concentration means is still decades away despite obvious advances.
toxik•30m ago
What an absolute AI slop post.
olexsmir•7m ago
there's also `:smile` (i think it's nvim only), `:help 42`

The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now

https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/internet_predatory_cesspit/
158•ibobev•59m ago•87 comments

Warp builds self-improving agents on Claude

https://claude.com/blog/how-warp-builds-self-improving-agents-on-claude
16•shenli3514•31m ago•8 comments

Calibrate Before You Accelerate: Bias Toward Action in a New Role

https://tucker.wales/writing/bias-towards-action/
34•tuckerwales•2h ago•6 comments

SQLite as a Document Database (2020)

https://dgl.cx/2020/06/sqlite-json-support
116•lioeters•4d ago•29 comments

Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux

https://zackbartel.com/blog/2026/08/tether/
168•zackb•5d ago•84 comments

DHS is using obscure law to snoop on journalists, non-profits, unions

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/29/trump-dhs-1509-summons-records-journalists-nonpro...
61•firefax•55m ago•8 comments

Sleepwalker: Passive Backdoor with Its Own Command Language

https://r136a1.dev/2026/08/24/sleepwalker-a-passive-backdoor-with-its-own-command-language/
37•defrost•4d ago•3 comments

Indirect Calling of Nested Functions on GCC Without Executable Stack

https://uecker.codeberg.page/2026-08-29.html
51•uecker•5h ago•27 comments

The growing divide between AI hype and software engineering reality

https://optimizedbyotto.com/post/why-open-source-projects-ban-ai/
34•jruohonen•3h ago•28 comments

Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI

https://newsletter.eng-leadership.com/p/good-culture-is-the-biggest-productivity
76•gpi•2h ago•16 comments

Show HN: Typebase – A single-folder back end you write in TypeScript

https://typebase.io
76•andrewww-dev•3d ago•15 comments

Quantifying Colour

https://ekunazanu.foo/lab/quantifying-colour/
42•vismit2000•3h ago•4 comments

Glacier Mice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier_mice
196•ostacke•5d ago•40 comments

Vim's UserGettingBored Autocmd

https://evanhahn.com/usergettingbored-vim/
27•zdw•5d ago•5 comments

Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM)

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/hot-chips-2026-samsungs-processing
219•ingve•13h ago•74 comments

Kmart Digicam Mod Part 2

https://mason.bearblog.dev/kmart-digicam-mod-part-2/
5•masoniamme•5d ago•0 comments

EVE Online moves to Python 3

https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/the-move-to-python-3-begins
228•TylerJaacks•4d ago•111 comments

Creating the Aetheryte Radio

https://haz.ee/posts/aetheryte-radio.html
51•wonger_•1d ago•12 comments

A better SQL in 11 lines of code

https://prela-lang.org/tutorial/
15•remywang•2h ago•7 comments

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/roman-space-telescope/
77•JumpCrisscross•3h ago•25 comments

GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE)

https://bsky.app/profile/grapheneos.org/post/3mua32q4ds22e
148•400thecat•4h ago•54 comments

Htmx 4.0

https://four.htmx.org/announcements/2026-08-28-htmx-4.0.0-is-released
782•rmsaksida•1d ago•195 comments

Trees for a Changing Climate and Resilient Urban Forest (2022)

https://www.coolboulder.org/news/trees-for-a-changing-climate-resilient-urban-forest
7•mooreds•3h ago•0 comments

Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework

https://github.com/Lakr233/vphone-cli
359•hentrep•20h ago•95 comments

Show HN: Galaxium, an experimental WebGPU space explorer

https://galaxium.app
82•guillaumec•5d ago•26 comments

Hunting Down a Go Runtime Bug on 32-Bit Embedded Systems

https://sigma-star.at/blog/2026/08/go-runtime-netpoll-bug/
96•birdculture•3d ago•12 comments

StemDeck, a free, open-source and local AI stem separator

https://github.com/stemdeckapp/stemdeck
186•thclpr•18h ago•56 comments

Time complexity of operations on Python's built-in types

https://docs.python.org/3.16/library/time-complexity.html
80•theanonymousone•4d ago•31 comments

I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis

https://pwning.systems/posts/llm-memory-program-analysis/
258•matt_d•20h ago•71 comments

Europe's last regular standard-gauge steam passenger service

https://parowozowniawolsztyn.pl/?page_id=2141
101•GungulSurm•2d ago•24 comments