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The Brain Sandwich

https://terriblesoftware.org/2026/10/02/the-brain-sandwich/
9•keyle•3h ago

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RunSet•23m ago
"Other people use slop the wrong way."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-person_effect

spuz•13m ago
This is the same approach I use. I don't know if it actually produces good results yet as I've only been doing this for about three months. At the very least it feels like I have some agency in my work which I think is one of the things people complain they lose to AI.
beej71•11m ago
This is far better than just hitting return, but there's zero chance it's as good as doing things the hard way. Tradeoffs, of course.
StilesCrisis•7m ago
If you're saying AI has _never_ found a more elegant solution than your original idea, you're not using it right or you're only using the cheapo models.

RepRapMicron

https://github.com/VikOlliver/RepRapMicron/wiki
58•RobotToaster•1h ago•7 comments

Legal experts warn Meta's new terms still grant broad scraping permissions

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/legal-experts-warn-metas-new-terms-still-grant-broad-scraping-p...
104•DeepLogin•4h ago•27 comments

DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/search/
365•fagnerbrack•8h ago•182 comments

Open MicroManipulator – A sub-micrometer 3D motion control plattform

https://github.com/0x23/MicroManipulatorStepper
74•_Microft•3h ago•5 comments

Parser Combinators

https://t3.at/blog/2026-10-17-parser-combinators/
112•schindlabua•6h ago•49 comments

How the Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving

https://www.readtheprofile.com/p/elizabeth-holmes-documentary-you-can-see-everything
238•MaysonL•11h ago•290 comments

Hatching (Heraldry)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatching_(heraldry)
30•theanonymousone•3d ago•2 comments

Show HN: Sphinx – A hook that quizzes you on your AI's code before shipping

https://sphinx-six-theta.vercel.app/
193•critiquebrowser•10h ago•61 comments

Bleached corals thrive within days when touching healthy neighbour

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03266-x
506•alkyon•1d ago•106 comments

Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua

https://teal-language.org/
88•Lyngbakr•1d ago•38 comments

Regex visualized as 3D marble run

https://www.regexmarblerun.com/
46•seizethecheese•1d ago•17 comments

Show HN: The Zelda timeline to catch up before the Ocarina of Time remake

https://legendofhyrule.com/
7•jsomau•1h ago•0 comments

A History of Curves and Surfaces in Computer Aided Geometric Design [pdf]

https://math.pku.edu.cn/teachers/jiangm/courses/CG/Lectures/spline-history.pdf
15•mbustamanter•3d ago•1 comments

Chirp Pong – uses microphones and audio for networked game play

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/15/chirp-pong/
8•havaloc•2d ago•2 comments

DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017

https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017
909•theykk•1d ago•680 comments

Lean now ships with verified kernels

https://leodemoura.github.io/blog/2026-10-15-lean-now-ships-with-verified-kernels/
172•matt_d•2d ago•60 comments

Pele – Mermaid diagrams as themeable SVG

https://pele.run/
509•dchest•22h ago•46 comments

Dam removals are bringing fish back across the northeastern United States

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dam-removals-are-bringing-fish-back-across-the-nort...
315•sohkamyung•1d ago•81 comments

The Brain Sandwich

https://terriblesoftware.org/2026/10/02/the-brain-sandwich/
11•keyle•3h ago•5 comments

Furifont, a Japanese font that shows furigana

https://furifont.antfu.me/
381•plaguna•3d ago•81 comments

Lorenz and Little: How Much Does Your Tail Cost?

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/07/29/lorenz-and-little.html
18•porridgeraisin•3d ago•2 comments

Making chicken transparent using Dorito dust

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/making-chicken-transparent-using
331•crescit_eundo•1d ago•84 comments

Southern ground hornbill gets 3D printed beak prostheses at Artis Zoo

https://nltimes.nl/2026/10/15/world-first-southern-ground-hornbill-gets-3d-printed-beak-prosthese...
54•jacquesm•2d ago•10 comments

Anthropic's proposed AI safety bill only kicks in if 50 deaths or $1B in damages

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/anthropics-proposed-ai-safety-...
8•f-serif•23m ago•1 comments

The Commodore 64 hardware simulator: break chips and pins, see the results

https://github.com/antirez/c64-hw-simulator
216•antirez•3d ago•34 comments

You could have invented transformers from memory

https://alexwang.ai/posts/associative-memory/
602•speckx•1d ago•133 comments

Fun Extending the C Preprocessor

https://www.davidpriver.com/Fun-Extending-the-C-Preprocessor.html
43•david2ndaccount•2d ago•13 comments

Interactive Linear Programming in the Browser

https://lpviz.net/
65•klamike•1d ago•3 comments

NY announces game ownership bill requiring ownership rather than licensing

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/new-york-rep-announces-game-ownership-bill-that-would-re...
373•guiambros•14h ago•171 comments

Codex Desktop continuously generates Crashpad pending dumps

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/25921
156•AIorNot•21h ago•71 comments