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Re:The death of web development education on Thursday October 01, 2026 @06:07PM (#49927635)
Formal education has more than just an instructive role. In fact, it's everything but the instruction. Reciting content to learners doesnt necessarily help them learn.

Teaching should turn into conveyance of taste. The teacher should help figure out what needs to be examined and how to examine; help figure out ways to close the gap between the textbook and reality. AI can't do those things well yet, and perhaps it never will be able to.

Re:Vibechart on Thursday August 07, 2025 @06:36PM (#44831250)
The chart is the entire thing. Check if the numbers match the heights of the rectangles ;)
Re:The Universal Tech Tree on Thursday June 05, 2025 @04:41PM (#44195578)
The link to the actual tech tree is buried In the article: https://www.historicaltechtree.com/
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025) on Sunday May 25, 2025 @05:31PM (#44091353)
This gives me exapunks / Zachtronics vibes
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025) on Sunday May 25, 2025 @05:10PM (#44091163)
Love the aesthetic! Also your handwriting input is super smooth, amazing!

I've been building something similar for Chinese, just for myself: https://hazel.daijin.dev/ It's got PWA, let me know if you want my presets for working with PWA with Vite.

Will definitely be taking a few pages out of your (app) when I get a chance!

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025) on Sunday May 25, 2025 @04:33PM (#44090851)
I'm building something similar in my free time! Please let me know how you go :)
Re:Are.na: Playlists, but for Ideas on Saturday February 22, 2025 @04:31PM (#43143467)
Can you give us a publicly viewable link of some content people have created?
Re:LLM Abstraction levels inspired by Fish Eye lens on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @01:49AM (#42374439)
An outliner would be a good way to represent this info: something like Workflowy, Org mode, Ravel or Dynalist. You get nested bullet points that you can collapse.

Workflowy: https://workflowy.com/ Ravel: https://ravel.acenturyandabit.xyz/

Ask HN: Single Line Calendar Event Standard?

Posted by acenturyandabit on Thursday September 02, 2021 @07:17AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm developing a to do list app, and I want each task to be editable on one line (because as a developer I don't own a mouse :P ).I was wondering if there was an established standard for single-line calendar events?I know Ical exists, but i don't want to have to create an entire ical entry when i want to flag a task to happen in a day.Currently I have a current system like this:- Listen to...

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Re:Rage Against the God Machine on Sunday June 07, 2020 @08:16PM (#23452301)
How do you mean by their perspective being off?
Re:Rage Against the God Machine on Sunday June 07, 2020 @08:15PM (#23452296)
I am trying to solve this problem with a generalised user interface platform. The aim was to separate data storage and data representation, so that two team members could work from the same source of data and have it represented in different ways.

Collaboration at no cost to individual UX. But i never really got it to work because noone ever wanted to collaborate with me in the first place...

Re:Ask HN: What projects are you working on now? on Saturday March 21, 2020 @05:46PM (#22650473)
Oh hi! Another person looking at AGI I see. I'd love it if you could share your reading list in more detail (anything else?)