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Re:Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art
on Saturday October 03, 2026 @08:03PM (#49949098)
Playing Stick RPG and Frank’s Adventure in 4th grade >>>>>
Re:AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
on Saturday September 19, 2026 @11:45PM (#49772358)
The most glaring weakness in AI poster design to me is its inability to create strong visual hierarchy. Even if you explicitly ask it to do so, its fundamental inability to “see” is quite apparent in the output.
Re:Cloudflare Quick Tunnels
on Saturday September 19, 2026 @11:31PM (#49772300)
Lol this landing page looks almost exactly like something my company just put out. Holy AI
Re:ImpactGate: A merge gate that scores the structural decay AI adds
on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @09:37AM (#49726870)
Seems like the posts on this site are largely LLM-generated though? Correct me if I’m wrong.
Re:ImpactGate: A merge gate that scores the structural decay AI adds
on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @09:28AM (#49726738)
Personally I’m ok with vibe coded projects - certainly feels like the future of things, and I think the line between vibe coded and “professionally” coded is increasingly blurring - but I completely agree on the marketing/communications piece. Ideally your communication about a project conveys real expertise and ownership, signaling that you really understand the problem you’re trying to solve and the tradeoffs you made in your approach to do so. I am very hesitant to use a project where it feels like the eng couldn’t pass a pop quiz about how it works + why.
Re:ImpactGate: A merge gate that scores the structural decay AI adds
on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @09:17AM (#49726562)
Nice idea. Our new CTO brought in a tool he made for analyzing cyclomatic complexity and it’s been useful since we’re a heavily AI-forward shop.
BTW, you can avoid your comments being flagged and killed by writing them yourself! I know it’s tempting to offshore it to AI (especially after you’ve vibe-coded a whole project) but some genuine human communication goes a long way.
Re:Claude, change the "Add to Cart" button to blue
on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @09:10AM (#49625977)
This spiked my blood pressure. Well done
Re:ChatGPT Is Throwing 404
on Thursday September 03, 2026 @11:12AM (#49551233)
Anyone else’s company completely frozen by this outage
Re:Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London
on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @10:43AM (#49537069)
Totally valid correction, thanks !
Re:A Small Telescope That Surprised Me
on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @09:57AM (#49536338)
Maybe I’m a Luddite but I find AI prose completely tiresome to read, and its presence in an article forces me to be skeptical about whatever the author wrote. The latter was obviously a problem pre-AI but these tools simply make it much easier to tell stories, narratives, etc. that aren’t yours.
Re:A Small Telescope That Surprised Me
on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @09:22AM (#49535836)
I hate that the LLM era has turned me into a detective every time I read a piece of writing but… this prose is very AI-speak, no?
Re:Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London
on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @09:20AM (#49535796)
And this lost trust will not suddenly reappear when he leaves office. He has damaged our reputation for a generation
Re:Everyone's Using This A.I. Dictation App That I Want to Murder with...
on Thursday August 20, 2026 @10:41AM (#49375285)
I don’t think it’s accurate to characterize the New York Times as dying lol
Everyone's Using This A.I. Dictation App That I Want to Murder with a Hammer
Re:Show HN: GeoLint, an ESLint-style linter for GeoJSON
on Saturday August 15, 2026 @11:45AM (#49311546)
Good looking out, great suggestions. This is one of my first times building an npm package so I appreciate the detailed look here
Show HN: GeoLint, an ESLint-style linter for GeoJSON
https://github.com/jajego/geolint
Hello all! I make map-based web apps in my downtime to try to get some use out of my degree (which I’ve mostly shelved since becoming a SWE) and frequently work with GeoJSON to do so. I tried my hand at building a linter for GeoJSON data that can help determine when data is bloated, has inconsistent properties, or has missing or duplicated data. It can be configured to your definition of...
Re:Person Hides Prompt Injection in Legal Filing Telling AI to Side wi...
on Thursday August 13, 2026 @07:47PM (#49293138)
What was the SpongeBob thing about though
Show HN: Interlock – Atomic TypeScript domain transitions on PostgreSQL
https://github.com/jajego/interlock
Hello HN! I built Interlock because I kept seeing the same architectural issue arise in backend code at work, where a state change starts as one update, then slowly accumulates features until the transaction logic is spread everywhere. This has been exacerbated in the AI era of hyper iterative development, and it confuses devs and agents alike.Interlock is my attempt to make that transition a...
Re:Learning to code is still worthwhile
on Monday July 06, 2026 @06:14PM (#48811199)
>Nobody hires code monkeys.
Respectfully disagree here. People have always hired code monkeys and arguably they will hire more of them as engineers become increasingly able to defer their judgment to LLMs. It might be true that the top level companies expect strong mental models of the code but in my experience many companies (especially startups) really just want the 0->1 ability and don’t care how you get there.
Re:Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg
on Friday June 12, 2026 @10:40PM (#48512186)
Help me understand: depthfirst seems to be bigging up their “security agent” here, but is it not just prompt engineering + writing skill files? What goes into producing a “security agent” beyond this? Feels like they’re really gussying up a process that is ultimately just LLM usage
Re:What Happened to the Locusts?
on Saturday May 30, 2026 @03:44PM (#48339914)
The locust jump scare got me. Great article though - super fascinating. I had no idea an organism could effectively become a different species based on its environment.