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Re:Proton Flock Camera Map on Sunday October 25, 2026 @08:48PM (#50237592)
This map is missing a number of locations near me that DeFlock (https://deflock.org/) has. For example, entrances to Stanford's campus.
Re:YC's Biggest Scandals on Sunday May 10, 2026 @04:22PM (#48087534)
Sometimes I will see a domain on YC and immediately know it will be LLM-designed before clicking on the link. This was one of those projects. Wish they were more human and more understated.
Re:Rust but Lisp on Saturday May 09, 2026 @10:00PM (#48080281)
> compiles directly to Rust — no runtime, no GC, just (s-expr → .rs → binary).

Can we please write our own READMEs before posting to HN?

That it tends to provoke unproductive comments like this one. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#comments
I'm a student at Stanford — this is hitting the whole school hard. Unlike a lot of schools on the east coast that are affected (Brown, Harvard, MIT) we are on the quarter system so we're just ending Midterms right now. We're also lucky enough to have our CS department entirely independent from Canvas, but most of my humanities classes are not so lucky. One art history class is having us submit our midterm papers by uploading to a google drive folder—another is pausing weekly quizzes. The main thing this has revealed is just how dependent students and teachers are on Canvas... I hope that this re-prompts discussions about moving off of a platform that was already (from a student perspective) not very good.
Re:Ti-84 Evo on Friday May 01, 2026 @04:47PM (#47980079)
Interesting that this doesn't seem to include a computer algebra system like the Nspire CAS. Wonder if it's a testing environment compliance thing?
Re:Ghostty is leaving GitHub on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @04:48PM (#47940521)
This seems like a great opportunity for new platforms who are rethinking the OSS space to finally gain the traction they need to be effective. For a collaborative platform, quantity is key, and I am hopeful that someone who is interested in advancing the software space will become the new go-to. This isn't to say that GitHub hasn't been innovating, but at least from my perspective, the way we've used git for the past however-many-years has remained basically constant.

Some projects that seem interesting: - https://tangled.org/ seems to be building out cool and exciting ways to write and interact with code (and they're distributed on the ATProto! But notably that's not their core selling point) - Microservices like https://pico.sh/ and https://sr.ht/ feel like fresh air...

Re:I created my first AI-assisted pull request on Monday March 23, 2026 @10:29PM (#47497999)
Farming is a funny example to use, given that it's one of the best examples of an industry that's continually revolutionized by evolving technology. Farming today is about owning the best tractor.
The dismiss button on the top banner doesn't work after I click onto the trial page.
Re:Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015 on Sunday February 15, 2026 @08:28PM (#47029800)
...and start writing it like you're an LLM!

This looks generally good but sadly also stylistically is similar to the default "modern" output of Claude Code. Just a thought.

Show HN: Crabify, a Spotify TUI

https://github.com/eiiot/crabify

Hey HN,I made a little Spotify TUI today because I was sick of the electron app draining my battery and otherwise slowing down my computer. I am using it right now and figured you all might find it useful.Spotify doesn't seem to allow devs to create new apps at the moment, but this should work with any existing or unused app id.Cheers!

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Re:Show HN: Script: JavaScript That Runs Like Rust on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @02:09AM (#46792013)
Was this post written with AI? The syntax and use of emojis certainly looks like something Claude would generate.
Re: on Sunday January 18, 2026 @04:11AM (#46666171)
The table also seems like the kind of thing that Gemini seems to generate a lot. "Here's a table that communicates almost no information! One of the rows is constant for each item."
Re:NPM debug and chalk packages compromised on Monday September 08, 2025 @03:23PM (#45172709)
Just ran a script to do this – doesn't seem like there's much going in, other than one test transaction.
Re:ChatGPT Monday on Saturday August 16, 2025 @07:39PM (#44927737)
It’s such a shame they shut this down. I loved golden gate Claude.
LiveStore is the only sync engine I’ve used for Expo / RN that actually just works out of the box. In a space that is seemingly mature it’s nice to see something polished and I’m excited to see how it develops over the next year!
Re:We're bringing Pebble back on Monday January 27, 2025 @07:52PM (#42847664)
I still use my PTR daily! See https://rebble.io/ :)
Re:The secret inside One Million Checkboxes on Friday August 30, 2024 @03:00AM (#41398324)
It's so funny you mention this, I actually just launched something super similar today for the California DMV (as a Bay Area student). It checks for openings from cancellations and notifies people.

There's a special kind of magic that comes from meaningfully improving your life from software :)

(the project is https://dmvfilter.com if you want to check it out!)

Re:The secret inside One Million Checkboxes on Friday August 30, 2024 @02:19AM (#41398152)
As a current student and self-taught developer this is one of the best representations I’ve seen about what makes the world of CS fun. You have a bunch of people with a crazy idea that’s just SO niche and they’re able to use their brains to create something beautiful of immense value.

Show HN: DMV Filter – Find California DMV appointments and create alerts

https://dmvfilter.com

Hey HN! My name is Eliot, I'm a student and developer from the Bay Area. DMV Filter is a better interface for the California DMV's appointment finder that also alerts you when new appointments are available.What: First and foremost, DMV Filter is a filtering tool. You can see ALL appointments near you at once, filter by distance and time, and see availability visualized on a map. If you can't...

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There are basically three parts to this question, all of which can be chosen independently and then fit together.

First you choose a frontend (and often backend) framework to actually build the pages, like Next.js, Svelte, Laravel, etc.

Then, you can choose an auth solution like Clerk, auth0, NextAuth, Supabase, etc. Most of these products work with a wide variety of frameworks. Some of the frameworks (like Laravel) also have an auth framework built in.

For payments, you technically have choices but I would just use stripe.

Re:Southwest Airlines is available on Google Flights on Thursday May 23, 2024 @12:47PM (#40456964)
> Southwest even sues websites that display its schedules and fares without authorization

Why does Southwest even have any jurisdiction here? It seems like they won a preliminary case, but don't we have established president that scraping websites is legal, thanks to hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn?

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