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Re:Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90% on Saturday September 05, 2026 @01:20AM (#49573307)
True
Re:Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90% on Saturday September 05, 2026 @01:19AM (#49573305)
It‘s someone from R&D probably not so official
Re:Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90% on Saturday September 05, 2026 @01:19AM (#49573302)
Can you name some harnesses?
Re:Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI on Thursday August 20, 2026 @04:59PM (#49380198)
Terse pseudo code > verbose prose

Coding Encoding Think about the terms

Re:Glyphs 4 – the leading Mac font editor on Sunday August 02, 2026 @01:26AM (#49141391)
Quality Mac software
“> Claude: Semble surfaced things grep missed — here are the additions to the earlier answer.”

Nice!

What I want are precise and tight bounding boxes. Why is this so difficult?
Re:Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file on Friday November 28, 2025 @12:46AM (#46075850)
Same
Re:Meta Segment Anything Model 3 on Thursday November 20, 2025 @01:15AM (#45989524)
Curious about background removal with BiRefNet. Would you consider it the best model currently available? What other options exist that are popular but not as good?
Re:Ask HN: Dark Mode for HN is overdue on Friday November 14, 2025 @03:28AM (#45924988)
Love the vibe!
Re:Ask HN: Dark Mode for HN is overdue on Friday November 14, 2025 @03:28AM (#45924983)
The problem is that most sites implement dark mode wrong with too much contrast. It doesn’t work if you make it “black”. It’s more about dimming the lights.

Reading dark pages will never be as good as reading in a well lit room. But there are ways to make it work.

Re:Ask HN: Dark Mode for HN is overdue on Friday November 14, 2025 @03:26AM (#45924969)
This. Thanks for illustrating how little is required for a basic dark mode support.
Re:Ask HN: Dark Mode for HN is overdue on Friday November 14, 2025 @03:25AM (#45924962)
It depends on the environment. Of course, reading HN in a dark room will never be pleasant. But looking into a bright white flashlight can really hurt. Good dark modes are not simply black/white but make use of the right font weight and color to reduce glare.
Re:Needy Programs on Friday November 14, 2025 @03:01AM (#45924845)
And soon even your oven will require an account with subscription so that the built-in camera can notify you when the bread is browning and it asks for permission to lower the temperature

Ask HN: Dark Mode for HN is overdue

It’s 2025. HN lights up a dark room like a flashlight. Can we add a few lines of CSS to support dark mode? 5 years ago and I believe the alligator needs to move https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23197966

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Re:Building a message queue with only two UNIX signals on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @12:55AM (#45652590)
I enjoyed reading the article and found it interesting. Had no prior interest in the topic but it was an entertaining read. Last time I used binary and calculated with it was in high school. Didn’t know about UNIX signals and now I understand how processes are terminating.
Re:Create a Custom Interactive dashboard using SVG on Friday October 17, 2025 @05:08AM (#45614676)
This is quite genius. Instead of wasting time with responsive design, grid and flex layout complexities, this solutions gets the job done.

That’s how I would have approached it in Flash back in the days when 800x600 was all you had to worry about.

Re:JSON River – Parse JSON incrementally as it streams in on Monday October 13, 2025 @12:50PM (#45570547)
Noteworthy: Contributions by Claude
Re:Let's Take Esoteric Programming Languages Seriously on Saturday October 11, 2025 @04:43PM (#45552515)
I find it amusing, yet sad, that some here expect a podcast to exclusively be a source of information where every second delivers bite sized facts. What about entertainment? What about engaging with a topic for hours and eventually learn something that‘s not a fact, but a new perspective?
This is entertaining. I learned Turbo Pascal in high school.

What I like from watching it again: the aspect of structured programming.

It’s quite refreshing to see a language that doesn’t rely so much on brackets.

It even got away without syntax highlighting by using all uppercase REPEAT, BEGIN, END or capitalising function calls.

Thanks for sharing!

Ah, I can imagine why the illustration weren’t as clear. Especially if you don’t speak German it might be difficult to catch mistakes. I added new examples.

But as you mention: starting by observing one’s own habits and preferences and then coming up with small instructions is all it takes. Feels like piping in Unix where each process is a prompt.

Re:tldraw SDK 4.0 on Thursday September 18, 2025 @04:33PM (#45294660)
Peanuts if you build a business on top of the SDK.
Sweet API design!
Re:Using GitHub Spark to Reverse Engineer GitHub Spark on Saturday July 26, 2025 @04:38AM (#44692465)
Especially the design principles are a collection of best practices. Part of it feels like reading Apple’s HIG or Material Design Guidelines. Part of it Refactoring UI. It’s what you learn (or wish you would learn) in design school. Or from a good mentor. Or acquire through years of experience and reading.

Curious: How certain are you that this is indeed the original system prompt, without further hallucination?

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