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Re:Tell HN: Claude 4.7 is ignoring stop hooks on Friday April 24, 2026 @08:17PM (#47897377)
... Finally!

`/feedback https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues`

Is that good, or do I need a separate one for each of the 10,000 currently open issues?

(Just messing with you. The number of unaddressed open issues is frustrating, but it is nice of you to be here offering to help despite those)

Re:Fun With Pinball on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @02:27PM (#46979601)
I love pinball, I do, but my favorite part about this isn't that it exists. It's why, or the lack of one, in a sense.

I had the opportunity to tiredly stumble upon Mark's display on my way out of a pinball expo. The quality and care that went into the displays move them beyond a learning tool and curiosity piece into a creative artistic expression. There's obviously a human who cares deeply about the exhibit. In this case, he was sitting in the back of the room near a mountain of travel crates, offering occasional encouragement and insight.

The message that I got was, "This is important to me, and I want to share it with you". It was not built out of a CEO's metrics and mandates asking me, "How many dollars are you?". It helped that there was literally a human behind the display, but maybe that same sense comes across via the website as well.

Regardless, it was refreshing. I stayed and browsed the whole display. Thank you, again, Mark!

Re:Using TypeScript to Obtain One of the Rarest License Plates on Thursday December 18, 2025 @11:33AM (#46314899)
In CO, there isn't an online search. When you apply, you have to list your top options and hope one is available. I'm also not a normal person. I'm an engineer and this was not good enough for me.

I emailed government employees until I figured out who was responsible for license plate records. I submitted a CORA (Colorado Open Records Request) for the entirety of their dataset. I had hoped to get the data on some regular cadence to build a simple online service for others. Unfortunately, they flat out refused and wouldn't discuss options.

When I told my family what license plate I wanted, they laughed at me and said "No one has that, just go get it". And so I did and it worked. I now have what I consider to be the best possible license plate in Colorado: "LCNZPLT"

Occasionally I'll see someone walk by my car, see the plate, think for a few seconds and then start laughing. Mission accomplished!

Show HN: KeyboardNotifier: Debug intermittent keyboard/input issues

https://github.com/jconley88/keyboard_notifier

Problem:I was getting intermittent repeating characters on random keys after replacing my mechanical keyboard switches with Outemo switches (spoiler: they were not the issue). This was often outside of a text-input application, spamming Ubuntu, preventing input and causing freeze-like issues. In addition, I often didn't recognize it right away and could not reliably determine which recent...

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Show HN: Code Beacon – A non-AI dev tool (HUD?) for Ruby

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=bitfiddle.code-beacon

I was so excited to see "Enough AI copilots! We need AI HUDs" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44705445)Not specifically because of the AI perspective, but because of the broader recognition that we need better development tooling. I spend a lot of time thinking about how developers work, reason about and mentally model software. I was specifically excited because of the example "HUD" that...

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