Show HN: Disposable public file links directly from your machine
I liked magic wormhole a lot but it was inconvenient to ask people to install something to receive a file, and I wished I could just give them the link, so I made the utility to do it.
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Re:Audacity 4.0
on Thursday September 03, 2026 @08:29AM (#49549121)
Whoa what a glow up!
Re:Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Includ...
on Monday August 31, 2026 @11:02PM (#49517524)
> I know sooner or later, well within my lifetime, it will be gone.
I've met so many people in the tech industry who use Zen Browser. Not even because of some ideological point, but just because it is cooler.
So no, I don't believe it'll be gone. I believe firefox and ff-based browsers will actually make a comeback.
Re:CursorBench 3.1
on Thursday July 02, 2026 @03:57AM (#48758024)
insert obama medal meme
Re:The gauge broke: devs felt 20% faster with AI, measured 19% slower
on Thursday July 02, 2026 @03:21AM (#48757726)
https://www.faros.ai/blog/ai-software-engineering
The actual study with the data, minus the "I was right all along" commentary
Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype
on Monday January 12, 2026 @12:16AM (#46584362)
It's a combination of being bad at prompting and different expectations from the tool.
You expect it to be one shot, and then rewrite things that don't match up to what you want.
Instead I recommend that you use LLMs to fix the problems that they introduced as well, and over time you'll get better at figuring out the parts that the LLM will get confused by. My hunch is that you'll find your descriptions of what to implement were more vague than you thought, and as you iterate, you'll learn to be a lot more specific. Basically, you'll find that your taste was more subjective than you thought and you'll rid yourself of the expectation that the LLM magically understands your taste.
Re:Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions
on Friday January 09, 2026 @01:22AM (#46550678)
I'll say "maybe-sometimes works" is a misunderstanding.
It feels like that initially, but that's no different from any new tool you adopt. A jackhammer also "maybe-sometimes works" as a hammer replacement.
Re:Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions
on Friday January 09, 2026 @01:18AM (#46550653)
AI is indeed just hype in a lot of cases, but also has revolutionary value in a other cases. Trying it is the only way you'll be able to differentiate the latter from the former.
Re:Show HN: Patchwork – Open-source framework to automate development ...
on Monday July 29, 2024 @04:02AM (#41098717)
While true in a subset of problems, linters will also miss stupid mistakes because not everything is syntactical.
AI for example can catch the fact that `phone.match(/\d{10}/)` might break because of spaces, while a linter has no concept of a correct "regex" as long as it matches the regex syntax.
I don't think anyone is arguing that replacing linters with AI is the answer, instead a combination of both is useful.