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This is exactly why you can't replace DevOps engineers with AI
Before installing new software, I usually visit its GitHub page or Wikipedia entry first and click through to the official site from there. I just don't trust the 'official' sites that pop up in Google search results. How many of you do the same?
Re:Show HN: Rebrain.gg – Doom learn, don't doom scroll on Thursday February 19, 2026 @05:09AM (#47072131)
Does this form based interaction offer any specific advantages over chatting directly with ChatGPT or Claude? Essentially the site is still powered by their APIs and it is just the interface that is different.
Re:I’m joining OpenAI on Monday February 16, 2026 @02:09AM (#47031837)
Yes, Facebook's early PHP code looks pretty bad by today's standards

Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007: https://gist.github.com/nikcub/3833406#file-index-php

Re:NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry on Saturday February 14, 2026 @03:46AM (#47012843)
I don't think npmx has better UI/UX than npmjs.com. It could even be said to be worse. The npmx page doesn't have any other colors, it's all gray, and the page has too many elements that are too cluttered. You can compare these two pages:

https://npmx.dev/package/vue

https://www.npmjs.com/package/vue

Decide for yourself which UX is better.

Some code may be AI generated, because the code uses "══════" to separate terminal output. In my experience, Claude really likes to use this character to separate terminal output.
I recently built a similar project too, a self hosted IP reputation API service: https://github.com/NetworkCats/ProxyD

Show HN: Turning Wikipedia's blocklists into a proxy detection database

https://github.com/NetworkCats/OpenProxyDB

OpenProxyDB automatically fetches IP addresses that have been blocked by Wikipedia for proxy-related reasons (VPN, Tor, webhost, etc.) and exports them to a CSV file. The crawler runs daily via GitHub Actions and publishes the results to GitHub Releases.

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