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Re:Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds
on Friday July 10, 2026 @09:18AM (#48859536)
> They're not going to struggle at all with things a 4-9 year old is learning
Children ask some incredibly deep questions, I would not sell them short.
Re:Stop the Apple Music app from launching
on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @01:52PM (#48480079)
The MacMediaKeyForwarder works like a charm:
169 Substacks and Nothing to Read
Re:Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
on Friday February 20, 2026 @08:30AM (#47087811)
LLMs are great at knowledge transfer, the real question is how well can they demonstrate intelligence with "unknown unknown" types of questions. This model has the benefit of being released after that issue became public knowledge, so it's hard to know how it would've performed pre-hoc.
Re:Fixing HN comments with breadth-first navigation
on Friday December 26, 2025 @09:09PM (#46398448)
That is indeed the current workaround, but IMO still unwieldy and inefficient. I find that the hotkeys alone allow you to fly around the comments and scan them way faster.
Re:Fixing HN comments with breadth-first navigation
on Friday December 26, 2025 @08:56PM (#46398394)
Appreciate the feedback! Agreed that on HN, even collapsing at L2 would be a significant improvement.
I'll keep brainstorming with the UX for the next version. I appreciate your perspective on how all the data disclosed on first load might be disorienting with unclear relationships. I'll play with either some sort of animation cue, colored or bordered visual indicators, or a default null selection as you've suggested.
Fixing HN comments with breadth-first navigation
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
on Monday December 15, 2025 @12:17PM (#46277321)
https://hn-comments.netlify.app/
I got tired of the lack of ergonomics around HN comments, and built my own navigator/viewer.
Re:Show HN: I've asked Claude to improve codebase quality 200 times
on Thursday December 11, 2025 @12:22PM (#46234210)
the "best practice" suggestion would be to do this in a sandboxed container
Re:Scripts I wrote that I use all the time
on Thursday October 23, 2025 @11:53PM (#45690588)
I've been using bkt (https://github.com/dimo414/bkt) for subprocess caching. It has some nice features, like providing a ttl for cache expiration. In-pipeline memoization looks nice, I'm not sure it supports that
Re:Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image
on Thursday September 25, 2025 @10:15PM (#45381851)
I will never use Gemini for this reason. The enshittification of Search is so treacherously disgraceful and user-hostile, that I have no faith that the same fate won't occur with Gemini as well.
Re:Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan
on Sunday July 27, 2025 @08:53AM (#44700981)
Re:Stop Hiding My Controls: Hidden Interface Controls Are Affecting Us...
on Monday July 07, 2025 @10:26AM (#44490717)
Spot-on article. What's especially aggravating is the "skill-issue" meme that folks retort with when you make mention of this.
Re:Addictions Are Being Engineered
on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @09:29PM (#44450713)
Absolutely not. People are not asking for dark patterns to engineer their behavior to maximize retention. This is like locking a kid in a room full of candy, and then blaming them for gorging themselves.
Re:Electronics Course (45 episodes, YouTube)
on Thursday August 31, 2023 @04:38PM (#37343390)
Wonder if they could use Google Takeout [1] to export all their YouTube data, and then try to search through the history data.
Re:Fighting for the Open Web [image]
on Monday July 31, 2023 @04:09PM (#36948083)
do you have a link to the git guide?
Re:Cookie Clicker saved my PhD
on Thursday June 22, 2023 @03:07PM (#36437135)
The irony of a cookie popup showing up on the author’s blog..
The hustle never ends and I'm so over it
Things to keep in mind when publishing a JavaScript library in 2023
Re:Practice typing by retyping ENTIRE novels
on Sunday January 01, 2023 @11:57PM (#34214532)
Anyone have a link for this?
Re:Text to Diagram Tools
on Thursday December 01, 2022 @01:50PM (#33820759)
I would love an AI-enabled chat bot that transforms text -> diagrams. Diagram creation could still be a lot easier.
For example: "I want to show that the causes of burnout are the following 5 categories: 1) lack of purpose, 2) community breakdown, 3) ... " -> and then that gets turned into a diagram. Then an update like: "make lack of purpose more prominent" and it increases in size.
I would even settle for a transformer that converts natural language to one of the diagram syntax languages in the OP link.
Re:Reality is just a game now
on Friday October 07, 2022 @01:45PM (#33124620)
This. It's east to be fooled by the illusion of choice and customization.
Just see what happens to other markets in maturity, e.g. food: https://bigthink.com/technology-innovation/10-companies-own-...
I still see the spirit of what the OP is saying, though. At least the AI will know if I like my Kraft Mac-n-cheese extra-creamy or dry.
Tips for Your Second Brain
Re:Show HN: TaskTXT, plain text task-timing notepad
on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @08:25PM (#32919551)
I think having a small "Dismiss" link or "X" button could feel a little less coercive. I do appreciate being able to click outside the modal to do this, but it wasn't immediately clear at first.
Re:Ask HN: How do I develop focus?
on Monday April 04, 2022 @09:46PM (#30914359)
Excellent! Tight feedback loops are everything. Feel free to take a look at my /milestones page or DM me if you have any questions. I'm always looking for accountability buddies too.
Re:Ask HN: How do I develop focus?
on Monday April 04, 2022 @12:45PM (#30908796)
Relatable. Try what I'm doing. Work your way backwards.
Start with the final goal you're seeking (in my case it was a Pay Me checkout button) and then piece the rest of the fluff later.
A lot of the focus product is dealing with emotional barriers and your personal psychology. This shatters all this and paves a new path.
There's something sobering about starting at the end, instead of consistently getting side tracked at the beginning.
I put this up 2 days ago and some stranger has already sent me 12 cents :)
Re:Deskreen: Turn any device into a secondary screen for your computer
on Thursday January 27, 2022 @10:02AM (#30101361)
Do you support screen flipping, e.g, when using the iPad as a teleprompter?
Re:Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand
on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @05:30PM (#28936931)
hijacking the cultural cache of the phrase "that's so meta" - deviously clever and annoying