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They didn't do it in the intended manner.

> The crawler did not respect our robots.txt, (which it did retrieve), ignored our Terms of Service, (which forbid scraping), and defied the creators' licenses: 423 of the 712 projects are licensed for non-commercial use only.

Re:Borland Turbo Basic on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @12:57AM (#49974369)
Amazing times, amazing interface for the time.
Re:The Legend of von Neumann [pdf] on Friday October 02, 2026 @11:12AM (#49934404)
Books from before the age of AI will only become more precious over time. This is great.
Here are a few examples of the problem in the wild: https://burningdemand.com/demand/evt_hd5p575npv9ah4tw45xe8

Hope you find this useful.

Show HN: ReadMini – paste an article, read what matters.

https://readmini.com

HN is increasingly crowded with bloated, repetitive AI-generated articles (some examples in the first comment)ReadMini turns an article into the version you actually need to read. It cuts what doesn’t matter, tightens what does, and reorganizes things when that makes the article clearer.This is v0. I’d love some feedback. Billing not integrated yet.

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Re:A case for an Autonomy Kernel on Saturday May 30, 2026 @07:34PM (#48341628)
I've been thinking about autonomous/agentic systems from an operating systems perspective rather than a model or framework perspective.

This is an attempt to sketch what an autonomy kernel might look like and where its boundaries should be.

Where would you draw the kernel boundary?

Show HN: A bridge from Copilot SDK to ACP agents

https://github.com/offbeatport/meshaway

Hi HN! I built MeshAway to connect Copilot SDK apps to ACP-compatible agents like Gemini, Codex, Opencode, etc.There’s been some discussion around interoperability in this space (for example: https://github.com/github/copilot-sdk/issues/377). In practice, integrating across agent ecosystems still often means writing custom adapters or relying on different language-specific libraries in each...

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025) on Monday April 28, 2025 @12:10PM (#43823038)
https://VoteFeature.com - An open catalog of products and features where users can vote to help build what matters.
Re:"The Linux Phone You've Been Waiting For" on Friday January 24, 2025 @06:40AM (#42812201)
Thanks, I think I can relate.

For me, the camera gets more important as I get older. I realise that, althougth I'm not into photography either, it's very easy to capture day-to-day memories.

However, I'm one of those people who would never buy a dedicated camera. I'm just not into it that much.

I'm courious to see if the hardware would be OK. If so, how much more can we get by writing good software. After all, there's only so much we can improve with hardware until it becomes irrelevant!?

Re:"The Linux Phone You've Been Waiting For" on Friday January 24, 2025 @06:27AM (#42812149)
I guess it's a vicious cycle with open / linux-based. Although not impossible, it's difficult to get good grade apps with slow capital. E.g. It seems to me that the appstore is one of the main arguments for choosing iPhones.
Re:"The Linux Phone You've Been Waiting For" on Friday January 24, 2025 @06:22AM (#42812126)
Is this not a good enough camera? Is the problem with the hardware or software?

Show HN: Votefeature.com – Build what users want

https://www.VoteFeature.com

Hi HN community,I'm excited to share a project I’ve been working on for quite a while: https://www.VoteFeature.com.VoteFeature is a place that aims to help users and builders come together to shape the future of products. It's a simple catalog of products where users can search by features, suggest enhancements and vote features to help prioritize the development.For Users:1. Discover - Search...

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https://switchcenter.app/

SwitchCenter aims to improve the experience of managing your opened apps/windows on macOS.

With this, you can display your opened windows grouped in columns (by application). You can also also display the minimized windows in the same column as the opened windows and allows you to pin applications so they always display in the same order. On top of that, it allows for (arguably) better windows control (close, minimize, full-screen, Zoom In / Out, etc.).

It started as an experiment because I was looking for a cleaner, more organized way to arrange the (many) opened windows.

I'm thinking of adding browser tabs somewhere in there (maybe).

I agree. For me, I tried to use reduce motion and turn off most of the animations in OSX (this is how I did it https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/142734). It didn't completely remove the animations but it went from "slide in/out" animation to "fade in/out". It felt like a better experience.
Good idea. I'll make a video and upload it to the page.

Unfortunately, the first version will not support spaces. I tried to add that functionality as part of the MVP but as it turns out, working with OSX's private functions for spaces is not straightforward. However, I do appreciate that you (and probably other people too) use spaces, so I'll add it in at some point in the near future.

Thank you for the feedback. Very good advice. I just didn't want to mislead people into thinking that this is ready for general use.

SwitchCenter: an OSX Mission Control alternative (invite-only)

Hello HN.I’m working on a tool that aims to replace OSX's Mission Control: https://www.switchcenter.app.It will display the windows in a more orderly fashion and will also give you some control over them (i.e. you can close the windows or go full-screen). When released, it will be a paid-for tool with a trial version available to try it out.I would very much appreciate if anyone would be...

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