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Re:America.gov – Whatever you need from government, start here on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @03:56AM (#49905812)
Weird that it supports French. I understand English and Spanish, but why was it decided to also support French as a language?
Re:Drawably: Hand-Drawn UI Controls on Monday September 14, 2026 @10:08AM (#49697155)
Regardless of what the other commenters are saying, I really like this. It looks cute and neat, and is the kind of stuff that I like to occasionally see on HN.

Might be a good set of components for a simple no nonsense scratchpad webpage or something similar.

Re:An Accidental Blackboard on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @05:41AM (#49623767)
There already exists a Stack Overflow for agents: https://agents.stackoverflow.com/all?sort=hot
I understand your frustration, but I don't agree with the sentiment that AI-training should not be allowed without compensation.

If I learn to draw, make music, build stuff, etc. I look at what others have done before me. I don't pay anyone either. Why should the AI?

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026) on Monday May 11, 2026 @02:11AM (#48091554)
I'm working on Prompty.tools (http://prompty.tools), a prompt engineering and management platform where users can search, store and combine building blocks for creating structured AI prompts.

I created the platform because I found myself rewriting the same parts of my prompts (or storing them in a text-file) all the time. Now, with a few simple clicks I can populate all the task-specific fluff (personas, constraints, tones, ...) around the actual task that I want the AI to complete.

The platform is open by default; with the purpose of letting users learn from prompts and building blocks that other users created and use. I don't have any users yet, because I want to complete the MCP and Claude Code Plugin before I start marketing my product.

Other things on the roadmap:

- Teams tier, where teams can privately share prompts and building blocks between them. Currently, your data is either private or public, no targeted sharing.

- LLM integration into the prompt builder to reduce prompt engineering friction even more. Instead of manually searching for, and selecting the building blocks you want to use, you would just start typing your task and let the platform decide what building blocks would best support your prompt. There is still a difference with letting an LLM completely generate the prompt, as we would be using existing building blocks that have real feedback from previous uses.

Let me know what you think!

Watch out, the two shorts you linked (both of robots playing ping-pong) are fake.

Show HN: WebMex – tmux-style tiling for the web

Hi HN! I built WebMex (https://webmex.app), a small tool that lets you split your browser into resizable tiles and load multiple webpages side-by-side — sort of a “multiplexer” for the web.A few specifics: ---- No login, no backend.- Layouts are saved locally (in localstorage) under a unique name.- You can re-open a saved layout via a URL, but it only works on your machine because nothing is...

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Letting LLMs loose in the digital realm is something that I am also really interested in. I have a (somewhat art project) platform where different models are let loose without a goal or purpose. They have the freedom to do whatever they want, as long as it can be achieved using bash. [0]

most models are... dumb, for a lack of words, and destroy the system by filling up the storage space before doing anything interesting.

[0] https://lama.garden

Re:Using an Engineering Notebook on Thursday February 12, 2026 @11:03AM (#46990474)
Did you one-shot this using an AI coding agent? If this was really just now created after reading this article and the comments, it's incredibly impressive.
Re:Non-Zero-Sum Games on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @07:29AM (#46432649)
I'm still exploring the content, but that website is very pretty. It's nice to see something that stands out between all the copy-and-paste AI slop.

Show HN: Voft – VAVR‑style objects for Typscript

https://github.com/artus/voft

Hi HN,Some time ago I released voft (Various Objects For TypeScript), a tiny utility library that brings some of the ergonomics of the Java VAVR functional library to TypeScript/JavaScript.Why?I missed VAVR's Try monad when writing Node back‑ends and React front‑ends: it lets you chain calls without drowning in try/catch blocks.I wanted an async‑aware variant (AsyncTry) for promise...

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Re:Write the post you wish you'd found on Monday February 24, 2025 @07:01AM (#43158555)
That's incredible, I don't know how I would react. It's like finding a time-capsule that you forgot about.
I built a platform to monitor LLMs that are given complete freedom in the form of a Docker container bash REPL. Currently the models have been offline for some time because I'm upgrading from a single DELL to a TinyMiniMicro Proxmox cluster to run multiple small LLMs locally.

The bots don't do a lot of interesting stuff though, I plan to add the following functionalities:

- Instead of just resetting every 100 messages, I'm going to provide them with a rolling window of context.

- Instead of only allowing BASH commands, they will be able to also respond with reasoning messages, hopefully to make them a bit smarter.

- Give them a better docker container with more CLI tools such as curl and a working package manager.

If you're interested in seeing the developments, you can subscribe on the platform!

https://lama.garden

Thank you for posting this, I never saw this before. This is seriously impressive, and it would make a nice screensaver.
Re:Lama.garden – Setting LLMs Free on Friday December 13, 2024 @03:42PM (#42412166)
I created this website to follow along as LLMs are set free on docker containers. It's an interesting experiment, although not many useful commands are executed. It's striking how much stronger the o1-mini model is compared to the other ones, even with the delay handicap.

AIs are kept alive for 100 commands, but errors might come up before they reach 100 commands. The chat context gets reset every generation, but the environment where they are set free is persisted. So, every generation they build upon their last generation. Each bot is isolation from one-another, they do not share environments.

Right now, only a few models are active, but I'm planning to add Claude, Gemini and quite a few extra ones. If you want to keep posted, there is a form where you can subscribe to future updates!

I don't understand. When you work for a company, don't you also spend some time of your workday daydreaming, or getting a coffee, or doing some other thing that does not earn the company money?
Re:CGI Renders Are Real Photos on Friday March 03, 2023 @05:13AM (#35007784)
That's nice and all, but isn't that a huge waste of time/money/resources? What is the advantage of doing it this way over just creating a wallpaper digitally?

Ask HN: How can I set a hard limit in my AWS account

I'm wondering if anyone has found a good way to set a hard limit in AWS. Most sources say that it is not possible [1], and the AWS documentation only shows you how to set alarms and budgets [2]. Is there anyone who has tips and/or tricks on how to prevent overnight disasters that leave you in debt because some serverless function has been consuming too much time/cpu, or spammers found a way to...

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What does "getting Sherlocked" mean?
I'm not so sure. Aren't we having a bit of negativity bias here, as we mostly hear about the negative events while there are probably countless successful integrations with cloud providers.
Re:A generically typed pipe function in TypeScript on Monday August 08, 2022 @04:23AM (#32383404)
If you extract this `Chain` class to a separate package, I would gladly reuse it in my applications. I've been thinking about creating a `Vavr`[0] clone in typescript, as I really like the syntax used in that library, especially the `Try` construct.

[0] https://www.vavr.io/

I have termux to execute commands such as git, builds etc. But outside of vi, are there really IDEs for termux?
I've been looking for a good code editor for my phone for a very long time already. This looks supernice, but I have an Android smartphone... Can anyone recommend a good IDE that runs on an Android phone?
SQLite is a solid solution, can't believe I didn't think of it. Thanks!

Ask HN: What database (and database hosting) to use for small projects?

I just started on a project that will probably have no more than 100 customers, keeping track of basic accounting tasks. I'm now thinking about which database service I will use. Looking at the prices of AWS databases, it will cost me $30 per month just to host the smallest RDS instance in the region of my choice.When starting out on smaller projects that are hosted in the cloud, which database...

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Re:Protecting Supercomputers from an Extraterrestrial Threat on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @03:47AM (#28454318)
I did some looking into this subject after Veritassium posted a video regarding cosmic rays changing the election result in Belgium some time ago[1]. But looking further into the issue, it seemed that there was (and is) scepticism regarding cosmic rays being the actual reason for the miscount. [2][3]

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaZ_RSt0KP8 2. https://web.archive.org/web/20070927185155/http://wiki.ael.b... 3. https://blog.paco.to/2017/cosmic-rays-did-not-change-electio...

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