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Re:Quili AI on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @11:20AM (#50353961)
The people doing this are drinking water either way.
Re:Quili AI on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @11:18AM (#50353933)
11 minutes, 4 seconds
It's always so disappointing. This looks genuinely cool, soured by all the little ai artifacts that get hard to look past, like "the circle names what it rests on".
Iosevka is one of those fonts you can tell has had so much work put into it over the years. It is so customizable and works in a lot of contexts, although it’s a little narrow to code in for my taste. I’ve really liked Junicode (serif) for the same reason. Lots of customization options and care in the details.
Re:Triple-A Minesweeper on Saturday October 10, 2026 @11:45AM (#50034061)
Pretty close but they forgot the part where I have to install anti cheat, update my drivers and reboot, create an account and link my email, check my email for a code, accept ToS, compile shaders, and wait for more patches to install before playing.
Re:Bun 1.4 on Thursday August 20, 2026 @11:34AM (#49376095)
I think this was to contrast with the multi-engineer effort the task would normally be.
Re:How I use LLMs to learn complex topics on Sunday August 09, 2026 @06:32PM (#49236875)
> In plan mode (using CC, or OpenCode) I ask a model to build the foundational knowledge for X topic. I ask it to review the accuracy of the knowledge base it built in the previous step.

> What you get is a beautiful animation that is 100% accurate and free of hallucinations.

How do you make that leap?

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026) on Sunday August 09, 2026 @02:47PM (#49234339)
Looks really fun! Best of luck with the release
The circular cost indicator near the context usage indicator was also removed. It is so much easier to accidentally leave an expensive model enabled now and not realize it until you have blown through the included credits. And it is hard to imagine that that wasn’t the point of the change.
Re:Show HN: 18 Words on Thursday July 09, 2026 @11:40AM (#48847747)
It’d be fun to get to try all the words. Maybe finishing the whole game as fast as possible could be the goal, rather than hitting 30s per word?
Re:Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike on Thursday June 25, 2026 @09:18PM (#48681268)
This is so fun! It would be cool to reuse the replay functionality in order to see how the top scorers managed to get such good scores.
An app ui that can be modified by end users is a really cool idea. I hope to see that in more apps!
Re:Software Is Made Between Commits on Thursday June 11, 2026 @09:51PM (#48498883)
The way you use commits sounds like how I tend to use stacked PRs at work. Good commit hygiene is hard to enforce at a team level, but for whatever reason at the PR level people are happy to write good descriptions and keep the sets of changes tidy.
Re:Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code on Thursday May 28, 2026 @05:43PM (#48315939)
Have to love their demo use case: React -> Solid migration
Re:Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @03:40PM (#48113362)
The video you linked is currently private
Re:I’ve banned query strings on Sunday May 10, 2026 @10:46AM (#48084426)
This is rad and made me smile
Re:Quantization from the Ground Up on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @03:13PM (#47521863)
Heartily second that! It was cool to see a combination of DOM, SVG, and canvas visualization all in use for this post.
Re:Apple Introduces MacBook Neo on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @12:23PM (#47250756)
And the battery or SSD?
Re:Block the "Upgrade to Tahoe" Alerts on Saturday February 28, 2026 @08:53PM (#47202780)
A few weeks ago Apple had a tiny (<10MB) update for media codecs ready to install on my MBP. I expanded the details for that software update and saw that if I had run it, it would also have downloaded and installed Tahoe. Apple is burning so much trust right now with these dark patterns.
Re:I Now Assume That All Ads on Apple News Are Scams on Friday February 06, 2026 @12:04PM (#46915330)
A thousand and one paper cuts. I feel like this shortsighted decision making will cost Apple so much trust in the long run.
Feels short sighted. Every such change gets me closer to ditching the ecosystem altogether.
Wish this were built into the OS! Love the idea
Re:Exe.dev/ on Saturday December 27, 2025 @08:16PM (#46407394)
Definitely going to give this a try. One thing I'm curious about--where are the servers? And if I want to choose hosting geographically close to me, how do I do that?
Re:Public Makes Millions on Plunging Crypto on Thursday December 18, 2025 @03:07PM (#46317940)
How much is “the public” making? The title of the post says millions. The title of the article says trillions. The second paragraph of the article says not trillions. Sheesh
I love squoosh! It’s been one of the few PWAs I have installed and actually use regularly.

Does anyone know if their optimization methods still best-in-class these days? It’s been good enough for all my practical needs, but I know it’s been around for a while and there may be better techniques for some file types now.

Re:Patterns.dev on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @10:02PM (#46227161)
Ah I think I understand now. The return type of createBook is true | Book, which is likely a mistake, but happens to work because when you attempt to spread a boolean into an object it removes itself. But if you were to edit the example to have a stable return type of Book then it would no longer save memory, so perhaps that was intentional?
Re:Patterns.dev on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @09:55PM (#46227117)
Love this! Just wanted to note that I think there’s a mistake on the flyweight pattern page’s example. You’re using getting a boolean with Set.has but treating it like a Book (as if you had used Set.get). I also don’t really understand how this saves memory if you’re spreading the result into a new object, but maybe someone here can enlighten me!
Re:Avería: The Average Font (2011) on Saturday November 08, 2025 @04:47PM (#45860357)
I’m surprised by how good it looks. This is really cool! I do feel like the Q and 4 characters need a little manual tweaking since the blur+threshold technique leaves some artifacts in the corners but those are such minor issues given how readable this font is overall. Love it.
Re:Always Be Ready to Leave (Even If You Never Do) on Saturday November 08, 2025 @04:29PM (#45860203)
It has a bunch of human imperfections, and I love that. The lowercase lists and inconsistent casing for similarly structured content throughout, the grammar mistakes, and overall structure. This article has a totally different feel compared to the newest ones. When you say it’s very similar, what are you picking up on? They feel like night and day from my perspective.
Re:Always Be Ready to Leave (Even If You Never Do) on Saturday November 08, 2025 @02:31PM (#45859258)
You can compare the writing style from the earlier articles like this from 2020, pre-GPT.

https://andreacanton.dev/posts/2020-02-19-git-mantras/

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