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Re:OpenErrata – AI-Powered Fact-Checking for the Web on Monday April 27, 2026 @01:09PM (#47924337)
OpenErrata is a browser extension that uses AI to investigate the content you read online and provides inline corrections to empirically incorrect or misleading claims.

Show HN: Home Maker: Declare Your Dev Tools in a Makefile

https://thottingal.in/blog/2026/03/29/home-maker/

A developer's machine accumulates tools fast. A Rust CLI you compiled last year, a Python formatter installed via `uv`, a language server pulled from npm, a terminal emulator from a curl script, a Go binary built from source. Each came from a different package manager, each with its own install incantation you half-remember.I wanted a way to declare what I need without adopting a complex system...

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Re:Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015 on Sunday February 15, 2026 @11:07PM (#47030781)
There is one already https://skills.sh/paulirish/dotfiles/modern-css I am not sure whether it covers everything from https://modern-css.com/ though
Re:Show HN: I wrote a book about UI [pdf] on Friday May 21, 2021 @12:48AM (#27230607)
Thanks for this. I learned a few new tips. If it is not too much work, a web version of this will be helpful. Also for search engine friendly.
Re:Bookmarklets I Use on Sunday June 07, 2020 @09:40AM (#23447255)
Here is a simple bookmarklet to quickly turn any browser tab to a rich text editor:

data:text/html, <body contenteditable style="margin:2rem;">

Open the above as URL in a browser tab and bookmark.

Author of this new PoC here. IPNS propagation is slow in the current implementation and it is a blocker for instant propagation irrespective of number of peers. In my discussion with IPFS developers, I was told that they are going to look into this issue in next versions.
Re:Ask HN: What projects are you working on now? on Sunday March 22, 2020 @01:06AM (#22652870)
I am developing a modern wikipedia interface - a Vuejs powered modern, single page, progressive, offline capable web application for Wikipedia. I have been working on this for last several months and have working version available at https://wikipedia.thottingal.in

Source code and more details available at https://github.com/santhoshtr/wikivue

It is a fully client side PWA application using wikipedia web apis, installable in desktops and mobiles and use like a native application. It has offline support - With the help of service workers, the application even works when there is no internet, provided, the content is previously viewed. It is a single page application - page does not reload when exploing wiki articles, presenting an immersed reading experience. uIt ses modern UI framwork Vuetify. Adapts to all kind of screen sizes. It presents an optimized reading experience with good typography and optimum page layout. Multilingual by default - All language editions are in single app. Using language selector user can select the language edition.

I wanted to make this as a p2p capable application. Currently it runs on dat protocol as well: dat://25689f3a757853a511474d38f0a6d6be2cd2b0cb161686d75fda5c1619137921(need beaker browser) or wikipedia.hashbase.io

Re:Category:Obsolete occupations on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @01:43AM (#21760151)
Web developer - an obsolete occupation?!
Re:BenderRule: Name the Language You Study on Sunday September 15, 2019 @11:44PM (#20980921)
Here is an example for a very recent progress in language model which does not mention the language name at all: "CTRL - A Conditional Transformer Language Model for Controllable Generation" - https://blog.einstein.ai/introducing-a-conditional-transform...

As a researcher in a non-english, morphologically rich language, I completely agree with the article by Emily Bender. Everytime I read papers, when people ask questions or discuss on NLP in various forums such as reddit/stackoverlow, the language name is taken for granted as English.

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