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unforbiddenYet on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @05:38AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://unforbiddenyet.substack.com/p/i-built-a-polyfill-for-the-browsers
Only Chrome shipped the experimental Web API that I need for cross-browser content moderation. So I built the polyfill myself and open-sourced it.Issues and PRs are very welcome – this is a young project, and there’s room to improve it.
Nice work and kudos for programming it by hand! Starred the project and plan to try it out soonish.
> engineers who've worked with them (or reviewed their OSS contributions) could validate or challenge that [skill]
I like your idea of verifiable skills but I don’t think the proposal is solid. We need a trusted third-party as a validator so everyone is happy. Otherwise, we bring bias and corruption into this.
The problem is currently solved by professional certification — yes it could be gamed but it provides an official confirmation from a reputable source rather than someone’s word that you’re good.
Please keep iterating! We need better tools!
I did the same thing for a month and saved a lot of money. Thinking about how much you need to pay and how much you’ll have left before handing over the cash is an important step that is often not done for contactless payments.
I can see the point of agent-first workflows in the future where we interact with agent UI instead of SaaS/PaaS dashboards but I don’t think every other problem and subsequently a solution will need to be agentified. A massive chunk of interactions would still require a good-old UI i.e. filing taxes, signing contracts, banking, e-government etc.
Reads like this and that social network for AI agents makes me depressed.
Authors have to cut the LLM dosage.
The PostToolUse hook tip for formatting Claude's code is the only actual tip here. Everything else reads like marketing copy.
Happy New Year from Paris, France!