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fred: A text editor that uses C for everything
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ESBMC-Arduino: Closing the Deployment Gap for Formal Verification
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.08550 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901020 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
The Git history command deserves more attention
Article URL: https://lalitm.com/post/git-history/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901010 Points: 109 # Comments: 73
Success may not matter if you aren't doing what you love
Article URL: https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/founders-guide-success-may-not-matter Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48900790 Points: 52 # Comments: 14
Turn your singing voice into printable notes (in the browser)
Article URL: https://om-intelligence.ch/projects/vocal-notation/vocal-notation.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48900686 Points: 30 # Comments: 12
Estimating the heights of New Yorkers from their scuff marks
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Show HN: Sx 2.0 – Share AI skills with your team through a Dropbox folder
Hi all, author here. SX started as a CLI to let developers share skills across AI clients without having to rely on git for storage. This allowed sharing at the Repo/Team/Org and Personal level. However, the more we spoke to users the more we realized that non-technical users were actually using skills more and more but they had no way to share. And there was no way you were going to get your legal team to install and learn git. SX 2.0 is targeting non-technical teams by adding a native Mac, Windows and Linux app. Our vault format was reworked so it can be used directly as a claude or codex plugin. And by storing your vault in Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud or others you can be up and sharing in under a minute. 2.0 also adds an extension system with extensions that manage Skill Evals, LLM de-duping, metics and much more https://github.com/sleuth-io/sx-extensions. It's Apache-2.0 and you can download it here https://github.com/sleuth-io/sx. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item
An Englishwoman who sketched India before photography took hold
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2drrv6q54o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48900191 Points: 74 # Comments: 22
Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite
78 points, 34 comments on Hacker News
A Study of Microsoft's Early 2026 Rollout of Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.01418 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48899321 Points: 42 # Comments: 20
Should Libraries Log or Propagate Errors?
My assumption was always: Applications log (and err), libraries err. Today, I was shocked to learn that various ecosystems love logging things in libraries (such that silencing those logs is even an important task). My view of logs has been around wide discrete events OR (for small scale personal things) writing errs in a file. I was particularly surprised to learn this was an important consideration of making Go's slog, since you can easily propagate and enrich errors... Why not just err (and handle them by e.g. adding to the log context then retrying)? Or pass extra details in the return package? What workflows etc. make this desirable? All I've been able to think of is the ability to change the log level and silence random extra information.
SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Full Stack Engineers (SF)
Article URL: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/SalesPatriot/df223727-5781-433e-bc75-2aa5bf8dc8d7 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48898814 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
Accidental Anonymity
17 points, 2 comments on Hacker News
Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser
I created a simple CLI that turns a YouTube guitar-lesson video into a PDF of the guitar tab. There are services that transcribe music from Youtube videos into tabs, but they never work well enough for me. Instead I'm taking a simpler approach. It downloads the video, samples frames, uses Claude vision to locate the tab region, crops every frame to that region, de-duplicates the crops by the bar number printed on each line of the score, and stitches the distinct tab lines vertically into a PDF. I didn't test it on a lot of different Youtube videos yet, so problem will arise for sure. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48898154 Points: 30 # Comments: 21
Linux 0.11 rewritten in idiomatic Rust, boots in QEMU
Article URL: https://github.com/Poseidon-fan/linux-0.11-rs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48898134 Points: 33 # Comments: 7
Show HN: Sigwire – a live TUI switchboard for every signal on your Linux box
Hey everyone, I wrote this tool for inspecting linux signals across proceses Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48898071 Points: 10 # Comments: 3
Bootstrapping GDC with DMD
15 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
lobste.rs is now running on SQLite
This past Saturday, @pushcx and I deployed the SQLite pull request to production. We were waiting till this morning to see how it would react to the Monday traffic spike before making this post. Needless to say, SQLite seems to have passed with flying colors: cpu usage is down, memory usage is down, site seems to be snappier at least for me, 1/2 the vps cost once mariadb vps is taken down, and finally "We're having a quiet Monday.". Finally #539 Migrate to SQLite was closed this morning. Let us know if you have any questions about the migration. Background Story: I got involved with this migration because back in 2019 I stumbled upon #539 and because I had lots of experience working with, managing and migrating largish databases, I left a comment suggesting MySQL as an alternative, because of the compatibility between MariaDB and MySQL. At that time I wasn't planning on getting involved since there were already conversations in place to migrate to PostgreSQL. Fast forward to 2025, Rahu
Samsung Health app threatens data deletion if users opt out AI training
Article URL: https://neow.in/cWsyMTV3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48897991 Points: 162 # Comments: 45
Show HN: I implemented a neural network in SQL
Two weeks ago I was on my babymoon in Corfu, Greece. While in transit, I was overseeing a GSoC intern submit an important feature to my array database library, Xarray-SQL. He added `to_dataset()`, which completed the roundtrip between thinking of array data in a tabular model simultaneously as gridded rasters (the premise of the project is that every Nd array can be mapped to 2d, where orthogonal dims of the Nd array are just primary keys of a tabular representation). We discussed in chat, now that this feature existed, what demos could we make that would prove this data model works? With down time on a warm beach during a heatwave, cool salty water giving me fresh ideas, I had an idea: what if we used Coiled's Geospatial benchmark discussion as a comprehensive overview of geo and climate queries. Are all of these common operations secretly relational, just with the wrong data model? Using Claude Code on the beach, I can confirm that this seemed to be the case: Claude and I publish a b
Climate.gov was destroyed. Open data saved it
Article URL: https://werd.io/climate-gov-was-destroyed-open-data-saved-it/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48897945 Points: 272 # Comments: 109
Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended
Article URL: https://www.whois.com/whois/t.me Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48897878 Points: 149 # Comments: 80
TFTP Honey Pot Results
Article URL: https://bruceediger.com/posts/tftp-honeypot-results/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48897329 Points: 33 # Comments: 14
The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes
116 points, 190 comments on Hacker News
The real prices of frontier models. Tokens * Price, right?
Article URL: https://playcode.io/blog/real-price-of-frontier-models Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48896800 Points: 115 # Comments: 54
Show HN: Nobie – an Excel-compatible runtime for agents and humans
Article URL: https://nobie.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48896703 Points: 48 # Comments: 20
Building and Shipping Mac and iOS Apps Without Ever Opening Xcode
Article URL: https://scottwillsey.com/building-and-shipping-mac-and-ios-apps-without-ever-opening-xcode/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48896665 Points: 167 # Comments: 70
Linux on the Sega 32X. Who needs hardware synchronization primitives anyway?
Article URL: https://cakehonolulu.github.io/linux-on-32x/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48896600 Points: 63 # Comments: 10
Show HN: BillAI Bass, an AI-Powered Big Mouth Billy Bass Using Strands Agents
Article URL: https://github.com/morganwilliscloud/billai-bass Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48896599 Points: 36 # Comments: 15
How the Elite See Rome
12 points, 4 comments on Hacker News
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