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Holes (1996-2025)

Article URL: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/holes/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49934261 Points: 26 # Comments: 6
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Show HN: Pi pod – Run your pi coding agent in sandboxes on your own server

pi pod runs sessions of the pi coding agent in isolated sandboxes ("pods") on a server you run, in composable environments. ---- Since moving my company towards AI-native work, I have been really frustrated by the state of "agentic engineering" environments. Products by the labs (claude code, codex) lock you into a single provider for your tokens. Agnostic solutions (factory, devin, arguably cursor) make you pay per-token costs. None of these products allow you to fully customize the harness, an...
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Woking Electrical Control Room (2016)

Article URL: http://www.darbiansphotography.com/woking-electrical-control-room-urbex Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49938399 Points: 106 # Comments: 18
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The characters of plastics (2024)

Article URL: https://yarchive.net/blog/plastics/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49941764 Points: 5 # Comments: 2
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Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model

https://tej.as/blog/aleph-alpha-kolibri Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49942706 Points: 359 # Comments: 247
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City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2

Article URL: https://www.radical-elements.com/minor-epiphanies/city-building-games-have-a-soul-problem-pt2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49945323 Points: 109 # Comments: 106
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RetailReady (YC W24) Is Hiring

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/retailready/jobs/bFcgIe4-implementations Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49945904 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
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Kolibri – Tech Report [pdf]

Article URL: https://aleph-alpha.com/downloads/tech-report.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946069 Points: 76 # Comments: 2
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Vx – One Language, Every Chip

Article URL: https://vxlang.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946076 Points: 19 # Comments: 12
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Pop!_OS bans AI-generated code from much of its codebase

Article URL: https://www.neowin.net/news/system76-bans-ai-generated-code-across-many-of-its-cosmic-codebases/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946321 Points: 54 # Comments: 35
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ADHD, autism or complex trauma? [pdf]

Article URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/30CC4826561366615BFAEC807CDE28A7/S0007125026108046a.pdf/adhd-autism-or-complex-trauma-the-complicated-nature-of-the-question.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946403 Points: 141 # Comments: 92
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Our AI Midwife

Article URL: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/our-ai-midwife Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946873 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
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3D movies are finally worth watching

Why am I suddenly buying up every 3D Blu-ray I can find after 3D became one of the biggest tech flops of all time? The technology's finally ready for 3D movies to shine, more than 15 years since James Cameron's Avatar wowed me on the big screen and went on to become the highest-grossing film […]
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An OpenAI safety employee has quit and is sounding the alarm

David Robinson used to write the safety reports that accompanied every major model release at OpenAI. This week, he resigned from his position and is now speaking out in an editorial in The Atlantic. It's understandable if you're feeling a bit cynical about everyone suddenly coming out of the woodwork to warn about how dangerous […]
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Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava thinks AI emails are killing conversations

Kakul Srivastava is the CEO of Splice, the sample platform countless producers rely on for one-shots and melodic loops. Samples pulled from the service have found their way into massive hits like Lisa's "Money" and "Espresso" by Sabrina Carpenter. (The original samples are here and here, for the curious.) Before that, Kakul held executive roles […]
How SAML works, and why XML signature wrapping keeps breaking it
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How SAML works, and why XML signature wrapping keeps breaking it

SAML is the XML that logs you into almost every work app you use, and it has a design quirk that keeps producing the same security bug: the signature lives inside the document it signs. In 2012 researchers tested fourteen SAML frameworks and broke eleven with one trick, XML signature wrapping. Last week a Trail of Bits post, "SAML: A fractal of bad design" , argued it is time to retire the protocol. If you sell software to companies, somebody will ask you for SAML, so here is how it works and w...
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Greenhouse vs Ashby vs Lever vs SmartRecruiters: which job API should you scrape?

If you scrape job boards, these four cover a huge share of tech employers. They are also four different APIs with four different conventions. Here is the honest comparison I wish I had before writing my fourth parser. Greenhouse Endpoint: boards-api.greenhouse.io/v1/boards/{token}/jobs One request returns every job. Add ?content=true for descriptions. Trap: content=true roughly 12×'s the payload (5.4 MB vs 436 KB for a 715-job board). If you only need N jobs, fe...
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Day 6: I connected my coding agent to the API spec over MCP

Watch a coding agent integrate with an API it has never seen and you can predict the failure with eerie accuracy. It builds the screen fast, wires the form, posts to the create endpoint, and the integration is wrong: limit became pageSize , the list unwrapped data.records instead of data.items , and the amount field is a float. The agent is not being stupid. It is making the statistically most likely guess about a contract it was never shown. Day 6 of the the series: stop pasting the AP...
I built AppMixer: per-app volume and audio routing for macOS
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I built AppMixer: per-app volume and audio routing for macOS

Music playing. A video open in the browser. A call about to start. You want to turn one app down without turning everything else down with it. I built AppMixer , a Mac menu bar app that gives each app its own volume and output controls. The everyday controls are free. Pro adds audio processing and automation through a one-time purchase , with a 14-day free trial. No subscription, no account, and no tracking. Get AppMixer on the Mac App Store Turn down the browser, keep t...
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React Native vs Flutter vs Native: There Is No Universal Best Choice

When people start planning a mobile application, one of the first technical decisions is often: Should we build it with React Native, Flutter, or native development? There is no universal answer. Each approach solves a slightly different problem. A useful way to think about them is: React Native: Share much of your application code while still using native platform components. Flutter: Build a highly consistent cross-platform interface using Dart and Flutter'...
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Gamma vs Beautiful.ai: Which AI Presentation Maker Actually Delivers?

TL;DR Gamma ($12/mo monthly, about $9/mo annual) is the better AI-first presentation maker: it drafts a whole deck from a topic in under a minute and its free tier is real, if only 400 one-time credits. Beautiful.ai ($14.50/mo annual, $45 month-to-month) is the better design engine: Smart Slides reflow automatically so a team deck never looks broken — but there is no free plan, only a 14-day trial. Pick Gamma when you want the AI to write and design; pick Beautiful.ai when you have ...