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How I Built a Color Picker That Actually Converts Colors Correctly (HEX/RGB/HSL)

While working on a design system recently, I kept running into the same frustrating problem: I'd grab a color from Figma in HEX format, need it in HSL for a CSS variable, and end up bouncing between three different websites just to convert one value. Each site had its own UI quirks, some required JavaScript to be enabled, and none of them gave me a proper color scheme alongside the conversion. So I did what any reasonable developer would do β€” I built my own. Because apparently I enjoy reinven...
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5 Common Subnetting Mistakes That Break Real Networks

Subnetting errors rarely announce themselves as "bad math." More often, two devices make different decisions about whether a destination is local, a route points at the wrong boundary, or a cloud/VPN design contains two networks that cannot be unambiguously routed. These five failure modes are worth recognizing in live configurations. 1. The two hosts use different masks Consider Host A at 192.168.10.10/24 and Host B at 192.168.11.10/16 . A calculates that B is outside 192.16...
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Stop Copy-Pasting Parts in Docker Compose

Imagine you have a complex microservice. For local development, you need it connected to a message queue, a telemetry collector, and a database. But for your E2E testing, you need a slightly modified version (different env vars, an extra mock dependency, maybe a different port). Most engineers solve this by maintaining two massive, almost-identical YAML files. It is a nightmare to sync changes. Or they simply do this: $ docker compose -f compose.yml -f e2e-compose.yml up --b...
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How to Fix 'command not found' (Without Reinstalling Everything)

Adapted from the Command Line Essentials Companion Guide . You install something, open a fresh terminal, type the command, and get bash: python3: command not found β€” or on Windows, 'python3' is not recognized as an internal or external command . The installer said it finished successfully. You can probably even find the program in your applications folder. And yet the terminal insists it doesn't exist. The instinct at this point is usually to reinstall, or install a second copy fro...
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Building a Disposable Notion Agent on Cheap Models

TL;DR: We built a one-shot HTTP worker that talks to Notion through MCP. Version one worked. Version two got cheaper and more readable, then failed in a new way. The harness was fine. The tool surface, the model, and the prompt were not the same problem, and we kept treating them as one. We keep seeing the same pitch: put an agent in the cloud, give it tools, let it live in Slack, let it remember you. That is a product. It is not the product we needed. We needed something dumber and mor...
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Japan to require AI firms to disclose training data

Article URL: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/19/japan/ai-training-data-disclosure/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49367870 Points: 13 # Comments: 4
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Dear researchers: Is AI all you've got?

Article URL: https://austinhenley.com/blog/dearresearchers.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49368150 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
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"Half-Day": 0-Day in the Age of AI

Article URL: https://margin.re/2026/08/introducing-the-half-day-0-day-in-the-age-of-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49368297 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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Technical leaders should have the largest AI exhaust

Article URL: https://schipper.ai/posts/technical-leaders-should-have-the-largest-ai-exhaust/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49368389 Points: 9 # Comments: 10
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AI Hurtles Ahead

Article URL: https://www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/memo/ai-hurtles-ahead Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49368452 Points: 2 # Comments: 3
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AI-Powered Cyberattacks

Article URL: https://www.opswat.com/blog/ai-powered-cyberattacks Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49368496 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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If You're Not Studying for Retention, Just Use AI

Article URL: https://www.fjapm.com/posts/if-youre-not-studying-for-retention-just-use-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49368725 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
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How to use AI for your next job interview

Article URL: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-to-use-ai-in-your-next-job-interview Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49369333 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Credentialism is coming for AI agents

Article URL: https://betocmn.com/blog/credentialism-is-coming-for-ai-agents/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49369402 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Show HN: AI Resume Screening – Looking for feedback from recruiters

In addition to the resume creation tool we mentioned in our previous post, we've also developed an AI-powered resume screening tool to complement our overall ecosystem. This tool aims to help recruitment teams efficiently review hundreds of resumes without relying on keyword matching. This tool helps teams: - Batch upload and parse PDF resumes - Compare candidates with job descriptions - Review candidates' skills, experience, project experience, and industry fit - Provide candidate fit analysis ...
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Does anyone find AI code review useful?

I’m genuinely trying to understand the point of AI code review. Once an LLM generated change gets into a few hundreds or thousands of lines, a human reviewer can barely read the whole thing in any meaningful way. And even if they can, why should they spend their time reviewing thousands of lines generated by someone else’s AI? If the code is going to be reviewed by another AI anyway, why doesn’t the developer opening the PR just run one more iteration before submitting it? Is the assumption that...
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Show HN: AI agents can now safely write to your CRMs

Hi HN! Just wanted to share that I've built Archron - Execution governance for AI in business. It allows agents to safely write to CRMs(starting from Salesforce and hubspot) while maintaining immutable audit logs. Demo: https://youtu.be/uUTWGwJjpdA Would love to hear your thoughts about this and feedback. We are offering 3 months free to test it in your business workflow. Feel free to reach out: rjimena@archron.app Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49369982 Points: 1 ...
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PostgreSQL for Everything

Article URL: https://www.raphaelbauer.com:443/posts/postgresql-everything/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49361279 Points: 320 # Comments: 200
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Manabu Kosaka's Handmade Paper Sculptures

Article URL: https://coca11272000.wixsite.com/manabukosaka Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49362001 Points: 63 # Comments: 7