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Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6rLHt
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Japanese scientists create new plastic that dissolves in saltwater overnight (Score: 150+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6rJYc
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Cross-Platform P2P Wi-Fi: How the EU Killed AWDL (Score: 151+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6rJMq
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Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust (Score: 157+ in 12 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6rHUD
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The long-awaited Friend Compound laws in California (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6rBsp
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Preschoolers can reason better than we think, study suggests (❄️ Score: 151+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6rxEu
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I drove 300 miles, then asked police to send me surveillance footage of my car. (🔥 Score: 169+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6rJAx
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A decompilation and port of Sonic Advance 2-a GameBoy Advance game written in C (Score: 150+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6rHrt
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Architecture Patterns with Python (Score: 153+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6rHPf
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Using uv and PEP 723 for Self-Contained Python Scripts (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6rHdW
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Things I would have told myself before building an autorouter (Score: 153+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6rHbA
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First-of-its-kind trial enables paralysed man to stand via stem cell injection (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
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Launch HN: Continue (YC S23) – Create custom AI code assistants (Score: 150+ in 13 hours)
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Hi HN. We are Nate and Ty, co-founders of Continue (https://www.continue.dev), which enables developers to create, share, and use custom AI code assistants. Today, we are launching Continue Hub and sharing what we’ve learned since our Show HN that introduced our open-source VS Code extension in July 2023 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36882146).
At Continue, we've always believed that developers should be amplified, not automated. A key aspect of this philosophy is providing choices that let you customize your AI code assistant to fit your specific needs, workflows, and preferences.
The AI-native development landscape constantly evolves with new models, MCP servers, assistant rules, etc. emerging daily. Continue's open architecture connects this ecosystem, ensuring your custom code assistants always leverage the best available resources rather than locking you into yesterday's technology.
The Continue Hub makes it even easier to customize with a registry for defining, managing, and sharing building blocks (e.g. models, rules, MCP servers, etc). These building blocks can be combined into custom AI code assistants, which you can use with our open-source VS Code and JetBrains extensions (https://github.com/continuedev/continue).
Here are a few examples of different custom AI code assistants that we’ve built to show how it works:
A custom assistant that specializes in helping with data load tool (dlt) using their MCP: https://www.loom.com/share/baf843d860f44a91b8c580063fcfbf4a?...
A custom assistant that specializes in helping with Dioxus using only models from Mistral: https://www.loom.com/share/87583774753045b1b3c12327e662ea38?...
A custom assistant that specializes in helping with LanceDB using the best LLMs from any vendor via their public APIs (Anthropic, Voyage AI, etc): https://www.loom.com/share/3059a35f8b6f436699ab9c1d1421fc8d?...
Over the last 18+ months since our Show HN, our community has rapidly grown to 25k+ GitHub stars, 12.5k+ Discord members, and hundreds of thousands of users. This happened because developers want to understand how their tools work, figure out how to better use them, and shape them to fit their development practices / environments. Continue does not constrain their creativity like the vertically integrated, proprietary black box AI code assistants that lack transparency and offer limited customizability.
Before Continue Hub, developers faced specific technical challenges when building custom AI assistants. They manually maintained separate configuration files for different models, wrestled with breaking API changes from providers, and built redundant context retrieval systems from scratch. We've seen teams spend weeks setting up systems that should take hours. Many developers abandoned the effort entirely, finding it impossible to keep up with the rapidly evolving ecosystem of models and tools.
Our open-source IDE extensions now read a standardized configuration format that fully specifies an AI code assistant's capabilities—from models and context providers to prompts and rules. Continue Hub hosts these configurations, syncs them with your IDE, and adds versioning, permissions, and sharing. Assistants are composed of atomic "blocks" that use a common yaml format, all managed through our registry with both free solo and paid team plans.
We're releasing Continue 1.0 today, which includes both Continue Hub and the first major release of our Apache 2.0 licensed VS Code and JetBrains extensions. While the Hub currently only supports our IDE extensions, we've designed the underlying architecture to support other tools in the future (https://blog.continue.dev/continue-1-0). The config format is intentionally tool-agnostic—if you're interested in integrating with it or have ideas for improvement, we'd love to hear your thoughts!
Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi (Score: 153+ in 4 hours)
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Source code art in the Rivulet language (Score: 150+ in 12 hours)
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2025 Tariff Impacts at Puget Systems (🔥 Score: 150+ in 3 hours)
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xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B (🔥 Score: 181+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6rLkV
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We hacked Gemini's Python sandbox and leaked its source code (at least some) (🔥 Score: 155+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6rKS4
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How Kerala got rich (🔥 Score: 159+ in 2 hours)
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How to Write Blog Posts That Developers Read · Refactoring English (Score: 154+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6rJqS
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7.7 magnitude earthquake hits Southeast Asia, affecting Myanmar and Thailand (Score: 151+ in 5 hours)
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Golang on the Playstation 2 (Score: 152+ in 15 hours)
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Giant, fungus-like organism may be a completely unknown branch of life (Score: 150+ in 12 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6rGXY
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Learning Theory from First Principles [pdf] (Score: 150+ in 13 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6rGxc
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LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs (Score: 156+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6rH9e
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A note on the USB-to-PS/2 mouse adapter that came with Microsoft mouse devices (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6rH8z
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Take this on-call rotation and shove it (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6rGBP
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Dagger: A shell for the container age (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6rCZt
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I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs (🔥 Score: 154+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6rGE4
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Apple needs a Snow Sequoia (🔥 Score: 158+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6rGRA
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