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I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model (Score: 152+ in 11 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6HqwH
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Recovering Anthony Bourdain's (really) lost Li.st's (Score: 151+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6HqGD
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Want to sway an election? Here’s how much fake online accounts cost (Score: 154+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6HqBr
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Go Proposal: Secret Mode (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6H9zb
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VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits (🔥 Score: 156+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6HqrV
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I tried Gleam for Advent of Code (🔥 Score: 154+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6HpZR
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LG TV's new software update installed MS Copilot, which cannot be deleted (🔥 Score: 152+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6HpN9
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YouTube's CEO limits his kids' social media use – other tech bosses do the same (Score: 150+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6Hpn3
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Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence (Score: 155+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6HiBN
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https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/11/trump-signs-executive-order-...
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String theory inspires a brilliant, baffling new math proof (Score: 150+ in 20 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6HkGG
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Show HN: I made a spreadsheet where formulas also update backwards (Score: 151+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6Hheg
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Hello HN! I'm happy to release this project today. It's a bidirectional calculator (hence the name bidicalc).
I've been obsessed with the idea of making a spreadsheet where you can update both inputs and outputs, instead of regular spreadsheets where you can only update inputs.
Please let me know what you think! Especially if you find bugs or good example use cases.
Berlin Approves New Expansion of Police Surveillance Powers (Score: 150+ in 19 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6Hkwj
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Japan law opening phone app stores to go into effect (Score: 150+ in 13 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6HkPy
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OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI (🔥 Score: 152+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6HncN
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Benn Jordan’s flock camera jammer will send you to jail in Florida now [video] (Score: 151+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6HmgH
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How the Brain Parses Language (❄️ Score: 150+ in 5 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6H3tX
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Linux Sandboxes and Fil-C (Score: 153+ in 5 hours)
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Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6HqyC
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Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming? (Score: 153+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6HpMf
I've been working on a personal project recently, rewriting an old jQuery + Django project into SvelteKit. The main work is translating the UI templates into idiomatic SvelteKit while maintaining the original styling. This includes things like using semantic HTML instead of div-spamming, not wrapping divs in divs in divs, and replacing bootstrap with minimal tailwind. It also includes some logic refactors, to maintain the original functionality but rewritten to avoid years of code debt. Things like replacing templates using boolean flags for multiple views with composable Svelte components.
I've had a fairly steady process for doing this: look at each route defined in Django, build out my `+page.server.ts`, and then split each major section of the page into a Svelte component with a matching Storybook story. It takes a lot of time to do this, since I have to ensure I'm not just copying the template but rather recreating it in a more idiomatic style.
This kind of work seems like a great use case for AI assisted programming, but I've failed to use it effectively. At most, I can only get Claude Code to recreate some slightly less spaghetti code in Svelte. Simple prompting just isn't able to get AI's code quality within 90% of what I'd write by hand. Ideally, AI could get it's code to something I could review manually in 15-20 minutes, which would massively speed up the time spent on this project (right now it takes me 1-2 hours to properly translate a route).
Do you guys have tips or suggestions on how to improve my efficiency and code quality with AI?
Photographer built a medium-format rangefinder (❄️ Score: 150+ in 6 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6GWSa
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Useful patterns for building HTML tools (❄️ Score: 151+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6HdLu
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What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you? (Score: 161+ in 1 day)
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Computer Animator and Amiga fanatic Dick Van Dyke turns 100 (Score: 152+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6Hp4j
Here's a video from 2004 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1J9kfDCAmU
It's his 100th birthday today.
Show HN: Tiny VM sandbox in C with apps in Rust, C and Zig (Score: 150+ in 15 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6HmWC
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Google Removes Sci-Hub Domains from U.S. Search Results Due to Dated Court Order (Score: 156+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6HnCW
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1300 Still Images from the Animated Films of Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli (2023) (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6HnB8
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Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help (🔥 Score: 162+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6HnLC
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Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options (Score: 152+ in 14 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6Hk5z
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GNU Unifont (Score: 151+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6HmJv
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Rats Play DOOM (Score: 157+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6HmyV
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