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Python utility package for building Claude Code hooks

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Italians and Dutch share the same gestural instinct for teaching

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Show HN: Sotto – AI interview assistant for Mac

Being a software engineer myself I understand how grueling and tiresome software engineering interviews can be. Sometimes I found myself botching technical interviews due to nerves, only to realize a few minutes after the zoom call that I knew the answer all along. Many factors can cause skilled engineers to freeze up during interviews - and let's be honest, most of the skills tested during interviews are irrelevant to the actual day to day job.I created a Mac desktop app at https:/&#x

Ask HN: Has AI affected negatively the job market for devs?

So, not trying to "flex" but in the past I've worked on projects even for Microsoft/darpa, won awards, now been developing alternatives to transformers for generative models in C and can't even get an interview after tens of applications? even $10/hour seems like a stretch...looks like it's all about connections now and any buzzword or "complex code" is immediately considered an ai-slop or far less impressive than it used to be? I'm considering a

I created a product compiler with DSLs

Hello HN! I've been working on TypMo as a solo builder for past 5 months or so. It started as a wireframe-to-prompt tool but has evolved to what I call as a "product compiler". TypMo takes whatever you have as product input (a prompt, customer interviews, an existing codebase) and turns it into a structured, queryable spec graph. It synthesises into Typed nodes (personas, business rules, agent blueprints, entity state machines, user journeys) with relationships you can traverse vi

Do they know we can tell it's AI slop?

What do I do when the entrepreneurs I work for send out AI slop in their communications?I work for a great group of entrepreneurs as CTO/fCFO. They are all sales guys. In my childhood and professional career, I have seen so many toxic partnerships. I don’t waste any time on those anymore and I genuinely respect the guys I work for.So, to the main question, what do I do when it’s blatant that they are just copying AI slop from Grok or chatGPT? I notice it all the time. But I genuinely respec

Garnix (A Nix CI) is shutting down

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Go Into The Story Resource: 60 Second Screenwriter

I’m celebrating the blog’s 18th birthday by shining a spotlight on some of the site’s many resources for screenwriters.Continue reading on Go Into The Story »

Page One: “We Bought a Zoo” (2011)

Screenplay by Aline Brosh McKenna and Cameron Crowe, book by Benjamin MeebookContinue reading on Go Into The Story »

Social Animus

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Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'

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Waymo starts offering rides in its new robotaxi van—a 'living room on wheels'

After months of teases, Waymo is ready to offer public rides in its first purpose-built, widely available robotaxi, and it's billed as a "living room on wheels" with the technology upgrade to match.

The Toyota Tacoma proves you don't need a full-size truck (and you'll save $10,000)

Full-size pickup trucks have become the default choice for a lot of buyers, despite the fact that most people rarely use even half of the capability they offer. Massive towing figures and oversized dimensions may look impressive on paper, but they also come with higher prices, worse fuel economy, and a more cumbersome driving experience. For the average driver, a mo

Bitburner, programming-based incremental game

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I hated writing–until I learned there's a science to it(2024)

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Your motherboard has a hidden storage limit that has nothing to do with gigabytes

I've come to realize that the problem with PC storage isn't capacity, it's scalability. After all, while even a small 250GB drive has its uses, no one is stopping you from buying an 8TB SSD. Sure, it'll cost a fortune, but you do you.

Google Messages backup settings are a trap: Here's why you should disable cloud sync immediately

In many ways, Google Messages is a big step forward for texting on Android, but in other ways, it's a trap. Just like how using Google Messages makes it exceedingly difficult to transfer your number back to any other texting app, enabling backups in Google Messages comes with inadvertent downsides as well.

The Permanent Upper Crow

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Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue

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8 built-in Android features that started their life as standalone apps

In its early days, Android was pretty barebones. You had to install standalone apps to perform all sorts of basic tasks and get functionalities that Android simply didn't include. Many built-in features we now take for granted actually started life as standalone apps before Google folded them into the OS itself.