An Honest Review of AI Programming
Article URL: https://mropert.github.io/2026/08/04/an_honest_review_of_ai_programming/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166230 Points: 9 # Comments: 1
Show HN: I made a private self-destructing image hosting site in Golang
So I'm a junior Go dev and I made a small site that allows me to share images with someone privately and securely, and give me control over how many times the private link can be shared and how long the image will be accessible for. There are similar
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The US is not a democracy but an oligarchy, study concludes (2014)
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FFmpeg 9.0
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Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal
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You don't need React: creating a minimal UI library in Vanilla JavaScript
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Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement
Article URL: https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2026-07-04-harness/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49164896 Points: 50 # Comments: 5
Apple is getting this wrong
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The Myth, the Mythos, and the Man
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Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019)
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KisakCOD – Open-source reimplementation of Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer
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Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone
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There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]
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Frame selection is the whole game: notes on making LLMs watch video
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After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry ‘Marxist’
After a quarter that delivered $1 billion in profit, Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs are too untrustworthy for enterprises.