Show HN: DaedalOS – Desktop Environment in the Browser (Score: 150+ in 14 hours)
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Demo: https://dustinbrett.com
Hey HN!
I've been building my passion project daedalOS for over 4 years now.
The original idea was to give visitors to my website the experience as if they had remotely connected to my personal machine. To do this I decided I would attempt to recreate as much of the functionality as possible.
My hope is to keep working on this project for the rest of my life and continue to evolve it's capabilities as technologies progress.
Thanks for checking it out!
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6v4VB
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6v4VB
Demo: https://dustinbrett.com
Hey HN!
I've been building my passion project daedalOS for over 4 years now.
The original idea was to give visitors to my website the experience as if they had remotely connected to my personal machine. To do this I decided I would attempt to recreate as much of the functionality as possible.
My hope is to keep working on this project for the rest of my life and continue to evolve it's capabilities as technologies progress.
Thanks for checking it out!
GitHub
GitHub - DustinBrett/daedalOS: Desktop environment in the browser
Desktop environment in the browser. Contribute to DustinBrett/daedalOS development by creating an account on GitHub.
Google Shared My Phone Number (🔥 Score: 162+ in 2 hours)
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Dan Q
Google Shared My Phone Number!
When people started calling my personal mobile number with questions about a voluntary organisation I'm involved with, I was confused: we weren't sharing that number. It turns out that Google had decided to take the number I used to verify my identity for…
DumPy: NumPy except it's OK if you're dum (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
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DYNOMIGHT
DumPy: NumPy except it’s OK if you’re dum
reject clever
CAPTCHAs are over (in ticketing) (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
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behind.pretix.eu
CAPTCHAs are over (in ticketing) - pretix – behind the scenes - Behind the scenes of pretix, your friendly open source ticketing…
Behind the scenes blog of pretix, your friendly ticketing system from next door.
Now you can watch the Internet Archive preserve documents in real time (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
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The Verge
Now you can watch the Internet Archive preserve documents in real time
A new livestream to study/sleep to.
Lieferando.de has captured 5.7% of restaurant related domain names (🔥 Score: 151+ in 2 hours)
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mondaybits.com
Lieferando.de has captured 5.7% of restaurant related domain names
I recently decided to compile a very large list of domain names for the German country code top-level domain .de. I did this with the help of the Common Crawl project which provides a free, open repository of web crawl data and web graphs for the last years.…
On File Formats (❄️ Score: 150+ in 5 days)
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Lisping at JPL (2002) (❄️ Score: 151+ in 4 days)
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Remote Prompt Injection in Gitlab Duo Leads to Source Code Theft (❄️ Score: 152+ in 3 days)
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Legitsecurity
Remote Prompt Injection in GitLab Duo Leads to Source Code Theft
The Legit research team unearthed vulnerabilities in GitLab Duo.
Bagel: Open-source unified multimodal model (Score: 152+ in 7 hours)
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BAGEL
BAGEL: Scalable Unified Multimodal Model
A scalable unified multimodal model, revolutionizing how AI interacts with complex systems.
Trading with Claude, and writing your own MCP server (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
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Ask HN: Anyone struggling to get value out of coding LLMs? (Score: 155+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6v6Y7
I use LLMs daily for stuff like:
- solving tasks that just require applying knowledge ("here's a paste of my python import structure. I don't write Python often and I'm aware I'm doing something wrong here because I get this error, tell me the proper way organise the package").
- writing self-contained throwaway pieces of code ("here's a paste of my DESCRIBE TABLE output, write an SQL query to show the median [...]").
- as a debugging partner ("I can SSH to this host directly, but Ansible fails to connect with this error, what could be causing this difference").
All these use cases work great, I save a lot of time. But with the core work of writing the code that I work on, I've almost never had any success. I've tried:
- Cursor (can't remember which model, the default)
- Google's Jules
- OpenAI Codex with o4
I found in all cases that the underlying capability is clearly there (the model can understand and write code) but the end-to-end value is not at all. It could write code that _worked_, but trying to get it to generate code that I am willing to maintain and "put my name on" took longer than writing the code would have.
I had to micromanage them infinitely ("be sure to rerun the formatter, make sure all tests pass" and "please follow the coding style of the repository". "You've added irrelevant comments remove those". "You've refactored most of the file but forgot a single function"). It would take many many iterations on trivial issues, and because these iterations are slow that just meant I had to context switch a lot, which is also exhausting.
Basically it was like having an intern who has successfully learned the core skill of programming but is not really capable of good collaboration and needs to be babysat all the time.
I asked friends who are enthusiastic vibe coders and they basically said "your standards are too high".
Is the model for success here that you just say "I don't care about code quality because I don't have to maintain it because I will use LLMs for that too?" Am I just not using the tools correctly?
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6v6Y7
I use LLMs daily for stuff like:
- solving tasks that just require applying knowledge ("here's a paste of my python import structure. I don't write Python often and I'm aware I'm doing something wrong here because I get this error, tell me the proper way organise the package").
- writing self-contained throwaway pieces of code ("here's a paste of my DESCRIBE TABLE output, write an SQL query to show the median [...]").
- as a debugging partner ("I can SSH to this host directly, but Ansible fails to connect with this error, what could be causing this difference").
All these use cases work great, I save a lot of time. But with the core work of writing the code that I work on, I've almost never had any success. I've tried:
- Cursor (can't remember which model, the default)
- Google's Jules
- OpenAI Codex with o4
I found in all cases that the underlying capability is clearly there (the model can understand and write code) but the end-to-end value is not at all. It could write code that _worked_, but trying to get it to generate code that I am willing to maintain and "put my name on" took longer than writing the code would have.
I had to micromanage them infinitely ("be sure to rerun the formatter, make sure all tests pass" and "please follow the coding style of the repository". "You've added irrelevant comments remove those". "You've refactored most of the file but forgot a single function"). It would take many many iterations on trivial issues, and because these iterations are slow that just meant I had to context switch a lot, which is also exhausting.
Basically it was like having an intern who has successfully learned the core skill of programming but is not really capable of good collaboration and needs to be babysat all the time.
I asked friends who are enthusiastic vibe coders and they basically said "your standards are too high".
Is the model for success here that you just say "I don't care about code quality because I don't have to maintain it because I will use LLMs for that too?" Am I just not using the tools correctly?
Jjui – A Nice TUI for Jujutsu (Score: 150+ in 12 hours)
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GitHub
GitHub - idursun/jjui: Jujutsu UI (jjui) is a Text User Interface (TUI) designed for interacting with the Jujutsu version control…
Jujutsu UI (jjui) is a Text User Interface (TUI) designed for interacting with the Jujutsu version control system. - idursun/jjui
GitHub issues is almost the best notebook in the world (Score: 157+ in 7 hours)
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Simon Willison’s Weblog
GitHub issues for notes
GitHub issues is *almost* the best notebook in the world. Free and unlimited, for both public and private notes. Comprehensive Markdown support, including syntax highlighting for almost any language. Plus …
A new class of materials that can passively harvest water from air (🔥 Score: 153+ in 3 hours)
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Penn Engineering Blog
Penn Engineers Discover a New Class of Materials That Passively Harvest Water from Air - Penn Engineering Blog
A serendipitous observation in a Chemical Engineering lab at Penn Engineering has led to a surprising discovery: a new class of nanostructured materials that can … Read More ›
German court sends VW execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal (🔥 Score: 165+ in 1 hour)
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POLITICO
German court sends VW execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal – POLITICO
Consequences continue to be meted out over the massive corporate wrongdoing.
Hacker News now runs on top of Common Lisp (🔥 Score: 153+ in 1 hour)
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Lisp journey
Hacker News now runs on top of Common Lisp - Lisp journey
Hacker News was written in the Arc lisp dialect, a dialect created by Paul Graham. Arc was implemented on top of Racket, but that has now changed. HN runs on top of SBCL since a few months.But why? For performance reasons. I recently noticed that Hacker News…
TIL: timeout in Bash scripts (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
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heitorpb.github.io
TIL: timeout in Bash scripts | Heitor's log
How to use the `timeout` command to terminate processes after a specified time and how to combine it with `until` for smarter shell scripting.
Sleep apnea pill shows striking success in large clinical trial (Score: 150+ in 9 hours)
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www.science.org
Sleep apnea pill shows striking success in large clinical trial
Drug combination targeting lax airways is nearing an FDA submission
Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails (🔥 Score: 160+ in 1 hour)
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Hypertext
Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails - Hypertext
Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn keeps putting his foot in it when it comes to conversations about AI.