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Verus: Verified Rust for low-level systems code (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6t7Cm
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Are polynomial features the root of all evil? (2024) (Score: 151+ in 11 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6tdpP
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I should have loved biology too (Score: 151+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6tdpn
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Sapphire: Rust based package manager for macOS (Homebrew replacement) (🔥 Score: 155+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6tdG5
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Abusing DuckDB-WASM by making SQL draw 3D graphics (Sort Of) (Score: 152+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6tcJg
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We Diagnosed and Fixed the 2023 Voyager 1 Anomaly from 15B Miles Away [video] (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6t3mS
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Supabase raises $200M Series D at $2B valuation (🔥 Score: 151+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6td8b
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101 BASIC Computer Games (Score: 150+ in 17 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6tbf7
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Cheating the Reaper in Go (Score: 151+ in 15 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6tb6H
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Attacking My Landlord's Boiler (Score: 155+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6tbN3
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Launch HN: Magic Patterns (YC W23) – AI Design and Prototyping for Product Teams (Score: 150+ in 18 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6t9AS
Alex and Teddy here. We’re launching Magic Patterns (https://www.magicpatterns.com), an AI prototyping tool that helps PMs and designers create functional, interactive designs and websites. There’s a demo video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK8C_tQBwIU, as well as video walkthroughs of specific examples at https://www.magicpatterns.com/docs/documentation/tutorials/v...
While other tools help with “AI-assisted coding,” we have been quietly focused on “AI-assisted designing.” With Magic Patterns you can visually communicate your idea, get hands on feedback from customers, and test new features.
Teddy and I are best friends and former frontend engineers turned founders. We arrived at Magic Patterns after several pivots—always in the design tooling space, but different products that all struggled to get usage. We started working on Magic Patterns after an internal hackathon. Teddy built a UI library catalog and I messed around with GPT 3.5. We thought it’d be fun to combine the two: an AI component generator. Describe whatever you want, and get back a React component!
That started to take off and we gained users, but it wasn’t developers using the tool. Instead, it was PMs, designers, and leadership who could finally communicate their ideas. They use it to test new ideas quickly, get feedback from customers, and improve communication with internal teams. Also, hobbyists (and programmers who aren’t designers) use us to create designs and UIs that they wouldn’t be able to otherwise.
We use Sonnet 3.5 and 3.7, and leverage a fine-tuned model for fast-applying edits. The most challenging part is determining the most relevant context to feed to the LLM. We attempt to solve this with our click to update feature and by letting users define a brand preset, or default prompt.
Unlike other tools in this space, we’re specifically focused on (1) product teams—we're realtime and collaborative; and (2) frontend only—we don't spin up a database or backend because we aren't solving "idea to fullstack app."
A common workflow is a product manager building an interactive prototype and then passing it off to a designer for more polish or directly to engineers. Many teams are even skipping Figma entirely now, telling us that it feels like an unnecessary middleman. Teams are instead generating clickable prototypes, collaborating directly with stakeholders, and using that as the mockup.
With Magic Patterns, you can: - Collaborate with your team on our infinite canvas; - Match your existing designs by creating reusable components directly; - Brainstorm features and flows. (The latter is what we use it for internally.)
We started as a way to build small, custom components, but now people are one-shotting entire
websites and hosting them with us, or building dashboards that they share internally or in customer demos. People have sold $10k/mo contracts with Magic Patterns designs!
Small business owners—everyone from fishermen to driving instructors to hotel managers—are using us to build their websites and then hosting them with us. Example sites built by Magic Patterns include https://getdealflow.ai/ and https://joinringo.com/. It’s amazing how people who couldn’t have done that before are now able to, and super gratifying to us to be empowering people in this way.
You can get started with our docs here: https://www.magicpatterns.com/docs/documentation/get-started..., and you can try the actual product. Simply go to https://www.magicpatterns.com and prompt for any UI you want.
Today no login is required, just click “Coming from Hackernews?” and you’ll get 5 messages free to try. Once you hit the limit, you’ll then be prompted to login. Plans start at $19/mo for another 100 messages a month (https://www.magicpatterns.com/pricing).
We’re stoked to be sharing with HN today and are open to all feedback!
Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move (❄️ Score: 161+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6t42U
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How I use Kate editor (Score: 152+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6t7Lj
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A new form of verification on Bluesky (Score: 154+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ta5d
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Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii (🔥 Score: 159+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6taut
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How long does it take to create a new habit? (2015) (Score: 151+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6tdHn
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Making a smart bike dumb so it works again (❄️ Score: 151+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6t4eU
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Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run (🔥 Score: 151+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6te5i
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Algebraic Semantics for Machine Knitting (Score: 150+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6tdf8
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ClickHouse gets lazier (and faster): Introducing lazy materialization (🔥 Score: 153+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6tdgs
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Prolog Adventure Game (Score: 150+ in 18 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6tbrn
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SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces (Score: 151+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6tchL
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A M.2 HDMI capture card (Score: 150+ in 19 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6taAq
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Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data (🔥 Score: 181+ in 45 minutes)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6tckT
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Haskelling My Python (❄️ Score: 151+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6sZUa
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Astronomers confirm the existence of a lone black hole (Score: 150+ in 11 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6tavB
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AI assisted search-based research works now (Score: 151+ in 12 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6t9Cq
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Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours of battery life (🔥 Score: 150+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6tb9F
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FTC takes action against Uber for deceptive billing and cancellation practices (🔥 Score: 159+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6tagk
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Show HN: Dia, an open-weights TTS model for generating realistic dialogue (🔥 Score: 159+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6tadE
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