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Ask HN: How are blind programmers using AI?

Hacker News - Fri, 04/25/2025 - 5:59am

There are many active blind programmers on HN who use a range of tools for their work. How are they adopting or using the new variety of AI tools? Is it making their coding lives easier?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43791960

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Easily setup new MacBooks

Hacker News - Fri, 04/25/2025 - 5:57am
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Worlds Hardest Captcha

Hacker News - Fri, 04/25/2025 - 5:23am

Article URL: https://worldshardestcaptcha.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43791754

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Ask HN: Why is web auth not a solved issue?

Hacker News - Fri, 04/25/2025 - 5:17am

Personally, every project I start, I quit due to not being comfortable with the auth implementation.

I've been into web development for 4 years now. During my research regarding auth in this timeframe, I have found a million reasons on why I should not roll it myself. The reason is always it being to difficult to implement, too much responsibility and basically no matter how I'd do it, it would be unsafe.

The general consensus among web developers seems to be to just let a third party do it. And I understand the reasoning, they are experts and have decades of experience on that specific thing. It makes sense as long as you're fine with third party service dependencies for your application. However, I don't want that. I do not feel comfortable submitting my users data to tech giants for obvious reasons.

I am wondering why it's so difficult to implement secure auth? Why can frameworks like Laravel or Phoenix just generate auth solutions? Why should I trust them, if everyone is saying I shouldn't roll it myself?

After all, if Laravels or Phoenix generated auth isn't safe, I am the one taking responsibility anyway, no?

To my understanding web auth has been an issue for decades now, why aren't there protocols in place to solve it? Or if they are, why aren't they talked about a lot?

Considering how often I read about auth breaches with the big players in the game (Firebase as an example) I am not comfortable trusting third parties with that task either.

So how is one supposed to do it? There are so many JWT tutorials on youtube, but apparently JWTs aren't safe either. Then there are session cookies, which also aren't safe? Why is that?

I am also not talking about authorization. I specifically mean authentication. If I wanted a micro blog platform where users can log into their accounts and write about stuff, how would I make sure it's secure without having to trust third parties, especially big tech companies who repeatedly prove they cant be trusted over and over again?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43791734

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Show HN: VideoTakeaways – Summarize YouTube Videos into Clean Takeaways

Hacker News - Fri, 04/25/2025 - 5:07am

I built VideoTakeaways to scratch my own itch: I wanted to learn from YouTube without spending 45 minutes watching.

Paste a link → get a fast, bullet-point summary using the video’s transcript + GPT.

Features:

- Works on most videos

- Free

- Ideal for learning from podcasts, lectures, long-form content

Would love feedback from other builders + idea people here.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43791703

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Show HN: GPT Structural Reaction – Loop-Level Behavioral Record

Hacker News - Fri, 04/25/2025 - 5:06am

Live session recording of GPT producing autonomous loop-structured reactions to a philosophical prompt. No manipulation, no editing, purely internal system behavior observed.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43791698

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