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Microsoft Copilot Reunites Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, and Satya Nadella [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncjM7mY4LvE
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43674625
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My crazy plan to relieve us all from debugging frustration
Article URL: https://anicetngrt.github.io/article-ariana/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43674356
Points: 1
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Pablo Picasso's Stunning Repetitions
Article URL: https://jillianhess.substack.com/p/pablo-picassos-stunning-repetitions
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43674341
Points: 1
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Is this the $200K ticket to cheating death?
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250115-cryonics-the-start-up-that-wants-to-freeze-you-in-suspended-animation
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43674337
Points: 1
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Show HN: Markdown Cleaner – clean AI-generated Markdown before pasting
If you ever paste AI-generated markdown into Google Docs (using the 'Paste as Markdown' option), you might have noticed that the formatting is not always perfect.
- Headings are often too deep: the top level headings use heading 2.
- Links are often long and ugly, which is annoying when they appear within the body of the document.
- Bulleted lists often use hyphens instead of asterisks (*) which means you get hyphens as bullets instead of circles/dots.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43674302
Points: 1
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What Happened to the Modos Paper Laptop and Paper Monitor?
Article URL: https://goodereader.com/blog/technology/what-happened-to-the-modos-paper-laptop-and-paper-monitor
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43674297
Points: 1
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Sabine Hossenfelder: How I Became Particle Physicists' Enemy #1 [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqoyTSAF5g0
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43674289
Points: 2
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Brainstore: The purpose-built database for the AI engineering era
Article URL: https://www.braintrust.dev/blog/brainstore
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43674274
Points: 1
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Datastar – The Hypermedia Framework
Article URL: https://data-star.dev/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43674271
Points: 1
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Please Don't Sell Space in Your Homelab (2023)
Article URL: https://grumpy.systems/2023/please-dont-sell-space-in-your-homelab/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43674267
Points: 2
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Running TypeScript in Node.js without any extra tooling
Article URL: https://github.com/niedzielski/node-ts-template
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43674263
Points: 1
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AI Is Evolving – and Changing Our Understanding of Intelligence
Article URL: https://www.noemamag.com/ai-is-evolving-and-changing-our-understanding-of-intelligence/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43674236
Points: 1
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Exwm: Emacs X Window Manager
Article URL: https://github.com/emacs-exwm/exwm
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43674233
Points: 1
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Cyberboss
Article URL: https://www.versobooks.com/products/2958-cyberboss
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43674206
Points: 1
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The Five Critical Roles of Your Team
Article URL: https://withinboredom.info/2025/04/12/the-five-critical-roles-of-your-team/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43674186
Points: 1
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Show HN: Navigator Mode (Like Claude Code) for Aider
Hullo folks!
Over the last two days, I've built out support for autonomy in Aider (a lot like Claude Code) that hybridizes with the rest of the app.
It's just implemented as a mode, so you can start Aider with `--navigator` or `/navigator` and ask it to do things.
It's fully able to...
- test out all of its tools, reverting its edits after it makes each one (https://asciinema.org/a/eqnvZ57O7nVWkpc15NYO1tMHx)
- rename just the relevant parts and publish itself to PyPI ( https://asciinema.org/a/9JtT7DKIRrtpylhUts0lr3EfY)
- ship new tools and features in itself
- work in long form akin to Claude Code, in all the ways that that tool does (though I haven't added MCP yet, though someone else has a PR out for that: https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/pull/3672)
I love Claude Code but I really wanted something like this to be open source and tinker-able -- and because Aider is so wonderfully built, I felt that it's nicest to have this functionality in a tool that has had lots of other thought put into it already. Huge thanks to Paul Gauthier (HN user anotherpaulg) for Aider.
Because Aider's already an amazing platform even without the autonomy, it's very easy to interleave the rest of Aider's functionality with navigator mode. That means... web UI, watch mode (just leave a `# make this darker ai!` comment and Aider will do it) voice input, `/ask`, `/code` and `/architect`.
It works well with a variety of models, but I've found Gemini 2.5 Pro to be the strongest that I've tried, followed by 3.7 Sonnet. Fair warning, akin to Claude Code it can be expensive to run. I'm working on various ways of cutting that down at the moment.
Still lots to improve, but I'm using this all day every day at the moment, so I'll continue to update. :)
I never self-post, so this is an oddity for me, but folks have been asking after things like this, so I figured a quick post made sense.
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So that people can try it out, I had it upload itself to PyPI as `navigator-mode`, until (and if!) the PR is accepted. Still use the `aider --navigator` command to run it!
After that I was paranoid, so I ran another session where I asked it, "We published this to PyPI. Can you check the distribution of navigator-mode and check that we didn't leak any secrets?"
It dutifully checked `pyproject.toml`, then went after `MANIFEST.in`, scanned a bunch of files and was able to confirm that (hopefully!) I didn't.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43674180
Points: 1
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A dive into the world of Video Ads
Article URL: https://michelenasti.com/video-advertisement-vast/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43674165
Points: 1
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Significant performance improvements with Edge 134
Article URL: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2025/04/10/significant-performance-improvements-with-edge-134/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43674159
Points: 1
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Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len()
Article URL: https://blog.codingconfessions.com/p/python-performance-why-if-not-list
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43674108
Points: 4
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Why Is Liberal Education Relevant Today?
Article URL: https://www.agorafoundation.org/writing
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43674103
Points: 4
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