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Legibility Is Ruining You

Mon, 05/25/2026 - 9:15am
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Local-First Twitter Workspace

Mon, 05/25/2026 - 8:36am

Article URL: https://birdclaw.sh/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266104

Points: 1

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Happy Towel Day HN

Mon, 05/25/2026 - 8:21am
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Ask HN: Local model experiences with 'high-reasoning distill' finetunes

Mon, 05/25/2026 - 8:20am

What are your experiences with all the different variations of finetunes on small models (<40B) with those popular datasets? My personal experience is mostly with the 'Opus-Reasoning' ones on qwen models, and aside from the output being subjectively better looking (ascii charts and all), in actual coding performance every one I've tried tends to become a lot more overconfident, writing more messy and buggy code and tries to gaslight me that the task I give it is impossible when it cannot achieve it.

I have seen them perform better on public benchmarks in some cases, which shouldn't be ignored completely, but that doesn't seem to translate to better output on real work in my limited testing.

What are your observations? Any specific ones that you lean towards, or have had good experiences with?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266001

Points: 1

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Agents Just Need APIs

Mon, 05/25/2026 - 8:19am
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Ask HN: Did agentic coding change the way you think about commit granularity?

Mon, 05/25/2026 - 8:17am

Jujutsu is trending on the homepage, and the topic is using discipline when dealing with version control. Six months into working agentially on a daily basis, something changed for me.

When each coding session has one specific aim to achieve before the agent starts: one migration, one service, one abstraction layer, the diff itself is already the unit you can review. The whole commit granularity issue went away. No more interactive rebases for me.

Conversely, coding sessions with a large enough scope, implementing dark mode, and fixing the authentication flow across three subsystems will always end up with a diff that is really hard to read, regardless of commit granularity. Inconclusive diff is the result of bad scope, not bad commits.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48265976

Points: 1

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Show HN: Stumpy – StumbleUpon Re-Created

Mon, 05/25/2026 - 8:17am

I missed the serendipitous StumbleUpon. So here's Chrome extension I built. Hope you enjoy!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48265974

Points: 1

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Code Golf

Mon, 05/25/2026 - 8:16am

Article URL: https://code.golf/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48265972

Points: 1

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