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Elixir-lang.org has a new design

Hacker News - Sat, 07/18/2026 - 11:32am

Article URL: https://elixir-lang.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48959042

Points: 5

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Tract Postmortem (2025)

Hacker News - Sat, 07/18/2026 - 10:58am

Article URL: https://buildwithtract.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48958722

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

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DBUF Encoding and Protocol

Hacker News - Sat, 07/18/2026 - 10:54am

Article URL: https://github.com/bintoca/dbuf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48958696

Points: 1

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Terminal Bean Soup

Hacker News - Sat, 07/18/2026 - 10:53am
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I procrastinated so hard I built a proxy to stop myself from procrastinating

Hacker News - Sat, 07/18/2026 - 10:47am

Hello, fellow victims of their own attention span. Every time I try to learn something useful, my brain decides to launch a completely unrelated side quest. I’m not sure whether this is generational brain rot, my ADHD leveling up, or me simply being incredibly lazy.

The plan: review calculus for one hour. The outcome: spend three and a half hours learning how nuclear submarines make oxygen.

So, naturally, instead of developing discipline like a functional adult, I procrastinated by building an entire app to manage the problem for me.

It’s a customizable forward proxy where you create rules as nodes, connect them visually into policy flows, and group those flows into different modes: https://github.com/Vaccarini-Lorenzo/ProductivityProxy

I originally made it for myself, but work and other boring adult responsibilities have eaten most of my free time. Rather than letting the project quietly rot on my computer, I’m putting it out there in the hope that someone smarter—or simply less busy—might turn it into something genuinely good. Or maybe it’s already useful to someone. That would also be nice.

A couple of things worth knowing:

- It’s aimed at “power users.” Some nodes may require a bit of Python to define their behavior. Fortunately, we now live in a world where you can politely ask an LLM to write it for you. The project is documented, and I’m planning to add an AGENTS.md file and agent-friendly APIs. Eventually, you should be able to describe the flow you want in plain language and let your favorite LLM handle the policies.

- It runs on top of mitmproxy, so you’ll need that installed, including its certificates.

P.S. The UI is built with Tauri. Automatic proxy configuration currently works only on macOS, and I’ve only tested it on Apple Silicon. On other platforms, you can still use it, but you’ll need to configure your browser’s proxy settings manually. Proper cross-platform support remains firmly in TODO territory.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48958641

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

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What Makes Humans Stupid

Hacker News - Sat, 07/18/2026 - 10:30am
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Show HN: Can You Name the Tune?

Hacker News - Sat, 07/18/2026 - 10:30am

I have added a fun feature to www.1000songs.co.uk called name that tune. https://1000songs.co.uk/#namethattune

It plays some radio static then pulls a tune from my 1000 songs, plays 5 seconds of the song then four options to guess. It has a "share streak" option as well.

Because my taste is fairly niche also have the option of pulling in different songs from the create collection option in the menu.

You can paste in any songs in the format year, artist, song to play the game!

Let me know what you think and feel free to comment with your best streak!

E.g. List below

E.g.

Year, Artist, Song 1956, Elvis Presley, Hound Dog

1964, The Beatles, I Want to Hold Your Hand

1971, Led Zeppelin, Stairway to Heaven

1977, Bee Gees, Stayin' Alive

1983, Michael Jackson, Billie Jean

1984, Prince, Purple Rain

1991, Nirvana, Smells Like Teen Spirit

1997, Celine Dion, My Heart Will Go On

2003, Outkast, Hey Ya!

2008, Beyoncé, Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)

2014, Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars, Uptown Funk

2019, Lil Nas X, Old Town Road

2020, The Weeknd, Blinding Lights

2022, Harry Styles, As It Was

2024, Sabrina Carpenter, Espresso

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48958496

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

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