The CLI you use every day just grew a new verb — reusable, chainable, and finally worth building against.
Anthropic shipped routines to Claude Code: named, reusable sequences of prompts and tool calls that turn ad-hoc workflows into primitives. If your skills folder is already a graveyard of half-ideas, this is the abstraction above it. Read the thread for the gotchas — especially around arg passing and nested invocation.
Resolve already owns indie color grading. Now the same non-subscription, professional-grade discipline arrives for stills — and the HN thread reads like a pent-up sigh of relief.
One person tried to exercise their data rights against Flock Safety’s nationwide license-plate surveillance network. The answer — or the silence — is a case study in how opt-out mechanisms fail when the business model depends on you being in.
Read the full dossier →Steve Klabnik’s guide to jj, the version-control front end that’s been quietly eating Git mindshare. 473 points · 406 comments — today’s most-discussed thread. The usual split: half “Git is fine”, half “I switched and I’m never going back.” The interesting part is the second half sounds less theoretical every week.
What if language models didn’t generate one token at a time? This paper applies diffusion-model thinking to text: refine an entire passage iteratively instead of autoregressing left-to-right. It’s early, speculative research — but the architecture is fundamentally different from every production LLM, and it’s the kind of paper that might look prescient in eighteen months. File this under “non-obvious” and revisit.
Save a prompt as an instant Chrome action — no extension, no API key, no plumbing. Spend five minutes checking which of your daily workflows compress into a single click.
A theorem prover signed off. Every lemma checked. Every invariant held. No warnings.
A fascinating post on where formal verification breaks: the gap between “the proof is correct” and “the program works”. It’s exactly where assumptions, specifications, and real-world I/O go to die. 375 points, 167 comments.
Read on HN →As tool calling becomes standard across LLMs, the lack of a universal interface means every model–tool pair is a special case. If you’re building agent workflows with MCP servers and custom skills, this post articulates the exact friction you’re already navigating — and it’s a worthwhile map of where the standardization battles are about to happen.
A Tell HN post reveals every file delivered through Fiverr’s system was left indexable — contracts, logos, source code, all searchable.
A masterclass in how “uploaded to the cloud” and “secured in the cloud” are very different claims. If you’ve ever delivered work through Fiverr — or used it to receive work — assume it’s in the wild and search accordingly.
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