Coding agents changed what a working session looks like. You describe the work, and it happens without you. You can walk away for twenty minutes and come back to a finished change. The tools around them haven't caught up. Almost all of them still assume you're sitting at the machine the agent runs on, watching it.
Hi HN, I built this because I watched my daughter struggle at learning Python. I made something that runs only in the browser with visuals rather than relying on CLI/terminal output. No need to worry about python installation, package versions, venv etc. The lab runs with Pyodide in a web worker, and the program output is a picture by the side of the code block. A user would experiment with the code, and see the immediate changes in the visual output.
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend I built Idea Board for my best friend who suffers from severe "3 AM idea overload." He constantly wakes up with ambitious side-project ideas, writes down vague goals like "Learn AI vectors" or "Build a search engine," but gets completely overwhelmed trying to figure out where to start. Within a few days, those ideas die in his notes app clutter. Idea Board solves this by converting any vague goal or project idea into a structured, step-by-step Kanban task board in seconds. Each generated task is concrete, starts w
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend A fully offline C++ tutor that runs on a phone, built for [friend's name], who is learning C++ from scratch. Most AI tools hand over the answer, and my friend ended up copy-pasting code without understanding it. Byte-Gemma is a fine-tuned Gemma 3 1B that teaches Socratically. It stays under ~100 words, praises one thing you got right, and asks one guiding question. It runs locally on Android, so it works without internet or an API bill.
I built gedik, a security-audit skill for Claude Code. Before telling anyone it was good, I wanted a number. So on 30 September 2026 I ran it against three other tools on two targets, with the answer key kept outside every run directory. Then I put the results in the README, including the parts where it lost. This post is about those parts.
I built CyberRef to solve a problem I kept seeing in labs and on engagements: nobody remembers the exact syntax of a command under pressure. You know the command exists. You know roughly what it does. But it's 2 AM during an incident, or you're mid-engagement with a client watching, and the exact flags slip away. So you open twelve tabs of cheatsheets, dig through your notes app, ask Slack — and twenty minutes disappear on something you knew cold last week.
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend Meet Alex — one of a small handful of mentors who keep Loglan alive. Loglan (Logical Language) was invented in 1955 by Dr. James Cooke Brown to test the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis: does the structure of a language shape how its speakers think? Brown's answer was radical: build a language from scratch with a strict mathematical guarantee that no natural language possesses. Every grammatically valid Loglan sentence has exactly one parse tree.
HearthLore: Preserving the Recipes, Voices, and Stories of Home This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend. HearthLore is an AI-powered family recipe and oral history preservation app built for the people in our lives whose best dishes exist only in memory, voice notes, and casual conversations rather than neat cookbooks. Think of that one relative who explains a dish with phrases like: "Bas thoda sa daalna hai... jab tak khushboo na aaye tab tak pakao." Everyone at the table knows exactly what that tastes like, but nobody actually has the measurements wri
What I Built I built Lingua, a deeply patient, non-judgmental AI language practice partner designed for real-time voice conversations. I built this specifically for a close friend who is currently learning a new language. Like many language learners, they hit a massive roadblock: anxiety. They were terrified of practicing with native speakers because they felt embarrassed about making grammar mistakes, freezing up, or having a bad accent. Lingua solves this exact problem.
An API key leak creates two competing operational constraints: stop further access, but preserve enough trustworthy evidence to learn what the key already touched. Revoke too early without capturing the relevant records and responders may lose the easiest correlation handle; wait without containment and the exposure continues. TL;DR: create a replacement credential, deploy it alongside the still-valid old one, verify the replacement is serving production traffic, then revoke the leaked key. For the investigation, build one UTC-ordered usage series from immutable gateway, application, data-acce
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend I built this for Kanishka, who is preparing for Engineering 1st sem exams. She has a problem every serious student knows: hundreds of pages of lecture slides, scanned handwritten notes and typed summaries, scattered across folders, none of it searchable. Before every revision session she spends the first hour just finding things. The obvious fix is to upload everything to a chatbot. She won't, and I agree with her.
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend My friend Ananya has to balance college classes, labs, assignments, self-study, and competitive programming. Managing all of these manually makes it difficult to decide what to study and when. So I built StudyFlow, a personalized AI study planner that creates a weekly study schedule based on: College classes and labs Available study hours Assignments and deadlines Task priorities Personal scheduling preferences Feedback from the user I'm currently running StudyFlow locally because the AI model runs through Ollama
A trading bot does not become safer because it is automated. In fact, automation can make a bad strategy much more dangerous because software can execute the same mistake hundreds of times without hesitation. For a Polymarket trading bot, the most important question is therefore not only: When should the bot trade? It is also: When should the bot refuse to trade? A useful risk layer can control position size, market exposure, price movement, liquidity, duplicate signals, and the number of positions open at the same time.
Article URL: https://wieslawsoltes.github.io/VB6/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49956681 Points: 8 # Comments: 3
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Hey everyone! 👋 I’m exploring an idea around React Native → Native development — basically helping RN developers understand what happens under the hood and get more comfortable with iOS/Android native concepts. I’ve made a very early version of the website: React native -> native If you get a minute, please check it out and fill the small feedback form on the website. Your honest feedback will genuinely help me decide whether to keep going with this. ❤️
What Actually Happens When You Type a URL? You type: https://example.com You press Enter. A second later, the website appears. But what actually happened during that one second? A lot more than you might think.
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend I built StudyNotes – Student Learning Hub, a lightweight, responsive, and distraction-free study portal designed for my college friend and roommate, Alex. Alex is an undergraduate student preparing for rigorous semester examinations. Like many learners, they were constantly overwhelmed by multi-hundred-page lecture slides, fragmented group chat notes, and bloated educational platforms filled with pop-up ads, trackers, and mandatory login walls. StudyNotes solves this problem by serving as an instant, zero-friction