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New best story on Hacker News: Computer animator and Amiga fanatic Dick van Dyke turns 100

Computer animator and Amiga fanatic Dick van Dyke turns 100
268 by ggm | 88 comments on Hacker News.
Here's a video from 2004 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1J9kfDCAmU It's his 100th birthday today.

New best story on Hacker News: Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system

Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system
276 by thomascountz | 125 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Elevated errors across many models

Elevated errors across many models
269 by pablo24602 | 132 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith

Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith
266 by birdculture | 242 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?

Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
332 by lemonlime227 | 349 comments on Hacker News.
I've been working on a personal project recently, rewriting an old jQuery + Django project into SvelteKit. The main work is translating the UI templates into idiomatic SvelteKit while maintaining the original styling. This includes things like using semantic HTML instead of div-spamming, not wrapping divs in divs in divs, and replacing bootstrap with minimal tailwind. It also includes some logic refactors, to maintain the original functionality but rewritten to avoid years of code debt. Things like replacing templates using boolean flags for multiple views with composable Svelte components. I've had a fairly steady process for doing this: look at each route defined in Django, build out my `+page.server.ts`, and then split each major section of the page into a Svelte component with a matching Storybook story. It takes a lot of time to do this, since I have to ensure I'm not just copying the template but rather recreating it in a more idiomatic style. This kind of work seems like a great use case for AI assisted programming, but I've failed to use it effectively. At most, I can only get Claude Code to recreate some slightly less spaghetti code in Svelte. Simple prompting just isn't able to get AI's code quality within 90% of what I'd write by hand. Ideally, AI could get it's code to something I could review manually in 15-20 minutes, which would massively speed up the time spent on this project (right now it takes me 1-2 hours to properly translate a route). Do you guys have tips or suggestions on how to improve my efficiency and code quality with AI?

New best story on Hacker News: Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help

Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help
383 by ArmageddonIt | 149 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: IBM to acquire Confluent

IBM to acquire Confluent
354 by abd12 | 284 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Z2 – Lithographically fabricated IC in a garage fab

Z2 – Lithographically fabricated IC in a garage fab
352 by embedding-shape | 84 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst

GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst
374 by robin_reala | 224 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: The past was not that cute

The past was not that cute
422 by mhb | 515 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices

Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices
434 by bookofjoe | 605 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude

I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude
427 by thecr0w | 352 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop

Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop
398 by LorenDB | 175 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM

How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM
380 by ementally | 99 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: YouTube caught making AI-edits to videos and adding misleading AI summaries

YouTube caught making AI-edits to videos and adding misleading AI summaries
385 by mystraline | 213 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches

GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches
402 by akyuu | 161 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas

Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas
430 by OptionOfT | 332 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI

Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI
462 by xnx | 229 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Unreal Tournament 2004 is back

Unreal Tournament 2004 is back
466 by keithoffer | 198 comments on Hacker News.