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Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/news/882241/microsoft-phil-spencer-xbox-leaving-retirement

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Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/02/21/laptops-tablets-schools-gen-z-less-cognitively-capable-parents-first-time-cellphone-bans-standardized-test-scores/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110124

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Article URL: https://afterasana.substack.com/p/the-ocean-is-too-loud-can-you-turn

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110107

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Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/social-media-trials-meta-zuckerberg-youtube-tiktok-addiction-85c4d813c42845aeb3f913ec8f2f3e86

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110104

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Article URL: https://bobbyhiltz.com/posts/2026/02/dillo-appreciation/

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Article URL: https://github.com/graphicsMan/1brc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110094

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The Bridge is not a real programming language. It is a Data Topology Language.

Unlike Python or JavaScript, where you write a list of instructions for a computer to execute in order, a .bridge file describes a static circuit.

There is no "execution pointer" that moves from the top of the file to the bottom. The engine doesn't "run" your file; it uses your instructions to understand how your GraphQL fields are physically wired to your tools ... and can execute that circuit.

What can you do with this?

If you maintain a lot of 3rd-party integrations (like multiple payment providers, search APIs, or legacy inventory systems) then this will help.

It turns your integration layer from imperative code that you have to maintain, into a declarative schematic that the Bridge core executes for you.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110090

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Article URL: https://alec.is/birds/

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Article URL: https://github.com/guidupuy/screenwright

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110076

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Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110073

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Hey HN,

I built Tickr because I was tired of being the human reminder system on my team. Every project I've been on has the same failure mode: someone creates tasks in JIRA, nobody updates them, the PM spends half their day chasing people for status, and standups become 15 minutes of "I'll update the ticket after this meeting."

Tickr is a Slack bot that does the project management work that humans hate doing:

- Nudge engine: Automatically follows up with assignees when tasks go stale. It factors in priority, time estimates, grace periods, blockers, and snooze state, so it's not just a dumb cron job pinging people. - AI standup generation: Synthesizes recent task updates into a daily standup summary. No more meetings where people read tickets aloud. - Update quality evaluation: When someone posts a vague update like "working on it," Tickr pushes back and asks for specifics. Uses Claude to judge whether an update actually communicates progress. - Slip detection: Scores tasks on 6 signals (staleness, estimate overrun, update quality trend, blocker chains, priority, velocity) to predict which tasks are about to slip before they do. - Thread-to-task extraction: Mention @Tickr in any Slack thread and it parses the conversation into a structured task with assignee, priority, and estimate.

The whole thing runs on Slack's native UI, no context switching to a separate app. Tasks live in the channel where the work is discussed.

Tech stack: Python, Slack Bolt, Claude via AWS Bedrock (tool use for intent parsing), DynamoDB, ECS Fargate. The AI layer uses Bedrock's Converse API with tool definitions, the model returns structured tool calls like create_task or update_task, which get dispatched to handlers. No prompt-and-pray; it's constrained tool use.

What's different from other Slack task bots: Most Slack task tools (Asana integration, Trello power-ups, etc.) are just notification bridges, they tell you something happened in another app. Tickr is the app. The task lifecycle happens entirely in Slack. And the AI isn't a chatbot you talk to; it's an autonomous agent that nudges, evaluates, and detects problems without being asked.

Honest limitations: - No Gantt charts, no sprint boards, no 47-field ticket templates. If you need that complexity, JIRA is probably right for you. - AI quality evaluation occasionally misjudges technical updates as vague (calibrating)

Free 30-day trial, no credit card: https://heytickr.com

I'd love feedback from anyone who's dealt with the "nobody updates their tasks" problem. What did you try? What worked?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110071

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Article URL: http://tilde.club/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110066

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We run a small coding blog sharing our learning experience and I keep hitting the same loop: Google won't index most of our pages because the site has no authority. Authority comes from backlinks. But nobody links to a site that doesn't show up in search results. 110+ posts and almost nothing showing up on Google. Bing has started indexing them, but Google won't budge. Google indexed us in the beginning, just a bit, then after one of their updates we were destroyed and never re-covered.

We've tried long-form guides, short tutorials, long-tail keywords, competitive keywords, niche topics with zero competition. I'm not sure anymore if content is the problem.

We have no noindex issues, no missing sitemaps, no crawl errors — all the basic SEO boxes are checked. Site is submitted to Search Console, PageSpeed Insights performance is good (99% desktop, 85+ mobile).

We started cross-posting to Medium, Dev.to, and Hashnode but we can't even be sure that's the right path. We've been posting consistently, thinking consistency was the key — but it doesn't seem to be enough on its own.

It truly feels like we're fighting an invisible monster without knowing if what we're doing is correct.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not ranting — I still have patience left in me. Just thinking out loud here in case someone has been in the same shoes and found a way out.

What actually moved the needle for you? We'd appreciate any guidance.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110054

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Article URL: https://github.com/vangelov/modern-speck

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110049

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Article URL: https://electrek.co/2026/02/19/tesla-admits-needs-drivers-and-remote-operators-argues-better-than-waymo/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110024

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Article URL: https://github.com/yeongbin05/django-xbench

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Article URL: https://champsignal.com/tools/company-news-finder

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110016

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Article URL: https://twitter.com/SumitM_X/status/2025051353790493028

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110008

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Hi HN,

I built Horizon because I was drowning in information overflow. I follow dozens of RSS feeds, subreddits, GitHub users, and, of course, HN itself. I found myself spends hours "doomscrolling" just to find the 3-4 things that actually mattered to my work and interests.

Horizon is a personal intelligence agent that automates this. It doesn't just aggregate; it filters and enriches.

How it works:

Scrape: It pulls from GitHub (releases/events), Hacker News, Reddit, and any RSS feed. Score: It uses LLMs (Claude, GPT-4, Gemini, or DeepSeek via OpenAI-compatible APIs) to score content based on your specific interests/criteria. Enrich: For high-scoring items, it performs a web search to add context that may not be in the original snippet. Summarize: It generates a clean, daily Markdown report and optionally deploys it to a static site (GitHub Pages).

Demo: https://thysrael.github.io/Horizon/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47109975

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Article URL: https://github.com/aikoschurmann/zog

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47109971

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