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Only Samsung loves me back

Hacker News - Sat, 02/14/2026 - 6:52am
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React Progressive Blur – a lightweight component for smooth edge blur overlays

Hacker News - Sat, 02/14/2026 - 6:51am

I built React Progressive Blur, a small React component that creates smooth, multi-layer progressive blur effects for modern UI overlays.

Instead of applying a single heavy blur, the component stacks multiple blur layers with increasing intensity and gradient masking. This produces a more natural blur transition — useful for video controls, image overlays, headers, and immersive UI layouts.

What it does:

* Creates progressive blur from any edge (top, bottom, left, right) * Uses layered backdrop-filter + CSS masks for smooth transitions * Fully customizable blur intensity * Works well with Tailwind and modern React apps * Lightweight and dependency-free

*Example use cases:*

* Video player overlays * Scroll fade effects * Glassmorphism UI * Hero sections and media previews

Example usage:

```tsx import BlurEffect from "react-progressive-blur";

```

Under the hood, it renders three blur layers with different strengths and masked gradients to simulate a progressive blur instead of a harsh edge.

Would love feedback from the community — especially on performance, API design, or alternative approaches to achieving this effect in modern CSS.

Repo: [https://github.com/rakib86/react-progressive-blur](https://github.com/rakib86/react-progressive-blur)

npm: [https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-progressive-blur](https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-progressive-blur)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47013804

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ByteDance releases Seed 2 Pro

Hacker News - Sat, 02/14/2026 - 6:49am

Article URL: https://seed.bytedance.com/en/seed2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47013790

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Claude Usage Monitor

Hacker News - Sat, 02/14/2026 - 6:48am

If you use claude with other coding agents like pi or opencode, you might not get the `/usage` skill that claude code comes with.

So, I made this small CLI tool `claudemon`.

Install with `npm install -g claudemon`

Setup once with `claudemon setup`

And then run it: `claudemon`

I keep it running on one small terminal window. It keeps track of usage. Refreshes every few seconds. Completely local and private. Also, open source, if someone wants to help add some new features.

Open to feedback.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47013785

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Duck AI voice chat is bloody good

Hacker News - Sat, 02/14/2026 - 6:45am

Tried this on phone yesterday, just the ability to interrupt it and continue where we left off before it so smooth. Felt like actually having a conversation with someone. Privacy first means I am happy to just keep it on all time while I am driving. Shame I can’t link it to Apple car play and use as Siri. Other thing would be to mute conversation verbally so it doesn’t pickup other conversations happening around me or I need input from/ and or listen to just my voice

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47013759

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Computer Vision Agent

Hacker News - Sat, 02/14/2026 - 6:40am
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