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How to Unslop a Commit?

Fri, 09/18/2026 - 3:34am

Philosophical question: You want to implement a feature for a FOSS project. During web research you stumble over virtually the same thing that

* was apparently produced with a LLM / gen AI thing - according to the commit message (co-authored by...). * was not upstreamed (yet) for reasons not clearly stated. might be due to project policy, neglect or something else. * is close to trivial in nature - it's not apparent how the same outcome could be achieved with a significantly different approach at the core of it.

How would one get themselves in a position to - in all conscience - submit the patch in a LLM-free form?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49751233

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Plain Text Sports

Fri, 09/18/2026 - 3:34am

Article URL: https://plaintextsports.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49751231

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ProductFight – Productfight.lol

Fri, 09/18/2026 - 3:33am

Two products face off, votes decide via Elo — never who paid more. A great place for founders to get real visibility and honest feedback on their idea.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49751229

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Ask HN: What do your agents do?

Fri, 09/18/2026 - 3:33am

I have been working for a few years in Computer Vision for manufacturing, so I have kinda been in a bubble as far as production goes. I am thinking of diversifying a bit and get to work on the trendy stuff: agents. However, I have still not found interesting applications (to me)... Besides replacing chatbots with "agentic RAG", and coding agents, what do your agents in production do? What do they control? What do they interact with?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49751228

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LP and 45 RPM Records

Fri, 09/18/2026 - 1:14am
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The iPhones 18 Pro

Fri, 09/18/2026 - 1:04am
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Zed v1.20 Is Out

Fri, 09/18/2026 - 1:03am

Article URL: https://zed.dev/releases/stable

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49750368

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Show HN: A Mac native app that helps you reason through math/CS pdf textbooks

Fri, 09/18/2026 - 1:01am

The core concept is a tool to let users think through every word, sentence and line of dense technical textbooks in pdf form. I can't find a single app that allows you to reason about words and sentences while recording down your thoughts in a friction free way.

All the note taking apps I've used treat paragraphs and pages as the main grouping element but anyone who's studied hard things knows that tough ideas are built up in groups of words at a time. Missing just one sentence before makes it impossible to understand the concepts further down.

I wanted a way to let myself and others jot down ideas and partial understanding quickly and inline with the actual line that I'm struggling with. This lets me walk away from a problem and never lose any progress I made. It's almost like save checkpoints.

The app also has another very nice scratchpad feature that lets you group notes from different areas of the textbook that talk about the same concept. It lets you relate topics from different parts of the textbook to form a cohesive picture of the material.

I've also integrated Excalidraw into the scratch pad so you can take excalidraw diagram notes along with your note taking

As an appreciation to Hacker News users for feedback, I made this pay what you want link as a token of appreciation. I've worked many sleepless nights to get this app as polished as it is and being able to afford to do this on my free time would be nice.

The main product page is https://marginstudy.app/. Would really appreciate feedback

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49750356

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Robots Building Robots

Fri, 09/18/2026 - 1:00am
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Industrializing Humanization

Fri, 09/18/2026 - 12:58am
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Rentomojo Makes Money

Fri, 09/18/2026 - 12:56am
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Free AI Business Tools – No Sign-Up Required

Fri, 09/18/2026 - 12:49am

Article URL: https://tools-three-blush.vercel.app

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49750298

Points: 1

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