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The Principal IC Moat

Mon, 06/01/2026 - 5:39pm
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Random cat GIFs, every few mins

Mon, 06/01/2026 - 5:35pm

Article URL: https://kevinhwong.com/cats-appear

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48362976

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Categories: Hacker News

Show HN: A trend and monthly viewer of the monthly Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

Mon, 06/01/2026 - 5:34pm

I'm a long time ruby and rails developer living under the never ending fear of "Rails is dead" every month, for the last 15 years or so. Does anyone know the feeling? There are a few aggregators and viewers out there, but I've wanted to build something polished and useful for viewing the HN data, so here it is, my take on the concept. Open and free.

I'm looking to add a bit more utilitarian functionality, a configurable monthly emailer, direct job links, etc, in the future. Hope you find useful.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48362961

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

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The Hardest Fork

Mon, 06/01/2026 - 5:31pm
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Show HN: Hacker News and Lobsters RSS, repackaged for offline reading

Mon, 06/01/2026 - 5:24pm

Hacker News (and Lobsters) are endlessly fascinating - and reading via NetNewsWire is empowering. But it’s annoying staring at loading screens while comments & articles load. I was wasting a decent chunk of my day. Should I read less? No! Let’s make it more efficient!

I vibecoded offlinerss to gain efficiency reading HN & Lobsters’ RSS feeds. It fetches the original feed and emits 2 items per original feed item; one for the article (pumped through a “reader mode” plugin to format it for readability in NetNewsWire) and one for the comments (also reformatted for readability).

To use it you have to deploy it yourself and choose a secret. It runs on Vercel’s free tier with everything tuned to a userbase of 1 person per deployment. If you supply the wrong secret, it will 404. But with the right secret your news reader can load the (very heavy) feed from wherever you are in the world.

I enjoyed vibecoding this, back and forth with Claude, tuning it to not overload the free services it uses.

The engineering tradeoffs are myriad. Cache tuning? Jitter? Etags? Reformat comment pages, or shove original markup into the feed? JS in the feed, or pure html5? Claude Code happily runs experiments, provides recommendations, then obliges and builds - all so I can read tech news more efficiently! We truly live in the future.

This was vibecoded from top to bottom. It works for me. If you want to read HN & Lobsters offline, may it work for you too.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48362842

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

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I built a free AEO/GEO audit tool HTTPS://freeaiwebsiteaudit.com/

Mon, 06/01/2026 - 5:20pm

What do you think? Cool? Needed?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48362802

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

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