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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Does Claude Code remove the need for so many front-end frameworks?

Ask HN: Does Claude Code remove the need for so many front-end frameworks? 4 by ex-aws-dude | 1 comments on Hacker News. Does using claude code make you more/less likely to use front end frameworks? I've been using it for a while to develop internal tools and I've been really impressed at how you can build complex applications with just pure HTML/CSS/JS Previously I'd use React but now its not as clear to me the reason I would do that since either way I would just be developing through Claude. It feels almost like the framework is just an implementation detail. I find myself using a lot less libraries in general as well. It kind of gives you a bit of NIH syndrome since the time cost is so low to roll your own sometimes.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Entrepreneurs, how long did it take you to succeed?

Ask HN: Entrepreneurs, how long did it take you to succeed? 24 by asdev | 7 comments on Hacker News. How long did it take? How many ideas did you go through? What made you stick to an idea vs pivot?
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New ask Hacker News story: Garnix, the Nix CI, is shutting down

Garnix, the Nix CI, is shutting down 10 by cinericius | 4 comments on Hacker News. Text from the email: garnix is shutting down Hi everyone, We wanted to let you know that garnix is joining forces with Shopify. We are sad to announce that, as part of this transition, the hosted garnix service will shut down on July 15th 2026. But we are open sourcing the garnix codebase, available here (https://ift.tt/mS8uojb); we hope this will help you smoothly move to using your own instance or a shared one. If you are interested in operating a public community instance, please get in touch — we’d be happy to talk. We will also be deleting all user data on July 15th. This includes build artifacts. Be sure to download what you want to keep before then. Thank you all for using garnix and for the feedback and support over the years. While we are excited about our next step at Shopify, we will also miss working with this community. From the very first, with generous donations in our Open Collective d...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Why not have an EU browser?

Ask HN: Why not have an EU browser? 2 by osigurdson | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've been wondering, why don't we have a chrome fork that only accepts sites hosted in the EU? If a site is hosted in the EU then it can be fully regulated by the EU. This would make it easier for citizens to know that their data is is safe (according to EU standards) and avoids the regulatory complexities of trying to enforce rules in other countries. Thoughts?
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New ask Hacker News story: Do they know we can tell it's AI slop?

Do they know we can tell it's AI slop? 5 by jwsteigerwalt | 2 comments on Hacker News. What do I do when the entrepreneurs I work for send out AI slop in their communications? I work for a great group of entrepreneurs as CTO/fCFO. They are all sales guys. In my childhood and professional career, I have seen so many toxic partnerships. I don’t waste any time on those anymore and I genuinely respect the guys I work for. So, to the main question, what do I do when it’s blatant that they are just copying AI slop from Grok or chatGPT? I notice it all the time. But I genuinely respect these guys (unlike my son’s inadequate math teacher who pastes AI slop into emails to me…). It’s an 80/20 issue. For a majority of their audience, they make a positive and knowledgeable impression. But for the rest of us, it’s it takes them down a notch. I don’t want them embarrassing themselves in front of our bankers/financers/corporate partners. Three recent examples: (1) Critique of a new SEO sit...
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New ask Hacker News story: Is Amp more or less expensive than Claude Code? Is it better?

Is Amp more or less expensive than Claude Code? Is it better? 3 by markosn | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Gen model to 1) design characters 2) make a consistent comic with them?

Ask HN: Gen model to 1) design characters 2) make a consistent comic with them? 3 by rvba | 2 comments on Hacker News. I am looking for a generative model that can make a drawings based on an RPG campaign I had with my friends. The idea is to create consistent character designs of each character first (say ogre, mage, dragonborn) and then use those designs for panels that would be based on my inputs about the story (I have notes from a longer campaign). The models I know / tried are not consistent at all. They dont store the character design, so each panel is different in style (apart from those model that generate designs ripped off from Studio Ghibli). Is there any free or paid model that allows that?
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