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low_tech_punkon Show HN: FTWA – Turn any website into an app

How's this different from chrome browser's PWA install? https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/9658361?sjid=105106...

I believe the PWAs will correctly show up in the OS native app launchers.

low_tech_punkon Building a single-page app with Htmx

The author swyx is the founder of https://smol.ai/ It's either a typo out of habit, or an intentional reference

low_tech_punkon Building a single-page app with Htmx

Glad to see you here swyx. I think the issue you outlined is acknowledged by the htmx's authors and addressed in the Morph Swaps documentation: https://htmx.org/docs/#morphing

What is ironic though, is that the morphing algorithms are similar to what modern SPA frameworks do, except that it can be addressed without introducing new concepts such as vdom, zones, signal etc.

I agree that the island architecture is limiting when it comes to large scale application with state shared across multiple areas in the UI. I'd be curious to hear others finding success in building apps.

p.s. I appreciate the smol island :)

low_tech_punkon Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT

Funny timing. StackBlitz announced Bolt.new (https://bolt.new/) today with multi-file edit, emulated filesystem, arbitrary npm installs, and is open source. I feel ChatGPT is still chasing after Claude 3.5 artifact.

low_tech_punkon Bolt.new by StackBlitz

System prompt: https://github.com/stackblitz/bolt.new/blob/main/app/lib/.se...

low_tech_punkon Bolt.new by StackBlitz

This feels like Cursor + v0. From the GitHub project README:

Claude, v0, etc are incredible- but you can't install packages, run backends or edit code. That’s where Bolt.new stands out:

1. Full-Stack in the Browser: Bolt.new integrates cutting-edge AI models with an in-browser development environment powered by StackBlitz’s WebContainers

2. AI with Environment Control: Unlike traditional dev environments where the AI can only assist in code generation, Bolt.new gives AI models complete control over the entire environment including the filesystem, node server, package manager, terminal, and browser console. This empowers AI agents to handle the entire app lifecycle—from creation to deployment.

low_tech_punkon Bolt.new by StackBlitz

Also open source on GitHub: https://github.com/stackblitz/bolt.new

low_tech_punkon WordPress.org bans WP Engine

Really saddened by the FOSS landscape. Docker, Terraform, Redis, and now Wordpress. Aside from who’s right and who’s wrong, the sheer drama and rug pulls make it feel like the beginning of an end to open source as a viable business model.

low_tech_punkon Figma Instance Considered Harmful

We can bring another OOP idea: loose coupling, strong cohesion.

Inheritance can be useful when it captures a single shared aspect across multiple designs. It becomes unwieldy when it captures multiple shared aspects where each aspect may need to change independently.

low_tech_punkon GitHub was down

All the AI-native developers are twiddling their thumbs because Copilot is out of office.

low_tech_punkon Maglev titanium heart inside the chest of a live patient

It's cool and spooky that the patient will no longer have heart beat, because the rotor will deliver continuous blood flow.

low_tech_punkon Show HN: Semantic Grep – A Word2Vec-powered search tool

not to be confused with https://github.com/semgrep/semgrep

low_tech_punkon Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript

Maybe it's helpful to analyze TypeScript's track record in deprecating features and creating breaking changes, which could be a big red flag to TC39. I'm all for typing support but my work is mostly prototyping on short lived projects. People maintaining production systems that will eventually become legacy systems might have a different opinion.

low_tech_punkon Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript

Is there a slippery slope? Node -> Browser

low_tech_punkon InteractiVenn – Interactive Venn Diagrams

Wow, that 6-set visualization feels more asymmetric than 2,3,4,5. Is there an upper bound to the number of sets you can visualize in 2D, and how about 3D?

low_tech_punkon Can the New Mathstral LLM Accurately Compare 9.11 and 9.9?

It can also be a book chapter, a month.day. Unless the comparison specifically asked for decimals, there is no single true answer.

low_tech_punkon CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

Crowdstruck

low_tech_punkon We need visual programming. No, not like that

I think we need to differentiate: Visualize a program vs. Visually program.

This post seems to still focus the former while an earlier HN post on Scoped Propagators https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40916193 showed what's possible with the latter. It specifically showed what's possible when programming with graphs.

Bret Victor might argue visualizing a program is still "drawing dead fish".

The power of visual programming is diminished if the programmer aims to produce source-code as the final medium and only use visualization on top of language. It would be much more interesting to investigate "visual first" programming where the programmer aims to author, and more importantly think, primarily in the visual medium.

low_tech_punkon Another AI company wrote us and here’s our response

p.s. The Muse in that email is not even a art generation tool. It's a just a rent-seeking business that profits off of other people's work.

low_tech_punkon Another AI company wrote us and here’s our response

I'm curious how developers' sentiment towards code generation tools like Copilot compares to artists' sentiment towards art generation tools like MJ/SD/DallE.

As a developer myself, I want to see coding as a creative act and feel uneasy about the idea of relying on a tool that makes the code one tab away. But I also recognize most of the coding we do is in a commercial context where artistic expression is less relevant.

low_tech_punkon Scoped Propagators

Reminds me of Gerald Sussman's talk "We Really Don't Know How to Compute!" (2011)

https://youtu.be/HB5TrK7A4pI?si=99cUwmS_03VwLUP7&t=2038

low_tech_punkon Ask HN: Who Wants a Penpal?

It's just damn cool to see how many ways there are to obfuscate email addresses

low_tech_punkon Jeffrey Snover and the Making of PowerShell

It feels like a half baked feature. The other (missing) half would be automatically converting a single value into an array of length 1 when the receiving end expects an array.

low_tech_punkon Jeffrey Snover and the Making of PowerShell

The Monad Manifesto mentioned in the podcast:

https://jsnover.com/Docs/MonadManifesto.pdf

low_tech_punkon Ask HN: What is your experience with Claude 3.5?

Any one has compared it with gpt-4o specifically? And what language(s) have you tried?

low_tech_punkon A live ranking of airlines by how much luggage they are losing

Wanna see a plot of this against each company's stock price deviation from the airline industry benchmark.

low_tech_punkon Lambda Diagrams

Visualizing beta reduction in this notation reminds me of the Interaction Combinators, recently popularized by the Bend programming language.

low_tech_punkon I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL

Can we interpret this as good news of Ladybird but bad news for Serenity? If Ladybird drops support for SerenityOS, what would be its built-in browser?

low_tech_punkon Wikimedia Enterprise – APIs for LLMs, AI Training, and More

Nitpick, the purple blue gradient is overused, especially as the background of source code examples. It hinders readability and feels off-brand for a Wikimedia project. This might be foreshadowing a descent into chasing trends. I just hope Wikimedia does not follow Mozilla's track in spending budget on fluff work.