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A (humble) new proposal for the FE ecosystem

For many years, I focused quietly on my work, but now I feel compelled to point out a problem that is becoming increasingly apparent.--1. Correct Model ≠ Adopted ModelHistorical fact: In the frontend ecosystem, the winners aren't those who create the most accurate abstraction; they're those who provide the “feel of working” with the least friction.The result: correct thought model → low adoption and incorrect but easy model → explosion.This is no coincidence.2. Why Didn't Intent-B

Show HN: No more writing shitty regexes to police usernames

Every product that allows usernames eventually ships the same broken solution. Someone adds a blacklist. Then a regex. Then another regex copied from StackOverflow. It works just long enough to ship, and then `admin`, `support`, city names, brand impersonation, and obvious slurs start leaking through anyway. Everyone knows it’s fragile, but it gets ignored because "it’s just usernames".I’ve had to rebuild this logic across multiple products, and I got tired of pretending it’s a solved

Show HN: Crossview – visualize Crossplane resources and compositions

Hi HN,Crossplane is powerful, but once you start working with multiple compositions, claims, and managed resources, it becomes hard to understand how everything is connected.We built Crossview to solve this problem for ourselves. It’s an open-source UI that visualizes Crossplane resources and compositions as graphs, making it easier to explore relationships, debug issues, and reason about complex setups.Some of the things we focused on:Visualizing relationships between compositions, claims, and

Ask HN: Where do deterministic rules break down for LLM guardrails?

Hi HN,For those running LLMs in production, I’m curious where you’ve seen deterministic rules (regex, allowlists, schema validation, etc.) start to fall apart when used as guardrails.In our experience, rule-based checks are fast, cheap, and predictable, but they struggle with context, intent, and edge cases (e.g. indirect PII leaks, policy violations expressed semantically, or “valid” JSON that’s still wrong).LLM-based semantic checks catch more of these issues, but introduce real trade-offs aro

Yarbo's Pop-Up Signals the Future of Smart Snow Tech

In Aspen, winter isn’t just a season, it’s a lifestyle. Snow-covered streets, designer storefronts, mountaintop homes, and a global crowd that expects the best of everything, even in the harshest conditions. So when a sleek, autonomous machine began clearing snow on a mountaintop deck, people did what came naturally: they stopped, stared, and pulled out their phones.That machine was the Yarbo Snow Blower, and its winter pop-up in Aspen quickly became one of the most talked-about moments of the s

Is Alexa Overloaded

My family got Amazon Echos for Christmas. After setup the devices are very slow and glitchy, like taking minutes to switch songs and then consrantly having volume increade and decrease with no inputs? Is Amazon's service overloaded? Or some setup process running in the background making things bad at the start? Or they are always this way? Or bad hardware? (I could imagine the volume problem as a poor electrical connection of the speaker).

Orchestrating 5000 Workers Without Distributed Locks: Rediscovering TDMA

I needed to orchestrate 500-5000 batch workers (ML training, ETL) using Go and SQLite. Every tutorial said: use etcd, Consul, or ZooKeeper.But why do these processes need to talk to each other at all?THE INSIGHTWhat if orchestrators never run simultaneously?Runner-0 executes at T=0s, 10s, 20s... Runner-1 executes at T=2s, 12s, 22s... Runner-2 executes at T=4s, 14s, 24s... Runner-3 executes at T=6s, 16s, 26s... Runner-4 executes at T=8s, 18s, 28s...Time-Division Multiple Access (TDMA). Same patte

Show HN: Later – Schedule URLs to open later

I built Later to scratch my own itch: I'd find interesting articles but not have time to read them, or I'd forget to join meetings because I was deep in code.Later is a browser extension + local daemon that lets you schedule any webpage to open at a specific time. Press Option+L, pick a time (or use presets like "In 1hr" or "Tonight"), and the page opens automatically – even if your browser is closed or you're in another app.Technical details: - Browser exten

Show HN: I created interactive buttons for chatbots

It's about to be 2026 and we're still stuck in the CLI era when it comes to chatbots. So, I created an open source library called Quint. Quint is a small React library that lets you build structured, deterministic interactions on top of LLMs. Instead of everything being raw text, you can define explicit choices where a click can reveal information, send structured input back to the model, or do both, with full control over where the output appears. Quint only manages state and behavior

A Home built with Hope: The 2026 Cleveland St. Jude Dream Home® Giveaway comes to Brecksville

The 2026 St. Jude Dream Home® Giveaway is officially underway in Brecksville, where Shultz Design & Construction is building ...

How to Start Happy Home Paradise

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Interior Designers Loved by NFL WAGs Are Dreaming of Designing a Potential Future Home for Travis Kelce & Taylor Swift

Taylor Bates and Tiffany Compton spoke with PEOPLE exclusively about decorating homes for NFL WAGs and their hopes of ...

The Popular Home Design Trend That's Coming Outside In 2026

Nature lovers will be thrilled to find that one trend we're expecting to be big in 2026 helps to make the most of outdoor ...

Retro design with a bold, modern twist

Retro design is typically defined by bright, playful prints and bold colors that often blend fashion with home décor.

Best of LA home design: The 14 most memorable rooms of 2025

From a video rental kitchen in Silver Lake to an art-filled office in Beachwood Canyon, we look back at the rooms that ...

Multigenerational living will define the future of home design, according to Thumbtack and Redfin

When it comes to home design and home remodels, multigenerational and aging-in-place households are also considering ...

The home-design trends that will be everywhere in 2026 — and what's going out of style

Zillow analyzed millions of listings to forecast home design trends for 2026. Spa-like amenities and color drenching are in, ...

Trending in home decor: What to pick for 2026

As the new year unfolds, here are some design and decor developments that may encourage you to make some updates.

Design Recipes: Affordable tips for small spaces

By embracing neutral palettes, thoughtful furniture placement, layered textures and smart lighting, you can transform a small ...

I Just Saved You Hours Of Amazon Searching By Finding These 24 Home Decor Items

I'm a certified Amazon spelunker — and I can't wait to show you my findings.