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Show HN: PR Guard – A GitHub Action to ensure authors understand their PRs

PR Guard is a tool designed to assist reviewers in dealing with the increasing number of PRs as a result of AI assisted programming.AI assisted programming isn't inherently bad, but it does allow contributions from people who may not understand what exactly they are contributing. PR Guard aims to stop this.It works by:- Passing the diff of a PR to an LLM - The LLM returns 3 questions which the author must answer - The LLM then reviews the answers and decides whether or not they show the aut

Ask HN: Should pharmacies dispense C64s for nostalgia therapy prescriptions?

Key idea: The new Commodore should embrace nostalgia based therapy by supplying its Commodore 64 Ultimate systems at a reduced price to hospitals, nursing homes, and even pharmacies.If the new Commodore wants a meaningful niche, one powerful market is nostalgia based therapy. Many people respond strongly to objects that bring them back to a happier time in their lives. A device like the Commodore 64 Ultimate is perfect for this kind of emotional support because it is both familiar and simple eno

Daoism, Prompting, and Why Trying Too Hard Makes Everything Worse

I’ve been spending a lot of time with AI image models lately, trying to get good ad creatives out of them.One thing keeps coming up:Writing prompts feels weirdly similar to practicing Daoism.Most people (including past me) assume: if you want a “perfect” image, you must control everything:lens, lighting, angle, compositionevery style tag under the sun10 adjectives for mood + 5 for color + 3 for vibeBasically: design the whole image in your head, then force the model to follow.What usually happen

Show HN: PoliSciPy – A Python library for making Electoral College maps

Hi HN! I built PoliSciPy, an open-source Python package for quickly generating customizable, publication-quality U.S. Electoral College maps using matplotlib.I designed it to be flexible and easy to use: you can merge your own data, define custom colormaps for parties or candidates, and generate maps (including for historical elections) in under 10 lines of code.Under the hood, I edited a US Census Bureau Shapefile in ArcGIS, applied transformations, computed centroids for labeling, and added so

Show HN: Agent Runner – open-source agent harness to benchmark real coding

Hey HN! We built Agent Runner, a model-agnostic, open-source agent harness that executes the same prompt against two anonymized coding agents in parallel sandboxes. Each agent can make tool calls, edit multiple files, and self-correct through iterative reasoning. You pick the better result - this becomes the ground truth for the leaderboard.Why we built it Traditional benchmarks often fall short for modern agentic systems: they rely on static tasks and only measure final outputs. But real coding

Ask HN: Solo founders – is your LLM filling the cofounder gap?

I've been building alone and noticed I'm having "cofounder conversations" with Claude: design/strategy debates, sanity-checking pricing, talking through whether to pivot, even self-motivational stuff when feeling existentially demoralized.I use a Claude project with a master prompt, and some supporting PRD collateral for building context. It's weirdly effective for the thinking part of having a cofounder - Obviously missing the accountability, and someone who actual

Show HN: SpreadPaper – span a single wallpaper across multiple macOS monitors

Hi HN, I built an open-source macOS utility called SpreadPaper that lets you take one high-resolution image and spread it seamlessly across all your connected monitors.I personally use multiple monitors for design and coding, and I got tired of wallpapers that either tile awkwardly or get cropped badly. SpreadPaper is my attempt at a minimal, no-bloat solution that just works. If you also care about multi-monitor aesthetics, I hope you’ll find it useful.Give it a star on GitHub if you like it an

Dimora brings artistic flair to Lynchburg with curated home decor and design services

A new home decor and gift shop just opened in downtown Lynchburg. Dimora is located at 207 9th St., near the Main St.

You Have to See Brittany Cartwright’s Latest Home Transformation: “I’m Doing Something Different…”

The Valley's Brittany Cartwright shares a look at her home's incredible holiday makeover. Get the details here.

Score Black Friday deals on these 11 designer-loved furniture and decor picks

We scoured the archives of Abode for designer-loved pieces and found some that are majorly marked down during Black Friday ...

Budget-friendly decor items to help you upgrade your home aesthetic

If your winter plans include upgrading your space, but you want to do so on a budget, CORT Furniture Outlet can help.

5 Home Decor Things You Should Only Leave Out If You're a Boomer

When decorating your home, it's important to choose items that reflect your personal style and create a cozy, inviting space.

5 Home Trends from 2025 That Are Here to Stay

The all-white everything kitchen — and the millennial gray cook spaces that dominated design five to 10 years ago — have ...

5 Decor Choices That Make Your Home Look Like It’s Stuck in the ’90s

If you feel like your home hasn’t quite caught up with the times, it might be due to some lingering design choices from the ...

The Best Black Friday Home Deals, From Big-Ticket Furniture to Seasonal Decor

From discounted furniture to half-off kitchen essentials, the best Black Friday home deals have already begun.

Make Your Home Holiday-Movie Perfect With These Décor Finds Everyone Wants

There’s a reason holiday homes in those Hallmark movies hit us right in the feels. Snow drifting past the windows, a warm ...

Show HN: Cynthia – Reliably play MIDI music files – MIT / Portable / Windows

Easy to use, portable app to play midi music files on all flavours of Microsoft Windows.Brief Background - Used midi playback way back in the days of Windows 95 for some fun and entertaining apps, but as Windows progressed, it seemed their midi support (for Win32 anyway) regressed in both startup speed and reliability. Midi playback used to be near instant on Windows 95, but on later versions of Windows this was delayed to about 5-7 seconds. And reliability became somewhat patchy. This made w

Show HN: Scan any codebase in seconds with clear fixes and no setup

I have been working in tech for almost three decades and spent a large part of that time in environments where teams struggled with large and messy codebases. Security audits took days, sometimes weeks, and most tools required complex setup, pipelines, or config files before you could even start.LegacyMind is my attempt to fix this. You upload your code as a single archive and get a complete security report within minutes. The platform detects vulnerabilities, outdated libraries, licenses, secre

Those who fly too close to the SUN (Microsystems) eventually get burned

Imagine if in the 1960s, the early days of databases, tech CEOs decided that flat files on giant mainframes were the pinnacle of innovation. Imagine they poured $300B into pre-scaling that because they assumed sequential file access represented the future of enterprise demand - and because government contracts seemed within reach.Meanwhile, a handful of quiet researchers were in the trenches building the real breakthroughs: RDBMS, B-Trees, hash indexes, SQL, and later NoSQL and distributed SQL -

Launch HN: Onyx (YC W24) – The open-source chat UI

Hey HN, Chris and Yuhong here from Onyx (https://github.com/onyx-dot-app/onyx). We’re building an open-source chat that works with any LLM (proprietary + open weight) and gives these LLMs the tools they need to be useful (RAG, web search, MCP, deep research, memory, etc.).Demo: https://youtu.be/2g4BxTZ9ztgTwo years ago, Yuhong and I had the same recurring problem. We were on growing teams and it was ridiculously difficult to find the right information across ou