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This is a site that maps the references on Gary Overacre's 1980s UNIX Magic poster to short write-ups with sources. I posted an earlier version about a year ago [1]. Since then I rewrote some of the annotations, added deep-linking to individual markers and a frame/sidebar view...

Published: Apr 27, 2026

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Signal score: 127.4
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On a trip with my friend, he introduced me to Kalshi and Polymarket and was shocked at how degenerate it was being able to bet on literally anything. So naturally I built an app ironically where we could do the same thing (with fake money) on group outings! Managed to get a pr...

Published: Apr 27, 2026

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Signal score: 107.2
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While speccing out this spreadsheet tool, I realized that I never had to think about the keybindings. It all just came naturally from Vim. Normal/insert/visual modes, hjkl navigation, dd/yy/p, :w, :q. The usual muscle memory works. It supports CSV/TSV import and export, and a...

Published: Apr 27, 2026

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Signal score: 103.7
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Forkle (forkle.co.uk) is a daily word game where two thematically linked crosswords occupy the same grid simultaneously. Every tile contains two letters - one belonging to each puzzle - displayed as a diagonal colour split. Where the two puzzles intersect, some tiles share the...

Published: Apr 27, 2026

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Signal score: 101.1
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I built a SQL analyst agent based on a simple idea: generating SQL is not the same as doing analysis. Most text-to-SQL tools stop at producing a query. But real analysis is iterative. You explore the schema, run queries, adjust, and refine. This project tries to model that loo...

Published: Apr 27, 2026

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Signal score: 99.7
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I thought cookie clicker but with yubikey taps might be funny, and this is a proof of concept. Cloudflare did something similar in 2021, pitching yubikey-proven taps as a captcha replacement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27141593 Cloudflare's idea of proving personhood...

Published: Apr 27, 2026

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Signal score: 88.6
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Hi HN, I've been working on this for a while and it was hard to decide when to stop, either on the way information is presented or when to stop with adding entries. It's not meant as a blog, but rather as a reference that keeps growing. Link: https://thehardparts.dev Currently...

Published: Apr 27, 2026

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Signal score: 86.8