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Show HN: Ccoutputstyles – Shareable output styles for Claude Code
by virtuallyvivek | 2025-08-23 04:47:35+00:00
Built a way to easily share and install output styles for Claude Code:

npx ccoutputstyles

*Demo:* https://asciinema.org/a/dJLG9t7nNy3QtDM4r5H87y5Jr *Website:* https://ccoutputstyles.vercel.app *GitHub:* https://github.com/viveknair/ccoutputstyles

Creating your own output styles is easy, but there's no dead simple way to share and install them. This is just a tool that makes installation one command, plus a small collection to browse.

- One command to install any style - Browse and preview templates from our GH repo - Share via simple URLs - Works with user-level and project-level configs

npx ccoutputstyles

npx ccoutputstyles --url https://ccoutputstyles.vercel.app/templates/critical-code-re...

Templates are just markdown files in `~/.claude/output-styles/`. Adding new ones is a one-file PR.

Started with a handful of templates (critical-reviewer, educator, security-auditor) but the real point is making it easy for anyone to share theirs.

What style would you want to see? Would love to add a few.
by margalabargala | 2025-08-23 04:48:12+00:00
That's true, but there are additional special rules that apply to cyclists, and sometimes motorcyclists, allowing them to go straight at a red light under specific circumstances.

Depends on the state. Some are specifically "if there's a vehicle detection sensor and it doesn't detect your bike after 90 seconds", others are just "cyclists may treat a stop sign as a yield sign and a red light as a stop sign".
by daemonologist | 2025-08-23 04:48:35+00:00
Most items on Amazon were until recently cheaper on Aliexpress (usually by 20-40%, but sometimes by 80%). The only exceptions were high volume non-Chinese-manufactured consumer goods, and food. This is where regular Americans might be affected, if they were buying clothes on Temu or whatever.

For me, most items on McMaster-Carr have Chinese equivalents available for 1/10th the price. This goes for many other things which are very "B2B" in the US but commonly sold to the public in other markets (PCBs, solar panels, power supplies, etc.). The quality might not be as good but a lot weekend projects were made viable by cutting out the middle man and/or cheap access to a larger market. (You can find some of this stuff eBay as well, at a moderate premium. Until recently most of it was shipped from China but there are plenty of importers with US warehouses on there as well.)
by lalaithion | 2025-08-23 04:49:15+00:00
They didn’t account for training. From the paper:

> LLM training & data storage: This study specifically considers the inference and serving energy consumption of an Al prompt. We leave the measurement of Al model training to future work.

This is disappointing, and no analysis is complete without attempting to account for training, including training runs that were never deployed. I’m worried these numbers would be significantly worse and that’s why we don’t have them.
by cma | 2025-08-23 04:50:40+00:00
> Also, “unitary executive” doesn’t mean overriding other branches. It just means that whatever powers the executive branch does or does not have are exercised by the President,

And then you find the executive is what chooses to enforce rulings against the executive. They were not trying to set up something like the UN security council with a defacto veto on all passed law.
by qingcharles | 2025-08-23 04:52:25+00:00
Many states have super vague computer abuse statutes. Illinois' law specifically states it is a crime to violate the ToS of a network (e.g. a web site).

Also, if the defendant here is literally innocent (i.e. the statutory wording does not apply to his actions) and his lawyer still advised him to plead no contest, then he might have grounds for the conviction to be overturned. I remember that Subway Jared had some of his charges reversed because he was technically innocent of them, but his lawyer stated that he didn't check any of the evidence before recommending a guilty plea.

And, in a further ridiculous twist of justice, if the defendant pleads to something that isn't even a crime (e.g. the state simply made the statute up, or adjusted the wording so it wasn't what the law said), then you can't get that reversed if you knowingly plead to it. I remember cases where defendants pled guilty to non-crimes, but you're cooked at that point because you agreed to it.
by mickeyp | 2025-08-23 04:52:51+00:00
All this lather about doing it the UNIX way, whilst neglecting to point out that the old tooling was far worse. "Do one thing well" implies it was done well to begin with.

DNS: Can you from memory recite how name lookups work on Linux? Ever had t otrack down problems with non-standard setups? `resolvectl` is not perfect, but it does let you control all of this stuff in one place, and with a nice, orderly view of what does what.

Init system: ever written the old sysV ones from scratch? Sure they're just shell script, but did you remember to make yours re-entrant? What about forking or master-slave processes? Hope you got your pid checking code just right...

Containers: Docker is quite robust nowadays but it's not like it follows the 'UNIX philosophy' either. And systemd/nspawn at least lets you do namespacing and cgroups reasonably well and in a straightforward way...

Mounts, etc.: let's not get into fstab and its idiosyncrasies.

Logging: let's hope you set up logrotate properly or you're in for a surprise.

And on it goes.

Systemd is not perfect. But what it replaces was god-awful and far worse.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-08-23 04:53:27+00:00
> That is, how well you can understand someone else doesn't depend just on common ground, but perhaps even more on how mature of machinery for understanding that you have.

I disagree, and believe I can explain why.

If I wrote:

I can think of a few HN posts I have written which did not properly express my intent when I wrote them.

Is this a statement that you can relate with?

Even if not, does it communicate an experience you could envision based on your being a participant in this forum, having written posts yourself, and knowing I am a person just as you are doing the same?

What if I texted the sentence to someone who has never heard of HN?

Now what would happen if I wrote that same sentence on a piece of paper and handed it to a random person in a train station where no one spoke English?
by seabrookmx | 2025-08-23 04:53:52+00:00
The Framework 13 Linux support is fantastic, and the hardware is pretty great too.

Battery is good enough (5-6hrs) for me on the AMD model (Ryzen AI 5 340) but definitely not Macbook territory in that regard.

I run Fedora and have coworkers who run Ubuntu and Arch as well without issue.
by sbierwagen | 2025-08-23 04:54:47+00:00
The hardware overhang embodied: that early AI will be inefficiently embodied as a blob of differentiable floating point numbers in order to do gradient descent on them, and shortly after be translated into a dramatically simpler and faster form. An AGI that requires a full rack of H100s to run, suddenly appearing on single video game consoles. https://www.lesswrong.com/w/computing-overhang

Fun fact: Deep Blue was a dedicated chess compute cluster that ran on 30 RS/6000 processors and 480 VLSI chips. If the Stockfish chess program existed in 1997 it would have beaten it with a single 486 CPU: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/75dnjiD8kv2khe9eQ/measuring-...
by qingcharles | 2025-08-23 04:55:07+00:00
This does not appear correct. I lost my original account in 2013 and the handle is extremely unique, and I just tried to reregister it, and it won't allow it. ("Sorry, [redacted]@fastmail.fm has already been taken.")

Are you sure you didn't confuse domains? My original handle is on fastmail.fm, but it will let me register that on fastmail.com.
by musicale | 2025-08-23 04:56:13+00:00
> The DOJ/FTC need to end app stores on phones.

Game developers like Epic would certainly like to pay less money to Apple and Google than they pay to Nintendo and Sony (and Microsoft for the Xbox game store), but what's the legal argument for terminating Apple and Google's walled-garden game store businesses? And doesn't Android already allow sideloading?

> Smartphones are the internet for most people, and two companies have installed comprehensive paywalls and distribution gateways.

The web is the internet for most people, and neither Apple nor Google have installed paywalls and distribution gateways for third-party web pages. (Apple does restrict browser engines, but ironically that might be the only thing preventing a chromium monoculture.)
by jjani | 2025-08-23 04:56:37+00:00
Here's what happened:

1. Google rolled our AI summaries on all of their search queries, through some very tiny model 2. Given worldwide search volume, that model now represents more than 50% of all queries if you throw it on a big heap with "intentional" LLM usage 3. Google gets to claim "the median is now 33x lower!", as the median is now that tiny model giving summaries nobody asked for

It's very concerning that this marketing puff piece is being eaten up by HN of all places as evidenced by the other thread.

Google is basing this all of "median" because there's orders of magnitudes difference betwen strong models (what most people think of when you talk AI) and tiny models, which Google uses "most" by virtue of running them for every single google search to produce the summaries. So the "median" will be whatever tiny model they use for those models. Never mind that Gemini 2.5 Pro, which is what everyone here would actually be using, may well consume >100x much.

It's absurdly misleading and rather obvious, but it feels like most are very eager to latch on to this so they can tell themselves their usage and work (for the many here in AI or at Google) is all peachy. I've been reading this place for years and have never before seen such uncritical adoption of an obvious PR piece detached from reality.
by re-thc | 2025-08-23 04:56:47+00:00
> fairly routine practice for business owners to let local politicians invest in their business

Let? Like this 1? Where if you don't we threaten to fire the CEO and take over the company otherwise?

Are you sure it is let?

> local politicians

Is 1 or more individuals. In this instance it is "the government" as an entity. Not the same?
by maxbond | 2025-08-23 04:57:29+00:00
Hydrogen is not picky about fuel air mixture; it will explode at any concentration between 4% and 74% (in air). I rewatched the footage and it sure looks like an explosion to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OetzoO3Csj4

The thermite paint hypothesis is interesting but a bunch of hydrogen airships exploded. The Hindenburg was partly made from metal recovered from the R101. The R101 exploded on her maiden voyage.
by pests | 2025-08-23 04:57:41+00:00
I agree. A sibling thread showed an example of XML above containing params/param/value/int/ nodes which with attributes could just be <param type=int>.

I do agree that attributes/data was always a huge contention point on where things should go and caused confusion and bikeshedding.

I also saw a bit of this in the React/JSX community with decisions like render props, HoC, etc where it took a bit to stabilize on best practices.
Show HN: AgentState – Lightweight state manager for multi-agent AI workflows
by boulevard | 2025-08-23 04:57:44+00:00
AgentState to solve a problem I kept running into: managing state for multi-agent AI systems is surprisingly hard. When you have multiple AI agents that need to coordinate, persist their state, and query each other's status, you typically end up with a mess of Redis/Postgres setups, custom queuing, and manual synchronization code.

The whole thing is ~3MB, written in Rust for performance and safety, runs in Docker, and handles 1000+ ops/sec. I've been running it in production for AI workflows and it's been rock solid.
by jjani | 2025-08-23 04:58:19+00:00
""The driver faced no charges.

Legend’s parents, Jessica and Sameule Jenkins, did.

Two days after the crash, the district attorney charged both with involuntary manslaughter, set bail at $1.5 million each, and took their remaining children into protective custody. Facing the prospect of months in jail and the loss of their children, the Jenkinses took felony plea deals.""

This part.

Do bad things not happen in developed countries related to children? No. But this part would not happen.
by qingcharles | 2025-08-23 05:01:10+00:00
Right. Everyone has to keep a Gmail address as backup because of all these edge cases. For one, some domains (like yours) are just rejected. I tried to register an account with a huge corporate SMTP provider recently but they've not updated their allowed gTLD in 10 years and their devs fought me for weeks telling me it was my domain that was wrong, not their system until they finally gave in.

And secondly, many sites, like Reddit, use a Gmail address as some sort of signal of quality. You can avoid a lot of new account bans on Reddit simply by registering with a Gmail instead of your own domain.
by lightbritefight | 2025-08-23 05:03:14+00:00
One week is a big part of the idiocy here. Anyone half busy with anything is going to miss miscellaneous bullshit from management like this, especially when management is prone to these "flights of fancy" with random tooling or the new hot thing.

I personally ignore or delay things all the time because of actual work I'm doing. If running some random AI tool is more important than "keep the company working," that's a really sick and fragile culture.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-08-23 05:04:16+00:00
This article dances around it superficially. My last high school job ended up working there as a sales associate and packing up of one of the stores. Just months sooner, Zip drives were selling like crazy. Really though, CompUSA and Fry's Electronics most directly killed them. EH had too many locations and they were too small. They weren't even 2000 sq ft, more like 1200-1500.

Interestingly, the store manager had a policy that any software that wasn't sealed in the box internally could be borrowed. All software of that era came on CD's and floppies in shrink wrapped cardboard boxes, and there was a shrink wrap machine and heatgun in the back room.

Also Not For Resale (NFR) copies were awesome. Like $10-30 for products that costed $50-1000 (in 1996 USD).

While local SV stores like NCA Peripherals also didn't survive because there were too many tiny and medium-sized hardware-focused stores. In the mid 80's and early 90's there were zillions of tiny, PC hardware stores in strip malls in SV similar to but more spread out than Huaqiangbei. Curiously though, Central Computer Systems were large and diversified enough with servers, networking, PC parts, and software, to survive. Micro Center also. Fry's, CompUSA, RadioShack, and CircuitCity weren't sufficiently adept at competing online when Amazon and such killed them off in turn, only BestBuy made it through so far.
by georgeecollins | 2025-08-23 05:05:14+00:00
I'm not saying the Apple store isn't responsible for the problems of free to play. They really are. Apple has a memory of when their hardware was beholden to software like Adobe or Microsoft and they designed the store to avoid that problem. It really favors cheap apps, and they used to really discourage offering a sample and then unlocking the full app for a purchase. This was supposed to be so you didn't have "bait and switch" but really it just trained people to think no app was worth paying for. Even though they did pay so much for loot boxes..

So now there's an alternative way to pay. Let's be happy about that.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-08-23 05:05:23+00:00
I have seen many systems that were overly complicated because the developers couldn’t keep it all in their head. It led instead to poorly designed modularity along boundaries selected to be small enough that they could keep it in their heads, to the detriment of both efficiency and maintainability.

Being able to see across it at scale is what exposes elegant reductions to something simpler, which enhances maintainability. It is how you end up with the commits that delete a thousand lines of code.
by sensecall | 2025-08-23 05:05:29+00:00
Nice idea!

As a UX designer with some dev chops, I’ve been getting a lot of value from the whole vibe coding thing lately. I can get from idea to solid working product super quickly.

I’ve noticed 2 parts where I get slowed down and I’m sure there’s a market for a product or two, which would fit your idea (I think):

- setting up all the tracking/monitoring/netlify config. So like GA, Search Console, AdWords, netlify hosting etc.

- guiding me through the launch - helping me plan and track how to market and get users onboarded

Would love to chat as I’ve had a bunch of ideas and your product looks like it’s off to a great start. Not sure if you’re hiring?!
by NoteyComplexity | 2025-08-23 05:06:16+00:00
So… what does it prove? Do you learn anything?

Just because Alpha go exist back in the days, go competition doesn’t go away. Just because ChatGpt exists these days, it doesn’t replace our desires of learning something more interactively.

ChatGPT can answer many things, but it seems miss the point if you use it for a website designed for learning.
by ack_complete | 2025-08-23 05:06:18+00:00
That might have been the transition from Visual C++/Basic 4 to 6 (I skipped 5), but the cataclysmic one was the switch from Visual Studio 6 to Visual Studio .NET, when large portions of the IDE and build system were rewritten in .NET. Visual Studio .NET (2002) was much slower and much buggier than VS6. The native debugger was glacial at conditional breakpoints and debug output, the build system took an eternity to do a dependency check, its UI visibly redrew more slowly, etc. It was so bad that Microsoft had to create a special offer for the Visual Studio .NET (2003) upgrade for only ~$30.

This transition was not great for Visual Basic developers either since their language was transitioned from generating native code (VB6) to becoming dependent upon the .NET Framework (VB.NET), supported secondarily to C#.
by bruckie | 2025-08-23 05:06:32+00:00
The claim that they would recondense the water is surprising to me. :)

I'm genuinely curious how recondensing would work. It seems like a Rube Goldberg machine to me. To recondense the water vapor, you would need to move a large amount of heat out of the water vapor into a heat sink so that it could cool down to the boiling point and undergo a phase change. What would that sink be, and how would you move the heat into it fast enough?

Air is the obvious answer, but if you are dumping heat into the air, why would you do it by evaporating and then condensing water, rather than transferring it directly (e.g. via a heat exchanger and fan)?
Show HN: RipBroker – Find Flats and Flatmates Nearby You
by devaldpatel | 2025-08-23 05:07:24+00:00
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The standout feature? Location-based searching! Just enter any landmark available on Google Maps, apply additional filters and sorting, and get nearby tailored results that fit your preferences.

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by acossta | 2025-08-23 05:07:38+00:00
This doesn’t just feel like business as usual, it’s a flashpoint. Nvidia hit pause on its H20 chip, the one tailor-made for China, because Beijing raised red flags over backdoors and data risks. It’s classic tech meets geopolitics: export controls, supply chain pressure, and the chip fight getting sharper. If you’re into how hardware becomes policy, this is it.
by jcranmer | 2025-08-23 05:07:58+00:00
I think Terry Pratchett laid it out best:

> “Do you understand what I'm saying?" shouted Moist. "You can't just go around killing people!"

> "Why Not? You Do." The golem lowered his arm.

> "What?" snapped Moist. "I do not! Who told you that?"

> "I Worked It Out. You Have Killed Two Point Three Three Eight People," said the golem calmly.

> "I have never laid a finger on anyone in my life, Mr Pump. I may be–– all the things you know I am, but I am not a killer! I have never so much as drawn a sword!"

> "No, You Have Not. But You Have Stolen, Embezzled, Defrauded And Swindled Without Discrimination, Mr Lipvig. You Have Ruined Businesses And Destroyed Jobs. When Banks Fail, It Is Seldom Bankers Who Starve. Your Actions Have Taken Money From Those Who Had Little Enough To Begin With. In A Myriad Small Ways You Have Hastened The Deaths Of Many. You Do Not Know Them. You Did Not See Them Bleed. But You Snatched Bread From Their Mouths And Tore Clothes From Their Backs. For Sport, Mr Lipvig. For Sport. For The Joy Of The Game.”
by becurious | 2025-08-23 05:08:33+00:00
After Visual C++ 6. They broke a lot of the C++ IDE features and they weren’t as good as the prior versions (dialog editor etc) so for a long time we preferred staying on 6. I think if we could have the newer compilers but the snappiness of that UI many developers would be happy.

It’s also a product of the segmentation of the developer tools in Microsoft. The Windows team was responsible for the compiler rather than the Developer Tools team.
by cornholio | 2025-08-23 05:08:37+00:00
> Each of these could cost you $20-50/month in SaaS subscriptions.

Sounds to me that's a bargain, for half an hour in wages I get a battle tested solution built by real humans with real human feedback in the real world, instead of some unmaintainable oneshot AI approximation with zero support. I would easily waste more than that trying to wrestle some prompt into doing what I need, and even when it finally does it's still spaghetti code that will eventually fall behind surrounding reality and lock my precious data into a custom abomination.

Clearly the value proposition here is not replacing SaaS solutions but creating very customized solutions that simply don't exist as a product - just like spreadsheets in the previous era. A spreadsheet does not pretend it is a programming language, it just solves the data processing problem the user has in a visual and intuitive way.

This is to me the most glaring issue with vibe tools, they do seemingly advanced stuff but their users don't really understand the result they get, they are just firing their harpoon and get dragged wherever the whale will take them.
by benreesman | 2025-08-23 05:08:43+00:00
I'm on record as pretty stridently anti-AI Hype Bullshit (I was calling Altman a criminal back when that had real-world consequences, check the history).

But this is in the vanishing minority of frontpage AI threads where it's a really interesting concersation about quantifiable things: what quantization, what engagement metrics, what NDGC on downstream IR. People are complaining they gamed the number: that's an improvement! Normally they just lie. This is amenable to analysis and frankly an interesting one.

If it were up to me they'd flat regex ban "llm" and "ai" on HN, thats about the right ROC. But if we're going to have it? I'll take this over "How AI Saved My Vibecode Startup From Vibe Coding".
by georgeecollins | 2025-08-23 05:09:10+00:00
You are 100% right! The difference is that a phone is necessity that tends to a monopoly, unlike say a PlayStation or a handheld game platform. But no question in the game space where you can choose platforms, a walled garden is great. That's why Steam is really good, and if it wasn't you could get your games from the Windows app store, or the Epic Store..