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Show HN: Design Memory – Extract design systems from live websites via CLI
by saleban1031 | 2026-02-15 19:27:33+00:00
CLI tool that crawls a website and extracts its full design system into AI-readable markdown files.

It uses Playwright for crawling, deterministic analysis for tokens (colors, typography, spacing, CSS variables), and an LLM for semantic interpretation (component recipes, layout structure, design principles).

One command: design-memory learn <url>

Output is a .design-memory/ folder that any LLM can consume to recreate the design with high fidelity.
by Galanwe | 2026-02-15 19:28:03+00:00
My wife worked for a cloth upcycling association (finding sustainable future for discarded clothes).

Reality is, there is just 10x more thrown out clothes in the west that any third world country on earth could need, same for shelters.

Associations distributing clothes to developing countries / shelters are filtering tightly what they accept.

In short, the vast majority of thrown out clothes in the west are just crapwear that not even the third world want. There are entire pipelines of filtering and sorting to only keep and distribute the good quality clothes.
by hn_acker | 2026-02-15 19:28:10+00:00
> YouTube just banned Guy Christensen from their platform. Now what?

YouTube has both a First Amendment right and a Section 230 immunity to ban Guy Christensen (to the extent that a government actor/agency does not coerce YouTube into doing so). Now Guy Christensen finds another platform or self-publishes his own speech.

Otherwise, your comment is similar to the one you wrote at [1], and I address it at [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47016230

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47026006
by messe | 2026-02-15 19:29:02+00:00
Thanks.

Not a native speaker myself, just a former gaelscoil student who's done their best to undo the gaelscoilis tendencies. Probably closer to a "heritage speaker" in the linguistic sense in some aspects.

Sadly out of practice these days, since I've been living in Denmark nearly three years. It's strange to lose competency in a language that you spoke every day for about 13 years.

I hope the project can upload a full scan at some point. I'm a huge sci-fi fan, and there's definitely a dearth of Irish language books in that genre.
by leoc | 2026-02-15 19:29:05+00:00
No-one's going to mind in the slightest if you lift Gaelic type or script for a D&D setting. (If you start larding in corny Irish stereotypes as well then people might start to be offended and/or amused.) If it matters, the writing style is basically just a long-surviving regional variation of what was once a mainstream form of Latin script, anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolingian_minuscule#/media/F... . So its story is quite similar to the story of how blackletter hung on as the primary script family for German until roughly the same time in the 20th century.
by briannezhad | 2026-02-15 19:29:06+00:00
I built Skly (https://skly.ai) for this purpose. It's a marketplace where you can browse, search, and download AI agent skills. Currently, it mostly offers coding assistant skills for Cursor, Claude, and ChatGPT. You can look through categories and see what each skill does before downloading. Most of them are free.

You can also sell your own rules and skills
by gjulianm | 2026-02-15 19:29:14+00:00
> That's actually exactly why it's important to have MRIs more frequently to be able to establish baselines and identify trends as they develop.

How? How do you establish baselines? How do you build a classification of incidental findings? It's very possible that you'll find a lot of types and not a lot of representatives of each type. And then you have to correlate that to actual clinical results, but the population will be so heterogeneous that it'll be really hard to find an actual result.

It's not just "let's throw more data at the problem".
Show HN: A tool to keep dotfiles and system configs in sync with a Git repo
by senotrusov | 2026-02-15 19:29:24+00:00
Hi HN,

I built a small tool called etcdotica in Golang for keeping dotfiles and small system configs in sync with a Git or other VCS repository that mirrors your machine's filesystem layout.

I was not happy with many existing tools in that space.

The idea is simple: your repo looks like your system. A file at home/.bashrc maps to ~/.bashrc, while root/etc/... maps under /etc. Running the tool applies changes from the repo to the machine, and optionally collects newer edits made directly on the machine back into the repo. Deleting a file in the repo prunes it from the destination, so the state converges instead of drifting.

What it does:

* Syncs files from a source tree to a destination directory

* Collect mode to pull newer destination edits back into the repo

* Prunes removed files using a tracked state file

* Managed "sections" that insert named blocks into existing files instead of replacing them

* Watch mode to apply changes continuously, suitable for a user systemd service

* Safe concurrent runs via file locking

* Permission control: subtract bits with umask, add bits with a simple flag to enable world readability

* Automatic executable bits for selected directories like bin/

* Follows source symlinks, follows destination symlinks to folders, but replaces destination symlinked files with real files

The sections feature is particularly useful for shared files such as fstab or hosts. You can keep portable snippets in the repo, and they get merged into the target file, with the ability to later update or remove them as the source file gets updated or removed.

I wanted something light with predictable behavior.

A typical workflow is to clone the repo (for example ~/.dotfiles), run the tool once for user files, once with sudo for system files, and optionally keep a watch service running so edits in the repo materialize on the machine.

I'd love feedback on the idea.
by llm_nerd | 2026-02-15 19:29:51+00:00
"He has not been convicted of any war crimes."

There is an arrest warrant out for him. He hasn't been convicted, but he should show up at that Hague and defend himself. When literally EVERY SINGLE DEVELOPED COUNTRY but the US and Israel is a member of the ICC, and those two happen to be largely the biggest perpetrators of war crimes, this "political theatre" act falls a bit flat.

Oh look, the US is committing terrorism and blowing up random boats again, even double tapping as yet another war crimin' activity. Howler. What a bastion of goodness. Yeah, positively no one cares what that terroristic plutocracy thinks is right or wrong.

"It is also totally antisemitic to say Israel has a stronghold over the US"

LOL, no it absolutely is not. The fact that Israel-apologists have to do this bit is pathetic business. It's intellectual garbage, immediately dismissible as a distraction.

The US relationship with Israel makes literally zero sense. Israel offers absolutely nothing to the US but geopolitical problems. Nothing. The US constantly burns actually valuable relationships in the service of that nuclear-armed international pariah.

Congresspeople will literally, directly say Israel first. One member proudly wore his Israeli military uniform in the House. Just bizarre, unfathomable behaviour time and time again, and if anyone showed that sort of bizarre loyalty to any other country they would be rightly declared a foreign asset and a traitor. Oh look, congress gave Netanyahu a four minute standing ovation, apparently for his largess of trying to drag the US into wars and demanding US taxpayer dollars. What a great guy.

Bizarre stuff.

As to democracies...are we pretending the US is a democracy, or that it has rules and laws? I suspect the midterms are going to disabuse you of that foolish notion.
by cubefox | 2026-02-15 19:30:14+00:00
I just tested originality.ai and it claimed 100% probability that the editors note on the Ars retraction [1] was itself AI generated. For the Gemini article on Benji Edwards it was "only" 56%.

I think your tools need a lot more evidence to be considered reliable.

1: https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retractio...
by bigbadfeline | 2026-02-15 19:30:16+00:00
> The quote is pernicious because of its attribution to Ben.

It's not pernicious for any reason because it's absolutely true in general, Franklin was simply using a general piece of wisdom to justify particular government actions.

Yes, using it that way was an improvisation and a bit of stretch, but the real issue here is why he needed to resort to it - that's a rabbit hole that pretty much goes to the bottom of today's problems which we're handling in a much worse manner than him back then.
by QuantumGood | 2026-02-15 19:30:46+00:00
Oversimplified, Rocket Internet (Samwer brothers) generated billions cloning apps and services. Many other examples exist. Thinking of costs as "almost nothing" is misleading, but the low cost of cloning services and apps is a business model with a strong track record that seems to have accelerated due to AI. Of course, competition within this business model is also accelerating, making profitability more complex, and ethics is always complex in this space.
by joseda-hg | 2026-02-15 19:32:54+00:00
The constraints being different already make the replacement tangibly different

Maybe it will kill the veil of (perceived) anonimity which tangibly changes how people behave, or maybe the filter will be monetary and the filter will just affect the underclass shifting whatever discourse will be had

We can't act like whatever replaces the current web won't be different, because then there's no reason to change at all
by vidarh | 2026-02-15 19:33:11+00:00
I don't see how this contradicts any of what they said, unless they've edited their comment.

You're right we had graphical apps, but we did also have very little video. CuSeeMe existed - video conferencing would've still been a thing, but with limited resolution due to bandwidth constraints. Video in general was an awful low res mess and would have remained so if most people were limited to ISDN speeds.

While there were still images on the web, the amount of graphical flourishes were still heavily bandwidth limited.

The bandwidth limit they proposed would be a big deal even if CPU speeds continued to increase (it could only mitigate so much with better compression).
by YZF | 2026-02-15 19:33:41+00:00
As we used to say when we were kids, if your grandmother had wheels she would be a bus.

Yes, Israel's democracy is under threat, very much fueled by those same external forces impact other western countries, social media and such.

The interest of the free world. In my opinion. Is to promote freedom and not give power to countries that are not free or democratic (which is most of the world). The UN primarily represents the non-free forces and its institutions similarly the same.

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/523711/Iran-elected-as-vice...

We need to fight for democracy in Israel and the US just the same way we fight for it everywhere.
by mzajc | 2026-02-15 19:33:47+00:00
What are they changing to prevent this from happening in the future? Why was the use of LLMs not disclosed in the original article? Do they host any other articles covertly generated by LLMs?

As far as I can tell, the pulled article had no obvious tells and was caught only because the quotes were entirely made up. Surely it's not the only one, though?
by numb7rs | 2026-02-15 19:34:02+00:00
Of course they're not. They're destroying goods that they can't sell at a profit because, for example, the cost of processing some unworn but returned goods outweighs the potential profit from those goods.

In TFA it's estimated that between 4% and 9% of clothing put on the EU market is destroyed before being worn. An admittedly high uncertainty, but even 4% of all clothing sold in the EU is still a heck of a lot of clothes.
by wizzwizz4 | 2026-02-15 19:34:41+00:00
Where I currently live has about the same climate as it did 20 years ago. More variability, I think (people started complaining about weird harvest times about 10 years ago, and we're now all used to chaotic year-on-year yields), but roughly the same averages. Flood infrastructure needs maintenance, but not a redesign. However, the behaviour of the migratory wildlife has changed, and you only have to travel a few dozen miles before you reach somewhere that has needed to make significant changes to their traditional climate-related infrastructure.

"A lot" doesn't mean all, and "my home isn't an example!" doesn't disprove the claim.
by rsync | 2026-02-15 19:35:11+00:00
I would direct you to George Kennan[1] and his 1997 NYT article where he said, among other things:

"... expanding NATO would be the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-Cold War era. Such a decision may be expected to inflame the nationalistic, anti-Western and militaristic tendencies in Russian opinion; to have an adverse effect on the development of Russian democracy; to restore the atmosphere of the cold war to East-West relations, and to impel Russian foreign policy in directions decidedly not to our liking ..."

Is it your position that he was paid for, or in some way disingenuously held, this view ?

I don't have strong opinions on this topic but I note with interest that there seem to be contrary viewpoints that aren't not puppets/trolls.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_F._Kennan
by frankohn | 2026-02-15 19:35:23+00:00
I analyzed the test using Pangram, which is apparently reliable, it say "Fully human Written" without ambiguity.[1]

I personally like the content and the style of the article. I never managed to accept going through the pain to install and use Visual Studio and all these absurd procedures they impose to their users.

[1] https://www.pangram.com/history/300b4af2-cd58-4767-aced-c4d2...
by wredcoll | 2026-02-15 19:35:36+00:00
It would probably help if you made a more specific point rather than just ranting in very vague terms.

Grouping terms like "the west" can be broad enough to include over half of all living humans or so narrow that it applies to a small village.

It is, admittedly, not a particularly useful term, but it's not like americans are reaponsible for it.
by jadenPete | 2026-02-15 19:35:47+00:00
I think what bugs me about EU legislation like this is how micro-targeted it is. Why apparel specifically? If waste and a disregard for the finite-ness of natural resources is the problem, why not impose a blanket, Pigovian-style tax on all extracted resources?

I got the same feeling when they mandated USB-C on Apple devices. If the problem of waste were tackled categorically, then the state wouldn’t need to get involved in matters it has no business getting involved in.

It has to stop at some point. Eventually, the regulations will become so complicated, unknowable, and unenforceable, that they’ll have no choice but to say “this is enough” and start tackling the root of the problem instead.
by asdff | 2026-02-15 19:36:14+00:00
It would be interesting to see if these measures are actually effective or just more security theater. For example, most rich people today at least in California live in a sort of walled/fenced/hedged compound, protected by essentially a garage door, and coated in security cameras. To them, this must have felt safe, secure, and the thing to do, since you can find wealthy neighborhoods where every single house is set up like this in such a defensive compound.

Only the compounds are entirely porous. Motivated criminals can and do regularly hurdle those fences or slip under those gates in moments, break and enter and leave the property in minutes.

This makes one question whether the next layer of "hardening" would actually be effective of if it is more of the same. The article cites armed guards. I would think there are very few people out there that are stable enough to be trusted to bear arms and patrol around your family but also stupid enough to actually put their life on the line for some jewelry that is probably already insured.
by peterlk | 2026-02-15 19:36:15+00:00
I think this article conflates (at least) two problems.

The first is that very few people (especially rich people) are anonymous. A motivated person who has had a psychotic break can be very dangerous, and if you’re even a little bit famous, the probability of that happening to you goes up substantially.

The second issue is the one that everyone is getting riled up about - wealth inequality.

These are distinct issues, and I think it does harm - in the form of polarization - to not explicitly call them out.
by throwaw12 | 2026-02-15 19:36:43+00:00
> It would not be a good idea because the goal of companies are not to get you to consume only what you need, they want you to consume more.

It's good exactly because of this. Every company is pushing us to consume more, and Wall Street is at the top of this, growth at all costs (including human lives, mental health, just anything)

Only way to save Earth is to stop the Wall Street greed machine.

We should be making shoes which lasts 4 years, clothes which last at least 2 years with no "fashion" industry pushing us to change it every 2 days.
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-02-15 19:37:04+00:00
> It's like this in a lot of places now. We're seeing climate change in the interval of a generation. It's absolutely scary.

You're seeing the first detectable solar maximum in 40 years.

If you were born before the late 70s, you will not have experienced climate like this, or solar activity like this. The past few 11-year sunspot cycles have been an absolute bust.

This is what weather patterns were like in the early 80s.
by gjulianm | 2026-02-15 19:37:47+00:00
> we wait until something is clearly wrong to get the MRI. f you want to find an MRI scan of an early stage asymptomatic cancer, the only data on that will be the exceedingly rare case that someone has something else unrelated wrong

Not always. There are bunch of studies for MRI screening in high-risk populations for specific cancers. There are scoring systems for a lot of them based on imaging features and they do find asymptomatic cancers.

In fact, if you add low-risk populations to the studies used to design imaging scores, you might end up adding more noise and making the study more difficult and the scoring less accurate.
by unethical_ban | 2026-02-15 19:38:16+00:00
> is also totally antisemitic to say Israel has a stronghold over the US.

Sure. Ignore AIPAC.

Sure, build a false dichotomy that we either support Israel unconditionally or we hate Jews and support every antidemocratic nation in the eastern hemisphere.

Sure, further propagate antisemitism by intentionally conflating any criticism of Israel the government with the religion of Judaism.

I can be critical of Qatar and Saudia Arabia and China and Russia and Israel, for all the necessary reasons.
by alterom | 2026-02-15 19:38:36+00:00
Impenetrable?

Ain't no such thing.

The only question is what kind of threat is mitigated, and for how long.

And that's assuming they'll have the manpower to defend those fortresses. Which, given their belief we're moving towards the societal collapse (of their making), isn't a given.

Quote[1]: What I came to realise was that these men are actually the losers. The billionaires who called me out to the desert to evaluate their bunker strategies are not the victors of the economic game so much as the victims of its perversely limited rules. More than anything, they have succumbed to a mindset where “winning” means earning enough money to insulate themselves from the damage they are creating by earning money in that way. It’s as if they want to build a car that goes fast enough to escape from its own exhaust.

In the end, who'd want to stick up for those losers?

Tsar Nicholas II had great fortresses. So did Nicolae Ceaușescu.

Worked out swimmingly for both of them.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prep...
by pear01 | 2026-02-15 19:39:34+00:00
What point are you attempting to make? Or are you one of a minority of people that refuses to see the difference between (say among other things) the unrealized gains of someone like a Musk vs someone's working class parents saving up for retirement?

Citizens United litigated a very specific issue. It was only an issue because Congress had actually passed some meaningful campaign finance reform after many painful years (really decades) of effort. The court essentially kneecapped it overnight on a 5 to 4 basis. Get money out of politics commonly means get dark/pac/corporate money out of politics, not individual donors well within long established FEC limits that these pacs are designed to circumvent.

Again, billionaires live by different rules. This doesn't just apply to taxes, criminal justice, etc it applies to the foundation of our democracy - free and fair elections. What could be more in keeping with the best of American traditions than ensuring our elections are as egalitarian as possible?
by newzino | 2026-02-15 19:40:10+00:00
Zip stores its central directory at the end of the file. To find what's inside and where each entry starts, you need to read the tail first. That rules out issuing a single Range request to grab one specific asset.

Tar is sequential. Each entry header sits right before its data. If the JSON manifest in the Gwtar preamble says an asset lives at byte offset N with size M, the browser fires one Range request and gets exactly those bytes.

The other problem is decompression. Zip entries are individually deflate-compressed, so you'd need a JS inflate library in the self-extracting header. Tar entries are raw bytes, so the header script just slices at known offsets. No decompression code keeps the preamble small.
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-02-15 19:40:11+00:00
> PS: Glad to hear your mom is doing well!

Thanks, she had little to no side effects from the experimental immunotherapy drug. She'd said at the outset she didn't want to be a "chemo zombie" having been through all that about 20 years ago (she's had four different cancers throughout my lifetime, treatment getting better every time).

It's fucking expensive, but immunotherapy is really a miracle cancer treatment. We're not quite at "Oh you've just got a wee bit of cancer, we can give you something for that if you see the pharmacist on your way out" but we're not far off.
by YZF | 2026-02-15 19:40:24+00:00
> It's intellectual garbage, immediately dismissible as a distraction.

Absolutely false. This is standard antisemitic MO. The "Jews" control the media, the "Jews" control the US, The "Jews" control money. This is yet another permutation of the age old antisemitism just s/jews/zionists/ and s/jews/israel/ it's used by the same people and with the same intent belief. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck it's a duck. The intellectual garbage is coming from people who claim this is not antisemitic.

US relationship with Israel makes perfect sense. It started during the cold war when Israel was aligned with the US against the Arab countries aligned with the USSR. The US gets to test its weapons systems and benefit from Israel defense technology know-how. Post 9/11 and with the rise of organizations like ISIS it also benefited the US greatly to have a partner in this unstable region called the middle east.

I'm not aware of any US congress member that has declared their allegiance to Israel trumps their being American. But hey, any single member of any parliament can always be off the rails and the US has no shortage of those. But give me a specific example? What is understandable is that Americans consider Israel and Israelis their friends and allies and at challenging times friends support their friends and not stab them in the back like some have done.