A developer built localchat, a proof-of-concept local AI chat app pairing a Go 1.27 server with Google's Gemma 4 E2B model running on the user's own machine. The app streams tokens into the browser as…
A developer published a hands-on guide arguing that HTMX's hypermedia-driven approach makes LLM pair-programming more reliable than SPA frameworks like React, because collapsing the JSON API and clien…
Developer Paul Butcher released a production web application built entirely in Lean 4, combining a TodoMVC implementation with passwordless sign-in, SQL migrations, OpenTelemetry telemetry, an LLM ass…
Developer Daniel Roy Greenfeld built commitgraph, a Django + HTMX habit tracker app, and shared five design patterns from its development, including pure functions for streak logic, a 7-bit integer to…
A self-hosted CRM for manufacturing, built with Django 6.1 and HTMX, was released on Hacker News by developer Oleg Ushakov. The platform targets small manufacturing shops and engineering teams, offeri…
A developer behind the Kombine project detailed how they shipped an iOS version of the app using Kotlin Multiplatform with Compose, despite the original roadmap prioritizing Android, backend, and weba…
A growing number of developers argue that Single Page Applications (SPAs) for internal tools create unnecessary complexity and tech debt, advocating instead for server-driven PHP alternatives like HTM…
A developer has released Aeon.WorX v0, a generic object lifecycle management system similar to PLM/PDM, built with LLM-assisted coding using 1.9 billion tokens at a cost of $28. The system, seeded wit…
COBOL programmers were the original vibe coders, according to a comparison drawn from Marianne Bellotti's book *Kill It with Fire*, which describes COBOL as a language built for people who wanted to g…
A developer built Buzzword Bingo, a multiplayer bingo game for conferences, as an experiment in specification-driven AI development using Claude. The project explored how far AI coding agents could be…
Reuben launched Vuci, a platform that makes spoken conversations from podcasts searchable, savable, and shareable. The tool aims to connect topics across audio content and allow deeper reading of inte…
A developer launched a personal website that replaces a traditional CV with a ChatGPT-like chat interface, allowing visitors to ask questions about their work experience. The site runs LLM inference v…
A developer used OpenAI's Codex AI assistant to port the williamcotton.com website from a custom language called Web Pipe to Rust, with the AI successfully recreating the site and integrating Contentf…
Koji, a self-hostable personal website engine for developers, has been released. It uses FastAPI, Markdown on disk, and a minimalist layout with no database, offering features like HTMX-based live sea…
A developer announced plans to build an open-source Trello clone that is free, feature-complete, and focused on good UX, without AI, React, or SPAs. The project aims to be a joy to use and avoid featu…
Keystone 2.0, an agent harness framework, introduces a new vocabulary with eleven primitive kinds in two layers and a dashboard for observability. The update includes a built-in MCP server, evals with…
A developer launched Zero Browser, a lightweight data-exchange platform that eliminates HTML, CSS, and JS by using common interactive elements like markdown, forms, and grids. The project aims to simp…
A developer built an AI agent system to autonomously curate and manage the gaming portal minigames.world, replacing manual game selection, categorization, and publishing. The architecture uses Erlang …
A software engineer from Leon Business School outlines five principles for long-term career survival, arguing that adaptability, preparation, and resourcefulness matter more than any specific framewor…
After running a React SPA admin panel for three years, a team migrated over 200 production deployments to HTMX over six months, finding that React's complexity was unnecessary for their primarily CRUD…