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Show HN: ESLabs

Hacker News - Mon, 05/11/2026 - 12:40pm

LLMs can "learn", maybe. That doesn't mean we offload learning.

More than a decade ago I had built paw-on-es6 to help folks get hands-on with ES6 (ES2015). It did its job.

I am now introducing ESlabs. It covers every major feature from ES2015 through ES2025.

You write real code in your browser, run exercises, and actually internalize what the features do and why we need them in the first place.

The irony isn't lost on me: building a tool to help humans learn, in an era where the temptation is to just use an agent skill!

Give it a spin. Break things. That's the point

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Stx: Interactive Vector Graphics Environment

Hacker News - Mon, 05/11/2026 - 11:53am

Article URL: https://ctx.graphics/

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Using Worktrees

Hacker News - Mon, 05/11/2026 - 11:52am
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LockedCode – Security-hardened OpenCode fork

Hacker News - Mon, 05/11/2026 - 11:51am

Article URL: https://lockedcode.ai/

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Show HN: Learn how AI benchmarks work

Hacker News - Mon, 05/11/2026 - 11:47am

Article URL: https://agent-benchmarks.com/

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Coding might go the way of woodworking

Hacker News - Mon, 05/11/2026 - 11:47am

At one point well before the age of industrialization all furniture was hand crafted so to speak by trained artisans. As time went on they started working together in workshops, had more formal training processes through guilds and perhaps most important saw improved work flows through specialization, improved tooling and the use of ever more sophisticated jigs and templates.

Industrialization took things to another lever. Mastery meant skill in using ever more complicated and industrialized machinery. Profit seeking behavior set the focus on automation, repeatability and perhaps most important reducing the skill necessary to do the job.

Today nearly all furniture is made in factories using not wood but rather sawdust and wood particles glued and pressed together. The process is deskilled, if anything the skilled work is in designing, manufacturing and tuning the machines that make the furniture, not in making furniture itself.

We still teach woodworking in schools, oddly enough though we typically teach it through the lens of using modern machinery when in my opinion when should teach it as art form using traditional hand tools as that type of work is safer, less noisy, cheaper, requires less safe and most important me doesn't have you breathing in airborne particles of sawdust.

This is more of a realization and perhaps a question for you the reader but with the age of AI upon us, will coding go the way of wood working. Will the number of coders become less and less? Will it become deskilled? Will a good coder simply become someone proficient in the use of AI tools? It would seem we're at the dawn of the industrial revolution where the nature of wood working probably started to change.

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Dive into Deep Learning

Hacker News - Mon, 05/11/2026 - 11:46am

Article URL: https://d2l.ai/

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