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Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2025-04-scientists-recreate-deep-space-chemistry.html

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Article URL: https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/758.pdf

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Article URL: https://spritely.institute/news/announcing-spritely-oaken.html

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Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/bill-gates-give-away-fortune-by-2045-200bn-worlds-poorest-2025-05-08/

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Just yesterday I tried to find examples of good high information density UIs... and seems to be an impossible task.

Search engines are full to the brim with vague articles repeating each other's talking points, and exception being this blog post by Matthew Ström: https://matthewstrom.com/writing/ui-density/

Image search is no better, with largely irrelevant results.

In the age when everything is spaced out and zoned out gray on gray, what are your go-to examples of UIs that pack a lot of info?

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Article URL: https://twitter.com/wunderwuzzi23/status/1919752529748922674

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Hi HN,

I built REFER, a tool that helps people automatically share their referral codes where others are searching for them. It’s not a marketplace or a link tree—users just enter the codes they already have (for apps like Webull, Rakuten, Robinhood, etc.), and REFER distributes them for discoverability. The goal is to make it easier for people to earn from referral programs without constantly promoting links themselves.

Why I built it: I noticed a lot of folks—including creators and casual users—have valuable referral codes sitting unused. Most people either don’t know where to post them, or they end up buried in social media bios or YouTube descriptions. I wanted to make something that quietly works in the background to surface these codes without requiring extra effort or marketing.

I designed and built REFER solo. It uses Next.js, TypeScript, Prisma, MongoDB, Stripe (for optional paid tiers), and Auth0 for authentication. All code is deployed on Vercel.

What's different: All codes are continuously re-shared over time, not just the newest or most active—everyone gets a fair chance at visibility.

It’s focused purely on automation and visibility—set it once and forget it.

There’s a free tier, and you can try it here: https://www.refer-app.com/. You do need to sign up to add codes, but I’d be happy to set up a demo or provide a walkthrough if there’s interest.

Happy to answer questions, share more technical details, or hear feedback (especially the critical kind).

Thanks!

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Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/magazine/bill-gates-foundation-closing-2045.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43925712

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Hey HN, Dexter is a day planner I built for Mac (and web).

This was a grief project. Some people make art when they're soul searching, and making apps has always been a bit of an artistic outlet for me. Earlier this year my mother committed suicide and two weeks later the company I worked for laid off my entire division. After taking some time to grieve and process I started building something just for me, just for fun, just because I wanted to.

Dexter has been a slow project that started as paper sketches at my kitchen table and slowly morphed into a codebase. It allowed me to play with tools I wanted to get better at like Postgres and Typescript while also letting me try (and in some cases fail) experimenting with new-to-me tools like Tailwind, Supabase, Tauri, Electron, and Vite.

Small portions of the app and site were "vibe coded", but 99% is hand-crafted code (not necessarily good code), graphics, and data models. This was meant to be a fun project where I learned things just because I wanted to learn something, not a race to see how fast I could grind out a product.

For an example of "unnecessary but fun", I made each SVG on the marketing site twice with Figma - once in a light theme and again in a dark theme - so if you toggle your OS's dark mode, everything should change, even the images.

A few things about the app:

- Yeah, I know, it's an Electron app. I tried using Tauri and other tools but hit a few snags. The Electron ecosystem was incredibly mature and easy to use in comparison - The app is open source [0] and so is the marketing site [1] - Some friends and I have been using it daily for a few months and really enjoy it compared to our old multi-tool workflows - Dexter is the name of my 12(?) year old husky, hence the dog branding - There is a pricing widget on the marketing site but the app is currently totally free. I might integrate Stripe soon if (and only if) that feels like a fun project, but the goal isn't to get rich or even turn a profit, it's to have fun and build something genuinely useful that I use every day

There are a bunch of features I would love to add and enhancements I would like to make, and eventually I will. Currently, I pick up a feature just because it sounds fun that day and I put it down when it is no longer fun. It might not be a good business model, but it has been a wonderful antidote to an industry rife with burnout and a personal life that's been a little out of control.

I hope you enjoy it and maybe build something for yourself, just because it sounds fun.

If anyone gives it a try I will be in the comments today and happy to answer any questions!

[0] https://github.com/cvburgess/dexter-app [1] https://github.com/cvburgess/dexter-www

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Article URL: https://pksunkara.com/thoughts/3-types-of-coding-in-the-ai-era/

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Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2025/04/hitchhiking-american-experience/682603/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43925701

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Article URL: https://lurkhub.com

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Article URL: https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/discussions/13580

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A kitchen expert, a meal kit newbie and a novice cook set out to verify if HelloFresh is truly the best meal kit delivery service. After trying various recipes (including vegan), here’s what we found.

Article URL: https://www.varonis.com/blog/aznfs-root-privilege-escalation-on-azure

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Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/662719/android-material-3-gen-z-iphone

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43925657

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Article URL: https://trmm.net/chainload/

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Article URL: https://torrentfreak.com/musi-faked-umg-email-to-stay-on-app-store-apple-claims-in-sanctions-motion-250506/

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Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/business/bill-gates-philanthropy-donations-1c72941a

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43925646

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