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New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things

Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things 366 by jpwalsh234 | 101 comments on Hacker News. I love making diagrams to help understand, plan, etc. However, the options are (A) auto-placement languages like Mermaid or Graphviz (which don't let me decide how the diagram looks), or (B) software like Draw.io which are powerful but are very time consuming (and inefficient for agents to manipulate). I wanted to have the benefits of both, where you can define a diagram in a diagram language, but also retain a high degree of control over what the diagram looks like. I also wanted this to work well for humans and agents. On the Github link, there's a playground where you can try it out without installation. There's also instructions for a simple npm install and for installing a skill you can use with Claude or other agents.

New best story on Hacker News: Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived

Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived 468 by boredjohnny | 250 comments on Hacker News. Visual FoxPro stopped at version 9 in 2007. A surprising amount of it is still running, in 32 bits, because rewriting a 20-year-old business app is how you lose the business. A customer wanted to keep milking their app for the foreseeable future, so here it is: the same language on a new runtime (Rust, compiled to wasm, checked against the real vfp9.exe), tables no longer stopped at 2 GB, the old 32-bit .fll add-ins still loading, and lambdas, JSON and an HTTP server bolted on for good measure. Reports are not done and the builds are unsigned. MIT because why not?

New best story on Hacker News: Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting

Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting 465 by jacquesm | 183 comments on Hacker News. I've reset this more than once and the last time I made a careful note of when I did it and to my surprise I found it re-enabled when I checked just now. Make sure you check this thing to see if it hasn't been re-enabled if you believe it to be off right now.

New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down? 390 by halcdev | 670 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/W4owqCm https://ift.tt/YglcTjd https://status.x.ai ChatGPT outage – Resolved - https://ift.tt/j5FblOS (315 comments) Claude outage – Resolved - https://ift.tt/9NAeatu (146 comments) Grok outage - https://ift.tt/lEwOVv2 (142 comments)