Show HN: Tswap–Yubikey-backed secret injection for IaC and AI-assisted workflowsI built tswap after noticing that Claude Code, while genuinely useful for managing a Kubernetes cluster, was pulling plaintext secrets from every manifest it touched. I wanted the AI to be able to do its job without ever seeing the actual values.tswap keeps secrets in an AES-encrypted vault file on disk. The decryption key is derived from a YubiKey via HMAC challenge-response. At init you pair two YubiKeys — either unlocks the vault, so you have no single point of hardware failure.Config files use a comment-based placeholder that keeps them valid YAML: stringData: DB_PASSWORD: # tswap: db-password Deployment is a pipe: tswap apply values.yaml | helm upgrade myapp ./chart -f - The privilege split is the key design decision: `apply`, `run`, and `check` need no elevation (AI agent gets these). `get`, `list`, `delete`, and `export` require sudo/admin (human gets these). The AI can deploy; it can't read or enumerate secrets.Other features: burn tracking for rotation, `redact` for stripping
IMAGEShow HN: Fuzzy-matching messy job board data against the UK Gov Visa RegistryHey HN,I’ve been working on job application pipelines and kept hitting a massive data friction point: reliably filtering out UK companies that legally cannot sponsor international workers.The UK Home Office publishes a constantly updating CSV of licensed sponsors. The problem is, the data is practically useless for standard database joins. A job board might list a role at "Acme", but the government registry lists "Acme Technologies Holdings Limited".If you run an exact-string match or a basic ILIKE against a scrape of 10,000 Indeed or LinkedIn jobs, your false-negative rate is massive.I wrote a TypeScript-based matching engine to solve this. Here is the pipeline:Dynamic Ingestion: It bypasses the Gov.uk dynamic routing to pull the raw, multi-megabyte CSV directly into memory. No stale database records.Text Normalization: I built a custom parser to strip out standard corporate suffixes ("ltd", "plc", "llp", "t/a", etc.) and handle the weird punctuation and localized encodings that break
Show HN: Scan your codebase for off-brand copy (open source CLI)hey,built a cli that scans your codebase for off-brand product copy. think eslint but for your brand voice.`npx brandlint`it extracts user-facing strings (jsx text, error messages, placeholders, i18n), checks them against a voice template (professional, casual, technical), and reports issues with file and line number.works with anthropic or openai keys. nothing leaves your machine except the score summary if you choose to share it :)supports ts/tsx, vue, svelte, html, json, yaml, markdown, php, python, and more.would love feedback. what brand voice rules do you usually enforce in your products, if any?
IMAGENASA moves moon rocket to launch pad ahead of Artemis 2 missionKennedy Space Center, United States (AFP) Jan 17, 2026 NASA on Saturday rolled out its towering SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft as it began preparations for its first crewed mission to the Moon in more than 50 years. The maneuver, which takes up to 12 hours, will allow the US space agency to begin a string of tests for the Artemis 2 mission, which could blast off as early as February 6. The immense orange and white Space Launch System rocket
IMAGEHow IVRT Testing Ensures Consistent Product QualityLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 13, 2026 Stringent quality control is essential in the pharmaceutical industry, as both cosmetics and pharmaceutical products must maintain a high standard of quality. Any deviation from these standards poses a significant threat to their market survival. Customers believe that every product will work with every use. In vitro release testing (IVRT) is a crucial process that enables manufacturers to meet
IMAGESuperheavy-lift rockets like SpaceX's Starship could transform astronomy by making space telescopes cheaperWashington DC (SPX) Jan 10, 2026 After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A couple more test flights, and SpaceX plans to launch it into orbit. A month later, a rival rocket company, Blue Origin, flew its almost-as-large New Glenn rocket all the way to orbit and sent spacecraft on their way to Mars. While these successful flights are exci
IMAGEVast spinning galaxy filament mapped in nearby UniverseBerlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 04, 2025 An international collaboration led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures observed so far, a thin string of hydrogen-rich galaxies embedded in a spinning cosmic filament around 140 million light-years away. The work, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, offers new constraints on how large-scale structures influence the formati
Show HN: Beads Viewer (Bv)I'm a huge fan of Steve Yegge's great beads project, which is a task management system for use by coding agents.In fact, I probably type or paste the string "beads" 500+ times a day nowadays across all my coding agent sessions (I'm juggling like 10 projects at the same time now, which you'll start to see soon as I finish and release them in the coming days and weeks.)I'm usually having GPT-5 Pro make plans to my specifications and iterate on them a bunch of times, usually with help from Opus 4.5, Grok 4.1, and Gemini 3. Then I tell codex or Claude Code to take the plan and turn it into beads for me. Or as I usually say it in my pasted in blurb,"OK, so please take ALL of that and elaborate on it more and then create a comprehensive and granular set of beads for all this with tasks, subtasks, and dependency structure overlaid, with detailed comments so that the whole thing is totally self-contained and self-documenting (including relevant background, reasoning/justification, consideratio
IMAGENASA’s EZIE Launches on Mission to Study Earth’s ElectrojetsUnder the nighttime California sky, NASA’s EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer) mission launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 11:43 p.m. PDT on March 14. Taking off from Vandenberg Space Force Base near Santa Barbara, the EZIE mission’s trio of small satellites will fly in a pearls-on-a-string configuration approximately 260 to 370 miles above Earth’s surface to […]
IMAGEAsk HN: Advice for someone who stagnated in their career. HelpHi HN. 50 year old here. I had a mixed career in corporate roles (product dev, bus dev - first 10 years of working), then a startup (did ok, but more learning than earning), and now have been teaching in a university for 10 years. Along the way I built a niche out of running startup programs for other institutions.I enjoy the work. It's fun and people definitely enjoy and tell me they benefit from what I do.But it's not enough financially. The university doesn't pay much and I am just breaking even each year and dependent on consulting income to pay for growing family expenses. Every time I get brought in to a new consulting project I knock it out of the park. But those projects are one-offs and seem to be dwindling. Side projects I spin up come to low thousands a year and while I enjoy them, don't do anything to take the financial pressure off. When I was 25 I used to pride myself on being able to live on a shoestring out of a backpack, but it's a different story with a wife and kids.
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