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The State of Googlehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49227632"Google Earth Pro on desktop will no longer be available for download beginning June 25, 2027."This is the message I received today while opening Google Earth. It was in the bottom left corner of the desktop application.What is happening at Google?Why is it that each of the tools I have been using for the last 20 years are being destroyed one by one? Tools that have become constant in people's lives.What are they trying to accomplish by destroying the trust gained by a generation of employees delivering the top product? Products that just worked.Did they fire all the good employees?Where are the men and women with long-term visions?What is happening???
Aug 9, 2026 1:45 AM
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Things I learned about how people use AI after 1800 peoplehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226913I'm running a an AI fluency assessment tool and after 1800 real users who interact with our chat bot 20-40 minutes; here are some weird things we found out.1. The least AI-fluent professionals overestimated their score by 40 points. The most fluent underestimated by 27. 67 point Dunning-Kruger gap.2. Product managers outscore engineers on AI fluency (59.2 vs 53.7). Applied judgement beats technical knowledge.3. HR people (ironically who make hiring decisions using AI) understand AI the least, with the lowest AI fluency score.4. People consistently say they are good with AI, but 2 out 3 fail to reach even proficient level.5. The average AI fluency score across 1,800 professionals is 48 — squarely in the Developing tier. Most people use AI regularly but without systematic practice.6. Company-wide AI training assumes everyone starts from the same place. The data says starting points vary by 5x within the same team.7. Same company, same tools, same training budget. The gap between the leas
Aug 8, 2026 11:35 PM
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Show HN: TAMX – Personal Tamagotchihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222730While scrolling reddit, I always find developer building cool stuffs using hardware. I want to build one for me... So, Meet TAMX: A pocket-sized ESP32 handheld. Wi-Fi tools, scientific calculator, AI chat, games, and a PowerPoint remote. Inspired by the classic Tamagotchi form factor.Features: • Wi-Fi Tools — Scan networks, monitor packets, or broadcast test beacons • AI Chat — Talk to Groq AI using an on-device QWERTY keyboard • Scientific Calculator — Expressions, linear/quadratic solvers, graph plotter, modulo • Space News — Live headlines from the Spaceflight News API • Games — Snake, Pong, Dice • PPT Remote — Control PowerPoint on your laptop over Wi-FiI'd love feedback, feature suggestions, or contributions from the community!Github: https://github.com/riteshgharat/tamx Demo: https://riteshgharat.github.io/tamx
Aug 8, 2026 3:25 PM
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Show HN: A probabilistic programming language with exact inference and loopshttps://github.com/kccqzy/probabilistic-program-inference/blob/master/README.mdThis is a long time project of mine (started in 2018) where I had an idea that it is possible to do exact inference of probabilistic programs even when loops (including infinite loops) are involved. I didn't publicize it too much as performance was too abysmal to be practical, but recently with encouragement from a friend I decided to add more features (support integers!) and polish it up.A probabilistic programming language isn't really a general purpose language; instead it uses a programming language to describe a random process or phenomenon, and the inference tool reports a distribution of outcomes.Here is an example from the README that can be solved with my tool. Suppose there are four cars and eight spaces. Initially the cars are located in the left half of the spaces. At each iteration, each car flips a fair coin. When the coin is heads and if there is a space in front, then the car moves forward by one space. How many iterations are needed to get all four cars in the right ha
Aug 8, 2026 2:39 PM
github.com
Show HN: Otaku – A Roleplay Terminal Clienthttps://github.com/enclavum/otakuOtaku is an attempt to build a terminal alternative to SillyTavern (ST), with a focus on: - transparency about what is sent to the LLM (the `/context` command), - automatic incremental summaries that replace the middle of the chat to save context space (browse and edit them with the `/lore` command), - automatic character extraction from the chat (the `/cast` command), - minimal to no under-the-hood prompt injection.InstallOtaku is free and open source (MIT). Install it with uv — `uv tool install otaku` — or with Homebrew: `brew install enclavum/tap/otaku`.Get startedOn first start, you choose a provider and a model: otaku automatically detects local installations of Ollama, oMLX, LM Studio, llama.cpp, and KoboldCpp and lets you pick from their models. Cloud providers (OpenRouter, NanoGPT) are added right there in the picker — enter an API key and their catalogs appear. After you've chosen, you land at the prompt. If nothing is running yet, otaku opens anyway — pick a model later with
Aug 8, 2026 11:35 AM
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Ask HN: If you had to relearn Emacs today, how would you?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216638Spent a few weeks learning nvim and colemac-dh; doing light customizations -- found myself pining after neorg, and figured if I want this in my dev env, it is likely work learning the original tool itself.Realized many in this community might have some nuggets of wisdom to share. As that's the case, for those of you who use Emacs, how would you get into it today?
Aug 7, 2026 9:50 PM
huggingface.co
Show HN: From raw Point Cloud dataset to regular Grid indexhttps://huggingface.co/spaces/adec314/point-to-gridInteractive demo of a simple preprocessing tool for geometric datasets, all open source python package. Squarenet core sorting algorithm (Cartesian sort) allow for greedy but fast multi dimensional reordering of raw point sets, could be usefull in e.g. convolution network or ANN search context on irregular Lidar data. Any feedback would be very appreciated
Aug 7, 2026 9:14 PM
tape-music-hub.gordo.design
Show HN: Tape Music Hub, local music library manager with a P2P phone companionhttps://tape-music-hub.gordo.design/Hi HN,This is a personal project I have been building for the last three years. I had the technical and product background, but never quite enough uninterrupted time to take it all the way. AI coding tools finally gave me enough leverage to finish the version I had been carrying around in my head.I have spent years accumulating a proper local music library. I DJ from time to time, and I always have music locally that is not distributed on any “public” platform such as Spotify or Apple Music, so I only hear that music on my computer.The core idea was to use the same archive from my phone without moving it into a cloud catalog or rebuilding it in another app, while keeping it in the same place and making it easy to connect to other DJ apps. This means you can build your playlists on the go and add many more interesting features, and, easy to use and setup.Is desktop/NAS app stays as the source of truth. You add the folders you already use for your music library, and the phone becomes a c
Aug 7, 2026 8:34 PM
hirenewtalent.ai
Show HN: Hirenewtalent.ai – Hire offshore in minutes via APIhttps://hirenewtalent.ai/hi everyone. My name is Jai.I own one of the largest driving schools in the Bay Area (and California!), and while trying to hire offshore staff, I discovered just how hard it is.IT'S (surprisingly) WAY TOO HARD!!My best friend Alex and I realized that throughout our careers in F500 companies, startups of every stage, and small businesses that we ran into this problem many times over.You pretty much have 3 choices:1) you go to an agency and pay upwards of $3k+ a month for a resource that should cost closer to $1k/mo. 2) you go to a legacy marketplace like Upwork/Fiverr and screen all the resumes yourself, interview each candidate, figure out payments, and then negotiate/contract with each candidate. 3) you buy a bunch of software like LinkedIn recruiter (or AI slop recruiting tools) and Deel/Rippling for payroll, and you build the entire hiring process/infrastructure yourselfAll 3 of these options straight up suck.We realized that if we were to reimagine how a marketplace functions usin
Aug 7, 2026 4:28 PM
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Ask HN: Do modern code editors need stronger visual hierarchy?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49210083I've been using Zed recently and I think it is one of the most impressive modern editors I've tried. It is clean, fast, beautiful and has minimal distraction. However, after long coding periods, I noticed that it feels less productive than other editors like VS Code. I think the problem is visual hierarchy. A productive tool needs to answer where I am, what is active and where I can find what I need. VS Code has relatively strong separation, though containing more elements.Zed feels much softer, many elements have similar weight, creating a clean impression, but I found myself spending longer time finding things.I wonder how others think about it.
Aug 7, 2026 1:27 PM
github.com
Show HN: Llmem – Local persistent memory for AI coding, no embeddingshttps://github.com/netrixone/llmemHi folks. This part of AI coding always felt really dumb: after working on many projects it repeats the same mistakes, uses awkward patterns or looks up stuff over and over. It just does not remember. Skills exists, but I don't like maintaining lots of markdown files. There were other solutions for this and I'm sure there are even more now, but I simply did not fancy those for one reason or another.So I wrote my own good-enough persistent memory which easily integrates with all AI coding tools I use. Lightweight, local, 1 Go binary + 1 SQLite file. Speaks MCP + good old REST API I can curl.After some testing I settled on BM25 lexical search with optional WordNet synonym expansions - no embeddings, no vector DB, no external API calls. A downside is English memories only, but that's OK for me.Memory_context pulls priority-tagged memories at session start, auto-consolidation merges near-duplicates to prevent bloat. Later I added optional memory types, project scopes and hashtags.I've been
Aug 7, 2026 8:40 AM
bing.com
The 10 Best Electric Razors to Upgrade Your Shaving Routinehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d830b2cdd4004adabfbcd90aebaad&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.harpersbazaar.com%2Fbeauty%2Fskin-care%2Fg38238570%2Fbest-electric-razor-for-women%2F&c=9290567587993465850&mkt=en-usWhether you’re looking to go fully hairless or take a little off, using one of the best electric razors makes removal a no-brainer. Along with their high-powered capabilities, what sets these tools ...
Aug 7, 2026 8:06 AM
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I still install these 4 free apps on every Windows PChttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d9329ffc840c18a4575c4733d47ef&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fnews%2Ftechnology%2Fi-still-install-these-4-free-apps-on-every-windows-pc%2Far-AA29DETI&c=15313562586476162611&mkt=en-usThese free apps filled major gaps in Windows, replaced frustrating built-in tools, and became essential to millions of PC users.
Aug 7, 2026 7:30 AM
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Ask HN: I can't post in Show HNhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49206984I recently built an html+pdf documentation framework that uses Typst and I want to post to Show HN, so I created a new account last week but when I try to submit my post it only shows "we are temporarily restricting Show HN" and "spend some time to comment, get around with the community," etc.Are there any ways to remove the restriction? I read some other posts like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47875235 and sent an email to hn@ycombinator.com five days ago. I believe I made myself pretty clear in my email:> Hi, I'm Jeremy. I made a pure Typst documentation generator called Haita that doesn't rely on other tools and I wanted to post it to Show HN but found that I couldn't post at all. The project's link is https://wensimehrp.github.io/haita. I did not write it with LLM assistance. Can you please lift the restriction on my account? My account name is wensim and it uses the same email address. Thanks! > > JeremyAnd sometimes I go on shownew just to find that there are posts from a
Aug 7, 2026 7:22 AM
simplepixelart.com
Show HN: Open-source pixel art editor with animation and auto-tiling tilesetshttps://simplepixelart.com/editorHi HN! I built a free pixel art editor that runs entirely in the browser — no install, no signup, no watermark. The frontend is open source (MIT): https://github.com/comficker/simplepixelartWhat it does:- Sprite editor with layers, selections, mirror drawing, and an infinite-canvas workspace (multiple boards on one desk)- Frame-by-frame animation with onion skin, per-frame duration, GIF and spritesheet export- Tileset builder that auto-generates Wang-16 and blob-47 terrain sets from a single base tile — exports Godot 4 TileSet, Tiled .tsx, or PNG+JSON — plus a tilemap painter to test terrains in the browser- Isometric (2:1 dimetric) grid mode with an iso-line tool- Image-to-pixel-art converter: median-cut quantization, live adjustments, and a "pixel cleaner" that removes orphan pixelsSome technical bits:- The renderer is a hand-rolled 2D canvas — no engine, no WebGL. Pixel maps are plain objects keyed "x_y" with an incremental dirty-pixel buffer, so a brush stroke costs ~0.006ms/frame
Aug 7, 2026 2:31 AM
github.com
Show HN: Gaze – Facial Authentication for Linuxhttps://github.com/GunduLabs/gazeFacial authentication for Linux with on-device face recognition, PAM integration, and tools for login, lock screen, sudo, and desktop management.
Aug 6, 2026 9:28 PM
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Ask HN: How do you speed up pipeline testing?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200519At work we've got some pretty large code-bases using multiple languages and whilst we do everything we can to reduce the amount of tests that run for a given change, it typically takes minutes to run.As you can guess, this results in a guaranteed waiting period to send that change through our pipeline even if an engineer has only made a small change.Curious as to what other folks do to make this more efficient?I'm working on a tool in my spare time to try and address this problem but I don't have a huge amount of time to work on it (https://github.com/colwill/ccc); it performs basic static analysis and code caching using tree-sitter and calculates the subset of test required.This output is passed to the next step in the pipeline which runs that subset of tests.
Aug 6, 2026 6:33 PM
nellailabs.ai
Show HN: Validate your idea, know what to charge, and how to get first usershttps://nellailabs.aiI made an idea validation tool that can quickly adjust or kill off weak ideas.The big difference between Nell and any other validation tool is it compares your idea with real passed and failed examples, calculates TAM, overall buying sentiment, and 14 more important pointers that VCs value. It then also creates the most confident go to market plans to get initial users.My goal with Nell is to compress the research that takes more than a month into a few minutes so that early stage founders can spend time on polishing, preparing strong investor pitches, and executing GTM.How it works: Once you’re in. Just paste your idea and you will get a 14+ pointer diligence report having - validation of the problem you are trying to solve, funding potential based on past similar ventures, demand signals, willingness to pay, pricing research, market size, revenue ceiling, and other critical metrics.Please check it out and feel free to run a validation test on your idea. I will really appreciate feedb
Aug 6, 2026 5:34 PM
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Show HN: Aster, a polyglot monorepo build orchestratorhttps://github.com/archastro/asterWe built Aster to support our polyglot monorepo 'firstlanding'. At ArchAstro, we use Elixir, Python, TypeScript, Go, and Rust. I wanted something that just orchestrates those tools without Bazel-level complexity. It didn’t exist, so we built it.Aster discovers your existing project files (mix.exs, package.json, Cargo.toml, go.mod, …), builds one graph, and runs targets in order. You can extend it by writing aster.toml files to specify new targets and dependencies or override existing ones. Aster supports a local services runner - it lets you define a set of services to launch with one command and conventions to do this per worktree so each worktree can have it's own private environment. We also use Aster in CI to only build targets that were affected by a particular change.Aster is a core tool we use to increase our productivity with agentic engineering. We took a lot of care in making sure agents can figure out how to use it to run tests, and the services runner lets each agent effect
Aug 6, 2026 3:19 PM
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Ask HN: AI rollout for 100 employees, mostly non-technical – what worked?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49197894Looking to roll out AI tools to my corporate team of around 100 employees. We have some engineers, but most are non-technical people (ops, finance, marketing, and site-level managers).What I want to avoid:- everyone pasting company data into random consumer AI tools with zero visibility or control. - everyone making their own version of the same tool over and over. - lots of different server instances all over the place that IT doesn't know about.What I'm looking for:- Sanctioned AI access with some admin visibility (usage policies, data retention, permissions by team) - Ideas for shared infrastructure and how to collaborate on projects better. - Visibility for teams to see what other people have built. - Encourages adoption/collaboration (shared prompts, internal use cases) rather than locking things down so hard nobody uses itI really appreciate the HN community because a lot of you are way ahead of me in this process. If you have found any good tools or ways to use existing tools or
Aug 6, 2026 3:17 PM