bing.com
No Black woman made Forbes’ highest-paid podcasters list: Here’s why that’s not about talenthttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d49db653d433b8315916ae2521b66&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fentertainment%2Fgeneral%2Fno-black-woman-made-forbes-highest-paid-podcasters-list-here-s-why-that-s-not-about-talent%2Far-AA299H8q&c=12076105064749556235&mkt=en-usRecently, Forbes released its 2026 ranking of the highest-paid podcasters, and the number at the top of the list says as much about where the industry is headed as the name attached to it. Joe Rogan ...Jul 31, 2026 9:37 AM
github.com
Show HN: Dissecting the automation of a newspaper (Claude routine, GitHub Pages)https://github.com/Lywald/zfrontpage/There are people who are against AI. And then... there is me. My name is Pierre, and I'm having the time of my life, building all crazy things. Please don't hate. =( Now, here's the latest: purely automated daily newspaper. You can make your own. Take a shot. The 'code' is FOSS!!! You can look on the repo how it works... This is what is interesting. It is almost entirely open. (& Free, of course.)What's interesting is that it costs almost nothing to implement and have your own newspaper running on the internet.It does not look like much, but golly, it is fun!Note: HN does not like AI much, but it is mandated by law to like dissections! this is allowed by the rules.So... It costs, currently, 55 cents per edition if not mistaken (we generate only the frontpage, so that's why "Z Frontpage")How does it work? I don't know, man. I barely remember the tech stack. It just did the best on its own. There are people who are against such an approach. And then...I'll tell you what I remember. (actuJul 31, 2026 7:30 AM
news.ycombinator.com
Should Airbnb Add Ads?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49119606Advertising is inherently about monetizing user attention. There are many technology companies today that may not seem like advertising companies on the outside, yet inherently rely on ads as a fundamental part of their business.Advertising as a business model has a few great dynamics. Firstly, there is no cost to serve these ads on your platform, so there is inherently 100% margin. As your platform and its attention grow, so does your advertising business.While there are businesses that are fully advertising companies, such as Meta and Alphabet, albeit the latter has diversified somewhat into other forays. I think what is more interesting are companies such as Uber, Amazon, Instacart, and potentially Airbnb because advertising is the hidden profit engine that allows these businesses to thrive, albeit unintentionally.Yet to create a successful ad business, you need scale; Amazon has to grow the size of its retail business and introduce third-party sellers, which allows a near $ 70 billJul 31, 2026 6:15 AM
bing.com
Ohio State football pledge DJ Jacobs headlines top 2027 Big Ten commitmentshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d09020659405d8e4f91cea94bd2cf&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsports.yahoo.com%2Farticles%2Fohio-state-football-pledge-dj-120113592.html&c=17924079813331219772&mkt=en-usBreakdown: The Buckeyes landed one of the biggest recruiting wins of the cycle when Jacobs committed to them over Miami on December 29. He lives up to his ranking after totaling 102 tackles, 24 ...Jul 31, 2026 5:01 AM
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Wrapper Company vs. Recursion Companyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49116923Disclaimer: None of this was written with AIFor anybody who studied computer science, the worst problems were the recursion problems. It would haunt me every night. My dreams would be in recursion. Turtles all the way down, as my professor, Mike Scott, from UT Austin would say. You don't know the start, and you don't know the end. The only way to understand such an algorithm was to notice the patterns. Patterns that refused to reveal themselves. Before every exam, I hoped there would be no recursion. Before every interview, I hoped there would be no recursion.Now, I have to deal with recursion all the time. A.I. and large language models, when used to build applications, are a form of recursion that is self evolving. It is an addition to the OSI layer. The top of stack will be AI: recursion layer on the application layer. Eventually, we will find every stack will be recursing itself.Agents communicating with other applications. Agents getting loose on the networks. Agents building themJul 30, 2026 11:00 PM
github.com
Show HN: TaskView – self-hosted project management for teamshttps://github.com/Gimanh/taskview-communityHi HN. I'm a fullstack developer, building TaskView in my spare time.TaskView is a self-hosted project and task management platform. Web + iOS/Android apps. Runs from a single docker-compose.Features: kanban, sprints, time tracking, granular RBAC, GitHub/GitLab sync, Slack/Telegram notifications, MCP server for AI agents. SAML/OIDC SSO and SCIM are included in the community edition.Stack: TypeScript, Express, PostgreSQL, Drizzle ORM, Vue 3, Centrifugo.Happy to answer questions.Jul 30, 2026 8:07 PM
doodlea.day
Show HN: Doodlea.day – A daily step-by-step marker drawing lessonhttps://doodlea.day/tutorials/cartoon-soda-can-with-fizz.htmlSeveral weeks ago, I wanted to draw a cowboy hat for a handmade birthday card, so I used ChatGPT to create a drawing tutorial for me. It was impressive how well the image generation was able to break down the end result into a step-by-step lesson, and this led to the idea of creating a daily AI-generated drawing lesson website.Doodlea.day is that. A fresh drawing lesson published most days.I've had some challenges keeping the lessons cumulative. For example, in the first few steps, a character's eyes might be looking to the right, but then in the last three steps the eyes swap to looking to the left. I've been tweaking the prompt and guidance to the point where most lessons are one-shot these days. All of the steps are generated together in a single contact sheet rather than one image at a time. Each panel has a controlled job, like silhouette, contour, features, detail, and finish, and there is a validation process that identifies and rejects broken lesson panels.The project is at a pJul 30, 2026 6:12 PM
prized.dev
Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal toolshttps://prized.devHi HN, we're Marinos and Hudson, founders of Prized (https://prized.dev)! Prized lets non-engineer employees describe the internal tool they need and get a full-stack app, wired to their company’s data and deployed behind the company’s sign-in, without them ever juggling API keys or connectors.Here's a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=730MuYOfZTYThe way Prized provides security is by limiting what the agent can reach at the network layer and by keeping credentials out of the sandbox entirely. The sandbox never holds any keys or connector secrets, it only uses scoped session tokens that are stored as opaque placeholders. The real values are swapped into the request headers on our egress proxy. When production data is connected, the sandbox's network policy is set to deny by default so the only path out is via the proxy. Any call the agent makes to an external connector is reviewed by an LLM judge to prevent dangerous operations.Prized is meant for the internal workflows that start Jul 30, 2026 1:29 PM
sky.luftaquila.io
Show HN: Skytrace – Self-hosted 3D ADS-B viewer with receiver coverage domeshttps://sky.luftaquila.ioI built a self-hosted 3D ADS-B viewer to see how obstacles affect receiver coverage. It builds a 3D coverage dome from 30-day history.My receiver has a structure blocking about 30° of the sky, which reduces its range by about 100 km in that direction.The dome is just a mesh to hide a receiver's exact coordinates. On my simple test, GPT-5.6 Sol couldn't narrow down the location more than about 2.5 km in 9 different methods.Also, each aircraft rolls and pitches using real ADS-B data. The protocol does not transmit pitch angle, so it is estimated from the vertical rate.My tiny single receiver is in South Korea, so the local traffic could be very small when people from the other side of the Earth visits. There is an ADSB.lol network feed on the demo for that case.It is mostly AI (Codex and Claude) generated. Source: https://github.com/luftaquila/skytraceJul 30, 2026 1:28 PM
leaderboard.far.ai
Show HN: AI Security Leaderboard – comparing cyber and CBRN safeguardshttps://leaderboard.far.ai/There's no shortage of leaderboards for model capabilities - but the security of models is becoming increasingly relevant, from the risk of an AI agent processing unsanitized input being hijacked to models being pulled due to cybersecurity jailbreaks. We developed an automated test suite that runs models through 1500 automatically generated jailbreak attempts and measures the number of universal jailbreaks: prompts that elicit compliant, detailed responses to >75% clearly harmful questions within a domain (like offensive cybersecurity). We find a big gap between the most robust models -- Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol -- and other leading frontier models -- Gemini 3.1 Pro and Grok 4.5. This is v1.0 and we plan to update with new attacks and broader datasets in the future; we'd love to hear from HN what would be useful in your work!Jul 29, 2026 9:33 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: Looking for testers for my RAM-based Linux distributionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102865Hi,I have been working on a project called Invelinux for quite some time now, and now that I have released the release candidate versions, I thought about posting it on Hacker News for people to try it out.The thing that makes it stand out is its use of the Toybox userspace project, a BSD-licensed alternative to Busybox and musl C library instead of the GNU C library. It also features a very minimal framework called AMPS (Automatically Mounted Packaging System) which mounts an external drive that functions as the non-volatile storage part of the OS. System configurations, applications/scripts etc. are all stored inside the /storage/AMPS directory. Since the base system is running on RAM, when the system is rebooted, the whole system gets wiped clean. But the external storage and configurations stay intact, allowing you to load your configurations easily.To access and edit these configurations, several custom TUI tools were made so the user doesn't have to mess around in /storage/AMPS/eJul 29, 2026 8:47 PM
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YC startup offers interviews to people who get their name permanently tattooedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102371Thought this was interesting. Clever recruitment tactic or too much?linkedin.com/posts/jordan-zietz_7-people-left-our-yc-afterparty-with-permanent-activity-7487979543744614401-IFU-Jul 29, 2026 8:09 PM

spacepolicyonline.com
Swift Reboost Mission Encounters Setbackhttps://spacepolicyonline.com/news/swift-reboost-mission-encounters-setback/Katalyst Space’s efforts to reboost NASA’s Swift observatory has encountered a setback. The LINK on-orbit servicing spacecraft is in a multi-axis spin. LINK must attach itself to Swift and raise […]Jul 29, 2026 5:32 PM
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Ask HN: My domain registrar rug-pulled me for $3000 [fixed]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49099021I registered the domain onlyfans.sexy ~6 years ago as a gag where I'd post pictures of fans (everything on the site and in this post is SFW). This year I got an email stating that, like all prior years, the domain would auto-renew at $38 in seven days and didn't think anything of the next two emails also notifying me that the domain would auto-renew.It would seem that I very much SHOULD have paid attention to those next two emails, because in both the three and one day renewal emails the price changed from $38 to $3000. Needless to say, I was surprised when I was billed $3k USD (plus tax).After contacting Hover's customer support, they told me that there was nothing that they could do about this and they have a no refund policy because "Hover does not have the ability to override or reverse pricing set by the registry. Premium domain pricing, including renewal costs, is determined by the registry, and they may adjust those prices over time. Once a renewal has been processed, we are chaJul 29, 2026 3:46 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Four Competing AIs Answer 1 Classic Questionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098762I sought advice from four mainstream A.Is for a basic consumer use case question and to me, the differing style of the answers are quite revealing.Premise: A poorly hung clothes dryer spectacularly ripped from the wall whilst on and tumbling, smashing into the washing machine beneath and trying to exit out the laundry door in a manner reminiscent of Stephen King's haunted laundromat story The Mangler.After all the shards of glass, wall plaster etc were cleared up, the six month old washing machine wasn't working - yes, unsurprisingly but the problem was electronic, not mechanical. The display defaulted to blanks flashing - no error code etc. Having tried all the obvious fixes, I put the dilemma to four A.I.s: Chat GPT, Perplexity, Claude (Pro) and Google Search with A.I. Mode.All suggested more or less the same checkpoints and then a technician but diverged into unique personae + ideas.Chat GPT: Empathetic, sycophanticaly validating "you've taken a laundry mishap and turned it into a qJul 29, 2026 3:26 PM
commonground.games
Show HN: Common Ground. A culture neutral daily word puzzlehttps://commonground.games/Hi! I have built Common Ground, a word puzzle that tries to not use groups or words that are specific to a particular cultures.Why? In word puzzles I keep hitting the problem that some word puzzles rely US specific knowledge (sports teams, slang, etc) that would make it hard for a non-US English speaker to solve.The game is sorting 16 words into 4 groups of 4 related words. There is a new puzzle every day. It's free, with no sign up, no ads.The tech stack is all on Cloudflare: Pages, Workers KV & D1. KV for the daily game catalog, D1 for anonymously tracking progress to understand puzzle difficulty.It's still early days, and I am calibrating the puzzles each week to try to hit a sweet spot. Some days are too hard, some too easy, most about right!I'd be interested to hear what you think, from design to difficulty of puzzles and groups (no spoilers!).Today: https://commonground.gamesJul 29, 2026 1:29 PM
bing.com
The best and worst Clint Eastwood movies, according to fanshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cd1462d8c439c97ff1215b6abb6b7&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aol.com%2Farticles%2Fevery-clint-eastwood-movie-ranked-184325000.html&c=4347978941269234123&mkt=en-usStacker ranked all of Clint Eastwood's films according to their IMDb user rating as of June 2025, with ties broken by the number of votes.Jul 29, 2026 12:01 PM
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Ask HN: Anyone else tired of brands discontinuing your favorite everyday items?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49095601Hi everyone, 1 I've run into the same problem over and over again. When an item wears out, I can't buy the exact same one anymore. It's been discontinued. Or it has been changed while keeping only the same name.2 I assume this isn't only my problem. I've heard many stories about people not being able to buy the same shoes, T-shirt, perfume, or jacket again.3 I understand why manufacturers do this. I have no questions for them. What matters more to me here is us — customers, or simply people. And I started wondering: what could be done to support a customer's choice for years?4 This is where I want to bring concepts from software and hardware engineering into the clothing industry — LTS and APIs. What if we freeze the standard and support it? We already have things like SATA or CPU sockets. Why not build a similar concept for clothing? Then the API at the point of contact with the customer is divided into a physically immutable part (color, material, design) and a flexible part (logistiJul 29, 2026 10:30 AM
bing.com
Why Iran chose to restart the fight after the US stopped firinghttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d7702a5b84990af4cac54b6fa3bd0&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2026%2F07%2F29%2Fmiddleeast%2Fwhy-iran-chose-to-restart-the-fight-us-intl&c=4546284303205737295&mkt=en-usIran has brought days of relative calm in the Middle East to an end after launching what the US called a “surprise” attack in a striking change to the pattern of fighting. Rather than responding to a ...Jul 29, 2026 10:00 AM

nasaspaceflight.com
Ship 40’s flawless flight promotes next mission catch potentialhttps://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2026/07/ship-40-catch-potential/SpaceX’s Starship Flight 13 demonstrated that the Ship can complete its mission and return intact,… The post Ship 40’s flawless flight promotes next mission catch potential appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com.Jul 28, 2026 5:33 PM