bing.com
Google Gemini KBC quiz: How to play, eligibility, rules and everything you need to knowhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8ced0ba21a406490add571bf18d109&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.moneycontrol.com%2Ftechnology%2Fgoogle-gemini-kbc-quiz-how-to-play-eligibility-rules-and-everything-you-need-to-know-article-13988985.html&c=8458791529760571747&mkt=en-usGoogle has introduced a limited-time KBC-style interactive quiz on Gemini, allowing users to answer 16 questions while receiving AI-powered explanations and follow-up learning.Jul 30, 2026 3:10 AM
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How much does it cost to refinance your mortgage? Plus, lenders that offer affordable optionshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8dbe08131b400886399e8fddcc20df&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2Fselect%2Fhow-much-does-it-cost-to-refinance%2F&c=11720866483798737374&mkt=en-usLoanDepot is another good choice for those looking to refinance on a budget. If you take out a loan with this lender, they will waive all fees if you decide to refinance with them. While this won't ...Jul 30, 2026 3:03 AM
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The best cordless vacuum cleaners in the UK for a spotless home – testedhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cb090c9664e79bad00229281be17d&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fthefilter%2F2025%2Fmar%2F28%2Fbest-cordless-vacuum-cleaners-uk&c=9618223775442628075&mkt=en-usStick vacuums are a convenient alternative to corded designs, but which model wins for overall cleaning prowess? Our expert reveals all ...Jul 30, 2026 2:00 AM
globehoppr.com
Show HN: GlobeHoppr – find a route between cities using limited-distance jumpshttps://globehoppr.comHi HN,I built a game where you have to travel from point A to B by hopping through intermediate cities.Each jump has a maximum range, so you can’t simply select the destination. You need to build a route through cities that are close enough together, using as few jumps as possible.It sounds straightforward until you need to cross a part of the world where you only know one or two cities. I’ve found that the game exposes a different kind of geographical knowledge: not just knowing where countries are, but understanding how cities connect across a region.There’s a fixed daily route that everyone can compare, along with unlimited practice games, weekly challenges and multiplayer.I hope people enjoy it and I would love any feedback!Jul 30, 2026 1:42 AM
news.ycombinator.com
The World Is to Focused on Quarterly Earningshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49105189Everybody seems to care way too much about what happens in a quarter- nothing material usually, but people make a huge deal about it.There are two camps in investing: those that think there is a bubble and those that think everything always goes up. There both wrong. Bubbles are inherent with a new wave of technology; each one is different and has its own circumstances. You should not wait for anything because you anticipate one. You cannot time the market well; you should focus on finding companies that either are in the process of developing a moat or adding or transitioning business models, but have not done any of these things yet. You have to analytically figure this out. There is no way to outperform the index by investing in AAPL because you think they have a great brand; so does everyone else.The camp that thinks everything goes up is right to criticize the people that think there is a bubble because memory sold off, or a company had bad earnings. Technically, no fundamentals hJul 30, 2026 1:34 AM
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For the cheap price of a permanent tatto, get access to job interviewhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49104709A recent YC Startup School afterparty is making the rounds on LinkedIn.7 people came to the YC after party left with permanent tattoos.Lemon Lime had invited a tattoo artist to their office. Anyone willing to get the company’s logo tattooed immediately received a job interview.Seven people walked away with permanent tattoos.Offering someone a job interview in exchange for getting a permanent tattoo is unethical.The issue isn’t that seven adults chose to get tattooed. It’s that an employer tied access to a career opportunity to an irreversible change to someone’s body.Is it really ‘consent’? There is an inherent power imbalance between companies and job seekers, especially in highly competitive environments like YC. That makes “consent” far more complicated than simply saying yes.A great company should hire people for their talent, judgment and character…not their willingness to permanently mark themselves for a chance at an interview.A line was crossed. And it’s a YC company. Is the joJul 30, 2026 12:15 AM
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How to get more coding productivity with LLMshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49104392As someone who is a lifelong programmer and entrepreneur, I'm here to say that 2-4-8x AI productivity boost is just the start. I'm currently benchmarking myself at 40-50x coding producivity with AI over 16 weeks, compared to pre-AI, and it's increasing over time, and I am trying to find ways to share these techniques with more programmers. Here we go HN...I measure in lines of code, which I know is an imperfect metric, but it's the quantative metric I have, and I'm qualified to know it's limits and say, this is real. I wrote and sold software in high school. I sold a company to Google when I was 27 for which I wrote half the code (Neotonic [1]). In that startup I wrote up to 60k LOC per year of Python, C, and html templates. With AI I'm producing that much in a week on average... over 16 weeks running. I mostly retired at 33, and here I am 52 and coding all day every day.I use AI models a little differently than most I know. I wield them like a word-calculator, I don't defer to them asJul 29, 2026 11:28 PM
bing.com
9 qualities that matter more than being perfect, according to menhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d7244f8644796b5e78f2c783670f1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fhealth%2Fmindandbody%2F9-qualities-that-matter-more-than-being-perfect-according-to-men%2Far-AA292iNE&c=12433724334653199345&mkt=en-usSomewhere between the third date and the moment she actually starts to fall for someone, the checklist most men think women carry around quietly dissolves. The jawline still registers. It always does.Jul 29, 2026 11:01 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
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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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Ask HN: Which Jabber clients support SCRAM+ and XEP-0474?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102863Related to this thread [1] which Jabber clients not only detect MitM tampering when a valid cert is used in the middle but is not the cert on the server, meaning an entity obtained a certificate, used it to MitM the connection and the client not only rejects this alternate valid certificate but also alerts the user to the MitM. XEP-0474 SASL SCRAM Downgrade Protection (Experimental) [2] Claude does not seem to know and I can't find any clarifying documentation, just lots of open issues.The purpose is for writing an article on E2EE but I want to suggest clients that will alert on MitM tampering in a manor the person using the client can not accidentally ignore it. i.e. just click through a warningOn the server side eJabberd and Prosody appear to be the only server daemons supporting XEP-0474 but I just can't find a definitive list of supported clients even if they are in the experimental phase. they may support SCRAM+ but do not alert on tampering using a valid cert.I am not interested Jul 29, 2026 8:47 PM
bing.com
Taysom Hill confirms he won’t return to Saints in thank you message to New Orleanshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d97b703254c54b74b10cac2237a7c&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.deseret.com%2Fsports%2F2026%2F07%2F29%2Ftaysom-hill-thank-you-message-new-orleans-saints-not-returning%2F&c=16985894658308505470&mkt=en-usTaysom Hill’s time in New Orleans is officially over. The Saints’ do-it-all star announced in a message on social media that returning to the only NFL team he’s called home “is not in the cards,” ...Jul 29, 2026 7:45 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: Are you ready for non crashing valuations for AI?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49101639They are printing and will print more to save, help double digit $trillions for AI and all big tech. This is such a simple fact that somehow most tech people can't get right. are you people ready for this timeline? Ask LLM or ask your inv. banker if you don't get it.Jul 29, 2026 7:06 PM
supapool.io
Show HN: Supapool – a Supabase per coding agent in ~400 mshttps://supapool.io/hi HN,I built supapool.io, an ephemeral full copy of supabase's services that you can spin up in ~400 ms (Auth, postgres, storage, realtime).so if you run multiple coding agents in parallel in different worktrees, they can now have their own copy of supabase without making changes that conflict with eachother.> why not use supabase docker locally?when I run 3-4 instances locally, my macbook gets hot and sometimes freezes.> why not use supabase branches?branches take minutes to setup, and are designed for persistence. this is expensive, and for a dev environment, it is too slow.> why not use mocks?mocks are bad for agents. i expect agents to test their migrations, SQL against real prod service behavior. agents hallucinate working mocks often. However, upside of mocks is that its faster and runs locally, but with supapool, the upside is less convincing.> how does it work/how is this economically viable?starting supabase in 400ms requires a few things: 1. a pool of ready supabase instanceJul 29, 2026 5:34 PM
wingman.actor
Show HN: Wingman – A client-agnostic agent harness (written in Go)https://wingman.actorHey HN! This is a project I've been working on for a while, it's still rough around the edges but I wanted to share it and hopefully get some feedback. Wingman is a client-agnostic agent harness (written in Go). Client-agnostic means Wingman isn’t coupled to any specific problem (like a coding agent or answer engine). It’s a portable agentic runtime that lets you build arbitrary clients on top of it.So you can build a client to:- Write code- Perform automatic triage- Classify emails- Review a PRand any other LLM adjacaent problem. There are surely features that exist that aren't well documented, a bunch of small bugs/race conditions, and all kinds of things I am hoping to add in the near future so any feedback is appreciated.Jul 29, 2026 5:20 PM
pypi.org
Show HN: Knotalot – a messy 1d –> 3D Python package from knotreelhttps://pypi.org/project/knotalot/stumbled my way though this but managed to get together the first version of a pip installable package/python library (call it whatever tickles your fancy)it handles data and turns it into interactive 3d topology knots, .obj files too if you want to 3d print a knot of your favourite song or some such wizardry - av a blast with it. (mit license this time you'll be glad to hear)Jul 29, 2026 5:06 PM
bing.com
College Admissionshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d798180b1499684aba30d7aa1f1cd&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usnews.com%2Ftopics%2Fsubjects%2Fcollege-admission&c=2234079984626881573&mkt=en-usResearch indicates that U.S. college application submissions generally rose in the 2025-2026 academic year. Students shouldn't view a gap year as a casual break or a way to delay their future, experts ...Jul 29, 2026 5:00 PM
cheapfoodmap.com
Show HN: CheapFoodMap – A map of good meals under $10https://cheapfoodmap.com/I was recently laid off after 18 years, and gave myself 100 days to build soething useful in public. CheapFoodMap is a crowdsourced map of meal under $10, excluding franchises, local good eats only.It's inspried by 거지맵 (Begger's Map) a Korean crowdsourced map students use to find cheap eats.Ocverage is heaviest in Texas, since I live in Dallas, but have 1200 meals across 15 US cities. Seed data came from Google Review, 4.2 star or higher with at least 500 reviews, and verified price under $10 per menu item.Things I would love feedback on : whether the price-freshness model makes sense, and what would make you trust the price on a site like this. How to encourage people to update prices, since inflation is making food price very frequent.https://cheapfoodmap.comAny and all suggestion will be super helpful. Thank you!Jul 29, 2026 4:59 PM
nasa.gov
NASA Sets Coverage for August Northern Hemisphere Total Solar Eclipsehttps://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-sets-coverage-for-august-northern-hemisphere-total-solar-eclipse/On Wednesday, Aug. 12, a total solar eclipse will be visible in parts of Greenland, Iceland, northern Russia, the Atlantic Ocean, Spain, and a small corner of Portugal. NASA will stream the eclipse live with views across the path and interviews with subject matter experts through a variety of platforms. Learn where to watch online: […]Jul 29, 2026 4:49 PM
kudory.com
Show HN: Kudory – Tailor your CV for each job applicationhttps://kudory.comI've never liked maintaining multiple versions of my CV.Every application seems to want the same experience presented slightly differently, so I kept rewriting the same bullet points and ending up with files like `cv-final.pdf`, `cv-final-final.pdf`, and `cv-final-final-v2.pdf`.I built Kudory to make that part less tedious.You upload your CV, paste a job description, and it tailors your CV to the role by rewriting and reordering your existing content. One constraint I cared about from the beginning is that it doesn't invent experience, job titles, or achievements—it only works with what's already there.It also generates a cover letter draft, estimates how well your CV matches the role, and lets you export the result using one of several templates, but the core idea is simply making it easier to tailor a CV for each application.It's still a work in progress, and I'd really appreciate any feedback—whether it's about the product, the UX, or things that simply don't work. I'll be around toJul 29, 2026 4:37 PM
