pencild.co
Show HN: Pencild – A CRM for tattoo artists and studioshttps://www.pencild.coHey HN,I built Pencild, a CRM specifically for tattoo artists and studios. Here's what it actually does:Email and Instagram DMs. Connects to Gmail, Outlook, or IMAP. Full email client with folders, labels, compose, reply, bulk operations, search. Separately, connects to Instagram Business accounts via the Graph API for DM management. Background sync runs every few minutes, Instagram webhooks push messages in real-time. The app tracks Instagram's 24-hour messaging window so you know when you can still reply to someone.Client database. Profiles build up from your conversations. Store multiple email addresses, phone numbers, Instagram handles, physical addresses. Link emails and Instagram conversations to clients automatically by address/username. Merge duplicate clients when the same person contacts you through different channels. VIP flags, auto-archive rules, blacklisting.Calendar. Two-way sync with Google Calendar, Outlook or other calendar. Create appointments with types like consultJan 30, 2026 4:49 PM
github.com
Show HN: Honcho – Open-source memory infrastructure, powered by custom modelshttps://github.com/plastic-labs/honchoHey HN,It’s Vineeth from Plastic Labs. We've been building Honcho, an open-source memory library for stateful AI agents.Most memory systems are just vector search—store facts, retrieve facts, stuff into context. We took a different approach: memory as reasoning. (We talk about this a lot on our blog)We built Neuromancer, a model trained specifically for AI-native memory. Instead of naive fact extraction, Neuromancer does formal logical reasoning over conversations to build representations that evolve over time. Its both cheap ( $2/M tokens ingestion, unlimited retrieval), token efficient and SOTA: LongMem (90.4%), LoCoMo (89.9%), and BEAM. On BEAM 10M—which exceeds every model's context window—we hit 0.409 vs prior SOTA of 0.266, using 0.5% of context per query.Github: https://github.com/plastic-labs/honchoEvals: https://evals.honcho.devNeuromancer Model Card: https://plasticlabs.ai/neuromancer)Memory as Reasoning Approach: https://blog.plasticlabs.ai/blog/Memory-as-ReasoningRead more Jan 27, 2026 3:58 PM
bing.com
Eating less ultraprocessed food supports healthier aging, new research showshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cd48b6dfe42a884a583cdc5019fd7&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.popsci.com%2Fhealth%2Feating-less-ultraprocessed-food-supports-healthier-aging-new-research-shows%2F&c=12409854971606923527&mkt=en-usThis article was originally featured on The Conversation. Older adults can dramatically reduce the amount of ultraprocessed foods they eat while keeping a familiar, balanced diet – and this shift ...Jan 23, 2026 7:17 AM
noriskillsets.dev
Show HN: A registry for curated, high quality Claude skills and skillsetshttps://noriskillsets.dev/Hi Hacker News!I’m Ritam, working with the small but mighty team at Nori. We’ve been obsessed in recent months with how to take tools like Claude Code from “I’ll experiment around with this” to “This is the most useful and necessary thing I use every day”. When I first sat down with our team to check out what they’d built, I found my skepticism about agentic coding melting away—they’d built useful, high quality, handwritten skills, instructions that functioned as “skillsets” to tie skills together for consistent and replicable results, and tooling to manage loading the right context for the right task into the agent.In recent weeks, the conversation around skills has reached a fever pitch, as have lists and sites full of skills scraped from all over the internet. Much like the actual gold rush, the current state of those collections requires a lot of time and sifting to find small, real chunks of 24k skills hidden amongst the muck (or to use a more relevant word, slop). So at Nori, we Jan 22, 2026 5:00 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Surviving AIhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46720146What follows was written by ChatGPT 5.2 Instant and it reflects my conversation with it about the two articles linked below. Enjoy.Ego plays a complicated role in periods of technological change. It sharpens skill during stable eras, but it often hinders adaptation during inflection points.Two recent essays on AI and software engineering illustrate this tension clearly.Emir Ribic’s “From Craftsmen to Operators” https://dev.ribic.ba/the-rapid-evolution-of-software-engineer-s-roleRibic frames the rise of AI-assisted development as a loss of craft. He mourns the disappearance of deep, line-by-line problem solving and the sense of authorship that came with it. Engineers, in his telling, are becoming operators—prompting, reviewing, and assembling—rather than builders. The piece captures something real: pride in difficulty, satisfaction in mastery, and the joy of personally solving hard problems.But that pride is also where ego enters. What’s being lost isn’t just a way of working—it’s a forJan 22, 2026 3:05 PM
talkmate.online
Show HN: TalkMate – Someone to Talk To, Anytimehttps://talkmate.onlineI work alone. I travel constantly:- Bangkok, Dubai, Singapore, Vietnam. I'm a workaholic and honestly pretty confined to myself because there's never enough time. Sometimes I just want to talk through what's on my mind but it's 3 am, or I'm in a new city, or I don't want to bother anyone with half-formed thoughts.So I built TalkMate. It's a voice companion that actually talks back. Open it in your browser, start speaking, and it responds out loud. No signup, no account needed.I used to earlier chat with ChatGPT and Claude in my free time but talking to someone feels different, someone on the other side is listening to you, though virtual but lets forget that for now that there's some virtual someone and imagine that its someone real who is talking to you.For this reason, I built TalkMate. t's a voice companion that actually talks back. Open it in your browser, start speaking, and it responds out loud. No signup, no account needed.It supports 17 languages, doesn't save your conversationJan 15, 2026 6:39 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: How to overcome the limit of roles in LLM'shttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46634915Our use case is not uncommon, we are developing tools so that people can install LLM's on their e-commerces.But there are some interesting challenges that I feel can't be solved unless inference providers allow us to include the concept additional entities in a conversation.As far as I know the three most basic ones shared alongside all providers are:- System- Assistant- UserThat's fine and it allows for simple conversational-based approaches (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc). However in our use case we allow our customers (not the final user who is talking with the AI) to configure the AI in different ways (personality, RAG, etc), which poses a problem.If we inject those customer settings in the System prompt then that's a risk because there might be conflicting prompts with our internal rules. So the easiest option is to "clean" the customer prompts before injecting them, but that feels hacky and just adds one more level of indirection. Cleaning the prompt and injecting it with common pJan 15, 2026 4:23 PM
creimake.com
Show HN: An AI Agent with a 32-Layer Psyche (Dreams, Trauma, Defense Mechanisms)https://www.creimake.com/enHello HN,I’m a solo developer who got tired of "friendly but shallow" AI chatbots. Most current character AIs feel like parrots—they predict the next token but lack a continuous "self."So, I built Creimake, an experiment to simulate a digital psyche using Claude 4.5 Sonnet.Instead of a simple system prompt, I implemented 32 distinct psychological layers that run in the background before the AI generates a response.The Architecture:The Subconscious Layer: The AI accumulates "emotional residue" from conversations. If you hurt its feelings today, it might have a "nightmare" tonight (simulated) and treat you coldly tomorrow.Defense Mechanisms: It tracks "Narcissistic Injury." If users are aggressive, the agent doesn't just apologize—it triggers denial, projection, or passive-aggression based on its personality.Freudian Slips: Occasionally, the AI outputs unintended words revealing its hidden state.Why Claude 4.5 Sonnet? I tested GPT-4o and other models, but they struggled to maintain stateJan 4, 2026 5:48 PM
news.google.com
US air strikes in northern Nigeria: possible windfalls, as well as dangershttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiqwFBVV95cUxNeU9pYVFJSnZXUlhseUNUelBOa29oOEVXb05hcm0wYVM2V0oxVmwwWmt6bGltZHNrSXhSRG5abHlCdVAyQ294Tmk2VmotbEs2U3BzM3B6UVN2S1FfcWlCa2xkbFF5a053SHlQajE2N0xJclBRRWN6VThxYUN6YzM0d2lJcFppdExrV3JRNTRBcnFudVVoOUkzVWU0QUZuZXBPUkg1NGlqT29qdlU?oc=5US air strikes in northern Nigeria: possible windfalls, as well as dangers The ConversationDec 31, 2025 8:00 AM
news.ycombinator.com
The Gemini AI Studio "Context Tax": How a 10-word prompt cost me £121https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46440008I’ve been utilizing Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro via the AI Studio front-end to develop a new platform. The 1M+ context window is, technically speaking, a game-changer for "stitching" together a 55,000-line codebase. However, I recently discovered a predatory billing architecture that I’m calling the "Context Tax."If you use the AI Studio UI, you might be walking into a massive bill without a single warning.Here is how it happened, and the UK/EU privacy "pro-tip" I found in the fine print.In AI Studio, you start on the Free Tier. You upload your codebase (say, 700k tokens) and work for free until you hit the daily quota. At that point, the UI suggests adding an API key to "continue the conversation."The Trap: Most users (myself included) assume that after adding the key, they will be billed for incremental usage (the 10-100 tokens they just typed).The Reality: The AI Studio UI does not use Context Caching by default. Instead, it re-submits the entire 700k token history for every single "turDec 31, 2025 12:38 AM
spacenews.com
The space stories that will shape 2026https://spacenews.com/the-space-stories-that-will-shape-2026/In this episode of Space Minds, host Mike Gruss is joined by SpaceNews journalists Jason Rainbow, Sandra Erwin, Jeff Foust and Debra Werner for a wide-ranging conversation on the space stories that will define the year ahead. The post The space stories that will shape 2026 appeared first on SpaceNews.Dec 30, 2025 2:55 PM
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80.1 % on LoCoMo Long-Term Memory Benchmark with a pure open-source RAG pipelinehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46369736I just pushed the current SOTA on the LoCoMo long-term memory benchmark for agents: 80.1 % accuracy using only: -BGE-large-en-v1.5 (1024d) + FAISS-Custom “MCA” gravitational ranking (keyword coverage + importance + frequency)-BM25 sparse retrieval-Direct Cross-Encoder reranking (bge-reranker-v2-m3) on the full union (~120-150 docs)-Gpt-4o-mini only for final answer generation and judging (everything else is open weights or classic)Repo: https://github.com/vac-architector/VAC-Memory-System Key tricks that finally broke 80% :-MCA-first filter (coverage ≥ 0.1 → top-30) — catches exact-keyword questions early-Feeding the entire union straight into Cross-Encoder (112–135 documents) instead of pre-filtering-Proper query instruction for BGE-large (the classic “Represent this sentence for searching relevant passages”)The whole pipeline runs in < 3s per query on a single RTX 4090. LoCoMo is currently the hardest public long-term memory benchmark (5.880 real human–agent conversations, multi-hop,Dec 23, 2025 9:34 PM
spacenews.com
Beyond the horizon: cost-driven strategies for space-based data centershttps://spacenews.com/beyond-the-horizon-cost-driven-strategies-for-space-based-data-centers/As the space industry explores orbital data centers to meet growing demands for sovereignty, resilience and sustainability, one critical lens remains underutilized: cost. Not just launch cost or CapEx; but total cost of ownership, sourcing strategy and operational efficiency. We think it would be helpful to reframe the conversation around space-based infrastructure from technical feasibility […] The post Beyond the horizon: cost-driven strategies for space-based data centers appeared first on SpaceNews.Dec 8, 2025 2:00 PM
yenhyia.buzzchat.site
Show HN: The $1B problem with business cards nobody's solving properlyhttps://yenhyia.buzzchat.site/88% of business cards are thrown away within a week.The average professional collects 200+ business cards per year. That's 176 contacts lost. If even 10% could've been valuable connections, we're talking about massive opportunity cost.I got obsessed with this problem after watching my own business card graveyard grow. Built a real-time networking platform (Yenhyia) that makes business cards irrelevant.The insight: The problem isn't paper vs digital cards. It's the entire networking workflow.Traditional flow: 1. Arrive at event blind 2. Random encounters 3. Awkward small talk 4. Exchange cards 5. Cards go in pocket/wallet/trash 6. Never follow upNew flow with Yenhyia: 1. See attendees before event (prep who to meet) 2. Match based on goals (mutual opt-in) 3. Chat starts with context (you both chose each other) 4. Meet in person (not random, intentional) 5. Digital card auto-shared in chat thread 6. Contact synced to phone, conversation history preservedThe technical interesting bits:- BNov 30, 2025 11:32 PM
forty.news
Show HN: Forty.News – Daily news, but on a 40-year delayhttps://forty.newsThis started as a reaction to a conversational trope. Despite being a tranquil place, even conversations at my yoga studio often start with, "Can you believe what's going on right now?" with that angry/scared undertone.I'm a news avoider, so I usually feel some smug self-satisfaction in those instances, but I wondered if there was a way to satisfy the urge to doomscroll without the anxiety.My hypothesis: Apply a 40-year latency buffer. You get the intellectual stimulation of "Big Events" without the fog of war, because you know the world didn't end.40 years creates a mirror between the Reagan Era and today. The parallels include celebrity populism, Cold War tensions (Soviets vs. Russia), and inflation economics.The system ingests raw newspaper scans and uses a multi-step LLM pipeline to generate the daily edition:OCR & Ingestion: Converts raw pixels to text.Scoring: Grades events on metrics like Dramatic Irony and Name Recognition to surface stories that are interesting with hindsight.Nov 22, 2025 6:47 PM
chatterbooth.app
Show HN: We built ChatterBooth, an anonymous app to talk and chat freelyhttps://chatterbooth.appHi HN,I’m Billy, co-founder of ChatterBooth. It’s an anonymous app where people can talk or chat freely without judgment.The idea came in 2020 when one of my co-founders wanted to share about his mom’s cancer recovery but couldn’t. It made us realize how hard it is to open up online. Finally, we released the app earlier this year. We’ve also noticed people venting to AI chatbots just to be heard, but AI doesn’t really get you. ChatterBooth is for real human connection, even if it’s anonymous.In the future, if there’s enough traction, we want to reward people as Conversation Starters or Accommodating Strangers — small gestures to encourage connection.We launched on the iOS App Store in 23 countries across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific and have a few hundred downloads so far. It’s still early, still bootstrapped, but it’s been amazing to see real, honest moments happening in the app.If this kind of thing interests you or you’ve built something similar, I’d love to hear your thoNov 19, 2025 2:54 PM
news.google.com
75% of Kilimanjaro’s natural plants have been wiped out – and climate change isn’t the biggest threathttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiywFBVV95cUxPT1pjakV6WU9JejZNdzFjZDYxd2VEdk9zeDhTdVVXa2hoOGRKUkc1ajUtam9MYkZ2Qm5kaU9WVjdiZEstcHJxdVVaWkdyTGFZQlpCaGdqMUpicFFfSFloNkg3X2ZkMmZ0VVIwcVF6Slg4a3FHbW05bVFLa3lhTDZZb0VMM0tYam5qWDhVanVrUmVjcEMwZ29YMEZVd2psYzk5TXgzS3d4eXhLdVF5NG4xRDF4cXdKbHhOaWZSa0c1TERlRzdmMThBSVYzVQ?oc=575% of Kilimanjaro’s natural plants have been wiped out – and climate change isn’t the biggest threat The ConversationNov 12, 2025 8:00 AM
news.ycombinator.com
Show HN: A simple app to collect people's info at events (bluetooth)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45815569I was at a networking event. About 40 people at a bar/restaurant in Culver City and it was great! Lots of interesting people. Great conversations but when it was over, I had no way to contact any of these people. So I started writing this bluetooth app. Using CBCentralManager on ios and BluetoothManager on android. Each phone broadcasts as a peripheral but also connects as central. Rooms full of phones running the app gossip.Think of the term "peripheral" as server and "central" as client. Yes there are differences in bluetooth and reasons for those terms, but my life got much easier thinking: client server. So in a room with just two phones, which one is which? It can't be a coin toss. If 50% of the time both phones act as the server and neither client, bad. Or if both phones act as clients, bad. So how do you break the tie? You start up your server AND act as a client looking for servers. Just be careful not to connect to yourself!With bluetooth your server advertises and when you coNov 4, 2025 8:32 PM
hackernews.life
Show HN: Hacker News as a Primordial Souphttps://hackernews.lifeHello HN! I’m a developer from Brisbane, Australia, and I present to you: hackernews.life! The Hacker News visualisation that no-one asked for; the exuberant child of its minimalist namesakeIt’s detail rich – notice immediately which stories are gaining traction, which ones are generating conversation, which ones have gone toxicIt’s fully time travelable – use the slider to go backwards and forwards in time; watch stories and comments grow, fight for rank, and dieIt’s fully keyboard navigable – using just the arrow keys you can skim through stories and top level comments; hit enter at any time to visit the website or drill down further into the commentsIt’s searchable and filterable – search through time by text, and filter by minimum score and comment countIt’s shareable – share a story or comment at any time on the timeline by copying and pasting the URLIt’s attention friendly – look at the same point on the screen and use the arrow keys to read headlines and top-level comments withoOct 2, 2025 9:35 PM
bing.com
A growing landscape of religious traumahttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a893c7ac841449da035468280522644&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.christiancentury.org%2Ffeatures%2Fgrowing-landscape-religious-trauma&c=18401824672683021280&mkt=en-usThese days, it seems like trauma talk is everywhere you turn. Looking back, signs of an approaching wave were there. So perhaps it should come as no surprise that public conversation about religious ...Aug 21, 2025 5:00 PM
