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news.ycombinator.com• Jul 27, 2026• 1 min read

Ask HN: 1950's Chip industry undermined unions how is AI not doing the same?In the 1950s the Chip industry undermined minorities, immigrants, women and killed unions.In the 1960-70s it targeted black civil rights groups.Along the way, white men were pushed into management, while anything outside of business was split into smaller tasked jobs. This in return gave companies leverage to cut salaries.I don't care what altman says chatgpt did in a blackbox. I judge the world by what I see. Reality is, chat, claude, etc etc are about as useful as smart as the stupidest, slowest engineer on the team.On the other hand, introducing them has made the job appear more "streamline" more production line like. Work increased, and salaries flattened.Now that companies are not getting returns off of AI, they are cutting AI spending, but make no mistake. Salaries will not recover.What am I missing? How am I wrong?Would love opinions on this

bing.com• Jul 27, 2026• 1 min read

ACC school forms first chapter of College Football Players AssociationStanford has formed the first player-led chapter of the College Football Players Association, the organization announced Monday. The CFBPA has existed for five years, but until now did not have a ...

github.com• Jul 27, 2026• 1 min read

Show HN: RelativeDB – OSS query engine for relational foundation modelsStructured data could be the next big frontier for foundation models.RelativeDB is an open source query engine built around the Relational Transformer architecture, developed by Stanford’s Tabular and Relational (STAR) Project. These models can adapt to new databases and prediction tasks using relatively little labeled context.With some of my experiments, the results have been remarkable. On some tasks, RelativeDB can outperform XGBoost with only a small amount of relational context and no manual feature engineering.So RelativeDB turns relational foundation models into something you can query (like this customer churn query):``` PREDICT NOT EXISTS(orders.*) OVER (90 DAYS FOLLOWING) FROM customers ```The engine finds the relevant context across the related tables and returns a prediction. The goal is to make questions like churn, demand forecasting, fraud detection, and recommendations feel more like database queries than bespoke ML projects.Longer term, I think the optimizer should be

hiitmeup.fit• Jul 27, 2026• 1 min read

Show HN: Simple HIIT timer for efficient workoutsHi HN community,As a busy techie with kids and other family obligations and my recent health diagnosis, I wanted an efficient way to integrate workouts in my daily routine and my research indicated that HIIT/Tabata style routines fit that requirement much better than a dedicated long running/planned workout routine.I made a simple PWA to help me with that endeavor that I have found useful and hoping some of you may like it as well. No sign ups needed but you can sign in if you'd like to save custom presets and history/progress. You may also enjoy some of the fitness guides/blog posts that I am put together to help someone get started more easily. Built using javascript, vite and firebase.Feedback is most welcome, both via the app/email or comments here.

portzero.net• Jul 27, 2026• 1 min read

Show HN: Port Zero – How I learned to stop worrying and love PORT=0Hi HN,Recently I wasted several hours wrangling my dev environment only to find out that the browser frontend was talking to the wrong version of the backend. This got me thinking--why on earth are we still using simple numbers to describe which process to connect to? Why not use names instead? I thought of all the times a program wouldn't start because of port conflicts. The more I thought about it, the crazier it seemed.Modern operating systems already offer no-conflict ports: if you make your TCP server listen on port 0, the OS assigns you a random available port. But that only solves half the problem.I built the other half: PortZero. It's a GPLv3 program that watches for processes (and docker containers!) with a special PZ_TUNNEL environment variable: PZ_TUNNEL=myapp-{branch}.portzero.local:80 npm run dev When it sees such a process or container, PortZero does this:1. Create a virtual NIC (if it hasn't already)2. Create a new virtual IP address3. Create a DNS record that substitute

bing.com• Jul 26, 2026• 1 min read

Best PEMF mats in 2026: Which one is right for you?PEMF (pulsed electromagnetic field) mats have become increasingly popular among people looking to support relaxation, recovery, and everyday wellness at home. However, while brands often make ...

github.com• Jul 26, 2026• 1 min read

Show HN: Codex fixed my 2010 MacBook Pro driver troubles with kernel patchesI installed Gentoo on my mid-2010 Macbook Pro about a year ago as both a fun learning project and to have a practical secondary laptop for terminal access, light dev, using utilities that would be more cumbersome on my Windows laptop, etc.It landed me with a usable KDE environment with acceleration, but sleep mode resulted in an unrecoverable system without a reboot and the graphics driver had oddities like garbled screens during login and occasionally crashing the system if I opened the wifi settings. At the time I tried switching to older proprietary nvidia drivers and some other possible solutions for sleep issues, including asking an older GPT model at some point to investigate the system, but they were dead ends - it seemed to simply be an issue of unsupported old hardware, and I don't have the time to learn driver dev.But when 5.6 Sol came out and I tried it on Ultra, I was struck by how capable it seemed, so I figured I had nothing to lose throwing it at fixing my system by any

news.ycombinator.com• Jul 26, 2026• 1 min read

Ask HN: How do you figure out what you're passionate about?I've been in tech for 15 years now. A lot of what I loved about it has changed, and I'm now at a crossroads where I have an opportunity to leave and do something else.I ended each day of my old jobs exhausted, and never had the energy to do or try the things I thought I was interested in.I am now in my mid 30s and find myself with a ton of free time. But I am finding I have no idea what I want to do.Nothing that used to interest me interests me anymore. The things I think I might like I for whatever reason don't have the energy to do or try them.I feel like I've been in survival mode for so long I dont know what my passions are. How do I find them again?

bing.com• Jul 26, 2026• 1 min read

Pentagon lists 4 killed in Iran war under "Overseas Operations Casualties" on websiteFour U.S. service members who were listed in a Pentagon casualties database as having died during the Iran war are now listed as "Overseas Operations Casualties." ...

news.ycombinator.com• Jul 26, 2026• 1 min read

We need to rethink tech stackLet me start this with something we already know, AI is here, it may be controversial how it will operate open or closed but its not going anywhere.If you look at the current tech space, AI integrations and use and some very useful but some unnecessary AI implementations, you will realise that there are either many gaps in current understanding.Lets start on what i wanted to talk, first lets talk about AI, what is AI, not the defination, but actually is AI, it may not be the ultimate intelligence but have some intelligence or atleast we can say, it know certain well known patterns, its ability comes in various sizes, but essentially now we a black box with some knobs, which be a better solution than hard coded flows, logics and if its imagined well, it can be really really useful but there is a flaw.We being extremists, we either think of its going to taking all the jobs or its just useless, there is another way to approach it.Think of it as intelligence layer available to you, but cur

news.ycombinator.com• Jul 26, 2026• 1 min read

Robotic Adaptation Suffers from Data Collection BottleneckHow can we ease Robotic Adaptation, or the critical last mile of reliable robotic policy deployment?Vision-Language-Action Policies (such as Gr00T, Pi0, OpenVLA) are designed so that an adaptation stage is needed before reliable deployment (reliable meaning with very high success rate) of the policy model on a specific combination of application environment and robotic task.This adaptation stage, often called fine-tuning or post-training, caters to the narrow set of tasks, done in the exact deployment environment, atop a specific embodiment (such as single arm robots, or bi manual robots, or humanoids among others).The recently released World-Action-Models (WAMs), while having improved generalization to novel tasks and environments, also need adaptation stage to reliably execute a given task on a given environment.The key requirement of robotic adaptation is high quality adaptation data, typically human teleoperation data of the robot performing the required task in the given environme

news.ycombinator.com• Jul 26, 2026• 1 min read

Ask HN: Anyone suffering from the tyranny of the Waiting Equation?In space exploration, there's a famous conundrum that we shouldn't launch a 100-year journey transport ship to another galaxy, because in 20 years technology will have made the ship twice as fast, and we can get there earlier by waiting.In this episode of "how this translates to B2B sales," I ask if anyone else is struggling to invest in ideas (anywhere from side projects to startups) knowing that the frontier of AI might soon overlap any possible technical or operational moat that you spend a year or more building, and your entire business is just a one-shot prompt away (from either you, meaning you wasted time building, or your target customer, who no longer has a reason to pay you).Historically it's always been better to Just Build, but this reality seems to be getting tougher to ignore.

news.ycombinator.com• Jul 26, 2026• 1 min read

Ask HN: Do you delete your browsing history?I'm torn on this. Not infrequently, some random page I saw months ago will come to mind, and I'll use browser history to find it. More infrequently, I'll go even further back than that. And just for posterity, I enjoy having it all accessible.That said, it also makes me a bit nervous having it all there, especially synced to my Firefox account, for some hypothetical hacker, or discovery process, or who knows what.Got me thinking, I wouldn't be surprised if HN is as split between history savers and deleters as I am internally. Curious how you all handle it.

bing.com• Jul 26, 2026• 1 min read

The TP-Link Guide to Modern Mesh Home Wi-FiThe router tucked behind your TV or balanced on a shelf was probably fine when you bought it. Back then, a household might have connected a laptop, a couple of smartphones, and a smart TV. Today, that ...

bing.com• Jul 26, 2026• 1 min read

Pressure builds on Bronny James after LeBron James signs with 76ersThe Los Angeles Lakers are keeping Bronny James, but the pressure is fully on the 21-year-old to earn his spot with the franchise. The decision is made, and the 76ers don’t have room for Bronny. He ...

bing.com• Jul 26, 2026• 1 min read

What coolant should you use for data center liquid cooling?Companies have three main fluid options for liquid data center cooling: dielectrics, deionized water plus additives, and PG25. Dielectrics are used mainly for immersion cooling, which really can’t ...

bing.com• Jul 26, 2026• 1 min read

Small BusinessDay after day over recent weeks, Ukrainian drones have pummeled giant depots belonging to Wildberries, the country’s biggest online retailer, burning estimated billions of dollars’ worth of ...

kypaku.github.io• Jul 26, 2026• 1 min read

Show HN: Scanner for cellular automata rule spaceMany years ago I was interested in cellular automata, inspired by Stephen Wolfram's work. I dug into elementary CA and totalistic 3-state rules. But when I went to more states it was getting boring. Almost all of them are dead or chaotic or something that everybody has already seen. But somewhere inside there could be another 110, and nobody looked.Now that we have AI coding, I decided I can build something in that area, and an app for scanning rules was the obvious thing. I implemented an explorer with a bunch of filters: gliders, chaos, large structures, and custom search. The last one works backwards — you draw a pattern and a rule passes only if this pattern never occurs. I could not define "interesting", but it was easy to say what disqualifies a rule. It also renders diagrams as big PNG.Demo: https://kypaku.github.io/pages/ca2026/ Source: https://github.com/Kypaku/ca2026