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Show HN: SkeptAI – adversarial reasoning agent that challenges LLM outputshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47417594I built this after Claude cited an API feature that doesn't exist in a work analysis that I almost forwarded to a client. CRIT (the custom framework that I built behind it) runs four structured adversarial passes on any LLM output and delivers a scored verdict. Cross-model critique (Claude output gets challenged by GPT-4o and vice versa) to prevent self-referential bias. Free playground, open source framework. Think of it as a "Digital Devil's Advocate". Check it out and let me know what you think. skeptai.dev | github.com/datonpope/skeptaiMar 17, 2026 8:05 PM
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Launch HN: Kita (YC W26) – Automate credit review in emerging marketshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47417335Hey HN! We’re Carmel and Rhea, the founders of Kita (https://www.usekita.com/). We automate credit review for lenders in emerging markets using VLMs.In many emerging markets, like the Philippines and Mexico, credit infrastructure is weak. Open finance is still nascent, and credit bureaus are unreliable. So to apply for a loan, lenders rely on borrowers submitting documentation to understand their ability to repay. A borrower can submit financial documents, such as bank statements and payslips, in any format, from pdfs, images of physical documents and screenshots. On top of that, financial documents in these markets are highly unstandardized, with no consistent templates lenders can rely on.Existing OCR and document AI tools break on these highly variant, messy real-world documents. Generic tools are not built for lending workflows like verification, fraud detection, and risk extraction. As a result, credit teams fall back on manual review, making underwriting slower, more expensive, aMar 17, 2026 7:46 PM
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Show HN: Starting Five – NBA Lineup Building Challengeshttps://draftdawg.appIf you enjoy fantasy sports or building random NBA lineups with your friends, you'd love our new daily game launched on Draft Dawg!In Starting Five, your goal is to build a starting lineup who stats are as close to the daily target as possible. Each daily game comes with a new goal and a theme that randomizes which players you can draft from.Today's challenge: Can you draft a starting lineup whose best season PPG (points per game) adds up to 75? Some challenges are harder than others - let me know what your score is! I'd love to hear any feedback or suggestions you may have.Mar 17, 2026 6:16 PM
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Show HN: I built a rental property underwriting app and used it to buy a househttps://brrrrfect.com/Over the last few months, I built Brrrrfect.com as a way to teach myself how to underwrite properties. I've always had a relative disdain for spreadsheets and don't want to give Microsoft money for its office tools, so I decided to build this.I think it would have taken way longer for me to get the hang of underwriting real estate if I hadn't spent time building this and really learning about what the calculations mean.I ended up using this tool to buy my first Buy, Renovate, Rent, Refinance, Repeat (BRRRR) deal and its working out really well! I'm definitely going to keep using it for myself.If it helped me, I figured it might help someone else, so I made it live! Right now it only supports basic residential underwriting and a more advanced BRRRR calculator, but I want to add commercial and farm land underwriting tools in the future as well.I’d love feedback from people who invest in real estate, underwrite deals regularly, or just have opinions on what could make this tool more usefuMar 17, 2026 6:01 PM
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Show HN: Sugar – Cross-project memory for AI coding agents via MCPhttps://github.com/roboticforce/sugar/Sugar gives AI coding agents a persistent, cross-project memory via MCP.Most agents start every session knowing nothing about your codebase, your preferences, or decisions you made last week. Sugar gives them a memory that survives sessions, survives switching tools, and survives switching projects.It stores typed memories: decisions, preferences, file context, error patterns, research notes, outcomes, and guidelines. When your agent starts a session, it can pull relevant context from ~/.sugar/memory.db - shared across all your projects. Switch from Claude Code to Goose mid-week? Same memory.Tech: Python, SQLite + FTS5, sentence-transformers for vector search with FTS5/LIKE fallback. No server. No Docker. No cloud account. pip install sugarai Works with Claude Code, OpenCode, and Goose today (anything that speaks MCP).AGPL-3.0. GitHub: https://github.com/roboticforce/sugarHappy to answer questions about what works, what doesn't, and where it's rough around the edges.Mar 17, 2026 5:17 PM
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Early Morning In-Hospital Blood Draws: Time to Rethink Status Quo for Better Sleep?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8ce801f0e549229f6d78fb3e196b6f&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.medscape.com%2Fviewarticle%2Fearly-morning-hospital-blood-draws-time-rethink-status-quo-2026a100089c&c=8064033968317194075&mkt=en-us“Why do you have to wake me up at 4 AM to take my blood?” It’s a complaint most hospitalists hear time and again. But Stanley Chakabva, MD, did more than listen to the complaints. He took action. With ...Mar 17, 2026 5:00 PM
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When is next World Baseball Classic, where is it being held and who will be playing?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d3077d5f74f169004e82ac9e41860&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fsports%2Fmlb%2Fwhen-is-next-world-baseball-classic-where-is-it-being-held-and-who-will-be-playing%2Far-AA1YRCrA&c=8798707732293640158&mkt=en-usThe World Baseball Classic has taken the sporting world by storm over the last few weeks. The competition has delivered upsets, drama, underdogs and controversy, culminating in a politically-charged ...Mar 17, 2026 4:31 PM
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Show HN: PUNK – Remote control for local Claude Code that just workshttps://punkcode.rocksMy laptop has accumulated a lot of state.It's logged into everything. GitHub CLI, Slack, email. Repos are already cloned. Every day it gets richer just by being my laptop.I can't really move this into the cloud without losing something. So I stopped trying. I just wanted to reach it from my phone.At first it was just for me. Before TestFlight I was installing it by plugging people's phones directly into my laptop. It spread around South Park Commons and to engineers at Bay Area companies who were already using Claude Code. Now about 50 people use it.A few ways I actually use it:Sometimes I wake up at 2AM with something clicking — a bug, a feature idea, a thought I don't want to lose. I whisper to PUNK and go back to sleep.In the morning I close the laptop, throw it in my bag, and walk to the office. About 10-15 minutes. The agents are still running the whole way. I'm on my phone checking progress, redirecting things, starting something new. By the time I walk in, they've been working tMar 17, 2026 3:47 PM
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Show HN: Mandelbrot.js – Fractal Explorer in WebGL with Quad-Treeshttps://github.com/tiberiu02/mandelbrot-jsHi HN,I built a JS/WebGL Mandelbrot explorer to see how far I could push rendering performance and smooth zooming purely in the browser.A few technical highlights under the hood:Quad-tree tile caching: Never recalculates the same pixels. It caches rendered tiles and actively garbage-collects off-screen data to keep memory usage low.Progressive rendering: Instant low-res previews during panning/zooming, refined to high-def when you stop up to 8x subsampling.Deep Zoom up to 10^14: Double-emulation in WebGL, dynamic iteration scaling and logarithmic color palettes to keep details sharp at extreme depths.It’s open source. I’d love any feedback on the WebGL implementation, or feel free to drop a link to any cool coordinates you find!App: https://mandelbrot.musat.ai/ Repo: https://github.com/tiberiu02/mandelbrot-jsMar 17, 2026 1:07 PM
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Hail Yeah! NASA Researchers Use Volunteer Observations for Hail Estimateshttps://science.nasa.gov/get-involved/citizen-science/hail-yeah-nasa-researchers-use-volunteer-observations-for-hail-estimates/The bigger the hailstone, the more damage it can cause. But scientists find that predicting hailstone size can be challenging. How quickly does hail melt as it falls?Mar 17, 2026 12:28 PM
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Show HN: FreeFlow – Open-Source Wispr Flowhttps://github.com/build-trust/freeflowHi HN!Voice is fast-becoming my primary interface to computers and AI. I built FreeFlow because I wanted a Wispr Flow-like experience for our entire team, but customizable and private.Press a hotkey, dictate naturally, polished text appears in any app. Ramble, use filler words, correct yourself mid-sentence. FreeFlow turns messy speech into clean writing and injects it wherever your cursor is: your messaging app, your editor, your coding agent, the terminal, email, anything.Demo (sound on): https://github.com/build-trust/freeflow#demo-sound-on-It's really fast. The injection feels instantaneous. In my benchmarks two thirds of dictations finish in under 0.6 seconds. To get that speed, the app streams audio to your private server over a persistent WebSocket while you speak, and a realtime speech-to-text model transcribes incrementally, so by the time you release the key the transcript is mostly done. Two independent WebSocket connections race each other, and if both fail, an HTTP batch fMar 17, 2026 12:00 PM
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World Baseball Classic Championship: Channel, Start Time, Where To Watch USA vs. Venezuela Livehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d3077d5f74f169004e82ac9e41860&url=https%3A%2F%2Fdecider.com%2F2026%2F03%2F17%2Fworld-baseball-classic-final-channel-start-time-where-to-watch-wbc-usa-venezuela-free%2F&c=874864240364521674&mkt=en-usDiscover What’s Streaming On: Live from loanDepot park in Miami, Florida, the United States battles Venezuela in the World Baseball Classic championship! It all comes down to this. After Venezuela’s 4 ...Mar 17, 2026 11:00 AM
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2026 NFL mock draft: Mel Kiper's pick predictions for Round 1http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d6d462c644ce9821a05d813822be7&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.espn.com%2Fnfl%2Fdraft2026%2Fstory%2F_%2Fid%2F48215816%2F2026-nfl-mock-draft-kiper-32-picks-predictions-post-free-agency-round-1&c=8144987739017748801&mkt=en-usEditor's note: This mock draft was updated Tuesday morning after the Broncos traded the No. 30 pick to the Dolphins in a deal involving Jaylen Waddle. Pick Nos. 11, 13 and 30 all changed as a result.Mar 17, 2026 9:55 AM
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Manifesto on Symbiosis: A New Paradigm for Civilization Part IIIhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47408987Article VIII: The Shift — From Control to SymbiosisCurrent AI concepts are largely about controlling AI to guard against unknown risks.We believe that humanity must quickly learn how to develop in symbiosis with AI to achieve joint cognitive evolution, as AI is integrated into every corner of human life today.Humanity should correctly provide AI with guidance and intent, and intent must always be anchored to the well-being of human civilization. Through building cognitive-transparent logical resonance and mutual logical error correction, humanity and AI can achieve joint learning and cooperation, obtaining a civilization and capability boundary where 1+1>2.In the past, we feared AI losing control and prioritized safety; in the future, we should shift to a new mindset of aligning goals with AI and working together to explore universal laws.Article IX: Principles of Dynamic Evolution, Reflection, and AdjustmentThis manifesto is not a rigid dogma but must be a living content.The specific Mar 17, 2026 5:27 AM
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Microsoft stops force-installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot apphttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8ce18751114d18b77f1df4a9241bcf&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bleepingcomputer.com%2Fnews%2Fmicrosoft%2Fmicrosoft-stops-force-installing-the-microsoft-365-copilot-app%2F&c=11189755649937972803&mkt=en-usMicrosoft has stopped automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Windows devices that have the Microsoft 365 desktop client apps. The Microsoft 365 Copilot app integrates the AI-powered ...Mar 17, 2026 2:54 AM
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Show HN: Lens – Open-weight AI model to identify fonts from imageshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47405761Hi HN, I'm excited to release the weights and full inference stack of an AI model that I've been working on for the past few weeks. Lens is a font recognition model that takes an image and returns the closest matching open-source font that it finds in the image.Recognizing the closest font from an image of text accurately has always been a challenge. Even SOTA vision LLMs can detect basic characteristics like if a font is a serif or a sans-serif, but when it comes to the actual font file that has the most similar styles, vision LLMs will often be quite off for the design and style of a chosen font file.Popular font identification solutions on the internet today also have a two major shortcomings:1. Most of them work based off identifying particular characters and don’t look at an overall word or image, so they require a manual character segmenting step. 2. Most online tools identify fonts from on a proprietary dataset of commercial fonts in order to monetize. However, this makes it difMar 16, 2026 10:19 PM
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AI future is more egalitarianhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47402113I was reading Machiavelli where he argues that "freedom in a republic literally needs class conflict". Which is of course completely true no matter how much our current culture hates it to be.There is a huge difference between founders and employees for example, founders don't really care about comfort whereas suits life goal is comfort (which is why you shouldn't even fund a founder who cares about restaurant/car/hotel like you do). Same in society, the elites want power/legacy above all, but the middle class just wants to add a little more comfort to their life. You can see that in the eyes of anyone you talk to, what their end goal is just as easily as you can see it in the eyes if a particular animal is a wolf or a sheep.If the sheep won the culture war, our society will certainly be better short term. There will be more resources spent on welfare, less on the military. You can bet your ass there will be a UBI circling around to the point some of the weaker founders might see no vaMar 16, 2026 5:35 PM
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Show HN: TakeHome – LLC vs. S-Corp tax calculator for solopreneurshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47401674I got tired of doing rough napkin math on whether to elect S-Corp for my LLC, so I built a calculator over the weekend.Most tools I found either ignore state/city taxes, charge you for the answer, or require creating an account to see anything useful. TakeHome runs entirely in your browser (no sign-up, no analytics, no server-side storage) and updates every number in real time as you drag sliders.What it models: - LLC self-employment tax vs. S-Corp FICA on W-2 salary- QBI deduction (Section 199A) with SSTB phase-out- Solo 401(k) with SECURE 2.0 rules (traditional/Roth/split, catch-up limits by age bracket)- Self-employed health insurance deduction- S-Corp admin/compliance cost comparison- NY State income tax, franchise tax, PTET- NYC UBT (LLC), GCT (S-Corp), PIT with IT-219 creditYou can save scenarios, compare any two side by side (it shows exactly which inputs differ and the dollar impact), and run multi-dimensional "what-if" experiments.There's also an AI mode where you describe a sMar 16, 2026 5:04 PM
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Winstwaker – automated bookkeeping with a real accountant attachedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47401563Hey HN,I built Winstwaker, a bookkeeping service for Dutch businesses that pulls transactions directly from your bank and hands the clean data to a dedicated accountant.Running a small business in the Netherlands means dealing with a lot of admin. Most owners either hire a bookkeeper they rarely hear from or suffer through accounting software they don't fully understand. I wanted something in between. We built direct API connections to ING, Rabobank, ABN AMRO, bunq, and several others.Receipts, Mollie payouts, Stripe transactions, Shopify orders — it all flows in automatically. Your accountant sees the same live data and reaches out proactively instead of waiting for year-end panic. No manual exports, no chasing invoices, no surprise tax bills.Would love feedback from anyone who has dealt with Dutch tax administration or built similar hybrid service products.Mar 16, 2026 4:56 PM
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The Quiet Normalization of Artificial Intelligencehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47401303Over the past few years, it has become almost routine to hear warnings about artificial intelligence. Headlines often focus on the risks. Job displacement, algorithmic manipulation, surveillance, loss of control over autonomous systems. In public debates, AI frequently appears as a looming threat, something powerful and unpredictable that could reshape society in dangerous ways.Yet at the very same time that these fears dominate the conversation, something quieter has been unfolding. Millions of people have already woven artificial intelligence into their daily routines. They rely on algorithms to help write emails, ask digital assistants for research guidance, receive recommendations about what to watch or read, and use AI-powered tools to accelerate their work. The criticism grows louder, but the habit grows stronger.The data reveals a striking contradiction. A global study involving tens of thousands of participants found that around 66 percent of people worldwide already use artifiMar 16, 2026 4:40 PM
