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news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: What tasks cost money through a UI but are free in code?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49294288As someone who only recently started getting their feet wet thanks to vibe coding, I am kind of amazed at all the free tools out there.An example: ffmpeg (which I've used for a long time) is a classic case of "if you can figure it out, it's free; if you can't, I can sell you a shovel" with virtually every video downloader tool out there using it. Users who don't know about it must either rely on the shady tier of online video downloaders or pay for some of the better ones. I used to think there was a hard-coded limit to downloading files in 4K until I realised yt-dlp and ffmpeg existed.Another example: TIL the Bluesky Jetstream protocol is completely free, which is amazing to me because of all the data and inference you can get from it (similar APIs, albeit from much larger social datasets like Google Maps and X, are not free.It seems that the entry barrier to a lot of useful tools over the last two decades has been a minimal ability to code. Since that barrier has now dropped, would y
Aug 14, 2026 2:55 AM
transcribe.lymestack.com
Show HN: LymeScribe – one computer on your network transcribes for the resthttps://transcribe.lymestack.com/Transcribed with LymeScribe just before posting this: "I realize it's a little bit late in the day to be posting on Hacker News. However, I've been looking at this frog for a good two weeks now, and F it, I'm just going to ship it. I've posted on Hacker News now like three or four times with little to no results. So if a tree falls in the woods..." (I censored the F word, but it transcribed just fine.)TL;DR: LymeScribe is local speech to text for Mac and Windows: dictate into any app, or drop in a recording and get a transcript with speaker labels, and nothing goes to a server you don't own. On a machine that can handle it, it all runs right there. On anything that can't, or anywhere you'd rather keep transcription in one place, one computer does the work for the rest of the network. Offices care about the second one, because the audio and the transcripts never leave hardware they control.This whole thing started as a command line program I built to transcribe and label speakers in aud
Aug 13, 2026 6:18 PM
cbsnews.com
California high-speed rail could run out of money by December 2027, as authority cuts train order in halfhttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-high-speed-rail-run-out-of-money-2027-inspector-general/The watchdog's review warns the $4 billion federal funding loss now leaves the project needing billions in financing within 16 months — as the rail authority acknowledges for the first time that it still has no train contract, has cut its order from six trains to three, and has dropped the "Buy America" requirement.
Aug 12, 2026 1:41 AM
apps.apple.com
Show HN: AppScout – App Store downloads, revenue and widgetshttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/appscout-app-metrics/id6770866569Hey hackers!Signing in to App Store Connect just to check downloads or MRR is a friction. I wanted a simpler way. Ideally, just to look at a widget on my iPhone. There are some apps, but the design and implementation made me think here's a gap that I can potentially fill it with a new polished product. So I've built this app.It took me several months to start beta testing. But then I got feedback from users that they don't really want to share their App Store key credentials with a third-party app that uses a backend and collects data. So, I spent one more month pivoting to a private app by dropping a backend and storing credentials on a user's device in a keychain. So, now the app directly talks to Apple's API and there's no account registration. You add a team key - the app fetches data. App also uses background tasks to fetch most recent data so you don't need to open it every day to keep the data fresh. And as a final point - I added widgets to both home and lock screens.Please let
Aug 5, 2026 4:09 PM
cbsnews.com
What's behind the $4B funding cut for California's high-speed rail?https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-high-speed-rail-train-procurement-newsom/Records reveal California twice missed deadlines to buy the trains at the center of a federal funding fight — then quietly dropped its lawsuit weeks after missing its new deadline.
Aug 2, 2026 11:00 AM
github.com
Show HN: MandoCode Desktop – Native Windows AI Coding Assistant on Ollama .NEThttps://github.com/DevMando/MandoCode.DesktopQuick backstory on how this version came to be: the original MandoCode is a CLI, and its UI is built with RazorConsole — Blazor components rendered into a terminal. Genuinely clever tech! I wanted tabs, though, and when I attended MS Build this year I got a good look at what WinUI apps could do and saw the potential to give the original agent some actual windows and tabs. Having up to 4 agents running in one window is pretty cool. Aside from that — tabs! I feel like everything is a chat these days, and for some reason my brain keeps screaming AGENTS, not chats, at me. I love the tabbed-browser experience a lot moreSome of the stuff I got to toy with once the plumbing worked:- Context snapshots — closing an agent archives the conversation instead of deleting it, and you can snapshot mid-conversation to get an AI-written recap you can hand to a different model or a fresh agent and have it pick up the thread. You pick the LLM from a dropdown right when you create the snapshot.- Transcript
Jul 29, 2026 4:48 PM
science.nasa.gov
NASA’s CloudCube Pioneers Miniaturized Radar to Study Clouds, Precipitationhttps://science.nasa.gov/science-research/science-enabling-technology/nasas-cloudcube-pioneers-miniaturizedradar-to-study-clouds-precipitation/A compact, multifrequency radar built by a team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will make it easier to collect information about dynamic cloud systems. Called CloudCube, this new instrument simultaneously probes the atmosphere with three radar signals, spanning 36 to 240 GHz, for optimized sensitivity to a wide range of water droplet and ice particle sizes.
Jun 10, 2026 12:00 PM
github.com
Show HN: Open-source general-purpose alternative to Exa Websetshttps://github.com/tinyfish-io/bigsetHey Everyone!So I get to spend most of my day tweaking and playing around with really powerful search engines at TinyFish (which is so awesome). I’ve recently been super fascinated by the idea of using a search engine recursively to build datasets.Been playing around with Exa’s WebSets product quite a bit and realized it was mainly focused on prospecting, and it creates datasets with a lot of missing data.So we built a fully open source project, that can build and update datasets on any topic.Datasets I have generated so far, “All products that Starbucks sells on amazon, with their price and if they are in stock”, “All theme parks in California, with ticket prices” , “All YC companies that are currently hiring for eng roles with their hiring page link” Would love for yall’s to try it out, and drop your thoughts, stars and feedback. Thanks!
Jun 2, 2026 5:58 PM
nasa.gov
Perseverance Stuns in New Selfiehttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/perseverance-stuns-in-new-selfie/NASA’s Perseverance rover recently took a self-portrait against a sweeping backdrop of ancient Martian terrain at a location the science team calls “Lac de Charmes.” Assembled from 61 individual images, the selfie shows Perseverance training its mast on a rocky outcrop in the foreground after creating a circular abrasion patch, with the western rim of […]
May 12, 2026 5:22 PM
nasa.gov
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Snaps Selfie in Mars’ Western Frontierhttps://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-2020-perseverance/perseverance-rover/nasas-perseverance-rover-snaps-selfie-in-mars-western-frontier/NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover recently took a self-portrait against a sweeping backdrop of ancient Martian terrain at a location the science team calls “Lac de Charmes.” Assembled from 61 individual images, the selfie shows Perseverance training its mast on a rocky outcrop on which it had just made a circular abrasion patch, with the western […]
May 12, 2026 4:48 PM
bing.com
What Is a Vulnerable Dog Breed List?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e1b5f39e47c98c41dccd775bf0ab&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.yahoo.com%2flifestyle%2farticles%2fvulnerable-dog-breed-list-232100882.html&c=12408465707462335640&mkt=en-usAdd Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Published by the UK's Royal Kennel Club, it flags dog breeds that appear to be dropping off the radar. And you might be surprised ...
Apr 22, 2026 4:22 PM
bing.com
What Is a Vulnerable Dog Breed List?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a854ca4bf8a4eb9988e3d9951f1f3a8&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.yahoo.com%2flifestyle%2farticles%2fvulnerable-dog-breed-list-232100882.html&c=12408465707462335640&mkt=en-usAdd Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Published by the UK's Royal Kennel Club, it flags dog breeds that appear to be dropping off the radar. And you might be surprised ...
Apr 22, 2026 4:22 PM
bing.com
What Is a Vulnerable Dog Breed List?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e92a160d4d499368586c831b3f76&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.yahoo.com%2flifestyle%2farticles%2fvulnerable-dog-breed-list-232100882.html&c=12408465707462335640&mkt=en-usAdd Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Published by the UK's Royal Kennel Club, it flags dog breeds that appear to be dropping off the radar. And you might be surprised ...
Apr 22, 2026 4:22 PM
bing.com
What Is a Vulnerable Dog Breed List?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a853e2ecc064239b84b406766b44f91&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.yahoo.com%2flifestyle%2farticles%2fvulnerable-dog-breed-list-232100882.html&c=12408465707462335640&mkt=en-usAdd Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Published by the UK's Royal Kennel Club, it flags dog breeds that appear to be dropping off the radar. And you might be surprised ...
Apr 22, 2026 4:22 PM
bing.com
What Is a Vulnerable Dog Breed List?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a854e6a673f4ef2bc7760352f18254a&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.yahoo.com%2flifestyle%2farticles%2fvulnerable-dog-breed-list-232100882.html&c=12408465707462335640&mkt=en-usAdd Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Published by the UK's Royal Kennel Club, it flags dog breeds that appear to be dropping off the radar. And you might be surprised ...
Apr 22, 2026 4:22 PM
bing.com
What Is a Vulnerable Dog Breed List?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a8557311ef140cba8dd1e28a5140666&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.yahoo.com%2flifestyle%2farticles%2fvulnerable-dog-breed-list-232100882.html&c=12408465707462335640&mkt=en-usAdd Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Published by the UK's Royal Kennel Club, it flags dog breeds that appear to be dropping off the radar. And you might be surprised ...
Apr 22, 2026 4:22 PM
bing.com
What Is a Vulnerable Dog Breed List?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a856b8dd47648d3a97f2af4d933d0a7&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.yahoo.com%2flifestyle%2farticles%2fvulnerable-dog-breed-list-232100882.html&c=12408465707462335640&mkt=en-usAdd Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Published by the UK's Royal Kennel Club, it flags dog breeds that appear to be dropping off the radar. And you might be surprised ...
Apr 22, 2026 4:22 PM
bing.com
What Is a Vulnerable Dog Breed List?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a8541fb80604e2489cf23e460d4c2dd&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.yahoo.com%2flifestyle%2farticles%2fvulnerable-dog-breed-list-232100882.html&c=12408465707462335640&mkt=en-usAdd Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Published by the UK's Royal Kennel Club, it flags dog breeds that appear to be dropping off the radar. And you might be surprised ...
Apr 22, 2026 4:22 PM
bing.com
What Is a Vulnerable Dog Breed List?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a854387dc7049c3bdfdfc8b51bb71e6&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.yahoo.com%2flifestyle%2farticles%2fvulnerable-dog-breed-list-232100882.html&c=12408465707462335640&mkt=en-usAdd Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Published by the UK's Royal Kennel Club, it flags dog breeds that appear to be dropping off the radar. And you might be surprised ...
Apr 22, 2026 4:22 PM