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bing.com
How to vote for the March Madness 21st century 3v3 tournamenthttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a83c3c915244d3ea0b112947d0377b6&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.ncaa.com%2fnews%2fbasketball-men%2farticle%2f2026-08-04%2fhow-vote-march-madness-21st-century-3v3-tournament&c=400364962576586665&mkt=en-usNCAA March Madness is introducing the 21st Century 3v3 Bracket, a fan-powered bracket challenge between 64 schools and 3v3 teams featuring iconic men's basketball players from the 21st century.
Aug 4, 2026 8:49 AM
news.ycombinator.com
Is Snap Inc Back?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49164568Summary -Snap Inc.’s business model is changing. Wall Street has tagged the company as an advertising company, which has been the dominant model for most of the companies’ short time in the public market (9 years). But over the last two years, it has seen growth in one segment that is unrelated to advertising, and has a marginal cost of selling near zero.Snap+ is the subscription business for Snapchat’s app. I believe that this is the future; most tech companies’ dominant revenue today comes from a second business like AWS or Windows.Snap Current Business Model-Snap Inc currently has advertising as its dominant revenue source. And it has a unique offering through its AR filters, as a way to display ads, along with real estate in the apps, Maps, and contacts, and through its feed of videos. Snap had 5.9 billion in revenue in FY2025. Ads were 87% of revenue.I view this business as the legacy business, and I expect revenue to still come from it at a high rate, but the higher margin revenu
Aug 4, 2026 5:15 AM
github.com
Show HN: Draco – A single-binary, self-hostable Firecrawl alternative in Rusthttps://github.com/0xchasercat/draco/Scraping modern websites has become a massive headache. You basically have two choices: pay for an expensive API like Firecrawl/Browserbase, or run a fleet of headless Chrome instances that eat 1GB of RAM per page and still get blocked by Cloudflare.I built Draco to fix this. It’s a fast, single-binary web scraper written in Rust. You point it at a URL, and it spits out perfectly clean Markdown or structured JSON for LLMs.The secret sauce is that it doesn't just boot a browser for every request. It uses a tiered escalation engine:Tier 1 (Stealth Fetch): Draco uses a custom TLS/JA4 fingerprint to perfectly mimic a real browser's network signature at the packet level. It turns out a lot of anti-bot walls will let you right through if your handshake looks correct. In my benchmarks against sites like Cloudflare and Target, Playwright ate ~500MB of RAM and timed out. Draco bypassed them in under a second using just 20MB of RAM.Tier 2 (V8 Isolate): If it hits a React/Next.js SPA that needs r
Aug 2, 2026 8:48 PM
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Show HN: Vein, a minimalist open-source resource management gamehttps://d2ykijtrvb890q.cloudfront.net/Recently I've been working on Vein, a small open-source resource management game built with Godot.I've always loved resource management board games, and I wanted to see how minimal I could make one. The core idea is simple: keep the heart beating by supplying it with the resources it demands. I tried to strip the mechanics down as much as possible while still leaving room for interesting decisions, and I added a short tutorial to help players get started.The problem is that I still don't feel like I've found the right gameplay loop. It works, but it isn't yet the game I imagined. I'd really appreciate any feedback—whether it's about the mechanics, pacing, tutorial, UI, or anything else that stands out. I'm especially interested in ideas for making the core loop deeper without making the game more complicated.Most of the development was done with Claude Sonnet as a coding partner, while I focused on the design, gameplay, and iteration. The game engine is Godot.You can play it here: http
Aug 2, 2026 9:44 AM
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A 1989 Unix finger protocol prank at UW-Milwaukeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49121204In 1989, as a CS undergrad at UW-Milwaukee, I had access to a graduate Unix lab. One afternoon, the grad students discovered they could scan the network for users who had accidentally left their .plan files world-writable. For the uninitiated, the finger command let you see who was logged in, and it displayed their local .plan file. Because default security permissions were incredibly relaxed back then, you could sometimes write directly to someone else's file. The grad students wrote a script to append a snarky message mocking the users' permissions: "I AM FAR MOR THAN AN IGNORANT MORON..." Later that night, the lab cleared out. Left to my own devices, curiosity got the better of me. I ran a similar scan to see if any open files were left. I found one, and the user’s login name immediately caught my eye: "beaver". The temptation was simply too great. I opened their file and wrote the only logical sentence:"If you are reading this, then you are fingering the beaver!" After literally fa
Jul 31, 2026 10:05 AM
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Transfer context from one agent to another agent mid taskhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102632Hello HN, If you integrate your agents with decispher you can transfer context from one agent to another agents in 2 ways -:1) If you are working on git branch then branchstory feature keeps on recording your session activity like user prompts -> agent's reasoning -> agent's action -> edited files. These recordings can be played by other agent/human taking up task next. Agents can also write handoff note for other agents.2) If you are connected using Decispher mcp then this mcp provides you a tool with copy_context and paste_context. Copy_context tools gives you a key which you use as paste_context(key) inside any other agent on any machine and your context of chat will be transfered.Try at decispher.com
Jul 29, 2026 8:29 PM
strataweather.com
Show HN: Experiments with Weather Datahttps://strataweather.com/mapI had been wanting to try experimenting with nowcasting since the death of Dark Sky and finally got around to it. This application essentially became a playground for me to experiment with various weather datasets and geospatial visualizations.Some interesting concepts that came from it:The nowcast is using pySTEPS optical flow under the hood: https://pysteps.readthedocs.io/en/latest/auto_examples/plot_.... This library is super cool. It bugged me that every radar visualization just gave you choppy snapshots in time, so I spent some time working on building a smooth interpolation. The backend passes keyframes along with motion data from the optical flow analysis and then has a custom WebGL shader to do the interpolation which lets you scrub the timeline and have a smooth interpolation.The other forecast tiles and the main weather page are using the average of many different weather models. You can see every model that factors in on the models page: https://strataweather.com/models. Thi
Jul 29, 2026 11:52 AM
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Show HN: Build native iOS widgets from any HTTPS endpointhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49033628I built Dashlet since I often found myself building different web dashboards for all sorts of data (custom page views monitoring, app downloads, info from my home sensors) and I quickly got tired of always having to navigate to a page in Safari and reenter credentials to access them.I wanted to just simply be able to see it on my phone, when scrolling around it - in almost realtime.I've built bespoke apps (just for myself) in the past, that mapped a specific custom API for that purpose, but it was a hassle anytime I changed something in the response or added some new API for myself.So, Dashlet is an answer to that - it can handle any JSON (or XML, or even image) endpoints and has a nice interactive way of picking which values out of it should be displayed in which type of widget. So, if something has an API but no app (or no widget), Dashlet lets you point it at an HTTPS endpoint, visually map fields from JSON/XML/images, and create native Home Screen (also lock screen and Apple Watch)
Jul 24, 2026 10:41 AM
spacenews.com
Will Bruey on rethinking the role of pharmaceuticals in low Earth orbithttps://spacenews.com/will-bruey-on-rethinking-the-role-of-pharmaceuticals-in-low-earth-orbit/In this episode, David Ariosto speaks with Varda CEO Will Bruey at the Ascend conference. They discuss how Varda hopes to play a role bridging medicine and low Earth orbit […] The post Will Bruey on rethinking the role of pharmaceuticals in low Earth orbit appeared first on SpaceNews.
Jul 23, 2026 3:13 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: A Minimalist Messaging Platformhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49004978Seeking thoughts on idea of Minimalist Messaging, looking at current state of affairs especially referring to existing dominant players, none has actually hit the right balance of Privacy & Usability, we are thinking to build a platform which is minimalist , no feature bloat, Zero data selling and surveillance, no phone numbers required. Our focus is primarily on Privacy and Usability. Appreciate feedback , you can be as critical as you can, don't hesitate, thanks.
Jul 22, 2026 11:22 AM
bigfootsbc.ca
Show HN: An interactive game of British Columbiahttps://bigfootsbc.ca/I recently drove through the beautiful lands of British Columbia. I've called this place home for a better part of 20 years, and I realized that I know very little outside the little bubble that I live in.So I created this interactive map/game where you play as the Sasquatch, roaming the land and discovering hidden gems, towns, and other wildlife. You can read up on the town's story, view pictures to get a sense of what they look like, and stuff like that.I wanted to put this out there for those who are curious about our lovely province and enjoy roaming around.I am a software developer, but this app is vibe-coded. I do believe that this kind of usage of AI is fantastic--to better understand the world around us through immersive simulation.Let me know what you guys think!
Jul 21, 2026 11:00 PM
spacenews.com
Pipelines to payloads: risk management lessons for the space economyhttps://spacenews.com/pipelines-to-payloads-risk-management-lessons-for-the-space-economy/The energy sector has spent decades learning how to manage complex disputes that touch on sovereign power, geopolitics, regulation and private capital. Those same dynamics are at play in the […] The post Pipelines to payloads: risk management lessons for the space economy appeared first on SpaceNews.
Jul 20, 2026 1:00 PM
readthetape.cc
Show HN: Read the Tape – Wordle for daytrading, five blind S&P 500 charts a dayhttps://readthetape.cc/Read the Tape gives players the same 5 S&P500 stock charts per day to predict. You select low, medium or high confidence and then call the chart UP or DOWN. It's a 1d chart which then resolves over 5 days. Alpha is scored against the Monkey Index, a basket of 11 random coin flips at low confidence which provides a tangible win/lose condition.We're two weeks in and some interesting data is being kicked up. Players like to call tops even though stonks go up- 60% of the 70 charts so far resolve higher, players' down calls have only been right 31% of the time. There's a full stats dive at https://readthetape.cc/notes/tape-report-1Your feedback and thoughts is most welcome.
Jul 20, 2026 12:07 PM
science.nasa.gov
Fans of the Arctichttps://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/fans-of-the-arctic/Sediment eroded from ice-capped mountains splays out across a broad river valley on Russia’s Severny Island.
Jul 14, 2026 4:01 AM
news.google.com
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and Warzone Season 5 launches July 23, full detailshttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMitwFBVV95cUxNNEY2TW56LU0xeXZMWUNPMDNVSzVvNWJvelhzZUNaMko1bldqZnFlR2xDaEoxVURacG0tT2hMazNtZGFMWjNscFJGaFpsY19QeWdPQUI2bXR5RjZVMkRSYndUSjJtV1ZOa1JLakJucmxqZDhnT0x3MkRzVDB4SjViNjRibHpQTUgxWldqNDZwdkdrN1EtVnh5XzJRRTVrdHJEb2hENGZKaXpBS1VuUEdvMEhyeGY4dTA?oc=5Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and Warzone Season 5 launches July 23, full details  PlayStation.Blog
Jul 13, 2026 7:00 AM
wanderinghorse.net
Show HN: Rules-free solo-only client for the Paperback tabletop gamehttps://wanderinghorse.net/gaming/paperback/solo.htmlMy past couple of weeks were spent writing an app with which to play the word-spelling tabletop game Paperback in the browser.Tim Fowers, creator and publisher of the game, has given me permission to post my homemade electronic copy of the game (initially built so that i could print-and-play a copy with "US-Mini" size cards), and recently sent me (much to my surprise) the publisher's official graphical assets and an invitation to use them in this little side-project(!!!).The version housed at that link has a known bug or two (there's one too many 7-cent W's, for one thing) but it's otherwise believed to be usable for its intended purpose: allowing an experienced Paperback player to sit and play solo mode without the app interfering rules- or dictionary-wise. (My only real fuss about their official app is the locked dictionary. It does not allow the word "pawn", nor a wide range of other perfectly viable words. Secondarily, i'd like to be able to customize the game more and remove all o
Jul 12, 2026 6:04 AM
github.com
Show HN: 9lives – Self-healing test runner that refuses to mask real bugshttps://github.com/Quality-Max/9livesI built 9lives because coding agents kept breaking my Playwright tests in the dumbest way: rename a button, the test goes red, and the agent — or I — rewrites a perfectly good test.9l heal login.spec.ts runs the test, classifies the failure, and heals it in tiers:Tier 1 is offline and deterministic. When a selector stops matching, 9lives re-finds the element in the page snapshot Playwright captures at failure (data-testid > id > aria-label > text > class — the most stable surviving anchor wins) and rewrites the locator. No LLM, no network, no account. Most selector drift heals in seconds, for free. Unlike Healenium-style tools, it needs no baseline DOM from previous green runs — it works from the failure itself.Tier 2 uses the subscription you already pay for. For structural changes it shells out to your installed claude / codex / opencode CLI in headless mode, so the fix rides your existing coding-agent plan. No new API key to mint. (Raw ANTHROPIC_API_KEY / OPENAI_API_KEY work too.)Ev
Jul 10, 2026 6:01 PM
spacenews.com
China unveils members of state-backed commercial space consortiumhttps://spacenews.com/china-unveils-members-of-state-backed-commercial-space-consortium/HELSINKI — A Chinese government body has published a national commercial space consortium membership list, offering a rare indication of which companies the state considers established players. The list was […] The post China unveils members of state-backed commercial space consortium appeared first on SpaceNews.
Jul 10, 2026 5:07 PM
michael480th.github.io
Show HN: Banana Battle – DOS Gorillas rebuilt as a web gamehttps://michael480th.github.io/Banana-Battle/As a kid, I loved to play the DOS Gorillas game where you would throw bananas at your opponent, smashing cities as you go.I wanted to play it, so I rebuilt the classic QBasic/DOS "Gorillas" game from scratch as a mobile web app. It is playable in the browser and installable to your iPhone home screen.It's all vanilla HTML/Canvas/JavaScript. No frameworks, no build step, no dependencies, no tracking. A single static page served from GitHub Pages.A few bits that were fun to build: - Destructible terrain: buildings are painted to an offscreen canvas and explosions erase pixels - Ballistic physics with wind, sub-stepped so a fast banana can't tunnel through a thin building between frames. - Native share sheet (Web Share API) so you can text a friend your result with a "beat my score" challenge linkIt's hot-seat two-player (pass the phone, or share a keyboard: arrows to aim, space to throw).No original Microsoft code or assets — the code and pixel art are all my own (with some help from Cla
Jul 10, 2026 6:14 AM
news.ycombinator.com
I got tired of every .NET HTML-to-PDF library so I built a free one from scratchhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48853670Hi all, I've just open-sourced NetPDF, a project I've been building to scratch an itch that's bugged the .NET community for as long as I can remember, there has never been a genuinely free, high-quality HTML-to-PDF library.Every existing route has a real tradeoff:Headless-browser wrappers (Puppeteer/Playwright/Chromium): huge footprint, a native browser to ship and secure, a process to spawn per render.wkhtmltopdf wrappers: built on an unmaintained engine.Commercial libraries: excellent, but licensed per seat/server."Free" libraries: AGPL (viral copyleft) or a revenue cap that becomes a license fee once you grow.After years of working around this, I decided to build the thing I wanted. NetPDF is a real HTML/CSS layout engine written from scratch in C# - the same category as Prince or WeasyPrint, not "automate a browser."What it isA pure C# / .NET 10 engine that parses HTML + CSS and lays it out itself: block, inline, flexbox, grid, and tables, fragmentation across pages, paged-media (@
Jul 9, 2026 11:14 PM