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outbid.to
Show HN: Outbid.to, a pay-to-win leaderboard for websiteshttps://www.outbid.to/I built outbid.to as a simple experiment in transparent paid discovery.Submit a website, place a whole-dollar bid, and your bid determines your rank. The highest bidder takes #1. If someone outbids you, your listing moves down but stays live.There are no hidden ranking factors or editorial decisions. The minimum bid is $2, payments are handled through Stripe, and each listing shows the traffic it receives.I’m curious whether an openly pay-to-win leaderboard can be more useful and entertaining than traditional ads or sponsored directories.Would appreciate feedback on the ranking mechanics, pricing, and anything that feels unclear.
Aug 20, 2026 4:52 PM
tablecanon.app
Show HN: Building Table Canon, an AI Campaign Memory Engine for TTRPGshttps://tablecanon.app/Hey HN! I built Table Canon to solve a problem my playgroup kept running into: 3-4 hour tabletop gaming sessions leave behind massive audio recordings, but standard meeting note-takers treat every session as an isolated island, butcher fantasy terms, and don't know who is speaking.I wanted an engine that tracks long-term state across months of games, so I built a pipeline to extract entity updates, open quest hooks, and character promises across sessions.The Tech Stack:* Transcription: whisper-large-v3-turbo * Diarization: pyannote for speaker embeddings & voice profile matching Extraction & Memory: OpenAI API with Structured Outputs (JSON Schema enforcement for state updates) * TTS & Audio Recaps: Kokoro / Chatterbox Turbo Music Generation: ACE-Step-v1.5-XL-Turbo for rendering session summaries into lyrics/balladsA Few Engineering Lessons & Challenges:* State Delta Extraction vs. Context Explosions: Feeding 20 prior session transcripts into context windows quickly becomes cost-prohibi
Aug 20, 2026 4:40 PM
excusemyfrench.org
Show HN: Excuse My French – an Open Source French-learning apphttps://excusemyfrench.org/hi HN! Many years ago (in 2018) I wrote a simple French-learning exercise generator in Javascript for my wife. I was looking for a way to generate as many exercises as possible for her to practice. The idea was being able to generate a huge combination of sentences and being able to transform them deterministically based on French grammar rules. The generation and transformation is rule-based (no LLMs back then).For example, we generate (using rule-based) :> Je mange une pommethen we ask the engine to transform it to past and replace the pronoun:> Je l'ai mangéeThen we compare with the user's answer.I recently picked the project back up, thanks to AI coding tools and some free time I improved the UI, added more conventional bits (flashcards, dictation, progress tracking, etc). I kept the core of it: the rule-based sentence generator, because it allows to generate extremely fast locally and in a controlled way.I pushed this new version on the same repository : https://github.com/Celebio
Aug 20, 2026 3:54 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: No Path from Techie to Management?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49376072When I was a much more junior techie I would apply for management roles in my company only to be told that I needed more experience and to upgrade my credentials. Years later I have certifications, a graduate degree and have advanced through the technical ranks. Now when I apply to management roles I am told that they are looking for a fresh perspective after hiring junior to intermediate applicants into the roles.I am not an isolated example at my work and as a result we have lost some excellent talent. Is this happening at other companies or is mine an outlier?Outside of this problem I really like where I work and the people that I work with but I feel that I may need to move on if I want to advance my career. I can't think of a way to address this problem with the higher ups without torching my future further.
Aug 20, 2026 3:32 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: Do you automate your prospection or doing hand made?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49375869When your technical founder, prospection and talking to clients is pain.With AI we have tentation of automating everything.Linkedin or other social medias and letting AI do everything.Problem is that it is also painfull to automate because of anti-bot protections, and services that do it are not enough good (i think).But also that you go a little bit far from discovering your potential clients.What do you think about it?
Aug 20, 2026 3:18 PM
bing.com
Broward readies to vote on pulling fire-rescue from the Sheriff’s Officehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a897c6138544cc7ad82a864ad6fd5af&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sun-sentinel.com%2F2026%2F08%2F20%2Fbroward-readies-to-vote-on-pulling-fire-rescue-from-the-sheriffs-office%2F&c=14819890052791620613&mkt=en-usThe Broward County Commission put the Sheriff’s Office on notice Thursday that it’s serious about taking back control of the county’s fire-rescue service after more than 20 years. Elected officials ...
Aug 20, 2026 2:25 PM
scibly.com
Show HN: Open-source tool turning company knowledge into Duolingo-like courseshttps://www.scibly.com/de/My buddy and I have been working on a side project for the past few months called Scibly.The idea is pretty simple:Companies already have an incredible amount of knowledge sitting in PDFs, documentation, internal wikis, etc. The problem is turning all of that information into something employees can actually learn from and retain.For this reason we decided to build Scibly, a tool that automatically turns boring company knowledge into interactive, Duolingo-like (but better) learning experiences.Today, we decided to open-source the whole thing.We're still pretty inexperienced when it comes to open source, so we'd genuinely love to hear your feedback, whether that's about the product, the idea, the codebase, or how we're approaching the project.Short product demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcpLUNBRhQwGithub: https://github.com/scibly-dev/sciblyWould love to hear what you guys think!
Aug 20, 2026 1:11 PM
markdownbuddy.inawa.app
Show HN: Markdown Buddy – Native macOS Markdown Editor with Quick Look and Xcodehttps://markdownbuddy.inawa.app/I write a lot of project documentation in Markdown, and two things kept annoying me on macOS: Quick Look shows .md files as raw text, and Xcode shows a README as plain source. So I built the app I wanted. Swift and AppKit, 4.8 MB, sandboxed. The editor is a plain NSTextView. The rendered view is WKWebView, so it uses the system engine rather than a bundled browser, which is where the size difference comes from. Quick Look and Finder thumbnails are separate app extensions sharing the same renderer.Beyond preview: open a folder as a workspace and browse every .md in a tree, search across all of them, and see a graph of the links between documents with broken ones flagged. An Xcode Source Editor extension opens the file you are looking at, rendered, from the Editor menu.One implementation detail I found non-obvious. The live preview restyles the NSTextStorage as you type. The hard rule is that it must never touch attributes while an input method is composing, or Japanese, Chinese and Kore
Aug 20, 2026 1:08 PM
tomaytotomato.github.io
Show HN: Sitmap – a World in Conflict inspired map maker for Cold War scenarioshttps://tomaytotomato.github.io/sitmap/I loved the game World in Conflict (2007)One of those aspects I enjoyed was the maps shown during the loading screens. The colour choices and aesthetics were really striking and made the game even more immersive.Using Claude Fable and some photoshop skills, with a few tweaks here and there. I managed to get something quite useable and probably useless to most people shipped.If you enjoy maps, military, strategy etc, hopefully it is of interest to you.
Aug 20, 2026 12:59 PM
bing.com
Dark Matter season 1 recap and ending explained: Everything you need to know before season 2 arriveshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8974b94e264dea9e7707be12855cfd&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.primetimer.com%2Ffeatures%2Fdark-matter-season-1-recap-and-ending-explained-everything-you-need-to-know-before-season-2-arrives&c=7233665737399560233&mkt=en-usDark Matter season 1 revolves around Jason Dessen’s journey through various realities before the shocking ending that lays the foundation for an even greater multiverse story in the upcoming season.
Aug 20, 2026 12:32 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Algorithm Interview: a conversation between two parrotshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49373709Algorithm Interview: a conversation between two parrotsAll children know that parrots can talk. All adults understand that parrots simply repeat sounds.You'll laugh, but these same adults actually believe that an Algorithm Interview is a conversation between a very smart algorithm expert who is trying to find out whether the candidate understands algorithms at an acceptable level…So, how many ycombinator.com readers have successfully passed the algorithms interview? Probably tens of thousands.Well, how many of them were able to understand that breaking down sorting into independent stages is a Fundamental Discovery? Zero!Zero questions and comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314420P.S. Have you ever thought that NOT everyone has a mental model? But most people just memorize ready-made answers instead of understanding the problem?I recommend reading The Programmers' Stone https://www.datapacrat.com/Opinion/Reciprocality/r0/index.html ---------------8
Aug 20, 2026 12:29 PM
bing.com
The lesson of this common yoga pose? You're the hero of your own life.http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a24783ffc44659540a009b17ac054&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fhealth%2Ffitness%2Fthe-lesson-of-this-common-yoga-pose-you-re-the-hero-of-your-own-life%2Far-AA2aA6ph&c=12345693994832843720&mkt=en-usHero Pose alleviates fatigue in the legs and brings balance to the feet, making it a natural conclusion to an arduous standing practice.
Aug 20, 2026 9:27 AM
bing.com
China Is Strapping ‘Digital Bombs’ to Civilian Infrastructure—Is the US Ready?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a1f80f64c46128afaa272b2ff9661&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fstory%2Fchina-is-strapping-digital-bombs-to-civilian-infrastructure-is-the-us-ready%2F&c=8549204074435303654&mkt=en-usThis week on “Uncanny Valley,” Andy Greenberg discusses sitting in on a war game simulating a cyberattack from the Chinese hacking group Volt Typhoon ...
Aug 20, 2026 9:02 AM
bing.com
China Is Strapping ‘Digital Bombs’ to Civilian Infrastructure—Is the US Ready?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a1f85fe1147e7abb7b3f97421f77e&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fstory%2Fchina-is-strapping-digital-bombs-to-civilian-infrastructure-is-the-us-ready%2F&c=8549204074435303654&mkt=en-usThis week on “Uncanny Valley,” Andy Greenberg discusses sitting in on a war game simulating a cyberattack from the Chinese hacking group Volt Typhoon ...
Aug 20, 2026 9:02 AM
news.ycombinator.com
Offline RAG on iOS with Spatial Integrationhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49371913I'm the developer behind CartoType. I’ve been working on bridging local language models with offline mapping, and I have just put together a demo of a completely offline Spatial RAG pipeline running natively on an iPhone. The new system is named the CartoType Field Assistant. You can find the website at https://cartotype.comDemo (1m 19s): https://www.youtube.com/shorts/a8yQPn7_jyIUse cases: Any organisation with field technicians or emergency first responders needs complex procedural knowledge tied to physical locations ('assets') where they don't have guaranteed network connectivity. Examples include offshore wind farms, power distribution networks, railway infrastructure, mountain rescue, and military uses.For this demo I query the iPhone app in Airplane mode: "A hiker near Tuolumne Meadows has a dislocated shoulder. What is the reduction protocol, and where is the Tuolumne Meadows Ranger Station?"HOW IT WORKSThe core is a portable C++ engine running vector search across an encrypted
Aug 20, 2026 8:28 AM
tadidum.com
Show HN: An attempt to do a healthy screentime app for toddlershttps://tadidum.com/hello, I am an indie-dev and I recently made an app for my 2y old. I am in the camp that avoids screentime as much as possible, but I also feel that she gets curious with these things that are in our hands all the time, so a complete ban is not possible. anyway we show her family photos, and grandparents do video calls.. so she's well aware that it is an interesting toy.As she turned 2, she started demanding the phone to fiddle with it on her own. and the terrible twos are a thing, so we've never been able to just say no and expect her to move on. sometimes the tantrum she threw was such a pain to deal with that we started to think about ways. Tried parental control to lock the phone. But it was annoying when she would take a 100 useless photos. and on the gallery she can come close to deleting stuff.It got me thinking and I ended up making an app that resembled a phone. It has a camera, dialer, gallery, and some mini-apps which are designed in a way to avoid any dopamine inducing patt
Aug 20, 2026 8:27 AM
bing.com
Meet The World’s Best Management Consulting Firms 2026http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88ea759ed74d7abdb4ca0e501d93af&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Fhaniyarae%2F2026%2F08%2F20%2Fmeet-the-worlds-best-management-consulting-firms-2026%2F&c=857625568395228217&mkt=en-usThis voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Alvarez & Marsal teams gather at the annual offsite in Goa, India. The ranking, produced in ...
Aug 20, 2026 6:44 AM
github.com
Show HN: Do-over, undo for AI agent shell commandshttps://github.com/CaydenChik/dooverHello HN,I built this after a coding agent deleted my files while tidying a project. Do-over plugs into Claude Code's hooks and snapshots what a command is about to touch right before it runs.I know what you're thinking. Why don't you just commit more often?This tool doesn't seek to replace git. What it does is: [1] Protect the stuff git doesn't protect: your untracked/ignored files and files that exist outside your repo (which is how a guy lost 50GB of data - Claude code issue tracker) [2] Protects you when git itself is weaponized by your agent: git checkout ., git clean -fd, and git reset --hard (a three year old Unity project was deleted this way - Claude Code issue tracker) [3] Protects you in the case when you're just forgetful and don't commitIt really is a simple safeguard to potential headaches. And it's a last mile effort that secures what current measures can't. That includes sandboxes, checkpoints, git.
Aug 20, 2026 6:42 AM
bing.com
The best expense tracker apps of 2026http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88def933804fc2b41fdaddf5755e83&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2Fselect%2Fbest-expense-tracker-apps%2F&c=14646265661636947450&mkt=en-usTracking spending is the first step to getting your finances in order. An expense tracker app can make it a lot easier to account for every dollar as you spend it, rather than sitting down with a ...
Aug 20, 2026 6:40 AM