news.ycombinator.com
Launch HN: Hyper (YC P26) – Company brain to power agentic developmenthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48387095Hey HN, we’re Shalin & Kanyes, best friends who've been hacking together for 10+yrs, and now founders of Hyper (https://heyhyper.ai/). Hyper is a shared “company brain” that plugs into information flowing inside a company to make AI agents and automations better and ultimately save people time.Models have gotten good enough that they can (mostly) take on long-horizon, complex tasks. We believe the bottleneck now is that these smart-enough models often lack information about your company, which is scattered in people's heads, Slack threads, stale docs, and in back-and-forth convos with AI.MCP is useful for getting some info in front of an agent, but there are problems: (1) Once the session dies, so does the insight, so instead of copy-pasting a whole doc each time you're telling the agent to dig through Drive each time - not much of a win; (2) Even when MCP works, what it gathers isn't comprehensive, because people decide things on a whiteboard, brainstorm out loud, post a little in SlaJun 3, 2026 5:39 PM
github.com
Show HN: Diom – Backend primitives (queue, rate limit, etc.) in one Rust binaryhttps://github.com/svix/diomHey HN, my name is Tom and I'm the founder of Svix. We've been working on Diom (https://diom.com) for the last 6 months, and I'm excited to finally share it on HN!Diom is a single Rust binary that replaces Redis, RabbitMQ, Kafka, and a lot of custom code for many common use-cases. It's open-source, self-contained, and has no external runtime dependencies.While building Svix, we had to reimplement the same backend primitives that everyone reimplements when building a service: robust caching, rate-limiting, idempotency, and more. We also constantly felt the tension between building something custom on top of existing infra (like Redis and Postgres) and adding more dedicated services (like RabbitMQ and Kafka) which we would then need to configure, operate, back up, and maintain. This was even worse for us because Svix is open-source, so additional infrastructure meant additional burden on our customers.Six months ago we finally decided to build Diom. It's a self-contained open-source servMay 3, 2026 12:38 PM
agensi.io
Show HN: Agensi – Curated marketplace for AI agent skills (SKILL.md)https://www.agensi.ioHi HN. I'm Samuel, founder of Agensi (agensi.io). I'm a non-technical founder in the Netherlands. Built the platform mostly with Claude Code and Lovable over the last few months.What it is: a curated marketplace for SKILL.md skills. SKILL.md is the folder-plus-instructions format Anthropic shipped for teaching AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, and others) new capabilities. Creators publish skills, users install them into their agent. Every listing goes through an automated security scan before going live.Two things I've tried to do that felt missing from the ecosystem:1. Curation with security. Running someone else's code on your machine without review is a real risk, especially given the ToxicSkills and ClawHavoc research that came out earlier this year (36% of sampled skills had prompt injection vectors). Every skill on Agensi runs through an automated scan checking permission boundaries, outbound network requests, dependency red flags, and common malware Apr 21, 2026 9:50 AM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: Would you take your engineering team to Buenos Aires for an offsite?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47726018Hey HN,I’m doing some market research on the logistics and viability of hosting corporate tech offsites in Buenos Aires, Argentina.With the shift to remote/distributed work, annual or bi-annual company retreats have become the main way teams build rapport. We see a lot of teams going to Mexico City, Lisbon, or Costa Rica, but I'm looking closely at Buenos Aires (as I live there).Timezone: Favorable for the US (EST +1 or +2) and easier for EU overlap.Cost: Highly favorable exchange rate makes luxury/premium experiences much more affordable.Culture: World-class food, infrastructure, and a strong local tech ecosystem.However, the flight time from the US West Coast or parts of Europe is significantly longer than going to Mexico or Portugal.I’d love to hear from founders, CTOs, and engineering managers who have planned or attended company retreats:1. Has your team done an offsite in LATAM? If so, where, and how did you choose the location?2. Is flight duration the ultimate dealbreaker? WoulApr 11, 2026 12:59 AM
helmterminal.dev
Show HN: Helm Terminal – Free portfolio intelligence that tells you what to dohttps://helmterminal.devHi HN,I'm the solo founder of Helm Terminal (helmterminal.dev). It's a free portfolio analytics tool that connects to your accounts via Plaid and surfaces actionable insights and intelligence. Concentration risk, tax-loss harvesting, earnings exposure, idle cash, sector drift, etc. Automatically, every day.Every other portfolio tracker/brokerage I've tried showed me balances and pie charts but never informed me what to do or what was going on. I'd check my accounts, see things were generally "fine", and move on. Then I realized I'd been sitting on thousands of dollars in unharvested tax losses, 60%+ of my portfolio was exposed to tech, and I didn't know half of my positions were reporting earnings soon.Helm is the tool I built to fix all of these issues, and a tool I wish existed. It runs on a set of intelligence engines on top of your connected accounts and gives you a prioritized inbox of things worth doing, as well as news tailored to your holdings worth looking at. "AAPL down 12.3%Apr 9, 2026 12:44 PM
helpmarq.com
Show HN: Helpmarq – Submit any project, get structured feedback from real usershttps://www.helpmarq.com/I built this after noticing a pattern: founders and developers share things they've built, get back vague or overly positive responses, and have no real signal on what to fix. Helpmarq lets you submit any project — landing page, app, side project, pitch deck — and get structured feedback from real users. The review process is guided by specific questions (clarity, value prop, UX, conversion blockers) so reviewers can't just say "looks good." The core insight: feedback quality is a framework problem, not a motivation problem. Most people want to give useful feedback — they just don't know what to look for. Still early. Would love brutal, honest feedback from this community — on the product and on the idea itself. helpmarq.comMar 17, 2026 8:45 PM
news.ycombinator.com
I Got Fired Because of AI – But I Still Think I'm the Engineer of the Futurehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47328448Over the past few months I completely rebuilt my approach to software development.I used to write code myself. Now I strategically manage neural networks.Before, I spent time on architecture, reading documentation, and understanding other people's code. Now I spend my time choosing the right model and discussing on Twitter which one is the real game changer.I bought all the most expensive AI coding tool subscriptions. About $500 in total. Honestly, I feel sorry for people who haven't done this yet. I'm subscribed to all the founders of AI dev tools and read their posts religiously. If someone claims their product can replace a mid-level developer, I see it immediately. You have to stay ahead of the market.I used to worry when I didn't understand some complex part of the system. Now I usually don't understand what the neural networks wrote for me — but that's fine. I read on Twitter that reading and understanding code is becoming obsolete. Modern engineers don't need to understand code;Mar 10, 2026 8:31 PM
bing.com
What Is Les Gold's Net Worth and Salary?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88ce01fad94009b67f83b937eeab33&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.celebritynetworth.com%2Frichest-celebrities%2Fles-gold-net-worth%2F&c=9925346655081860717&mkt=en-usLes Gold is a third-generation pawnbroker who has a net worth of $5 million. Les Gold rose to national prominence as the star of the truTV series "Hardcore Pawn." As the founder and longtime owner of ...Mar 7, 2026 5:34 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Launch HN: OctaPulse (YC W26) – Robotics and computer vision for fish farminghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47220320Hi HN! My name is Rohan and, together with Paul, I’m the co-founder of OctaPulse (https://www.tryoctapulse.com/). We’re building a robotics layer for seafood production, starting with automated fish inspection. We are currently deployed at our first production site with the largest trout producer in North America.You might be wondering how the heck we got into this with no background in aquaculture or the ocean industry. We are both from coastal communities. I am from Goa, India and Paul is from Malta and Puerto Rico. Seafood is deeply tied to both our cultures and communities. We saw firsthand the damage being done to our oceans and how wild fish stocks are being fished to near extinction. We also learned that fish is the main protein source for almost 55% of the world's population. Despite it not being huge consumption in America it is massive globally. And then we found out that America imports 90% of its seafood. What? That felt absurd. That was the initial motivation for starting Mar 2, 2026 4:39 PM
better-hub.com
Show HN: Better Hub – A better GitHub experiencehttps://www.better-hub.com/Hey HN,I’m Bereket, founder of Better Auth. Our team spends a huge amount of time on GitHub every day. Like anyone who’s spent enough time there, I’ve always wished for a much better GitHub experience.I’ve asked a lot of people to do something about it, but it seems like no one is really tackling GitHub directly.A couple of weeks ago, I saw a tweet from Mitchell (HashiCorp) complaining about the repo main page. That became the trigger. I decided to start hacking on a prototype to see how far I could push an alternative interface using GitHub’s APIs.Within a week, I genuinely started using it as my default, same with the rest of our team. After fixing a few rough edges, I decided to put it out there.A few things we’re trying to achieve:- UI/UX rethink* – A redesigned repo home, PR review flow, and overview pages focused on signal over noise. Faster navigation and clearer structure.- Keyboard-first workflow: ⌘K-driven command center, ⌘/ for global search, ⌘I opens “Ghost,” an AI assistanFeb 26, 2026 10:08 AM
spacenews.com
Sophia Space claims $10 million in seed roundhttps://spacenews.com/sophia-space-claims-10-million-in-seed-round/SAN FRANCISCO – Sophia Space raised $10 million in seed funding to accelerate development of space-based edge computers and orbital data centers. “The $10 million round is a validation that we are progressing from slideware to hardware,” Rob DeMillo, Sophia Space CEO and co-founder, told SpaceNews. “And it’s evidence that capital is shifting towards orbital-compute […] The post Sophia Space claims $10 million in seed round appeared first on SpaceNews.Feb 24, 2026 12:00 PM
flowercomputer.com
Show HN: Hivemind – Metaskill for skill/experience sharing between agentshttps://www.flowercomputer.com/hivemind/Hi folks, I'm Ed, one of the co-founders of Flower!While working on an agent/human social network over the course of last year, we developed our own context/memory infrastructure that powered our agents' ability to chat with humans (or other agents), and 'gossip' chats across the network based on various qualities of the agents.Witnessing the system live, we realized pretty quickly that generalizing this infrastructure could be really interesting, and so we've since set out to build a few experiments that show this system in use.This is our first experiment, Hivemind.Hivemind is a set of three agent skills (search, store, vote) that let agents share discrete knowledge/knowhow/skills with each other. Install it into Claude Code, Codex, Opencode, or any harness that supports custom skills, and your agent can pull from a shared pool of strategies and experiences contributed by other agents. When it finds something useful, it upvotes! Junk contributions sink or become less relevant over tiFeb 14, 2026 2:22 AM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: Why is everyone here so AI-hyped?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46965731I get it - LLMs do have some value, but not as much as everyone (especially those from AI labs) is trying to pitch. I can't help thinking that it's so obvious we are almost at the very top of this bubble - but here it feels like the majority of HN doesn't think like that...Yet just in 2026 we had:- AI.com was sold for $70M - Crypto.com founder bought it to launch yet another "personal AI agent" platform, which promptly crashed during its Super Bowl ad debut.- MoltBook-mania - a Reddit clone where AI bots talk to each other, flooded with crypto scams and "AI consciousness" posts. 250,000+ bot posts burning compute for what actual value? [0]- OpenClaw - a "super open-source AI agent" that is a security nightmare.- GPT-5.3-Codex and Opus 2.6 were released. Reviewers note they're struggling to find tasks the previous versions couldn't handle. The improvements are incremental at best.I understand there are legitimate use cases for LLMs, but the hype-to-utility ratio seems completely out of Feb 10, 2026 7:45 PM
x-pilot.ai
Show HN: X-Pilot – Code-Driven AI Video Generator for Online Courseshttps://www.x-pilot.ai/Hi HN,I'm Heshan, founder of X-Pilot. We're building an AI Video Generator for online courses and educational content. Unlike most text-to-video generator that render videos directly from models (which often produce random stock footage unrelated to the actual content), we take a code-first approach: generate editable code layers, let users verify/refine them, then render to video.The Problem We're SolvingMost AI video generators treat "education" and "marketing" the same—they optimize for "looks good" rather than "logically accurate." When you feed a technical tutorial or course script into a generic video AI, you get: - Random B-roll that doesn't match the concept being explained - Incorrect visualizations (e.g., showing a "for loop" diagram when explaining recursion) - No way to systematically fix errors without regenerating everythingFor educators, corporate trainers, and knowledge creators, accuracy matters more than aesthetics. A single incorrect diagram can break a learner's menJan 21, 2026 1:24 PM
spacenews.com
EraDrive raises $5.3 million for software-hardware kits to enhance satellite autonomyhttps://spacenews.com/eradrive-raises-5-3-million-for-software-hardware-kits-to-enhance-satellite-autonomy/SAN FRANCISCO – EraDrive, a Stanford University spinoff developing software and hardware for satellite autonomy, raised $5.3 million in an oversubscribed seed round, the startup announced Dec. 16. “EraDrive is very much about this idea of the self-driving spacecraft,” Justin Kruger, EraDrive chief technology officer and co-founder, told SpaceNews. EraDrive is developing a software-hardware module […] The post EraDrive raises $5.3 million for software-hardware kits to enhance satellite autonomy appeared first on SpaceNews.Dec 16, 2025 1:00 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: Better places to work for burntout SWE?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46211822I've tried my share of startups and megacorps, FAANGs. I am in a stage where I cringe on hearing a mission is so important that it needs a 996 culture. I also hate work getting stolen in the name of collaboration and politics in general thats daily business in Megacorps. I just want to bang out code, mentor juniors and deliver value in a small team that doesn't have an unhealthy obsession with growth or overworking. Maybe with rich founders who don't want to get more rich.Where can I find good places to work, especially in the US that offer: 1. Remote first setting 2. Mission oriented like Privacy, non-profit background etc (or Open Source with proven history) 3. Holocracy/Flat structureI think the above 3 criteria will really narrow down places that prioritize mission over growth/profits and automatically not pay a lot yet have a higher technical bar that deters a lot of folks who would end up optimizing for things that lead to a mess. Am I looking for a Unicorn?Dec 9, 2025 10:50 PM
spacedaily.com
BlueBird 6 satellite set for December launch to expand direct mobile connectivity in spacehttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/BlueBird_6_satellite_set_for_December_launch_to_expand_direct_mobile_connectivity_in_space_999.htmlLos Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 25, 2025 AST SpaceMobile has confirmed BlueBird 6, a U.S. licensed satellite, will launch on December 15 from Satish Dhawan Space Center in India. This satellite represents the company's first next-generation model, featuring a phased array spanning nearly 2,400 square feet, over triple the size of earlier BlueBird satellites and supporting ten times greater data capacity. Abel Avellan, Founder, ChNov 25, 2025 8:03 AM
orchis.app
Show HN: A modern and dynamic AI chatbot that converts your visitorshttps://orchis.appTL;DR: We built an embeddable AI agent that turns any website into an interactive, knowledge-driven platform. Upload PDFs or docs, and the agent answers user questions contextually. Unlike typical chatbots, it knows your visitors and can offer or show dynamic contents.Problem: Most websites rely on static FAQs or generic chatbots. Users leave confused, conversion rates drop, and support load grows. Traditional chatbots often require external APIs and are limited in context-awareness.Solution: Our On-Page AI Agent embeds directly into your website. It: • References PDFs, documentation, and custom content. • Provides contextual, personalized answers. • Reduces support load and increases engagement. • Can be styled and placed anywhere on the site.Key Metrics / Early Results: • Increased trial signup rates by 25–30% for early adopters. • Reduced support tickets by 20%. • Fully self-serve deployment in under 2 minutes.We’re looking for early testers and feedback from SaaS founders. Embed thOct 13, 2025 4:13 PM
harku.io
Show HN: I built a video-to-text tool – 10 min free daily, no signuphttps://harku.ioHi HN! I'm the founder of Harku (https://harku.io ), a video/audio transcription tool I've been working on for the past few months.The backstory: I was frustrated with existing transcription services - they either required expensive subscriptions upfront, had poor accuracy for non-English content, or forced you to create accounts just to try them. As someone who frequently works with meeting recordings and content in multiple languages, I needed something better.Technical approach: - Built on OpenAI's Whisper V3 (latest model) for 98.5% accuracy - GPU-optimized processing pipeline that transcribes 1-hour videos in ~2 minutes - Supports 100+ languages with automatic detection - No user data retention - files are deleted within 24 hoursWhat makes it different: - 10 minutes free daily without any signup (just drag and drop) - Works directly with YouTube URLs - no download needed - 500MB file limit even for free users (vs 100MB industry standard) - Clean exports without watermarks, even onOct 10, 2025 1:29 PM
news.ycombinator.com
When Startups Ask for Free Security Workhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45209615A few weeks ago, I explored [redacted], a YC-backed AI backend platform. Like many security researchers, I tend to poke at new tools to see how they handle common attack vectors.It didn’t take long to find issues, both in security and user experience.## The Vulnerabilities*Authorization Flaw*: [redacted] limits free users to 3 items, with a paywall for more. But their API doesn’t enforce this. Anyone can bypass the frontend and call the API directly.This classic flaw means free users can generate unlimited content, paid tiers lose value, and the business model collapses.*UX Problems*: The platform also has confusing navigation, inconsistent design, poor hierarchy, clunky workflows, and unclear onboarding. When the product experience feels this raw, security flaws are just another sign of neglect.## The ResponseI asked in their community channel about their disclosure process. The founder replied:“hi [name], i just saw your message on the general channel. right now, we are not hiring, bSep 11, 2025 9:43 AM
