Solving all open source tech debt with CodexWhy dont companies simply use codex to solve all tech debts across github open source? With recent 5.6 sol these dont look too difficult, does it?
Show HN: Meridian(PH#1) A better way to recognize developer contributionsHi HN! We built Meridian because we kept seeing the same thing: developers get estimates for planned work, and then spend a huge chunk of their time doing everything that wasn't planned.Debugging something weird, helping a teammate, reviewing PRs, jumping on an incident, fixing a flaky test, answering questions, etc. All useful work, but a lot of it never makes it back into the estimate.So when the sprint slips, it can look like the estimate was wrong, when really, a bunch of other work happened in between.Meridian is our attempt to make that work visible and better account for it. We’re building it in the open and open sourcing it because we’d much rather have developers tell us where we're getting this wrong than build another productivity dashboard in a vacuum.We launched last week and ended up #1 on Product Hunt, which was pretty wild. Now we're looking for feedback from the core dev community.Curious how you deal with unplanned work today, and whether this is actually a problem wo
Launch HN: Salem Robotics (YC S26) – Software for industrial inspection robotsHi HN, we're the founders of Salem Robotics (https://salemroboticsinc.com). We give existing mobile robots the task-specific intelligence to carry out surveys and physically interactive inspections in hazardous industrial facilities.Here's a video of it running on real robot hardware with a few words from us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_228h3NE7cWe came to Salem through robotics research at UT Austin and a combined 15 years working in nuclear, including about 10 years developing and deploying autonomous robots at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Over the last five years, we kept running into the same gap: robot hardware had become very capable, but making a robot carry out a complete industrial procedure still required a surprising amount of robotics work and manual intervention.The part that interested us most was manipulation. A nuclear contamination survey, for example, can require taking a "smear": wiping a defined area of a surface so it can be checked for removable radioacti
Show HN: Watches user sessions, finds bugs that matter, and fixes themHey HN,I’m Abhishek. I'm building Opslane, an open-source agent that identifies user-facing issues and investigates them. It only creates a PR if it can verify the fix.Demo: https://youtu.be/ccuOTYQMeYg Docs: https://docs.opslane.comAt my last job at Robinhood, we used to do a quarterly bug bash. We would go through our Sentry backlog and try to fix as many of them as possible. We only fixed bugs we knew were reported by customers. We had hundreds of bugs, and Sentry’s default priority levels made no sense. After the bug bash, we would declare bankruptcy - select all remaining bugs and mark them as resolved.This problem has only gotten worse since coding agents have become more prevalent.So I started thinking: what would Sentry look like if it were built in 2026?To me, error trackers have two failure modes:1. False positives: They show you thousands of errors, and you can’t tell the impact on the user2. False negatives: Many user-facing issues don’t throw exceptions, so they go unnotic
Fed's Cook responds to Trump firing threat, calls attacks "unfounded and untrue"A lawyer for Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook said she "has never committed mortgage fraud or any intentional wrongdoing."
Ask HN: Should I leave web development to study medicine in my mid-30s?Alt account for obvious reasons.For a while, I’ve been quite demoralized about my job. I just can’t take pride in what I do as a web developer anymore. I don’t know if that will ever change. I can’t help feeling that a lot of dev jobs out there, whether highly or poorly paid, are kind of pointless in the grand scheme of things. I apologize for being so blunt: I just want to convey where my mind is at the moment. I struggle to see my own work as useful, and it’s seriously affecting my self-worth.It’s bothering me to the point where I’m seriously considering a career change. The alternative I keep returning to is medicine. I feel drawn to work with a clear human purpose, in which my knowledge could directly help someone. Between self-study and late-night deployments, I already work long hours anyway. Part of me thinks I might as well redirect that effort toward something that feels like a net positive. However, I may be idealizing a profession I haven’t experienced firsthand.If I were yo
Ask HN: How to Vibe Design as Engineer?Design is an underdetermined problem - that's why we describe it using "taste". LLMs are not great at undetermined problems. So how do you constraint the space and what's your feedback flywheel? What's your process?
Show HN: Feisty Duck's Cryptography and Security News AggregatorI thought this was something the Hacker News audience would appreciate; it's an aggregator of computer and security news. We initially built it for ourselves (we have a monthly newsletter, for 12+ years), but realised that others might like it as well.Although we collect a wide range of news, we currently promote to the front page what's on-topic for our audience, which is (currently) Web PKI, TLS, post-quantum cryptography, some cryptography, some security, and some privacy. We generally don't do vulnerabilities at all (although those will inevitably be picked for in the "all news" section).I've made an attempt to amplify the original voices in the security space, rather than just collecting what's already news. There's more work to be done in that direction.
Show HN: Backprompter – create, test, and deploy agents without a back endHi everyone,I am a professor in AI, and I often build AI apps as a hobby and for academic projects. I felt that I was wasting too much time setting up backends, DB, and secrets for each app, and testing the prompts, updating them, and redeploying seemed tedious. So I built Backprompter to do all this without any setup.You can create agents, track different versions, test them, create mock users, simulate conversations, and track your evaluations. It supports usual agent setups - model selection, prompts, RAG, and tools (currently, HTTP API calls). Agents can also be combined by simply tagging them and describing the orchestration in natural language.For production, there is a single-click deployment of a chatbot interface, no setup needed. Also, developers can integrate the agents with their own frontend (Backprompter handles authentication and data management), or with their own backend if they want more control over authentication and data management. With one click, you can deploy y
In a swipe at Tesla, Waymo says ‘cameras… aren’t enough’As Tesla gears up for the official launch of its steering wheel and pedal-less Cybercabs, Waymo is issuing a stark warning about Elon Musk's approach autonomous driving. Srikanth Thirumalai, Waymo's VP of Onboard Software, doesn't specifically call out Musk or Tesla in a blog post, published Wednesday, entitled "10 AI Lessons from Driving 200+ Million […]
"Big Brother" to air 1,000th episodeAs "Big Brother" airs its 1,000th episode, host Julie Chen Moonves breaks down what makes the show so popular. Jonathan Vigliotti reports.
White House construction was a factor in Marine One safety incident, NTSB findsAir traffic controllers at National Airport did not stop commercial flights when President Donald Trump took off from a temporary location at the Ellipse in early August, investigators said.
Alex Warren shares how his father's posthumous messages inspired his sophomore albumAlex Warren, whose breakout hit "Ordinary" topped charts in 2025, releases his second album on Friday. The singer-songwriter sat down with Anthony Mason to talk about how his new record differs from his first, and how he found inspiration from the loss of his parents.
Show HN: bAIseball.org – Google for historical baseball statsI launched a new website, bAIseball.org. Think of it as Google for baseball stats: it answers just about any freeform question you might have about baseball statistical history from pre-1900 through the current season, using free data sources like the Sean Lahman database, Retrosheet.org, and MLB.com.Questions it can answer include (but are certainly not limited to):- Who are the top players who hit the most all-time doubles on Thursdays?- List the top 25 team seasons by the number of consecutive games in which they hit a home run- Who is the heaviest player to ever hit a triple?- What is the tallest sum of heights of a single game’s winning and losing pitchers?- Give me the top 10 players by combined attendance at their away (road) games- What is the most number of consecutive games a team has played in which either they or their opponents have hit a home run?- Which players played in the most consecutive games for their team? Include players who switched teams during their streaks- F
Sprains, pain, and whiplash: Waymo and Zoox test drivers are getting hurt as robotaxis scaleTest drivers for Waymo and Zoox sustained more than two dozen injuries in 2024 and 2025 from hard braking or other sudden movements made by the autonomous vehicles, according to a TechCrunch review of data submitted to OSHA.
49ers 18-12 Raiders (Aug 27, 2026) Final Score - ESPNRams coach Sean McVay said the team acquired Tutu Atwell to add depth to the receiver room and had "nothing to do" with a possible suspension for Puka Nacua. Raiders coach Klint Kubiak refused to name ...
Show HN: Vertex, your personal archiver and annotatorHey Hacker News! I'd like to showcase Vertex.Vertex is a browser extension [1] (currently only Chrome) and a web app [2] for saving bookmarks (vertices) along with the source documents.You can save optional notes along with (almost) everything you can save on Vertex. You can organise your vertices into sets [3] or connect them together as you see fit. Your vertices can hold snapshot(s) of the source. These are self-contained, parseable MHTML documents which stay immutable independently of the source.Additionally, the Vertex extension will highlight your saved links (along with notes) as you browse.I built Vertex because of problems I faced — links I cared about silently changed or disappeared, and once my collection got large enough, I lost track of which identical-looking URL I wanted.Vertex sits between existing archiving systems like ArchiveBox [4] and note-taking applications like Obsidian [5] — snapshots on one side, annotations and a graph on the other. And unlike Wayback Machine
Piggybunz is Impressive First Winner for Happy SaverThe gray or roan filly wins her racing debut by 5 1/4 lengths at Colonial Downs for owners Bowen Thoroughbred Racing and the Estate of Brereton C. Jones.
Travers Tops Busy Weekend of Racing ProgrammingA rundown of television, streaming, and radio coverage of a big weekend of racing including the Travers Stakes (G1) day at Saratoga Race Course and a number of lucrative stakes at Kentucky Downs.
AI ArtistIn Tamil, there is a casual saying 'nee kodu potta avan rodu poduvan'. The meaning is you draw a line and he will make the road. Mainly used to talk about someone who is very capable, someone who can expand and explore and make it big if only you can show him the direction. I feel AI is somewhat like that. You can make it expand your thoughts and ideas. But you need to know the line you are drawing. If your line is not clear, then AI will expand that as well into a six-lane highway leading to nowhere. Because it sounds so good, you will be riding on great highways and not belong anywhere. Then you have to be able to point out and say 'dei road anga illa' (bro, there is no road there). This is the new skill. Your ability to draw lines in the right place, to build the right shape that identifies a problem clearly, the boundary conditions, the constraints, the outcome worth pursuing and you can see AI amplify it into a nice road with houses around. I don't think this is taught anywhere. I