Vimeo Business vs Brightcove comparisonSpread the loveWhen it comes to professional video hosting, content management, and distribution, businesses often find themselves weighing two formidable contenders: Vimeo and Brightcove. Both ...
Show HN: Self-Hosted Social Media Agents with Raspberry PiA while back I posted about a project I was working on for a real-time voice agent that runs ads on Meta to build conviction and prioritize side gig/business ideas (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48900788); you yammer away and it automates market research, problem statements and hypotheses. I've been working with some folks from HN on the app since then.What we've been focused on building is a modern solo-founder GTM tool -- figuring out how to triangulate aspiration, problems only you can solve, and organic distribution in one solution. So, not building apps; but rather helping you figure out what you like and then connect you with the right people that can help you on your journey and find the communities to help you distribute it.For the latter, I was impressed by the recent Grok bot launch; but didn't want Elon accessing all of our accounts to train on -- so I set-up dockerized social media agents that run at home on a Raspberry Pi. They'll do the same job as Grok for this bu
Mexican official accused by U.S. of drug trafficking abruptly resigns againSinaloa Gov. Ruben Rocha Moya is accused of allegedly colluding with the infamous Sinaloa Cartel to distribute drugs inside the U.S.
Photos: Russia celebrates National Flag Day amid war and tensions with the WestParticipants in St Petersburg honour Russia’s tricolour with patriotic events and ribbon distributions across the city.
Why does it seem like food recalls are out of control this year?Just weeks after Taylor Farms issued a recall of its iceberg lettuce amid a massive cyclospora outbreak, the Food and Drug Administration recalled more than one million eggs that may be contaminated with salmonella. The eggs, which come from Midwest Poultry Services, were distributed to Kroger and smaller grocery stores across the South and Southwest […]
Ask HN: Do teams really need to use GitHub?Enterprises can self-host, sure. Open source projects uses it for the the network effects of GitHub. But why does a small software team need to use GitHub?I understand the ecosystem argument. Once you've got your repos, CI/CD, PRs, code reviews, packages, integrations, etc. all wired into GitHub, moving everything is a pain. But Git itself is distributed, and GitHub has a pretty open plugin/integration system. There are also perfectly capable alternatives like GitLab, Bitbucket, Forgejo, Gitea, SourceHut, etc.So what is the actual thing that makes a 10–20 person software company stick with GitHub? Is it mostly switching costs? The ecosystem? Developer familiarity? Something else? And if you were to start a project today, would you still go with GitHub?And a slightly more personal question.I've had a rough idea for what a new GitHub could look like if it were built specifically for software that is increasingly being written by AI agents, and specifically for companies rather than open-
Advance Auto Parts Inc.Advance Auto Parts Inc. Advance Auto Parts, Inc. engages in the supply and distribution of aftermarket automotive products for both professional installers and do-it-yourself customers. It operates ...
Chris Hansen Says A24 Wouldn't Screen Pattinson's 'Primetime'Chris Hansen didn’t get to take a seat for the new A24 movie “Primetime.” The 66-year-old veteran journalist went to the offices of indie distributor A24 to watch the Lance Oppenheim film, in which he ...
BIGBANG WORLD TOUR: VIETNAMESE TICKETING PLATFORM BLOCKS BOTS EFFECTIVELY, SELLS OUT WITHIN HOURSAs bots and scalping remain a global ticketing challenge, CTicket builds verification into the purchase flow rather than after distribution. For the VPBank Mastercard phase, the system verified ...
Show HN: Check if any of the $656M in unclaimed royalties at The MLC is yoursHi HN, I built this. Quick background on why it exists:When music is streamed on digital streaming platforms (think Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora), there are two separate royalty streams: one for the recording, paid through your distributor (DistroKid, TuneCore, CDBaby), and one for the underlying work (generally known as publishing). The work side's mechanical royalties are collected by The MLC, a nonprofit that was created by the 2018 Music Modernization Act (MMA). If you haven't registered your songs with The MLC, there are issues with your metadata, or about half a dozen other reasons, that money will never reach you, it just collects in a big pile we call the "black box".That pile is big. The MLC's own dashboard currently shows over $656M is held (themlc.com/blanket-royalties), and the biggest problem is the MMA dictates that The MLC cannot hold that money indefinitely. At some point, by law, The MLC must distribute this big pile of cash, and since they don't know who it's suppose
Petition seeks to bring remains of bald eagle Jackie back to Big BearDeceased eagles typically are sent to a Colorado facility so their feathers can be distributed to Native American tribes.
Offline RAG on iOS with Spatial IntegrationI'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
Surfside Names Christina Stella SVP, Adult Beverage to Accelerate Category GrowthAdvertising veteran joins Surfside to deepen supplier, distributor, and retailer partnerships across the Adult Beverage ...
Show HN: nanoAlphaZero – Train a grandmaster-level chess model in 24h with TPUsHello HN,I built a complete, game-agnostic implementation of AlphaZero in JAX.repo: https://github.com/wtedw/nanoAlphaZerodemo (NN + MCTS run locally in your browser): https://nanoalphazero.wtedw.comIt uses no human data, can train grandmaster-level chess models, and supports a variety of games: Chess, Go 3x3 - 9x9, Hex 4x4 - 9x9, Connect FourYou can also use this repo to train AlphaZero on any custom 2-player, perfect-information game.How does it work?At a high level, the entire AlphaZero algorithm gets compiled into a single jitted run_fn that repeatedly performs self-play and model updates: state = make_alphazero() def run_fn(state): games = selfplay(state) # using Gumbel MuZero # Move active games into the self-play buffer # Move completed games into the replay buffer state = train(state, replay_buffer.sample()) return state while True: state = run_fn(state) There are no threads, queues, or distributed workers to manage. It is just one large JAX function.The repo is primarily focus
Show HN: Minna – On-device semantic search across your own documents (macOS)Hi HN! Minna is a new tool geared towards people who have a knowledge base so big they forget where things are.- Chat answers are constrained to retrieved results. The model has to search your knowledge base first and cite the document it pulled from. It won't answer from outside your knowledge base which means you can trust the LLM instead of having to be weary about what it outputs. - Hybrid retrieval — BM25 over an inverted index for exact and keyword matches, plus a vector index for semantic matches, results are fused using Reciprocal Ranked Fusion. - Embeddings and inference both run on-device. Search uses bge-small-en and run on the neural engine. Chat uses Qwen3 4B running on MLX. - Search latency is ~12 ms across 250 documents split into 30,000 chunks on Apple Silicon.What’s not done; OCR scanning on PDFs is limited, the app is currently Apple Silicon only, and there are some rough edges in the UI.It’s a TestFlight beta (apologies, but it is the cleanest distribution path right
No Stars, No Budget, 4,000 Theaters: How Markiplier Rewrote the Rules of HollywoodAt the beginning of 2026, the YouTube creator Markiplier wrote, directed, starred in, and self-funded his first feature film, Iron Lung. With few connections in the film-distribution world and little ...
The 6 AI-free Linux distros I recommend most - and why they're likely to stay that wayIf AI isn't your jam, and you're looking for an operating system that doesn't (and won't) force it on you, look no further than these Linux distributions.