news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: How do you host your vibe coded tools/sites?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49393465I've been building a lot of tools for my company internally and have been doing a combination of self-hosting on VPS/Vercel/whatever else. Super curious how everyone is going from localhost to sharing in your team.Aug 21, 2026 8:36 PM
bing.com
McDonald's launches Red Bull Dragonberry Energizer as its first energy drinkhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a56e670cb4695b00ce46fdf23b015&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Ffood-and-drink%2Fbeverages%2Fmcdonald-s-launches-red-bull-dragonberry-energizer-as-its-first-energy-drink%2Far-AA2aGPfw&c=10960076319093361920&mkt=en-usThe fast-food giant is officially entering the energy drink business with one of the biggest names in the category.Aug 21, 2026 8:24 PM
cbsnews.com
People are scrambling to find wads of cash dropped all over American citieshttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/cash-drop-videos-us-cities/Cash drop social media accounts have people racing to find money hidden across the country. Here's what's behind the viral videos.Aug 21, 2026 7:48 PM
techcrunch.com
Last chance: Save up to $300 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket todayhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/08/21/last-chance-save-up-to-300-on-your-techcrunch-disrupt-2026-ticket-today/If you’ve been circling around Disrupt, then now’s the best time to lock in your pass and start getting ready to join the rest of the startup community gathering in San Francisco from October 13-15 at Moscone West!Aug 21, 2026 7:16 PM
cbsnews.com
Woman covertly filmed by Meta smart glasses raises privacy concernshttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/meta-ai-smart-glasses-covert-filming-privacy/One woman is speaking out after she was secretly filmed, saying that technology like Meta's AI-powered smart glasses threatens personal privacy.Aug 21, 2026 7:15 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Windmill.dev is not "fully open-sourced (AGPLv3)"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49392365I think Windmill.dev (https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill) is really cool, and fully support their desire to be paid for their work.However, their README says:> “Windmill is fully open-sourced (AGPLv3)…”But their LICENSE says:> ... The files under backend/ are AGPLv3 Licensed, except any snippets of code under the compile flag ‘enterprise’. Those snippets and files are under a proprietary and commercial license. Private and public forks MUST not include the proprietary/commercial code mentioned above.I dove deeper into the code, there are around 300 files in the codebase that contain references to enterprise or private features, so it's not a clearly separated directory that can just be removed.They have 1.1k forks of their repository that I can see on Github, and I doubt all of them took the time to strip the proprietary code to comply with the license.So at this point, it feels like a licensing trap for anyone that clicks the fork button on Github or is attracted by the AGPL liAug 21, 2026 6:50 PM
founderboard.lol
Show HN: Outbid.lol but for X and LN Profileshttps://founderboard.lolI built a public board of X and LinkedIn profiles. $1 gets you on it. Highest bid sits at #1. You can list yours or anyone else's.Aug 21, 2026 6:26 PM
poorleton.fit
Show HN: Poorleton – AI Generated Cycling Workoutshttps://poorleton.fitHello everyone, I recently got a used Peloton a couple of months ago for $200, but I didn't use it enough to justify $50/month for classes, so I vibe coded https://poorleton.fit/ over the weekend to have AI generated cycling classes.Let me know what you think.Aug 21, 2026 6:19 PM
theverge.com
$100 Best Buy gift cards will be $60 at stores Saturdayhttps://www.theverge.com/gadgets/982513/best-buy-gift-card-in-store-dealThe best gift card deal we’ve spotted this year is happening Saturday, August 22nd, at Best Buy stores for one day only. In celebration of the retailer’s 60th anniversary, you can purchase a $100 Best Buy gift card for $60. The deal is only good for as long as supplies last at your local store, […]Aug 21, 2026 6:00 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: How to Relicense an Old Projecthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49391444I've heard from someone who wants to revive an old abandoned project of mine and asks that I change the license from GPLv3 to LGPL or MIT. I'm willing to do that but I took down the original repo from github a long time ago and there seems to be only a fork that still exists. What's the right way to make it publicly known that I'm changing the license?Aug 21, 2026 5:38 PM
wondering.app
Show HN: Visual way to understand things in parallelhttps://wondering.app/canvasHey HN!Really excited to be showing what I think is a better way to understand complex topics with AI.You start a chat with your question, and whenever you want to clarify something or understand some jargon, you can branch out a new chat from that thread.The cool unlock is being able to see all related chat threads in the same context without tab switching, for e.g. I can first dive into understanding world models, then spin a new chat thread on who the key players are in there, and another asking what's the frontier with this stuff.The responses are also not just a wall of text. They're: - Filled with interactive diagrams and visuals - Super fastAnd for those curious, this is how we built it: - React Flow (@xyflow/react) for the canvas - React Components for interactive diagrams - GPT Image 2 for image generations - Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite for super fast response - Parallelization whenever possible to keep things fastYou can also highlight and add notes :)Try it out and let me know whaAug 21, 2026 5:06 PM
bing.com
The Week Investors Forced Uncle Sam To Confront Government’s Debt Addictionhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a1b49448a46e9b8dbc2841be5f318&url=https%3A%2F%2Fijr.com%2Farticle%2Fscott-bessent-investors-treasurys-federal-debt&c=13443782725413109387&mkt=en-usWe've all heard stories about interventions for addicts: family and friends draw an addicted loved one into a room and begin a confrontation about his or her addiction issues, threatening a cut off ...Aug 21, 2026 5:00 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: Combining Healthcare and Software Engineering into a Careerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49390762I'm a former software engineer (self-taught) who is currently in school studying Kinesiology. I plan on going to graduate school for Occupational Therapy or Physical Therapy. Before starting school, I gained a few years of experience working with disabled children. I decided to pursue OT/PT because I very much enjoy working with disabled populations, but want more autonomy to actually make decisions that impact their well being.Despite all of this (and a rocky resume), I still feel like programming is a part of me and is something I find enjoyable as a discipline.Has anyone successfully made a career combining healthcare and software engineering? How did you do it?Aug 21, 2026 4:48 PM
github.com
Show HN: Proliferate- open-source, self-hostable Codex for any coding agenthttps://github.com/proliferate-ai/proliferateHi HN- I'm Pablo, the founder of Proliferate (YC S25)!Proliferate (https://github.com/proliferate-ai/proliferate) is an open-source, self-hostable AI IDE that lets you work and automate tasks with Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor, and Grok in one place.Here's a quick 2m demo of how we use Proliferate to build Proliferate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGNX0oaWmBYI started building Proliferate after my team onboarded to OpenAI Codex. Within days, we were using it for everything: using computer use instead of navigating websites ourselves, having Codex coordinate other agents, and setting up automations for recurring work. We really never needed to leave the desktop app to get work done.If my team’s experience is anything close to representative, a Codex-like app (a horizontal agent with a beautiful UI) is the main interface every company is going to use to get work done. That is perfectly in line with OpenAI’s mission to make Codex the everything app (see: https://news.ycombinatorAug 21, 2026 4:47 PM
github.com
Show HN: Steganeur – Hide secret messages in LLM-generated text (Rust)https://github.com/marcsnid/steganeurHi HN! I made a project that I found really fun and I'm proud of the idea and implementation. This first came up when speaking to a friend, we were talking around how to do steganography in natural text, and realized an LLM's token choices are a natural channel.Steganeur accomplishes this by encoding a secret message into the token choices of a language model, producing cover text that reads like a normal sentence. A recipient recovers the message using only the cover text and the model. With the rejection method, the output is statistically identical to normal generation, not just something that looks similar.The interesting problem I hit: steganeur reads the model's logprobs directly, and three of the four methods need them to come out exactly the same on encode and decode. On GPU reductions are non-deterministic, so the logprobs drift between runs, which is enough to corrupt the bits. Only one method (block) survives on GPU, because it bins tokens by their id rather than by probabilAug 21, 2026 4:33 PM
theverge.com
Pixel 11 gets in on the digicam trendhttps://www.theverge.com/podcast/983288/pixel-11-gets-in-on-the-digicam-trendI recently looked back at a photo I'd taken on a smartphone in 2014, and I was struck by just how good it looked. The details were soft, the shadows were dark. It was the kind of photo I felt like I hadn't seen out of a phone in years. That might be changing, though. […]Aug 21, 2026 4:27 PM
bing.com
Football stars turn to chess for tactical edgehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8980456ca94040824c0b0d115ad4d6&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-xl%2Fnews%2Fother%2Ffootball-stars-turn-to-chess-for-tactical-edge%2Far-AA2aF1oG&c=12024920713245120873&mkt=en-usLegendary Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson (85) once said, “Football and chess are alike.” This is because both require relentless exploitation of an opponent’s weaknesses, and losing focus for ...Aug 21, 2026 4:21 PM
github.com
Show HN: Caspian – Talk to Human Tool for AI Agentshttps://github.com/TryCaspian/caspian-sdkSup HN! Dipanshu and Rushant here from Caspian. One is a functional programmer and the other has been deploying AI employees. Together we realized how agents have communication bottleneck.Given the coming agentic economy, we had a thought experiment on what can be the key infrastructure for agents as they get better. Our inspiration for solving for communications infra came from our own time spent just setting up comms while we were deploying open claw for companies plus we noticed about 15%+ of issues in Openclaw and Hermes were that of comms.So we abstracted the headache of reliable communication web-hooks, handling of queues, provision and identity management behind an single SDK integration / tool call. Think of it like rather than rolling your own auth, you can use better auth sdk, same thesis here.Technically, we designed the SDK from the ground up as a DSL for communications (heavy inspiration from functional programming) and then add on our own run time environment which auto pAug 21, 2026 4:17 PM

nytimes.com
How New York’s Second-Home Tax Turned Into a Headache for Mamdanihttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/nyregion/mamdani-second-home-tax-rollout.htmlThe bumpy rollout of the tax created an opportunity for Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s opponents to fight him in court and in the City Council.Aug 21, 2026 4:16 PM

engadget.com
Walmart will finally accept tap to pay in stores by the end of 2026https://www.engadget.com/2241608/walmart-will-finally-accept-tap-to-pay-in-stores-by-end-of-2026/Sam's Club will soon let you pay with your phone or smartwatch too.Aug 21, 2026 3:40 PM