astronomy-buddy.com
Show HN: Astronomy Buddy–what's worth pointing a telescope at tonighthttps://astronomy-buddy.com/I wanted a simple dashboard for my TRMNL display in my entryway that told me whether it was worth taking my telescope out that night, which I ended up extending into a web + iOS app if anyone else finds it useful.All the apps talk to my own endpoint that consumes AstronomyAPI (current celestial body positions in our solar system), 7Timer! (cloud cover, seeing, transparency), and Open-Meteo (air quality), compares to your current location/elevation/equipment, and determines both a verdict on whether it's worth stargazing tonight and what to look at if you do go out. All the logic/strings to display are contained in my API so I can adjust if needed without re-deploying the separate front ends.Hope someone else finds it handy!Aug 20, 2026 7:37 PM
github.com
Show HN: Meridian(PH #1) – Automatic AI Workjournal for Devshttps://github.com/Meridiona/meridianMeridian is an open-source, local-first work journal for developers. It reconstructs your day from on-screen activity and turns it into daily summaries, standups, time reports, and draft project ticket updates.The goal is to reduce the time spent manually reconstructing unplanned work and writing status updates. Activity is stored in an encrypted database on your machine, and generated updates remain drafts until you review them.Meridian is MIT-licensed and currently supports integrations with Jira, Linear, GitHub, and Azure DevOps.Aug 20, 2026 7:16 PM
danielvaughn.dev
Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AIhttps://www.danielvaughn.dev/posts/huzzah/Hello everyone. I've been working on this experimental editor called Huzzah.I've been working almost exclusively with coding agents since January of this year, and over the past few months I began to feel utterly exhausted by them. They're great, but I'm finding it more and more tedious to write full sentences for every change I want. Not only that, but it seems there's a complexity limit for codebases - beyond a certain point the agent begins confusing itself.I'd like to go back to writing code, but I don't want to go all the way back to fully manual coding. So I've come up with this interaction paradigm where you: 1. write pseudocode in whatever way makes the most sense to you 2. on save, the editor synchronizes your work to real source code 3. the pseudocode is persisted alongside the generated code, making your prompt effectively a stored record of intent. It may not work for every use case, but in my initial playthroughs I've found it very enjoyable.Right now it's just a proof of Aug 20, 2026 7:05 PM
skilldocs.dev
Show HN: Skilldocs – Figma for Markdownhttps://skilldocs.dev/tourI got fed up with Notion, so I built my dream document editor. It's all markdowned so it's easy to view skills or other agent-related documents. It's got the collaboration features I love from Figma (shared cursory and the ability to follow) and Google Docs (comments, realtime editing). Then you can export the diff and comments to an agent. I've been really liking it for talking over skill documents live on a call. I'm curious if this resonates with other people. More generally, I feel like notion is less and less relevant in an age where documents have a very different purpose and Markdown is king. Curious what people think!Aug 20, 2026 5:56 PM
radi8.dev
Show HN: We chased a weather balloon across Montana and never found ithttps://radi8.dev/blog/uplink/Since April, I have been working with Sam Flynn (https://drook.dev) to make this balloon payload, UpLink. We did a similar launch last year with Hack Club but this was our first independent launch.UpLink was a 491 gram payload testing the insulation properties of 3D printing filaments, while also transmitting 320x240 images over a radio link -- up from the 18x10 images last year!This is a writeup on our engineering process, mistakes made, and learning experiences. It covers:- Custom electronics designed in KiCad- Firmware design- Results from the data we received on the ground- Image transmission- Launch day logistics, and where things went wrongAll hardware, software, firmware, and CAD is available on GitHub: https://github.com/radeeyate/UpLink, licensed + certified as open source hardware: https://certification.oshwa.org/us002826.htmlIf you just want to see the images received, I put up a gallery here: https://uplink.gallery.radi8.dev/If you have any questions, comments, or concerns,Aug 20, 2026 5:33 PM
news.google.com
Trump Enraged South Korea to Please the North. It Didn’t Work. - Mother Joneshttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMipwFBVV95cUxPemJxV1lHYzhxRWZMY3MwRWRYY1AtMWk4VGJVUkloM2VxUUZFdmNaUmJpSWU1bnBGcmdjN3Q5NW9xMXUxVDdQc2NvVXZtVVFDRFVuSUNhMGlMUkZaTFk3TGtGandPNGtKcTBvRXM0bXYxcDVnV2xjYWQyZWpBbWRHTlF0RkJfR0JzVC1sS3p2UEFObmNzZThmYlh3eVk0blQxXzdLYnFudw?oc=5Trump Enraged South Korea to Please the North. It Didn’t Work. Mother JonesU.S.-South Korea military drill wraps up early, a day after North Korea's missile barrage PBSChina urges South Korea not to take sides and blames U.S. policy for Korea tensions NBC NewsAug 20, 2026 5:22 PM
shafaq.com
Shafaq News..Mojtaba Khamenei holds first reported meeting with Pezeshkianhttps://shafaq.com/en/World/Mojtaba-Khamenei-holds-first-reported-meeting-with-PezeshkianShafaq News- Tehran
Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei met President Masoud
Pezeshkian on Sunday in his first publicly reported meeting since taking over
the country's top leadership followingAug 20, 2026 5:18 PM
foundera.app
Show HN: AI-Native Accelerator that helps builders make something people wanthttps://foundera.app/Most people are not validating their ideas before start building it! I am a 5th time tech founder, gaming included and I built & managed startup accelerator programs. I know lot of things about early stage founders and their pains as I have been there. That is why I am building Foundera. It’s an AI-Native Accelerator for tech builders. Today the problem is; most of the AI coding tools opens with a chat and asking “type your idea and start building”. This is wrong! I want to reduce the time and money spent on ideas that nobody asked for. Try it at https://foundera.app and give me your feedback so that I can help more people.Aug 20, 2026 5:16 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: One SSH key or many SSH keys?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49377427Is there any benefit to using multiple, separate keys to authenticate to different resources versus only using a single SSH key?On one hand, I've heard that an SSH key is supposed to represent an identity, so using your "identity" everywhere makes sense.On the other hand, I've heard that keeping SSH keys separate is important in the same way using separate passwords for different resources is important.What do you all think?Aug 20, 2026 5:15 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: How to engage users in an open source project and when to stop?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49377336I have been working on an OS project for years now, on and off, taking it back up for the last few months and giving it a good boost lately with AI. It has a super niche user base in quantitative finance.I really enjoy working on it, and although I get contacted every now and then by people who are using it or are interested in using it, and those are really interesting users, I always think I am wasting my time. It has been 8 years now since I started.I guess my questions are: is it worth it? And I know this question has two clear paths, the personal and the practical one, but I would like to hear from both. How can I know when to stop? If my audience is maybe in the order of two thousand potential users worldwide, how do I validate the idea? I have posted on Reddit and HN multiple times, tried LinkedIn, and that leads me to a handful of super interesting contacts, but I don't know if it is enough to keep going.Aug 20, 2026 5:09 PM
bing.com
A Regular Ford F-150 Hybrid Is Quicker Than These 5 Legendary Muscle Carshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a894ef46410415cbb6f3695266a2192&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.slashgear.com%2F2237040%2Fford-f-150-hybrid-quicker-than-legendary-muscle-cars%2F&c=7677826648980071978&mkt=en-usThere was once a time when classic muscle cars dominated the drag strip. These days, Ford's bestseller pickup truck can quite easily outdrag them.Aug 20, 2026 5:00 PM
bing.com
Video: Okla. Police Deploy Drone to Help Save Victim During Dog Attackhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a891e213b914dd98fc3f6e65803f1cb&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.officer.com%2Fcommand-hq%2Ftechnology%2Fsecurity-surveillance%2Fuav-uas%2Fnews%2F55399863%2Foklahoma-city-police-drone-helps-save-victim-during-attack-by-multiple-dogs&c=2494814048466445191&mkt=en-usOklahoma City police used a drone's high-intensity spotlight to disrupt an attack by multiple dogs before tracking the animals to a nearby home where officers made arrests.Aug 20, 2026 5:00 PM
bing.com
DH50 Riot Control Helmethttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a891e213b914dd98fc3f6e65803f1cb&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.officer.com%2Ftactical%2Fswat%2Fproduct%2F55399897%2Fdh50-riot-control-helmet&c=204493273141316033&mkt=en-usThe Damascus Gear DH50 Riot Control Helmet is the next generation of the trusted DH1, redesigned from the shell out with the upgrades agencies have been asking for. The clear ...Aug 20, 2026 5:00 PM
bing.com
Mitsui E&S Moves Ammonia Engines and Fuel Systems to Commercial Stagehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88c3e162664c1eb3e62390b8a1386f&url=https%3A%2F%2Fshipandbunker.com%2Fnews%2Fapac%2F628157-mitsui-es-moves-ammonia-engines-and-fuel-systems-to-commercial-stage&c=18189299886311143622&mkt=en-usMitsui E&S is also expanding its fuel supply system testing facilities to support both Everllence- and WinGD -licensed engines and plans to establish a mass-production system as demand for ...Aug 20, 2026 5:00 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-prohibiAug 20, 2026 4:40 PM
github.com
Show HN: Pond – lossless archive for agent sessions in your own S3https://github.com/tenequm/pondI wanted all of my sessions preserved in one S3 storage dump I could access from anywhere. I couldn't find anything that could store sessions from multiple machines in one remote S3 bucket without running a database service anywhere, make them available as an MCP for my agent, and efficiently search through them. pond was born out of this, and out of my necessity to stop being locked to my laptop. I'm convinced that the sessions we generate with agents are one of the most precious assets we have and it still feels so odd to me that we throw them away like we couldn't care less.With pond you just point it at an S3 bucket or a local directory. Under the hood is in-process Lance. It also supports safe concurrent writes, so I just collect all my sessions from all my local machines, remote VMs and telegram agent setups in one bucket dir. Right now that is 14,861 sessions, 2.83M messages, 10.6 GiB, from 8 tools (Claude Code, Codex, opencode, pi, Claude Desktop, oh-my-pi and a few more).The oAug 20, 2026 4:04 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/CelebioAug 20, 2026 3:54 PM
compute.cx
Show HN: Compute.cx is simple (modal.com like) interface for on-demand GPUshttps://compute.cxHi everyone, Please checkout compute.cx which is a simple cli interface for using on demand GPUs from RunPod and HotAisle. I created this because I really like the ease of modal.com for severless gpu access, but don’t always want to pay their markup. Compute.cx gives the same DX but on public on-demand GPUs like runpod and hotaisie.Please try it out, and write to me harsh@theoric.com for any questions/suggestions, or file a bug report on https://github.com/theoriclabs/docs.compute.cxThanks! Harsh Gupta https://x.com/hargup13P.S. BYOK AWS, GCP and Azure coming soon, let me know if you want it.Aug 20, 2026 3:47 PM
epho.io
Show HN: Epho – run Claude Code with a curlhttps://epho.ioHey folks, Burak here.Epho is an API that allows running Claude Code, Codex or Opencode in a sandbox in the cloud. It abstracts away sandboxes, and allows running coding agents with a single HTTP request.Epho came out of our own struggles with building our own AI analyst: - Sandboxes give you bare machines; you need to configure them for agentic workloads. - Each agent behaves differently, and you need to build integrations with each of them. - Sandbox providers are not very reliable, which means you need to figure out a multi-provider strategy to avoid failures. - Logging, artifacts, input/output, event streaming, and all of the other operational aspects need to be figured out.We had to go through the pain ourselves. We got to a point where things got quite reliable, and it became more obvious to us that this should be a primitive on its own: send a POST request, get the events streaming back to you.Epho is an agents-as-an-API product: you send a request, it spins up a sandbox, configAug 20, 2026 3:45 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
