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news.ycombinator.com• Jun 29, 2026• 1 min read

Ask HN: Building a minimal to-do app based on Signal vs. NoiseHey HN,My friend and I are building a very simple to-do app.The core idea isn't new: separating tasks into Signal (things that truly move your life or project forward) and Noise (work that just keeps you busy). The goal is simply to help you become more mindful about what you actually choose to do.It's easy to assume that being "busy" equals quality work. But honestly, after building side projects for a couple of years, I can assure you that's rarely the case, haha.We have a quite small MVP ready. We are currently onboarding our first users and want to get a few more people involved to gather direct feedback and see if this method actually works in practice.If you want to try it, you can sign up here: https://developd.notion.site/3894d42966a680ceac1eda563741c8bb?pvs=105Even if you're not interested in the app, how do you stop yourself from hoarding tasks and decide what to work on next? I actually got a great tip from a user on Reddit recently for how to decide what's important work: "

bing.com• Jun 29, 2026• 1 min read

We tested 8 knife sets and found 3 that made us feel like a proper home chefHigh-quality, supersharp kitchen knives can make culinary tasks easier and safer. Although most home cooks would fare fine owning basic serrated, chef’s and paring knives, investing in one of the best ...

bing.com• Jun 29, 2026• 1 min read

Agent confidence on the technical frontierA ranking of 101 agent tasks reveals where workflows are trending and where connected intelligence is critical. In partnership withMicrosoft Enterprise investment in AI is booming. Gartner is calling ...

github.com• Jun 28, 2026• 1 min read

Show HN: role-model, a router for hybrid local/cloud AIHey everyone, I'm launching role-model today: a routing protocol, a reference router runtime, and an extension for Pi that allows for better informed routing decisions.role-model is mostly deterministic, with fallback to a controller model, that routes requests based on a chosen routing strategy. the protocol is structured around assigning domains and roles to models, where requests sent by consumer applications like Pi have task types to enrich routing metadata and thereby accuracy. you can to run the built-in benchmark to compare performance of models across speed, quality and cost, as well as observed performance on real tasks. I have a diagram on how routing works in [0].The runtime supports local models, either directly to your local endpoint (LM Studio, llama.cpp etc), or routing between multiple local models via vendored llama-swap.Since there was another model router post yesterday where people discussed the basics of routing, I will focus on discussing some of the interesting

news.ycombinator.com• Jun 25, 2026• 1 min read

Ask HN: Have you ever given your AI agent a phone number?As Agents do more and more work. They need more access to real-world tools such as mail and phone numbers, payments, etc. Recently I gave a phone number to my Hermes. It's doing a lot of tasks now, from booking apartments to setting up medical appointments for me.

github.com• Jun 23, 2026• 1 min read

Show HN: perl-lsp – annotation free static analysis for PerlBuilt in Rust on top of ts-parser-perl and tower-lsp. Witness bags with graph traversal (value edges, call flow edges).How it works: - builds witnesses and scopes by walking the parse tree. Fully known values get concrete types, otherwise they get an edge pointing to the last witness we have for this symbol - a worklist runs to a fixed point: reducers fold each symbol's witnesses and chase edges. At this point, the witness bag is complete and ready to use - all downstream features are queries into the bag, following along the graph edges that are relevantExtensible - you can bring your own Rhai plugin to shortcut common patterns (exporters and OOP frameworks), or even add new types of definitions (worker tasks and web routes).The build/query timing distinction with edges lets you late bind types, which is duly similar to how Perl itself works: `Foo->new` isn't known if it's the constructor for Foo or calling a method on the sub name `Foo`; late binding lets you make that call after the

github.com• Jun 23, 2026• 1 min read

Show HN: Shumai – open-source Frame.io alternative for creative workShumai is an open source platform for uploading creative files, managing projects, collecting precise feedback, sharing work, and collaborating with AI agents, all in one simple creative-first workspace.I’ve always liked the product design of Frame.io, and I wanted to build an alternative that feels just as polished, while being open source and easy to self host.You can deploy Shumai with docker compose in just a few minutes. It can also be installed from npm, though you'll need to provide your own PostgreSQL instance with the pgvector extension installed.For larger deployments, Shumai supports distributed processing via Temporal, allowing resource intensive tasks such as transcoding to be scaled independently.It's still early in development, feel free to try and share any feedback.Demo: https://staging.shumai.one

news.ycombinator.com• Jun 21, 2026• 1 min read

Ask HN: What's your go-to queue system?Hello,I am building a new product and need to have a robust queue system but I'm not sure what product to choose.I've worked in Amazon before and usually AWS tools are the default go-to but in my own time for small project I've used things like: https://github.com/hibiken/asynq for basic tasks.My concern with the above is that it's still in "early" development; from their README:``` Status: The library relatively stable and is currently undergoing moderate development with less frequent breaking API changes.Important Note: Current major version is zero (v0.x.x) to accommodate rapid development and fast iteration while getting early feedback from users (feedback on APIs are appreciated!). The public API could change without a major version update before v1.0.0 release. ```I'm building something right now that will require something very robust; scheduling, long running workflows with several external dependencies (which may have failure and need retries and notifications, webhooks, etc)

news.ycombinator.com• Jun 20, 2026• 1 min read

Oracles and Recursive Self ImprovementI've been thinking about recursive self improvement. But especially the likelihood that it will be important soon. Soon means with current LLMs that might just give up or delete the test set or otherwise detach from reality. Call the probability of that happening P. You can estimate P by looking at research tasks and how much they need to get helped along by humans to stay on task.Goedel machines (that prove that the next step is better) try to use maths as an oracle. Which relies on the mathematical foundations being true. Other oracles I've theorised could help are oracles from the future that can say whether the change detaches the system from reality or not, a sort of go/no-go signal for potentially detaching changes.Are there any other classes of oracles?There might be some complex quantum computation that I'm not thinking of, due to classical computer bias.

news.ycombinator.com• Jun 20, 2026• 1 min read

Show HN: Video on the map marketplace 1 year – still bad tractionAfter 8 months of development we launched MVP three months ago.The idea of "Now & Here" came from my own pain: I arrived at hotel after long journey, exhausted - it looks old with noisy renovations on the back side. At that moment I thought: I would pay $20 to someone in each of the 5 nearest hotels to film the real view.We solve trust problem: people need to know what a place looks like, but most internet information is outdated, curated, or fake. For example: 1. Hotel and travel websites show polished marketing photos. 2. Google Street View is static and often years old. 3. AI-generated content is making it harder to trust locations online.We are made app where people can request closed to real-time video from any location and nearby people can earn money by recording video fot those requests.We built android app with all necessary mvp features: - map with tasks and videos - tasks creation and execution flow - video viewing and recording payed and free - wallet with USDT (crypto just

argusred.com• Jun 20, 2026• 1 min read

Show HN: We post-trained a model that pen tests instead of refusingAnthropic and OpenAI's publicly available models are explicitly guard-railed so that they refuse offensive tasks. And their cyber-focussed models are gated for enterprises. This leaves SMEs and mid market open to major vulnerabilities.AI can be used as both an adversarial and defensive tool in the world of cyber. A worst case outcome is if only the adversaries have access.Meanwhile, most existing AI cyber tools are just wrappers. The problem is that they still have all the guardrails on from the foundation model where they will inherit its refusals.For this project we've post-trained a specific model on a decade of capture-the-flag contests. This won't be made available to anyone and everyone, but we do believe that responsible SMEs and midmarket companies also need access to these tools in order to identify key vulnerabilities in their systems; not just enterprises.We have developed two modes that run over a CLI:• Security scan: a read-only audit of your local codebase for vulnerabili

4dlab.xyz• Jun 20, 2026• 1 min read

Show HN: Juakali: a datalayer to build artificial general engineerRobotic systems lack physics-aware training data for precise industrial assembly tasks involving force, torque, and tight-tolerance interactions, limiting real-world automation performance.Juakali is a physics-based data pipeline that makes robot datasets with force feedback accessible to automate assembly planning.It simulates fittings and fastening of mechanical parts from unstructured Computer-Aided Design (CAD) files while generating high quality structured datasets used to train Vision-Language-Action models that reduce time, cost and errors in engineering systems like Google Intrinsic Flowstate.No expensive hardware like VR headsets are needed.Using docker containers, enginers, developers and researchers or anyone with access to assembly dataset can install and run the containers in a matter of minutes.These complex data can also be crowdsourced and users earn revenue.

indielaunch.club• Jun 19, 2026• 1 min read

Show HN: Indie Launch – personalized launch plans for indie developersI built a tool that tries to solve a specific problem I kept running into: you finish the product, and then you have no idea where to actually launch it.Most advice says "post on Product Hunt." But Product Hunt needs first-hour upvotes you can't guarantee without an existing audience. Meanwhile, Hacker News, Reddit r/SideProject, and IndieHackers work completely differently — and better for most indie products.Indie Launch asks 4 questions about your product, matches you to the right channels based on your actual situation (audience size, where you're active, product type), and generates ready-to-use content for each platform.$10 one-time. Happy to answer any questions about how I built it.https://indielaunch.club

workingasync.io• Jun 19, 2026• 1 min read

Show HN: Working Async – The new wave of remote work is async-firstAfter living in multiple countries around the world and working remotely, I discovered that the best working cultures are asynchronous ones. An asynchronous working culture is a model where team members collaborate and complete tasks on their own schedules, without needing to be online at the same time or respond instantly. This means employees can work when and where they please for maximum productivity, often times companies who have succesfully implemented async communication have teams with employees across the globe.I created a job board dedicated to curating these types of jobs because I strongly believe that async communication will be a standard for many job types in the future. You can check out the site here: https://workingasync.ioRight now there are nearly 700 jobs listed (including roles from companies like DuckDuckGo, GitLab, and Docker). I’m planning to add new features over the coming weeks, and have a regular blog on the site.Feedback is very welcome!

news.ycombinator.com• Jun 19, 2026• 1 min read

Trillions of dollars spent just to work on customer services?I came across a couple of articles discussing the bigger opportunities for AI companies to make money. It turns out there are pretty much six different ways to make money if I'm a founder or an operator. I'm not sure if the consensus from the venture capital world is entirely lagging behind what's actually going on, so that's why I'm asking this question.Here are a couple of ideas I saw recently:1. AI Roll-ups: This is a very hot, sometimes overhyped topic. It involves buying companies that are less integrated into AI but heavily need human services. Examples include accounting firms in small towns, IT managed services (sometimes outsourced), legal services (not necessarily top law firms, but local ones helping existing customers), and insurance. The reason this has gone viral is that some might figure out that buying and streamlining companies can be a better choice than selling software. Software nowadays might need to redirect to build its moat, and many tasks that can be automated

news.ycombinator.com• Jun 18, 2026• 1 min read

Non-humanoid home robot suggestionHello, I want to suggest a home robot for daily life missions. The purpose of this robot is to help people with everyday tasks at home - cooking, cleaning, and everything in between - at an affordable price. Principle Architecture: The robot is wheeled (not humanoid) and controlled by an LLM. Instead of human-like arms, it uses swappable tools. Each tool is designed for a specific task. The LLM controls the robot through 3 protocols only: 1. API commands - the LLM tells the robot what to do 2. Shared map - the robot maps the house in 2-3 hours on first setup. Both the robot and the LLM share the exact same map 3. Visual images - the robot sends photos to the LLM, the LLM sees what is happening and makes decisions The Tools: Each tool contains its own API and README file. When the robot connects a tool, the LLM reads the README and immediately knows how to use it - like installing an app. Examples: egg breaker, dish washer, floor cleaner. Each tool costs ~$50. A whole ecosystem of tools

sigmashake.com• Jun 16, 2026• 1 min read

Show HN: A policy gate that runs before your AI coding agent's tool callsAs a Security Engineer with over 10+ years in industry, I kept running into the same problem with coding agents: Instructions are not guarantees.I put guidance in `CLAUDE.md`, `AGENTS.md`, memory files, MCP descriptions, and tool documentation. I explicitly told the agent things like:- Use the code graph for architecture questions instead of grepping the repository. - Do not use deprecated APIs or Unsafe code. - Prefer specific tools for specific tasks.The agent would still ignore those instructions surprisingly often. It would grep the entire repo, use deprecated APIs, or choose a slower tool even when a better one was available.That made me realize prompts and rules solve different problems.A prompt is a probabilistic influence on model behavior. A rule is an enforcement mechanism.So I built SSG (SigmaShake Governance), which sits between the agent and its tools. Instead of asking the model to remember a policy, SSG evaluates every tool call before it executes.For example, this rule

news.ycombinator.com• Jun 16, 2026• 1 min read

AskHN:How do you handle skill atrophy from using coding agents?It's impossible to retain a skill if you dont use it. I've reached a point where I use AI exclusively for all tasks, because it's far faster and efficient to do so. What kind of activities do you do to retain cognitive skills?

philosophy.ocaho.com• Jun 14, 2026• 1 min read

Show HN: Philosophy for KidsSometimes my son asks me 'why' questions that could be answered well by a kid-friendly philosophy article. But I don't know where to find those, so I ask Claude or ChatGPT, and have a specific workflow for getting the type of output I want.I figured other people might find those AI-generated articles helpful, so I put them here: https://philosophy.ocaho.com/There's a search box at the top.

news.ycombinator.com• Jun 13, 2026• 1 min read

Show HN: I am running 3 coding agents non-stop over the last 3 days. Here is how1. Headless modeHeadless mode allows you to use the AI as a command-line utility for automation and scripting. In Claude Code you run it with the -p flag: claude -p, in codex - exec, opencode - run.2. Ask humanThe traditional communication channel with the operator won't work in headless mode - we need to implement a dedicated tool. Here is an example of how this can be done https://github.com/sermakarevich/claude/tree/main/mcp/ask_hu...3. Tasks queueBeads is a lightweight distributed graph issue tracker for AI agents, powered by Dolt. You can create tasks, define dependencies between tasks, and have status, priorities, hierarchy. Beads helps prevent multiple tasks from being claimed by > 1 worker.4. Worker artifactsWe want to be able to monitor how a worker is doing, at what stage it is, and resume it after a restart. For every task we can create a dedicated folder using the beads task id and put into it what we need. I put there: - plan and status md - knowledge md - events.jsonl - s