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news.ycombinator.com
Show HN: JavaScript library that makes any list a smooth picker of any shapehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49377550Hey HN! I built this solo.You can check it out here: https://loopem.tahazsh.com/This idea had been lingering in my head for a long time. I kept thinking about the best way to turn the idea of a picker into a math problem, where I could describe the layout I want and it would just work.By pickers, I mean something like what `` does in HTML, but with more visual items, whether they are images, icons, colors, or anything that would enhance the user experience.For example, say you have an e-commerce app that shows different color options for a product. Instead of listing blue, red, and so on, you can show the actual colors, and users can drag or flick through them.To prove it works, and to give you usable options out of the box, I added built-in layouts: line, arc, wheel, cover flow, fan, and stack.I also made sure it stays smooth with any number of items. It's still fast because I virtualized the list, so it only renders what's on screen.Accessibility is on by default too. Arrow keys, Hom
Aug 20, 2026 5:24 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: 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
2 Mich. Police Officers Shot During Arrest Attempt; Suspect Criticalhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a891e213b914dd98fc3f6e65803f1cb&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.officer.com%2Ftactical%2Ffirearms%2Fvideo%2F55399821%2F2-dearborn-police-officers-shot-during-arrest-attempt-suspect-in-critical-condition&c=2464520966382415010&mkt=en-usTwo Dearborn police officers are expected to recover after an arrest attempt shooting left a suspect in critical condition.
Aug 20, 2026 5:00 PM
bing.com
Info-Tech Systems Ltd ITShttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89804a06ba4b228b65e3c8b25604fc&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.morningstar.com%2Fstocks%2Fxses%2Fits%2Fquote&c=14761339509809440668&mkt=en-usMorningstar Quantitative Ratings for Stocks are generated using an algorithm that compares companies that are not under analyst coverage to peer companies that do receive analyst-driven ratings.
Aug 20, 2026 5:00 PM
bing.com
Transcript: Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Midterm Bombshell: GOP Is Toasthttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88ea6d9e0642c8a794cc5db5e372c6&url=https%3A%2F%2Fnewrepublic.com%2Farticle%2F214584%2Ftranscript-marjorie-taylor-greene-midterm-bombshell-gop-toast&c=16604894466206991260&mkt=en-usAs Marjorie Taylor Greene offers a dire prediction for the GOP, a skilled decoder of the right’s pathologies explains why Trump’s worsening travails are causing MAGA extreme cognitive dissonance.
Aug 20, 2026 5:00 PM
outbid.to
Show HN: Outbid.to, a pay-to-win leaderboard for websiteshttps://www.outbid.to/I built outbid.to as a simple experiment in transparent paid discovery.Submit a website, place a whole-dollar bid, and your bid determines your rank. The highest bidder takes #1. If someone outbids you, your listing moves down but stays live.There are no hidden ranking factors or editorial decisions. The minimum bid is $2, payments are handled through Stripe, and each listing shows the traffic it receives.I’m curious whether an openly pay-to-win leaderboard can be more useful and entertaining than traditional ads or sponsored directories.Would appreciate feedback on the ranking mechanics, pricing, and anything that feels unclear.
Aug 20, 2026 4:52 PM
spacenews.com
Rocket Lab launches 9th satellite for iQPShttps://spacenews.com/rocket-lab-launches-9th-satellite-for-iqps/Rocket Lab launched another satellite for Japanese radar-imaging company iQPS on Aug. 20. The post Rocket Lab launches 9th satellite for iQPS appeared first on SpaceNews.
Aug 20, 2026 4:38 PM
drillerdb.com
Show HN: The First 3D Map of North America's Underground Geologyhttps://drillerdb.com/undergroundOver the past year, we've been running OCR on over 13 million handwritten and typed well logs across North America. After that we standardized the unique terms used by drillers across America into one format, which we've based on the USGS's lithologic standards.Before this project, underground data was fragmented by state or county jurisdictions and had different standards for reporting and terminology. This is the first nationwide lithological grid ever made at this scale.Most regions have pretty good coverage. However, be aware some areas like the southeast of the US especially has some pretty significant gaps due to the reporting standards in those regions.We also have a research program! https://drillerdb.com/research
Aug 20, 2026 4:32 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 o
Aug 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/Celebio
Aug 20, 2026 3:54 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, config
Aug 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
github.com
Launch HN: Vendo (YC S26) – Let users build features on top of your producthttps://github.com/runvendo/vendoHi HN, we’re Yousef & Nour, founders of Vendo (https://vendo.run). Vendo lets users create new features inside the software they already use. A user describes the dashboard, workflow, or small app they need, and Vendo builds it on top of the product’s existing data, API, and interface.Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdpHehY64lsWe built Vendo because every SaaS eventually faces the same problem: every customer needs something slightly different. One wants a new report and another needs a workflow that only makes sense for their team. These requests either sit on the roadmap, become one-off engineering work, or force the customer into spreadsheets and external tools. We wanted the user to be able to create the missing feature themselves, without leaving the product.Here is how it works:- npx vendo init reads the product's API surface, theme, routes, and more. These are used so that the apps Vendo creates (1) look on-brand and native and (2) have the ability to read data and perform
Aug 20, 2026 3:29 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: Do you automate your prospection or doing hand made?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49375869When your technical founder, prospection and talking to clients is pain.With AI we have tentation of automating everything.Linkedin or other social medias and letting AI do everything.Problem is that it is also painfull to automate because of anti-bot protections, and services that do it are not enough good (i think).But also that you go a little bit far from discovering your potential clients.What do you think about it?
Aug 20, 2026 3:18 PM
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Aug 20, 2026 3:17 PM
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What to Watchhttps://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/what-to-watchOverwhelmed by Netflix, Hulu and other TV and movie streaming services? We are here to help!
Aug 20, 2026 3:17 PM