news.ycombinator.com
Show HN: We Added Notion Calendar to *Superhuman for iMessagehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378903Another update on Attention: after launching here last week, over 100 people used Attention!We followed up on feedback and we added a Notion Calendar-style calendar!---We realized pretty quickly when working in Attention (Superhuman for iMessage) that a lot of our conversations were about scheduling things.When we talk to Righthand users, iMessage is a lot of "can we find time to debug the issue live" or "I'll get back to you by this evening with the answer". Personally it's a lot of booking travel and dinners.Since we've been spending so much time in Attention, we decided to add a calendar to fix the issue. It looks like Notion Calendar, but it also supports a few new features like "fuzzy events".The onboarding is more involved and so we'll do 1:1s for a bit (comment below if you want to be in the cohort), but we would love any and all feedback!As before:- Privacy / Security: Your data is yours, fully local in LanceDB + SQLite, never leaving your machine unless you turn on the AI agenAug 20, 2026 7:17 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
bing.com
The Single English County Saying No to Palantirhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a1f80f64c46128afaa272b2ff9661&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fstory%2Fthe-single-english-county-saying-no-to-palantir%2F&c=6146102362479372811&mkt=en-usThe UK government is facing calls to cancel a sprawling health care contract with Palantir. The region of Greater Manchester insists it can do a better job itself.Aug 20, 2026 7:01 PM
bing.com
The Single English County Saying No to Palantirhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a1f85fe1147e7abb7b3f97421f77e&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fstory%2Fthe-single-english-county-saying-no-to-palantir%2F&c=6146102362479372811&mkt=en-usThe UK government is facing calls to cancel a sprawling health care contract with Palantir. The region of Greater Manchester insists it can do a better job itself.Aug 20, 2026 7:01 PM
playling.netlify.app
Show HN: Language Audio Trainer – Learn languages without looking at the screenhttps://playling.netlify.app/I recently built a language learning app with a slightly different approach. I deliberately didn't want it to be another Duolingo-like app.I think users should be able to choose what they want to learn and when.The main idea behind Language Audio Trainer is that you can simply press Play and listen to useful phrases in the background with the screen off — while walking, driving, cooking, etc. You can skip or repeat phrases, change the speech speed and number of repetitions, and choose the translation direction.There is also a flashcard mode for when you want to study more actively.I'd be interested to hear what you think about this approach to language learning.iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/playling-language-trainer/id67619... Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.playling.a...Aug 20, 2026 6:17 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Are you good at AI, or just using it?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378057We’re working on a ladder for individual AI proficiency and would love feedback on both the levels and the definitions.L0 New: brand new to AI, or has not yet used it.L1 Chat: simple prompt-and-response use. Work is serial: ask, wait for an answer, then ask again.L2 Contextual Work: gives AI relevant documents, data, or workspace context so it can work within the actual artifact and produce a more useful result.L3 Orchestrate: coordinates multiple agents or AI roles across independent workstreams, with work that may review, challenge, compare, or build on other work. This is not just for engineering.L4 Automate: creates workflows that are triggered by business events and run without someone sitting at a laptop directing each step.L5 Loop: feeds the output of those workflows back into shared knowledge or a company brain, so future workflows improve over time.A few things I’d love your perspective on:Are these the right levels? Are any of the names unclear or overlapping? What observableAug 20, 2026 6:04 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
bing.com
Watch: Colo. Police Officer Uses Body Camera to Translate Mandarin During Traffic Stophttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a891e213b914dd98fc3f6e65803f1cb&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.officer.com%2Fon-the-street%2Fbody-cameras%2Fnews%2F55399890%2Fvideo-shows-parker-police-officer-using-body-camera-translation-feature-with-mandarin-speaking-driver&c=1734999827354688948&mkt=en-usA body camera's AI-powered, built-in translation tool helped a Parker police officer overcome a language barrier and communicate with a Mandarin-speaking driver during a ...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
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
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
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/researchAug 20, 2026 4:32 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
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 performAug 20, 2026 3:29 PM
bbc.com
Battle for Mali base has killed dozens of militants, army sayshttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly8j7ygwvloThe army says it was involved in fierce fighting but disputes that Islamists took control of the garrison.Aug 20, 2026 3:24 PM
nasa.gov
Artemis Mission Patcheshttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/artemis-mission-patches/A jacket decorated with Artemis I and II mission patches, along with other NASA patches hangs on the back of a chair on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026, inside the Rocco A. Petrone Launch Control Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida during a terminal countdown simulation for the Artemis III mission. NASA’s Exploration Ground […]Aug 20, 2026 3:13 PM
europeanspaceflight.com
ESA Confirms Ariane 6 Block 3 Upgrades Have Been Shelvedhttps://europeanspaceflight.com/esa-confirms-ariane-6-block-3-upgrades-have-been-shelved/The European Space Agency has confirmed to European Spaceflight that it is no longer considering the Ariane 6 Block 3 evolution, saying there is “no programme need or justification” for the evolution at this time. Questions regarding the scrapping of the Block 3 upgrades arose earlier this month after SpaceScout reported that an ESA study […] The post ESA Confirms Ariane 6 Block 3 Upgrades Have Been Shelved appeared first on European Spaceflight.Aug 20, 2026 2:58 PM
pub.doub.ly
Show HN: Check if any of the $656M in unclaimed royalties at The MLC is yourshttps://pub.doub.ly/Hi 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 supposeAug 20, 2026 2:38 PM
