theguardian.com
DRC’s fast-growing Ebola outbreak spreads to sixth provincehttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/13/ebola-drc-democratic-republic-congo-sixth-provinceMan dies in Bas-Uele after travelling from Haut-Uele, as head of WHO says outbreak on track to be deadliest everThe Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has spread to a sixth province, officials have said, a day after the head of the World Health Organization said the outbreak was on track to surpass the deadliest in history, which killed at least 11,000 people more than a decade...Aug 13, 2026 3:17 PM
substructure.ai
Show HN: An agent engine with no SDK, just TOML and webhookshttps://substructure.ai/I was looking for a way to add AI agents to multiple systems that I maintain.I had a few requirements:- I work in multiple programming languages, so it needs to work for all of them.- I can control how tools access my system.- I can override the agent loop to try different patterns.- I can iterate on the loop without handling durability, streaming, and the rest of the nitty gritty.- I can iterate locally before deploying.- I can self host.Nothing existed that worked across programming languages, so I built it.It's not an SDK. It's a server that handles durability, streaming, MCP connections, LLM calls and connecting to channels like Slack.You can override every single step of the agent loop by handling a webhook.But you don't have to override anything, you don't even need to handle the webhook. You can define the agent in a TOML file and chat with your agent via Slack in minutes.Point it at your backend to receive a webhook at every decision point. The engine sends the current step andAug 13, 2026 2:19 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Show HN: ProbeDeck an iOS app for ClickHouse incident triagehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49286299As a backend developer dealing with heavy applications, I run a ClickHouse node with 3.42 TB compressed and 19.10 TB uncompressed amongst its active components. I built ProbeDeck to run some operations on a cluster, inspect a cluster, and read some system logs on my iPhone or iPad with no laptop.The application presents some system tables as screens for running a query, replica state, storage pressure, and mutations. It pulls some stats from the system.metric_log table and shows 0 when that table is not active. One can inspect the system and decide if they want to execute KILL QUERY or KILL MUTATION. Those screens have a confirmation screen. While working with destructive SQL in the editor, a confirmation is needed and is type-safe.The app sends ClickHouse requests via HTTP or HTTPS to the ClickHouse server, or via one SSH bastion if a single SSH hop is needed. ProbeDeck does not proxy requests for a database. It stores passwords, SSH private keys, TLS client certificates, and the secrAug 13, 2026 2:14 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Show HN: Orca – Instant cross-platform in-app purchase orchestrationhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49286271Hi HN,Founder of Maxint here, we just launched Orca (https://orca.maxint.com/)One major hurdle for us, following the deployment across iOS, Android, Linux, MacOS, Windows and Web, was monetization. There was no standardized store, schema or architecture to define, integrate and track subscriptions, consumables and non-consumables across platforms.We tried RevenueCat and Adapty, however both were limited to mobile and web, while we still had to manually set up all products and entitlements in each of the stores - Google PlayStore, Apple AppStore and Stripe.Both providers had no support for MacOS, Linux and Windows, and raising GitHub issues left us hanging for months, while our users were limited to use their subscription on a single platform only.This forced us to build a monetization orchestration platform supporting all major operating systems. We launched it internally, 12+ months ago and we tested it heavily with thousands of users. Early this year we implemented an MCP server, enaAug 13, 2026 2:12 PM
github.com
Show HN: Parquity – find and reproduce Parquet interoperability failureshttps://github.com/sovsparrow/parquityI built a Python CLI for Parquet interoperability. It runs a given Parquet file through selected readers and shows where it fails with a command. Also uses Hypothesis for fuzzing. Generates tables, runs through a matrix of engines and minimizes the found failures. You can also create a schema beforehand and fuzz within it.I believe it can be useful for Parquet engine maintainers and people with multiple Parquet engines involved in their pipeline.Already found and filed two issues with it, one from scanning Apache's own corpus and the other from fuzzing:- https://github.com/pola-rs/polars/issues/28787 - https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/issues/24731repo: https://github.com/sovsparrow/parquityAug 13, 2026 12:49 PM
stackdome.com
Show HN: Stackdome – An open source self-hostable Railway alternative on K8shttps://stackdome.comHello Hacker News, this is Ashish.We started building Stackdome in 2024 as a hobby project. The idea was to package the tooling in the CNCF/cloud-native ecosystem into an opinionated platform, so that developers can get a well engineered platform without learning Kubernetes YAMLology or a dozen other projects from the CNCF landscape.Railway and Render did this well for their hosted products. I wanted to bring that level of polish and DX to something you can self-host. Stackdome uses Kubernetes underneath, but it's completely transparent to users. (I have some ideas for an expert mode that exposes more of the bells and whistles.)My day job involves working with cloud native technologies, and it made me appreciate how much is already solved by Kubernetes and the tooling around it. If you are already running Kubernetes, Stackdome is something you can adopt incrementally. (I have some ideas around adopting already-running workloads.)Features:- First class support for multi-service applicatAug 13, 2026 12:43 PM
readiteasy.app
Show HN: Read it easy – Read-only code editor with an improved Go to Definitionhttps://www.readiteasy.app/I built a desktop app that improves the UI/UX for reading source code . Code editors/IDEs have many features, but I didn't make the best use of them when reading the source code. So, I designed the app by picking up some features for source code reading. It is read-only because it is intended to focus users on reading. Switching from your favorite code editor or IDE to the app can help with context switching from coding to code reading. I wonder if this context switch can help people focus on reading.One of the features I designed specifically for this app is "Animated Go to Definition," which works by double-clicking a function name in the code and is designed around some principles I use when reading code. This feature exactly embodies the ideas and concepts of this app. Now, Animated Go to Definition supports JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java, and C#.AI empowers documentation in software development, but it does not always eliminate the need to read source code. To truly understaAug 13, 2026 12:30 PM
bing.com
"The America Opus" — Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of Americahttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a813b6107714231bb213e4721e5684e&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.reuters.com%2fpress-releases%2famerica-opus-250th-anniversary-2026-08-13%2f&c=7480531873258851405&mkt=en-usPresident Donald J. Trump writes an exclusive foreword for "The America Opus," celebrating the country, its people and iconic achievements on its 250th anniversary.Aug 13, 2026 11:16 AM
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"The America Opus" — Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of Americahttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a813b8663f1445a99b583bfecfd2dd7&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.reuters.com%2fpress-releases%2famerica-opus-250th-anniversary-2026-08-13%2f&c=7480531873258851405&mkt=en-usPresident Donald J. Trump writes an exclusive foreword for "The America Opus," celebrating the country, its people and iconic achievements on its 250th anniversary.Aug 13, 2026 11:16 AM
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"The America Opus" — Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of Americahttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a813a76d22d4f8f9661ba83936af3e4&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.reuters.com%2fpress-releases%2famerica-opus-250th-anniversary-2026-08-13%2f&c=7480531873258851405&mkt=en-usPresident Donald J. Trump writes an exclusive foreword for "The America Opus," celebrating the country, its people and iconic achievements on its 250th anniversary.Aug 13, 2026 11:16 AM
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"The America Opus" — Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of Americahttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a813bac921e482d9eb05721a4903525&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.reuters.com%2fpress-releases%2famerica-opus-250th-anniversary-2026-08-13%2f&c=7480531873258851405&mkt=en-usPresident Donald J. Trump writes an exclusive foreword for "The America Opus," celebrating the country, its people and iconic achievements on its 250th anniversary.Aug 13, 2026 11:16 AM
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"The America Opus" — Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of Americahttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a813c5f62dc4012b208e2099d269f64&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.reuters.com%2fpress-releases%2famerica-opus-250th-anniversary-2026-08-13%2f&c=7480531873258851405&mkt=en-usPresident Donald J. Trump writes an exclusive foreword for "The America Opus," celebrating the country, its people and iconic achievements on its 250th anniversary.Aug 13, 2026 11:16 AM
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"The America Opus" — Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of Americahttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a813b25b0de43ecbf8cb370bd9d0b89&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.reuters.com%2fpress-releases%2famerica-opus-250th-anniversary-2026-08-13%2f&c=7480531873258851405&mkt=en-usPresident Donald J. Trump writes an exclusive foreword for "The America Opus," celebrating the country, its people and iconic achievements on its 250th anniversary.Aug 13, 2026 11:16 AM
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"The America Opus" — Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of Americahttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a813d5cb0ea4fa68782f4d10b0104e5&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.reuters.com%2fpress-releases%2famerica-opus-250th-anniversary-2026-08-13%2f&c=7480531873258851405&mkt=en-usPresident Donald J. Trump writes an exclusive foreword for "The America Opus," celebrating the country, its people and iconic achievements on its 250th anniversary.Aug 13, 2026 11:16 AM
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"The America Opus" — Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of Americahttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a813b0bf59e425c832b9f0de9274b57&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.reuters.com%2fpress-releases%2famerica-opus-250th-anniversary-2026-08-13%2f&c=7480531873258851405&mkt=en-usPresident Donald J. Trump writes an exclusive foreword for "The America Opus," celebrating the country, its people and iconic achievements on its 250th anniversary.Aug 13, 2026 11:16 AM
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"The America Opus" — Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of Americahttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a813dd9d65a4de99c1e95b8504168c4&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.reuters.com%2fpress-releases%2famerica-opus-250th-anniversary-2026-08-13%2f&c=7480531873258851405&mkt=en-usPresident Donald J. Trump writes an exclusive foreword for "The America Opus," celebrating the country, its people and iconic achievements on its 250th anniversary.Aug 13, 2026 11:16 AM
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"The America Opus" — Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of Americahttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a813bc4e33f4723871745d0e1eec73a&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.reuters.com%2fpress-releases%2famerica-opus-250th-anniversary-2026-08-13%2f&c=7480531873258851405&mkt=en-usPresident Donald J. Trump writes an exclusive foreword for "The America Opus," celebrating the country, its people and iconic achievements on its 250th anniversary.Aug 13, 2026 11:16 AM
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"The America Opus" — Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of Americahttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a813c07aa664060bc0b48134f6f9418&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.reuters.com%2fpress-releases%2famerica-opus-250th-anniversary-2026-08-13%2f&c=7480531873258851405&mkt=en-usPresident Donald J. Trump writes an exclusive foreword for "The America Opus," celebrating the country, its people and iconic achievements on its 250th anniversary.Aug 13, 2026 11:16 AM
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"The America Opus" — Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of Americahttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a813b2cb91042118450712d872818ef&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.reuters.com%2fpress-releases%2famerica-opus-250th-anniversary-2026-08-13%2f&c=7480531873258851405&mkt=en-usPresident Donald J. Trump writes an exclusive foreword for "The America Opus," celebrating the country, its people and iconic achievements on its 250th anniversary.Aug 13, 2026 11:16 AM
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"The America Opus" — Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of Americahttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a813b112e864847bcfcab38676f30ca&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.reuters.com%2fpress-releases%2famerica-opus-250th-anniversary-2026-08-13%2f&c=7480531873258851405&mkt=en-usPresident Donald J. Trump writes an exclusive foreword for "The America Opus," celebrating the country, its people and iconic achievements on its 250th anniversary.Aug 13, 2026 11:16 AM
