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Show HN: Open-source browser for AI agentshttps://github.com/theredsix/agent-browser-protocolHi HN, I forked chromium and built agent-browser-protocol (ABP) after noticing that most browser-agent failures aren’t really about the model misunderstanding the page. Instead, the problem is that the model is reasoning from a stale state.ABP is designed to keep the acting agent synchronized with the browser at every step. After each action (click, type, etc), it freezes JavaScript execution and rendering, then captures the resulting state. It also compiles the notable events that occurred during that action loop, such as navigation, file pickers, permission prompts, alerts, and downloads, and sends that along with a screenshot of the frozen page state back to the agent.The result is that browser interaction starts to feel more like a multimodal chat loop. The agent takes an action, gets back a fresh visual state and a structured summary of what happened, then decides what to do next from there. That fits much better with how LLMs already work.A few common browser-use failures ABP helMar 11, 2026 2:39 PM
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I Got Fired Because of AI – But I Still Think I'm the Engineer of the Futurehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47328448Over the past few months I completely rebuilt my approach to software development.I used to write code myself. Now I strategically manage neural networks.Before, I spent time on architecture, reading documentation, and understanding other people's code. Now I spend my time choosing the right model and discussing on Twitter which one is the real game changer.I bought all the most expensive AI coding tool subscriptions. About $500 in total. Honestly, I feel sorry for people who haven't done this yet. I'm subscribed to all the founders of AI dev tools and read their posts religiously. If someone claims their product can replace a mid-level developer, I see it immediately. You have to stay ahead of the market.I used to worry when I didn't understand some complex part of the system. Now I usually don't understand what the neural networks wrote for me — but that's fine. I read on Twitter that reading and understanding code is becoming obsolete. Modern engineers don't need to understand code;Mar 10, 2026 8:31 PM
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NASA Invites Media to 63rd Annual Goddard Space Science Symposiumhttps://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-invites-media-to-63rd-annual-goddard-space-science-symposium/Media are invited to attend the 63rd annual Goddard Space Science Symposium, taking place Thursday, March 12, and Friday, March 13, at the National Housing Center in Washington. The event also will be streamed online. Organized by the American Astronautical Society (AAS) in conjunction with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, the symposium […]Mar 10, 2026 12:00 PM
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Calm Energy Beverageshttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiWEFVX3lxTFBnR2ZEVGFrQVUzVURHZEFqejNTU3ZRRk91V19zZDVVR1pycFZDVkU1VE1WRVFHM0JPaDFJLW8xUGtESGJOQkx3SWE1SUVCb1NYcmZMT0lFek3SAV5BVV95cUxNTTlobExWUVNPTHJFcmE2Nk1HRUNxZWZCbkl2YTZsb0pVNDNuSHpmWUpIVFZhTjNuOGZaOHh3c19kZ0pjMktWTzdZZk5kdV93QzJKQlZMY2JiY3dNZ0RR?oc=5Calm Energy Beverages Trend HunterMar 9, 2026 7:00 AM
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Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scriptinghttps://github.com/moongate-community/moongatev2I've been building a modern Ultima Online server emulator from scratch. It's not feature-complete (no combat, no skills yet), but the foundation is solid and I wanted to share it early.What it does today: - Full packet layer for the classic UO client (login, movement, items, mobiles) - Lua scripting for item behaviors (double-click a potion, open a door — all defined in Lua, no C# recompile) - Spatial world partitioned into sectors with delta sync (only sends packets for new sectors when crossing boundaries) - Snapshot-based persistence with MessagePack - Source generators for automatic DI wiring, packet handler registration, and Lua module exposure - NativeAOT support — the server compiles to a single native binary - Embedded HTTP admin API + React management UI - Auto-generated doors from map statics (same algorithm as ModernUO/RunUO)Tech stack: .NET 10, NativeAOT, NLua, MessagePack, DryIoc, KestrelWhat's missing: Combat, skills, weather integration, NPC AI. This is still early — theMar 6, 2026 2:22 PM
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Show HN: Liftstack – Snippet-level A/B testing for CRM marketershttps://www.liftstack.com/I've spent years in CRM and email marketing, and one thing has always driven me mad: the constant pressure from the business to "test everything" when you know damn well you'll never reach statistical significance.Most ESP's use frequentist models. You need a fixed sample size calculated upfront, you can't peek at results early without inflating your false positive rate, and if your list isn't massive, you're waiting weeks for a result that often comes back inconclusive anyway. So teams either ignore the statistics entirely and just pick whichever variant "looks better" after a day, or they stop testing altogether. Either way, you learn nothing.On top of that, the testing workflow itself is painful. You duplicate your entire template, change the one thing you want to test (a subject line, a hero image, a CTA), split your audience, send, and wait. Want to test two things at once? Now you need four template versions. Three things? Eight versions. It scales terribly, and most teams just dMar 5, 2026 3:18 PM
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Show HN: MoatRadar – AI investment research through Warren Buffett's principleshttps://www.moatradar.com/?promo=HACKERNEWSHey HN,I’m a non-developer and this is the first app I’ve ever shipped in my life. I built it over the last few days using Claude and a lot of vibe coding.The idea came from my own investing workflow: I often look at companies through the lens of specific investors (Buffett, Lynch, Taleb, etc.). I wanted a tool that could generate investment ideas filtered through those frameworks.What the app does:You choose an investor (Buffett, Lynch, Soros, Damodaran, etc.) and an asset class (stocks, startups, crypto). The app then generates 10 opportunities and explains why that investor might find them interesting, based on their known principles.Under the hood: • Node.js server (no frameworks) • Vanilla JS frontend • GPT-4o for research / synthesis • live price data • Stripe + Google OAuth • hosted on RailwayIt’s still an experiment and I’m curious if the idea actually makes sense to other investors.You can try it here:https://www.moatradar.comHN users can get 10 free credits:https://www.moatraMar 4, 2026 11:25 PM
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When space is hot, Washington holds a matchhttps://spacenews.com/when-space-is-hot-washington-holds-a-match/A lesson from private equity investing in defense and space technology is that while the sector has become trendy among investors, success in the long run depends on sustained government engagement The post When space is hot, Washington holds a match appeared first on SpaceNews.Mar 3, 2026 4:00 PM
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Ask HN: Statistical learning and non-Statistical learning for humanshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47218246Hi friends,I have been pondering a lot about this question, at least since the rise of LLM models that may genuinely get pass Turing's test. I'd like to put down conclusion here: I believe humans learn both from a Statistical method and non-Statistical method, and we are not very different from LLM in the first method.Statistical method: I'm an introvert. I do not like interacting socially f2f (online is a completely different matter as I can bubble for days non-stop). I also happened to migrate to a different country with a different culture after I matured. I believe I learned how to social -- or, to be more precisely, how to keep others think that I'm too much of a weirdo to be fit in a team -- with a Statistical model. Here is what I meant: social interaction between humans face to face starts with greeting, and then small talks to warm up, and then maybe more formal discussions, and then small talks to chill down, and finally say good-bye. I learned to do all these things by obserMar 2, 2026 2:17 PM
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Show HN: Open-source expense and budget tracker with SQL API for AI agentshttps://github.com/kirill-markin/expense-budget-trackerI've been categorizing every transaction for over five years — from a 2 euro coffee to rent payments. At the end of each month I close the books and look at a 12-month forecast of where my money is going.It started when I was 19 and ran my first company. I had no idea what I was doing with money, so I found an experienced financial advisor who sat me down and showed me how companies actually do budgeting. Where money goes, how much you're spending, what income to expect. Basic stuff, but nobody had explained it to me before. I just started applying the same approach to my personal finances and never stopped.Once a week I sit down, drop my bank statements into an AI agent, and it parses everything — categorizes transactions, inserts them into the database, checks that balances match across accounts. If something doesn't add up, it asks me before fixing it.I tried a bunch of apps over the years — CoinKeeper, ZenMoney, spreadsheets. They all worked to some degree. But the one thing I coulMar 2, 2026 9:53 AM
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Show HN: DevIndex – Ranking 50k GitHub developers using a static JSON filehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47193729Hey HN,I’ve always been frustrated by the lack of an accurate ranking for top open-source contributors on GitHub. The available lists either cap out early or are highly localized, completely missing developers with tens or hundreds of thousands of contributions.So, I built DevIndex to rank the top 50,000 most active developers globally based on their lifetime contributions.From an engineering perspective, the constraint I imposed was: *No backend API.* I wanted to host this entirely on GitHub Pages for free, meaning the browser had to handle all 50,000 data-rich records directly.Here is how we made it work:1. *The Autonomous Data Factory (Backend):* Because GitHub's API has no "Lifetime Contributions" endpoint, we built a Node.js pipeline running on GitHub Actions. It uses a "Network Walker" spider to traverse the social graph (to break out of algorithmic filter bubbles) and an Updater that chunks GraphQL queries to prevent 502 timeouts. The pipeline continuously updates a single `userFeb 28, 2026 11:13 AM
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USA TODAY Carshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a894ef46410415cbb6f3695266a2192&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fcars&c=12182142523958114480&mkt=en-usExplore the latest in cars, from news to reviews, shopping tips, and tech trends shaping the automotive world.Feb 25, 2026 12:08 AM
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Rocket re-entry pollution measured in atmosphere for first timehttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Rocket_re-entry_pollution_measured_in_atmosphere_for_first_time_999.htmlParis, France (AFP) Feb 19, 2026 When part of a SpaceX rocket re-entered Earth's atmosphere exactly a year ago, it created a spectacular fireball that streaked across Europe's skies, delighting stargazers and sending a team of scientists rushing towards their instruments. The German team managed to measure the pollution the rocket's upper stage emitted in our planet's difficult-to-study upper atmosphere - the first time thFeb 24, 2026 8:42 AM
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Shiri Shapira’s Yiddish stories reflect the anxieties of millennialshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89e566f12342b786efa350a7123247&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fnews%2Fworld%2Fshiri-shapira-s-yiddish-stories-reflect-the-anxieties-of-millennials%2Far-AA1WYhC3&c=16792107186209155663&mkt=en-usThe Forward brings you independent, nonprofit journalism with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis of the Middle East, campus conflicts, and more. Sign up for the free morning newsletter today. This ...Feb 24, 2026 5:12 AM
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Shiri Shapira’s Yiddish stories reflect the anxieties of millennialshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89d8b3034a4dafa8b248143dbed6f1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fnews%2Fworld%2Fshiri-shapira-s-yiddish-stories-reflect-the-anxieties-of-millennials%2Far-AA1WYhC3&c=16792107186209155663&mkt=en-usThe Forward brings you independent, nonprofit journalism with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis of the Middle East, campus conflicts, and more. Sign up for the free morning newsletter today. This ...Feb 24, 2026 5:12 AM
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Show HN: PaperBanana – Paste methodology text, get publication-ready diagramshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47132143I got tired of spending hours in PowerPoint and TikZ drawing methodology diagrams for my papers. So I built PaperBanana — you paste your Method section text, and it generates a publication-ready figure in about 2-3 minutes.How it works under the hood:1. A Retriever agent searches a curated database of real academic diagrams to find structurally similar references 2. A Planner agent reads your text and generates a detailed visual description (layout, components, connections, groupings) 3. A Stylist agent polishes the visual aesthetics without changing content 4. Then it enters an iterative loop: a Visualizer generates the image, and a Critic evaluates it and suggests revisions — this repeats 1-5 times (you choose)The key insight is that academic diagrams follow conventions — Transformer architectures, GAN pipelines, RLHF frameworks all have recognizable visual patterns. By retrieving relevant references first, the output is much closer to what you'd actually put in a paper vs. generic AFeb 24, 2026 2:34 AM
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Show HN: Touch Trigonometry – interactive way to understand the trig functionshttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/touch-trigonometry/id6758712159I started to teach myself to code around 15 years ago. At the time I was working service industry jobs (restaurant kitchens, coffee shops) and desperate to change my career and life.Around that time there was a new thing called available in HTML5 that you could use to render graphics in web pages without plugins; despite my limited knowledge of tech and lack of coding skills, I knew I wanted to be a part of that.Around that same time, I had also enrolled at the community college for night classes in math. I wanted to "work in tech" after all, so a mathematics brush-up seemed wise. I had always struggled with math. But now that I was both incentivized to learn it, I found myself facing a familiar terror: trigonometry.The other students, just out of high school, seemed to know this stuff. I was simply confused. The same frustration I had felt in high school returned: No one could clearly answer why this stuff worked. Why did we need a "sine" function?So I decided to combine my struggles Feb 23, 2026 8:56 PM
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Haitless: Quit Addictionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47128248Break bad habits and track your recovery.Break the cycle. Reclaim your freedom. Habitless is the science-backed tracker built specifically for the discipline of quitting. Whether it’s smoking, alcohol, vaping, or social media, Habitless provides the visual proof and psychological tools you need to stop addictions for good and stay sober. WHY HABITLESS? Most apps track new routines. Habitless tracks your freedom. By combining high-precision streak counting with real-time financial savings, we turn your recovery into a rewarding journey you can actually see.KEY FEATURES • Precision Streak Counter: Track your sobriety down to the second. See exactly how long you’ve been habit-free with our emerald-on-black interface. • Financial Savings Tracker: See the real-world impact. Input your daily spend on cigarettes or drinks and watch your total savings grow in real-time. • Milestone Journey & Badges: Unlock 20+ psychological badges as you progress from "24 Hours Clean" to "Long-term Freedom." •Feb 23, 2026 8:23 PM
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Complete medical aesthetic and wellness, led by specialistshttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiigFBVV95cUxQX1QzZExOT196VjF3b1dpNjlyWlVNRnAtOC1hbTZXalRBcjBaUmtkSkRFa25BcjFzQU42LS1XX01RTUZDMkZQczg5X29wZHIwU0xjZGwwOTN1bGZOa29FcnZJV3NzYlFGMzVsVzUxazhwSTJ1OFVqYnJmREUyUWJibUJ6YWthX0tmOGc?oc=5Complete medical aesthetic and wellness, led by specialists Independent ObserverFeb 22, 2026 8:00 AM
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Instance segmentation model that extracts 3D geometry from 2D floor planshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47092547Hey HN,I am an ML Engineer and a full-stack software engineer. For the past few weekends, I have been working on a pipeline to solve a PropTech problem: turning messy, highly occluded 2D floor plans into clean, structured data for 3D extrusion. Originally demoed for a firm hiring for the role.The Problem: If you try to use standard object detection (bounding boxes) or basic OCR (tested Qwen, DeepSeek) on architectural plans, it fails instantly. Walls intersect, doors swings and dimension lines heavily occlude the actual structures.The Stack & Architecture: I built an instance segmentation pipeline that relies strictly on pixel-perfect masking to pull the geometry.The Backbone: Swin Transformer + Detectron2.Model trained on 1024X1024 images, with RTX 4090Inference: Inference on CPUFeb 20, 2026 7:17 PM
