intergalacticrobots.app
Show HN: Skyline Co-op is like SimTower, but built around democratic socialismhttps://intergalacticrobots.app/skyline-coop/I've been rebuilding old games with Claude. While creating a modern take on SimTower and having election news on TV in the background, I had the idea to build the economy of the game around democratic socialism instead of capitalism.Instead of a real estate tycoon, you are an elected steward of the building, held responsible by the Assembly. Homes are allocated off a waitlist, dues are set on a sliding scale, and you face outside pressures from neighboring capitalist landlords.The crown jewel is attracting a large grant to establish an observatory at the top of your tower, attracting scientists. To get there, you must make sure the people are fed, housed, healthy, and entertained. If the Assembly doesn't have confidence in your abilities, you get voted out.It kinda works, and the potential failures in the game are pretty unique. I'd be interested to hear HN's take. An entire SimCity clone based on a different economy like this could be fun.Aug 6, 2026 11:37 AM
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Show HN: I was wrong about scrollytelling landing pageshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185678My position for years: minimal static landing page, one clear offer, optimised for conversion. Everything else is designers entertaining themselves. Then the “built this 3D scrolling page with Fable in 5 minutes” posts started going around and my customers began asking for that. I pushed back, lost the argument, and built a few.Two things surprised me.First, the viral demos don’t survive contact with a client. I tested so many circulating prompt/skill setups. One-shot output looks great; changing anything afterwards is brutal... The demos are impressive because nobody in the thread ever has to revise them.Second, and worse for me: dwell time and conversion on the pages I built came out ahead of the minimal pages I’d have argued for. Small sample, and I’d like someone to tell me why it’s noise.So I built the thing that fixes the first problem: prebuilt interactive widgets that stay editable instead of a generated blob you re-prompt. https://scrollytelling.ai my own landing page is now bAug 5, 2026 5:05 PM
apps.apple.com
Show HN: AppScout – App Store downloads, revenue and widgetshttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/appscout-app-metrics/id6770866569Hey hackers!Signing in to App Store Connect just to check downloads or MRR is a friction. I wanted a simpler way. Ideally, just to look at a widget on my iPhone. There are some apps, but the design and implementation made me think here's a gap that I can potentially fill it with a new polished product. So I've built this app.It took me several months to start beta testing. But then I got feedback from users that they don't really want to share their App Store key credentials with a third-party app that uses a backend and collects data. So, I spent one more month pivoting to a private app by dropping a backend and storing credentials on a user's device in a keychain. So, now the app directly talks to Apple's API and there's no account registration. You add a team key - the app fetches data. App also uses background tasks to fetch most recent data so you don't need to open it every day to keep the data fresh. And as a final point - I added widgets to both home and lock screens.Please letAug 5, 2026 4:09 PM
esa.int
Total solar eclipse: how to watch live from homehttps://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Total_solar_eclipse_how_to_watch_live_from_homeA total solar eclipse is coming to Europe. The European Space Agency (ESA) will broadcast live from 19:30 CEST on 12 August, allowing you to experience this rare event from anywhere in the world.Aug 5, 2026 8:00 AM
bing.com
Gamers may want to check if their Hisense TV just became an Xboxhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a1d83b00348079ce969d28d912d9b&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fgaming%2Fgeneral%2Fgamers-may-want-to-check-if-their-hisense-tv-just-became-an-xbox%2Far-AA29s4aK&c=13400177200317250801&mkt=en-usA gaming console may no longer be required to play Xbox games on the biggest screen in your home. Microsoft is turning select Hisense smart TVs into cloud gaming ...Aug 5, 2026 4:15 AM
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Holidays disrupted as another UK travel company goes bust - the 20th in recent monthshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89ae530da748a2acec6a3a28ba6298&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-ph%2Ftravel%2Ftravel-preparation%2Fholidays-disrupted-as-another-uk-travel-company-goes-bust-the-20th-in-recent-months%2Far-AA29qKLi&c=13019015880416859324&mkt=en-usWant to holiday like a travel expert? Get free access to this subscriber article about the best Greek islands to visit (and the worst ones to avoid) when you sign up HERE to the Escape newsletter ...Aug 5, 2026 2:44 AM
github.com
Show HN: Pleasantrieshttps://github.com/QAInsights/pleasantriesPre-hook scripts for AI coding CLIs that block pleasantry-only prompts like "hi", "hello", "ok", "thank you", etc. Send a real task, not a greeting.Aug 4, 2026 9:59 PM
hyperlaneide.com
Show HN: Hyperlane – A IDE and ADE merging agent worktrees with native toolinghttps://hyperlaneide.comHi HN, my co-founder and I run Akkento, a small self-funded team building Hyperlane, an independent IDE built on the VS Code source (Code OSS), made for merging worktree-based agent development with actual IDE features.Agent orchestrators give you a worktree based workflow where several agents run in parallel, but they are not IDEs (they are not meant to be), so the moment an agent finishes you have to leave and review the diff somewhere else, actually debug the code and go through a process to sanity check it. In a commercial team, that review step isn't optional which is the problem we came across, where you have 2 editors open at the same time for the same job. IDEs are where you actually read, debug and profile the code, but none of them give you the worktree workflow. We are hoping to fix that by merging the two together in an IDE with tooling for profiling, building and testing.Try it out: https://hyperlaneide.com/Hyperlane runs on macOS (Apple Silicon), Windows and Linux (x64 anAug 4, 2026 8:31 PM
sagorax.com
Show HN: Sagorax, a Three.js/WebGPU Arena Shooter in the Browserhttps://sagorax.com/I built Sagorax because I missed the speed and simplicity of UT99 and UT2k4. It now has both Instagib and classic weapons Deathmatch with plasma combos, flak, shotguns, charged rocket salvos, loadouts, adrenaline abilities, tactical bots and full controller support.No installation, just pick a gamertag and play: https://sagorax.comThe client is built with TypeScript, Three.js and WebGPU. Under the hood it uses FSR 3-based upscaling, adaptive dynamic resolution, GPU pipeline warmup, screen-space reflections, dynamic lighting and shadows, visibility culling and a custom post-processing pipeline.Multiplayer is next if there is enough interest (looking good so far).If you had told me a few months ago that this would be possible in a browser, I wouldn’t have believed you. But Opus 5 + GPT-5.6-Sol = GODMODE.Feedback is very welcome.Aug 4, 2026 7:50 PM
science.nasa.gov
August 2026 Satellite Puzzlerhttps://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/august-2026-satellite-puzzler/Your challenge is to tell us the location of the satellite image and why it is interesting.Aug 4, 2026 4:31 PM
toneyalexander.github.io
Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin toneshttps://toneyalexander.github.io/inclusive-color-space/Hello HN!I found that picking out plausible but diverse skin tones for my digital art and game development projects was kind of difficult, and I got curious about if there was a way to define a color space that made it easy.I've built a color picker and procedural generation algorithm based on the space as well as a bunch of other fun js features and demos throughout the page that use the equations. If you find it interesting, I have lots of explanations of how I built it and what properties the space has.The methodology might be a bit shaky, but hopefully the result is as helpful for others as I have found it! There's lots of room for improvements (see the Future Work section), but I'm really happy with how it turned out.Aug 4, 2026 3:16 PM
redirectiq.com
Show HN: Free SEO checker that finds redirect chains and www issueshttps://redirectiq.com/tools/seo-checkerHello, I wanted to share this free tool to check your page's SEO.I wanted to build something that did a few things I thought were important:1. Be fast, and give a solid technical SEO analysis without dragging it out. 2. Create a way to share links directly to a site's results, with the share OG image previewing the actual score. 3. Offer everything through an API. You can inspect the calls made on the page to see it. I haven't documented it yet, but it's available to use.The deepest checks we do right now are making sure your www and non-www setup redirects correctly, and looking across your site for any redirect chains that should be flattened. Alongside that, it covers the other basic technical SEO checks that matter for ranking — title tags, meta descriptions, headings, canonical tags, viewport, HTTPS, Open Graph tags, image alt text, structured data, and response time.Looking for feedback on what checks would be helpful to add, but want to keep it fast and lite.Aug 4, 2026 1:49 PM
github.com
Show HN: Neal – Codex writes the code, Claude reviews ithttps://github.com/navels/nealneal is a CLI I wrote while trying to use an LLM coding agent (in this case, Codex GPT-5.4) to work autonomously on a migration of our large frontend codebase. A few things came up during that project that guided the development of neal:1. Telling an agent to "keep working unless blocked" doesn't actually work over long stretches of time.2. Large projects should be broken up into smaller chunks of work.3. The coding agent should start each chunk of work with a fresh context to prevent context rot.4. The coding agent benefits from having a different agent doing adversarial reviews along the way.What I ended up with is an orchestrator that- lets you configure planner, coder, and reviewer roles. I started with Codex and Claude using their SDKs but later added OpenRouter as well as a compatibility mode for verifying that a model can handle the orchestration. Currently there are 44 compatible OpenRouter models.- runs a plan that you provide through a planner / reviewer loop which splits theAug 4, 2026 1:14 PM
bing.com
Best Rural Internet Providers for 2026http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89075c057a4b099ccd756cbb9e3925&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnet.com%2Fhome%2Finternet%2Fbest-rural-internet-providers%2F&c=9966963766815911794&mkt=en-usCompare the top rural internet service providers of 2026, from satellite to cable, DSL and more. Find internet available in your area on CNET.Aug 4, 2026 12:08 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Show HN: Made Our BI v7 – Free Open Source with All Features (AI, SSO, RLS etc.)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49165810We just made our BI v 7.0 product completely open source and free including all enterprise versions. Hence in github downloaded version, you can also get things like AI chat analytics (with bring your own LLM), multi-tenancy, embedding, SSO, RLS, report busting, paginated canned reports etc.Zero functionality difference between Community or Enterprise version. Would love some feedbackhttps://github.com/helicalinsight/helicalinsightAug 4, 2026 8:32 AM
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Show HN: Popkorn – A CSS based alternative for Lottie animationshttps://github.com/ayarse/popkornHi all,I’ve been working on this project for a while now and wanted to share it here for feedback and contributions. You can test drive it in the playground at:https://usepopkorn.devI’ve been calling it Popkorn. The idea is to author vector animations, similar to Rive and Lottie, but in a CSS-like language, with interactivity and other modern necessities baked into the format. I’ve stayed true to CSS for the most part, sprinkling on a little custom syntax for things like interactivity.Staying close to CSS gives it good DX, and it turns out to make it very LLM-friendly too. Nearly my entire examples gallery is AI generated. Even cheap models like GLM or DSv4 Flash can one shot whole animations from scratch, no fine-tuning required. There’s a Copilot feature the Playground that will let you bring your own key, or use the MCP to test drive AI features. Do share what you make please!There’s a web player that renders on Canvas or SVG, and a React Native player using Skia. It supports nestedAug 3, 2026 4:41 PM
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Show HN: Self-hosted pet diary built on Frigate and a local vision modelhttps://github.com/bolt12/pet-reportI have a cat and a dog, and I worry about them whenever I am away. My cameras ping me with a clip of the cat crossing the kitchen, which tells me almost nothing. I could sit and watch hours of recordings to work out how their day went and whether anything looks off, but that's too time consuming. What I actually wanted to know were concrete things: did they eat, did they drink, did the cat use the litter box, are they sleeping more than usual.So pet-report sits on top of Frigate, which I already run for the cameras. Twice a day it sends the new clips to a vision model (I run Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on an RTX 5090) on my own server and writes up the day, with every line linking back to the footage behind it so you can check it yourself. You can also ask it things like "did the dog drink today?" and it answers from what the cameras actually saw.I've found myself needing an app like this for a long time, and pulling contextual metadata out of an image or a video is exactly what these models are gAug 3, 2026 3:21 PM
jackcushman.org
Show HN: Christopher Nolan's Hymn to Athenahttps://jackcushman.org/writing/hymn-to-athena/Hi, HN! Did you know that Chris Nolan's casting of Tom Holland and Zendaya eerily echoes a 3000-year-old dance battle between Athena and Telemachus? I've been working on an art project that says so.If you like, it can be fun to go in blind with a strong research agent to sort out what this really is. Or there is a multi-layered CAPTCHA at the bottom that spells it out increasingly clearly.As a small spoiler: my day job is building reliable public data tools for a library. This piece draws on that background to try to make AI-native art -- fiction by and for humans who use AI agents as a source of truth. At best I hope it works as the kind of joke one Iain M. Banks Culture AI would tell another about humans.Aug 3, 2026 2:45 PM
dmerullo.github.io
Show HN: Project ESPAÑOL: Find level-appropriate Spanish-language poemshttps://dmerullo.github.io/project-espanol/I made this application while taking Spanish lessons to find texts that used verb forms I was learning (present, past, future, subjunctive, etc.). First, I scraped ~10,000 Spanish-language poems from the web that are in the public domain. Then, I built a conjugation dictionary for the 550+ most common verbs, using rules to generate regular verbs, and scraping irregular verbs from the web. From this alone, you can identify which poems contain the most type of verbs you're trying to target. To take it further, I used a k-means clustering algorithm in Python to classify the poems into four difficulty levels based on verb form frequencies (poems with lots of verbs in subjunctive future perfect are more difficult than only present tense, for example).I first completed the project in December 2024, almost entirely by hand, using LLMs primarily to make an interactive Plotly Dash application. (I have a lot of experience with data visualization, especially ggplot2; that was my first time using Aug 3, 2026 1:12 AM
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Show HN: Draco – A single-binary, self-hostable Firecrawl alternative in Rusthttps://github.com/0xchasercat/draco/Scraping modern websites has become a massive headache. You basically have two choices: pay for an expensive API like Firecrawl/Browserbase, or run a fleet of headless Chrome instances that eat 1GB of RAM per page and still get blocked by Cloudflare.I built Draco to fix this. It’s a fast, single-binary web scraper written in Rust. You point it at a URL, and it spits out perfectly clean Markdown or structured JSON for LLMs.The secret sauce is that it doesn't just boot a browser for every request. It uses a tiered escalation engine:Tier 1 (Stealth Fetch): Draco uses a custom TLS/JA4 fingerprint to perfectly mimic a real browser's network signature at the packet level. It turns out a lot of anti-bot walls will let you right through if your handshake looks correct. In my benchmarks against sites like Cloudflare and Target, Playwright ate ~500MB of RAM and timed out. Draco bypassed them in under a second using just 20MB of RAM.Tier 2 (V8 Isolate): If it hits a React/Next.js SPA that needs rAug 2, 2026 8:48 PM
