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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
github.com
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 r
Aug 2, 2026 8:48 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Show HN: LLM Tools that I made that I cant live withouthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49146317Hello HN ..I am posting here because I have made this bad ass thing. I want to be clear. I'm trying to make somthing worthy of people buying it and getting good value, I have not really shown it off or had anyone look at my site past the occasional web crawler, and I did 100% make this. Its called 0verload and the things it does, I will now list. Automatcially tracks versions on all your source code. It dosnt replace GIT, its for the saves you do between checkins...that one version you should have saved .it does..automatically. even oob writes get a version. I cant live with out it... somthing about telling my llm ....get me that thing I wrote like 2 days ago or a week ago or whenever.you can just tell the llm kinda where when and it will go get it and merge it in....I have files with hundreds of versions and you would think it would be annoying but if you have an llm ...I ship claude skills with it so it wakes up knowing how to use it, AND that brings me to somthing else it does.. I i
Aug 2, 2026 5:13 PM
marnetto.net
Show HN: A mod for Grand Prix Circuit (DSI/Accolade, 1988)https://marnetto.net/projects/grand-prix-circuitHello HN,I have built a mod for Grand Prix Circuit, an old 2.5D racing game: the latest episode of a long series of community efforts to reverse-engineer and improve the games made by Distinctive Software (today's EA Vancouver) in the DOS era.I've been dabbling in hacking old DOS games for almost two years, but this time I think my project is big enough to be worthy of a “Show HN“.From the gaming point of view, the mod offers a variety of new cars and tracks, from Spa to the Space, and more sophisticated EGA backgrounds than the original game.From the technical point of view, it was an interesting effort combining reverse engineering, development, design and pixel art, all of which both in classic and LLM-assisted variants.From the literary point of view, I have documented the making of the game in a series of (fully human-written) posts [1]. There is something for everyone: war stories, hacking techniques, the word “boustrophedonic” and, as bonus, an outdoor game to keep your kids awa
Aug 2, 2026 2:40 PM
bing.com
The best credit cards for bad credit of August 2026http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89566665da4fddb7312d18d236b139&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2Fselect%2Fbest-credit-cards-for-bad-credit%2F&c=14879772023699658277&mkt=en-usSecured cards are typically the best choice for people with bad credit. These cards require a security deposit (often $200) that becomes your line of credit. When you use your secured card responsibly ...
Aug 2, 2026 2:27 PM
d2ykijtrvb890q.cloudfront.net
Show HN: Vein, a minimalist open-source resource management gamehttps://d2ykijtrvb890q.cloudfront.net/Recently I've been working on Vein, a small open-source resource management game built with Godot.I've always loved resource management board games, and I wanted to see how minimal I could make one. The core idea is simple: keep the heart beating by supplying it with the resources it demands. I tried to strip the mechanics down as much as possible while still leaving room for interesting decisions, and I added a short tutorial to help players get started.The problem is that I still don't feel like I've found the right gameplay loop. It works, but it isn't yet the game I imagined. I'd really appreciate any feedback—whether it's about the mechanics, pacing, tutorial, UI, or anything else that stands out. I'm especially interested in ideas for making the core loop deeper without making the game more complicated.Most of the development was done with Claude Sonnet as a coding partner, while I focused on the design, gameplay, and iteration. The game engine is Godot.You can play it here: http
Aug 2, 2026 9:44 AM
brontosaurusrex.github.io
Show HN: A little physical breakout clonehttps://brontosaurusrex.github.io/physical/v7/Idea: How about a 5 minute game I can play in my browser and it's actually fun to play.Controls: Mouse or keyboard (left/right, left alt/right alt or A/D), space and esc are pause toggle. Page up / Page Down are next or previous level (if already unlocked).Cheats: Z toggles zapper, M toggles magnets.Debug stuff: I, P, E keys are toggles for various stuff (E lets you change some aspects of physics engine).Game is maybe playable on mobile devices, there is a menu on top right, and then click the circle to select type of control.Physical engine is decoupled from refresh rate and runs at 240 Hz.Fully vibe coded (deepseek, chatgpt), levels are human made with some amount of love.
Jul 31, 2026 2:43 PM
news.ycombinator.com
A 1989 Unix finger protocol prank at UW-Milwaukeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49121204In 1989, as a CS undergrad at UW-Milwaukee, I had access to a graduate Unix lab. One afternoon, the grad students discovered they could scan the network for users who had accidentally left their .plan files world-writable. For the uninitiated, the finger command let you see who was logged in, and it displayed their local .plan file. Because default security permissions were incredibly relaxed back then, you could sometimes write directly to someone else's file. The grad students wrote a script to append a snarky message mocking the users' permissions: "I AM FAR MOR THAN AN IGNORANT MORON..." Later that night, the lab cleared out. Left to my own devices, curiosity got the better of me. I ran a similar scan to see if any open files were left. I found one, and the user’s login name immediately caught my eye: "beaver". The temptation was simply too great. I opened their file and wrote the only logical sentence:"If you are reading this, then you are fingering the beaver!" After literally fa
Jul 31, 2026 10:05 AM
esa.int
How to safely watch a solar eclipsehttps://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2026/07/How_to_safely_watch_a_solar_eclipse[English]: A solar eclipse is an unforgettable sight, but only if you watch it safely!
Jul 31, 2026 10:00 AM
bing.com
The best store credit cards of August 2026http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88ce4952ea44d1989aa9bfb643cd79&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2Fselect%2Fbest-store-credit-cards%2F&c=9847456743730759471&mkt=en-usWhile experts warn against opening store credit cards due to high interest rates, it's OK as long as you're responsible about paying your bill on time and in full. Many retailers ...
Jul 31, 2026 7:11 AM
news.ycombinator.com
Show HN: One page personal calendar with hierarchyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49119723Hello everyone! actions.life is a one page personal calendar. Unlike traditional to-do lists, which divide information into many pages, this app uses hierarchy to fit everything* on one page.The UI is designed to be predictable, like a physical desk with moveable objects, so nothing gets forgotten. The limitation from this physical design helps with focus and restraint: unlike knowledge bases, which are vast and interconnected, “action bases” should be constraint and scoped, for encouraging action.It complements apps like Notion and Google Calendar, and works for mobile and desktop on iOS 26+ and Chrome.I hope you can give it a shot and become my user! I will fix things and improve things (I've been full-time since 2024).https://beta.actions.life
Jul 31, 2026 6:33 AM
marbleos.com
Show HN: What should the GUI for AI agents look like?https://marbleos.com/demoHi HN! We’re Akilan and Miguel, the creators of MarbleOS.The inspiration for Marble comes from the GUI work at Xerox PARC, the 1984 Macintosh, and later NeXTSTEP, which became the foundation for Mac OS X. Before GUIs, interacting with a computer was limited to strange terminal commands:C:\> DIRC:\> COPY FILE.TXT A:You had to remember the command, syntax, paths, and parameters.The GUI made those capabilities visible. Instead of remembering commands, you could point at files, drag them, click buttons, and select actions from menus. It didn't necessarily make entirely new things possible; it just made existing capabilities much easier to understand and use. We feel like AI is still somewhere around this command-line stage.Even though the strict syntax has been replaced with natural language, the interaction can still be quite stiff and depend on heavily recall. Tools like Claude Cowork still look surprisingly terminal-like: /skill-name [param1] [param2]. The parameters are written in natu
Jul 31, 2026 5:17 AM
bing.com
When Flock Comes to Town: How These AI Cameras Work and What to Do About Themhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a1a24066b4f548f51934ce163deb3&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnet.com%2Fhome%2Fsecurity%2Fwhen-flock-comes-to-town-why-cities-are-axing-the-controversial-surveillance-technology%2F&c=18261292161549999992&mkt=en-usFlock's cameras and drones are spreading throughout the country. Some cities are pushing back. I found the details you should know. Flock surveillance cameras and drones are now common. Here’s what ...
Jul 31, 2026 4:00 AM
github.com
Show HN: Open-Cowork – an open-source, model-agnostic computer-use agenthttps://github.com/coasty-ai/open-coworkHi HN,We built Open Cowork, an MIT-licensed desktop agent that can operate a computer through screenshots, mouse input, and keyboard input.We started working on this after using cowork-style computer agents for longer tasks. The interaction model was useful, but computer use burns through model calls much faster than chat: take a screenshot, decide what to do, perform an action, inspect the result, and repeat.We wanted to separate that agent loop from any one model or subscription.Open Cowork currently works with local models through Ollama and hosted models through providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, Mistral, and OpenRouter. You can watch the agent’s actions as they happen and interrupt it during a run.The basic loop is:Capture the current screen Send the screenshot and task state to the model Parse the proposed action Execute the mouse or keyboard action Capture the resulting state Continue until completion, interruption, or a safety conditionTwo annoyingly common fai
Jul 30, 2026 5:54 PM
bing.com
Reddit's CEO sure seems frustrated with Google's AI overviewshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85ea15e0e14a4fa17f03f64e09cec3&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.engadget.com%2f2227553%2freddit-s-ceo-sure-seems-frustrated-with-google-s-ai-overviews%2f&c=2504210106190436296&mkt=en-usYou can add Reddit CEO Steve Huffman to the growling list of publishers, platforms and others who are frustrated with the state of Google search and AI Overviews. "People don't want a summary of ...
Jul 30, 2026 5:09 PM
bing.com
Reddit's CEO sure seems frustrated with Google's AI overviewshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e7f958354712987dfd9bcc1d9072&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.engadget.com%2f2227553%2freddit-s-ceo-sure-seems-frustrated-with-google-s-ai-overviews%2f&c=2504210106190436296&mkt=en-usYou can add Reddit CEO Steve Huffman to the growling list of publishers, platforms and others who are frustrated with the state of Google search and AI Overviews. "People don't want a summary of ...
Jul 30, 2026 5:09 PM
esa.int
Summer school builds future GNSS talenthttps://www.esa.int/Applications/Satellite_navigation/Summer_school_builds_future_GNSS_talentFrom 13-24 July, the 17th annual European Space Agency (ESA)/Joint Research Centre (JRC) International Summer School on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) brought together a record 102 students, early-stage researchers and young professionals from 25 countries to broaden their knowledge of GNSS. In Espoo, Finland, they collaborated, built connections and learned from experts from ESA, the European Commission (EC), industry and academia.
Jul 30, 2026 12:28 PM