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Show HN: Kifly – Expose your ecommerce store to AI agents via MCP [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gfn03LKRusHi HN, I am building https://kifly.ai/, to make ecommerce stores discoverable and purchasable by AI agents. Enabling payments using traditional methods and stablecoins for physical goods.With Kifly a seller can easily sync their inventory and we create a vectorized database of their products/goods and make it visible through MCP. Sellers get: - A sales agent that lives on their existing site (Shopify, WooCommerce etc.). It helps customers find and purchase products seamlessly using natural language. Collapsing the search bar and checkout page. - Their own seller scoped MCP they can hand to any customer/org for secure, faster automation and transactions. -Discovery and checkout in Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Siri AI through the network wide Kifly MCP (https://kifly.ai/api/mcp)I believe in the near future everyone will have an agent, every phone or device will constitute one. Organizations will also have sort of super agents for complex provisioning and restocking flows. In the future whAug 6, 2026 6:18 PM
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Ask HN: Can trivial LLM calls be compiled into conventional data pipelines?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49199957We are investigating whether recurring LLM workloads can be replaced, where appropriate, by automatically constructed pipelines of regexes, deterministic parsers, traditional ML and NLP models.As an example, suppose an application repeatedly asks a frontier model to read an annual report and return all customer–supplier relationships as structured records containing a customer, supplier, and supporting evidence.A possible replacement pipeline might run named-entity recognition, entity normalization, candidate generation, entity linking, relation extraction, and schema validation. A calibrated uncertainty or out-of-distribution gate would use the pipeline for inputs inside its validated domain and escalate other cases to the original frontier model.NER → entity normalization → candidate generation → entity linking → relation extraction → schema validationOur current action space is a taxonomy of 41 atomic task types spanning classification, token and span labeling, structured extractionAug 6, 2026 5:48 PM
bing.com
Sensationally Silk-Pressed David Banner Sparks Hilarious Hysteriahttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a890683fc6f4ea7bce88ba36a0eb951&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbossip.com%2F4612953%2Fsocial-media-reacts-david-banner-silk-press-ugk-30th-anniversary-concert%2F&c=6602532123867724421&mkt=en-usMust-see reactions to David Banner's silk-pressed shenanigans at sold-out UGK 30th Anniversary concert A sensationally silk-pressed David Banner stole the show at the sold-out, one-night-only UGK 30th ...Aug 6, 2026 5:00 PM
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Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weekshttps://provenmetal.comHey HN, we’re Will & Johnny from ProvenMetal (https://provenmetal.com). You send us design files or specs and we give you assembled boards domestically in days.The US produced 30% of PCBs globally in 2000, now they produce 4%. Chinese manufacturers have completely dominated this space at 55% of global production.Now, the need for a domestic PCB supply chain is higher than ever before, yet the infrastructure has been dissolving over the last 2 decades. What is left is mostly small family run manufacturers (CMs) that have been operating in largely the same, labor intensive way since the early 2000’s.When you place an order through a CM it typically takes several days to receive a quote and complete design for manufacture review, and then you have to source all of the components (the hardest part) and bare boards yourself, then wait anywhere from a few days to several weeks for the assembly and testing of those boards.We started off assembling circuit boards out of a garage with prosumer Aug 6, 2026 3:59 PM
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How should Europe’s militaries respond to space threatshttps://spacenews.com/how-should-europes-militaries-respond-to-space-threats/In this episode, SpaceNews’ Emma Gatti leads a panel of experts to discuss Europe’s defense posture and the reaction to space threats. This session was recorded in May at SpaceNews’ […] The post How should Europe’s militaries respond to space threats appeared first on SpaceNews.Aug 6, 2026 3:31 PM
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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Google Captcha on Search, absurdities beyond beliefhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49193864We all know how horrible Google search has become. Yet beyond the issues with results, the need for quoting every search to find relevance, the nonsense shown without 'web' being used as an option? It is now exceptionally slow.Searches, especially at 2am Eastern (a favourite time for night owls to work) take upwards of 10 to 15 seconds to return. Yet these are also peppered with endless capchas, which sometimes require a checkbox but also 'what is a car', and 'is that a bike' nonsense.Yet we've seen over and over again, how LLMs can easily pass these tests. I feel what I'm seeing here is more of Google's collapse. Creating horrible search experiences for humans, without actually resolving any possible issues they're having with bots. And it wouldn't be so bad, except these are repeatedly shown to the end user. Each search. With slow results, each search.What used to be beautiful, a sub second result, is now and endless break in workflow. And you know what Google? If I'm going to be hanAug 6, 2026 8:04 AM
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Pornhub is blocked in Texas. Now it’s asking lawmakers to change an age verification lawhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cb39312e746c8beeac9af3d6c691f&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2Farticles%2Fpornhub-blocked-texas-now-asking-134500082.html&c=14903467813529772505&mkt=en-usWe can no longer accept laws that create the appearance of action while failing to address the challenge of keeping kids safe online,” the company wrote in a letter addressed to state lawmakers.Aug 6, 2026 6:45 AM
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Show HN: Bananas aren't supposed to be tingly?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49191298Solving the problem of people never finding out they have a food allergy unless by accident. Practically one-shot with Claude Code on Medium, only I had to rewrite all the copy because it read like slop.https://spicy.sgc.rayandhon.com/Aug 6, 2026 1:30 AM
myhomecat.com
Show HN: HomeCat – Turn a phone video into permit-ready building planshttps://myhomecat.comHey HN! Ilya and Nikita here. We’re building HomeCat, a tool that turns a video walkthrough of a property into permit-ready building plans - https://myhomecat.comThe basic workflow is:1. Record a video of the property.2. HomeCat picks out details and reconstructs your property.3. We help you plan and design a project, like a new rear deck.4. Once you're happy, you get a drawing set containing permit-ready plans (site plan, floor plan, elevations) that are ready for permit submission.You can explore example scans and download some of the plans we have produced here: https://myhomecat.com/tryThe idea came from conversations with homeowners, contractors, engineers, and municipal building departments. Homeowners often did not know what their municipality expected, while contractors spent time hand-drawing plans - only to get rejected, delaying the project. We also manually prepared site plans for several homeowners. Seeing how happy they were pushed us to work on this idea.The technical piAug 5, 2026 7:46 PM
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NASA’s IXPE May Have Proven 90-Year-Old Theoryhttps://science.nasa.gov/missions/ixpe/nasas-ixpe-may-have-proven-90-year-old-theory/A first of its kind measurement of a magnetar may have captured empty space behaving in a way physicists have predicted for 90 years, but never directly observed. The results published Wednesday in Nature. Fast facts Scientists using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) conducted more than 140 hours of observations of the magnetar 1E […]Aug 5, 2026 6:49 PM
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NFL odds update: Experts release final Super Bowl predictions before preseason beginshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cd7b069f04c7cbd83040447fdfcc9&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.syracuse.com%2Fbetting%2F2026%2F08%2Fnfl-odds-update-experts-release-final-super-bowl-predictions-before-preseason-begins.html&c=13841172441952092524&mkt=en-usThe NFL preseason gets underway Thursday, and the long awaited return of football has finally arrived. Sure, we have a month to go until the real action gets underway, but the start of preseason gives ...Aug 5, 2026 6:00 PM
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NFL odds update: Experts release final Super Bowl predictions before preseason beginshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cc1d3394244349f25af0f9d80f15d&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.syracuse.com%2Fbetting%2F2026%2F08%2Fnfl-odds-update-experts-release-final-super-bowl-predictions-before-preseason-begins.html&c=13841172441952092524&mkt=en-usThe NFL preseason gets underway Thursday, and the long awaited return of football has finally arrived. Sure, we have a month to go until the real action gets underway, but the start of preseason gives ...Aug 5, 2026 6:00 PM
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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
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Launch HN: HyperProbe (YC S26) – Agents that do read-only debugging in prodhttps://www.hyperprobe.coHi HN, this is Shailendra and Karan here. We are building a fast and safe way for coding agents to debug issues live in production.When prod breaks, it lets Cursor, Claude, and others drop virtual breakpoints or probes safely in your running code, and extract the exact variable values that logs don’t have.All this saves time and effort for engineers who’d otherwise dig through logs and traces or redeploy with console.logs or print statements until they find the root cause.Here is the link to the video that explains this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivV7I--ta5cAgents write most of our code now. This shrinks the useful context engineers need to debug AI written code, a problem not helped by the limited telemetry added in the same code by AI.So when something breaks in prod, the first instinct for an engineer is to open logs or throw them to your agents. But if the line you are looking for is not there, agents will start guessing the root cause on non-existent data, forcing you to addAug 5, 2026 4:47 PM
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Show HN: Arxid – keyed, non-enumerable ID obfuscationhttps://github.com/lucasolopes/arxidI kept reaching for Hashids/Sqids to keep sequential IDs out of URLs, but they don't use a real key — the alphabet is shuffled by a salt, and the Sqids FAQ says outright "there is no encryption of any kind."arxid is a keyed reversible permutation instead: a balanced Feistel network with an ARX (add-rotate-xor) round function over a 40-bit domain, mapping to a 7-char base62 code. Feed it an integer, get an unpredictable code back; same key reverses it. Runs ~16x faster than a structurally identical Feistel using HMAC-SHA256, because the round function is integer ops instead of a hash call.The round count (4) isn't a guess — it's calibrated by measuring strict avalanche. I'm also upfront in the README about what it is NOT: not encryption, not a MAC, not audited. It's a speed bump against enumeration, not access control.The part I care most about is portability: a frozen spec + canonical test vectors act as the contract, so any port in any language validates against the same vectors and iAug 5, 2026 2:29 PM
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Show HN: Earde – an indexed Discord alternative just for open-source projectshttps://earde.com/feedHi HN, we’re Damiano and Nico and we are building Earde.Earde is a Discord alternative built specifically for open source projects. A maintainer connects a public GitHub repository and gets a verified community for it, with live text chat and a structured public forum indexed on the open web. Doing a soft launch today, mostly because we want to understand more about the problem we’re trying to solve.I have spent some years around programming language and devtool communities, and something always seemed strange to me, because open source projects depend on each other but the communities around them are treated as completely separate by platforms like Discord.A user asks a question in one project's Discord or forum, even though the actual problem may come from one of its dependencies, so they have to rewrite the question and start another discussion somewhere else. Sometimes the question simply remains in the wrong place.GitHub represents the relationships between codebases, but the commAug 5, 2026 2:26 PM
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Highest resolution view of the sun yet reveals magnetic mysterieshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a894ca0f7c74fd6bc39a454e630b1f3&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fnews%2Ftechnology%2Fhighest-resolution-view-of-the-sun-yet-reveals-magnetic-mysteries%2Far-AA29sTov&c=16183319083971185351&mkt=en-usThe highest resolution views of the sun’s visible surface have revealed whirlpools that could drive solar activity.Aug 5, 2026 12:45 PM
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Ask HN: How do you correct spatial reasoning of LLMs?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181570I'm working on a complex multi-part 3D-printed product, and I needed some engineering input from LLMs. I use highest Gemini Pro reasoning levels, Fable, and K3 Max with everything tuned to highest.The problem I'm facing is mounting a sensor on a barbell sleeve. The sensor is a semi-hollow 100mm cylinder, 60mm diameter, with a 50mm diameter 50mm deep tube cutout for the sleeve. (It's a bit more complex than that.)I'm trying to brainstorm different clamping mechanisms, and evaluate durability and manufacturability of several designs.No matter what I try, the output of all LLMs is absolutely wild, especially if you ask to make a technical drawing. Anthropic reliably been the worst, and Gemini, surprisingly, the best.But none understand what goes where in any detail, besides spewing paragraph and paragraph of wild ideas including rotational cam clamps over a recessed ring TPU collet (apparently, a "brilliant pivot") and stuff like this.Is this the "unconquered frontier"? Do I need to blow Aug 5, 2026 11:53 AM
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Robotic Evalshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49179172Hey I am part of a small team training robotics policies for warehouse and manufacturing settings, and running rigorous evals is turning out to be so painful. Anything below 50 rollouts, and its hard to trust the numbers, and above its so hard to test all the checkpoints that we have. Its really hard to run a bunch of experiments to get good results. Have you guys faced this? Any hacks that you've developed?Aug 5, 2026 6:12 AM
