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news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: Are you ready for non crashing valuations for AI?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49101639They are printing and will print more to save, help double digit $trillions for AI and all big tech. This is such a simple fact that somehow most tech people can't get right. are you people ready for this timeline? Ask LLM or ask your inv. banker if you don't get it.
Jul 29, 2026 7:06 PM
bing.com
Kirk Cousins stays humble after being named Raiders' starterhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cc7fb1fd94bdf8cbc4d90b3f8bac5&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fsports%2Fnfl%2Fkirk-cousins-stays-humble-after-being-named-raiders-starter%2Far-AA291ihu&c=12152417425277957946&mkt=en-usKirk Cousins was named the Raiders' starting quarterback ahead of training camp, but his reaction wasn't exactly a victory lap.
Jul 29, 2026 6:29 PM
github.com
Show HN: MandoCode Desktop – Native Windows AI Coding Assistant on Ollama .NEThttps://github.com/DevMando/MandoCode.DesktopQuick backstory on how this version came to be: the original MandoCode is a CLI, and its UI is built with RazorConsole — Blazor components rendered into a terminal. Genuinely clever tech! I wanted tabs, though, and when I attended MS Build this year I got a good look at what WinUI apps could do and saw the potential to give the original agent some actual windows and tabs. Having up to 4 agents running in one window is pretty cool. Aside from that — tabs! I feel like everything is a chat these days, and for some reason my brain keeps screaming AGENTS, not chats, at me. I love the tabbed-browser experience a lot moreSome of the stuff I got to toy with once the plumbing worked:- Context snapshots — closing an agent archives the conversation instead of deleting it, and you can snapshot mid-conversation to get an AI-written recap you can hand to a different model or a fresh agent and have it pick up the thread. You pick the LLM from a dropdown right when you create the snapshot.- Transcript
Jul 29, 2026 4:48 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask/Tell HN: use the flag button instead of complaining about AI slop articleshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49099039There is an article sitting at 60+ points now at the homepage which is clearly written by an AI and most comments saying something along the lines "this article is clearly AI slop". In this particular case, the article seems to be real AI slop: it creates a nonsensical benchmark to compare two tools and uses that to plug the company's product. The people commenting are right to point it out.The problem with the repeated complaining about AI slop is that it makes browsing HN tiring for two reasons: the community is failing to filter low-quality content, and on top of that we end up with a barrage of similar-looking complaints in the comment section.Both of these problems could be solved with one single action: flag articles that are in clear violation of the HN guidelines and move on.The quicker these AI slop articles get flagged, the lower the chance they get to show up in the front-page and the less incentive there will be for vibe-bloggers to push their crap here.
Jul 29, 2026 3:48 PM
news.ycombinator.com
A disturbing thought. A world where the marginal cost of software is freehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49099018With the advent of AI, the marginal cost of software is trending towards zero. Software is no longer a scarce resource.Not a new idea at all, but the implications hit me hard as I was considering monetization models for my apps.Unless you are lucky (network effects, timing), grandfathered in, or provide exceptional value, the natural cost of software is free.Intuit is an example of a grandfathered-in, exceptionally high-value software approach.And Intuit knows it. They leverage their advantage to a predatory extent.My wife is an EA, and I know for a fact Intuit puts the screws to all its users. Switching costs are high, and since the sector is an oligopoly, there's really no one to switch to.But that too shall pass. Hopefully we'll soon see people create bespoke solutions that cut Intuit out. Oh, how I look forward to that day (ironic, I know).This implies, I think, that if you can't find 1,000 fans or got in under the old model, getting as many users as possible and then transitioning
Jul 29, 2026 3:46 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: How would you learn AI-assisted development from the ground up?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098829I'm a director/exec, not a software engineer. Background's mostly data analytics, SQL and Excel day to day, some R and PostgreSQL. Years ago I could hack together basic HTML/CSS/PHP too.Got into AI early and now use ChatGPT and Claude constantly. With their help I've built a handful of web apps, some Python scripts and desktop tools, and an Android app on Supabase with real multiple users.So I can build things. But I'm very aware there are big holes underneath it. I can usually get something working without really knowing why it works, whether it's actually well built, or what's going to break down the road once it gets more complex.Feels like it's time to go back to fundamentals. Michael Jordan still worked on his footwork, that kind of thing.What I'm hoping to get to eventually:* build small useful apps, windows/mac/android/ios/web* automate chunks of my own and my team's work* maybe build a simple SaaS at some point* generally not get left behind, open to this reshaping my career or
Jul 29, 2026 3:31 PM
nasa.gov
NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Discovers Field of Honeycomb Textureshttps://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-science-laboratory/curiosity-rover/nasas-curiosity-mars-rover-discovers-field-of-honeycomb-textures/As NASA’s Curiosity rover recently began climbing up a Martian valley nicknamed “Valle Grande,” it sent back images that were a familiar sight to mission scientists: honeycomb-like textures called polygonal fractures, each one about 1.5 to 3 inches (4 to 8 centimeters) across. The mission has spotted small patches of these geometric shapes several times […]
Jul 29, 2026 3:30 PM
vostorq.com
Show HN: Vostorq – I built the anti-Slack after working at a Slack-first companyhttps://www.vostorq.com/A while back, I joined a company with a "Slack-first" communication policy. I was concerned from the beginning because Slack or Teams had never felt sufficient at the companies where I'd worked before. Some discussions happened over email, meetings played an important role, Jira was used heavily, and Google Docs or Confluence was used for documentation. That setup felt necessary, but it wasn't optimal. So the "Slack-first" approach sounded suspicious, but intriguing. I was curious what they had done with Slack to solve this multi-tool mess. In practice, though, it didn't solve it for me.Take the DevOps support channel. I was new, the infrastructure setup had some issues, and I asked question after question, feeling more and more like an idiot who constantly bothers people (potentially, every person in the channel), because sometimes it was a genuine bug, and sometimes it was simply my misunderstanding of the setup. I always got answers eventually, but they were slower and shallower tha
Jul 29, 2026 2:45 PM
spacenews.com
LatConnect 60 Accelerates SWIRSAT Constellation Growth Anchored in Western Australia with Expansion into Malaysia and UAEhttps://spacenews.com/latconnect-60-accelerates-swirsat-constellation-growth-anchored-in-western-australia-with-expansion-into-malaysia-and-uae/PERTH, Western Australia — LatConnect 60 (LC60) is executing on a multi-geography industrial plan to accelerate its SWIRSAT constellation, anchoring core technology development and payload manufacturing in Western Australia while […] The post LatConnect 60 Accelerates SWIRSAT Constellation Growth Anchored in Western Australia with Expansion into Malaysia and UAE appeared first on SpaceNews.
Jul 29, 2026 2:38 PM
science.nasa.gov
NASA Webb Explores Family Tree of Newly Discovered Distant Objectshttps://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasa-webb-explores-family-tree-of-newly-discovered-distant-objects/Since their discovery by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in 2022, little red dots (LRDs) have been the subject of great interest to astronomers. Understanding the nature of these extremely distant, compact red sources has been a puzzling scientific endeavor. One popular theory is that little red dots are supermassive black holes known as active […]
Jul 29, 2026 2:00 PM
bing.com
The Best Over-The-Range Microwaves To Save Space In Your Kitchenhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cb36f5a3845099b27104cc01b8c0b&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Fforbes-personal-shopper%2Farticle%2Fbest-over-the-range-microwaves%2F&c=12984708899401788165&mkt=en-usAn over-the-range microwave is a smart choice to save counter space while adding functionality to your kitchen. “A good over-the-range microwave not only heats food, but also acts as a ventilation ...
Jul 29, 2026 1:22 PM
zenodo.org
Spin audit of SQD/QSCI quantum-chemistry benchmarks on iron–sulfur clustershttps://zenodo.org/records/21359923Author here.Background, for anyone who hasn't followed this fight: IBM's iron–sulfur SQD results (Sci. Adv. 2025) are one of the flagship "quantum computers are useful for chemistry now" claims, and a published critique (arXiv:2501.07231) argues the quantum samples never beat classical selected-CI at matched cost. That argument is still live.Both sides have been arguing about energies. Neither measured which electronic state these calculations actually converge to.So I measured it. ⟨S²⟩ comes out between 4.7 and 7.0 depending on the system and the subspace size, where the target these papers name is a singlet at ⟨S²⟩ = 0. Every starting guess I tried lands in the same place, and the error at convergence is about the size of the spin-state ladder itself, which is the physics under dispute.IBM ships a mitigation for this. Run exactly as shipped, using their driver, their recovery loop and their own spin_square() diagnostic, it moves the ground energy by under a nanohartree while making t
Jul 29, 2026 1:13 PM
spacenews.com
Fortastra and Hadrian join forces to streamline satellite productionhttps://spacenews.com/fortastra-and-hadrian-join-forces-to-streamline-satellite-production/SAN FRANCISCO – Fortastra, a Los Angeles startup focused on defending on-orbit infrastructure, is working with manufacturing specialist Hadrian to explore ways to apply precision machining and additive manufacturing to […] The post Fortastra and Hadrian join forces to streamline satellite production appeared first on SpaceNews.
Jul 29, 2026 1:00 PM
strataweather.com
Show HN: Experiments with Weather Datahttps://strataweather.com/mapI had been wanting to try experimenting with nowcasting since the death of Dark Sky and finally got around to it. This application essentially became a playground for me to experiment with various weather datasets and geospatial visualizations.Some interesting concepts that came from it:The nowcast is using pySTEPS optical flow under the hood: https://pysteps.readthedocs.io/en/latest/auto_examples/plot_.... This library is super cool. It bugged me that every radar visualization just gave you choppy snapshots in time, so I spent some time working on building a smooth interpolation. The backend passes keyframes along with motion data from the optical flow analysis and then has a custom WebGL shader to do the interpolation which lets you scrub the timeline and have a smooth interpolation.The other forecast tiles and the main weather page are using the average of many different weather models. You can see every model that factors in on the models page: https://strataweather.com/models. Thi
Jul 29, 2026 11:52 AM
bing.com
Jerry Jones Says George Pickens Could Spend Entire Career With Cowboyshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cc5dd557c4d7682933e1465dc7de7&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsports.yahoo.com%2Farticles%2Fjerry-jones-says-george-pickens-155818383.html&c=7908761238599406161&mkt=en-usContract years tend to bring out the best in players, as long as the team is in contention. Here's a look at the top Cowboys with a lot to play for. The Cowboys have made major changes this offseason, ...
Jul 29, 2026 8:58 AM
tomthe.github.io
Show HN: Wikipedia Importance Map. Every article sized by its pagerank on a maphttps://tomthe.github.io/wiki-importance-map/I extracted all Wikidata items with geocoordinates, joined them with pageview statistics [1] and wikipedia pagerank scores [2] to define their label sizes. For some entities without coordinates, I used proxies: Birthplace for humans, port of registry for ships, city of the headquarters for companies.I created a version a year ago without AI. It was already interesting, but lacked a lot of polish and functionality. Now it was fun to complete it with coding agents.You can toggle the different categories on and off in the UI. People and places are off by default, because they overshadow everything else and humans overlap so much. But please turn it on if you want to see where "important" humans have been born.And the search works with a completely static index and range requests.[1]: https://github.com/athalhammer/danker [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank
Jul 29, 2026 8:40 AM
andreadimatteo.com
Show HN: Learning Rust by writing a Markdown to HTML compilerhttps://andreadimatteo.com/md-to-html-compiler.htmlHi HN,I'm new to Rust and, after half of `The Rust Programming Language` I decided to delve into a project I would actually use: a markdown to html compiler that actually serves my micro-blog (I started just right after publishing the project hehe). The project is intentionally small and one-file contained: I wanted to have the full picture in mind.I'm open to comments, suggestions and PRs. If you asked me more convincing arguments to "why did you do it?" rather than "to learn Rust" I would respond with: LLMs are effectively a new type of web users today and will be more and more present in the future. Having a full, well formatted, .md interface of a website can make it easier for them to access the content.
Jul 29, 2026 1:04 AM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: Sectors that are inherently resistant to AI-ification?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49088696I anticipate a raft of answers along the lines of "AI + robots will automate everything eventually", but am more interested in areas where you think there is an inherent or structural bias against near-term AI or LLM-ification. More for my own intellectual curiosity than that I'm personally looking for business niches.For reference, I am seeing this in my own work (govauctions.app). AI can search and summarize the digital surfaces (ie government auction sites), but every large-ticket item (a vehicle, a backhoe, a house) involves a physical inspection, pickup, transportation, etc.You may tell me that an agent can place the bid, a robot will travel in a self-driving car to do the inspection and an automated truck will haul away the tractor I bought, but I think that this future is coming to Kansas or even California far more slowly than launching a website for your restaurant.
Jul 28, 2026 7:25 PM
nasaspaceflight.com
Ship 40’s flawless flight promotes next mission catch potentialhttps://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2026/07/ship-40-catch-potential/SpaceX’s Starship Flight 13 demonstrated that the Ship can complete its mission and return intact,… The post Ship 40’s flawless flight promotes next mission catch potential appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com.
Jul 28, 2026 5:33 PM