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Show HN: Papermill Press – An AI-friendly markup language for PDF generationhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48477708If you’ve generated PDFs from HTML, you’ll know the pain: headless Chrome in Docker, CSS hacks, content that flows over pages or table boundaries and other quality issues.The fundamental problem is that HTML was designed for screens, not print.We built Press, a markup-based document language where pages, content flows, and assets are first-class concepts. Content can flow across frames, columns, and pages without manual pagination. Pages are created dynamically based on the available content.Press templates separate layout from content. You can send markdown, Press markup, or a mixture of both to the API. Data can be sent in JSON, CSV, XML.Because Press is XML-based it can easily be generated by agents - some of our users are generating complete documents in a single shot, although the language is designed for repeatable automation.You can also use our MCP server, which enables models to design templates.A simple API call sends a markdown payload, which is injected into a … element in Jun 10, 2026 3:21 PM
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Ask HN: Are we going to see a portable S3 Tables alternative outside AWS?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48475779AWS announced S3 Tables earlier this year, and the integration with Iceberg is clearly the direction for AI/analytics data stacks. But the native S3 Tables implementation is locked inside AWS.For those of us running self-hosted or multi-cloud, what are the current options?Using regular S3 + separate catalog (Hive/Glue/Polaris) – metadata overhead and extra opsApache Ozone / Ceph + Iceberg – seems heavy for smaller teamsSomething else I'm missing?I've seen rumors about open-source projects adding native Iceberg table support directly in the storage layer (basically S3 Tables but portable). Would that actually help? What's the #1 pain point you'd want solved?Curious to hear from people who tried to run Iceberg workloads outside AWS.Jun 10, 2026 1:10 PM
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Show HN: Bitemap – See where everyone would bite a sandwichhttps://www.bitemap.food/sandwich/mcdonalds-cheeseburger-3862dc92I know the internet likes to celebrate perfect bites and debate where to take the next bite of half-finished sandwiches. So I built Bitemap. You see a photo of a sandwich, you tap where you'd take your next bite, and it shows a heatmap of where everyone else bit.It's early. Most of the sandwiches are ones I uploaded to seed it and the maps are still filling in, so some are thin. You can add your own too.No signup, nothing to install. Curious what you think, and where you'd bite. Happy to answer anything about how it's built.Jun 9, 2026 1:29 PM
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Show HN: Welter's game, a little Nim-like combinatorial gamehttps://welter.fuglede.dkHi HN! Here's a little game I (and my buddy Claude, cf. the obvious CSS gradient tell) set up to explain to my kids some of things we were working on at work.So in the game you're taking turns moving coins down a line until no moves are possible. If you've taken a course on combinatorial game theory, you'll have come across the game of nim and you can think of this one as a variant of nim where there can only be a single coin in every square. The theory of how to play it isn't quite as well-established as for nim though; play with enough coins and I certainly find it quite tricky to mentally reason about whether a position is good or not.One fun fact about Welter's game is that its winning positions form the codewords of a particular error-correcting code called the constant weight binary lexicode (Conway and Sloane, 1986). What that means is that being good at the game is the same as being good at decoding messages in that code. Probably more fun to just play the game though.Jun 9, 2026 11:58 AM
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Show HN: Startup sci-fi novel that took me 5 years to writehttps://www.blockchainednovel.com/It started after reading Stephen King's "On Writing" where he likened the art of writing as the unearthing of an archeological site after you stumbled upon a unique bone of a story. His advice was to choose a domain you are deeply intimate with. For me, I've been a struggling startup founder for 15 years—enough material to inspire a novel.A 1,000-word writing exercise turned into a complete 125k-word manuscript over the course of a year.In year 1, I learned the sheer joy of unencumbered creative flow and authentic expression. A similar flow I used to get from coding (and more recently vibe coding). What made it effortless was a mindset that I was writing for the sake of it, not with the intention of publishing.After a year of keeping it close to my chest, I decided to show it to a few close friends. They liked some of it, destroyed some of it. Some ultimately encouraged me to publish it.In year 2, I learned about the chasm between writing for myself and writing for an audience. Nerdy sJun 8, 2026 4:29 PM
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Seattle’s Chihuly Garden and Glass blends museum, glass educationhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a2c7896e142539b5cebbd6b72b6b1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegazette.com%2Flifestyles%2Ftravel%2Fseattle-s-chihuly-garden-and-glass-blends-museum-glass-education%2Farticle_63f6365e-a9d2-4a7f-99ab-bd21f7f991b7.html&c=2083132318914297754&mkt=en-usNestled in the shadow of Seattle’s Space Needle is a facility that brings color, whimsy and punches you with imagination — no matter how dreary the clouds in Seattle can be. Chihuly Garden and Glass ...Jun 5, 2026 4:00 AM
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An Anthropic employee's 2-sentence quote crystallizes the state of AI confusion at workhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88f54dd95447029fe5fc2c7ac49bd4&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Fanthropic-employee-quote-ai-confusion-workplace-2026-6&c=13030949718023155098&mkt=en-usYou're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. An Anthropic employee said AI advancements are leaving them in a state of internal turmoil. In a blog ...Jun 5, 2026 12:01 AM
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An Anthropic employee's 2-sentence quote crystallizes the state of AI confusion at workhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89091202dd4200859b6ff99cadb039&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Fanthropic-employee-quote-ai-confusion-workplace-2026-6&c=13030949718023155098&mkt=en-usYou're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. An Anthropic employee said AI advancements are leaving them in a state of internal turmoil. In a blog ...Jun 5, 2026 12:01 AM
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Show HN: G-Spot – GitHub Gmail GNotes Gmemory Genthttps://www.g-spot.dev/For a long time i struggled to find my g-spot, then it struck me in a lucid dream that i dont have a g-spot, i have a p-spot so i decided to go on a lookout and came across, G-Spot.dev, its a workspace where you build graphite like sections for your github/gmail (ofc it has as agent to build out ur filters as an accessibility feature). You can build sections for:- github prs - has a graphite like review page optimized with diffs.com for large prs, all the good ol ux from graphite ported over.- github issues - similar to prs- gmail - initial full sync from gmail directly - incremental sync via a relay server connected via a ws connection - extraction pipeline for a knowledgebase memory - you connect ur copilot/codex/claude sub and we use that token to spin up an agent and extract the details from the email - notion like ui layout (but faster than notion) - compose new or draft a reply, adjust labels wteve you want, syncs directly wth gmail and the incremental sync immediately updates thJun 4, 2026 10:17 PM
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Launch HN: Hyper (YC P26) – Company brain to power agentic developmenthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48387095Hey HN, we’re Shalin & Kanyes, best friends who've been hacking together for 10+yrs, and now founders of Hyper (https://heyhyper.ai/). Hyper is a shared “company brain” that plugs into information flowing inside a company to make AI agents and automations better and ultimately save people time.Models have gotten good enough that they can (mostly) take on long-horizon, complex tasks. We believe the bottleneck now is that these smart-enough models often lack information about your company, which is scattered in people's heads, Slack threads, stale docs, and in back-and-forth convos with AI.MCP is useful for getting some info in front of an agent, but there are problems: (1) Once the session dies, so does the insight, so instead of copy-pasting a whole doc each time you're telling the agent to dig through Drive each time - not much of a win; (2) Even when MCP works, what it gathers isn't comprehensive, because people decide things on a whiteboard, brainstorm out loud, post a little in SlaJun 3, 2026 5:39 PM
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I Replaced My AI Agent's Flat Fact Store with a Graph Databasehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48383578# I Replaced My AI Agent's Flat Fact Store with a Graph Database and It Runs in 85MBI've been building LocalClaw, a local-model-first AI agent framework running on personal hardware through Ollama. No cloud, no API costs. A few weeks ago I posted about the router/specialist architecture. A lot of people asked about the memory system so here's that.## The ProblemStarted with a JSONL fact store and embedding similarity retrieval. Simple enough until it wasn't. After a few weeks of real use I had 14 near-duplicate facts about the same topics from different sessions. Layered dedup on top of dedup and it still wasn't clean.The bigger problem was relationships. "Peter works at DevMesh" and "DevMesh is building an outreach platform" were two separate embeddings. You could retrieve each one but you couldn't traverse from one to the other. No multi-hop. No fact evolution. Old facts and new facts coexisted with no signal about which was current.Four iterations on the flat store later I accepted Jun 3, 2026 1:15 PM
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Show HN: Open-source general-purpose alternative to Exa Websetshttps://github.com/tinyfish-io/bigsetHey Everyone!So I get to spend most of my day tweaking and playing around with really powerful search engines at TinyFish (which is so awesome). I’ve recently been super fascinated by the idea of using a search engine recursively to build datasets.Been playing around with Exa’s WebSets product quite a bit and realized it was mainly focused on prospecting, and it creates datasets with a lot of missing data.So we built a fully open source project, that can build and update datasets on any topic.Datasets I have generated so far, “All products that Starbucks sells on amazon, with their price and if they are in stock”, “All theme parks in California, with ticket prices” , “All YC companies that are currently hiring for eng roles with their hiring page link” Would love for yall’s to try it out, and drop your thoughts, stars and feedback. Thanks!Jun 2, 2026 5:58 PM
scan2sheet.com
Show HN: Scan2Sheet – Receipt Scanner to Google Sheets for easy expense trackinghttps://www.scan2sheet.comAfter several months of development and refinement, my mobile app, Scan2Sheet, is finally published and live on Apple Store and Play Store.The idea for Scan2Sheet came from a problem I had myself: managing piles of paper receipts for tax deductions and expense tracking. Manually entering receipt data into spreadsheets is time-consuming, tedious, and prone to errors. On top of that, paper receipts can easily be lost, damaged, or overlooked.With Scan2Sheet, simply take a photo of the receipt whenever making your purchases. In just a few clicks, the extracted expense data and a copy of the receipt image are automatically saved to your own Google Sheets document. There's minimal manual data entry, and no need to learn or manage another dashboard, database, or accounting system.Here are the links to download:- For IOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/scan2sheets/id6760991697- For Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.app.scan2s...The product's landing page: https://www.scJun 2, 2026 12:38 PM
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Show HN: Pictolab (online HDR image editor)https://pictolab.io/Source code: http://github.com/anchpop/pictolabI love HDR, but until recently dynamic HDR content was hard to render in the browser. But now, with browsers shipping support for WebGPU and canvases with extended color spaces, it's actually feasible.So what I wanted to was make an image editor capable of doing the simple edits I often need to do, but with full HDR support, which is rare in browser editors. Turning up the brightness on an HDR-capable monitor is a great way to see what your monitor can do :PI tried to go overboard in every way I could. So brightness/saturation/hue adjustments use the okLCH color space, and there's an option to do a "content-aware resize" with seam carving, which is fast because it's parallelized using Sam Westrick's triangle-blocking algorithm [0].Also, the site supports importing HEIC photos as taken with an iPhone, which is surprisingly hard to do correctly. Libraries like libheic don't fully support the format used by iPhones, so if used naively the HDRMay 31, 2026 9:45 PM
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Vanguard Value ETFhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a5a59727f455a8cc7e7e0e5d2709a&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmoney.usnews.com%2Ffunds%2Fetfs%2Flarge-value%2Fvanguard-value-etf%2Fvtv&c=10882702574591022477&mkt=en-usLearn everything you need to know about Vanguard Value ETF (VTV) and how it ranks compared to other funds. Research performance, expense ratio, holdings, and volatility to see if it's the right fund ...May 30, 2026 5:00 PM
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Vanguard Value ETFhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89032e2cd74bd0ac11e9897f3c0ab3&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmoney.usnews.com%2Ffunds%2Fetfs%2Flarge-value%2Fvanguard-value-etf%2Fvtv&c=10882702574591022477&mkt=en-usLearn everything you need to know about Vanguard Value ETF (VTV) and how it ranks compared to other funds. Research performance, expense ratio, holdings, and volatility to see if it's the right fund ...May 30, 2026 5:00 PM
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WordPress.com vs. Weebly: I tested both site builders and found a definitive champhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85cab69e37494594672911f096c7a5&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.msn.com%2fen-us%2fnews%2ftechnology%2fwordpresscom-vs-weebly-i-tested-both-site-builders-and-found-a-definitive-champ%2far-AA24t3eT&c=18279180560748323362&mkt=en-usWordPress.com and Weebly are both dependable and affordable ways to quickly build a website, but which one is better? I compare the two website builders to help you select a foundation for your ...May 30, 2026 1:00 PM
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WordPress.com vs. Weebly: I tested both site builders and found a definitive champhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85cab7403e4e9a875652b6da332541&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.msn.com%2fen-us%2fnews%2ftechnology%2fwordpresscom-vs-weebly-i-tested-both-site-builders-and-found-a-definitive-champ%2far-AA24t3eT&c=18279180560748323362&mkt=en-usWordPress.com and Weebly are both dependable and affordable ways to quickly build a website, but which one is better? I compare the two website builders to help you select a foundation for your ...May 30, 2026 1:00 PM
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WordPress.com vs. Weebly: I tested both site builders and found a definitive champhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d30b28d14e15a009c94a5b8eda46&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.msn.com%2fen-us%2fnews%2ftechnology%2fwordpresscom-vs-weebly-i-tested-both-site-builders-and-found-a-definitive-champ%2far-AA24t3eT&c=18279180560748323362&mkt=en-usWordPress.com and Weebly are both dependable and affordable ways to quickly build a website, but which one is better? I compare the two website builders to help you select a foundation for your ...May 30, 2026 1:00 PM
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WordPress.com vs. Weebly: I tested both site builders and found a definitive champhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85ea261f9d4ae6963d1852d6f45702&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.msn.com%2fen-us%2fnews%2ftechnology%2fwordpresscom-vs-weebly-i-tested-both-site-builders-and-found-a-definitive-champ%2far-AA24t3eT&c=18279180560748323362&mkt=en-usWordPress.com and Weebly are both dependable and affordable ways to quickly build a website, but which one is better? I compare the two website builders to help you select a foundation for your ...May 30, 2026 1:00 PM
