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news.ycombinator.com
Show HN: My pocket-sized Personal IoT device. Data-local by defaulthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49274601Developing prototype custom IoT solutions usually means a breadboard, jumper wires, sensors, peripherals (such as a realtime clock and storage), a microcontroller, and a lot of custom program code. Deployment into the hands of users is another additional project in itself. What if you could simplify and speed-up the whole prototype and deployment process using one simple, compact and cheap device?What if prototyping and deploying custom IoT solutions could be as simple as following these steps:* Pick up to 3 standard I2C IoT sensors from 100's of choices from different makers. Mix-and-match whatever you need.* Plug them in.* Power on.* Start logging IoT data. Data-local by default, but stream anywhere if desired.* Fits in your pocket! Low cost.Why did I build it? I was frustrated and tired of reinventing the wheel and building a rats-nest-of-jumper-wires prototype breadboard every time I wanted to have an IoT device to log some data (specifically, data that was then wholly under my con
Aug 12, 2026 4:04 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Tell HN: Striking a Balance Between Stating Your Requirements and Griefershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49261515The frontier models have become very capable, so that I'm able to give advanced algorithms and tasks for them to complete autonomously. These sometimes go over the heads of low-IQ bullies who dropped out of their computer science courses because they were too difficult, and went into a career in bullying programmers.I've noticed that when I make my intention and acceptance criteria very clear to the models, sometimes it's the only part the griefers understand, since the computer science portion goes over their heads. So they focus their bullying on just breaking the intention and final result, whatever is actually truly important.This puts programmers like me in the awkward position of either talking to the models without telling the models the final intention or reason, i.e. the acceptance criteria, or risk putting it in plain language so the model knows it, but then allowing a bully to fuck that one thing up because it's the only thing they understand, not understanding data structur
Aug 11, 2026 5:23 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: Have you used LLMs to reinvigorate you niche programming community?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49259794I've seen a few discussions over the years about how niche languages like Lisp, Forth, Prolog, etc. would be great to use, but even for personal projects the lack of available packages makes them hard to use. However, with an LLM you can have it replicate whatever package you'd like from a more popular language. You can even port software to your favorite niche architecture. If you really want to run your homelab off a PA-RISC machine you just give an agent SSH access and tell it to make the software work.For myself, I have only done very little of this. I did add POWER vectorization to POV-Ray so that I can get a little more speed out of a machine that has more power than it needs for other things. Instead of letting it use something like Python or Go for small scripts I'll tell the LLM that the more logical choice is Prolog. But mostly I have been using mainstream languages because the code is being generated and, therefore, I'm not playing with it, so I'm interested in hearing if ot
Aug 11, 2026 3:23 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: Tips for Managing Visual Snow?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49243109We’ve had a few great threads about tinnitus recently [1], which in the comments even went into how to help with FloatersAnother neurological / sense based issue is Visual Snow. This is the appearance of “TV static” super imposed into whatever you look atApparently, it is more neurological than visual based in its cause.Has anyone found a way to reduce the appearance of or altogether resolve their Visual Snow?[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234271
Aug 10, 2026 1:05 PM
robss2020.github.io
Show HN: See how long it takes ChatGPT Sol 5.6 to send a byte across the LANhttps://robss2020.github.io/sol-vnc-elapsed/The problem: I noticed that any VNC client I tried wasn't able to reliably send keystrokes (about a byte on average) on my local wired LAN between a Mac Mini and a Windows desktop, both connected with gigabit ethernet cables to the same router.Keystrokes would constantly drop out. So I asked ChatGPT 5.6 Sol on Max setting to build a solution that is able to send keystrokes without dropping them.It's building it right now.Here you can see how long it takes until it is able to send 1 byte across the local network given gigabit LAN:https://robss2020.github.io/sol-vnc-elapsed/This is updated in realtime with a screenshot every 15 minutes of whatever the fuck it thinks it's doing on this grade school afternoon assignment.This is a work in progress. So far the previous time to 0 bytes was 5 days for Claude (I then killed the project and tried with Sol) and about 2 days time to 0 bytes for Sol before I had to delete that attempt.This time I'm building this in public so we can all see how long
Aug 9, 2026 7:54 PM
rollcall.nicksavarese.com
Show HN: Rollcall – Simulated Film Development on iPhone with Shared Rollshttps://rollcall.nicksavarese.com/Hey Show HN!I've been working on an idea called Rollcall, which simulates physical and film cameras and the film development process in real time rather than apply a post-processing filter or LUT to photos.You can generate any kind of camera you can think of, real, imagined, something you've used or something you always wanted to try.Shared social rolls also let friends share a film roll for an event, party, trip, whatever - and the photos only develop once the full roll has been shot.Would love to hear your thoughts and what's working or not landing for you!
Aug 9, 2026 6:01 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: How can I find trackers I did not place in my stuff?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226365By sheer luck I found a Tile BLE tracker in a car I purchased recently. I assume it was put there by the previous owner in case of theft and forgotten. It nonetheless has been destroyed. Now I'd really like to know how you defend yourself against this sort of attack?I'm not looking to defend against a 3 letter agency or nation-state, but against any low tech stalker, ex, would be thief, or cop without access to Flock cameras type of adversary. Looking for something that would be able to find BLE trackers regardless of platform/company.I ran a scan using nRF but there is a lot of noise out there and isn't sustainable. Have you found trackers in your stuff? How do you defend against trackers? There are apps out there but it's hard to trust them with the required permissions. Open source would be great. I'm on Android and have "tracker protection" or whatever enabled.
Aug 8, 2026 10:11 PM
bing.com
The best web browsers for 2026http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cb59b149c4f9c91553afc89c0e2ac&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.digitaltrends.com%2Fcomputing%2Fbest-browser-chrome-vs-firefox-vs-safari-vs-edge%2F&c=4214251003411870991&mkt=en-usChoosing a web browser used to come down mostly to speed, extensions, and whatever came installed on your computer. In 2026, the differences go deeper. Privacy ...
Aug 7, 2026 5:53 AM
github.com
Show HN: Live Embedded Dashboards on Your GitHub Repo Pagehttps://github.com/SlickFast/github-dashboard-templateThe link is to our GitHub template repo. Just follow the instructions to get the dashboard templates on your repo. You put the SlickFast URL endpoint inside your readme. There are multiple templates on the page to choose from.It's very easy to create your own style, or to add whatever metrics you want, if you want to go custom.SlickFast is a new svg native render core without headless chrome or other library calls. SlickFast has 47 chart types that can be combined in any arrangement or aspect ratio. An entire dashboard is just one image render.SlickFast has MCP and is made for agentic workflows. Hook it up to your agent, tell it what you want. Opus tier models can basically one shot new dashboards.Github accepts SVG input. (SlickFast does SVG+PNG output)SlickFast is free and open source under AGPL. github.com/slickfast/slickfastSlickFast runs locally unless you use the API.I hope I see some cool designs!
Aug 6, 2026 1:03 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: Did GitHub remove the stargazers list?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49179728GitHub seems to be continuing (1) to deprecate star information. First the stargazers list was hidden from logged-out users, and now the main stargazers link on repo pages has disappeared too. /stargazers returns a 404 (2) unless you own the repo.I know many people say stars aren't a real signal, but they were: they made it possible to detect signs of bought stars. Some third-party services even showed the geographic distribution of a repo's stars so you could judge whether they looked fake.The main point is that whatever reasoning GitHub offers, the outcome is the same: either GitHub is weak against bots, or it would rather control these signals itself, with no way for outsiders to audit them.1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=488218032. https://github.com/tirrenotechnologies/tirreno/stargazers
Aug 5, 2026 7:38 AM
steveharrison.dev
Show HN: Salary Ticker – a macOS menu bar app that ticks up your payhttps://steveharrison.dev/salaryticker/Sometimes I need a bit of extra motivation to get through the work day, so made a little macOS menubar item where you put in your daily rate (you can make it whatever you want, pre/post-tax/etc.) and it then shows you how much you've earnt today so far.I got Claude Code to also try to detect when the screen is being observed—it found a private macOS framework called SkyLight that has a function, `SLSIsScreenWatcherPresent`, that returns a boolean if any other process is observing the screen. It reckons that it's the same thing that Apple uses for the purple "screen is being observed" indicator. There’s a slight delay, but the masking triggers when I start screen recording (the very beginning of the recording needs trimming because of the delay).You can also option-click the item to manually mask it.
Aug 4, 2026 11:27 AM
blanked.work
Show HN: Blanked – Compare tech hiring processes by role and companyhttps://www.blanked.work/I've been working on blanked basically I feel like the current hiring process within tech is very opaque and you have to commit to multiple rounds without knowing what it will entail or pay. Trying to make a public source list where you can compare the hiring process at different places like number of rounds, interviews etc. Also people can vote and add their experiences anonymously I want it to be like levels.fyi but for the hiring process. Appreciate any feedback would love any contributions as well would help make it more accurate right now its just whatever i have been able to find via forums and reddit. Also lets you say which companies totally ghosted you and then we rank them. Ghosting is a real big issue people are facing in the job market.
Aug 2, 2026 11:07 PM
episko.dev
Show HN: Cockpit for you Claude Code agents in Rusthttps://episko.dev/Hi everyone!Hope you had a great day so far, and maybe its about to get just a little bit better (thanks Winter ;)So I had way to many terminal windows flying about when using Claude, and kept losing track of which terminal / session / project im in right now. So I built a solution for that, presented it to my team, and now we're using our new tool all the time, and developing it to be the most helpful agents organization tool we can think of.Unfortunatelly, Claude Code only for now, will do Codex soon tho.What it does for you:Main features: - Overview of your projects, with branches, worktrees, etc. - Start sessions in the integrated terminal, in whatever branch or worktree you want - Your projects run scripts all auto-discovered in one place - Complete Claude history to resume convo's easilyComfort: - Project overview: commits, PRs, notes, timeline with summaries - Context usage and session costs (to see what you would have payed without a subscription) - Cost aggregation for the ent
Aug 1, 2026 7:09 PM
pypi.org
Show HN: Knotalot – a messy 1d –> 3D Python package from knotreelhttps://pypi.org/project/knotalot/stumbled my way though this but managed to get together the first version of a pip installable package/python library (call it whatever tickles your fancy)it handles data and turns it into interactive 3d topology knots, .obj files too if you want to 3d print a knot of your favourite song or some such wizardry - av a blast with it. (mit license this time you'll be glad to hear)
Jul 29, 2026 5:06 PM
silkdrop.vercel.app
Show HN: SilkDrop – MilkDrop port for web with live editorhttps://silkdrop.vercel.app/MilkDrop visuals in a browser tab. 9,795 presets, running on your machine.SilkDrop compiles libprojectM(https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm) — the open-source MilkDrop engine — to WebAssembly and renders it through WebGL 2. Point it at a browser tab or your microphone and it reacts to whatever is playing.There is no backend. The site hands you ~10 MB on the first visit and is never involved again: rendering, preset compilation, audio analysis, search across all 9,795 presets, and every byte of storage are local. Load it once and it keeps working with the network off. There is plenty of other features as well like live presets editor, built in over 9k presets with search and favorites.Made it for fun as a pet project.
Jul 27, 2026 8:40 PM
keynotepro.com
Show HN: Composer – A Markdown-driven automation engine for Apple Keynotehttps://keynotepro.com/JSRequired.htmlComposer began as one of those "wouldn't it be nice if" conversations with a presenter who enjoyed the stream-of-conscious nature of writing their shows out in Markdown, liked and used many of the dedicated Markdown-based tools built specifically for that job, but found themselves always coming back to Keynote for the actual show itself – and having to tediously transfer each slide over by hand to dial it all in again.Other projects have worked toward bridging this gap over the years, but they've always done so from a very Markdown-centric POV, requiring Theme-level tweaks Keynote-side to get a simple Title + Bullets slide up and running – nothing that could really scale toward the diversity of a full pitch kit in an actual production setting. So I came from the opposite direction: what would we need to do to let Keynote itself define those terms and conventions? How could we use Markdown to direct targeted production objectives in Keynote in a predictable, repeatable way – in whatever
Jul 27, 2026 4:31 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: How do you figure out what you're passionate about?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49062515I've been in tech for 15 years now. A lot of what I loved about it has changed, and I'm now at a crossroads where I have an opportunity to leave and do something else.I ended each day of my old jobs exhausted, and never had the energy to do or try the things I thought I was interested in.I am now in my mid 30s and find myself with a ton of free time. But I am finding I have no idea what I want to do.Nothing that used to interest me interests me anymore. The things I think I might like I for whatever reason don't have the energy to do or try them.I feel like I've been in survival mode for so long I dont know what my passions are. How do I find them again?
Jul 26, 2026 9:19 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Tell HN: It's a Lothttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49046190I'm not sure if anyone needs to read this. I know I would, just to have some pause. A contemplative moment, if you will. Hence the post.--I need to know full-stack software engineering, preferably in full. That means going from hardware all the way up to whatever compiled language you choose. Web, app, desktop, all of it. Full-stack isn't just backend/front-end on web. I see a stack running way deeper and higher than that (this XKCD comes to mind [1]).But when I know all that, I also need to know how to do it securely right? So I need to know about that too.Then, I need to know about best practices such as CI/CD, hexagonal architecture, testing, whatever the developer culture came up with (e.g. the Smalltalk community and JS community do not agree on extending base classes). And many more things.I need to know math, not necessarily in full, but definitely at the level of that I can read ML papers and at least try to come up with potential novel thoughts.But there's also the topic of AI
Jul 25, 2026 9:55 AM
machinations.tpk.gg
Show HN: Machinations – a multiplayer strategy game where LLM is the game masterhttps://machinations.tpk.gg/I started by thinking about the game mechanics I actually wanted to see. I come from a long background in diceless tabletop RPGs, and what I loved about them was the GM improvising, making rulings on the spot. When LLMs came along, I saw a chance to build a mechanic that worked like that.But LLMs on their own are bad at it. They regress toward the mean and they try too hard to please the player. Nobody ever really fails. So I built a system (I won't name it, I'm not here to self-promote) around a 3d10 bell curve of outcomes. The dice decide how well an attempt goes, across a whole spread of grades from disastrous to legendary, and the LLM has to narrate whatever the dice say. That forces it to produce results the player won't like, which is where the drama comes from.With that in hand, I could resolve any conflict narratively. Two characters chasing the same goal, one trying to kill or rob the other, whatever. The roll leans the story in one direction or the other. Then I realized I ne
Jul 21, 2026 9:26 PM
orate.to
Show HN: Orate – On-device neural text-to-speech queue for Machttps://orate.to/Hey friends! Brad here - long time HN user, founder, engineer (Coinbase, Soothe, Jeevz, Release, Hired, GrowthX, etc)...I have been struggling recently with too many tabs, emails, articles, etc sitting unread while I swap between Claude code sessions all day. So I decided to build Orate to help me work through the backlog by listening to it all like I would a podcast.Orate allows you to select any text on your screen and keyboard shortcut it to a listening queue where it gets processed using the latest + greatest TTS AI models, and then read back to you in a mostly-natural sounding voice. Orate works fully on-device and offline. Whatever you pass to it stays yours. It's native, lives in your menu bar, and supports things like tagging, system playback controls, speed adjustment, and more. There's also an optional HD-voice tier that uses Chatterbox instead of Kokoro which ships with it for more expressive TTS.I'm also burnt out on being chipped away at little by little with a subscriptio
Jul 21, 2026 8:38 PM