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news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: We have company runway but not founder time. When do you go full-time?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49367763Three first-time founders in Canada, all of us between 45 and 55: business/product, marketing, and me on the technical side. We're building an AI tool for creative work. About thirty testers have been on a pre-production build for a couple of months. Feedback is good, and importantly is not from friends, but actual target users who we sourced through our networks, which I'm treating as encouraging signal on product-market fit.We're bootstrapped with CAD $25k initial commit and an additional up to $100k available, though we'd rather earn the right to spend each additional dollar than commit it up front. All three of us still have day jobs, cleared with our employers. At current near-zero usage we could run the service for ~18 months without revenue — that number obviously falls as real users arrive, which is part of the problem.So our constraint isn't the usual one. The company has runway; founder time doesn't. I built the platform, I'm the one who has to go full-time first, and I'm als
Aug 19, 2026 10:01 PM
systemist.net
Show HN: Dispositio – a TUI project planner that stores plans as plain Markdownhttps://systemist.net/tools/dispositioHi all! Wanted to show you guys Dispositio, a project planning TUI that saves projects to simple markdown.I always have a ton of solo projects cooking, and in the past organized and planned them in increasingly complex `ROADMAP.md` files. After working with bubbletea on another project, and after constantly manually calculating its delivery dates for myself (as my bandwidth was quite limited at the time), I realized it would be cool to combine the two!The result is Dispositio, a tool which:- Tracks milestones, set estimated durations, rearrange and modify easily, and see the estimated timeline of the whole thing (measured in weeks for now; can add sprints or other metrics later if people want it) - Lets you set up tasks and subtasks right in it (added because I found it very handy to just keep my todos right here, one per project) - Handles overdue items etc - Helps you know how many days you get on average per milestone task in order to stay on task - Saves to plain markdown so you ca
Aug 19, 2026 9:44 PM
nytimes.com
U.S. Debt Hits $40 Trillionhttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/briefing/us-debt-hits-40-trillion.htmlAlso, Trump nominates a Kennedy ally to lead the F.D.A. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.
Aug 19, 2026 9:43 PM
bloomberg.com
Bets on Long-Bond ETF Spiked a Day Before US Announced Buybackhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-19/bets-on-long-bond-etf-spiked-a-day-before-us-announced-buybackOne or more investors piled into an exchange-traded fund that’s highly sensitive to swings in long-term US bond yields on Tuesday, a day before the Treasury Department unexpectedly ramped up buybacks of long-dated debt and sparked a rally.
Aug 19, 2026 9:29 PM
time.com
Zelenskyy Faces Pressure to Hold Elections. What Stands in the Way?https://time.com/article/2026/08/19/zelenskyy-faces-pressure-to-hold-elections-what-stands-in-the-way-/Ukraine’s former defense minister has called for a wartime election, in direct challenge to the sitting President. Elections have been suspended since 2022.
Aug 19, 2026 9:19 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: If you write release notes, what stops you from being specific?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49367131Slack's release notes (https://slack.com/release-notes) are mostly "Bug fixes and performance improvements." or something trying too hard to be funny.If you write release notes for software with a lot of users: what makes you go generic? I assume there's a reason past laziness and I'd rather hear it from someone who's made the call.
Aug 19, 2026 8:57 PM
theguardian.com
Five Americans among seven killed in safari helicopter crash in Kenyahttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/19/kenya-helicopter-safari-crashOfficials say all seven people onboard killed, including Telemundo executive and Ecuador intelligence chiefSeven people, including five Americans, were killed when a safari helicopter crashed on Wednesday morning in a remote part of northern Kenya, according to local police and the state department.Among the dead were an executive with Telemundo, the US-based Spanish-language network owned by NBC ...
Aug 19, 2026 8:17 PM
npr.org
Amid the Iran war, the U.S. has pivoted it's geopolitical attention away from Asiahttps://www.npr.org/2026/08/19/nx-s1-5935388/amid-the-iran-war-the-u-s-has-pivoted-its-geopolitical-attention-away-from-asiaA decade ago, the U.S. was still in its "pivot to Asia." Today, as conflicts in the Middle East suck up American military resources, analysts say that pivot is over — or never really began.
Aug 19, 2026 8:16 PM
bloomberg.com
Trump Says Interest Rate System Doesn't Make Sensehttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-08-19/trump-says-interest-rate-system-doesn-t-make-sense-videoPresident Donald Trump says when the country does well economically, interest rates should come down, but he says they go up. He says the system is unfair. He speaks at the White House. (Source: Bloomberg)
Aug 19, 2026 8:11 PM
theverge.com
Nielsen is leaning more on wearables to hear what people are watchinghttps://www.theverge.com/entertainment/982358/nielsen-ratings-ppm-smart-watch-cowatching-big-dataIn order to beef up its ability to accurately measure viewership data in the streaming era, Nielsen is moving forward with a plan to use more information gathered from its partners' wearable devices. Today, Nielsen announced "a number of key enhancements" that are being added to its data capturing process ahead of the upcoming fall TV season. As of August 31st, Nielsen's co-viewing data will now i...
Aug 19, 2026 7:53 PM
forbes.com
NBA Consolidating Local Rights Doesn’t Streamline Viewing Experiencehttps://www.forbes.com/sites/johncassillo/2026/08/19/nba-consolidating-local-rights-doesnt-streamline-viewing-experience/A local streaming hub is a smart consolidation play for the NBA, but it's also another potential subscription point for basketball fans.
Aug 19, 2026 7:50 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: Has anyone shipped a self-modifying application with LLMs?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49366144In the past the model for software would typically be to ship a fixed application and then if users need some custom functionality, they would need to install a plugin or create their own.For non technical users they would have to find an existing plugin or maybe it doesn't exist so they are stuck.But I can't help but think why wouldn't for example an application just have a prompt box that builds an extension dynamically on the fly (e.g. "make me a UI panel with some buttons that does X")Obviously it would be "use at your own risk" and YMMVHave any companies or applications actually done something like this?I think modifying the real source code would get out of hand but perhaps just generating extensions that have access to a sand boxed set of safer APIs.
Aug 19, 2026 7:33 PM
spacenews.com
Katalyst Space and NASA abandon plans for Swift reboosthttps://spacenews.com/katalyst-space-and-nasa-abandon-plans-for-swift-reboost/Katalyst Space and NASA have called off plans to use the company’s Link spacecraft to raise the orbit of the agency’s Swift gamma-ray observatory, citing attitude-control problems with the spacecraft. The post Katalyst Space and NASA abandon plans for Swift reboost appeared first on SpaceNews.
Aug 19, 2026 7:23 PM
turnleft.app
Show HN: TurnLeft – a one-button stock car racing game in the browserhttps://turnleft.appThe only control is tapping the screen to turn your car left.I built this mostly with Fable 5 over the course of a few weeks. I had to tweak a fair amount of the graphics to get them where I wanted, but 100% of the code was written by Fable 5.The idea was to make a really simple top-down retro racing game that runs entirely in the browser. You can also save it to your phone as a PWA.I wanted it to be immediately playable with basically no instructions, something you can open, play for a few minutes while killing time, close, and come back to later.Would love to hear what you think.
Aug 19, 2026 7:16 PM
theguardian.com
Can Andy Burnham rewire the ‘Treasury brain’ to boost growth?https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/aug/19/can-andy-burnham-tame-the-power-of-the-treasury-to-boost-growthPM wants to reduce department’s stranglehold on public purse and bring long-term thinking to economic policyAndy Burnham is far from the first prime minister to dream of taming the power of the mighty Treasury.Boris Johnson all but forced the resignation of Sajid Javid by handpicking his team; Margaret Thatcher favoured her economic adviser Alan Walters over Nigel Lawson, prompting the latter’s fu...
Aug 19, 2026 6:46 PM
bbc.co.uk
ADHD charity complains about Channel 4 documentaryhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj63jyg6zg9o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rssOne newspaper calls Channel 4’s The Great ADHD Myth? "the most controversial show of the year".
Aug 19, 2026 6:23 PM
theverge.com
Watch Valve set up the Steam Frame in its own leaked videoshttps://www.theverge.com/games/982406/valve-steam-frame-setup-unboxing-leaked-videosValve just leaked several new videos showing the Steam Frame's unboxing, setup process, and various accessories. The videos apparently appeared on the ARM Steam client following an update, but they were "quickly pulled after that," according to the Steam Hardware Updates account on X. The Steam Frame is Valve's virtual-reality headset that can stream games from a PC or play them locally. Valve fir...
Aug 19, 2026 6:16 PM