Surviving the Road to Indy: The Real Costs of Chasing IndyCarWhat climbing the IndyCar ladder is really like, from the daily grind USF2000 and USF Pro 2000 drivers endure to how they measure success beyond wins.
Jack Whaley survives a playoff, a bee sting, the rain and Jay Leng Jr. in epic U.S. Amateur runThe Englishman grinded his way through a grueling week at Merion, vaulting himself into stardom in the process.
Show HN: I made an ultrafast racing game like F-zero but for mobileHello! I just launched a new game which is my contribution to the future anti-gravity racing genre - one I miss.App Store: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/nitelore/id6790147739I decided to make this around my memories of playing F-zero or Wipeout rather than exact copying - I liked the speed, beating times and sometimes blowing someone up. That’s what I went for, and mostly speed.It’s got lots of tracks, lots of game modes, upgrades and what not. It’s mobile but I’ve tried not to be scummy about it - you can achieve everything through playing (and not grinding for years) but you can buy IAP to get new ships and upgrades if you’d rather not wait (or to throw a few bones my way).I think it’s a lot of fun and hopefully some of you will too. I’m totally open to suggestions too because I want to make this really as good as possible.It’s iOS only atm but Android is coming soon (Play Store review permitting…)Thanks for reading and have a lovely day.
Scientists uncover a hidden mechanism that drives RNA synthesisScientists have long been fascinated by two promising classes of antibiotics that disable RNA polymerase (RNAP). They knew that these drugs could grind gene expression to a halt in several pathogens, ...
‘Personal Situation’ Keeps Eagles’ $163 Million Superstar Away From Training CampAs the Philadelphia Eagles slog on through the grind of training camp, there is one question that’s still unanswered: Where is superstar right offensive tackle Lane Johnson? Johnson, 6-foot-6 and 325 ...
Ask HN: What verb best describes what a developer does in 2026?Before agents entered the scene, the answer was obvious: A developer "writes" or "creates" software.While software craftsmen mourned the death of their craft, reality moved on. In February 2025, Andrej Karpathy ingeniously coined the term "vibe coding" (which hit Merriam-Webster as a slang term shortly after) to describe the shift from hand-writing code to steering the agent. But the honeymoon didn't last. Amateurs quickly ruined the vibe when their weekend projects got routinely annihilated upon hitting production, finally giving vibe-coding a bad rep.Admitting to agent authorship feels honest, but also sounds like a confession and does nothing to build a professional identity: "I wrote this with the help of [Agent]." or "I let [Agent] write this."Brand-derived verbs feel clumsy:* I clankered* I clauded / I claudified* I codexedMy best shots so far:* I tokencrafted"* I vibecrafted"So, what verb do you use to describe your daily grind or agent management? (At least until we can go back
Show HN: Morning Stack finds real job openings, tweaks resume and cover letterJob hunting sucks. That grind of digging through LinkedIn and Indeed, sifting through endless spammy emails from headhunters who try to get the biggest possible audience, clicking "Quick Apply" to silent response, and trying to figure out which of all of these jobs are even real. My wife hit all of this when she started job hunting a few months ago, so I built her a tool to take the worst part of it off her plate. It turned into this. Oh, and she got an offer letter from a major company in just shy of two and a half weeks. Now, she loves her job.Morning Stack runs overnight. While my users sleep it works through the big job boards (and some niche ones), and then it tries to disprove every listing before it trusts one.Is the job even real? - It opens the posting in a real browser (Playwright) and checks. There's no API scraping and we don't login to anything. Then, we resolve back to the company's own ATS page so you can apply directly to them. If it can't find it, the job is dropped.Do
NBA Playoffs bracket 2026: Updated schedule, TV channels, scores for every round of postseason gamesThe NBA Playoffs are officially here. After 82 games of grinding through the regular season, the marathon has finally turned into a sprint, as the 2025-26 postseason field is set to narrow through the ...
Ask HN: Will your company be doing "LeetCode" interviews a year from now?I work in big tech. I'm a SWE manager, but I have a half a mind to return to being an IC at some point. I am using LLMs at work (mostly for reporting stuff etc), and for coding personal side projects, and generally trying to keep up with all this agentic stuff.I was never good at leetcode, I snuck my way into SWE and SWE management by way of sysadmin/SRE.I'm considering interviewing at some point in the future, possibly at companies like Google and Meta. Even for Engineering Manager roles, these companies have coding rounds, so I've been "grinding leetcode" slowly.There is a notion floating around that DSA interview questions are quickly becoming obsolete, since you can just ask an LLM for an optimal solution now.Putting aside whether it's good for the brain and for being a good programmer to have these skills sharpened, do you think leetcode style interviews are going the way of the dinosaur, or will they stay or even have a resurgence?
Makita’s $105 Rapid Battery Charger Is Now 69% OffA faster charger can be a big deal if you regularly use Makita cordless tools. Batteries always seem to die in the middle of a project, whether you’re drilling, driving, cutting, sanding, grinding, or ...
Show HN: Yumi – Your workspace for AI chat, notes, and researchHey HackerNews,The time has come and I finally launched Yumi, my product that I've been working on for the past while.There was a lot of back and forth, tears, stress, hard grind, and really just the thought of will I even get to launch Yumi. Many questions popped up in my head. Would I ever launch? Would I even make a cent out of this? Would I have the brain capacity left after all of this? Would I achieve the goals I want out of building this? How long can I hang onto Yumi before I call it quits? And the list goes on and on.I was about to throw it all away during the pre-launch phase into the corner and into the void. I really didn't have the will and drive to keep on going. I really didn't to be honest. But there was this resistance I couldn't describe easily. The more I wanted to give up, the more force I used to push back against it. It was a miracle that I still stood up after everything. I knew it wasn't my time to let go of Yumi yet. I couldn't leave behind something I put my h
Show HN: Can a person's chess mind outlive them? An attempt with 41 mastersTwo years ago I sat down to build a chess engine for my kids' Christmas present. Wanted it to play badly enough to be beatable but not randomly bad: different styles so they could choose what to face.While building those styles I noticed the choices started looking like actual historical players' tendencies. Went looking. Turns out: given enough games from one person, you can extract enough of their decision pattern to reproduce it.Two years later, 41 players, ~3,000 games each. Tal sacrifices unsoundly. Morphy attacks like it's 1850. Capablanca grinds endgames. Same engine underneath, visibly different choices each time.playchessgate.com: browser, no signup. The kids never got their Christmas present.
Instead of writing my manuscript, I built a toolHi my name is Jeff, and I am a chronic procrastinator when it comes to my writing…Tell me that doesn’t sound familiar, I’ve literally written two blogs about this instead of actually writing my manuscript, cause literally anything (even scrubbing the toilet) is more compelling than the grind of getting through chapter 6.I actually started writing a tool in early January 2025. At the time, I was trying to find a way to gamify my writing. I wasn’t really looking to launch a serious writing tool at the time, just find a way to hack my brain into doing the work (and find another excuse to not write).The result of that was a simple text box with a word counter (0/500 words) that used a little bit of JavaScript to count the words you dumped in the box, deduct any shorter than 3 letters and then let you know if you hit your writing goal for the day (and you even got some fireworks!)The tool worked, I found myself anticipating pasting my daily writing progress into the box for that dopamine re
Show HN: Dbg – One CLI debugger for every language (AI-agent ready)AI agents are great at writing code but blind at runtime. They guess, print, and waste tokens.I built dbg to give them a real debugger experience. Since it is backend based with the few I implemented (still at basic level) it can support 15+ languages with one simple CLI (still some work needed but it is functional as it is):LLDB, Delve, PDB, JDB, node inspect, rdbg, phpdbg, GHCi, etc. Profilers too (perf, pprof, cProfile, Valgrind…)I also added GPU profiling via `gdbg` (CUDA, PyTorch, Triton kernels). It auto-dispatches and shares the same unified interface. (Planning to bring those advanced concepts back to the main dbg).Works with Claude & Codex (probably works on others but didn't try them)Quick start: ``` curl -sSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/redknightlois/dbg/main/ins... | sh dbg --init claude (for claude) ```Then just say: “use dbg to debug the crash in src/foo.rs”Docs: https://redknightlois.github.io/dbg/ GitHub (MIT Licensed): https://github.com/redknightlois/dbgWould lo
Show HN: Classic Video Poker v2Classic Video Poker (CVP) is a lightweight, browser-based retro video poker game which originally hit the front page of HN on Oct 4, 2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37763098I've finally managed to release version 2. The delay was mostly due to fear of upsetting the user base with breaking changes.Version 2 includes:- Frictionless accounts: added registration so you can save progress but no personal info or email.- Deep play stats: Track lifetime RTP (Return to player), max win/loss streaks, winning hand counts and more.- Leaderboards & Cash out: Cash out wins above the free play level, feeding into leaderboards for bank balance, RTP% (after 50 hands of play), and leaderboards that reward grinders- Mobile stability - I've completely rewritten the communications routines both on server/client side. Mobile can be flaky, so the client handles silent auto-retries in the background without interrupting gameplay.- Updated UI: New crisp graphics for playing cardsObligatory tech stac
Show HN: OxiLean – Pure Rust Interactive Theorem Prover (Zero C Deps, WASM)Hey HN,Just dropped v0.1.0 of OxiLean yesterday.It's a full Interactive Theorem Prover written 100% in Rust (1.2 million lines across 11 crates). Inspired by Lean 4, implements Calculus of Inductive Constructions, universe polymorphism, dependent types, full tactic framework (intro/apply/simp/ring/omega etc.), and even LCNF-based codegen.Key points that actually matter: - Kernel has literally zero external crates and zero unsafe. Memory-safe by design, no unwraps, explicit errors everywhere. - Runs in the browser via WASM (npm package @cooljapan/oxilean ready). - REPL works out of the box: cargo run --bin oxilean - No C/Fortran anywhere — unlike original Lean.Repo: https://github.com/cool-japan/oxileanWASM demo snippet in README if you want to play instantly.On my machine I've already proven 99.24% of MathLib4's 179,668 declarations (aiming for 100% in 0.1.1 soon). Been grinding this because I got tired of C++/OCaml build hell in formal methods tools.Curious what you think — especially
Ask HN: Why does it feel like qualifications are irrelevant to hirers?I’m not talking about the job hunt grind, sending your perfect resume into the void of online job postings and getting no responses.I’m talking about inbounds from recruiters, for senior level roles, where you have a long trail of quantifiable accomplishments and a good network. I am not looking for a job, but I do often take calls just to see what’s out there, and I am rejected every time. It makes me curious (and also sympathetic to people actively seeking).I have numbers to back up my accomplishments, too. GitHub stars, citation counts, exits, etc. I talk to hiring managers who are leading tech areas that I have direct, quantifiable impact in from past experience. They might even be building on tech that I developed! I have a screen and maybe don’t answer a pop quiz perfectly, but you can look at the numbers and see I’m not bullshitting.Is the hiring process really so detached from reality now that no other factor but your interview performance is the determinant?I know what they sa
Show HN: Store Listing Canvas – Real screenshots and marketing framesI was grinding through the usual App Store screenshot nonsense: pick a few screens, slap on a background, frame them nicely, write the captions, resize for every device… it's not rocket science, but it's boring and takes forever every single time.This round I got lazy and tried something dumb: uploaded one real screenshot to Gemini and said "hey, make this store-ready".Instead of just doing it, Gemini basically lectured me: "Bad idea. AI editing loves to quietly mess up text, blur edges, invent random pixels. For store assets that's deadly – reviewers zoom in, users notice weirdness subconsciously." Then it flipped the script: don't touch the screenshot pixels. Just build the pretty frame/layout around them.That actually made sense. What I really wanted wasn't a magic one-click edit anyway. I wanted something repeatable: drop my screenshots, apply the same clean style every time, export the right sizes, done. So I ended up building Store Listing Canvas: tiny browser app that lets you d
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Show HN: PutHouse – The AI Options TraderLike many of you, I liked the idea of selling premium. It feels like a great strategy for passive income. But despite trading for years, I was still my own worst enemy and I kept seeing people in this sub asking for a way to automate trading because, let’s be honest, the manual grind is brutal. I noticed three things that kept me suffering:Time sink: Checking prices, monitoring delta, watching for assignment risk, deciding when to roll or close. I was spending 10+ hours a week managing positions. That’s not "passive" income; that’s a second job.Emotional decisions: When I saw extra premium, I’d pick strikes out of greed. When I was winning, I’d want to hold longer. And when the market moved, I didn’t want to miss out. I knew the rules and still broke them.Gatekeeping: I’d see screenshots of huge gains with zero explanation. Just a P/L flex. I don’t think most people are malicious but the end result is the same: outcomes without process.I stopped trying to trade better and started tryin