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Ask HN: 1950's Chip industry undermined unions how is AI not doing the same?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49064165In the 1950s the Chip industry undermined minorities, immigrants, women and killed unions.In the 1960-70s it targeted black civil rights groups.Along the way, white men were pushed into management, while anything outside of business was split into smaller tasked jobs. This in return gave companies leverage to cut salaries.I don't care what altman says chatgpt did in a blackbox. I judge the world by what I see. Reality is, chat, claude, etc etc are about as useful as smart as the stupidest, slowest engineer on the team.On the other hand, introducing them has made the job appear more "streamline" more production line like. Work increased, and salaries flattened.Now that companies are not getting returns off of AI, they are cutting AI spending, but make no mistake. Salaries will not recover.What am I missing? How am I wrong?Would love opinions on thisJul 27, 2026 1:26 AM
github.com
Show HN: RelativeDB – OSS query engine for relational foundation modelshttps://github.com/RelativeDB/RelQLStructured data could be the next big frontier for foundation models.RelativeDB is an open source query engine built around the Relational Transformer architecture, developed by Stanford’s Tabular and Relational (STAR) Project. These models can adapt to new databases and prediction tasks using relatively little labeled context.With some of my experiments, the results have been remarkable. On some tasks, RelativeDB can outperform XGBoost with only a small amount of relational context and no manual feature engineering.So RelativeDB turns relational foundation models into something you can query (like this customer churn query):``` PREDICT NOT EXISTS(orders.*) OVER (90 DAYS FOLLOWING) FROM customers ```The engine finds the relevant context across the related tables and returns a prediction. The goal is to make questions like churn, demand forecasting, fraud detection, and recommendations feel more like database queries than bespoke ML projects.Longer term, I think the optimizer should be Jul 27, 2026 12:32 AM
portzero.net
Show HN: Port Zero – How I learned to stop worrying and love PORT=0https://portzero.net/Hi HN,Recently I wasted several hours wrangling my dev environment only to find out that the browser frontend was talking to the wrong version of the backend. This got me thinking--why on earth are we still using simple numbers to describe which process to connect to? Why not use names instead? I thought of all the times a program wouldn't start because of port conflicts. The more I thought about it, the crazier it seemed.Modern operating systems already offer no-conflict ports: if you make your TCP server listen on port 0, the OS assigns you a random available port. But that only solves half the problem.I built the other half: PortZero. It's a GPLv3 program that watches for processes (and docker containers!) with a special PZ_TUNNEL environment variable: PZ_TUNNEL=myapp-{branch}.portzero.local:80 npm run dev When it sees such a process or container, PortZero does this:1. Create a virtual NIC (if it hasn't already)2. Create a new virtual IP address3. Create a DNS record that substituteJul 27, 2026 12:03 AM
github.com
Show HN: Codex fixed my 2010 MacBook Pro driver troubles with kernel patcheshttps://github.com/ldyeax/macbook2010_nouveau_and_sleep_fixes/I installed Gentoo on my mid-2010 Macbook Pro about a year ago as both a fun learning project and to have a practical secondary laptop for terminal access, light dev, using utilities that would be more cumbersome on my Windows laptop, etc.It landed me with a usable KDE environment with acceleration, but sleep mode resulted in an unrecoverable system without a reboot and the graphics driver had oddities like garbled screens during login and occasionally crashing the system if I opened the wifi settings. At the time I tried switching to older proprietary nvidia drivers and some other possible solutions for sleep issues, including asking an older GPT model at some point to investigate the system, but they were dead ends - it seemed to simply be an issue of unsupported old hardware, and I don't have the time to learn driver dev.But when 5.6 Sol came out and I tried it on Ultra, I was struck by how capable it seemed, so I figured I had nothing to lose throwing it at fixing my system by any Jul 26, 2026 10:11 PM
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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
punterjs.org
Show HN: Punter.js – single-file JavaScript game engine for teaching programminghttps://punterjs.org/We host work experience students at Orca Scan. This year I mentored one myself.Schools teach programming theory, maybe some Python. Students rarely leave with something to show their friends. When I started coding on a ZX Spectrum, I typed in listings from INPUT magazine. Tweak a number, get more lives, you’re hooked. I wanted that same effect.So I pulled the JS engine we built for OrcaCam out into its own thing: punter.js. One file, ~2000 lines, plain ES5, no dependencies. Starting with Pong, a student can write a working game in an HTML file and have it live in 15 minutes.My goal is to create something simple schools can use to teach programming, but in a way that inspires.Would love your feedback, what do I need to add/improve to achieve this goal?Jul 26, 2026 7:20 PM
occultgatsby.work
Show HN: The Occult Gatsbyhttps://occultgatsby.workThe Occult Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Annotated for Esoteric Content: The Fourth Way, Alchemy, Tarot, and KabbalahAuthor is my father, Jon Woodson. I'm the web guy who wanted to bring this to a wider audience with a more interactive way to pop-up the notes about esoteric content.Author's blurb from Amazon self-publishing page:F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, is a manual for spiritual development. It is not a unique text, for many American modernist novels of canonical stature are similarly grounded in the occult. Fitzgerald was a follower of A. R. Orage who not only taught the Gurdjieff Work (the Fourth Way) but organized a vast literary network to further its goals.The chief reason that this occult literary tendency has remained in the shadows is that the arbiter of the movement has been poorly understood and critically neglected.The Great Gatsby belongs to a genre of the novel invented by Carl Van Vechten. Van Vechten’s novel, The Blind Bow-Boy (1923) was the model fJul 26, 2026 6:38 PM
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Ask HN: Anyone suffering from the tyranny of the Waiting Equation?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49060868In space exploration, there's a famous conundrum that we shouldn't launch a 100-year journey transport ship to another galaxy, because in 20 years technology will have made the ship twice as fast, and we can get there earlier by waiting.In this episode of "how this translates to B2B sales," I ask if anyone else is struggling to invest in ideas (anywhere from side projects to startups) knowing that the frontier of AI might soon overlap any possible technical or operational moat that you spend a year or more building, and your entire business is just a one-shot prompt away (from either you, meaning you wasted time building, or your target customer, who no longer has a reason to pay you).Historically it's always been better to Just Build, but this reality seems to be getting tougher to ignore.Jul 26, 2026 6:24 PM
kypaku.github.io
Show HN: Scanner for cellular automata rule spacehttps://kypaku.github.io/pages/ca2026/Many years ago I was interested in cellular automata, inspired by Stephen Wolfram's work. I dug into elementary CA and totalistic 3-state rules. But when I went to more states it was getting boring. Almost all of them are dead or chaotic or something that everybody has already seen. But somewhere inside there could be another 110, and nobody looked.Now that we have AI coding, I decided I can build something in that area, and an app for scanning rules was the obvious thing. I implemented an explorer with a bunch of filters: gliders, chaos, large structures, and custom search. The last one works backwards — you draw a pattern and a rule passes only if this pattern never occurs. I could not define "interesting", but it was easy to say what disqualifies a rule. It also renders diagrams as big PNG.Demo: https://kypaku.github.io/pages/ca2026/ Source: https://github.com/Kypaku/ca2026Jul 26, 2026 4:39 PM
mapmy.network
Show HN: Visualize your computer's network connections on a 3D globehttps://mapmy.network/Hey all, two days ago I had the idea for a tool that visualizes all the internet connections my computer made. Now its real!Its a simple open source program written in Rust that listens for outbound connections your computer makes, runs traceroutes on each destination, geolocates each hop and renders in on a 3d globe.The tool (network cartographer) works on linux, mac and windows. Feel free to try it out. I tried making it as frictionless as possible.Beaware this is mostly a for-fun and educational tool. It will naturally be inaccurate as it doesnt show the routes the actual packets take, just the way that traceroute did. Its also limited how much data i could find for the geolocalization.Jul 26, 2026 4:05 PM
getsnack.app
Show HN: Exercise snack reminders for iOS/Android, no server, one-time purchasehttps://getsnack.appI built Snack App for my wife. She works from home, and every night, she would feel stiff and creaky after sitting all day, so she decided that she had to be less sedentary. Her idea was to break up her day with "exercise snacks" - formally defined as "isolated ≤1-min bouts of vigorous exercise performed periodically throughout the day" (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34669625/) but really any kind of movement (a couple flights of stairs, a 5-minute walk, or a set of air squats) is better than nothing.So I wrote her an app that lets her set a goal and pick a reminder schedule. The app sends her notifications; she logs her snacks in the app; and every day she meets her goal extends her streak.Speaking of streaks, I forgot to do my Wordle one day and, to my horror, broke a 171-day streak, so I made Snack App's streaks flexible. You can pause your streak anytime, and it'll resume when you start logging snacks again. There's also a built-in grace period, just in case you forget. The wholeJul 26, 2026 1:56 PM
gnoseed.com
Show HN: I built Gnoseed – free flahscards to learn K8s, DevOps, AI and morehttps://gnoseed.comHi everybody,I created my personal weekend project Gnoseed to learn more about Kubernetes with spaced repetition. Very soon it evolved into a small library of various topics about modern tech stack - AI/LLMs, DevOps, Security, and anything I found interesting. Currently it has 47 decks and ~4000 questions.A bit more about the process: I create decks from the open documentations or free papers I found here or there. The decks are built with a custom made pipeline of skills to extract the data, select questions, creating distractors and verification. I'm curating the entire process.To keep cards up-to-date I have a weekly automated routine to check release notes of selected topics and curating new cards.From the beginning I also realized just the random algorithm to show cards is not very efficient, so I implemented two spaced-repetition algorithms SM-2 and FSRS.Would you like to check it and give me some feedback? It's free, no sign-up neededJul 26, 2026 1:54 PM
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Ask HN: Something fishy is going on with Google feed on my Androidhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49057483Hello folks. I want to know if this is something only happening to me.I noticed on the past few days something weird going on with Google feed on Android (when you swipe left from home main screen)I started receiving deceiving news with some "shocking" headlines like: "Contagious cancer found in fresh water fish". Android says it was published by "Forbes" but the icon is weird. That caught my attention and I used share button to check the URL and for my suprise the target link is "discover.aigc/?id=.........." (I removed the number just in case)I used some search engines and I found no relevant related domain. Pinging the domain also returns nothing.i tried accessing it from an isolated environment and the domain seems really offline now.I'm sure I saw other suspicious links, some had related titles some did not.It does look like a clickbait based campaign for something "fishy" (pun intended).I should have taken notes of the other news and domains which i crossed paths with but I did nJul 26, 2026 12:32 PM
github.com
Show HN: Lemmings in HTML in Canvashttps://github.com/VorticonCmdr/lemmingsFor fun I decided I wanted to reimplement Lemmings using HTML-in-cavas and a DOM-based Entity-Component-System. I made heavy use of Claude Code (using only Sonnet 5 High) and I used everything already published on this topic. I used already existing HTML ports (like DHTML Lemmings, LemmingsJS and Lemmings.ts) to kickstart development.Even though I was able to add some new stuff like EGA, CGA and Tandy as well as Adlib, Tandy and PC Speaker that wasn't documented (or I didn't find it). I, or rather Sonnet, was able to do so because I hooked it up to a Ghidra MCP and a DOSBox MCP.At some point feature creep set in so I am guessing there are still a few things not working as intended. I'd love to hear all about it.Jul 26, 2026 12:23 PM
philomatics.com
Show HN: Organic cell simulation with infinite zoom (100k cells, raw WebGL)https://philomatics.com/cell-game-source/Made this little cell simulation with an infinite zoom mechanic in raw WebGL. Renders up to 100k cells on my laptop (M1 MBA).It's a single HTML file, not minified, without dependencies, so you can just inspect the source code. It's just raw JS and WebGL shaders. No assets, everything is procedurally generated.For each cell, I draw a single quad using instanced rendering. To create a nice organic wobble, I use SDF (Signed Distance Fields) to draw a circle (or another base shape), which is then distorted by adjusting the radius using multiple overlapping sine waves. I explain this visually here. [1]To get the cells to stretch dynamically based on their velocity, I use a technique called Domain Warping. Basically in the fragment shader, the fragmentPosition is adjusted inwards/outwards depending on the current velocity, which squashes/stretches the entire coordinate system of the quad in either direction. Gives it a very organic look. I explain this in more detail here. [2]Physics are alsJul 26, 2026 12:04 PM
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ASK HN: Why has technology become so unreliable?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49056900Even though I'm a software engineer with long experience with serious projects, I'm become so disillusioned with the whole thing nowadays.Forget the ridiculous AI hype, forget about the lack of ethics and a moral compass; What's getting to me right now is the unreliability of it all. It seems like everything is held together with duct tape, and the tape is falling off.Just in the last few months, all these have happened:- My Macbook Air M1 has been acting up, refusing to charge in a stable manner. The audio jack is dead because apparently it is linked to the charging circuit. The screen sometimes shows a tint on a whim. Now it is dead and not charging at all. Granted, it has otherwise been a fine machine so far, and I've knocked it over a few times, but still. Even my old trusty 2014 Macbook Pro is still going strong, and I've abused that one much more.- I also can't use my old Macbook Pro well, because the replacement Transcend 256GB SSD I put in it around 2020 is now failing, causingJul 26, 2026 11:13 AM
bing.com
Female referee forced off after being knocked to ground in Metz vs Fortuna Sittard player meleehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d328a64a44251bb9e95091378e6a7&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.espn.com%2Fsoccer%2Fstory%2F_%2Fid%2F49456102%2Ffemale-referee-forced-being-knocked-ground-metz-vs-fortuna-sittard-player-melee&c=14678864594468420288&mkt=en-usA female referee was forced off after being knocked to the ground while attempting to break up a confrontation between players during a preseason friendly on Saturday.Jul 26, 2026 11:13 AM
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Comic-Con 2026: All The Biggest Announcements And Major Revealshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88cdb5b1f54a53af3eaa0345d2d5d5&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Flaurasirikul%2F2026%2F07%2F26%2Fcomic-con-2026-all-the-biggest-announcements-and-major-reveals%2F&c=6758560104929030933&mkt=en-usForbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Laura Sirikul is a L.A.-based reporter covering film/TV and music. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This ...Jul 26, 2026 8:35 AM
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Comic-Con 2026: All The Biggest Announcements And Major Revealshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d1626f17e4673b06d0630103e918c&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Flaurasirikul%2F2026%2F07%2F26%2Fcomic-con-2026-all-the-biggest-announcements-and-major-reveals%2F&c=6758560104929030933&mkt=en-usForbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Laura Sirikul is a L.A.-based reporter covering film/TV and music. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This ...Jul 26, 2026 8:35 AM
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US-Israel-Iran war latest news: Iran conflict spreads to Red Sea and Caspian Sea as US pauses airstrikeshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d34cbba1c4f0c84b9f916a1b8b361&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-in%2Fnews%2Fother%2Fus-israel-iran-war-latest-news-iran-conflict-spreads-to-red-sea-and-caspian-sea-as-us-pauses-airstrikes%2Far-AA28HLd1&c=15912615488290471221&mkt=en-usIndia, July 26 -- US-Israel-Iran War Latest News: The conflict involving Iran, the United States and Israel widened over the weekend despite a temporary halt in US military strikes. Iran-backed Houthi ...Jul 26, 2026 8:18 AM
