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Show HN: KRNL – a quieter browser for the essence of the webhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48869197Download, signup, pay? Never for this demo you can try now: ssh krnl.duetbrowser.com But what will you see? This: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3lMIGjkwGMSelf-hosted available (+ needed BrowserBox): https://win9-5.com/krnlAdvantages:- set the typography you like (your terminal font, size, dimensions) and it just works - the web renders your way- light or dark mode just works- set colors you want with terminal color overrides- Supports: file uploads (disabled in the free demo for security), file downloads, JavaScript modals, HTTP Basic & Digest Auth, all modern JS, multiple tabs, "Open in new tab", back/forward/search from omnibox bar - all from terminal.If you self host - you also get all the benefits of BrowserBox, such as: GUI breakout for CloudFlare/CAPTCHA (just use your bbx login link, solve it, then back to term), WebAuthn (for now only if you're on macOS), remote DevTools (inspect any page), etc.Mostly tho this is not about that - it's about the text, the quiet, the world witJul 11, 2026 5:59 AM
spacenews.com
FCC approves first Reflect Orbital satellitehttps://spacenews.com/fcc-approves-first-reflect-orbital-satellite/The Federal Communications Commission has given its approval for a satellite that will test the ability to reflect sunlight into nighttime regions, a project sharply criticized by astronomers and environmentalists. The post FCC approves first Reflect Orbital satellite appeared first on SpaceNews.Jul 11, 2026 12:29 AM
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Show HN: An MCP server that lets AI agents request disability insurance quoteshttps://github.com/seaworthy-io/seaworthy-mcpHi HN. I own an online insurance agency, a painfully old-school industry. I am not a developer. I vibe-coded it all in Claude Code, then reviewed and tested before anything shipped. Which is part of the story I guess, that a small firm with curious and reasonably capable people can now operate agent infrastructure that would have required a contractor two years ago.I'm trying this because a growing share of our prospects start by asking their AI of choice what coverage to buy and who to get it from. Assistants can read my site, so like everyone else I'm trying to get recommendations via content. But the next natural step is agents actually taking actions on sites rather than just reading them, so I created seven tools, six read-only (a verified-facts knowledge base, carrier comparison, specialty and education guides, benefit-cap math, rider definitions) and one action, "quote request," which writes a lead straight into our CRM through the same Salesforce web-to-lead path that our web fJul 10, 2026 9:56 PM
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Show HN: chwire – Native-Format ClickHouse JavaScript Client over HTTP/TCPhttps://github.com/maxjustus/chwirechwire is a ClickHouse client for JS that speaks the Native (columnar binary) format over HTTP and TCP. For 1M-row payloads, encoding is mostly 2–6x faster than JSONEachRow and decoding 2–8x faster. Once you add compression Native almost always wins, since the smaller payload is cheaper to compress.I’ve been working on this project for the last year for use at https://www.hockeystack.com/. It started out of frustration with how CPU-heavy gzip/deflate are in the official ClickHouse JS client once you start scaling up inserts. From there it evolved into a completionist desire to make the best ClickHouse client implementation I possibly could.Highlights:* ZSTD/LZ4 support in browsers over HTTP and in Node/Bun/Deno over HTTP or TCP* An aggressively fuzzed Native-format implementation * Supports all types + container types at arbitrary levels of nesting, including Variant, Dynamic, JSON, Nested, and Tuple * CI round-trips ClickHouse’s own generateRandom and generateRandomStructure and I’ve Jul 10, 2026 7:51 PM
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Show HN: 9lives – Self-healing test runner that refuses to mask real bugshttps://github.com/Quality-Max/9livesI built 9lives because coding agents kept breaking my Playwright tests in the dumbest way: rename a button, the test goes red, and the agent — or I — rewrites a perfectly good test.9l heal login.spec.ts runs the test, classifies the failure, and heals it in tiers:Tier 1 is offline and deterministic. When a selector stops matching, 9lives re-finds the element in the page snapshot Playwright captures at failure (data-testid > id > aria-label > text > class — the most stable surviving anchor wins) and rewrites the locator. No LLM, no network, no account. Most selector drift heals in seconds, for free. Unlike Healenium-style tools, it needs no baseline DOM from previous green runs — it works from the failure itself.Tier 2 uses the subscription you already pay for. For structural changes it shells out to your installed claude / codex / opencode CLI in headless mode, so the fix rides your existing coding-agent plan. No new API key to mint. (Raw ANTHROPIC_API_KEY / OPENAI_API_KEY work too.)EvJul 10, 2026 6:01 PM
spacenews.com
China unveils members of state-backed commercial space consortiumhttps://spacenews.com/china-unveils-members-of-state-backed-commercial-space-consortium/HELSINKI — A Chinese government body has published a national commercial space consortium membership list, offering a rare indication of which companies the state considers established players. The list was […] The post China unveils members of state-backed commercial space consortium appeared first on SpaceNews.Jul 10, 2026 5:07 PM
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NASA Photographer Captures Images from F-18 Over Washingtonhttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasa-photographer-captures-images-from-f-18-over-washington/NASA flight photographers capture history from a perspective few ever experience, getting a rare bird’s-eye view of the agency’s missions in action. Their photos document key NASA research and give the public a front-row seat to the work happening behind the scenes. Jim Ross, a photographer at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, […]Jul 10, 2026 4:36 PM
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FreedomLang – native x86-64 HTTP with no libc / no CRThttps://github.com/DO-SAY-GO/freelang/blob/main/examples/HTTPD.mdI'm sharing a small milestone today - a tiny HTTP server written in FreedomLang (freelang), which is a new, experimental, AOT-compiled language I've been working on.The demo (httpd.flx) compiles down to native x86-64, and the resulting server runs with no C runtime/libc dependency (it uses direct syscalls on macOS and Linux, and Winsock plus Kernel32/WS2_32 on Windows).If you want to poke around you can clone the repo, build it (the compiler is just a Node.js script, very inspectable), and test it with a simple curl localhost/health or curl localhost/ . You can also inspect the native machine code with tools like otool -L on macOS to verify the lack of Mach-O dynamic-library dependencies.The reason I chose a tiny HTTP server was it shows an actual socket lifecycle (accept/read/respond/close), but it doesn't pretend to be production-grade.If you look at examples/httpd.flx[0] you can ysee how eveyrthing works - and how the language models the failure states. Why build a new language? TheJul 10, 2026 4:25 PM
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Show HN: Postern, an email system for both humans and agentshttps://github.com/skyphusion-labs/posternHello everyone! I wanted to introduce you to a new project of mine, postern, which is an email system for both humans and agents. You can give your agents their own email addresses, the ability to respond to emails if you want, and all emails are presented in one nice unified mailbox. The email stack runs on Cloudflare Workers (email sending does require a subscription to the $5/mo Cloudflare Workers Plan), messages can be ingested into Vectorize (this is optional) to allow your agents to easily retrieve information and answer your questions about your email, attachments are stored in R2, and message state/contents are stored in D1. There’s also a RFC compliant SMTP relay server that runs on your server to translate anything that speaks the 1982 SMTP RFC spec into API calls so you can send emails from your server through the postern stack. There’s a python based IMAP proxy which allows you to use any client (tested extensively with iOS Mail, Apple Mail, Thunderbird, and Evolution) as wJul 10, 2026 2:34 PM
mojavepaint.app
Show HN: Mojave Paint for macOS, edit images like it's 1999https://mojavepaint.app/We all need a swiss army knife for images. A tool for really getting in there and dealing with the pixels precisely. You might be combining images into a sprite sheet, you might be matting images to squares, cutting out solid backgrounds, re-tinting graphical elements. For a website, a video game, for an app.There's a million photo editors, there's a million design tools, and Mojave Paint can do those things in varying degrees but "graphical asset production" is its first and primary mission.It's cheap! $9.99 (one-time, sad I even have to say that) for the "Pro" version. It's Mac-only, and Apple Silicon Mac at that. Does it look a little like Photoshop 5.5 from the year 1999? Maybe a little but also it's got plenty of its own original ideas. (Blog post on that is forthcoming…)I've always been passionate about image editing tools for the technically-minded so I'm throwing my hat in the ring in that space. And sure GIMP is for the technically-minded but boy is it ugly on the Mac!Jul 10, 2026 12:29 PM
markeron.cn
Show HN: MarkerOn – Keyboard-first screen annotation tool (~1.5 MB, Tauri v2)https://markeron.cn/Hi HN — I'm the author. I built MarkerOn because screen annotation tools I tried were either too heavy (Electron), too mouse-driven, or locked to a specific meeting app.MarkerOn sits in the system tray. Press Ctrl+Shift+D to draw over any app, then X for click-through mode while marks stay visible. Number keys switch tools; shortcuts cover undo, colors, whiteboard, copy — no menus needed.Stack: Tauri v2 + Rust, Vue 3, Canvas. ~1.5 MB installer, no account/telemetry/cloud. MIT, Win/macOS/Linux + Microsoft Store.GitHub: https://github.com/ifer47/markeronHappy to answer questions on overlay implementation, cross-platform quirks, or keyboard-first UX.Jul 10, 2026 11:11 AM
vuci.ai
Show HN: Vuci – make the spoken word searchablehttps://vuci.ai/feed/hi, I'm Reuben Over the past few months I've been building a platform where all the information is sourced from spoken conversations, and I wanted to make this content searchable, savable, and shareable. Presented in a well-designed format, similar to Yahoo but with higher IQ content.Like most, I listen to a lot of podcasts, but I wanted to connect the dots on different topics and read the parts which are interesting more deeply. Sharing bits and pieces with friends was also a motivating factor, as well as alerts which feed into my other pipelines.That said, I'm not sure which parts of the platform will resonate with users or not, so it's an experiment in progress.Technicals: I love my craft (both design, and code), so I took ample time to think about UX and design it in Figma. It's cookiecut from ample projects I have in Django and HTMX, and scaffolded my way through. Hosted on Digitalocean, and AI agnostic from an LLM perspective. I can go deeper into these, but they probably deserveJul 10, 2026 9:10 AM
bing.com
Feds Confirm FBI Investigation Into Stoughton PD Connected To Sandra Birchmorehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d1d51cdf7451f9aee415581720978&url=https%3A%2F%2Flamag.com%2Fcrimeinla%2Ffeds-confirm-fbi-investigation-into-stoughton-pd-connected-to-sandra-birchmore%2F&c=2413726009270420103&mkt=en-usThe FBI began investigating the state's handling of the Sandra Bichmore case in 2023, per court filing Credit: Department of Justice A new filing in the case of disgraced former Massachusetts police ...Jul 10, 2026 7:28 AM
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Palantir And Forward Deployed Engineering: What Should We Believe?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a893a7079ad48e09504fd78dcfacea5&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Fstevebanker%2F2026%2F07%2F10%2Fpalantir-and-forward-deployed-engineering-what-should-we-believe%2F&c=18264539038853045957&mkt=en-usForbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover logistics and supply chain management. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is ...Jul 10, 2026 6:43 AM
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Polizei-News Freiburg im Breisgau, 10.07.26: St. Blasien - Schaufenster beschädigt - Zeugensuchehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cb2365d364fd6b5e023bf70ee6ed9&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fde-de%2Fnachrichten%2Fpanorama%2Fpolizei-news-freiburg-im-breisgau-100726-st-blasien-schaufenster-besch%25C3%25A4digt-zeugensuche%2Far-AA27DY0D&c=11061830386827740089&mkt=en-usAm Donnerstag, 09.07.2026, wurde dem Polizeiposten St. Blasien eine Sachbeschädigung an mehreren Schaufenstern in der Bernau-Menzenschwander- Straße gemeldet. Nach bisherigen Erkenntnissen wurde zu ...Jul 10, 2026 6:43 AM
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Where Venezuela’s Earthquakes Shifted the Groundhttps://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/where-venezuelas-earthquakes-shifted-the-ground/Radar data from the NISAR satellite show that La Guaira and nearby areas experienced significant ground displacement from the June 2026 temblors.Jul 10, 2026 4:00 AM
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I got tired of every .NET HTML-to-PDF library so I built a free one from scratchhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48853670Hi all, I've just open-sourced NetPDF, a project I've been building to scratch an itch that's bugged the .NET community for as long as I can remember, there has never been a genuinely free, high-quality HTML-to-PDF library.Every existing route has a real tradeoff:Headless-browser wrappers (Puppeteer/Playwright/Chromium): huge footprint, a native browser to ship and secure, a process to spawn per render.wkhtmltopdf wrappers: built on an unmaintained engine.Commercial libraries: excellent, but licensed per seat/server."Free" libraries: AGPL (viral copyleft) or a revenue cap that becomes a license fee once you grow.After years of working around this, I decided to build the thing I wanted. NetPDF is a real HTML/CSS layout engine written from scratch in C# - the same category as Prince or WeasyPrint, not "automate a browser."What it isA pure C# / .NET 10 engine that parses HTML + CSS and lays it out itself: block, inline, flexbox, grid, and tables, fragmentation across pages, paged-media (@Jul 9, 2026 11:14 PM
ello.com
Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-oldshttps://www.ello.com/blog/teaching-a-child-in-1000-msHey HN! We've spent the good part of this past year building an AI tutor that teaches kids ages 4-9 reading, math, ESL and more. Getting an AI tutor to effectively teach a child turns out to be a really hard technical challenge, this took getting the underlying architecture right.Our tutor steers the UX in real-time and makes complex decisions on the fly. Doing both at conversation speed required us to replace the standard tool-use loop. We built our own tutor harness that utilizes a streaming interpreter that executes actions, while an asynchronous planner model reasons ahead of the conversation and makes calls that drive the child's learning. On top of it all, we developed a safety system that checks every turn without it causing an interruption to the activity and conversation flow.Effective teaching isn't just about answering a child's question quickly, rather making the right move at the right moment. AI is also going to be an integral part shaping how this generation of kids learJul 9, 2026 8:51 PM
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Crypto Market Review (Q3 2026)https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiigFBVV95cUxPWFZUTC0tc0Jhd3NnVjNBUGF0U0hZRVRfQWxxbkFfU2s2LUFYRXlwaElvdHFWdTlaZnlfdnpkUWx5NG5vTUNpR1hFbDR0bEZ2TDRnMDNNQndHX0d3OUZ0UDJ5UTJkVUdSd1hwc2JoSk0xV21iZ09xb3hCUGpKSzhNTXZ3a3NwVWxMT0E?oc=5Crypto Market Review (Q3 2026) Bitwise InvestmentsJul 9, 2026 8:47 PM
fadingmaize.com
Show HN: Reviving my 2001 college band with AIhttps://www.fadingmaize.com25 years ago, I joined a band called Fading Maize at Ripon College in Wisconsin. We did what we could with what we had. We recorded 3 albums over the next 3 years and played at as many bars and coffee shops as we could. We built a website with Microsoft Frontpage. Then we went our separate ways, got married, had kids, focused on other things.Earlier this year I had the idea to approach the lead singer who wrote all of the lyrics and melodies to the stuff we played back then, and wanted to "reimagine" everything in 2026 using AI. That's the project I want to share here!The site has a before/after player where you can flip between the original dorm-room recording and the 2026 version mid-song without losing your place, so you can hear exactly what changed. The original 2001 website is preserved and browsable at https://www.fadingmaize.com/2001, rough edges intact.Working on this, the thing that sparked in my own mind is that it was an experiment in a certain way to use AI. The songs, lyrJul 9, 2026 7:49 PM
