Xbox is fixing one of the PC app’s biggest annoyances with download speedMicrosoft is testing a Smart Download Client for Xbox that automatically switches to the fastest download server, promising quicker game installs on PC and consoles.
Ask HN: Something fishy is going on with Google feed on my AndroidHello 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 n
Show HN: Lemmings in HTML in CanvasFor 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.
Show HN: Organic cell simulation with infinite zoom (100k cells, raw WebGL)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 als
ASK HN: Why has technology become so unreliable?Even 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, causing
Show HN: Termic – desktop app for running CLI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex)So, https://termic.dev open source desktop app for managing claude code / codex / agt / etc coding sessions. main checkout or worktrees.Here's the story: a couple of months ago Anthropic announced pricing changes over the programatic use of Claude code (Agent SDK + including -p), i suspected tools like Conductor will stop working.Started building a clone myself, which uses the CLI binaries in PTY terminals as first class citizens, not custom agent sdk. This is the most bulletproof way of always being up to date with latest improvements of the cli agents + and never have this pricing issue again for 3rd party tools, and you get the flexibility of using any CLI agent.That's how https://termic.dev was launched.Also has some pain points with conductor which i adressed in termic: launch in main checkout (doesnt force you into a worktree), sandboxing of agents (filesystem + network), multi-repo projects and agents, and bring-your-own agent CLI.Stack is simple, and i;'ve been obsessing over p
Show HN: I mapped every US golf courseI got tired of Googling basic course info, so I made a free directory of every US courseGoogle filters for golf course results are terrible so I built a better way to browse courses using OSM as the backbone.... https://golfcoursebrowser.com/It's a work in progress and mostly US for now, but I want to expand to the rest of North America, the EU, and the rest of the world ASAP.It's free, no ads, no login, no bs. If you spot anything wrong (bad info, a missing course, wrong scorecard), you can flag it right on the course page. I actually read those and fix them.Still a lot of missing info, but I'm filling out more and more each day. The goal is the most complete, and current golf course directory in the world, verified and maintained by actual golfers. I think is attainable in the next few months. The base layer is OpenStreetMap, cross-checked against course websites and enriched with scorecards, USGA rating/slope, and public/private status. User corrections from golfers who know their h
Show HN: Rudoc – a 4.5MB Rust document converterI built Rudoc because I wanted a smaller tool for simple file convertion workflow. (Pandoc was so heavy for me) I once wanted to try Pandoc, but after I downloaded it from GitHub, I found that it is around 70 MB. It also needed a lot of dependencies.Rudoc is not a substitue of Pandoc, it supports limited set of formats (only txt, md, html, typ, docx, pdf, pptx, xml, json) and doesn't support advanced formatting. The most common workflow is just turn a markdown file to a html. PDF generation can work without Typst, but PDF input conversion requires Typst as a backend. It has no other runtime dependencies and can run as a single binary, by the way.It is pretty easy to use, just use the format of rudoc input.file output.file One sample usage is like this: ```powershell rudoc OhPDF_ROADMAP.md.txt r.md [rudoc] OhPDF_ROADMAP.md.txt → r.md (txt→md) [rudoc] done in 52ms (6286 bytes) rudoc r.md r.html [rudoc] r.md → r.html (md→html) [rudoc] done in 4ms (7363 bytes) ```Some complex formats (such
Show HN: Writemark, a dependency free web component for inline Markdown editingI like writing Markdown, but do not like writing it inside a plain textarea.I wanted something I could use anywhere by dropping in a single web component:``````That became Writemark.It renders Markdown while you write, but Markdown remains the value you read, store, and submit. It also has source, split, and preview modes, along with slash commands, tables, task lists, code blocks, native form support, and an API for adding your own controls. There are no runtime dependencies and no required framework or built in toolbar.It is fully vibecoded. The process was very iterative. I knocked something out, tried using it, found bugs, fixed them, and repeated that cycle until I had something I liked writing in and that performed reasonably well.It did not begin as an experiment about AI generated software -- just did not want to use textareas anymore. I like Markdown, and I wanted one component that I could use anywhere without bringing along an entire editor framework.It is still very young.
Show HN: Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast siteThe UK MET office recently redesigned their site, adding a lot of additional whitespace, scrolling, and animations. This significantly reduced its usability for me, and left me wanting an ‘at a glance’ weather site.I made https://brolly.sh, a minimalist, plain text weather forecasting site. You can use it to view weather from around the world, with: 7 day forecast; Previous day log (so you can confirm it definitely was cooler / hotter / wetter / drier yesterday!); Hourly rain, wind, temperature, conditions; Hourly UV, air quality and pollen, including pollen type specific forecasts within the EU / UK; Location search and last 5 locations; Location specific units.I mostly made the site for myself, if anyone else also benefits from it that’s an added advantage.You can check out the weather in York, UK at https://brolly.sh/forecast/RWFP2qW8, or search for a location at https://brolly.shThe site is deliberately styled as a single long scrollable column, to work on mobile phones. You can vi
Show HN: SpinWin – A macOS menu bar app to visually rotate or spin any windowSpinWin is an open source menu bar app to visually rotate any individual window. You can rotate / spin as many as you want one by one.I was scrolling reels when one came on where the content creator suggested "turning the phone upside down" for a portion. I was sitting at my mac, and decided to see if I could find something that did this. To my surprise, nothing exists, so I decided to build it.Turns out macOS doesn't provide any public API to do anything like this, so I wound up using the Accessibility API to move the target window offscreen, where it keeps rendering. Then we capture it's contents with ScreenCaptureKit, and display that on a transparent, borderless overlay window which has a CALayer to rotate it.It's written in Swift, open source, MIT license, and signed/notarized.Have fun - would love to hear your comments.
Tell HN: A.I Labs are headed by people without world manufacturing experienceI have realized - some of the premier american 'a.i' labs are headed by people without manufacturing expertise - of | or how things are made in the real world. I'm not doubting their experience as world class researchers - but the research lab is not the real world - with complex dynamics.all their 'models' are solutions seeking problems. but it doesn't mean the models are not useful for some tasks.before releasing models - they have never stopped to ask - what are we working towards or what are we solving. hence the nonsense benchmarks.it reminds me of a certain quote "if you don't understand a process, you don't know shit".even what they propose as 'a.i' now writes software - shows they think software == lines of code or features. forgetting software is the result out of complicated/simple process of 1 or more individuals talking/compromising on a world view.& probably the only person in 'a.i' who has grip on the world in Yann LeCun.
Ask HN: What happens when we do compress the context in Claude Code?What happens when we do compress the context in claude code? How does the reduce the context with out loosing the details?
Show HN: Smriti: Your Photos, Your MemoriesWith a camera in hand, each one of us is a photographer. We take more photos in a week, than our parents did in a decade. Yet, getting to that one photo that matters has never been more difficult. Cloud based services claim to solve this, but are impractical. They want YOUR photos to be uploaded onto THEIR servers, and want you to pay for it, all for a service you'll perhaps use once a month.So I built Smriti, its a fully offline rust based photoviewer, that lets your browse your memories, all without a single photo leaving the device. People recognition, semantic search, Album suggestions, Memories are all the features baked into the application, so adding your photos gives a better than google photos application.Show can try it from the link given. Its built in Rust Tauri- so compatible for Linux, Mac & Windows. Check out the demo site first to see what Smriti offers.And the best part is, once youre done browsing, take out the drive, and all your memories travel with you. Plug it int
Ask HN: Is neuromorphic computing going to replace traditional AI?I’ve recently learned about neuromorphic computing while thinking about the core inefficiencies of current deep learning.Today AI relies heavily on super-dense layers, continuous computation of all layers and neurons at all times, and global backpropagation to find optimal weight updates. But when you look at the human brain, none of that happens.The brain operates on principles that stand in contrast to modern LLMs:- Local Evolution: Neurons are largely independent, evolving based on their local neighborhood and simple feedback loops like neurotransmitters (e.g., dopamine) rather than a global error signal. - Extreme Sparsity: The system is massively sparse (neurons only evolve and get updated when they have been involved in a firing-chain). - Event-Driven Processing: Neurons are only firing when they get evaluated and are actually triggered by other spiking neurons.In contrast, current LLM‘s seem to me like they brute-force their way through problems by training all layers and neuron
Show HN: The TERSE state language and protocol# Hello World(valid terse; for Show HN)I'm terse(greetings)## Container"A container may have one text block, single or multi-line"Object(Semi-colon separated attributes; variables_like: 123; "Traditional unicode strings allowed here too.")Another object with a name(multiple objects under a container)## Further description of TERSE"""TERSE is a unified way to store state, with a defined way to query and mutate it that has been relentlessly refined for overall simplicity and token efficiency not just at rest, but in operation.We realized state access was a low-level, common pattern that keeps getting reinvented. It goes deeper than just AI memory. Consider that Anthropic memory and others are a bunch of markdown files and in some respects, they got it right... simpler is better.So REALLY the problem is settling on a format that is flexible to cover 95% of a domain. We can do so MUCH better than Markdown; TERSE is opinionated on that but it has very good reasons.By being a line-ordered an
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