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news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: What Is Stripe Today?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49150707I think Stripe’s internal strategy is a consolidation of products within its sector. Similar across other industries, such as cybersecurity, where I think Cloudflare is attempting to do the same. The broader idea is clearly enterprise consolidation. I think now is the correct period in the technology cycle for such consolidation.The influx of many enterprise companies was due to the advent from on premise computing/storage to the cloud, lowering the barrier to creating new companies. Hence, it was somewhat possible to create “Niche” enterprise businesses, such as a Dropbox or an Intercom. These businesses were able to create sustainable recurring profits because of a business model boom and customer captivity in terms of enterprise switching costs. Hence, none of these businesses are disappearing and should remain stable companies for a long time. There is a broader move to add company-adjacent products to further entrench customers and somewhat diversify from a core business.As costs
Aug 3, 2026 2:55 AM
bing.com
Best Auto Refinance Loans for August 2026http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d5b305ff642a2981ce56bcc3bdd25&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.investopedia.com%2Fthe-best-auto-refinance-loans-11703048&c=16387087739838985062&mkt=en-usRefinance your auto loan to start saving money. Investopedia found Happen Bank to offer the best auto refinance loans, with low rates and accommodating terms.
Aug 3, 2026 2:31 AM
dmerullo.github.io
Show HN: Project ESPAÑOL: Find level-appropriate Spanish-language poemshttps://dmerullo.github.io/project-espanol/I made this application while taking Spanish lessons to find texts that used verb forms I was learning (present, past, future, subjunctive, etc.). First, I scraped ~10,000 Spanish-language poems from the web that are in the public domain. Then, I built a conjugation dictionary for the 550+ most common verbs, using rules to generate regular verbs, and scraping irregular verbs from the web. From this alone, you can identify which poems contain the most type of verbs you're trying to target. To take it further, I used a k-means clustering algorithm in Python to classify the poems into four difficulty levels based on verb form frequencies (poems with lots of verbs in subjunctive future perfect are more difficult than only present tense, for example).I first completed the project in December 2024, almost entirely by hand, using LLMs primarily to make an interactive Plotly Dash application. (I have a lot of experience with data visualization, especially ggplot2; that was my first time using
Aug 3, 2026 1:12 AM
bing.com
What ETF flows can—and can’t—tell you about market rotationhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d164c3ca647e6a4ccf60358748e04&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fmoney%2Finvestment%2Fwhat-etf-flows-can-and-can-t-tell-you-about-market-rotation%2Far-AA29hwmK&c=17321098991447925700&mkt=en-usETF flows show where investors are adding or pulling money, but they do not directly predict future returns. Flows can help confirm market rotation when they line up with price action, earnings trends ...
Aug 3, 2026 1:05 AM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: What's Next for LLMs?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149599I've been using DeepSeek v4 flash for guided agent workflows (in-IDE, prompt/review diffs) and have found no noticeable benefit to using Haiku, Opus, Sonnet in this workflow.For around a dollar a day, I am able to more than double my own productivity. What are the frontier models for/what are they trying to solve?Are they designed to one shot applications? Is the expectation that we want to be able to "yolo" prompt LLMs and have them complete work unsupervised?
Aug 2, 2026 11:51 PM
ssp.sh
Show HN: My public second brain – 660 notes, 15 years, open sourcehttps://www.ssp.sh/brain/Author here. ~660 notes published from a private Obsidian vault of 8,360 (3M words). Started in OneNote around 2011, moved to Obsidian in 2021 [1], imported everything with a Python script [2].Notes are compounding over time, and that is where my writing comes from. The Semantic Layer note started in 2022, became a four-part blog series, then a chapter of my book. Materialized Views, One Big Table, dbt and OLAP were separate notes written years apart. I only later noticed they were the same pattern, and that became another chapter.Publishing: add #publish to a note, run `make deploy`. Quartz + Hugo, rsync to my own server [3]. Code [4]. Semantic search over the graph [5].[1] https://www.ssp.sh/blog/how-to-take-notes-in-2021/ [2] https://www.ssp.sh/blog/how-to-take-notes-in-2021/#how-did-i... [3] https://www.ssp.sh/brain/public-second-brain-with-quartz/ [4] https://github.com/sspaeti/second-brain-public [5] https://explore.ssp.sh
Aug 2, 2026 7:42 PM
markojs-tutorial.netlify.app
Show HN: An interactive in-browser tutorial for MarkoJS V6 with solvable lessonshttps://markojs-tutorial.netlify.app/Hello!Sharing a recent work of mine.This is an interactive in-browser tutorial for MarkoJS v6 illustrating concepts, patterns, tooling, integrations.It contains 100+ solvable lessons & is built with tutorialKit (powered by StackBlitz webcontainers API)(its hosted on Netlify under the 300 free credits)If you're looking to get into Marko but were looking for the best possible way, this is the moment to demystify it.100+ lessons illustrating concepts and advanced patterns like out-of-order streaming, resumability, compile-time reactivity, 0KB of JS when there is no client interactivity & Marko's new meta framework @marko/run.It also introduces App Federation - a new take on microfrontends by Marko. As a bonus, it includes a number of examples and the hackernews demo too.With fine grained bundling, fine grained reactivity, blazing fast SSR, a runtime size of 8KB GZ Marko is one of the most compelling frameworks!Take a look & give it an upvote !URL: https://markojs-tutorial.netlify.app/ Rep
Aug 2, 2026 6:20 PM
penkovsky.github.io
Show HN: EvoChess – start with 8 pawns, evolve your armyhttps://penkovsky.github.io/evochess/This chess variant's theme is evolution. One morning in early 2016 I woke up with an idea: what if chess were built around promotion? Eventually, this resulted in the following game:It plays like chess, but you start with only pawns and a king. Pawns can be promoted to bishops or knights, while those minor pieces can be promoted to rooks. Their promotion rights accumulate (every three pawn moves, pawn promotion right; every three minor piece moves, minor piece to rook right). Rooks are transformed to a knight or a bishop on the rook's fifth move.Recently, I built a playable version. The AI opponent works on phone with no internet. The search engine uses a lightweight neural net. The engine was first weak and my friends complained about it.So I have spent quite some time to train a better NN for the board evaluation. Fixed some bugs in search. And I have even designed a "Fun" mode where the AI opponent is thinking while you are thinking. (WARNING: "Fun" mode is ruthlessly draining the b
Aug 2, 2026 6:06 PM
lingolingo.app
Show HN: YouTube Videos Matched to Duolingo Unitshttps://lingolingo.app/french-course-companion/section/1/unit/1Hi HN,I wanted to once again share my app that takes YouTube videos and turns them into little language lessons: https://lingolingo.app/Recently I've been getting back into learning French using Duolingo, and I had this idea of matching videos from the app's collection to Duolingo lessons.The matched videos are either instructional videos about the unit's grammar ("Learn to use ou and et") or cover the same vocabulary/setting ("Order at a café").Example flow for Duolingo lesson 1, unit 1:1. Finish the Duolingo lesson ("Order at a café")2. Pick one of the candidate videos matched to that unit: https://lingolingo.app/french-course-companion/section/1/uni...3. Paste the code in the app4. Get exercises while watching the video, tailored to that Duolingo unit.In the app there's a toggle to automatically jump between exercises, if you just want to watch the relevant parts. Or watch the whole video for full immersion and comprehensible input, even if you won't necessarily understand everythin
Aug 2, 2026 5:46 PM
bing.com
Here’s How Much $5,000 Earns in a HYSA vs. a Regular Savings Account After 1 Yearhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d557b9c9e470fb3e41a3dda64437d&url=https%3A%2F%2F247wallst.com%2Fpersonal-finance%2Fsavings-accounts%2F2026%2F08%2F01%2Fheres-how-much-5000-earns-in-a-hysa-vs-a-regular-savings-account-after-1-year%2F&c=14896406458572104179&mkt=en-usA $5,000 balance earns roughly $1 at a big bank versus $200 in a competitive HYSA at 4% APY over one year. $10,000 left in a 4% HYSA for a decade grows to ~$14,800, generating over $4,400 in pure ...
Aug 2, 2026 5:35 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Show HN: LLM Tools that I made that I cant live withouthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49146317Hello HN ..I am posting here because I have made this bad ass thing. I want to be clear. I'm trying to make somthing worthy of people buying it and getting good value, I have not really shown it off or had anyone look at my site past the occasional web crawler, and I did 100% make this. Its called 0verload and the things it does, I will now list. Automatcially tracks versions on all your source code. It dosnt replace GIT, its for the saves you do between checkins...that one version you should have saved .it does..automatically. even oob writes get a version. I cant live with out it... somthing about telling my llm ....get me that thing I wrote like 2 days ago or a week ago or whenever.you can just tell the llm kinda where when and it will go get it and merge it in....I have files with hundreds of versions and you would think it would be annoying but if you have an llm ...I ship claude skills with it so it wakes up knowing how to use it, AND that brings me to somthing else it does.. I i
Aug 2, 2026 5:13 PM
github.com
Show HN: TFStudio – open-source design and optimization for optical thin filmshttps://github.com/aai2k/TFStudioHi HN. I'm an optical engineer, and TFStudio is a free optical thin-film coating design app.Thin-film coatings are widely used for optics - lenses, mirrors, beamsplitters and more. Designing a coating is an inverse problem: given a target reflectance/transmittance spectrum one must find materials and thicknesses for thin layers to produce it. There's no closed form, so it's a numerical optimization task.The market is currently dominated by proprietary software like OptiLayer, FilmStar or TFCalc. They cost thousands of dollars per seat, which puts them out of reach if you're a student, work in a small lab, or are just interested in the subject.TFStudio is open-source and the code is MIT-licensed. Linux and Windows builds are available (no macOS build yet).Features:- Computing R, T, A values via transfer-matrix method (TMM) at any incidence angle, for absorbing and dispersive materials, both s- and p-polarization- Full-system modeling: front coating, substrate (with absorption), and back
Aug 2, 2026 4:27 PM
github.com
Show HN: Turn a Nintendo Joy-Con into a Codex Micro Alternativehttps://github.com/Jinjiang/joy-con-codex-microHi HN,I built Joy-Con Codex Controller, a bring-your-own-controller alternative to Codex Micro for macOS.It turns an already paired Nintendo Switch Joy-Con into a one-handed physical controller for Codex. You also need a mic which most Macs already have. The default mappings cover common actions such as switching chats, creating or closing a chat, navigating panels, confirming or cancelling, and holding a button for voice dictation.The controller has two shortcut layers: pressing a button directly triggers the primary action, while holding ZL or ZR activates an Fn layer. Every mapping is configurable, and profiles can be imported or exported as JSON.This is an early release, and I’d especially appreciate feedback about the default mappings, different left/right Joy-Con models, and macOS compatibility.Source and installation details: https://github.com/Jinjiang/joy-con-codex-micro
Aug 2, 2026 2:57 PM
marnetto.net
Show HN: A mod for Grand Prix Circuit (DSI/Accolade, 1988)https://marnetto.net/projects/grand-prix-circuitHello HN,I have built a mod for Grand Prix Circuit, an old 2.5D racing game: the latest episode of a long series of community efforts to reverse-engineer and improve the games made by Distinctive Software (today's EA Vancouver) in the DOS era.I've been dabbling in hacking old DOS games for almost two years, but this time I think my project is big enough to be worthy of a “Show HN“.From the gaming point of view, the mod offers a variety of new cars and tracks, from Spa to the Space, and more sophisticated EGA backgrounds than the original game.From the technical point of view, it was an interesting effort combining reverse engineering, development, design and pixel art, all of which both in classic and LLM-assisted variants.From the literary point of view, I have documented the making of the game in a series of (fully human-written) posts [1]. There is something for everyone: war stories, hacking techniques, the word “boustrophedonic” and, as bonus, an outdoor game to keep your kids awa
Aug 2, 2026 2:40 PM
bing.com
The Best Cheap Desktop PCs for 2026http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d6bf8088e462891989763eb2d4b08&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcmag.com%2Fpicks%2Fthe-best-budget-desktop-computers&c=9714441214001531242&mkt=en-usYou don't need to spend four figures to get a reliable home PC—many of our budget desktop favorites are under $600. Check out our top labs-tested picks among conventional towers, mini PCs, all-in-ones ...
Aug 2, 2026 1:00 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: When will the AI version of 911 happen?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49144182Whether the government/other 'friendly' entities were behind, coordinated, or were oblivious to the 911 attacks, they enjoyed what 911 allowed them to do (be completely free of the limits of the Constitution on their treatment of everyone) to not want to do it again.It lasted 25 years, which might be surprising, that Americans would give up their American-ness for that long, but they were 'patriotic' enough to accept just a single approval by Congress of a super-Unconstitutional muddy Act on a long-term basis.It seems the authority of the Act is waning now.The new model is AI. The threat of escaped or rouge AIs, the use by citizens of AI. A new 911-like thing would likely be in the shape of some AI event as appalling as 911.When?
Aug 2, 2026 12:57 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Best way to avoid bloat and AI – selfcontaining OShttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49143571I wanted an OS that I could truly own. Most modern systems have become server-controlled clients, bloated with dependencies (Gtk4/Qt/Rust/Wayland) and centralized source control on GitHub. If you cannot audit the dependency tree and Big Corp controls the source, it is no longer real open source.I built OneManBSD to address this. It is an OpenBSD-based system built on a single 2012 ThinkPad L430.Project Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wHaoQhXOYY Project Page: https://bialamusic.com/onemanBSD/
Aug 2, 2026 11:47 AM
news.ycombinator.com
What is the downside of coaching that I may not be seeing yet?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49143243Hi everyone!TL;DR: I genuinely enjoy every coaching session I run, and I believe my mentees find them incredibly valuable. However, I’m still curious about one thing: what is the downside of coaching that I may not be seeing yet?As an experienced software engineer (still working full-time), I started mentoring to share my own experiences—the good, the bad, and the challenges people may face in a professional environment. More importantly, I help people improve their presence within their organizations so that their work and contributions become more visible.I genuinely love every coaching session, and I’m grateful to all of my mentees for openly sharing their stories and challenges.One day, after finishing a session, I asked myself:If what I’m doing is genuinely valuable for both my mentees and myself, what are the downsides of coaching that I might not be able to foresee at this stage?At the moment, coaching feels like a second hobby that also happens to generate some extra income on
Aug 2, 2026 10:58 AM
d2ykijtrvb890q.cloudfront.net
Show HN: Vein, a minimalist open-source resource management gamehttps://d2ykijtrvb890q.cloudfront.net/Recently I've been working on Vein, a small open-source resource management game built with Godot.I've always loved resource management board games, and I wanted to see how minimal I could make one. The core idea is simple: keep the heart beating by supplying it with the resources it demands. I tried to strip the mechanics down as much as possible while still leaving room for interesting decisions, and I added a short tutorial to help players get started.The problem is that I still don't feel like I've found the right gameplay loop. It works, but it isn't yet the game I imagined. I'd really appreciate any feedback—whether it's about the mechanics, pacing, tutorial, UI, or anything else that stands out. I'm especially interested in ideas for making the core loop deeper without making the game more complicated.Most of the development was done with Claude Sonnet as a coding partner, while I focused on the design, gameplay, and iteration. The game engine is Godot.You can play it here: http
Aug 2, 2026 9:44 AM
getbor.dev
Show HN: Bor – Open-source policy management for Linux desktopshttps://getbor.dev/blog/2026-08-02-bor-v080-release/Hi HN! I've been working on Bor, an open-source system for centralized Linux desktop management.Bor consists of a lightweight Go agent and a central server. Policies are streamed to clients over mTLS/gRPC in real time—no polling—and currently support Firefox, Chrome, KDE, dconf, polkit and package management, with more coming.Version 0.8 introduces several new policy types - Thunderbird, Microsoft Edge for Business and FirewallD zones, along with a number of improvements and fixes.I'd love feedback on the architecture, policy model, and whether this is something you'd consider for managing Linux workstations.
Aug 2, 2026 9:06 AM