Show HN: A new type of search engineHey guys,I recently launched this experimental search engine and would love the community's feedback!Traditional search engines index every document (webpage) and then match your query to their database of indexed pages.This has worked out great over the last 30 years or so as this process is pretty good for informational search. However, as of late, SEO-optimized content is dominating search results. Even LLM citations (I looked at over 1M of them) are dominated by said SEO-optimized content.So I decided to try something new: Instead of having each webpage get its own index entry, the domain as a whole gets a single entry.The advantages: SEO-optimized content no longer dominates the results and smaller/better fit solutions tend to find their way to the top of the search results.The disadvantanges: This type of search engine does not work well for informational search intent.What I'm looking for right now is a little bit of feedback to know if this approach has any merit. I'd appreciat
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Ask HN: Has anyone solved P2P routing at 100B+ nodes without DHT degradation?The two of us (PhD in Physics and Mathematics and Philosophical Anthropology) have spent many years working on a mathematically protected secret voting system suitable for making socially significant decisions. During the design process, we realized that such a system must be a peer-to-peer network satisfying six absolute requirements. We have not been able to find a single existing protocol or academic paper that simultaneously satisfies more than two of them: First: anonymous user authentication that guarantees the uniqueness of the user's representation in the network (preventing one person from creating multiple accounts) without storing their personal data and without using any external resources, such as certificate authorities or a trusted third party. Second: a network providing such anonymous authentication must be capable of covering all inhabitants of the Earth. Currently that is just over 8 billion people, but this number grows by more than 100 million every year. Moreover,
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Show HN: Freqcast, an Android radio player that finds streams from a website URLHi HN!Not every internet radio station is listed in a directory like Radio Browser. For a lot of them, the only way to actually listen is to dig the stream URL (.mp3/.aac/.m3u8) out of the station's website by hand — and that's before you even find a player that isn't full of ads or locked to its own catalog.Freqcast lets you paste the station's website instead of the stream URL directly. It first checks the Radio Browser catalog, then scans the website itself, discovers a playable stream, verifies that it works, and adds it to your library. In many cases, you never have to hunt for the URL yourself.No ads, no tracking, no account — everything lives locally in the app. Your station list can be exported as JSON, and imported from JSON, OPML, M3U, or PLS.No Play Store listing — grab the APK from Releases. F-Droid submission is in progress.Would genuinely love feedback!
Ask HN: I had Codex and GPT 5.6 Sol running for 12 days, 870k+ LOC. Now what?For the last 2 weeks I have been running Codex + GPT 5.6 Sol Ultra non-stop for almost 13 days, working on a huge extension to my SaaS product / business. It used 502,122,866 tokens and created over 870k new LOC.I have done AI coding of huge features in the range of 50-60k LOC before, which were massive already, we managed to ship them and actually deliver value.I know this sounds borderline ridiculous, but this time I don't know what to do.What are the next steps here? It is obviously impossible to review, but it is almost as impossible to actually test. I had put A LOT of work into planning and the workflows and features were spec'ed very precisely and with lots of care and analysis. So far I have only found cosmetic issues, the entire core of the application seems to be working just fine.I have thought about starting with a user manual / knowledge base for it, to capture the features and have plenty of documentation. But then what? Launch it to production?Have I passed the threshold
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Show HN: Hacker News with AI stories filtered outHi folks,I've noticed that a lot of people here seem exhausted by the amount of AI news on the front page. I shared hcker.news here a year ago and it has since gained a ton of filtering features, including a dedicated AI filter, so I figured I should tell more people about it.The filter works in three passes: 1. Known AI-related keywords and domains are filtered automatically. 2. An agent reviews the remaining articles and removes those it identifies as AI-related. 3. I make the call on uncertain cases. You can also exclude GitHub repos posted to HN that show signs of AI authorship. The filter checks: - Commit messages for agent attribution - Contributors for known coding agents - Repository files for agent instructions and configs No filter will be perfect, but this is as good as it gets. lmk what you think. Cheers.More links:Original Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44075353If you only want AI stories: https://hcker.news/?view=frontpage&ai=includeRSS: https://hcker.news/
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Show HN: Popkorn – A CSS based alternative for Lottie animationsHi all,I’ve been working on this project for a while now and wanted to share it here for feedback and contributions. You can test drive it in the playground at:https://usepopkorn.devI’ve been calling it Popkorn. The idea is to author vector animations, similar to Rive and Lottie, but in a CSS-like language, with interactivity and other modern necessities baked into the format. I’ve stayed true to CSS for the most part, sprinkling on a little custom syntax for things like interactivity.Staying close to CSS gives it good DX, and it turns out to make it very LLM-friendly too. Nearly my entire examples gallery is AI generated. Even cheap models like GLM or DSv4 Flash can one shot whole animations from scratch, no fine-tuning required. There’s a Copilot feature the Playground that will let you bring your own key, or use the MCP to test drive AI features. Do share what you make please!There’s a web player that renders on Canvas or SVG, and a React Native player using Skia. It supports nested
Show HN: Book-skills – Agent Skills distilled from mgmt and programming booksI've been experimenting with Claude Code skills and wondered whether they could be used to encode the frameworks from books I repeatedly apply at work.The result is book-skills, an open-source collection of Claude Code skills where each skill represents a book (The Lean Startup, High Output Management, The Pragmatic Programmer, etc.).The goal isn't to summarize books. It's to make their methodologies executable.For example, after installing the Lean Startup skill, asking Claude something like:> "How should I validate this idea before building it?"is enough for Claude to structure its response around Build-Measure-Learn, MVPs, validated learning, actionable metrics, and pivot/persevere decisions. There's no need to explicitly mention the book or ask Claude to use that framework.Each skill is just a `SKILL.md` file with:- a description containing the concepts that trigger the skill- the actionable ideas from the book- instructions describing how Claude should apply those ideasI'd love fe
Show HN: Driftty – mobile focused web TTYThis one is VERY early, but I've been having a blast building and using it.In the past I've use Termius (which is great), but I've never been thrilled about using it with coding agent CLI's. For typing in specific bash commands, it's fine, but agentic coding is much more verbose. Ideally we could use the phones native speech to text, but this doesn't work on a terminal UI - it needs a real, editable text field so it can insert and revise words as you speak, something a terminal UI can't provide.'driftty' is a layer on top of 'ttyd' and gives you a real input box, letting you use speech to text, or quickly making edits to the text, then sending it to the agent when you're ready.There's also a quick bar rather than a full keyboard, focused on commands and characters that are frequently used - '/' [tab] [shift tab] [enter] [arrow up] [arrow down] etc. - It's also got tmux specific functionality, letting you easily flip between buffers with one click.This started as a quick side project an
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)Please state the location and include REMOTE for remote work, REMOTE (US) or similar if the country is restricted, and ONSITE when remote work is not an option.Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. One post per company. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.Please only post if you are actively filling a position and are committed to replying to applicants.Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.Searchers: try https://nthesis.ai/public/hn-who-is-hiring, https://dheerajck.github.io/hnwhoishiring/, http://nchelluri.github.io/hnjobs/, https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com.Don't miss this other fine thread: Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156682
Show HN: An interactive story about living on IRC in the '90sHi, HN. Long time lurker, first time poster.I'm a long time software engineer, and I started getting really into computers and the internet as a kid in the late 80s and early 90s. I started using IRC and Linux and just fell in love with everything about it.Before 2000 I stopped 'hacking' for several years because I thought I needed to get a real-world life and that only nerds were online. But ironically in the time that I was out of the game, online social networks became "cool" somehow, and every person on the planet developed an online persona.Anyhoo, I created a story about my experiences online (https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/146026/eye-are-see). As I was writing it I kept feeling like man, it would be really awesome to experience this again, so I developed (yes, with AI) a browser-based interactive experience that allows readers to play through the journey.If you were ever on IRC (e.g., DALNet, EFNet, Undernet, etc) or if you're just curious about out what it was like, check it
Show HN: A fast, native, open-source Spotlight search alternativeHey, I want to share an app I made over the weekend called Floodlight. I saw some people complaining about spotlight the other day and I've had the same problems with it for a long time now. So I decided to make a fast spotlight alternative that doesn't switch out the selection under you so you don't open the wrong apps / files.It maintains its own index of apps and the filesystem in process and it ends up being 5-9x faster than mdfind. App search is nearly instantaneous and file search across the entire home directory takes ~100-150ms.I've focused on just replicating spotlight's functionality and don't plan to add more features like workflows or plugins since I personally don't have a use for them. This is really about just having a fast way to search apps and files that works well.https://floodlight.vmg.dev/ https://github.com/vmg-dev/floodlight