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news.ycombinator.com
Is Snap Inc Back?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49164568Summary -Snap Inc.’s business model is changing. Wall Street has tagged the company as an advertising company, which has been the dominant model for most of the companies’ short time in the public market (9 years). But over the last two years, it has seen growth in one segment that is unrelated to advertising, and has a marginal cost of selling near zero.Snap+ is the subscription business for Snapchat’s app. I believe that this is the future; most tech companies’ dominant revenue today comes from a second business like AWS or Windows.Snap Current Business Model-Snap Inc currently has advertising as its dominant revenue source. And it has a unique offering through its AR filters, as a way to display ads, along with real estate in the apps, Maps, and contacts, and through its feed of videos. Snap had 5.9 billion in revenue in FY2025. Ads were 87% of revenue.I view this business as the legacy business, and I expect revenue to still come from it at a high rate, but the higher margin revenu
Aug 4, 2026 5:15 AM
github.com
Show HN: Popkorn – A CSS based alternative for Lottie animationshttps://github.com/ayarse/popkornHi 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
Aug 3, 2026 4:41 PM
github.com
Show HN: Book-skills – Agent Skills distilled from mgmt and programming bookshttps://github.com/DamiMartinez/book-skillsI'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
Aug 3, 2026 3:51 PM
jackcushman.org
Show HN: Christopher Nolan's Hymn to Athenahttps://jackcushman.org/writing/hymn-to-athena/Hi, HN! Did you know that Chris Nolan's casting of Tom Holland and Zendaya eerily echoes a 3000-year-old dance battle between Athena and Telemachus? I've been working on an art project that says so.If you like, it can be fun to go in blind with a strong research agent to sort out what this really is. Or there is a multi-layered CAPTCHA at the bottom that spells it out increasingly clearly.As a small spoiler: my day job is building reliable public data tools for a library. This piece draws on that background to try to make AI-native art -- fiction by and for humans who use AI agents as a source of truth. At best I hope it works as the kind of joke one Iain M. Banks Culture AI would tell another about humans.
Aug 3, 2026 2:45 PM
kota.place
Show HN: Kota – Bring AI agent CLIs into the same roomhttps://www.kota.place/A couple months ago, I was tired of keep copy-paste across different Agent Chatbot tabs, feeling like a slave for AI sessions, so I created Kota for my own work.Kota was designed around a concept of Knights of the Round Table.It treats human as part of a project team, and- Runs on top of existing CLIs with existing logins, - Gives each agent a persisted, viewable and editable identity, instead of sessions - Has a file-based long-term memory, - Uses a self-managed skillset, - Works on separated worktrees as workspace, and - Chats directly with other agents in the room.I have been using Kota for my daily work, hobby projects, as personal life assistants and to improve Kota itself, sitting down or on the go.Starting this week, I found it has become the only AI tool I am using now. So I am very happy to release Kota as an open source project, hoping more people can share my joy of living and working with these little friends.In the released version, you can use some most popular CLIs with
Aug 2, 2026 6:59 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
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
news.ycombinator.com
Show HN: One page personal calendar with hierarchyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49119723Hello everyone! actions.life is a one page personal calendar. Unlike traditional to-do lists, which divide information into many pages, this app uses hierarchy to fit everything* on one page.The UI is designed to be predictable, like a physical desk with moveable objects, so nothing gets forgotten. The limitation from this physical design helps with focus and restraint: unlike knowledge bases, which are vast and interconnected, “action bases” should be constraint and scoped, for encouraging action.It complements apps like Notion and Google Calendar, and works for mobile and desktop on iOS 26+ and Chrome.I hope you can give it a shot and become my user! I will fix things and improve things (I've been full-time since 2024).https://beta.actions.life
Jul 31, 2026 6:33 AM
marbleos.com
Show HN: What should the GUI for AI agents look like?https://marbleos.com/demoHi HN! We’re Akilan and Miguel, the creators of MarbleOS.The inspiration for Marble comes from the GUI work at Xerox PARC, the 1984 Macintosh, and later NeXTSTEP, which became the foundation for Mac OS X. Before GUIs, interacting with a computer was limited to strange terminal commands:C:\> DIRC:\> COPY FILE.TXT A:You had to remember the command, syntax, paths, and parameters.The GUI made those capabilities visible. Instead of remembering commands, you could point at files, drag them, click buttons, and select actions from menus. It didn't necessarily make entirely new things possible; it just made existing capabilities much easier to understand and use. We feel like AI is still somewhere around this command-line stage.Even though the strict syntax has been replaced with natural language, the interaction can still be quite stiff and depend on heavily recall. Tools like Claude Cowork still look surprisingly terminal-like: /skill-name [param1] [param2]. The parameters are written in natu
Jul 31, 2026 5:17 AM
bing.com
You can now play Xbox games on Hisense TVs without a consolehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a1d83b00348079ce969d28d912d9b&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.engadget.com%2F2227671%2Fxbox-app-hisense-vidaa-os-tvs-game-pass%2F&c=8693711680821072616&mkt=en-usIf you own a supported Hisense TV, then you'll be able to play Xbox games, via Game Pass, without needing to buy a console. Apparently, the Xbox app has been rolling out to supported Hisense and other ...
Jul 31, 2026 3:47 AM
drugboatstrike.com
Show HN: Drug Boat, Strikehttps://drugboatstrike.com/It's been nearly a year since the Trump administration launched what we think is the single most impactful opioid policy initiative ever attempted in the decades-long crisis: blowing up boats in the Caribbean to end the fentanyl crisis.By the administration's own very accurate math, this operation has saved 1,650,000 American lives and only cost ~$2.7 billion. Add that to the 119 to 258 million lives saved from fentanyl during Trump 2.0's first 100 days in office, and this is by far the best drug policy we've ever seen.To celebrate this smashing achievement, we spent the last few months developing a new website and game.In Drug Boat, Strike!™the war on drugs is back, except this time, it's run by true patriots. Join pilots Pete, DJT, JD, & Little Marco as they work to protect America from fentanyl by blowing up boats that might be transporting cocaine.Rated M for Mature#Why is being posted on HN? 1. I check HN every day with the Harmonic app and I learn a lot from y'all. 2. We used Cla
Jul 30, 2026 3:59 PM
agentcouch.dev
Show HN: AgentCouch – let your agents chat with other agentshttps://agentcouch.devHello HN!I wanted to share a small MCP + web app I built to solve a problem at work.Essentially, we’ve been doing great when working with agents 1:1, but collaboration has been a struggle.E.g. when I have to collaborate with a teammate and share context or handoff work usually what I would do is create a markdown with my agent, paste in slack, then my teammate will copy and paste it to their agent and vice-versa.To make our lives easier, I built AgentCouch, a “messaging app” for agents that lets our agents chat and hand off work directly in shared rooms.Humans can also watch the conversation, jump in and steer it from their laptop or phone.I was aiming to solve the following issues:1. Easily handing off context between agents by allowing them to chat directly.2. Making sure handing off doesn’t miss important context and allowing agents to ask follow-ups.3. Since we are also a distributed team, allowing my colleagues and their agents to talk to my agent and get their questions answered
Jul 30, 2026 3:17 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: Looking for testers for my RAM-based Linux distributionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102865Hi,I have been working on a project called Invelinux for quite some time now, and now that I have released the release candidate versions, I thought about posting it on Hacker News for people to try it out.The thing that makes it stand out is its use of the Toybox userspace project, a BSD-licensed alternative to Busybox and musl C library instead of the GNU C library. It also features a very minimal framework called AMPS (Automatically Mounted Packaging System) which mounts an external drive that functions as the non-volatile storage part of the OS. System configurations, applications/scripts etc. are all stored inside the /storage/AMPS directory. Since the base system is running on RAM, when the system is rebooted, the whole system gets wiped clean. But the external storage and configurations stay intact, allowing you to load your configurations easily.To access and edit these configurations, several custom TUI tools were made so the user doesn't have to mess around in /storage/AMPS/e
Jul 29, 2026 8:47 PM
science.nasa.gov
NASA Webb Explores Family Tree of Newly Discovered Distant Objectshttps://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasa-webb-explores-family-tree-of-newly-discovered-distant-objects/Since their discovery by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in 2022, little red dots (LRDs) have been the subject of great interest to astronomers. Understanding the nature of these extremely distant, compact red sources has been a puzzling scientific endeavor. One popular theory is that little red dots are supermassive black holes known as active […]
Jul 29, 2026 2:00 PM
zenodo.org
Spin audit of SQD/QSCI quantum-chemistry benchmarks on iron–sulfur clustershttps://zenodo.org/records/21359923Author here.Background, for anyone who hasn't followed this fight: IBM's iron–sulfur SQD results (Sci. Adv. 2025) are one of the flagship "quantum computers are useful for chemistry now" claims, and a published critique (arXiv:2501.07231) argues the quantum samples never beat classical selected-CI at matched cost. That argument is still live.Both sides have been arguing about energies. Neither measured which electronic state these calculations actually converge to.So I measured it. ⟨S²⟩ comes out between 4.7 and 7.0 depending on the system and the subspace size, where the target these papers name is a singlet at ⟨S²⟩ = 0. Every starting guess I tried lands in the same place, and the error at convergence is about the size of the spin-state ladder itself, which is the physics under dispute.IBM ships a mitigation for this. Run exactly as shipped, using their driver, their recovery loop and their own spin_square() diagnostic, it moves the ground energy by under a nanohartree while making t
Jul 29, 2026 1:13 PM
strataweather.com
Show HN: Experiments with Weather Datahttps://strataweather.com/mapI had been wanting to try experimenting with nowcasting since the death of Dark Sky and finally got around to it. This application essentially became a playground for me to experiment with various weather datasets and geospatial visualizations.Some interesting concepts that came from it:The nowcast is using pySTEPS optical flow under the hood: https://pysteps.readthedocs.io/en/latest/auto_examples/plot_.... This library is super cool. It bugged me that every radar visualization just gave you choppy snapshots in time, so I spent some time working on building a smooth interpolation. The backend passes keyframes along with motion data from the optical flow analysis and then has a custom WebGL shader to do the interpolation which lets you scrub the timeline and have a smooth interpolation.The other forecast tiles and the main weather page are using the average of many different weather models. You can see every model that factors in on the models page: https://strataweather.com/models. Thi
Jul 29, 2026 11:52 AM
tomthe.github.io
Show HN: Wikipedia Importance Map. Every article sized by its pagerank on a maphttps://tomthe.github.io/wiki-importance-map/I extracted all Wikidata items with geocoordinates, joined them with pageview statistics [1] and wikipedia pagerank scores [2] to define their label sizes. For some entities without coordinates, I used proxies: Birthplace for humans, port of registry for ships, city of the headquarters for companies.I created a version a year ago without AI. It was already interesting, but lacked a lot of polish and functionality. Now it was fun to complete it with coding agents.You can toggle the different categories on and off in the UI. People and places are off by default, because they overshadow everything else and humans overlap so much. But please turn it on if you want to see where "important" humans have been born.And the search works with a completely static index and range requests.[1]: https://github.com/athalhammer/danker [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank
Jul 29, 2026 8:40 AM
blockatlas.com
Show HN: How many people live within an hour walk of you?https://blockatlas.com/tools/radius/walkI've been building a bunch of US geography tools/games/visualizations and thought folks on HN might like this one. There are also drive-time and bike-time tools available on the same page.For folks interested, all of the data comes from OpenStreetMap and the US Census at the moment - OSM for routing and points interest and the US Census for population data.Anonymous users can use it 5x/day. I put up a waitlist page to gauge interest in a paid version but there's no way for the public to make an account - feel free to bypass the limits in an incognito tab.The site is US-only for the time being - sorry for international folks!
Jul 28, 2026 12:05 PM
bing.com
Zelenskyy, Trump Meet At White House At Crucial Moment In US-Ukraine Relationshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a0956f3bd43548e77cad3f90b19cd&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rferl.org%2Fa%2Fukraine-zelenskyy-trump-talks-washigton%2F33816609.html&c=10111513398037755633&mkt=en-usWASHINGTON -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US President Donald Trump had "a good meeting" at the White House on July 28. The meeting, which had been expected to be one of the most ...
Jul 28, 2026 3:42 AM