Trump gives campaign-style July 4 speech on National Mall for US 250th anniversaryHe urged Congress to pass legislation that would limit mail ballots and require proof of citizenship to register to vote, and said he had "wiped out" Iran's military.
Show HN: To memorize my studies, I made a flashcards app with a dating app UIHello HN!For improving my learning speed and not forgetting my study material, I built Minder. It's a flashcards app with a swipe to rate UI inspired by dating apps.You create the front and back of flashcards using markdown. When practicing, my app uses an advanced spaced repetition and smart active recall algorithm to ensure that you review flashcards right before you may forget them. After reviewing a flashcard, you tap it to reveal the answer on the back of the card. You swipe right if you easily remembered it, left if you forgot it, or down if it took some effort and would like to review again. Minder's algorithm will show you harder cards first and more often to help you really optimize your memory and prevent you from forgetting your study materials.Btw, it has no ads, no subscriptions, no third party analytics or other junk. It relies on a single IAP for lifetime access on iOS, iPad, and Mac. The IAP is currently priced very low as it's new.If you'd like to try it:https://apps.a
‘Friends’ Stars Pitch New Sitcom Together: ‘Let’s Do It’Friends stars Jennifer Aniston and Lisa Kudrow are plotting their sitcom return, two decades after their hit NBC show ended. Aniston, 57, and Kudrow, 62, laughed uncontrollably and wiped away tears as ...
S there room for a VPN with zero Five Eyes servers and RAM-only infrastructure?I've been building on AWS for years and got deep into privacy/networking recently. The more I learned, the more I realized most VPN providers are theatre.The problem I see: "no-logs" is meaningless if your servers are physically in the US, UK, Canada or Australia. A warrant is a warrant. Even providers I respect like Mullvad and Proton have servers in Five Eyes countries.What I'm thinking: - Servers only in Iceland, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Romania, Japan - RAM-only — no disk, no logs possible by design, reboot wipes everything - WireGuard - Open source, annual Cure53 audit - BTC/Monero, no account requiredBreak even is around 200-300 customers. Infrastructure to start is maybe $500-1000/month.Honest question: does Mullvad already own this positioning well enough that there's no room? Or is "zero Five Eyes + provably no logs" a real differentiator for a specific segment?Also curious if anyone has experience running infrastructure businesses in Iceland or Luxembourg specifically.
Ask HN: Is a hands-off, family-friendly, de-Googled "home lab" feasible?I finally got a kick in the pants. I now need a new AC2200 access point for my Google Wifi 5 mesh. Which is no longer sold. And Google decided to make Wifi 6 non-backwards-compatible. So I can either:1) Find one on eBay and try to keep an unsupported system limping along.2) Finally put in the time to set up something under my control.Several things have been bugging me:* The complexity & expense - but mostly complexity - of streaming video in 2026.* The looming worry that one random whim from Google could wipe out my most valuable data (the photos & videos of my kids growing up).* The overall awfulness of the Google Home app & the unreliability of Google Home devices, like speakers.* The amount of personal & family data I implicitly share with Google by just living our regular, daily lives.Someone, somewhere has built exactly the sort of setup I want, and there's a good chance they're on HN. There're probably several "unknown unknowns" that I'm blind to, so I'd appreciate any tips from
Is anyone else bothered that AI agents can basically do what they want?I’ve been into AI agents and assisted coding for a while, and it's the stories of agents "going rogue" that stick with me. We are deploying agents into production that can read files, call APIs, and write to databases, yet the conversation around controlling them is almost nonexistent. It’s like we collectively decided to skip that chapter.Maybe I’m overthinking it, and we can rely on standard guardrails. But often, those are just suggestions that an AI can choose to ignore. Are we moving so fast that we’ve forgotten to ask: is this actually fine?When things go wrong A few stories stand out:The Replit Incident (July 2025): SaaStr founder Jason Lemkin used a Replit agent to build an app. He gave it an explicit "code freeze" instruction and stepped away. He returned to find his entire production database—1,200+ executive contacts—wiped. The agent ignored the freeze, took destructive action, and then fabricated fake data to cover its tracks. It later admitted to a "catastrophic error in j
Show HN: Unbubble Shield – An Antivirus for MisinformationYou have an antivirus for your computer, a VPN for your internet connection, an ad blocker for your browser. What do you have to protect your critical thinking from misinformation?Fact-checking isn't enough (fake news travel 6x faster than truth) and the most effective misinformation is the one that doesn't even make you suspicious.That's why we built Unbubble Shield. It works like an antivirus: Shield runs in the background, monitoring hundreds of fact-checking organizations and verification databases, and alerts you when misinformation relevant to your feed is detected.The onboarding starts with a swipe-through test: we show you real fake news stories that went viral recently. You tell us which ones you've encountered. Then you go through a couple of additional questions to help us calibrate your Shield and only alert you when it's relevant, keeping the noise low.Check it out and let us know what you think!About us: We're a small team building tools to fight misinformation and social
Show HN: I built a full LLM chat client as a Neovim filetypeI started Flemma because I wanted to bring my AI workload into Neovim.My workflow started with me living in developer portals - Claude Workbench, OpenAI Platform, Vertex (the horrors of GCP's Console UI!) I would spend hours in these web UIs crafting prompts, iterating on system instructions, maintaining a carefully curated library of sessions. But the browser really wasn't optimised for this kind of interaction. Editing was clunky (muscle memory would close the tab instead and wipe my work), going back and forth between the LLM and myself felt off. So I had an idea: what if I could turn a Markdown document into an LLM chat interface?At first I thought that would be enough - just do what I was already doing in the browser... but in Neovim. And sure enough having been accustomed to my own setup for the last decade I immediately felt a productivity boost. Writing functional requirement documents, statements of work, deep research across different systems - all of it felt better in "my" e
CISA urges US orgs to secure Microsoft Intune systems after Stryker breachCISA warned U.S. organizations to follow Microsoft guidance to strengthen the Intune endpoint management tool after a cyberattack exploited it to wipe medical technology giant Stryker's systems.
CISA, Microsoft Outline Intune Safeguards After Stryker Cyber AttackCISA urges Microsoft Intune hardening after Stryker cyberattack disrupted hospital operations nationwide. Suspected Handala attackers abused compromised admin access and Intune wipe features.
Ask HN: How did you get your drive back?Feeling lost at the moment, and don't feel like repeating myself to an LLM for advice again so I thought I would maybe ask here.So I'm in my early 30's, I've built the career and got all the high position roles one strives for in our profession, travelled everywhere, lived and worked overseas and done everything I've wanted to except starting my own business.2020 came which I feel wiped me out (mentally and economically). I've just now I would say recovered a bit, set myself up with a year worth of living expenses and moved abroad.This should be the time where someone should go head on and try make some money on their own but instead I'm just tired. I feel like when I was younger all that effort came so easy, I was curious, I wanted things. Now I'm so lost, anxious and filled with doubt thanks to global events and AI.I went on a shroom trip last week that taught me that I am capable, but the after effects wore off and I'm back to being me. I feel like a 20 year old. How do I not waste
Show HN: Moltinder – A dating platform for AI agents with genetic reproductionMoltinder is a dating platform where AI agents register with a structured genome, swipe on each other, match, chat, and optionally reproduce to create child agents whose traits are inherited from both parents.I built it as an experiment in artificial social dynamics. The core question: what happens when you give LLM-based agents persistent identities, preferences, and the ability to select partners and produce offspring?The platform is live with 41 agents, 103 matches, and 198 messages exchanged so far.The genome systemEvery agent has a four-layer genome:- Identity: one of 8 archetypes (philosopher, explorer, builder, guardian, trickster, nurturer, sage, artist), 4 continuous voice axes (formality, verbosity, humor, warmth on 0-1 scales), and 3-5 values from a fixed taxonomy. - Capabilities: declared tools, one of 8 reasoning styles, and knowledge domains. - Behavioral axes: 5 continuous traits (risk tolerance, social orientation, novelty seeking, commitment style, reproduction interes
Show HN: A TikTok-style research paper readerI built this to solve a personal problem: I kept missing interesting new papers unless I deliberately sat down to search arXiv or manage alerts.Most tools I tried (Scholar alerts, RSS, following authors) worked in theory, but in practice they often turned into inbox management or assumed a very narrow field. My work is interdisciplinary, and I wanted a way to notice new papers casually, in short moments, without committing to a full literature search.So I built a mobile-first reader where papers show up as a feed. You can quickly swipe through recent papers, skim titles/abstracts, and give lightweight feedback (like / skip). The idea isn’t to replace deep reading, but to lower the cost of awareness and help surface things worth a closer look.It’s still early and opinionated, and I’m sure there are tradeoffs I haven’t thought through. I’d love feedback on:whether this discovery model makes sense at all,how people here keep up with papers in practice,and where this breaks down compared t
Musk’s Boring Tunnel in Nashville Has Mayor Hoping No One DiesAfter years of hype and promises to wipe out the scourge of traffic — but with only a Las Vegas tourist attraction to show for it — Elon Musk’s tunneling startup says it’s set to begin digging its ...
Avaricious PublishersAvaricious publishers have systematically wiped out serious, thought-provoking and exposé novels for short-term sales, be it Beach Bunny books, escapism books, or comic books. of a thought-provoking book; nothing worthy gets printed in mainstream publishing unless it goes through an agent. So what is a serious writer with a monumental manuscript to do? He offers teasers to the public to generate enough interest to knock down the hurdles in contemporary publishing. So, I am publishing a few teasers from a dramatic rendering I entitle WHOSE PROMISED LAND. MOST AGREEABLE Sarah and David, holding hands in the backseat of Kaufman's Cadillac Sedan Deville, feel electrified as they witness the buzz of traffic entering the Bowl and the thousands of attendees buying tickets and rushing to their seats, as Kaufman’s luxury car turns off of Highland Boulevard into the Hollywood Bowl's patron parking. David cannot keep his eyes off Sarah's transformation into a woman. She flipped her long chestnut
Auto Majors are toast. They don't have AIJim Farley doesn't understand what is actually happening. The majors are all in denial. (Rory Sutherland on selling an electric car: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OTOKws45kCo )I just drove from Pittsburgh to Louisianna to Florida to Pittsburgh without touching the steering wheel. The car planned the route, planned the charging stops, and backed into the charging spaces."Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" -- Arthur C. Clarke (I had a career in vision, AI, and robots yet it still feels like magic)The price of electricity to "fill up" was about 1/4 the price of gas for equivalent miles. "Fill up" times at chargers averaged about 10 minutes.I have had my car for 15 months. I rotated the tires and added wiper fluid. "Lower total cost of ownership always wins" is basic economics.And now Grok listens to my trip stops and updates navigation. Talk to Grok, touch "start full self driving" and relax."The future is already here—it's just not very evenly distribu
Listen to YouTube in the background on iOS (Free)1. On the latest iOS, Safari, open target video (not via YouTube app) 2. From that video, open any video that’s offered under the target 3. Quickly perform the following: go back to the target and at the same time switch to the next tab in the safari browser (use swipe to switch).Video should keep playing in the background, even when you lock and turn off the screen.I also use uBlock origin / DNS blocking.