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news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: Does a local, Git-backed LLM "compiler" for personal notes make sense?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48968447Back in 2012, my very first startup was a note-taking and document storage app. Think Evernote meets Google Drive, but with a much faster UI. We managed to claw our way up to 1,800 active users. Then Google announced 25GB of free storage for Drive, and overnight, our business model evaporated. We had to shut down the company.I've been through the startup ringer four times since then. Despite the explosion of knowledge management tools over the last decade, I still manage almost my entire life and todo list in a single Markdown file. I’ve grown to severely distrust SaaS note-taking apps. I don't want my second brain held hostage by a monthly subscription, and I don't want it locked in a proprietary database.I'm thinking about building something new in this space, completely free and open-source, and I want a sanity check to see if anyone actually cares about this approach.The Idea: A lightweight, native desktop and Mac/Windows app that acts as an "LLM compiler" for your local files (ins
Jul 19, 2026 2:20 PM
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How Google decided to Destroy its Search Monopolyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48945074This is a bit of a rant, yet it's one I think is rightly deserved.Over the last several months, Google has exploded with:* extreme delays in rendering search results* popups of captcha + prove you're human, for simple searches* extreme delays in doing anything after hitting enter on searchInstead of taking 100ms or less to return search results, it now takes 5+ seconds, 10+ seconds sometimes. Often with a captcha in between.This 100% isn't me. I've noticed these changes, discussed with others, and it's happening to people across a wide swath of industry, and situations. Co-workers at home. Elderly parents. People at workplaces. The list goes on.This is worst at night, and of course that's when I tend to work the most. It's so bad, that once I see that first captcha, I just switch to Bing. Yes, Bing. Kagi works, but from where I sit its results have been sliding and slipping, sadly. I don't know what they've been focusing on at Kagi recently, but it's not what it once was. Likely, relia
Jul 17, 2026 9:19 AM
bing.com
135 Fall Puns for Anyone Who Loves a Gourd Play on Wordshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a41dd573044a89e97449e2dccdafa&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.today.com%2Flife%2Fholidays%2Ffall-puns-rcna37127&c=12703828960926484312&mkt=en-usFall is the best time of the year. From colorful leaves to pumpkin spice, what’s there not to love? If you agree, then you've probably been dreaming of sweater weather and warm apple cider since you ...
Jul 17, 2026 9:13 AM
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135 Fall Puns for Anyone Who Loves a Gourd Play on Wordshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8b1fadd6a0491eaec78d2fd958e873&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.today.com%2Flife%2Fholidays%2Ffall-puns-rcna37127&c=12703828960926484312&mkt=en-usFall is the best time of the year. From colorful leaves to pumpkin spice, what’s there not to love? If you agree, then you've probably been dreaming of sweater weather and warm apple cider since you ...
Jul 17, 2026 9:13 AM
pokayoke.codes
Show HN: Pokayoke – turn code conventions into checks for agentshttps://pokayoke.codesHey HN,Something I've been tinkering with in the background is a system to manage the "messy-middle" of TypeScript toolchains. Quite often, when I'm using Biome or any of the other linter / formatters, there will be repo conventions that I want to enforce (especially with AI agents), but which aren't supported by them, such as:- Enforcing lines-of-code limits in modules - Never using custom TailWind colors - Only using lowercase underscores in filenamesLike, this is quite "random" but also bread-and-butter stuff that it's easy to think or talk about when you're working by yourself or with a few other human teammates, but I've found that agents consistently miss these conventions if I put them in an AGENTS.md file for example.I wanted to make my esoteric repo conventions less stochastic, and more deterministic. I realised that agents are adept at writing the kind of code needed to run arbitrary checks on the TypeScript AST or workspace environment -- the kind of code that is cumbersome
Jul 16, 2026 9:40 AM
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Thinking: Alternate Distribution for Filmmakershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48931604This idea did not in anyway start with the intention of distribution. In my 20s there were a group of 12 of us, who shared a whatsapp group and every thursday, we had a standing appointment to decide and watch the interesting movie for the week.Over the years as life happens and folks got married, moved, priorities shifted, that ritual that almost lasted a decade fell apart.During the pandemic, given that most of us had a VR headset, we reconnected and started watching movies together - we'd setup a shared stream and would have a google chat going on the side, so that we can hear each other while the movie played.VR has been surprisingly good to recreate that theatrical atmosphere - but the worst bit is sitting in a virtual cinema as the only person. Dimming the lights out (within the virtual environment so that you don't see the empty chairs) and having a video call where we can hear each other on one of the ears, kinda felt a bit like the gang was back together.Even if it hasn't been
Jul 16, 2026 8:06 AM
github.com
Show HN: OtoDock, run Claude Code and Codex as a team of agents on your serverhttps://github.com/OtoDock/oto-dock/Hi HN, i am Dimitris,I have been using Claude Code and Codex agents, for some time now from the beggining i had been using them from inside my terminal mainly for coding.For the past 3 years i kept building so i have a homelab and a business server, which already has a lot of vms, so a lot of things to manage.So i decided to start building my own ideal version of using claude code, and codex flexibly and connect them easily with all my vms and infra but at the same time keep using them for coding, and as a personal assistant for daily use.So for the past months I built OtoDock. Its a self hosted platform, that runs real CLaude code and Codex as the engine. On top of them i build a live dashboard with websockets and integrated in depth the clis, so its even nicer to work with the cli through the dashboard instead of working on the terminal. I even ended up integrating interactive terminals as well (due to the subscription change Anthropic was trying to do for harnesses) so you can also
Jul 15, 2026 4:11 PM
bing.com
OpenAI's First Hardware Product Could Be a Portable AI Smart Speakerhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a895633888e42399a133f9473236eaa&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcmag.com%2Fnews%2Fopenais-first-hardware-product-could-be-a-portable-ai-smart-speaker&c=6990495387604364921&mkt=en-usOpenAI has been tight-lipped about the AI hardware it’s building with former Apple design chief Jony Ive, but a new leak reveals their first product could be a smart home speaker. The speaker is ...
Jul 15, 2026 6:17 AM
science.nasa.gov
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4947-4953: Gale Crater Then and Nowhttps://science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosity-blog-sols-4947-4953-gale-crater-then-and-now/Written by Alex Innanen, Atmospheric Scientist at York University, Toronto Earth planning date: Friday, July 10, 2026 Curiosity had a successful long weekend and came into this week ready to explore some more. We’ve been moving fairly rapidly through different mapped “units,” or distinct geological areas of interest, visiting a different one at each of […]
Jul 15, 2026 5:25 AM
github.com
Show HN: GLP-RAM – Chrome extension reducing the browser memory appetitehttps://github.com/chebykinn/glp-ramHi!I've been struggling to use Chrome on my M1 Mac, because of how much RAM it eats, and memory saver wasn't enough.I've made this extension based on combination of features on multiple separate extensions: 1. When you click on the new tab, only the first tab loads in background, the rest will have a placeholder until you click. 2. Only 3 active tabs per window are allowed to be loaded, the rest will be killed. 3. The extension watches if you have unsaved input, paused or active media, or if the page is configured to send notifications and it keeps these tabs alive.I've been using it for a couple of weeks and it allows me to open way too many tabs to handle :)The extension is published in Chrome Web Store, let me know if you have any questions!
Jul 14, 2026 4:14 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: PhDs, how have you organized your research visits?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48906413Hi HN! Using a throwaway account but looking for advice from people having done research visits as PhD students, especially in terms of funding/accommodation/whether such an experience is worth the cost.I'm a second-year PhD candidate in France, working in NLP. In January I contacted a professor from another university in the Netherlands to ask about a research visit opportunity -- I did this because both my university and hers were part of a funding program for research visits. We had a call and she was very interested in my topic and the potential help I could give for her project (and I'm also very interested in what she's working on).I applied to this funding but my application was rejected because my university told me I should apply to another funding program specific to the university. I did that in March, but things have been going downhill, as the person who is supposed to deal with the applications left, and everything's mostly been on standby since. Thus, I haven't received
Jul 14, 2026 1:19 PM
github.com
Show HN: I MitM'd Plex to make remote streaming suck lesshttps://github.com/inhumantsar/plex-proxy/I've been hoarding media for a long time. Longer than I care to think about honestly. At this point the collection is large enough that several of the friends and family members I've shared my Plex server with have cancelled their streaming service subscriptions.After getting laid off a while back, I started working on a degree online. It seemed like a good opportunity to spend some time traveling too, so I signed up for Starlink and got a friend to host my Plex server in his basement for the duration. Surely that would be good enough to watch whatever from where-ever.Turns out that no, it's not. Plex really doesn't like streaming over Starlink. It would top out at 8-9mbps in good conditions, often dropping down to 2 or 3, while other streams and downloads would happily hum along at 100mbps+.I spent a little time looking into the issue early on. None of the remote or server network changes I could think of made a noticable difference. Customizing Plex's internal MPV configuration to in
Jul 14, 2026 12:25 AM
finterm.ai
Show HN: Finterm.ai Bloomberg terminal for Claude Codehttps://finterm.ai/Hi, my name is Kam, and today my cofounder Josh and I are shipping Finterm, a CLI that gives coding agents direct access to financial data: stock prices, options data, SEC filings, and Ticker Deep Research, a filtered ticker news search. I’m a developer and have been a full-time trader for the past few years.Recently I have been using LLMs more and more in my trading and strategy. I always found it frustrating that Claude Code or GPT did not have direct access to actual financial information and had to rely on web search, so it couldn’t get me more granular numbers for specific options pricing.When making a trade I want to understand as much as possible about the stock. Instead of relying on analysts or interpretations of the data, I like to go directly to the truth. So whenever I have a trade thesis, I break research into a few parts: company research, analyst sentiment, and market sentiment.Last September I had a short thesis on Popmart Labubu's parent company. I was betting the toy
Jul 13, 2026 5:52 PM
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Ask HN: How has the internet devolved in recent years?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48866959I'll start with 10:1. "Verifying you are human" delays/redirects2. Invasive "Sign in with Google[1]" prompts on every website, often taking over the UI3. Phone number based identity so when you change your number you lose your entire savings account and social media and all work access and your whole life is basically F-CKED except your romantic life which is very much NOT F-CKED since nobody knows your number.Never change your number.4. "You will own nothing" gaming where games you thought you owned get yoinked away at the leisure dare I say the PLEASURE of these neocorporate ingrates who want to de-fun (and defund) every lived experience!5. You can join any time you want but you can never delete. Livin it up at the Hotel Social Media. What a nice surprise, livin' someone else's life!6. You have been banished!7. You have been shadow banished (and don't know it)!8. Your content violates our guidelines (hey buddy your guidelines violate my content - WHO NEEDS WHO. GENUINE QUESTION Idk a
Jul 11, 2026 12:04 AM
sxp.studio
Show HN: SubjectiveZero, an open-source agentic node editor for creative codinghttps://sxp.studio/apps/subzHey there,My name is Clem, I've been a solo indie dev for a couple years now, exploring frontier tech like XR and agentic workflows in the context of creative / interactive work.I've been building creation tools for a while and some common design challenge is to figure out the right level of abstraction for your tool. You can always make it super advanced and complex with low level concepts (shader composition, actual code etc.) but then you get something with a high complexity / learning curve. On the other hand, if you make your tool too high level, it might be easier to use at first, but people will most likely hit a wall eventually and start fighting with your tool to get their edge case done (you see that on mobile a lot actually).With this prototype (called SubjectiveZero), I'd like to imagine that we can kind of move the "slider" on the abstraction layer, meaning that you can actually start with prompts that describe the goal, and you can go as high level (stay with abstract pro
Jul 10, 2026 3:23 PM
mojavepaint.app
Show HN: Mojave Paint for macOS, edit images like it's 1999https://mojavepaint.app/We all need a swiss army knife for images. A tool for really getting in there and dealing with the pixels precisely. You might be combining images into a sprite sheet, you might be matting images to squares, cutting out solid backgrounds, re-tinting graphical elements. For a website, a video game, for an app.There's a million photo editors, there's a million design tools, and Mojave Paint can do those things in varying degrees but "graphical asset production" is its first and primary mission.It's cheap! $9.99 (one-time, sad I even have to say that) for the "Pro" version. It's Mac-only, and Apple Silicon Mac at that. Does it look a little like Photoshop 5.5 from the year 1999? Maybe a little but also it's got plenty of its own original ideas. (Blog post on that is forthcoming…)I've always been passionate about image editing tools for the technically-minded so I'm throwing my hat in the ring in that space. And sure GIMP is for the technically-minded but boy is it ugly on the Mac!
Jul 10, 2026 12:29 PM
bing.com
AI SOC Platforms And The Future Of Managed Security Serviceshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89e360db25455596cb72b2c6e15a39&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fcouncils%2Fforbestechcouncil%2F2026%2F07%2F10%2Fai-soc-platforms-and-the-future-of-managed-security-services%2F&c=165880583905600016&mkt=en-usFor the past decade, managed detection and response (MDR) has been the practical answer to a straightforward problem: most organizations cannot staff a security operations center around the clock with ...
Jul 10, 2026 5:00 AM
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I got tired of every .NET HTML-to-PDF library so I built a free one from scratchhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48853670Hi all, I've just open-sourced NetPDF, a project I've been building to scratch an itch that's bugged the .NET community for as long as I can remember, there has never been a genuinely free, high-quality HTML-to-PDF library.Every existing route has a real tradeoff:Headless-browser wrappers (Puppeteer/Playwright/Chromium): huge footprint, a native browser to ship and secure, a process to spawn per render.wkhtmltopdf wrappers: built on an unmaintained engine.Commercial libraries: excellent, but licensed per seat/server."Free" libraries: AGPL (viral copyleft) or a revenue cap that becomes a license fee once you grow.After years of working around this, I decided to build the thing I wanted. NetPDF is a real HTML/CSS layout engine written from scratch in C# - the same category as Prince or WeasyPrint, not "automate a browser."What it isA pure C# / .NET 10 engine that parses HTML + CSS and lays it out itself: block, inline, flexbox, grid, and tables, fragmentation across pages, paged-media (@
Jul 9, 2026 11:14 PM