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news.ycombinator.com
Google banned our mobile AI agent app for doing what Gemini should do,but doesnthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613614Hi HN,My brother and I built Sova AI (https://ayconic.io/sova), an Android agent that actually controls your installed apps.We were incredibly frustrated with the current state of mobile AI. Built-in assistants like Gemini are deeply integrated into the OS, yet if you ask them to "Order an Uber to the airport" or "Send a Telegram message to friends group I'm late", they mostly just give you web search results or a button to open the app yourself. They don't do the work. (The Perplexity "assistant" is just a browser agent :/ )So, we built an agent that does operate your phone. (NO root, NO adb, NO PC, NO appium/whatever, NO usb, NO browser)How it works: You give Sova a prompt - either voice or text, you can make it a default assistant if you like. Instead of relying on non-existent official app APIs, Sova acts as a virtual human - clicks, scrolls, types etc. It uses the Android Accessibility API to read the screen's UI node tree. About AI models - currently we support main AI cloud prov
Apr 2, 2026 12:35 PM
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How Google makes sure your phones doesn't work without ithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222874Hello HN,I've been playing around with AOSP alot and one thing i noticed is how much android depends on google even if Android itself doesnt need it. Here's everything i found out:1. Forced Integration of GPS (google play services) - This single handedly causes alot of problem to power users because without it almost nothing works.. Even if you use MicroG there's still some server side verifications that it just cannot help with.2. Sideloading Restrictions - Starting in 2026, Google requires developers to submit government IDs, pay fees, and register signing keys to distribute apps via sideloading, effectively blocking independent software distribution on certified devices.3. Ecosystem dependence. I don't need to explain this one at all i think4. Apps literally won't work. Banking apps and any app that uses play integrity will just refuse to work.What made me the most furious was Google locking down opensource apps with unverified devs. This caused an uproar in the open source communit
Aug 8, 2026 3:40 PM
argot.tmonier.com
Show HN: Argot, a Rust AI guardrail based on your codebase AST patternshttps://argot.tmonier.com/We have lots of benchmarks for new frontier LLMs (SWE benchmarks etc) to make them score on the "best code". In large codebase, the best code is the one that matches the codebase own voice and conventions, because that's the mental model of the team.Ingesting a full codebase explicit/implict patterns in an agent windows to make them match the codebase doesnt work: too much context, hallucinations, ...So I built this free/open source project, your codebase is a golden mine of AST code patterns that makes its unique voice, Argot learns them and then allows you to enforce them proactively or defensively.
Aug 3, 2026 12:12 PM
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The Mistake That Cost Me a Yearhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124280last year i was randomly visiting a website and couldnt download a video in hd quality. as a dev, when smoething doesnt work, you think "let's build it." so i started researching and found like 0.2% of these sites actually worked, but full of shitty ads. checked their traffic and got shokced, tens of millions of visits.started building with a regular MEAN stack. i was 17, knew how to code but wasnt experienced, just pushed by those traffic numbers. used yt-dlp as the core scraper along with other fallbacks like youtube-dl and unofficial tiktok apis. by all means i was overengineering, tryign to build a bulletproof system with fallback on fallback. took two months, and by the end changing one line meant touching 15 to 20 files. that's bad code.rewrote it, stripped external deps, used yt-dlp efficiently in node js. still slow, 10 to 15 sec just to fetch info, another 10 to 15 to start download. tried optimizing args and prewarmed pools, still stuck around 9 to 10 sec. obsessed with speed
Jul 31, 2026 3:23 PM
github.com
Show HN: Parse a PDF from your terminal with PaddleOCR-VL-1.6https://github.com/eigenpal/openparserI built OpenParser because I wanted PaddleOCR-VL-1.6 behind an endpoint I could actually use. Now there are open-sourced CLI and TypeScript/Python SDKs:``` npm install -g @openparser/cli openparser auth login openparser parse sync document.pdf ```That is basically it. It doesnt get easier and cheaper that this. Give it a PDF and get back the text and document structure.Repo: https://github.com/eigenpal/openparserI would love feedback from anyone willing to try the CLI and tell me what is still annoying.
Jul 29, 2026 3:20 PM
mapmy.network
Show HN: Visualize your computer's network connections on a 3D globehttps://mapmy.network/Hey all, two days ago I had the idea for a tool that visualizes all the internet connections my computer made. Now its real!Its a simple open source program written in Rust that listens for outbound connections your computer makes, runs traceroutes on each destination, geolocates each hop and renders in on a 3d globe.The tool (network cartographer) works on linux, mac and windows. Feel free to try it out. I tried making it as frictionless as possible.Beaware this is mostly a for-fun and educational tool. It will naturally be inaccurate as it doesnt show the routes the actual packets take, just the way that traceroute did. Its also limited how much data i could find for the geolocalization.
Jul 26, 2026 4:05 PM
termic.dev
Show HN: Termic – desktop app for running CLI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex)https://termic.dev/So, https://termic.dev open source desktop app for managing claude code / codex / agt / etc coding sessions. main checkout or worktrees.Here's the story: a couple of months ago Anthropic announced pricing changes over the programatic use of Claude code (Agent SDK + including -p), i suspected tools like Conductor will stop working.Started building a clone myself, which uses the CLI binaries in PTY terminals as first class citizens, not custom agent sdk. This is the most bulletproof way of always being up to date with latest improvements of the cli agents + and never have this pricing issue again for 3rd party tools, and you get the flexibility of using any CLI agent.That's how https://termic.dev was launched.Also has some pain points with conductor which i adressed in termic: launch in main checkout (doesnt force you into a worktree), sandboxing of agents (filesystem + network), multi-repo projects and agents, and bring-your-own agent CLI.Stack is simple, and i;'ve been obsessing over p
Jul 26, 2026 9:36 AM
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Claude Is Painfulhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48964237I cannot be the only person who feels this way. Claude is antogonistic and frankly an absolute nightmare to use. SLOW is an understatement... I get faster output from a 16GB mac mini using deepseek 8B model....and not much worse output...I ask Gemini something. I get a response in 10 seconds and its long and well detailed. I ask claude, it wastes my tokens talking to itself, makes insulting stupid and frankly rude shortcuts that have no basis in reason except for Anthropics profits...Its unuseable. It will just cough up a half complete reaponse, deciding to strip everything out of value...place nothing useful in, leave half finished files and then worst of all...it doesnt even putput them and leaves them in its own private memory...until you ask for them explocitly and it regenerates rhem again at full cost....its just pure fraud. No further notes. Thoughts?
Jul 19, 2026 1:38 AM
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Ask HN: Recommended technographic API?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48883101Does anyone know of any good technographic APIs? I run a dev consultancy and basically want to know what tech stack they currently use (ie what they use for CI/CD or security), so it can help me prepare when i talk to a prospect. I know Builtwith is the leader in this space but i feel its lacking a bit when it comes to finding tech that isnt front end or JS focused.I’ve tried using the Anthropic API but most of the time it seems to give me hallucinated results (based on the results for companies I know their tech stack)Ideally something that doesnt cost an arm and an leg :)
Jul 12, 2026 6:05 PM
skillburst.ai
Show HN: Git-Backed Skill Sharing for Non Techieshttps://skillburst.ai/blog/why-i-built-skillburst/tldr; Had to build this internally for my company, so decided to spin of as a project. I wanted to use GitHub to back my skills up but sales/marketing doesnt use GitHub, so you need middleware. This app is it.
Jul 8, 2026 4:00 PM
news.ycombinator.com
We need tech news sources which exclude AIhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48713041Its now clear that we need to preserve tech press for non AI related things. Techmeme for example is now completely overrun with AI stories.HN is getting closer to that every day.If AI kickback deals, phony new model ratings, high RAM prices and your surprise at how you think you coded something with AI and it was AMAZING! even though it doesnt work is all there is count me out.We need a filter on existing tech news sites or an alternative press.
Jun 28, 2026 11:49 PM
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Why are there an increasing number of outright unhinged high karma users on HN?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48485429I’ve been noticing this disturbing trend for quite a while. By high karma I mean well over 1000 karma.And some of these leave comments so bizarre, that I can’t find any charitable explanation.Other than perhaps they may be skipping reading every other word or something… and then respond to an imaginary version of the parent.Uncharitably, they could be semi-random keyboard bashing, deranged bashing, emotional tantrums, and so on. Or LLM written… except the style doesnt match.Of course this has always been somewhat prevalent for low karma users, but it’s now creeping up higher and higher.For example, I had a recent bizarre encounter.I had double checked the first 10 pages of google results, in regards to a claim that I implied prior in the comment chain, mentioning that it seemed supportive of the claim.Maybe the novelty of someone doing that, and not just randomly opining, triggered something.Realistically, it didn’t take more than 5 minutes of effort, but still… it would have been 1 to
Jun 11, 2026 2:07 AM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: How often do you code the expected way instead of a better one?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192078Since the post title length is limited on Hacker News, I had to make it less specific. So the real question is this:I am talking about situations where you just joined a company and treated as the lowest person in the food chain. Old devs act like they can do whatever they want, even when they committed the exact same thing or much worse just a month ago, but suddenly you are told not to do it this because "we dont do things like that here.” Finding common patterns in code doesnt help because actual standards live in their heads.It feels like a clear double standard culture, where the rules depend more on time you spend in company or seniority, and internal politics than on actual engineering principles or consistency. As a newbie, you are expected to follow unwritten rules that nobody clearly explains, while old time devs are allowed to ignore them.How do you handle this kind of environment without constantly getting frustrated?Also I dont understand why some devs when just being slig
May 19, 2026 11:46 AM
shop.ball2.ai
Show HN: Ball 2 – Use AI to build fun ball gameshttps://shop.ball2.ai/I wanted to find a way to get kids:- moving- creating- playing with othersIn the end I, and a team of 4 others, built:- a foam ball with a BLE IMU in it (moving/together)- an app that allows you to create almost any game you can imagine with AI (creating)Video of teenagers making a game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7TZXRBybOEVideo that was intended to be for Kickstarter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edy9zew1XN4 (we abandoned kickstarter, long story)For hardware we came up with a pretty awesome custom PCB, based around a Dialog DA14531, that doesnt need any charging for over 500 hours of play. The electronics are encased inside 4.5" diameter of foam. We drove a car over it and it didn't break.For the app, we are using OpenAI Realtime API (gpt-realtime-2025-08-28) to gather the game requirements via conversation. We are using voice/realtime to allow kids to do it without needing to type or read. This piece has a huge dynamic prompt that flows with the conversation. It has about 2
Feb 19, 2026 9:40 PM
tradofire.com
Show HN: Tradofire, a fun way to learn crypto trading risk-freehttps://www.tradofire.com/Hey HN,I have been building this for the last couple years and probably spent way too much time.First I wanted to make an automated trading strategy based on crypto coins breaking support and resistance lines but after writing a whole system and backtesting infra I realized it doesnt work :(So here it is now as an app where you can learn to trade crypto based on these signals. Some key features are1. Real-Time Market Analysis: See when coins break support/resistance levels or suddenly spike.2. Paper Trading with Leverage: Test your trading strategies without risking real money.3. Performance and Leaderboards: See your paper trading performance and compare with others.I dont know honestly if this will ever make any money but just sharing and hoping some folks like it. If you like it please tell me what else I can add.Cheers SumeruPS: The app is iOS only for now (Android can come soon if there is demand)
Feb 21, 2025 7:53 PM
podbear.netlify.app
Show HN: PodBear – A Podcast Search Enginehttps://podbear.netlify.app/Hi all,a few weeks ago I found myself in a situation without anything interesting to listen to. Been through all podcast recommendations from friends and the usual recos from itunes, etc were not cutting it for me. So I build myself a podcast search engine. Based on the data from podcastindex.org and some other available infos.It doesnt (yet) have all available podcasts, only the ones I could find some rating/engagement infos on. But its still around 60k podcasts to discover :)One can search / filter / sort by category, rating, popularity, episodes, language, update date, etc. There is also a very simple full text search that searches through title, description, author, etc.Would love to hear what everybody is thinking! All feedback is welcome!Tech: Postgres + PostgREST backend, Sveltekit frontend.Disclaimer: its still a bit hack-ish currently, so I fully expect things to break somehow :) just post me a note about itHere you go: https://podbear.netlify.app/
Apr 22, 2024 9:00 AM
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Tell HN: Create knowledge silos and haunted forestshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39226068I just want to implore this community, in the wake of mass layoffs and downward salary pressure due to decisions well beyond our control, that you strongly consider not documenting your weird little hack or whatever thing you did off the clock to keep the system running that your boss doesnt even pretend to care about and that should be documented for the next guy to come along.I don’t advocate this lightly. I believe in strong documentation and leaving an environment better than the state in which you found it. However, since we are clearly seen by this current market as replaceable, interchangeable parts - show them you’re not. If you get fired or laid off - open the door for consulting the same company a few years down the road.They need our labor. Do not let them convince you otherwise.
Feb 2, 2024 7:26 AM
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Ask HN: DIY baby cams/monitor(s) with privacy?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36025084Hey HN!We're expecting soon, and I'm seeking the latest advice for setting up a multi-camera system. I'd like it to be secure (cameras should be dumb), always-on (so powered by USB, not battery), some kind of standard protocol (e.g. RTSP), good quality/dynamic range (doesnt need to be 1080p, even 720p is fine). General plan is to have a 1-3 VLANed cameras, preferably with safe/integrated auto-IR mode when dark and integrated mics. I'd like it to be remotely accessible/stream-able via a web ui/webrtc with auth.I have Synology NAS, Asus/OpenWRT router, and an OPNSense device between modem and router.The hardware landscape looks kinda crappy. I wanted to maybe do a camera module [1][2] with Pi Zero 2 W [3] but the latter is unavailable due to supply chain stuff and the former is either USB or lacks a built-in mic. Banana Pi M2 Zero [4] might be an alternative. Most of these modules don't support 5Ghz, but i guess that's fine. Seen some other mentions of open source firmware for Wyze camer
May 21, 2023 10:06 PM