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Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi is free after judge orders his release 30 by zzzeek | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Reversible computing with mechanical links and pivots 12 by tennysont | 1 comments on Hacker News.

NotebookLM Audio Overviews are now available in over 50 languages 55 by saikatsg | 21 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: 1.2 users a day to keep the 9–5 away 4 by dmasiii | 1 comments on Hacker News. In my long career as an “almost digital entrepreneur” (a fancy way to say I’ve tried a thousand things online without making a single cent), I never really felt that “this is it, I’m so close, I’ll finally quit everything and update my passport: job title? SaaS founder.” (Small detail: I don’t even have a passport. But I like to imagine that if I did, I’d want something cooler than “unemployed creative” written on it). For years, I collected side projects, hobbies, half-dead MVPs, and random nonsense, all with the same ending: super hyped at the beginning, burned out in the middle, completely abandoned by the end. But a couple years ago, I decided to take things more seriously (well… I try). I started building SaaS products. Simple, fast stuff, nothing too fancy. And finally, after a long toxic relationship with perfectionism, I realized something super basic but actually powerful: I don’t need t...

ART·E: how we built an email research agent that beats o3 3 by kcorbitt | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Beatsync – perfect audio sync across multiple devices 34 by freemanjiang | 15 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN! I made Beatsync, an open-source browser-based audio player that syncs audio with millisecond-level accuracy across many devices. Try it live right now: https://ift.tt/xYE9JOH The idea is that with no additional hardware, you can turn any group of devices into a full surround sound system. MacBook speakers are particularly good. Inspired by Network Time Protocol (NTP), I do clock synchronization over websockets and use the Web Audio API to keep audio latency under a few ms. You can also drag devices around a virtual grid to simulate spatial audio — it changes the volume of each device depending on its distance to a virtual listening source! I've been working on this project for the past couple of weeks. Would love to hear your thoughts and ideas!

I made my AI think harder by making it argue with itself. It works stupidly well 84 by miles | 31 comments on Hacker News.

Why Momentum Works (2017) 8 by vector_spaces | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Generating Mazes with Inductive Graphs (2017) 6 by todsacerdoti | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Is Outbound Going to Die? 11 by whoami_nr | 1 comments on Hacker News.

The Side Hustle From Hell 108 by jakey_bakey | 44 comments on Hacker News.

DMCA Notices Can Silence Critics but Complaints by the Public Put All at Risk 16 by hn_acker | 0 comments on Hacker News.

What's the Deal with Autism Rates? 39 by paulpauper | 18 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Logchef – Schema-agnostic log viewer for ClickHouse 8 by mr-karan | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN! I’m Karan, creator of Logchef ( https://logchef.app ), an open-source log viewer built specifically for exploring logs stored in ClickHouse. This tool grew directly out of my $day job managing massive log volumes. Like many orgs, we migrated our log workloads to ClickHouse for its performance, but found the ecosystem lacked dedicated UI tooling for actually browsing and analyzing those logs effectively. We were using Metabase, and while great for general BI, it wasn't designed for log exploration workflows. Common pain points included: - Clunky Ad-hoc Querying: Writing/modifying raw ClickHouse SQL for quick checks was slow and error-prone, especially during incidents. - Disconnect Between Viz & Raw Logs: Visualizing trends (like error counts) then drilling down to the specific raw logs often required separate, complex queries and wrestling with row limits. The intu...

Robot Dexterity Still Seems Hard 11 by mhb | 3 comments on Hacker News.

The Seven-Year Rule 5 by thecosas | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman from Butte 13 by samclemens | 0 comments on Hacker News.

A Scaled Down Look at Spending, Revenue, and What's Being Cut 35 by mifydev | 13 comments on Hacker News.

Large Language Models, Small Labor Market Effects [pdf] 31 by luu | 4 comments on Hacker News.

Manufactured Consensus on X.com 23 by cogitovirus | 1 comments on Hacker News.

The Future of MCPs 16 by tylerg | 10 comments on Hacker News.

They made computers behave like annoying salesmen 56 by NotInOurNames | 19 comments on Hacker News.

π0.5: A VLA with open-world generalization 33 by lachyg | 6 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source IDE for multi-agent systems 16 by segmenta | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN! We’re Arjun, Ramnique, and Akhilesh, and we are building Rowboat ( https://ift.tt/MWASohb ), an AI-assisted IDE for building and managing multi-agent systems. You start with a single agent, then scale up to teams of agents that work together, use MCP tools, and improve over time - all through a chat-based copilot. Our repo is https://ift.tt/0MVeJRE , docs are at https://ift.tt/1qfl9Dk , and there’s a demo video here: https://youtu.be/YRTCw9UHRbU It’s becoming clear that real-world agentic systems work best when multiple agents collaborate, rather than having one agent attempt to do everything. This isn’t too surprising - it’s a bit like how good code consists of multiple functions that each do one thing, rather than cramming everything into one function. For example, a travel assistant works best when different agents handle specialized tasks: one agent finds the best flight...

How I use Kate editor 32 by todsacerdoti | 3 comments on Hacker News.

A New Form of Verification on Bluesky 56 by ink_13 | 15 comments on Hacker News.

Syncing Keyhive 4 by erlend_sh | 0 comments on Hacker News.

The Movie Mistake Mystery from "Revenge of the Sith" 14 by CharlesW | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Inside ArXiv 16 by fprog | 3 comments on Hacker News.

An Image of the Australian Desert Illuminates Satellite Pollution 6 by surprisetalk | 0 comments on Hacker News.

SDFs from Unoriented Point Clouds Using Neural Variational Heat Distances 6 by haxiomic | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Zig and GPUs 26 by Cloudef | 0 comments on Hacker News.

OpenAI looked at buying Cursor creator before turning to Windsurf 19 by mfiguiere | 7 comments on Hacker News.

Snapchat is harming children at an industrial scale 5 by Tomte | 0 comments on Hacker News.

eInk Mode: Making web pages easier to read 15 by amadeuspagel | 1 comments on Hacker News.

A Passion for Fruit 10 by diodorus | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Simple Web Server 10 by speckx | 3 comments on Hacker News.

AudioX: Diffusion Transformer for Anything-to-Audio Generation 21 by gnabgib | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Monte Carlo Crash Course: Sampling 12 by ibobev | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Peering into the Linux Kernel with Trace 5 by mre | 0 comments on Hacker News.

How much oranger do red orange bags make oranges look? 7 by otras | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Dual Kickstart ROM Replacement for Amiga 6 by doener | 0 comments on Hacker News.

ArkType: Ergonomic TS validator 100x faster than Zod 19 by nathan_phoenix | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Emacs Lisp Elements 12 by robenkleene | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Modern 6502 10 by ingve | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Leaked Meta data reveals massive campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts 93 by jbegley | 20 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Koreo – The platform engineering toolkit for Kubernetes 20 by tylertreat | 3 comments on Hacker News. A large part of our (Real Kinetic's) business is helping organizations implement platform engineering, but we've found the existing tooling to be lacking. For IaC, Terraform state becomes a pain because TF treats infrastructure as "one-shot" commands. The Kubernetes controller model provides a nicer approach to managing infrastructure, but the tooling here is also lacking. For configuration management, Helm just doesn't really scale with complexity, nor does Kustomize. For resource orchestration, Crossplane is a step in the right direction but still has challenges and limitations. As a result, we ended up building something that's sort of a "meta-controller programming language" on top of Kubernetes called Koreo. It provides a solution for configuration management and resource orchestration in Kubernetes by basically letting you program c...

Photographs of 19th Century Japan 2 by merothwell | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Apache ECharts 162 by tomtomistaken | 36 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Coroot – eBPF-based, open source observability with actionable insights 18 by openWrangler | 0 comments on Hacker News. A common open source approach to observability will begin with databases and visualizations for telemetry - Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger. But observability doesn’t begin and end here: these tools require configuration, dashboard customization, and may not actually pinpoint the data you need to mitigate system risks. Coroot was designed to solve the problem of manual, time-consuming observability analysis: it handles the full observability journey — from collecting telemetry to turning it into actionable insights. We also strongly believe that simple observability should be an innovation everyone can benefit from: which is why our software is open source. Features: - Cost monitoring to track and minimise your cloud expenses (AWS, GCP, Azure.) - SLO tracking with alerts to detect anomalies and compare them to your system’s baseline behaviour. - 1-click applic...

Better typography with text-wrap pretty 15 by todsacerdoti | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Do you still use search engines? 23 by davidkuennen | 62 comments on Hacker News. Today, I noticed that my behavior has shifted over the past few months. Right now, I exclusively use ChatGPT for any kind of search or question. Using Google now feels completely lackluster in comparison. I've noticed the same thing happening in my circle of friends as well—and they don’t even have a technical background. How about you?

The Troll Hole Adventure 4 by todsacerdoti | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Hasochism: The pleasure and pain of dependently typed Haskell programming [pdf] (2013) 11 by fanf2 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Kahuna, the IndexedDB-Manager Webextension 11 by thinkdecidedo | 2 comments on Hacker News. This has been my pet project and playground for a long time and has gone throught several framework changes, overhauls, etc.. Sometime last winter I realized that there has been a lot of progress since I started using plain javascript and lit-html and that it is time for a release. And then the hard work began... But anyone who has used the browser's own developer tools for working with IndexedDB databases will probably agree that there must be more convenient methods. And even though Kahuna can't do everything I want it to yet, it's certainly a good start. Since yesterday, the webextension is available in the Chrome Web Store [1] and as a Firefox Add-On [2]. Feedback, comments, bug reports, and feature requests are all more than welcome! [1] https://ift.tt/Am4rvst... [2] https://ift.tt/xdagkf6...

20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful 3 by videlov | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit 3 by paulpauper | 0 comments on Hacker News.

SF Mayor Lurie to tech CEOs: 'How can we get you back?' 3 by rntn | 1 comments on Hacker News.

EU may "make an example of X" by issuing $1B fine 43 by dotcoma | 21 comments on Hacker News.

Max severity RCE flaw discovered in widely used Apache Parquet 36 by andy99 | 15 comments on Hacker News.

What If We Made Advertising Illegal? 91 by smnrg | 63 comments on Hacker News.

Dynamic Register Allocation on AMD's RDNA 4 GPU Architecture 11 by ingve | 0 comments on Hacker News.

iRobot made Roomba into an icon. Now, it's in a mess 17 by mathattack | 27 comments on Hacker News.

Tracking the international space station with an Arduino 7 by proteusvacuum | 4 comments on Hacker News.

Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms 22 by Anon84 | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Cyber Forensic Expert in 2k Cases Faces FBI Probe 9 by todsacerdoti | 0 comments on Hacker News.

YIMBYism as Industrial Policy 28 by JumpCrisscross | 9 comments on Hacker News.

CINC Is Not Chef 15 by duck | 12 comments on Hacker News.

An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip 4 by participant3 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

An automatic MCP server for every GitHub project 3 by liadyo | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Declarative Schemas for simpler database management 8 by kiwicopple | 1 comments on Hacker News.

When Jorge Luis Borges met one of the founders of AI 4 by benbreen | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Mermaid Chart VS Code Plugin: Mermaid.js Diagrams in Visual Studio Code 17 by msfi | 11 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: A Chrome extension to give you back control over short-form videos 16 by darajava | 8 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN! I built this little extension to prevent, in my opinion, the most offensive anti-pattern used by tech companies. That is removing the seek bar in short-form videos. The "seek bar" is the bar at the bottom of a video that progresses as you play the video, and that you can click on or drag to skip around. Why companies ever thought it was a good idea to get rid of this I don't know, but I find it infuriating, so I decided to add it back for myself and thought others might like it too. ReelControl adds a progress bar and seeking capabilities to videos on Instagram, YouTube Shorts, and Facebook Reels. I do sometimes enjoy watching short-form content and I've found that with this extension enabled I can be more mindful about it and get sucked in way less. I'm also on my phone less because I tend to favor the web versions of these platforms n...

Windows on ARM on a Smart Watch 3 by todsacerdoti | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Cuneiforms: New digital tool for translating ancient texts 3 by docmechanic | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Zig Topological Sort Library for Parallel Processing 14 by ww520 | 1 comments on Hacker News. I believe the best way to learn a language is by doing an in-depth project. This is my first Zig project intended for learning the ropes on publishing a Zig package. It turns out to be quite solid and performant. It might be a bit over-engineered. This little library is packed with the following features: - Building dependency graph from dependency data. - Performing topological sort on the dependency graph. - Generating dependence-free subsets for parallel processing. - Cycle detection and cycle reporting.