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An archaeology of tracking on government websites

Article URL: https://www.flux.utah.edu/paper/singh-pets26 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608802 Points: 4 # Comments: 0...

8hHacker NewsTechnologyImpact

Show HN: Microwave – Native iOS app for videos on ATproto

Hi HN — I built Microwave, a native iOS app for browsing and posting short-form videos, similar to TikTok, but implemented as a pure client on top of Bluesky / AT Protocol. There’s no custom backend: ...

12hHacker NewsTechnologyImpact

Death of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's son sheds light on Nigeria's quality of care

An investigation has been ordered into the circumstance under which the toddler son of the award-winning Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie died at a leading hospital in Lagos. The writer has b...

18hFrance 24HealthImpact

Show HN: AI in SolidWorks

Hey HN! We’re Will and Jorge, and we’ve built LAD (Language-Aided Design), a SolidWorks add-in that uses LLMs to create sketches, features, assemblies, and macros from conversational inputs ( https://...

1dHacker NewsTechnologyImpact

Show HN: FastScheduler – Decorator-first Python task scheduler, async support

Hi! I've built this because I kept reaching for Celery for simple scheduled tasks and it felt like overkill. I just needed "run this function every hour" or "daily at 9am", not distributed workers. So...

15hHacker NewsTechnologyImpact

Signal leaders warn agentic AI is an insecure, unreliable surveillance risk

Article URL: https://coywolf.com/news/productivity/signal-president-and-vp-warn-agentic-ai-is-insecure-unreliable-and-a-surveillance-nightmare/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605...

11hHacker NewsTechnologyImpact

Show HN: DebtBomb – Make TODOs expire and automatically create Jira tickets

Hi HN, In most codebases I’ve worked on, temporary hacks (“TODO: remove later”, “just for this release”) slowly become permanent. Nobody remembers why they exist, but they keep shipping to production....

13hHacker NewsTechnologyImpact

Show HN: Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever

Reddit's API is effectively dead for archival. Third-party apps are gone. Reddit has threatened to cut off access to the Pushshift dataset multiple times. But 3.28TB of Reddit history exists as a torr...

14hHacker NewsTechnologyImpact

Show HN: OSS AI agent that indexes and searches the Epstein files

Hi HN, I built an open-source AI agent that has already indexed and can search the entire Epstein files, roughly 100M words of publicly released documents. The goal was simple: make a large, messy cor...

4hHacker NewsTechnologyImpact

Show HN: AsciiSketch a free browser-based ASCII art and diagram editor

Article URL: https://files.littlebird.com.au/ascii-sketch.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46609389 Points: 4 # Comments: 2...

7hHacker NewsTechnologyImpact

Show HN: SnackBase – Open-source, GxP-compliant back end for Python teams

Hi HN, I’m the creator of SnackBase. I built this because I work in Healthcare and Life Sciences domain and was tired of spending months building the same "compliant" infrastructure (Audit Logs, Row-L...

17hHacker NewsTechnologyImpact

Is India fuelling an arms race in Asia or closing a deterrence gap?

In 2025, India approved a number of major defence packages, together worth US$30 billion. Such rapid procurement approvals are relatively rare by Indian standards. However, what they signal to the reg...

8hSouth China Morning PostPoliticsImpact

Show HN: Nogic – VS Code extension that visualizes your codebase as a graph

I built Nogic, a VSCode extension currently, because AI tools make code grow faster than developers can build a mental model by jumping between files. Exploring structure visually has been helping me ...

11hHacker NewsTechnology

Powell criminal probe upends Trump's search for a new Fed chair

White House economic advisor Kevin Hassett (left) and former Fed Gov. Kevin Warsh are leading prediction market odds for the likehood of becoming President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Federal Rese...

19hBusiness InsiderPoliticsImpact

Show HN: Ayder – HTTP-native durable event log written in C (curl as client)

Hi HN, I built Ayder — a single-binary, HTTP-native durable event log written in C. The wedge is simple: curl is the client (no JVM, no ZooKeeper, no thick client libs). There’s a 2-minute demo that s...

12hHacker NewsTechnologyImpact

Show HN: Yolobox – Run AI coding agents with full sudo without nuking home dir

Article URL: https://github.com/finbarr/yolobox Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46592344 Points: 93 # Comments: 69...

1dHacker NewsTechnologyImpact

Honduras rejects ‘illegal’ recount order of vote won by Trump-backed Nasry Asfura

Honduras electoral authorities rejected on Monday an order by the outgoing president to recount November’s election won by Trump-backed candidate Nasry Asfura. Asfura, a conservative businessman, was ...

20hSouth China Morning PostPoliticsImpact

Lego Smart Brick: watch an immersive 15-minute demo like you’re right there with us at CES

Sean Hollister demos the Lego Smart Brick at CES. The Lego Smart Brick won our Best in Show award at CES 2026, and it was no wonder after watching Lego designer Maarten Simons' expert demo there. So I...

11hThe VergeTechnologyImpact

Battlefield 6 Season 2 Delayed to February as EA Tackles Community Feedback With an Extended Season 1

EA and Battlefield Studios have announced the Battlefield 6 Season 2 release date has been delayed as it works to address community feedback with an extended Season 1. The team behind last year’s new ...

13hIGNTechnology

Marvel Just Started an Avengers: Doomsday Countdown Clock Livestream and Thousands Are Watching the Seconds Tick Down

With the release of Avengers: Doomsday's fourth teaser trailer now online, Marvel has begun a live countdown clock to the movie's release on YouTube that's set to run for more than 11 months. Avengers...

15hIGNEntertainment
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