Tech Business/VC Hacker News

From Sawdust to Paw Patrol: The Spin Master Story (With Ronnen Harary) [audio]

An audio story about the history and growth of the company Spin Master.

Other Hacker News

Mayor Mamdani Says Landlords Can't Use AI Images to Advertise

Mayor Mamdani proposes a ban on landlords using AI-generated images in advertisements.

Other Hacker News

Judge a book by its first pages

A discussion or article regarding the method of judging books based on their initial pages.

AI/ML Hacker News

Co-evolution of self-replication and function in a digital primordial soup

An exploration of the co-evolution of self-replication and function within a digital primordial soup simulation.

AI/ML Hacker News

Ada: An AI business intelligence software from CSV and Excel(yes LLMs but more)

Ada is introduced as an AI-powered business intelligence software that processes CSV and Excel files using LLMs.

Tech Business/VC Hacker News

SpaceX and the myth of independent Wall St research

An analysis questioning the independence and validity of Wall Street research regarding SpaceX.

Software Engineering Lobste.rs

Repeatable Read vs Snapshot Isolation

A technical comparison and discussion of Repeatable Read versus Snapshot Isolation in database concurrency control.

Open Source Reddit SelfHosted

My Lovable-like startup died, so I open-sourced its engine — one home for all open-source apps and coding agents

The author open-sources Sandboxd, an infrastructure engine for deploying and managing open-source apps and coding agents.

Software Engineering Reddit SelfHosted

AI powered SSH : TrySSH (Fast, Persistent, and reliable). Self-host anything in minutes not weeks

TrySSH is a native Mac SSH client featuring an AI copilot that can execute read-only commands and suggest fixes.

AI/ML Reddit SelfHosted

A vision-based desktop agent you can run locally (no cloud subscriptions)

Rosply is a locally-run, vision-based desktop agent designed for data entry without cloud dependencies.

AI/ML The Verge

Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’

Author Dave Eggers criticized OpenAI staff, arguing that ChatGPT is having a catastrophic effect on educators and silencing an entire generation.

Cybersecurity Lobste.rs

OpenSSL HollowByte: A DoS Hiding in 11 Bytes

Discussion of a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in OpenSSL called HollowByte, caused by a very small sequence of bytes.

Homelab/Self-Hosting Reddit SelfHosted

burnmsg project selfhosted

A developer introduces BurnMsg, a self-hosted tool for sharing secret messages that are deleted immediately after being read once.

AI/ML Hacker News

Speech Recognition and TTS in less than 500kb

A discussion on achieving speech recognition and text-to-speech capabilities within a memory footprint of less than 500kb.

Homelab/Self-Hosting Reddit SelfHosted

[Show & Tell] MediaChips — local media organizer (Docker/NAS), just left beta

MediaChips is a local, open-source media organizer for various media types that allows for tagging, filtering, and LAN sharing.

Software Engineering Hacker News

Typing Speed Test, but for Developers

A tool designed to test typing speed specifically tailored for the syntax and patterns of software development.

Software Engineering Hackaday

Calculator UI Is More Complex Than You Might Think

An exploration into the unexpected complexities of designing and implementing calculator user interfaces.

Hardware/Chips Phoronix

NVK Vulkan Performance Improving With Mesa 26.2 Against NVIDIA Proprietary Driver

The NVK Vulkan driver in Mesa 26.2 shows continued performance gains on NVIDIA hardware, narrowing the gap with proprietary drivers.

AI/ML Hacker News

What's the deal with all the random weekly quota resets for agents lately?

A community discussion on Hacker News regarding the inconsistent and random nature of weekly quota resets for AI agents.

Other Hacker News

I'm Making Strandfall, a Solarpunk Orienteering Larp

A developer shares their progress in creating 'Strandfall', a solarpunk orienteering LARP experience.