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I Tried Building a Real App with AI. It Took a Year

After trying dozens of existing habit-tracking apps, a developer and his wife found none that met their specific…

My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page

A security researcher discovered a GitHub admin token hardcoded in Hanwha security camera firmware that had…

The case for MUDs in modern times

MUDs (Multi-User Dimensions) are text-based virtual worlds where players control avatars through typed commands in…

The IBM PC, Part 1: Arrival

In the early 1980s, the personal computer market was highly fragmented, with competing manufacturers like Apple,…

Game of Trees – Git-based version control from OpenBSD folks

Game of Trees (Got) is a version control system developed by OpenBSD developers that prioritizes simplicity and ease of…

How Do We Stop Vibe Coding?

Since the popularity of Claude Code in late 2025, developers have rapidly adopted AI coding agents, with prominent…

Launching Health in ChatGPT to US Users

Show HN: Audio Player with "Binaural Beats" tuned to the same key as your music

Binaural Studio is a browser-based audio player that automatically analyzes music to generate binaural beats tuned to…

ProFX Media Announces PROFX Expo Africa 2026 in Cape Town, Uniting Global Forex & Fintech Leaders

ProFX Media is proud to announce the upcoming PROFX Expo Africa 2026, an international financial industry exhibition…

Show HN: A static, client-side tarot calculator for Brazilian Portuguese

A developer created a free, static, client-side tarot calculator for Brazilian Portuguese that determines a user's…

Flux 3 X Mimic: The Next Generation of Video-Action Models

Flux 3 is Black Forest Labs' new multimodal foundation model that jointly generates images, video, and audio while also…

Buz – A fork of Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds

Buz is a work-in-progress fork of Bun rewritten in Zig that aims to be a drop-in replacement with improved code quality…

Hetzner is working on LLM Inference

Hetzner is experimenting with an early-stage LLM inference service that offers an OpenAI-compatible API running on its…

Nothing works and everyone is euphoric

Despite AI tools promising greater productivity and higher-quality software, real-world experiences show software is…

The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010)

In 2003, Steve Jobs personally pitched the newly launched iTunes Music Store to independent music distributors,…

SpaceX Stock Slides As Lock up Deadline Approaches

The euphoria around SpaceX gave way to a violent disillusionment.

Mohabi: Disaggregating and Sandboxing the Firefox JavaScript Engine

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It's getting harder to focus every day

The author describes experiencing a significant decline in focus and concentration over recent years, finding it…

The hardest way to make a GIF

The author created a GIF using an intentionally complicated method involving a vintage plastic camera, home film…

The PImpl idiom and the C++26 std:indirect type

The PImpl (Pointer to Implementation) idiom separates a class's interface from its implementation details by hiding them…

AMD's Instinct MI455X: Aiming for the Sun

AMD introduced the Instinct MI455X GPU, its first processor designed for rack-scale AI deployments, featuring the new…

Valve’s Sticker Overhaul Squeezes Counter-Strike Esports Teams as Polymarket Expands Into Space

Counter-Strike esports orgs say Valve’s first capsule-free Major – the biggest and most prestigious tournaments in the…

Flux 3

Flux 3 is a new multimodal foundation model that jointly learns from images, videos, and audio within a unified…

Claude Cookbook

The Claude Cookbook is a resource collection showcasing advanced techniques for building applications with Claude,…

Zitron: The Subprime Datacenter Crisis

Ed Zitron draws a parallel between the 2008 financial crisis and what he calls a "subprime datacenter crisis," comparing…

The Corporate Creep of Plex: Why it may be time to move to Jellyfin

Plex, once the leading self-hosted media server platform for tech enthusiasts, has shifted toward corporate partnerships…

How AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers

We spoke with several cybersecurity researchers, who look for unknown vulnerabilities and develop tools to exploit them,…

Show HN: A factory simulator game built on Spreadsheets

I would say this is the real factory simulator game haha Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49030100…

Meet the judges who will crown Australia’s next breakout startup

TechCrunch Startup Battlefield is coming to Australia — and we're partnering with Stripe to find the country's most…