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Show HN: My Windows XP portfolio with working Game Boy and iPod

I posted my portfolio here about a year ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45154609) and while there was a big…

PostgresBench: A Reproducible Benchmark for Postgres Services

PostgresBench is a new public, reproducible benchmark tool designed to compare managed Postgres services using the…

Show HN: Tiny – An interpeted dynamic langauge with inline Go native functions

Tiny is a new dynamically-typed programming language with an interpreted bytecode virtual machine written in Go,…

Founders Fund’s outlier bet on humanely killed fish

Shinkei makes a refrigerator-sized robot called Poseidon to kill fish quickly and humanely.

Show HN: Make PDFs look scanned (CLI or in the browser via WASM)

A new open-source tool transforms PDFs to look like physical scans by applying effects such as skew, grayscale…

Agency stole bestselling author's book, used AI to relaunch as their own

An unauthorized website claiming to be The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows has republished John Koenig's bestselling book…

OpenRouter's Fusion Promises Claude Fable-Level AI for Cheap—Right as Fable 5 Goes Dark

OpenRouter's compound-model API stacks budget AI models—and beat GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 outright in benchmark…

Ask HN: Due to spam on GitHub, what platforms can I move my projects?

I have a few projects on Github. I am receiving a lot of spam PRs and requests from vibe coders and bots.

UHF X11: X11 Built for VisionOS and Apple Vision Pro

UHF X11 is a new application that transforms Apple Vision Pro into a full X11 display server, allowing users to run…

Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore

Bun has an open pull request adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore that allows running functions on separate…

SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible

Ember, a native iOS Hacker News reader I built around accessibility

Ember is a native Hacker News reader app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac built with SwiftUI that prioritizes accessibility…

Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic

Jumper isn't the only big name leaving Google DeepMind.

RAISE Summit – The largest AI event in Europe: Info and exclusive promo code

Paris is about to become the world capital of artificial intelligence for two days.

Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase

I've been building StartupWiki, a free startup database designed to make it easier to discover and research…

Big Tech is stoking unrest in the UK. Why?

DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots

A reverse engineering project reconstructing the 1989 DOS game F-15 Strike Eagle II from its original binaries into C…

Every new iOS 27 feature that’s worth knowing about

While it's not flashy like Apple’s new Siri AI and Apple Intelligence upgrades, there are still a number of additions to…

Cargo-Geiger

Cargo-Geiger is a Rust tool that analyzes a crate and its dependencies to provide statistics on unsafe code usage.

US Scientist John Jumper to Leave Google DeepMind for Anthropic

Web Browsers on PDAS

PDA web browsers emerged in the 1990s as personal digital assistants gained internet connectivity, initially using…

VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'

The UK government is developing new regulations around VPN use as part of its under-16 social media ban, with details…

Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot has died in a plane crash

Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs

Windows 11's new Media Player uses 3.5 times more RAM than the classic version when idle (377MB versus 103MB) and loads…

Big Tech is borrowing like never before

Major technology companies like Nvidia, Meta, Alphabet, and Amazon are increasingly turning to bond markets to finance…

Show HN: Criterion Closet as a website – pull any of 1,247 films off the shelf

A developer created an interactive website that digitally recreates the Criterion Collection's physical DVD shelf,…

SpaceX Faces High Share Supply Shock as Musk’s Unlock Nears

The early trading framework surrounding SpaceX’s public listing has drawn attention from market participants following…

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Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see

Loupe is a free iOS app that demonstrates what data native apps can access from your device without permission,…