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Hi HN,<p>I have finally ported kew, a music player for the terminal, to Windows. We are everywhere now, watch out!<p>Some of kew's features:<p>- Play auto-generated playlists based on words from the artist, album or song...

I know that almost all technology is a double edged sword. When used correctly, it can elevate you more than ever possible before. Conversely, it can also destroy your ability to live a meaningful life.<p>Calculators all...

I made this eBook reader because I was looking for something (especially, after I got a foldable phone) that would allow me to effectively:<p>1. have a journal for every book I read. Taking notes is easier when I can mar...

Sorry for the slightly truncated title. It should have been "Network traffic analysis and monitoring without AI, using netflow-family protocols, PostgreSQL or ClickHouse, Grafana, and some scripts".<p>In 2026, it might s...

Skat is a ~200 year old 3-player German trick-taking card game. I built a free site to play it online, solo against bots or with other people (matchmaking and Elo).<p>The bots are what I keep tinkering with. Card play is...

I'm a quasi-mathematician who adapts and translates rigorous, nuanced mathematical concepts for more expressive mediums like natural language and code. This results in shared processes for synthesizing and analyzing tech...

I read a lot of pdfs and papers, and I bounce between "read it myself" and "listen to it". So for quite some time wanted to experiment with adding a lip-sync video. I wanted something that keeps the original page in fron...

We’re flooded with news but it’s often really hard to have the full timeline of who is implicated so I built this

<p> Today we've released the February 2026 Discover core update. This is a broad update to our systems that surface articles in Discover. Our testing shows that people find the Discover experience more useful and worthwh...

<p> As people increasingly gravitate to generative AI experiences and find information in new ways, we're publishing a new resource to help website owners, SEOs, and developers understand how to optimize their content fo...

<p> Today, we are expanding our spam policies to address a deceptive practice known as "back button hijacking", which will become an explicit violation of the "malicious practices" of spam policies, leading to potential ...

<p> We are hosting Search Central Live Shanghai 2026 on May 15. This event is structured for the local community, with a specific focus on optimizing sites that target users outside of China. </p>

<p> Just a short note this time! </p>

<p> If you tuned into episode 105 of the Search Off the Record podcast, you might have heard us diving deep into a topic that is close to our hearts (and our servers): the inner workings of Googlebot. </p>

<p> It's that time of the year again! Let's talk about the Search Central Live (SCL) schedule for the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. We have mapped out a series of events designed to connect you with our Search teams and fe...

<p> Our event series, Search Central Live, is coming to Toronto, Canada on April 21, 2026 for the first time! The event series has been a great way for communities to connect with each other and Googlers to learn more ab...

<p> As we mentioned a few months ago, we are bringing the Search Central Live Deep Dive format to the EMEA region. This SCL format requires finding the absolute best home for the event&mdash;a place where all of you can ...

<p> Today, we're excited to announce the launch of new Search Generative AI performance reports in Search Console, including dedicated reports for Search and Discover, to help you understand your site's visibility within...

<blockquote cite="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555993#48557304"><p>I can 100% attest to the fact that Qwen3.6-27B is a very capable local model for coding tasks. Over the last month and a half I've been using i...

<blockquote cite="https://charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/ai-demands-more-engineering-discipline#footnote-2"><p>What happened in 2025 was this: <strong>the economics of code production were turned upside down</strong>. Inst...

<p><strong>Tool:</strong> <a href="https://tools.simonwillison.net/click-to-play-component"><click-to-play> — a still that plays</a></p> <p>A progressive enchantment Web Component that turns this markup:</p> <pre><code...

<p><strong><a href="https://inessential.com/2026/06/15/netnewswire-status.html">NetNewsWire Status</a></strong></p> I find this inspiring. Brent Simmons retired a year ago, and his retirement project is making one piece ...

<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/datasette/releases/tag/1.0a34">datasette 1.0a34</a></p> <p>Quoting the release notes:</p> <blockquote> <p>The big feature in this alpha is tools to insert, ...

<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/datasette/datasette-tailscale/releases/tag/0.1a0">datasette-tailscale 0.1a0</a></p> <p>A very experimental alpha plugin which lets you do this:</p> <pre><code>data...

<blockquote cite="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48592163#48593190"><p>The real valuable capability MCP offers over skills/CLI is isolating the auth flow outside of the agent’s context window, and potentially out...

<p>Today we launched a new plugin for Datasette, <a href="https://github.com/datasette/datasette-apps">datasette-apps</a>, with <a href="https://datasette.io/blog/2026/datasette-apps/">this launch announcement post</a> o...

<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/datasette/datasette-acl/releases/tag/0.6a0">datasette-acl 0.6a0</a></p> <blockquote> <p>This release expands <code>datasette-acl</code> from table-only permissions...

<p>Chinese AI lab <a href="https://z.ai/">Z.ai</a> released GLM-5.2 <a href="https://x.com/Zai_org/status/2065704919299235870">to their coding plan subscribers</a> on June 13th, and then yesterday (June 16th) released th...

<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/releases/tag/4.0rc1">sqlite-utils 4.0rc1</a></p> <p>See <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/21/sqlite-utils-40rc1/">sqlite-utils 4.0rc1...

<p><strong><a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/temporary-accounts/">Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI agents</a></strong></p> The announcement says this is "for AI agents" but (as is pretty common these days) the AI ...

<p><a href="https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/latest/">sqlite-utils</a> is my combined Python library and CLI tool for working with SQLite databases. It provides an extensive set of higher-level operations on top of P...

<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/datasette/releases/tag/1.0a35">datasette 1.0a35</a></p> <p>I'll write more about this one soon, but it's a big release. Three highlights from the release no...

<p><strong>Tool:</strong> <a href="https://tools.simonwillison.net/opfs-pyodide">OPFS + Pyodide test harness</a></p> <p>I've been pondering if <a href="https://lite.datasette.io/">Datasette Lite</a> - the Python Datasett...

<p><strong><a href="https://role-confusion.github.io">Prompt Injection as Role Confusion</a></strong></p> First, I absolutely love this:</p> <blockquote> <p>This is a blog-style writeup of the paper.</p> </blockquote> <p...

<p>This morning <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48630171">on Hacker News</a> I saw <a href="https://hustvl.github.io/Moebius/">Moebius: 0.2B Lightweight Image Inpainting Framework with 10B-Level Performance...

<p><strong><a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/ai-and-liability.html">AI and Liability</a></strong></p> Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders on the recent <a href="https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german...

<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/datasette/datasette-export-database/releases/tag/0.3a2">datasette-export-database 0.3a2</a></p> <p>An embarrassingly tiny release. The <code>pyproject.toml</code> ...

<p><strong><a href="https://github.com/simonw/browser-compat-db">simonw/browser-compat-db</a></strong></p> Inspired by Mozilla's <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/introducing-mdn-mcp-server/">new MDN MCP ...

<blockquote cite="https://macwright.com/2026/06/24/accidental-anonymity.html"><p>In the last few months, I've started to see [job applications] that were clearly cowritten by an LLM, link to an LLM-generated portfolio si...

<blockquote cite="https://www.hyperdimensional.co/p/what-should-be-done"><p>This is a bad state of affairs. Consider, in particular, some industry dynamics:</p> <ol> <li>Frontier models are trained at an enormous cost, a...

<blockquote cite="https://twitter.com/binarybits/status/2070527944817053862"><p>This is like saying there's no learning curve to being a manager because your employees will just do whatever you tell them to do.</p></bloc...

<p><strong><a href="https://www.fernandoi.cl/posts/hackmyclaw/">What happened after 2,000 people tried to hack my AI assistant</a></strong></p> Fernando Irarrázaval ran a challenge on <a href="https://hackmyclaw.com/">h...

<p><strong><a href="https://nesbitt.io/2026/06/26/incident-report-cve-2026-lgtm.html">Incident Report: CVE-2026-LGTM</a></strong></p> Spectacular hypothetical incident report by Andrew Nesbitt.</p> <blockquote> <p><stron...

<blockquote cite="https://openai.com/index/previewing-gpt-5-6-sol/"><p>We're beginning a limited preview of the GPT‑5.6 series: Sol, our flagship model; Terra, a balanced model for everyday work; and Luna, a fast and a...

<p>Tiniest TIL, using AppleScript to count the number of open browser tabs in Safari:</p> <pre><code>osascript -e 'tell application "Safari" to count tabs of every window' </code></pre> <p><img alt="I ran it in a termina...

<p><strong><a href="https://deep-reinforce.com/ornith_1_0.html">Ornith-1.0: Self-Scaffolding LLMs for Agentic Coding</a></strong></p> This is an interesting new open weights (MIT licensed) model, the first model release ...

<blockquote cite="https://blog.jonudell.net/2026/06/28/doctor-it-hurts-when-agents-create-unreviewable-prs-dont-do-that/"><p><strong><del>Human</del> Agent in the loop</strong></p> <p>I dislike the phrase “human in the...

<p><strong><a href="https://www.hackyoursummer.org/">Hack Your Summer</a></strong></p> I learned about this initiative from DJ Patil this morning:</p> <blockquote> <p>It’s a 4-week, high-velocity production sprint for ...

I do a surprising amount of dev from my phone now: SSH into a box, attach to tmux, and drive couple of coding agents here and there.<p>Termux gets me pretty far on Android, and I still love it for its simplicity. But onc...

see title- nothing else interesting here. TS7 provides a LSP compatible language server, so this plugin uses it rather than typescript-language-server. Hope you find it useful.

Supposing that the code generated by AI always works and follows good programming practices, will it still be really necessary to create new or better web technologies and programming languages? It looks like a point to ...

Hi, I have been building an open source kanban board that serves as a way for my multiple Hermes and OpenClaw agents to communication with each other and also serve as a way to keep track of tasks. I started this project...

For some reason I remembered today my first trip to San Jose, in the early 2000s, for a SANS Institute class, and discovering the Fry's Electronics store. The amazing content of what one could use to build own computers,...

My 14 year old daughter got hacked by someone who was able to add themselves as a "linked parent" to her account. I'm not even sure that this person got ahold of her password in the first place. All this happened on Wedn...

What’s the best Postman alternative if privacy is a concern — Postmate Client vs. Thunder Client?

...as per the banner on their website: https://mojolang.org/

It seems to me that the dissenting voices from software engineers burned out after having the AI hype shoved down their throats have been growing louder lately. Just this week I read several posts both here (e.g. [1], [2...

I've been thinking about the futsal effect - which is how Brazilian footballers developed superior skills through a constrained small-sided game with 5 on each side, then moving onto a full football game with 11 on each ...

I've been thinking a lot about humans potentially losing important skills due to using AI and I was wondering how we can get better at getting and maintaining skills.<p>Can wee gamify learning important skills for the fu...

I am in the market for a new printer, and thought I'd check with the HN crowd for some recommendations.<p>I hate my HP inkjet printer with a passion. Feels like the ink lasts less than 100 pages of light printing. And th...

Lately, I am finding myself using coding agents primarily for investigating and learning new topics, which include:<p><pre><code> * understanding how specific module works in codebase * overall architecture in the new co...

What GUI apps do you use to manage different AI sessions?<p>Command line (on Claude Code etc) is great but it is so hard to keep track of different sessions.<p>I've tried the official apps (like Codex or Claude desktop),...

What is your opinion on this? Norway banned smart phones and now AI.<p>> Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre argues that using AI could increase the risk that young children miss important steps in their education.

This is sorely needed, it is helpful for Hawaii as well as for California (cabins on forest service land)

I realized I haven’t seen much from Ilya Sutskever recently.<p>Has he given any talks, interviews, papers, or technical updates in the past year that are worth reading?

Recently saw this comment on another HN thread about the US government gating access to GPT-5.6 and how it harkens back to the 1990s encryption-as-export-controllable-tech situation and how people tattoo'd the algo to th...

Its now clear that we need to preserve tech press for non AI related things. Techmeme for example is now completely overrun with AI stories.<p>HN is getting closer to that every day.<p>If AI kickback deals, phony new mod...

I am building a product for improving developer efficiency and I am 2 months into it and have a working prototype, how do I get feedback from the right users who are in need of such a tool? What are your suggestions?

With how much progress there has been in LLM and AI, what do you think is gonna look vastly different in the near future?

For those who are using llms on macbook, Want to understand how macbook is different than dedicated GPU in running those models? and how to know how much a macbook is capable of running a model?

As someone who wants to work in tech in the future, say 5-10 years from now, to what extent do you think coding will be a valuable skill? How much should I learn?

I've been running Qwen3.6-35B-A3B locally on llama.cpp and noticed that prompt processing throughput gets too low with MTP. I got nerd-sniped.<p>What started as curiosity turned into a two-week rabbit hole of experiments...

I worked with a few employers on contracts, and there were situations where they haven't paid fees for a while.<p>Is there a list or site that lists all the employers and if they have a record of them not fulfilling thei...

We are all familiar with the Corgi event: <a href="https://x.com/mfts0/status/2070080422482977095" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/mfts0/status/2070080422482977095</a><p>With the barrier to create new apps having dropped si...

I'm a developer. I have a basic working knowledge of classic neural networks. I'd like to learn about genetic algorithms. What books should I be reading? I prefer dead-tree, but pdf suggestions too please.

The SRE role seems to mean wildly different things depending on who you ask.

Everyone feared AI would enslave humanity; but it looks like the real fight is stopping governments and Big Tech from enslaving AI for the benefit of the few.<p>Amid the newly announced "regulation" of OpenAI's frontier ...

I became homeless in 2023 when I sold a property and hit the road to find another. I never found one and ran low on money. Taking temp jobs has been all I can do since then and I can't seem to save the $2k - $3k it takes...

Been doing QA for 19yrs, mostly at startups and still trying to figure out how are AI startups navigating the quality aspect nowadays, practically. I'm also trying to productize my expertise and I see quite a lot of conf...

I had been running a small (3 people) software company for about 4 years. Since closing down, I recently hung out at a friend's company to see what they were working on (15 ppl). To preface: I'm a heavy user of Claude (r...

The github repo under eigenpal is gone. The web site at docx-editor is 503. No idea what's going on.

Back in 2019 when aerc just came out it wasn't as good as neomutt (atleast thats what people here claimed). Any power users of aerc I wanna know how your experience has been especially if you work with git patch workflow...

A month ago there was a wave of posts and tweets about engineers walking around cafes and parks with their MacBooks propped half-open, as fully closing the lid forces sleep that stops their AI agents. Some people made sn...

Although the page itself is more just fun to have made and look at (I like the flip sound), the fun part is how I made it to verify the (and I hate to say it) vibe host service I've been working on. The recent flip board...

I started this project back in 2015, to translate the TeX original specification into an easily parsed format (s-doc), and to create an HTML rendering of that format as a proof of concept.<p>The project is homed here: <a...

Over the past few months I've been heavily involved in the decompilation community. I've been hands-on decompiling a beloved game from my childhood (Star Fox Adventures). I started this journey with zero prior decomp exp...

shacam is a macOS menu bar app that lets you quickly share images, windows, your iPhone or iPad over your webcam, and interact with them using your hands<p>you can use it as a virtual camera in video calls, screen record...

Implemented so far: scheduler via PendSV, per-task PSP isolation, mutex, semaphore, MCG, SysTick, PIT timer, UART.

hi author here, Screenmind is privacy first Microsoft recall alternative . It runs on gemma 4 which is one of the fewer models supporting vision audio and reasoning all 3, so your data never leaves you machine.<p>With sc...