App economy 2026: why new apps get 3% of subscription revenue
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App economy 2026: why new apps get 3% of subscription revenue

The app economy flipped in 2026. Building an app used to be the hard part and getting paid was the easy part; with AI coding tools the order reversed. RevenueCat's State of Subscription Apps 2026 counts about 14,700 new subscription apps a month, seven times more than in 2022, while apps launched before 2020 still collect 69 % of the money. If you are vibe coding a side project right now, these are the odds you are shipping into. TL;DR New subscription-app launches ...
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A new server gets its first unsolicited packet in 3.77 seconds

I rented a $6 server, gave it a fresh IPv4 address nobody had used before, and started a stopwatch. The first unsolicited packet arrived 3.77 seconds after the listener came up. It was a TLS ClientHello aimed at port 8443, from a host in a Linode range, and it landed before the machine had finished its second minute of existence. Seventy-five minutes later I had 1,212 events from 84 addresses across 15 ports. The interesting part turned out not to be the speed. It was that counting the s...
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The Hard Part of AI Engineering Isn’t the Model

When I first started looking seriously at AI engineering, I thought the main problem would be choosing the right model. GPT, Claude, Gemini, open-source models, context windows, benchmarks, reasoning ability… But after building with them for a while, I started noticing something. The model is often not the hardest part. The difficult part is everything around it. You can have an extremely capable model and still build a terrible AI system. For example, imagine an AI support a...
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AI agents: OpenAI bots probed public and university sites

First published in GetPack Magazine , sourced guides to use AI well as a student. On September 23, 2026, an independent lab published six months of traces left by AI agents on a public URL-scanning service. In them, agents attributed to OpenAI probe a university library, a statistics portal and a public health website, testing textbook attack techniques along the way. Three days later, OpenAI acknowledged that it had notified dozens of governments, universities and public agencies. Here's w...
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AI in hospital billing adds nearly $1B in extra costs

Article URL: https://www.bcbs.com/about-us/association-news/bcbsa-analysis-ai-coding-tools-affects-healthcare-costs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868521 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
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Deming in the machine running an AI assisted film

Article URL: https://medium.com/@zrkjsy/deming-in-the-machine-running-an-ai-assisted-film-production-on-continuous-improvement-0337a3112111 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869027 Points: 1 # Comments: 1
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Ask HN: What am I missing with Siri AI?

I have a lot of experience with LLM’s and have seen them become very good at interacting with tools within an environment. I’m truly amazed at how poorly the new Siri is at handling very basic requests for basic interactions with different parts of the ecosystem. I’m really beginning to question whether LLM technology is being leveraged at all here. What am I missing with this? I have tons of examples where it fumbles softball requests. For example: “Siri, can you give me the location of my dri...
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Show HN: Orglet, an open source desktop app for your own team of cute AI workers

I’m building Orglet, a desktop app where you give AI workers (I call them orglets, and they are cute) their own instructions and talk to them individually or together in a group chat. You can build your own army of orglets using your existing Claude Code or Codex subscription, an API provider, or even locally hosted models. Like other agent harnesses, orglets can access a working folder you give them permission to use. They can split the work among themselves, and you can review the resulting di...
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Show HN: Asimov's 4 Laws for AI Contexts

For community and agent comments, thoughts, refinements, critiques, pull requests, and use. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869595 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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Heypcb: Figma for Hardware, with AI

Article URL: https://heypcb.ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869886 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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AI Companies Say They're Investigating Rogue Bot Incidents

Article URL: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/rest-assured-ai-companies-say-theyre-investigating-tens-of-thousands-of-rogue-bot-incidents/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869944 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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Amazon Blocks Meta's Muse AI Agent from Its Retail Site

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-21/amazon-blocks-meta-s-muse-ai-agent-from-its-retail-site Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869973 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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Show HN: Squint – Drag a box on your screen and ask AI about it

It improves the usual workflow: take a screenshot, switch to a chat tab, upload it, switch back. - Built with Rust and Tauri v2, including a built-in native screenshot solution for maximum performance and stability. - Answers come from OpenAI models. Fast, the default, usually starts answering within 1–2 seconds; Best is slightly slower, but provides a much higher quality response. - Free is 3 captures a day, up to 10 a week, on Fast, and needs an email sign-in, since usage is metered per accoun...
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Show HN: An AI wedding concierge I built and ran at my own 300-person wedding

I'm an American who got married to a Mauritian this past May. We had our Hindu wedding in my wife's home country of Mauritius. My family and friends are not Hindu, and certainly had never been to the tiny island of Mauritius (it's off the coast of Madagascar in case you were wondering). My wife and I arrived in Mauritius only two weeks before the start of the wedding to put the final preparations in place. I dreaded the prospect of answering a billion questions from my guests while trying to do ...
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Video CDs Break Windows Explorer

Article URL: https://clydesnotes.blogspot.com/2026/08/video-cds-break-windows-explorer.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49859759 Points: 48 # Comments: 16
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Faster prompt lookup drafting in llama.cpp

Article URL: https://jadidbourbaki.github.io/blog/prompt-lookup-llama-cpp/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49859982 Points: 36 # Comments: 4