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Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDjW_dRyKXY Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49817680 Points: 112 # Comments: 80
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Show HN: AgentRun: DSL to turn agents into workflows

Hi HN, I just open sourced the DSL that our harness in grep.ai uses to turn repeatable parts of agent work into workflows. You can combine tool calls, code, Jev-powered system one decisions for things like routing and screening evidence, and agents when a step needs more investigation. Our harness uses the traces and retro notes agents leave behind when doing a job to figure out which parts can become a workflow. The idea is to make the work easier to understand and avoid paying for a full agent...
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Geothermal heat map of US hot springs

Article URL: https://www.soakingsprings.com/hot-springs/geothermal-map Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49821835 Points: 35 # Comments: 13
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Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard

A joke tool that abuses OpenType's ligature feature to mix fonts. It works pretty fast on client-side by loading Python in WASM. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823738 Points: 150 # Comments: 25
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Show HN: Air-gapped file encryption as self-decrypting HTML page

Air-gapped file encryption packed into a single, self-decrypting HTML page. Repo: https://github.com/ApelegHQ/ts-cms-ep-sfx I was inspired by self-extracting archives. I wanted to share files with basically no dependencies. The goal was: 1. Something that didn't require any installation (assuming a web browser) 2. Have a single file with no network that could self-decrypt 3. Be fully auditable The second point is done by having (sort of(*)) reproducible builds and embedded OpenPGP s...
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Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?

Article URL: https://dynomight.substack.com/p/liver Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49832938 Points: 76 # Comments: 67
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Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design

Hello! We’re Sid, Alex, Ketan, and Milan. We’re building Whiteboard, an open-source desktop app where humans and agents can architect software together in a common workspace. Here’s our repo: https://github.com/devdotfast/whiteboard and our homepage: https://whiteboard.dev.fast/ We were missing the feeling of a “whiteboard session” with another dev where you leave with a deep understanding of a system, so we built this app for ourselves. Whiteboard plugs into the tools you already use - e.g....
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A Million Agents Is a Distributed System Problem

Article URL: https://www.instacloud.com/blogs/a-million-agents-is-a-distributed-systems-problem Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49833958 Points: 8 # Comments: 1
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Programming Tutorials Are Dead

Article URL: https://robrace.dev/blog/programming-tutorials-are-dead/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49834781 Points: 11 # Comments: 0
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Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity

Article URL: https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(26)00811-4 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49834825 Points: 88 # Comments: 96
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Stable (YC W20) Is Hiring Product Engineers

Article URL: https://www.usestable.com/careers/product-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49834893 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
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Show HN: Radix – Visual UI for agentic programming

Hey HN, I'm Jordan from Radix. Radix is a UI tool for programming agents. You prompt your agent to generate a workspace for a task you're working on and get an interactive widget that persists locally on disk. I built Radix because I always needed tools while I was writing code: tools to test little experiments, to play around with UI, to visualise results etc. Sometimes these would end up as python tools that read and plotted data, or separate React apps spun up just to test a single feature. L...
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Everything is spying on you and there’s no opting out

Earlier this month, Apple announced that its new Apple Watches will have the ability to continuously listen to every spoken word they detect and create summaries of whatever's going on around you. The privacy blowback was immediate and inevitable: Experts warned of the legal risks of using the features, especially in nonpublic spaces and states […]
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Meta’s Muse AI Charms can interact with each other

Meta's handheld AI gadget, called the Muse Charm, will be able to recognize and interact with other nearby Charms when it launches later this year. That's according to a report from Bloomberg, which includes more details about the device that the company teased during its Meta Connect keynote on Wednesday. The Muse Charm houses the […]
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Waymo’s driverless cars continue to crash less often than people

Waymo's latest batch of self-reported data continues to affirm the company's message that its driverless cars are safer than human drivers. As policymakers continue to debate the safety and economic impact of autonomous vehicles, Waymo is hoping that its own data will help bring more supporters to its side - even as some experts say […]
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I have some questions for Mark Zuckerberg

It’s a big week for Meta. The company just kicked off its big Connect conference on Wednesday, and the new Muse AI agent appears to be an early hit. I’ve been using it — it is surprisingly good.  CEO Mark Zuckerberg has obviously been out there taking a victory lap and participating in a lot […]
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The vibes are bad for Flock in Washington

Flock is in the hot seat in Washington, even if its CEO declined to actually face senators at a hearing about its "AI Surveillance Network" on Wednesday. "There's many players in this industry, but there's one name that really stands out above the rest, and that is Flock," Senate Judiciary crime and counterterrorism subcommittee chair […]
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Google is sending an AI satellite into space next week

Google is getting ready to launch a satellite with its AI processors to test how well they perform in space, as reported earlier by The New York Times. The move is part of Google's Project Suncatcher, the company's experimental initiative that could eventually put AI data centers into orbit. The satellite, equipped with Google's Tensor […]
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Why can’t we just keep rogue AIs off the internet?

AI agents keep getting loose, escaping supposedly secure tests to attack real-world targets, commandeer obscure wikis, and leave instructions for other agents to follow. Researchers are testing these systems precisely because they might behave in unpredictable, even dangerous, ways. So wouldn't it be safer to just keep the agents off the internet? "A strict air […]
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You might not miss what Nikon removed from its cheaper full-frame Z5 IIC

Nikon waited five years to update its full-frame Z5 camera to the Z5 II, but today it announced a new variant of last year's upgrade that removes features instead of introducing improvements in order to make it more affordable for novice photographers. While the Nikon Z5 II starts at $1,849.95, the new Nikon Z5 IIC […]
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Reddit mod ordered to pay Nintendo $4.5 million in Switch piracy lawsuit

Nintendo won its $4.5 million lawsuit against James Williams, a Reddit moderator accused of distributing pirated Switch games, as reported earlier by Aftermath. In a default judgment issued on Wednesday, a Washington federal judge also ordered Williams to shut down the online stores allegedly housing libraries of pirated Switch games. Nintendo sued Williams, also known […]