I built VerbaGPT - an intuitive way to interrogate SQL, Azure, Postgres, Snowflake etc. using natural language
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I built VerbaGPT - an intuitive way to interrogate SQL, Azure, Postgres, Snowflake etc. using natural language

There are several other apps that do something similar, like Databricks (genie), Azure (something?), Snowflake (cortex), Claude Desktop if you set it up - but they are either very limited in feature sets, require users to be fairly technical, and are all generally incredibly expensive. I had a 20 plus year career where I worked with large datasets, predictive modeling, etc. I wanted to build something that can be the best at data analysis, analytics, and data science given current state of art...
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Are we wasting AI video credits on shots we already know are bad?

While testing full-MV workflows in MusVideo Ai, we kept running into one embarrassingly simple problem. We’d generate a scene, animate it, hate the result, and blame the video generation. Then we started checking the scene image first. Wrong face. Weird framing. Clothing already drifting. The video wasn’t creating the problem — we were literally paying it to animate a mistake lol. So now we don’t move a scene into video unless we’d actually be happy keeping the still frame. It adds a little more...
I built a Chrome extension that interrupts you at checkout and asks "do you actually need this?" - would love feedback!
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I built a Chrome extension that interrupts you at checkout and asks "do you actually need this?" - would love feedback!

Hey everyone! I've been working on this for a while and finally launched it today, so excited (and a little nervous) to share it here. It's called Mull — a free Chrome extension that sits on 40+ shopping and travel sites. When you're about to check out and click add to cart, a popup appears, gently pauses you and connects the purchase to a financial goal you're saving toward. You get three options: skip it and save the money toward your goal, "mull it over" (get a reminder in 24 ho...
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I bought a domain because I liked the idea behind it. Now I have no idea what to build

I bought a domain a while back that I really like, but honestly have no clear idea what to do with it. The name is PeopleOverPrompts .com The idea in my head was that as AI gets better, prompts, software and even intelligence itself are becoming more commoditized. Maybe the interesting thing is to build something that puts people first instead. I dont want to just keep renewing the domain forever lol. So if you heard the phrase People Over Prompts , what would you build around it? An...
I built a calendar you can actually customize
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I built a calendar you can actually customize

Hey r/SideProject ! Four months ago I started building my first product I actually monetize now. It's called Hibi: a customizable digital planner for iPhone and iPad. Every day is its own paper-like page that you can draw on, decorate, and arrange however you like. I'm the developer. You can choose the paper, ruling, and color, move the date and weather around, draw with your finger or Apple Pencil, add text, and turn photos into stickers or Washi tape. It also integrates with Apple Calen...
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My Chrome extension went from 60 to 3,500 users in 4 days (and I got a bit lucky)

I shipped a Chrome extension called UIDrop. One click on any site, it reads the live design system (colors, type, spacing, components) and drops a brief + screenshot into Claude / ChatGPT / Gemini /Lovable / Manus / Cursor. For a while it was sitting at ~60 users. Fine. I was proud it even existed. Then Rammcodes — some guy on Facebook who posts open-source tools — randomly found it and talked about it. I got lucky. That one day was ~1,500 new users. In four days it went 60 → 3,500. And gu...
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Mexico Crackdown on Coastal Development Underway

Article URL: https://yucatanmagazine.com/mexico-crackdown-on-coastal-development/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329583 Points: 68 # Comments: 13
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Show HN: Sokoban AI Solver

Article URL: https://mkornreich.me/projects/sokoban/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330215 Points: 33 # Comments: 23
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Speeding Up the Plush Garbage Collector

Article URL: https://pointersgonewild.com/2026-08-17-speeding-up-the-plush-garbage-collector/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330246 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
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GitHub down again? no PR access

Githubstatus.com currently says everything is working, but it isn't Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330632 Points: 239 # Comments: 79
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Incident with Github.com

Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330684 Points: 616 # Comments: 456
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A Preview of DuckDB v2.0

Article URL: https://duckdb.org/2026/08/17/duckdb-20-highlights Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330781 Points: 170 # Comments: 18
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How to ship a database every day

Article URL: https://turbopuffer.com/blog/control-plane Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330978 Points: 21 # Comments: 0
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Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

Github has been down consistently over the last few months - does it make sense to switch to alternatives? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331033 Points: 159 # Comments: 107
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How to disable or avoid intrusive AI

Article URL: https://www.librarian.net/notoai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331220 Points: 50 # Comments: 13
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Show HN: Learn Flags Quiz

Article URL: https://flagquizzes.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331288 Points: 8 # Comments: 1
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How to put 170 atoms in an atom

Article URL: https://signoregalilei.com/2026/08/02/how-to-put-170-atoms-in-an-atom/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331474 Points: 34 # Comments: 4
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The only known trebuchet casualty in history

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/meet-the-only-known-trebuchet-casualty-in-history/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331555 Points: 24 # Comments: 4
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Show HN: Eve Software Factory

Build a software factory in minutes with this free OSS template Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331599 Points: 9 # Comments: 2
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Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI

Hi HN! I'm Bek, founder of Speko, a platform that finds an optimal combination of speech-to-text, LLM, and text-to-speech models, given your constraints, among all our public benchmarked options, and tells you why. Demo: https://youtu.be/no2LY2gRh-c Typical production voice agent is an ensemble of three models: STT, an LLM, and TTS. Each of those layers offers a dozen credible vendors, and each month there are new models on the market. Almost everyone evaluates once, picks a stack of their cho...