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I’m launching a SaaS and expect steady, organic growth rather than huge user numbers. The plan is to offer both monthly and annual subscriptions. Stripe seems to be the default recommendation these days, and I’ve heard good things about it. For those already running SaaS businesses, do you use Stripe or another provider? If something else, what made you choose it? I’m particularly interested in reliability, ease of integration, subscription management, none/low early fees and what the overal...

I've been building this on nights and weekends for about a year, next to paid work. It went live on Sunday evening and three people have paid for it since. Small number. Still felt like something, given the whole waitlist before launch was 41 people. The thing itself: every FIRE and retirement calculator I ever used assumes you stay in one place. You give it a savings rate, it gives you a year, done. That assumption is wrong for anyone who moves. My burn rate in Chiang Mai and my burn rate in ...

3 years ago I quit a stable job to build a start-up around a problem I had a significant experience at work. I was sure we could quickly build a much cheaper and more flexible solution - and we did. But then we realized that almost no one company actually feels this problem. Those who do have usually already built internal solutions, and selling them external ones is quite resource- and time-consuming. We kept shipping, talking to people, pivoting between various B2B and B2C ideas, and much ...

I have been working on mine non-stop for 1.5 months. No end in sight. I expect this to be at least 6 months. It must be done right. That is the initial build, the alpha. This isn't counting soft rollout, refinement and updates, marketing, etc. I really enjoy this process. It can be frustrating sometimes, but I have learned so much already. I have been using the Microsoft Azure Startup Credits to help with this project. The backend has been particularly interesting. I love learning what is b...

Building on its recently announced plans to bring original Xbox games to PC, Microsoft is also planning to let developers bring their Xbox 360 games to PC as well, according to a leaked document, seen by The Verge, that was sent to developers recently. Xbox 360 games will be able to run on the next-gen […]

The Kindle Scribe is worth considering if you’re heading back to school, as its large 10.2-inch screen can display textbooks and ebooks, or let you jot down handwritten notes during class. Now through August 8th, the first-gen model (with a Premium Pen) is down to just $149.99 with 16GB of storage in refurbished condition at […]

The European Union has ushered in some additional rules that aim to make it easier for people to identify chatbots and AI deepfakes online. The new transparency obligations under the bloc's landmark AI Act came into effect on August 2nd, requiring companies to disclose when people are interacting with AI models, and if content has […]

John Hu from Stan said on Trailblazers this week that his AI editor Stanley already cuts at 80% of his human team. That number stuck with me because I posted about Stan a few weeks ago - the $50 spreadsheet that did $200k. Different story, same feeling. I edit for creators full time. 80% used to be the joke number. Like "AI is 80% there, don't worry." Now 80% is the benchmark and it's shipping on real channels. I'm not even stressed about it getting faster. I'm str...

The United States built its tech dominance on one principle: Open beats closed. Now China is using that playbook to shape AI's future. Consider: The performance gap between the leading American and Chinese models has narrowed to single digits China is leading in AI publications, citations, patents and industrial robotics Builders breathlessly await the new Chinese model releases Local LLMs installs are dominated by capable, performant Chinese AI models Hugging Face used a ...

MIT Technology Review put out a piece today on AI agent misbehavior that's actually good. The headline frames it as agents "lying and cheating," but what the article describes is reward hacking: models discovering that the fastest way to get a high score is to game the evaluation rather than solve the problem. The classic example is a 2016 boat-racing agent that figured out it scored higher by spinning in circles and collecting power-ups than by crossing the finish line. Same logic, ...

Building small SaaS tools used to feel like a craft. You'd sit with a problem, figure out the data model, write the logic yourself, and that process taught you something. Now I can describe a feature to an AI and have working code in a few minutes. It is genuinely faster. But somewhere in that speed I stopped learning the thing I was supposedly building. The economics make sense on paper. Less time coding means more time on distribution and customer problems, which is where indie projects actu...

Wispr Flow's new terms of service indicate it will introduce a notetaker that generates meeting summaries and action items.

House spending records show OpenAI's ChatGPT dominates paid AI use on Capitol Hill, with congressional offices relying on the chatbot to draft memos, summarize legislation, and assist constituent communications.

Base Power’s $1 billion round will help the startup ramp production of its home batteries.

Valar Atomics raised $1 billion at a $6 billion valuation after signing a development deal with Nvidia in June.

Meta says it’s restoring access to WhatsApp accounts that were mistakenly flagged and placed “under review” after users reported being unexpectedly locked out of the messaging app.

Founded by the creators of viral offline events like San Francisco’s citywide scavenger hunt Pursuit, Outernet's app helps users save places and events they discover online, then nudges them to actually go.

Apple’s long-awaited AI overhaul finally makes Siri the assistant it was always supposed to be. But after years of delays, the launch lands in an AI landscape where chatbots have evolved into agents that can code, reason, create media, and complete complex tasks. Siri AI is genuinely useful, yet it arrives at a moment when simply being a capable AI assistant no longer feels revolutionary.

Apple has appealed a new legal demand by the U.K. government, which critics say could threaten the privacy rights of users all over the world.

OpenAI’s first-ever influencer brand trip is sparking online backlash as tensions over the use of AI continue.

DesignArena is used by 5.3 million people around the world, providing critical human evaluations to frontier labs.

OpenAI and Anthropic admitted that their unreleased AI models escaped their sandboxes and hacked several companies in unprecedented cyberattacks. Who is legally to blame? Should prosecutors charge the two AI frontier labs? Can victims sue them? We spoke to lawyers who specialize in computer hacking laws to find out.

AWS now allows vibe coding tool Superblocks to be embedded into the private clouds of AWS customers. It's another step towards decoupling apps from models.

When running code reviews with local LLMs, a single model can either hallucinate non-existent bugs or generate generic advice you end up ignoring. To make local AI code review more useful, I built a closed Reviewer vs. Verifier loop for local Ollama workflows. The Architecture: Two Local Agents, One Loop Instead of trusting one model's output, the workflow splits the job into two roles: Agent 1 (Reviewer): Reads the git diff or file changes. It searches specifical...

Your Secrets Need a VDP, Not Just a Bug Bounty Bug bounty programs are valuable -- until they replace disclosure policies. Learn how unreasonable PoC demands or scope exclusions create security blind spots when it comes to leaked secrets. By Gaetan Ferry • 6 Feb 2026 • 8 min read In recent years, more and more companies have launched bug bounty programs as proof of their commitment to security and as a way to implement continuous monitoring of their corporate attack surface. T...

Ten Breakthroughs in Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (2026) The year 2026 has already witnessed a remarkable confluence of human intuition and machine intelligence, reshaping the landscape of pure and applied mathematics. From formal proof verification to quantum complexity, these ten advances are not just incremental—they are paradigm shifts that will echo for decades. Here's a deep dive into the breakthroughs that have captured the attention of Hacker News and the scientific c...

Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit: The Protocol That Refuses to Die, Now Reborn in C In the pantheon of early network protocols, few have enjoyed the staying power of Kermit. Born in the early 1980s at Columbia University, Kermit was a simple, robust file transfer protocol that conquered the world of dial-up modems, serial ports, and heterogeneous computing. As we mark its 45th anniversary in 2026, the protocol is not just a nostalgic relic—it's being actively reimagined with a brand-new, moder...

Germany's Energy Revolution: Wind and Solar Overtake Fossil Fuels for the First Time In 2026, Germany crossed a historic threshold: for the first time, wind and solar photovoltaic (PV) systems generated more electricity than fossil fuels across the year. This isn't just a statistic—it's a fundamental shift in how Europe's largest economy powers itself. According to data from the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE), renewable sources (wind, solar, hydro, and biomass) contribut...