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Playa Phone

Article URL: https://playaphone.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510514 Points: 86 # Comments: 28
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ChatGPT to face tougher regulation in the EU

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/986682/openai-chatgpt-eu-dsa Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510517 Points: 10 # Comments: 4
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Agentic Trust Controls

Article URL: https://trustcontrols.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510612 Points: 11 # Comments: 1
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Launch HN: Hebbian Robotics (YC S26) – Build scalable robotics data pipelines

Hi HN, we’re Brandon and Kingston, the founders of Hebbian Robotics. We built HFlow ( https://github.com/Hebbian-Robotics/hflow ), an SDK that turns multimodal recordings from robots and human operators into standardized, quality-checked episodes and queryable dataset manifests. A recording can contain synchronized video, joint states, actions, timestamps, and metadata, and HFlow processes those streams together. Here’s a demo of HFlow in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xni0GwV-xAw Rob...
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Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company

Hi HN, I'm Kushagra, one of three founders of Almanac, a Hermes with a brain that knows everything about your company. We started our journey with setting up Hermes for our company, thinking it must be easy. We wanted an agent that would know every context about our company, so we could ask questions and get context-appropriate responses to. This started a very annoying and difficult journey. Setting up Hermes, getting it to talk right, building OAuth apps for every connector myself, then feedin...
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I Tried 5 Free LLM APIs With One Python Script

I wanted to find a free LLM API for small tools and experiments. There are many lists online, but free plans change often. Some model names and limits were already old when I checked them. So I opened new accounts and tried five providers myself: Groq Google AI Studio OpenRouter Cloudflare Workers AI Token Harbor I did not add a credit card to any account. I used the same Python script and the same two tasks as much as possible. One disclosure: I work with Token Harbor...
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VPS Price Per GB of RAM: 711 Plans Across 39 Hosts

A gigabyte of RAM on a virtual server costs \$0.47 per month. It also costs \$58.00 per month. Same unit, same billing period, both prices live on 31 August 2026. We priced every plan in our database that publishes a RAM figure: 711 active VPS and cloud plans from 39 providers, EUR prices converted to USD, everything normalised to dollars per gigabyte per month. The median came out at exactly \$6.00. Half the market sits above that line, half below, and the distance between the two ends is 12...
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Why I Stopped Using JSON Tool-Calling for My Coding Agent

A few months ago I needed an agentic coding assistant inside a internal CI repair tool I was building. The obvious move was to embed something that already exists — Claude Code, or Google's Antigravity SDK. Both work well. Neither one gets you what you actually need once you're shipping a product on top of it. Claude Code isn't embeddable as infrastructure. You can shell out to it, but you don't own the runtime, the protocol, or the failure modes. Antigravity gets you closer, it's an SDK you ...
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Building a social app around verdicts instead of likes

I’m currently building Callout, a social debate app based on a simple question: what happens when opinions receive meaningful verdicts instead of generic likes? Every opinion can be judged as Based or a Hot Take . The aim is to make reactions more expressive while keeping the interaction quick. The interesting development challenge is balancing simplicity with enough personality to make people want to participate. I’m sharing the project as I build it and would appreciate feedback fr...
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I Accidentally Deleted Our Production S3 Bucket — Here's What Happened in the Next 4 Hours

I Accidentally Deleted Our Production S3 Bucket — Here's What Happened in the Next 4 Hours The command ran in under a second. The recovery took 4 hours. Here's the full story, what we lost, what we saved, and what we now have in place so it can never happen again. There's a moment every cloud engineer dreads. The cursor blinks. The command runs. And then a silence that feels different from normal silence. aws s3 rb s3://my-app-production-uploads --force I was...
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Teaching a local coding agent from its own mistakes: DPO on a 30B model

The WUIC Assistant is our agentic VS Code plugin: it scaffolds Angular components, dashboards, reports, workflows, and metadata patches for apps built on the WUIC framework. Under the hood it runs qwen3-coder:30b — a Mixture-of-Experts model with ~3B active parameters — served locally through Ollama on a single RTX 4090. No API calls, no data leaving the machine. For weeks the plugin had been sitting at 100% on its curriculum : 32 tasks, five green runs each, a 96/96 regression suite. ...
Building Needflare: An Autonomous Disaster Intelligence & Logistics Agent with Gemini 3.7, Gemma 4 & Google Veo
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Building Needflare: An Autonomous Disaster Intelligence & Logistics Agent with Gemini 3.7, Gemma 4 & Google Veo

This article was created for the purposes of entering the Google Cloud: All Things Agentic Hackathon. In catastrophic natural disasters like flash floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes, cellular networks collapse and emergency dispatchers are overwhelmed with thousands of fragmented, panic-driven field messages. Volunteers trying to coordinate over open radio frequencies or mesh airwaves risk leaking sensitive Personally Identifiable Information (PII) such as phone numbers, names, and vulnerab...
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Free AWS Certification for Students: The Complete Step-by-Step Guide

👋 Hey there! I'm Sarvar , a Cloud Architect who spends most days building on AWS and Azure, and the rest writing about it. Last year I wrote a guide on getting a free AWS certification voucher. Around 85,000 of you read it. You can still see it here: Unlocking Free AWS Certifications: Your Step-by-Step Guide . Then AWS closed that program (the old AWS Educate ETC route), and for the next year my comment section became a support desk. The same questions came up again and again: "my voucher got ...
I Turned GitHub Contribution Graphs into an Animated Minecraft Tree 🌳
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I Turned GitHub Contribution Graphs into an Animated Minecraft Tree 🌳

I made gh-tree — a GitHub Action that turns your GitHub activity into an animated Minecraft tree. How it works Fetches Your Stats : Uses GitHub's GraphQL API to pull your recent commits, pull requests, and PR reviews. Generates Pixel Art : Dynamically maps stats to 14 leaf blocks, flowers, and apples rendered via WebAssembly ( resvg-wasm ). Auto-Commits : Builds a transparent animated GIF and updates your README.md daily. 🍃 Leaves = Weekly commits (drives fo...
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Wow, We Gained 10+ Users 😂 — So I Kept Updating Rizzzler

A little while ago, I wrote about launching Rizzzler, my open-source project. At that point, 7 users had signed up in my another post Now? We're at 11 users. 🎉 Okay, technically that's only 4 more users... But still — 10+ users! 😂 For a small project built and deployed with basically no marketing budget, I'm honestly pretty happy about it. But the more interesting part isn't the number. It's what happened after people started giving feedback. Instead of just adding r...
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Score Your Free AI Code Reviewer Before You Trust It: A Server-Side Experiment

Free AI models are great for code review until you realize they disagree with themselves. Last week I ran a small experiment on MonkeyCode's free models using their free server, and the results changed how I use AI in my daily workflow. The short version: you can rely on free AI code review, but only after you score its output for consistency and correctness. Disclosure: This article was prepared as part of MonkeyCode's product outreach. Why I Stopped Asking Which Model Is Best? ...
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Forgotten Python Framework #1: Bottle

In an era where bootstrapping a basic web application often requires downloading a huge framework or navigating complex dependency trees, there's a quiet, radical alternative in the Python ecosystem. Bottle. Many new Python developers probably haven't heard of it. And some might think the framework must be forgotten by now. Well! No. Bottle is a fast, simple, and lightweight WSGI micro web framework for Python. It was developed by Marcel Hellkamp, aka defnull, and released in 2009. He buil...
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uv: Deduplicate all files in the wheel cache

Article URL: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/pull/21327 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49506142 Points: 66 # Comments: 11
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Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode

Article URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2026/breaking-claude-code-opus-5-and-automode/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49506819 Points: 109 # Comments: 27
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OpenShot 4.0: Record, Edit, and Color Like Never Before

Article URL: https://www.openshot.org/blog/2026/08/30/openshot-40-record-edit-color-like-never-before/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49507822 Points: 120 # Comments: 30
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A CVE Dispute

Article URL: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/06/24/a-cve-dispute/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49508290 Points: 26 # Comments: 0