Dawnguard Raises $6.3M Led by BNVT Capital as AI-Code Vulnerabilities Jump 13x in a Quarter
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Dawnguard Raises $6.3M Led by BNVT Capital as AI-Code Vulnerabilities Jump 13x in a Quarter

Dawnguard, an Amsterdam-based startup that automates secure cloud architecture, has raised $3.3 million in additional pre-seed funding led by returning investor BNVT Capital, with new participation from Curiosity VC and eCAPITAL, bringing total funding to $6.3 million. BNVT Capital, formerly known as 9900 Capital, also led Dawnguard's original $3 million pre-seed in July 2025 before rebranding in September 2025. Alongside the raise, Dawnguard announced the general availability of its platform an...
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Winamp Skin Museum

Article URL: https://skins.webamp.org Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48760840 Points: 67 # Comments: 36
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Show HN: Mail Memories – A desktop app to rescue photos from Gmail

Hey HN, I’m the creator of Mail Memories. Like many of you, I've had my Gmail address for more than 20 years. A few years ago, I got curious and wanted to see what photos were buried deep in my account. I ended up finding lots of "lost" pictures of old friends, family members, and a ridiculous number of vintage memes. I originally built and launched this as a SaaS, but even with code and policies in place that kept users' photos private, I figured everyone would feel more comfortable with a desk...
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Launch HN: Manufact (YC S25) – MCP Cloud

Hi HN, we are Pietro and Luigi, cofounders of Manufact ( https://manufact.com ), a cloud for MCP apps and servers. We used to be called mcp-use, and still build open source SDKs for MCP under that name: https://github.com/mcp-use/mcp-use . We did a Show HN about that last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44747229 . Today we want to tell you about our cloud product, Manufact, which is to mcp-use as Vercel is to Next.js. Manufact is an MCP vertical cloud designed for dev teams putting ...
How Trump Helped China Make America’s Cheapest EV
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How Trump Helped China Make America’s Cheapest EV

Slate is the latest automaker to transition to lower-cost batteries perfected in China, driven in part by the repeal of EV tax credits that required materials to be sourced domestically.
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Amazon has enough satellites to launch its Starlink competitor

Amazon says it now has enough satellites operating in low-Earth orbit to light up its Starlink internet competitor. With last night's launch, Amazon Leo has 396 satellites deployed, which is "enough to support continuous service across initial latitudes," according to Chris Weber, VP heading up business and product for Amazon Leo. That puts the company […]
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OpenAI floats giving Trump administration 5 percent cut of AI boom

OpenAI has floated giving the US government a 5 percent ownership stake as a way of easing tensions with the Trump administration and blunting mounting public backlash against AI, according to the Financial Times. CEO Sam Altman argued that giving the public a financial interest in the company would be the best way to share […]
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BitTorrent’s disastrous, legendary, and controversial story

Twenty-five years ago today, a young, little-known programmer by the name of Bram Cohen fired off a short message to a mailing list for peer-to-peer enthusiasts. "My new app, BitTorrent, is now in working order, check it out here," Cohen wrote, followed by a link to his personal website. "What's BitTorrent, Bram?" the founder of […]
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Yep, we’re using OpenClaw to date now

Ben Guez has "a bunch of potential international wives in [his] DMs," thanks to an automated script he set up using OpenClaw, Claude code, and Instagram trials.
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Complete guide to Angular lazy loading in 2026

Lazy loading is one of the highest-leverage performance techniques in Angular. Done well, it can cut your initial bundle by 40–60%, dramatically improve Time to Interactive, and make your app feel fast even as it grows. Done poorly, it becomes a source of subtle bugs, missed splits, and false confidence. This guide covers everything, from the fundamentals of route-level splitting to @defer blocks, preloading strategies, and bundle auditing, using the patterns that work in Angular 17+ with s...
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AI-Powered Language Learning Platform: Lessons We Learned

Building an AI-Powered Language Learning Platform: Lessons We Learned When we started building Mocko.ai , we weren't trying to create another language learning app. We wanted to solve a problem we kept seeing among language exam candidates: people were spending countless hours practicing but still had no idea whether they were actually improving. Most preparation platforms rely on static exercises and answer keys. They tell you whether an answer is right or wrong, but they rarely expla...
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Capabilities, permissions, and approval gates in AI developer teams

There is a shortcut in AI tooling that looks convenient at first. We connect a tool, an MCP server, a GitHub integration, a local command runner, or a task tracker. After that, the interface starts to suggest that the agent now "can" work with repositories, tasks, pull requests, files, and commands. But for a serious team, that is not enough. Technical ability is not the same as permission. And even an allowed action may still need a human decision. That is why NexFlow separates thes...