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Apple introduces Apple Creator Studio, a collection of creative apps designed to inspire and empower artists, photographers, and content creators to bring their ideas to life on Apple devices.

The article discusses the importance of local journalism in maintaining a healthy democracy, emphasizing its role in providing in-depth coverage of community issues and holding local leaders accountable.

The president and vice president of Signal, a messaging app, have warned that agentic AI systems are insecure, unreliable, and a surveillance nightmare. They argue that these AI systems pose significant risks and should be approached with caution.

The article discusses the benefits of solar energy and battery storage in 2025, highlighting how they saved the author money and reduced their carbon footprint. It provides a detailed account of the author's experience with solar and batteries over the course of a year, including the financial and environmental impacts.

Reddit's API is effectively dead for archival. Third-party apps are gone. Reddit has threatened to cut off access to the Pushshift dataset multiple times. But 3.28TB of Reddit history exists as a torrent right now, and I built a tool to turn it into something you can browse on your own hardware.

The key point: This doesn't touch Reddit's servers. Ever. Download the Pushshift dataset, run my tool locally, get a fully browsable archive. Works on an air-gapped machine. Works on a Raspberry Pi serving your LAN. Works on a USB drive you hand to someone.

What it does: Takes compressed data dumps from Reddit (.zst), Voat (SQL), and Ruqqus (.7z) and generates static HTML. No JavaScript, no external requests, no tracking. Open index.html and browse. Want search? Run the optional Docker stack with PostgreSQL – still entirely on your machine.

API & AI Integration: Full REST API with 30+ endpoints – posts, comments, users, subreddits, full-text search, aggregations. Also ships with an MCP server (29 tools) so you can query your archive directly from AI tools.

Self-hosting options: - USB drive / local folder (just open the HTML files) - Home server on your LAN - Tor hidden service (2 commands, no port forwarding needed) - VPS with HTTPS - GitHub Pages for small archives

Why this matters: Once you have the data, you own it. No API keys, no rate limits, no ToS changes can take it away.

Scale: Tens of millions of posts per instance. PostgreSQL backend keeps memory constant regardless of dataset size. For the full 2.38B post dataset, run multiple instances by topic.

How I built it: Python, PostgreSQL, Jinja2 templates, Docker. Used Claude Code throughout as an experiment in AI-assisted development. Learned that the workflow is "trust but verify" – it accelerates the boring parts but you still own the architecture.

Live demo: https://online-archives.github.io/redd-archiver-example/

GitHub: https://github.com/19-84/redd-archiver (Public Domain)

Pushshift torrent: https://academictorrents.com/details/1614740ac8c94505e4ecb9d...

The article explores the philosophy of Stoicism, which emphasizes accepting circumstances beyond one's control, focusing on what is within one's power, and cultivating virtues like wisdom, courage, justice, and moderation as a means of achieving tranquility and resilience in the face of life's challenges.

Games Workshop, the company behind the Warhammer franchise, has banned its staff from using AI in content or designs, citing concerns about the technology. The company's senior managers are not currently excited about AI and its potential impact on the business.

Mozilla's open-source AI strategy aims to develop responsible and trustworthy AI systems that empower users, promote transparency, and address societal challenges. The strategy focuses on open-source development, user privacy, and AI governance to ensure AI technology is aligned with Mozilla's mission of an open and accessible internet.

Tulip CC is an open-source cloud-based collaborative coding platform that allows multiple users to work on the same code in real-time. The platform supports a range of programming languages and provides features like real-time code editing, code sharing, and version control.

Hi HN, I’m the creator of SnackBase.

I built this because I work in Healthcare and Life Sciences domain and was tired of spending months building the same "compliant" infrastructure (Audit Logs, Row-Level Security, PII Masking, Auth) before writing any actual product code.

The Problem: Existing BaaS tools (Supabase, Appwrite) are amazing, but they are hard to validate for GxP (FDA regulations) and often force you into a JS/Go ecosystem. I wanted something native to the Python tools I already use.

The Solution: SnackBase is a self-hosted Python (FastAPI + SQLAlchemy) backend that includes:

Compliance Core: Immutable audit logs with blockchain-style hashing (prev_hash) for integrity.

Native Python Hooks: You can write business logic in pure Python (no webhooks or JS runtimes required).

Clean Architecture: Strict separation of layers. No business logic in the API routes.

The Stack:

Python 3.12 + FastAPI

SQLAlchemy 2.0 (Async)

React 19 (Admin UI)

Links:

Live Demo: https://demo.snackbase.dev

Repo: https://github.com/lalitgehani/snackbase

The demo resets every hour. I’d love feedback on the DSL implementation or the audit logging approach.

The article discusses the rise and decline of ChatGPT, an AI language model created by OpenAI. It explores the rapid adoption and excitement around ChatGPT, as well as the challenges and limitations it faces as it becomes more widely used and scrutinized.

This article makes a case for the continued relevance of blogging in the digital age, arguing that it offers a platform for authentic self-expression and meaningful connection in a world increasingly dominated by social media and algorithm-driven content.

The article discusses the potential drawbacks of collaboration in game development, emphasizing that having multiple people work on a game doesn't necessarily lead to better results. It explores the importance of clear communication, a unified vision, and individual responsibility in producing a successful game.

This article explores the growing phenomenon of AI-generated 'influencers' on Instagram who are being used to spread false sex scandals and defamatory content about real-life celebrities, highlighting the potential dangers of this emerging technology.

The article examines the sharp increase in accidental fall-related deaths in the United States, with the rate tripling over the past two decades. It explores potential contributing factors, such as an aging population and the rise in certain underlying health conditions.

I built Nogic, a VSCode extension currently, because AI tools make code grow faster than developers can build a mental model by jumping between files. Exploring structure visually has been helping me onboard to unfamiliar codebases faster.

It’s early and rough, but usable. Would love feedback on whether this is useful and what relationships are most valuable to visualize.

Hi! I've built this because I kept reaching for Celery for simple scheduled tasks and it felt like overkill. I just needed "run this function every hour" or "daily at 9am", not distributed workers.

So it's decorators for scheduling (@scheduler.every(5).minutes, @scheduler.daily.at("09:00")), state saves to JSON so jobs survive restarts, and there's an optional FastAPI dashboard if you want to see what's running.

No Redis, no message broker, runs in-process with your app. Trade-off is it's single process only — if you need distributed workers, stick with Celery.

The University of Minnesota has been banned from contributing to the Linux kernel after researchers submitted patches containing intentional vulnerabilities. The incident has raised concerns about the integrity of open-source software development and the need for robust verification processes.

NASA has demolished the iconic Launch Umbilical Towers used to test Saturn rockets and the Space Shuttle, marking the end of an era in spaceflight history. The towers, which stood tall at the Kennedy Space Center for decades, were taken down to make way for new infrastructure as the agency prepares for future space exploration missions.

The article discusses the concept of 'no management needed' and how companies can thrive without traditional management structures. It explores the benefits of empowering employees, fostering self-organization, and creating a culture of responsibility and accountability.