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The article discusses strategies for creating effective software development schedules, emphasizing the importance of realistic estimates, continuous monitoring, and adjusting plans as needed to ensure timely and successful project delivery.

Two KTH students, Anton Osika and Fabian Hedin, have been awarded the KTH Innovation Award 2025 for their work on a new sustainable material made from agricultural waste, which could revolutionize the construction industry.

The article discusses the concept of 'ports and adapters' architecture, which separates an application's core business logic from the details of how it interacts with external systems. It highlights the potential drawbacks of this approach, including increased complexity and the risk of 'death by a thousand ports'.

SnapBench is a benchmarking tool for serverless functions, enabling developers to measure the performance and cost-efficiency of their cloud functions across different cloud providers and configurations.

The article outlines the ESI (Edge Side Includes) language, which is a markup language designed to enable the assembly of web pages from multiple data sources. ESI allows web applications to offload the composition of pages to edge servers, improving performance and scalability.

The article discusses the process of eliciting character information from a frontier model, a type of large language model. It explores techniques for prompting the model to generate detailed and consistent character profiles, focusing on aspects such as personality, backstory, and relationships.

Hugging Face releases Transformers v5.0.0, a major update to their popular natural language processing library. This release introduces new models, improved performance, and enhanced features for building advanced language AI applications.

Clawd.bot is an AI assistant that helps users with a variety of tasks, including scheduling, research, and language translation. The platform aims to provide personalized and efficient assistance through advanced natural language processing and machine learning algorithms.

anno.nvim is a plugin for the Neovim text editor that allows users to easily annotate and take notes on code files. The plugin provides a range of features, including the ability to add annotations, view and navigate them, and export annotations to various formats.

Every note app can read your notes. All of them. They have to, that's how sync works. But what if you don't want that? What if you want notes that are actually private? That's why we built TheSecureNote. When you write something, it gets encrypted in your browser before it ever leaves your device. Your password never touches our servers. We never see what you write. If you forget your password, we can't help you recover it. Not because we're being difficult, but because we literally can't. Your notes are encrypted with a key that only exists in your browser. Nobody can read them without your password. Not us, not hackers, not governments. You pick a username, start writing, and that's it. No email required. No account setup. No tracking pixels. Free forever at thesecurenote.com/yourname. Want a custom domain? Pay once, own it forever. No subscriptions.

Try here: https://thesecurenote.com

The article discusses the Trump administration's approach to regulating artificial intelligence, highlighting its efforts to loosen oversight and encourage AI development, particularly in the transportation sector. It examines the administration's policies and their potential impact on the technological landscape and public oversight.

Malware Museum — a static GitHub Pages site with an interactive timeline of notable malware and security incidents.

I received the following message on YC's workatastartup program

> Looking to Hire Contributors for an Open-Source Project

> Hi [Name], I just reviewed your experience and background, and I think you might be a good fit for our open-source project (github.com/adenhq/hive). It’s a development platform for self-evolving AI agents that run business processes autonomously.

> If you’re interested, please star, fork, and watch the repo, and please create issues and submit pull requests. We’ll review your contributions and follow up with a contract. We pay $25–$55/hour, paid weekly.

> Best,

> Vincent

Today I saw their repo on GitHub's trending repositories page. I checked their star history, and the repo star count more than doubled in the past day.

https://www.star-history.com/#adenhq/hive&type=date&legend=top-left

The article discusses the growing trend of private equity firms consolidating the HVAC industry. It examines how these firms are using acquisitions and mergers to create larger, more efficient HVAC companies that can better serve customers and compete in the market.

This article discusses the touching interaction between Robin Williams and Koko, the famous gorilla known for her ability to communicate using sign language. It highlights the profound connection and empathy shared between the actor and the gorilla during their memorable meeting.

Khabane Lame, a Senegalese TikTok star with over 150 million followers, has sold his company in a $900 million deal, making it one of the biggest influencer acquisitions in history.

The article discusses a free coloring pages generator, which allows users to create custom coloring pages with various designs, themes, and levels of difficulty. The generator provides a user-friendly interface and the ability to download the generated coloring pages for printing or digital use.

My consulting company uses an MCI based model. Now a friend sends me this article (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921344925005592). The employee that developed the models for our company (Circularity specialist) not longer works for use so we can't really evaluate what this means for our models. Is this a real journal? Shall I get my models re-checked or is this just academic noise/junk?

The article presents a study that investigates the impact of a mobile health app on the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in rural areas. The findings suggest that the app can effectively improve patient self-management and clinical outcomes for COPD patients living in underserved regions.

The article compares two approaches to browser automation for AI agents: BrowserBase and Kernel Cloud Browser. It discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each method, such as performance, scalability, and ease of use, to help developers choose the best solution for their AI project requirements.

Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff was a German general who served in the Prussian and German armies during the late 19th century. He held various commanding roles and made significant contributions to the modernization of military tactics and organization.

I don't mind keeping my macbook awake all the time to be able to do this.

Hi HN,

I built AffordWhere to answer a question I kept running into: “If I earn X, where can I actually afford to live comfortably?”

The site lets you compare cities based on income, rent, taxes, and day-to-day costs, and see how far a salary realistically goes in each place.

It’s intentionally simple:

Focused on affordability rather than averages

Designed for relocation and remote-work decisions

No account required

I’d appreciate feedback on:

Whether the affordability framing is useful

Missing cost factors you’d expect

Data accuracy or methodology concerns

Link: https://affordwhere.com

Thanks for taking a look.

Hey HN, I built a small tool to automate failed payment recovery for Stripe subscriptions.

Context: I run a SaaS on the side and got tired of losing customers to expired cards. Stripe's built-in retries help but the recovery rate is meh. I wanted something that would ping customers via email and SMS right when a payment fails, with a fresh billing portal link.

It's a native Stripe app so setup is just OAuth, no webhooks to configure manually.

Stack is Next.js, uses Stripe's billing portal API to generate session links on the fly (so no expired links).

Still early, looking for feedback from anyone running subscriptions on Stripe. Free access for early testers.

Curious what others are using for this. I looked at Churn Buster and Dunning but they're overkill (and expensive) for small SaaS.

Starting January 2026, Gmail is removing support for POP3 and Gmailify. This means millions of people who rely on Gmail to consolidate emails from other accounts will suddenly lose features like spam protection, inbox categories, and advanced search on their third-party emails.

If you manage multiple email accounts, how are you planning to keep all your emails flowing smoothly to Gmail or elsewhere? Are you switching to forwarding, using other clients, or something else entirely?

Would love to hear how the community is adapting to this change.