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The article discusses the recent airstrikes between Afghanistan and Pakistan, highlighting the escalating tensions and the risk of open war between the two countries over cross-border attacks and the Taliban's control of Afghanistan.

Returns real-time and verified email addresses and phone numbers of businesses anywhere.

How it works: autoexpanding queries on Google Maps businesses and associated websites (email enrichment).

The article discusses the author's experience using the AI assistant Claude for a month, highlighting its capabilities in areas such as writing, analysis, and problem-solving, while also addressing its limitations and the author's overall assessment of the AI's performance.

The article details the author's personal journey and motivation behind starting the Placing Stones blog, which focuses on exploring the intersection of technology, philosophy, and personal growth.

The 'hn-jump' repository provides a browser extension that allows users to quickly navigate Hacker News stories by jumping between comments, links, and other page elements. The extension aims to enhance the browsing experience on Hacker News by making navigation more efficient and intuitive.

This article explores how large language models (LLMs) can be effectively used for SQL tasks, highlighting their ability to generate complex SQL queries, troubleshoot issues, and explain query results in a human-readable format.

Helps to understand the structure of a codebase. More about it here: https://tangleguard.com/

The FlyTrap system uses an umbrella-like device to disable autonomous targeting drones by disrupting their guidance sensors. This innovative countermeasure provides a lightweight and portable solution to protect against potential drone threats.

Pitch An App (https://www.pitchanapp.com) is a platform where users submit app ideas, the community votes on them, and ideas that hit the vote threshold get built.

Submitters earn revenue share when their app generates income. Voters get 50% off forever.

9 apps have been built through the platform so far.

The core assumption: non-technical people have good software ideas but no way to act on them. Community voting serves as demand validation before any development starts.

Honest limitations: the vote threshold model means only popular ideas get built, so niche-but-valuable ideas might not make the cut. Working on ways to address that.

Happy to answer questions about the model or the tech.

This article explores the concept of 'hacking' one's own real estate agent to improve the home-buying process, including strategies for negotiating commissions, leveraging data, and building a collaborative relationship with the agent.

Salut / Hello everyone,

I’m currently building a small financial tracking app for rental owners and I’m hitting a wall regarding banking integration in Switzerland.

In the EU, there are a lot of cheap and easy solutions which made things somewhat affordable, but here it feels like the "Wild West" (or rather, the "Expensive East").

I've looked into SIX bLink, seems to be the gold standard, but the entry barrier for a small bootstrap project is huge (onboarding costs + monthly minimums).

My question: Has anyone found a workaround or a "lightweight" provider that doesn't cost a lot, just to get read-only access to transaction history for the main Swiss banks (UBS, Raiffeisen, ZKB, PostFinance)?

Is there a Swiss-specific aggregator I’m missing, or maybe a way to leverage the "Common API" initiative without breaking the bank?

I’m currently stuck with CSV imports (which works but the UX is... 2010), and I'd love to offer a more "2026" experience.

Thanks for any tips or leads!

The article discusses a new compression technique called Cascading Compression with BTRBlocks, which leverages the unique properties of the BTR file system to achieve high compression ratios while maintaining fast decompression speeds. The technique involves dividing data into blocks and applying multiple layers of compression to achieve significant space savings.

I made a tool for discovering new music which links to artists bandcamp pages and eventually to your own records listed on the site. I want to have an intuitive and simple way to discover, buy and sell records. Looking for any and all feedback.

Tesla is experiencing a collapse in delivery times for its vehicles in China, suggesting a decline in demand. The article also discusses how this trend may impact Tesla's financing options and overall business.

The article discusses the development of Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) Transformers, a novel neural network architecture that improves the efficiency and performance of large language models by dividing the network into specialized sub-networks or 'experts'. The article explores the benefits of MoE Transformers, such as increased capacity, faster inference, and improved task-specific performance.

Netflix has struck deals with Warner Bros. and Paramount to add their content to the streaming platform, diversifying its offerings and strengthening its position in the competitive streaming market.

The article discusses the ongoing debate surrounding the copyright status of Piet Mondrian's artwork, which some argue should be in the public domain but remains protected by copyright in certain countries. It examines the complexities of copyright law and the challenges of determining the public domain status of artworks created by long-deceased artists.

Is the ocean to your left or to you right?

I asked this question to multiple LLM.

ChatGPT: Wrong but reasoned itself back to being correct.

Gemini: Correct.

Grok: Using expert it got the right answer after 35s.

Claude Sonnet 4.6: Confidently incorrect.

Screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/7pmcoWr

The article discusses the importance of maintaining a healthy work-life balance, emphasizing the need for individuals to set boundaries and prioritize their well-being to avoid burnout and maintain productivity in the long run.

I have been using Claude Code lately, and I hated seeing my daily/weekly API quotas go to waste during downtime. So I built ALBA, a system designed to turn that idle power into digital assets.

How it works: ALBA is an autonomous software factory that runs through Claude Code. You join as a worker node, and the system orchestrates Claude Code to build, test, and deploy functional micro-MVPs like tools, landing pages, and small SaaS.

The Credit and Auction Model:

Contribute: Run a command through Claude Code to power an AI agent task.

Earn: You receive ALBA Credits proportional to the tokens and compute you provided.

Bid: Use those credits in our Auction House to bid on unique software built by the collective.

To make the discovery process more intuitive, I added an "Explore" feature that works like a vertical feed (similar to Shorts). You can quickly cycle through live demos of everything the factory has produced so far. It helps users visualize the "Asset" they are about to bid on.

Exclusive Ownership: This is the "burn" logic I am most excited about: if you win an auction, you get the source code, and the demo environment is hard-deleted from our servers forever. You own a unique piece of software with zero duplicates.

Tech Stack: - Frontend: Next.js (Vercel) - Backend: Java Spring Boot (GCP Cloud Run) - Database: Supabase/Firestore

Agent Orchestration: via Claude Code CLI

I would love to hear your thoughts on this "Token-to-Asset" arbitrage and the viability of credit-based auctions for exclusive code.

The article discusses Treekei, an open-source project that aims to build a fast and scalable distributed key-value store. It highlights Treekei's design, features, and performance advantages compared to other popular key-value stores.

NASA is restructuring its Artemis program to accelerate the return of astronauts to the Moon. The changes include streamlining decision-making, increasing collaboration with commercial partners, and focusing on critical path milestones to deliver the first Artemis mission as soon as possible.

The article discusses the development of a control plane for a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) called Gastown. The control plane is designed to facilitate the governance and decision-making processes of the DAO, enabling members to participate in the management of the organization.

This article explores the concept of 'houseplant programming' - using the care and cultivation of houseplants as an analogy for software development. It discusses the similarities between growing plants and maintaining software systems, such as the need for consistent attention, patience, and flexibility.

The article discusses the concept of 'toxic combinations' in cybersecurity, where seemingly harmless individual vulnerabilities can create critical security risks when combined. It highlights the importance of adopting a holistic approach to security and examining potential interactions between different components and systems.