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A study finds that the majority of renters in the United States are unable to access energy-saving upgrades for their homes, resulting in higher utility costs and a lack of access to the benefits of improved energy efficiency.

The article discusses the escape attempts of East German citizens across the border to West Germany using hot air balloons, highlighting the risks and challenges they faced in their pursuit of freedom during the Cold War era.

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Google Cloud announced the deprecation of .NET NTLMv1 authentication to improve security and protect against attacks like rainbow table attacks. Organizations are advised to transition to more secure authentication methods like NTLMv2 or Azure Active Directory.

The article discusses the benefits of using structured outputs in large language models (LLMs) and provides examples of how structured outputs can be used in various applications, such as question-answering, task-completion, and data generation.

Let's Encrypt announces the upcoming general availability of its 6-day and IP-based certificates, providing users with more flexible and accessible options for HTTPS encryption on their websites.

Related: Scaling long-running autonomous coding - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624541 - Jan 2026 (174 comments)

The article explores Michelangelo's first known painting, a work depicting the temptation of Saint Anthony, discovered in the Basilica of the Holy Cross in Florence. It provides insights into the early artistic development of the renowned Renaissance master.

JustTheBrowser.com is a website that provides a fast, privacy-focused web browsing experience, offering a lightweight browser without distractions or data collection.

This article discusses the implementation of an HTTP rate-limiting system, focusing on its design, use cases, and challenges. It outlines the key components, such as token buckets, and explores strategies for effective rate limiting to ensure fair and reliable API access.

The article describes the development of a lock-picking robot, which uses specialized tools and computer vision to automatically pick various types of locks. The robot is designed to aid in lock-picking research and demonstration, without requiring specialized human skills.

The article explores the concept of 'syntopic reading' using the AI language model Claude. It discusses the potential of this approach to help users efficiently synthesize information from multiple sources and gain a deeper understanding of complex topics.

The article discusses a press release about Nintendo's plans for the Wii console in 2025, including new game announcements, hardware improvements, and efforts to expand the console's user base and appeal to a wider audience.

The article explores the prevalence of 'slop' - defined as waste, excess, or inefficiency - in various aspects of modern life, from homes to businesses to governments. It suggests that being aware of and addressing slop can lead to significant improvements in productivity, cost savings, and overall efficiency.

The article discusses the evolution of WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors, highlighting their history, limitations, and the challenges faced in creating a truly effective WYSIWYG experience. It explores the need for a more powerful and versatile approach to content creation and editing.

Hi I’m Chris, one of the co-founders of Shimmer, and today we’re launching our new app called Indy (https://www.shimmer.care/indy). Indy is an ADHD app for structured planning, reflection, and self-awareness exercises. Here’s a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDSDxyXv6i4.

We started Shimmer in 2022 after my adult ADHD diagnosis, and have shipped several iterations of ADHD support since then (1:1 coaching, web tools, body doubling, and AI-assisted coaching).

Across these launches and 80k coaching sessions, we kept running into the same constraint: “knowing what to do” is rarely the problem for people with ADHD. The harder problem is actually doing it consistently over time, especially when attention, motivation, and emotional state fluctuate.

That maps to a useful distinction that is explored in the literature (e.g. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4589250/): “cool” executive function (future-oriented planning, direction, values) vs. “hot” executive function (in-the-moment emotion, urgency, impulse, overwhelm). Most tools lean hard into managing the latter. Productivity apps push execution, general chatbots give advice, but neither reliably supports the interaction between hot + cold EF across weeks and months.

So we built Indy, an AI support system designed to support both. Here’s an overview of how it works:

Guided future mapping: users are guided to create a structured map of meaningful past experiences, current priorities, and upcoming future moments. This becomes the foundation for personalization so that everything that they do in the app helps move them closer to these goals

Daily + weekly check-ins: users engage in short, low-friction chat flows to set their priorities for the day (most popular use case is brain dumping priorities then having Indy help sort through them). The system does not assume consistency or linear progress, and adapts prompts based on prior behavior rather than enforcing a fixed routine.

Longitudinal insights: over time, Indy surfaces patterns across inputs so users can see trends in effort, focus, and blockers. This helps counter the common ADHD experiences of 1) forgetting what works / doesn’t work, and 2) feeling like “nothing changed”

Problem-solving when stuck: when users report feeling blocked, Indy uses structured, behavior-change-informed prompts to help identify what is actually getting in the way (e.g. energy, clarity, emotional load, environment) and narrow toward a concrete next step

Progress that includes effort: Indy tracks wins, effort, and insights separately, and helps users draw out positive ways that members showed up (e.g. effort, mindset) even on days where no objective outcome was achieved

Why use AI to do this? and why now? Two main reasons: (1) Affordability: Although continuous human support would mostly be better than a tech solution, that level of availability is too expensive for most people. Even weekly coaching (our core product) is still too expensive for many people. A tech solution allows some support rather than none. (2) Personalization: AI makes it possible to build systems that maintain continuity, personalize over time, and respond to context without relying on rigid templates or requiring constant human presence.

The main challenge we’ve experienced using AI for Indy is preventing it from collapsing into generic advice, productivity pressure, or over-automation/reliance. Instead, we’ve focused on using AI as scaffolding and capacity-building: something that supports reflection, problem solving, and accountability, while keeping agency with the user and clear boundaries around non-medical use.

Indy is free to try: https://www.shimmer.care/indy

If you’re building in applied AI, and/or if you have ADHD, we’d love to know: - what other AI tools you’ve tried for ADHD and things you liked vs. felt missing; -how you think about the role of AI vs. human support for ADHD in your life; - how the onboarding and first-use feels and any positive or critical feedback you have.

I’d love to hear your (ADHD) experiences or feedback on Indy.

The article discusses the misconception that Elasticsearch is a database, clarifying that it is a search engine focused on full-text search and analytics, rather than a traditional database management system.

Zep AI, a YCombinator-backed startup, is hiring for various engineering and product roles to develop their cutting-edge artificial intelligence platform that aims to revolutionize the way businesses operate.

The article describes the creation of a 'DrawBot', a small robot that can draw and create art. It explores the design process, hardware components, and software used to build and program the DrawBot, providing a tutorial for readers to create their own customized DrawBot.

Hi, we're Sergey and Serafim. We've been building dev tools at 21st.dev and recently open-sourced 1Code (https://1code.dev), a local UI for Claude Code.

Here's a video of the product: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sgk9Z-nAjC0

Claude Code has been our go-to for 4 months. When Opus 4.5 dropped, parallel agents stopped needing so much babysitting. We started trusting it with more: building features end to end, adding tests, refactors. Stuff you'd normally hand off to a developer. We started running 3-4 at once. Then the CLI became annoying: too many terminals, hard to track what's where, diffs scattered everywhere.

So we built 1Code.dev, an app to run your Claude Code agents in parallel that works on Mac and Web. On Mac: run locally, with or without worktrees. On Web: run in remote sandboxes with live previews of your app, mobile included, so you can check on agents from anywhere. Running multiple Claude Codes in parallel dramatically sped up how we build features.

What’s next: Bug bot for identifying issues based on your changes; QA Agent, that checks that new features don't break anything; Adding OpenCode, Codex, other models and coding agents. API for starting Claude Codes in remote sandboxes.

Try it out! We're open-source, so you can just bun build it. If you want something hosted, Pro ($20/mo) gives you web with live browser previews hosted on remote sandboxes. We’re also working on API access for running Claude Code sessions programmatically.

We'd love to hear your feedback!

The article discusses Optique, a context-aware command-line interface (CLI) completion tool that utilizes machine learning to provide intelligent and personalized suggestions based on the user's command history, workflow, and environment. Optique aims to enhance user productivity and efficiency by offering tailored completion options that adapt to the user's individual needs and preferences.

The article discusses the recent release of Linux kernel 6.0, which brings several improvements, including support for the new AMD Precision Boost Overdrive 2 technology, enhanced security features, and improved handling of hardware failures.

The article discusses the Microsoft Intelligent Graph Visualization Model (IGVM), an open-source library that enables the creation of interactive graph visualizations for large-scale data sets. IGVM provides a scalable and customizable solution for visualizing complex data relationships and networks.

The article explores how the creators of 100x.bot embedded a 3MB data warehouse directly into their browser agent, allowing for advanced analytics and data processing capabilities within the browser itself, without the need for external servers or backend infrastructure.

The article provides an overview of the Psc programming language, a functional programming language designed for concurrent and distributed systems. It highlights Psc's key features, such as its type system, concurrency model, and tooling support, and discusses its potential applications in building scalable and reliable distributed applications.

OpenAI outlines its approach to advertising and expanding access to its AI models, emphasizing the importance of responsible development and deployment to ensure the technology benefits humanity as a whole.