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The article outlines the contribution guidelines for the Redox operating system project, covering topics such as reporting issues, submitting patches, and code of conduct expectations for contributors.

The article explores the history and development of Lotus 1-2-3, a pioneering spreadsheet software that played a significant role in the early personal computer era. It delves into the software's impact on the industry and its lasting influence on modern spreadsheet applications.

This article chronicles the author's two-year journey of using Emacs as their sole text editor, highlighting the benefits they've experienced, such as increased productivity, customizability, and a deeper understanding of their computing environment.

The article discusses techniques for optimizing Top-K queries, which are used to retrieve the top K elements from a set based on a certain criteria. It explores methods like early stopping, approximation, and parallelization to improve the performance of such queries and make them more efficient.

The article explores a novel approach to procedurally generating complex hexagonal maps using the Wave Function Collapse algorithm. It demonstrates how this technique can be used to create visually appealing and varied landscapes for game development and other applications.

The article debunks the claim that it costs Anthropic $5,000 per user to provide access to the Claude AI, explaining that the actual costs are significantly lower and that the company's pricing is based on various factors, not a fixed per-user cost.

Futile.ch is an online platform that provides resources and tools for individuals and organizations to engage in effective altruism. The website covers a range of topics, including cause prioritization, career advice, and effective giving opportunities.

JSLinux is a web-based virtual machine that allows users to run various Linux distributions directly in their web browser, providing an interactive and portable computing experience.

This article discusses the distinction between legal and legitimate actions, highlighting how something can be legally permissible but not necessarily morally or ethically justified. It explores the nuances of navigating this complex relationship between legality and legitimacy.

Hey HN, I made a site where you can draw on street-level panoramas. Your drawings persist and other people can see them in real time.

Strokes get projected onto the 3D panorama so they wrap around buildings and follow the geometry, not just a flat overlay. Uses WebGL2 for rendering, Mapillary for the street imagery.

The idea is for it to become a global canvas, anyone can leave a mark anywhere and others stumble onto it.

The article discusses Kapwing's experience with paying royalties to artists whose work was used to train their AI model, highlighting the challenges and lessons learned in establishing a fair and sustainable model for compensating creators in the AI-generated art ecosystem.

The article discusses the author's perspective on the concept of quantum supremacy, its implications for the future of quantum computing, and the challenges involved in achieving and verifying this milestone.

The article discusses the concept of compile-time reflection in C++, exploring its advantages and how it can be leveraged to improve performance and code organization. It highlights the use of template metaprogramming techniques to achieve compile-time reflection, which can lead to more efficient and expressive C++ code.

Hi everyone, I am Kumar, co-founder of Dench (https://denchclaw.com). We were part of YC S24, an agentic workflow company that previously worked with sales floors automating niche enterprise tasks such as outbound calling, legal intake, etc.

Building consumer / power-user software always gave me more joy than FDEing into an enterprise. It did not give me joy to manually add AI tools to a cloud harness for every small new thing, at least not as much as completely local software that is open source and has all the powers of OpenClaw (I can now talk to my CRM on Telegram!).

A week ago, we launched Ironclaw, an Open Source OpenClaw CRM Framework (https://x.com/garrytan/status/2023518514120937672?s=20) but people confused us with NearAI’s Ironclaw, so we changed our name to DenchClaw (https://denchclaw.com).

OpenClaw today feels like early React: the primitive is incredibly powerful, but the patterns are still forming, and everyone is piecing together their own way to actually use it. What made React explode was the emergence of frameworks like Gatsby and Next.js that turned raw capability into something opinionated, repeatable, and easy to adopt.

That is how we think about DenchClaw. We are trying to make it one of the clearest, most practical, and most complete ways to use OpenClaw in the real world.

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfACTbc3Bh4#t=43

  npx denchclaw

On Dench, everything sits in a file system, the table filters, views, column toggles, calendar/gantt views, etc, so OpenClaw can directly work with it using Dench’s CRM skill.

The CRM is built on top of DuckDB, the smallest, most performant and at the same time also feature rich database we could find. Thank you DuckDB team!

It creates a new OpenClaw profile called “dench”, and opens a new OpenClaw Gateway… that means you can run all your usual openclaw commands by just prefixing every command with `openclaw --profile dench` . It will start your gateway on port 19001 range. You will be able to access the DenchClaw frontend at localhost:3100. Once you open it on Safari, just add it to your Dock to use it as a PWA.

Think of it as Cursor for your Mac (also works on Linux and Windows) which is based on OpenClaw. DenchClaw has a file tree view for you to use it as an elevated finder tool to do anything on your mac. I use it to create slides, do linkedin outreach using MY browser.

DenchClaw finds your Chrome Profile and copies it fully into its own, so you won’t have to log in into all your websites again. DenchClaw sees what you see, does what you do. It’s an everything app, that sits locally on your mac.

Just ask it “hey import my notion”, “hey import everything from my hubspot”, and it will literally go into your browser, export all objects and documents and put it in its own workspace that you can use.

We would love you all to break it, stress test its CRM capabilities, how it streams subagents for lead enrichment, hook it into your Apollo, Gmail, Notion and everything there is. Looking forward to comments/feedback!

The article discusses DARPA's development of the X-76 aircraft, which aims to combine the speed of a jet with the freedom of movement of a helicopter. The X-76 is designed to provide enhanced mobility and versatility for military and civilian applications.

Hello Hacker News! We're Filip, Stavros, and Vivek from Terminal Use (https://www.terminaluse.com/). We built Terminal Use to make it easier to deploy agents that work in a sandboxed environment and need filesystems to do work. This includes coding agents, research agents, document processing agents, and internal tools that read and write files.

Here's a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttMl96l9xPA.

Our biggest pain point with hosting agents was that you'd need to stitch together multiple pieces: packaging your agent, running it in a sandbox, streaming messages back to users, persisting state across turns, and managing getting files to and from the agent workspace.

We wanted something like Cog from Replicate, but for agents: a simple way to package agent code from a repo and serve it behind a clean API/SDK. We wanted to provide a protocol to communicate with your agent, but not constraint the agent logic or harness itself.

On Terminal Use, you package your agent from a repo with a config.yaml and Dockerfile, then deploy it with our CLI. You define the logic of three endpoints (on_create, on_event, and on_cancel) which track the lifecycle of a task (conversation). The config.yaml contains details about resources, build context, etc.

Out of the box, we support Claude Agent SDK and Codex SDK agents. By support, we mean that we have an adapter that converts from the SDK message types to ours. If you'd like to use your own custom harness, you can convert and send messages with our types (Vercel AI SDK v6 compatible). For the frontend, we have a Vercel AI SDK provider that lets you use your agent with Vercel's AI SDK, and have a messages module so that you don't have to manage streaming and persistence yourself.

The part we think is most different is storage.

We treat filesystems as first-class primitives, separate from the lifecycle of a task. That means you can persist a workspace across turns, share it between different agents, or upload / download files independent of the sandbox being active. Further, our filesystem SDK provides presigned urls which makes it easy for your users to directly upload and download files which means that you don't need to proxy file transfer through your backend.

Since your agent logic and filesystem storage are decoupled, this makes it easy to iterate on your agents without worrying about the files in the sandbox: if you ship a bug, you can deploy and auto-migrate all your tasks to the new deployment. If you make a breaking change, you can specify that existing tasks stay on the existing version, and only new tasks use the new version.

We're also adding support for multi-filesystem mounts with configurable mount paths and read/write modes, so storage stays durable and reusable while mount layout stays task-specific.

On the deployment side, we've been influenced by modern developer platforms: simple CLI deployments, preview/production environments, git-based environment targeting, logs, and rollback. All the configuration you need to build, deploy & manage resources for your agent is stored in the config.yaml file which makes it easy to build & deploy your agent in CI/CD pipelines.

Finally, we've explicitly designed our platform for your CLI coding agents to help you build, test, & iterate with your agents. With our CLI, your coding agents can send messages to your deployed agents, and download filesystem contents to help you understand your agent's output. A common way we test our agents is that we make markdown files with user scenarios we'd like to test, and then ask Claude Code to impersonate our users and chat with our deployed agent.

What we do not have yet: full parity with general-purpose sandbox providers. For example, preview URLs and lower-level sandbox.exec(...) style APIs are still on the roadmap.

We're excited to hear any thoughts, insights, questions, and concerns in the comments below!

The article provides humorous and tongue-in-cheek advice on how to increase one's chances of winning a best paper award at an academic conference, including tips on selecting a catchy title, utilizing jargon, and crafting an abstract that promises groundbreaking results.

The article discusses ongoing research at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) on the collective behavior of microscopic worms called nematodes. The scientists are using advanced imaging techniques to unravel the molecular mechanisms that govern the synchronized movements and social interactions of these tiny organisms.

The article introduces Lisp-Stat, a programming language and environment for statistical computing and data analysis. It provides an overview of Lisp-Stat's features, including its powerful data manipulation capabilities, interactive development environment, and extensive library of statistical functions.

A Florida judge has ruled that red light camera tickets are unconstitutional, finding that the program violates due process rights by shifting the burden of proof to the vehicle owner to prove their innocence.

The article discusses Oracle's financial strategy, which involves taking on significant debt to fund its expansion into cloud computing and other modern technologies, despite concerns from some analysts about the sustainability of this approach.

This article explores the remarkable story of a freezer used to store rare genetic samples at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, highlighting its sophisticated technology, unique design, and its critical role in preserving the world's biodiversity.

Ireland has officially become coal-free, with the closure of its last coal-fired power plant at Moneypoint. This marks a significant milestone in the country's transition to renewable energy and decarbonization of its electricity grid.

This article presents long-term testing results on the longevity of various flash media, including SD cards and USB drives, over a 6-year period. The findings provide insights into the real-world lifespan and durability of these commonly used storage devices.