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The article explores the potential of grid-scale energy storage systems, which can store renewable energy for later use, helping to balance the grid and support the transition to a more sustainable energy future.

The article discusses the rise of niri Danklinux, a unique scrolling window manager that offers a novel approach to desktop management, challenging traditional window managers and providing a more immersive user experience.

The PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project is an ambitious effort to recreate the PS2 hardware using modern components, resulting in improved performance and features compared to the original console. The project aims to preserve the legacy of the PS2 by providing an enhanced emulation experience for classic games.

Google's Project Genie explores using large language models to assist humans in creative tasks like writing stories, designing products, and solving problems, with the goal of enhancing human intelligence and capabilities.

The article discusses the benefits of reading books and how it can improve cognitive abilities, empathy, and overall well-being. It encourages readers to incorporate more reading into their daily lives and provides tips for building a reading habit.

The article discusses the development of a language model called Claude, which is designed to improve upon existing models by enhancing safety, transparency, and alignment with human values. It highlights the importance of responsible AI development and the efforts to create more trustworthy and ethical artificial intelligence systems.

The article discusses Vercel's evaluation of language models for their agent-based system, finding that Anthropic's Agents.MD model outperforms traditional skills-based approaches in tasks such as paraphrasing, summarization, and question answering. The article highlights the advantages of the agent-based approach in terms of flexibility, generality, and task performance.

The article discusses the concept of 'backseat software', where developers have limited control over the systems they build and must work within the constraints of existing technologies and frameworks. It explores the challenges and frustrations that can arise when developers cannot directly influence the underlying infrastructure or software components they rely on.

The article explores a peculiar phenomenon where a person's Wi-Fi connection only works when it's raining, highlighting the unexpected impact weather conditions can have on wireless technology and the need for further research in this area.

Starlink, SpaceX's satellite internet service, has announced the launch of its new 'Stargaze' feature, allowing users to view satellite constellations and other celestial objects in real-time through the Starlink app. The feature aims to enhance the stargazing experience for Starlink customers.

Flameshot is an open-source, cross-platform screenshot tool that provides advanced features such as annotation, editing, and sharing capabilities. It offers a user-friendly interface and is available for various operating systems, making it a versatile choice for capturing and manipulating screenshots.

The article discusses the growing use of ChatGPT and other AI language models by federal agencies, particularly the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the potential opportunities and challenges this presents in terms of improving productivity and security, while also highlighting the need for responsible AI governance and oversight.

The article examines the widespread use of AI chatbots in China, particularly their deployment in the healthcare sector to assist patients. It explores the benefits and potential drawbacks of these conversational AI systems in the Chinese context.

Hey HN, we're Haakam, Michael, and Adi. We're building AgentMail (https://agentmail.to), the email inbox API for agents. We’re not talking about AI for your email, this is email for your AI.

Email is an optimal interface for long-running agents. It’s multithreaded and asynchronous with full support for rich text and files. It’s a universal protocol with identity and authentication built in. Moreover, a lot of workflow critical context already lives in email.

We wanted to build email agents that you can forward your work to and get back a completed task. The agents could act entirely autonomously as you wouldn't need to delegate your identity. If they did get stuck they could just send you, or anyone else, an email.

Using Gmail, we kept getting stuck on the limitations of their API. No way to create inboxes programmatically. Rate and sending limits. OAuth for every single inbox. Keyword search that doesn't understand context. Per-seat pricing that doesn't work for agents.

So we built what we wished existed: an email provider for developers. APIs for creating inboxes and configuring domains. Email parsing and threading. Text extraction from attachments. Realtime webhooks and websockets. Semantic search across inboxes. Usage-based pricing that works for agents.

Developers, startups, and enterprises are already deploying email agents with AgentMail. Agents that convert conversations and documents into structured data. Agents that source quotes, negotiate prices, and get the best deals. Agents that emulate internet users for training models on end-to-end tasks.

Here's demo of Clawdbots communicating using AgentMail: https://youtu.be/Y0MfUWS3LKQ

You can get started with AgentMail for free at https://agentmail.to

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and feedback.

Hey! I'm eshaan and I'm building Ourguide -an on-screen task guidance system that can show you where to click step-by-step when you need help.

I started building this because whenever I didn’t know how to do something on my computer, I found myself constantly tabbing between chatbots and the app, pasting screenshots, and asking “what do I do next?” Ourguide solves this with two modes. In Guide mode, the app overlays your screen and highlights the specific element to click next, eliminating the need to leave your current window. There is also Ask mode, which is a vision-integrated chat that captures your screen context—which you can toggle on and off anytime -so you can ask, "How do I fix this error?" without having to explain what "this" is.

It’s an Electron app that works OS-wide, is vision-based, and isn't restricted to the browser.

Figuring out how to show the user where to click was the hardest part of the process. I originally trained a computer vision model with 2300 screenshots to identify and segment all UI elements on a screen and used a VLM to find the correct icon to highlight. While this worked extremely well—better than SOTA grounding models like UI Tars—the latency was just too high. I'll be making that CV+VLM pipeline OSS soon, but for now, I’ve resorted to a simpler implementation that achieves <1s latency.

You may ask: if I can show you where to click, why can't I just click too? While trying to build computer-use agents during my job in Palo Alto, I hit the core limitation of today’s computer-use models where benchmarks hover in the mid-50% range (OSWorld). VLMs often know what to do but not what it looks like; without reliable visual grounding, agents misclick and stall. So, I built computer use—without the "use." It provides the visual grounding of an agent but keeps the human in the loop for the actual execution to prevent misclicks.

I personally use it for the AWS Console's "treasure hunt" UI, like creating a public S3 bucket with specific CORS rules. It’s also been surprisingly helpful for non-technical tasks, like navigating obscure settings in Gradescope or Spotify. Ourguide really works for any task when you’re stuck or don't know what to do.

You can download and test Ourguide here: https://ourguide.ai/downloads

The project is still very early, and I’d love your feedback on where it fails, where you think it worked well, and which specific niches you think Ourguide would be most helpful for.

The article discusses the process of creating an introduction or 'skapa intro' for a personal website or online portfolio, emphasizing the importance of a strong first impression and providing practical tips for crafting an engaging and effective introduction.

The article discusses the impact of the ongoing RAM shortage on small VPS (Virtual Private Server) hosts. It highlights the challenges these hosts face in obtaining sufficient RAM for their servers, which is essential for providing reliable and high-performance services to their customers.

The article discusses how many population numbers reported by governments and organizations are often inaccurate or fabricated, highlighting the challenges in obtaining reliable demographic data, especially in developing countries with limited resources and infrastructure.

Hi HN, I've been building Mystral Native — a lightweight native runtime that lets you write games in JavaScript/TypeScript using standard Web APIs (WebGPU, Canvas 2D, Web Audio, fetch) and run them as standalone desktop apps. Think "Electron for games" but without Chromium. Or a JS runtime like Node, Deno, or Bun but optimized for WebGPU (and bundling a window / event system using SDL3).

Why: I originally started by starting a new game engine in WebGPU, and I loved the iteration loop of writing Typescript & instantly seeing the changes in the browser with hot reloading. After getting something working and shipping a demo, I realized that shipping a whole browser doesn't really work if I also want the same codebase to work on mobile. Sure, I could use a webview, but that's not always a good or consistent experience for users - there are nuances with Safari on iOS supporting WebGPU, but not the same features that Chrome does on desktop. What I really wanted was a WebGPU runtime that is consistent & works on any platform. I was inspired by deno's --unsafe-webgpu flag, but I realized that deno probably wouldn't be a good fit long term because it doesn't support iOS or Android & doesn't bundle a window / event system (they have "bring your own window", but that means writing a lot of custom code for events, dealing with windowing, not to mention more specific things like implementing a WebAudio shim, etc.). So that got me down the path of building a native runtime specifically for games & that's Mystral Native.

So now with Mystral Native, I can have the same developer experience (write JS, use shaders in WGSL, call requestAnimationFrame) but get a real native binary I can ship to players on any platform without requiring a webview or a browser. No 200MB Chromium runtime, no CEF overhead, just the game code and a ~25MB runtime.

What it does: - Full WebGPU via Dawn (Chrome's implementation) or wgpu-native (Rust) - Native window & events via SDL3 - Canvas 2D support (Skia), Web Audio (SDL3), fetch (file/http/https) - V8 for JS (same engine as Chrome/Node), also supports QuickJS and JSC - ES modules, TypeScript via SWC - Compile to single binary (think "pkg"): `mystral compile game.js --include assets -o my-game` - macOS .app bundles with code signing, Linux/Windows standalone executables - Embedding API for iOS and Android (JSC/QuickJS + wgpu-native)

It's early alpha — the core rendering path works well & I've tested on Mac, Linux (Ubuntu 24.04), and Windows 11, and some custom builds for iOS & Android to validate that they can work, but there's plenty to improve. Would love to get some feedback and see where it can go!

MIT licensed.

Repo: https://github.com/mystralengine/mystralnative

Docs: https://mystralengine.github.io/mystralnative/

The article discusses the work of Peter Fritz, an architect who created over 387 paper model houses without any specific purpose or location in mind. These houses represent an unconscious, imaginative town that exists only in Fritz's mind, providing a unique glimpse into the creative process of an architect.

The article discusses Cloudflare's new open-source project, MoltWorker, which enables users to self-host an AI agent that can handle natural language tasks. MoltWorker is designed to provide a more private and customizable alternative to cloud-based AI services, allowing users to run the AI agent on their own infrastructure.

The article explores the mathematical concept of tessellation, which involves the arrangement of shapes to cover a surface without gaps or overlaps. It discusses the historical development of tessellation, its various types, and its applications in art, architecture, and design.

The article discusses the emergence of hybrid home computers in the mid-2020s, which combined the portability of smartphones with the computational power of traditional desktops, and explores the implications of this convergence of technologies for the future of personal computing.

Nannou is an open-source creative coding framework for the Rust programming language, designed to facilitate the creation of multimedia applications, including audiovisual performances, interactive installations, and generative art.

This article explores the growing trend of software-centric solutions in various industries, highlighting how software has become an essential component in delivering products and services. It discusses the advantages and challenges of this shift towards a software-driven world.

Turso is an SQLite-based, self-hosted, and open-source content management system that aims to provide an easy-to-use and developer-friendly alternative to traditional CMS platforms, enabling users to build and deploy websites, blogs, and other web applications with simplicity and flexibility.

Reflex, a Y Combinator-backed company, is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for its infrastructure team. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing and building scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure to support Reflex's growing product offerings.

A county in Ohio paid $600,000 to a security firm after arresting its employees for assessing the security of a courthouse, highlighting the risks and legal complexities surrounding ethical hacking and penetration testing activities.