Most consensus libraries (Raft, Paxos) treat the state machine as a pure black box. This is fine until your state machine needs to actually do something, like charge a credit card, fire a webhook, or ...
What is this? Krowdovi is an open-source platform that lets anyone with a smartphone record first-person navigation videos of indoor spaces - hospitals, airports, malls, universities - and earn tokens...
The author's kids enjoy making crafts out of duct tape and old tractor parts, including her son's robot Robesy, seen here. Courtesy of Bethaney Phillips In the Midwest, when it's cold all winter, I ke...
Googleâs Pixel 10 phones are some of the best Android phones on the market. If youâre taking it easy during the slow, in-between week between Christmas and New Yearâs, nowâs a good time to catch up on...
I built an open source web app that generates cover letters using local AI models (Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM, etc.) so your resume and job application data never leaves your machine. No placeholders. No...
Hi HN, Every year, we ask thousands of readers (and authors) to share their 3 favorite reads of the year. Now you can enter a book/author you love and see what books readers loved who also loved that ...
Sean Combs' private jet, which he is attempting to sell, is available to charter. Paras Griffin/Getty Images Sean "Diddy" Combs sold his Gulfstream G550 private jet. Silver Air Private Jets pr...
Anker just announced three new chargers at CES 2026 , and surprisingly, one of them is already on sale ahead of its launch on January 20th launch. Ankerâs latest 45W Nano Charger , the companyâs first...
Hi HN, I'm Barry and I've built Prism.Tools ( https://blgardner.github.io/prism.tools/ ) â a collection of client-side developer utilities that respect your privacy. Many of these tools were used way ...
Eight hours and more than 10,000 parries later, a Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 superfan is being praised for beating one of the game's toughest bosses in frankly ridiculous conditions. Underpowered but...
The author's kids (not pictured) don't live near their cousins. Sam Edwards/Getty Images When my family moved in 2017, we moved away from my kids' only cousins. Their childhood looks different from mi...
Meta says its $800 glasses are selling out quickly. Meta Meta says there's high demand for its Ray-Ban Display glasses, with waitlists extending into 2026. Meta said Tuesday that it's pausing on a wid...
Tencent's YuanBao apologized after its AI chatbot insulted a user during a coding exchange. Illustration by Sheldon Cooper/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images A popular Chinese AI chatbot lashed ...
BYD container ship. NurPhoto/Getty Images Tesla just lost its status as the world's largest seller of battery EVs to a Chinese rival. BYD took Tesla's crown after Elon Musk's automaker reported its se...
Ankerâs 521 PowerHouse can power up to six devices. Winter storms across the country are bringing heavy snow, rain, and â in some cases, as this Californian who briefly lost power a few days ago can a...
13-year-old student Usman Asif learned vibe coding and competed in Cursor's 24-hour hackathon in Singapore. Lee Chong Ming/Business Insider A 13-year-old and his 18-year-old sister learned vibe coding...
I've spent the last few months working on something I wish I'd had years ago. I kept running into the same issue: CI green, production mail broken. TLS handshake failures, DKIM alignment mismatches, S...
If you have an iPhone, the Apple Watch is the best smartwatch for you. But there was only one Apple Watch when the smartwatch launched in 2015. A decade later, youâve got three flavors to choose from:...
Lego unveiled its upcoming Smart Brick technology at this year's CES. Lego Lego's newly announced Smart Brick is proving polarizing among its fanbase. It's Lego's latest exploration into bringing tech...
From left: Padi and Neema Raphael, partners at Goldman Sachs. Courtesy of Goldman Sachs Neema and Padi Raphael are siblings — and partners at Goldman Sachs. Neema is the chief data officer; Padi...