Article URL: https://buckscountybeacon.com/2026/01/opinion-local-journalism-is-how-democracy-shows-up-close-to-home/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46600850 Points: 4 # Comments: 0...
Hi HN, I built an open-source AI agent that has already indexed and can search the entire Epstein files, roughly 100M words of publicly released documents. The goal was simple: make a large, messy cor...
Article URL: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-rapid-rise-and-slow-decline-of Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605452 Points: 9 # Comments: 1...
Hey HN! We’re Will and Jorge, and we’ve built LAD (Language-Aided Design), a SolidWorks add-in that uses LLMs to create sketches, features, assemblies, and macros from conversational inputs ( https://...
"Diary of a CEO" host Steven Bartlett says he emphasizes character over skills in hiring. Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty Images "The Diary of a CEO" host Steven Bartlett uses a hiring test...
The 'Dark Enlightenment' pundit published a transcript he says shows how easily a chatbot can be steered into echoing a user’s ideology....
exa-d is our internal data processing framework that stores the web in S3. It helps deal with the complexity of data at (web) scale using specific design decisions like declarative typed dependencies ...
This afternoon I wrote some tips on how to present a new* programming language to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608577 . It occurred to me that HN has a tradition of posts called "The {na...
Marvel Studios has officially released the fourth teaser trailer for Avengers: Doomsday after it leaked online last week. The trailer, below, shows off the returning Wakandans. We see Shuri as Black P...
Crypto experts say political pressure on the US Federal Reserve could drive volatility but also shift flows toward Bitcoin and gold in the long run....
Mina Starsiak Hawk and Karen E. Laine starred on "Good Bones." Courtesy of HGTV Mother-daughter duo Mina Starsiak Hawk and Karen E. Laine starred on HGTV's "Good Bones" together. Hawk ...
Sean Hollister demos the Lego Smart Brick at CES. The Lego Smart Brick won our Best in Show award at CES 2026, and it was no wonder after watching Lego designer Maarten Simons' expert demo there. So I...
French farmers steered some 350 tractors on January 11 toward French Parliament to protest low incomes and an EU trade deal with South America that they fear threatens their livelihoods. They say thei...
Hi HN — I built Microwave, a native iOS app for browsing and posting short-form videos, similar to TikTok, but implemented as a pure client on top of Bluesky / AT Protocol. There’s no custom backend: ...
Hi! I've built this because I kept reaching for Celery for simple scheduled tasks and it felt like overkill. I just needed "run this function every hour" or "daily at 9am", not distributed workers. So...
Elon Musk (L) and Sam Altman Getty/BI composite A trial date has been set in Elon Musk's fraud case against Sam Altman. The case is set to go before an Oakland federal jury in April and is expected to...
US president set to meet top aides at the White House about a possible intervention...
Hi HN, In most codebases I’ve worked on, temporary hacks (“TODO: remove later”, “just for this release”) slowly become permanent. Nobody remembers why they exist, but they keep shipping to production....
Reddit's API is effectively dead for archival. Third-party apps are gone. Reddit has threatened to cut off access to the Pushshift dataset multiple times. But 3.28TB of Reddit history exists as a torr...
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War has been in hibernation since 2017, and its most recent installment was far from universally well-received. So when King Art Games was handed the task of bringing it back...