When did Google get so weird?

Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock

Ember-1

Coding Is Not Solved

The problem is not AI code, but not knowing about system architecture or intent

Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC

MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta

Pirating the Pirates

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Footguns with Postgres “at time zone 'UTC'”

37,500 border drawings: a map of the world as people remember it

Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain

Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat

Definitely not Windows (Win 11 parody)

Fridge magnet shopping list on an M5Stack PaperMono (ESP32-S3, e-ink
touchscreen), synced with a phone web app over Wi-Fi. Works offline,
~2,400 lines of C++.This is a great wee device! BLE, Wi-Fi and LoRa on one board makes it flexible
for way more than a shopping list, this is just what I built first. This
firmware only uses Wi-Fi.Fully vibe-coded with Claude Code, I didn&#x27;t hand-write this. I wanted to see
how Claude would get on with building something useful for a new hardware device.As it&#x27;s stuck to the fridge it&#x27;s easy for the family to use, and it&#x27;s already being used day to day which I&#x27;ll admit is a first for a home built project like this

Show HN: PaperMono, e-ink fridge magnet shopping list with mobile web page

Hijacking the PS5's RTMP Stream

What Would a Serious AI Product Look Like?

A webassembly web based app that help editing raster and vector on browser without any subscription or signups

Show HN: Free alternative to graphics design giants

Hi HN, I’m Per, founder of Scrimba (YC S20). We’ve spent the last decade teaching people how to code with an HTML-based video format. We’ve now plugged an LLM into it, so that people can create explainer videos about anything. It’s called “Scrimba Explain”.To demo this technology for Hacker News, we built HN.watch. It’s like HN, but with explainer videos instead of articles. We create them on-the-fly the first time someone clicks on a link.While there are obvious visual drawbacks of using HTML instead of diffusion models, there are three big benefits: - Speed: Much faster to generate than pixel-based videos (just a few seconds from click to playback) - Cost: Our cost per video is ~$0.04. (Excluding image generation, which some videos utilize. Quickly blows up the cost) - Easy editing: the above benefits also make AI-assisted editing cheap &amp; fastOur hypothesis is that if video creation goes from “dollars and minutes” to “cents and seconds”, a bunch of new use cases will be unlocked. Here are some we see already: - A video explanation of every single Pull Request (we do this internally) - Give every page in your internal&#x2F;extrernal docs a video - Turn a complex article into a video in ~4 seconds (via our Chrome extension) - Course creators can quickly draft lessons before recording the real thing - People also create a lot of personal stuff stories for their kids, wedding invitations, birthdays, etcThe stack is based on an open-source programming language (Imba) created by our CTO, Sindre Aarsæther. It compiles to JavaScript, so it interoperates fully with the npm + node ecosystem. You can learn more here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imba.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imba.io&#x2F;</a>We’ve also built our own sync engine (OP), and a context management system for agents (Q). We feared this would make the LLMs struggle when writing code for us, as neither is in their training data (there’s very little Imba in there too). However, we’ve been pleasantly surprised to see that LLMs actually are really good at our stack. This is probably because the stack is extremely dense. Imba is compact, and so is OP, where a single declaration sets storage, sync, permissions, UI, and what the AI sees. This means there’s no translations between frontend, API, db and JSON where the model can get confused and get things wrong.Simply said, instead of using React.js, Express, Supabase, and LangChain, we built it all from scratch. Definitely suffering from the “not invented here” syndrome, lol! As for the models, we use Gemini, GPTs, Inworld, ElevenLabs, and a few others.If you want to try it out, just take your pick: - The Web UI (scrimba.com&#x2F;explain) - MCP (add it to your coding agent) - ChatGPT Plugin - Chrome ExtensionYou can find a link to all of the above in our docs: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.scrimba.com&#x2F;explain&#x2F;introduction" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.scrimba.com&#x2F;explain&#x2F;introduction</a>And finally, a real pixel-based video of the tool: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=k6rbHmBxSEs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=k6rbHmBxSEs</a>Would love to hear your feedback and if anyone has ideas for other use cases.PS: I expect quite a bit of pushback from HN for this launch, given how fan of text the HN crowd is. This kind of tool is not for everyone. But there are a lot of people today who prefer videos over text, especially in the younger generations.

Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts

OpenAI still doesn't seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity