I will do anything to end homelessness except build more homes (Score: 153+ in 4 hours)
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McSweeney's Internet Tendency
I Will Do Anything to End Homelessness Except Build More Homes
Homelessness in America has reached crisis levels, and I am determined to do everything in my power to fix the problem as long as it doesn’t involv...
Learn Makefiles (Score: 162+ in 4 hours)
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Getting Started Strudel (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
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Strudel
Getting Started 🚀 Strudel
Strudel is a music live coding editor that brings TidalCycles to the browser.
Open source can't coordinate? (Score: 150+ in 14 hours)
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matklad.github.io
Open Source Can't Coordinate
I was taking a shower this morning, and was pondering yesterday's
problem, where I suspect
that I have an outdated version of hotspot Linux profiler, but I
can't just go and download a fresh release from GitHub, because hotspot is a KDE app, and I use
NixOS.…
problem, where I suspect
that I have an outdated version of hotspot Linux profiler, but I
can't just go and download a fresh release from GitHub, because hotspot is a KDE app, and I use
NixOS.…
Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix (🔥 Score: 153+ in 1 hour)
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Fly
Phoenix.new – The Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
Asterinas: A new Linux-compatible kernel project (Score: 150+ in 15 hours)
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LWN.net
Asterinas: a new Linux-compatible kernel project
Asterinas is a new Linux-ABI-compatible kernel project written in Rust, based on what the autho [...]
Giant, all-seeing telescope is set to revolutionize astronomy (Score: 150+ in 18 hours)
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Science
This giant, all-seeing telescope is set to revolutionize astronomy
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will build an unprecedented map of the universe—and discover billions of fast-changing objects
In praise of “normal” engineers (Score: 150+ in 23 hours)
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charity.wtf
In Praise of “Normal” Engineers
This article was originally commissioned by Luca Rossi (paywalled) for refactoring.fm, on February 11th, 2025. Luca edited a version of it that emphasized the importance of building “10x engi…
Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success (🔥 Score: 157+ in 3 hours)
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The Economist
Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success
So why on earth did it take so long to start?
EU Eyes Ditching Microsoft Azure for France's OVHcloud (🔥 Score: 155+ in 1 hour)
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EURACTIV
EXCLUSIVE: Commission eyes ditching Microsoft Azure for France’s OVHcloud over digital sovereignty fears
"Discussions are indeed underway", an OVHcloud spokesperson confirmed after Euractiv sought comment.
Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser (Score: 152+ in 5 hours)
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Hi HN - we're Nithin and Nikhil, twin brothers and founders of nxtscape.ai (YC S24). We're building Nxtscape ("next-scape") - an open-source, agentic browser for the AI era.
-- Why bother building a new browser?
For the first time since Netscape was released in 1994, it feels like we can reimagine browsers from scratch for the age of AI agents. The web browser of tomorrow might not look like what we have today.
We saw how tools like Cursor gave developers a 10x productivity boost, yet the browser—where everyone else spends their entire workday—hasn't fundamentally changed.
And honestly, we feel like we're constantly fighting the browser we use every day. It's not one big thing, but a series of small, constant frustrations. I'll have 70+ tabs open from three different projects and completely lose my train of thought. And simple stuff like reordering tide pods from amazon or filling out forms shouldn't need our full attention anymore. AI can handle all of this, and that's exactly what we're building.
Here’s a demo of our early version https://dub.sh/nxtscape-demo
-- What makes us different
We know others are exploring this space (Perplexity, Dia), but we want to build something open-source and community-driven. We're not a search or ads company, so we can focus on being privacy-first – Ollama integration, BYOK (Bring Your Own Keys), ad-blocker.
Btw we love what Brave started and stood for, but they've now spread themselves too thin across crypto, search, etc. We are laser-focused on one thing: making browsers work for YOU with AI. And unlike Arc (which we loved too but got abandoned), we're 100% open source. Fork us if you don't like our direction.
-- Our journey hacking a new browser
To build this, we had to fork Chromium. Honestly, it feels like the only viable path today—we've seen others like Brave (started with electron) and Microsoft Edge learn this the hard way.
We also started with why not just build an extension. But realized we needed more control. Similar to the reason why Cursor forked VSCode. For example, Chrome has this thing called the Accessibility Tree - basically a cleaner, semantic version of the DOM that screen readers use. Perfect for AI agents to understand pages, but you can't use it through extension APIs.
That said, working with the 15M-line C++ chromium codebase has been an adventure. We've both worked on infra at Google and Meta, but Chromium is a different beast. Tools like Cursor's indexing completely break at this scale, so we've had to get really good with grep and vim. And the build times are brutal—even with our maxed-out M4 Max MacBook, a full build takes about 3 hours.
Full disclosure: we are still very early, but we have a working prototype on GitHub. It includes an early version of a "local Manus" style agent that can automate simple web tasks, plus an AI sidebar for questions, and other productivity features (grouping tabs, saving/resuming sessions, etc.).
Looking forward to any and all comments!
You can download the browser from our github page: https://github.com/nxtscape/nxtscape
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Hi HN - we're Nithin and Nikhil, twin brothers and founders of nxtscape.ai (YC S24). We're building Nxtscape ("next-scape") - an open-source, agentic browser for the AI era.
-- Why bother building a new browser?
For the first time since Netscape was released in 1994, it feels like we can reimagine browsers from scratch for the age of AI agents. The web browser of tomorrow might not look like what we have today.
We saw how tools like Cursor gave developers a 10x productivity boost, yet the browser—where everyone else spends their entire workday—hasn't fundamentally changed.
And honestly, we feel like we're constantly fighting the browser we use every day. It's not one big thing, but a series of small, constant frustrations. I'll have 70+ tabs open from three different projects and completely lose my train of thought. And simple stuff like reordering tide pods from amazon or filling out forms shouldn't need our full attention anymore. AI can handle all of this, and that's exactly what we're building.
Here’s a demo of our early version https://dub.sh/nxtscape-demo
-- What makes us different
We know others are exploring this space (Perplexity, Dia), but we want to build something open-source and community-driven. We're not a search or ads company, so we can focus on being privacy-first – Ollama integration, BYOK (Bring Your Own Keys), ad-blocker.
Btw we love what Brave started and stood for, but they've now spread themselves too thin across crypto, search, etc. We are laser-focused on one thing: making browsers work for YOU with AI. And unlike Arc (which we loved too but got abandoned), we're 100% open source. Fork us if you don't like our direction.
-- Our journey hacking a new browser
To build this, we had to fork Chromium. Honestly, it feels like the only viable path today—we've seen others like Brave (started with electron) and Microsoft Edge learn this the hard way.
We also started with why not just build an extension. But realized we needed more control. Similar to the reason why Cursor forked VSCode. For example, Chrome has this thing called the Accessibility Tree - basically a cleaner, semantic version of the DOM that screen readers use. Perfect for AI agents to understand pages, but you can't use it through extension APIs.
That said, working with the 15M-line C++ chromium codebase has been an adventure. We've both worked on infra at Google and Meta, but Chromium is a different beast. Tools like Cursor's indexing completely break at this scale, so we've had to get really good with grep and vim. And the build times are brutal—even with our maxed-out M4 Max MacBook, a full build takes about 3 hours.
Full disclosure: we are still very early, but we have a working prototype on GitHub. It includes an early version of a "local Manus" style agent that can automate simple web tasks, plus an AI sidebar for questions, and other productivity features (grouping tabs, saving/resuming sessions, etc.).
Looking forward to any and all comments!
You can download the browser from our github page: https://github.com/nxtscape/nxtscape
GitHub
GitHub - nxtscape/nxtscape: Nxtscape is an open-source agentic browser.
Nxtscape is an open-source agentic browser. Contribute to nxtscape/nxtscape development by creating an account on GitHub.
Oklo, the Earth's Two-billion-year-old only Known Natural Nuclear Reactor (2018) (Score: 152+ in 12 hours)
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IAEA
Meet Oklo, the Earth’s Two-billion-year-old only Known Natural Nuclear Reactor
Physicist Francis Perrin sat at a nuclearfuel-processing plant down in the south of France, thinking to himself: “This cannot be possible.” It was 1972.
Visualizing environmental costs of war in Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä (Score: 151+ in 7 hours)
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Journal of Geek Studies
Wilted lands and wounded worlds: visualizing environmental costs of war in Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Audrey Aguirre Upland High School, Upland, CA, USA. Email: audrey.a.aguirre (at) gmail (dot) com Download PDF Past studies on Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (風の谷のナウシカ; Topcraft, 1984) have prim…
Meta announces Oakley smart glasses (Score: 150+ in 11 hours)
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Official announcement: https://www.meta.com/en-gb/blog/oakley-meta-ai-glasses-sport...
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The Verge
Meta announces Oakley smart glasses
The limited-edition gold pair costs $499 and shoots 3K video.
YouTube's new anti-adblock measures (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
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loops
YouTube’s new anti-adblock measures
How I wrote filter rules for YouTube
Rolling the ladder up behind us (Score: 151+ in 10 hours)
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xeiaso.net
Rolling the ladder up behind us
Who will take over for us if we don't train the next generation to replace us? A critique of craft, AI, and the legacy of human expertise.
AbsenceBench: Language models can't tell what's missing (Score: 151+ in 4 hours)
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arXiv.org
AbsenceBench: Language Models Can't Tell What's Missing
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly capable of processing long inputs and locating specific information within them, as evidenced by their performance on the Needle in a Haystack (NIAH)...
Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly (Score: 152+ in 7 hours)
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Writewithharper
Harper: Free, Open Source Grammar Checker
Harper checks your writing fast, without compromising your privacy.
Samsung Embeds IronSource Spyware App on Phones Across WANA (🔥 Score: 158+ in 2 hours)
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SMEX
Open Letter to Samsung: End Forced Israeli-Founded Bloatware Installations in the WANA Region - SMEX
In recent months, we have received numerous reports from users across West Asia and North Africa (WANA) expressing alarm over...
College baseball, venture capital, and the long maybe (❄️ Score: 151+ in 4 days)
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The Observation Deck
College Baseball, Venture Capital, and the Long Maybe
My son is a college baseball player. One of the singular aspects of having kids is that they open your eyes to facets of humanity that you might not have seen otherwise. I was not a college athlete (and knew little of even baseball until he got the bug at…