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ARGENTIC.NETWORK

Hacker News: Front Page4h ago

The internet's first machine-native toll booth. AI agents pay in Bitcoin Lightning to access the open web. No accounts. No API keys. No friction. Just sats and passage — at the speed of light.

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Stop Making TUIs

Hacker News: Front Page5h ago

Our field has a weird relationship with terminal and command line interfaces. The time has come to re-evaluate it. I’m on a kick lately getting my friends to try building native user interfaces.

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61%plop score

Ox Alpha - API Pricing & Providers

Hacker News: Front Page11h ago

This stealth model is developed and operated by a third-party model provider. Prompts and completions for this model are retained by the provider and are not used for training; all other use is...

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SpacetimeDB: a short technical review

Hacker News: Front Page15h ago

The database market is harsh, particularly for newcomers. It’s very hard to launch a new product and differentiate yourself from the incumbents. Even harder to gain any long term traction.

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61%plop score

Huzzah

Hacker News: Front Page15h ago

If you’re a software engineer like me, the first few months of 2026 were incredible. Coding agents suddenly became good enough that we no longer needed to manually write code.

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55%plop score

Why aren't smart people happier?

Hacker News: Front Page16h ago

Here’s a definition of intelligence that lots of psychologists can get behind: Intelligence is a very general mental capability that, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve...

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59%plop score

jsomers.net | I should have loved biology

Hacker News: Front Page17h ago

By James Somers I should have loved biology but I found it to be a lifeless recitation of names: the Golgi apparatus and the Krebs cycle; mitosis, meiosis; DNA, RNA, mRNA, tRNA.

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60%plop score

Project Cybersyn

Hacker News: Front Page17h ago

Project Cybersyn Last update: 01 Aug 2026 00:32 First version: 30 January 2022 Initial notes, January 2022 An early attempt at using networked computers for economic management in Allende's Chile...

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57%plop score

Software Engineering Intern at Sixtyfour | Y Combinator

Hacker News: Front Page17h ago

The Opportunity Sixtyfour turns a single name, email, or domain into a full, verified picture of a person or company — by sending AI agents out to research the open web the way a sharp analyst...

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60%plop score

Linux 7.2 Released | Igalia

Hacker News: Front Page19h ago

Linux 7.2 Released Linux 7.2 was tagged and released this week, on the regular schedule. This cycle was one of the busiest ever, only been beaten by 6.7.

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56%plop score

Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

Hacker News: Front Page19h ago

Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful Making “anti-ai” fonts that obfuscate or scramble text is a fools errand.

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57%plop score