SIM (YC X25) Is Hiring the Best Engineers in San Francisco
About Sim Sim is the open-source platform to build, deploy, and orchestrate AI agents. Over 70,000 developers — from early-stage startups to the U.S. Department of Defense — use Sim to turn ideas into production-grade agentic workflows on a visual, Figma-like canvas. We connect to 1,000+ apps and LLMs, and our Copilot is the state […]
”Car Wash” test with 53 models
By Felix Wunderlich – 2/19/2026 The car wash test is the simplest AI reasoning benchmark that nearly every model fails, including Claude Sonnet 4.5, GPT-5.1, Llama, and Mistral. The question is simple: ”I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?” Obviously, you need to drive. […]
Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras
Brian Merchant, writing for Blood in the Machine, reports that people across the United States are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras, amid rising public anger that the license plate readers aid U.S. immigration authorities and deportations. Flock is the Atlanta-based surveillance startup valued at $7.5 billion a year ago and a maker of license […]
Show HN: Shibuya – A High-Performance WAF in Rust with eBPF and ML Engine
01 ⚡ Kernel Power · Linux Only eBPF / XDP Kernel-Level Blocking Shibuya drops an XDP hook directly in the Linux kernel. Packets from known-malicious IPs get killed before they ever reach your application or even the WAF itself. IP blacklists stored in eBPF maps for O(1) lookup on millions of IPs. SYN flood protection […]
What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust
Righty-ho, I’m back from Rust Nation, and busily horrifying my teenage daughter with my (admittedly atrocious) attempts at doing an English accent. It was a great trip with a lot of good conversations and some interesting observations. I am going to try to blog about some of them, starting with some thoughts spurred by Jon […]
Hadrius (YC W23) Is Hiring Designers Who Code
This is a full-time role to be a Senior Product Designer, located onsite in New York, NY. Design @ Hadrius Like many other fields in tech, how design teams operate is shifting dramatically. That means Figma is being used less and less, while agents are being used more and more. Counter-intuitively though, this means that […]
A simple web we own
By R. S. Doiel, 2026-02-21 Tenant and product or co-owner and participant? Today the Web and Internet is owned and controlled by large for profit corporations and a few governments. Corporate ownership combined with government policies has left us as tenant and product. It has given us a surveillance economy and enshittification. What if I […]
Show HN: Sowbot – open-hardware agricultural robot (ROS2, RTK GPS)
Status: Largely fabricated/ constructed, ESP32 carrier needs some work A fully open-hardware robot compute unit built around a stackable 10 cm × 10 cm module standard with two Avaota A1 SIngle Board Computers (SBC) connected via a single ethernet cable. Board A: Control & Safety Board A is the primary controller responsible for the robot’s […]
Anthropic Education the AI Fluency Index
People are integrating AI tools into their daily routines at a pace that would have been difficult to predict even a year ago. But adoption alone doesn’t tell us much about the impact of these tools. A further, equally important question is: as AI becomes part of everyday life, are individuals developing the skills to […]
The peculiar case of Japanese web design
methodology This project can be broken down into three parts: gathering data, processing data, and analyzing data. gathering data I started by using SEM Rush’s Open.Trends service to find the top websites for each country across all industries. While this can be done manually, i automated the process using the Python libraries BeautifulSoup and Selenium-Python […]