Launch HN: Palus Finance (YC W26): Better yields on idle cash for startups, SMBs
Hi HN! We’re Sam and Michael from Palus Finance (https://palus.finance). We’re building a treasury management platform for startups and SMBs to earn higher yields with a high-yield bond portfolio. We were funded by YC for a consumer-focused product for higher-yield savings. But when we joined YC and got our funding, we realized we needed the […]
Launch HN: Palus Finance (YC W26): Better yields on idle cash for startups, SMBs
Hi HN! We’re Sam and Michael from Palus Finance (https://palus.finance). We’re building a treasury management platform for startups and SMBs to earn higher yields with a high-yield bond portfolio. We were funded by YC for a consumer-focused product for higher-yield savings. But when we joined YC and got our funding, we realized we needed the […]
A useless infinite scroll experiment
FUTILE · The useless infinite scroll website 📱 Switch to mobile — That’s where the void fully takes shape. ⚠️ The score is only recorded on smartphones. (Thumbs are more honest) ✕ THE USELESS WEBSITE FUTILE WHERE YOU SCROLL ON !? × What is this site for? Almost nothing. Except to measure how far you’re […]
Multifactor (YC F25) Is Hiring an Engineering Lead
We’re hiring our first Engineering Lead — someone who can own the technical execution of our platform while helping shape how we build as a team. This is not a ”manage from a distance” role. You’ll be deep in the code alongside the founder, making architectural decisions that directly affect how millions of accounts are […]
Supertoast tables
The first rule of the “just use Postgres” club — of which we’re dedicated members — is simple. For web applications, Postgres should be the starting point for any data storage and retrieval problem. The reasoning is straightforward: Postgres is a general-purpose database engine, you likely already run your core OLTP workload on Postgres, and […]
Astra: An open-source observatory control software
Astra (Automated Survey observaTory Robotised with Alpaca) is an open-source observatory control software for automating and managing robotic observatories. It integrates seamlessly with ASCOM Alpaca for hardware control. @software{Pedersen_Astra, author = {Pedersen, Peter P. and Degen, David and Garcia, Lionel and Zúñiga-Fernández, Sebastián and Sebastian, Daniel and Schroffenegger, Urs and Queloz, Didier}, license = {GPL-3.0}, […]
Caxlsx: Ruby gem for xlsx generation with charts, images, schema validation
Notice: Community Axlsx Organization To better maintain the Axlsx ecosystem, all related gems have been forked or moved to the following community organization: https://github.com/caxlsx Join the Caxlsx Slack channel Axlsx is an Office Open XML Spreadsheet generator for the Ruby programming language. With Axlsx you can create Excel worksheets with charts, images (with links), automated […]
Entomologists use a particle accelerator to image ants at scale
05 Mar 2026 6 min read Researchers reproduced the anatomy of these four species of Okinawan ants with great detail using AntScan, including internal organs. Julian Katzke Move over, Pixar. The ants that animators once morphed into googly-eyed caricatures in films such as A Bug’s Life and Antz just received a meticulously precise anatomical reboot. […]
Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting
Moongate v2 is a modern Ultima Online server project built with .NET 10. It targets a clean, modular architecture with strong packet tooling, deterministic game-loop processing, and practical test coverage. Looking for collaborators: I am actively seeking contributors to help build Moongate v2, and I would especially appreciate support with technical/code reviews. Want to help? […]
CT Scans of Health Wearables
Design to Reality Evolution of the Plastic Bottle In the dark nights of my soul, I fret about how inconsistently engineered my life is. The coffee table I made a year or two ago was intended to look like the dining room table I built a few years earlier, but in reality the two bear […]