The workers behind Meta’s smart glasses can see everything
The advertisement is everywhere. The ice hockey player Peter Forsberg is trying on a pair of black glasses. In the viral clip he talks to the glasses, asking who is Sweden’s greatest hockey player of all time. They are not just any glasses. They are Facebook owner Meta’s new AI glasses. The glasses are marketed […]
Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch
February 9, 2026·12 min read I’ve spent the last six months working on a startup, building agent prototypes for one of the largest consumer packaged goods companies in the world. As part of that work, our team relied on off-the-shelf voice agent platforms to help the company operate more effectively. Though I can’t go into […]
Welcome (back) to Macintosh
For at least 10 years, every Time Machine set up I have been in charge of, or tasked with maintaining for someone else, has eventually run into an issue where it stops backing up successfully. The only solution has been to start over, to not inherit backup state and to manually delete the old backup. […]
Show HN: Pianoterm – Run shell commands from your Piano. A Linux CLI tool
Run shell commands from your piano Description Linux CLI tool to assign shell commands to keys on a USB MIDI Keyboard # this is a comment # # trigger can be on_release or on_press on_press # syntax: port = command # use aseqdump -p to find specific keycodes 21 = playerctl previous # first key […]
British Columbia to end time changes, adopt year-round daylight time
Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. The B.C. government says this Sunday will be the last time most British Columbians have to change their clocks. The province […]
Show HN: uBlock filter list to blur all Instagram Reels
Tired of slop? This is a uBlock Origin filter list that nukes the Reels tab, non-follower posts, and ALL video content from the platform. I’m trying to make Instagram be what my parents said Facebook was. I didn’t feel like fixing the layout, so this will just blur the slop. This has the added bonus […]
A case for Go as the best language for AI agents
I have been working with Go for the past 8 years in a professional capacity. I’d like to make a case here about why Go is the best language to work with using AI agents. I have worked with PHP, Go, JavaScript, and Python in a professional capacity for over 10 years now. Most of […]
”That Shape Had None” – A Horror of Substrate Independence (Short Fiction)
Starlight Convenience The Svenoid Conspiracy 2024 · 06 · 21 That Shape Had None 2023 · 06 · 24 Overstaying 2022 · 01 · 01 Inmate Martha 2018 · 12 · 09 The Strange Creature from the North 2018 · 07 · 30 Bare backs & black trousers 2017 · 10 · 20 Ender’s Mind […]
Reflex (YC W23) Is Hiring Software Engineers – Python
Reflex is the operating system for building mission-critical enterprise applications. Today’s enterprise stack is fragmented. Shipping an app requires stitching together multiple tools and coordinating across multiple roles. Reflex replaces that complexity with a single, unified platform to build, deploy, and manage production applications end-to-end. We empower teams to own the entire lifecycle of their […]
Launch HN: OctaPulse (YC W26) – Robotics and computer vision for fish farming
Hi HN! My name is Rohan and, together with Paul, I’m the co-founder of OctaPulse (https://www.tryoctapulse.com/). We’re building a robotics layer for seafood production, starting with automated fish inspection. We are currently deployed at our first production site with the largest trout producer in North America. You might be wondering how the heck we got […]