Show HN: Hacker Smacker – spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance
Synopsis Hacker Smacker helps you identify quality authors and filter out obnoxious commenters on Hacker News. Three little orbs appear next to every author’s name and you can choose to either friend or foe them. If you friend people, and they also use Hacker Smacker, you’ll see all of your friend’s friends and foes. This […]
Learnings from 4 months of Image-Video VAE experiments
Linum Image-Video VAE Modern video generation relies on diffusion transformers, but attention scales quadratically so pixel space calculations are intractable. A VAE (Variational Autoencoder) solves this by compressing images and videos into a compact latent space for the diffusion model to operate in. Today we’re open-sourcing our Image-Video VAE, our experiment logs, and a key […]
Tesla registrations crash 17% in Europe as BEV market surges 14%
New data from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) confirms that Tesla registered just 8,075 vehicles across the EU, EFTA, and UK in January 2026, a 17% decline from the same month last year. The drop is particularly damaging because January 2025 was already a weak month for Tesla, during the production transition to the […]
OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine
ADDENDUM — february 18, 2026 we are in direct written correspondence with persona’s CEO, rick song. he has been responsive and engaged in good faith. rick has committed to answering the 18 questions in 0x14 in writing. all correspondence will be published in full as part 2 of this series. the core findings, including openai-watchlistdb.withpersona.com […]
I think WebRTC is better than SSH-ing for connecting to Mac terminal from iPhone
Access Your Engine Native Shell Zsh. Bash. Claude Code Powered by Anthropic Codex Powered by OpenAI Defensein Depth. 01. Transport E2E Encrypted WebRTC DTLS-SRTP tunneling ensures data is invisible to the network. 02. Verification Dual Layer Identity Signaling validates identity tokens for access but a Master Password protects the terminal, preventing access even if your […]
Show HN: Emdash – Open-source agentic development environment
Run multiple coding agents in parallel Emdash lets you develop and test multiple features with multiple agents in parallel. It’s provider-agnostic (supports 15+ CLI agents, such as Claude Code, Qwen Code, Amp, and Codex) and runs each agent in its own Git worktree to keep changes clean; Hand off Linear, GitHub, or Jira tickets to […]
Nearby Glasses
attempting to detect smart glasses nearby and warn you. The app, called Nearby Glasses, has one sole purpose: Look for smart glasses nearby and warn you. This app notifies you when smart glasses are nearby. It uses company identificators in the Bluetooth data sent out by these. Therefore, there likely are false positives (e.g. from […]
An interactive intro to quadtrees
Suppose you’re building a map application. You have millions of restaurants, gas stations, and landmarks, each with a latitude and longitude. A user taps the screen and asks: ”What’s near me?” The simplest approach is to check every single point. Compute the distance from the user’s location to every restaurant in the database, keep the […]
HuggingFace Agent Skills
Hugging Face Skills are definitions for AI/ML tasks like dataset creation, model training, and evaluation. They are interoperable with all major coding agent tools like OpenAI Codex, Anthropic’s Claude Code, Google DeepMind’s Gemini CLI, and Cursor. The Skills in this repository follow the standardized format Agent Skill format. How do Skills work? In practice, skills […]
Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Registration for App Distribution
Date: February 24, 2026 To: Sundar Pichai, Chief Executive Officer, Google To: Sergey Brin, Founder and Board Member, Google To: Larry Page, Founder and Board Member, Google To: Vijaya Kaza, General Manager for App & Ecosystem Trust, Google CC: Regulatory authorities, policymakers, and the Android developer community Re: Mandatory Developer Registration for Android App Distribution We, the undersigned organizations representing civil […]