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What did you love about VB6?

2026-05-02 @ 00:09:04Points: 46Comments: 60

U.S. to Withdraw 5k Troops from Germany, Pentagon Says

2026-05-01 @ 23:52:36Points: 40Comments: 24

A Report on Burnout in Open Source Software Communities (2025) [pdf]

2026-05-01 @ 23:24:10Points: 45Comments: 11

Credit cards are vulnerable to brute force kind attacks

2026-05-01 @ 20:26:24Points: 203Comments: 171

Ti-84 Evo

2026-05-01 @ 20:06:59Points: 369Comments: 335

Whimsical Animations Course Open House

2026-05-01 @ 19:35:39Points: 79Comments: 9

Ubuntu servers taken offline by "sustained, cross-border attack"

2026-05-01 @ 19:14:41Points: 112Comments: 21

Lib0xc: A set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programming

2026-05-01 @ 19:10:56Points: 104Comments: 35

City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo

2026-05-01 @ 18:37:47Points: 344Comments: 97

New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming

2026-05-01 @ 17:47:42Points: 280Comments: 157

Show HN: AI CAD Harness

2026-05-01 @ 17:43:53Points: 72Comments: 74

https://adam.new).

We've been on HN twice before with text-to-CAD/3D experiments [1][2]. The honest takeaway from those threads: prompt-to-3D model web apps are fun, but serious mechanical engineers don't want a black box that spits out an STL. They want help inside the CAD tool they already use, with full visibility and control over the feature tree.

So we built that. Adam is now a harness that integrates directly with your CAD. It reads your parts, understands the existing feature tree, and edits it for you agentically. We are now live in beta on Onshape and Fusion! [3]:

Install link Autodesk Fusion: https://fusion.adam.new/install

Install link PTC Onshape: https://cad.onshape.com/appstore/apps/Design%20&%20Documenta...

Things people are using it for today: - "Merge redundant features and clean up my tree" - "Rename every feature so the tree is actually readable" - "Round all internal edges with a 2mm fillet" - “Parametrize my model” - Along with of course, using Adam to generate CAD end-to-end!

A few things we care about that aren't obvious from the listing:

1. From the start we have always believed in CAD as code as the right abstraction. Our harness leverages Onshape's FeatureScript and Python in Fusion heavily.

2. We run an internal CAD benchmark across frontier models. There has been a massive jump in the spatial reasoning capabilities of recent models, particularly GPT 5.5 and Opus 4.7 [4] [5]

3. We open-sourced our earlier text-to-CAD work [6]

A note on the Anthropic Autodesk connector that shipped a couple days ago [7]: We think it's great for the space and validates the direction.

Where Adam is different: - Model-agnostic. We pick whichever frontier model is winning on each task type from our own internal bench, instead of being tied to one lab. - We live natively in your CAD apps and are actively building integrations across all programs

What would you want an in-CAD agent to do that nothing does today?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44182206

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45140921

[3] https://x.com/adamdotnew/status/2050264512230719980?s=20

[4] https://x.com/adamdotnew/status/2044859329329893376?s=20

[5] https://x.com/adamdotnew/status/2047795078912172122?s=20

[6] https://github.com/Adam-CAD/CADAM

[7] https://x.com/claudeai/status/2049143440508616863?s=20

Artemis II fault tolerance

2026-05-01 @ 17:39:11Points: 70Comments: 36

Understand Anything

2026-05-01 @ 17:27:03Points: 117Comments: 35

AI uses less water than the public thinks

2026-05-01 @ 17:18:58Points: 361Comments: 322

The gay jailbreak technique

2026-05-01 @ 16:59:35Points: 434Comments: 174

Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI

2026-05-01 @ 16:42:41Points: 225Comments: 249

Apocalypse Early Warning System

2026-05-01 @ 16:21:23Points: 135Comments: 75

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

2026-05-01 @ 15:07:02Points: 140Comments: 195

Previous threads we've done: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=proberts.

Whohas – Command-line utility for cross-distro, cross-repository package search

2026-05-01 @ 15:01:08Points: 134Comments: 31

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)

2026-05-01 @ 15:00:07Points: 239Comments: 261

not an option.

Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. One post per company. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.

Please only post if you are actively filling a position and are committed to replying to applicants.

Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.

Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.

Searchers: try https://nthesis.ai/public/hn-who-is-hiring, https://dheerajck.github.io/hnwhoishiring/, http://nchelluri.github.io/hnjobs/, https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com, or this (unofficial) Chrome extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hn-hiring-pro/mpfal....

Don't miss this other fine thread: Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975570

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)

2026-05-01 @ 15:00:07Points: 122Comments: 256

  Location:
  Remote:
  Willing to relocate:
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  Email:
Please only post if you are personally looking for work. Agencies, recruiters, job boards, and so on, are off topic here.

Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities.

Searchers: try https://nthesis.ai/public/hn-wants-to-be-hired, https://www.wantstobehired.com.

Sally McKee, who coined the term "the memory wall", has died

2026-05-01 @ 14:45:47Points: 111Comments: 27

Running Adobe's 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser

2026-05-01 @ 11:58:11Points: 129Comments: 29

SpaceX rocket set for unintentional moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway

2026-05-01 @ 11:31:52Points: 58Comments: 43

Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables

2026-05-01 @ 08:43:45Points: 454Comments: 133

WhatCable sits in your menu bar and reads the cable data your Mac already has access to. Plug in a cable and it tells you in plain English what it can actually do: charging wattage, data speed, display support, Thunderbolt, etc.

Built in Swift/SwiftUI. Open source, free, no tracking.

GitHub: https://github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable

Eka’s robotic claw feels like we're approaching a ChatGPT moment

2026-04-29 @ 22:56:10Points: 110Comments: 141

Artemis II Photo Timeline

2026-04-29 @ 20:48:17Points: 114Comments: 11

Historic Tennessee hotel is also home to the greatest duck tradition (2016)

2026-04-29 @ 18:06:55Points: 29Comments: 2

The smelly baby problem

2026-04-29 @ 15:48:18Points: 136Comments: 76

Tvheadend: Self-Hosted IPTV Server

2026-04-29 @ 05:13:17Points: 15Comments: 6

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