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GAO: DOE Is Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Nuclear Cleanup

2026-07-07 @ 22:23:58Points: 78Comments: 25

Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera

2026-07-07 @ 20:50:46Points: 418Comments: 545

We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code

2026-07-07 @ 20:35:42Points: 133Comments: 59

Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI

2026-07-07 @ 18:44:29Points: 185Comments: 41

Mostly vibe-coded Apple Containers front-end that I'd like to use myself. But if others want to use it, here's the source code.

AI Meets Cryptography 1: What AI Found in Cloudflare's Circl

2026-07-07 @ 18:36:35Points: 75Comments: 9

Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro

2026-07-07 @ 18:24:10Points: 283Comments: 66

Show HN: Docx-CLI: agents read/edit Word docs using 1/2 the time and tokens

2026-07-07 @ 18:19:00Points: 54Comments: 23

Notes on Software Quality

2026-07-07 @ 18:14:50Points: 76Comments: 43

l: A new runtime for k and q

2026-07-07 @ 18:08:29Points: 102Comments: 59

China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes

2026-07-07 @ 16:38:08Points: 287Comments: 338

Jim's TrueType QR Code Font

2026-07-07 @ 16:30:42Points: 127Comments: 20

MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released

2026-07-07 @ 16:24:40Points: 71Comments: 14

Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop

2026-07-07 @ 16:10:44Points: 88Comments: 25

Our repo is https://github.com/rowboatlabs/rowboat, and there’s a demo video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et5yQABJ3xI

In a previous startup, we built a deep-learning product for enterprise support reps, including teams supporting P&G brands. Models took live notes, suggested replies, and recommended actions while support reps were on calls or handling emails. One lesson stuck with us: it's not enough for the AI to be right, the help has to show up where the work is happening.

So we added what we came to call “work surfaces”: dedicated areas for email, meetings, notes, browser, and parallel coding, where the assistant can help inside the workflow itself rather than only through chat:

- Email client: Rowboat has a simple email client that sorts incoming emails into important vs. everything else, and pre-creates drafts for important emails. As you edit and send emails, it takes notes on your style, so future drafts get closer to your voice.

- Meeting notes: We built a Granola-style local meeting notetaker. Notes are stored as plain Markdown files on your machine. After a meeting, Rowboat feeds the notes back into the knowledge graph and updates the relevant people, project, and topic notes.

- Browser: We added a built-in browser, isolated from your main one, where you can log in only to the accounts you want the assistant to help with. The assistant uses browser-use skills to navigate websites.

- Parallel coding: The code-mode inside Rowboat lets you spin multiple instances of Claude Code or Codex and either work with them directly or let Rowboat use your work context to orchestrate them. We built an ACP (Agent Client Protocol) client in Rowboat for this.

- Notes: Rowboat has an Obsidian-style local note-taking system. It comes with graph view, bases view, and voice notes. You can also sync Google Docs files and edit them inside Rowboat.

You can also build your own work surfaces inside Rowboat (web apps). Each app gets its own UI and a background agent, and can use all of Rowboat's tools, product integrations, and your work memory. For instance: an app to manage GitHub activity, project tracking, or ads campaign management. There are a few community apps at launch you can search and install, and you can publish your own by creating a GitHub repo for it and registering it.

Rowboat also indexes your work into a knowledge graph that all of the above surfaces use to have better context. We did a Show HN a few months back on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46962641.

As an example that ties some of these together: you can create an app inside Rowboat that collects feature requests from your email, meetings, and Slack and ranks them, then uses Claude Code to draft a first version of the top-ranked feature, pulling prior context about it from your knowledge graph.

Rowboat is local-first: data is stored as plain Markdown files you can read, edit, or delete anytime. It is Apache-2.0 and works with any LLM, including local models through Ollama or LM Studio.

We’d love to hear your thoughts, and contributions are welcome!

30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format

2026-07-07 @ 15:58:13Points: 348Comments: 60

Why we built yet another Postgres connection pooler

2026-07-07 @ 15:36:49Points: 127Comments: 34

Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software

2026-07-07 @ 15:33:20Points: 525Comments: 485

Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament

2026-07-07 @ 15:16:15Points: 530Comments: 235

Automating AI Away

2026-07-07 @ 15:11:08Points: 101Comments: 49

Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained

2026-07-07 @ 14:23:15Points: 432Comments: 145

98% isn't much

2026-07-07 @ 12:45:14Points: 468Comments: 310

A better way to tie gym shorts (or any drawstring) [video]

2026-07-07 @ 12:45:06Points: 451Comments: 162

StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time

2026-07-07 @ 12:38:35Points: 689Comments: 169

Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again

2026-07-07 @ 10:42:59Points: 172Comments: 459

Fixing analog audio on the $2.58 HDMI-to-VGA adapter

2026-07-05 @ 05:36:51Points: 80Comments: 20

Why Vancouver is always a stand-in for San Francisco in movies and TV shows (2021)

2026-07-03 @ 21:58:15Points: 44Comments: 41

Camera with transparent display launches for the equivalent of $29

2026-07-03 @ 20:54:36Points: 59Comments: 40

First Principles of Model Routing

2026-07-03 @ 05:36:12Points: 15Comments: 10

Herdr: One terminal to rule them all

2026-07-02 @ 04:28:39Points: 146Comments: 83

Computational Balloon Twisting: The Theory of Balloon Polyhedra [pdf]

2026-07-01 @ 23:26:39Points: 40Comments: 0

IEEE Rolls Out Large Language Models Training Course

2026-07-01 @ 05:41:22Points: 31Comments: 5

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