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Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees

2026-07-09 @ 05:14:45Points: 56Comments: 14

What's slowing down the AI buildout

2026-07-09 @ 03:26:02Points: 27Comments: 41

Ergo: Long Form Philosophy Lectures

2026-07-09 @ 03:08:32Points: 11Comments: 7

I think I have LLM burnout

2026-07-09 @ 01:56:28Points: 291Comments: 209

Remote Attestation

2026-07-09 @ 00:32:33Points: 73Comments: 59

MIRA: Multiplayer Interactive World Models Trained on Rocket League

2026-07-09 @ 00:27:57Points: 57Comments: 11

John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement

2026-07-08 @ 23:37:43Points: 659Comments: 122

We made Grok 4.5, GPT-5.5, and Claude build the same apps

2026-07-08 @ 23:27:14Points: 140Comments: 75

Rewriting Bun in Rust

2026-07-08 @ 21:49:59Points: 476Comments: 257

Benchmarking coding agents on Databricks' multi-million line codebase

2026-07-08 @ 21:30:09Points: 53Comments: 19

Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations

2026-07-08 @ 21:03:51Points: 199Comments: 71

Turning a pile of documents into a searchable useable knowledge base

2026-07-08 @ 20:37:29Points: 118Comments: 27

FAANG Simulator

2026-07-08 @ 20:05:42Points: 370Comments: 144

New Sweden: the US's long-lost 'secret' colony

2026-07-08 @ 19:26:18Points: 89Comments: 31

Cloudflare Drop

2026-07-08 @ 19:18:26Points: 373Comments: 188

Grok 4.5

2026-07-08 @ 18:00:32Points: 564Comments: 784

Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents

2026-07-08 @ 17:46:12Points: 253Comments: 99

But building AI agents that can generate visualizations reliably can be very tricky:

- simple chart specs can be reliable, but generated charts are often of low quality due to reliance on system defaults; - complex chart specs with explicit details can produce good-looking charts, but they are verbose and agents can struggle with reliability

We figured out it is a limitation on the language issue (not just AI capability thing) -- current visualization languages are a bit too low-level for AI agents, requiring them to explicitly make visual decisions that are supposed to be handled by a good compiler. Flint is a visualization intermediate language to address this issue, allow AI agents to solve this last-mile human-agent interaction problem. It provides a simple semantic-type based specification, and contains a layout optimization engine that can produce good-looking charts (filled with derived low-level details) from simple high-level specs. The result is also very human understandable and adaptable. Flint powers data formulator for generating visualizations (another open source project from microsoft https://data-formulator.ai/).

Flint is available open source, and we built a MCP server that you can directly plug flint in your favorite agent app to play with data.

GPT‑Live

2026-07-08 @ 17:03:19Points: 676Comments: 443

TypeScript 7

2026-07-08 @ 16:06:35Points: 565Comments: 222

Chatto is now open source

2026-07-08 @ 15:19:50Points: 920Comments: 232

Mistral's Robostral Navigate: a state of the art robotics navigation model

2026-07-08 @ 14:09:17Points: 460Comments: 101

A bug which affected only left handed users

2026-07-08 @ 13:20:05Points: 105Comments: 55

Cloudflare Meerkat - Globally distributed consensus

2026-07-08 @ 13:18:03Points: 244Comments: 48

Unicode's transliteration rules are Turing-complete

2026-07-08 @ 09:44:20Points: 84Comments: 26

Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt

2026-07-08 @ 08:46:06Points: 1354Comments: 213

Show HN: Yamanote.fun – A complete soundscape for Tokyo's Yamanote line

2026-07-07 @ 12:47:46Points: 132Comments: 26

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45045307) here on Hacker News when I returned home.

But it wasn't until my second trip to Tokyo that I truly appreciated how much the door chimes, on-board announcements and train noise were contributing to the rich soundscape that I loved.

I returned home and found myself playing YouTube videos of Yamanote Line journeys as I worked. The combination of sonics, ambience and softly spoken Japanese was incredibly soothing to me.

But these recordings were often incomplete, poorly captured or out of date, and I wanted something far more comprehensive.

So I gathered up all of the constituent parts from Reddit threads, YouTube videos and Japanese fan sites, and set about recreating the experience of riding the Yamanote Line in Logic Pro X. Melody, door chimes and announcement, all stitched together under a bed of train noise and ambience.

I turned those soundscapes into an Alexa Skill (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Paul-Jackson-Yamanote-Line/dp/B07S1...) in 2019 and began to think about a companion website to share the soundscapes with a wider audience.

Seven years later and that website is Yamanote.fun: https://www.yamanote.fun/.

It's a small installable web app that plays the soundscapes like a playlist. All 30 stations and in both directions, since the inner and outer loops use different melodies. You can skip forward or back a station, and there's a scrub bar broken into melody / chime / ambience / announcement so you can jump straight to the bit you want. Each station has its own shareable link (yamanote.fun/jy13-ikebukuro-inner) that unfurls with the right station name and artwork when you share it.

It's a progressive web app too, so you can add it to your home screen and it behaves like a native app. There's an option to offline the audio too.

Under the hood it's relatively basic stuff: plain HTML, CSS & JS, audio served from Cloudflare R2 and the site hosted on Netlify. I was impressed to see how far I could get with the free tiers of these services. I designed the whole thing in Figma (I'm a Product Designer) and used Claude Code to architect and deliver the polished UI, PWA plumbing, offline caching and share-link infrastructure.

I would love feedback, particularly from anyone who's ridden the real thing.

Apache Shiro security framework releases 3.0.0

2026-07-07 @ 01:40:26Points: 21Comments: 0

Cargo-nextest: 3x faster than cargo test, per-test isolation, first-class CI

2026-07-06 @ 04:19:30Points: 54Comments: 12

The Strange Locomotion of Spirocuta

2026-07-05 @ 19:47:19Points: 9Comments: 0

Patching MechCommander's "left arm bug" for fun and profit

2026-07-05 @ 16:39:40Points: 52Comments: 16

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