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Canada losing top talent as workers head to the U.S.

2026-05-25 @ 22:42:41Points: 47Comments: 53

Show HN: OpenBrief – Local-first video downloader/summarizer

2026-05-25 @ 21:50:03Points: 22Comments: 2

OpenBrief is basically a GUI for yt-dlp with some AI on top — paste a link, it downloads locally, and transcription and voice generation run with local AI on your machine. Summaries and chat over the transcript use an LLM, which is bring-your-own-key for now. It's open source and free.

Microsoft Copilot Cowork Exfiltrates Files

2026-05-25 @ 21:45:57Points: 180Comments: 37

Ferrari Luce, Maranello's first ever electric car

2026-05-25 @ 21:34:40Points: 31Comments: 54

Riscrithm – An intuitive RISC-V assembler and optimizer coded in Go

2026-05-25 @ 21:01:10Points: 24Comments: 1

Yoti age checks share facial photos and device fingerprints with third parties

2026-05-25 @ 20:30:25Points: 108Comments: 24

Ninth Circuit Panel Goes Out of Its Way to Question Section 230–DOE vs. Meta

2026-05-25 @ 20:24:16Points: 38Comments: 51

Hacker News front page as a site

2026-05-25 @ 20:12:29Points: 107Comments: 41

Japan's New Hypersonic Engine Could Make 2-Hour Flights to the US a Reality

2026-05-25 @ 19:43:45Points: 95Comments: 84

Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training

2026-05-25 @ 19:37:57Points: 152Comments: 73

The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month

2026-05-25 @ 18:37:05Points: 202Comments: 76

California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash

2026-05-25 @ 18:19:58Points: 632Comments: 276

Weave (YC W25) is hiring ML, AI, product, & design engineers

2026-05-25 @ 18:18:26Points: 1

Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout

2026-05-25 @ 17:45:11Points: 260Comments: 41

Toshifumi Suzuki, founder of Seven-Eleven Japan, has died

2026-05-25 @ 16:20:36Points: 115Comments: 50

Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage

2026-05-25 @ 15:12:33Points: 51Comments: 179

https://www.trychert.com/), an API for businesses to send, receive, and automate iMessage conversations at scale. Check out our demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRdwvVxMMoI.

We originally started by building products on top of iMessage because the blue bubble interface, typing indicators, and reactions made agentic conversations feel more human than ones on SMS/RCS. These included a one-shot iMessage agent builder that reached 2,000 users in one week and an automated iMessage outbound sequencer that sent thousands of outbound messages per day.

The hard part is that iMessage does not have a native API like SMS/RCS. Sending and receiving iMessages requires a separate infrastructure that is difficult to set up and maintain, especially at scale.

As we talked to more companies, we realized that the highest-volume use cases for iMessage were not B2C agents or even sales. They were things like customer service, missed-call text-back, cart abandonment, and inbound lead capture in verticals like home services, DTC brands, and property management that drive the highest volume.

Furthermore, these companies often need additional support, such as custom infrastructure setup (e.g. contact card, area code, or local worker sessions), integration support with their existing SMS/RCS or voice agent systems, and a reliable way to scale their volume over time.

We built Chert to be an infrastructure layer for businesses to handle iMessage conversations at scale. Businesses can use our API to send and receive iMessages programmatically, route replies to humans or agents, and integrate conversations into the systems they already use.

To maintain stability across both outbound and inbound use cases, we built phone line health checks and SMS/RCS fallback systems. We also integrate with existing SMS/RCS systems, voice agents, CRMs such as Salesforce, HubSpot, and Attio, and tools like Slack. Finally, we let businesses reliably scale from a few test lines to hundreds of lines with automated line provisioning and a usage-based pricing structure.

We’re working with companies doing conversational messaging in DTC, sports programs, property management, and home services at the scale of hundreds of lines.

We’d love to hear your thoughts on this and other similar verticals where iMessage could be useful. All comments welcome!

C extensions, portability, and alternative compilers

2026-05-25 @ 14:15:19Points: 138Comments: 48

Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks

2026-05-25 @ 13:56:39Points: 263Comments: 69

Magnifica Humanitas

2026-05-25 @ 10:11:29Points: 1328Comments: 746

IBM Spins Off the First Pure-Play Quantum Chip Foundry

2026-05-25 @ 09:43:03Points: 142Comments: 60

Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web

2026-05-24 @ 15:25:43Points: 516Comments: 112

DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost

2026-05-24 @ 13:02:06Points: 707Comments: 274

DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237663 - May 2026 (384 comments)

The Skeuomorphism Nobody Talks About [video]

2026-05-23 @ 16:03:08Points: 17Comments: 4

Building an AWS Lambda-Like Runtime with Firecracker MicroVMs

2026-05-23 @ 08:08:05Points: 18Comments: 4

Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (2006)

2026-05-23 @ 01:37:02Points: 318Comments: 147

Jensen–Shannon Divergence

2026-05-22 @ 19:27:27Points: 74Comments: 12

Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It

2026-05-22 @ 02:24:48Points: 208Comments: 67

Show HN: Write your BPF programs in Go, not C

2026-05-21 @ 16:25:46Points: 57Comments: 29

CPPL: A Circuit Prompt Programming Language

2026-05-21 @ 11:50:56Points: 33Comments: 6

Everyone Against Us (2023)

2026-05-20 @ 19:02:53Points: 53Comments: 8

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