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Furiosa: 3.5x efficiency over H100s

2026-01-15 @ 00:53:21Points: 77Comments: 39

Anthropic Explicitly Blocking OpenCode

2026-01-15 @ 00:04:24Points: 124Comments: 98

Billion-Dollar Idea Generator

2026-01-14 @ 23:49:34Points: 34Comments: 20

ChromaDB Explorer

2026-01-14 @ 22:30:16Points: 33Comments: 1

Scaling long-running autonomous coding

2026-01-14 @ 22:18:04Points: 130Comments: 64

The State of OpenSSL for pyca/cryptography

2026-01-14 @ 22:04:10Points: 81Comments: 16

Sun Position Calculator

2026-01-14 @ 21:26:51Points: 66Comments: 14

Claude Cowork Exfiltrates Files

2026-01-14 @ 20:12:25Points: 485Comments: 211

Every country should set 16 as the minimum age for social media accounts

2026-01-14 @ 19:53:15Points: 166Comments: 213

Ask HN: How do you safely give LLMs SSH/DB access?

2026-01-14 @ 19:06:23Points: 63Comments: 87

Overall it's been great. However, I find myself having to review every single command, a lot of which are repetitive. It still saves me a ton of time, but it's quickly becoming a bit tedious

I wish I could give the agent some more autonomy. Like giving it a list of pre-approved commands or actions that it is allowed to run over ssh

For example:

    OK: ls, grep, cat, tail
    Not OK: rm, mv, chmod, etc
    OK: SELECT queries
    Not OK: INSERT, DELETE, DROP, TRUNCATE
Has anyone successfully or satisfactorily solved this?

What setups have actually worked for you, and where do you draw the line between autonomy and risk?

Native ZFS VDEV for Object Storage (OpenZFS Summit)

2026-01-14 @ 18:49:37Points: 92Comments: 27

So, you’ve hit an age gate. What now?

2026-01-14 @ 17:27:22Points: 311Comments: 233

Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales

2026-01-14 @ 17:20:09Points: 476Comments: 657

Ask HN: Share your personal website

2026-01-14 @ 17:07:42Points: 422Comments: 1340

As you can see, the directory currently has only a handful of entries. I need your help to grow it. If you have a personal website, I would be glad if you shared it here. If your website is hosted on a web space where you have full control over its design and content, and if it has been well received in past HN discussions, I might add it to the directory. Just drop a link in the comments. Please let me know if you do not want your website to be included in the directory.

Also, I intend this to be a community maintained resource, so if you would like to join the GitHub project as a maintainer, please let me know either here or via the IRC link in the README.

By the way, see also 'Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081 - July 2023 - (1014 points, 1940 comments). In this post, the scope is not restricted to blogs though. Any personal website is welcome, whether it is a blog, digital garden, personal wiki or something else entirely.

UPDATE: It is going to take a while to go through all the submissions and add them. If you'd like to help with the process, please send a PR directly to this project: https://github.com/hnpwd/hnpwd.github.io

GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source

2026-01-14 @ 16:25:07Points: 234Comments: 220

Roam 50GB is now Roam 100GB

2026-01-14 @ 16:03:11Points: 253Comments: 299

Find a pub that needs you

2026-01-14 @ 15:44:22Points: 225Comments: 188

SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

2026-01-14 @ 14:34:57Points: 401Comments: 400

Show HN: Webctl – Browser automation for agents based on CLI instead of MCP

2026-01-14 @ 14:34:40Points: 69Comments: 20

I initially built this to solve a personal headache: I wanted an AI agent to handle project management tasks on my company’s intranet. I needed it to persist cookies across sessions (to handle SSO) and then scrape a Kanban board.

Existing AI browser tools (like current MCP implementations) often force unsolicited data into the context window—dumping the full accessibility tree, console logs, and network errors whether you asked for them or not.

webctl is an attempt to solve this with a Unix-style CLI:

- Filter before context: You pipe the output to standard tools. webctl snapshot --interactive-only | head -n 20 means the LLM only sees exactly what I want it to see.

- Daemon Architecture: It runs a persistent background process. The goal is to keep the browser state (cookies/session) alive while you run discrete, stateless CLI commands.

- Semantic targeting: It uses ARIA roles (e.g., role=button name~="Submit") rather than fragile CSS selectors.

Disclaimer: The daemon logic for state persistence is still a bit experimental, but the architecture feels like the right direction for building local, token-efficient agents.

It’s basically "Playwright for the terminal."

Lago (Open-Source Billing) is hiring across teams and geos

2026-01-14 @ 12:25:59Points: 1

https://www.getlago.com/hiring

We're open-source, mainly use Ruby. Billing is interesting because it lays the ground for the monetization system of any company. Because we're heavily developer-focus, we fit very well with complex use cases for either infra companies and/or enteprises. Companies like Groq, Mistral, CoreWeave or PayPal chose Lago.

We're now heavily investing in step 2: on leveraging the usage and billing data to make the RevOps stack make more sense. Examples: https://github.com/getlago/lago-agent-toolkit or https://www.getlago.com/platform/ai

If this resonates, reach out to talent@getlago.com (whether the job is listed or not)!

I hate GitHub Actions with passion

2026-01-14 @ 10:53:13Points: 433Comments: 298

I’m leaving Redis for SolidQueue

2026-01-14 @ 09:25:58Points: 298Comments: 124

The hunt for a stolen Jackson Pollock

2026-01-14 @ 08:21:19Points: 21Comments: 3

Why some clothes shrink in the wash and how to unshrink them

2026-01-11 @ 02:58:36Points: 452Comments: 244

Ski map artist James Niehues, the 'Monet of the mountains' (2021)

2026-01-10 @ 22:58:25Points: 129Comments: 17

Is Rust faster than C?

2026-01-10 @ 19:37:36Points: 232Comments: 264

Generate QR Codes with Pure SQL in PostgreSQL

2026-01-10 @ 16:19:42Points: 52Comments: 2

Rubik's Cube in Prolog – Order

2026-01-10 @ 11:32:56Points: 22Comments: 6

Show HN: WebTiles – create a tiny 250x250 website with neighbors around you

2026-01-10 @ 00:32:10Points: 128Comments: 19

There is a large grid of 250x250 tiles, on which you are be able to create a tiny website, contained into the tile. You can basically consider the tile as a mini version of your website, showcasing what your full site has (but it can be anything). You are able to link to your full site, and use any HTML/CSS/JS inside. The purpose is to create beautiful and interesting tiles, that could be used for exploring the indie-web in an easy and interesting way.

How can I build a simple pulse generator to demonstrate transmission lines

2026-01-09 @ 11:02:18Points: 18Comments: 3

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