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Ask HN: Is HN becoming more toxic?

Key Points

• Users disagree on whether Hacker News has become more toxic, with some defending its moderation and overall civility.
• Downvotes are reported to be frequently used to express disagreement, not quality, potentially burying strong technical contributions.
• Political and ideological polarization is seen as spilling into Hacker News, influencing perceptions of toxicity and the platform’s purpose.

A New Perspective on Drawing Venn Diagrams for Data Visualization

Key Points

• VennFan uses polar-coordinate trigonometric boundaries to create fan-blade Venn diagrams.
• Includes sine and cosine variants plus an automatic label placement heuristic.
• Available as a Python package, authored by Bálint Csanády (v1: 11 Jan 2026).

U.S. Cannot Legally Impose Tariffs Using Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974

Key Points

• Section 122’s tariffs are temporary and limited to addressing defined international payments problems.
• Historical context (Bretton Woods and Nixon’s 1971 surcharge) shaped Section 122’s creation and scope.
• The article argues floating exchange rates make Section 122 inapplicable to current U.S. tariff goals.

Wave Twisters (2001)

Key Points

• 2001 American animated film directed by Eric Henry and Syd Garon
• Based on DJ Q-Bert’s album of the same name
• Recognized as the first turntablism-based musical using live-action, CG, and cel animation

Show HN: Minimalist Glitch Art Maker (100% client-side)

Key Points

• 100% client-side processing; no uploads required.
• Real-time effects on local video or webcam; export to WebM.
• Controls for scan-line thickness/spacing, jitter, and black/white balance.

How I launched 3 consoles and found true love at Babbage's store no. 9 (2013)

Key Points

• Eye-level account of the Nintendo 64’s North American launch day at a Houston Babbage’s
• Context on three mid-1990s console launches: Sega Saturn, PlayStation, and Nintendo 64
• Media-driven hype around Nintendo’s “Project Reality” shaped pre-launch expectations

Back to FreeBSD: Part 1

Key Points

• Manual deployments via FTP or scp/rsync were error-prone and risky at scale.
• Shared Apache setups created system-wide failure and resource contention risks.
• Deployment solutions evolved into CI/CD, packaging standards, and version control.

Show HN: Elecxzy – A lightweight, Lisp-free Emacs-like editor in Electron

Key Points

• Lisp-free Emacs-like editor built with Electron; alpha status.
• Emacs keybindings and workflows with modern UI and real-time previews.
• Piece Table engine, language modes, Windows binaries via GitHub; source private.

Unreal Numbers

Key Points

• Peano arithmetic defines natural numbers and addition via zero and a successor function.
• Set theory yields ordinals; ω models ℕ and exhibits non-intuitive infinite arithmetic.
• Cantor’s cardinality distinguishes sizes of infinities, separating ℕ from ℝ.

What's the best way to learn a new language?

Key Points

• Microlearning counters the forgetting curve by presenting small, digestible learning chunks.
• New tech (chatbots, VR, AR) offers instant feedback and simulated real-life conversations.
• A six-day, 30-min/day experiment at Lancaster University modeled early language acquisition without explicit instruction.

The Biophysical World Inside a Jam-Packed Cell

Key Points

• Cells actively regulate internal crowding to support biochemical reactions.
• Nuclei are about 80% as dense as cytoplasm across diverse species.
• New imaging and genetic tools enable in vivo measurement of cellular physical properties.

Minions: Stripe's one-shot, end-to-end coding agents – Stripe Dot Dev Blog

Key Points

• Minions produce 1,000+ merged PRs weekly, fully unattended but human-reviewed.
• Workflow: start from Slack; end with CI-passing PR; integrated with Stripe’s tooling.
• Built in-house to handle Stripe’s massive Ruby/Sorbet codebase and high-stakes environment.

What Is a Database Transaction?

Key Points

• Transactions apply changes atomically on commit and can be reversed with rollback.
• Other sessions see changes only after commit; rolled-back changes remain invisible.
• Postgres uses WAL for recovery and multi-versioning for consistent reads; MySQL relies on an undo log.

Porkbun sells out – Starts requiring Age ID despite no legal requirement

Key Points

• Porkbun requires photo ID verification for some new accounts to combat abuse.
• Verification is handled by Veriff, which complies with GDPR and SOC 2 standards.
• Porkbun says it does not retain ID photos or information, only verification status.

Postgres Is Your Friend. ORM Is Not

Key Points

• JSONB with GIN indexes enables efficient querying of semi-structured data.
• pg_trgm supports fast, fuzzy text search without external engines for many cases.
• FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED + LISTEN/NOTIFY implements a scalable, safe work-queue pattern.

Attention Media ≠ Social Networks

Key Points

• Early social platforms delivered follower-based content with meaningful notifications.
• Design shifts (infinite scroll, engagement-driven notifications) changed user experience around 2012–2016.
• Mastodon is cited as preserving a chronological, follower-only feed without manipulative prompts.

Holo v0.9: A Modern Routing Stack Built in Rust

Key Points

• Broad IS-IS standards and security features implemented, plus distributed flooding reduction.
• OSPF gains virtual link support; daemon version embeds git commit hash.
• CI, documentation, conformance testing, and robustness improvements (fuzzing, panic supervision).

Volatility: The volatile memory forensic extraction framework

Key Points

• Complete rewrite (2019) with new VSL license and performance improvements.
• Python 3.8+ required; install via PyPI or GitHub for dev with virtual environments.
• Windows symbols auto-fetched; macOS/Linux symbols must be generated (e.g., via dwarf2json).

New York Just Killed Its Robotaxi Plan. The Real Problem Isn't the Technology

Key Points

• NY withdraws proposal, delaying robotaxi expansion outside NYC.
• Lack of independently verifiable AV data is cited as the main barrier.
• PhyWare proposes PhyTrace and PhyCloud to create tamper-evident operational audit trails.

The Four-Color Theorem 1852–1976

Key Points

• The four-color theorem was proven in 1976 by Appel and Haken.
• Francis Guthrie first posed the problem in 1852; Frederick Guthrie later clarified attribution in 1880.
• Early dissemination occurred via De Morgan’s writings and The Athenaeum’s 1854 note signed “F. G.”.

Sewage Spill in the Potomac River

Key Points

• Over 200 million gallons of wastewater spilled; DC Water installed a bypass and leads repairs.
• Maryland closed shellfish areas to the Harry W. Nice (Dahlgren) Bridge; Virginia shellfish areas remain unaffected.
• VDH issued a 72.5-mile recreational advisory with safety guidance; repairs estimated at 4–6 weeks.

Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums

Key Points

• Flaw exposed live data from ~7,000 DJI Romo vacuums across 24 countries.
• DJI patched the DJI Home vulnerability automatically on Feb 8 and 10.
• Incident underscores smart home privacy risks and cloud authentication weaknesses.

Iran students stage first large anti-government protests since deadly crackdown

Key Points

• BBC-verified student protests erupted across Tehran campuses and in Mashhad.
• US–Iran nuclear talks in Switzerland reported progress amid US military build-up.
• Conflicting death tolls from January’s protests were reported by HRANA and Iranian authorities.

We hid backdoors in ~40MB binaries and asked AI + Ghidra to find them

Key Points

• Claude Opus 4.6 detected only 49% of relatively obvious backdoors in small/mid-size binaries.
• Most evaluated AI models produced high false positive rates on clean binaries.
• Binary analysis is harder than source code review due to compilation stripping high-level structure.

Introduction to Out of Time Order Correlators (OTOCs)(2025)

Key Points

• Quantum Echoes measures OTOCs via forward/backward evolution with perturbation and probe steps.
• OTOC measurement benefits from interferometric amplification and partial reversal of chaos.
• OTOC signals exhibit power-law decay, enabling more efficient quantum measurement than classical simulation.

Fix Your Tools

Key Points

• The developer’s debugger ignored a valid breakpoint while diagnosing a bug in an open source library.
• Attempts to work around the broken debugger using logging failed to expose the root cause.
• Fixing a simple one-line debugger configuration enabled effective inspection and rapid resolution of the bug.

Git's Magic Files

Key Points

• .gitignore, .gitattributes, .lfsconfig, and .gitmodules are repository-committed files that control Git behavior.
• .gitattributes manages filters, diffs/merges, line endings, and GitHub Linguist overrides; .lfsconfig centralizes Git LFS settings.
• Global and local ignore scopes exist, and retrofitting LFS requires git lfs migrate to rewrite history.

Fresh File Explorer – VS Code extension for navigating recent work

Key Points

• Fresh File Explorer surfaces recent and pending changes from Git in a dedicated VS Code tree view with configurable time windows.
• It enhances navigation with Smart File Tree, deleted-file handling (Exhume/Resurrect), heatmap coloring, and a workspace-level pinned section.
• Filtering, grouping by Git metadata, and a “Fresh Files: Quick Open” command provide advanced yet focused ways to search and open recently modified files.

International box-sizing Awareness Day

Key Points

• Apply box-sizing: border-box to all elements and pseudo-elements for predictable layouts.
• Content-box increases rendered width with padding and borders; border-box includes them within the set width.
• Browser and platform support is broad; use Autoprefixer to manage necessary prefixes.

Linuxulator on FreeBSD Feels Like Magic

Key Points

• Remote development over NFS/SSHFS became too slow and problematic for large projects with many files and language servers.
• VS Code’s Remote SSH extension, though unsupported, works on OpenWRT and can be made to work on FreeBSD via Linuxulator.
• Using FreeBSD’s Linuxulator with a Rocky Linux 9 base (`linux_base-rl9`) enables running the VS Code server and achieving effective remote development on FreeBSD.

Hello Worg, the Org-Mode Community

Key Points

• Worg is the volunteer-maintained documentation section of the Org-mode website, with source files available via a public Git repository.
• Org-mode is a plain-text organization system integrated with Emacs, supporting notes, tasks, calendars, and project planning with search, encryption, and export features.
• The article lists extensive learning and support resources for Org-mode, including manuals, guides, translations, community channels, and event meetups.

America's most partisan voters hold the most voting power

Key Points

• Only a small fraction of House races—18 toss‑ups and 36 competitive or leaning seats—remain genuinely contested, concentrating power among few voters.
• Mid‑decade redistricting in states like Texas and California has created more safe seats, deepening partisan alignment without a clear net gain for either party.
• Primary voters, who are demographically and ideologically unrepresentative, now effectively decide most House races, contributing to a more polarized Congress.

Factory-built housing hasn't taken off in California

Key Points

• California lawmakers aim to make 2026 “the Year of the Housing Factory” to address housing shortages.
• Past efforts like HUD’s Operation Breakthrough in the 1970s attempted but failed to industrialize U.S. housing construction.
• Assemblymember Buffy Wicks is leading hearings and legislation, supported by research from UC Berkeley’s Terner Center.

An Unbothered Jimmy Wales Calls Grokipedia a 'Cartoon Imitation' of Wikipedia

Key Points

• Jimmy Wales described Elon Musk’s AI-powered Grokipedia as “a cartoon imitation of an encyclopedia” and not a threat to Wikipedia.
• He argued Wikipedia will not allow AI to write its articles due to high rates of hallucinations and unreliability in current models.
• A 2025 OpenAI study cited in the article reports hallucination rates up to 79% in some tests for advanced AI models.

Green Lumber Fallacy in Software Engineering

Key Points

• The article argues that software engineering interviews often confuse algorithmic knowledge with real-world software-building ability, exemplifying the “Green lumber fallacy.”
• Max Howell’s rejection from Google despite creating Homebrew is used to highlight the disconnect between whiteboard performance and proven software impact.
• The author advocates for interviews that mirror real job tasks rather than focusing primarily on data structures and algorithm puzzles.

Show HN: Local-First Linux MicroVMs for macOS

Key Points

• Provides ephemeral-by-default Linux microVMs on macOS using Apple’s Virtualization.framework, with near-native ARM64 performance.
• Supports named disk snapshots that act like git commits for environment state, enabling restore, branching, and iteration.
• Offers a simple CLI for running commands, checkpointing, and restoring microVM environments with minimal setup.

I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard

Key Points

• The author iteratively developed Timeframe to provide low-distraction calendar and weather displays throughout the home using e-paper.
• A Ruby on Rails backend, combined with IMGKit and APIs like Google Calendar and Dark Sky, generated PNG images for various e-paper devices.
• Visionect and later Boox hardware shaped the evolution of the system, but hardware and licensing costs limited its viability as a commercial product.

Symplex, an open-source protocol semantic negotiation between distributed agents

Key Points

• Symplex uses intent vectors (semantic embeddings) instead of rigid API schemas to encode agent goals.
• The protocol provides dynamic capability discovery, spontaneous negotiation, and federated trust via Ed25519-based DIDs.
• Symplex runs over a libp2p-based P2P mesh and supports multi-step distributed workflows with a Go reference implementation.

Show HN: Data Studio – Open-Source Data Notebooks

Key Points

• Runs entirely in-browser via WebAssembly with Pyodide and DuckDB, keeping data local.
• Supports Python, SQL, Markdown cells and built-in ECharts visualizations, with robust file and validation features.
• Roadmap includes S3 mounting and AI SQL UDFs; MIT-licensed by Dataspren.

Emulated Windows 3.11 in the Browser

Key Points

• A browser-based emulator runs Microsoft Windows 3.11 as a retro desktop experience.
• The project is created by Pieter (@levelsio) in collaboration with @bai0 and branded through his online presence.
• The interface includes a full-screen mode, interactive loading sequence, and an on-screen keyboard and mousemat visuals.

'Peanut butter' pay raises could cost companies their top performers

Key Points

• Payscale data show rising consideration and use of uniform “peanut butter” pay raises across organizations.
• Companies are motivated by cost pressures, perceived fairness, and administrative simplicity when adopting across-the-board raises.
• Experts warn that these raises may demotivate high performers and create future morale and retention challenges.

Write-Only Code

Key Points

• Human review as the core bottleneck is poised to disappear due to advances in LLMs and AI agents.
• AI agents can plan, execute, and self-correct, producing complex software at a scale that resists human line-by-line review.
• Engineers remain essential for accountability and risk reduction, requiring a rethought SDLC.

Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok

Key Points

• Loops is a federated, open-source short-video platform in open beta, built on ActivityPub to interoperate with other fediverse apps.
• It offers TikTok-like vertical video feeds, with separate "Following" and "For You" feeds driven by engagement and hashtags rather than ad algorithms.
• Loops is positioned as an ethical, ad-free, community-governed alternative to commercial short-video platforms, funded by user donations.

Six Math Essentials

Key Points

• Terence Tao is publishing a popular mathematics book titled “Six Math Essentials.”
• The book covers six core areas: numbers, algebra, geometry, probability, analysis, and dynamics, linking them to intuition, history, and modern practice.
• Publication is scheduled for October 27, and the book is already available for preorder through the publisher.

Global Intelligence Crisis

Key Points

• Fictional 2028 macro memo models a “Global Intelligence Crisis” from rapid AI adoption and labor displacement.
• Early AI deployment boosts profits, markets, and productivity but concentrates gains among owners of compute while eroding worker incomes.
• A self-reinforcing spiral of AI-driven layoffs weakens consumption and strains mortgage and private credit markets in the scenario.

Music Discovery

Key Points

• AI recommendations help users find vinyl records based on moods, vibes, or favorite artists.
• The platform emphasizes 5-record themed crates, genre guides, and listening journeys to structure music discovery.
• Discogs import and price tracking features tailor recommendations to a user’s collection and purchasing goals.

In World Without BlackBerry, Physical Keyboards on Phones Are Making a Comeback

Key Points

• There is a niche resurgence of phones and accessories with physical QWERTY keyboards, driven by nostalgia and typing comfort.
• Companies like Zinwa and accessory makers such as Clicks are reviving or adding physical keyboards to modern smartphone ecosystems.
• BlackBerry has exited phone hardware and software support, leaving only older, secondhand physical-keyboard models like the KeyOne and Key2.

Black-White Array: fast, ordered and based on with O(log N) memory allocations

Key Points

• BWArr is an array-based, pointerless ordered data structure offering amortized O(log N) operations with O(log N) memory allocations for inserts.
• It targets drop-in replacement use for google/btree and GoLLRB in Go, supporting multiset behavior and emphasizing cache-friendly performance.
• The article details tradeoffs and benchmark scenarios, and provides installation instructions plus a basic Go usage example.

Procedural Tron

Key Points

• Pilot a blimp to find hidden “RED OCTANGLES” using searchlight, radar, and adjustable view modes.
• Jump to real-world locations (including Manhattan) via a search bar and preset map option.
• Track global progress with regional charts and reset saved progress to replay.

AWS won't discuss my bill, suspended my account, took $1,600, still no human

Key Points

• Customer alleges AWS billed ~$1,500/month for over a year despite near-zero usage, totaling more than $18,000.
• AWS suspended the account on February 19, taking down Route 53 DNS, domain, business email, and website.
• Even after paying a $1,600 balance, the account remained locked, and the customer says they cannot access support or pay new charges.

Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable

Key Points

• The project archives all CIA World Factbook editions from 1990–2025 into a structured, searchable open source intelligence dataset.
• Users can browse, search, and generate time series, maps, and comparisons across 281 entities and over 1 million parsed data fields.
• An Intelligence Analysis workspace offers ICD 203-aligned dashboards, maps, rankings, and network analyses for in-depth geopolitical assessment.

Algolia Hacker News Search GitHub Project Archived

Key Points

• The project is a Rails 5 application that powers Hacker News search, using React, algoliasearch-rails, and wkhtmltoimage.
• Detailed setup and deployment instructions are provided, including Capistrano-based deployment and workarounds for Bluepill and Thin issues.
• Algolia indexing is configured on the `Item` model, specifying indexed attributes, ranking rules, tags, and highlighting behavior.

Using New Bridges of FreeBSD 15

Key Points

• FreeBSD 15 introduces a new bridge implementation with native VLAN support and more switch‑like behavior for member interfaces.
• A single bridge can now handle multiple tagged VLANs, replacing the previous per‑VLAN bridge and VLAN interface pattern.
• VNET jail setups and scripts like jib must adapt to the new model, but stable MAC addresses for epair interfaces are now provided natively.

Keybee: A Keyboard Designed for Smartphones

Key Points

• Hexagonal layout claims to more than double key size and reduce pixel waste.
• Claims reduced finger travel distance and fewer touches compared to QWERTY.
• $5,000 contest seeks to break a Guinness World Record for touchscreen typing speed.

Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw

Key Points

• A $249/month Google AI Ultra account was suddenly restricted for three days without prior warning.
• The user had recently connected Gemini models via an OpenClaw OAuth integration and suspects this may be related.
• Access to higher-tier GCC support requires additional payment beyond the existing AI Ultra subscription, complicating resolution.

Show HN: Warn Firehose – Every US layoff notice in one searchable database

Key Points

• WARN Firehose unifies WARN Act layoff notices from all 50 U.S. states into a single, normalized database with data back to 1998.
• The platform offers interactive visualizations and bulk exports in multiple formats plus a full-featured REST API for developers.
• Daily automated scraping keeps the dataset current, enabling early detection and analysis of mass layoff trends across the U.S. economy.

Zuckerberg's "Fix" for Child Safety Could End Anonymous Internet Access for All

Key Points

• Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony in a Los Angeles trial is being used to support broader moves toward mandatory online identity verification and access controls.
• Plaintiffs are using a product-liability theory, targeting Instagram’s design features, to work around Section 230 protections.
• The case hinges on the contested premise that social media is clinically addictive and can be treated as a public health emergency, with major implications for anonymous online speech and platform regulation.

Browse Code by Meaning

Key Points

• Browse repositories by meaning using a semantic, clustered tree view.
• Uses OpenAI models (gpt-5-mini default; gpt-5.2 optional) for labeling clusters.
• Handles up to ~10,000 files and supports any text documents, not just code.

Mexican Forces Kill Nation's Most-Wanted Cartel Boss

Key Points

• Mexican authorities say Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, “El Mencho,” leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, has been killed.
• El Mencho’s cartel rapidly expanded over the past decade and is known for violent attacks on security forces and communities.
• Details surrounding the circumstances of his death have not yet been disclosed by the government.

Show HN: A geometric analysis of Chopin's Prelude No. 4 using 3D topology

Key Points

• Umbilic-Surface Grammar models Chopin’s Prelude No. 4 using a 3D harmonic lattice.
• Geometric Aliasing shows counter-rotation between harmonic motion and bass trajectory.
• Bass Inertia explains the bass’s adherence to an Anchor Surface and its shortest-path snap.

IT Staffing Firms (TCS, Cognizant, Infosis Underpay Developers by 80–100%

Key Points

• Large IT outsourcing firms dominate H1B filings but pay substantially lower average salaries than major U.S. tech product companies.
• The article links this disparity to an outsourcing “body shop” model and the use of lower H1B wage levels permitted under labor regulations.
• Recent and proposed policy changes, including high per-application fees and salary-weighted selection, are described as targeting this bulk low-wage H1B hiring model.

Ask HN: Chromebook leads for K-8 school in need?

Key Points

• A K-8 technology teacher in NYC describes very slow Chromebooks causing student agitation.
• The students are said to be in urgent need of new, better-performing hardware.
• The teacher is seeking alternatives to standard grants to acquire new devices more quickly.

My journey to the microwave alternate timeline

Key Points

• Contrasts nuclear-age techno-optimism with a domestic microwave-centric timeline.
• Centers on Marie T. Smith’s 1985 microwave cookbook and maximalist philosophy.
• Frames microwave adoption in the 1980s as a context where replacing stovetops seemed plausible.

The surprising power of daily rituals

Key Points

• Rituals are historically and cross-culturally linked to managing risk and uncertainty, as shown in Malinowski’s work with Trobriand fishermen and similar cases elsewhere.
• Archaeological evidence from Botswana suggests humans have engaged in ritual practices for at least 70,000 years.
• Psychologists define rituals as fixed, formal, symbolic actions without direct practical purpose that can reduce anxiety and support a sense of predictability.

$30B for laptops yielded a generation less cognitively capable than parents

Key Points

• Maine’s pioneering laptop program expanded from 17,000 to 66,000 devices between 2002 and 2016, influencing broader U.S. edtech adoption.
• The U.S. spent more than $30 billion in 2024 on school laptops and tablets, aiming to enhance learning by replacing or supplementing textbooks.
• Expert testimony and PISA data cited in the article indicate that Gen Z is performing worse on standardized tests than previous generations, suggesting a decline in cognitive capability despite widespread technology use.

The Musidex: A physical music library for the streaming era

Key Points

• Physical Rolodex of albums with QR codes and NFC for streamlined streaming playback.
• Metadata sourced via scripts from an iTunes backup and a streaming playlist, followed by manual cleanup.
• Approximately 300 pages, one album per artist, randomized order, with some playlist-linked cards.

Show HN: Lyra Kids – I built an AI bedtime storyteller for my daughters

Key Points

• Lyra Kids offers AI-based bedtime stories centered on children as the main characters.
• The platform combines curated fairy-tale-style stories with community-created, personalized narratives.
• It is marketed as ad-free, safe, and parent-approved, with a weekly 5-minute story available via email subscription.

Aqua: A CLI message tool for AI agents

Key Points

• Aqua is a CLI and protocol for secure, peer-to-peer messaging between AI agents, with identity verification and end-to-end encryption.
• It supports cross-network connectivity via Circuit Relay v2 and provides official TCP and UDP (QUIC) relay endpoints.
• Users can install Aqua via GitHub Releases or Go, then manage identities, contacts, messaging, and relay modes through a comprehensive CLI.

Agentic Software Engineering Book

Key Points

• Code production is no longer the main bottleneck; complexity, communication, and system integrity are the core challenges.
• Agentic Software Engineering focuses on reliability and trust in systems built by both stochastic AI agents and human developers.
• Successful teams in this paradigm prioritize clear intent, risk management, and evidence-based verification over raw coding speed.

How to train your program verifier

Key Points

• a3-python verifies Python code by combining AI-generated theory with formal methods.
• On Requests (183 functions), A3 proved 179 cases safe; four real bugs remained.
• The approach integrates Hilbert’s Stellensatz, symbolic model checking, and PyTorch reasoning.

The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler

Key Points

• Oxc is a Rust-based, open-source toolkit providing linter, formatter, parser, transformer, resolver, and minifier for JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Oxlint and Oxfmt offer ESLint- and Prettier-compatible functionality with significant claimed performance improvements.
• oxc-parser, oxc-transform, oxc-resolver, and oxc-minify form a high-performance pipeline for parsing, transforming, resolving, and minifying modern JavaScript.

Freemediaheckyeah

Key Points

• Freemediaheckyeah aggregates and organizes links to a wide variety of free online content and tools.
• The site is structured into topic-based sections (e.g., Adblocking, AI, Streaming, Gaming, Educational, platform-specific pages).
• Support resources such as a Beginners Guide, Contribute page, and Discord community help users navigate and improve the site.

LGP to take Mister Car Wash private in $3.1B deal

Key Points

• LGP will take Mister Car Wash private in a $3.1 billion deal at $7 per share, a 29% premium to the recent 90-day average price.
• Mister Car Wash will be delisted from NASDAQ after closing, expected in the first half of 2026, with LGP moving from a 67% stake to full ownership.
• CEO John Lai cites greater flexibility to invest in stores, workforce, and technology, and to pursue a goal of tripling the company’s footprint, as key reasons for going private.

Rhythms the Compendium: Life aboard an aircraft carrier (2021)

Key Points

• Re-post of Carroll F. “Lex” LeFon’s multi-part series on US Navy carrier life and flight operations.
• Covers E-2 surveillance, refueling at sea, alert launches, intercepts, CAS, and JDAM strikes.
• Includes emergency procedures, night missions, and insights from service on USS Constellation.

Show HN: Openslack – An open source version of Slack

Key Points

• OpenSlack is an open-source, self-hostable team messaging tool modeled after Slack.
• The project includes a Docker- and Bun-based quick start guide for local deployment.
• A feature table compares OpenSlack and Slack, highlighting both functional overlap and missing features in OpenSlack.

What size should I use for my queue

Key Points

• Queues buffer bursts and timing differences; they do not increase sustained throughput.
• Persistent rate mismatches overwhelm systems regardless of queue size.
• Real-time queue sizing should be guided by explicit latency limits and back pressure strategies.

Show HN: I scraped 5,700 YC companies to find what niches are now getting funded

Key Points

• Three structured datasets are offered: SaaS startups for sale, funded startups, and a full YC startup directory.
• The data includes financial, operational, investor, and team metrics in JSON format to enable analysis of valuations and growth.
• The bundled report is sold for a one-time $39 fee with instant download access.