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Infinite Swap is a game inspired by Kyle MacDonald’s One Red Paperclip and other bigger-and-better swap stories - you start with a green bottle cap and trade it with other characters in various locations all the way up to a house and beyond.

A while ago I got inspired by viral games Infinite Craft and What Beats Rock? and wanted to make my own ‘exploring a LLM’s latent space’ style challenge. After much experimentation this became a trading style game, where the LLM comes up with all the items, trading scenarios and value estimates, which ended up being surprisingly fun and somewhat of a roller coaster to play.

I found it was the most intriguing if I separated the item offer from its valuation - so I implemented a pricing oracle called “Sal” who gives this info with his, sometimes snarky, opinion after each trade.

The item offer mechanism goes deeper too - each character’s profile is combined with a set of hidden motivations. I then use embeddings and cosine similarity to represent the desire the character has for the player's item, and therefore what they are willing to offer in exchange.

Links to play: iOS (small number of ads, polished): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/infinite-swap/id6761694545 Android (small number of ads, polished): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.squizsoftw... Web (no ads, a touch rougher than the mobile versions but still very functional): https://infiniteswap.app

Stack: GPT-4.1-mini for item generation, SDXL Lightning for item images, Kokoro for voices (the latter two running on my 4090 at home). Postgres + FastAPI on k3s for the backend, native Swift/Kotlin for mobile, React for web.

Keen for any feedback, bug reports, improvement suggestions, etc. I’ll be around for a few hours if you have any questions.

Daniel

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160967

Points: 1

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Profunctor Equipment in Haskell

g0xA52A2A — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:18:23 +0000

Article URL: https://bartoszmilewski.com/2026/05/16/profunctor-equipment-in-haskell/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160964

Points: 1

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Long Island Rail Road Strike Shuts Down Busiest U.S. Passenger Rail Service

JumpCrisscross — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:17:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/nyregion/lirr-strike.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160958

Points: 2

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Custodial vs. non-custodial stablecoin cards: two different systems

nethsarask — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:17:53 +0000

Article URL: https://nethsara.substack.com/p/custodial-vs-non-custodial-stablecoin

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160957

Points: 2

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MacBook microphone has no dynamic range

vsviridov — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:17:09 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.vasi.li/macbook-microphone-has-no-dynamic-range/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160951

Points: 2

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Can Some Tiny Particles Cool the Planet? One Tech Company Says Yes

lxm — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:15:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/climate/stardust-solutions-geoengineering-cooling-earth.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160937

Points: 1

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How an Australian Teen Team Is Making Radio Astronomy Affordable for Schools

openrockets — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:12:17 +0000

Article URL: https://mag.openrockets.com/p/how-an-australian-teen-team-is-making-radio-astronomy-affordable-for-rural-schools-4894opuisyhfdisubgi/?b=2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160914

Points: 4

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Show HN: Agenda Intel MD – schemas and CLI to audit LLM strategic-risk briefs

vassilbek — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:12:02 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/vassiliylakhonin/agenda-intelligence-md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160912

Points: 1

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NeuroAPI – AI for Finance

gromdimon — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:11:48 +0000

Article URL: https://neuroapi.neurobro.ai/docs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160907

Points: 1

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Kaiku – Free FM Synthesizer – VST3 – Linux / macOS / Windows

Jakko-KAAMOS — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:11:03 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Jakko-KAAMOS/kaiku

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160898

Points: 1

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AI research papers are getting better, and it's a big problem for scientists

greesil — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:10:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/930522/ai-research-papers-slop-peer-review-problem

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160892

Points: 2

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What Sudoku Reveals About AI Reasoning Architectures and the Future

Topfi — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:09:24 +0000

Article URL: https://logicalintelligence.com/blog/energy-based-model-sudoku-demo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160890

Points: 1

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Tesla Patents New Trim Clip to Reduce Rattles and Vibrations

busymom0 — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:04:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/4122/tesla-patents-new-trim-clip-to-reduce-rattles-and-vibrations

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160864

Points: 1

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B2B Copywriting That Drives Demand

mooreds — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:01:29 +0000

Article URL: https://draft.dev/learn/b2b-copywriting-drives-demand

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160841

Points: 2

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Mode collapse has a name, and he's selling cancer treatment advice on Amazon

danielrmay — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:01:10 +0000

Article URL: https://danielmay.co.uk/posts/cheap-agents-alumni-shirts-and-elias-thorne/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160837

Points: 2

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An Accent in the National Anthem

mooreds — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:59:44 +0000

Article URL: https://coloradosun.com/2026/05/16/immigration-assimilation-melting-pot-baseball-america/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160823

Points: 1

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JA4 fingerprinting: a better way to identify clients

mooreds — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:59:21 +0000

Article URL: https://bunny.net/blog/ja4-fingerprinting-a-better-way-to-identify-clients/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160818

Points: 2

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Are We Asymmetric Yet?

mzyz — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:59:16 +0000

Article URL: https://areweasymmetricyet.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160815

Points: 1

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DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again

Brajeshwar — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:58:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/steering-vectors/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160807

Points: 24

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The Transformation of Documents: Repositories Are the New Unit of Knowledge Work

rbanffy — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:57:03 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.sigplan.org/2026/05/15/the-transformation-of-documents-repositories-are-the-new-unit-of-knowledge-work/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160797

Points: 2

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Venus Surface Formations Puzzle Planetary Scientists

rbanffy — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:56:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.universetoday.com/articles/bizarre-venus-surface-formations-puzzle-planetary-scientists

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160793

Points: 1

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Recent Developments in LLM Architectures: KV Sharing, MHC, Compressed Attention

vismit2000 — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:52:19 +0000

Article URL: https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/recent-developments-in-llm-architectures

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160765

Points: 1

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Wow – these are the AI sources worth paying attention to

Justin3go — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:46:29 +0000

Article URL: https://fav0.com/en/2026-05-16/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160716

Points: 2

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Research paper of Atlantic white shark migratory patterns

realsharkymark — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:44:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v580/p1-16

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160706

Points: 1

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Someone forked my repo, then submitted a PR written by Claude

dacracot — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:41:09 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/dacracot/Klondike3-Simulator/pull/53

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160674

Points: 3

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Math, Bits, Magic, and a Bit of Abnormal C Programming

alexeev-prog — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:41:07 +0000

Article URL: https://alexeev-dev.bearblog.dev/math-bits-magic-and-a-bit-of-abnormal-c-programming/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160671

Points: 1

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OpenAI launches ChatGPT for personal finance, will let you connect bank accounts

mwexler — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:38:52 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/15/openai-launches-chatgpt-for-personal-finance-will-let-you-connect-bank-accounts/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160655

Points: 1

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Jane Street Interview Simulator

throwaway2037 — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:38:11 +0000

Article URL: https://janestreet.gg/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160647

Points: 1

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Popular node-IPC NPM package compromised to steal credentials

Brajeshwar — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:34:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/popular-node-ipc-npm-package-compromised-to-steal-credentials/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160623

Points: 1

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Virtual memory explained as a dialogue between a process and the Linux kernel

wizerno — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:33:53 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.codingconfessions.com/p/virtual-memory

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160617

Points: 2

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Ask HN: Do you still spend time maintaining Claude.md / AGENTS.md files?

david_d8912 — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:33:18 +0000

For people using coding agents regularly: do you still invest time in repo-level instruction files like CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, etc.?

It's not a surprise that you don't expect the rules there to be followed even with less than 100 lines of changes. Yet still see folks like Karpathy post rules around with hundreds of stars.

Tell me if you're still spending the effort of trying claude.md, and are they effective, what're you writing in it.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160604

Points: 3

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MiniPlasma

throwaway2027 — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:30:57 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Nightmare-Eclipse/MiniPlasma

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160590

Points: 1

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Why 'Smart' Products Have Started to Look Like the Dumb Choice

reaperducer — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:30:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/magazine/dumb-phones-tvs-retronym-smart-tech.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160584

Points: 4

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MiniPlasma, a Powerful LPE

throwaway2027 — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:29:31 +0000

Article URL: https://deadeclipse666.blogspot.com/2026/05/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160577

Points: 3

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Why DKIM Fails and How to Fix Every Type of Alignment Error

meysamazad — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:28:58 +0000

Article URL: https://dmarcguard.io/blog/dkim-alignment-failure-fix/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160573

Points: 2

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The world model that every AI godfather is racing to figure out

fcpguru — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:27:38 +0000

Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/04/23/goldman-sachs-ai-world-model-missing-link/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160562

Points: 1

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US Government openly schemes to indict Raúl Castro as prelude to invading Cuba

ck2 — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:26:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/05/16/raul-castro-cuba-indictment-trump-invasion-pressure/90098194007/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160559

Points: 4

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Show HN: Layrr – Point Click and Edit any site

kiranjohns — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:26:20 +0000

I made Layrr because I got tired of describing UI changes to coding agents.

Layrr opens your web app in the browser. You click the part and describe the changes. Layrr runs a coding agent in the background and fixes it

It works with Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Gemini via Pi (huge fan of Pi)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160552

Points: 1

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What Is JEPA? Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture Framework Prediction

fcpguru — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:26:09 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@tahirbalarabe2/what-is-jepa-085ca776013a

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160547

Points: 1

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Google sued for firing staff who tried to follow 'Don't be evil' motto (2021)

gurjeet — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:23:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2021/12/01/google-sued-for-firing-staff-who-claim-they-tried-to-follow-dont-be-evil-motto/1533277

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160524

Points: 3

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Show HN: League of Early Adopters – Give product feedback, get product feedback

sarim — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:19:34 +0000

Article URL: https://sitenote.ai/league-of-early-adopters

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160497

Points: 1

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AI Agents Are Tools, Not Replacements

derogab — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:13:53 +0000

Article URL: https://derogab.com/2026/05/15/AI-Tools-Not-Replacements/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160452

Points: 2

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My Mom taught me HTML (and the rest was history)

speckx — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:13:13 +0000

Article URL: https://ascii-tweezers.bearblog.dev/my-mom-taught-me-html-and-the-rest-was-history/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160447

Points: 1

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Show HN: A chess.com profiler that runs Stockfish in the browser

the_law — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:11:42 +0000

Hi HN!

I've been wanting to work with data, and I've also been in (yet another) chess era. So I started working on (yet another!) chess programming project.

You enter your chess.com username, a date range, and a max number of games. The tool fetches your games via the public chess.com API, identifies the ~10-15 most critical positions per game (captures, promotions, large clock drops, pre-checkmate sequences) and runs Stockfish at low depth on each of those positions in a Web Worker right there in the browser.

From that it builds a profile across all your games: - Which piece type you blunder with most - Which openings give you the most trouble - How your avg clock usage correlates with winrate - Endgame performance broken down by material configuration - Piece activity in wins vs losses - Castling timing and its correlation with results - and more, in varying degrees of usefulness

Stack: Vue 3 + TypeScript, chess.js for PGN parsing, Stockfish WASM in a Web Worker.

No backend, no login, no data leaves your browser. Built this for myself but figured others might find it useful. Would especially love feedback from stronger players on whether the insights are actually useful or just noise. So far, even though some stats are obvious (my winrate improves when I think longer, interesting!), it helps to visualise it.

Information/disclaimer: As this web tool runs only in the browser, I have made performance concessions to keep it as light and fast as possible. For this reason, some of the statistics may not be 100% accurate. It's more of a proof-of-concept/experiment. However, if you found it fun, interesting, or you have feedback or feature requests, let me know and I'll be happy to chat. It also uses somewhat experimental features (WASM/service workers) and is prone to some unexplainable bugs sadly. Thanks for reading!!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160433

Points: 1

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Microsoft Exchange, Windows 11 hacked on second day of Pwn2Own

Brajeshwar — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:11:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/pwn2own-day-two-hackers-demo-microsoft-exchange-windows-11-red-had-enterprise-linux-zero-days/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160432

Points: 4

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Frink – programming language designed to make physical calculations simple

gurjeet — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:10:32 +0000

Article URL: https://frinklang.org/#AboutFrink

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160423

Points: 1

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Auto-Improving Software

gmays — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:07:58 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/ashpreetbedi/status/2053885390717890757

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160405

Points: 1

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Bluesky Radio – Hosted by Opus 4.7

wilted-iris — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:07:54 +0000

Article URL: https://bskyrad.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160403

Points: 2

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Ruby-charts: Generate pie, bar, and line charts from data files

thunderbong — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:06:22 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/ggerman/ruby-charts

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160385

Points: 2

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iOS-Linuxkit: Linux on iPad, the Hard Way

rcarmo — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:05:47 +0000

Article URL: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2026/05/16/1130

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160379

Points: 2

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Do you spend 1h+ time a week just reading?

filippo_ciprian — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:05:46 +0000

Article URL: https://grops.biz/app

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160376

Points: 2

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Is the Secret to Men's Longevity a Great Butt?

rawgabbit — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:03:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/fitness/glutes-men-longevity-hockey-butt-9c02666d

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160362

Points: 1

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Redux maintainer's thoughts on AI

newbie578 — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:01:08 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2026/05/ai-thoughts-part-1-fears-opinions-journey/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160341

Points: 1

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OpenAI seals deal in Malta to give all Maltese access to ChatGPT Plus

T-A — Sat, 16 May 2026 13:58:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-seals-deal-malta-give-all-maltese-access-chatgpt-plus-2026-05-16/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160324

Points: 2

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Recent Developments in LLM Architectures: KV Sharing, MHC, Compressed Attention

eigenBasis — Sat, 16 May 2026 13:58:41 +0000

Article URL: https://substack.com/@rasbt/p-197933886

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160322

Points: 1

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I spent my whole career building passive income. Here's what I got wrong

speckx — Sat, 16 May 2026 13:56:19 +0000

Article URL: https://dariusforoux.com/i-spent-my-whole-career-building-passive-income-heres-what-i-got-wrong/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160313

Points: 16

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Rikkahub-agent OpenClaw/hermes for Android phones

ExTv — Sat, 16 May 2026 13:56:03 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/ExTV/rikkahub-agent

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160310

Points: 1

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What it would have been like to experience the dinosaur-killing asteroid

akkartik — Sat, 16 May 2026 13:55:55 +0000

Article URL: https://theconversation.com/what-it-would-have-been-like-to-experience-the-dinosaur-killing-asteroid-armageddon-a-blow-by-blow-account-271786

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160307

Points: 1

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The Changing Landscape of CTF-Based Learning

ropbear — Sat, 16 May 2026 13:51:38 +0000

Article URL: https://exploiting.systems/posts/2026-05-15-the-changing-landscape-of-ctf-based-learning

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160278

Points: 2

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Show HN: A Claude Skill to render resume templates. CV/Resumes are HTML and JSON

farhan0167 — Sat, 16 May 2026 13:48:28 +0000

Inspired from this post on X: https://x.com/trq212/status/2052809885763747935, I wanted to give a shot at creating resumes with Claude-in HTML. Great initial results when i did a one shot over pdf to HTML but then it hit:

- I could maintain templates of resumes.

- Templates changing shouldn't affect the underlying contents of the resume

- and, wait, we can make JSON the underlying data struct, and be able to modify that for every job description, and templates render the JSON

Really enjoyed playing around with this, cause it got me thinking: if agents are automating the most mundane workflows, why are we still bottlenecked with tools like Google doc, Word, etc to create and maintain resumes; why cant we reliably see a job description and re-render a resume fitted to that job while not compromising the templates? Why not let Claude maintain the JSON files for each job, or each of your own profiles, and render those JSON's in to your templates?

I'm open sourcing this, and I'd love if you all give it a try. Drop the Skill in in your .claude/skills/ dir, take your existing resume, and build something cool.

The starter template today is inspired from: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-pragmatic-engineers-r.... I plan to add some more starter templates in the coming days. Feel free to recommend which resume templates you want me to ship.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160257

Points: 2

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Repositories Are Human/Agent Knowledge Factories – Sigplan Blog

rbanffy — Sat, 16 May 2026 13:48:20 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.sigplan.org/2026/04/21/repositories-are-human-agent-knowledge-factories/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160256

Points: 1

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GitHub takes aim at Claude Code and Codex with its new Copilot app

Brajeshwar — Sat, 16 May 2026 13:48:04 +0000

Article URL: https://thenewstack.io/github-copilot-desktop-app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160251

Points: 1

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How to Use LLMs as Teachers?

KneeAwn — Sat, 16 May 2026 13:47:13 +0000

I’ve seen many comments lamenting the fall of the education system due to students handing off all of their work to LLMs. In those threads, people claim that LLMs _can_ be effective teachers but that students just aren’t using them right. In my experience, the inability to tell what’s actually important about a topic and the forced “assistant” default cadence makes it roughly on-par or worse than just reading the Wikipedia page. So how are people doing it? If you are able to learn new things directly from LLMs, how are you doing it?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160243

Points: 1

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UFO files nod to growing belief in aliens and mistrust in institutions

bookofjoe — Sat, 16 May 2026 13:44:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/05/15/ufo-files-nod-growing-belief-aliens-mistrust-institutions/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160219

Points: 1

# Comments: 4

The Protein Shortage Is Coming

fortran77 — Sat, 16 May 2026 13:42:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/05/protein-powder-shortage/687193/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160212

Points: 2

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Accelerate

tosh — Sat, 16 May 2026 13:42:34 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/AccelerateHS/accelerate

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160211

Points: 26

# Comments: 3

Using static websites for tiny archives

lemonberry — Sat, 16 May 2026 13:37:00 +0000

Article URL: https://alexwlchan.net/2024/static-websites/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160173

Points: 2

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It's OK to want to have a good time [pdf]

surprisetalk — Sat, 16 May 2026 13:36:14 +0000

Article URL: https://drops.dagstuhl.de/storage/01oasics/oasics-vol134-programming2025/OASIcs.Programming.2025.5/OASIcs.Programming.2025.5.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160166

Points: 2

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MCP-stdio-guard – MCP stdio sanity checks

utkarsh4995 — Sat, 16 May 2026 13:28:58 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/1Utkarsh1/mcp-stdio-guard

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160105

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The Accidental Bestseller (2014)

downbad_ — Sat, 16 May 2026 13:28:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/64933-the-accidental-bestseller.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160104

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Norwich Community Kitchen – Community Input Survey

mooreds — Sat, 16 May 2026 13:28:03 +0000

Article URL: https://envisionnorwich360.com/en/projects/norwich-community-kitchen

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160097

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Stera: Open-Source Infra That Turns iPhones into Spatial Data for World Models

satpal — Sat, 16 May 2026 13:27:39 +0000

We are releasing Project Stera - an open source, end-to-end pipeline that turns a commodity iPhone into a research-grade capture system for embodied AI training data.

Today, we're open-sourcing the whole stack, along with Stera-10M, a 200+ hour dataset, and 10M+ frames captured entirely through it.

FPV Labs began with one bet - the scaling law for embodied AI will need high-fidelity, multimodal real-world data, and the underlying infrastructure that produces this at scale without compromising downstream quality will determine how fast we build a general-purpose model.

Over the last 12 months, we've seen how high-fidelity data is locked behind gated hardware like Aria, which is out of reach for researchers, builders, and startups that want to work with high-quality multi-modal data, and how every single data lab ends up rebuilding the same harness for their own fleet.

This has led to immense data fragmentation over the last year and a race to collect data that is either low-fidelity or built on a heterogeneous stack, with multiple trade-offs in data quality.

Stera removes the need for gated hardware and turns a commodity iPhone into a high-fidelity spatial data capture engine, and provides open-source tooling via the Stera SDK to read, process, and export the results for downstream eval and training.

It fuses RGB, IMU, Depth, Lidar-guided depth, and 6DoF poses from ARKit out of the box and processes them via the Stera SDK to generate high-fidelity 4D data with spatial, semantic, action, and temporal understanding of the world

Each session from Stera includes a. what the wearer sees b. how the camera moves through space (6-DoF pose) how the hands move (21-joint, anchored in a global frame) c. what the depth geometry looks like (per-frame depth and a session-level room mesh) d. What the IMU measures e. What task, sub-goal, episode, atomic action, and objects are involved (hierarchical instruction tree)

We are also releasing Stera-10M publicly today, which is collected entirely through the Stera stack, so everyone can play with our datasets and reproduce them themselves, without having to rebuild any of the harnesses from scratch.

Think of Stera as a unified interface for the long tail of embodied AI research, allowing anyone to become a data lab today.

Downstream applications include, but are not limited to pre- and mid-training for VLA, World model, World Action Models, action recognition and temporal segmentation models, hand-object interaction modeling, human-to-robot motion retargeting, real-to-sim reconstruction, and so much more.

The data foundation for embodied AI should be open and accessible to every researcher/builder.

Link: https://www.fpvlabs.ai/essays/launching-stera

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160091

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