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Show HN: OpenXet

stubbi — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 09:29:43 +0000

Xet [1] seems like a good idea in a world of ever more data hungry applications. It's used in Huggingface's service but the server side has been kept close source.

I started reengineering it with Claude from the protocol descriptions to provide it for everyone.

If you think it's cool, I am grateful for any stars and feedback!

Please no AI-Slop discussions. I am optimistic about the potential for this kind of service since the client is open source and some blog posts describe the mechanisms. Still happy to hear where it's taking wrong directions and needs more guidance.

[1] https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/xet/index

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50229716

Points: 2

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Show HN: Online Ruler, a Free Ruler for Your Screen

secondorder — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 09:18:26 +0000

Article URL: https://onlineruler.in

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50229656

Points: 1

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Show HN: ToolsOfWeb – 69 free online tools that run in the browser

toolsofweb — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 09:02:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.toolsofweb.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50229591

Points: 1

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Show HN: Black Swan – a Flappy Bird where the rules randomly break

hedayet — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 08:54:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.flappyswan.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50229557

Points: 1

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Show HN: Only thing you need to stay informed on tech without doom scrolling x

srx9 — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 08:48:45 +0000

made techtwitter.io, it's a daily newspaper of tech twitter to help stay updated on all things tech twitter for people in tech, to avoid having to scroll on x to stay updated

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50229525

Points: 1

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Show HN: AI:Predict, Retrieve, Generate, Recommend, Decide, Act, and Orchestrate

jayrompe — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 08:42:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/415644138_EASCM_White_Paper_Luthera_2026_v10

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50229495

Points: 1

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Show HN: Zilum – A tiny Snipping Tool alternative for Windows 11

MotiBanana — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 08:26:51 +0000

Article URL: https://zilum.app

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50229413

Points: 1

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Show HN: Hindsight – Lightweight, elegant, open-source tracker for Windows/macOS

Tomotsugu-dev — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 07:04:10 +0000

Hi HN, I’m building Hindsight, a free, open-source activity tracker for Windows and macOS.

I know there are plenty of time trackers. I wanted something that combined automatic tracking, detailed charts, and cross-device sync in a lightweight app with an interface I enjoyed using. I couldn’t find a free option that fit, so I started building my own.

Hindsight records active apps and window titles while it’s running, without requiring you to start and stop timers. You can explore your activity through daily, weekly, and monthly charts, drill down into individual apps and window titles, and use a yearly heatmap to spot patterns. Categories are customizable.

There’s also an optional screenshot and OCR feature for finding something you previously saw on screen. Both are off by default. When enabled, you can search recognized text and jump back to the corresponding screenshot.

The AI features can generate daily summaries or answer questions about your activity, with links back to the underlying records so you can check the answers. You can use a local model or connect a cloud API; third-party API fees may apply.

Optional sync through Google Drive or WebDAV lets you view activity from Windows and Mac devices separately or together. I’ve also recently added plugin support so other developers can extend the app.

I’d appreciate feedback, particularly on how you’d want to explore your activity history. What would make this useful to you beyond simply showing how many hours you spent in each app?

Happy to answer questions about how it works.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50229028

Points: 2

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Show HN: Music player for visually exploring music collection

CP1979 — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 05:23:26 +0000

I created Melodex for rediscovering my music collection. I got bored of listening to the same songs over and over. Shuffle didn't do it for me either, as I wanted something that moved between the songs like a journey with more cohesion.

Alongside the ability to plan routes from a starting song to a final destination, the routes through the music map are navigable too.

There's a few other features like plugins to connect radio stations, or other music sources too which were a big project in terms of getting the plugin structure right to get working with almost any online source now.

Looking for feedback on the music map, how it can be further improved, how intuitive, did it lead to new musical discoveries of your music?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50228579

Points: 1

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Show HN: Free Local Letterboxd Analytics

shafiemoji — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 04:48:37 +0000

Article URL: https://letterboxd.ddns.net/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50228426

Points: 1

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Show HN: Independent Vet – Find locally owned vets (and corporate ones) near you

packeted — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 04:26:00 +0000

Three years ago, our dog was sideswiped by a car and my wife took him to the local vet in Berkeley. Unfortunately, things did not go well and to cut a long story short, he passed after 2 days and $13k of bills for very limited care. I was surprised to learn that the seemingly mom & pop practice had been acquired by a PE-owned consolidator and that around 50% of practices in the US are now owned by mostly PE-backed corporate groups - a trend that rapidly accelerated after COVID.

I started a small janky passion project called https://privateequityvet.org which used Leaflet.js to map corporately owned veterinary practices in the US. The site gradually took off, was covered on PBS Newshour and now gets 20k uniques a day.

A few months ago I launched IndependentVet.com which aims to be the opposite of the original site, helping pet parents in the US/Canada/UK identify locally owned veterinary practices. Just yesterday I launched native mobile apps that I developed over the course of three intense weeks of evenings and weekends using Opus 5.5. While it's early days, I'm really happy with how it turned out: https://independentvet.com/get

Would love to hear what you think!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50228314

Points: 3

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Show HN: Git-ing Over it, learn Git like you'll use it IRL

k2maan — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 04:23:11 +0000

Hi HN! I made a browser game called Git-ing Over It around the git situations you might actually run into at work. It's completely free, 14 levels, no sign up!

A Slack message, some objectives, a terminal, and at times a browser window or a code file welcome you in each level.

Each level is a mix of 'whose fault it is '- sometimes it's you, sometimes it's your made-up teammate's, and sometimes it's just a bad Monday situation.

It's a real git engine so the answers are judged on the final state of the repo. No LLMs checking it, and no direct command-based solutions.

It is more intended for early devs and students.

Of course AI can solve all your git problems but at the end of the day, fundamentals tell the difference. So git is needed. Even if AI handles git for you, it doesn't hurt to know the whys and hows. And this is where a game like this helps.

Please go and break something. I'd love to know of levels where the commands don't behave as expected. Link: https://git-ing-over-it.vercel.app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50228301

Points: 1

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Show HN: Dadgpt Open Source Halloween Costume

johnpolacek — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 04:10:48 +0000

Fork the repo. Load it on your phone. Attach your phone to a baseball hat. Make it your own. Happy Halloween.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50228239

Points: 3

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Show HN: A Truly Modular Keyboard

NotARoomba — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 03:47:56 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/notaroomba/keybytes

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50228115

Points: 4

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Show HN: AgentSkill – Yara-L-Skill

nvajay — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 03:32:56 +0000

An Agent Skill that teaches AI coding agents to write, review, tune, and convert YARA-L 2.0 detection rules for Google Security Operations (SecOps, formerly Chronicle).

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50228031

Points: 1

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Show HN: Four-Leaf job matches that find you automatically

frank_clover — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 03:25:36 +0000

Article URL: https://four-leaf.ai/jobs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50227987

Points: 2

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Show HN: AI Heat Map Sourced from over 140 News Feeds

psiberaktiv — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 03:25:15 +0000

Article URL: https://ai.jagular.io

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50227984

Points: 2

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Show HN: An OSS browser and work environment for humans and agents

crynta — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 03:16:39 +0000

Fast, private, fully-featured, built in Rust (forked Wry, system's WebView). 40 MB. Not a Chromium fork. Native adblocking (forked adblock-rust), major Chrome extension support, deeply integrated productivity tools, a custom agentic browsing engine, and a lot more. It's not just another wrapper built in a few days.

And... Work mode: a shared environment where you and AI agents can browse, research, build, and get real work done together. Live browser sessions, parallel sub-agents, tools, files, components, and interactive results, all in one canvas.

AI is optional (disable in one click). No telemetry. BYOK support and local models.

Website: https://zephium.app Launch video: https://youtu.be/QbSarcWspvw X: https://x.com/CryntaDev

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50227943

Points: 1

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Show HN: Close the UI building AI agent loop with Protoshot

vaibhavshn — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 03:10:26 +0000

Protoshot scans your css files and components and lets you write just some JSX to preview it. A much simpler setup than having to orchestrate agent-browser or puppeteer instance for just seeing what UI looks like.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50227918

Points: 1

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Show HN: Bell Weather – recent weather ranked against every year on record (iOS)