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A unified feed of emerging software, developer tools, and early-stage market launches.
Hacker News
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Jun 4, 2026
A plugin for LiveComment designed to enhance interaction with Hacker News 'Who Is Hiring?' threads.
A tool to make working with 'Who Is Hiring?' threads 'easier and more convenient.' It's presented as an extension to an existing open-source project (LiveComment).
Hacker News
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Jun 3, 2026
Junco, an iOS app that converts newsletters and RSS feeds into short audio episodes.
Helps users consume more diverse content they don't have time to read, enabling listening while commuting or multitasking.
Hacker News
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Jun 2, 2026
A searchable archive of declassified UAP/UFO files, news, and analysis, featuring human-curated 'Signals' and LLM-generated 'Insights' with video generation.
A comprehensive, interactive archive for UAP/UFO data, enhanced with curated news and AI-generated analysis, aiming for passive ad revenue.
Hacker News
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Jun 1, 2026
Cordium: A FOSS sandbox platform built on Kubernetes and Octelium, designed for secure, secretless remote access to infrastructure.
A self-hosted GitHub Codespaces alternative, a FOSS alternative to AI sandbox products (E2B, Daytona), and a sandbox with baked-in ZTNA/remote-access-VPN for identity-based, policy-as-code access.
Hacker News
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Jun 1, 2026
Deliberate: A tool designed to log what an AI agent rejected, not just what it executed.
A solution to show what the agent was choosing between, addressing a critical gap in agent observability, particularly for teams running LangGraph or OpenAI Agents in production.
Hacker News
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Jun 1, 2026
A CakeML-based self-verifying, self-improving system.
Not explicitly stated beyond the core technical concept.
Hacker News
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May 31, 2026
A terminal-based Markdown reader with a GUI-like experience, offering advanced features like navigation, search, and rich content rendering.
A terminal-based Markdown reader focused on a GUI-like experience, providing enhanced functionality for content consumption within command-line environments.
Hacker News
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May 30, 2026
Inkfeed, a web-based RSS reader for Kindle's experimental browser, enabling direct reading, article downloads, email forwarding, and Wikipedia browsing. It offers both a backend-supported persistent mode and a local-storage, CORS-proxy-dependent mode.
An integrated RSS Reader for Kindle, addressing the lack of native support and improving upon existing manual transfer methods. It aims to provide a seamless content consumption experience directly on the device.
Hacker News
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May 30, 2026
Jynx, a gaming social platform and matchmaking app that connects players based on skill, play style, and schedule, featuring Tinder-style swiping, LFG sessions, chat, and squad building. Developed using 'agentic engineering' with Claude Code.
A matchmaking app to find compatible gaming teammates, solving the social friction points in online gaming. It leverages advanced AI development techniques for rapid feature delivery and robust architecture.
Hacker News
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May 30, 2026
Open-source native screenshot capture, editor, video recorder, editor, and compressor. Cloud hosting with R2 + Hono worker.
open-source cleanshot alternative
Hacker News
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May 30, 2026
A Notational Velocity (NvAlt) reboot in Swift, an open-source Mac app for plain text notes with quick search, .md file storage, and iCloud sync (future iOS).
A Notational Velocity (NvAlt) Reboot in Swift. OSS
Hacker News
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May 29, 2026
Mira, a semantic file search tool.
Enables file search without requiring exact filenames, relying on semantic understanding.
Hacker News
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May 29, 2026
A static-allocation approach for MLP inference in ANSI C using a 2-slot ring buffer.
Minimizes RAM usage for tiny MLP inference on microcontrollers, achieving near-practical lower bound for RAM usage without sacrificing speed or introducing runtime complexity.
Hacker News
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May 29, 2026
An AI Skill designed to port PostgreSQL extensions to MySQL.
An 'AI Skill' for 'working with VillageSQL' that runs in various coding agents.
Hacker News
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May 29, 2026
Libfyaml 1.0.0-alpha7, a library feature that adds an opt-in transparent parse cache for repeated reads of stable YAML/JSON files, achieving significant speed improvements (473x faster on hot cache) and reduced memory usage.
Improves performance for 'startup/config/data-loading workloads where the same large YAML or JSON file is read repeatedly' by adding a parse cache, specifically highlighting its speed (35.9 ms for 427 MB) and memory efficiency.
Hacker News
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May 29, 2026
An open-source tool for bootstrapping a team of coding agents from a template, automating the assignment of roles, responsibilities, and setup (global IDs, communication, directories).
Solves the 'pain' of structuring coding agents' work by automating the bootstrapping process from templates, enabling agents to 'get things done' more effectively.
Hacker News
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May 28, 2026
Epstein Index, a hypothetical index fund tracking stock returns of companies linked to Jeffrey Epstein.
An observation highlighting the significant outperformance (2,563% return) of companies linked to Jeffrey Epstein compared to the S&P (609% return) since 2008.
Hacker News
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May 28, 2026
An enhanced FreeCiv deployment with custom features.
An improved 'long-turn FreeCiv experience' that addresses client bugs and adds community-driven features like an in-game editor, intelligence dashboard, and an HTML-based online map viewer.
Hacker News
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May 27, 2026
Filemat, an open-source web-based file manager.
A self-hosted, open-source web-based file manager with simple setup and file permissions that work across the entire filesystem, unlike app-managed folder permissions.
Hacker News
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May 27, 2026
Enigma, an interactive web-based walkthrough.
A 13-stage, ~15-minute interactive walkthrough from Caesar ciphers to a working Enigma machine, designed to demystify the Enigma machine and its flaws for those who find it intimidating.