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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155145
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Git is unprepared for the AI coding tsunami
Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/05/15/git-is-unprepared-for-the-ai-coding-tsunami/5241480
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154854
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AI Builder Needs Work
Article URL: https://agenthiveinc.com/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154848
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Linux Kernel Adds Documentation What Qualifies as Security Bug, Responsible AI
Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Kernel-Docs-AI-Bugs
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154840
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Utah data center is causing a ruckus [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/k5igEBeMLho
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154838
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Sorry, you can't bring your humanoid robots on Southwest flights anymore
Article URL: https://ktla.com/news/nationworld/southwest-airlines-humanoid-robot-ban/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154832
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A tmux layer for coordinating multiple free tier coding-agent CLIs
Article URL: https://github.com/trentisiete/endy
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154819
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Archaeologists Find Egyptian Mummy Buried with the 'Iliad'
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/science/archaeology-egypt-mummy-iliad.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154796
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A Letter from 2040
Article URL: https://www.xydac.com/blog/2040-now/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154723
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How to Write to SSDs [pdf]
Article URL: https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol19/p1469-lee.pdf
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154711
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Show HN: A seed prompt that bootstraps a custom knowledge-base system
So I've been working on a few projects with LLM assistance and I've been slowly building up a knowledge base for that project. It started as a series of chats with various LLMs that I copied into CC to organise as markdown, that I could query, and keep building up via Claude Code or Cowork.
It got bigger and it became a pain to dig through directories of markdown so then I asked CC to build a python script to convert the md folder into browsable html. I found it really useful in terms of both being able to browse the html and also being able to add to it and interrogate it via agent.
Then I decided to start using it for other topics/projects so I tried creating a seed prompt that would recreate my whole system from a single prompt. And it works and I'm finding it great to use for those projects too. It's totally flexible and you change whatever you want about it by just telling it.
Also it's really cool that we can now build our own personal easily customisable SaaS from a single prompt.
*Please note* that the prompt instructs your agent to build a python script that creates a static html site from the markdown. It does ask permission first (well it's supposed to). Look at Phase 3 in the markdown file to see these instructions; it's only 10 lines of prompt and easy to follow. Don't trust unknown prompts without reading them!!!
I've only tried this with Opus 4.7 but it should work just as well with 5.5 and I'm sure other models too. I've not tried it with OpenClaw yet but will do soon. To make the most of it in OpenClaw the seed prompt would probably need to change a bit.
I don't recommend installing directly this into an existing project folder. Please only install in a fresh directory, I have no idea what it would do if there were existing files in the folder but you might not be happy about it. It would probably be sensible but you never know.
If you want it to access a folder with a coding project, clone your repo there later. You don't want to have your main coding agent get it's context memory polluted by managing this system.
To install simply paste the prompt into a new empty cowork project or an empty directory using Claude Code. Then let it onboard you. If you don't like the onboarding path then tell it what you want and it should hopefully adapt itself.
Anyway thanks for reading; hope it's useful or interesting.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154710
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Getty Awards $1.8M to Increase Access to Black Visual Arts Archives
Article URL: https://www.getty.edu/news/getty-award-to-increase-access-to-black-visual-arts-archives/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154655
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Show HN: VisiSign – $0.10 per envelope e-signatures with no monthly fee
Most e-signature platforms charge: per seat, per envelope, API access fees, enterprise contracts
We built VisiSign with a different pricing model: $0.10 per envelope via API, no monthly minimum, no contracts, no seat pricing
Or $49/month for the hosted team platform: unlimited users, unlimited sends, API included
The reason this pricing works is simple:
E-signatures are infrastructure now.
Twilio doesn’t charge per employee. Stripe doesn’t charge per seat. Cloudflare doesn’t charge by company size.
But most e-signature platforms are still priced like 2000s enterprise SaaS.
It should work more like payments or email infrastructure: API-first, automation-friendly, embedded into workflows, usage-based when appropriate
Real signature infrastructure is more than rendering a PDF: audit trails, timestamps, signer event history, tamper evidence, completion certificates, webhook workflows
So we built VisiSign around that assumption.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154654
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Construction on Meta's largest data center brings chaos to rural Louisiana
Article URL: https://lailluminator.com/2025/11/22/meta-data-center-crashes/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154649
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Bootstrapping a SQL catalog on a flat key-value store
Article URL: https://n8z.dev/posts/keys-and-values-are-all-you-need/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154631
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CVE-2026-46333 (SSH-keygen-pwn)
Article URL: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-46333
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154599
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After the Feed
Article URL: https://blockchaincapital.com/blog/after-the-feed
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154586
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Tech Companies to Discuss Iran's Future During 'Private Conference' at Uber HQ
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/tech-companies-to-discuss-irans-future-during-private-conference-at-uber-hq/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154578
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Silicate-derived calcium as a pathway to low-carbon Portland cement
Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44458-026-00056-4
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154575
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Show HN: Open modular tracking stack for VR/MR headsets (eye, SLAM, FBT, BCI) [video]
My team and I have been building a VR headset + MR glasses platform for the past few years, and one of the biggest challenges has been tracking.
A few months ago we started developing a modular tracking stack called Shinra Meisin, focused on:
- Low-latency edge processing - Privacy-first architecture - Modularity and hardware flexibility - XR-focused tracking pipelines
The system currently includes:
- Eye tracking - Mouth tracking - SLAM - Inside-out full body tracking - Experimental BCI integration
Today we’re showing our current eye tracking progress and plan on showing off SLAM within the next two(ish) days.
Real time landmark accuracy is 80-85% and gaze is 1.0-2.0° (Which will increase exponentially once I get John (My dev) a better GPU and help train a dataset off of 40ish people
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154574
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