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Show HN: Recycle Abroad, Recycling Overview
I built Recycle Abroad after getting confused by local recycling rules while traveling.
You select your home country and current country, and it shows a material-by-material recycling overview (plus nearby recycling centers).
Feedback and corrections are very welcome.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47073830
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Four Futures for Jobs in the New Economy: AI and Talent in 2030
Article URL: https://www.weforum.org/publications/four-futures-for-jobs-in-the-new-economy-ai-and-talent-in-2030/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47073826
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The Roles of People in AI-Era Cognition-Driven Companies
Article URL: https://twitter.com/scottbelsky/status/2024481376402120733
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47073813
Points: 1
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Neoliberalism as Corporate Power (2020)
Article URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1024529420910382
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47073810
Points: 2
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AI Under Control: Link11 Launches AI Management Dashboard for Clean Traffic
Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 19th February 2026, CyberNewswire
The post AI Under Control: Link11 Launches AI Management Dashboard for Clean Traffic appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Roberts.
40 of the Best Movies on Netflix You Should Stream Now
Dutch police arrest man for "hacking" after accidentally sending him files
Show HN: LLM-use – cost-effective LLM orchestrator for agents
Hi HN, Built llm-use: a lightweight Python toolkit for efficient agent workflows with multiple LLMs. Core pattern: strong model (Claude/GPT-4o/big local) for planning + synthesis; cheap/local workers for parallel subtasks (research, scrape, summarize, extract…). Features: • Mix Anthropic, OpenAI, Ollama, llama.cpp • Smart router: cheap/local first, escalate only if needed (learned + heuristic) • Parallel workers (–max-workers) • Real scraping + cache (BS4 or Playwright) • Offline-first (full Ollama support) • Cost tracking ($ for cloud, 0 local) • TUI chat + MCP server mode • Local session logs Quick example (hybrid):
python3 cli.py exec \ --orchestrator anthropic:claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219 \ --worker ollama:llama3.1:8b \ --enable-scrape \ --task "Summarize 6 recent sources on post-quantum crypto"
Or routed version:
python3 cli.py exec \ --router ollama:llama3.1:8b \ --orchestrator openai:o1 \ --worker gpt-4o-mini \ --task "Explain recent macOS security updates"
MIT licensed, minimal deps, embeddable. Repo: https://github.com/llm-use/llm-use Feedback welcome on: • Routing heuristics you’d find useful • Pain points with agent costs / local vs cloud • Missing integrations? Thanks!
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47073778
Points: 1
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Salt: Systems Programming, Mathematically Verified
Article URL: https://salt-lang.dev/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47073776
Points: 3
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Show HN: Learn GPU programming with coding agents
Article URL: https://blog.vtemian.com/post/vibe-infer/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47073773
Points: 4
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Show HN: Cerebro – A hosted AI agent with real browser, web search, and email
Article URL: https://cerebro.vip
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47073772
Points: 1
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Peter Steinberger Interview on OpenClaw and Open Source Burnout [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsoFrer-IOA
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47073763
Points: 1
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ClawWork: OpenClaw as Your AI Coworker –- $10K earned in 7 Hours
Article URL: https://github.com/HKUDS/ClawWork
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47073754
Points: 1
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Libinput smooth scroll Lua plugin
Article URL: https://github.com/KD-MM2/libinput-smoothscroll
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47073750
Points: 2
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Show HN: EloLup – guess reactions to short videos instead of scrolling them
For each video, you guess how others react by dropping a point on a 2D pad: Y represents resonance with the content, X represents certainty in that resonance.
The closer your guess is to the crowd’s evolving consensus (which is itself based on others’ guesses), the higher your score. These scores then aggregate into your intuition level - a metric that allows content consumers to be compared.
The idea is to turn the current passive scrolling state of social media into a prediction game where users can compete for social capital through prediction skill rather than content production alone.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47073749
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Show HN: SnapAPI – Screenshot/PDF/Extract API Built with Fastify and Playwright
Hi HN,
I'm a solo developer based in Tbilisi, Georgia, and I've been building SnapAPI for the past few months. It's a REST API that does four things: screenshots, PDFs, video recording, and structured data extraction from web pages.
*Why I built it:* I was working on a project that needed link previews. I tried self-hosting Playwright — it works, but managing browser contexts, memory leaks, cookie banners, and crash recovery is a surprising amount of operational work for what should be a simple task. The existing APIs (ScreenshotOne, Urlbox) are solid but expensive and fragmented — you need separate services for screenshots vs. data extraction.
*Architecture:*
- *Fastify* handles the API layer. Chose it over Express for the schema validation (I use it as the single source of truth for request validation) and the ~2x throughput difference under load. - *Playwright* over Puppeteer. The cross-browser support doesn't matter for this use case, but Playwright's `browser.newContext()` isolation and the built-in auto-wait are more reliable for capturing pages at the right moment. - *BullMQ + Redis* for job queuing. Screenshot requests go into a queue, a separate worker process picks them up. This decouples the API from the heavy rendering work and lets me set per-request timeouts without blocking the event loop. - *LRU cache* (in-memory + Redis) with content-hash keys. Same URL + same options = cache hit. This alone handles ~40% of requests on busy days. - *S3-compatible storage* for result delivery. Screenshots get uploaded to object storage, the API returns a pre-signed URL. Files auto-expire after 24h. - *Cookie banner blocking* uses @ghostery/adblocker-playwright with custom filter lists. It's not perfect (nothing is), but it catches ~90% of GDPR popups. For the rest, I inject custom JS to detect and dismiss common consent frameworks (OneTrust, CookieBot, etc.).
The whole thing runs on a single 4-core/8GB VPS in Amsterdam. Playwright is the bottleneck — each browser context uses ~80-120MB — so I cap concurrent renders at 6 and queue the rest. Under normal load (~500-1000 requests/day currently), p95 latency is around 3 seconds for a full-page screenshot.
*What's different from existing services:*
- Combined screenshot + PDF + video + data extraction in one API (most services only do screenshots) - AVIF output format (50-80% smaller than PNG, not widely supported elsewhere) - `extract` endpoint that returns clean markdown, plain text, or structured metadata — useful for RAG/LLM preprocessing pipelines - Starts at $9/month instead of $29-99/month
*What I'm still figuring out:*
- Video recording (MP4 of a browsing session) is the newest feature and the least optimized. FFmpeg encoding after capture adds 2-5 seconds of overhead. - Scaling beyond one server. Playwright doesn't cluster well — I'll probably need to go multi-server with a load balancer routing to render nodes. Haven't needed it yet. - Whether the $9 price point is sustainable. The compute cost per screenshot is ~$0.001, but there's a lot of variance depending on page complexity.
Free tier: 100 requests/month, no credit card. I'm not trying to bait-and-switch — the free tier is genuinely useful for side projects and testing.
Docs: https://snapapi.pics/docs.html
Happy to discuss the architecture, Playwright quirks, or the economics of running a screenshot API. I've learned a lot about browser automation edge cases that I didn't expect going in.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47073746
Points: 1
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Rare gifted word-learner dogs like to share their toys
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/rare-gifted-word-learner-dogs-like-to-share-their-toys/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47073744
Points: 2
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Sharp Invented a New High-Speed Cooking Technology Called the 'Golden Heater'
Nearly 1 Million User Records Compromised in Figure Data Breach
The blockchain-based lender has confirmed a data breach after ShinyHunters leaked over 2GB of data allegedly stolen from the company.
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