As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, it’s an especially good time to reflect on the civic mission of democratic schooling. Today, Ashley Berner, the director of ...
Over 50 health and environmental rights advocates push for testing, certification, and labeling of asbestos-free sand toys. 9 March 2026, Quezon City. In ...
China could look to sectors that it already leads — like agriculture and public health — in places like Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Central Asia.
A senior official at USAID instructed a number of the agency’s remaining staff to convene at the agency’s now-former headquarters in Washington on Tuesday for an “all day” group effort to destroy ...
More than a year after the second Trump administration began dismantling the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the global health consequences of this unprecedented loss in international ...
"The 5,200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in some cases even harmed), the core national interests of the United States," Secretary ...
I posted an article earlier, but I just noticed when not logged in on another computer that it is as if I never posted it. It's also didn't seem to be indexed as you can't search for it.It's not a dupe, its from a news website that is often posted on here (I discovered them through HN!), and is clearly pretty relevant to tech.I am honestly fine if everyone just wanted to downvote it and remove it from HN, but at least can I just see that this happened? Am I missing somethin
I built an open-source SDK that lets AI agents pay for API data automatically.The problem: a growing number of APIs return HTTP 402 Payment Required. Coinbase reports $50M+ in x402 transactions over the last 30 days. Stripe and Cloudflare joined the x402 Foundation last month. The payment layer of the internet is being built right now, but existing HTTP clients just fail on 402 responses.BoltzPay makes it one line: const agent = new BoltzPay({ budget: { daily: "$5.00" } }); const da
A few months ago we posted here and got a lot of insightful feedback. This is what we built from it.MoneyOnFIRE answers two questions: when can you reach financial independence, and what should you do to get there the fastest? It runs a financial simulation across income, taxes, accounts, contributions, returns, and withdrawals, then produces a prioritized action checklist with specific dollar amounts, dates, and steps.Several of the biggest improvements came directly from comments on the last H
Hi HN,I built ClawMemory because my AI agent kept waking up with amnesia.The problem isn't the model. GPT-4, Claude, and other LLMs are stateless by design, and that's fine. The real problem is the agent layer. Every time an agent framework starts a new session (like in OpenClaw), the agent forgets everything that happened before. The architectural decisions we made, the experiments that failed, the context that took hours to build—all gone. The model is smart, but the agent behaves li
I used to seek focus and concentration while coding. It was not always easy to reach this flow state but I knew it was possible.I am now using agentic coding quite a lot. The honeymoon is finishing and I am starting to dislike some facets of it. I think the main setback is the rythm.Writing some specs/prompts, launching the agent, confirming quite atomic actions and waiting 10 to 30 seconds until the next question/confirmation. Those very small wait times do not let me reach a concentr
We've indexed 5M+ GitHub users and built a ranking system that goes beyond follower counts. The idea started from frustration: GitHub is terrible for discovery. You can't answer "who are the best Python developers in Berlin?" or "who identified transformer-based models before they blew up?" without scraping everything yourself. So we did.What we built: CodeRank score - a composite reputation signal across contributions, repository impact, and community influence Tas
I develop a Blazor Server app on Windows but deploy it to Linux servers (mostly for cost reasons).<p>Quite often everything works locally but fails on Linux. In many cases it turns out to be things like case-sensitive paths or filesystem differences.<p>I'm curious how others handle this workflow.<p>Do you also develop on Windows and deploy to Linux? What kinds of issues did you encounter?
Hi HN, I’m announcing a major update for the Turkish Sieve Engine (TSE). We have just published comprehensive and deterministic distribution statistics across the entire 10^14 range.What we've achieved:Full Spectrum Stats: We didn't just stop at twin and cousin primes. We’ve now published detailed enumeration data for General Primes up to 100 trillion.High-Scale Verification: These tables provide a bit-perfect reference for researchers, confirming the accuracy of our modular-arithmetic
Hey HN,I built CostRouter because I noticed 70-80% of our AI API calls didn't need GPT-4o/5. Simple text extraction, basic Q&A, formatting — all going to the most expensive model.CostRouter is an API gateway that scores each request's complexity (0-100) and routes it to the cheapest model that can handle it:- Simple queries → Llama 4 Scout ($0.0001/1K tokens) - Medium → Gemini 3 Flash ($0.0005/1K tokens) - Complex reasoning → stays on GPT-5.2 or Claude OpusIntegrat
This has happened to me twice in the past month. First, a major banking website has a problem linking to Fidelity Full view and Rocket Money. Once the callback hits the bank's website there is a generic error saying that there's a problem with the bank/my account and to call the bank to resolve it.After a year of hoping this would resolve I escalated it to executive customer service twice, stating that I was a technical user, giving the full URL and screenshot clearly showing the
I built this because MacWhisper is not available on Android and voice typing on Android is pretty bad. Moreover Gemini does not allow you to edit transcripts before they are auto-sent.I like my SwiftKey keyboard though, so I did not want to replace that. So the only way was to make a floating push-to-talk button on top of any app.You tap the overlay, speak, tap again, transcribe, and insert text into the currently focused field.It supports local on-device transcription, cloud transcription with
Hi HN,My great-grandparents owned a small summer cottage which my grandma inherited. After COVID, my family stopped visiting so much and it fell in disrepair. With no one to care for it, my grandma decided to sell it.On a whim, I did some digging and found that the cottage was actually listed as “culturally significant” by the Massachusetts Historical Commission. It had 150 years of incredible history we never knew. I put together a nice report, presented it to my family, and well now I’m writin
Governance stops being a boardroom discussion and becomes an operational reality when a single port disruption delays food deliveries across provinces, or even when a cyber incident can ripple from ...
I'm exploring a startup idea around in-space manufacturing (ISM) in low Earth orbit using automated, modular payloads (free-flyers or commercial stations like Starlab/Axiom). The core thesis is leveraging microgravity to produce materials that are meaningfully superior to Earth-made versions in small-but-high-value batches (no need for mass production in orbit).Three specific product swimlanes that are viable (all hybrid model: grow superior version in space → return to Earth → use