Nova: A JavaScript and WebAssembly engine written in Rust (Score: 150+ in 13 hours)
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I'm starting a social club to solve the male loneliness epidemic (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6viyK
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The other day I saw a post here on HN that featured a NYT article called "Where Have All My Deep Male Friendships Gone?" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44098369) and it definitely hit home. As a guy in my early 30s, it made me realize how I've let many of my most meaningful friendships fade. I have a good group of friends - and my wife - but it doesn't feel like when I was in college and hung out with a crew of 10+ people on a weekly basis.
So, I decided to do something about it. I’ve launched wave3.social - a platform to help guys build in-person social circles with actual depth. Think parlor.social or timeleft for guys: curated events and meaningful connections for men who don’t want their friendships to atrophy post-college.
It started as a Boston-based idea (where I live), but I built it with flexibility in mind so it could scale to other cities if there’s interest. It’s intentionally not on Meetup or Facebook - I wanted something that feels more intentional, with a better UX and less noise.
Right now, I'm in the “see if this resonates with anyone” stage. If this sounds interesting to you and you're in Boston or another city where this type of thing might be needed, drop a comment or shot me an email. I'd love to hear any feedback on the site and ideas on how we can fix the male loneliness epidemic in the work-from-home era.
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6viyK
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6viyK
The other day I saw a post here on HN that featured a NYT article called "Where Have All My Deep Male Friendships Gone?" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44098369) and it definitely hit home. As a guy in my early 30s, it made me realize how I've let many of my most meaningful friendships fade. I have a good group of friends - and my wife - but it doesn't feel like when I was in college and hung out with a crew of 10+ people on a weekly basis.
So, I decided to do something about it. I’ve launched wave3.social - a platform to help guys build in-person social circles with actual depth. Think parlor.social or timeleft for guys: curated events and meaningful connections for men who don’t want their friendships to atrophy post-college.
It started as a Boston-based idea (where I live), but I built it with flexibility in mind so it could scale to other cities if there’s interest. It’s intentionally not on Meetup or Facebook - I wanted something that feels more intentional, with a better UX and less noise.
Right now, I'm in the “see if this resonates with anyone” stage. If this sounds interesting to you and you're in Boston or another city where this type of thing might be needed, drop a comment or shot me an email. I'd love to hear any feedback on the site and ideas on how we can fix the male loneliness epidemic in the work-from-home era.
wave3.social
A modern social club for men | wave3.social
A visual exploration of vector embeddings (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
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blog.pamelafox.org
A visual introduction to vector embeddings
For Pycon 2025, I created a poster exploring vector embedding models, which you can download at full-size . In this post, I'll translate ...
The radix 2^51 trick (2017) (🔥 Score: 153+ in 3 hours)
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Practical SDR: Getting started with software-defined radio (Score: 151+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6viHa
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Nostarch
Practical SDR
Discover the exciting world of software-defined radio (SDR) through this fun, project-based introduction.
Buttplug MCP (🔥 Score: 151+ in 3 hours)
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GitHub
GitHub - ConAcademy/buttplug-mcp: Buttplug.io Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server
Buttplug.io Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server. Contribute to ConAcademy/buttplug-mcp development by creating an account on GitHub.
AI is not our future – Procreate (🔥 Score: 155+ in 2 hours)
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Procreate
Creativity is made, not generated — Procreate®
We are not adding generative AI to our apps. Here's why.
White House releases health report written by LLM, with hallucinated citations (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
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NY Times
White House Health Report Included Fake Citations
A report on children’s health released by the Make America Healthy Again Commission referred to scientific papers that did not exist.
Why is everybody knitting chickens? (❄️ Score: 153+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vb7m
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Ironic Sans
Why Is Everybody Knitting Chickens?
A couple years ago, my wife began knitting. And when she takes an interest in something, she goes all in. She’s a perfectionist about learning a new craft, so in a short amount of time, she’s gotten pretty damn good. I can’t even pretend to know anything
Systems Correctness Practices at Amazon Web Services (🔥 Score: 153+ in 3 hours)
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U.S. sanctions cloud provider 'Funnull' as top source of 'pig butchering' scams (Score: 151+ in 16 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6viJM
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Krebs on Security
U.S. Sanctions Cloud Provider ‘Funnull’ as Top Source of ‘Pig Butchering’ Scams
The U.S. government today imposed economic sanctions on Funnull Technology Inc., a Philippines-based company that provides computer infrastructure for hundreds of thousands of websites involved in virtual currency investment scams, commonly known as “pig…
Ask HN: What is the best LLM for consumer grade hardware? (Score: 152+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6vjDa
I have a 5060ti with 16GB VRAM. I’m looking for a model that can hold basic conversations, no physics or advanced math required. Ideally something that can run reasonably fast, near real time.
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6vjDa
I have a 5060ti with 16GB VRAM. I’m looking for a model that can hold basic conversations, no physics or advanced math required. Ideally something that can run reasonably fast, near real time.
Microsandbox: Virtual Machines that feel and perform like containers (Score: 152+ in 6 hours)
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GitHub
GitHub - microsandbox/microsandbox: Self-Hosted Plaform for Secure Execution of Untrusted User/AI Code
Self-Hosted Plaform for Secure Execution of Untrusted User/AI Code - microsandbox/microsandbox
Beating Google's kernelCTF PoW using AVX512 (🔥 Score: 153+ in 3 hours)
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anemato.de
Beating the kCTF PoW with AVX512IFMA for $51k
PoW is gone 🦀🦀
MinIO Removes Web UI Features from Community Version, Pushes Users to Paid Plans (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vk2N
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BigGo
MinIO Removes Web UI Features from Community Version, Pushes Users to Paid Plans - BigGo News
MinIO, a popular open-source object storage solution, has made significant changes to its community version that have sparked controversy among users. The company has removed key web-based management features from the free version, directing users to
Triangle splatting: radiance fields represented by triangles (Score: 151+ in 17 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6viWJ
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The 'white-collar bloodbath' is all part of the AI hype machine (Score: 156+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vk2X
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CNN
The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine
If the CEO of a soda company declared that soda-making technology is getting so good it’s going to ruin the global economy, you’d be forgiven for thinking that person is either lying or fully detached from reality.
Show HN: Onlook – Open-source, visual-first Cursor for designers (Score: 203+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vhjP
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vhjP
Hey HN, I’m Kiet – one half of the two-person team building Onlook (https://beta.onlook.com/), an open-source [https://github.com/onlook-dev/onlook/] visual editor that lets you edit and create React apps live on an infinite canvas.
We launched Onlook [1][2] as a local-first Electron app almost a year ago. Since then, “prompt-to-build” tools have blown up, but none let you design and iterate visually. We fixed that by taking a visual-first, AI-powered approach where you can prompt, style, and directly manipulate elements in your app like in a design tool.
Two months ago, we decided to move away from Electron and rewrite everything for the browser. We wanted to remove the friction of downloading hundreds of MBs and setting up a development environment just to use the app. I wrote more here [3] about how we did it, but here are some learnings from the whole migration:
1. While most of the React UI code can be reused, mapping from Electron’s SPA experience to a Next.js app with routes is non-trivial on the state management side.
2. We were storing most of the data locally as large JSON objects. Moving that to a remote database required major refactoring into tables and more loading states. We didn’t have to think as hard about querying and load time before.
3. Iframes in the browser enforce many more restrictions than Electron webview. Working around this required us to inject code directly into the user project in order to do cross-iframe communication.
4. Keeping API keys secure is much easier on a web application than an Electron app. In Electron, every key we leave on the client can be statically accessed. Hence, we had to proxy any SDK we used that required an API key into a server call. In the web app, we can just keep the keys on the server.
5. Pushing a release bundle in Electron can take 1+ hours. And some users may never update. If we had a bug in the autoupdater itself, certain users could be “stranded” in an old version forever, and we’d have to email them to update. Though this is still better than mobile apps that go through an app store, it’s still very poor DX.
How does Onlook for web work?
We start by connecting to a remote “sandbox” [4]. The visual editing component happens through an iframe. We map the HTML element in the iframe to the location in code. Then, when an edit is made, we simulate the change on the iframe and edit the code at the same time. This way, visual changes always feel instant.
While we’re still ironing out the experience, you can already:
- Select elements and prompt changes
- Update TailwindCSS classes via the styling UI
- Draw in new divs and elements
- Preview on multiple screen sizes
- Edit your code through an in-browser IDE
We want to make it trivial for anyone to create, style, and edit codebases. We’re still porting over functionalities from the desktop app — layers, fonts, hosting, git, etc. Once that is done, we plan on adding support for back-end functionalities such as auth, database, and API calls.
Special thank you to the 70+ contributors who have helped create the Onlook experience! I think there’s still a lot to be solved for in the design and dev workflow, and I think the tech is almost there.
You can clone the project and run it from our repo (linked to this post) or try it out at https://beta.onlook.com where we’re letting people try it out for free.
I’d love to hear what you think and where we should take it next :)
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41390449
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40904862
[3] https://docs.onlook.com/docs/developer/electron-to-web-migra...
[4] Currently, the sandbox is through CodeSandbox, but we plan to add support for connecting to a locally running server as well
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vhjP
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vhjP
Hey HN, I’m Kiet – one half of the two-person team building Onlook (https://beta.onlook.com/), an open-source [https://github.com/onlook-dev/onlook/] visual editor that lets you edit and create React apps live on an infinite canvas.
We launched Onlook [1][2] as a local-first Electron app almost a year ago. Since then, “prompt-to-build” tools have blown up, but none let you design and iterate visually. We fixed that by taking a visual-first, AI-powered approach where you can prompt, style, and directly manipulate elements in your app like in a design tool.
Two months ago, we decided to move away from Electron and rewrite everything for the browser. We wanted to remove the friction of downloading hundreds of MBs and setting up a development environment just to use the app. I wrote more here [3] about how we did it, but here are some learnings from the whole migration:
1. While most of the React UI code can be reused, mapping from Electron’s SPA experience to a Next.js app with routes is non-trivial on the state management side.
2. We were storing most of the data locally as large JSON objects. Moving that to a remote database required major refactoring into tables and more loading states. We didn’t have to think as hard about querying and load time before.
3. Iframes in the browser enforce many more restrictions than Electron webview. Working around this required us to inject code directly into the user project in order to do cross-iframe communication.
4. Keeping API keys secure is much easier on a web application than an Electron app. In Electron, every key we leave on the client can be statically accessed. Hence, we had to proxy any SDK we used that required an API key into a server call. In the web app, we can just keep the keys on the server.
5. Pushing a release bundle in Electron can take 1+ hours. And some users may never update. If we had a bug in the autoupdater itself, certain users could be “stranded” in an old version forever, and we’d have to email them to update. Though this is still better than mobile apps that go through an app store, it’s still very poor DX.
How does Onlook for web work?
We start by connecting to a remote “sandbox” [4]. The visual editing component happens through an iframe. We map the HTML element in the iframe to the location in code. Then, when an edit is made, we simulate the change on the iframe and edit the code at the same time. This way, visual changes always feel instant.
While we’re still ironing out the experience, you can already:
- Select elements and prompt changes
- Update TailwindCSS classes via the styling UI
- Draw in new divs and elements
- Preview on multiple screen sizes
- Edit your code through an in-browser IDE
We want to make it trivial for anyone to create, style, and edit codebases. We’re still porting over functionalities from the desktop app — layers, fonts, hosting, git, etc. Once that is done, we plan on adding support for back-end functionalities such as auth, database, and API calls.
Special thank you to the 70+ contributors who have helped create the Onlook experience! I think there’s still a lot to be solved for in the design and dev workflow, and I think the tech is almost there.
You can clone the project and run it from our repo (linked to this post) or try it out at https://beta.onlook.com where we’re letting people try it out for free.
I’d love to hear what you think and where we should take it next :)
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41390449
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40904862
[3] https://docs.onlook.com/docs/developer/electron-to-web-migra...
[4] Currently, the sandbox is through CodeSandbox, but we plan to add support for connecting to a locally running server as well
GitHub
GitHub - onlook-dev/onlook: The Cursor for Designers • An Open-Source Visual Vibecoding Editor • Visually build, style, and edit…
The Cursor for Designers • An Open-Source Visual Vibecoding Editor • Visually build, style, and edit your React App with AI - onlook-dev/onlook
Photos taken inside musical instruments (🔥 Score: 154+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vm9C
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DPReview
Probe lenses and focus stacking: the secrets to incredible photos taken inside instruments
Photographer Charles Brooks embarked upon a quest to photograph the inside of musical instruments, creating images that look like monumental buildings.