GameStop Preparing Offer for eBay
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/gamestop-preparing-offer-for-ebay-1678e6de Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47985271 Points: 12 # Comments: 1
Show HN: Piruetas – A self-hosted diary app I built for my girlfriend
I searched for a simple, self-hosted journal app for my girlfriend and everything I found was either too complex, too feature-heavy, too feature-less for what I needed or required trusting a cloud service. So I built Piruetas (it means pirouettes in
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Show HN: Mljar Studio – local AI data analyst that saves analysis as notebooks
Hi HN, I’ve been working on mljar-supervised (open-source AutoML for tabular data) for a few years. Recently I built a desktop app around it called MLJAR Studio. The idea is simple: you talk to your data in natural language, the AI generates Python c
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How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?
Article URL: https://eclecticlight.co/2026/05/02/how-fast-is-a-macos-vm-and-how-small-could-it-be/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984852 Points: 55 # Comments: 14
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Show HN: Large Scale Article Extract of Newspapers 1730s-1960s
Hello HN, over the past 7 months I've spent nearly 3,000 hours on building SNEWPAPERS, the first historical newpaper archive with full-text extractions, nearly perfect OCR, a vast categorization taxonomy and of course with semantic and agentic search
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Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015)
Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20150417-00/?p=44213 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984522 Points: 62 # Comments: 26
A report on burnout in open source software communities (2025) [pdf]
Article URL: https://mirandaheath.website/static/oss_burnout_report_mh_25.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981669 Points: 85 # Comments: 31
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DeepSeek V4–almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/24/deepseek-v4/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977026 Points: 175 # Comments: 87
Show HN: Browser-based light pollution simulator using real photometric data
Hi HN — author here. iesna.eu is a browser-based ecosystem for working with photometric data: parsing standard luminaire files (LDT/EULUMDAT, IES LM-63, Oxytech, ATLA-S001), running design calculations against EN 13201 / ANSI/IES RP-8 / CJJ 45 / IES-
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Show HN: Filling PDF forms with AI using client-side tool calling
Hey HN! I built SimplePDF Copilot: an AI assistant that can interact with the PDF editor. It fills fields, answers questions, focuses on a specific field, adds fields, deletes pages, and so on. It's built on top of SimplePDF that I started 7 years ag
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Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables, and which one is right?
Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20150417-00/?p=44213 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984522 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
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SKILL.make: Makefile Styled Skill File
Article URL: https://github.com/Teaonly/SKILL.make Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984486 Points: 12 # Comments: 1
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Open source ballistic simulator with NASA SRTM terrain masking (Python/C#)
Article URL: https://github.com/InsaneInfinity/Balistic Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984291 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
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Uber wants to turn its millions of drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies
Praveen Neppalli Naga, Uber's chief technology officer, revealed the plan in an interview at TechCrunch's StrictlyVC event in San Francisco on Thursday night, describing it as a natural extension of a nascent program the company announced in late Jan
Show HN: Stop playing my matchstick puzzles, start building your own in seconds
Article URL: https://mathstick.github.io Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983485 Points: 6 # Comments: 10