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Better Auth, by a self-taught Ethiopian dev, raises $5M from Peak XV, YC (Score: 150+ in 17 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wHRj
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America’s incarceration rate is in decline (Score: 150+ in 15 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wHG8
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Libxml2's "no security embargoes" policy (Score: 150+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wJ9x
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LM Studio is now an MCP Host (Score: 151+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wHJi
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6wHJi
Writing a basic Linux device driver when you know nothing about Linux drivers (❄️ Score: 151+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wwRb
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Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds (Score: 156+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wJas
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A new pyramid-like shape always lands the same side up (🔥 Score: 153+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wJdb
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What Problems to Solve – By Richard Feynman (🔥 Score: 160+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wHEY
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Tiny Undervalued Hardware Companions (2024) (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wt7S
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OpenAI Charges by the Minute, So Make the Minutes Shorter (🔥 Score: 161+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wGQf
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6wGQf
A new PNG spec (Score: 153+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wDfC
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Gemini CLI (🔥 Score: 150+ in 59 minutes)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wGNZ
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How to Think About Time in Programming (Score: 152+ in 16 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wEK4
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Making TRAMP go Brrrr (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wAfC
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Show HN: Report idling vehicles in NYC (and get a cut of the fines) with AI (Score: 150+ in 16 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wxJA
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6wxJA
New York City has this cool program that lets anyone report idling commercial vehicles and get a large cut of the fines [1]. It's been in the news recently [2].
I've filed a few reports, and I found the process frustrating and error-prone. The forms are fiddly, there's way too much information that needs to be copied down from the video by hand, you have to use a third-party app to take a timestamped video and a different app to compress it before uploading, and approximately none of it can be done on your phone — the device you probably used to record your video in the first place.
I built Idle Reporter to make filing complaints into a five-minute process that you can do entirely from your phone.
Idle Reporter uses AI to automatically extract all the required information and screenshots from the video and fill out the form for you. It compresses your video, adds the required screenshots, and uploads the whole thing to DEP. All you have to do is log in, give it a final check, and submit.
The AI features cost me money to run, so I put those behind a subscription ($5.99/month, which can pay for itself after a single report). There's a one-week free trial so you can test it out. All the other features — including a fully-featured timestamp camera, which other apps charge for, and an editor for filling out the forms manually and submitting in a single step — will be free forever, as a service to the community.
The app is iOS-only for now — part of this was an exercise in learning SwiftUI in my spare time.
Check it out on the App Store and let me know what you think!
[1]: https://www.nyc.gov/site/dep/environment/idling-citizens-air...
[2]: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-york-city-idling-law-report...
Puerto Rico's Solar Microgrids Beat Blackout (Score: 151+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wJGC
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The Hollow Men of Hims (Score: 154+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wJC8
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Iroh: A library to establish direct connection between peers (Score: 151+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wHxf
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QEMU: Define policy forbidding use of AI code generators (🔥 Score: 152+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wJFa
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-2000 Lines of code (Score: 154+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wJcn
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Build and Host AI-Powered Apps with Claude – No Deployment Needed (Score: 151+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wHGb
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Getting ready to issue IP address certificates (Score: 157+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wHuL
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Show HN: Scream to Unlock – Blocks social media until you scream “I'm a loser” (Score: 151+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6wGsj
Hi all,
I kept wasting time on social media, even though I’d promised myself I’d stay focused. Regular site blockers didn’t help.
I needed something that felt annoying enough to break the habit. That’s how the idea came up: make the blocker ask me to say something embarrassing out loud before it lets me back in. If I actually have to yell “I’m a loser” into my mic. Even better - the louder I screamed, the more time I’d get.
So I put together Scream to Unlock. It’s silly, but so far it’s done its job. My social feeds stay locked unless I really want them.
Extension link - https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/scream-to-unlock-ye...
Its open source and transparent - https://github.com/Pankajtanwarbanna/scream-to-unlock. No data collection or tracking, Audio processing happens locally in your browser. No recordings saved or transmitted.
Managing time when time doesn't exist (Score: 150+ in 16 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wFqA
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6wFqA
Build an iOS app on Linux or Windows (Score: 151+ in 14 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wFwT
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Lyon Drops Microsoft to Boost Digital Sovereignty (Score: 151+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wGeT
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Reading NFC Passport Chips in Linux (Score: 150+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wG58
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Excalidraw+ Is Now SoC 2 Certified (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wC7x
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6wC7x
uv: An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust (🔥 Score: 157+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wAAD
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6wAAD
I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst (Score: 153+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wyk4
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