‘Asia's cleanest village’ bans tourists on Sundays

55 gmays 2026-07-13 22:23:23 UTC bbc.com Qwen Share 33

Mawlynnong, India's cleanest village, bans tourists on Sundays to prioritize community life and worship, balancing tourism-driven growth with cultural preservation. The Sunday closure allows residents to maintain hygiene standards and traditions, reflecting a shift from daily tourism reliance to reclaiming authentic village life.

Claude is just Mr. Meeseeks

103 patrickwiseman 2026-07-13 22:23:23 UTC github.com/thephw Qwen Share 40

A Claude Code plugin plays Mr. Meeseeks voice lines for user prompts, using event-driven audio clips for task completion or approval needs, with OS-agnostic playback and silent background activity. Inspired by Rick and Morty, it includes non-commercial audio clips and allows customization, emphasizing focused, single-task sessions.

Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without ever opening Xcode

262 speckx 2026-07-13 18:23:23 UTC scottwillsey.com Qwen Share 120

Use Xcode's CLI tools (xcodebuild, notarytool) and XcodeGen to automate Mac/iOS app builds, avoiding Xcode GUI entirely via scripts like release.sh. LLMs like Claude Code streamline setup, handle certificate management, and generate workflows for signing, notarization, and deployment without manual GUI steps.

Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor

426 get-inscribe 2026-07-13 16:23:23 UTC get-inscribe.com Qwen Share 176

Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer surpasses Whisper models and its legacy API, achieving 3.5-4x lower word error rates and 3x faster processing on M2 Pro, making it the top on-device English transcription engine for current Apple devices. It supports fewer languages than Whisper but offers superior accuracy and speed for English, prompting Inscribe to prioritize it for compatible languages while ...

An Englishwoman who sketched India before photography took hold

23 1659447091 2026-07-13 23:23:23 UTC bbc.com Qwen Share 2

Emily Eden, a 19th-century British artist, captured India's diverse people and landscapes in detailed sketches during her 1830s travels, later published and exhibited in Delhi. Her work, blending colonial context with cultural observation, remains a rare artistic record of India's pre-Victorian era.

What are Forward Deployed Engineers, and why are they so in demand? (2025)

9 saisrirampur 2026-07-13 23:39:23 UTC newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com Prefix Share 1

One interesting trend in the AI startup segment this year is the rise to prominence of a specialized software engineering role called “Forward Deployed Engineer” (FDE.) This role has even been dubbed “the hottest job in tech” by venture capital (VC) firm, a16z. An FDE does a mix of software, sales, and platform engineering, and the role has seen a major recruitment uptick since around the ...

Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser

59 neogenix 2026-07-13 20:23:23 UTC github.com/marcelpanse Qwen Share 40

The tool automates converting YouTube videos to PDF tablature by sampling frames, using AI to detect and crop tab regions, deduplicating by bar numbers, and compiling into a PDF with the video title as metadata. It requires no configuration and outputs to out/<video-title>.pdf.

The art and engineering of Sega CD Silpheed

209 ibobev 2026-07-13 15:23:23 UTC fabiensanglard.net Qwen Share 41

Silpheed's Mega-CD FMV optimized tile reuse, 16-color palettes, and tilemap compression to deliver cinematic video despite 90s hardware limits, with reverse-engineering uncovering 7.5fps compression and ASIC tricks for efficient playback.

Linux on the Sega 32X. Who needs hardware synchronization primitives anyway?

91 cakehonolulu 2026-07-13 18:23:23 UTC cakehonolulu.github.io Qwen Share 21

The author ported Linux to the Sega 32X to enhance board bringup skills, overcoming hardware limitations via SDK examples, FPGA flash carts, and custom synchronization solutions like Peterson's algorithm. Challenges included cross-compilation fixes, memory constraints, and implementing inter-CPU communication, resulting in a functional albeit slow Linux system with a console display.

N+1

6 Caiero 2026-07-13 23:23:23 UTC woman-of-letters.com Prefix Share 2

When I tell my friends that I am reading N+1, they all say the same thing: it’s not what it used to be. Most of you, my readers, have never even heard of N+1, so you must find it strange that I have a circle of friends who all have a strong opinion about this journal you’ve never heard of. And, moreover, this opinion is always the same. I was telling one of these friends, “People feel ...

The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes

56 Stratoscope 2026-07-13 19:23:23 UTC sfgate.com Full Share 75

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Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended

234 Tiberium 2026-07-13 20:23:23 UTC whois.com Qwen Share 165

The domain t.me, registered with GoDaddy since 2010 and expiring in 2035, uses privacy protection via Domains By Proxy. It has multiple EPP status restrictions and Google's name servers, with DNSSEC unsigned.

SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Full Stack Engineers (SF)

0 2026-07-13 21:23:23 UTC jobs.ashbyhq.com Qwen Share

Replacing outdated systems with an AI-native platform for defense/aerospace supply chains, this role involves building integrated systems with legacy environments. Senior Software Engineers need full-stack project experience, SQL proficiency, and problem-solving skills to drive autonomous operations.

TFTP Honey Pot Results

50 speckx 2026-07-13 19:23:23 UTC bruceediger.com Qwen Share 23

A TFTP honey pot over 35 days captured mostly infosec company scans (e.g., Palo Alto, Censys) probing for TFTP servers via file requests like "a" or "pxelinux.0," revealing automated server identification efforts rather than malicious exploitation. Despite varied patterns, most traffic aimed to detect TFTP server presence, with limited CVE exploitation attempts observed.

Samsung Health app threatens data deletion if users opt out AI training

230 bundie 2026-07-13 20:23:23 UTC neow.in Qwen Share 64

Samsung requires users to consent to health data use for AI training to retain access, risking deletion otherwise, and introduces AI features like Vitals and Heart Health Score to analyze biometrics and fitness metrics.

Show HN: Jacquard, a programming language for AI-written, human-reviewed code

38 jbwinters 2026-07-13 20:23:23 UTC github.com/jbwinters Qwen Share 13

Jacquard is a FriendMachine research project for effect-tracking, probabilistic programming, and structural identity in a small language with a test framework (Warp). Version 0.1 includes a repair demo using Bayesian inference and is a non-production prototype with OCaml tools and C backend.

Climate.gov was destroyed. Open data saved it

391 benwerd 2026-07-13 20:23:23 UTC werd.io Qwen Share 155

Climate.us was created by former NOAA employees to preserve public climate data after Climate.gov's shutdown under Trump. The site relies on donations to maintain critical resources, underscoring the need for sustained government support for public infrastructure.

Show HN: I implemented a neural network in SQL

50 alxmrs 2026-07-13 20:23:23 UTC github.com/xqlsystems Qwen Share 12

A 28x28 image model uses flattened indices, skips zero-weight rows, and computes pre-activation layers (z = W @ a + b) with gradient updates (weight/bias - lr * gradient). Trained parameters are stored as xarrays, preserving layer shapes and biases per output dimension.

Ancient Roman Board Game

84 nobody9999 2026-07-13 17:23:23 UTC ludus-coriovalli.web.app Qwen Share 37

Ludus Coriovalli, an ancient Roman asymmetric board game featuring four Hounds blocking two Hares, was reconstructed via AI and wear analysis of a 2,000-year-old stone in the Netherlands. A 2025 Antiquity study confirmed its rules by linking play patterns to a cooperative blocking game design.

Show HN: Hackney – Compare Uber, Lyft, Waymo, and Robotaxi Prices

8 griffinli 2026-07-13 23:23:23 UTC hackney.app Full Share 10

The ultimate ride app. See prices from Uber and Lyft.

Collaboration Networks in Brazilian Computer Science

9 aliiiimaher 2026-07-13 22:23:23 UTC blog.ptidej.net Prefix Share 1

During my bachelor's, I picked up Albert-László Barabási's Network Science book for a research project. The premise is elegant: protein interactions, power grids, social media feeds, financial markets, and many other complex systems can be modeled as graphs, with objects as nodes and relationships as edges. Once you have a graph, you can measure things: who is central, what clusters ...

A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

334 momentmaker 2026-07-13 11:23:23 UTC jivx.com Full Share 67

Ride the Yamanote line through a voxel Tokyo synced to Japan's real clock, weather, and seasons. A lofi bed plays while N5 sentences are read aloud and drift by as subtitles — an ambient Japanese study room you just press play into. 🇺🇸🇯🇵🇦🇺🇨🇦🇬🇧🇩🇪🇸🇪🇫🇷38 countries

Show HN: Sx 2.0 – Share AI skills with your team through a Dropbox folder

4 detkin 2026-07-13 23:27:23 UTC sleuth-io.github.io Prefix Share 1

sx 2.0 is out: a native app for Mac, Windows, and Linux that lets anyone share AI skills with their team, no git and no terminal required. A few months ago I wrote that there’s an npm-shaped hole in the AI tooling stack. Your best AI users build up skills, MCP configs, and commands that multiply their output, and that knowledge stays trapped on their machines because there’s no clean way to ...

The Origins of Heikki's Garden of Flowers

25 panic 2026-07-13 19:23:23 UTC garden-of-flowers.heikkilotvonen.com Full Share 2

An archive of ~2500 pictorial typography and letterpress works spanning four centuries, images composed entirely of type ornaments, characters, and rule. The history of ASCII art before computers.

Show HN: Nobie – an Excel-compatible runtime for agents and humans

71 matthewgapp 2026-07-13 19:23:23 UTC nobie.com Full Share 35

Every formula, every pixel, calculated the same as Excel. Your files are always standard .xlsx — open them in Excel anytime, no surprises.

Show HN: ContextVault – Shared memory layer for your AI and your team

4 Repeater22746 2026-07-13 23:23:23 UTC contextvault.dev Prefix Share 0

Architecture A single source of truth that your AI clients read from and write to. Scoped per user, per agent, per tenant, and durable across sessions. Stop worrying about scattered Markdown files or out of date local projects. Most AI tools help individuals work faster. ContextVault helps organizations retain and reuse what they learn. Keep memories visible to the right team, department, or ...

Show HN: BillAI Bass, an AI-Powered Big Mouth Billy Bass Using Strands Agents

52 mtw14 2026-07-13 18:23:23 UTC github.com/morganwilliscloud GoogleT5 Share 25

A pi can be turned into an ai assistant. the fish can lip-sync to its own voice and flap its tail if it wants to emphasize itself. you talk to the pi, it talks back — head swiveling, mouth lip synchronizing, tail flapping for emphasis. this project was created with help from claude code and you can use any ai helper to help you get through. point the mic away from the speaker

Show HN: Sigwire – a live TUI switchboard for every signal on your Linux box

25 zasc 2026-07-13 20:23:23 UTC github.com/yeet-src Qwen Share 9

Sigwire uses kernel tracepoints and BPF to monitor real-time signal activity, showing sender/target, type, delivery status, and EINTR interruptions. It aggregates bursts, filters signals, and tracks handler execution and syscall interruptions system-wide.

A Study of Microsoft's Early 2026 Rollout of Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI

11 softwaredoug 2026-07-13 22:23:23 UTC arxiv.org Qwen Share 4

Organizations adopting agentic CLI tools should prioritize social network-driven adoption, as Microsoft's 2026 study found first use spread via peer networks, retention linked to coding activity, and adopters merged 24% more pull requests. These tools' impact persisted over four months, suggesting they enhance output beyond novelty, necessitating peer visibility in rollout strategies.

The AI Whale Fall and Open Source

3 ai_critic 2026-07-13 23:23:23 UTC minor.gripe Prefix Share 0

Frontier labs are subsidizing AI usage, and we’d be fools not to use it to improve the state of open source while that holds out. Arguably, whales are more like the institutional investors in frontier labs, but that’s neither here nor there. A whale fall is the bloom of an ecosystem when the carcass of a whale sinks and lands on the ocean floor, providing food and spurring the creation of new ...