Gistbyte - Hacker News Stories for August 3, 2026

1. Show HN: Trawl – a self-hosted engine for scraping sites behind challenge walls (trawl.germondai.com)

Scrape protected websites with adaptive HTTP and browser tiers, CAPTCHA handling, session caching, and a challenge-aware proxy.

4 points by germondai 80 days ago 0 comments

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2. Show HN: The best-paid AI/tech job anyone advertises pays $824k, not $100M (ctaio.dev)

Browse executive tech roles with published salary bands. CTO, VP Engineering, Director & Head of positions. Filter by level, location, company stage.

4 points by norejisace 80 days ago 2 comments

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3. Show HN: Daily Math Puzzle (dozenal.game)

A grid-based number puzzle game where you combine tiles to make 12

4 points by sarreph 80 days ago 2 comments

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4. Connes' Rigidity Theorem: Disproof of Open AI's Counterexample and Proof (philarchive.org)

4 points by gone35 80 days ago 0 comments

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5. Emulating ALiBi with Rope (alexlitzenberger.com)

LLMs usually use some sort of positional encoding for helping the model understand where different tokens — or more precisely, KV cache entries — are. Two of th...

Researchers discuss how to emulate ALiBi (Attention with Linear Biases) using Rope (Rotary Positional Embedding) in large language models. The paper details the mechanics of positional encoding and its impact on token processing.

4 points by alexlitz 83 days ago 0 comments

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6. Òrbites – el puzzle de les constel·lacions (orbites.cat)

Connecta boles i completa-les. Puzzles compartits i originals.

Solve unique puzzles by connecting dots to form constellations in this engaging game. It’s a fun way to challenge your mind while exploring the night sky.

4 points by sabatesduran 84 days ago 3 comments

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7. Show HN: Laurie, play chords from your laptop keyboard (laurie.fm)

laurie turns your laptop keyboard into a chord instrument. Play rich chords with keys 1–7, strum with your trackpad, send live MIDI to your DAW.

3 points by adhivd 80 days ago 0 comments

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8. Show HN: Find the perfect name for your startup, app or domain (www.howdowesay.com)

Translate a word into 30 languages at once and instantly check domain availability — find the perfect international name for your startup, brand or project.

3 points by wowinter15 80 days ago 1 comments

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9. Ask HN: Early Feedback on Dez?

3 points by alexander2002 80 days ago 3 comments

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10. Show HN: CCo – Go-style coroutines in C (github.com)

Go-style coroutines in C. Contribute to gtutino/CCo development by creating an account on GitHub.

3 points by gtutino 80 days ago 0 comments

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11. Show HN: Hacker News CLI (github.com)

hacker news cli tool. Contribute to ViktorRingnes/hackernews development by creating an account on GitHub.

3 points by viktorringnes 80 days ago 1 comments

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12. Ask HN: Do you ever think about the environmental impacts of the AI datacenters?

3 points by roschdal 80 days ago 3 comments

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13. Show HN: MPEdb a drop in replacement for SQLite3 with concurrency support (github.com)

Embedded multi-process shared-memory database in Rust: sqlite's serverless model + PostgreSQL-grade MVCC concurrency + rigid schema validation, with multi-database workspaces and cooperative ro...

3 points by punnerud 80 days ago 0 comments

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14. Show HN: Project ESPAÑOL: Find level-appropriate Spanish-language poems (dmerullo.github.io)

3 points by us-merul 80 days ago 0 comments

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15. What Is Decispher?

3 points by cool_coder12 80 days ago 1 comments

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16. Show HN: Freqcast, an Android radio player that finds streams from a website URL (github.com)

A modern open-source Android internet radio player that finds streams from station websites. - z0rats/freqcast

2 points by z0rats 79 days ago 0 comments

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17. Ask HN: Claude multisession

2 points by nunep 80 days ago 0 comments

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18. Show HN: HostBlock – A menu bar app that blocks ads and malware (for my grandma) (hostblock.app)

A lightweight macOS menu bar app that updates your hosts file to block ads and malware system-wide.

2 points by dotspencer 80 days ago 0 comments

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19. Show HN: Add secure widgets on your Windows Desktop or write your own (www.desktop-dashboard.com)

Remodel your desktop for what you need. Live widgets on your desktop background, on Windows. One-time purchase.

2 points by Nair0 80 days ago 3 comments

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20. Show HN: ApeiroCraft – Proposals that track views, e-sign and invoice

2 points by lolllll 80 days ago 0 comments

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21. Show HN: Popkorn – A CSS based alternative for Lottie animations (github.com)

CSS Animations on steroids. Contribute to ayarse/popkorn development by creating an account on GitHub.

2 points by ayarseus 80 days ago 2 comments

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22. Show HN: Python Projects in the Browser – Event ticket preview (www.codembark.com)

2 points by camdenreslink 80 days ago 0 comments

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23. Show HN: Choreo A free visual design tool for UI behavior and micro-interactions (www.choreomotion.app)

Choreograph hover, press, focus and drag states on a canvas that is a real browser. Design the interaction by doing it, then hand off a live link or the production code. Free, no account needed.

2 points by anasbelmadani 80 days ago 0 comments

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24. Show HN: An interactive explorer of Rand Paul's opening at Fauci's hearing (faucis-indictment.fly.dev)

Rand Paul

2 points by zemariagp 80 days ago 0 comments

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25. Show HN: ModelFuzz – Open-source runtime guardrails for AI agents (github.com)

🛡️ Runtime guardrails for AI agents. Intercept and block unsafe tool calls caused by prompt injection. - higagan/modelfuzz

2 points by higagan 80 days ago 0 comments

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26. Show HN: One Thing at a Time – a todo app that hides your list (onethingatatime.app)

Brain dump everything. Let Ori hold the backlog. Keep only the next useful step in front of you.

2 points by sumtsui 80 days ago 0 comments

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27. Show HN: A MicroVM Launcher for BSD and Linux Guests on macOS/Linux (libkrun) (github.com)

A Firecracker-style microVM launcher for BSD and Linux guests on macOS and Linux, built on libkrun (Hypervisor.framework/KVM) - tsirysndr/bsdkrun

2 points by tsiry 80 days ago 0 comments

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28. Show HN: Kuvu AI – Your All-in-One AI Creative Studio and Marketing Studio (kuvu.ai)

Your All-in-One AI Creative Studio & Marketing Studio - Create stunning images and videos with cutting-edge AI models including Seedance 2.0, Veo 3, Kling, Runway, Nano Banana, Seedream, and Flux.

2 points by longyuanpro 80 days ago 0 comments

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29. Show HN: TermBoard – A TUI dashboard for Python projects (github.com)

Contribute to HeyShinde/TermBoard development by creating an account on GitHub.

2 points by heyshinde 80 days ago 0 comments

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30. Show HN: Eight: a symbolic, indentation-based programming language (git.disroot.org)

2 points by Vextoly 80 days ago 1 comments

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1. Show HN: Trawl – a self-hosted engine for scraping sites behind challenge walls (trawl.germondai.com)

2. Show HN: The best-paid AI/tech job anyone advertises pays $824k, not $100M (ctaio.dev)

3. Show HN: Daily Math Puzzle (dozenal.game)

4. Connes' Rigidity Theorem: Disproof of Open AI's Counterexample and Proof (philarchive.org)

5. Emulating ALiBi with Rope (alexlitzenberger.com)

6. Òrbites – el puzzle de les constel·lacions (orbites.cat)

7. Show HN: Laurie, play chords from your laptop keyboard (laurie.fm)

8. Show HN: Find the perfect name for your startup, app or domain (www.howdowesay.com)

9. Ask HN: Early Feedback on Dez?

10. Show HN: CCo – Go-style coroutines in C (github.com)

11. Show HN: Hacker News CLI (github.com)

12. Ask HN: Do you ever think about the environmental impacts of the AI datacenters?

13. Show HN: MPEdb a drop in replacement for SQLite3 with concurrency support (github.com)

14. Show HN: Project ESPAÑOL: Find level-appropriate Spanish-language poems (dmerullo.github.io)

15. What Is Decispher?

16. Show HN: Freqcast, an Android radio player that finds streams from a website URL (github.com)

17. Ask HN: Claude multisession

18. Show HN: HostBlock – A menu bar app that blocks ads and malware (for my grandma) (hostblock.app)

19. Show HN: Add secure widgets on your Windows Desktop or write your own (www.desktop-dashboard.com)

20. Show HN: ApeiroCraft – Proposals that track views, e-sign and invoice

21. Show HN: Popkorn – A CSS based alternative for Lottie animations (github.com)

22. Show HN: Python Projects in the Browser – Event ticket preview (www.codembark.com)

23. Show HN: Choreo A free visual design tool for UI behavior and micro-interactions (www.choreomotion.app)

24. Show HN: An interactive explorer of Rand Paul's opening at Fauci's hearing (faucis-indictment.fly.dev)

25. Show HN: ModelFuzz – Open-source runtime guardrails for AI agents (github.com)

26. Show HN: One Thing at a Time – a todo app that hides your list (onethingatatime.app)

27. Show HN: A MicroVM Launcher for BSD and Linux Guests on macOS/Linux (libkrun) (github.com)

28. Show HN: Kuvu AI – Your All-in-One AI Creative Studio and Marketing Studio (kuvu.ai)

29. Show HN: TermBoard – A TUI dashboard for Python projects (github.com)

30. Show HN: Eight: a symbolic, indentation-based programming language (git.disroot.org)

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