Gistbyte - Hacker News Stories for August 5, 2026

1. Show HN: An app to dump notes during the day and plan todos without distraction (today.spqrk.net)

Notes and to-do list in one Android app. Capture a thought in a line, then decide once: which day, and how long. Durations add up, so you stop overcommitting.

5 points by SPQRK 78 days ago 2 comments

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2. Ask HN: When do you choose RAG over Fine-Tuning?

5 points by Harish_0089 78 days ago 0 comments

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3. Ask HN: Anyone interested in building a harness-only benchmark?

5 points by GodelNumbering 78 days ago 5 comments

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4. Ask HN: What is a good format for a tool to report data to a LLM?

5 points by michaelmure 78 days ago 6 comments

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5. Show HN: Pleasantries (github.com)

Pre-hook scripts for AI coding CLIs that block pleasantry-only prompts like "hi", "hello", "ok", "thank you", etc. Send a real task, not a greeting. - QAInsi...

5 points by qainsights 78 days ago 0 comments

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6. Show HN: A faster coding agent than Codex and Claude Code (www.codewithbullet.com)

The coding agent that gets out of your way.

5 points by alsima 79 days ago 5 comments

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7. When "no healthy upstream" isn't about the upstream you think (sahansera.dev)

Field notes from a seasoned distributed systems software engineer and software architect leading public-facing systems that scale for millions of users.

A seasoned software engineer shares insights on the complexities of distributed systems and their scalability challenges for large user bases. Gain a unique perspective on what “no healthy upstream” really means in the context of modern software architecture.

5 points by sahan 81 days ago 6 comments

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8. What is distributed Key Generation (DKG)? (stoffelmpc.com)

A beginner-friendly walkthrough of distributed key generation: how a group can create a shared key that no single party ever holds, using basic MPC.

Learn how distributed key generation allows a group to collaboratively create a shared key without any individual holding it, utilizing fundamental principles of multi-party computation. This guide simplifies a complex concept for those new to the topic.

5 points by badcryptobitch 82 days ago 0 comments

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9. Show HN: I automated California Property tax reduction claim process (saveproptax.com)

If your home value dropped, your property tax can too. Check free in a minute; we prepare and file the county

4 points by atifnayeem 78 days ago 0 comments

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10. Show HN: Lucidos, a local AI OS that keeps the apps you describe running (github.com)

A local AI OS that keeps the apps you describe running, and acts when something happens. Your machine, your data, your accounts. MIT licensed. - lucidos-dev/lucidos

4 points by kennethtiller 78 days ago 1 comments

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11. Ask HN: What would make you list your AI product on a new marketplace?

4 points by Achrima 78 days ago 3 comments

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12. Show HN: I was wrong about scrollytelling landing pages

4 points by vaitko 78 days ago 1 comments

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13. Show HN: We built an open USB-C Power Delivery analyzer and programmable sink (github.com)

An open-source USB-PD protocol analyzer that supports EPR and can act as a programmable sink - T76-org/drpd

4 points by mtabini 78 days ago 0 comments

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14. Show HN: LLM control of deterministic coder – Sif 1.0 – LLMs as vibe coders (github.com)

Sif 1.0: probabilistic direction of deterministic coding infrastructure - Mac-at-SifSys/Sif-1.0

4 points by tmbird 78 days ago 4 comments

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15. Show HN: Kotro – local control plane for coding agents (github.com)

Local coding-agent control plane — MCP action governance + LLM-path protection + cost control. One Rust binary, no SaaS. - kotro-labs/kotro-proxy-engine

4 points by rameshpandian 78 days ago 0 comments

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16. Got a hot date? A secondhand SK Hynix jacket is perfect as bonuses raise cachet (www.koreajoongangdaily.com)

Want to stand out on a blind date? An SK hynix employee jacket, apparently, is now being marketed on a secondhand market as the look that does the trick.

4 points by Bluestein 78 days ago 0 comments

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17. Show HN: I built one of the most advanced web-based drum/beat sequencers (maximecb.github.io)

Sketch a beat in the step sequencer, arrange your patterns into a song on the timeline, and share the whole project as a single link. No ads, no account, nothing to install.

4 points by maxime_cb 78 days ago 2 comments

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18. The Architecture of Israel's Genocide in Gaza (foreignpolicy.com)

A new book describes the destruction of Palestinian life street by street.

A new book details the systematic destruction faced by Palestinian communities in Gaza, highlighting the impact on daily life and the dismantling of neighborhoods. This critical examination offers a poignant look at the human cost of conflict.

4 points by rzk 78 days ago 1 comments

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19. Show HN: Audio-tldr – Summarize any video or podcast locally with Whisper (github.com)

Claude Code skill: summarize videos, audio & podcasts with local cached transcription - AugustusW/audio-tldr-skill

4 points by AugustusW 78 days ago 0 comments

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20. Show HN: Overcheck – self-hosted uptime monitoring, API and multi-user access (github.com)

Contribute to overcheck/overcheck development by creating an account on GitHub.

4 points by fadibar 78 days ago 0 comments

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21. Show HN: LearnOS – Open-source, AI-native Coursera you run locally (learnos.opara-ai.com)

A team of AI agents teaches, quizzes, and certifies. Self-hosted, bring your own key, own your data.

4 points by learn_os 78 days ago 0 comments

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22. Show HN: Randomverse – An algorithm-free, randomized global social feed (randomverse-social.vercel.app)

Social, without expectations. An algorithm-free, privacy-first platform.

4 points by MohammedBokir 78 days ago 0 comments

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23. The journalist taking on the 'tech fascists' of Silicon Valley (www.theguardian.com)

As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them

4 points by Markoff 78 days ago 2 comments

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24. Show HN: HeyBraza – ask out loud how to do something, it points at your screen (heybraza.com)

ask out loud in any app - HeyBraza points at the exact button and walks you through it, so you do the real task and actually learn it. 33+ languages. windows and mac.

4 points by orakulus 78 days ago 0 comments

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25. The Fish Who Could Not Imagine Air (www.novaspivack.com)

Imagine a fish physicist. She is brilliant. Over centuries her tradition has built a physics of astonishing power: pressure, buoyancy, viscosity, the propagation of waves, the beautiful nonlinearities of turbulence. It predicts everything she can measure. It has no loose ends worth losing sleep over. It is, by every internal standard, complete. Above her there […]

4 points by surprisetalk 78 days ago 0 comments

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26. Show HN: All-in-one gamedev toolkit for indie creators (reactorcoregames.github.io)

Solo game designer, developer, modder, and 2D/3D artist. Games, mods, tools, and art — all made by one person.

4 points by not_wowinter14 79 days ago 0 comments

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27. We let models localize into 16 languages. How we made it read native. (reelang.com)

If you are a small team shipping in more than one language, you can get native-quality localization out of AI models today. Actually good, the kind that survives a native speaker reading it closely. What decides the outcome is not which model you pick, but the context that reaches whoever is translating, whether that's a model or a human. The diligence of models can have an advantage over a professional you would hire otherwise.

4 points by stuess 79 days ago 1 comments

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28. Ask HN: Who Has This Pain?

3 points by swk-phil 78 days ago 7 comments

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29. Show HN: GetPageSpeed Amplify, a compatible replacement for Nginx Amplify (amplify.getpagespeed.com)

Monitor NGINX, Varnish, PHP-FPM, and MySQL in one dashboard. Drop-in NGINX Amplify replacement with cache analytics and security analysis.

3 points by dvershinin 78 days ago 0 comments

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30. Show HN: Summarize any page into a pod episode (thedaily.fm)

Turn the page you're reading into an episode with the Chrome extension.

3 points by carimura 78 days ago 1 comments

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1. Show HN: An app to dump notes during the day and plan todos without distraction (today.spqrk.net)

2. Ask HN: When do you choose RAG over Fine-Tuning?

3. Ask HN: Anyone interested in building a harness-only benchmark?

4. Ask HN: What is a good format for a tool to report data to a LLM?

5. Show HN: Pleasantries (github.com)

6. Show HN: A faster coding agent than Codex and Claude Code (www.codewithbullet.com)

7. When "no healthy upstream" isn't about the upstream you think (sahansera.dev)

8. What is distributed Key Generation (DKG)? (stoffelmpc.com)

9. Show HN: I automated California Property tax reduction claim process (saveproptax.com)

10. Show HN: Lucidos, a local AI OS that keeps the apps you describe running (github.com)

11. Ask HN: What would make you list your AI product on a new marketplace?

12. Show HN: I was wrong about scrollytelling landing pages

13. Show HN: We built an open USB-C Power Delivery analyzer and programmable sink (github.com)

14. Show HN: LLM control of deterministic coder – Sif 1.0 – LLMs as vibe coders (github.com)

15. Show HN: Kotro – local control plane for coding agents (github.com)

16. Got a hot date? A secondhand SK Hynix jacket is perfect as bonuses raise cachet (www.koreajoongangdaily.com)

17. Show HN: I built one of the most advanced web-based drum/beat sequencers (maximecb.github.io)

18. The Architecture of Israel's Genocide in Gaza (foreignpolicy.com)

19. Show HN: Audio-tldr – Summarize any video or podcast locally with Whisper (github.com)

20. Show HN: Overcheck – self-hosted uptime monitoring, API and multi-user access (github.com)

21. Show HN: LearnOS – Open-source, AI-native Coursera you run locally (learnos.opara-ai.com)

22. Show HN: Randomverse – An algorithm-free, randomized global social feed (randomverse-social.vercel.app)

23. The journalist taking on the 'tech fascists' of Silicon Valley (www.theguardian.com)

24. Show HN: HeyBraza – ask out loud how to do something, it points at your screen (heybraza.com)

25. The Fish Who Could Not Imagine Air (www.novaspivack.com)

26. Show HN: All-in-one gamedev toolkit for indie creators (reactorcoregames.github.io)

27. We let models localize into 16 languages. How we made it read native. (reelang.com)

28. Ask HN: Who Has This Pain?

29. Show HN: GetPageSpeed Amplify, a compatible replacement for Nginx Amplify (amplify.getpagespeed.com)

30. Show HN: Summarize any page into a pod episode (thedaily.fm)

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