Gistbyte - Hacker News Stories for August 13, 2026

1. Translating the Renaissance: 17,000+ historical source texts (sourcelibrary.org)

Digitizing and translating ancient texts for scholars, seekers and AI systems.

A massive project is underway to digitize and translate over 17,000 historical texts, making them accessible for researchers and AI applications. This initiative aims to preserve and share valuable knowledge from the Renaissance era.

9 points by dr_dshiv 75 days ago 0 comments

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2. Ask HN: How can you tell a site/app is vibe coded?

8 points by gkolli 69 days ago 9 comments

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3. Nvidia doubles RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell's MSRP to a staggering $16,000 (www.tomshardware.com)

A doubling in price from March 2025.

8 points by jacquesm 70 days ago 0 comments

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4. HN: Xenon, open source dashboard for a second screen, tablet or phone (xenon-app.com)

A spare monitor, a tablet or the phone in your pocket becomes one touch dashboard: monitor, media, voice AI, file transfer, Deck. Free, open source, and it runs on your PC. No cloud, no account, no telemetry.

7 points by marcimastro981 70 days ago 0 comments

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5. Show HN: OpenCode Senses, An insanely fast and highly accurate vision plugin (github.com)

The vision plugin for OpenCode that truly understands images. Inspect, read, and reason about any screenshot or picture with deeper understanding than any other plugin — fully local, private, and f...

OpenCode Senses is a powerful vision plugin that analyzes images locally with impressive speed and accuracy, processing screenshots in just 300ms. Users can customize the model for enhanced performance, making it a versatile tool for anyone needing in-depth image understanding without sacrificing privacy.

7 points by itsmeadarsh 70 days ago 0 comments

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6. Show HN: Track habits, metrics, time and whateven you think worth tracking (habitpocket.io)

Habit Pocket logs the numbers and times around your habits, not just checkmarks — so you see what’s affecting your sleep, energy, and mood. Free on iOS & web.

7 points by bohdanstefaniuk 70 days ago 9 comments

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7. Tell HN: Claude Code Is Down

7 points by aurareturn 70 days ago 3 comments

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8. Show HN: I told Claude Code never to reveal my secrets. It sent 3 of 4 anyway (github.com)

Self-hosted PII redaction proxy for LLM APIs and agent CLIs. Scrubs names, emails and secrets from Claude Code, Codex and any OpenAI-compatible app before requests leave your machine, tool-call arg...

A new self-hosted tool aims to protect personal information by redacting sensitive data like names and emails from requests to language models and APIs. It promises to enhance privacy when using services like Claude Code and Codex.

7 points by crp4222 70 days ago 0 comments

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9. Show HN: I asked Claude to write DDIA as a live comic (systemscomic.com)

The arcane ideas of distributed systems, each drawn as a short comic built around one misconception it exists to kill.

7 points by samuelxing 70 days ago 0 comments

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10. Show HN: Capto – alerts when a background job goes quiet, with breadcrumbs (capto.run)

Monitor cron jobs, background workers and containers. Capto tells you when one goes quiet and shows the last useful context the moment it does — heartbeat, cron and HTTP checks, with Docker as a heartbeat recipe, and alerts via ntfy, Telegram, email or webhook.

7 points by johndory80 71 days ago 3 comments

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11. Airbnb Eval-driven development: Lessons from evaluating GenAI at scale (medium.com)

6 points by sebg 69 days ago 0 comments

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12. Show HN: Modern Alternative to Plausible (getopen.so)

Open Analytics is an open-source, privacy-first alternative to Google Analytics: realtime visitors, funnels and revenue attribution from one lightweight, cookieless script. GDPR-friendly with no consent banner, and self-hostable.

6 points by rahulbridge 70 days ago 6 comments

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13. Gemini API removes postpay billing

6 points by alex14fr 70 days ago 1 comments

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14. When Will AI Take My Job? (www.whenwillaitakemyjob.ai)

Explore projected AI-driven unemployment across 725 U.S. occupations from 2025 to 2039.

6 points by yetanothermonk 70 days ago 1 comments

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15. Apple Leasing Program (www.apple.com)

Get the products you really want with Apple Upgrade. Lease a new iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple Watch with low monthly payments and terms that work for you.

Apple’s Upgrade program offers a flexible leasing option for its devices, including iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Apple Watches, allowing users to enjoy the latest products with manageable monthly payments. This could be an appealing choice for those looking to stay up-to-date with Apple technology without the upfront costs.

6 points by MehrdadKhnzd 70 days ago 1 comments

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16. Waits: Arthur Samuel's Checkers (timereshared.com)

6 points by abrax3141 74 days ago 1 comments

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17. Show HN: Cadre.rocks A local-first board for orchestrating coding agents (cadre.rocks)

Manage parallel coding agents on a Kanban-style board. Route tasks, answer blockers, review plans and diffs, and control what ships.

5 points by l-crispr 70 days ago 2 comments

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18. Ask HN: New Reddit also requiring login?

5 points by 7402 70 days ago 5 comments

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19. Show HN: SightDiff – before/after visual proof of what your AI agent changed (sightdiff.com)

Before/after visual proof of every page and state, on your machine, before you commit. Changed surfaces flagged. Untouched ones verified identical.

5 points by ja34luv 70 days ago 1 comments

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20. US vs. UK Baby Names 2025: The Biggest Top Differences Visualized (namedaisy.com)

5 points by xoobdev 70 days ago 2 comments

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21. Show HN: Orca – Instant cross-platform in-app purchase orchestration

5 points by pcvetkovski 70 days ago 0 comments

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22. Show HN: A walkable 3D tour of a feedforward neural net (ffnn.vercel.app)

A walkable 3D tour of a small feedforward network.

5 points by aithena 70 days ago 3 comments

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23. Mistral got a US patent on tool calls in 118 days. Without prior public notice (agent-wars.com)

US 12,670,045 B1 was filed on 4 March 2026 and granted on 30 June. The claims are now readable and they are narrow: a stateless sandbox that pauses a code block, ships one tool call to the client, and resumes by replaying from the top. The prior art that bears on that is durable execution, not CodeAct. The people who would know that are exactly the ones the closed prior-art window locked out.

5 points by berofeev 70 days ago 0 comments

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24. Show HN: Relational-to-KV – AI maps relational models to ToplingDB/RocksDB (github.com)

Multi-runtime skill plugin: relational→ToplingDB KV (Cursor / Claude Code / Codex) - rockeet/relational-to-kv

5 points by rockeetterark 70 days ago 0 comments

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25. Show HN: GreenTree – Cache test results by Git tree, not commit SHA (github.com)

Test the tree, not every commit: verify a dirty working tree continuously, publish only verified trees. - Reachpad/greentree

5 points by officezage 70 days ago 1 comments

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26. Show HN: Mirage Browser, the deadest of internets. ~1000 tok/s 1998 internet (miragebrowser.xyz)

Explore Mirage Browser, an infinite real-time AI-generated retro internet where every website, link, and callable personality is created as you browse.

4 points by KCLock 69 days ago 0 comments

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27. Show HN: Bsdkrun – Instant MicroVMs/Unikernels for macOS and Linux (github.com)

Instant MicroVMs/Unikernels for macOS and Linux. Contribute to tsirysndr/bsdkrun development by creating an account on GitHub.

4 points by tsiry 69 days ago 0 comments

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28. Show HN: Clixad – Free AI coding agent in the terminal, funded by an offerwall (clixad.io)

A free AI coding agent for your terminal. npm install -g clixad, sign in with GitHub, and top up with a form or a survey, credited on completion.

4 points by flo_r 69 days ago 0 comments

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29. Show HN: Pixy, visual editor for coding agents, like Figma on your live site (pixydesignapp.com)

One script tag turns your live site into a design canvas. Edit visually; your coding agent pulls the changes and implements them in source code.

4 points by astroscout 69 days ago 2 comments

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30. What Is Kimi K3? A Complete Developer Guide for 2026 (www.firecrawl.dev)

Recently, Kimi K3 was released by Moonshot AI. In this guide, we'll go over Kimi K3 specs, providers, and how to use it with OpenCode.

4 points by makaimc 70 days ago 0 comments

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1. Translating the Renaissance: 17,000+ historical source texts (sourcelibrary.org)

2. Ask HN: How can you tell a site/app is vibe coded?

3. Nvidia doubles RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell's MSRP to a staggering $16,000 (www.tomshardware.com)

4. HN: Xenon, open source dashboard for a second screen, tablet or phone (xenon-app.com)

5. Show HN: OpenCode Senses, An insanely fast and highly accurate vision plugin (github.com)

6. Show HN: Track habits, metrics, time and whateven you think worth tracking (habitpocket.io)

7. Tell HN: Claude Code Is Down

8. Show HN: I told Claude Code never to reveal my secrets. It sent 3 of 4 anyway (github.com)

9. Show HN: I asked Claude to write DDIA as a live comic (systemscomic.com)

10. Show HN: Capto – alerts when a background job goes quiet, with breadcrumbs (capto.run)

11. Airbnb Eval-driven development: Lessons from evaluating GenAI at scale (medium.com)

12. Show HN: Modern Alternative to Plausible (getopen.so)

13. Gemini API removes postpay billing

14. When Will AI Take My Job? (www.whenwillaitakemyjob.ai)

15. Apple Leasing Program (www.apple.com)

16. Waits: Arthur Samuel's Checkers (timereshared.com)

17. Show HN: Cadre.rocks A local-first board for orchestrating coding agents (cadre.rocks)

18. Ask HN: New Reddit also requiring login?

19. Show HN: SightDiff – before/after visual proof of what your AI agent changed (sightdiff.com)

20. US vs. UK Baby Names 2025: The Biggest Top Differences Visualized (namedaisy.com)

21. Show HN: Orca – Instant cross-platform in-app purchase orchestration

22. Show HN: A walkable 3D tour of a feedforward neural net (ffnn.vercel.app)

23. Mistral got a US patent on tool calls in 118 days. Without prior public notice (agent-wars.com)

24. Show HN: Relational-to-KV – AI maps relational models to ToplingDB/RocksDB (github.com)

25. Show HN: GreenTree – Cache test results by Git tree, not commit SHA (github.com)

26. Show HN: Mirage Browser, the deadest of internets. ~1000 tok/s 1998 internet (miragebrowser.xyz)

27. Show HN: Bsdkrun – Instant MicroVMs/Unikernels for macOS and Linux (github.com)

28. Show HN: Clixad – Free AI coding agent in the terminal, funded by an offerwall (clixad.io)

29. Show HN: Pixy, visual editor for coding agents, like Figma on your live site (pixydesignapp.com)

30. What Is Kimi K3? A Complete Developer Guide for 2026 (www.firecrawl.dev)

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