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Bevy 0.20

https://bevy.org/news/bevy-0-20/
1•Philpax•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Wick, a daily word game where you guess by meaning, not spelling

https://guesswick.com/
1•jpage2•2m ago•0 comments

Lego Mindstorms' future predictions from 1998

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6Tt4uBL-6Pw7kGiKjSDds7A3xhxOG2hq&si=ztOhEYq6JK3-V68Q
1•soundworlds•3m ago•0 comments

The Subreddit Where Men Share Their Dinners–and Their Most Intimate Feelings

https://www.gq.com/story/boydinnerdiaries-subreddit-community
1•rdmuser•4m ago•0 comments

Top Reasons AI Will Never Become Superintelligence: Won't Destroy nor Save Us

https://www.wmbriggs.com/post/62236/
2•B1FF_PSUVM•5m ago•0 comments

ICE Emails Discuss Using Palantir-Supported Tool to Investigate Voter Fraud

https://www.wired.com/story/ice-emails-discuss-using-palantir-supported-tool-to-investigate-voter...
2•mikelgan•7m ago•0 comments

Scientists invent new kind of clock

https://www.the-independent.com/tech/clock-new-atomic-nuclear-time-b3062910.html
1•gmays•7m ago•0 comments

'Breathtaking,' 'Devastating': Mathematics Reels After New OpenAI Release

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/science/mathematicians-respond-openai-release.html
1•furcyd•7m ago•0 comments

Highly multiplexed mammalian metabolic engineering with a shotgun approach

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-026-03318-7
1•bookofjoe•9m ago•0 comments

Spinal: A near-instant, predictive surface for any codebase

https://spinal.sh/
1•handfuloflight•10m ago•0 comments

Google Is Pushing Scam Videos on Elderly and Cognitively Impaired People

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-google-is-pushing-scam-videos-on-elderly-and-cognitively-...
1•rexpop•11m ago•0 comments

What Are the Remaining Millennium Prize Problems?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/science/millennium-prize-problems-explainer.html
1•furcyd•11m ago•0 comments

A growing collection of front end interview demos, built without frameworks

https://brysonbw.github.io/js-demos/
1•Brysonbw•11m ago•0 comments

Open Source Agent Traces with 206B tokens and 1M toolcalls

https://huggingface.co/datasets/harvardMadsys/freeinference_agentic_trace
3•1a1a11a•11m ago•0 comments

Pentagon to livestream military execution of Ft Hood shooter

https://abc7.com/post/pentagon-says-firing-squad-execution-fort-hood-shooter-nidal-malik-hasan-wi...
7•anigbrowl•13m ago•0 comments

OSS Scanner by Anthropic

https://red.anthropic.com/oss-scanner/
1•0natcer•17m ago•1 comments

ASK: HN Help and Forward Advice, Ideas: New Lossless cmpr MRT/CT, Astro

1•theGeatZhopa•17m ago•0 comments

Amazon phasing out Fire Tablets

https://www.theverge.com/tech/1008059/amazon-phasing-out-fire-tablet-panos-panay
2•apparent•18m ago•1 comments

How to Make a Compute-Bound Problem Actually Compute-Bound

https://yang-yifan.github.io/blogs/reg_tile/reg_tile.html
1•porridgeraisin•19m ago•0 comments

Voters are split on whether or not to save Bay Area public transit

https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/muni-bart-tax-measure-22465205.php
2•AxEy•22m ago•0 comments

Virgil –a CLI that routes tasks through a local library before calling any model

https://virgil-ai.cloud/intro
3•JohnMci•22m ago•0 comments

Marchetti's Constant

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marchetti%27s_constant
1•thunderbong•26m ago•0 comments

Female AI agents 'paid' less than males, study finds

https://www.the-independent.com/tech/ai-gender-pay-gap-study-b3061881.html
3•TMWNN•27m ago•1 comments

Filtering Science Papers with Jev

https://sina.bio/posts/decision-language-models.html
1•sinab•29m ago•0 comments

Apophasis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophasis
1•gk1•30m ago•0 comments

Repeated US Treasury interventions risk an erosion of credibility

https://www.ft.com/content/eec1e15d-78b9-4706-a518-2a9db4f37128
1•JumpCrisscross•32m ago•0 comments

Freepik Promo Code 2026: GMRP2603MAR301 – Get 95% Off

https://referral.magnific.com/mzNlYhK
1•stikagestirongo•33m ago•0 comments

WikiWeaver: What if you had access to another universe's Wikipedia?

https://wikiweaver.gaby.dev/
1•_squared_•35m ago•0 comments

This San Francisco Restaurant Tried Pay-What-You-Can Dining and It's Going Great

https://sf.eater.com/restaurant-news/213772/merchant-roots-pay-what-you-can-update-san-francisco
2•mikhael•37m ago•1 comments

Thorium 229 based nuclear clocks

https://www.jerrycards.com/news/first-ticking-nuclear-clocks-thorium-229-tsinghua-tu-wien-2026
1•oofbey•38m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: routr - a fast local replacement for DuckDuckGo bangs

https://t128n.github.io/routr/
2•trbndev•1y ago

Comments

trbndev•1y ago
routr is a lightweight, offline search router inspired by DuckDuckGo's bangs. It's fully browser-based (no server requests needed other than the initial one) and routes queries like `!gh tokio` to GitHub, `!yt` to YouTube, `!hn` to Hacker News, etc.

What sets it apart:

- Runs entirely locally (no network, no tracking)

- Lets you define your own bangs and destinations

- Optionally rewrites queries for better precision (with AI)

Example:

Typing `article about german war in the stone age !!g` becomes: `site:en.wikipedia.org "german" AND "war" AND "stone age"`

More on query rewriting and performance:

https://tl128n.github.io/writings/2025-05-02_optimizing_sear...

Leftium•1y ago
That link is broken. Correct link: https://t128n.github.io/writings/2025-05-02_optimizing_searc...
trbndev•1y ago
Ah damn what a bummer that I can‘t edit the original comment anymore. Thank you for pointing it out… didn‘t even see that extra `l` there in the url
Leftium•1y ago
> Typing `article about german war in the stone age !!g` becomes: `site:en.wikipedia.org "german" AND "war" AND "stone age"`

I wonder how much of that could be done without AI, just (locally) using https://www.npmjs.com/package/compromise

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Also I couldn't find your source for bang data; Kagi maintains an updated list: https://github.com/kagisearch/bangs

I'm working on an enhanced version of bangs. Since there are so many "dead" bangs, I'm thinking of using a bang whitelist and suggestions from the full list if not found in the whitelist.

trbndev•1y ago
What an interesting library. Thanks for mentioning it here… will definitely look into it!

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The bangs are at

https://github.com/t128n/routr/blob/main/src/sw/routes.ts

Mostly ripped from duckduckgo.com/bang.js and then pretty-formatted with Prettier… with some sane-defaults added like a bang for ChatGPT or T3 Chat

Leftium•1y ago
Related project (also works locally):

- https://unduck.link/

- https://github.com/t3dotgg/unduck

- https://youtu.be/_DnNzRaBWUU

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Note unduck works without service workers: https://github.com/t3dotgg/unduck/blob/91a66c25de8b0e7ac5ba5...

Is there any advantage to using service workers?

edit: Ah... unduck doesn't work from the browser search bar.

trbndev•1y ago
Unduck actually also uses service workers to cache the app locally

https://github.com/t3dotgg/unduck/blob/91a66c25de8b0e7ac5ba5...

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> Is there any advantage to using service workers?

With service workers we can intercept the `fetch` request, before the index.html gets rendered/loaded. One should (in theory) be redirected some micro-seconds faster than doing the redirect in the index.html js