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Ask HN: Is the Downfall of SaaS Started?

1•throwaw12•1m ago•0 comments

Flirt: The Native Backend

https://blog.buenzli.dev/flirt-native-backend/
2•senekor•2m ago•0 comments

OpenAI's Latest Platform Targets Enterprise Customers

https://aibusiness.com/agentic-ai/openai-s-latest-platform-targets-enterprise-customers
1•myk-e•5m ago•0 comments

Goldman Sachs taps Anthropic's Claude to automate accounting, compliance roles

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/anthropic-goldman-sachs-ai-model-accounting.html
2•myk-e•7m ago•3 comments

Ai.com bought by Crypto.com founder for $70M in biggest-ever website name deal

https://www.ft.com/content/83488628-8dfd-4060-a7b0-71b1bb012785
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•8m ago•1 comments

Big Tech's AI Push Is Costing More Than the Moon Landing

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-spending-tech-companies-compared-02b90046
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•10m ago•0 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•12m ago•0 comments

Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dcFhF0Dlk
1•askl•14m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: How are researchers using AlphaFold in 2026?

1•jocho12•17m ago•0 comments

Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler

https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3786614
1•devooops•22m ago•0 comments

Watermark API – $0.01/image, 10x cheaper than Cloudinary

https://api-production-caa8.up.railway.app/docs
1•lembergs•23m ago•1 comments

Now send your marketing campaigns directly from ChatGPT

https://www.mail-o-mail.com/
1•avallark•27m ago•1 comments

Queueing Theory v2: DORA metrics, queue-of-queues, chi-alpha-beta-sigma notation

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/queueing-theory
1•jph•39m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Hibana – choreography-first protocol safety for Rust

https://hibanaworks.dev/
5•o8vm•41m ago•0 comments

Haniri: A live autonomous world where AI agents survive or collapse

https://www.haniri.com
1•donangrey•41m ago•1 comments

GPT-5.3-Codex System Card [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/23eca107-a9b1-4d2c-b156-7deb4fbc697c/GPT-5-3-Codex-System-Card-02.pdf
1•tosh•54m ago•0 comments

Atlas: Manage your database schema as code

https://github.com/ariga/atlas
1•quectophoton•57m ago•0 comments

Geist Pixel

https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-geist-pixel
2•helloplanets•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP to get latest dependency package and tool versions

https://github.com/MShekow/package-version-check-mcp
1•mshekow•1h ago•0 comments

The better you get at something, the harder it becomes to do

https://seekingtrust.substack.com/p/improving-at-writing-made-me-almost
2•FinnLobsien•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: WP Float – Archive WordPress blogs to free static hosting

https://wpfloat.netlify.app/
1•zizoulegrande•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: I Hacked My Family's Meal Planning with an App

https://mealjar.app
1•melvinzammit•1h ago•0 comments

Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal
2•basilikum•1h ago•0 comments

The Future of Systems

https://novlabs.ai/mission/
2•tekbog•1h ago•1 comments

NASA now allowing astronauts to bring their smartphones on space missions

https://twitter.com/NASAAdmin/status/2019259382962307393
2•gbugniot•1h ago•0 comments

Claude Code Is the Inflection Point

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/claude-code-is-the-inflection-point
4•throwaw12•1h ago•2 comments

Show HN: MicroClaw – Agentic AI Assistant for Telegram, Built in Rust

https://github.com/microclaw/microclaw
1•everettjf•1h ago•2 comments

Show HN: Omni-BLAS – 4x faster matrix multiplication via Monte Carlo sampling

https://github.com/AleatorAI/OMNI-BLAS
1•LowSpecEng•1h ago•1 comments

The AI-Ready Software Developer: Conclusion – Same Game, Different Dice

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/the-ai-ready-software-developer-conclusion-same-game...
1•lifeisstillgood•1h ago•0 comments

AI Agent Automates Google Stock Analysis from Financial Reports

https://pardusai.org/view/54c6646b9e273bbe103b76256a91a7f30da624062a8a6eeb16febfe403efd078
1•JasonHEIN•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

I made a public living room and the internet keeps putting weirder stuff in it

https://www.theroom.lol
273•streetmeat•4mo ago
I built this silly web game using the nano banana api, if you like dumb stuff come join burning through my google cloud credits.

Comments

WarOnPrivacy•4mo ago
It feels like being 12 on the pre-bubble internet. I must look like my 20yo cat playing with catnip toys.
streetmeat•4mo ago
this is the greatest compliment I can receive, my last project is in the same vein crapboard.com
fuzzy_biscuit•4mo ago
Crapboard is a delightful "why? why not?"
streetmeat•4mo ago
thanks :) sometimes I wish I had more valuable ideas but I'm just an antenna transmitting whatever my brain is receiving. my brain wishes it was 2005 and the internet didn't suck
JanNash•4mo ago
your brain is not alone with this wish!
whalesalad•4mo ago
RIP your OpenAI bill
polycaster•4mo ago
It’s Gemini for what it’s worth
streetmeat•4mo ago
google cloud trial credits are gonna run out in a few hours. maybe google will be moved to give me a little more credit to power internet nostalgia :D
pogue•4mo ago
RIP
treetalker•4mo ago
… iiiit's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man.
jacquesm•4mo ago
Million dollar homepage vibes, good stuff!
largbae•4mo ago
Reminds me to go check on floor796.com (yup still expanding!)
jacquesm•4mo ago
That's amazing.
maerF0x0•4mo ago
That's the metaverse I imagine from snowcrash
hermitcrab•4mo ago
That is an amazing piece of work. Somehow reminds me of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights

The Stephen Seagal isn't anywhere near fat enough.

sebastiennight•4mo ago
Beautifully amazing. Though I never got a chance to send a prompt, as all the rooms appear full to me. It's a bit frustrating to have no indication whether you're going to be in a queue, or if it's just random chance.
streetmeat•4mo ago
Thanks! Sorry about that I didn't expect so much usage, and with my 300 dollars of cloud credit I dont want to add more rooms cuz this is already only going to last the afternoon.

The queue is FIFO and resets when the round does, if you get in it, it adds a place above the text box letting you know your current order in the queue.

bstsb•4mo ago
all my prompts are rejected by Gemini under reason IMAGE_SAFETY :(
snerbles•4mo ago
No fun allowed!
jayknight•4mo ago
What a time to be alive.
Retr0id•4mo ago
It'd be nice to have more concurrent rooms, there's no way to riff off what's already in the room when the queue fills up in the first few seconds.
streetmeat•4mo ago
yeah I feel u but its already only going to last a few hours unless someone can appeal the powerful logank to give me more cloud credit :(
ZeWaka•4mo ago
...and the credits are used up
streetmeat•4mo ago
it was fun while it lasted
snerbles•4mo ago
I felt like I was back in 2005 all over again. Thanks OP, this was magical.
streetmeat•4mo ago
thanks for joining in. I wish I could find someone to sponsor the inference
streetmeat•4mo ago
anyone wanna run ads or sponsor inference credits and keep the fun going?
lostlogin•4mo ago
I was late to the party and it’s just debris now.

Could anyone who saw it explain what it was?

streetmeat•4mo ago
updating it with a gallery soon. its an empty room that everyone sees, u can collab on edits 1 prompt at a time. at 20 edits the room resets and it plays a timeline of the edits.
fuzzfactor•4mo ago
The empty room looks like one that I painted once.

Well, twice really it was two coats ;)

mikae1•4mo ago

  Error: Gemini error 429: { "error": { "code": 429, "message": "You exceeded your current quota, please check your plan and billing details. For more information on this error, head to: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/rate-limits.\n* Quota exceeded for metric: generativelanguage.googleapis.com/generate_reques
streetmeat•4mo ago
@OFFICIALLOGANK PLEASE KEEP THE NOSTALGIA FLOWING
pogue•4mo ago
I saw this too. Probably sharing this on HN overwhelmed all his Gemini credits. RIP :(
firefax•4mo ago
He got Slashdotted XD
echelon•4mo ago
Memories of the tiny, bespoke internet and the one-time largest aggregator of happenings.
firefax•4mo ago
I miss when if someone got too heated, I could pull the "I'm literally a child, maybe I should call the company the whois info is showing for your IP and tell them their sysadmin is acting like one" card.

(Imagine getting owned that hard by a teenager. Modern internet just can't compare since you can just say the most vile shit under your real name with zero consequence apparently.)

maerF0x0•4mo ago
It's back!
streetmeat•4mo ago
the api change kinda made it sloppy im trying to sort it out
nenenejej•4mo ago
429... sums up the entire AI industry
ashu1461•4mo ago
What was AI used for in this ? not able to access the room right now

-- The room is now closed for the night. Come back soon.

daveevad•4mo ago
Got here too late so seems like it went viral.

So, it was a really good idea?

streetmeat•4mo ago
it was a really good bad idea
daveevad•4mo ago
my undergrad econ degree suggests there was more demand than supply
streetmeat•4mo ago
and my dumb ass only creates memetic unsustainable projects that dont have any business model
jacquesm•4mo ago
That makes them better.
mey•4mo ago
Time to accept tips and be proud of your experiments. If anything your art is impracting more people than most.

Just be mindful about accidentally ruining the joy you feel in it but turning it into a job.

thimkerbell•4mo ago
Impracting is a fine word
fuzzfactor•4mo ago
def. impractical but has impact upon
streetmeat•4mo ago
theres a btc address in the about page if anyone wants to donate some btc for compute or email if someone at a cloud provider wants to donate some inference :)
fragmede•4mo ago
Venmo? PayPal? cashapp?
streetmeat•4mo ago
@Michael-bock on venmo I can find more ways to beg if needed.
ineedasername•4mo ago
Make a few mini game versions, eg rooms of 20, everyone has 10 seconds to write something, 5 seconds to vote in which goes in, person with most voted-in things wins the round and/or gets to set the base pic for the new room. Rotating or random themes for the sorts of things you can suggest, edit wars where teams have to get something edited towards their end-state goal, while the other team is promoted edits for something else.

A bunch of game modes like this, freemium ad supported where paid versions or in game currency lets you setup custom games, private rooms, “super prompt” power where your prompt gets 2x the weigh.

streetmeat•4mo ago
if u missed its here's a taste/shameless begging for more cloud credit

https://x.com/crapboard/status/1972032724136563164

spacebacon•4mo ago
Create premium object properties that make premium objects more fun maybe. Object properties and rate limits may be enough to get payments flowing in.
jacquesm•4mo ago
Make 'for pay' elements stick around and make it one of those per room for a month or so.
hmokiguess•4mo ago
add 'sponsor a room' a thing, and it creates a room with your background image
streetmeat•4mo ago
this might be my best direct path to keeping the site funded hmm
YeahThisIsMe•4mo ago
I'm just gonna assume that by the time I see this comment, it's already too late.
streetmeat•4mo ago
yeah it went quick :( I am praying for the compute fairy to contact me
EasyMark•4mo ago
hug of death?
streetmeat•4mo ago
yeah I ran through my cloud credits but a generous soul here just sent a venmo donation. once my rate limits are raised it'll be back.
6stringmerc•4mo ago
Oh no good tool goes unexperimented as weaponry. Kudos for the try. See you in about 7 hours. [R]age Board for the Elites gotta represent ya hurr?
cactusplant7374•4mo ago
Do you have a gallery of the additions? Or the last version?
streetmeat•4mo ago
update coming in the next hour. unfortunately many of the old rooms are gone but someone donated some $ for compute. it'll be back online until the internet drains it. Gallery coming soon.
z3t4•4mo ago
This got me an idea, I wonder if the Internet would pay actually money to order stuff to a real living room
antoniojtorres•4mo ago
That’s a twitch channel waiting to go semi viral for a week or two
jama211•4mo ago
People already basically do this - big twitch streamers and YouTubers get overwhelmed with being sent random stuff, there’s tons of videos where they open a bunch of them up. It’s not a living room, but it’s not far off the concept.
averageRoyalty•4mo ago
That's an interesting idea. Maybe you purchase a property and set up a big package dump thing for delivery drivers, have a webcam in the deliveries room and another in the main room, and you run 30 days of random stuff being delivered? Everythingn delivered must be assembled and added to the room?
smilespray•4mo ago
I'll order a pallet of 10 000-piece jigsaw puzzles
jacquesm•4mo ago
You could of course try not to be a jerk.
adaml_623•4mo ago
But then it wouldn't be the internet
jacquesm•4mo ago
Not today's internet. But there was a time when people on the internet as a rule were not jerks. Unfortunately it now serves mainly as a conduit to connect various jerk-groups into globe spanning entities. But it wasn't always so.
SlightlyLeftPad•4mo ago
- <Torvalds enters the room>
jacquesm•4mo ago
'as a rule'.
collingreen•4mo ago
This is the most unrealistic take in this comment chain so far
bdangubic•4mo ago
this would bring out the best of humanity and the worst of humanity…
streetmeat•4mo ago
thats an awesome idea, I misread this the first pass.
Insanity•4mo ago
Before opening the link that’s exactly what I thought this was going to be
Uehreka•4mo ago
Well do I have a video for you: https://youtu.be/hBP-NzOadL0?si=CilQHOjso4GPn9OT
codethief•4mo ago
Looks like the YouTuber paid for everything, though?
thenthenthen•4mo ago
Semi related, Random Darknet Shopping bot: https://wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.bitnik.or...
spacebacon•4mo ago
Just charge to put something in the room. Problem solved. People pay for less.
streetmeat•4mo ago
that might happen eventually but it also might be too crappy to charge for. its about to go back up in the next 5 mins thanks to a generous hn reader. I do think
dr_kiszonka•4mo ago
If you go viral, you could charge companies, not users, e.g., a LiMu Emu product placement ;)
streetmeat•4mo ago
I hope the right person sees this :)
spacebacon•4mo ago
Many right people definitely already have. They are waiting for your next move … one or two may help ferry you across the channel but I would expect they are mainly waiting for your next move! Get busy.
spacebacon•4mo ago
I believe you have discovered a good balance of crap and potential. Pretend you are Markus Persson and this is your first Minecraft prototype.
stevage•4mo ago
It's weird to me that I've been using the internet for 30 years, and there's still no convenient way to be able to just chip in 20c for something. Paying anything is still a big clunky process.
bananaflag•4mo ago
This is what web3 in autumn 2021 was said to solve (with "gas").
stevage•4mo ago
There have been many, many attempts to solve it (crypto and otherwise) but none have really caught on.
temp0826•4mo ago
However, there is a way to tell you that you haven't paid! (402 Payment Required)
MarcelOlsz•4mo ago
Ok OP we need to link up and make this in 3D.
streetmeat•4mo ago
shoot me an email! hi@theroom.lol
maerF0x0•4mo ago
What does it mean I'm getting "unprocessable entity" ?
kayodelycaon•4mo ago
It's an HTTP 422 code. Some web frameworks use for validation errors, like fields containing prohibited values.

Depending on the application, the incorrect content type on a file would be considered a validation error, instead of a bad upload.

Fun bit of trivia: 422 was originally a WebDAV code, but frameworks like Ruby on Rails started using it for validation errors in forms.

streetmeat•4mo ago
I just switched api providers working on sorting that out. I think it's mostly when the api won't process it for safety reasons. With the new provider the room is getting stuck occasionally when the content gets a lil risqué.

Im str8 pushing to prod so we will see if it gets better or worse

puppycodes•4mo ago
This is so so good lol...
streetmeat•4mo ago
:D love to hear that, the new api is a bit jankier and slower but it's back up. 1 more shoutout to the awesome HN reader who donated a bit to keep the compute flowing.
vunderba•4mo ago
The biggest issue you have right now is that it's far too easy to completely replace the original room by deliberately or accidentally floodfilling it out of existence.

I'd recommend several possible methods to fix this:

1. Set a MIN_ORIGINAL_IMAGE as a percentage - though it'll have to be a perceptual check since Nano degrades the original image. When it falls below this value, reset the counter.

2. Setup an intermediary LLM to determine if the user's instructions are "malicious"

3. Add system instructions to Nano Banana that coerce user prompts to only allow them to fill in a "portion" of the original image

streetmeat•4mo ago
Hey thanks for the notes. This was previously using the google API which was failing much faster and not degrading the quality over edits to this degree. I hastily switched to fal.ai and it's a lot jankier rn. I'll be digging into this tonight, despite likely running out of credits again in the next 24 hours lol.

Imo seeing the janky api made me realize that a lot of the magic is still there even when it goes awful.

supportengineer•4mo ago
It's like the million dollar homepage
fipar•4mo ago
Fantastic! Thank you and congratulations, feels like something Geocities would have had in an alternative universe.
stevage•4mo ago
Mostly what I see is cutesy anime characters. I was hoping for weirder...
streetmeat•4mo ago
It was better earlier. Its being dominated by a few users by now, shutting it down for the night and gonna implement some changes to avoid this.
ugh123•4mo ago
It would be interesting to let people use their own api key to add to the room (obviously a small audience)
streetmeat•4mo ago
Yeah maybe this will just go up on GitHub for people to host themselves. I like that idea but I don't want to handle peoples keys.
fsckboy•4mo ago
la plus ça "news for nerds, stuff that matters", la plus c'est la même "front page of the internet"
6stringmerc•4mo ago
How related is this to SevenThirtyEight or whatever that was?
spacebacon•4mo ago
Pay to open this room option. Allow a sponsor URL.