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Show HN: PaySentry – Open-source control plane for AI agent payments

https://github.com/mkmkkkkk/paysentry
1•mkyang•11s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Moli P2P – An ephemeral, serverless image gallery (Rust and WebRTC)

https://moli-green.is/
1•ShinyaKoyano•9m ago•0 comments

The Crumbling Workflow Moat: Aggregation Theory's Final Chapter

https://twitter.com/nicbstme/status/2019149771706102022
1•SubiculumCode•14m ago•0 comments

Pax Historia – User and AI powered gaming platform

https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PMu-pax-historia-user-ai-powered-gaming-platform
2•Osiris30•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a RAG engine to search Singaporean laws

https://github.com/adityaprasad-sudo/Explore-Singapore
1•ambitious_potat•20m ago•0 comments

Scams, Fraud, and Fake Apps: How to Protect Your Money in a Mobile-First Economy

https://blog.afrowallet.co/en_GB/tiers-app/scams-fraud-and-fake-apps-in-africa
1•jonatask•20m ago•0 comments

Porting Doom to My WebAssembly VM

https://irreducible.io/blog/porting-doom-to-wasm/
1•irreducible•21m ago•0 comments

Cognitive Style and Visual Attention in Multimodal Museum Exhibitions

https://www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/15/16/2968
1•rbanffy•22m ago•0 comments

Full-Blown Cross-Assembler in a Bash Script

https://hackaday.com/2026/02/06/full-blown-cross-assembler-in-a-bash-script/
1•grajmanu•27m ago•0 comments

Logic Puzzles: Why the Liar Is the Helpful One

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/knights-and-knaves/
1•wasabi991011•39m ago•0 comments

Optical Combs Help Radio Telescopes Work Together

https://hackaday.com/2026/02/03/optical-combs-help-radio-telescopes-work-together/
2•toomuchtodo•44m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Myanon – fast, deterministic MySQL dump anonymizer

https://github.com/ppomes/myanon
1•pierrepomes•50m ago•0 comments

The Tao of Programming

http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html
1•alexjplant•51m ago•0 comments

Forcing Rust: How Big Tech Lobbied the Government into a Language Mandate

https://medium.com/@ognian.milanov/forcing-rust-how-big-tech-lobbied-the-government-into-a-langua...
2•akagusu•51m ago•0 comments

PanelBench: We evaluated Cursor's Visual Editor on 89 test cases. 43 fail

https://www.tryinspector.com/blog/code-first-design-tools
2•quentinrl•54m ago•2 comments

Can You Draw Every Flag in PowerPoint? (Part 2) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BztF7MODsKI
1•fgclue•59m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP-baepsae – MCP server for iOS Simulator automation

https://github.com/oozoofrog/mcp-baepsae
1•oozoofrog•1h ago•0 comments

Make Trust Irrelevant: A Gamer's Take on Agentic AI Safety

https://github.com/Deso-PK/make-trust-irrelevant
6•DesoPK•1h ago•3 comments

Show HN: Sem – Semantic diffs and patches for Git

https://ataraxy-labs.github.io/sem/
1•rs545837•1h ago•1 comments

Hello world does not compile

https://github.com/anthropics/claudes-c-compiler/issues/1
34•mfiguiere•1h ago•20 comments

Show HN: ZigZag – A Bubble Tea-Inspired TUI Framework for Zig

https://github.com/meszmate/zigzag
3•meszmate•1h ago•0 comments

Metaphor+Metonymy: "To love that well which thou must leave ere long"(Sonnet73)

https://www.huckgutman.com/blog-1/shakespeare-sonnet-73
1•gsf_emergency_6•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Django N+1 Queries Checker

https://github.com/richardhapb/django-check
1•richardhapb•1h ago•1 comments

Emacs-tramp-RPC: High-performance TRAMP back end using JSON-RPC instead of shell

https://github.com/ArthurHeymans/emacs-tramp-rpc
1•todsacerdoti•1h ago•0 comments

Protocol Validation with Affine MPST in Rust

https://hibanaworks.dev
1•o8vm•1h ago•1 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/female-asian-elephant-calf-born-smithsonians-national-zoo-an...
5•gmays•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Zest – A hands-on simulator for Staff+ system design scenarios

https://staff-engineering-simulator-880284904082.us-west1.run.app/
1•chanip0114•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: DeSync – Decentralized Economic Realm with Blockchain-Based Governance

https://github.com/MelzLabs/DeSync
1•0xUnavailable•1h ago•0 comments

Automatic Programming Returns

https://cyber-omelette.com/posts/the-abstraction-rises.html
1•benrules2•1h ago•1 comments

Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation [pdf]

https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/inline-files/Why%20Are%20there%20Still%20So%20Many%...
2•oidar•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Expanding access to Opal, our no-code AI mini-app builder

https://blog.google/technology/google-labs/opal-expansion/
40•simonpure•4mo ago

Comments

DataDaemon•4mo ago
living in the EU feels like living in the Stone Age
sjbr•4mo ago
At least you are getting chat control.
dmitrygr•4mo ago
Nobody in the stone age voted to live in the stone age, ignoring all warnings that their vote would produce a stone age.
simonjgreen•4mo ago
Or like there is an expectation companies will treat your information with respect and act with integrity. It is unfortunate that that causes companies to have to think for longer about how they will act before they do.
nicce•4mo ago
OpenAI tried without real regulation and we see how that turned out.
dmitrygr•4mo ago
> It is unfortunate that that causes companies to have to think for longer

It is basic market dynamics that the harder you make it to enter a market, the more reluctant entrants will be. Whether the regulation that makes market entry more difficult is "good" or "bad" is simply irrelevant.

yanosc•4mo ago
If you think a node-based editor makes a society modern, you have no idea what you are talking about, and you are foolish enough to believe this is what progress looks like. Not to discredit OAI, but you are just a victim of their marketing, chasing the next thing, which is merely an illusion of innovation, and it works because it fills your lack of true belonging. Do as you wish, you are a free consumer after all, but don’t go on the internet and discredit other people, their work and contribution, just because you’re are pathetic bystander yourself.
gundmc•4mo ago
Seems like cool framework, but I'm bothered by the example image around having AI research and generate a blog post. This is exactly the sort of thing I don't want.
barbazoo•4mo ago
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dang•4mo ago
Most of us probably agree, but can you please not post unsubstantive comments to HN? We want curious conversation here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

ngruhn•4mo ago
Name one successful no-code solution. Not snark. I'm serious. Give me examples. In my experience, these no-code tools either die being too simple or live long enough to be patched into fully fledged visual programming languages. At which point the promised simplicity is gone. Idk, maybe with AI it's different.
mjr00•4mo ago
Really depends on the scope of the solution; a lot of web development has gone no-code through the use of frameworks and platforms like Wix, Unbounce, Squarespace, Shopify, Gumroad, etc. Like it's crazy to think, but 15 years ago if you were a person with a single widget you wanted to sell over the internet (even a digital widget with no shipping logistics!) it was a big hassle that involved a lot of programming and hooking up various APIs. Now you can get a full e-commerce site with analytics and payments integrated fairly easily with basically no technical knowledge.

The counter-argument is that these tools are too narrowly scoped, but I think that's exactly what made them successful; their "no-code" tools provided a solution for a common problem.

Ultimately I agree with what you're getting at. There's never been a successful no-code, or even low-code, replacement for general purpose programming, and there never will be.

ngruhn•4mo ago
Fair enough. Those website builders have their place. I'm rather thinking of something like NodeRed where you specify control flow. But with boxes and arrows instead of code. Which is also what this Google product seems to do.
blast•4mo ago
Replit
holografix•4mo ago
Unreal Engine’s Blueprints
shmoogy•4mo ago
Node Red, N8N, and Zapier I think are the biggest ones. I think the cool idea of AI implemented no code is, in theory, you can add a new node - tell the AI what to do, and it can build custom logic to do whatever it is that you want with the input.

Thats probably verging on too high of a complexity for end users, but if you can obfuscate the black box and have it work well enough, it can definitely be big.

LudwigNagasena•4mo ago
Visual graph languages are in some ways even superior to code because it’s really hard to express a state machine in an easily readable fashion with code.
jasonjmcghee•4mo ago
Substance Designer / Painter, Blender Nodes, TouchDesigner, DaVinci Resolve Fusion, etc.

That whole space is full of node-based tools that people build careers on.

Onavo•4mo ago
What happened to Microsoft's low code AI builder?

https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/13/microsoft-acquires-lobe-a-...

holografix•4mo ago
What about jules.google.com ? Are these competing products?
danpalmer•4mo ago
This is a no-code app building framework, Jules is a coding agent that will write whatever you ask it to, so, no. You could use them to achieve the same result, but they are for very different purposes and target audiences.
nextworddev•4mo ago
This was a garbage product compared to n8n
usrxcghghj•4mo ago
google as a product company is pretty lame these days. its too bad because i know without a doubt some incredibly talent and intelligent people work there. But maybe in the past 10 years? or so. LAME
cadamsdotcom•4mo ago
Whatever this product is, it shows what an org can achieve when staff care only about promotions.

Can't fault Google employees - the software retirement village is comfy.

But it's a big opportunity cost for society.

puppycodes•4mo ago
The example they show... generating a garbage AI generated blog.
puppycodes•4mo ago
I can smell its sunset already.