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Terence Tao's insight translates to how we need to think about the economy

https://wilsoniumite.com/2026/07/28/how-terence-taos-metamathematical-insight-translates-to-how-w...
1•Wilsoniumite•24s ago•0 comments

VistaRama65

https://www.in70mm.com/presents/library/orphan/2026_forever/about/index.htm
1•Teever•33s ago•0 comments

Qantas plane flies for more than 24 hours in record-breaking flight

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jul/28/qantas-plane-flies-for-more-than-24-hours-in-rec...
1•tosh•45s ago•0 comments

Faulty Reward Functions in the Wild (2016)

https://openai.com/blog/faulty-reward-functions
1•_vk_•2m ago•0 comments

Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music (2012)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.4212
2•surprisetalk•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PidgeIoT – open-source IoT/Embedded device management for all (free*)

https://pidgeiot.com/
1•Voxorin•3m ago•1 comments

Redev – AI chat assistant for React DevTools

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/redev-–-ai-chat-assistant/ojiiafcaodjlfegglkfgokgebgcf...
1•denniscual•3m ago•0 comments

Buzz (by Block) is pretty neat

https://chad.cm/posts/2026-7-27-buzz-in-action
2•carimura•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Injex – tiny typed DI for Python validates the graph before startup

https://github.com/vshulcz/injex
1•vshulcz•4m ago•0 comments

Autonomous SEO agent that finds, writes, and publishes blog posts

https://boldpilot.club
1•ahmetsaridagx•4m ago•0 comments

GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search

https://www.pcmag.com/news/grapheneos-defends-data-wiping-function-that-blocked-us-border-search
1•pseudolus•5m ago•0 comments

Ella, an AI friend with an inner life that runs while you're away

https://Ellasworlds.com
1•Levip•6m ago•0 comments

Making KIO copy many files fast

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/07/28/making-kio-copy-many-files-fast/
2•signa11•7m ago•0 comments

Kaney's Weird Files – July 2026 Edition

https://kaneysweirdfiles.substack.com/p/july-2026-a-mutant-coon-a-book-review
1•experiencertim•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Higgs, a local AI CLI for Proton Mail (no cloud, no telemetry)

https://github.com/higgscli/higgs
1•cyberflux•8m ago•0 comments

TaskLoco reveals unprecedented productivity secret- Sticky Notes on a Storyboard

https://www.taskloco.com/
1•taskloco_nyc•9m ago•0 comments

Cacheinvalidate.com Was Still Available

https://cacheinvalidate.com
1•promptfluid•9m ago•0 comments

Sorry, the Data Says Communist

https://postcapitalistrobots.substack.com/p/sorry-the-data-says-communist
1•alejodosr•10m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Repo Autopsy – Transparent heuristics for repository install friction

https://repo-autopsy.zdfb20650.workers.dev
1•echoscarrie•11m ago•0 comments

Software Verification in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

https://learning.acm.org/techtalks/softwareai
2•rbanffy•12m ago•0 comments

Astronomers find strongest evidence yet that Betelgeuse has a companion

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2611/
1•Ralfp•13m ago•0 comments

Automation Led to Economic Misery. AI Doesn't Have To

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/ai-automation-productivity-workers/688083/
1•01-_-•13m ago•0 comments

Load Bearing Memory: The Bones Remember

https://ikeanalytics.com/articles/what-the-bone-remembers/
1•hnscum•13m ago•1 comments

Why Hardware Engineering is the next target for Agents

https://assistedeverything.substack.com/p/the-age-of-agentic-engineering-for-hardware
1•gimili•13m ago•0 comments

Questions and answers on AI and verification: follow-up to my May ACM Tech Talk

https://bertrandmeyer.com/2026/07/21/questions-and-answers-on-ai-and-verification-a-follow-up-to-...
1•rbanffy•14m ago•0 comments

Who Owns the Cameras Watching You? (Hint: Not the Government)

https://comuniq.xyz/post?t=1452
1•01-_-•14m ago•0 comments

Local Inference – Run LLMs on Your Own Hardware (Guide and Forum)

https://localinference.io/
1•onion92•16m ago•0 comments

The Great Canadian Story of Canola

https://canadianfoodfocus.org/farming/the-great-canadian-story-of-canola/
1•thunderbong•16m ago•0 comments

Cracking Windows Open: Porting RADV to Win32

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/cracking-windows-open-porting-radv-to-win...
1•losgehts•16m ago•0 comments

Glyphs 4 – the leading Mac font editor

https://glyphsapp.com
2•microflash•16m ago•0 comments
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Show HN: Purple Hammer – construction takeoff and estimating in Tauri/Rust/WASM

https://purple-hammer.com/
1•AriIs•56m ago
Purple Hammer does construction takeoff. You measure quantities off PDF drawings and a built-in spreadsheet lets you read from databases, formulas, assemblies etc to price the job. This matters because most takeoff software (Bluebeam, Planswift) do not have the spreadsheet side of things built in.

Stack is Tauri 2, Rust, SolidJS. The render and spreadsheet engines are both custom, compiled to WASM with modified PDFium for parsing. One codebase builds native Mac and Windows.

Performance is most of the work. A 500-sheet set opens in about a second. Million+ vector drawings hold 120 FPS on mid hardware. It feels somewhat faster that any other construction viewer I’ve tested. Compare the live demo (on the homepage, or download free trial) vs an industry standard pdf tool at showcase.apryse.com/cad-viewer. The solver runs 11-15M dependency steps/sec on an adversarial test.

Perhaps most important engineering achievement is that RAM & Performance scale strictly with active attention rather than project/file scope for both engines. So the same 1000 cell viewport renders at the same speed whether it is 1000 cells total or 1000 out of 10M in a sheet. Similarly page 1 of 500 is as performant as page 1 of 1. This is crucial in the space because with projects often having 10K-100k+ drawing versions, anything that scales with project size crashes. This is why (I think) incumbents can’t have reactive, connected sheets across large sets/projects. Traditional spreadsheet architecture (DAG in RAM) would crash. More on the engineering here: https://purple-hammer.com/blog/ai-friendly-architecture.html

Closed source, free trial available. AMA