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Intel and AMD standardise ChkTag to bring Memory Safety to x86

https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tech-Innovation/open-intel/ChkTag-x86-Memory-Safety/post/172...
99•ashvardanian•6d ago•41 comments

Claude Code on the web

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-code-on-the-web
315•adocomplete•5h ago•189 comments

You don't need Kafka: Building a message queue with Unix signals

https://leandronsp.com/articles/you-dont-need-kafka-building-a-message-queue-with-only-two-unix-s...
24•SchwKatze•1h ago•14 comments

BERT is just a single text diffusion step

https://nathan.rs/posts/roberta-diffusion/
331•nathan-barry•9h ago•82 comments

Production RAG: what I learned from processing 5M+ documents

https://blog.abdellatif.io/production-rag-processing-5m-documents
273•tifa2up•7h ago•73 comments

Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/alibaba-says-new-pooling-system-cut-nvi...
319•hd4•11h ago•217 comments

My trick for getting consistent classification from LLMs

https://verdik.substack.com/p/how-to-get-consistent-classification
62•frenchmajesty•1w ago•18 comments

Show HN: I created a cross-platform GUI for the JJ VCS (Git compatible)

https://judojj.com
50•bitpatch•8h ago•5 comments

A laser pointer at 2B FPS [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4TdHrMi6do
140•thunderbong•1d ago•16 comments

Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/
192•raw_anon_1111•2h ago•76 comments

Code from MIT's 1986 SICP video lectures

https://github.com/felipap/sicp-code
74•felipap•3d ago•6 comments

x86-64 Playground – An online assembly editor and GDB-like debugger

https://x64.halb.it/
95•modinfo•5h ago•8 comments

TernFS – an exabyte scale, multi-region distributed filesystem

https://www.xtxmarkets.com/tech/2025-ternfs/#posix-shaped
83•kirlev•6h ago•8 comments

AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1

https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status?ts=20251020
1545•kondro•16h ago•1766 comments

How to stop Linux threads cleanly

https://mazzo.li/posts/stopping-linux-threads.html
160•signa11•5d ago•57 comments

The scariest "user support" email I've ever received

https://www.devas.life/the-scariest-user-support-email-ive-ever-received/
117•hervic•5d ago•81 comments

Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down

https://status.postman.com
141•helloguillecl•8h ago•68 comments

Atomic-Scale Protein Filters

https://press.asimov.com/articles/filters
5•mailyk•5d ago•0 comments

Optical diffraction patterns made with a MOPA laser engraving machine [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsGHr7dXLuI
104•emsign•6d ago•17 comments

Art Must Act

https://aeon.co/essays/harold-rosenberg-exhorted-artists-to-take-action-and-resist-cliche
13•tintinnabula•3d ago•0 comments

J.P. Morgan's OpenAI loan is strange

https://marketunpack.com/j-p-morgans-openai-loan-is-strange/
187•vrnvu•4h ago•121 comments

Space Elevator

https://neal.fun/space-elevator/
1452•kaonwarb•19h ago•331 comments

iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/10/20/ios-26-1-liquid-glass-toggle/
130•dabinat•4h ago•106 comments

Servo v0.0.1

https://github.com/servo/servo
452•undeveloper•10h ago•137 comments

The longest baseball game took 33 innings to win

https://www.mlb.com/news/the-longest-professional-baseball-game-ever-played
33•mooreds•5d ago•52 comments

Docker Systems Status: Full Service Disruption

https://www.dockerstatus.com/pages/incident/533c6539221ae15e3f000031/68f5e1c741c825463df7486c
322•l2dy•16h ago•123 comments

DeepSeek OCR

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR
849•pierre•17h ago•219 comments

Show HN: Playwright Skill for Claude Code – Less context than playwright-MCP

https://github.com/lackeyjb/playwright-skill
134•syntax-sherlock•11h ago•40 comments

When a stadium adds AI to everything, it's worse experience for everyone

https://a.wholelottanothing.org/bmo-stadium-in-la-added-ai-to-everything-and-what-they-got-was-a-...
98•wawayanda•4h ago•49 comments

Show HN: EloqDoc: MongoDB-compatible doc DB with object storage as first citizen

https://github.com/eloqdata/eloqdoc
30•iamlintaoz•1d ago•18 comments
Open in hackernews

Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down

https://status.postman.com
140•helloguillecl•8h ago

Comments

mondainx•8h ago
It connects to their servers when it starts up; have to assume their server is down. It used to be so much nicer before they added this "feature".
beefnugs•3h ago
Don't you love how slimeballs cant help themselves though? Instead of just letting free and easy happen the one time a year they go down... they just spit in everyones face to remind them now they have time to go find an alternative
duxup•7h ago
I think for the most part everyone has accepted that Postman grew into a monster that bloated with features and presumably that comes with online dependence.
Pet_Ant•6h ago
If you give a man a fish he eats for a day, but if you teach a man to fish you give up your monopoly on fisheries.

It used to considered vile that drug dealers tried to hook their users and force dependence... turns out that they were just ahead of the curve.

AtlasBarfed•5h ago
It's the founding economic principle of the British empire
ozim•5h ago
Postman is little potatoes - take a look what was done with free YouTube. Bait and switch all the same only stretched in time.
johnea•2h ago
That's funny 8-)

It brought to mind this quote:

“It’s only software developers and drug dealers who call people users,”

From a recent article that came through the feed:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/18/are-we-li...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45626691

ozim•5h ago
Everyone accepted because it slowly became standard tool. I have business guys using postman and sharing collections is kind of must.

I hate it, for myself I don’t use it but when having to share API stuff I have to use it because that’s what other people understand.

Good for postman business, bad for everyone.

duxup•5h ago
I'm at a smaller organization now, it was so nice when we all decided "no way" on Postman.
s09dfhks•4h ago
I switched all my stuff over to bruno. what are you using?
lbreakjai•3h ago
We moved to bruno, we're quite happy with it.
pixl97•1h ago
To second this, I moved to Bruno after Postman became an 'online' tool awhile back and it's done exactly what I've needed since.
tobinfekkes•7h ago
Mine used to be all local too, but then it required me to login online in order to work.

But mine is still working locally now. If it stops working locally, what even is the point anymore?

SamInTheShell•5h ago
This makes me feel more justified in using Posting in my terminal these days.
reddit_clone•5h ago
We have moved all our stuff to Bruno nowadays.
CodesInChaos•5h ago
I migrated to insomnia.rest when postman required logging in for basic functionality.
infinitezest•4h ago
https://www.usebruno.com/
InfamousRece•4h ago
Apparently Postman needs to be online in order to send “telemetry”: https://anonymousdata.medium.com/postman-is-logging-all-your...
bigiain•1h ago
"needs"...
digitalpacman•4h ago
Postman is absolutely shit since it was sold. Stop using it.
Chris2048•3h ago
Happy with https://yaak.app/so far
gschier•3h ago
Hey, I'm the creator of Yaak! Let me know how it could be even better :)
criticalfault•2h ago
Flatpak and snap please
gschier•41m ago
It's a bit lower on the priority list, but it'll get there https://feedback.yaak.app/p/flatpak-and-flathub
waynesonfire•3h ago
I switched to Insomnia, seems not as bloated for my use-case.
gschier•3h ago
This is exactly why I made Yaak [1]. It's fully offline, no telemetry, open source, and can even sync with Git.

https://yaak.app

bstsb•2h ago
was going to say "what makes this better than Insomnia" before i saw this!

> Having created and sold Insomnia in 2019

gschier•2h ago
Hahah, ya... :)
jmarchello•2h ago
I fell in love with Insomnia pre-acquisition so I'm thrilled to see it has a spiritual successor. Good on you Greg.
gschier•2h ago
I was so sad to see its decline after I left. Had to make it right.
ibejoeb•2h ago
off topic, sorry: Looking at the docs and I don't find a quick answer. I really want an API client that will do OAuth and handle token refresh, and I haven't found one. The use case is that (obviously) I control the redirect URI, so I'd like to map it back to client (some kind of proxy that I run and make external with all of the requisite DNS and TLS) or maybe via a hosted service (which I'm willing to accept for the convenience.)

I haven't used postman or insomnia in a while since they went to the cloud, so I could just be missing it, but that's also a non-starter for me.

frizlab•2h ago
RapidAPI (ex. Paw) does that AFAIK.

Also, it’s an amazing app.

gschier•2h ago
Yaak does this out of the box. It pops open a browser window and intercepts any redirect. And auto refresh is built in as well.
ibejoeb•2h ago
Awesome. Downloaded. Thanks!
gschier•42m ago
Enjoy!
EspadaV9•2h ago
Been using Yaak for 6-9 months now, initially built from source, but now a paying subscriber. Recently saw that you post open metrics[1] on subscriber count and revenue, and love getting a little look behind the curtains.

[1]: https://yaak.app/open

gschier•1h ago
Nice! Yep, trying to be as open and accessible as possible since so much of the industry is the opposite.
rmnclmnt•1h ago
Curious to know more about the commercial licensing scheme for Yaak: if i’ve read correctly, purchasing a pro license if based on « good faith » as the features are exactly the same as the MIT licensed Hobby version?

Sincere question, been studying lots of OSS commercial licensing and always wonder what works in which context

maccard•1h ago
If I asked my security team could I use yaak, they would (probably) say yes, and legal would say under no circumstances am I to use a personal license, they will pay for a commercial license. Large companies are incredibly risk averse when it comes to stuff like this.
gschier•59m ago
This is a conscious bet I'm making.

Yes, it's a good-faith license. The license doesn't even apply to the OSS version (only prebuilt binaries).

The bet is that super fans will pay for it in the early days and, as it gets adopted by larger companies, they will pay in order to comply with the legalities of commercial use. So far, it's working! The largest company so far is 34 seats, with a couple more in the pipe!

throwing_away•40m ago
Having often thought this is how I would attempt to monetize if I built a developer tool, I'm glad to hear that it's working.

It makes good sense because companies actually have an absurd amount of liability to you if they violate your agreement.

edoceo•22m ago
Excellent work! Looking forward your post about some milestone ARR boundary, the gory details of how you got there.
dayson•1h ago
I was looking at Yaak, and wondering if you've plans to bring it inside VS Code some day?

how would someone use this in a project that operates within VS Code Remote where the source sits on a remote server and isn't physically on the file system.

gschier•47m ago
No plans for VSCode integration, no. It's only great because it's designed for a very specific use case and environment.

I'm not quite sure why Yaak wouldn't work in this case. It it because your running server wouldn't be accessible to Yaak, running on your system?

dcdc123•1h ago
You should consider updating your free license to allow some time period of professional use, otherwise it's not possible to evaluate it at work without violating the license.
gschier•1h ago
You get a 30-day trial
alberth•57m ago
Very cool.

Can you provide clarity on is a commercial license is needed. The license appears to be MIT but the yaak.app website gives the impression a license is required, even stating as such in FAQ.

gschier•51m ago
The commercial license terms only apply to the prebuilt binaries. You can build and run the OSS version for whatever purpose you'd like. Check the last FAQ on the pricing page
kristianp•2h ago
How many other offline and online things failed unexpectedly due to the aws outage?
puppycodes•2h ago
Yeah they really turned their product into over-complicated garbage instead of focusing on doing one thing well.
fuzztester•1h ago
That is true of many software companies these days.
S04dKHzrKT•2h ago
Depending on your usage, you may not need a separate app. Jetbrains[0], Visual Studio[1] and VSCode[2] have support for http files.

[0]: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/http-client-in-product-c...

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/test/http-file...

[2]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re...

nsxwolf•2h ago
A lot of organizations have very large suites of postman collections that serve as API documentation, regression and QA testing… they often heavily rely on the postman Javascript libraries and have custom code embedded directly in the collection.
jiehong•1h ago
Last time I checked, they don’t support the exact same format in each product.

Thus, we stick with hurl.

QA seems to stick to robot framework instead. Some use Bruno.

whatevaa•55m ago
In our case, some non-devs use http apis too, notably QA. Bruno currently fills that role.
jug•2h ago
This could have been a 10 Megabyte TUI app in your terminal tab. Boggles my mind how even this kind of app manages to bring in Electron and the cloud.

Edit: Ah, so here it is: https://posting.sh

dayson•1h ago
Wow, I've been looking for a postman/Bruno/foo replacement that I could use inside a remote ssh server or remote dev containers in vs code. This might be it!
joking•1h ago
maybe it doesn't do everything postman does, but I'm very happy using the rest client extension in vs code, the http files with the api calls are commited to the source code repository along with the code is easy to use, does what i need, and is easy to share with my colleagues.
hk1337•1h ago
If you're on macOS, try Paw/RapidAPI https://paw.cloud They may be affected by AWS.
clickety_clack•1h ago
Posting (https://posting.sh/) is a pretty cool alternative I’ve used in the past. There’s no reason I can see why I would use a SaaS product for this.
CaptainOfCoit•1h ago
I remember when one of the "Core Goals" of Postman was "Complete control over your data - Keep simple JSON based data formats which can be exported and shared as per user needs".

https://web.archive.org/web/20140604204111/http://www.getpos...

daytonix•1h ago
Yeah I was pretty damn mad when I opened postman and it was completely unusable. Can safely say I'm done with it now.
xp84•1h ago
RubyMine, and I assume its cousin JetBrains IDEs, has a great HTTP client (Tools -> HTTP Client) that I've used when I need this sort of functionality. I've been off of Postman for quite some time, since it got so complicated, and all I wanted was something to help me make simple web requests. (No disrespect intended to those who like Postman, it's just too overwhelming for my needs.)
selcuka•1h ago
> RubyMine, and I assume its cousin JetBrains IDEs, has a great HTTP client

It's great. You can even paste a curl command into it and it will automatically convert and format it. You can then use the Copy button to convert your changes back to curl.

ReptileMan•1h ago
I am against government regulation, but at times likes this (or your sous vide and washing machine requiring online accounts to function) the idea for regulations that mandate availability of local server for client server applications is alluring. And making all cloud functionality optional.
al_borland•58m ago
I moved from Postman to RapidAPI when Postman tried to get me to sign up for their cloud service just migrate my data to a new laptop.
paradox460•42m ago
For a long time I used Paw, which became RapidAPI a couple years ago. Nice little app that does it's job well.

Lately I've just been using a Phoenix LiveBook notebook, with the Req package loaded into it. I can make requests, do arbitrary transforms on the data, and generally stay right at home in a language I like and understand

If you don't know elixir, I'm sure jupyter or some other notebook system would do just as nice of a job

jamiepond•34m ago
I made a very simple lightweight yaml based Postman alternative called `yapi`.

https://github.com/jamierpond/yapi

Run this:

  yapi -c ./users.yapi.yaml
  
With this file:

  # users.yapi.yaml
  # yaml-language-server: $schema=https://pond.audio/yapi/schema
  url: http://localhost:3000
  method: GET
  path: /api/users
  query:
    select[name]: true
    select[tag]: true
    limit: 10
Or just `yapi` to use fzf to find configs.