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I was frustrated with photo sharing sites. Apple's iCloud shared albums take 20+ seconds to load, and everything else comes with ads, cumbersome UIs, or social media distractions. I just want to share photos with friends and family: fast, mobile-friendly, distraction-free.

So I built DD Photos. You export photos from whatever you already use (Lightroom, Apple Photos, etc.) into folders, run `photogen` (a Go CLI) to resize them to WebP and generate JSON indexes, then deploy the SvelteKit static site anywhere that serves files. Apache, S3, whatever. No server-side code, no database.

Built over several weeks with heavy use of Claude Code, which I found genuinely useful for this kind of full-stack project spanning Go, SvelteKit/TypeScript, Apache config, Docker, and Playwright tests. Happy to discuss that experience too.

Live example: https://photos.donohoe.info Repo: https://github.com/dougdonohoe/ddphotos

smux is a lightweight and efficient SOCKS5 proxy server that supports multiplexing connections over a single TCP connection, providing improved performance and reduced overhead for applications that require proxy services.

Hi HN,

I just wanted to share what I have been working on for the past few months: A firmware analyzer for embedded Linux systems that helps uncovering security issues running entirely in the browser.

This is a very early Alpha. It is going to be rough around the edges. But I think it provides quite a lot of value already.

So please go ahead and drop a firmware (only .tar rootfs archives for now) and try to break it :)

Hey HN, I made a site where you can draw on street-level panoramas. Your drawings persist and other people can see them in real time.

Strokes get projected onto the 3D panorama so they wrap around buildings and follow the geometry, not just a flat overlay. Uses WebGL2 for rendering, Mapillary for the street imagery.

The idea is for it to become a global canvas, anyone can leave a mark anywhere and others stumble onto it.

I run 3mins.news (https://3mins.news), an AI news aggregator built entirely on Cloudflare Workers. The backend has 10+ cron triggers running every few minutes — RSS fetching, article clustering, LLM calls, email delivery.

The problem: Workers Paid Plan has hard monthly limits (10M requests, 1M KV writes, 1M queue ops, etc.). There's no built-in "pause when you hit the limit" — CF just starts billing overages. KV writes cost $5/M over the cap, so a retry loop bug can get expensive fast.

AWS has Budget Alerts, but those are passive notifications — by the time you read the email, the damage is done. I wanted active, application-level self-protection.

So I built a circuit breaker that faces inward — instead of protecting against downstream failures (the Hystrix pattern), it monitors my own resource consumption and gracefully degrades before hitting the ceiling.

Key design decisions:

- Per-resource thresholds: Workers Requests ($0.30/M overage) only warns at 80%. KV Writes ($5/M overage) can trip the breaker at 90%. Not all resources are equally dangerous, so some are configured as warn-only (trip=null).

- Hysteresis: Trips at 90%, recovers at 85%. The 5% gap prevents oscillation — without it the system flaps between tripped and recovered every check cycle.

- Fail-safe on monitoring failure: If the CF usage API is down, maintain last known state rather than assuming "everything is fine." A monitoring outage shouldn't mask a usage spike.

- Alert dedup: Per-resource, per-month. Without it you'd get ~8,600 identical emails for the rest of the month once a resource hits 80%.

Implementation: every 5 minutes, queries CF's GraphQL API (requests, CPU, KV, queues) + Observability Telemetry API (logs/traces) in parallel, evaluates 8 resource dimensions, caches state to KV. Between checks it's a single KV read — essentially free.

When tripped, all scheduled tasks are skipped. The cron trigger still fires (you can't stop that), but the first thing it does is check the breaker and bail out if tripped.

It's been running in production for two weeks. Caught a KV reads spike at 82% early in the month — got one warning email, investigated, fixed the root cause, never hit the trip threshold.

The pattern should apply to any metered serverless platform (Lambda, Vercel, Supabase) or any API with budget ceilings (OpenAI, Twilio). The core idea: treat your own resource budget as a health signal, just like you'd treat a downstream service's error rate.

Happy to share code details if there's interest.

Full writeup with implementation code and tests: https://yingjiezhao.com/en/articles/Usage-Circuit-Breaker-for-Cloudflare-Workers

Hi everyone, I am Kumar, co-founder of Dench (https://denchclaw.com). We were part of YC S24, an agentic workflow company that previously worked with sales floors automating niche enterprise tasks such as outbound calling, legal intake, etc.

Building consumer / power-user software always gave me more joy than FDEing into an enterprise. It did not give me joy to manually add AI tools to a cloud harness for every small new thing, at least not as much as completely local software that is open source and has all the powers of OpenClaw (I can now talk to my CRM on Telegram!).

A week ago, we launched Ironclaw, an Open Source OpenClaw CRM Framework (https://x.com/garrytan/status/2023518514120937672?s=20) but people confused us with NearAI’s Ironclaw, so we changed our name to DenchClaw (https://denchclaw.com).

OpenClaw today feels like early React: the primitive is incredibly powerful, but the patterns are still forming, and everyone is piecing together their own way to actually use it. What made React explode was the emergence of frameworks like Gatsby and Next.js that turned raw capability into something opinionated, repeatable, and easy to adopt.

That is how we think about DenchClaw. We are trying to make it one of the clearest, most practical, and most complete ways to use OpenClaw in the real world.

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfACTbc3Bh4#t=43

  npx denchclaw

On Dench, everything sits in a file system, the table filters, views, column toggles, calendar/gantt views, etc, so OpenClaw can directly work with it using Dench’s CRM skill.

The CRM is built on top of DuckDB, the smallest, most performant and at the same time also feature rich database we could find. Thank you DuckDB team!

It creates a new OpenClaw profile called “dench”, and opens a new OpenClaw Gateway… that means you can run all your usual openclaw commands by just prefixing every command with `openclaw --profile dench` . It will start your gateway on port 19001 range. You will be able to access the DenchClaw frontend at localhost:3100. Once you open it on Safari, just add it to your Dock to use it as a PWA.

Think of it as Cursor for your Mac (also works on Linux and Windows) which is based on OpenClaw. DenchClaw has a file tree view for you to use it as an elevated finder tool to do anything on your mac. I use it to create slides, do linkedin outreach using MY browser.

DenchClaw finds your Chrome Profile and copies it fully into its own, so you won’t have to log in into all your websites again. DenchClaw sees what you see, does what you do. It’s an everything app, that sits locally on your mac.

Just ask it “hey import my notion”, “hey import everything from my hubspot”, and it will literally go into your browser, export all objects and documents and put it in its own workspace that you can use.

We would love you all to break it, stress test its CRM capabilities, how it streams subagents for lead enrichment, hook it into your Apollo, Gmail, Notion and everything there is. Looking forward to comments/feedback!

I’ve been experimenting with letting an AI agent execute full workflows in a browser.

In this demo I gave it my CV and asked it to find matching jobs. It scans my inbox, opens the listings, extracts the details and builds a Google Sheet automatically.

Hi, Ted here, creator of Mog.

- Mog is a statically typed, compiled, embedded language (think statically typed Lua) designed to be written by LLMs -- the full spec fits in 3,200 tokens. - An AI agent writes a Mog program, compiles it, and dynamically loads it as a plugin, script, or hook. - The host controls exactly which functions a Mog program can call (capability-based permissions), so permissions propagate from agent to agent-written code. - Compiled to native code for low-latency plugin execution -- no interpreter overhead, no JIT, no process startup cost. - The compiler is written in safe Rust so the entire toolchain can be audited for security. Even without a full security audit, Mog is already useful for agents extending themselves with their own code. - MIT licensed, contributions welcome.

Motivations for Mog:

1. Syntax Only an AI Could Love: Mog is written for AIs to write, so the spec fits easily in context (~3200 tokens), and it's intended to minimize foot-guns to lower the error rate when generating Mog code. This is why Mog has no operator precedence: non-associative operations have to use parentheses, e.g. (a + b) * c. It's also why there's no implicit type coercion, which I've found over the decades to be an annoying source of runtime bugs. There's also less support in Mog for generics, and there's absolutely no support for metaprogramming, macros, or syntactic abstraction.

When asking people to write code in a language, these restrictions could be onerous. But LLMs don't care, and the less expressivity you trust them with, the better.

2. Capabilities-Based Permissionsl: There's a paradox with existing security models for AI agents. If you give an agent like OpenClaw unfettered access to your data, that's insecure and you'll get pwned. But if you sandbox it, it can't do most of what you want. Worse, if you run scripts the agent wrote, those scripts don't inherit the permissions that constrain the agent's own bash tool calls, which leads to pwnage and other chaos. And that's not even assuming you run one of the many OpenClaw plugins with malware.

Mog tries to solve this by taking inspiration from embedded languages. It compiles all the way to machine code, ahead of time, but the compiler doesn't output any dangerous code (at least it shouldn't -- Mog is quite new, so that could still be buggy). This allows a host program, such as an AI agent, to generate Mog source code, compile it, and load it into itself using dlopen(), while maintaining security guarantees.

The main trick is that a Mog program on its own can't do much. It has no direct access to syscalls, libc, or memory. It can basically call functions, do heap allocations (but only within the arena the host gives it), and return something. If the host wants the Mog program to be able to do I/O, it has to supply the functions that the Mog program will call. A core invariant is that a Mog program should never be able to crash the host program, corrupt its state, or consume more resources than the host allows.

This allows the host to inspect the arguments to any potentially dangerous operation that the Mog program attempts, since it's code that runs in the host. For example, a host agent could give a Mog program a function to run a bash command, then enforce its own session-level permissions on that command, even though the command was dynamically generated by a plugin that was written without prior knowledge of those permission settings.

(There are a couple other tricks that PL people might find interesting. One is that the host can limit the execution time of the guest program. It does this using cooperative interrupt polling, i.e. the compiler inserts runtime checks that check if the host has asked the guest to stop. This causes a roughly 10% drop in performance on extremely tight loops, which are the worst case. It could almost certainly be optimized.)

3. Self Modification Without Restart: When I try to modify my OpenClaw from my phone, I have to restart the whole agent. Mog fixes this: an agent can compile and run new plugins without interrupting a session, which makes it dynamically responsive to user feedback (e.g., you tell it to always ask you before deleting a file and without any interruption it compiles and loads the code to... actually do that).

Async support is built into the language, by adapting LLVM's coroutine lowering to our Rust port of the QBE compiler, which is what Mog uses for compilation. The Mog host library can be slotted into an async event loop (tested with Bun), so Mog async calls get scheduled seamlessly by the agent's event loop. Another trick is that the Mog program uses a stack inside the memory arena that the host provides for it to run in, rather than the system stack. The system tracks a guard page between the stack and heap. This design prevents stack overflow without runtime overhead.

Lots of work still needs to be done to make Mog a "batteries-included" experience like Python. Most of that work involves fleshing out a standard library to include things like JSON, CSV, Sqlite, and HTTP. One high-impact addition would be an `llm` library that allows the guest to make LLM calls through the agent, which should support multiple models and token budgeting, so the host could prevent the plugin from burning too many tokens.

I suspect we'll also want to do more work to make the program lifecycle operations more ergonomic. And finally, there should be a more fully featured library for integrating a Mog host into an AI agent like OpenClaw or OpenAI's Codex CLI.

This article introduces the Hopalong fractal, a visually stunning mathematical attractor, and provides a Python implementation for generating and visualizing it. The article explains the mathematical principles behind the Hopalong fractal and includes example code to help readers explore and experiment with this fascinating fractal.

Agent Kanban has 4 main features:

GitOps & team friendly kanban board integration inside VS Code Structured plan / todo / implement via @kanban commands Leverages your existing agent harness rather than trying to bundle a built in one .md task format provides a permanent (editable) source of truth including considerations, decisions and actions, that is resistant to context rot

Hotwire Club publishes free technical tutorials on Hotwire, each linking to a solution on Patreon (around 2/3 free, the rest available on a paid plan that's 5$ per month). We just open‑sourced our tooling stack.

Recent articles include: - Turbo Frames - Using External Forms - Turbo Frames - Loading Spinner - Faceted Search with Stimulus and Turbo Frames

I’ve spoken fast and a bit unclearly my entire life. It’s one of those small curses you’re probably just born with. Speech therapy didn’t help and practicing on my own never really stuck. The worst part is worrying people won’t understand me, especially when presenting something important. I often wear a headset when presenting that plays my voice back to me in real time so I can hear myself speak and try to slow down. It hasn’t stopped me from doing things. I have a great career and good friends. But I still end up repeating myself a lot.

I’ve never found a system that fits into a normal schedule with work, kids, and everything else. So yesterday I built a small tool to help me practice pacing my speech in short sessions whenever I have a few minutes. It gives you paced stories to read, with tongue twisters mixed in, plus a free practice mode where it calculates how fast you were speaking at the end.

It runs fully client-side, uses Google’s speech API, and is open source: https://github.com/interactivecats/steady Note: Just saw there is a bug on mobile where it double counts - trying to fix (on desktop, where I use it, it works fine)

Why I built Skir: https://medium.com/@gepheum/i-spent-15-years-with-protobuf-t...

Quick start: npx skir init

All the config lives in one YML file.

Website: https://skir.build

GitHub: https://github.com/gepheum/skir

Would love feedback especially from teams running mixed-language stacks.

Latchup is an app that helps users manage their wedding planning tasks and connect with vendors. It offers features such as to-do lists, vendor directories, and communication tools to streamline the wedding planning process.

Sup HN,

So I got tired of bouncing between Flightradar, MarineTraffic, and Twitter every time something kicked off globally, so I wrote a dashboard to aggregate it all locally. It’s called Shadowbroker.

I’ll admit I leaned way too hard into the "movie hacker" aesthetic for the UI, but the actual pipeline underneath is real. It pulls commercial/military ADS-B, the AIS WebSocket stream (about 25,000+ ships), N2YO satellite telemetry, and GDELT conflict data into a single MapLibre instance.

Getting this to run without melting my browser was the hardest part. I'm running this on a laptop with an i5 and an RTX 3050, and initially, dumping 30k+ moving GeoJSON features onto the map just crashed everything. I ended up having to write pretty aggressive viewport culling, debounce the state updates, and compress the FastAPI payloads by like 90% just to make it usable.

My favorite part is the signal layer—it actually calculates live GPS jamming zones by aggregating the real-time navigation degradation (NAC-P) of commercial flights overhead.

It’s Next.js and Python. I threw a quick-start script in the releases if you just want to spin it up, but the repo is open if you want to dig into the backend.

Let me know if my MapLibre implementation is terrible, I'm always looking for ways to optimize the rendering.

Sentiamor is a website that provides resources and support for individuals navigating the complexities of romantic relationships, including advice on building healthy connections and overcoming challenges.

I'm a multilingual reader (Catalan/Spanish/English/Italian), and I kept hitting the same wall: I'd hear about a book and have no way to know if it existed in my language. Turns out this is a genuinely unsolved problem. There's no single database that tracks which books have been translated into which languages. ISBN registries are fragmented by country. Open Library has great English coverage but gaps elsewhere. Wikidata has surprisingly rich translation data but it's locked behind SPARQL. Google Books is inconsistent across regions.

So I built Zenòdot to cross all four and piece the picture together.

What I found building it:

-The ISBN system is far more broken than I expected. ISBNdb has millions of English records but almost nothing for languages like Basque, Icelandic, or Bengali. Books exist in these languages, they just don't exist in the databases.

-Wikidata was the biggest surprise. It has structured translation data for thousands of works, but extracting it requires SPARQL queries, title resolution across scripts (try matching a book title in Chinese to its English original), and author alias caching. Hard to build, but the results fill gaps that no other source covers.

-The most interesting output isn't what the tool finds; it's what it doesn't find. When someone searches for a book in a language and there's no result, that's a demand signal. "Someone in the world wanted this translation and it doesn't exist." That data could be genuinely useful to publishers.

The tool prioritizes your selected languages, so it shows you editions relevant to you first. The philosophy is "documentary infrastructure”: no recommendations, no social features, no accounts. You search, you find (or don't), you go buy the book wherever you want.

Stack: Next.js 15 (App Router), Supabase, Vercel, TypeScript. Solo project, no funding, about 4 months of work.

If you're multilingual or learning a language, I'd especially love your feedback. Try searching for a book you love and switching between languages, that's where the tool shows its value.

Cowleyforniastudios announces the launch of Eyot, a new virtual reality game that allows players to explore a mysterious island and uncover its secrets. The game promises immersive gameplay, stunning visuals, and a compelling narrative.

RobotMem is an open-source project that explores the use of artificial memory in robots, allowing them to store and recall information more efficiently. The project aims to advance the field of robot cognition and memory management.

A DIY Newtonian reflector telescope with dobsonian mount. A fun to do hobby project taking us closer to the moon and beyond. A lot of plans ahead on how to make it much better and portable but this was the first time me and my friend implemented or rather built a telescope.

Have a look at what all we have captured.

The article provides an overview of Joshua Curry, a software engineer and technical writer. It highlights his expertise in various programming languages, his contributions to open-source projects, and his experience in the tech industry.

Wolfscale.org is a website that provides information about the wolves of North America, including their biology, behavior, and conservation efforts. The site covers topics such as wolf ecology, pack dynamics, and the role of wolves in their ecosystems.

Play: https://p.migdal.pl/chromatron-oxide/ Repo: https://github.com/stared/chromatron-oxide/ (educational purpose only) The original: https://www.silverspaceship.com/chromatron/

Full story in the blog post.

Hi, I've been working on something I've been thinking for long time but since I had no experience with macOS screen savers I always posponed. Now thanks to Claude I was able to create a screensaver that scroll ANSI files while your computer is idle.

It allow to use local ANS files or packs directly from 16colo.rs.

Repo: https://github.com/lardissone/ansi-saver

This has been a pet project of mine for the past ~5 months. It consists of six visualizations:

- Spectrogram: Implements the reassignment method for sharper time and frequency resolution. - Spectrum analyzer: A-weighted, frequency guidelines, loudest frequency tooltip. - Waveform: Colored based on frequency, loudness, or static - Oscilloscope: Tracks pitch and autocorrelates against a reference signal, provides stability. Also includes a regular zero-crossing trigger. - Stereometer & Phase meter: Linear and exponential scaling modes, adjustable windows. Multi-band correlation meter. - Loudness (LUFS & RMS): Implements the latest lufs standard. Adjustable timeframes.

Let me know what you think, and give it a star if you think it deserves as much. :] (check out the readme for a more complete enumeration of its features. Currently only available on Linux.)