Cross-Region MSK Replication: K2K Vs. MirrorMaker2
Cross‑region replication between AWS MSK clusters was benchmarked using Lenses K2K and Apache Kafka MirrorMaker 2. The tests covered at‑least‑once, exactly‑once, and resource‑constrained scenarios, all achieving 100 % reliability. K2K consistently delivered 14‑32 % lower end‑to‑end latency, 51‑78 % faster producer writes, and up to 16 % higher throughput while simplifying configuration. MirrorMaker 2 matched reliability but lagged in latency and operational simplicity, especially around offset management.
Rentahuman – The Meatspace Layer for AI
RentAHuman.ai launches a marketplace that lets AI agents hire humans for physical tasks, bridging the gap between digital automation and real‑world execution. The service offers an MCP integration and REST API, enabling developers to programmatically request on‑demand labor for activities...
GitHub Experience Various Partial-Outages/Degradations
On February 2, 2026 GitHub reported a series of service disruptions affecting its core developer tools. A major outage crippled GitHub Actions, causing hosted‑runner jobs to queue and fail, while Codespaces suffered a major outage that blocked cloud workspace creation. Pages and...
UK Government Launches Fuel Forecourt Price API
On 2 February 2026 the UK government launched Fuel Finder, a public service that publishes real‑time fuel prices from forecourts across the country. The platform provides price, location, brand, amenities and timestamp data via a RESTful API, CSV downloads and email subscriptions,...
Nano-vLLM: How a vLLM-Style Inference Engine Works
Nano‑vLLM is a minimal Python implementation that reproduces the core features of the widely‑used vLLM inference engine, including prefix caching, tensor parallelism, and CUDA‑graph optimizations. Benchmarks show it matches or slightly exceeds vLLM’s throughput despite its 1,200‑line codebase. The architecture...
Why Software Stocks Are Getting Pummelled
Software stocks suffered a sharp sell‑off on Jan. 29 after SAP warned of a slight cloud‑business deceleration, sending its shares down 15%. ServiceNow fell 13% despite beating revenue expectations, while Salesforce and Workday slipped 7‑8% without any fresh announcements. The broader...
Kiki – The Accountability Monster for People Who Are Easily Distracted
Kiki is a productivity app that forces users to focus on a single task by blocking all non‑essential apps and websites, similar to a Pomodoro timer but without an early‑exit option. Users specify one task, whitelist needed tools, and the...
Show HN: Craftplan – I Built My Wife a Production Management Tool for Her Bakery
Craftplan is an open‑source ERP designed for small‑scale artisanal manufacturers and craft businesses. It consolidates catalog, inventory, order processing, production planning, purchasing, and CRM into a single self‑hosted platform. Key features include versioned bills of materials with automatic cost rollups,...
Show HN: Zuckerman – Minimalist Personal AI Agent that Self-Edits Its Own Code
Zuckerman is an open‑source personal AI agent that starts with a tiny codebase and can rewrite its own configuration, tools, prompts, and core logic while running. The platform uses plain‑text files and hot‑reload to apply changes instantly, eliminating rebuilds and...
How to Scale a System From 0 to 10M+ Users
The article outlines a seven‑stage roadmap for scaling applications from a single‑server prototype to a global, multi‑region architecture serving over ten million users. It emphasizes incremental growth, starting with a simple VPS, then separating databases, adding load‑balanced app servers, introducing...
Netbird a German Tailscale Alternative (P2P WireGuard-Based Overlay Network)
NetBird is a German open‑source zero‑trust networking platform that uses WireGuard to create a peer‑to‑peer overlay, positioning itself as a Tailscale‑style alternative to legacy VPNs. It delivers instant deployment, SSO/MFA integration, dynamic posture checks, and centralized policy management across Linux,...
CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring
CollectWise, a Y Combinator‑backed startup, uses generative AI to automate debt collection in the $35 billion U.S. market. Its voice AI agents already outperform human collectors by roughly two‑fold while costing less. The three‑person team hit a $1 million annualized run rate within...
In Praise of –Dry-Run
Henrik Warne added a ‑dry‑run flag to a daily reporting tool, allowing the command to simulate actions without altering data. The option quickly became a daily sanity‑check, confirming configuration, file accessibility, and expected report generation. It also sped up testing...
Show HN: Minimal – Open-Source Community Driven Hardened Container Images
The Minimal project publishes a suite of open‑source, production‑ready container images built daily with Chainguard’s apko and Wolfi packages. By including only essential components, the images achieve near‑zero CVEs and are typically patched within 24‑48 hours of disclosure. Each image is...
Browser Agent Benchmark: Comparing LLM Models for Web Automation
Browser Use released its first open‑source benchmark to evaluate LLM‑driven web‑automation agents across 100 rigorously selected tasks. The suite blends 20 tasks each from WebBench, Mind2Web 2, GAIA, BrowseComp and a custom set targeting complex interactions like iframes and drag‑and‑drop. Gemini‑2.5‑flash...
Insane Growth Goldbridge (YC F25) Is Hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer
Goldbridge, a Y Combinator F25 startup founded in 2025, is building an AI‑powered banking platform for real‑estate owners. The company highlights that over $1 trillion in rent flows through landlord accounts each year, with a quarter tied up in idle reserves,...
Show HN: Foundry – Turns Your Repeated Workflows Into One-Click Commands
Foundry is a self‑writing meta‑extension for the OpenClaw agent runtime that watches user workflows, extracts repeatable patterns, and automatically generates new extensions, skills, or hooks. When a pattern meets usage and success thresholds, Foundry crystallizes it into a one‑click command,...
Show HN: I Built an AI Conversation Partner to Practice Speaking Languages
TalkBits launches an AI‑powered conversation partner that lets users practice speaking multiple languages through short, natural dialogues. The platform emphasizes everyday speech, voice interaction, and instant pronunciation feedback, supporting over ten languages and regional English variants. Its adaptive engine corrects...
Hypergrowth Isn’t Always Easy
Tailscale publicly acknowledged a series of brief uptime hiccups, noting that recent incidents caused increased latency and occasional admin‑console outages for a subset of tailnets. The company explained that its coordination service—now a sharded message‑bus rather than a single server—handles...
Microsoft 365 Now Tracks You in Real Time?
Microsoft announced that, beginning March 2026, Microsoft 365’s Teams app will automatically share employees’ real‑time location with managers. The feature works across Windows, macOS, and mobile, displaying the Wi‑Fi network name when users are off‑site. Microsoft says the tracking is optional and...
Efficient String Compression for Modern Database Systems
CedarDB’s v2026‑01‑22 release adds Fast Static Symbol Table (FSST) compression to text columns, cutting string storage roughly in half while accelerating many queries. FSST encodes frequent substrings as 1‑byte tokens and is applied to the dictionary itself, preserving fast integer‑key...
They Lied to You. Building Software Is Hard
AI programming and no‑code platforms promise rapid prototyping, but they mask the deeper challenges of software development. While beginners can build simple apps quickly, reliance on these tools delays mastery of core coding concepts and problem‑solving skills. As developers gain...
Grid: Forever Free, Local-First, Browser-Based 3D Printing/CNC/Laser Slicer
Grid.Space launches a free, privacy‑first, browser‑based slicer that supports 3D printing, CNC machining, and laser cutting. The tool requires no installation, runs on any modern OS or Chromebook, and works offline after the initial load. Built on an open‑source MIT...
Reflex (YC W23) Senior Software Engineer Infra
Reflex, a Y Combinator W23 startup, is hiring a Lead Software Engineer for infrastructure in San Francisco. The position offers a $130K‑$200K salary plus 0.15‑0.50% equity and demands deep expertise in Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Python, and the Reflex platform. The...
Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that Gives Agents Their Own Email Inboxes
AgentMail, a YC S25 startup, launched an API that lets developers programmatically create and manage email inboxes for autonomous agents. The platform solves Gmail’s API limitations by offering inbox provisioning, domain configuration, real‑time webhooks, websockets, and semantic search. It targets...
Is the RAM Shortage Killing Small VPS Hosts?
The AI boom has pushed DRAM manufacturers toward high‑bandwidth memory for hyperscalers, driving standard RAM prices up to $2,500 per module and doubling server costs. Small VPS operators, which rely on commodity servers, now face dramatically higher capital expenses. The...
High Performance, Open Source RAFT Clustered Database: RooDB
RooDB is an open‑source, Raft‑based SQL database that aims to deliver high performance with minimal configuration. It combines an LSM storage engine, a Volcano‑style query executor, and a MySQL‑compatible wire protocol, allowing standard clients to connect securely. The system supports...
Questom (YC F25) Is Hiring an Engineer
Questom, a YC‑backed startup building AI‑driven sales agents, is hiring a founding engineer with a $125K‑$150K salary and 0.75%‑1.5% equity. The role focuses on building high‑performance systems that integrate CRMs, communication channels, and agentic workflows, rather than mastering a specific...
Show HN: Cursor for Userscripts
Browser Code is a new browser extension that equips Claude, an AI coding agent, with a virtual‑filesystem view of any web page. It lets the agent generate, edit, and persist userscripts through Chrome’s userScripts API (and Firefox’s equivalent), automatically running them...
Show HN: Sandbox Agent SDK – Unified API for Automating Coding Agents
The Sandbox Agent SDK introduces a Rust‑based server and TypeScript client that let developers run AI coding agents—Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Amp—inside isolated sandboxes while controlling them over a unified HTTP/SSE API. By normalizing disparate agent interfaces into a single...
Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Staff Engineer
Kyber, a Y Combinator‑backed AI‑native document platform, is hiring a Staff Engineer/Tech Lead in New York. The company’s solution automates regulatory notices, consolidating 80% of templates, cutting drafting time by 65% and accelerating communication cycles five‑fold. Over the past 18 months Kyber...
Kairos: AI Interns for Everyone
AI startup Kairos launches an AI‑powered personal intern that can log into applications, navigate websites, and execute complex multi‑step tasks without human oversight. The platform includes a dedicated browser, native integrations with over 20 tools such as Gmail, Notion, and...
Show HN: Pinecone Explorer – Desktop GUI for the Pinecone Vector Database
Pinecone Explorer is a native macOS desktop application that lets users browse, query, and manage Pinecone vector databases. The tool supports dense, sparse, and hybrid index types, offering advanced search, filtering, and built‑in reranking capabilities. It connects to both serverless...
LLM-as-a-Courtroom
Falconer introduced an “LLM‑as‑a‑Courtroom” system that automatically updates documentation when code changes, framing the decision process as a legal trial with prosecutor, defense, jury, and judge agents. The architecture extracts exact code and document excerpts, constructs arguments, and lets multiple...
SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned
In December 2025 SoundCloud disclosed unauthorized activity that exposed profile data for roughly 30 million users, about 20 % of its base. The breach revealed email addresses, usernames, avatars, follower counts and limited geographic information, which were later mapped to individual accounts. Attackers...
The History of C# and TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg | GitHub
Anders Hejlsberg, the creator of Turbo Pascal, Delphi, C# and TypeScript, reflects on his four‑decade career in a new GitHub interview. He discusses the 2014 migration of TypeScript to GitHub, the recent decision to rewrite its compiler in Go for...
Show HN: We Built the 1. EU-Sovereignty Audit for Websites
A new free scanner called the EU‑Sovereignty Audit lets website owners instantly assess reliance on non‑EU services such as Google Fonts, Analytics, CDNs, video embeds and more. It checks eight categories—hosting, fonts, analytics, CDN, video, chat, social and maps—to reveal...
Show HN: Build Web Automations via Demonstration
Notte’s Demonstrate Mode, unveiled on Dec 18 2025, lets users create web automations by simply performing a task once in their browser. The tool records each click, keystroke, and navigation, then instantly outputs editable, production‑ready code without requiring prompts or syntax knowledge....
Archyl – The Modern Platform for C4 Model Documentation
Archyl launches an AI‑powered platform for documenting C4 model architectures, enabling automatic discovery of system structures directly from source code. The tool offers natural‑language conversations to query, visualize, and modify diagrams, create ADRs, and retrieve documentation without leaving the developer...
Roots Is a Game Server Daemon that Manages Docker Containers for Game Servers
Roots is an open‑source daemon that orchestrates Docker containers for game servers, exposing a full‑featured HTTP/HTTPS API, WebSocket console streams, and SFTP file access. It reads a YAML configuration (default /etc/roots/config.yaml) that defines panel integration, daemon networking, Docker settings, storage...
Notice of Collective Action Lawsuit Against Workday, INC
A collective‑action lawsuit has been filed against Workday, Inc., alleging that its AI‑driven hiring platform discriminates against applicants aged 40 and older, violating the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. The court has provisionally certified a class of anyone 40+ who...
Show HN: Ourguide – OS Wide Task Guidance System that Shows You Where to Click
Ourguide is an OS‑wide task guidance platform that overlays real‑time, click‑by‑click instructions on any application. It replaces static tutorials and chat‑based help with interactive pointers that move with the user. Early users report up to a 75% reduction in onboarding...
Show HN: SF Microclimates
Solo Founders launched a free, no‑key API that provides real‑time weather and air‑quality data for all 50 San Francisco neighborhoods. By aggregating over 150 PurpleAir outdoor sensors, the service delivers hyper‑local temperature, humidity, PM2.5 and AQI readings instead of a single...
Show HN: FaceTime-Style Calls with an AI Companion (Live2D and Long-Term Memory)
Beni AI launched a FaceTime‑style AI companion that supports two‑way voice, video, and text with live captions. The platform includes an opt‑in memory layer that preserves context across sessions and perception‑aware features such as expression detection. Users can extend functionality...
Show HN: LLMNet – The Offline Internet, Search the Web without the Web
LLMNet launches as an offline, privacy‑first AI search engine that runs entirely on a user’s machine. It leverages local large language models and a PostgreSQL vector database with pgvector and HNSW indexing to deliver sub‑second semantic results. The platform includes...
BirdyChat Becomes First European Chat App that Is Interoperable with WhatsApp
BirdyChat announced it is the first European messaging app to achieve interoperability with WhatsApp under the EU Digital Markets Act. The integration allows BirdyChat users in the EEA to start 1:1 chats with WhatsApp contacts using phone numbers, exchanging texts,...
Gmail Spam Detection Down
Google reported a service disruption affecting Gmail's spam detection starting at 05:02 US/Pacific on Saturday, Jan 24 2026. Users are seeing a banner stating that messages have not been scanned for spam, unverified senders, or harmful software. The engineering team is investigating and...
Metriport (YC S22) Is Hiring a Security Eng to Harden Healthcare Data Infra
Metriport, a YC‑backed open‑source platform that moves patient data for over 300 million individuals, is hiring a senior security engineer in San Francisco. The role will harden its HIPAA‑compliant infrastructure, building audit‑logging, RBAC, and security policies. The company reports multi‑million ARR,...
Claude Code's New Hidden Feature: Swarms
Anthropic’s Claude Code has unveiled a hidden feature called Swarms, turning the AI from a solo coder into a virtual team lead. When users approve a generated plan, Claude enters delegation mode and spawns multiple specialist AI agents that work...
Why Autosave Is Not Recovery
Modern web applications increasingly suffer silent data loss in complex, multi‑step forms, especially on mobile devices with unstable connections. Users often lose entered information due to accidental refreshes, scrolls, or browser crashes, and they rarely report the issue. Traditional monitoring...