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New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s

Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s 145 by section33 | 16 comments on Hacker News. I might be the only SRE on Earth with his own bowling center. It's a more in-depth gig than you'd think. My family and I bought an abandoned 8-lane bowling center in the rural mid-west. In our small town there weren't many recreation options for families. You've heard of a food desert? This is an R&R desert. It had been abandoned for a good reason. The roof leaks, the electrical system was constantly surging, and my 70-year-old bowling equipment (still) doesn't work perfectly. The system that keeps your score is particularly interesting to me. It's the thing you watch during your game, but it fades into the background beyond that. Turns out these things are really cool, but absurdly expensive. Ours was installed in 2008 and cost six figures. It's calculating ball speed and trajectory, camera-based pin detection (object detection and t...
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New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Painterly – Turn pictures into digital paintings without generative AI

Show HN: Painterly – Turn pictures into digital paintings without generative AI 7 by flinkerflitzer | 0 comments on Hacker News. Painterly is an application that "paints" input images stroke by stroke to produce digital paintings. GenAI is not used in any part of the production pipeline. There is a free demo available under Releases on the GitHub repo. Let me know what you think!
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New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Abralo – Free, easy way to run several Claude Code agents in one window

Show HN: Abralo – Free, easy way to run several Claude Code agents in one window 16 by cwbuilds | 6 comments on Hacker News. Hi guys, I've been using Claude Code for almost everything lately. Have given one an email account so it can research business leads, draft emails, fact-check them and clear them with me before sending (works really well by the way). I also tend to have a few Claude Code agents running at any one time for coding. I used to create a split terminal to manage them from there, but found working in the terminal all day pretty depressing and, more importantly, found it hard to follow Claude Code's process and see which agents needed my immediate attention. I tried Anthropic's VS Code Claude Code extension and it had a great UI (more info on Claude Code's process and easier to read), but it crashed my PC when I ran more than 3 and I couldn't watch multiple agents in parallel (had to constantly switch between them). So I built a lightweight Tauri d...
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New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Halo – open-source, tamper-evident runtime evidence for AI agents

Show HN: Halo – open-source, tamper-evident runtime evidence for AI agents 5 by brian_kuan | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, I'm Brian, I spent the last few years at Vanta (YC W18), helping startups and enterprises become compliant and I recently started exploring what that might look like in a post-agentic world. The problem Halo solves is: when a company buys an AI agent from a vendor and gives it access to their data, they have no way to check what the agent did with that data. Vendors may have built observability dashboards and audit logs, but those are editable and partisan. SOC 2 and ISO 27001 audit a company's controls, but controls are less predictive when the software is agentic. TLDR: give an agent the same prompt 50 times, and you get 50 slightly different actions/answers - so the only thing worth auditing in a post-agentic world is what happened at runtime. Halo is an open-source project that produces agent runtime evidence. It's a small recorder that recor...
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New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Bramble – Local-first password manager

Show HN: Bramble – Local-first password manager 85 by MegagramEnjoyer | 16 comments on Hacker News. I'm currently working on Bramble, an open source password manager with P2P cross-device sync. Initially I released the Chrome extension, but recently I also published the Android app and iOS is pending Apple's approval. Besides that, the latest version also includes passkey storage for all platforms! About Bramble: It aims to be as feature-rich as all popular and a replacement for cloud-based providers. I don't think we need to store our data in the cloud and be at the whims of companies raising their prices every year. There's always a breach and then we find out that some fields aren't encrypted, metadata is visible, and so on. I'm frustrated with this and the increasing lack of transparency during these breaches. The P2P sync in Bramble uses a Nostr relay (which can be self-hosted) to keep your devices in sync. The relay just introduces the devices to each o...
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New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Morph Reflexes – Multi-head classifiers for agent traces

Show HN: Morph Reflexes – Multi-head classifiers for agent traces 11 by bhaktatejas922 | 1 comments on Hacker News. The most common failures for production agents are behavioral: looping, reasoning leakage, user frustration, and more. Using a frontier model like GPT or Sonnet to judge every turn is too expensive and slow to run at scale. To solve this, we built Reflexes: semantic signals from agent traces, served fast and cheap over API. Built on custom kernels and a custom inference engine forked from vLLM. Under the hood, it is a small LLM architected around multi-head inference. Small models need to be trained for specific tasks, but running 50 separate small models on the same input for 50 tasks makes no sense. How it works: We use a modern LLM with hybrid attention and remove the decode step. We built an inference engine that lets prefill compute be 99% reused from reflex to reflex, similar in spirit to older 2019-era BERT/HYDRA and older multiple-head techniques. we built the ...
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