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New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Swurf – Swipe through the real web

Show HN: Swurf – Swipe through the real web 13 by webtjb096 | 3 comments on Hacker News. Hello HN, Swurf allows you to swipe through the real web one page after another. It learns what you like and doesn’t show you the same page twice. The idea came naturally: there’s a seemingly infinite amount of high quality blog posts, random topic rabbit holes, and trending or cool sites that exist which the average person simply will never load on their browser. Swurf solves that by allowing you to rapidly traverse a constantly growing and learning feed of sites that it thinks you’d want to view. Quickly sift through endless pages and find things you like - effortlessly. One of the core drivers for making this project was the desire for real content. The project started as a simple tool for myself to find new and interesting things to learn and read about. Hours spent scrolling on my phone - while it still has its place - is increasingly losing its sense of reward. It’s genuinely hard to put i...
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New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: I wrote an email app that accepts only one sender per inbox

Show HN: I wrote an email app that accepts only one sender per inbox 12 by edpin2000 | 5 comments on Hacker News. Infinite inboxes, including prefixes where you don't have to create inboxes before you use them -- they self create when you add a suffix. Three types of inboxes: - One sender. Locks to the first domain to send email (except gmail, outlook, etc where it locks to an email account for obivous reasons. It bounces everyone else. - Temporary. Lasts for a while (24h, 7days, etc) then bounces. Received messages stay or go as per your choice. - Prefix. The most powerful. Declare a prefix like "service" and then invent any suffix, like "service-netflix" or "service$bank" and it creates a new one-sender inbox locked to whoever wrote first. Bring you own domain. Bring your own AI (MCP server ready). Forwarding. Please help me test it.
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New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: XY Music Notation

Show HN: XY Music Notation 7 by jmole | 2 comments on Hacker News. I've been playing around with a new kind of isomorphic music keyboard that uses a base-12 notation, and wanted some sheet music to learn some new music for it. The idea is to represent each note in 12-TET as a number, so N ∈ (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,X,Y). I used codex to build a music score rendering backend based on MuseScore with custom note heads that display the pitch class of each note. I've found it pretty helpful for learning how to play my own instrument, so wanted to share in case anyone else was interested.
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New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Nightwatch – a Mac menu-bar app that tells you when tonight is clear

Show HN: Nightwatch – a Mac menu-bar app that tells you when tonight is clear 9 by delphidolphin | 1 comments on Hacker News. Here in the north of England clear nights are at a premium, and it's never guaranteed that you'll be able to see anything but cloud. That's why I developed Nightwatch, so that I could be notified when one of those precious few nights where I could see into the heavens was available. Finding out whether tonight was worth setting up meant reading forecast charts every evening, usually to learn that it was not. Nightwatch does that reading for me. It sits in the Mac's menu bar and refreshes the forecast every 30 minutes. An hour before sunset it sends one notification, and only if there is an unbroken run of clear sky in astronomical darkness long enough to image in. Otherwise it says nothing: no news means "clouds". I hope this is useful for other hobbyist stargazers too! When I was a child I wanted desperately to be an astronaut or a ...
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New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Our space game has a built-in RISC-V emulator that runs Linux

Show HN: Our space game has a built-in RISC-V emulator that runs Linux 20 by nor-and-or-not | 9 comments on Hacker News. (Edit: original URL was https://againstallodds.games/ , but we've switched it to https://againstallodds.games/blog/2026/10/03/our-risc-v-emul... in response to user requests for explanation.) We're a tiny indie studio, all with a background in the demoscene and for about 3 years now we're developing a space planet terraforming game called SEEDS - Echoes Beneath the Sands. Our protagonist Naxiah is stranded on a small, desolated planet. You're working for an intergalactic distributor of seeds and terraforming equipment, to kickstart new planets in far away galaxies. You must deliver seeds and utilities to an unchartered region, but on your way, you crash on a small planet. Luckily, you have some equipment with you in the ship, so you're able to spawn a base and survive. But for how long? And is the planet really deserted..? :) Well, of course...
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New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Open-source model routing for coding agents at Astra-level performance

Show HN: Open-source model routing for coding agents at Astra-level performance 17 by adchurch | 1 comments on Hacker News. A few months ago we started building a model router for coding agents because we thought we could outperform any single model with an ensemble approach. Recently we’ve achieved that milestone and I want to talk about how we did it. First of all, a quick explanation: the Weave Router ( https://ift.tt/rY0eCqj ) plugs into any coding agent (e.g. Claude Code or Codex) and intelligently switches between LLMs. So, for example, Astra handles tricky debugging or complex system design tasks, and Deepseek v4 Flash handles simple frontend updates. What we’re announcing today is our new routing model, which we’re calling Weave Router 2.0. We benchmarked 2.0 against GPT-6 Astra on Terminal Bench 4.0 and SWE Atlas. On both benchmarks, the router had equivalent pass rates. On Terminal Bench, the router hit 52% of Astra’s cost, and completed tasks 2.2x faster. On SWE Atlas, th...
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