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Show HN: Sprocket – The Best AI Agent for Hardware and Software Development

These App Store hidden gems prove there’s still room for great software in the AI era

Despite predictions that AI agents could make traditional apps obsolete, developers are shipping new software faster than ever. From smarter bookmarking tools and neighborhood mark…

Show HN: Handoff is await human() for AI agents

await human() for AI agents: when an agent hits a wall, a real phone rings and a person takes the wheel in its live browser. - OmegaAgent/handoff…

Will Self-Hosted Local AI Go Mainstream, or Stay a Niche for Nerds?

A recent thread on r/SelfHostedAI sparked the question: self-hosted AI won't take off if the average user has to fight for it. Is that right? The post that started the debate Th…

AI is finding Apple security flaws faster than Apple can sort through them

Apple is limiting simultaneous bug reports as AI floods its security team with questionable findings, even while the same tools uncover genuine Mac vulnerabilities that demand patc…

8 Best Password Managers (2026), Tested and Reviewed

Keep your logins locked down with our favorite password management apps for PC, Mac, Android, iPhone, and web browsers.…

Box64 v0.4.4 Released With New Box64-Configurator App

Box64 0.4.4 released today as the newest version of this open-source user-space Linux x86_64 emulator for running binaries on 64-bit ARM, RISC-V, and LoongArch systems.…

Final days to lock in your favorite Microsoft Office apps for life for just $33

Lifetime access on one PC.…

Adima AI: The Future of AI Enhancement

Professional 16K image upscaler to enhance image quality, upsize pictures without losing quality, and restore details with offline AI.…

JobRadar: Open-source job search agent that scores listings with a local LLM

🎯 AI-Powered Job Search Agent — searches multiple job boards and rates them against your profile using a local LLM - ANIRudH-lab-life/job-radar…

The Greenhouse and the Lens: Two Modes of Agentic AI Work

A greenhouse and a lens both run on sunlight, and they do opposite things with it. The greenhouse traps ambient heat and holds it, so everything inside grows a……

Own Microsoft Office Pro 2021 for just $33 through 8/9—no cloud dependency, no monthly payments

Go pro today.…

Coding Agents Don’t Need Bigger Context Windows — They Need a Context Compiler

Most coding agents treat prompt construction like retrieval: gather more files, add more context, hope the model figures it out. But that approach breaks down fast. As context grow…

Microsoft vows to make Windows 11 fly on 8GB RAM amid memory shortage — optimizations to reduce OS memory footprint have begun

Windows 11 is about to go on a diet…

You should deep clean your Windows PC every year to keep it running smoothly — here's how I do it

Keeping it (c)lean…

Building biology AI models autonomously

We present Biomni x TusoAI, a fully autonomous and code-free tool for method development in biology — building state-of-the-art models for genetic perturbation prediction and enhan…

Prominent Arch Linux Developer Resigns After 10 Year Run

Arch Linux developer, security team member, AUR maintainer, and package maintainer Morten Linderud 'Foxboron' announced today he is resigning from the project.…

Pay once, use it forever — MS Office 2024 Pro Plus is just $55 for a limited time

One-time payment. Long-term value.…

Show HN: SendPage – Paste AI-generated HTML, get a link clients can open

Turn AI-generated HTML documents into professional share links your customers can open in one tap. Convert to PDF, image or Word without breaking the design.…

Ask HN: How did your boss's behavior change with the rise of AI?

Stop renting your software and own it with this $50 PDF editor

For just $49.99 (reg. $349.95), PDNob Pro PDF Editor's lifetime subscription helps you sign, edit, and annotate PDFs with ease. You can also turn scanned documents into editable fi…

AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job

AI has dramatically accelerated the path to a first working version. It has not shortened the distance between a first working version and something production-grade.…

Toronto-based Terminal, whose API connects insurance products and commercial fleet software with telematics data, raised a $20M Series A led by Battery Ventures (Alex Riehl/BetaKit)

Harmony, which offers AI-powered enterprise software for handling tasks such as employee onboarding and software access, raised a $34M seed led by Lightspeed (Geoff Weiss/Business Insider)

H&R Block Coupon: 25% Off DIY + Tax Pro Assist

Save over 25% when you opt for H&R Block’s free online offering, plus a tax pro review.…

Show HN: Sanitizer – Strip sensitive data from documents locally before an LLM

Practical AI products for private knowledge, expert work, and learning.…

Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp)

Tuesday was Stateless MCP day - the rollout of MCP 2.0, or the 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol specification to use the more formal but less memorable name. This is the most sign…

Android 17 QPR1 Beta 8 finally tackles Pixel's most annoying bugs, from audio static to authentication failures

More bug fixes ahead of the public release…

Show HN: How to build and self-host a code review agent

How to build your own code review agent in under 5 minutes…

Voibe gives Mac users a much faster way to get words down

Give your keyboard a less important job and get yourself Voibe AI Voice Dictation for $79.99 (reg. $199) right now.…

10 Snipping Tool Hacks Every Windows 11 User Should Know

Snipping Tool is the default screenshot app for Windows 11, and it has a lot of hidden features that transform it into a power user tool.…

The best self-hosted apps are the ones you build yourself; it's why I stopped searching for perfect software

Build and go, not build and share.…

Termixer (TUI DJ Mixer)

A 2-deck mixer, sample pads, sequencer— all from any Unix terminal. - l00sed/termixer…

Shotcut 26.7 Video Editor Released With Stock Asset Library

Shotcut 26.7 is out today as the newest feature release to this open-source, cross-platform video editing solution.…

Software takes center stage in this Pixel 11 series and Pixel Watch 5 leak

A big Pixel 11 and Pixel Watch 5 leak has delivered dozens of images showing off the software experience on Google's new hardware.…

Claude Code's sub-agents solve one problem and create three others

Isolation giveth, and isolation taketh away.…

From iTools to iCloud: Apple's first foray into Software as a Service

How long should you keep your phone for? I did the math - it's likely not what you think

Annual upgrades matter less these days, and better software support lets you hold onto your phone for longer.…

Microsoft turns to the UK Supreme Court after losing twice over second-hand software licenses, and billions could ride on the outcome

A costly legal situation in the making?…

Techie lured out of retirement to support software only he remembered

The first job went well, but a pension remained preferable to rolling projects…

Heartbreaking new details of why Amazon software engineer was in Lake Tahoe when he drowned

Loved ones launched a GoFundMe to cover funeral costs, describing him as having a “humble spirit” and “contagious smile.”…

ResiliReplay – Chaos testing for AI agents and MCP servers

Crash-test AI agents and MCP servers, replay failures, and turn broken traces into deterministic regression tests. - aliengineering-byte/resilireplay…

Ask HN: How are you leveraging AI/LLMs as software dev TEAM

Made by Human, Not by Gen-AI

Show HN: Tally – check a spreadsheet's numbers against their source, in-browser

Independently recompute every figure in a spreadsheet or report from its source rows — or tie it out against QuickBooks — with the exact rows as proof.…

Why prompt injection is still possible in LLM applications

How a chat conversation actually reaches the model, and why it can still confuse untrusted content with trusted instructions.…

Google says it has fixed a Pixel battery drain issue, but some users disagree

Google said a July update resolves the problem on recent devices, with Pixel 9a and 8a getting a fix in September.…

Perplexity brings its Personal Computer AI agent to Windows

Find answers, research topics, and automate tasks with AI.…

Show HN: Wasted Cycles – Local wall-clock profiler for AI coding agents

Wasted Cycles is a local terminal profiler that reads the Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, and Grok Build traces already on your machine and shows where a run stopped coding: model work…

Sources: Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness has sold all of its public stock holdings after losses on AI stocks and a bad bet against software stocks (David Faber/CNBC)

Agent-Manager: A Tmux TUI for Running Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode

Terminal UI to manage AI coding-agent sessions (Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, Grok Build) in tmux: live status, group tree, live pane preview, resource gauges. - YoanWai/agent-mana…

Wear OS 7 promised to transform my Pixel Watch 4, but delivered nothing

Where are all the promised features?…

This new app lets you root your Galaxy flagship without tripping Knox or unlocking the bootloader

Root My Galaxy is an open-source tool using the GhostLock Linux exploit for temporary root access on select Samsung Galaxy flagship phones.…

Microsoft is making a Copilot super app to end your AI app juggling

Satya Nadella confirmed Microsoft is merging Copilot chat, Cowork, Autopilots, and coding tools into one AI super app for consumers and businesses, launching later this year.…

Supabook – AI Native Business OS

SupaBook connects your business phone system, CRM, and AI receptionist with scheduling, payments, and follow-ups in one client workflow platform.…

Microsoft Will Soon Release an AI Super App

The Copilot super app will span both consumer and enterprise use cases.…

Show HN: How we use AI agents for our million-user SaaS (seafile)

The FCC's ban on foreign "advanced robotic devices" includes any new ground-based, software-controlled wireless robot over 4.4 pounds, including robot vacuums (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

Sean Hollister / The Verge : The FCC's ban on foreign “advanced robotic devices” includes any new ground-based, software-controlled wireless robot over 4.4 pounds, including robot …

Google Calendar can finally embrace bigger screens thanks to its latest update

Customize your calendar view on large screens…

Show HN: An AI Color Grader – Pico

Pico: a Claude harness for color correction.…