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Launch HN: Voltair (YC W26) – Drone and charging network for power utilities

Hey HN! We’re Hayden, Ronan, Avi, and Warren of Voltair (https://voltairlabs.com/). We’re making weatherized, hybrid-fixed drones deployed for power utility inspections.Here’s some footage: https://vimeo.com/1173862237/ac28095cc6?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=... and a photo of our latest prototype: https://imgur.com/a/bYHnqZ4.The U.S. has 7M miles of power lines (enough to go to the moon and back 14 times), and they're aging. Over 50% of

Marines can now use optical sights with pistols for qualifying

Every Marine is a rifleman, but under new marksmanship rules announced this week, the few and the proud who also shoot pistols can now do so with an optic for the first time, Corps officials said.A recent Marine Administrative Message, or MARADMIN, announced that Marines are allowed to use the M17 Romeo red dot optic for Combat Pistol Program qualifications. These types of optics use Light-Emitting Diodes, or LEDs, to project a dot at the point of aim. Military Times was the first to report on t

The duffel bag looked too small - until the truth about Michael came out

A chilling moment in the case is drawing new attention after Stacey claimed a duffel bag was too small to hold a body.

Show HN: Ez – project-scoped command aliases for macOS

I built this because I didn't want to type longer project-specific commands. I work with a bunch of different tech stacks, so it's either a lot to remember or a lot of digging through various README files. Neither is great, so I wrote this little helper.ez stores aliases in a .ez_cli.json file per directory. The nice thing about this is that if you like you can have the same alias, e.g. ez test, ez build etc. in all your projects and for each one it does different things. Also, it&#x27

Show HN: Keymatrix – Visual shortcut reference for mechanical keyboards

I switch between several keyboards and got tired of looking up Fn combos and Bluetooth pairing sequences in PDFs. Built a visual reference — pick your keyboard, click a function, the keys light up.https://keymatrix.devCovers 27 keyboards (HHKB, Keychron, Akko, NuPhy, etc). All shortcut data extracted from official documentation.The site has a terminal-style UI with a working command line — you can type `cd hhkb` and Tab to autocomplete.

Show HN: Using sound symbolism and multi-agent AI to generate brand names

I built an AI naming tool that applies psycholinguistic research to brand name generation. The interesting part isn't that it uses AI — it's how the agents are structured and what they're optimized for.The core problem: if you ask any LLM to name a business, you get the same [Adjective][Noun] compounds. NovaTech. BrightPath. SwiftFlow. They're linguistically dead — no phonetic texture, no semantic depth, high cognitive fluency but zero distinctiveness.The pipeline has six sta

Ask HN: What's your wiring pattern for large addressable LED installs?

Hi HN — I’m collecting “known-good” wiring patterns for large addressable LED strip installs (WLED/ESP32 / FastLED, WS281x-class pixels). I’m not trying to promote anything; I’d just like to sanity-check best practices and learn what actually works in the field.Scope: 5V/12V/24V addressable strips, from a few hundred to a few thousand pixels, used in desks/coves/signage/art installs.Things I already do (baseline):Power injection (start + mid/end depending

AI future is more egalitarian

I was reading Machiavelli where he argues that "freedom in a republic literally needs class conflict". Which is of course completely true no matter how much our current culture hates it to be.There is a huge difference between founders and employees for example, founders don't really care about comfort whereas suits life goal is comfort (which is why you shouldn't even fund a founder who cares about restaurant/car/hotel like you do). Same in society, the elites want

Ask HN: Where does modern geometry survive contact with SGD?

Over the past year I worked through Frankel’s “The Geometry of Physics” cover to cover, not to relearn physics, but to rebuild a modern geometric toolbox as it is actually used there: manifolds, differential forms, connections and curvature, Lie groups and algebras, fiber bundles, gauge structure, and variational principles.The motivation was practical rather than theoretical:Which of these geometric structures, if any, actually survive discretization, noise, and SGD-style training in modern mac

Show HN: Spec-shaker – "Chaos engineering" for tests via semantic mutation

Hi HN — I built spec-shaker, a tool/skill for testing your tests.Instead of classic mutation testing that does mechanical swaps (>→>=), spec-shaker uses an LLM to generate semantically broken implementations — realistic bugs like swallowed errors, missing side effects, off-by-one expiration boundaries, etc. It runs your test suite against each mutant and reports which mutants were killed vs survived. Survivors usually point to gaps in spec/assertions.There’s a small demo (a URL s

Agentic Frameworks in 2026: Less Hype, More Autonomy

Over the last two years we have gone from “LLMs with tools” to genuinely agentic systems that plan, reflect, delegate, retry, and sometimes surprise us in ways that feel uncomfortably close to junior engineers. The ecosystem has matured fast enough that framework choice now meaningfully shapes what your agents can and cannot become.Here is a ground level comparison from someone who has built, broken, and rebuilt agents across several stacks, focusing less on benchmarks and more on lived behavior

Ask HN: Where's the actual pain in early-stage medical AI startups?

I'm a 46 year old ML engineer (PhD + MD, NVIDIA edge stack) exploring solo consulting in medical AI. Did a deep dive on the market. Short version: regulatory expertise is valued, pure ML is oversupplied, consulting window closes at Series B. What I couldn't find: strong signal on what early-stage teams actually struggle with. Background: years on Jetson/TensorRT, classical CV in health and Earth observation, paper-to-production work at startups. I'm targeting EU companies (US

Show HN: I made a typing game where mistakes can kill your run

I&#x27;ve been experimenting with making typing practice feel more like a game.<p>Kwerty is a small browser typing arena with: - rush mode - survival mode - themed word packs like tech and code - combo scoring based on accuracy<p>It’s meant to be something you play for a minute or two between tasks.<p>Would love feedback on gameplay, difficulty, or ideas for new modes.

Show HN: I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars books

I built a desktop Mars colony survival game called Underhill, in homage to Kim Stanley Robinson&#x27;s Mars trilogy. Land on Mars, build solar panels and greenhouses, and try not to pass out during dust storms. Eventually your colonists split into factions: Greens who want to terraform and Reds who want to preserve Mars.There’s Chill Mode for players that just want to build &amp; hang, and Conflict Mode that introduces the Red v. Green factions. Reds sabotage, the terrain slowly turns green as t

Doomsday preppers stock up on luxury survival kits, emergency food supplies and million-dollar bunkers

This was the year that coronavirus fears turned American shoppers into hoarders. There have been widespread shortages on products like toilet paper, hand sanitizer and flour as people prepared for the ...