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Modern messaging: Running your own XMPP server (Score: 152+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6D3Th
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6D3Th
Gem.coop (Score: 154+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6D33D
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6D33D
The death of industrial design and the era of dull electronics (Score: 150+ in 17 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6D2dh
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6D2dh
Show HN: While everyone builds AI apps, my spreadsheet reached 2,300 users (🔥 Score: 164+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6D3VL
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6D3VL
Everyone’s chasing AI hype.
I built a Google Sheet and it quietly took off.
In 2020, I made it to track my own finances for income, expenses, savings, yearly summaries etc. I shared it once on Reddit, forgot about it for a year… When I checked back, it had over 130k views and I was honestly stoked!
No launch. No funding. No AI.
Just a spreadsheet people actually stick with and find useful.
I finally gave it a proper home: write-it-down.com
Now, more than 2,300 people use it.
It’s intentionally boring and that’s why it works.
People don’t always need AI. They just need something that actually solves their problem.
This isn’t a billion-dollar startup of course, but it taught me more about building products than almost anything else.
Build something useful.
Solve a real problem.
Even if it’s just a simple spreadsheet.
So, what’s the most “boring” thing you’ve built that found unexpected traction?
Show HN: ut – Rust based CLI utilities for devs and IT (Score: 150+ in 18 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6CZFV
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6CZFV
Hey HN,
I find myself reaching for tools like it-tools.tech or other random sites every now and then during development or debugging. So, I built a toolkit with a sane and simple CLI interface for most of those tools.
For the curious and lazy, at the moment, ut has tools for,
- Encoding: base64 (encode, decode), url (encode, decode)
- Hashing: md5, sha1, sha224, sha256, sha384, sha512
- Data Generation: uuid (v1, v3, v4, v5), token, lorem, random
- Text Processing: case (lower, upper, camel, title, constant, header, sentence, snake), pretty-print, diff
- Development Tools: calc, json (builder), regex, datetime
- Web & Network: http (status), serve, qr
- Color & Design: color (convert)
- Reference: unicode
For full disclosure, parts of the toolkit were built with Claude Code (I wanted to use this as an opportunity to play with it more).
Feel free to open feature requests and/or contribute.
Earth was born dry until a cosmic collision made it a blue planet (❄️ Score: 154+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6CFXN
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6CFXN
Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs (Score: 150+ in 17 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6CVce
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Paged Out Issue #7 [pdf] (Score: 150+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6CW7H
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6CW7H
Circular Financing: Does Nvidia's $110B Bet Echo the Telecom Bubble? (🔥 Score: 151+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6CWkt
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6CWkt
New antibiotic targets IBD and AI predicted how it would work (Score: 150+ in 13 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6CVeM
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6CVeM
Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-025-02142-0
LoRA Without Regret (❄️ Score: 152+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6CCnC
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6CCnC
Jules, remote coding agent from Google Labs, announces API (Score: 150+ in 14 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6CUhn
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Zig builds are getting faster (Score: 152+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6CUX4
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Open Printer is an open source inkjet printer with DRM-free ink (❄️ Score: 151+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6CEwe
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6CEwe
The Faroes (Score: 150+ in 11 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6CSUK
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6CSUK
AMD signs AI chip-supply deal with OpenAI, gives it option to take a 10% stake (🔥 Score: 151+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6D3Vf
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6D3Vf
Five years as a startup CTO: How, why, and was it worth it? (2024) (❄️ Score: 150+ in 5 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6CJRN
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6CJRN
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6D3B7
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NFS at 40 – Remembering the Sun Microsystems Network File System (Score: 151+ in 21 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6CZkV
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A comparison of Ada and Rust, using solutions to the Advent of Code (Score: 150+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6CWBf
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6CWBf
Flock's gunshot detection microphones will start listening for human voices (🔥 Score: 150+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6CWyk
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6CWyk
How I influence tech company politics as a staff software engineer (🔥 Score: 150+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6CWB6
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AMD's EPYC 9355P: Inside a 32 Core Zen 5 Server Chip (Score: 152+ in 20 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6CUtG
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The collapse of the econ PhD job market (Score: 150+ in 22 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6CTLJ
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6CTLJ
Alibaba cloud FPGA: the $200 Kintex UltraScale+ (Score: 153+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6CVJA
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6CVJA
Interstellar Object 3I/Atlas Passed Mars Last Night (Score: 151+ in 15 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6CUAr
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Jeff Bezos says AI is in a bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits (Score: 151+ in 16 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6CTAP
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Where it's at:// (Score: 152+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6CQDn
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6CQDn
Fluid Glass (❄️ Score: 152+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6CE7M
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6CE7M
Cancelling async Rust (Score: 154+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6CTEs
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6CTEs