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Show HN: The Jac Programming Language
After 6 years of coding almost every day, I'm finally ready to show HN. There's a lot going on here, looking forward to your guy's feedback.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063062
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The Metaverse Fever Dream – Pixel Envy
Article URL: https://pxlnv.com/blog/metaverse-fever-dream/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063058
Points: 2
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Why does every mammal get 1B heartbeats in their life? [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL9Lw250spc
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063040
Points: 1
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The highest-leverage bet in the whole market is not AI, it's LSD
Article URL: https://www.singularityrainbow.ai/p/you-have-no-idea-how-big-dftx-is
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063039
Points: 1
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Show HN: GG Translator – Turn gaming shit talk into friendly phrases
Flaming teammates usually results in them cooperating even less. But sometimes you just need to let the devil out of you. Instead of venting on your teammates and pissing them off, vent into GG Translator and it will convert your toxic message into a friendly and constructive one to share with your team. https://ggtranslator.com
My background is in building web apps with Elixir and Phoenix. I made GG Translator in early 2024 to see if I could build a desktop app in a language I had never used before (Rust) with the help of AI. It was a great exercise and I found out that I could. I used Tauri instead of Electron because it has a smaller footprint. I built the app but never released it because I wasn't ready to support it.
When GPT 5.6 came out earlier this month I pointed it at the old codebase and tasked it with rewriting that entire app (still in Rust using Tauri), modernizing, refactoring, and looking for any improvements that it could find.
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The app is a sneak peek of how an AI profanity filter might look like in the future. The ultimate integration would see it built into gaming platforms like Steam and PSN where it's not only transforming your speech on demand, but it's also able to transform incoming audio from your teammates into family friendly language so parents can feel better knowing their kids aren't being bombarded with slurs when they let them play online multiplayer games.
I also imagine an incredible opportunity for voice licensing allowing users to pay to unlock voices of their favorite streamers, actors, athletes, and characters for a limited time. Who wouldn't want to sound like Samuel L. Jackson yelling about motherfucking noobs in their motherfucking lane?
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The biggest obstacle was code signing. I went through all the hurdles in 2024, paying for an expensive OV signing certificate and also paying for the Apple Developer program. For 2026 I decided that the OV signing certificate is a racket and I'm not going to pay for it again. I already have an Apple Developer account for another app so I didn't have to pay extra to sign the macOS build. For Windows, the SmartScreen warnings when installing the app are a drag, but you can just tap more info and install it anyway.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063031
Points: 1
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So-called 'Skynet Day' came too close to SF after rogue agent hacked a startup
Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/skynet-ai-terminator-artificial-intelligence-eb85da03a0161beaa5f3babc4331e93b
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063016
Points: 3
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Show HN: LuaJIT with Native SIMD
Article URL: https://github.com/TheLuaOSProject/LuaJITMT/releases/tag/1.0.0-simd
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063010
Points: 1
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Can Frontier Models Recall Long-Tail Facts? A Cricket Stress Test
Article URL: https://corvi.careers/blog/frontier-models-long-tail-facts/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063000
Points: 1
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Building a CEL Engine for .NET
Article URL: https://bsid.io/writing/building-a-cel-engine-for-net
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49062998
Points: 1
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Refactoring cuisine: how an Iraqi stew sailed to Singapore
Article URL: https://iza.ac/posts/2026/07/the-journey-of-bamya/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49062997
Points: 1
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YouTube Premium (Free) for iPhones (iOS)
Article URL: https://github.com/aditauqir/fyp
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49062664
Points: 1
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Duress Codes and How to Use Them (2024)
Article URL: https://safeescape.org/duress-codes/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49062627
Points: 3
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Show HN: Porting Super Hexagon to the Playdate
Article URL: https://captnemo.in/superhexagon/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49062624
Points: 1
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Science: A New Golden Age [pdf]
Article URL: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Science-A-New-Golden-Age.pdf
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49062622
Points: 1
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Show HN: CostCompass – cost-of-living data from local scrapers, not crowdsourced
Article URL: https://costcompass.net
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49062617
Points: 1
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We're Thinking About Darkness All Wrong
Article URL: https://www.harvardmagazine.com/science/harvard-night-dark-sky-light-pollution
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49062609
Points: 1
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Mark Zuckerberg on Messenger (2013)
Article URL: https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1528063312461582342
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49062594
Points: 1
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Why we're building omics in Rust at St. Jude research hospital
Article URL: https://claymcleod.dev/blog/2026-07-26-why-were-building-omics
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49062578
Points: 2
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Unreached: Find code that exists in your repo and is never reached
Article URL: https://github.com/siliroid/unreached
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49062543
Points: 1
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