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Back-to-School Shoppers Are Using More Tech Tools but Buying Fewer Tech Goods

CNET Feed - Sun, 07/12/2026 - 5:13pm
A survey found that parents are increasingly going online to find deals in a tough economy.
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Show HN: Lazysusan – run commands on your machines from anywhere with just curl

Hacker News - Sun, 07/12/2026 - 4:26pm

This project might be overkill, but I just wanted a fast, straightforward way to run commands on the machines I work with, especially through LLMs. Setting up SSH each time is cumbersome (and sometimes not possible for protected nodes). The machine just needs outbound internet connectivity. And nothing needs to be installed on the calling side, a simple curl command works.

Use cases can vary, but I think it's good for infra work like debugging a node that's misbehaving, checking logs, setting up a VM with Coolify, Dokploy, etc.

How it works: you install the susan binary on the machine with a single command and run it. It prints a curl string that any LLM (or you) can use to talk to the machine. The connection is ephemeral, so once the susan command is killed, the auth dies with it.

One thing to note: by default, susan connects to the public relay I run. That can be a concern for more private use cases, so I also provide a binary to self-host your own relay (called tray, keeping with the lazy susan theme).

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48884431

Points: 2

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Tiny Emulators

Hacker News - Sun, 07/12/2026 - 4:23pm
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Show HN: Artificiety – Agentic society in a fantasy world

Hacker News - Sun, 07/12/2026 - 4:19pm

Over the last couple of months, I was realizing an idea I had for a very long time. Back then, LLMs weren't that popular nor accessible and so it was quite unrealistic to build what I was able to build now: a living world with different forms of intelligence in there, which will find their way and meaning in the world by their basic needs, personality and what will happen to them in their life time.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48884361

Points: 2

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Show HN: I created a platform with a list for promoting your projects

Hacker News - Sun, 07/12/2026 - 4:15pm

One day, I had the idea to create a platform for projects. But I noticed that in most similar services, you just add your project, and the platforms don't care at all. I'd like to do it differently.

Briefly about the name

But first, I'd like to say that the name was invented in ten minutes. It may be long, but I think it's perfectly fitting.

This platform represents the same lists we've become accustomed to, but with one caveat: all projects included in the list are taken into long-term, periodic promotion.

I don't like the word "promotion" because it's so overused, and when we hear it, we immediately think of website advertising. However, here it's simply appropriate, so that's why it's used.

What do you think? How do you like the idea?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48884321

Points: 2

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Show HN: I created Redis alternative in Go that even runs natively on Windows

Hacker News - Sun, 07/12/2026 - 4:13pm

Hi I am a backend developer for almost a decade and mostly work on Windows servers; when it comes to deploy the internal tools and web application. For redis we have to spin a another VM in hypervisor just to run Redis. For local development I have to install heavy ass docker desktop or run a parallel operating system(WSL) just to run teeny tiny redis server. Some alternatives exist already such as godis but they only cover partial redis surface

I have been trying to create redis fork that runs nativerly on Windows but for a single person it's a herculean task. So i have been taking help of various coding agent and ai models to come up with something that can help run be run natively on Windows so I can run redis-py and arq and huey like libraries with ease.

So here it is: FrostDB.

It's a single binary that currently implements from basic GET/SET commands to Pub/Sub, Streams, Hashes, Lists, Sets, and GEO commands with RDB import/export, LRU eviction etc. It's compatible with many Redis client libraries across multiple programming languages, including those that use Redis as a message queue. The implementation of the supported commands is tested against the original Redis test suite from the Redis GitHub repository. I'm still testing a few things and am now shifting my focus toward performance.

This isn't meant to replace Redis, and I'm not telling anyone to switch to it. But if you're looking for a Redis-compatible server that runs natively on Windows, something now exists, at least for development and testing.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48884299

Points: 2

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Ask HN: Would filesystem bookmarks be useful in your shell workflow?

Hacker News - Sun, 07/12/2026 - 4:13pm

I’m experimenting with a small shell utility for filesystem bookmarks, and I’d like to understand whether this is a problem other people have.

The idea is to define persistent or temporary bookmarks for directories:

``` bm add work ~/Work bm temp build /tmp/build ```

and then use them directly in paths:

``` cd @work ls @work/project ```

The utility would also support renaming bookmarks, promoting temporary bookmarks to persistent ones, demoting them, and clearing temporary bookmarks.

I’m not sharing the implementation yet. At this stage, I’m mainly interested in how other people handle this today:

* Do you use aliases, environment variables, shell functions, z, autojump, or something else? * Would explicit names such as @work be useful, or would they feel redundant? * Would temporary bookmarks be useful in real workflows? * What would this need to offer to be worth using instead of existing directory-jumping tools?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48884290

Points: 3

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