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Re:Castration extends life span, but in a surprising way, mouse study ... on Monday November 09, 2026 @11:48AM (#50428092)

Hi fellow mouse here.

I can confirm that castration leads to longer life span.

AMA.

thx

~ mouse

Show HN: Timestamping API Backed into Blockchain

Posted by michael-sumner on Monday November 09, 2026 @09:24AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://www.postman.com/scoredetect/scoredetect-docs/collection/1a6bm1v/scoredetect-api

Hello I'm the founder and started this because of the generic case of the internet's need for blockchain proof that is quick n easy, fast, and affordable.You can upload a text/file and output is a blockchain timestamped certification. It's like sigstore but decentralised via blockchain.

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Re:Skitch.app Abandoned. Sitch Is MIT Alternative on Saturday November 07, 2026 @04:36PM (#50408280)

Note: that I'm not the developer. Just found it and wanted to share to those who also use Skitch for its nostalgic and simple edits.

Re:Skitch.app Abandoned. Sitch Is MIT Alternative on Saturday November 07, 2026 @04:35PM (#50408276)

I noticed that Skitch.app from Evernote is looong gone. So much so, that MacOS 27+ will stop Rosetta 2 which means that we need a MacOS 27+ alternative. So now there's this alternative that is completely free and open-source MIT license.

Skitch.app Abandoned. Sitch Is MIT Alternative

Posted by michael-sumner on Saturday November 07, 2026 @04:35PM
from the phalladar.github.io dept.

https://phalladar.github.io/Sitch/

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Re:CloakBrowser v0.7.0 requires license key for free use on Friday November 06, 2026 @09:55AM (#50393067)

All users require a license key (even for free) to use CloakBrowser on version 0.7.0 (release 1 November 2026)

CloakBrowser v0.7.0 requires license key for free use

Posted by michael-sumner on Friday November 06, 2026 @09:55AM
from the pypi.org dept.

https://pypi.org/project/cloakbrowser/

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Re:Setting Up SSH Keys on macOS with Touch ID on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @06:04AM (#50178377)

so the TouchID is a "Yubikey" but if you lose the Mac then you lose that hardware key?

Show HN: Turn your keyboard's Caps Lock LED into a status light for Claude Code

Posted by michael-sumner on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @10:58AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://github.com/jagenaujagenau/capslkagent

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Show HN: Herdr for Android – The runtime coding agents run on

Posted by michael-sumner on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @10:53AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://droidtty.com/

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The Art of Dithering and Retro Shading for the Web

Posted by michael-sumner on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @05:02AM
from the blog.maximeheckel.com dept.

https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/the-art-of-dithering-and-retro-shading-web/

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Nimble: Data, Model, Recipe for an Open Jev (From Bespoke Labs)

Posted by michael-sumner on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @09:53AM
from the github.com dept.

https://github.com/bespokelabsai/nimble

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Ollama now supports Jev-like decision models all locally in 0.35

Posted by michael-sumner on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @09:53AM
from the ollama.com dept.

https://ollama.com/library/nimble

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Running coding agents on a €30 Linux box

Posted by michael-sumner on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @10:41AM
from the danhopwood.com dept.

https://danhopwood.com/posts/running-coding-agents-on-a-30-euro-linux-box

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W3C: In-Browser Email Verification API

Posted by michael-sumner on Thursday September 03, 2026 @12:06PM
from the github.com dept.

https://github.com/WICG/email-verification

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Re:Pgbot: A 5.9 MB read-only Postgres tool for humans and agents on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @03:34PM (#49439429)

Be careful as it might be telemetrying the database. How do we know that it is not?

The sorry state of SKILL distribution

Posted by michael-sumner on Monday August 24, 2026 @04:26AM
from the blog.trailofbits.com dept.

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/06/03/the-sorry-state-of-skill-distribution/

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TIL: HTTP/3 Is Not Always Faster Than HTTP/2

Posted by michael-sumner on Thursday August 06, 2026 @05:07AM
from the iankduncan.com dept.

https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-10-http3-not-always-faster/

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Free Raycast Alternative? Introducing Tinycast

Posted by michael-sumner on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @06:06AM
from the github.com dept.

https://github.com/abue-ammar/tinycast

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Open Source: How to Popularize Your Project

Posted by michael-sumner on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @10:44AM
from the github.com dept.

https://github.com/rdp/open-source-how-to-popularize-your-project

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Open-Source Alternative to Buffer, Typefully, Hootsuite

Posted by michael-sumner on Saturday July 11, 2026 @03:54PM
from the github.com dept.

https://github.com/coollabsio/shoutrrr

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Agent-Rigor: AI Coding Discipline and Testing Framework

Posted by michael-sumner on Thursday July 02, 2026 @10:50AM
from the github.com dept.

https://github.com/MeherBhaskar/agent-rigor

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Offline Mac Voice Assistant – Control Your Computer with Zero Data Leaving

Posted by michael-sumner on Thursday June 25, 2026 @07:17AM
from the github.com dept.

https://github.com/dikshantrajput/LocalClicky

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Re: on Friday June 19, 2026 @08:50AM (#48597990)

What's your thoughts?

LLM from pre-1930 derives quantum mechanics and relativity

Posted by michael-sumner on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @08:50AM
from the michaelhla.com dept.

https://michaelhla.com/blog/machina-mirabilis.html?_bhlid=498cd7954b2dbc179126de1bca2247311eefc24a

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Open-source GDPR cookie banner for Shadcn/UI with GCM v2

Posted by michael-sumner on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @11:32AM
from the openconsent.dev dept.

https://www.openconsent.dev/

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SSH to Get Your Coffee

Posted by michael-sumner on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @04:02AM
from the terminal.shop dept.

https://www.terminal.shop/

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Vercel CEO's Grok 4 vs. GPT 5.2 chess match runs all night (still on)

Posted by michael-sumner on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @05:33AM
from the v0-chess-match.vercel.app dept.

https://v0-chess-match.vercel.app/

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Obsidian and Claude Code PKM Starter Kit

Posted by michael-sumner on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @04:14PM
from the github.com dept.

https://github.com/ballred/obsidian-claude-pkm

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Re:Cloudflare is down on Friday December 05, 2025 @04:14AM (#46158686)

It's up now!!! London, UK