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Ask HN: Is AWS me-south-1 down or gone?

We are having alerts on our systems where we can't reach me-south-1 S3. In the AWS console, we are unable to load the region. Firefox can't load the console.Looks like there’s a problem with this site> Firefox can’t connect to the server at me-south-1.console.aws.amazon.comThere have been issues due to the War in Iran with that region but it hasn't completely gone down...yet. AWS took down UAE completely last month. I'm wondering if we are about to see some big news regar

Show HN: Real-time dashboard for Claude Code agent teams

This project (Agents Observe) started as an exploration into building automation harnesses around claude code. I needed a way to see exactly what teams of agents were doing in realtime and to filter and search their output.A few interesting learnings from building and using this:- Claude code hooks are blocking - performance degrades rapidly if you have a lot of plugins that use hooks- Hooks provide a lot more useful info than OTEL data- Claude's jsonl files provide the full picture- Lifecy

Show HN: SandClaw = A sandboxed alternative to OpenClaw for trading

Hi HN,I really like OpenClaw. But after seeing users lose money due to exposed API keys and open server ports, I started thinking. could we have the same freedom, but inside a sandbox?SandClaw is a desktop trading IDE (Tauri v2 + React) where every broker runs as an independent plugin behind its own API endpoint. The frontend and backend are completely separated, and broker credentials are never exposed to the UI layer.Key Features.. 18 broker plugins (Interactive Brokers, LS Securities, Kraken,

Ask HN: Is this type of person rare?

In programming and software, as LLMs become increasingly common, I'm seeing a lot more of the "I don't care how a software product is built, just give me the result" attitude, and then there are people who say they care more about the creativity, the ingenuity, the craft of reaching a specific result. For them, the journey itself is the reward, not the destination.So is this type of person rare in the wild? Fast food's dominance over home cooking suggests people naturall

Tell HN: Git hook to keep LLM signatures out of your commit history

I’ve noticed a trend where LLMs append Co-authored-by: [AI Name] to the end of commit messages. Even if you try to prompt it away, context drift or new sessions eventually lead to one slipping through into the codebase.I’m using a git hook to prevent any of that from reaching my commits instead of relying on LLMs. #!/bin/sh if grep -qi "co-authored-by" "$1"; then echo "error: commit message contains 'Co-authored-by'. Commit rejected." >

ReactOS to reverse engineer Linux Kernel A.I. Pull Requests, helping Linux-Libre

Here at ReactOS, we gave up on making a open source OS that doesn’t crash and decided to pivot our strategy.Hearing about the new A.I. thing that managers of old previously called “program generators to replace programmers with specifications”, we decided that this new memory hungry and clock cycle hungry black box computer program, when instructed to make pull requests for the Linux Kernel source code, deserves its pull requests to be reverse engineered.This would also help the Linux-Libre tea

Show HN: Docs over SSH for Agents

Coding agents spend a lot of time in the shell. When exploring a codebase, they usually reach for the same handful of tools: grep, find, ls, cat. We built a public SSH server that hosts Supabase docs as markdown files so that agents can explore them the same way they explore code:ssh supabase.sh grep -rl 'RLS' docsssh supabase.sh cat docs/guides/database/postgres/row-level-security.md | head -10Under the hood commands run inside Vercel's just-bash [1] library -

Polk React review: Built-in Alexa soundbar for your TV

TV and home video editor Ty Pendlebury joined CNET Australia in 2006, and moved to New York City to be a part of CNET in 2011. He tests, reviews and writes about the latest TVs and audio equipment.

Show HN: Τ³-Bench is out – can agents handle complex docs and live calls?

τ-Bench is an open benchmark for evaluating AI agents on grounded, multi-turn customer service tasks with verifiable outcomes. It's been great to see the community adopt it since launch — this is now the third iteration. With τ³-Bench, we're extending it to two new settings: knowledge-intensive retrieval and full-duplex voice.τ-Knowledge: agents must navigate ~700 interconnected policy documents to complete multi-step tasks. Best frontier model (GPT-5.2, high reasoning) hits ~25%. The

Made this tool so your docs never get stale just in 2 simple steps

Catch stale docs before they reach main.DocDrift checks the code you changed against your README, docs, and examples, then flags documentation that is now wrong, incomplete, or missing.What It Does Detects changed functions and classes from staged git diffs Finds related Markdown and RST docs with semantic search Uses AI to check whether the docs still match the code Suggests updated documentation and applies fixes interactively Flags undocumented new symbols Runs locally

Show HN: MonkePay – Charge AI Agents per API Request in USDC

I built MonkePay. It is a thin wrapper on top of the x402 protocol and Coinbase CDP. It lets you gate any Express/Hono/Fastify/Next.js endpoint behind per-request USDC payments.The problem: x402 is solid but using it raw means provisioning wallets, verifying on-chain receipts, building payout logic, tracking payments, 2-3 weeks of plumbing before you've monetized anything.MonkePay abstracts all of that. Three lines of middleware, wallet provisioned automatically, USDC verifie

Admins and defenders gird themselves against maximum-severity server vuln

Security defenders are girding themselves in response to the disclosure of a maximum-severity vulnerability disclosed Wednesday in React Server, an open-source package that’s widely used by websites ...

React tutorial: Get started with the React JavaScript library

Despite many worthy contenders, React remains the most popular front-end framework, and a key player in the JavaScript development landscape. React is the quintessential reactive engine, continually ...

Show HN: Pytest-httpdbg – a simple way to include HTTP traces in Allure reports

Hi HN,I recently updated my pytest plugin based on httpdbg to include the HTTP traces directly in the Allure reports. As with httpdbg, the idea is to have nothing more to do than to add an argument to your command line: --httpdbg-allure.For example:pytest examples/pytest_demo.py --alluredir=./allure-results --httpdbg-allureFor each test, all HTTP requests will be recorded and saved in the Allure report under a step named httpdbg.You can check the README in the repository to see how it

Show HN: Visual DB – Web front end for your database (update)

Hi HN, I’m Sandhya and we have built Visual DB — a web front end for databases. It lets you create data-entry forms, spreadsheet-like grids, and reports directly on top of your existing relational database.Here’s a quick walkthrough: https://youtu.be/4zv_HQKdKeI (13 minutes)WHAT PROBLEM IS THIS SOLVING?Building CRUD apps with master-detail forms, transactions, and proper concurrency controls typically requires weeks of custom development and ongoing maintenance. Visual DB lets you

Show HN: Tusk Drift – Open-source tool for automating API tests

Hey HN, I'm Marcel from Tusk. We’re launching Tusk Drift, an open source tool that generates a full API test suite by recording and replaying live traffic.How it works:1. Records traces from live traffic (what gets captured)2. Replays traces as API tests with mocked responses (how replay works)3. Detects deviations between actual vs. expected output (what you get)Unlike traditional mocking libraries, which require you to manually emulate how dependencies behave, Tusk Drift automatically rec

Show HN: C-Minus Preprocessor v2

About 3 years ago i wrote a custom preprocessor to assist in processing the SQLite project's JavaScript builds (e.g. filtering the small differences between vanilla JS and ESM modules). Recently, that app was forked, refactored into a library, and is now, AFAIK, the world's only source-agnostic[^1], client-extensible preprocessor (if one doesn't count sed, awk, etc.).It's implemented in portable C99 and has a two-file source distribution (one header, one .c file). Its only th

Show HN: WorkBill – Modern Alternative to QuickBooks

Hi HN, I am Aswin Mohan(https://aswinmohan.me), a full-stack mobile/web developer. I have been working on WorkBill (https://workbill.co) for the past 6 weeks on the side and wanted to share it here.demo: https://demo.workbill.co/inbox (no signup needed) video-demo: https://www.loom.com/share/9775811960ad47d7ada89007d8169d90WorkBill is the modern, flexible accounting platform for small businesses. It is based on BeanCount(https:/&#x

Show HN: OgBlocks – Animated UI Library for CSS Haters

Hey HN,I'm Karan, a frontend developer who loves creating UIs, but I've found that many people don't like CSS, but they want their website to look beautiful and polished, and what better way to enhance a website than with animationsAnimations using plain CSS are tricky, and that's why I leaned towards Motion a powerful animation library for React, and I built ogBlocks using React, Motion, and Tailwind CSSI built it for three reasons:1. Anyone can integrate beautiful animated

Show HN: mDNS name resolution for Docker container names

I always wanted this: an easy way to reach "resolve docker container by name" -- e.g., to reach web servers running in Docker containers on my dev machine. Of course, I could export ports from all these containers, try to keep them out of each others hair on the host, and then use http://localhost:PORT. But why go through all that trouble? These containers already expose their respective ports on their own IP (e.g., 172.24.0.5:8123), so all I need is a convenient way to find