Ask HN: What Linux distro do you daily drive?
5 by addajones | 7 comments on Hacker News.
I'm a long-time macOS user and I just want a change. Curious what people here actually use every day and what made you stick with it. Curious if you also switched from a Mac too. I'd like to get out of the "walled garden" ecosystem.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask: Why does everything Microsoft create lately feel fragile and half-baked?
Ask: Why does everything Microsoft create lately feel fragile and half-baked?
3 by nothrowaways | 2 comments on Hacker News.
Microsoft has seemingly abandoned quality and craftsmanship a long time ago. But more recently they are rushing to force-feed us unfinished AI and web apps just so they can stay in the AI hype race. Call it teams, copilot, LinkedIn I've never liked anything that comes out of Ms lately, yet our company defaults to MS. At what point should we tell our employers to say no to MS treating paying customers as unpaid bulk beta testers?
3 by nothrowaways | 2 comments on Hacker News.
Microsoft has seemingly abandoned quality and craftsmanship a long time ago. But more recently they are rushing to force-feed us unfinished AI and web apps just so they can stay in the AI hype race. Call it teams, copilot, LinkedIn I've never liked anything that comes out of Ms lately, yet our company defaults to MS. At what point should we tell our employers to say no to MS treating paying customers as unpaid bulk beta testers?
New Show Hacker News story: Show HN: The Daily FM – Turn any source into a daily podcast
Show HN: The Daily FM – Turn any source into a daily podcast
2 by carimura | 1 comments on Hacker News.
I built The Daily FM because I wanted a daily summary of the latest AI news sent to my podcast app and then realized it was useful in summarizing other stuff: - Any blogs, websites, or X handles - The top Hacker News stories with comments - Long podcasts (think Lex Fridman) - Changes in state/federal legislation It pulls your sources, writes a script with a frontier-ish model of your choice, runs it through TTS (MAI-2 studio voices), and publishes a standard RSS feed. You can also combine several pods into one feed for one subscribe point. Under the hood it’s using Cloudflare Workers, queues, browser rendering, and the AI Gateway, but the TTS models aren’t very good on Cloudflare so I switched to the MAI-Voice-2 models with OpenRouter. I also created a public library you can subscribe to without ever signing up, or if you sign up, you can combine a bunch into a single feed and use your own sources as well and choose from other voice options if you don’t like “Excited Ethan” at 1.1x speed. Feedback welcome.
2 by carimura | 1 comments on Hacker News.
I built The Daily FM because I wanted a daily summary of the latest AI news sent to my podcast app and then realized it was useful in summarizing other stuff: - Any blogs, websites, or X handles - The top Hacker News stories with comments - Long podcasts (think Lex Fridman) - Changes in state/federal legislation It pulls your sources, writes a script with a frontier-ish model of your choice, runs it through TTS (MAI-2 studio voices), and publishes a standard RSS feed. You can also combine several pods into one feed for one subscribe point. Under the hood it’s using Cloudflare Workers, queues, browser rendering, and the AI Gateway, but the TTS models aren’t very good on Cloudflare so I switched to the MAI-Voice-2 models with OpenRouter. I also created a public library you can subscribe to without ever signing up, or if you sign up, you can combine a bunch into a single feed and use your own sources as well and choose from other voice options if you don’t like “Excited Ethan” at 1.1x speed. Feedback welcome.
New Show Hacker News story: Show HN: Browser Tools SDK – an optimal browser harness for agents
Show HN: Browser Tools SDK – an optimal browser harness for agents
6 by tanishqkanc | 1 comments on Hacker News.
We’re open-sourcing Browser Tools SDK: a small TypeScript package to give any AI agent a reliable way to control a real browser. With just a few lines of code, you can give any agent a production-ready browser harness import { createAiSdkBrowserTools } from "libretto-browser-tools/ai-sdk"; import { LocalBrowserProvider } from "libretto-browser-tools"; const { tools } = createAiSdkBrowserTools(new LocalBrowserProvider()); const result = await generateText({ model: anthropic("claude-sonnet-4-5"), tools, prompt: "Go to Hacker News and tell me the top story", }); We built the Browser Tools SDK because access to a browser is one of the most important tools of a productive agent, but we found many of the existing tools lacking. Using the insights we gained building Libretto, we were able to build the SDK so that it’s significantly more context and cost-efficient than other tools: We compared Browser Tools SDK against agent-browser, playwright-cli, and dev-browser on 26 live-site tasks with GPT 5.6 Sol (best results from 3 runs). Browser Tools tied for the best pass rate at 24/26 and came in about 55% cheaper per successful task than the next alternative ($0.106 vs $0.235) while also using far fewer tokens (1.45M vs 2.29M+). Benchmark methodology is in the repo. The Browser Tools SDK only exposes 6 tools, of which only 2 are really important: `browser_snapshot` and `browser_exec`. The snapshot tool was designed from the ground up to be extremely context-efficient and provide agents the overview they need to know what to try next. The exec tool takes and executes raw Playwright code, of which the models have been trained on heaps of, and know how to use without much direction. Works with AI SDK and Pi out of the box, plus a custom path for anything else. More frameworks are coming soon. You can also use any browser infra provider (Libretto Cloud, Kernel, Browserbase, etc.) or use `LocalBrowserProvider` to run Chromium locally (although that will have less anti-bot protections). MIT licensed. Check out the docs: https://ift.tt/TAsa0eQ and join the Discord: https://ift.tt/wuReHFq . We’d love any and all feedback.
6 by tanishqkanc | 1 comments on Hacker News.
We’re open-sourcing Browser Tools SDK: a small TypeScript package to give any AI agent a reliable way to control a real browser. With just a few lines of code, you can give any agent a production-ready browser harness import { createAiSdkBrowserTools } from "libretto-browser-tools/ai-sdk"; import { LocalBrowserProvider } from "libretto-browser-tools"; const { tools } = createAiSdkBrowserTools(new LocalBrowserProvider()); const result = await generateText({ model: anthropic("claude-sonnet-4-5"), tools, prompt: "Go to Hacker News and tell me the top story", }); We built the Browser Tools SDK because access to a browser is one of the most important tools of a productive agent, but we found many of the existing tools lacking. Using the insights we gained building Libretto, we were able to build the SDK so that it’s significantly more context and cost-efficient than other tools: We compared Browser Tools SDK against agent-browser, playwright-cli, and dev-browser on 26 live-site tasks with GPT 5.6 Sol (best results from 3 runs). Browser Tools tied for the best pass rate at 24/26 and came in about 55% cheaper per successful task than the next alternative ($0.106 vs $0.235) while also using far fewer tokens (1.45M vs 2.29M+). Benchmark methodology is in the repo. The Browser Tools SDK only exposes 6 tools, of which only 2 are really important: `browser_snapshot` and `browser_exec`. The snapshot tool was designed from the ground up to be extremely context-efficient and provide agents the overview they need to know what to try next. The exec tool takes and executes raw Playwright code, of which the models have been trained on heaps of, and know how to use without much direction. Works with AI SDK and Pi out of the box, plus a custom path for anything else. More frameworks are coming soon. You can also use any browser infra provider (Libretto Cloud, Kernel, Browserbase, etc.) or use `LocalBrowserProvider` to run Chromium locally (although that will have less anti-bot protections). MIT licensed. Check out the docs: https://ift.tt/TAsa0eQ and join the Discord: https://ift.tt/wuReHFq . We’d love any and all feedback.
New Show Hacker News story: Show HN: Anypost – transactional and broadcast email API, 8¢ per 1k
Show HN: Anypost – transactional and broadcast email API, 8¢ per 1k
7 by dancablam | 0 comments on Hacker News.
We think it's too damn expensive to send email these days. We built Anypost on modern (non-cloudy) infrastructure to ensure we can offer a top-shelf product without having to hit you with the cloud tax. We're not looking to be the next unicorn. We just want a sustainable product that helps solopreneurs and high-volume senders get their message out without having to worry about the bill. We're around - feel free to ask questions!
7 by dancablam | 0 comments on Hacker News.
We think it's too damn expensive to send email these days. We built Anypost on modern (non-cloudy) infrastructure to ensure we can offer a top-shelf product without having to hit you with the cloud tax. We're not looking to be the next unicorn. We just want a sustainable product that helps solopreneurs and high-volume senders get their message out without having to worry about the bill. We're around - feel free to ask questions!
New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: TIL accessing old.reddit.com now requires accounts
Tell HN: TIL accessing old.reddit.com now requires accounts
5 by nanis | 3 comments on Hacker News.
I deleted my Reddit account a long time around the beginning of the hostilities, but still occasionally visit via search results. In that case, I usually try to switch to `old.reddit.com` because the "ugly" UI is clearly better. Anyway, today, I got a modal dialog demanding account creation. I was not aware of this and I hadn't seen it mentioned anywhere. FYI.
5 by nanis | 3 comments on Hacker News.
I deleted my Reddit account a long time around the beginning of the hostilities, but still occasionally visit via search results. In that case, I usually try to switch to `old.reddit.com` because the "ugly" UI is clearly better. Anyway, today, I got a modal dialog demanding account creation. I was not aware of this and I hadn't seen it mentioned anywhere. FYI.