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The open-source Claude Design alternative has 77k GitHub stars and 1M+ installs
7 hours ago
- Open Design was built as an open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Design within eleven days by Tom Huang's team.
- The development process emphasized 'humans write the contracts, agents write the implementation, and validation decides what survives.'
- Key features include BYOK (bring your own key) support for 22 agent CLIs, Apache-2.0 licensing, and a file-first method using DESIGN.md for design systems.
- The initial build cost was around $200, with ongoing expenses focused on top-tier agent subscriptions and minimal infrastructure.
- Open Design achieved over 1 million installs and 77,000 GitHub stars, reversing the typical funnel where installs exceed stars.
- Stars provide credibility, contributors, search visibility, and option value, but do not directly translate to revenue or active users.
- Monetization includes Open Design Cloud for convenience and team workspaces, generating stable positive cash flow without paywalling core features.
- The project distinguishes itself from copies by offering choices, focusing on user ownership, and building in an open, model-agnostic manner.
- Agents can replace headcount in coding, testing, and documentation, but humans remain essential for contracts, security, community, and taste.
- Lessons from ByteDance highlighted the importance of reliability and protocol thinking, while unlearning large-company tendencies to own everything.
- Vibe design focuses on owning files (like DESIGN.md) for long-term project sustainability, unlike vibe coding which prioritizes demos.
- For weekend builders, advice includes writing contracts first, enabling agent self-validation, and focusing on user-owned solutions rather than copying pace or scope.
Show HN: ride-recap, teaching a LLM my taste to automate cycling highlights
7 hours ago
- The author built an automated pipeline called ride-recap to create cycling highlight reels from GoPro footage and Garmin .fit files using Gemini LLM.
- The pipeline involves steps like ingesting data, detecting interesting segments via Gemini vision, telemetry, Strava API, fusing clips, and outputting videos for different platforms.
- Teaching LLMs 'taste' required iterative prompt improvements based on ground truth data, such as adjusting for power zones, negative examples like traffic jams, and positive landmarks.
- Candidate selection avoids repetitiveness by using a narrative pass and greedy re-ranking with crowding penalties to spread clips evenly across the ride.
- The project, driven by personal passion, highlights lessons in video processing, LLM calibration, and the importance of iteration for developing automated systems.
Freya 0.4 – Rust GUI library
2 hours ago
- Freya v0.4 is a major release of the Rust GUI library, featuring a complete rewrite from Dioxus to its own reactive and component model for improved type safety and extensibility.
- Key changes include a builder pattern API with fully typed attributes, enhanced IDE support, and compile-time error catching, replacing the previous rsx! macro.
- New features include multi-window support, system tray integration, routing, theming, terminal emulation, webview embedding, camera and video playback, drag-and-drop, animations, and internationalization.
- The release introduces numerous crates for specialized functionalities, improved state management with hooks like use_state and use_memo, and a testing framework for headless UI automation.
- Accessibility features, performance plugins, hot reloading, devtools, and experimental Android support are also included, alongside a variety of built-in components and Material Design extensions.
The Kimi K3 Moment
2 hours ago
- Kimi K3 performs similarly to Claude in coding tasks, with comparable output quality and token efficiency, contrary to expectations of lower performance from open models.
- Kimi K3's API pricing ($3/M input tokens, $15/M output tokens) is significantly cheaper than Claude's ($10/M input, $50/M output), and its subscription plans are more generous with higher usage allowances.
- Claude's plans have restrictions, such as the $20 plan quietly downgrading from Fable to Opus due to economic unviability, while Kimi's tiers lack such fine print.
- U.S. AI policy is criticized as a failure, with restricted models like Fable limiting capabilities, while open Chinese models like Kimi K3 and GLM 5.2 (MIT licensed) outperform without restrictions.
- OpenAI managed to offer flagship models on affordable plans despite government scrutiny, whereas Anthropic lacks similar runway, highlighting competitive disparities.
- Predictions suggest U.S. regulation may mimic auto industry tactics, leading to subsidized, non-competitive domestic AI models, potentially isolating American users from global advancements.
REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500
an hour ago
- REO is launching a new affordable truck line in the US, with a focus on gasoline-powered vehicles due to their market dominance and proven reliability.
- The base model, REO Runabout, starts at $21,500 and features a gasoline I4 engine, body-on-frame construction, mechanical 4WD, and a claimed range of ~600 miles per tank.
- Key selling points include a 500,000-mile powertrain target, owner-serviceability with open parts catalogs, direct sales to avoid dealer markups, and a mechanical-first cabin design.
- Production is scheduled to begin in 2028, with a reservation system currently open for a $25 refundable deposit to secure a place in line.
- REO positions itself as a transparent, right-to-repair focused brand, contrasting with competitors by offering simpler, more durable trucks at a lower cost.
GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization
6 hours ago
- GPT-5.6 Sol Pro solved a convex optimization complexity gap from 1996 in 148 minutes.
- It provided a proof for a quadratic lower bound on deterministic zeroth-order convex optimization oracle complexity.
- The proof was formally verified in Lean, with all details available in the linked preprint and repository.
AI's new political donor class is outspending Big Tech's last one
2 hours ago
- AI industry employees, particularly from Anthropic and OpenAI, are forming a new political donor class, donating heavily to federal, state, and local campaigns, often focusing on AI safety issues.
- Anthropic employees show higher rates of political engagement and donation amounts compared to post-IPO employees of Google, Facebook, and Airbnb, with many giving maximum allowable contributions and coordinating donations for impact.
- Donations are notably coordinated, often spurred by online forums, aiming to influence AI regulation and build relationships with lawmakers, with a significant concentration of donors based in San Francisco influencing local races.
- AI money is beginning to impact San Francisco municipal elections, aligning with moderate, YIMBY factions, and is expected to grow in influence as the donor network expands beyond federal and state levels to local politics.
- The political influence of AI donors is in its early stages, with potential for long-term impact similar to past tech giants, as they establish PACs, fundraisers, and candidate relationships for enduring power.
Overtraining as the path to human-like AI
2 hours ago
- Gwern proposes that overtraining large models on small datasets could lead to grokking, enabling human-like generalization in AI.
- Grokking is a phenomenon where prolonged training forces models to find simpler, deeper understandings of data, beyond mere memorization.
- Current AI labs focus on training smaller models on vast datasets, which may hinder grokking and limit generalization capabilities.
- Gwern suggests training a massive model (e.g., 100 trillion parameters) on a constrained dataset to encourage deeper learning, though this approach is untested and risky.
- The idea faces technical and political challenges, including high costs and the appearance of failure during training until a breakthrough occurs.
Britain's Nearly Revolution of 1926
7 hours ago
- The article discusses the 1926 General Strike in Britain, focusing on its historical significance and the events leading up to and during the strike.
- It highlights the role of key figures like Robin Page Arnot, who helped organize the strike in Northumberland, and the efforts of the Communist party.
- The piece contrasts the public memory of the strike with other historical events, such as the abdication crisis of 1936, noting the strike's lesser prominence in national narratives.
- It details the conditions in the coal mining industry, including dangerous working conditions, wage disputes, and the industry's decline post-World War I.
- The article describes the government's response, including the declaration of a state of emergency, the recruitment of special constables, and the use of media like the BBC.
- It covers the Trades Union Congress's (TUC) role in the strike, their initial solidarity, and the eventual calling off of the strike based on a compromise proposed by Herbert Samuel.
- The aftermath saw employers pushing back against union gains, but the labor movement eventually influenced political outcomes, leading to the Labour Party's election victory in 1945.
- The article concludes by reflecting on the historical importance of the strike and its impact on modern Britain, including the NHS and working-class representation.
Big Tech's top executives warn enterprises are giving away too much to AI labs
7 hours ago
- Satya Nadella warns enterprises are 'paying twice' for AI by purchasing tokens and inadvertently handing proprietary data to AI labs, enabling potential future competition.
- Executives like Alex Karp and David Sacks criticize frontier AI labs for extracting valuable business data while charging high prices, advocating for more control over data and infrastructure.
- Open-weight models are gaining traction as alternatives to closed-source AI, offering cost savings, transparency, and reducing vendor lock-in, with U.S. government actions prompting diversification.
- AI industry news includes xAI suing a user over deepfake misuse, OpenAI employees funding a pro-regulation PAC, and Google DeepMind researcher resigning over military deals.
- CEOs of major AI labs (Hassabis, Altman, Amodei) propose regulatory frameworks for frontier AI, though approaches vary, with concerns about entrenching incumbents over startups.
- Dario Amodei donated $1 million to a PAC pushing AI regulation, highlighting the growing political influence and public backlash against AI's rapid expansion and costs.
The case for eating more organ meat
5 hours ago
- Organ meats (offal) are highly nutrient-dense, often containing more vitamins and minerals per gram than muscle meat, with liver being particularly rich in iron, copper, selenium, zinc, vitamin A, B vitamins, and choline.
- Offal consumption has declined globally, especially in developed countries, due to unfamiliar textures and flavors, leading to increased food waste as up to 44% of livestock by weight can be offal.
- Research gaps exist regarding poultry guts and the impact of processing on nutritional value, but organs are recognized among the most nutrient-dense foods available.
- Certain groups, such as pregnant women (due to high vitamin A in liver), people with iron overload conditions, gout, or kidney disease, should limit or avoid offal.
- Offal can support sustainability and address nutritional needs, especially for children, but promoting it requires making it appealing through recipes or integrating it into familiar dishes.
Surrender as a non-stupid life strategy
4 hours ago
- Surrendering to a higher power or life's flow can lead to greater happiness and fulfillment, especially after achieving personal goals but still feeling unfulfilled.
- Self-knowledge involves recognizing that planning and self-image are limited; true wisdom comes from listening to the world and others rather than rigid self-concepts.
- Authenticity arises from unselfconscious actions and surrender, not from forced personas; letting go of control allows for more genuine experiences and relationships.
- Goals discovered through observation and opportunity are more effective than preconceived ones; success often comes from adapting to circumstances rather than strict planning.
- Happiness stems from accepting life as it is, reducing resistance to circumstances, and finding satisfaction in giving oneself away and fitting into one's role.
- Love and relationships thrive when based on acceptance, spontaneity, and surrender to the natural flow, rather than clinging to expectations or control.
No link between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and adverse birth outcomes
3 hours ago
- No link found between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and adverse birth outcomes like preterm birth or birth weight.
- Study involved over 8,900 mother-infant pairs from NIH's ECHO program.
- Acetaminophen use associated with lower odds of a child being large for gestational age (LGA).
- No association with preterm birth, birth weight, or small for gestational age (SGA).
- Findings provide reassurance on safety regarding birth timing and infant size.
- Further research needed on dosing, timing, and other health effects.
Fake food delivery site for the dopamine
3 hours ago
- The group is a support group for people struggling with Binge Eating Disorder (BED) and compulsive overeating.
- BED is characterized by recurrent binge eating episodes without purging, affecting 1-5% of the general population.
- Symptoms include consuming large quantities of food to sickness without self-induced vomiting, often feeling out of control and shame.
- BED can lead to serious health issues like obesity, diabetes, high cholesterol, and depression.
- The group welcomes those with frequent binge eating episodes, is not professional, and prohibits judging or unsupportive comments.
- There is an official Discord server and encourages discussion through comments.
If You Build It, They Will Come
4 hours ago
- Organizing events centered around a group's core activity is the fastest way to join or strengthen a new social community.
- Many people adopt a consumer mindset toward communities, expecting social scenes to emerge naturally without effort.
- Social events require someone to put in the legwork to organize them, which most people avoid, making organizers the de facto leaders.
- The work of organizing is undervalued by many, but other organizers notice and appreciate those who take on the burden.
- Social alienation may stem from too many free riders consuming social fabric without contributing, a problem individuals can address by actively organizing within their own communities.
Heresy
3 hours ago
- The concept of heresy has re-emerged in modern employment contexts, akin to historical prohibitions.
- Heresy is structurally defined by prioritizing condemnation over truth and outweighing all other contributions.
- Labeling statements with terms like 'x-ist' ends discussions without evaluating truth, akin to heresy accusations.
- Public expression of heresy can lead to severe consequences, like job loss, regardless of past achievements.
- Heresy treats opinions like crimes, prompting punishment desires stronger than for actual offenses.
- Intolerant waves arise from conventional-minded individuals aligning under strict, arbitrary ideologies.
- A new ideology with moral purity emerged in US universities since the late 1980s, fueling intolerance.
- Avoiding specific heresies highlights universal tactics of heretic hunters and ensures relevance over time.
- The current intolerance wave comes from the left, but future ones could originate from the right.
- Freedom of expression has declined since about 1985, contrary to earlier expectations of growth.
- Pushing back against suppression of ideas is crucial, akin to developing social antibodies.
- Optimism persists due to long-term improvements in expression freedom and signs the intolerance wave is peaking.
Show HN: Q3Edit – Edit and play Quake 3 maps in the browser
4 hours ago
- Edit, compile, and play Quake III Arena maps directly in your browser.
- Supports real .map files including brushes, patches, entities, and terrain using a TypeScript and WebGL2 editor.
- Uses id Software's original q3map compiled to WebAssembly for BSP compilation.
- One-click launch of compiled maps in browser-native ioquake3 without requiring game files.
- Includes OpenArena assets and features a Radiant-style four-view UI with support for brushes, patches, CSG, and terrain.
Our Approach to Bioresilience: Isomorphic Labs and Google DeepMind
3 hours ago
- Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs present a joint bioresilience strategy using frontier AI models to address evolving global biosecurity challenges.
- The approach focuses on preventing misuse of AI models, improving pathogen detection, and accelerating response measures like vaccine design through partnerships and advanced technologies.
- Key AI advancements include AlphaFold for protein structures, AlphaGenome for genome function, and IsoDDE for drug design, all aimed at proactive disease defense.
- Safety measures for models like Gemini involve a four-step process: threat modeling, evaluations, mitigations, and monitoring, with adaptations like SynthID watermarking for biological sequences.
- The program supports global health resilience by making AI tools available to trusted partners, enhancing surveillance, and collaborating with governments and organizations to manage CBRN risks.
Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide
3 hours ago
- Set up a spare Mac as a dedicated machine for Claude Code with computer use enabled to isolate risks.
- Configure SSH access and passwordless sudo on the target Mac for remote administration.
- Disable sleep and screensaver to keep the machine always-on.
- Install Claude Code on the target Mac with additional environment setup tools.
- Enable computer use functionality by installing a tmux server with GUI permissions.
- Use convenience scripts like ic.sh and clip.sh for remote session management and clipboard sharing.
- Set up optional VPN, Screen Sharing, and Tailscale for remote access and network security.
ADHD friendly journaling: Garden of Roses and Thorns
15 hours ago
- A journaling method designed for people with ADHD or VAST to manage thoughts and tasks by visualizing the mind as a garden of roses (meaningful tasks) and thorns (unfinished work, guilt).
- Key steps include brain dumping all tasks and emotions, assessing which items are turning into thorns, assigning 2-3 tasks for the day, and reviewing progress every few days without rigid daily requirements.
- Use a companion page for real-time thought management to note interruptions and reduce impulsivity, alongside practices like gentle intention setting and identifying triggers for invasive distractions.
- The goal is not perfection but reducing chaos, celebrating small wins, and working with the brain's natural rhythms through self-compassion and flexible structure.

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Hasty Briefsbeta

The open-source Claude Design alternative has 77k GitHub stars and 1M+ installs

Show HN: ride-recap, teaching a LLM my taste to automate cycling highlights

Freya 0.4 – Rust GUI library

The Kimi K3 Moment

REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500

GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization

AI's new political donor class is outspending Big Tech's last one

Overtraining as the path to human-like AI

Britain's Nearly Revolution of 1926

Big Tech's top executives warn enterprises are giving away too much to AI labs

The case for eating more organ meat

Surrender as a non-stupid life strategy

No link between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and adverse birth outcomes

Fake food delivery site for the dopamine

If You Build It, They Will Come

Heresy

Show HN: Q3Edit – Edit and play Quake 3 maps in the browser

Our Approach to Bioresilience: Isomorphic Labs and Google DeepMind

Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide

ADHD friendly journaling: Garden of Roses and Thorns