Show HN Daily Selection (2025-05-07)
- Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
- Whippy Term - GUI terminal for embedded development (Linux and Windows)
- Plexe – ML Models from a Prompt
- Sheet Music in Smart Glasses
- Feedsmith — Fast parser & generator for RSS, Atom, OPML feed namespaces
- Outpost – OSS infra for outbound webhooks and event destinations
- PageQL – Embed SQL directly in HTML
- Kevin-32B – how to do multi-turn RL on writing CUDA kernels
- Korey – a product management agent for software teams
- X402 – an open standard for internet native payments
- OpenRouter Model Price Comparison
- Pinggy – A free RSS reader for the web
- API Testing and Security with AI
- Paladin – An AI trigger to fix your sh*t production bugs
- McPoogle: Search Engine for MCP Servers
- White Smoke, a game of papal politics
Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs [Design]
597 points, 163 comments
Clippy – A 90s-style UI for local LLMs.
- Retro 90s user interface design
- Designed for local LLM interactions
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Whippy Term - GUI terminal for embedded development (Linux and Windows) [Developer Tools]
17 points, 3 comments
GUI terminal for embedded development on Linux and Windows.
- Supports Linux and Windows
- Designed for embedded development
- GUI-based terminal interface
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Plexe – ML Models from a Prompt [Developer Tools]
83 points, 38 comments
Plexe is an open-source agent that converts natural language task descriptions into trained ML models for structured data.
- Uses LLMs to automate the ML lifecycle, from data processing to model training
- Implements an agentic "team" approach with specialized roles like "ML scientist"
- Supports structured data formats like CSV and parquet for model training
- Focuses on predictive problems like forecasting, recommendations, and trading
- Plans to expand with feature engineering and Postgres integration
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Sheet Music in Smart Glasses [Consumer Tech]
138 points, 16 comments
Smart glasses that display sheet music for musicians, controlled by voice commands and foot pedals.
- Displays sheet music as optimized bitmaps on smart glasses screens
- Voice commands for navigation (e.g., "next", "select", "pause")
- Foot pedal controls for scrolling and tempo adjustment
- Works with MusicXML format sheet music
- Uses Python for music rendering and image processing
- Built on AugmentOS smart glasses operating system
- Future improvements targeting faster bitmap sending and better resolution
Feedsmith — Fast parser & generator for RSS, Atom, OPML feed namespaces [Developer Tools]
39 points, 4 comments
Fast JavaScript parser and generator for RSS, Atom, and OPML feeds with namespace support.
- Supports all feed formats and popular namespaces (Podcast, Media, iTunes, Dublin Core, etc.)
- Parses and generates OPML files
- Plans to add more namespaces and feed generation for RSS, Atom, and RDF
- Includes a dedicated documentation website
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Outpost – OSS infra for outbound webhooks and event destinations [Developer Tools]
57 points, 8 comments
Outpost is an open-source, self-hostable infrastructure for handling outbound webhooks and event deliveries for SaaS/API platforms.
- Supports multiple delivery methods including webhooks and event destinations like SQS, Kinesis, and GCP Pub/Sub
- Guarantees at-least-once delivery with configurable retries
- Provides built-in observability with event logs and OpenTelemetry support
- Offers API and optional User Portal for endpoint management and debugging
- Backward compatible with existing payload formats and security practices
- Multi-tenancy support and webhook security best practices
- Written in Go and licensed under Apache 2.0
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PageQL – Embed SQL directly in HTML [Developer Tools]
6 points, 2 comments
PageQL embeds SQL directly into HTML for simplified web development without requiring a glue language.
- Direct SQL embedding in HTML
- Inspired by long-lasting HTML and SQL technologies
- Focuses on simplicity and reactive programming
- Targets 80% of CRUD functionality for small websites
- Plans to keep the language minimal and template-like
- Avoids imperative programming approach of ColdFusion
- Integrates with HTMX for interactivity
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Kevin-32B – how to do multi-turn RL on writing CUDA kernels [Developer Tools]
5 points, 0 comments
Kevin-32B is the first open-source model RL-trained on CUDA kernels using multi-turn reinforcement learning (GRPO) for Python-to-CUDA conversion tasks.
- First open-source model trained with RL on CUDA kernels
- Uses multi-turn RL (GRPO) for Python-to-CUDA conversion
- Outperforms top reasoning models like o3 & o4-mini
- Trained on 180 tasks from KernelBench dataset
- Model available on HuggingFace
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Korey – a product management agent for software teams [Business]
7 points, 2 comments
Korey – a product management agent for software teams.
- Designed for software teams
- Acts as a product management assistant
- Aims to streamline product management tasks
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X402 – an open standard for internet native payments [Finance]
12 points, 3 comments
X402 is an open standard for internet-native payments that enables HTTP APIs to charge per request without requiring API keys or credit card storage.
- Allows buyers to use their own wallet and dynamically discover compatible endpoints
- Supports micropayments in USDC or other tokens with automatic settlement
- Eliminates need for developer accounts, secret keys, or pre-funding
- Enables runtime discovery and self-assembling agents
- Provides proxy server templates for unsupported endpoints
- Reduces fraud and chargebacks with onchain payments
- Offers one-line integration for developers to receive stablecoin payments
- Works with existing client/server requests without complex integrations
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OpenRouter Model Price Comparison [Business]
7 points, 4 comments
OpenRouter Model Price Comparison
- Compares prices of various AI models
- Helps users find cost-effective options
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Pinggy – A free RSS reader for the web [Productivity]
6 points, 1 comments
Free RSS reader for the web
- Simple web-based RSS reader
- Free to use
- No additional text details provided
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API Testing and Security with AI [Developer Tools]
7 points, 3 comments
AI-powered API testing and security tool.
- Automated API testing
- AI-driven security analysis
- No manual configuration required
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Paladin – An AI trigger to fix your sh*t production bugs [Developer Tools]
5 points, 0 comments
Paladin is an AI-powered tool that automatically fixes production bugs by sending pull requests via Slack or email.
- Integrates with error handling via SDK to trigger fixes when exceptions occur
- Uses LLMs to analyze stack traces, execution state, and repo code for accurate fixes
- Sends PRs in ~90 seconds, solving 55% of errors on the first try
- Supports multiple frameworks (React, Django, Node, Rails, etc.) via Sentry SDKs
- Free tier available with optional paid model for handling LLM costs
- Preserves privacy by not using repo data for training or sharing
McPoogle: Search Engine for MCP Servers [Developer Tools]
4 points, 2 comments
McPoogle is a free MCP search engine for AI IDEs, supporting queries across 4000+ MCP servers and tools with multiple LLM integrations.
- Searches 4000+ MCP servers and tools
- Integrates LLMs from Groq, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google Gemini
- Upcoming McPoogle MCP Server for IDE integration
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White Smoke, a game of papal politics [Entertainment]
3 points, 3 comments
A dark satire game where players compete as Cardinals to become Pope through political maneuvering.
- Play as an ambitious Cardinal aiming to secure the papacy
- Engage in undermining rivals and forming alliances
- Features strategic gameplay with moral dilemmas
- Dark humor and satire of Vatican politics