Hacker News with Generative AI

Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV (channelsurfer.tv)
Can I run AI locally? (canirun.ai)
Hammerspoon (github.com/Hammerspoon)
TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool (tui.studio)
Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock (tomshardware.com)
Your Phone Is an Entire Computer (medhir.com)
Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine (macrumors.com)
Launch HN: Captain (YC W26) – Automated RAG for Files (runcaptain.com)
The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We'll Be "Stunned" by NSA Under Section 702 (techdirt.com)
Willingness to look stupid (sharif.io)
Launch HN: Spine Swarm (YC S23) – AI agents that collaborate on a visual canvas (getspine.ai)
Bucketsquatting is (finally) dead (onecloudplease.com)
The Accidental Room (2018) (99percentinvisible.org)
Lost Doctor Who Episodes Found (bbc.co.uk)
Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act (github.com/upper-up)
E2E encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported after 8 May (instagram.com)
Okmain: How to pick an OK main colour of an image (dgroshev.com)
The Mrs Fractal: Mirror, Rotate, Scale (2025) (4rknova.com)
John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists (twitter.com)
Executing programs inside transformers with exponentially faster inference (percepta.ai)
Removing recursion via explicit callstack simulation (jnkr.tech)
Show HN: Svglib a SVG parser and renderer for Windows (github.com/bibhas2)
The Bovadium Fragments: Together with The Origin of Bovadium (kirkcenter.org)
Show HN: What was the world listening to? Music charts, 20 countries (1940–2025) (88mph.fm)
Dijkstra's Crisis: The End of Algol and Beginning of Software Engineering (2010) [pdf] (tomandmaria.com)
“This is not the computer for you” (samhenri.gold)
Revealed: Face of 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal from cave (cam.ac.uk)
What we learned from a 22-Day storage bug (and how we fixed it) (mux.com)