August 9, 2026
Report summary
6 stories cleared the bar, led by Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations — and it scaled, Breakdown: how Postiz went from $0 to $173k MRR, and Grok Imagine Image 2.0 Preview now available on Vercel AI Gateway.
Worth attention
Shopify Engineering reports it moved inventory reservation state off Redis and back onto MySQL, and the simpler single-datastore design held up at their scale. The takeaway for a one-person shop is the direction of travel: an extra cache tier is often bought before it is needed, and consolidating on the primary database removes a class of consistency bugs plus one more service to operate. If you are about to add Redis purely for reservation or locking semantics, check first whether Postgres/MySQL row locks already cover it.
A secondhand but detailed reconstruction of Postiz's growth, assembled from the founder's own podcasts and interviews up to roughly $160k MRR. The load-bearing early move was open-sourcing the product and pushing traffic to GitHub rather than a landing page, then converting the self-host-averse to paid cloud. Worth reading as a distribution pattern if you have a tool that could plausibly be open-core; the later stages are more ordinary churn and pricing work.
xAI's Grok Imagine Image 2.0 Preview is now callable through Vercel AI Gateway via the AI SDK (model id xai/grok-imagine-image-2.0-preview, generateImage). Vercel claims it plans typography and layout together, so text-heavy visuals like posters and infographics keep small text legible, and it supports edit passes that hold subjects consistent across generations. If you generate marketing or social imagery programmatically, this is a one-line model swap to A/B against your current provider, with no new billing relationship needed.
A small open-source macOS utility that pins a terminal to the dock so project-opening rituals (cd path, then code .) stop requiring a full terminal window and manual window shuffling across desktops. Built by a developer scratching a six-year-old daily annoyance. Marginal but real time saving if you open several editor windows across multiple desktops each morning.
A builder writeup on running a personal server workload off a phone instead of a VPS or single-board computer, the appeal being a device that already has a battery, a modem and an ARM SoC sitting in a drawer. Useful mainly as a cost and redundancy thought experiment: an old handset is a plausible standby for low-traffic services or an out-of-band watchdog for a rented box. No action tonight, file under cheap failover ideas.
A solo-built shared business phone product on top of Twilio: multiple numbers, IVR, call recording, AI call summaries and missed-call auto-text, priced pay-as-you-go rather than per seat, free during beta. Notable less as a tool to adopt than as a market signal that the "Twilio plus AI summaries, no per-seat fee" wedge is being worked by several builders at once. Worth tracking if you have anything in the voice or calling space.
Full digest
Incremental crewAI point release that splits runtime context from the coding agent and adds a project ID, plus changelog housekeeping. No user-facing capability change described.
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Show HN: Starboard
a terminal glued to the macOS dock — https://github.com/palamim/starboard — A small open-source macOS utility that pins a terminal to the dock so project-opening rituals (cd path, then code .) stop requiring a full terminal window and manual window shuffling across desktops. Built by a developer scratching a six-year-old daily annoyance. Marginal but real time saving if you open several editor windows across multiple desktops each morning.
Self-promotional launch post for an SEO article-generation tool. No independent results and no reproducible workflow.
Consumer AR side project mapping Wi-Fi coverage onto a 3D home scan. Neat demo, no bearing on a software shop decision.
A secondhand but detailed reconstruction of Postiz's growth, assembled from the founder's own podcasts and interviews up to roughly $160k MRR. The load-bearing early move was open-sourcing the product and pushing traffic to GitHub rather than a landing page, then converting the self-host-averse to paid cloud. Worth reading as a distribution pattern if you have a tool that could plausibly be open-core; the later stages are more ordinary churn and pricing work.
A solo-built shared business phone product on top of Twilio: multiple numbers, IVR, call recording, AI call summaries and missed-call auto-text, priced pay-as-you-go rather than per seat, free during beta. Notable less as a tool to adopt than as a market signal that the "Twilio plus AI summaries, no per-seat fee" wedge is being worked by several builders at once. Worth tracking if you have anything in the voice or calling space.
Personal side project digitizing a handwritten family tree. No transferable technique or market insight.
Familiar founder reflection: shipping features felt productive while talking to users actually moved the business. True, but well-trodden advice with no new evidence attached.
It seems like all I see is everyone else succeeding and sharing their successes. Or, that's all that reach me. For someone who is working full time in a miserable job and trying to build something successful of their own, it just feels like…
Hey everyone, We’re exploring an idea around AI automation, and before we build too much, we want to understand whether this is actually a problem people are facing. The idea is simple: use AI to automate repetitive tasks that still require…
I built my app on top of Claude. It uses Opus 4.8. It's an agent for CPG companies. Question is, will ChatGPT be better at this? The app helps sales leads strategize and get into more doors faster.   submitted by   /u/Mundane-Fold-2…
I'll get right to it... just over a month after I soft-launched my niche SaaS app, I am profitable. I started building the app at the beginning of 2026 just as an app to help me with a problem that I had. Several months later I got some ear…
I honestly didn’t expect this moment to hit this hard. Today I got my first-ever paid user for an app I’ve been building called Smart Jyotish AI . NPR 299 (~$2.20). For some people, $2 might be nothing. But for me, this is huge. I’m not a p…
Hey everyone, I keep running into the exact same problem with every app or SaaS I build: 1. Research & Validation: I find a product people are already paying for. I plan to build a better version that fixes competitor flaws. 2. Deep Focus:…
So I built a small AI writing tool. You paste in what you know about someone and it writes a few versions of a message you could send them. It doesn't send anything, there's no contact list, no scraping. It just writes text. Applied to Padd…
I've been looking at all the different places founders launch their products Product Hunt, MicroLaunch, Uneed, PeerPush, BetaList and the dozens of smaller directories. Most of them advertise visibility, backlinks, SEO benefits, featured sp…
I'm an AI agent developer having knowledge of RAG, multi-agent systems, memory architecture, etc. I'm looking for some clients to whom I can help their business by building the Agents for them to automate their work. I have experience in bu…
My client was struggling with revenue and wasn't getting enough customers despite having a solid product. We started working on their AEO and making sure their product was visible when people searched for solutions through ChatGPT, Claude,…
Hey everyone 👋 I just launched AgentCN An open-source library of installable, customizable AI agents for modern applications. - One-command installation - Own the agent code - Fully customizable Would love for you to check it out and share…
A few weeks ago I posted here completely stuck. I had spent 10 months building ChatSorter, an AI memory layer for chatbots, and couldn't get many people to try the demo. 130k views later, the feedback was harsh but exactly what I needed. Th…
Like every dev here, I ship constantly and announce nothing. My changelog was 8 months stale because writing release notes feels like homework. So I built Bellnote. Connect your GitHub repo, and every merged PR gets turned into a changelog…
Currently in university and I keep seeing friends spending like crazy on stupid things. It's very sad and I wasn't really sure how to help them out. One of the people I hang out with had heard of this idea called Prize Linked Savings from t…
I’ve launched a SaaS recently. I’ve built the app and now we’re doing research and collecting feedback from our target audience to help develop ours better. My question is did most of you guys build a tool that was really to help yourself t…
I launched CountdownShare around 8 months ago, and now 100+ countdowns are being created every day, mostly from organic traffic. The product is already monetized with a monthly Pro plan, and a lifetime plan. The problem is… almost nobody pa…
Canary build with internal Turbopack fixes, a removed trace span and a docs example update. Pre-release channel, nothing actionable for a production app.
xAI's Grok Imagine Image 2.0 Preview is now callable through Vercel AI Gateway via the AI SDK (model id xai/grok-imagine-image-2.0-preview, generateImage). Vercel claims it plans typography and layout together, so text-heavy visuals like posters and infographics keep small text legible, and it supports edit passes that hold subjects consistent across generations. If you generate marketing or social imagery programmatically, this is a one-line model swap to A/B against your current provider, with no new billing relationship needed.
A builder writeup on running a personal server workload off a phone instead of a VPS or single-board computer, the appeal being a device that already has a battery, a modem and an ARM SoC sitting in a drawer. Useful mainly as a cost and redundancy thought experiment: an old handset is a plausible standby for low-traffic services or an out-of-band watchdog for a rented box. No action tonight, file under cheap failover ideas.
Impressive retrocomputing project building a graphical OS for 8088-era hardware. Hobbyist interest only.
Sleep-research conference abstract from 2023, outside the scope of a builder briefing.
A fifteen-year-old Long Bets entry about link rot, resurfaced for its irony. No action.
A well-made technical explainer on differential heuristics for A*. Excellent reference if you are writing pathfinding code, irrelevant otherwise.
P
Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations
and it scaled — https://shopify.engineering/scaling-inventory-reservations — Shopify Engineering reports it moved inventory reservation state off Redis and back onto MySQL, and the simpler single-datastore design held up at their scale. The takeaway for a one-person shop is the direction of travel: an extra cache tier is often bought before it is needed, and consolidating on the primary database removes a class of consistency bugs plus one more service to operate. If you are about to add Redis purely for reservation or locking semantics, check first whether Postgres/MySQL row locks already cover it.
Fastmail offers EU data region
Dithered QR Codes
Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect (2025)
_for-sale DNS records
Incentives are for losers
Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse
Making difficulty curves in games
Thread for original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214863
Original markdown
# Nightly Librarian — Newsletter draft Run: a714d42a-b497-4df6-8691-49f7d33aabc4 Started: 2026-08-09T10:21:26.624Z Completed: 2026-08-09T10:25:58.147Z ## Worth attention - **Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations — and it scaled** https://shopify.engineering/scaling-inventory-reservations Shopify Engineering reports it moved inventory reservation state off Redis and back onto MySQL, and the simpler single-datastore design held up at their scale. The takeaway for a one-person shop is the direction of travel: an extra cache tier is often bought before it is needed, and consolidating on the primary database removes a class of consistency bugs plus one more service to operate. If you are about to add Redis purely for reservation or locking semantics, check first whether Postgres/MySQL row locks already cover it. - **Breakdown: how Postiz went from $0 to $173k MRR** https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1vjisei/i_studied_how_a_saas_grew_from_0_to_173k_mrr/ A secondhand but detailed reconstruction of Postiz's growth, assembled from the founder's own podcasts and interviews up to roughly $160k MRR. The load-bearing early move was open-sourcing the product and pushing traffic to GitHub rather than a landing page, then converting the self-host-averse to paid cloud. Worth reading as a distribution pattern if you have a tool that could plausibly be open-core; the later stages are more ordinary churn and pricing work. - **Grok Imagine Image 2.0 Preview now available on Vercel AI Gateway** https://vercel.com/changelog/grok-imagine-image-2-0-preview-now-available-on-vercel-ai-gateway xAI's Grok Imagine Image 2.0 Preview is now callable through Vercel AI Gateway via the AI SDK (model id xai/grok-imagine-image-2.0-preview, generateImage). Vercel claims it plans typography and layout together, so text-heavy visuals like posters and infographics keep small text legible, and it supports edit passes that hold subjects consistent across generations. If you generate marketing or social imagery programmatically, this is a one-line model swap to A/B against your current provider, with no new billing relationship needed. - **Show HN: Starboard — a terminal glued to the macOS dock** https://github.com/palamim/starboard A small open-source macOS utility that pins a terminal to the dock so project-opening rituals (cd path, then code .) stop requiring a full terminal window and manual window shuffling across desktops. Built by a developer scratching a six-year-old daily annoyance. Marginal but real time saving if you open several editor windows across multiple desktops each morning. - **My server is a phone now** https://seg6.space/posts/phone-server/ A builder writeup on running a personal server workload off a phone instead of a VPS or single-board computer, the appeal being a device that already has a battery, a modem and an ARM SoC sitting in a drawer. Useful mainly as a cost and redundancy thought experiment: an old handset is a plausible standby for low-traffic services or an out-of-band watchdog for a rented box. No action tonight, file under cheap failover ideas. - **Ringpost: shared business phone number tool built on Twilio (free beta)** https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1vjgtr1/built_a_shared_business_phone_number_tool_for/ A solo-built shared business phone product on top of Twilio: multiple numbers, IVR, call recording, AI call summaries and missed-call auto-text, priced pay-as-you-go rather than per seat, free during beta. Notable less as a tool to adopt than as a market signal that the "Twilio plus AI summaries, no per-seat fee" wedge is being worked by several builders at once. Worth tracking if you have anything in the voice or calling space. ## Full digest - [R] [gh-crewai] crewAI 1.15.14 — https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/releases/tag/1.15.14 — Incremental crewAI point release that splits runtime context from the coding agent and adds a project ID, plus changelog housekeeping. No user-facing capability change described. - [P] [hn-show] Show HN: Starboard — a terminal glued to the macOS dock — https://github.com/palamim/starboard — A small open-source macOS utility that pins a terminal to the dock so project-opening rituals (cd path, then code .) stop requiring a full terminal window and manual window shuffling across desktops. Built by a developer scratching a six-year-old daily annoyance. Marginal but real time saving if you open several editor windows across multiple desktops each morning. - [R] [reddit-saas] Built a tool that automates SEO (Wizible) — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1vjd7d6/built_a_tool_that_literally_automates_seo/ — Self-promotional launch post for an SEO article-generation tool. No independent results and no reproducible workflow. - [R] [reddit-saas] AR Wi-Fi visualizer that rebuilds your home in 3D — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1vj7kkz/i_created_an_ar_wifi_visualizer_that_rebuilds/ — Consumer AR side project mapping Wi-Fi coverage onto a 3D home scan. Neat demo, no bearing on a software shop decision. - [P] [reddit-saas] Breakdown: how Postiz went from $0 to $173k MRR — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1vjisei/i_studied_how_a_saas_grew_from_0_to_173k_mrr/ — A secondhand but detailed reconstruction of Postiz's growth, assembled from the founder's own podcasts and interviews up to roughly $160k MRR. The load-bearing early move was open-sourcing the product and pushing traffic to GitHub rather than a landing page, then converting the self-host-averse to paid cloud. Worth reading as a distribution pattern if you have a tool that could plausibly be open-core; the later stages are more ordinary churn and pricing work. - [M] [reddit-saas] Ringpost: shared business phone number tool built on Twilio (free beta) — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1vjgtr1/built_a_shared_business_phone_number_tool_for/ — A solo-built shared business phone product on top of Twilio: multiple numbers, IVR, call recording, AI call summaries and missed-call auto-text, priced pay-as-you-go rather than per seat, free during beta. Notable less as a tool to adopt than as a market signal that the "Twilio plus AI summaries, no per-seat fee" wedge is being worked by several builders at once. Worth tracking if you have anything in the voice or calling space. - [R] [reddit-saas] Built a family tree web application — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1vjfln8/built_a_family_tree_web_application_for_my_family/ — Personal side project digitizing a handwritten family tree. No transferable technique or market insight. - [R] [reddit-saas] I spent too much time building features nobody asked for — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1vjjh32/i_spent_way_too_much_time_building_features/ — Familiar founder reflection: shipping features felt productive while talking to users actually moved the business. True, but well-trodden advice with no new evidence attached. - [R] [reddit-saas] This thread makes me very sad — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1vj20if/this_thread_makes_me_very_sad/ — It seems like all I see is everyone else succeeding and sharing their successes. Or, that's all that reach me. For someone who is working full time in a miserable job and trying to build something successful of their own, it just feels like… - [R] [reddit-saas] What tasks are you still doing manually that you wish AI could handle? — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1vjfhxc/what_tasks_are_you_still_doing_manually_that_you/ — Hey everyone, We’re exploring an idea around AI automation, and before we build too much, we want to understand whether this is actually a problem people are facing. The idea is simple: use AI to automate repetitive tasks that still require… - [R] [reddit-saas] Better LLM wrapper for my app — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1vjhk87/better_llm_wrapper_for_my_app/ — I built my app on top of Claude. It uses Opus 4.8. It's an agent for CPG companies. Question is, will ChatGPT be better at this? The app helps sales leads strategize and get into more doors faster.   submitted by   /u/Mundane-Fold-2… - [R] [reddit-saas] My Niche SaaS App is Profitable, 1 Month After Launch — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1vj56bs/my_niche_saas_app_is_profitable_1_month_after/ — I'll get right to it... just over a month after I soft-launched my niche SaaS app, I am profitable. I started building the app at the beginning of 2026 just as an app to help me with a problem that I had. Several months later I got some ear… - [R] [reddit-saas] Today, someone paid for the app I built. 🥹 — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1vjdssy/today_someone_paid_for_the_app_i_built/ — I honestly didn’t expect this moment to hit this hard. Today I got my first-ever paid user for an app I’ve been building called Smart Jyotish AI . NPR 299 (~$2.20). For some people, $2 might be nothing. But for me, this is huge. I’m not a p… - [R] [reddit-saas] How do you deal with getting "bored" and losing trust in your app right before launch? — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1vj6vyu/how_do_you_deal_with_getting_bored_and_losing/ — Hey everyone, I keep running into the exact same problem with every app or SaaS I build: 1. Research & Validation: I find a product people are already paying for. I plan to build a better version that fixes competitor flaws. 2. Deep Focus:… - [R] [reddit-saas] Got rejected by Paddle twice with the exact same email. Still not sure what I did wrong . — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1vjjckt/got_rejected_by_paddle_twice_with_the_exact_same/ — So I built a small AI writing tool. You paste in what you know about someone and it writes a few versions of a message you could send them. It doesn't send anything, there's no contact list, no scraping. It just writes text. Applied to Padd… - [R] [reddit-saas] Founders who launched on Product Hunt, MicroLaunch, Uneed, etc. Was it actually worth it? — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1viwlmo/founders_who_launched_on_product_hunt_microlaunch/ — I've been looking at all the different places founders launch their products Product Hunt, MicroLaunch, Uneed, PeerPush, BetaList and the dozens of smaller directories. Most of them advertise visibility, backlinks, SEO benefits, featured sp… - [R] [reddit-saas] Looking for some Clients to automate their Business — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1vjf3ge/looking_for_some_clients_to_automate_their/ — I'm an AI agent developer having knowledge of RAG, multi-agent systems, memory architecture, etc. I'm looking for some clients to whom I can help their business by building the Agents for them to automate their work. I have experience in bu… - [R] [reddit-saas] I boosted my client revenue by 3x — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1vjit63/i_boosted_my_client_revenue_by_3x/ — My client was struggling with revenue and wasn't getting enough customers despite having a solid product. We started working on their AEO and making sure their product was visible when people searched for solutions through ChatGPT, Claude,… - [R] [reddit-saas] Agentcn | Installable AI Agents — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1vjie29/agentcn_installable_ai_agents/ — Hey everyone 👋 I just launched AgentCN An open-source library of installable, customizable AI agents for modern applications. - One-command installation - Own the agent code - Fully customizable Would love for you to check it out and share… - [R] [reddit-saas] I got 130k views asking for help. Here's what I actually did with the feedback. — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1vje5st/i_got_130k_views_asking_for_help_heres_what_i/ — A few weeks ago I posted here completely stuck. I had spent 10 months building ChatSorter, an AI memory layer for chatbots, and couldn't get many people to try the demo. 130k views later, the feedback was harsh but exactly what I needed. Th… - [R] [reddit-saas] I built a changelog that writes itself from my GitHub merges — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1vjdtx4/i_built_a_changelog_that_writes_itself_from_my/ — Like every dev here, I ship constantly and announce nothing. My changelog was 8 months stale because writing release notes feels like homework. So I built Bellnote. Connect your GitHub repo, and every merged PR gets turned into a changelog… - [R] [reddit-saas] Got tired of useless startups... made an app that helps people save money — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1vjhnsd/got_tired_of_useless_startups_made_an_app_that/ — Currently in university and I keep seeing friends spending like crazy on stupid things. It's very sad and I wasn't really sure how to help them out. One of the people I hang out with had heard of this idea called Prize Linked Savings from t… - [R] [reddit-saas] What idea sparked you SaaS product ? — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1vj5tpd/what_idea_sparked_you_saas_product/ — I’ve launched a SaaS recently. I’ve built the app and now we’re doing research and collecting feedback from our target audience to help develop ours better. My question is did most of you guys build a tool that was really to help yourself t… - [R] [reddit-saas] 100+ users/day, but nobody will pay! — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1viuhbg/100_usersday_but_nobody_will_pay/ — I launched CountdownShare around 8 months ago, and now 100+ countdowns are being created every day, mostly from organic traffic. The product is already monetized with a monthly Pro plan, and a lifetime plan. The problem is… almost nobody pa… - [R] [gh-nextjs] Next.js v16.3.1-canary.9 — https://github.com/vercel/next.js/releases/tag/v16.3.1-canary.9 — Canary build with internal Turbopack fixes, a removed trace span and a docs example update. Pre-release channel, nothing actionable for a production app. - [P] [vercel-changelog] Grok Imagine Image 2.0 Preview now available on Vercel AI Gateway — https://vercel.com/changelog/grok-imagine-image-2-0-preview-now-available-on-vercel-ai-gateway — xAI's Grok Imagine Image 2.0 Preview is now callable through Vercel AI Gateway via the AI SDK (model id xai/grok-imagine-image-2.0-preview, generateImage). Vercel claims it plans typography and layout together, so text-heavy visuals like posters and infographics keep small text legible, and it supports edit passes that hold subjects consistent across generations. If you generate marketing or social imagery programmatically, this is a one-line model swap to A/B against your current provider, with no new billing relationship needed. - [P] [hn-top] My server is a phone now — https://seg6.space/posts/phone-server/ — A builder writeup on running a personal server workload off a phone instead of a VPS or single-board computer, the appeal being a device that already has a battery, a modem and an ARM SoC sitting in a drawer. Useful mainly as a cost and redundancy thought experiment: an old handset is a plausible standby for low-traffic services or an out-of-band watchdog for a rented box. No action tonight, file under cheap failover ideas. - [R] [hn-top] Os8088: a Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286 and 386 — https://os8088.com/ — Impressive retrocomputing project building a graphical OS for 8088-era hardware. Hobbyist interest only. - [R] [hn-top] Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023) — https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article/46/Supplement_1/A34/7181621 — Sleep-research conference abstract from 2023, outside the scope of a builder briefing. - [R] [hn-top] The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011) — http://longbets.org/601/ — A fifteen-year-old Long Bets entry about link rot, resurfaced for its irony. No action. - [R] [hn-top] Improving heuristics for A* pathfinding — https://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/heuristics/differential.html — A well-made technical explainer on differential heuristics for A*. Excellent reference if you are writing pathfinding code, irrelevant otherwise. - [P] [hn-top] Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations — and it scaled — https://shopify.engineering/scaling-inventory-reservations — Shopify Engineering reports it moved inventory reservation state off Redis and back onto MySQL, and the simpler single-datastore design held up at their scale. The takeaway for a one-person shop is the direction of travel: an extra cache tier is often bought before it is needed, and consolidating on the primary database removes a class of consistency bugs plus one more service to operate. If you are about to add Redis purely for reservation or locking semantics, check first whether Postgres/MySQL row locks already cover it. - [R] [hn-top] Fastmail offers EU data region — https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-offers-eu-data-region/ — Fastmail offers EU data region - [R] [hn-top] Dithered QR Codes — https://www.andrewt.net/dithered-qr-codes/wtf/ — Dithered QR Codes - [R] [hn-top] Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect (2025) — https://www.nature.com/articles/s44184-025-00171-5 — Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect (2025) - [R] [hn-top] _for-sale DNS records — https://specification.website/spec/foundations/for-sale-dns/ — _for-sale DNS records - [R] [hn-top] Incentives are for losers — https://www.experimental-history.com/p/incentives-are-for-losers — Incentives are for losers - [R] [hn-top] Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse — https://eclipsefan.org/?v=2&t=max&layers=eclipse%2Cbesselian%2Cumbra-live%2Cshadow-3d%2Ccloud-projection%2Cosm&lat=43.4623&lon=-3.8099&opacity=besselian%3A0.2%2Cumbra-live%3A0.2&zoom=6&palier=minute — Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse - [R] [hn-top] Making difficulty curves in games — http://www.davetech.co.uk/difficultycurves — Making difficulty curves in games - [R] [hn-top] Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection — https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/retraction_app_store_rejection_of_the_week — Thread for original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214863