Launches stories

Show HN is where builders introduce what they have made to a discerning technical audience. This page tracks product launches, demos, open-source releases, and the feedback threads that follow.

Early user reactions, technical critiques, and founder responses make these threads uniquely valuable for anyone shipping software. Birbla archives them with full discussion context.

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Terra Incognita: The Economics of a Shrinking World [pdf]

sas.upenn.edu · 4 points · 2 comments

Combinatorics-Framework released for QA testers/students

2 points · 0 comments

ChatOSS – A Codex alternative for Open Source AI built on Ollama

chatoss.ai · 7 points · 5 comments

AirPods with Cameras Leak: Used for Visual Intelligence

androidauthority.com · 6 points · 1 comments

Launch HN: machine0 (YC S26) – Persistent CPU and GPU VMs from the CLI

machine0.io · 18 points · 44 comments

I brought back a free online radio player project I built 16 years ago

nradiobox.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Agent-codemode – scripts your agent writes can call your MCP servers

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Is there room for an AI-powered webmail service built on a single-letter domain?

3 points · 2 comments

I was too broke to buy ads, so I built my own ad network

dev.profullstack.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows

twitter.com · 40 points · 229 comments

Democracy vs. the machine: birth of digital age,the warnings that were ignored

theguardian.com · 8 points · 1 comments

Daron Acemoğlu: We Are "At the Cusp of Losing" Liberal Democracy [video]

youtube.com · 9 points · 0 comments

I built an M2M payment loop where AI Agents pay for data via x402

github.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Linux 7.2 Released

kernelnewbies.org · 4 points · 1 comments

Microsoft is dropping its Excel Copilot function

techradar.com · 8 points · 1 comments

Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

cursor.com · 44 points · 454 comments

Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI

13 points · 2 comments

GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released

blog.roboflow.com · 131 points · 171 comments

Prolly: A content-addressed ordered map built on prolly trees

github.com · 13 points · 15 comments

Trump Family World Liberty Financial Gets Preliminary Approval to Launch a Bank

wsj.com · 8 points · 0 comments

built my 15-year-old game idea

9 points · 4 comments

Vaultwarden Sequence Diagrams

app.ilograph.com · 5 points · 2 comments

PLC Lint – static analysis for CODESYS/PLCopenXML

plc-linter.com · 4 points · 0 comments

PeekCSS – a CSS inspector built for Firefox, not ported from Chrome

peekcss.com · 3 points · 1 comments

I built a native app for coding agents with Rust and GPUI

waku.sh · 8 points · 17 comments

Europe is stuck between "rock and a hard place" on launch costs & rocket reuse

arstechnica.com · 11 points · 8 comments

Chinese firm to launch Arctic shipping route

news.rthk.hk · 4 points · 0 comments

R-rated director's cut of X-Files movie released

arstechnica.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Mocktail – Free, open-source mock API server with a built-in dashboard

getmocktail.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Ontario Launches Data Centre Playbook

news.ontario.ca · 12 points · 3 comments