9 interesting things surfaced from HN on 2026-07-25

“The installation is straight forward if you choose a cam with SD-Card flashing support. I upgraded two of the Sonoff Slim Gen2 without any issues.”

makefu · recommendation · first hand use

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“I bought the cheapest PTZ camera they have listed and, as you say the install was easy. The interface is useful and it does what it says on the tin.”

jonah · recommendation · first hand use

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“One of my absolute favourite features on KDE Plasma with Wayland is the global setting to control what can steal focus. It works wonderfully, and I always miss it when I have to use my work mac or windows computers.”

frameset · recommendation · first hand use

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“we found that using a stable AI-SDLC process like: https://github.com/highflame-ai/ai-factory improves code agent assisted development dramatically specially when going from 1-100.”

sharathr · recommendation · production use

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“Hey may I suggest CachyOS + KDE? It’s very gaming oriented and you have a lot of great built in features. Everything just works.”

pixard · recommendation · first hand use

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“Another vote of confidence for CachyOS + KDE!”

BoxOfRain · recommendation · first hand use

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“Ideogram 4 is probably the best option”

vunderba · recommendation · production use

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“I think that the KJ prompt builder node handles this out of the box in ComfyUI.”

vunderba · recommendation · first hand use

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“Unsolicited endorsement, but I bought a “Brick” device recently, and I can’t recommend it enough for cutting back on social media.”

morelandjs · recommendation · first hand use

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“btw recently discovered this neat website that shows ALL upcoming rocket launches”

ck2 · recommendation · first hand use

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“For those interested, just read a great book on this topic: When the Heavens Went on Sale by Ashlee Vance”

josefresco · recommendation · first hand use

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