11 interesting things surfaced from HN on 2026-08-07

“Wow, this is a lovely tool, and it's clearly built with a lot of your own knowledge! I'm in New England and this has some great recs for my land. One slight piece of feedback: it's pretty clear a lot of the text was output of AI. IME (and just _my_ E, of course), this detracts somewhat from the authority of the page, as it makes it seem more like it just came from a conversation with Claude, rather than from your knowledge filtered through building an app. Might be worth doing a couple of passes to tighten up and human-ize it a bit :). (since it's open source, I suppose I could always PR myself if you'd be open to it)”

nja · recommendation

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“You've done a great job with the "how big does it get"/"what will it look like" SVG diagrams, those are incredibly helpful. https://indigene.app/plants/symphyotrichum-subspicatum https://indigene.app/plants/juncus-patens Very helpful for choosing plants.”

lelandbatey · recommendation

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“I can strongly recommend the mobile app Flora Incognita for quickly identifying plants. It’s made by one of the German universities so it’s free, don’t have ads, and don’t collect your personal data. I even showed it to my mum and she loves it”

iammjm · recommendation

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“Thank you for the rec, I used it to identify a mystery house plant I was gifted :)”

otherayden · recommendation

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“Libdragon has been improved massively in the past year or so, there are now simple demo games that show capabilities far beyond the original N64 games (bump mapping textures, HDR, seamless loading of massive overworld maps, etc.) Really talented core team, fun to give them a follow. Demos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP8g2ngHftY”

Mizza · recommendation

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“I am still amazed my own minimalist PS1 tutorial series [1] became as popular as it did, given that prior to it basically all learning material on the internet was written around the decent-for-the-time-but-horrible-now Sony SDK and often based on 30-year-old example code full of 30-year-old C practices (in particular the complete disregard for aliasing and concurrency, which resulted in plenty of headaches once people started using those ancient libraries and example code with modern GCC). We even have bleeding-edge C++ SDK options [2] complete with an STL and coroutine support, so if anybody here wants to try their hand at PS1 homebrew development I would highly encourage checking out the ”

spicyjpeg · recommendation

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“I have been using eve - https://eve.dev/ recently and it was just really nice and well thought out. It also supports TUI, github and other non chat channels. The integration and abstraction with sandboxes, cron etc. is very nicely done but you still can self host it.”

mrud · recommendation

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“I freakin' love this demo. It feels magical.”

wxw · recommendation

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“This is the coolest LLM thing I’ve seen since the original ChatGPT announcement a few years ago. IMO much more impressive than marginal gains of frontier models.”

appplication · recommendation

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“If you read this and you haven’t played arcane dimensions yet, drop everything and go and do that. It makes the quake the best single player FPS ever. The mechanics are even better than vanilla quake, the maps are gorgeous, the enemies diverse and fun. Absolute perfection”

namdnay · recommendation

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“I'd also recommend "Scientific Babel How Science Was Done Before and After Global English" by Michael D. Gordin [0]. It goes into detail about which languages scientists have used over time. [0] https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo145049...”

rhodin · recommendation

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“If anybody is looking for alternatives, self host Woodpecker is really easy and it's a very capable CI/CD https://woodpecker-ci.org/docs/intro”

timetraveller26 · recommendation

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“Depending on where you live there is Transitous: https://transitous.org/ It's a FOSS public transport routing engine. In the options you can select what type and how much time you want to spend on the first and last "mile" (even something like bike/scooter sharing). It uses open data or data connectors for the routing. And being FOSS, if there is no data connector yet for you region, it may be interesting to contribute one if there is a sane way to query the data from the local transport compan(y|ies).”

urineaut · recommendation

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“PROTIP: Install the Kex-engine remaster, but then actually play IronWail: https://github.com/andrei-drexler/ironwail It's a real IdTech source port that will load the Remaster's PAKs and pretend to be the Remaster to Steam for achievement unlocks. Dimension of the Machine was fantastic so I'm hyped to play Dawn of the Machine tonight :D”

Lammy · recommendation

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