Daily issue / 2026-08-12
Useful things that surfaced in Hacker News discussions on 2026-08-12. Open the context to see why each one caught our attention—or jump straight to the original thread.
What we found
An open-source French call-filtering app that blocks unsolicited calls.
Source discussion: France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls
“It’s free, open source, all my family uses it for about 2 months now and it just works.”
ducdetronquito · recommendation · first hand use
Direct HN comment
“Great app, had no spam calls going through since installing it.”
RockstarSprain · recommendation · first hand use
Direct HN comment
A private search engine for visited pages and local files, with MCP access.
Source discussion: As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing
“Hister is a private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep.”
swed420 · recommendation
Direct HN comment
A browser extension for blocking unwanted sites from search results.
Source discussion: As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing
“ublacklist is the only thing that makes searching bearable for me now.”
duskdozer · recommendation · first hand use
Direct HN comment
A live-feeling visual ride-along from aircraft and satellite viewpoints.
Source discussion: Stowaway – Take the window seat on any plane or satellite overhead
“I love this: the sound effects oddly are what really make it.”
vintagedave · recommendation · first hand use
Direct HN comment
“Pretty amazing. One of those great sites that is just "wow, I would never have thought of trying to build that".”
stevage · recommendation
Direct HN comment
A 2.6B-parameter local model aimed at lightweight agentic and extraction workloads.
Source discussion: LFM2.5 2.6B model competitive with 4x larger models
“the official 6-bit quant of 2.6B runs at 25-30 tok/s under llama.cpp on one of the D500 GPUs.”
h14h · recommendation · first hand use
Direct HN comment
“They target reliable operation of tiny models in ways other model families don't”
0xbadcafebee · comparison
Direct HN comment
An open-weights video model with a native Apple Silicon inference implementation.
Source discussion: H3-metal – Native MiniMax-H3 inference for Apple Silicon
“I've been using MiniMax H3 on my M5 Pro 64GB MacBook Pro through ComfyUI. It works extremely well.”
Meleagris · recommendation · first hand use
Direct HN comment
“It's a VERY disruptive model in all the good ways.”
Art9681 · recommendation
Direct HN comment
A spreadsheet-like interface for rewriting Git commit messages, authors, and dates.
Source discussion: Show HN: Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet
“Many times I had a wrong configured terminal and messed up the author.”
f1shy · recommendation · first hand use
Direct HN comment
“Sometimes I do a scraping project where I want the commit dates to match when the data actually changed”
simonw · recommendation · first hand use
Direct HN comment
A Clojure implementation on Chez Scheme for self-contained native applications.
Source discussion: Jolt: Clojure compiler implemented with Chez Scheme
“works great to build small self contained apps.”
mark_l_watson · recommendation · first hand use
Direct HN comment