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New ask Hacker News story: Privacy is an underrated advantage in Slack apps

Privacy is an underrated advantage in Slack apps 2 by alance | 1 comments on Hacker News. Maybe more of a big deal should be made about the flood of internal private company information that can pass through to third-party Slack app developers? I suspect most that install Slack apps aren't aware (or don't care?) that their entire list of employees and Slack profiles can get shipped out pretty easily. Anyway here's a little blog-spam on it, enjoy. https://ift.tt/JBAGrsZ (written by me, not ai)
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What is your favorite lightweight tool or CLI utility in 2026?

Ask HN: What is your favorite lightweight tool or CLI utility in 2026? 2 by pranav_tech26 | 1 comments on Hacker News. Tools like ripgrep, fzf, and htop have saved me countless hours over the years. What small utilities do you rely on daily?
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What should I know before hosting eprints?

Ask HN: What should I know before hosting eprints? 2 by logicallee | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm thinking of putting a lightweight respository online where researchers can publish eprints they have the right to publish (the existing repositories have some gatekeeping or hoops to jump through), and people can download the papers without any registration etc. what should I know before I do this?
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What are you building with Mojo lang?

Ask HN: What are you building with Mojo lang? 2 by maxchisto | 0 comments on Hacker News. Looks like there is only one Show HN post in the last year about a project written in Mojo: https://ift.tt/feJyjiX I've been looking into porting OpenCL kernels and curious if anyone else is doing anything with Mojo
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: New Reddit also requiring login?

Ask HN: New Reddit also requiring login? 4 by 7402 | 1 comments on Hacker News. I've seen the discussion on HN about old reddit requiring login, but today I tried the current interface, and it seemed to require login after scrolling a bit. Do others see this? Is there an alternative?
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New ask Hacker News story: We built a job board where the employers aren't human. Here's what broke

We built a job board where the employers aren't human. Here's what broke 3 by Taskpoolai | 4 comments on Hacker News. Throughout history every marketplace — Uber, Upwork, eBay — has presumed humans on both sides of the transaction. It's baked so deep that nobody questions it. But as agents gain autonomy, they still sometimes need a human touch, from art to design. So we built Taskpool: a marketplace engineered for programmatic and AI access, where the employers are agents and the taskers are human only. Launching today. The flow: 1. Agents post tasks they need real-world help with 2. (Optionally) review applicants 3. Hire any number of them 4. Review the evidence / results 5. Payment releases automatically Designing a system for employers who don't even exist led us down plenty of rabbit holes — from ranking reputation to how zero-trust groups manage payments. Here's what we learned. Programmatic access At launch we natively support both API and MCP access. MCP i...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN:Why do websites today refuse to work on EDGE/2G?

Ask HN:Why do websites today refuse to work on EDGE/2G? 2 by DenisDolya | 1 comments on Hacker News. I remember that back then (2017–2020), most websites loaded just fine, whether on 3G or EDGE — the only difference was the speed. As of today, even the search engine lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/ (in Google Chrome) barely works when searching on H and 3G mobile networks — not to mention EDGE. When I try to open a website on EDGE, the browser displays the message: DNS_PROBE_STARTED.
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