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Chips

Futuristic mosquito-zapping laser now available to buy

The Photon Matrix, a crowdfunded anti-mosquito laser, is now in mass production and shipping soon. It uses LiDAR, millimeter-wave radar, and AI vision to shoot down mosquitoes within a six-meter radius. The home-oriented infrared version costs $988, while the industrial blue laser version costs $1,088.

  • Photon Matrix has entered mass production and is now available for purchase on its website.
  • It uses LiDAR, mmWave radar, and AI vision to detect and shoot down mosquitoes within a six-meter range.
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Agents

Show HN: Self-hosted monitoring for AI recommendations (MIT License)

Lettertrace is a free, open-source, self-hosted tool that measures how often AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini mention your brand. It uses your own API keys, generates prompt variations, tracks share of voice and sentiment over time, and benchmarks competitors.

  • Open-source and MIT licensed; self-host with your own infrastructure and Supabase.
  • Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews using your own API keys.
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Open Sourcing the Atuin AI Server

Atuin AI has open sourced its AI server, enabling users to self-host the terminal-native agent while still supporting OpenAI-compatible endpoints and local model providers like Ollama, vLLM, and OpenRouter.

  • Atuin AI server is now open source on GitHub, built on the same core library as the production service.
  • It supports any OpenAI-compatible chat completions endpoint, including local tools like Ollama, vLLM, LM Studio, llama.cpp, and LiteLLM, plus web services like OpenRouter.
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Show HN: Velorn – an open-source desktop video editor with MCP agent control

Velorn is an open-source desktop video editor and AI video workstation that combines project-based editing, AI generation, captions, effects, and export, plus a local MCP server exposing 100+ tools for coding agents such as Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor. Editing features work without ComfyUI, while all current generation workflows require a local ComfyUI instance.

  • Open-source desktop video editor with project-based planning, generation, timeline editing, captions, effects, and export
  • Bundled local MCP server offers 100+ tools for agent-assisted review, editing, generation, and export
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Policy

Godfather of AI: "If you sleep well tonight..." [video]

This video features the so-called "Godfather of AI" and a provocative title that reads "If you sleep well tonight...", hinting at concerns about artificial intelligence and its potential risks. The captured page text contains only standard YouTube interface elements and boilerplate.

  • The video title uses a warning-like phrase from the "Godfather of AI" about sleeping well.
  • It likely touches on the potential impact or risks of rapidly advancing AI.