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Show HN: drea – podcast ad blocker Always been annoyed by podcast ads. Searched and found a few apps that can detect and skip them, but they were all paid. So I made a free one. To my knowledge this is the first podcast app with free ad block. iOS (26+) only for now. If the app becomes popular I'll def think of doing an Android version as well. The app doesn't require a user account. I may open-source it at some point; still thinking about it. If anyone's suspicious about how it's able to be free, i.e. doesn't it cost money to run, are you selling my data (I'm not) etc. I'm happy to explain in the comments. From a technical perspective, the innovation here is ad detection despite dynamic/programmatic ads, which is the norm in most popular podcasts these days. There is ofc a naive way to do it, but it's expensive and high latency. There is also an even simpler way but it's illegal lol (re-host and serve just one version of the episode). I was able to ...

Show HN: Marlin-2B: a tiny VLM to extract structured information from videos https://ift.tt/fuI0Bit May 18, 2026 at 11:36PM

Show HN: HypergraphZ – directed hypergraph library in Zig with Python bindings https://ift.tt/SMe3mHc May 18, 2026 at 12:38AM

Show HN: Mezz, a curl-able WiFi sandbox for IoT pentesting https://ift.tt/eojqDwl May 15, 2026 at 08:23PM

Show HN: How to Kill the Dead Internet Ok, so maybe "how to revive the internet" would be more accurate, but if you're reading this, I got your attention, right? Here's why I want you to read on: I built a free extension, D-slop, to disincentivize anyone from posting AI writing, and eventually images and video as well, on the internet. For writing, it checks known vocab and punctuation tells, as well as subtler tells related to cadence, and assigns it a score subject to an adjustable threshold. If the text fails, users have the option to flag offending text, hide it, or block the page entirely (with the option to see anyway). For media, it's admittedly fairly weak, as it relies on C2PA metadata which is stripped from all of the social media sites where it would be most helpful. (Anyone else have chronically online boomer parents continually gobbling up slop like it's real information?) I have a D-slop+ version in the works that should be able to handle the med...

Show HN: I built a screen recorder that captures console logs, requests and more https://userplane.io/ May 17, 2026 at 01:04AM