The best smart home products of 2025-26
Whether you're just getting started with smart home or you're a smart device veteran, you deserve the very best smart ...
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Must-have smart home products for the holiday season
It’s the most wonderful time of the year — and it’s even better when your house is prepared. With the right smart products, ...
This Echo Show 5 (Newest Model) Just Became the Cheapest Smart Display on Amazon for Black Friday
The Amazon Echo Show 5 is normally $90, but is currently on sale with 39% off, which means it’s down to $55 for a short while ...
Smart cameras could be about to get a major upgrade with Matter 1.5
The new Matter 1.5 standard adds support for smart home cameras, opening up new possibilities. New support is also arriving for soil sensors, helping you automate your garden.
Google’s Gemini for Home users just got a paywall scare
Google has previously warned users that Gemini for Home might behave in unexpected ways, such as forgetting what was said in ...
This new USB stick promises to end your smart home chaos for just $49
The new Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2 is a USB adapter that unifies Zigbee, Thread, and Matter devices under one roof.
These are the best Amazon Black Friday deals on smart home gear and they’re live right now
Whether you're just starting your smart home setup or upgrading your current gear, these Amazon deals are worth taking advantage of.
This Smart Display Is the Best Add-On My Kitchen Has Ever Had
The newest Echo Show from Amazon gets nearly everything right about what a home smart display should be.
Built-In Wi-Fi, Fingerprint Access: Smart Locks for Busy Homes
Philips Home Access, a smart locks and home security products line under the Philips brand, brings a focused range of connected deadbolts.
Amazon Alexa Vs. Google Home: Which Smart Ecosystem Is Best?
In the debate of Amazon Alexa versus Google Home devices, both smart-enabled devices offer users great features. Here's how ...
Show HN: Startfa.st – A curated, fast directory of AI, dev, and product tools
Hi HN! I’ve been building startfa.st, a curated directory of AI, developer, and product tools. Link: https://startfa.stLike many people building in AI/dev, I found myself drowning in new tools every day, everything from agents, deployment frameworks, auth platforms, workflow engines, model APIs, automation tools, design tools, security stacks, etc. There’s constant novelty, but it’s very hard to find signal. Most lists on the internet recycle the same names.So I built startfa.st t
Show HN: Stickerbox, a Kid-Safe, AI-Powered Voice to Sticker Printer
Bob and Arun here, creators of Stickerbox.If AI were built for kids, what would it look like?Asking that question led us to creativity, and more specifically, the power of kids’ imaginations. We wanted to let kids combine the power of their ideas with AI tools but we needed to make sure we did it safely and in the right way.Enter Stickerbox, a voice powered sticker printer. By combining AI image generation with thermal sticker printing, we instantly turn kids' wildest ideas into real sticke
Show HN: Palettt – AI Powered Color Palette Generator
Hi HN,I built Palettt, a tool to help designers and front-end developers work with color more easily. You can try it directly here — no signup required: https://palettt.comI made this because I’m a developer who’s not great with color, and I kept bouncing between different palette tools. I wanted something that lets you generate, extract, tweak, and apply colors all in one place.FeaturesPalette Generator with lock/unlock, drag & drop sorting, harmony tweaksContrast checking an
Ask HN: What operating systems, apps, etc. had your favorite UI designs?
I enjoy looking at the UIs of older platforms or software. Something about that pixel-ish look appeals to me more than the modern look of UI.For me, one of my favorites was the look of some of the later PalmPilot UIs. They were surprisingly good for a display of only 160×160 pixels. They may not look the best today, but they were very functional. In some ways, I actually prefer older UI designs. Modern UI components feel more complex and, in my opinion, lead to a greater number of bugs.What are
Show HN: Numerikos – A personalizable digital math workbook
Numerikos is a math practice platform where students can work through distributions of practice problems or setup their own study routines.Try the demo (no signup required, data stored locally) at https://demo.numerikos.comI designed this for my 4th-grade son and so far he really likes it.The main features:1. Practice problems: generated by rules I've designed particularly for each problem type. They try to avoid trivial problems and create an interesting distribution of problems.
Endstorm – A Solo-Dev Automation Engine That Mass-Produces Digital Products
Hey everyone,I’m a solo developer who accidentally built something big.Endstorm is a fully-automated digital-product factory: it can design, generate, package, and prepare customer-ready digital products with almost zero human input.It’s powered by: • A multi-stage orchestrator • Self-checking pipelines • Logging + fail recovery • Visual automation (Pexels → ImageMagick → PDFs) • Auto-packaging (ZIP bundles) • Auto-publishing • A memory-aware workflow • Fully modular rituals (Design → Bu
Show HN: Font of Web: Search Web Design Patterns via Multimodal Embeddings
Instead of going the tags + categories route, I used the vertex api multimodalembedding@001 model.How it works When a pin is to be saved, fow's server sends a client-side embed token, with permissions to call the vertex-api directly (through the impersonated access token flow), this returns a f32 512 dim vector.I store this in a usearch vector db on my $15 VPS.Usearch doesn't have runtime disk persistence, so I had to write a WAL wrapper around it.What you can doThe perks of multi-moda
Show HN: Makefiles, Metalanguages, and Matrioshka Automata
This project is a strange labor of love, practically guaranteed to inspire horror and delight. It's also tough to summarize. Partly it's practical and involves familiar tools, but part of it is also a new programming language with esolang roots. I'll start with the practical and move towards the peculiar.The one-sentence summary: compose.mk brings docker-fluency, polyglots, and a capable standard library to Makefiles. A more in-depth elevator pitch from the main landing page is
Ask HN: What do you think of this sci-fi movie idea for a UBI world?
Idea: A movie set in a UBI future where android therapists help humans recover from trauma caused by the old work driven world.Imagine a future where AI has taken over nearly all jobs and society now uses UBI. People no longer work for survival, but they still carry emotional patterns from the old era: test anxiety, fear of being fired, pressure to constantly achieve, guilt about resting. Things everyone treated as normal turn out to have left deep psychological marks.The story follows an androi
Show HN: Fulfilled – Non-custodial financial co-pilot for goal optimization
Hey HN,We’re challenging retail wealth management. Most individual portfolio optimization is fundamentally flawed because it’s static and ignores your specific goals.I spent a decade helping some of the world’s largest investors build their portfolios. My co-founder built hundreds of financial plans for retail investors before backend engineering at Microsoft. We know the problem: traditional portfolio construction and maintenance approaches (like Modern Portfolio Theory) rely on myopic, static