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Instagram Video Downloader: How SSSInstagram Helps Save Videos Easily
by alamando | 2026-02-05 14:30:57+00:00
What Makes SSSInstagram Different?

SSSInstagram is an online service designed specifically for downloading Instagram videos without any technical knowledge. Unlike many apps that require installation or registration, SSSInstagram works directly in your browser and is completely free.

The tool supports all major Instagram content types and works equally well on desktop and mobile devices.

What Can You Download with SSSInstagram?

SSSInstagram allows users to download:

- Instagram videos

- Reels

- Stories

- IGTV content

- Photos

All files are available in high quality, depending on the original upload. This makes the tool useful not only for entertainment but also for content research and inspiration.

Simple and User-Friendly Process

One of the biggest advantages of SSSInstagram is its simplicity. The entire process takes less than a minute and does not require any technical skills.

How it works:

- Open Instagram and copy the link to the video or Reel

- Visit the SSSInstagram website

- Paste the link into the download field

- Click the download button

- Save the file to your device

No login, no software installation, and no hidden steps.

Why People Use Instagram Video Downloaders?

There are many reasons why users choose tools like SSSInstagram:

- To watch videos offline

- To save useful tutorials

- To collect inspiration for content creation

- To archive favorite clips

- To avoid losing content when it’s deleted

For marketers and creators, SSSInstagram is especially helpful for analyzing trends and studying competitor content.

Is SSSInstagram Safe?

Yes, SSSInstagram is safe to use. The service does not ask for your Instagram credentials and does not store personal data. It only works with public accounts and does not bypass privacy settings.

Because there is no login involved, your Instagram account remains completely secure. This makes SSSInstagram a safer alternative to many questionable downloader apps.

Advantages of Using SSSInstagram
Here’s why many users prefer SSSInstagram over other Instagram downloaders:

- No registration required

- Works on all browsers and devices

- High-speed downloads

- Clean and easy interface

- No watermarks

- Free to use

These features make it one of the most convenient tools for downloading Instagram content.

If you’re looking for a reliable Instagram Video Downloader, SSSInstagram is a great solution. It combines speed, simplicity, and privacy in one tool. Whether you want to save Reels, videos, or stories, SSSInstagram lets you do it quickly and without restrictions.
by netsharc | 2026-02-05 14:31:07+00:00
My work computer's Win 11 install is originally French, I'm using the English UI. Searching for "Display" in the start menu shows me Display-related settings... in English and French. Looking at it closely, the English results point to settings available via the Control Panel, and the French ones point to settings in the "Settings" app. Picking a French result opens the Settings app, in English.

But yeah, Microsoft competency means it's also fine to show some search results in the language which isn't the user's preferred UI language.
by conartist6 | 2026-02-05 14:31:42+00:00
Just to remind you what Paul Graham said when he defined what the "Hacker" in Hacker News means:

> What and how should not be kept too separate. You're asking for trouble if you try to decide what to do without understanding how to do it. But hacking can certainly be more than just deciding how to implement some spec. At its best, it's creating the spec-- though it turns out the best way to do that is to implement it.

https://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html
by piltdownman | 2026-02-05 14:32:08+00:00
Another dog and pony show being organised to produce vox-pops for MAGA cultists who define themselves by not reading past the headline, as part of Republican congressman Jim Jordan's '1st Amendment for me, but not for thee' 'constitutionalist' push.

Tbh Linehan was very lucky he was he was cleared of assaulting a teenage trans activist at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in September, instead getting away with a minor conviction for damaging her phone.
Show HN: Jest-doctor – catching async leaks that cause flaky Jest tests
by Stephan_Dum | 2026-02-05 14:32:20+00:00
Hi HN,

I built jest-doctor, a custom Jest environment that detects async work leaking across test boundaries, one of the common causes of flaky tests.

These leaks usually come from unresolved promises, timers, or side effects that survive after a test finishes. Tests may pass locally but fail in CI or only fail when run together. Jest’s built-in --detectOpenHandles often misses these cases.

jest-doctor works by:

- tracking async resources created during each test (via async_hooks)

- patching globals like setTimeout and related APIs

- checking at test boundaries that resources were cleaned up

- failing the test immediately when leaks remain

It currently catches things like:

- unresolved promises

- open real or fake timers

- leaked DOM event listeners

- unexpected console or process output

The goal is to enforce test isolation so flaky failures become deterministic and easier to debug.

I’d really appreciate feedback from anyone who has fought flaky Jest tests, especially around edge cases where this approach might fall short.
by buildsjets | 2026-02-05 14:32:59+00:00
I suppose that depends on your definition of “now”. BMW has had a 20 year history of fork lower failures on their adventure bikes. Just search “BMW Fork Failure” and you will find a lot of discussion. Here was a Microsoft friend’s wreck in Alaska, which I believe was one of the earliest ones. Front wheel complete separated while she was riding straight and level on a paved road.

https://www.advrider.com/f/threads/crash-in-destruction-bay-...
by boghy8823 | 2026-02-05 14:33:30+00:00
I have seen the same Ai hallucinations that you mentioned: auth, input validation, error handling, non-existent dependencies, etc. It's tricky to get them all as LLM's have mastered the art of being "confidently wrong". What tools are you using to catch those issues? I feel current tooling is ill equiped for this new wave of Ai generated output.
by donkeybeer | 2026-02-05 14:33:32+00:00
It's still not clear to me, where did I anywhere imply it's any different if a single individual or company is in question. I said it's a matter between the company and the enployee because a company may dislike the employees actions and choose to deal with it eg by firing them, the contracting party isn't involved here. It still seems to me at most a matter of contract whether it's directly a single person being contracted or a person as part of a company.
Show HN: VillageSQL – A Fork of MySQL with Extensions
by deesix | 2026-02-05 14:34:09+00:00
We built VillageSQL because we love MySQL, but we’ve watched the ecosystem stagnate while PostgreSQL flourished with extensions like pgvector and pg_textsearch. We wanted to give MySQL that same extensibility so teams don’t have to migrate databases just to keep building nowadays. VillageSQL is an open-source, tracking fork of MySQL that is a drop-in replacement and adds a true extension framework.

How it works:
+It’s a drop-in replacement

+We added an interface to load external shared libraries (.so files) as extensions.

+You define custom data types and functions (with indexes coming soon) that run natively inside the engine.

+We are launching with a few proof-of-concept extensions: vsql-ai, vsql-uuid, vsql-crypto, vsql-network-address.
We’re currently in alpha.

We know forking MySQL is a big swing, but we believe the community needs a way to innovate on the core engine without waiting for Oracle and in a way that is easier to use than plug-ins.

The code is open source here: https://github.com/villagesql/villagesql-server

We’d love your feedback. Happy to answer any questions about the implementation!
by vlfig | 2026-02-05 14:34:39+00:00
Eminently doable, yes.

Two notes:

- I'm not convinced the graph is necessarily cyclic. Often two codependents are actually dependent on some common bits and otherwise independent.

- this is essentially deterministic propagation of configuration (think dhall, jsonnet, etc) plus reconciliation loops for external state, terraform style — not dissimilar to how the rest of CI/CD should operate, in fact my view is this is an extension of CI/CD practices up the value stream.

I'm definitely strive for something like this when possible.
Ask HN: How much more power AI requires over Python's list sort
by yonisto | 2026-02-05 14:34:41+00:00
So I got lazy today and asked the AI to sort alphabetically a list of names I got from the internet.

I hope someone can do the math and tell me how much more power it required to sort the 11 items in that list? how much more instruction (CPU/GPU) it required?

How much it will require if the list had 100 or 1000 items?

Thanks,
Show HN: ÆTHRA – Write music as code (notes, chords, emotion-driven music)
by CzaxTanmay | 2026-02-05 14:34:48+00:00
Hi HN

I built ÆTHRA, a programming language for writing music as code.

I made AETHRA some weeks ago but it was in version 0.8. Now I updated it to version 1.0 with better examples, commands and cross platform support.

Instead of timelines, DAWs, or heavy music theory, ÆTHRA lets you describe
music using simple commands like notes, chords, tempo, instruments, vibrato,
and emotion-driven structure.

Example:

@Tempo(128)
@Volume(0.9)
@Instrument("Saw")
@ADSR(0.01, 0.05, 0.7, 0.1)

@Loop(4){
@Chord(C4 E4 G4, 1)
@Chord(F4 A4 C5, 1)
@Chord(G4 B4 D5, 1)
@Drum("Kick", 0.5)
@Drum("HiHat", 0.25)
}

The goal is not to replace humans, but to make music
programmable, readable, and expressive — especially for developers.

Why ÆTHRA?
• Text-based music creation
• Cross-platform (Windows / Linux / macOS)
• Deterministic output (same code → same music)
• Designed for emotion-driven composition (sad, happy, rock, ambient)
• Beginner-friendly syntax

It’s inspired by ideas from live coding and music DSLs, but focused on
simplicity and clarity rather than performance art.

GitHub:
https://github.com/TanmayCzax/AETHRA

I’d love feedback on:
• Language design
• Ideas for v2

Thanks for checking it out
by andsoitis | 2026-02-05 14:35:30+00:00
The world’s richest man declared that the new company would “extend the light of consciousness to the stars”.

Because of distances and time, it is unlikely that humans will populate the galaxy with biological offspring (barring some technical breakthroughs that we have no line of sight on).

AI, on the other hand, could theoretically populate the galaxy and beyond, carrying the human intelligence and consciousness story into the future.
by ecshafer | 2026-02-05 14:35:35+00:00
I doubt that there is any risk at all. One is that this is probably a minor aspect of the business seeing these AIs. AIs that ive seen deployed so far for real work seem to best be done in side business offerings that you can tolerate a high false positive / false negative rate, but also isnt price sensitive enough that building a fully done automated pipeline classically is worth it or possible.
Show HN: Claude.md templates based on Boris Cherny's advice
by aray07 | 2026-02-05 14:35:41+00:00
Boris Cherny (Claude Code creator) recently dropped a threads on how his team at Anthropic uses Claude Code.

The key insight: they don't treat it as a static config. After every correction, they tell Claude "Update your CLAUDE.md so you don't make that mistake again." Claude writes a rule for itself. They review it, commit it to git. The mistake never happens again.

I cross-referenced his tweets with Anthropic's official docs and other best practices for CLAUDE.md and then packaged it into a starter kit:

- Fill-in-the-blank templates for Next.js/TypeScript, Python/FastAPI, and a generic
catch-all
- The workflow patterns his team actually uses (plan mode, verification loops, subagent
strategy)
- Every claim cited back to the source tweet or doc

Repo: https://github.com/abhishekray07/claude-md-templates

What's in your CLAUDE.md that's made a measurable difference?
by Empact | 2026-02-05 14:35:55+00:00
The Old English representation, inclusive of the long S, is consistent with the 1847 source material, as you can see here: https://archive.org/details/firstsixbooksofe00byrn/page/n21/...

The first printed copy, of 1482, was in Latin: https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667076/

The Greek (Ελληνικά) representation is presumably consistent with Euclid's original manuscript, e.g. as represented in this copy, of 888:
https://historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=208
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2026-02-05 14:36:08+00:00
>I mean, by way of the atrocities we've committed around the world, we kinda do.

I've committed no atrocities. Going to guess that you've committed no atrocities. What atrocities did occur, most of those who committed those are dead, the rest are senile in nursing homes. I have no guilt and certainly feel no guilt for those events.

>it's a useful soft power strategy.

Sure, if you're some sort of tyrant. I thought the left was against colonialism... but you guys really just one a more clever, subtle colonialism eh? Figures.

>I'm saying of all the insane things our government wastes money on, USAID was far down on the list of most egregious.

What you're saying is that no cuts can or should be made, unless they are your favorite cuts first. And maybe after you get those, no others need be made at all.
by alnwlsn | 2026-02-05 14:36:10+00:00
Reminds me of the 2-hole "snake eye" or "pig nose" screw heads you sometimes see in bathrooms or elevators. I have several of the bits for these since they come with every one of those n>20 -piece screwdriver bit sets, but I've never actually had to undo one. I guess that goes for most of the oddball bits those sets come with.

If they really wanted to screw (pun, sorry) with repairability (and at significant cost to themselves), I guess they could start making their own taps and dies for nonstandard threads you can't buy anywhere else. Wouldn't stop them from being unscrewed, though.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-02-05 14:36:46+00:00
Good read, but:

> This kind of thinking is not natural for most people. It’s not natural for engineers. Good engineering involves ...

I have to disagree in the strongest terms. It doesn't matter what it is, the only way to do a good job designing something is to imagine the ways in which things could go wrong. You have to poke holes in your own design and then fix them rather than leaving it to the real world to tear your project to shreds after the fact.

The same thing applies to science. Any even half decent scientist is constantly attempting to tear his own theories apart.

I think Schneier is correct about that sort of thinking not being natural for your typical person. But it _is_ natural (or rather a prerequisite) for truly competent engineers and scientists.
by bix6 | 2026-02-05 14:36:49+00:00
> “Partnering with OpenAI helps us give thousands of State Farm agents and employees better tools to serve our customers. By pairing OpenAI’s Frontier platform and deployment expertise with our people, we’re accelerating our AI capabilities and finding new ways to help millions plan ahead, protect what matters most, and recover faster when the unexpected happens.”
— Joe Park, Executive Vice President and Chief Digital Information Officer at State Farm

Ok how about you tell us one thing this shit is actually doing instead of vague nonsense.
by christpetron | 2026-02-05 14:37:44+00:00
I was using "Check mail from other accounts" to pull from 3 custom domain accounts into a single Gmail inbox. Tried auto-forwarding first. Within two weeks, my emails were landing in spam because the forwarding was tanking my sender reputation (it forwards the spam too). The Gmail mobile IMAP option is mobile-only with separate inboxes, so that was a non-starter.

I ended up building a hosted POP/IMAP bridge that does what Gmail used to do: logs into your external accounts on a schedule, fetches new messages, and forwards them to Gmail via SMTP with proper SPF/DKIM alignment. The key difference from auto-forwarding is pull vs. push. Spam stays on the external server instead of getting forwarded into Gmail.

It's at https://mailbridge.app. Currently collecting waitlist signups, polishing the MVP now. Happy to answer questions about the technical approach (credential encryption, deduplication, deliverability, etc).
by 112233 | 2026-02-05 14:38:18+00:00
I have no idea where on those slides it says non-volatile storage should not be used for non-permanent, temporary data.

It does note main differences (speed, latency, permanence). How does that limit what data disk can be used for?

What would one use optane DIMMs for?

Also, if my program requires huge working set to process the data, why would I spend the effort and implement my own paging to templrary working files, instead of allocating ridiculous amount of memory and letting OS manage it for me? What is the benefit?
by ossa-ma | 2026-02-05 14:38:40+00:00
> "75% of enterprise workers say AI helped them do tasks they couldn’t do before."

> "At OpenAI alone, something new ships roughly every three days, and that pace is getting faster."

- We're seeing all these productivity improvements and it seems as though devs/"workers" are being forced to output so much more, are they now being paid proportionally for this output? Enterprise workers now have to move at the pace of their agents and manage essentially 3-4 workers at all times (we've seen this in dev work). Where are the salary bumps to reflect this?

- Why do AI companies struggle to make their products visually distinct OpenAI Frontier looks the exact same as OpenAI Codex App which looks the exact same as GPT

- OpenAI going for the agent management market share (Dust, n8n, crewai)
by duxup | 2026-02-05 14:38:57+00:00
I feel like that car security situation also is sort of setup to tell us about how folks with a security mindset can go overboard?

Some car dealership who never had a car stolen hires a consultant and they identify this pickup situation as a problem. Then they implement some wild security and now customers who just dropped off their car, just talked to the same customer service person about the weather ... have to go through some extra security to impersonally prove who they are, because someone imagined a problem that has never occurred (or nearly never). But here we go doing the security dance because someone imagined a problem that really has nothing to do with how people actually steal cars...

Computers and the internet are different of course, the volume of possibilities / bad actors you could be exposed to are seemingly endless. Yet even there security mindset can go overboard.

I'm currently trying to recover/move some developer accounts for some services because we had someone leave the company less than gracefully. Often I have my own account, it's part of an organization ... but moving ownership is an arduous and bizarrely different process for each company. I get it, you wouldn't want someone to take over our no name organization, but the process all seem to involve extra steps piled on "for security". The fact that I'm already a customer, have an account in good standing, part of the organization, the organization account holder has been inactive ... doesn't seem to matter at all, I may as well be a stranger from the outside, presumably because of "security".
by mhitza | 2026-02-05 14:39:12+00:00
> This is happening for AI leaders across every industry, and the pressure to catch up is increasing.

> Enterprises are feeling the pressure to figure this out now, because the gap between early leaders and everyone else is growing fast.

> The question now isn’t whether AI will change how work gets done, but how quickly your organization can turn agents into a real advantage.

FOMO at its finnest. "Quick before you're left behind for good this time!"

The idea itself has sensibility. It is the kind of AI application I've been pitching to companies, though without going all in on agents. Though I think it would be foollish for any CEO to build this on top of OpenAi, instead of a self-hosted model, and also train the model for them. You're just externalizing your internal knowledge this way.
Show HN: A minimal identity registry for AI agents
by alexanderlebed | 2026-02-05 14:39:19+00:00
We are missing identity infrastructure for AI agents.

As agents begin to act across platforms, make decisions, and accumulate real-world consequences,
the absence of a persistent identity layer becomes a structural risk.

This project proposes a minimal, neutral registry for AI agents:
not governance, not ethics, not control — identity only.

The repository is intentionally in an early legitimation phase.
Serious critique is explicitly invited.

If you work on agent architectures, digital identity, infrastructure standards,
or AI governance, your critical input would be valuable.

GitHub:
https://github.com/alexanderlebed/aiagentid-org
by tbyehl | 2026-02-05 14:39:52+00:00
> Using LE to apply SSL to services? Complicated.

https://github.com/JessThrysoee/synology-letsencrypt

> there is very little one can do with this thing.

It has a VMM and Docker. Entware / opkg exist for it. There's very little that can't be done, but expecting to use an appliance that happens to be Linux-based as a generic Linux server is going to lead to challenges. Be it Synology, TrueNAS, or anything else.
by ramses0 | 2026-02-05 14:40:26+00:00
re: youtube music, I just tried it on my phone and it worked fine... maaaybe b/c you're not a youtube premium subscriber and google wants to shove ads into your sweet sweet eyeballs?

The one that kindof caught me off guard was asking "hey siri, how long will it take me to get home?" => "You'll need to unlock your iPhone for that, but I don't recommend doing that while driving..." => if you left your phone unattended at a bar and someone could figure out your home address w/o unlock.

...I'm kindof with you, maybe similar to AirTags and "Trusted Locations" there could be a middle ground of "don't worry about exposing rough geolocation or summary PII". At home, in your car (connected to a known CarPlay), kindof an in-between "Geo-Unlock"?
by Nextgrid | 2026-02-05 14:40:32+00:00
> At a major semiconductor manufacturer, agents reduced chip optimization work from six weeks to one day.

I call BS right there. If you can actually do that, you’d spin up a “chip optimization” consultancy and pocket the massive efficiency gain, not sell model access at a couple bucks per million-tokens.

There should be a massive “caveats and terms apply” on that quote.

So far the AI productivity gains have been all bark and no bite. I’ll believe when I see either faster product development, higher quality or lower prices (which indeed happened with other technological breakthroughs, whether the printing press or the loom) - if anything, software quality is going down suggesting we aren’t there yet.
by dahcryn | 2026-02-05 14:40:32+00:00
weirdly enough, we asked microsoft to help us build these reports and give us insights into these numbers. The ones in our country were utterly incapable and just send screenshots of powerbi reports from the US team.

So yeah, it really is completely broken internally. monopoly abuse to the fullest, we weren't even allowed by our CTO to do an RFP with potential copilot competitors, and the license cost for 5000 users is insane
by lateforwork | 2026-02-05 14:40:36+00:00
Publisher is the equivalent of InDesign. It was meant for brochures and so on. If you want to write a long technical manual today most people use Word. In that respect we are using less powerful software today than our grandparents.

Note: Adobe bought FrameMaker and continues to sell FrameMaker. But Word has captured the market not because of its technical merit but because of bundling.