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Launch HN: Keet (YC S24) – An app to create video courses on anything

Hi HN! We’re Zack and Tommy the Co-Founders of Keet (https://trykeet.com). We are building a mobile app that generates courses on any topic, with short videos for explanation and games for reinforcement. Courses mirror a real curriculum to...

Show HN: Pane – An open-source browser that turns your work into living websites

TLDR: I wasn't satisfied with any of the AI browsers available right now. So, I went wild and built exactly what I wanted. I built a browser that's as comprehensive as an autonomous agent like Hermes, while removing the need for hundreds of...

PM Modi urges reel-loving Gen Z to avoid shortcuts, look beyond social media culture

Today is the era of reels, social media influencers draw you somewhere. But in this age too, remember what's written in railway stations: Shortcut will cut you short,' said PM Modi.

Mental Health and Manifestation Culture

“Lucky girl syndrome” was a TikTok trend involving the repeated mental affirmation that one is the luckiest person alive in order to make it so. Explained on social media in terms of neuroscience and ...

Social media and digital culture between Asean and China

IN the digital era, culture is no longer simply preserved and communicated through traditional institutions such as museums, schools and mass media. Instead, social media technologies have fundamentally transformed culture into a dynamic, participatory, algorithm-driven and co-created digital phenomenon.

Social Media is the WNBA’s Solution to Eliminate False Narratives

As the WNBA continues growing, more people are recognizing women’s basketball as a culture. Despite that growth, the WNBA ...

Mexican cartel violence turns social media influencers into targets

The killing of livestreamer César Gastélum in Culiacán has renewed scrutiny of why Mexican cartels may target influencers, ...

Collette Health and VirtuAlly Partner to Deliver Virtual Care for Health Systems

The collaboration pairs Collette Health's enterprise-grade virtual care platform with VirtuAlly's experienced virtual clinical team. Integrated into existing workflows, the combined solution helps ...

What types of social interactions benefit people with social anxiety the most?

Our study suggests that socialising with acquaintances could trigger social anxiety more than close friends or strangers.

Virtual fashion show fundraiser helps Manna House build for the future

Fashion with a purpose: Manna House seeks support for $300,000 campaign ...

5 secrets happy couples keep off social media

In an era dominated by social media oversharing and curated digital feeds, constant relationship declarations often signal ...

VB-MAPP and objective measurement for autism: How eye-tracking complements verbal behavior assessment

VB-MAPP and objective measurement for autism: How eye-tracking complements verbal behavior assessment  The VB-MAPP is one of the most widely used assessments in applied behavior analysis, and for good reason. It gives BCBAs a structured, […]

Children using social media at younger age perform worse in school tests, study says: What Indian parents need to know

According to new findings, early exposure to social media—starting at ages eleven or twelve—can detrimentally affect school ...

A Guide To Creating An Effective Social Media Marketing Plan

With over 5 billion people on social media, platforms like Instagram, Facebook and TikTok aren’t just places to scroll—they’re places to sell. As consumers spend an average of 141 minutes per day on ...

MDRT study: Most Americans prefer in-person or hybrid communication with financial advisors

Consumers continue to rely on personal interaction in financial advising, especially during periods of market volatility and financial stressPARK RIDGE, Ill., Aug. 12, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Despite the continued growth of digital communication tools in financial services, a recent survey from MDRT, The Premier Association of Financial Professionals®, discovered the majority of consumers (69.2%) prefer in-person or hybrid communication methods with their advisors. Further, nearly half (45.5%)

Social media isn’t simply good or bad for young people, and this review shows why

Social media can support connection, self-expression, help-seeking, and community among adolescents and young adults, but problematic use is associated with depression, anxiety, loneliness, poor sleep, and body image concerns. The review finds that mental health effects depend less on screen time alone than on how social media is used, what content people encounter, and their individual, developmental, and cultural context.

How football clubs build their digital communities

Discover how football clubs build digital communities through interactive content, a sense of belonging, two-way communication, and long-term fan loyalty.

Show HN: An open-source video editor built for coding agents

Hey HN! We’ve been working on this project for almost 3 years now, and recently decided to finally make it open source.It’s a local-first video editor that runs in the browser and is mostly built from scratch. We’re using WebCodecs for all the encoding and decoding work, which lets us get performance pretty close to native editors.Since day one the goal of the project was to solve LLM-based video editing, but the models have only recently become capable enough to make it genuinely useful. Instea

Show HN: Edgi – Letterboxd or Strava for your brain

Hi HNExcited to share edgi.tv - an educational media platform where the things you learn accumulate into a visual map of your intellectual interests. The experiment is whether you can build a consumer product around intellectual identity, something like Letterboxd or Strava but for your brain.The main entry point is a curated TikTok-style feed that surfaces vids from creators like Kurzgezagt, VSauce, AstroAlexandra, Cleo Abram, 3Blue1Brown, etymologynerd, etc with interactive games accessible on

The TED Interview: David Brooks on political healing

New York Times pundit David Brooks describes a plan to rebuild broken communities and offers actionable steps to live a more meaningful life. (Audio only)