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Kvittas is a new expense-splitting app showcased on Show HN. Users enter who paid what, and the app calculates the few transfers needed to make everyone even again.

Bema is a new work messaging app pitched as built for humans, but discussion readers criticized its vague privacy policy and unclear description of Slack integration. The creator clarified that Bema supports bidirectional message syncing with selected public Slack channels via an invite and setup wizard, and acknowledged the marketing copy should make this clearer.

A developer has built a browser-based game for practicing Vim commands through short, hands-on editing challenges. The free tool uses a real Vim editor to cover motions, text objects, search, marks, counts, and repeats, with no sign-up required.

Researchers show that AND, OR, and NOT gates can be embedded in neural networks using fixed weights. These gates can be combined into boolean circuits that read model activations, enabling inspection or manipulation of internal computations.

A new resource digitizes all 1,504 marks from Yasaburo Kuwayama’s 1973 book Trademarks & Symbols Vol. 2, cataloging each by designer, company, and chapter. The collection is available as free SVG and PNG files for noncommercial use.

A Katamari Damacy-inspired browser game lets players roll up objects from The Met collection, and readers found the concept fun but rough around the edges. Feedback included adding a music toggle, tuning the overly elastic camera, and fixing keyboard controls so the down key moves backward and left/right turning doesn’t drift forward.

Sava Trust, a YC F25 company, is hiring a founding engineer based in New York City. The role is listed among jobs at Sava Trust Company.

Ashby, a YC W19 company that builds people software for high-growth companies, is hiring engineering managers. The roles support its work serving fast-scaling organizations.