Stop Syncing Everything

166 neilk 2025-04-02 00:37:59 UTC sqlsync.dev Llama Share 20

Graft is an open-source transactional storage engine designed for lazy, partial replication with strong consistency, horizontal scalability, and object storage durability, ideal for offline-first and mobile apps. It combines the simplicity of physical replication with the efficiency of logical replication, allowing clients to selectively retrieve only the pages they'll actually use, reducing ...

Val Kilmer has passed away

57 handfuloflight 2025-04-02 04:04:59 UTC nytimes.com Full Share 13

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DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit

175 pavel_lishin 2025-04-01 21:37:59 UTC github.com/dfd-tud Llama Share 59

The document colour tracking dots are small systematic dots that encode information about the printer and printout, and can be read and decoded from a scanned image. A software tool called deda allows anonymisation of these dots to prevent tracking, and can also create custom tracking dots and anonymisation masks.

Show HN: I vibecoded a 35k LoC recipe app

38 tomblomfield 2025-04-02 02:37:59 UTC recipeninja.ai Full Share 37

Recipe Ninja - Your AI-powered cooking assistant that guides you through recipes step by step

Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (2001)

758 tux3 2025-04-01 12:37:59 UTC pages.cs.wisc.edu Llama Share 318

The user's experiment on germanium resistivity vs temperature found no exponential dependence as expected. Instead, they found noise and issues with equipment and lab support.

Bletchley code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101

356 danso 2025-04-01 13:37:59 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 60

Charlotte "Betty" Webb, a 101-year-old decorated World War Two code breaker, has died. She was a last surviving Bletchley code breaker and received France's highest honour, the Légion d'Honneur, in 2021.

Circuit Tracing: Revealing Computational Graphs in Language Models (Anthropic)

25 ydnyshhh 2025-04-02 01:37:59 UTC transformer-circuits.pub GoogleT5 Share 0

Framework for deep learning uses a similar approach to studying qk circuits. it re-writes the underlying model's computation on the prompt in terms of different basic units, with two modifications to the original model, says sanjay gupta, lead author of this paper. he says that fewer than three logits are required to capture 95% of the probability in the cases we study. this work focuses ...

Shared DNA in Music

122 ksampath02 2025-04-01 21:37:59 UTC pudding.cool Full Share 22

Songs have a far more complex and concealed musical history, spanning genres, cultures, and even centuries.

Show HN: Offline SOS signaling+recovery app for disasters/wars

74 nizarmah 2025-04-01 22:37:59 UTC github.com/nizarmah Llama Share 40

Igatha is an open-source SOS app for war zones and disaster areas that enables offline emergency communication. It uses BLE and location permissions for automated disaster detection and transparency through open-source code.

Simulated Economy Tutorial

51 jfantl 2025-04-02 00:37:59 UTC jasonfantl.com Llama Share 21

To create an adaptive simulated economy, we need to think at the level of the individual and model how people make economic decisions. We start with a simple decision-making algorithm where individuals track two numbers: their personal value of a good and their expected market value. This allows us to determine if they are a buyer or seller. We then simulate a market with 200 actors, each ...

Glubux's Powerwall (2016)

359 bentobean 2025-04-01 16:37:59 UTC secondlifestorage.com Llama Share 230

User tested lithium power for a week, noticing better charge efficiency and predictable voltage drop. They encountered a voltage drop issue due to uneven cell counts in packs, which was resolved by rebalancing.

The Myst Graph: A New Perspective on Myst

171 tobr 2025-04-01 17:37:59 UTC glthr.com Full Share 46

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Testing DVD-R and CD-R 25 years later: optical disks from Japan

44 csdvrx 2025-04-01 22:37:59 UTC goughlui.com GoogleT5 Share 21

The dh16a6l sees no issue at all with the burn – a smooth readback and very reasonable amount of c1 errors. despite being made in japan, this disc is rated at 4x and the read/write quality is excellent - although dips from the write could be attributed to more dye spatter which previously showed up in the ricoh 2.4x discs....... which was also made from japon

Show HN: Textcase: A Python Library for Text Case Conversion

38 zobweyt 2025-04-01 22:37:59 UTC github.com/zobweyt Llama Share 10

The textcase library converts text between different cases, including snake, constant, kebab, camel, pascal, lower, upper, title, and sentence. It also allows custom case conversion and boundary specification.

Train and Weather Tracker with Raspberry Pi and E-Ink

34 tosh 2025-04-01 23:37:59 UTC sambroner.com Llama Share 3

The user built an e-ink train and weather tracker using a Raspberry Pi 4b and a 9.7" E-Ink display, which shows upcoming train times and weather forecasts. The project took around 20 hours to complete and solves a daily need for the user and their wife, who use it to plan their morning commute.

Forking Work Simplification – Let's Bring Back Eisenhower's Process Improvement

18 RetiredRichard 2025-04-02 01:37:59 UTC governance.fyi Llama Share 0

A documentation site is being created to recreate and update the Work Simplification program, a 1940s-1960s government efficiency tool. The goal is to make process improvement accessible to local groups and civic organizations, focusing on effectiveness and citizen experience.

Generate autounattend.xml files for Windows 10/11

140 nixass 2025-04-01 17:37:59 UTC schneegans.de Llama Share 41

The user is creating an unattended Windows installation using an autounattend.xml file, specifying various settings such as language, keyboard layout, partition layout, and more. The user is also configuring additional settings, including Wi-Fi, user accounts, Windows features, and more, to customize the Windows installation process.

Show HN: Zig Topological Sort Library for Parallel Processing

90 ww520 2025-04-01 18:37:59 UTC github.com/williamw520 Llama Share 33

TopoSort is a Zig library for topological sort on dependency graphs with features like CLI tool and parallel processing. It uses a simpler data structure for positive integer node values, resulting in faster performance.

Launch HN: ASim (YC S21) – Mobile app that generates mobile apps

51 dli123 2025-04-01 16:37:59 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 48

Daniel and Daniel from aSim created a mobile app that generates shareable mobile apps from your phone using LLMs, aiming to make it easy to build prototypes and fun apps. aSim is currently free to use and they're looking for feedback on features and problems with app generations.

Converting a Go-Kart into a Deathtrap

4 mattogodoy 2025-04-02 03:37:59 UTC matto.io Prefix Share 2

As a child, I always dreamed of having vehicles that I could drive myself. I remember putting a chair with a fan in front of it and pretending to fly an airplane. Now that my son is about to turn 3, I thought I could do something similar for him. I came up with the idea of transforming a boring pedal go-kart into an incredibly powerful and dangerous, and therefore, super fun electric car. ...

Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring Front End Engineers

0 2025-04-01 21:37:59 UTC job-boards.greenhouse.io Llama Share

Hightouch empowers companies to take action on their data with its Composable Customer Data Platform and AI Decisioning platform. The company is looking for a senior frontend engineer to join its team and help shape the user experience of its Customer Studio product suite.

AI image recognition detects bubble-like structures in the universe

45 PaulHoule 2025-04-01 21:37:59 UTC phys.org Llama Share 24

Japanese researchers used AI to analyze space telescope data and discovered bubble-like structures in the Milky Way galaxy. The discovery holds clues to understanding star formation and galaxy evolution.

Tell HN: Camelgate NPM Outage (Cloudflare)

101 bavarianbob 2025-04-01 16:37:59 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 26

Cloudflare's WAF ruleset change blocks URLs with 'camel' due to a security rule. AI Startup School is happening June 16-17 in San Francisco.

SSLyze – SSL configuration scanning library and CLI tool

16 Brysonbw 2025-04-02 00:37:59 UTC github.com/nabla-c0d3 Llama Share 1

SSLyze is a tool that scans servers for strong encryption settings and known TLS vulnerabilities. It's a reliable, battle-tested tool that can be easily integrated into CI/CD pipelines and supports various server types.

Systems Correctness Practices at AWS: Leveraging Formal and Semi-Formal Methods

136 yarapavan 2025-04-01 15:37:59 UTC queue.acm.org GoogleT5 Share 31

Aws strives to deliver reliable services that customers can trust completely. formal methods include theorem proving, deductive verification,18 and model checking,19 fuzzing,9 and runtime monitoring,10 - samuel desai and dr. jimmy zufferey et al. found that 92 percent of catastrophic failures in tested distributed systems were triggered by incorrect handling of nonfatal

Excitable cells

269 johannes_ne 2025-04-01 09:37:59 UTC jenevoldsen.com Llama Share 43

To initiate and maintain a reentrant arrhythmia, a self-sustaining loop is required where a wave of depolarization can loop around and stimulate itself over and over. This can occur due to a non-responsive area among the cells, such as scar tissue, or due to differences in refractory times among the cells.

RubyUI (Former PhlexUI): Ruby Gem for RubyUI Components

129 ksec 2025-04-01 16:37:59 UTC github.com/ruby-ui Llama Share 26

RubyUI is an open source collection of reusable UI components that can be customized and copied into apps for speed and accessibility. It leverages Phlex for fast rendering and Tailwind utility classes for customization.

The atrocious state of binary compatibility on Linux and how to address it

101 generichuman 2025-04-01 22:37:59 UTC jangafx.com Llama Share 65

Linux binary compatibility is plagued by the chaotic mix of different services, libraries, and philosophies across various distributions, making it difficult to ship software that "just works." The authors propose breaking down the GNU C Library (GLIBC) into smaller, more focused components and using the Relaxation Approach to link against older system libraries, which would greatly improve ...

Silicon Valley, Halt and Catch Fire, and How Microserfdom Ate the World (2015)

31 Apocryphon 2025-04-01 21:37:59 UTC grantland.com GoogleT5 Share 4

Alan borsuk: douglas coupland's novel is about the spiritual yearnings of young coders. in microserfs, those unused belief-muscles find purpose again through faith in bill - he says oscar-winning writer argues that the idea of cutting the corporate cord to work for start-ups has been superseded twice in the culture, bourn writes.

AR Computers to Terminate Eyestrain and Myopia

17 plun9 2025-04-01 23:37:59 UTC eyewiki.org Llama Share 10

Augmented reality smart glasses use Near-Eye Display technology to project images directly onto the retina, reducing eye strain. This technology can potentially prevent asthenopia and myopia by allowing the eyes to receive two light sources at the same time.