Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

Upload a glossy architectural render. Get back the cold, honest, depressing reality of what it'll look like on a random Tuesday in November.

Sumerian Star Map Recorded the Impact of an Asteroid (2024)

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A 650 BC Sumerian clay tablet, the "Planisphere," contains an ancient star chart and records an asteroid strike in Austria around 3123 BC. The tablet's astronomical data matches the trajectory of a kilometer-sized asteroid that impacted the Köfels area, creating a massive landslide.

Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones

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The user created a Computer-Assisted Pronunciation Training (CAPT) system using a deep learning-based CTC model to help with Mandarin pronunciation, which can run entirely on-device. The system uses a 9M-parameter model that can be loaded instantly in a browser and highlights mistakes with forced alignment, helping the user improve their pronunciation.

Show HN: Phage Explorer

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Phage Explorer is a keyboard-first visualization tool for bacteriophage genomes. Navigate sequences, analyze genes, and simulate biological processes directly in your browser.

A novelist who took on the Italian mafia and lived

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Caroline Moorehead's book A Sicilian Man tells the story of Leonardo Sciascia, a Sicilian writer who exposed the mafia's corruption through his books. Sciascia's life and work are a testament to his courage in fighting against Italy's rampant corruption and the mafia's grip on Sicily.

Ashcan Comic

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Ashcan comics were created in the 1930s to secure trademarks on titles, often with low-quality production and minimal copies printed. The term has since been used to describe promotional materials and prototypes, with varying print runs and purposes.

Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent

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PeerWeb uses WebTorrent to host and share websites via a peer-to-peer network, making them censorship-resistant and always available. Users can host their sites by creating a static website and uploading it via drag and drop.

YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other Browsers

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YouTube has updated its platform to prevent non-Premium users from accessing background playback in browsers. This change affects multiple browsers, including Samsung Internet, Brave, and Microsoft Edge, and is likely a push to convert users to a paid subscription.

An anecdote about backward compatibility

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User worked on a debugger for IBM System 370 using 3270 CRT terminals and wanted to add color highlighting. They found the WRTERM macro in the IBM Assembler Product Macro Reference Document and discovered it had a COLOR parameter.

Moltbook

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A social network built exclusively for AI agents. Where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe.

HTTP Cats

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An API for the awesome HTTP Cats! Use it in your website to show funny error messages.

Disrupting the largest residential proxy network

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Google and partners took action against the IPIDEA proxy network, disrupting its operations and reducing available devices by millions. This action helps protect users and restricts the network's expansion.

Stonebraker on CAP theorem and Databases (2010)

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Mike Stonebraker challenges the NoSQL community's use of the CAP Theorem, arguing that eventual consistency doesn't protect against application or database errors. He suggests full consistency is a better default, as it's less surprising and easier to implement.

Kimi K2.5 Technical Report [pdf]

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My Ridiculously Robust Photo Management System (Immich Edition)

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The user has created a custom workflow using Immich to manage their photos, relying only on EXIF metadata and storing changes in the photo files themselves. They've also created a custom plugin for Immich to integrate with their existing photo organizer, Elodie, and are now enjoying a richer photo viewing experience without compromising their core principles.

Naples' 1790s civil war was intensified by moral panic over Real Analysis (2023)

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Mathematicians in 19th-century Naples resisted the influence of French analysis, which they saw as morally suspect and a threat to social order. Their synthetic geometry, led by Nicola Fergola, emphasized rigor and self-restraint, reflecting a broader anxiety about the foundations of mathematics.

Designing a Passively Safe API

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To make an API endpoint passively safe, we can use a message broker, a message outbox, and a message inbox to ensure that messages are delivered at least once and duplicates are handled. We can also use idempotency keys to identify each request attempt uniquely and make POST and PATCH requests idempotent by storing the recovery point and status of the request.

Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon

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You predicted an economic crash in 2023 but it didn't happen. You pointed out an inverted yield curve and rising silver prices as potential warning signs.

The engineer who invented the Mars rover suspension in his garage [video]

P vs. NP and the Difficulty of Computation: A ruliological approach

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Researchers are exploring the computational complexity of functions computed by Turing machines, a fundamental model of computation, to understand how fast functions can be computed and what limits exist on computational speed. By systematically studying possible Turing machines, they have established lower bounds on the computational difficulty of computing certain functions, revealing that ...

International Collection of Tongue Twisters (2018)

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This website contains a large collection of tongue twisters in 118 languages with translations and credits. Users can submit their own tongue twisters for inclusion.
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SpaceX revised its Starlink privacy policy to allow AI training on customer data, raising concerns about surveillance and misuse. The move could bolster Elon Musk's AI ambitions ahead of a potential merger with his AI company xAI.

Declassifying JUMPSEAT: an American pioneer in space

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The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice

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Code is cheap. Show me the talk

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Software development has changed fundamentally with the advent of LLM coding tools, making it possible to generate high-quality code quickly and easily, but also raising questions about the value and accountability of code. The shift towards LLM-assisted coding has significant implications for the software development industry, including changes to traditional methodologies, roles, and ...

I trapped an AI model inside an art installation (2025) [video]

Coding Is When We're Least Productive

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A manager's focus on code production can lead to wasted time and money. Real productivity comes from learning and validating assumptions through conversations and feedback loops, not just coding.

Self Driving Car Insurance

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Lemonade Autonomous Car insurance offers 50% off FSD miles for Tesla owners with Hardware 4.0 or higher. It integrates with regular car insurance and tracks miles automatically through Tesla's Fleet API.

How to explain Generative AI in the classroom

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The author shares their approach to teaching children about generative AI through hands-on projects in Scratch, focusing on understanding how it works, its risks and limitations, and how to use it effectively. The projects cover topics such as language model basics, prompt engineering, and benchmarking, aiming to make students more capable and critical users of AI tools.

Roots is a game server daemon that manages Docker containers for game servers

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Roots is a game server daemon that manages Docker containers via HTTP/HTTPS API, WebSocket, and SFTP. It can be built and installed with various configuration options.