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lewhunt.github.io• May 3, 2024• 1 min read

Show HN: DIVZ – UI component to swipe & zoom through content on the 3D z-axisHi all, I'm excited to share DIVZ - a free open source React UI component that lets you scroll, swipe & zoom through HTML elements on the 3D z-axis.Think of it as a new, experimental way to navigate and present web content.Source-code link is below and also in the demo. Hope some of you find it useful, feedback welcome!

news.ycombinator.com• Apr 30, 2024• 1 min read

Show HN: Tailor: Edit Your Websites in the Browser with Llama3Hey HN! I recently built Tailor (https://tailor.cryingpotato.com) as a way to speed up the dev cycle that comes with tweaking a website.My workflow to tweak websites was pretty painful - I’d change things in devtools until they looked visually correct, and then context-switch back to my terminal to apply relevant edits.Tailor makes that process much easier by keeping the edit loop fully in the browser. Tailor uses LLMs as a fuzzy reasoning engine to automatically map your HTML edits to source code edits. It also runs code directly in your browser using WebContainers so you don't have to switch to the terminal to play around with these edits.I’d love for you to try it out. Hit "Get Started" on the landing page and you're taken to the editing screen. Once it loads (only desktop Chrome for now because of WebContainer limitations), you can click the scissor icon on the top-right and start making edits.When you submit an edit, Tailor takes your edit intent and starts exploring the codebase

riddler.game• Mar 5, 2024• 1 min read

Show HN: Riddler – Autonomous Word GameRiddler is a daily, casual word game. Move down the word path by changing one letter at a time, using riddle and image clues to proceed.What's different about Riddler compared to _most_ casual word games is that it's designed to generate its own puzzles and content autonomously with LLMs.I say _most_ casual word games because there is a brilliant exception – Wordle. [https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html]The genius of Wordle lies in its simplicity. Players have six attempts to guess a five-letter word, receiving feedback for each guess in the form of colored tiles that indicate when letters match or occupy the correct position. It can be considered autonomous in the sense that (in theory), each daily puzzle can be created easily by sampling a five-letter word from a set dictionary.But is Wordle truly autonomous? Almost.The NYTimes caught some flack in 2022 when a daily Wordle answer – FETUS – was sampled at an inopportune time. The Roe v Wade supreme court draft ruling had ju

needledrop.me• Feb 29, 2024• 1 min read

Show HN: ChatGPT taught me how to code – I made a daily movie song guessing gameBackstory: I'm a product designer who's mostly worked for startups and now big tech, and I haven't really touched html/css for nearly a decade. I've worked closely with engineers my entire career but never really rolled the sleeves up and dived into a scripting language. I'd seen some engineers playing around with CodeGPT over a year ago when it launched–we huddled around a screen and tried to decide how quickly our jobs would be replaced by this new technology. At the time, we weren’t in any real danger, but I caught a glimpse of how well it understood prompts and stubbed out large amounts of code.For the past four or five years, I've played a hacky trivia game with family and friends where I play a song, and they have to guess the movie that features the song; Guess the Needle Drop. After many passionate debates and over-the-top celebrations fueled by my generation’s nostalgia for popular classic songs and films, people often told me that I needed to “build an app for this.”I started

needledrop.me• Feb 28, 2024• 1 min read

Show HN: Needledrop.me – Guess the movie that features this songBackstory: I'm a product designer who's mostly worked for startups and now big tech, and I haven't really touched html/css for nearly a decade. I've worked closely with engineers my entire career but never really rolled the sleeves up and dived into a scripting language. I'd seen some engineers playing around with CodeGPT over a year ago when it launched–we huddled around a screen and tried to decide how quickly our jobs would be replaced by this new technology. At the time, we weren’t in any real danger, but I caught a glimpse of how well it understood prompts and stubbed out large amounts of code.For the past four or five years, I've played a hacky trivia game with family and friends where I play a song, and they have to guess the movie that features the song; Guess the Needle Drop. After many passionate debates and over-the-top celebrations fueled by my generation’s nostalgia for popular classic songs and films, people often told me that I needed to “build an app for this.”I started

news.ycombinator.com• Jan 27, 2024• 1 min read

Tell HN: Comp Sci, Algebra and Calculus Resources I LikeBelow is a list of resources that I personally like, because most of them emphasize derivations/motivations (e.g., deriving the cross product out of 3 assumptions/axioms) over (mechanical) memorization (e.g., just showing the mechanics of matrix multiplication/determinants without derivations/motivations): - Bari A., Algorithms, YouTube (playlist), https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDN4rrl48XKpZkf03iYFl-O29szjTrs_O - Frenkel E., UC Berkeley: MATH 53 - Multivariable Calculus with Edward Frenkel, YouTube (playlist) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaLOVNqqD-2GcoO8CLvCbprz2J0_1uaoZ - Hower V., Linear Algebra Full Course, YouTube (playlist), https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpcwHaLYiaEXW5fLNOlItPH4ATorKjBuc - Lockhart P., Measurement - Axler S., Linear Algebra, Springer, 2024, https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-031-41026-0.pdf - Ström et al., Immersive Linear Algebra, https://immersivemath.com/ila/index.html (online book) - Margalit et al., Interactive Lin

news.ycombinator.com• Dec 9, 2023• 1 min read

Custom GPTs or the new Pirate Bay? A new security nightmareI have been surveying hundreds of GPTs through my research for the GPT-Analyst GPT and the prompt protection instructions library (see my previous posts).What I found is a huge number of custom GPTs upload pirated PDFs and ebooks. For example: https://x.com/TechWithElias/status/1733448828542722102?s=20Additionally, I found an unbelievable level of sloppiness with some of the knowledge files provided. The authors literally save HTML pages (with its ugly inline JavaScript) 200kb+ and upload as knowledge files. Even if RAG is employed, you are guaranteed the worst performance ever.Hear me out:This practice really enforces my assumptions that OpenAI's custom GPTs' knowledge search uses no RAG whatsoever and instead is just a basic regular expression search for keywords from your prompt. Then the relevant 'pages' are extracted and fed as context. I doubt OAI uses vector dbs or any proper RAG pipeline.Finally:What a new security nightmare going forward to manage all those uploaded files, exp

vectara.com• Sep 28, 2023• 1 min read

Show HN: Launching a new home-grown embedding LLM for RAGHi HN!Vectara is a "batteries included" retrieval augmented generation platform. You can upload your rich text documents like PDFs, HTML pages, word docs, etc, or semi-structured JSON and Vectara handles the text and metadata extraction, segmentation, vector embedding, and vector storage, and keyword storage. You can ask a question or perform a search in the UI or via our APIs and Vectara will automatically handle the vectorization, structured metadata filtering, vector+keyword retrieval, hybrid blending, and generative summarization of the results. We're focusing on building and operationalizing the complex infrastructure for vector storage, hybrid retrieval, and generative summarization so you can use fairly high-level APIs and focus on building your own applications.We know that retrieval accuracy is incredibly important for RAG: garbage in, garbage out. We've seen a lot of projects not spend enough time on really getting the retrieval model right and wasting a lot of time/money wit

cristobal.nfshost.com• Sep 28, 2023• 1 min read

Show HN: DIY Entitled Opinions podcast archiveIncredibly fun and powerful to string along a series of simple tools: parsing a podcast xml, downloading and reencoding the files with ffmpeg, transcribed with whisper-cpp, simple html written by concatenating strings in python, scp'd into a nearly-free speech-host.How it's made: https://github.com/tobyshooters/entitled-opinions

news.ycombinator.com• Jul 10, 2023• 1 min read

Ask HN: Is Firefox on Android Secure?Hi, I'm someone who doesn't work in anything to do with Computer Science but loves lurking the internet so pardon my ignorance,Is Firefox on Android unsecure because it doesn't have multi threated browser isolation? I've read several articles about this, like:https://divestos.org/pages/browsershttps://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.htmlSo I got really concerned because I've used Firefox on my Android Phone for the last couple of years, and regularly visit "shady" and weird sites.Should I switch to Brave?Thank you.

news.ycombinator.com• Jun 29, 2023• 1 min read

Tell HN: Yahoo Mail deletes all emails due to inactivityA few days back, I logged into my 2 year old Yahoo Mail account, which I hadn't opened in the last 1.5 years.Today, my account was "reactivated" and I was greeted by the following email:> Dear USER,> We’re so glad to see you’re back! Due to inactivity, your mailbox entered an inactive state. This means we stopped accepting your incoming emails. If your period of inactivity was long enough, we also deleted all of your emails. Now that you’ve signed back in, your mailbox has been reactivated and you will start receiving new emails again shortly. For more information, please visit the Yahoo Mail policy page at: https://en-global.help.yahoo.com/kb/mail/SLN2018.htmlRest of my inbox was empty and I've lost some important emails (I only used this email for some legal matters 2 years ago).A word of caution to all, set up a reminder to logon to your dormant email addresses every few weeks.

news.ycombinator.com• Jun 1, 2023• 1 min read

Tell HN: Proposal for Saving RedditHere is a proposal that might make the transition from the current ecosystem to a new, openly governed one feasible and smooth.My idea consists of implementing a web application tailored for displaying posts and their associated comments in a general way with a public API matching the existing Reddit one so that existing third-party clients can trivially switch to it; and an underlying broker that can redirect incoming requests either to the internal DB, or to user-specified data sources. It would not store/scrape any Reddit content to avoid any legal action. Instead, users could specify data sources they wish to follow and those will provide the requested data. These services implement a common API protocol.So ideally the legal background would be similar to that of torrent clients - it is the user that might violate Reddit's TOS, not this website.A possible data source would be a Reddit scraper - it could use the existing APIs while possible and later switch to scraping the HTML cont

news.ycombinator.com• Mar 22, 2023• 1 min read

Launch HN: Flower (YC W23) – Train AI models on distributed or sensitive dataHey HN - we're Daniel, Taner, and Nic, and we're building Flower (https://flower.dev/), an open-source framework for training AI on distributed data. We move the model to the data instead of moving the data to the model. This enables regulatory compliance (e.g. HIPAA) and ML use cases that are otherwise impossible. Our GitHub is at https://github.com/adap/flower, and we have a tutorial here: https://flower.dev/docs/tutorial/Flower-0-What-is-FL.html.Flower lets you train ML models on data that is distributed across many user devices or “silos” (separate data sources) without having to move the data. This approach is called federated learning.A silo can be anything from a single user device to the data of an entire organization. For example, your smartphone keyboard suggestions and auto-corrections can be driven by a personalized ML model learned from your own private keyboard data, as well as data from other smartphone users, without the data being transferred from anyone’s device.Most

news.ycombinator.com• Mar 18, 2023• 1 min read

Ask HN: Thinking about going from React back to Backbone?I often think back to how simple Backbone.js was.You could read the entire source code quite easily. Debugging was easy. It was so simple you could write it yourself in fact.A `View/Component` had a `model` property and a `render` function and that was essentially it. Views used data binding, so that you get nice fine-grained reactivity (in React this is a nightmare). You have full control of the performance too. I badly miss being able to manually manipulate HTML to get animations how I would like.I never liked JSX either. I'd prefer to just use JSON. In React, I would always just pass JSON as a single prop like so: ``. The ternary conditionals inside JSX are ugly as hell too.It's just way too hard to understand. You have to keep so many caveats and internals knowledge in your head to make something performant. And it's impossible to debug or step-through. It's simply not JavaScript. I remeber when people liked it because it's "just a library". It's really not. It's more comparable to

webdigest.pages.dev• Jan 17, 2023• 1 min read

Show HN: Web Digest – Collection of (daily) big stories on the webI hate browsing news apps and news websites. It is a time-consuming, energy-draining, and information-overloading experience. There are endless articles to read if one is to read something. The journalism industry, including the UGC aspect of it, produces contents significantly more than what an ordinary human can process (or even decide which to process).However, I do find the fear of missing out a real problem which should be addressed, or even solved, and solving it with an illusion of not missing out is good enough. One has to be very selective in reading, otherwise one would be drown in the flood of information. I find it necessary to limit the size of readable contents and repel the creators/editors/platforms who tempt me to read more and more endlessly. Being long is not a problem for me, but having an unknown length is.Hence this project was brought forth onto this world. I have written scripts to automate the production of Web Digest artifacts in PDF/HTML/MD at 00:01 UTC every

nukacourt.com• Nov 21, 2022• 1 min read

Show HN: Aliasing as Art – Moiré PatternsI've found myself focusing on all the chaos going on in the world to an extent that's not healthy. So I decided to make some art that tries to find a little beauty in what otherwise seems chaotic.This is based on the concept of aliasing[1]. That's exactly what anti-aliasing is normally trying to address in computer graphics, but here aliasing is leveraged to generate interesting visuals. It took some doing to overpower the anti-aliasing that browsers insist on doing. If you look at the JS embedded in the HTML, you'll see that it's nothing more than ~4,000 straight lines being drawn from the center of the window to the edge of the circle that circumscribes the corners of the window. Those lines alternate between cyan and purple, all on a yellow background. The elaborate patterns are merely interactions between the jaggies[2] of adjacent lines. If you want to get more intuition for this, try downloading the source and increasing the increment size in the loop (i.e., the `milliradians +=

news.ycombinator.com• Nov 15, 2022• 1 min read

Meson, a build system for C/C++/Fortran/D will reach 1.0 in the next releaseYesterday took a look and looking at the docs and to my surprise! https://mesonbuild.com/Release-notes-for-1-0-0.htmlAfter 10 years of development, at last, Meson seems it will reach 1.0 status in the next release :)As it has been a long time and this is my personal favorite build system, I would like to share here what makes Meson worth a try in my opinion.For whoever does not know Meson, Meson is a build system generator just like CMake and it is becoming the standard for many uses in the Linux world but it also plays well in Windows, unlike Autotools or Make, which are quite hard to handle in non-unix systems.It supports C, C++, Vala (for Gnome), Fortran, D and limited support for Rust and Java. It can mix and match native binaries as well when compiling and it comes with the usual tweaks for flags, etc, per binary, project, etc. It has its own package system, wraps, and a very well-thought subprojects model (dependencies) but it is also compatible with Conan via pkg-config.Some of

svija.love• Nov 8, 2022• 1 min read

Show HN: All-SVG websites with complex animationI created a system for building SVG-only websites called Svija. But, though the content was nice, the sites felt too static — a bit flat and lifeless. Even a basic HTML website has mouseover effects, but SVG doesn't have them for free the way HTML does.I wanted to find an easy way to recreate mouseover functionality in SVG. For my first try, I labeled objects in Adobe Illustrator: • linkSomeName: an invisible link (over the link text) • mouseoverSomeName: a mouseover decoration (usually bold or colored text, or an underline), initially hidden The two objects are connected by "SomeName", and a javascript event listener attached to the link object would change the mouseover object's CSS display from "none" to "block".Once I had used it for a bit, I thought that it might be nicer if the effects faded in and out. So, I tried animating the transitions with GSAP. It immediately became clear that there was enormous potential to manage complex animations visually, and I worked over the summer

news.ycombinator.com• Oct 12, 2022• 1 min read

Ask HN: Where to start writing a OS/kernel?In the past few years, I'm seeing more and more toy kernel/OS implementations in various languages. I also encountered a few resources on how to do this.So I'd like to dive into this myself, as a means to have fun, experiment, learn and demystify.Where should I start if I want to write a toy OS or kernel? For example, I've stumbled on the following resources until now, are they any good? Do you have any others to recommend?- https://os.phil-opp.com/ (I don't know Rust, but I wanted to learn so this might be a good idea)- https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2022/xv6.htmlAlso, do you have any general tips/advice/insights in mind to share? Do you think it's a good idea for a hobby project?Thanks in advance!

news.ycombinator.com• Dec 20, 2021• 1 min read

Ask HN: Are quantum-ready co’s peddling snake oil?The premise of quantum-ready companies is to prepare their customers for the moment quantum computing breaks current cryptography. For example, RSA is dependent on factorization being computationally hard, but Shor’s Algorithm would provide fast factorization on sufficiently powerful quantum computers.OK. But consider that some theorists make a direct link between quantum computing and non-locality ([1], [2]) while others ([3], [4]) question whether non-locality exists, despite years of confirmation of violations of Bell’s Inequality.If - and it is a big IF - non-locality isn’t a thing, then quantum computing may be an illusion.If quantum computing is illusory, then companies offering the “quantum-ready” are peddling FUD, snake-oil, no?Thoughts?[1] https://phys.org/news/2016-04-quantum-involves-nonlocality.html [2] https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/research-centres-and-groups/controlled-quantum-dynamics/public/people/Matt_Pusey_MRes_new.pdf [3] http://backreaction.blogs