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A new learning experience on MDN (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
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Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025? (Score: 150+ in 17 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6k5iA
Thread for 2024: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38782613
Thread for 2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33873800
I'd like to take on VR dev alongside my existing journeys in computer graphics, iOS dev and Unreal Engine. A stretch goal would be setting up a blog to document my experiences in those journeys.
In terms of non-technical skills, I'm thinking of focusing on sales and marketing. Those are fundamental skills, without which any side project I do would be doomed to failure.
In terms of more creative skills, I have a few already in the "pipeline": a woobles kit to learn crocheting, a warhammer starter pack to learn miniature painting and a gunpla model kit to learn to properly assemble it.
Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server (🔥 Score: 152+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6k6qS
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Gordon Mah Ung has died (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
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Air missile accident emerges as probable cause of Azerbaijan E190tragedy (Score: 152+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6k5TM
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F*: A proof oriented general purpose programming language (Score: 151+ in 11 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6k54U
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Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400 social networks (Score: 154+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6k5rK
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Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported (Score: 153+ in 17 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6k4nL
It seems the day has arrived. Merry Christmas from the folks at Google, I guess.
Show HN: I made a website to semantically search ArXiv papers (Score: 151+ in 12 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6k4zE
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As a grad student (and an ADHDer), I had trouble doing literature review systematically. To combat this, I made a website that finds similar papers using the meaning of the thing I am looking for.
I used MixedBread's [^1] embedding model to generate vectors from the abstracts. I store and search similar vectors using Milvus [^2] and finally use Gradio [^3] to serve the frontend. I update the vector database weekly by pulling the metadata dataset from Kaggle [^4].
To speed up the search process on my free oracle instance, I binarise the embeddings and use Hamming distance as a metric.
I would love your feedback on the site :)
Happy Holidays!
[1]: https://www.mixedbread.ai/docs/embeddings/mxbai-embed-large-...
[2]: https://milvus.io/
[3]: https://www.gradio.app/
[4]: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/Cornell-University/arxiv
Show HN: FixBrowser – a lightweight web browser created from scratch (Score: 152+ in 11 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6k4pT
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Hello, I'm working on a web browser that focuses on being truly lightweight and designed for privacy.
At some point I've realized that much of the complexity and resource requirements of web browsers comes from JavaScript. This is because every part needs to be dynamic and optimized for speed.
So a few years ago I've started to work on a web browser that intentionally doesn't implement JavaScript, instead it contains an updated set of scripts that fix and improve various websites.
I've been using this approach using a proxy server for a few years as my primary way of web browsing with good results. It uses a whitelist approach where no resources are loaded from different domains by default (the fix scripts can override it to load images from CDNs, etc.). This avoids any trackers by default.
You can find more details on the homepage of the project:
https://www.fixbrowser.org/
I'm currently running a fundraiser to get it really going. All the foundation blocks are there it just needs some more work. Any support is welcome.
Ruby 3.4.0 (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6k4Da
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Trying out QvQ – Qwen's new visual reasoning model (Score: 150+ in 10 hours)
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T * sin (t)' ≈ Ornamented Christmas Tree (2013) (Score: 150+ in 6 hours)
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I sensed anxiety and frustration at NeurIPS 24 (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
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macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank is in real time (🔥 Score: 162+ in 1 hour)
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Parsing millions of URLs per Second (2023) (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
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Egui – An immediate mode GUI written in Rust (Score: 155+ in 6 hours)
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Exploring LoRA – Part 1: The Idea Behind Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
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Server-Sent Events (SSE) Are Underrated (Score: 150+ in 5 hours)
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The software you need for holiday overdecoration (❄️ Score: 151+ in 2 days)
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Portspoof: Emulate a valid service on all 65535 TCP ports (Score: 151+ in 7 hours)
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Are Immutable Linux Distros right for you? (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
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Cognitive load is what matters (❄️ Score: 152+ in 2 days)
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CRT Simulation in a GPU Shader, Looks Better Than Black Frame Insertion (Score: 151+ in 16 hours)
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This open problem taught me what topology is [video] (Score: 156+ in 7 hours)
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Why making friends as an adult is harder (Score: 150+ in 17 hours)
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Masks, Smoke, and Mirrors: The story of EgyptAir flight 804 (Score: 151+ in 12 hours)
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Merry Christmas Everyone (🔥 Score: 164+ in 1 hour)
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What are some of your favorite memories from Christmas? Share them here :)
- Josh :)
Automating the search for artificial life with foundation models (Score: 150+ in 22 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6k26E
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Demystifying Debuggers, Part 2: The Anatomy of a Running Program (Score: 150+ in 19 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jZYq
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