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OpenAI Charges by the Minute, So Make the Minutes Shorter (🔥 Score: 161+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wGQf
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6wGQf
A new PNG spec (Score: 153+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wDfC
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Gemini CLI (🔥 Score: 150+ in 59 minutes)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wGNZ
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6wGNZ
How to Think About Time in Programming (Score: 152+ in 16 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wEK4
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6wEK4
Making TRAMP go Brrrr (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wAfC
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6wAfC
Show HN: Report idling vehicles in NYC (and get a cut of the fines) with AI (Score: 150+ in 16 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wxJA
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6wxJA
New York City has this cool program that lets anyone report idling commercial vehicles and get a large cut of the fines [1]. It's been in the news recently [2].
I've filed a few reports, and I found the process frustrating and error-prone. The forms are fiddly, there's way too much information that needs to be copied down from the video by hand, you have to use a third-party app to take a timestamped video and a different app to compress it before uploading, and approximately none of it can be done on your phone — the device you probably used to record your video in the first place.
I built Idle Reporter to make filing complaints into a five-minute process that you can do entirely from your phone.
Idle Reporter uses AI to automatically extract all the required information and screenshots from the video and fill out the form for you. It compresses your video, adds the required screenshots, and uploads the whole thing to DEP. All you have to do is log in, give it a final check, and submit.
The AI features cost me money to run, so I put those behind a subscription ($5.99/month, which can pay for itself after a single report). There's a one-week free trial so you can test it out. All the other features — including a fully-featured timestamp camera, which other apps charge for, and an editor for filling out the forms manually and submitting in a single step — will be free forever, as a service to the community.
The app is iOS-only for now — part of this was an exercise in learning SwiftUI in my spare time.
Check it out on the App Store and let me know what you think!
[1]: https://www.nyc.gov/site/dep/environment/idling-citizens-air...
[2]: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-york-city-idling-law-report...
Git Notes: Git's coolest, most unloved feature (2022) (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wwJY
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Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success (🔥 Score: 157+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wre2
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Giant, all-seeing telescope is set to revolutionize astronomy (Score: 150+ in 18 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wpK7
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6wpK7
Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix (🔥 Score: 153+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wrjg
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Getting Started Strudel (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wcdJ
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I will do anything to end homelessness except build more homes (Score: 153+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wqsT
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Estrogen: A Trip Report (Score: 150+ in 14 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wpm3
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Infinite Mac OS X (Score: 152+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wpQZ
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What would a Kubernetes 2.0 look like (Score: 150+ in 14 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wmXK
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Build an iOS app on Linux or Windows (Score: 151+ in 14 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wFwT
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Lyon Drops Microsoft to Boost Digital Sovereignty (Score: 151+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wGeT
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Reading NFC Passport Chips in Linux (Score: 150+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wG58
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Excalidraw+ Is Now SoC 2 Certified (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wC7x
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uv: An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust (🔥 Score: 157+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wAAD
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I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst (Score: 153+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wyk4
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'Gwada negative': French scientists find new blood type in woman (Score: 150+ in 23 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wtBF
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In praise of “normal” engineers (Score: 150+ in 23 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wnUY
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Asterinas: A new Linux-compatible kernel project (Score: 150+ in 15 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wpXw
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Open source can't coordinate? (Score: 150+ in 14 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wpUi
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Learn Makefiles (Score: 162+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wqsM
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Break Up Big Tech: Civil Society Declaration (🔥 Score: 155+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wqsw
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6wqsw
Hurl: Run and test HTTP requests with plain text (Score: 151+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wq8A
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Show HN: I wrote a new BitTorrent tracker in Elixir (Score: 151+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wpGF
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6wpGF
Hello everyone!
I'm currently in a journey to learn and improve my Elixir and Go skills (my daily job uses C++) and looking through my backlog for projects to take on I decided Elixir is the perfect language to write a highly-parallel BitTorrent tracker.
So I have spent my free time these last 3 months writing one! Now I think it has enough features to present it to the world (and a docker image to give it a quick try).
I know some people see trackers as relics of the past now that DHT and PEX are common but I think they still serve a purpose in today's Internet (purely talking about public trackers). That said there is not a lot going on in terms of new developments since everyone just throws opentracker in a vps a calls it a day (honorable exceptions: aquatic and torrust).
I plan to continue development for the foreseeable future and add some (optional) esoteric features along the way so if anyone currently operates a tracker please give a try and enjoy the lack of crashes.
note: only swarm_printout.ex has been vibe coded, the rest has all been written by hand.
Show HN: A DOS-like hobby OS written in Rust and x86 assembly (Score: 150+ in 12 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wndn
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6wndn
To try it out, simply build the project yourself from source, or use attached bootable ISO image of the system (in Releases on Github) and run it in QEMU.
https://blog.vxn.dev/rou2exos-rusted-edition