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Hyperfine: A command-line benchmarking tool (Score: 152+ in 15 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ibsY
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6ibsY
Maslow 4: Large format CNC routing made accessible (Score: 150+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ic6M
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6ic6M
Rats Learned to Drive–and They Love It (Score: 150+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6iccg
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6iccg
Llama 3.1 405B now runs at 969 tokens/s on Cerebras Inference (Score: 151+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ibSb
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6ibSb
The Skyline algorithm for packing 2D rectangles (Score: 150+ in 12 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ia5k
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6ia5k
MailCatcher runs a super simple SMTP server (Score: 152+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6iarh
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6iarh
Show HN: Documind – Open-source AI tool to turn documents into structured data (Score: 151+ in 14 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6i9v9
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6i9v9
Documind is an open-source tool that turns documents into structured data using AI.
What it does:
- Extracts specific data from PDFs based on your custom schema
- Returns clean, structured JSON that's ready to use
- Works with just a PDF link + your schema definition
Just run npm install documind to get started.
Show HN: Zyme – An Evolvable Programming Language (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hZLY
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hZLY
Zyme is an esoteric language for genetic programming: creating computer programs by means of natural selection.
Is Chrome the New IE? (2023) (Score: 151+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6i8mx
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6i8mx
Finland and Lithuania Report Severed Undersea Data Cables (🔥 Score: 151+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6iaT6
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6iaT6
Against Best Practices (Score: 150+ in 11 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6i9fA
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6i9fA
Bhutan, after prioritizing happiness, now faces an existential crisis (Score: 152+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6i9Nt
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6i9Nt
It's time to replace TCP in the datacenter (2023) (Score: 151+ in 14 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6i8KP
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6i8KP
Reactive HTML Notebooks (Score: 152+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6i9iW
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6i9iW
Show HN: The App I Built to Help Manage My Diabetes (Score: 152+ in 15 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6i8AM
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6i8AM
Hi HN,
I’m Joshua, a student, and I’m excited (and a little nervous) to share something deeply personal that I’ve been working on: Islet, my diabetes management app powered by GPT-4o-mini. It’s now on the App Store, but I want to be upfront—it’s still very much in its early stages, with a lot more to go.
I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes while rowing competitively, and that moment changed everything. It wasn’t just the practical challenges of managing insulin, carb counts, and blood sugars; it fundamentally shifted how I see myself and the world. It forced me to slow down, prioritise my health, and take control in ways I never had to before. My outlook on life became more focused on resilience, adaptability, and finding solutions to problems that truly matter.
This app started as a pet project over the summer, a way to see what I could create using ChatGPT and explore the potential of LLMs to help with real-world challenges. At first, it was just about making my own diabetes management easier—understanding patterns in blood sugars, planning meals, and adjusting routines. But as I worked on it, I realised it could do more.
Right now, Islet offers personalised meal suggestions, tracks activity, and provides basic insights based on the data you enter. It’s far from complete. Even so, the process of building Islet has already taught me so much about how powerful AI can be in creating personal, meaningful tools.
This project is deeply tied to how my diagnosis changed me. It’s about more than managing diabetes, it’s about showing how anyone, even a student experimenting over the summer, can use AI to potentially solve real, personal problems. I believe tools like LLMs have the power to democratise solutions for all, making life just a bit easier for all of us.
If you’re curious, you can check it out here: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/islet-diabetes/id6453168642. I’d love to hear your thoughts what works, what doesn’t, and what features you think would make it better. Your input could help shape the next steps for Islet.
Thanks for reading !
joshua
Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science (Score: 154+ in 14 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ibvM
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6ibvM
$8k Suzuki from India received a 5-star crash test rating (❄️ Score: 151+ in 6 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hR35
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hR35
LLaVA-O1: Let Vision Language Models Reason Step-by-Step (Score: 150+ in 19 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6i9qm
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6i9qm
AMD now has more compute on the top 500 than Nvidia (Score: 151+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6iaSa
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6iaSa
Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted (Score: 150+ in 12 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6i9Tx
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6i9Tx
Air traffic failure caused by two locations 3600nm apart sharing 3-letter code (❄️ Score: 151+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hWvb
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hWvb
20 years of Google Scholar (Score: 150+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6iaFr
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6iaFr
DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome (🔥 Score: 174+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ibyr
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6ibyr
Show HN: Tips.io – A Tailwind playground with AI, page management, and theming (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ia5r
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6ia5r
Hi HN!
My name is Nick and this is my fun side project. Please lay it on me. HN can think of Tips.io as a cracked out Tailwind Playground that has page management and amazing AI integration.
There are a few core ideas:
1) The HTML is the CMS
There are no fields or restrictions. Just hover, click, and start tweaking any HTML. Also, certain elements you click will have special easy edit abilities:
- <img> auto creates an uploader, stock photo picker (or HTML)
- <video> auto creates an uploader, stock video picker (or HTML)
- <svg> auto creates a big icon picker (or HTML)
- <div class="prose"> auto creates a WYSIWYG Editor (or HTML)
2) Slices
Think of these as just individual HTML sections of a page or lil baby single-file components. They are self-contained and isolated so you drag them around easily. The real power comes from reuse across your pages and linking them (aka, one HTML footer updates globally). You can also use "slices" from any other tips.io project for quickly expanding your site with more design options.
3) AI Elements, Not Pages
Another cool concept is you can select any element on an HTML slice an edit that individually vs re-streaming/rebuilding and entire component every time. We support 5 different AI models right now. Some other really intense/cool AI integration is coming soon.
4) Tailwind Everything, No Build Step, & Theming
We have a custom "themer" to make creating Tailwind config files near instant with real-time font trying, color palettes/preset trying, and more. All our Tailwind is automatic and requires zero config instantly. The same Tailwind that magic runs client-side will run server-side so quick no one knows a build step is happening. Tailwind and AI are also a match made in heaven.
Other features:
- Animations
- Zoomable page tree
- Basic Forms (yes on your static site!)
- Analytics
- Redirects, site passwords, and much more.
Tech:
- 100% Cloudflare Workers
- Svelte
- UnoCSS
Some resources:
- Promo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8U2rJJX-rk
- Tutorial & demo video: https://tips.io/tutorial
- Just launch: https://new.tips.io
A BBC navigation bar component broke depending on the external monitor (Score: 150+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ia7t
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6ia7t
Museum of Bad Art (Score: 150+ in 19 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6i8AZ
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6i8AZ
Teen behind hundreds of swatting attacks pleads guilty to federal charges (Score: 154+ in 16 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6i8DE
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6i8DE
I was banned from the hCaptcha accessibility account for not being blind (2023) (Score: 166+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6i9sw
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6i9sw
Show HN: Nova JavaScript Engine (Score: 152+ in 16 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6i8uY
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6i8uY
We're building a different kind of JavaScript engine, based on data-oriented design and willingness to try something quite out of left field. This is most concretely visible in our major architectural choices:
1. All data allocated on the JavaScript heap is placed into a type-specific vector. Numbers go into the numbers vector, strings into the strings vector, and so on.
2. All heap references are type-discriminated indexes: A heap number is identified by its discriminant value and the index to which it points to in the numbers vector.
3. Objects are also split up into object kind -specific vectors. Ordinary objects go into one vector, Arrays go into another, DataViews into yet another, and so on.
4. Unordinary objects' heap data does not contain ordinary object data but instead they contain an optional index to the ordinary objects vector.
5. Objects are aggressively split into parts to avoid common use-cases having to reading parts that are known to be unused.
If this sounds interesting, I've written a few blog posts on the internals of Nova over in our blog, you can jump into that here: https://trynova.dev/blog/what-is-the-nova-javascript-engine
Xogot – Godot for iPad (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6i6gZ
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6i6gZ