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Show HN: Agent.exe, a cross-platform app to let 3.5 Sonnet control your machine (🔥 Score: 160+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6gKwk
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6gKwk
Adding row polymorphism to Damas-Hindley-Milner (Score: 152+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6gJ2B
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6gJ2B
Ask HN: What's the most creative 'useless' program you've ever written? (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6gziP
I recently came across the concept of "useless" programs - pieces of code that serve no practical purpose but are fun, creative, or challenging to write. These could be anything from elaborate ASCII art generators to programs that solve imaginary problems.
I'm curious to hear about the most interesting or creative "useless" programs the HN community has written. What was your motivation? What unexpected challenges did you face? Did you learn anything valuable from the experience?
Some examples to get the ball rolling:
1. A program that prints the lyrics of "99 Bottles of Beer" in binary.
A text-based game where you play as a semicolon trying to find its way to the end of a line of code.
A script that translates English text into Shakespearean insults.
Share your creations, no matter how quirky or impractical. Let's celebrate the joy of coding for coding's sake!
Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license (🔥 Score: 155+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6gHuB
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6gHuB
Meta Bans Accounts Tracking Private Jets for Zuckerberg, Musk (🔥 Score: 153+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6gH6F
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6gH6F
Show HN: Open-source Counter-Strike-like game (Score: 152+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6gG5g
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6gG5g
Thought experiments that fray the fabric of space-time (Score: 150+ in 23 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6gDGP
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6gDGP
We built a new powerful JSON data type for ClickHouse (Score: 155+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6gFHp
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6gFHp
Tog's Paradox (Score: 151+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6gFgf
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6gFgf
Show HN: Rust Web Framework (🔥 Score: 155+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6gFC2
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6gFC2
Hi everyone,
I've been "funemployed" for a few months and with all that free time and idle hands I wrote a full web framework (think Rails, not Flask) for Rust.
It's boring old MVC, has its own ORM, templates, background jobs, auth, websockets, migrations and more. If you're keen but don't feel like rewriting your app in a different language, Rwf has a WSGI server to run Django (or Flask) inside Rust [1], letting you migrate to Rust at your own pace without disrupting your website.
I think Rust makes a great prototyping and deploy straight to production language. Now it has yet another framework for y'all to play with.
Cheers!
[1] https://levkk.github.io/rwf/migrating-from-python/
Just want simple TLS for your .internal network? (❄️ Score: 151+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6gtyX
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6gtyX
MQTT turns 25 (🔥 Score: 152+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6gF4D
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6gF4D
Learning to Learn (Score: 153+ in 13 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6gE7M
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6gE7M
A near impossible literacy test Louisiana used to suppress the black vote (Score: 152+ in 14 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6gDKF
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6gDKF
Civet: A Superset of TypeScript (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6gwve
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6gwve
An Illustrated Guide to Maritime Signal Flags (❄️ Score: 150+ in 5 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6guPP
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6guPP
Solving Sudoku in Python Packaging (❄️ Score: 153+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6gB3G
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6gB3G
The Forest Service Is Losing 2,400 Jobs–Including Most of Its Trail Workers (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6gHpH
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6gHpH
How the Unchecked Power of Companies Is Destabilizing Governance (🔥 Score: 152+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6gHjM
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6gHjM
The Tragedy of Google Books (2017) (Score: 152+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6gGqa
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6gGqa
USGS uses machine learning to show large lithium potential in Arkansas (Score: 152+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6gGbL
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Guide to Fine-Tuning LLMs (Score: 150+ in 15 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6gEzh
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Against /tmp (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6gFjk
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6gFjk
FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect (🔥 Score: 156+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6gFPv
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Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku (🔥 Score: 178+ in 57 minutes)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6gFKX
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6gFKX
Scalene: A high-performance, high-precision CPU, GPU, memory profiler for Python (Score: 150+ in 17 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6gDGJ
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6gDGJ
Scientists working to decode birdsong (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6gB7w
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6gB7w
Show HN: Data Formulator – AI-powered data visualization from Microsoft Research (Score: 150+ in 17 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6gDs9
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6gDs9
Creating data visualizations with AI nowadays often means chat, chat and more chats...and writing long prompts can be annoying while they are also not the most effective way to describe your visualization designs.
Data Formulator blends UI interaction with natural language so that you can create visualizations with AI much more effectively!
You can:
* create rich visualizations beyond initial datasets, where AI helps transforming and visualizing data along the way
* iterate your designs and dive deeper using data threads, a new way to manage your conversation with AI.
Here is a demo video: https://github.com/microsoft/data-formulator/releases/tag/0....
Give it a shot and let us know how it looks like!
Don't Publish with IEEE (🔥 Score: 157+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6gEZK
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6gEZK
Overengineering a way to know if people are in my university's CS lab (Score: 150+ in 13 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6gDjJ
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