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Just for Fun (🔥 Score: 158+ in 3 hours)
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Study shows 'alarming' level of trust in AI for life and death decisions (Score: 150+ in 11 hours)
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How on-the-wrist sleep apnea detection works (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
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An NFC Movie Library for My Kids (Score: 155+ in 1 day)
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James Earl Jones has died (🔥 Score: 171+ in 2 hours)
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Show HN: I mapped HN's favorite books with GPT-4o (❄️ Score: 153+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6eaYy
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Hey HN! I love finding new books to read on here. I wanted to gather the most mentioned books and recreate the serendipity of physical browsing. I scraped 20k comments from HN threads related to reading, extracted the references and opinions using GPT-4o mini, and visualised their embeddings as a map.
- OpenAI's embeddings were processed using UMAP and HDBSCAN. A direct 2D projection from the text embeddings didn't yield visually interesting results. Instead, HDBSCAN is first applied on a high-dimensional projection. Those clusters tend to correspond to different genres. The genre memberships are then embedded using a second round of UMAP (using Hellinger distance) which results in pleasingly dense structures.
- The books' descriptions are based on extractions from the comments and GPT's general knowledge. Quality levels vary, and it leads to some oddly specific points, but I haven't found any yet that are straight up wrong.
- There are multiple books with the same title. Currently, only the most popular one of those makes it onto the map.
- It's surprisingly hard to get high quality book cover images. I tried Google Books and a bunch of open APIs, but they all had their issues. In the end, I got the covers from GoodReads through a hacked together process that combines their autocomplete search with GPT for data linkage. Does anyone know of a reliable source?
AirPods Pro 2 adds 'clinical grade' hearing aid feature (🔥 Score: 152+ in 3 hours)
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iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max (🔥 Score: 163+ in 2 hours)
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Europe to End "Salary Secrecy": Employee Salaries to Become Public by 2026 (🔥 Score: 150+ in 1 hour)
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Synthetic diamonds are now purer, more beautiful, and cheaper than mined (Score: 154+ in 5 hours)
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Appalachian Trail Hiker Photo Archive (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
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A Pipeline Made of Airbags (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
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Better Dotfiles (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
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2.7-meters Telescope mirror shot 7 times (1970) (❄️ Score: 151+ in 3 days)
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Unconventional Case Study of Neoadjuvant Oncolytic Virotherapy for Breast Cancer (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
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DOJ claims Google has "trifecta of monopolies" on Day 1 of ad tech trial (🔥 Score: 150+ in 3 hours)
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Apple Watch Series 10 (Score: 152+ in 7 hours)
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B-Trees and Database Indexes (Score: 151+ in 9 hours)
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Hacking misconfigured AWS S3 buckets: A complete guide (Score: 152+ in 9 hours)
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FTC Pushed to Crack Down on Companies That Ruin Hardware via Software Updates (🔥 Score: 153+ in 3 hours)
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Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison (Score: 156+ in 4 hours)
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DuckDB 1.1.0 Released (Score: 150+ in 5 hours)
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Project Hammer: reduce collusion in the Canadian grocery sector (Score: 155+ in 4 hours)
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Apple Hearing Study shares preliminary insights on tinnitus (🔥 Score: 150+ in 1 hour)
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Why GitHub Won (🔥 Score: 151+ in 1 hour)
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ESPN AI-generated recap of retiring player's final match fails to mention them (🔥 Score: 152+ in 1 hour)
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"Unstripping" binaries: Restoring debugging information in GDB with Pwndbg (Score: 150+ in 21 hours)
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Jd – JSON Diff and Patch (Score: 151+ in 18 hours)
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Linux's Bedtime Routine (Score: 151+ in 14 hours)
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Htmx, Raku and Pico CSS (Score: 150+ in 15 hours)
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