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Another police raid in Germany (🔥 Score: 162+ in 1 hour)
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New York Times tech workers union votes to authorize a strike (🔥 Score: 159+ in 2 hours)
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What you can get out of a high-quality font (🔥 Score: 157+ in 3 hours)
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Every webpage deserves to be a place (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
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The Canary (❄️ Score: 152+ in 2 days)
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Don't defer Close() on writable files (2017) (❄️ Score: 151+ in 2 days)
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MNT Reform Next (Score: 151+ in 20 hours)
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Carpentopod: A Walking Table Project (Score: 150+ in 14 hours)
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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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Debugging in the Multiverse (Score: 151+ in 7 hours)
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Sigrok – a portable, cross-platform, FOSS signal analysis software suite (Score: 151+ in 21 hours)
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Google Illuminate: Books and Papers turned into audio content (🔥 Score: 155+ in 3 hours)
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Apple must pay 13B euros in back taxes, EU's top court rules (Score: 161+ in 10 hours)
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A good day to trie-hard: saving compute 1% at a time (🔥 Score: 153+ in 2 hours)
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Radiology-specific foundation model (Score: 151+ in 10 hours)
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Sqlc: Compile SQL to type-safe code (❄️ Score: 151+ in 2 days)
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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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