Launch HN: Bucket Robotics (YC S24) – Defect detection for molded and cast parts
Hey Hacker News! We’re Matt and Steph from Bucket Robotics https://bucket.bot Bucket transforms CAD models into custom defect detection models for manufacturing: https://youtu.be/RCyguguf3Is Injection molded and cast parts are everywhere – 50% of what’s visible on a modern car is injection molded – and these molds are custom created for each part and assembly line. […]
MiniJinja: Learnings from Building a Template Engine in Rust
written on Tuesday, August 27, 2024 Given that I can’t stop creating template engines, I figured I might write a bit about my learnings of creating MiniJinja which is an implementation of my Jinja2 template engine for Rust. Disclaimer: this post might be a bit more technical. There is a good chance you have come […]
Have Swiss scientists made a chocolate breakthrough?
Imogen Foulkes Imogen Foulkes Geneva Correspondent, BBC News 27 August 2024, 01:55 BST Imagine picking up a nice juicy apple – but instead of biting into it you keep the seeds and throw the rest away. That’s what chocolate producers have traditionally done with the cocoa fruit – used the beans and disposed of the […]
My first experience with Gleam Language
Tue, Aug 27, 2024 5-minute read Over the past few months, I saw a growing amount of posts on X about the Gleam language (probably the X algorithm doing its thing), and decided to give it a try. I was not disappointed, with few exceptions. Disclaimer 1: This post shares my personal experience with the […]
QuestDB (YC S20) Is Hiring a Core Database Engineer
About QuestDB We are building an open source time series database focused on performance and simplicity. QuestDB is used to store, process and analyze time series data in real-time across a wide range of industries, such as Financial Services, Energy, Manufacturing, Web3 and Space Exploration. Fortune 500 companies such as Airbus and Yahoo deploy QuestDB […]
Why has Japan been hit with rice shortages, soaring prices despite normal crops?
Shortages of Japanese rice, pictured in this file photo taken on Aug. 14, 2024, have continued in Japan. (Mainichi/Shiro Sakamaki) TOKYO — Shortages of rice have recently been seen across Japan, and the price of the staple food is soaring. But close to 100% of Japan’s rice is domestically produced and the yield of crops […]
Splatt3R: Zero-Shot Gaussian Splatting from Uncalibrated Image Pairs
Following the spirit of MASt3R, we show that a simple modification to their architecture, alongside a well-chosen training loss, is sufficient to achieve strong novel view synthesis results. We encode each image simultaneously using a vision transformer encoder, then pass them to a transformer decoder which performs cross-attention between each image. Normally, MASt3R has two […]
Vanilla Prime: A simpler, more sustainable way of web development
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Notes on Buttondown.com
Notes on buttondown.com · Applied Cartography Published 2024-08-26
The Thin Purple Line
Illustration by Javi Aznarez Eric Rodriguez works in a white-collar office building in Manhattan, but on the day we met he was dressed for battle in Da Nang. He wore a sweat-wicking gunmetal-gray shirt, black combat boots, and brown cargo pants. Knives peeked out from two pants pockets, and a Leatherman sat on his belt […]