Launch HN: MinusX (YC S24) – AI assistant for data tools like Jupyter/Metabase
Hey HN! We’re Vivek, Sreejith and Arpit, and we’re building MinusX (https://minusx.ai), a data science assistant for Jupyter and Metabase. MinusX is a Chrome extension (https://minusx.ai/chrome-extension) that adds an AI sidechat to your analytics apps. Given an instruction, our agent operates your app (by clicking and typing, just like you would) to analyze data and […]
Exposure to the Sun’s UV radiation may be good for you
BASKING IN THE sun has been considered a health hazard for at least four decades. The main risk comes from ultraviolet (UV) light, which the Sun emits alongside visible radiation. This can increase the chances of skin cancer—the number of diagnoses of which are rising—as well as bringing on premature ageing and leading to wrinkles. […]
Software possession for personal use
There’s a lot to be frustrated about contemporary software and the modern web. (If you are a software user and you are not frustrated, you can safely skip this article). There’s a lot to be frustrated about software, the cloud, and Big Tech, especially if you’ve been using computers long enough to remember what the […]
Stripe Built One of Silicon Valley’s Best Engineering Teams (2013)
Stripe, the payments company that makes it simple to accept payments on the web has quietly been amassing one of the strongest engineering teams in Silicon Valley. In this First Round Capital CTO Summit talk, Greg Brockman, founding engineer at Stripe, pries open the black box and shares how Stripe recruits. Below is an interpretation, […]
The anatomy of a 2AM mental breakdown
20 Aug, 2024 Around 2AM this morning I had a realization that this was the most stressed I have ever been. On verge of a complete breakdown. Why? Because I noticed around 10PM that jumpcomedy.com was entirely broken with all HTTP POST calls made by RTK Query failing. Nothing worked and though I had deployed […]
Waiting Time Paradox or Why Is My Bus Always Late?
If buses arrive exactly every ten minutes, it’s true that your average wait time will be half that interval: 5 minutes. Qualitatively speaking, it’s easy to convince yourself that adding some variation to those arrivals will make the average wait time somewhat longer, as we’ll see here. The waiting time paradox turns out to be […]
Nasir Ahmed’s digital-compression breakthrough helped make JPEGs/MPEGs possible
19 Aug 2024 6 min read Willie Jones covers transportation for IEEE Spectrum and the history of technology for The Institute. Nasir Ahmed’s compression algorithms helped result in the standards that underpin much of the modern Internet. Stop for a second and think about the Internet without digital images or video. There would be no […]
Show HN: Visual Sudoku Solver in the Browser (With OpenCV and TensorFlow)
Welcome to this Visual Sudoku Solver This app lets you solve Sudoku puzzles by simply pointing your camera at them. It’s a project I built to learn and experiment with computer vision and machine learning. How to use Point your camera at the Sudoku puzzle. Make sure the whole grid is visible in the camera […]
1953 US Navy training film on mechanical computers [video]
Transformers for Ruby
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