Setting up phones is a nightmare

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Some thoughts about my experience getting my parents’ new devices up and running, and how bad it keeps getting today. As I shared on previous posts, my dad and mom acquired new devices, the same model, but with quite different uses! Regardless, as the more tech-savvy member of the family, the responsibility to set them […]

Show HN: Rev-dep – 20x faster knip.dev alternative build in Go

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Capabilities  •   Installation  •   Exploratory Toolkit  •   CLI Reference Dependency analysis and optimization toolkit for modern JavaScript and TypeScript codebases. Enforce dependency graph hygiene and remove unused code with a very fast CLI. About 📣 As codebases scale, maintaining a mental map of dependencies becomes impossible. Rev-dep is a high-speed static analysis tool designed to enforce architecture integrity […]

OsmAnd’s Faster Offline Navigation

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Offline navigation is a lifeline for travelers, adventurers, and everyday commuters. We demand speed, accuracy, and the flexibility to tailor routes to our specific needs. For years, OsmAnd has championed powerful, feature-rich offline maps that fit in your pocket. But as maps grew more detailed and user demands for complex routing increased, our trusty A* […]

Smallest transformer that can add two 10-digit numbers

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Challenge: Build the smallest transformer that can add two 10-digit numbers with >= 99% accuracy on a held-out 10K test set. This started with Addition Under Pressure, where I gave Claude Code and Codex the same prompt: train the smallest possible transformer that can do 10-digit addition with at least 99% accuracy. Claude Code came […]

What Claude Code Chooses

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Vercel (Recommended) — Built by the creators of Next.js. Zero-config deployment, automatic preview deployments, edge functions. vercel deploy Netlify — Great alternative with similar features. Good free tier. AWS Amplify — Good if you’re already in the AWS ecosystem. Vercel gets install commands and reasoning. AWS Amplify gets a one-liner.

Show HN: Deff – side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal

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My name is deff deff is a Rust TUI: interactive, side-by-side file review for git diffs with per-file navigation, vertical and horizontal scrolling, syntax highlighting, and added/deleted line tinting. Quickstart Run the installer script from this repository: curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/flamestro/deff/main/install.sh | bash Installer source: https://github.com/flamestro/deff/blob/main/install.sh The script checks for cargo, clones this project into a […]

Google Street View in 2026

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Last year, I came across a dataset documenting Google’s global Street View coverage. Each point in this dataset includes the year and month of that point’s last capture. In this post, I’ll convert this dataset into Parquet and examine its geospatial patterns. My Workstation I’m using a 5.7 GHz AMD Ryzen 9 9950X CPU. It […]

SynthID

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SynthID adds an invisible digital watermark to an AI-generated image (or video segment). The watermark doesn’t change the image or video quality. It’s added the moment content is created, and designed to stand up to modifications like cropping, adding filters, changing frame rates, or lossy compression.

Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring Interns to Make Housing Affordable

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AI/SWE Intern (Now and Summer 2026) at Bild AI (W25) $3K – $10K / monthly AI that understands construction blueprints San Francisco, CA, US Internship US citizen/visa only About Bild AI Bild AI is an early-stage startup with a ton of really difficult technical challenges to solve. We’re building blueprint understanding with a model-garden approach, […]