AI vs. Professional Authors Results
Before you look at the results make sure to do the test! So, before I get to the numbers and reveals I’ll reiterate a few things: i) I hate that AI can do this. ii) These authors write books – typically long series – so flash fiction is not their forte. iii) Flash fiction is […]
Llama-Scan: Convert PDFs to Text W Local LLMs
A tool for converting PDFs to text files using Ollama. Convert PDFs to text files locally, no token costs. Use the latest multimodal models supported by Ollama. Turn images and diagrams into detailed text descriptions. Requirements Python 3.10+ Ollama installed and running locally Installing Ollama and the Default Model Install Ollama Pull the default model: […]
HN Search isn’t ingesting new data since Friday
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Show HN: Doxx – Terminal .docx viewer inspired by Glow
Beautiful .docx viewing in your terminal — no Microsoft Word required 🚧 Under Active Development: New features and improvements are being added regularly. Check back often for updates! doxx is a lightning-fast, terminal-native document viewer for Microsoft Word files. Built with Rust for performance and reliability, it brings Word documents to your command line with […]
When Did AI Take Over Hacker News?
One in three top 10 Hacker News posts this month were AI-related. In 2025, that’s hardly surprising, but it made me wonder, when did this start? Was it ChatGPT? Was it GPT-4? Moreover, has sentiment shifted positive or negative over time? This pretty negative post topping Hacker News last month sparked these questions, and I […]
ClickHouse matches PG for single-row UPDATEs and 4000 x faster for bulk UPDATEs
TL;DR · On identical hardware and data, ClickHouse matches PostgreSQL for single-row UPDATEs and is up to 4,000× faster in our tests for bulk UPDATEs. · Why it matters: Bulk updates are common in OLTP workloads, and ClickHouse’s columnar design + parallelism make them far faster. · Caveat: PostgreSQL is fully transactional by default; ClickHouse […]
iOS 18.5 Bluetooth Privacy Vulnerabilities
⚠ Silent BLE Scanning, Metadata Exposure, and Covert GPS Activation on iPhone This repository documents a high-severity set of privacy violations in iOS 18.5, where multiple native Apple system processes (daemons) perform unauthorized actions related to Bluetooth and location services — all without user awareness or consent. The research was performed using official Apple tooling […]
ArchiveTeam has finished archiving all goo.gl short links
The ArchiveTeam Warrior is a virtual archiving appliance. You can run it to help with the ArchiveTeam archiving efforts. It will download sites and upload them to our archive — and it’s really easy to do! The warrior is a virtual machine, so there is no risk to your computer. The warrior will only use […]
AI Doesn’t Lighten the Burden of Mastery; AI Makes It Easy to Stop Valuing It
Claude wrote me Go tests that passed. They were beautiful, and they were worthless. They all collapsed to true == true. That’s the trap. AI gives us the illusion of mastery without the work. The shape of the code looks right, making it easy to skim the details. I’m not being careless choosing to use […]
The Enterprise Experience
18/08/2025 It’s the 18th of August. Today is a special day for me, as it marks my one-year anniversary of working at $ENTERPRISE. Before this I had been a professional software developer for the best part of a decade, but entirely in startups and SMEs. This time last year I made the decision to sell […]