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Wednesday, July 31, 2024
July 31, 2024
Did social media fan the flames of riot in Southport?
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Monday, July 29, 2024
July 29, 2024
Rachel Reeves's spending audit at-a-glance
Sunday, July 28, 2024
Saturday, July 27, 2024
July 27, 2024
New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Semantic Grep – A Word2Vec-powered search tool
Show HN: Semantic Grep – A Word2Vec-powered search tool
13 by arunsupe | 2 comments on Hacker News.
Much improved new version. Search for words similar to the query. For example, "death" will find "death", "dying", "dead", "killing"... Incredibly useful for exploring large text datasets where exact matches are too restrictive.
13 by arunsupe | 2 comments on Hacker News.
Much improved new version. Search for words similar to the query. For example, "death" will find "death", "dying", "dead", "killing"... Incredibly useful for exploring large text datasets where exact matches are too restrictive.
July 27, 2024
Thousands join Tommy Robinson march in London
Friday, July 26, 2024
July 26, 2024
John Lewis allowed to build homes for first time
Thursday, July 25, 2024
July 25, 2024
Mercer helps inquiry but says he will not betray sources
July 25, 2024
New top story on Hacker News: OpenAI Announces SearchGPT
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
July 24, 2024
New top story on Hacker News: Rediscovering Transaction Processing from History and First Principles
Rediscovering Transaction Processing from History and First Principles
18 by todsacerdoti | 1 comments on Hacker News.
18 by todsacerdoti | 1 comments on Hacker News.
July 24, 2024
Boy invaded Wembley pitch in bid to get cash reward
July 24, 2024
Eluned Morgan hopes to 'turn new page' for Welsh Labour
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
July 23, 2024
New top story on Hacker News: Engage, Don't Show
July 23, 2024
New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Zerox – document OCR with GPT-mini
Show HN: Zerox – document OCR with GPT-mini
14 by themanmaran | 5 comments on Hacker News.
This started out as a weekend hack with gpt-4-mini, using the very basic strategy of "just ask the ai to ocr the document". But this turned out to be better performing than our current implementation of Unstructured/Textract. At pretty much the same cost. I've tested almost every variant of document OCR over the past year, especially trying things like table / chart extraction. I've found the rules based extraction has always been lacking. Documents are meant to be a visual representation after all. With weird layouts, tables, charts, etc. Using a vision model just make sense! In general, I'd categorize this solution as slow, expensive, and non deterministic. But 6 months ago it was impossible. And 6 months from now it'll be fast, cheap, and probably more reliable!
14 by themanmaran | 5 comments on Hacker News.
This started out as a weekend hack with gpt-4-mini, using the very basic strategy of "just ask the ai to ocr the document". But this turned out to be better performing than our current implementation of Unstructured/Textract. At pretty much the same cost. I've tested almost every variant of document OCR over the past year, especially trying things like table / chart extraction. I've found the rules based extraction has always been lacking. Documents are meant to be a visual representation after all. With weird layouts, tables, charts, etc. Using a vision model just make sense! In general, I'd categorize this solution as slow, expensive, and non deterministic. But 6 months ago it was impossible. And 6 months from now it'll be fast, cheap, and probably more reliable!
Monday, July 22, 2024
July 22, 2024
New top story on Hacker News: Apple tries to rein in Hollywood spending after years of losses
Apple tries to rein in Hollywood spending after years of losses
4 by mgh2 | 82 comments on Hacker News.
4 by mgh2 | 82 comments on Hacker News.
Sunday, July 21, 2024
July 21, 2024
New top story on Hacker News: Intel says 13th and 14th Gen mobile CPUs are crashing
Intel says 13th and 14th Gen mobile CPUs are crashing
22 by markus_zhang | 2 comments on Hacker News.
22 by markus_zhang | 2 comments on Hacker News.
July 21, 2024
Watch: How US President Joe Biden's bid came to an end
Saturday, July 20, 2024
July 20, 2024
New top story on Hacker News: Modeling study proposes a diamond layer at the core-mantle boundary on Mercury
Modeling study proposes a diamond layer at the core-mantle boundary on Mercury
8 by PaulHoule | 1 comments on Hacker News.
8 by PaulHoule | 1 comments on Hacker News.
July 20, 2024
New top story on Hacker News: Can the New Mathstral LLM Accurately Compare 9.11 and 9.9?
Can the New Mathstral LLM Accurately Compare 9.11 and 9.9?
12 by 3Sophons | 17 comments on Hacker News.
12 by 3Sophons | 17 comments on Hacker News.
Friday, July 19, 2024
July 19, 2024
New top story on Hacker News: Bangladesh is now in the midst of a near-total national internet shutdown
Bangladesh is now in the midst of a near-total national internet shutdown
116 by perihelions | 18 comments on Hacker News.
116 by perihelions | 18 comments on Hacker News.
July 19, 2024
Cooper calls Leeds disorder 'audacious criminality'
July 19, 2024
New top story on Hacker News: The CrowdStrike file that broke everything was full of null characters
The CrowdStrike file that broke everything was full of null characters
38 by behnamoh | 6 comments on Hacker News.
38 by behnamoh | 6 comments on Hacker News.
July 19, 2024
Doctor calls for kindness during IT outage
Thursday, July 18, 2024
July 18, 2024
Super bowl winner 'wrongly handcuffed' on United flight
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
July 17, 2024
Common blood-thinning drug neutralises cobra venom
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
July 16, 2024
Wales' FM Gething denies wrongdoing as he resigns
July 16, 2024
'Vile' Jay Slater trolling 'devastating' for family
Monday, July 15, 2024
July 15, 2024
New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Projects from the Wolfram Summer Research Program
Show HN: Projects from the Wolfram Summer Research Program
2 by ritvikg | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by ritvikg | 0 comments on Hacker News.
July 15, 2024
'Inspirational' aid worker Simon Boas dies
Sunday, July 14, 2024
July 14, 2024
New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: I generated 70k audiobooks with OpenAI Text-to-Speech
Show HN: I generated 70k audiobooks with OpenAI Text-to-Speech
12 by evan_ry | 8 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN. I’m Ivan, hacker from Ukraine. For about a year, I was working on Listenly — an app to listen to text content with OpenAI's natural-sounding text-to-speech model. At some moment, I realized that it would be cool to take all the public domain e-books and create audio versions for them. So I did it... kind-of. It would cost an immense amount of money to generate all the audio right away (OpenAI TTS costs approximately $0.84/hour of audio; 11labs, for comparison, is 10 times more expensive). So, I took a more gradual approach. I took all the metadata from the Project Gutenberg catalog (it's about 70GB of dirty XML), cleaned it, put it into my database, and created a browsable catalog. When the first user visits a book page on Listenly, I download the full text of the book, save it in my cloud storage, and calculate the price for audio generation based on the book's length. Then, if the user decides to purchase it, we generate the audio. I know it’s not perfect. I've burned out a couple of times already while doing it. But still, I need to show it to the world. And I’ll be glad to hear your feedback. Peace.
12 by evan_ry | 8 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN. I’m Ivan, hacker from Ukraine. For about a year, I was working on Listenly — an app to listen to text content with OpenAI's natural-sounding text-to-speech model. At some moment, I realized that it would be cool to take all the public domain e-books and create audio versions for them. So I did it... kind-of. It would cost an immense amount of money to generate all the audio right away (OpenAI TTS costs approximately $0.84/hour of audio; 11labs, for comparison, is 10 times more expensive). So, I took a more gradual approach. I took all the metadata from the Project Gutenberg catalog (it's about 70GB of dirty XML), cleaned it, put it into my database, and created a browsable catalog. When the first user visits a book page on Listenly, I download the full text of the book, save it in my cloud storage, and calculate the price for audio generation based on the book's length. Then, if the user decides to purchase it, we generate the audio. I know it’s not perfect. I've burned out a couple of times already while doing it. But still, I need to show it to the world. And I’ll be glad to hear your feedback. Peace.
Saturday, July 13, 2024
July 13, 2024
New top story on Hacker News: Give people something to link to so they can talk about your features and ideas
Give people something to link to so they can talk about your features and ideas
7 by simonw | 1 comments on Hacker News.
7 by simonw | 1 comments on Hacker News.
July 13, 2024
Sizzling 'love trial' couples taking home the bacon
Friday, July 12, 2024
Thursday, July 11, 2024
July 11, 2024
New top story on Hacker News: Physicists have created the most fiendishly difficult maze
Physicists have created the most fiendishly difficult maze
35 by jhncls | 4 comments on Hacker News.
35 by jhncls | 4 comments on Hacker News.
July 11, 2024
How do you dispose of a whole pod of 77 whales?
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
July 10, 2024
Why has it been raining so much?
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
July 09, 2024
Expectation has weighed heavily - Southgate
Monday, July 8, 2024
July 08, 2024
New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: I coded my own JSON translation tool to easily localize my side project
Show HN: I coded my own JSON translation tool to easily localize my side project
12 by jboschpons | 9 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, I’m Joan, the developer of Quicklang. I made this app to easily translate and keep in sync all my localization JSON files for my side projects. While searching online for a similar tool, I only found enterprise solutions that do not allow direct editing of JSON files. I used to use ChatGPT to translate the JSON translation file changes before coding Quicklang. However, I realized that ChatGPT only allows you to input short content for translation into another language (even if you provide a .json file), and each time I had to request translations for one language at a time. So, I decided to build an app that only sends the changes I’ve made to the OpenAI API and easily translates them into all the target languages for my side projects. Technical details: I used Next.js to build the front end and backend, and I use a custom VPS (EC2 instance) on AWS to handle the translation process. This is because the translation can take several minutes, and Vercel Functions time out after 10 seconds by default (up to 60 seconds on the Hobby plan). Finally, I save the translation files in an S3 bucket. What’s next? I want to add cool features like change history, the capability to add context to the OpenAI API to make translations as accurate as possible, and maybe allow developers to interact with the API in order to use the tool. Let me know your thoughts and feedback. It’s been a blast working on this so far, and I think it’s just neat :)
12 by jboschpons | 9 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, I’m Joan, the developer of Quicklang. I made this app to easily translate and keep in sync all my localization JSON files for my side projects. While searching online for a similar tool, I only found enterprise solutions that do not allow direct editing of JSON files. I used to use ChatGPT to translate the JSON translation file changes before coding Quicklang. However, I realized that ChatGPT only allows you to input short content for translation into another language (even if you provide a .json file), and each time I had to request translations for one language at a time. So, I decided to build an app that only sends the changes I’ve made to the OpenAI API and easily translates them into all the target languages for my side projects. Technical details: I used Next.js to build the front end and backend, and I use a custom VPS (EC2 instance) on AWS to handle the translation process. This is because the translation can take several minutes, and Vercel Functions time out after 10 seconds by default (up to 60 seconds on the Hobby plan). Finally, I save the translation files in an S3 bucket. What’s next? I want to add cool features like change history, the capability to add context to the OpenAI API to make translations as accurate as possible, and maybe allow developers to interact with the API in order to use the tool. Let me know your thoughts and feedback. It’s been a blast working on this so far, and I think it’s just neat :)
July 08, 2024
UK weather: Why has it been raining so much?
Sunday, July 7, 2024
Saturday, July 6, 2024
July 06, 2024
New top story on Hacker News: A Dramatic Reading: I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again
A Dramatic Reading: I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again
34 by emccue | 16 comments on Hacker News.
34 by emccue | 16 comments on Hacker News.
July 06, 2024
Highlights: England beat Switzerland on penalties
Friday, July 5, 2024
July 05, 2024
Stunts and substance saw Lib Dems win in Tory heartlands
July 05, 2024
Victoria Starmer: Who is the new PM's wife?
Thursday, July 4, 2024
July 04, 2024
Teacher who had sex with two schoolboys jailed
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
July 03, 2024
New top story on Hacker News: The impact of Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" on Noam Chomsky's path to anarchism
The impact of Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" on Noam Chomsky's path to anarchism
34 by anarbadalov | 92 comments on Hacker News.
34 by anarbadalov | 92 comments on Hacker News.
July 03, 2024
Chess star, 9, to become youngest England player
July 03, 2024
Man jailed over 39 lorry deaths to be deported