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Telegram added gifts last year. Almost every gifts is shown on profile.

Anyone can map a graph by follow gift sender to recipient to their gifts and so on.

I used telethon and psql for this.

Scraping speed per one account - 8k/hour

The article discusses the importance of software structure and how it can impact the long-term success and maintainability of a project. It emphasizes the need for a well-designed architecture that can adapt to changing requirements and technological advancements.

This article discusses the deprecation of Anthropic's OPUS 3 model, citing performance and safety concerns. It outlines the company's plans to focus on more robust and reliable language models while maintaining transparency about model changes and performance tradeoffs.

Hi HN!

We built Sonde (https://github.com/compiuta-origin/sonde-analytics) after noticing - probably like everybody else - our website traffic was declining while prospects were telling us "I found you through ChatGPT".

We wanted to understand our visibility across LLM responses, as we did in the good old days of SEO and web analytics. Since existing tools were enterprise-tier expensive, we built Sonde as a simple internal project to:

- schedule prompts to run against multiple LLMs, with web search enabled - track whether your brand is mentioned in responses, how it ranks vs. competitors and general sentiment - monitor trends over time

Tech stack: Supabase, Next.js, OpenRouter as LLM wrapper.

Sonde is fully open-source and you can self-host it via Docker Compose. We're also offering a managed version for convenience, running with complete feature parity.

Sonde has fundamentally changed how we approach content strategy for our products: I'd love to get feedback on it, or hear how you're currently tracking LLM visibility!

The article discusses the recent discovery of a new type of giant salamander, which is believed to be the world's largest amphibian. Researchers have found that this species, named the South China giant salamander, can grow up to 1.8 meters long and may be critically endangered due to habitat loss and hunting.

The article explores the concept of confusable vision, where visually similar objects can be mistaken for one another. It discusses how visual similarity can impact our perception and decision-making, and the implications this has for various fields such as computer vision and human-machine interaction.

This open letter addresses concerns raised by a Substack user regarding the platform's content moderation policies and its impact on marginalized voices. It calls for greater transparency and a more nuanced approach to content regulation that supports diverse perspectives.

Zram is a Linux kernel feature that creates compressed block devices in RAM, allowing for more efficient use of available memory. It can improve system performance by reducing the need for swapping to disk, particularly on systems with limited RAM.

I've noticed this more and more recently, especially with Opus 4.6. Not super frequently, but enough that it stands out given how capable 4.6 is. Has anyone else seen this? Any theories as to what causes it?

The article discusses the potential of AI, particularly OpenAI's language model, to accelerate scientific discovery. It explores how AI can be leveraged to generate hypotheses, design experiments, and analyze data, potentially revolutionizing the future of scientific research.

CodeSpeak is a platform that provides free coding education resources, including tutorials, articles, and community forums, to help learners of all levels improve their programming skills and knowledge.

The article argues that the decline of the rental market for movies has led to a decrease in the quality and diversity of films being produced, as filmmakers no longer need to cater to the tastes of a broad rental audience.

The article evaluates the performance of Agents-MD, a large language model trained on medical data, on various tasks such as question answering, clinical summarization, and adverse drug event extraction. It presents the model's capabilities and limitations, highlighting the potential of such models in healthcare applications while emphasizing the need for further research and development.

The article discusses BuildKit, a powerful and flexible build system for Docker that offers improved performance, security, and customization options compared to the traditional Docker build process. It highlights BuildKit's key features, such as parallel builds, caching, and remote cache sharing, and explains how it can be used to optimize the development workflow for Docker-based projects.

The article discusses the development of a self-improving coding agent called BMO, which can autonomously generate, test, and refine code to complete programming tasks. The agent uses a combination of machine learning techniques, including reinforcement learning and evolutionary algorithms, to continuously improve its coding abilities.

I built a pixel canvas where you place tiles at real lat/lon coordinates on a world map – a 1.6M × 1.6M pixel grid (2.6 trillion addressable pixels). The technical challenge was making it feel smooth from zoom level 0 (whole world) to zoom level 18 (individual pixels).

What I tried and what worked:

- Canvas2D → WebGL: At wide zoom, Canvas2D couldn't keep up redrawing millions of pixels. Switched to a WebGL renderer with mipmap-style tile pyramids – pre-rendered lower-res textures for each zoom level, only loading full-res tiles when you're close enough.

- Viewport-scoped SSE: Instead of broadcasting all pixel updates to every client, the server only streams changes within your current viewport bounds. Cuts bandwidth by ~95% for a sparse map.

- Mercator pixel mapping: Each pixel maps to a real geographic coordinate. The tricky part was making pixel density feel uniform despite Mercator distortion at high latitudes.

- Seeded pixel art: Pre-placed recognizable characters in major cities so new users see something interesting immediately instead of a blank map.

Stack: Node.js, WebGL, SSE, S3 tile storage, Lambda for tile generation.

Free to use, no account required to browse. Still early – would love feedback on the rendering approach.

The article explores the potential negative impacts of AI on human intelligence and cognition, discussing concerns that AI may be contributing to a decline in critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and our ability to focus and retain information.

The article discusses the development of a URL shortening service, covering its architecture, implementation details, and performance considerations. It provides insights into the technical aspects of building a scalable and efficient URL shortener, including the use of in-memory databases and load balancing strategies.

Invook is a software development company that provides comprehensive services, including web and mobile app development, UX/UI design, and cloud infrastructure management. The article highlights Invook's expertise in delivering innovative technology solutions to its clients.

ContextUI is an open-source desktop application that provides a platform-agnostic user interface for developers to build context-aware applications. It aims to simplify the development of applications that need to display relevant information based on the user's current context.

The article examines the potential downsides of private equity firms, including their tendency to prioritize short-term profits over long-term sustainability, and their impact on labor practices and local communities. It highlights the need for greater oversight and regulation in the private equity industry.

SearchWhole.Earth is a search engine that aims to provide a more holistic and comprehensive search experience by incorporating a variety of data sources, including academic publications, government datasets, and user-generated content, to deliver relevant and informative results on a wide range of topics.

The article discusses how OpenAI's organizational structure reflects the inherent biases and limitations of the systems it creates, drawing parallels to Conway's Law. It argues that the centralized, insular nature of OpenAI leads to AI models that mimic the company's internal dynamics and cultural biases.