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JigsawPuzzle.pro is an online platform that offers a wide selection of digital jigsaw puzzles of varying difficulty levels. Users can choose from a diverse range of puzzle themes and enjoy a relaxing and engaging puzzling experience on their devices.

RuleDB is an open-source rule engine that provides a flexible and efficient way to manage and apply complex business rules. The project aims to simplify the development and deployment of rule-based systems, enabling users to define and execute rules without the need for extensive programming.

The article follows the author's experience with a non-functional AI assistant named Ian, highlighting the challenges and limitations of current AI technology in providing consistent and reliable assistance.

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UPT: The Continuum is a GitHub repository that explores the concept of a persistent universal programming language, discussing its potential benefits and challenges in creating a unified programming paradigm across different computing platforms and domains.

The article discusses the use of synthetic pretraining, a technique that generates artificial data to enhance machine learning models. It explores the potential benefits and challenges of this approach, highlighting its ability to improve model performance, particularly in domains with limited real-world data.

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In 2020 I posted this, "Show HN: Read The Count of Monte Cristo and others in your email" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24307752

It got front page for a few hours. I posted in the anniversary of when The Count of Monte Cristo first started to be published in serialized form. To celebrate it, I created a website called "Serial Literature" that allowed you to subscribe and read the book in a similar way, serialized, but in your email. I also added another famous work that was initially published serialized, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. I later added about other 100 books to be read the same way (not all of them originally serialized).

I never posted about it anywhere else (maybe flopped on Reddit, I don't remember), but it got a lot of engaged subscribers. It never grew over that initial HN burst (I never advertised it again), but it got about 1,000 subscribers and, years later, a few dozens of those were still reading some book through Serial Literature.

That was until... a startup failed and my web app wouldn't work anymore.

At the time, I wanted to build something serverless and learn some new tech. I chose FaunaDB, learned their proprietary query language (FQL), actually enjoyed it a lot, and built the site with it. It was pretty neat and worked fine. But then, 5 years later, around June last year, their service stopped working (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43414742). As it was serverless, the DB was also on their cloud, hosted by the failed startup, in a proprietary format. One day, Serial Literature stopped working overnight. I downloaded the data, but in their weird format, it was not very helpful.

I got a bunch of emails in the last months asking about it, people wanting to continue reading more through their email, where I explained what happened and promised it would come back in some form. This site I am showing now, Confabulists, is the come back.

I am a writer myself, indie, self-published, science fiction writer, and I missed a newsletter/blog platform more adequate for fiction writers, so I built one myself. And, yesterday, I finally completed bringing all those public domain books in English to Confabulists and now I am able to offer that same service of Serial Literature, again, still for free.

I hope this reaches everyone that loved Serial Literature, but just accepted it was gone and never contacted me (the ones who contacted me I am replying back telling them about Confabulists).

Thanks HN!

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The article explores the concept of 'linked positivity' and its potential downsides, highlighting how the pressure to maintain a positive outlook can lead to toxic behaviors and the dismissal of valid negative emotions. It encourages a balanced approach that acknowledges both positive and negative experiences.

The amount of useless documents you had to filter yourself through, and the amount of bad code you had to work around were already massive.

But with AI, its out of proportions. I got served with 6+ documents for requirements for some feature that could be described in 2 sentences. Those documents were useless, obviously.

I do not understand why we are making it so much harder to do everything and calling it effective.

I’m building DeepTutor to reduce the time spent reading papers. One feature we shipped: you can prompt a figure/plot and ask: “Explain what the figures mean step-by-step.”

It outputs a structured interpretation: axes/curves, phase changes, and the takeaway.

I’d love feedback on: 1) what figure types are hardest to interpret 2) what you’d want in the output (e.g., assumptions, caveats, comparisons)

Demo: https://youtu.be/A6Y4NpLnU1M

In case you haven't come across it yet, the text "What, if anything, is a zebra?" nicely portrays how some things that seem to be "one thing" are in fact different, and sometimes surprisingly unrelated, things at once (striped horses formed from two different evolutionary strands, so there is not one "zebra" species [1]).

I was reminded of this when the discussion about "AI is a horse" came up again. The horse metaphor is great, because it – besides more 'horsepowers' under the hood - has its own will.

But if I had to pick one metaphor that feels right, it would be the car. Not for automation alone, but because of systemic impact: cars reshaped cities, labor, health, social life, inequality, and people's understanding of "freedom". Once cars were everywhere, opting out became difficult.

At the same time, the car metaphor breaks quickly. AI affects many areas of life at once, often with conflicting tradeoffs.

- Smoother relationships vs. authenticity and vulnerability (AI-mediated communication, companions)

- Automation of cognitive work vs. meaning and self-efficacy

- Infinite, pre-processed knowledge vs. mental obesity

- New freedom vs. responsibility for what we choose not to automate

(This is also the rough outline of a TEDx talk I gave last year — back then I called it "AI – A Car for the Mind?" [3]. I’m very glad I put the question mark in.)

How do you explain AI to those who ask, if they need a simple answer?

[1] https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/SJ-Gould-What-if-anything-is-a-zebra.pdf

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46686402

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IYqhdJuRfU

The article discusses the integration of Codex, an AI-powered code completion tool, into JetBrains IDEs. It explores how Codex can help developers by providing intelligent code suggestions and assistive features within the familiar JetBrains development environment.

The article discusses the decline of Apple as a technology leader, exploring factors such as the departure of key figures, lack of innovative products, and increased competition in the industry. It provides a balanced perspective on the company's current challenges and its potential path forward.

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The article explores the controversy surrounding Bill Gates' ties to the late Jeffrey Epstein, with Gates' representatives dismissing the connections as 'absolutely absurd' and 'false claims.' The article examines the details and timeline of Gates' relationship with Epstein, which has drawn scrutiny and criticism.

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The article discusses the importance of designing websites and web applications directly in the browser, highlighting the benefits of this approach over traditional design workflows and the tools and techniques that enable it.

I built this to enforce structured, efficient communication in multi-agent systems. v1.1 adds native cost tracking. Feedback welcome.