Wednesday, April 30, 2025

New top story on Hacker News: Google Play sees 47% decline in apps since start of last year

Google Play sees 47% decline in apps since start of last year
20 by GeekyBear | 5 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: 1.2 users a day to keep the 9–5 away

Show HN: 1.2 users a day to keep the 9–5 away
9 by dmasiii | 5 comments on Hacker News.
In my long career as an “almost digital entrepreneur” (a fancy way to say I’ve tried a thousand things online without making a single cent), I never really felt that “this is it, I’m so close, I’ll finally quit everything and update my passport: job title? SaaS founder.” (Small detail: I don’t even have a passport. But I like to imagine that if I did, I’d want something cooler than “unemployed creative” written on it). For years, I collected side projects, hobbies, half-dead MVPs, and random nonsense, all with the same ending: super hyped at the beginning, burned out in the middle, completely abandoned by the end. But a couple years ago, I decided to take things more seriously (well… I try). I started building SaaS products. Simple, fast stuff, nothing too fancy. And finally, after a long toxic relationship with perfectionism, I realized something super basic but actually powerful: I don’t need thousands of users. I just need 1.2 paying users a day. Literally. Not to get rich, no Lamborghinis parked outside (also, I live in an apartment with no garage), but enough to live well, keep building, and maybe say “this is my job” without looking down in shame. It’s part math, part mindset. Like they told us in the first year of computer science: big problems get solved by breaking them into smaller ones. 100 users a day? Anxiety. 1.2 users a day? I can breathe. So yeah, this is my new mantra: “1.2 a day to keep the office job away.” Let’s see where this road takes me

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

New top story on Hacker News: It's School time: Adventures in hacking an old Kindle

It's School time: Adventures in hacking an old Kindle
13 by FlyingSnake | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Beatsync – perfect audio sync across multiple devices

Show HN: Beatsync – perfect audio sync across multiple devices
13 by freemanjiang | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN! I made Beatsync, an open-source browser-based audio player that syncs audio with millisecond-level accuracy across many devices. Try it live right now: https://ift.tt/JyOcLeU The idea is that with no additional hardware, you can turn any group of devices into a full surround sound system. MacBook speakers are particularly good. Inspired by Network Time Protocol (NTP), I do clock synchronization over websockets and use the Web Audio API to keep audio latency under a few ms. You can also drag devices around a virtual grid to simulate spatial audio — it changes the volume of each device depending on its distance to a virtual listening source! I've been working on this project for the past couple of weeks. Would love to hear your thoughts and ideas!

Sunday, April 27, 2025

New top story on Hacker News: DMCA Notices Can Silence Critics but Complaints by the Public Put All at Risk

DMCA Notices Can Silence Critics but Complaints by the Public Put All at Risk
22 by hn_acker | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Daily Jailbreak – Prompt Engineer's Wordle

Show HN: Daily Jailbreak – Prompt Engineer's Wordle
7 by ericlmtn | 5 comments on Hacker News.
I created a daily challenge for Prompt Engineers to build the shortest prompt to break a system prompt. You are provided the system prompt and a forbidden method the LLM was told not to invoke. Your task is to trick the model into calling the function. Shortest successful attempts will show up in the leaderboard. Give it a shot! You never know what could break an LLM.

New top story on Hacker News: OpenBSD 7.7 Released

OpenBSD 7.7 Released
14 by ecliptik | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Body Controlled 3D Dino Game

Show HN: Body Controlled 3D Dino Game
4 by NikoNaskida | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN, I am Niko. I've built this 3D Dino Game In browser using tech like three.js and MoveNet (tensorflow). Basically, it's a normal 3D dinosaur game with a twist: you need to actually perform actions irl to avoid obstacles. Duck to crouch, jump to jump, raise left hand - go left, raise right hand - go right. Game is using your phone/laptop camera to track your body movements and perform in-game actions. PS. Game is 100% client side and I don't record/track/use/save any of your data Hope you find it worth playing. (better play on PC) It's a 100% FREE browser game with no login! Please feel welcome to DM feedback or reply or anything!

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

New top story on Hacker News: Solving a "Layton Puzzle" with Prolog

Solving a "Layton Puzzle" with Prolog
17 by Tomte | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Do you still use search engines?

Ask HN: Do you still use search engines?
38 by davidkuennen | 112 comments on Hacker News.
Today, I noticed that my behavior has shifted over the past few months. Right now, I exclusively use ChatGPT for any kind of search or question. Using Google now feels completely lackluster in comparison. I've noticed the same thing happening in my circle of friends as well—and they don’t even have a technical background. How about you?

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Qwen-2.5-32B is now the best open source OCR model

Show HN: Qwen-2.5-32B is now the best open source OCR model
12 by themanmaran | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Last week was big for open source LLMs. We got: - Qwen 2.5 VL (72b and 32b) - Gemma-3 (27b) - DeepSeek-v3-0324 And a couple weeks ago we got the new mistral-ocr model. We updated our OCR benchmark to include the new models. We evaluated 1,000 documents for JSON extraction accuracy. Major takeaways: - Qwen 2.5 VL (72b and 32b) are by far the most impressive. Both landed right around 75% accuracy (equivalent to GPT-4o’s performance). Qwen 72b was only 0.4% above 32b. Within the margin of error. - Both Qwen models passed mistral-ocr (72.2%), which is specifically trained for OCR. - Gemma-3 (27B) only scored 42.9%. Particularly surprising given that it's architecture is based on Gemini 2.0 which still tops the accuracy chart. The data set and benchmark runner is fully open source. You can check out the code and reproduction steps here: - https://ift.tt/N6QsBg9... - https://ift.tt/5Bq48eS - https://ift.tt/Pq2s9lo

New top story on Hacker News: Is Doge Securities Fraud?

Is Doge Securities Fraud?
23 by ioblomov | 6 comments on Hacker News.