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marcelpanse/youtube-guitar-tab-parser: CLI that turns a YouTube guitar-lesson video into a PDF of the guitar tab. · GitHub

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💥 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: CLI that turns a YouTube guitar-lesson video into a PDF of the guitar tab. It downloads the video, samples frames, uses Claude vision to locate the tab region, crops every frame to that region, de-duplicates the crops by the bar number printed on each line of the score, and stitches the distinct tab lines vertically into a PDF. It works out of the box with no configuration — the PDF is written to out/.pdf, with the video title as a heading on the first page…

I interviewed Sam Neill in 2024. He was more charming than I expected | Sam Neill

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🔥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Sam Neill,Film,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: I He interviewed Sam Neill in 2024, remotely: He was in Vancouver filming the Netflix series Untamed, but we were there to talk about a twisty Australian courtroom drama, The Twelve. He was immediately honest. He said his second season was "much stronger" than the first, which was absolutely true, as the first was a bit corny, and the second showed more confidence in its audience and our tolerance for nuance.But actors, in general, will never say anything remotely critical…

TFTP Honey pot Results – Information Camouflage

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💥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: My TFTP honey pot has been running for over a month, continuously on my $5 a month VPS, and intermittently on my Dell R530 home server. It’s time to see what surprises it has captured. When the TFTP honey pot runs, both servers see between 20 and 50 TFTP packets per day. Both servers see mostly the same traffic. I was extremely excited when I got daily UDP port 69 traffic, most of it in TFTP format. I was let down when I realized…

‘A true gentleman’: Actors, directors and leaders pay tribute to Sam Neill | Sam Neill

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✨ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Sam Neill,Film,Culture,New Zealand,Australia news 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Friends, peers and fans of Sam Neill were quick to pay tribute to the actor, following his sudden death on Monday at the age of 78.Steven Spielberg, who directed Neal in Jurassic Park, said he was "saddened" to hear of Neal's death. “Sam was exceptionally helpful,” he added. “It was difficult for him to play a character who acted as if the children were messy and smelly because that was the opposite of a father who loved his…

The Same TypeScript Costs 73% More Tokens on Claude Than GPT

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💥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Every model's pricing page shows one number you are meant to compare: dollars per million tokens. Put two side by side and one looks cheaper. That comparison is broken - and if you build with an AI coding agent, it is broken in the most expensive direction. The price is per token, but a "token" is not a fixed amount of text: each model's tokenizer cuts the same file into a different number of pieces, and you pay per piece. Here is the number…

Chatsworth House Pilots Free Entry Scheme “Society Membership” | legacy

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🔥 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Heritage,Culture,UK cost of living crisis,Derbyshire,Emily Brontë,UK news,England,Libraries,Books 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: When Kate, a 47-year-old contract worker, came face to face with Charlotte Brontë's handwriting during her visit to Chatsworth House, the avid reader, who counts Jane Eyre as her favorite book, struggled to contain her excitement.“I've had some time,” she said. "I just thought: 'Wow, that was actually what Charlotte Brontë was writing there on that page.' That was very special.This was her first visit inside Chatsworth House. Although she has lived just 90 minutes…

Founding Software Engineer at PgDog

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🔥 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Hey! PgDog is a tiny database startup, based out of SF, with a global team. We’re scaling the world’s most popular database, PostgreSQL. PgDog is in production, used by dozens of companies, large and small. The problem is big, but so is the opportunity, and we’re hiring! About the role The jack of all trades. Rust, Postgres, a bit of infrastructure, networking, distributed systems, and so much more. You’ll build features that will go directly into our customers hands, the day you ship them. With…

Tom Cruise reveals remarkable transformation in Digger trailer: ‘I never had anything that could challenge me in this way’ | Tom Cruise

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🚀 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Tom Cruise,Film,Alejandro González Iñárritu,Culture,US news,Riz Ahmed,Jesse Plemons,John Goodman 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The first full trailer for Alejandro González Iñárritu's comedy-drama Digger has been released, and with it, audiences' first look at Tom Cruise's lesser-known role since he donned a tracksuit and prosthetics in 2008's Tropic Thunder.The film will be released worldwide in early October, and stars Cruise as Digger Rockwell, the “world’s strongest man” on a mission to save the world from environmental disaster.Ahead of the trailer's release, Cruise recently spoke to press and fans at…

Apple’s New Speech API vs Whisper: The First Real Benchmark

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🚀 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The result, up front Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer is the most accurate on-device speech engine we tested. It beat every Whisper model we ship, including Whisper Small, on both the clean and the noisy half of LibriSpeech, while running roughly three times faster than Small. And the API it replaces, SFSpeechRecognizer, came last on clean speech: behind even Whisper Tiny, a 40MB model. Enginetest-clean WERtest-other WERModel size Apple SpeechAnalyzer (iOS/macOS 26)2.12%4.56%system Whisper Small (WhisperKit CoreML)3.74%7.95%~460MB Whisper Base5.42%12.51%~140MB Whisper Tiny7.88%17.04%~40MB Apple SFSpeechRecognizer (legacy)9.02%16.25%system Lower is better: WER…

“I Knew It Would Look Great!”: Why Shakespeare’s Globe Gives Some Flamenco Fire | platform

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✨ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Stage,Flamenco,Shakespeare's Globe,Culture,Dance,Theatre,William Shakespeare,Comedy,Comedy 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: HeyOn the day of a heatwave in London, Shakespeare's Globe is transformed into a festival. High heels hit the wood panels with a thumping rhythm, skirts shake, guitar strings play, and voices rise as the temperature rises. Sitting at the front of the stage is Indiana director Leone Collins, who delivers one of Shakespeare's wordiest plays with a sultry flamenco beat.Lon Collins is half Spanish and grew up in Spain where flamenco was her path to the arts. While working…