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Why eCommerce brands need the human touch.

Why eCommerce brands need the human touch.

๐Ÿš€ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: "Why aren't you using AI to generate your 3D models?"Humans are starting to nail the art of AI slop identification in text, images, and video. But what about 3D? We create product configurators for e-commerce brands, and we've been asked many times why we're not using AI to generate the product models we use.While LLMs can write code and diffusion models can win art competitions, the 3D generation landscape remains extremely... bumpy.These generated assets feature a deceptive level of "good enough" at a glance,…
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Jimi Hendrix’s Analog Wizardry Explained

Jimi Hendrix’s Analog Wizardry Explained

๐Ÿ’ฅ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: 3 February 1967 is a day that belongs in the annals of music history. Itโ€™s the day that Jimi Hendrix entered Londonโ€™s Olympic Studios to record a song using a new component. The song was โ€œPurple Haze,โ€ and the component was the Octavia guitar pedal, created for Hendrix by sound engineer Roger Mayer. The pedal was a key element of a complex chain of analog elements responsible for the final sound, including the acoustics of the studio room itself. When they sent the tapes for…
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odvcencio/gotreesitter: Pure Go tree-sitter runtime

odvcencio/gotreesitter: Pure Go tree-sitter runtime

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Pure-Go tree-sitter runtime โ€” no CGo, no C toolchain, WASM-ready. go get github.com/odvcencio/gotreesitter Implements the same parse-table format tree-sitter uses, so existing grammars work without recompilation. Outperforms the CGo binding on every workload โ€” incremental edits (the dominant operation in editors and language servers) are 90x faster than the C implementation. Every existing Go tree-sitter binding requires CGo. That means: Cross-compilation breaks (GOOS=wasip1, GOARCH=arm64 from Linux, Windows without MSYS2) CI pipelines need a C toolchain in every build image go install fails for end users…
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The Pentagon Threatens Anthropic – by Scott Alexander

The Pentagon Threatens Anthropic – by Scott Alexander

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Hereโ€™s my understanding of the situation:Anthropic signed a contract with the Pentagon last summer. It originally said the Pentagon had to follow Anthropicโ€™s Usage Policy like everyone else. In January, the Pentagon attempted to renegotiate, asking to ditch the Usage Policy and instead have Anthropicโ€™s AIs available for โ€œall lawful purposesโ€. Anthropic demurred, asking for a guarantee that their AIs would not be used for mass surveillance of American citizens or no-human-in-the-loop killbots. The Pentagon refused the guarantees, demanding that Anthropic accept the renegotiation unconditionally…
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Notepad and Paint updates begin rolling out to Windows Insiders

Notepad and Paint updates begin rolling out to Windows Insiders

๐Ÿš€ Discover this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Hello Windows Insiders, today we are beginning to roll out updates for Notepad and Paint apps to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels on Windows 11. Notepad (version 11.2512.10.0) In this update, weโ€™re introducing multiple improvements to Notepad. First, we are expanding support of lightweight formatting to include additional Markdown syntax features. This includes strikethrough formatting and nested lists. To get started, explore these new options in the formatting toolbar, keyboard shortcuts, or by editing the Markdown syntax directly. Notepad app screenshot of…
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New accounts on HN 10x more likely to use EM-dashes | marginalia.nu

๐Ÿ’ฅ Read this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Iโ€™ve had this sense that HN has gotten absolutely innundated with bots last few months. First most obvious giveaway is the frequency with which you see accounts posting brilliant insights like13 60 well and t6ctctfuvuh7hguhuig8h88gd to f6gug7h8j8h6fzbuvubt GB I be cugttc fav uhz cb ibub8vgxgvzdrc to bubuvtxfh tf d xxx h z j gj uxomoxtububonjbk P.l.kvh cb hug tf 6 go k7gtcv8j9j7gimpiiuh7i 8ubgor1662476506orะั‘Beyond the accounts that are visibly glitching out, the vibe is also seriously off. Lots of comments that are incredibly banal, or oddly…
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Red Hat takes on Docker Desktop with its enterprise Podman Desktop build

Red Hat takes on Docker Desktop with its enterprise Podman Desktop build

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Red Hat is perhaps the biggest name in enterprise Linux, but itโ€™s also a major cloud-native player thanks to its Kubernetes distribution, OpenShift. What it hasnโ€™t had, though, is a supported, enterprise build of its own open source, container-oriented desktop appโ€ฆ until now. The recent release of the Red Hat build of Podman Desktop is the companyโ€™s bet that a tight integration with OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) will make Podman Desktopโ€™s container-native workflows attractive to corporate developers.ย  Podman Desktop is a…
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Never Buy A .online Domain

Never Buy A .online Domain

๐Ÿš€ Check out this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Iโ€™ve been a .com purist for over two decades of building. Once, I broke that rule and bought a .online TLD for a small project. This is the story of how it went up in flames. Update: Within 40 minutes of posting this on HN, the site has been removed from Google's Safe Search blacklist. Thank you, unknown Google hero! I've emailed Radix to remove the darn serverHold. Post, for posterity, below. Namecheap's Alluring Offer Earlier this year, Namecheap was running a promo that…
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GitHub – tempestphp/100-million-row-challenge

GitHub – tempestphp/100-million-row-challenge

๐Ÿ”ฅ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: ImportantThe 100-million-row challenge is now live. You have until March 15, 11:59PM CET to submit your entry! Welcome to the 100-million-row challenge in PHP! Your goal is to parse a data set of page visits into a JSON file. This repository contains all you need to get started locally. Submitting an entry is as easy as sending a pull request to this repository. This competition will run for two weeks: from Feb 24 to March 15, 2026. When it's done, the top three fastest solutions…
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Founding Infrastructure Engineer at Event Horizon Labs

Founding Infrastructure Engineer at Event Horizon Labs

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Event Horizon Labs โ€” San Francisco (in-person) We're a small, tight-knit team building autonomous research infrastructure from scratch. The orchestrator, the agents, the compounding knowledge base are already discovering profitable strategies and scaling with each new model release. These are founding roles with competitive salary and equity. The next breakthrough isn't a better model โ€” it's infrastructure for autonomous problem-solving. Markets are the first domain because feedback is immediate, signal is verifiable, and outcomes are directly monetizable. What we're building doesn't stop at markets.…
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