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Client-side semantic search for your static site

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💥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Listen to this article insteadYour browser does not support the audio elementEight years ago I added client-side search to this blog with Lunr.js. It creates an inverted index at build time, ships it as JSON, and matches strings in your browser. No server-side engine required. It has worked fine ever since, in the sense that it finds a post if you type a word that is actually in it.Earlier this year I wrote a semantic search engine in ±250 lines of Python (the kind that…

Samsung Micro RGB R95H (2026) review: Not the brightest

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💥 Discover this trending post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / Reviews,Gear / Products / Televisions,Product Review ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: I tested Alexa+ and was very happy with how it worked, allowing me to adjust the volume and search for obscure 90s psychological thrillers. You can enable Alexa's voice prompt and override the microphone button on the remote, but that didn't work as reliably as I would have liked. Several times, saying "Alexa" didn't turn on the TV.Proven to scaleStandards don't lie, or at least that's the theory. We all see colors differently, and respond to contrast and…

GLP-1 implant from Vivani Medical aims to help patients stay on treatment

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✨ Read this trending post from Business News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Michael Siluk | UCG | Universal Images Group | Getty ImagesLosing weight with GLP-1 drugs is only half the battle. Keeping it off long term has proved even harder.Factors such as side effects, high out-of-pocket costs, injection fatigue and stigma around obesity treatment drive troves of patients – some studies estimate roughly half or more – to stop GLP-1s within a year and risk regaining the weight they lost. Years from now, Vivani Medical believes a tiny GLP-1 implant placed under the skin could help address…

Networking and the Internet, from First Principles · Faza

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💥 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Have you ever wondered what happens when we text, call, or video chat with a friend or a colleague on another continent, and their reply arrives in a fraction of a second, as though they were in the same room? Behind the scenes, a chain of invisible conversions takes place: your voice, video, or message is translated into radio waves crossing the room to your Wi-Fi router, then electrical pulses in copper (or light, if you have a fiber connection), and then flashes of light…

Skylight’s touch screen calendar has my whole family on the same page

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💥 Discover this awesome post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / How To and Advice,Family Tech ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Juggling tables for My family of five is a constant source of stress. Every day I juggle the calendars of three kids at three different schools, their extracurricular activities, and the ever-evolving work schedules of my husband and I. All the meal planning, grocery shopping, and general home maintenance seems to never end.For many years, my husband and I shared a Google Calendar. It's helpful, but it's not enough. That's why I was excited when my family received the…

AI 2040: Plan A

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💥 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: AI companies are racing to build AIs that are smarter than humans in every way. In AI 2027, we predicted that this would result in either extinction or irreversible concentration of power.Plan A is our positive vision for what should happen instead.In this scenario, humanity delays the development of superintelligence until 2040, makes all AI research public, allows dozens of companies globally to catch up to the frontier, and intentionally enters a regime of mutually assured compute destruction.What is Plan A?Why did we write this?Why…

Beatbot AquaSense X review: The pool robot that cleans itself

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🚀 Explore this awesome post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Product Review ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Photo: Chris NollOf course, the AstroRinse also needs a power source, so if you don't have a standard electrical outlet near your hose spigot, you'll need another extension cord solution here. The unit must be level to function properly, and it features adjustable feet and a built-in spirit level to help you achieve this.Finally, you'll need to carefully consider where you'll place your AstroRinse, ensuring you have access to water, power, and sewerage—and that the location isn't too far from your pool. Since the…

The Anti-AI Font Only Humans Can Read

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🔥 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: What is Ghost Font?Ghost Font is an anti-AI font that writes a message using motion. Using a combination of motion, video, noise, and decoys, it's a unique way to share a message with other real humans. I suppose technically, it's not a font in the traditional sense of a TTF font file. But, Ghost Font is an experiment of a way to graphically communicate in writing in a format that AI cannot easily understand. While it's not as legible as regular text, the letters are…

We prepare wonderful meals at home for ourselves. Why don’t we do the same with our dogs?

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🔥 Check out this awesome post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / Trends,Bone Appetit ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Home cooked dog food It has a more illustrious history than I could have imagined.In 1966, your food writer M. F. K. Fisher reviewed cookbooks for pets in The New Yorker, and in the late 1990s, Jeffrey Steingarten chronicled chef Daniel Boulud's work on "French Country Soup for Dogs and Their Owners" for his dog in Vogue.Hermé was directed by French food writer Frédéric et Grasser Mon Chien Veet Recipes (My dog makes the recipes) in 2001 and held a launch…

Good Tools Are Invisible – gingerBill

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🔥 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: TL;DR: A good tool is and ought to be invisible—striving to make such tools is the goal of a toolmaker. One habit I see a lot, and have to push back on, is taking a tool’s shortcomings and reselling them as a “puzzle game” which is “fun” to solve. I don’t want my tools to be “fun”. I want my tools to be invisible. Text Editor Wars Let’s take vim as an example This is just an example, and applies to other editors too.. I…