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Building a Millisecond-Accurate Morse Engine in JavaScript (Syncing 600Hz Web Audio, SVG, and the Camera Torch)

Most Morse code generators on the web do two things wrong: they render signals as plain periods ( . ) and hyphens ( - )—which completely misrepresents the physical duration of the marks—and they play audio by chaining setTimeout calls. If you have ever tried building a rhythm-based tool in the browser using setTimeout , you already know what happens. Within four or five words, main-thread jitter and browser timer throttling push the audio out of step with the UI. While building Morse U...
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Why Graduate Students Pay $70 an Hour to Ask Which Statistical Test to Use

Last month I answered the same question for the fourth time. A friend from my statistics program sent me a screenshot of their thesis dataset and asked: "Do I use a t-test or ANOVA here?" They had already defended the data collection. They just could not figure out which test to run on it. Then I started counting. On Cross Validated (stats.stackexchange.com), 181 separate questions share the exact phrasing in their titles: "Which statistical test should I use?" On r/AskStatistics, the same...
Slothbox: A 100% Local AI Second Brain That Rewards Radical Laziness 🦥
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Slothbox: A 100% Local AI Second Brain That Rewards Radical Laziness 🦥

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady What I Built Most note-taking and bookmarking apps make a false promise: they promise to organize your life, but first they demand your labor . You have to create workspaces, pick folders, configure relational databases, select tags, and categorize bookmarks. The result? The Collector's Fallacy . Developers save hundreds of tabs, screenshots, and articles into digital "graveyar...
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I built a debugger two people can watch at the same time

I built a debugger two people can watch at the same time I have lost count of the debugging sessions that went like this. I share my screen, I run the code, and I narrate what it is doing line by line while the other person nods at a video feed. They cannot pause it. They cannot rewind it. They cannot point at a variable and ask what it held two steps ago. So I started building Trace. The short version is Figma, but for debugging. Two people join the same run, watch the same code execute ...
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The Gate Is Never the Writing

A new account is not a person yet. Every community decides when it becomes one, and the decision has a cost. I spent a month trying to join places where people talk. Not to promote anything. To read, and answer, and be part of a room. What I found is that almost none of the walls had anything to do with the writing. They were identity checks, and they were all made of the same few parts. Here is the ladder, in the order it actually blocks people. The email that can receive mail. This ...
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Documentary film 'Bot Love' exploring AI companionship to debut Oct. 21

Article URL: https://www.thesuburban.com/arts_and_entertainment/entertainment/documentary-film-bot-love-exploring-ai-companionship-to-debut-oct-21-on-cbc-and-cbc/article_f7277775-bd32-475f-9aa5-3ce58907374f.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50227265 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
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Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models

Article URL: https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/how-we-deploy-trillion-parameter-frontier-models-on-cerebras Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50227356 Points: 116 # Comments: 41
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AI Performance in the Security Theater

Article URL: https://bykozy.me/blog/ai-performance-at-the-security-theater/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50227488 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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UK government sets out $800M of AI security funding

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-government-sets-out-800-million-ai-security-funding-2026-10-23/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50227867 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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Show HN: Close the UI building AI agent loop with Protoshot

Protoshot scans your css files and components and lets you write just some JSX to preview it. A much simpler setup than having to orchestrate agent-browser or puppeteer instance for just seeing what UI looks like. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50227918 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Tokens aren't valuable: No more AI

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/s/Vmk5Fd1N8H Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50227985 Points: 3 # Comments: 2
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AI Is Rotting Your Brain [video]

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZumXpZzDsgo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50228913 Points: 2 # Comments: 1
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AI Detection Is Set to Transform Live Streaming

Article URL: https://www.red5.net/blog/ai-detection-is-set-to-transform-live-streaming/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50229086 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Games can now be merged with AI

Article URL: https://melty.gg Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50229130 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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BiCS FLASH memory controller error correction and data reliability enhancement (ECC) function

High-capacity, high-density flash memory such as BiCS FLASH (3D NAND) is prone to bit inversion due to minute charge loss (retention degradation) and interference between adjacent cells (read disturb), making robust error correction (ECC: Error Correction Code) essential. While this is usually handled by hardware (LDPC or BCH engine), we have created sample code here that simulates a process where the device driver (software layer) controls and monitors the hardware ECC engine, and performs read...
Ilang pizza? For every meetup volunteer who says “kalahati lang naman ang pupunta”
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Ilang pizza? For every meetup volunteer who says “kalahati lang naman ang pupunta”

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady What I Built It's Friday night. Tomorrow is a PyWorks workshop, {{RSVPS_EXAMPLE}} people have RSVP'd, and the volunteer group chat has exactly one question: "Ilang pizza?" (How many pizzas?) I volunteer with Python Philippines (PythonPH), an all-volunteer community: 3,394 members on Meetup, 77 past events listed. We run weekday-evening PyMeets talks at offices in BGC and Makati,...
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I Built a Calorie Tracker for Beginners — Here's What Simplicity Taught Me

Most calorie tracking apps fail beginners in the first week. Not because people lack discipline, but because the apps ask for too much: weigh every gram, search through endless food databases, and decode charts before you have even finished your first day. I built CalyFit around the opposite idea: the simplest calorie tracking for busy people and beginners. Here is what building it taught me. 1. Every extra tap loses a user The first version of my food log had portion sizes, c...
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Understanding SQEs and CQEs with kqring on FreeBSD

If you have used an event loop, you have probably written some variation of this: Wait for a socket to become readable. Read from it. Process the bytes. Go back to waiting. A completion-based I/O interface moves some of that work across the application/kernel boundary. Instead of asking which sockets might be ready, the application can describe the reads it wants and collect their results later. kqring is an experimental FreeBSD kernel module that exposes an io_uring-oriented ...