Udhaar Book: photograph the khata, get the udhaar back
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Udhaar Book: photograph the khata, get the udhaar back

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle TL;DR — Photograph one page of a shop's handwritten credit notebook. An open-weight model reads it (a deterministic parser takes over when there is no key), the shopkeeper confirms every line, the balances follow, and each customer gets a polite WhatsApp reminder in their own language . The AI does the reading; the shopkeeper does the deciding. Repo: https://github.com/ramantiw45/UdhaarBook ...
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Must Read for Vibe Coders: The Five Habits That Separate a Demo From a Product

If you vibe-code, read this before you share anything you built. An agent can produce a working app in an afternoon. What it cannot do is check that the app works on a second machine, with a second person, or after a restart. That gap is where most vibe-coded projects break, and it is what these five habits close. 1. Run it from a clean copy Your machine has things the repository does not: a global tool, an old environment variable, a file you never committed. Clone the project i...
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GPUStack With vLLM in Production: Pinning KV Cache Before the OOM Finds You

We run a small on-prem inference fleet - four nodes, mixed A6000 and 4090 cards - and last quarter we replaced a pile of hand-rolled docker run wrappers with GPUStack. The pitch is reasonable: one control plane that schedules models across whatever GPUs you happen to own, materialises a backend per deployment, and exposes an OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Two months in, it does what it says. It also has a specific failure boundary that cost us a weekend, and that part is worth writing down. ...
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Cities want to put the boot on robotaxis

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on autonomous vehicles, policy, and road rules, follow Andrew J. Hawkins. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started The first state to pass a law […]
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How overhead projectors took over your classroom

It used to be so easy to get away with things in school. The teacher, after all, was always turned around writing at the chalkboard! But then came a bit of technology, previously mostly used for military purposes, called the overhead projector. It would change far more than just the disciplinary record of students everywhere. […]
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The best gadget I bought this year is a milk frother

Back in February, I went to Los Angeles to take in some art and stayed in Koreatown. Down the street from my hotel, there was this little coffee shop - Stagger - that is, I think, best known for its matcha, which is good. But the drink I unexpectedly found myself obsessed with was their […]
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Trump says Google kisses his ass

During a rally on Saturday, October 17th, in Highland Heights, Kentucky, Donald Trump bragged about how much more powerful and influential he was during his second term. While listing off his accomplishments, he mentioned his decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario. "This is a much more powerful term. I can do […]
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J Mascis has nothing better to do

Dinosaur Jr. frontman J Mascis is known as something of a slacker guitar god. He stands stoically onstage, barely moving, as he seemingly effortlessly works through deft guitar solos and lopsided riffs. Unfortunately, Mascis has developed a similar reputation as an interview subject, quietly sitting and offering deft nonanswers. That's not to say that Mascis […]
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Lenovo’s fast, comfy SteamOS handheld is hundreds off

The Legion Go S with SteamOS is a pretty solid alternative to the $789 Steam Deck OLED. It runs identical software, but ships in a design with two-stage triggers, a bigger eight-inch IPS screen (1080p and up to 120Hz versus 800p and 90Hz in the Deck OLED), and it’s got double the RAM and storage […]
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It's enough - vibecoding tag crossed from useless to harmful

The vibecoding tag has been getting more and more useless for a while now. It lost the original meaning as the culture of software engineering with LLMs matured a bit. It got silly when posts talking about LLMs in general got tagged. It got useless when posts even mentioning some project created with LLMs in passing got tagged. Now it actually got harmful to the community when tagging posts turns away very valuable members https://lobste.rs/c/vecuxj I sighed and moved on for a while now as a...
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How the AI boom might end: 5 scenarios

Article URL: https://martinalderson.com/posts/how-the-ai-boom-might-really-end/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50140566 Points: 3 # Comments: 7