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A Fast Path for Reading Fixed-Length Lists in Parquet
Article URL: https://www.morling.dev/blog/fast-path-for-fixed-length-lists-in-parquet/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49318026
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Show HN: Branchline, a $15 alternative to GitLens Pro's commit graph
Article URL: https://sarthak645.gumroad.com/l/branchline
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49318012
Points: 2
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More screen time in childhood linked to improved cognitive processing in teens
AI Agent Insurance Products: The New Wave
Article URL: https://openkoda.com/ai-agent-insurance-products/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317988
Points: 3
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Hi everyone – I'm John, founder of Barawave
Article URL: https://barawave.com/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317967
Points: 2
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Free v4 front end for your v6 site
Article URL: https://v4-frontend.netiter.com/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317965
Points: 2
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Court Rejects Fair Use Claim, Orders YouTube to Unmask Anime Recap Channels
Article URL: https://torrentfreak.com/court-rejects-fair-use-claim-orders-youtube-to-unmask-anime-recap-channels/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317953
Points: 3
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The Greatest Books of All Time
Article URL: https://thegreatestbooks.org/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317932
Points: 2
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Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same
Article URL: https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/temperature-zero-for-culture-why
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317913
Points: 2
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Startup Just Got Approval to Test Beaming Sunlight to Earth
AI text watermarking is not a big deal
Article URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/ai-text-watermarking-is-not-a-big-deal/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317892
Points: 2
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Reaction-Diffusion Playground(2020)
Article URL: https://jasonwebb.github.io/reaction-diffusion-playground/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317868
Points: 2
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Cogister: Hitster for Philosophy
Article URL: https://cogitster.vibetrunk.com/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317841
Points: 3
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Pax Silica vs. Waico: Competing AI and Tech Blocs
Invisible to the Machine: auditing AI recommendation against a complete census
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.07069
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317814
Points: 2
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Show HN: AlertChecker – get emailed when a plain-English statement comes true
I built AlertChecker to help address a limitation with AI chatbots - they only respond when you've asked them something. You talk to them and they talk back. I wanted a way for them to tell you something of interest another time, when you're not even in a conversation.
For example, type a statement like "the iPhone 16 Pro is back in stock at apple.com" or "it's going to rain in London tomorrow," and AlertChecker uses AI models with live web search to monitor it periodically. You'll then be emailed when it becomes true. No scraping rules to configure, no specific site integrations to pick, just a sentence in plain English.
It's a Next.js web app with a small Node backend service doing the actual checking in a continuous loop. There's also an MCP server, so if you use Claude or ChatGPT you can create alerts by just asking in a normal conversation instead of opening the site.
The number of checks is currently limited overall while I keep an eye on costs, so it's shared across everyone using it right now rather than a fixed per-account quota. I'll be raising that as I get a better sense of real usage patterns.
Seems like this tool could have a very wide range of applications (given the statement can be literally anything under 4000 characters). Interested to hear about real-world uses beyond stock/price checking or weather alerts.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317809
Points: 2
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Show HN: PyScrappy, self-healing web scraping selectors plus an MCP server
Article URL: https://github.com/mldsveda/PyScrappy
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317799
Points: 2
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Everything You Need to Know About 2-5 Horn Voicings
Article URL: https://www.toshiclinchproductions.com/2-5-horn-voicings
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317791
Points: 2
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How Diplomats See the World
Article URL: https://asteriskmag.com/issues/15/how-diplomats-see-the-world
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317785
Points: 3
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Google's Favicon API
Article URL: https://gist.github.com/iuzn/bbd4df2823bd69643a8553d6967f68eb
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317764
Points: 3
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