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Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2025-04-universe-ultimate.html

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Article URL: https://flappytrump.net/

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Article URL: https://www.newsweek.com/california-tax-social-media-legislation-2064045

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Article URL: https://istories.media/en/news/2025/04/25/son-of-cia-deputy-director-joined-russian-army-and-was-killed-in-the-war-in-ukraine/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43793299

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Article URL: https://www.securityweek.com/sap-zero-day-possibly-exploited-by-initial-access-broker/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43793293

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Article URL: https://mssv.net/2025/04/25/the-making-of-the-first-english-jubensha/

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Article URL: https://mitxela.com/projects/euroknob

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43793288

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Article URL: https://cowboystatedaily.com/2025/04/24/state-treasurer-plans-to-invest-billions-to-help-bring-manufacturing-to-wyoming/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43793281

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Article URL: https://hiddenlayer.com/innovation-hub/novel-universal-bypass-for-all-major-llms/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43793280

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Article URL: https://cowboystatedaily.com/2025/04/24/wyoming-power-plant-may-be-proving-ground-for-emissions-free-coal-burning/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43793274

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I work from home. It can get a bit lonely, so I got the bad habit of putting a youtube video (usually podcasts) in the background.

I feel like I shouldn't be doing that if I want to perform at my best.

Any advice on how to reduce podcast consumption? Should I quit it cold turkey=

Has anyone experienced something similar?

I know it sounds silly but it's becoming a bit of a problem.

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Article URL: https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/bangkok-diary-2025

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Article URL: https://www.implicator.ai/price-wars-brain-drain-china-cuts-ai-costs-while-us-talent-flees-to-germany/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43793261

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Article URL: https://twitter.com/bunjavascript/status/1915633844155527208

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Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/25/virgin_agentic_airline_tests_ai/

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Article URL: https://kwakubiney.github.io/posts/Apps-Tell-Us-Who-Matters-Now/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43792858

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Is anyone using the TruffleBot electronic nose (or something like it) to detect bed bugs from the VOCs emitted by them?

https://projects-raspberry.com/trufflebot-sniffs-out-and-accurately-identifies-specific-chemical-odors/

There's a paper that mentions using VOCs to detect bed bugs:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10048870/

I think someone tried to do this in 2011, but it didn't seem to take off. A large market exists, so possibly a profitable venture? I don't have the skills or abilities myself.

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Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/bezos-backed-slate-auto-debuts-analog-ev-pickup-truck-that-is-decidedly-anti-tesla/

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Article URL: https://sqlfiddle.com

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Hi HN,

I built SnipFast - a tool that helps you extract important text from an image of a page. If you’ve ever highlighted sections in a physical book and wanted to save or organize them digitally, SnipFast can help.

This came from my own frustration. I like to note down ideas when reading, but doing that from physical books was time-consuming. I looked for a tool to solve this, didn’t find one, so I built it.

SnipFast lets you:

- Automatically detect and extract highlighted text from a page photo (works with most highlighter pens and languages)

- Click on sentences in the image to manually pick exactly what you want to copy

It’s aimed at readers, students, researchers - basically anyone who annotates physical books and wants to keep those notes digitally.

Under the hood, it uses a custom ML model trained on highlight detection. The app runs on a Kotlin backend with a Postgres database. You can try it for free. Signup is required, but it’s minimal. I offer some credits upfront so people can test it out. After that, there’s a small payment required. The goal is mainly to prevent abuse and to validate whether this is a tool people find valuable enough to pay for.

The UI still needs work, and I’m mainly looking for feedback at this stage. I’d love to hear: does this solve a real problem for you? Was anything confusing? What would make it more useful?

link: https://snipfa.st

Thanks, Tom

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