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Article URL: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-reality-of-tech-interviews

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Article URL: https://www.eatwithcrumb.com/

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Article URL: https://ceo-gpt.com

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Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/world/europe/merlin-manuscript-cambridge.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43548783

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Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-01905-6

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Hey HN,

We’re excited to share Finzz, a service that delivers personalized stock portfolio updates in podcast format. We love podcasts but wished for one that talks about my investments. Instead of doomscrolling financial news, we built Finzz to provide daily, intent-based portfolio insights.

Here's an example podcast generated for my portfolio:

https://finzz.xyz/shared/FgV5q59UU-ytOrdytsRcNDBI

What It Does:

Finzz generates daily podcasts and news feeds tailored to your stock portfolio and investment intent, using AI to connect market events to your personal goals.

Key Features:

- Daily Podcasts: Custom audio updates based on your stock intent.

- Intent-Based Analysis: Tailored insights for your investment goals.

- Readable Summary: Option to read instead of listen.

- Curated News: Streamlined feed tied to your holdings.

- Free Tier: Up to 3 podcasts/week.

- Share: Generate shareable links.

Try It Now:

https://finzz.xyz

Visit Finzz to get started. First 100 users get immediate access to our free tier (up to 3 podcasts/week); others will be waitlisted, we will add more users as we add more capacity. We'd love your feedback!

Limitations:

- On-demand podcasts only

- US stocks only

- No crypto support

- No mobile app yet

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43548774

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Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06346

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43548771

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Article URL: https://www.hardware-corner.net/dual-rtx-5090-vs-h100-for-llm/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43548765

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Article URL: https://gist.github.com/izabera/3fb2f510f9e29811b57d3702002fc2a2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43548744

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If I am trying to read/explore/join/ETL deeply nested tables in PSQL or Spark, Cursor doesn't seem to work very well for me.

Which LLM-assistant tools have worked for you to expedite data exploration? Whether in a notebook format or otherwise.

Or is there simply a better way to use Cursor for this purpose that I haven't thought of?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43548735

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Article URL: https://www.onestreet.org/resources-for-increasing-bicycling/115-traffic-evaporation

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Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/sports/baseball/mit-scientist-torpedo-bats-new-york-yankees-bfdeacd9

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Article URL: https://thedeadweb.eu/?q=AI%20%20software&style=geocities

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We were frustrated by vector-based RAG systems that rely on semantic similarity and often fail on long, domain-specific documents. In these contexts, domain-specific terminology tends to be semantically similar, making it hard to retrieve the exact content users need. It’s also difficult to incorporate expert knowledge or user preferences effectively. So we started exploring a more reasoning-driven approach to RAG. Inspired by the tree search algorithm in AlphaGo, we came up with a reasoning-based RAG system that uses tree search to guide retrieval.

We open-sourced one of the key components: PageIndex, a hierarchical indexing system that transforms large documents (like financial reports, regulatory documents, or textbooks) into semantic trees optimized for reasoning-based RAG.

Some highlights:

- Hierarchical Structure: Organizes lengthy PDFs into LLM-friendly trees — like a smart table of contents.

- Precise Referencing: Each node includes a summary and exact physical page numbers.

- Natural Segmentation: Nodes align with document sections, preserving context — no arbitrary chunking.

We've used PageIndex for financial document analysis with reasoning-based RAG and saw significant improvements in retrieval accuracy compared to vector-based systems.

Would love any feedback — especially thoughts on reasoning-based RAG, or ideas for where PageIndex could be applied!

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Article URL: https://interestingengineering.com/health/us-scientists-develop-male-birth-control

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Article URL: https://vmssoftware.com/resources/blog/2025-03-31-how-big-is-vms/

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Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/dns-resolver-1-1-1-1/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43548670

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Hi HN,

I’m building Souschef, an AI tool that creates realistic product demo videos from just a written prompt—no UI, design tools, or code required.

The idea came from a common problem we faced as founders: it's hard to pitch or test a product idea before it's built. Most tools assume you already have a UI or prototype. We wanted to go one step earlier — when you just have an idea.

With a single prompt, Souschef can:

Generate realistic UI screens

Animate user flows and transitions

Add voiceover narration

Export a polished, ready-to-share demo video

Use cases include:

Validating early product ideas

Running go-to-market experiments

Exploring product ideas before committing design/dev resources

We’re opening a closed beta for 100 testers in May, and gradually expanding access. If this sounds useful, join the waitlist here: https://souschef.framer.website

We’re building in public and would love your thoughts or feedback. Thanks for reading!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43548659

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Ever since I read about RINA [1] some ten-odd years ago, I've always thought that this was the future standard of the Internet. I kept track of some implementations [2][3][4] but they've since been overtaken by developments in TCP/IP, most notable (for me) among which is QUIC.

I've come to believe that rather than starting from a clean slate, we need to work within TCP/IP's constraints to bring us piecemeal from "rough consensus and running code" to sound networking theory.

Zocket is my contribution to this effect. It's what you get when you marry a sockets API to zero-configuration networking--specify apps by their own names rather than their host's addresses. It's pretty rough, but the happy path mostly works.

I can imagine use cases for this in cluster networking, especially in the cloud. But I'll probably start with something smaller, like how to backup pictures from a smartphone to a home server despite the latter being configured with DHCP.

Happy April Fools' Day!

[1] https://www.martingeddes.com/think-tank/network-architecture... [2] https://github.com/IRATI/stack [3] https://github.com/rlite/rlite [4] https://github.com/dstaesse/ouroboros

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Article URL: https://relocateme.substack.com/p/if-you-want-to-relocate-find-a-remote

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43548131

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