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AIs don't do what you want. This is bad

Fri, 07/24/2026 - 6:24pm

Article URL: https://rewardhacking.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49042354

Points: 3

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Show HN: Best JSON Formatter

Fri, 07/24/2026 - 4:44pm

Article URL: https://bestjsonformatter.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49041352

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

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Show HN: Open-weight OCR got so cheap I had to share it

Fri, 07/24/2026 - 4:41pm

This was not supposed to become a product.

When PaddleOCR-VL-1.6 dropped, independent benchmarks put it at the top of document parsing models. I had to try it. I needed a provider, but there simply isn't one ready for production that I would trust.

So i set one up myself. I assumed that even after getting it running, serving a vision-language model would be expensive.

It turns out the opposite is true. Once I had it running properly, the cost was absurdly low. At proper GPU utilization, the cost is only around $1 per 1,000 pages.

The nearest competitors are either much lower quality (Azure Read) or absurdly expensive (Extend or Reducto). Even Mistral OCR 4 which is really good and pretty cheap is still 4x more expensive.

So I had to share it. I made the endpoitns public, and vibe-coded a simple dashboard.

Let me know what you think!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49041317

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

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Voice-first AI recipe manager

Fri, 07/24/2026 - 4:35pm

Article URL: https://saychef.online

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49041258

Points: 2

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The Littleman Programming Language

Fri, 07/24/2026 - 4:25pm

Article URL: https://icfpcontest2026.com/textbook

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49041164

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

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