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Article URL: https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html#10.0p1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43636356

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Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-06-28/fired-by-bot-amazon-turns-to-machine-managers-and-workers-are-losing-out

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43636348

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Hey HN - I'm Mason, and I'm excited to share a fun side project I've been working on recently: Repo Roast.

For me, Github often feels like a serious (and sometimes soulless) place. I built this website to showcase the human, silly side of developers. Repo Roast is built on top of LLM-powered GitHub analytics tooling we’re developing internally at Merit Systems [0].

One of the historically cited weak points for LLMs has been their sense of humor. I found that with the right prompt, at scale, they mostly can _identify_ humor pretty well. We experimented with a couple of different models to tune the cost/effectiveness and eventually landed on a strategy where we have gpt-4o-mini do a very light filter pass to reduce the number of calls to GPT-4o to do the actual humor scoring. Interestingly, our first prompt attempts ended up surfacing wayyy more aggressively NSFW content, which is funny that this happens despite all the censoring that OpenAI is doing.

So far we have processed the last 90 days of historical comments and continuously process new ones every hour. We theoretically can run this against a wider historical window given there is sufficient interest to justify the costs!

Repo Roast is in no way intended to make you a better or more productive dev. You can use it as a leaderboard or hiring tool (if you’re looking for personality), or just a way to distract yourself!

If you've had any funny Github interactions, I'd love if you shared them below.

Cheers!

--Mason

[0] https://www.merit.systems/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43636330

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Article URL: https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-dental-antiviral-chewing-gum-reduce-influenza-and-herpes-simplex-virus-transmission

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43636302

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A couple of months ago I've started experiencing dry eyes and worsening eyesight, especially towards the evenings. I remembered a site from the past that I used to use to take breaks and relax my eyes.

The site was unfortunately no longer working, so I decided to revive it using the Web Archive and build a Chrome Extension to remind myself every hour.

My eyes do feel better now, but of course, this isn't a panacea, and it definitely would not help everyone.

These are just exercises, after all.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43636241

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Article URL: https://vorq.ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43636234

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Article URL: https://the-nerve-blog.ghost.io/baking-the-y-combinator-from-scratch-part-1/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43636230

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Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCr_gb8rdEI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43636223

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Some PlayStation Plus subscribers can play these games in April.

Article URL: https://arielche.net/bitter-lesson.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43636154

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Article URL: https://taylor.town/wealth-000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43636109

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Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/our-privacy-act-lawsuit-against-doge-and-opm-why-judge-let-it-move-forward

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43636098

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Take the guesswork out of what you should wear when you venture outside with these must-have weather apps for your phone and more.

Hey HN! I've spent the last few weeks working on eventkit, an open source library designed for working with data streams in TS/JS.

I had a need to track all the work associated with handling application events. If you're familiar at all with reactive systems or what that entails, having this sort of functionality is super important.

If you're familiar with observables or RxJS, this library is very similar but with better side effect management and using async generators. (I found an old HN comment that's somewhat related [1])

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36911516

I'd love to hear your feedback!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43636031

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Article URL: https://business.theya.us/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43636010

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Article URL: https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/pdfs/air_filter_effects_02_26_2009.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43636002

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Article URL: https://theconversation.com/americans-die-earlier-at-all-wealth-levels-even-if-wealth-buys-more-years-of-life-in-the-us-than-in-europe-253620

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43636001

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Article URL: https://novelchallenge.github.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43636000

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These external drives make expanding storage simple, and they're the best on the market today.

The Israeli spyware maker, still on the US Commerce Department’s “blacklist,” has hired a new lobbying firm with direct ties to the Trump administration, a WIRED investigation has found.