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Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/24285581/gm-software-baris-cetinok-apple-carplay-android-auto-google-cars-evs-decoder-podcast

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42053297

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I've been exploring Pulumi ESC since its GA release last month. Here are my quick thoughts:

- ESC is nice for centralizing configuration and secrets with environments that can inherit from each other

- I like how ESC can get secrets from other stores like Azure Key Vault or 1Password, it's more than just a vault. Unfortunately, some sources like Bitwarden are not yet supported

- Setup OpenID Connect can be challenging, but once done it makes retrieving short cloud access tokens from ESC very easy

- ESC has interesting integrations with other tools (like Direnv of Terraform). I've only used the Pulumi IaC integration which is very handy

- ESC is not completely open source (it seems only some parts like the CLI are) so you can't self-host it unless you pay a license . That could prevent some people or companies from using it

- The vscode extension is fairly basic but very nice to modify the environments

- I didn't check the audit logs, but I'm sure that having environments that are auditable and versioned can be valuable for some companies

In the end, I liked it, even though it's still a young product. What are your impressions? Do you know of any other similar tools?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42053282

Points: 1

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I built a tool to help people make data-driven decisions about where to live, starting with Calgary, AB. Instead of just showing property listings, it aggregates and visualizes:

- Historical property values (up to 20 years of municipal assessment data)

- Crime statistics (population-adjusted, categorized by type)

- Proximity analysis (schools, healthcare, transit, amenities)

- Flood risk assessment

- Travel time calculations for different modes of transport

Tech stack:

- Frontend: Vue.js with Nuxt.js (hybrid SSR/SPA architecture)

- Styling: shadcn-vue and Tailwind CSS

- Maps: Mapbox with PMTiles for efficient vector tile serving

- Database: PostgreSQL with PostGIS and H3 for spatial indexing and queries

- Architecture: Explore page runs as SPA for smooth interactions, other pages SSR for better SEO/performance

Demo: https://www.pickyourplace.app/

Background: Built initial prototype 3 years ago for an AWS hackathon. Recently rebuilt and launched v1.0 with up-to-date data and improved system design. Currently free to use, planning to expand to more cities.

Would love feedback from the HN community on:

1. Which cities to add next

2. Additional datasets that would be valuable

3. Features that would make this more useful for your use case

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42053281

Points: 1

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Article URL: https://jamestown.org/program/prcs-adaptation-of-open-source-llm-for-military-and-security-purposes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42053270

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Article URL: https://www.getxtp.com/blog/hackable-email-extending-postfix-with-wasm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42053266

Points: 3

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Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/guide/how-much-mac-ram/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42053257

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Article URL: https://rada.re/con/2024/#pickles

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42053236

Points: 1

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Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/yc-winter-2025-applications/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42053235

Points: 2

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The show won't be on this week.

Article URL: https://appents.com/apps/photo-captioner/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42053217

Points: 1

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Hey community!

Lila is a testing platform that uses Anthropic's computer use to run high level e2e testing over webapps.

Would love your feedback! Feel free to use and explore.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42053193

Points: 3

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We’ve launched NewsCatcher’s Hyperlocal News API to provide city-level news feeds for market analysis, localized apps, and data analytics.

Why We Built It:

Aggregating hyperlocal news is complex. Local news comes from diverse sources, many covering national topics, making it hard to isolate local events like transit updates, crime, extreme weather alerts, or infrastructure projects. Searching by location alone can lead to irrelevant results, especially with city names that overlap or match common words (e.g., Orange, Lake).

What It Does:

Our API provides precise, location-based news by processing 185K articles daily and tagging each with its associated_town down to the town level with 92% accuracy. Covering 31,000 U.S. locations, it uses advanced NLP to accurately associate location names, even when they’re common words.

It enables you to:

- Access near-real-time, location-focused news feeds

- Filter by topic (e.g., crime, sports), keyword, and date

- Cluster articles covering similar events and topics

- Get sentiment score for a headline and article body

- Recognize and extract entities

Key Features:

- AI-powered location recognition and validation

- Advanced querying with boolean operators and proximity search

- Multiple town association methods for precise location matching

- NLP-enriched content for deeper analysis

- Articles clustering

- Multi-language support

- High volume data retrieval (up to 1000 articles per request)

For a demo, try our 15 public RSS feeds: https://www.newscatcherapi.com/local-news/rss/. The API provides JSON output for easy integration.

Tech Specs:

- RESTful, JSON-based API

- API key authentication

- Scalable for high-volume queries

We’d appreciate any feedback or questions on use cases.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42053189

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Article URL: https://github.com/dstackai/dstack

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42053180

Points: 3

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A bug that WIRED discovered in True the Vote’s VoteAlert app revealed user information—and an election worker who wrote about carrying out an illegal voter-suppression scheme.

Article URL: https://www.digitalray.ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42053176

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In episode 23 of The AI Fix, an AI finds a new way to make life difficult for women in STEM, Graham reveals his brilliant idea for treating any medical emergency, a beloved chat show host returns from the grave, and our hosts learn that computer viruses were almost called computer weeds. Graham tells Mark a story involving a murder, a moth, and an AI journalist, and Mark pits his co-host against the world's most advanced computer program in a maths Olympiad. All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of "The AI Fix" podcast by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.

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