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Orthodox C++

2026-06-13 @ 13:58:46Points: 36Comments: 14

US bans differential privacy in Census data

2026-06-13 @ 13:54:56Points: 211Comments: 74

Treating pancreatic tumours may have revealed cancer's master switch

2026-06-13 @ 13:34:00Points: 63Comments: 11

Introduction to the experience of rendering Arabic typography&its technical debt

2026-06-13 @ 12:40:16Points: 55Comments: 7

An Interview with Intel's Kira Boyko: Xeon 6's Product Director

2026-06-13 @ 12:20:05Points: 35Comments: 1

Sam Bankman-Fried loses bid to appeal against fraud conviction in FTX case

2026-06-13 @ 12:17:27Points: 55Comments: 32

Show HN: 2 Weeks of Hallucinate – The Photo Gallery

2026-06-13 @ 12:11:35Points: 54Comments: 15

AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed

2026-06-13 @ 12:10:47Points: 157Comments: 103

Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages

2026-06-13 @ 11:55:30Points: 174Comments: 90

Every Frame Perfect

2026-06-13 @ 11:40:20Points: 117Comments: 19

RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8

2026-06-13 @ 09:55:32Points: 61Comments: 17

Show HN: Paca – Lightweight Jira alternative for human-AI collaboration

2026-06-13 @ 09:44:25Points: 83Comments: 29

I built Paca out of pure passion—a free and lightweight Jira alternative written in Go where humans and AI agents work together as equal teammates to plan sprints and assign tasks to each other. It is fully customizable with custom views, fields, and a WASM-based plugin architecture. My team uses it daily for our own development, so it will be continuously maintained and completely free forever

A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones

2026-06-13 @ 09:38:32Points: 160Comments: 77

Leaving Mozilla

2026-06-13 @ 05:57:14Points: 392Comments: 228

Shepherd's Dog: A Game by the Most Dangerous AI Model

2026-06-13 @ 05:44:46Points: 138Comments: 109

There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing

2026-06-13 @ 05:16:41Points: 413Comments: 386

Open source AI must win

2026-06-13 @ 02:14:24Points: 1328Comments: 414

Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

2026-06-13 @ 00:51:30Points: 2868Comments: 2093

Show HN: Putt.day a daily mini golf game

2026-06-12 @ 22:56:06Points: 251Comments: 98

Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg

2026-06-12 @ 22:13:29Points: 265Comments: 173

Electric motors with no rare earths

2026-06-12 @ 22:08:03Points: 625Comments: 178

Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter

2026-06-12 @ 19:54:27Points: 226Comments: 109

How to setup a local coding agent on macOS

2026-06-12 @ 17:34:55Points: 435Comments: 110

CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers

2026-06-12 @ 15:15:24Points: 925Comments: 203

Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware

2026-06-11 @ 20:24:18Points: 431Comments: 228

H.R. 6028 would fundamentally change the U.S. Copyright Office

2026-06-11 @ 00:00:42Points: 257Comments: 102

Show HN: I am building a map of people who lived in the Roman Empire

2026-06-10 @ 19:28:49Points: 59Comments: 14

https://edcs.hist.uzh.ch/en/ and extract the names of people (and attempt to cluster them, but this is a work in progress).

There are databases where Classicists have done this manually for specific regions, Trismegistos https://www.trismegistos.org/ and Latin Inscriptions of the Roman Empire (LIRE) https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/publications/latin-inscriptions... are two major efforts I found. But there doesn't seem to be a project that did what I set out to do, although I have read in some places that it was believed to be possible.

I am not a classicist or a web developer, but I have Claude and Gemini and I can sort of read basic Latin - so I set to work. I used LIRE and another database as ground truth and built a pipeline to extract and process the inscriptions to recover the names. The process I developed uses a high end LLM like Sonnet or Gemini Pro to supervise the extraction and tuning process on a regional basis until the obvious error rate is reasonable. For this, so far, reasonable to me means less than 1-2% in the smaller initial samples of 100-500 and no observed systemic issues. The different regions often need different prompts, so this basically became an exercise in letting the higher level AI tune the prompt for the lower level AI. The extraction when measured against LIRE produces an F1 score between 0.64 and 0.87, but take this with a grain of salt.

Once I had done a few regions, I wanted to see the work, so I threw together a pretty crude website but as I am not a web developer, it was crude in how it accessed its data. It does look cool and I also added summarization, and machine translation to each entry. I wanted to eventually get feedback from an actual team of classicists and make the website work better, so I am rewriting it as we speak but it is broadly functional now with a few extra bugs but substantially improved performance compared to the old one. All entries link back to the proper sources, and the old web app linked to several additional sources where the data was present, but I haven't gotten that working again just yet on the new one. (The old web interface is still available at https://roman-names.com, but I will warn you it is clunky and not mobile friendly at all)

Key findings so far:

AI supervised AI extraction saved me time. I was manually tuning things for a while and then the runbook became an idea that I feed my instructions in and let the big AI go with sparse oversight from me.

The extraction improved significantly (by about 10 F1 points) when I fed the model the raw text including the markers, vs a cleaned up version of the text.

I just thought it was a cool little project and wanted to share. If you happen to work in any adjacent space and there is something I could do better etc let me know.

The state of building user interfaces in Rust

2026-06-10 @ 16:44:23Points: 102Comments: 67

The computer science degree isn’t dead

2026-06-10 @ 01:33:43Points: 161Comments: 155

Appreciating Exif

2026-06-09 @ 20:41:44Points: 12Comments: 0

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