Ask HN: What's Up with Archive.today?
2 by nobody9999 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Archive.[today|is|ph|il|md|etc.] has been unresponsive for the last few days. I've searched around a bit but haven't seen any reporting as to what's up with the site(s). Does anyone have any information about this? Speculation? Wild rumors?
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Watch the number of websites being hacked today, one by one on a page, increasing in real time.
New Show Hacker News story: Show HN: Open-weight OCR got so cheap I had to share it
Show HN: Open-weight OCR got so cheap I had to share it
4 by TimurKramar | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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!
4 by TimurKramar | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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!
New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What are your thoughts on spec-driven development?
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on spec-driven development?
3 by Austin_Conlon | 1 comments on Hacker News.
3 by Austin_Conlon | 1 comments on Hacker News.
New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What Linux distro do you daily drive?
Ask HN: What Linux distro do you daily drive?
5 by addajones | 7 comments on Hacker News.
I'm a long-time macOS user and I just want a change. Curious what people here actually use every day and what made you stick with it. Curious if you also switched from a Mac too. I'd like to get out of the "walled garden" ecosystem.
5 by addajones | 7 comments on Hacker News.
I'm a long-time macOS user and I just want a change. Curious what people here actually use every day and what made you stick with it. Curious if you also switched from a Mac too. I'd like to get out of the "walled garden" ecosystem.
New ask Hacker News story: Ask: Why does everything Microsoft create lately feel fragile and half-baked?
Ask: Why does everything Microsoft create lately feel fragile and half-baked?
3 by nothrowaways | 2 comments on Hacker News.
Microsoft has seemingly abandoned quality and craftsmanship a long time ago. But more recently they are rushing to force-feed us unfinished AI and web apps just so they can stay in the AI hype race. Call it teams, copilot, LinkedIn I've never liked anything that comes out of Ms lately, yet our company defaults to MS. At what point should we tell our employers to say no to MS treating paying customers as unpaid bulk beta testers?
3 by nothrowaways | 2 comments on Hacker News.
Microsoft has seemingly abandoned quality and craftsmanship a long time ago. But more recently they are rushing to force-feed us unfinished AI and web apps just so they can stay in the AI hype race. Call it teams, copilot, LinkedIn I've never liked anything that comes out of Ms lately, yet our company defaults to MS. At what point should we tell our employers to say no to MS treating paying customers as unpaid bulk beta testers?
New Show Hacker News story: Show HN: The Daily FM – Turn any source into a daily podcast
Show HN: The Daily FM – Turn any source into a daily podcast
2 by carimura | 1 comments on Hacker News.
I built The Daily FM because I wanted a daily summary of the latest AI news sent to my podcast app and then realized it was useful in summarizing other stuff: - Any blogs, websites, or X handles - The top Hacker News stories with comments - Long podcasts (think Lex Fridman) - Changes in state/federal legislation It pulls your sources, writes a script with a frontier-ish model of your choice, runs it through TTS (MAI-2 studio voices), and publishes a standard RSS feed. You can also combine several pods into one feed for one subscribe point. Under the hood it’s using Cloudflare Workers, queues, browser rendering, and the AI Gateway, but the TTS models aren’t very good on Cloudflare so I switched to the MAI-Voice-2 models with OpenRouter. I also created a public library you can subscribe to without ever signing up, or if you sign up, you can combine a bunch into a single feed and use your own sources as well and choose from other voice options if you don’t like “Excited Ethan” at 1.1x speed. Feedback welcome.
2 by carimura | 1 comments on Hacker News.
I built The Daily FM because I wanted a daily summary of the latest AI news sent to my podcast app and then realized it was useful in summarizing other stuff: - Any blogs, websites, or X handles - The top Hacker News stories with comments - Long podcasts (think Lex Fridman) - Changes in state/federal legislation It pulls your sources, writes a script with a frontier-ish model of your choice, runs it through TTS (MAI-2 studio voices), and publishes a standard RSS feed. You can also combine several pods into one feed for one subscribe point. Under the hood it’s using Cloudflare Workers, queues, browser rendering, and the AI Gateway, but the TTS models aren’t very good on Cloudflare so I switched to the MAI-Voice-2 models with OpenRouter. I also created a public library you can subscribe to without ever signing up, or if you sign up, you can combine a bunch into a single feed and use your own sources as well and choose from other voice options if you don’t like “Excited Ethan” at 1.1x speed. Feedback welcome.