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• A practical guide to observing the night sky for real skies and real equipment

  by constantinum on 2/12/2026, 4:35 PM with 21 comments

• FinePDFs: Liberating 3T of the finest tokens from PDFs

  by constantinum on 1/8/2026, 1:50 AM with 0 comments

• Sentry – No Marketing Mode

  by constantinum on 11/4/2025, 5:36 PM with 1 comments

• Reducto Raises $108M to Shape the Future of AI Document Intelligence

  by constantinum on 10/14/2025, 7:59 PM with 0 comments

• Iconfinder will permanently close on November 15, 2025

  by constantinum on 10/10/2025, 6:53 AM with 0 comments

• Retab: The developer starter pack for document processing

  by constantinum on 8/7/2025, 4:21 PM with 0 comments

• Understanding why deterministic output from LLMs is nearly impossible

  by constantinum on 7/28/2025, 4:18 PM with 0 comments

• Lumigator: The Dev Tool for AI Model Evaluation

  by constantinum on 7/23/2025, 2:42 AM with 0 comments

• Any-agent: A single interface to use and evaluate different agent frameworks

  by constantinum on 7/23/2025, 2:41 AM with 2 comments

• Specification Grounding: The Missing Link in Vibe Coding

  by constantinum on 7/10/2025, 4:53 PM with 0 comments

• by constantinum on 7/4/2025, 5:23 PM with comments

• DeskHog, an open-source developer toy

  by constantinum on 6/11/2025, 1:37 PM with 106 comments

• Groupon Has Become a GLP-1 Affiliate Marketing and Bootleg MS Office Racket

  by constantinum on 6/10/2025, 12:36 PM with 0 comments

• There's no leader quite like Toyota's Akio Toyoda

  by constantinum on 6/5/2025, 5:35 PM with 0 comments

• Why LLMs Are Not (Yet) the Silver Bullet for Unstructured Data Processing

  by constantinum on 5/6/2025, 4:49 PM with 3 comments

• Show HN: Maybe – The personal finance app for everyone

  by constantinum on 5/2/2025, 2:11 AM with 6 comments

• by constantinum on 2/26/2025, 5:01 PM with comments

• Ts_server: A web server proposing a REST API to large language models

  by constantinum on 11/21/2024, 6:03 AM with 1 comments

• Scaling Document Data Extraction with LLMs and Vector Databases

  by constantinum on 11/18/2024, 3:58 PM with 0 comments

• Next-Gen Virtual Office App.Remote Work Reimagined

  by constantinum on 11/7/2024, 2:17 AM with 0 comments

• Open Source API service for document layout analysis, OCR and chunking

  by constantinum on 10/15/2024, 1:44 AM with 0 comments

• WordPress Bans WP Engine Customers

  by constantinum on 9/26/2024, 6:31 PM with 1 comments

• MidrasAI: Simple API for text and image retrieval

  by constantinum on 9/8/2024, 6:07 PM with 0 comments

• Playground – AI Design and Editor

  by constantinum on 8/30/2024, 4:58 AM with 0 comments

• Unstract: Open-source ETL pipelines to structure unstructured documents

  by constantinum on 8/2/2024, 5:08 PM with 0 comments

• Localops: Streamline Private SaaS Deployments

  by constantinum on 8/1/2024, 5:59 PM with 0 comments

• Torchchat: Chat with LLMs Everywhere

  by constantinum on 8/1/2024, 3:48 AM with 41 comments

• Frank Duckworth Obituary

  by constantinum on 7/1/2024, 5:02 PM with 0 comments

• Amazon Is Investigating Perplexity over Claims of Scraping Abuse

  by constantinum on 6/29/2024, 6:28 AM with 0 comments

• Every Way to Get Structured Output from LLMs

  by constantinum on 6/18/2024, 4:01 AM with 83 comments

• Comparing Approaches for Using LLMs for Structured Data Extraction from PDFs

  by constantinum on 6/17/2024, 3:44 PM with 0 comments

• Vector DB Retrieval: To chunk or not to chunk

  by constantinum on 6/6/2024, 4:22 PM with 0 comments

• PDF Hell and Practical RAG Applications

  by constantinum on 5/29/2024, 3:40 PM with 0 comments

• How Canva Activates Users

  by constantinum on 5/15/2024, 2:11 AM with 1 comments

• Exploring the Extractive Capabilities of Large Language Models

  by constantinum on 5/10/2024, 3:27 PM with 0 comments

• Speedometer 3.0: The Best Way yet to Measure Browser Performance

  by constantinum on 4/19/2024, 3:54 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: LLMWhisperer – Prep complex documents ready for use in LLMs

  by constantinum on 4/10/2024, 1:21 PM with 0 comments

• Mubi: VHS Go

  by constantinum on 4/1/2024, 9:18 AM with 0 comments

• Tuta (formerly Tutanota) Mail turns ten today

  by constantinum on 3/25/2024, 1:40 PM with 1 comments

• by constantinum on 3/21/2024, 6:22 PM with comments

• FastAPI 0.109.0 Release Notes

  by constantinum on 1/11/2024, 3:46 PM with 0 comments

• An Overdue Apology: Kenneth Reitz

  by constantinum on 11/9/2023, 3:34 PM with 1 comments

• The Creator of Rails on Internet's Hidden Price: Our Private Data [video]

  by constantinum on 10/28/2023, 1:57 AM with 0 comments

• The myth of the myth of learning styles

  by constantinum on 9/23/2023, 7:49 PM with 0 comments

• Tabular Secures $26M for Independent Data Platform Based on Apache Iceberg

  by constantinum on 9/19/2023, 6:16 PM with 0 comments

• FastAPI 0.100.0 release notes

  by constantinum on 7/7/2023, 5:49 PM with 110 comments

• Elizabeth Holmes Reports to Prison to Begin More Than 11-Year Sentence

  by constantinum on 5/31/2023, 4:10 AM with 0 comments

• by constantinum on 5/23/2023, 3:57 PM with comments

• I was voted “least likely to invent his own programming language.”

  by constantinum on 4/24/2023, 7:31 AM with 1 comments

• Rob Roy's Glacier, ShotoniPhone

  by constantinum on 3/24/2023, 1:36 PM with 0 comments

• Threads is a Slack replacement designed for makers

  by constantinum on 9/27/2022, 4:01 PM with 0 comments

• Edward de Bono Obituary

  by constantinum on 6/10/2021, 7:08 PM with 0 comments

• Useful Things You Can Do with CSS Today

  by constantinum on 2/1/2021, 2:30 PM with 0 comments

• TiddlyWiki v5.1.23

  by constantinum on 12/24/2020, 2:20 PM with 1 comments

• Gimp is 25 years old today

  by constantinum on 11/22/2020, 3:22 AM with 260 comments

• RIP Bill Morrow: Lead Developer Cinelerra-GG

  by constantinum on 11/10/2020, 6:33 PM with 0 comments

• Gimp 2.99.2 – GTK3 user interface toolkit

  by constantinum on 11/6/2020, 7:40 PM with 179 comments

• Stripe Climate

  by constantinum on 10/28/2020, 2:21 PM with 224 comments

• The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020

  by constantinum on 10/8/2020, 11:07 AM with 0 comments

• The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020

  by constantinum on 10/8/2020, 11:01 AM with 0 comments

• Chargebee raises $55M to help businesses move to subscriptions

  by constantinum on 10/6/2020, 3:33 PM with 2 comments

• Today is LibreOffice 10th Anniversary

  by constantinum on 9/28/2020, 3:05 AM with 23 comments

• New Gnome Versioning Scheme

  by constantinum on 9/16/2020, 3:32 PM with 0 comments

• How Internet Archive Is Ensuring Permanent Access to Open Access Journals

  by constantinum on 9/15/2020, 7:10 PM with 25 comments

• It’s been 10 years since Sketch first launched

  by constantinum on 9/8/2020, 5:55 AM with 0 comments

• Inkscape 1.0.1

  by constantinum on 9/8/2020, 4:31 AM with 37 comments

• WorldWideWeb – Executive Summary – Tim Berners-Lee

  by constantinum on 8/24/2020, 6:19 PM with 0 comments

• WordPressiOS Locked by App Store

  by constantinum on 8/21/2020, 7:47 PM with 339 comments

• Dribbble Is Down

  by constantinum on 8/21/2020, 6:43 PM with comments

• Kroomsa(beta):A search engine that expands your world view

  by constantinum on 8/19/2020, 3:20 AM with 0 comments

• Assistants (Beta)

  by constantinum on 8/4/2020, 7:45 PM with 0 comments

• Design Week Poll: 71% of design businesses worried about surviving into 2021

  by constantinum on 7/17/2020, 7:39 PM with 0 comments

• July 11, 2020 RIP my darling boy

  by constantinum on 7/12/2020, 6:17 PM with 121 comments

• China Reports Progress in Ultra-Secure Satellite Transmission

  by constantinum on 6/28/2020, 5:34 PM with 0 comments

• Figma Onboards New Users

  by constantinum on 4/30/2020, 9:07 AM with 0 comments

• Onboarding UX Patterns

  by constantinum on 4/22/2020, 6:04 AM with 1 comments

• Anthony Fauci Became America’s Doctor

  by constantinum on 4/11/2020, 9:52 AM with 0 comments

• Bad News Wrapped in Protein: Inside the Coronavirus Genome

  by constantinum on 4/3/2020, 10:04 AM with 0 comments

• Another 6.6M joined the U.S. unemployment rolls last week

  by constantinum on 4/2/2020, 2:38 PM with comments

• ‘We Take the Dead from Morning Till Night’

  by constantinum on 3/27/2020, 3:12 PM with 0 comments

• Bandcamp Onboards New Users

  by constantinum on 3/20/2020, 3:46 PM with 0 comments

• Yuval Noah Harari: the world after coronavirus

  by constantinum on 3/20/2020, 5:55 AM with 0 comments

• Big tech is testing you

  by constantinum on 2/24/2020, 7:13 PM with 16 comments

• Adobe and Salesforce overturn old order in cloud revolution

  by constantinum on 2/5/2020, 7:14 PM with 0 comments

• The Pitfalls and the Potential of the New Minimalism

  by constantinum on 2/1/2020, 1:20 AM with 0 comments

• Can Design Thinking Save Business?

  by constantinum on 1/31/2020, 6:45 PM with 0 comments

• PHP 7.4 Just Came Out, and So Did Our PHP Version Switcher

  by constantinum on 12/1/2019, 4:18 AM with 0 comments

• Watch Live Landing of Vikram Lander on Lunar South Pole(4 PM ET)

  by constantinum on 9/6/2019, 4:50 PM with 0 comments

• Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates – Official Trailer – Netflix

  by constantinum on 8/29/2019, 4:09 PM with 0 comments

• Starbucks Creative Expression

  by constantinum on 8/26/2019, 2:44 PM with 0 comments

• Sketch for Teams – Beta

  by constantinum on 7/23/2019, 3:05 PM with 0 comments

• Figma is the best design tool out there today for designing software

  by constantinum on 7/18/2019, 7:10 PM with 0 comments

• Where Are All the Bob Ross Paintings? We Found Them

  by constantinum on 7/12/2019, 5:29 PM with 1 comments

• What to Expect from India’s Second Moon Mission

  by constantinum on 7/12/2019, 3:35 PM with 0 comments

• How We Do Continuous Customer Development at Chargebee

  by constantinum on 5/22/2019, 6:56 PM with 0 comments

• Karl Lagerfeld Dies at 85

  by constantinum on 2/19/2019, 5:51 PM with 0 comments

• Feeding the Mind – Lewis Carroll(1907)

  by constantinum on 12/21/2018, 6:35 PM with 0 comments

• Zapier is down

  by constantinum on 12/19/2018, 11:06 AM with 0 comments

• Why Read the Classics? (1986)

  by constantinum on 9/2/2018, 5:57 PM with 160 comments

• Show HN: RevenueStory|Your subscription metrics tell stories,can you read them?

  by constantinum on 6/21/2018, 6:40 PM with 0 comments

• From First Mile to Nth: Onboarding Beyond User Onboarding

  by constantinum on 6/20/2018, 4:23 PM with 0 comments

• Good Questions, Bad Asks: The UX of Questions in User Onboarding

  by constantinum on 5/21/2018, 5:37 PM with 0 comments

• Policy Entrepreneurship at the White House

  by constantinum on 4/6/2018, 4:48 AM with 0 comments

• We Studied 6,452 SaaS Companies. The Findings Will Make You Grow

  by constantinum on 2/18/2018, 2:30 PM with 1 comments

• A Design Mystery in Chicago’s Hyde Park

  by constantinum on 10/23/2016, 5:46 AM with 0 comments

• A good bucket brigade

  by constantinum on 6/14/2015, 7:36 PM with 0 comments

• Get a Goodreads Email Signature

  by constantinum on 6/11/2015, 5:41 AM with comments

• The New Instagram Facelift

  by constantinum on 6/9/2015, 7:06 PM with 1 comments

• Ten Years of Google Maps, from Slashdot to Ground Truth

  by constantinum on 2/9/2015, 3:07 AM with 0 comments

• Harper Lee, Author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Is to Publish a Second Novel

  by constantinum on 2/3/2015, 4:15 PM with 0 comments

• Jeff Bridges Sleeping Tapes

  by constantinum on 2/1/2015, 4:11 AM with 0 comments

• Apple Store, West Lake – About the Artist

  by constantinum on 1/22/2015, 11:42 PM with 0 comments

• Samsung Hires New Global Design Head

  by constantinum on 1/19/2015, 9:20 AM with 0 comments

• Is there a better way of showing a text message in a film?

  by constantinum on 12/6/2014, 1:27 PM with 0 comments

• How Kickstarter Onboards New Users

  by constantinum on 11/21/2014, 2:03 PM with 0 comments

• Marketing Styles

  by constantinum on 11/14/2014, 3:11 AM with 0 comments

• Amazon and Hachette Resolve Dispute

  by constantinum on 11/13/2014, 4:42 PM with 27 comments

• That Turtleneck is Choking You How pretending to be a designer is

  by constantinum on 11/5/2014, 3:12 PM with 0 comments

• Dell’s Life After Wall Street

  by constantinum on 11/3/2014, 8:01 AM with 74 comments

• The Exacting, Expansive Mind of Christopher Nolan

  by constantinum on 10/30/2014, 5:45 PM with 0 comments

• MCX, Maker of Apple Pay Competitor Has Already Been Hacked

  by constantinum on 10/29/2014, 4:07 PM with 0 comments

• Tidal – High Fidelity Music Streaming

  by constantinum on 10/28/2014, 3:51 PM with 0 comments

• Usage Stalls for Twitter; Shares Drop

  by constantinum on 10/28/2014, 1:15 AM with 53 comments

• Rooms

  by constantinum on 10/23/2014, 5:08 PM with 1 comments

• Amazon’s Monopsony Is Not O.K.

  by constantinum on 10/20/2014, 7:34 AM with 199 comments

• Apple's Successful Product Cannibalization and the Future of iPad

  by constantinum on 10/15/2014, 5:27 PM with 0 comments

• The Diminished iPad

  by constantinum on 10/15/2014, 4:58 PM with 0 comments

• “Our biggest search competitor is Amazon,” – Eric E. Schmidt

  by constantinum on 10/15/2014, 2:28 AM with 0 comments

• Web-Era Trade Schools, Feeding a Need for Code

  by constantinum on 10/14/2014, 10:40 AM with 58 comments

• Your Digital Body Language

  by constantinum on 10/13/2014, 6:00 PM with 0 comments

• The story of Unsplash – How side projects saved our startup

  by constantinum on 10/13/2014, 3:49 AM with 0 comments

• Useronboard Beta

  by constantinum on 10/3/2014, 12:59 PM with 2 comments

• Google Trends – “learn to code” vs. “learn to program” vs. “make apps”

  by constantinum on 10/2/2014, 9:18 AM with 0 comments

• iPhone Launch Patterns

  by constantinum on 9/22/2014, 5:19 PM with 0 comments

• Apple Pay, Where the Money Is? Breaking Down Payments Value Chain

  by constantinum on 9/16/2014, 12:55 AM with 0 comments

• A Leica T Review

  by constantinum on 8/16/2014, 1:54 PM with 102 comments

• DDoS attack on Zopim

  by constantinum on 5/22/2014, 5:45 PM with 0 comments

• Elance – DDos Attack

  by constantinum on 3/18/2014, 2:59 AM with 0 comments

• Please Disable Your Ad Blocker

  by constantinum on 3/4/2014, 5:49 PM with 1 comments

• The Megapixel Race : Is it true or is it a marketing ploy? The Details

  by constantinum on 1/17/2014, 2:29 AM with 0 comments

• Customer support books that help you understand your customers better

  by constantinum on 11/14/2013, 5:53 AM with 0 comments

• Instagram Today: 150 Million People

  by constantinum on 9/8/2013, 11:11 PM with 0 comments

• Introducing Oyster, unlimited books for just $9.95 a month

  by constantinum on 9/5/2013, 4:39 PM with 0 comments

• Steve Ballmer is Going to Frickin' Retire From Microsoft

  by constantinum on 8/24/2013, 3:07 AM with 0 comments

• Where/How to find resources on how to do marketing in a Bootstrapped company?

  by constantinum on 8/18/2013, 1:45 PM with 0 comments

• Amazon Web Services launches New Edge locations in India

  by constantinum on 7/29/2013, 9:35 AM with 0 comments

• Vine is now on Android too

  by constantinum on 6/3/2013, 1:44 PM with 0 comments

• Go Sleep Now

  by constantinum on 4/16/2013, 12:15 AM with 0 comments

• Twitter has suspended burgerking after the Hack

  by constantinum on 2/18/2013, 6:21 PM with 0 comments