Show HN: GUI for Editing Mermaid Class Diagrams
17 January 2025 • 5 mins Editing Mermaid Class Diagrams with the Visual Editor Mermaid charts are widely used for their ability to represent complex diagrams quickly, and now, thanks to a new update, editing Mermaid Class Diagrams has become even easier and more intuitive. The latest feature extends the Visual Editor to support direct interaction with class diagrams, […]
Skyvern Browser Agent 2.0: How We Reached State of the Art in Evals
We’re building Skyvern: an open source no-code browser agent builder. Our customers have used Skyvern to build agents that can automatically apply to jobs, log in and fetch invoices, and automatically purchase items from hundreds of different websites. We just released Skyvern 2.0, which can take a single prompt such as “Navigate to Amazon.com and […]
Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage for shutdown
In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto | Getty Images The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the law requiring China-based ByteDance to divest its ownership of TikTok by Sunday or face an effective ban of the popular social video app in the U.S. ByteDance has so far refused […]
Project Mini Rack – compact and portable homelabs
Today I’m announcing Project MINI RACK, an open source project to help those building homelabs, RF/wireless rigs, and other electronics projects into mini 10″ racks. Not everyone can afford (either due to budget or space constraints) to have a full 19″ rack in their home. Besides that, people may want to deploy small, easily-composable equipment […]
GM parks claims driver location data was given to insurers, pushing up premiums
General Motors on Thursday said that it has reached a settlement with the FTC “to address privacy concerns about our now-discontinued Smart Driver program.” Those concerns, articulated in the US watchdog’s formal legal complaint [PDF] against the car maker, are that GM “collected precise geolocation data from millions of Gen10+ OnStar vehicles through a particular […]
Zig: What to Expect from Release Month
← Back to News page January 17, 2025 Hey everyone, We’ve been relatively quiet over here at the Zig Software Foundation for a few months now and so it’s about time to give y’all an update. To be honest, these quiet times are my personal favorite – when the release pressure is off, there are […]
Fern (YC W23) Is Hiring an AI Engineer in NYC
APIs underpin the internet but are still painful to work with. They are often untyped, unstandardized, and out-of-sync across multiple sources of truth. Fern enables businesses to offer “Stripe-level” SDKs (client libraries) and Docs for their REST API. Inspired by internal tooling we saw at AWS and Palantir, we’re building Fern to let every engineering […]
The Family Bass – Music with an NES
I connected a Family BASIC keyboard to an NES via a bespoke adapter in order to play its unique triangle waveform live. Here’s a short technical presentation: [embedded content] And here’s a performance of my NES-style tune Platform Hopping, originally composed for the music compo at X 2023: [embedded content] Download How the adapter works As […]
You can’t use your $6,299.00 Camera as a Webcam. That will be $5
Companies squeezing every last penny out out their customers is no news. And Canon is no stranger. Last year, I’ve bought a Canon G5 X II camera which I wanted to use mainly for taking pictures at concerts. For me, it was the perfect match of focal range (zoom) and sensor size (more light) for […]
Trusting clients is probably a security flaw
I looked at a discussion on blink-dev Google Group and saw the message: Perhaps it is a good thing for user choice to have a browser that is fully open to any use and allows anonymous user actions. The result of such open-ness is that an entire series of services that need to trust the […]