Best of Hacker News — February 2024
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Avalonia UI
Avalonia UI is an open source UI framework for building stunning, desktop, mobile, web and embedded applications using a .NET single codebase. It provides a familiar developer experience, offers deep integration with JetBrains tools, and is trusted by companies for modernizing their WPF apps.
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Web Scraping in Python - The Complete Guide
This post provides a comprehensive guide to web scraping in Python, including the advantages of using Python for web scraping, the best Python libraries for web scraping, and some tips and best practices for handling challenges in web scraping. It also includes code examples and recommendations for alternative libraries and tools for web scraping.
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SuperTux/supertux: SuperTux source code
SuperTux is an open-source platform game inspired by Super Mario Bros. It features multiple worlds, enemy fighting mechanics, power-ups, and the mission to save Penny from the villain Nolok. The latest release, version 0.6.3, includes updates to the Forest World and plans for version 0.7.0 with reworked boss fights, graphics, and worlds.
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My PHP Problems
A subjective post about things that annoy the author in PHP, including issues with constructors, annotations, serialization/deserialization, variadic promoted properties, iterator to array conversion, short closures, statement blocks, functions returning false, and lack of support for inline classes.
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Code Review as Interview
CodeRev is a lightweight tool for organizing and conducting technical interviews using code reviews. It can be a better measure of a candidate's ability to adapt and contribute to a team. It provides a real-world, day-to-day responsibility of providing feedback to teammates.
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Your Phone Isn’t Spying on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That)
Your phone is not listening to you to show you ads, but it is collecting data such as location information, search history, browsing history, purchase history, and physical interactions. Advertisers use this data to target ads based on your interests and the people you spend time with. While targeted advertising can seem accurate and sometimes mysterious, it is based on algorithms and large datasets. The next step in advertising is generative AI, which could create personalized ads that target your insecurities and dreams. However, there are tools available to help protect your privacy online, such as Apple's App Tracking Transparency feature and privacy controls on operating systems and browsers.
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How to Summarize Youtube Video using ChatGPT Api and Node.js
Learn how to summarize YouTube videos using the ChatGPT API and Node.js. The system architecture involves extracting text from YouTube videos and generating text summaries. The process includes scraping captions from YouTube videos and utilizing the OpenAI completions API. Follow the tutorial to set up the project, install necessary dependencies, scrape subtitles, split them into chunks, and generate summaries using OpenAI. Additionally, a Command Line Interface (CLI) is provided for easy use. Find the code and try it for free on Quickview.email.
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concrete.css
Concrete.css is a lightweight and simple classless CSS stylesheet that can be a starting point for a simple website. It supports a dark theme, and can be used with normalize.css. It provides typography styles, sections for page structuring, buttons, images, lists, forms, tables, blockquotes, and a progress bar.
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Blender Studio
Blender Studio is a collection of Blender Open Movies featuring production files, assets, artwork, and never-seen-before content. The movies cover various themes and explore the depths of human experience, resilience, and inner transformation. They include stories of an uptight engineer and an enthusiastic wannabe-pilot, an old destitute man confronting a deadly security droid, rowdy teenagers discovering peaceful mushroom creatures, and more. The Blender Animation Studio team also offers free character rigs and sets to the community.
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functional-ui/functional-ui-kit: Precise Figma & React components. Packed with best practices, unified prop names & consistent design and code.
Functional UI Kit is a design system for design & development teams. It provides precise Figma & React components with unified prop names, consistent design and code. Installation, theming, and usage of components are explained.
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A very small Rust binary indeed
The post explores the process of reducing the size of a Rust binary and compares it to an assembly version. It discusses various techniques, such as stripping symbols, optimizing build profiles, and removing dependencies on the standard library. The final binary size achieved is 400 bytes.