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Show HN: A tool for building OCR business solutions

Mon, 04/28/2025 - 1:49am

Hi HN:

Recently I developed a simple OCR tool. The basic idea is that it can be used as a framework to help developers build their own OCR solutions. I hope it will be useful to you.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43818019

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Show HN: Cohesyve (Agentic AI to scale e-com brands with data driven decisions)

Mon, 04/28/2025 - 1:36am

Hey folks! Excited to share something we've been working on at Cohesyve. Built primarily to serve fast scaling e-commerce brands, Cohesyve does three key things:

(1) Unify reporting across various sales and marketing channels (2) Enable automations across the e-commerce stack (e.g. Stop underforming meta ads automatically) and (3) Identify gaps and opportunities in the business using AI (e.g. prepare a cross platform inventory replenishment plan to better manage inventory)

We're currently piloting with brands in the US and India. Would love to hear your thoughts.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43817949

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Building Personal Digital Twins for Health Optimisation and Drug Simulation

Mon, 04/28/2025 - 1:35am

Hi HN,

We’re working on BioReplica, a platform that lets you create a digital replica of your own biology, based on your DNA, medical records, wearable data, and physiological metrics. Why? Right now, if you want to know how a supplement, diet, or exercise protocol will affect you, you usually have to experiment on yourself and hope for the best. No two bodies respond the same way, but personalization is still mostly guesswork. BioReplica is an early attempt to change that. We build a personal biological model, a simulation that lets you test "what if?" scenarios safely before trying them in real life.

Examples:

"If I start taking NMN, will my inflammation markers likely improve or worsen?"

"Would intermittent fasting affect my heart health risk, based on my baseline data?"

"Is this new nootropic likely to interact badly with my genetics or medications?"

Instead of generic advice, you can start seeing predictions based on you, your genome, your health history, your day-to-day physiology.

We’re very early. Right now the simulations are basic, focused mainly on lifestyle and supplement interventions. But over time, the idea is to make it richer, more data inputs, better modeling, higher accuracy.

Caveats:

Biology is still messy, and simulations are probabilistic, not certainties.

The platform isn't diagnostic or a substitute for real medicine (and shouldn’t be).

Getting the modeling right is hard, and we’re very upfront about that. The long term goal is for these replica's to be used for pharma simulations. In clinical trials today, most failures happen late, billions spent, and sometimes only then do we learn that a drug doesn’t work or has hidden risks.

Still, we believe even imperfect simulations, if used carefully, can help people make smarter decisions about their health.

If this idea resonates (or if you see flaws we should be thinking about), we’d love feedback. Learn more on https://bioreplica.ai/landing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43817933

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llm.pdf – Run LLMs inside a PDF file

Mon, 04/28/2025 - 1:33am
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Gigapixels of Andromeda [4K] [video]

Mon, 04/28/2025 - 1:32am
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Show HN: Dockerized version available for open source self hosted ERP

Mon, 04/28/2025 - 1:25am

Now there is a Dockerfile and docker-compose.yml file so that anyone can easily setup the app inside docker.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43817862

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Old Windows / AIM simulator – nostalgia level 1000

Mon, 04/28/2025 - 1:21am

Article URL: https://smarterchild.chat/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43817836

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Show HN: Release Date DB

Mon, 04/28/2025 - 1:18am

I made this mostly for myself, but I imagine it could be useful for others. Do y'all have any projects you'd like listed there? Any smarter ways to visualize these timelines to help predict future release dates?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43817819

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Open-Source MCP Chat That Just Works

Mon, 04/28/2025 - 1:05am

Article URL: https://mcp.scira.ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43817749

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Ask HN: How do you get into systems programming

Mon, 04/28/2025 - 1:01am

Hi all!

I'm looking for recommendations on where to start with learning systems programming. Ideally, I'd like to be able to get to a point where I can make a living doing it, but currently I just want to do fun stuff to build up curiosity around it.

Here's all of the "low-level" stuff that I know so far / imagine being useful. I... - Have enough of an understanding of networking to write a toy HTTP server on top of TCP - Know enough C to write some basic terminal tools + window applications if needed (on Linux) - Love terminal tools like neovim + several core utils - Have dabbled with Arduino/ESP32 & communicating via USB over the serial port with a host pc - Am pretty decent with Python, and have been using it for like 10 years

Some things that I've been curious about in the past - Converting parts of python libraries from pure python to C/C++ bindings for better performance - Writing a terminal based file manager to work with Google Chrome - Actually contributing to chromium (my laptop is a potato though so all of my builds fail)

About me: I'm in my junior year of uni studying CS, and I've been able to make money doing web dev for the past 2 years of my degree. For many reasons including curiosity and the fact that AI makes me feel replaceable doing many frontend + backend tasks, though I'm very curious about getting into lower level programming.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43817728

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Why Momentum Works (2017)

Mon, 04/28/2025 - 1:01am

Article URL: https://distill.pub/2017/momentum/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43817726

Points: 2

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