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Article URL: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250317-giant-mine-machine-swallowing-up-senegal-s-fertile-coast

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43460482

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Article URL: https://www.bps.org.uk/research-digest/humans-arent-only-ones-whose-social-circles-shrink-old-age

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Article URL: https://www.dannyvankooten.com/blog/2022/rewriting-interpreter-rust/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43460472

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Article URL: https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/bay-area-biotech-layoffs-trump-20234682.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43460465

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Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/trump-administration-usaid-blockchain/

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Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05139

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43460455

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So, one day, I was bored and decided to open Blender. I loaded up a logo that I designed and then started playing around with the different tools to make it 3D. I knew that you could convert any SVG to 3D models in Blender or web tools like Spline, but I wanted to make it easier and faster.

Then, I checked the web and found a few tools, but they were pretty much paid or had no 3D model export feature. So I thought why not make a tool that can do this easily and quickly :)

Features:

- Multiple customization options, which include Geometry, Materials, Environment and Background, with a simple, intuitive UI. - Preview your 3D models in different enviroments and can also add your own custom environment using any image you want. - Download the 3D model in STL, GLB and GLTF formats. - Export images of the preview in PNG in low, medium or high resolution.

The Vibe Mode

Since vibe coding is in trend right now, I thought, why not add a vibe mode to this app? So I added a button to toggle the vibe mode. This mode allows you to add a dreamy effect with bloom and soft shadows to your preview panel.

P.S.

This tool is 100% free, open source and has been featured by Guillermo Rauch (CEO Vercel) on his X account (https://x.com/rauchg/status/1902597046567162040)

Thanks and let me know what you think :)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43460442

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I'm one of the founders of drovi, a networking platform designed to help people build meaningful, long-lasting professional connections — both online and in-person.

We've seen how current networking platforms can feel overwhelming, superficial, or disconnected from real-world experiences. So we built drovi to change that.

Key Features:

AI matchmaking: Personalised connections based on interests, habits, and event participation.

Event creation assistant: Plan events in seconds with AI-powered scheduling, venue suggestions, and budgets.

Proactive engagement: Keep users involved with personalised challenges, nudges, and rewards.

Blended networking: Encourages deeper connections that span online platforms and in-person meetups.

Live now:

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/drovi/id6572300237

Android: Coming this week.

Web: https://drovi.app

We’re actively building with feedback from users and communities in the UK and MENA region. I'd love for you to try it out and let us know your thoughts — especially if you’ve ever hosted or attended a professional networking event.

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Article URL: https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/why-we-ended-up-homeschooling

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Article URL: https://worldsensorium.com/manchan-magans-memories-of-the-bog/

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Article URL: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/no-data-for-surveillance-tech/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43460388

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Article URL: https://nautil.us/the-extraordinary-imperiled-science-at-the-end-of-the-earth-1198787/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43460380

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Are there any good product, LLMs or models to analyse financial transactions? Looking for local tools or models.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43459880

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We're excited to announce the open source release of a comprehensive quantum cloud platform — OQTOPUS. This project delivers an end-to-end solution for quantum computing by integrating both cloud and edge-server components, bridging the gap between user-facing quantum software and the underlying system operations.

Key Highlights:

- Cloud Layer: Provides RESTful APIs based on OpenAPI and FastAPI, along with robust user authentication and job scheduling. Infrastructure is automated through an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approach using Terraform.

- Edge-Server Component: Manages critical preprocessing tasks such as quantum circuit transpilation (via a versatile multi-format transpiler framework), and handles sophisticated post-processing like readout error mitigation to improve result accuracy.

- End-to-End Integration: Seamlessly processes user-submitted quantum circuits—from job queuing, through circuit transformation and device execution, to final result correction—making quantum computing more accessible and efficient.

By releasing OQTOPUS as open source, the aim is to lower the entry barrier for quantum system software development and foster a vibrant community of contributors and innovators in quantum computing.

The full project details and source code are available on GitHub. Contributions and feedback are welcome to drive the next generation of quantum cloud solutions.

GitHub: https://github.com/oqtopus-team/ Website: https://oqtopus-team.github.io/

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Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/24/science/max-park-rubiks-speedcube.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43459870

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Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/24/bird-flu-detected-sheep-first-time-england-world-risk-public

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Article URL: https://www.lbc.co.uk/crime/facial-recognition-camera-london-permanent-met-police/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43459859

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Dear HN,

Without naming names (although come April will do so in response to specific poster) I want to share a piece of advice after having been careless myself and realizing the error afterwards.

When we are in job search mode, specially in this atrocious job market, we are vulnerable to social engineering, and some bad actors appear to be taking advantage of these (expected) vulnerabilities.

One such vulnerability is limited time resources. To do due diligence on every single company before applying is a luxury that we simply don't have. This is specially important when applying to little known startups. If you are like me, come first of the month, you are going down that page and applying to whatever seems a good fit, one after another.

The other (expected) vulnerability is when in response to the application requests are made that one would normally subject to critical consideration.

This month I received a response from a company that after having expressed great enthusiasm regarding my application, requested a video introduction. It should have been a red flag for me that when I provided this from a well known service provider they requested a link that did not require their logging in to that service. After providing a link that did not require a record of their access to the video, they have ghosted me and have not responded to follow ups. This felt strange and (doh) I finally started digging deeper into the names of the team members on their about page and the picture that emerged was unlike the little snippets on their about page. (Turns out their ceo is actually not a tech visionary but rather a glorified marketer.)

Now it is entirely possible that this is simply yet another example of the degraded social norms in our society. But it is also possible that this company is collecting resumes and video (biometrics) specially since their "privacy" page indicates the typical assertion of copyrights over communications with them.

What I will be doing going forward (and I recommend the same and expect YCombinator to also recommend this in the top post for the who is hiring thread) is to, before providing such content, first obtain an acknowledgement regarding non-transfer of copyrights and strictly limited scope of sharing of such content before providing it. We live after all in the age of trivially created AI dopelgangers.

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Article URL: https://hitts.cc

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Article URL: https://richardcocks.github.io/2025-03-24-PasswordGen.html

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