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Article URL: https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=318257

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Article URL: https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-is-killing-onenote-for-windows-10/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43451327

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Article URL: https://bravenewteams.substack.com/p/automatic-for-the-people-ed2

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Article URL: https://iliabylich.github.io/ruby-ractors-and-lock-free-data-structures/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43451285

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Article URL: https://blog.google/products/gmail/gmail-search-update-relevant-emails/

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Article URL: https://github.com/mperham/ratomic

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43451281

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Article URL: https://github.com/hadashiA/MRubyD

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43451279

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Article URL: https://syng.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43451277

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As we talked with our first user, he said "I always open flashcard during 20 minutes break of classes, to learn English and prepare my IELTS... It would be about 30-50 cards," so then we created MVP, a bank of AI generated quizzes for everything, and you can create yours too. Just type the topic, the example of questions, and the character (yup, this part inspired by c.ai to motivate learning). It will be endless quiz generators as long as you keep going. Now, we've generated 65 quizzes ranging from basics, elementary, until undergrads and PhD. Kindly try and give us feedback at wiyomi.com, thanks!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43451239

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Hi HN, I've lurked here for ages and decided to come out of the shadows for my latest side project which reached the point where it’s sort of fun to use and hopefully not totally embarrassing to share.

Hacking fingernotes.com together over a couple of weeks was a creative outlet when work got stressful. I think of it as digital sticky notes. The goal was to make notes with a personal touch that are easy to write and share. I also wanted them to appear as their own link preview image on supported platforms. That way when you send the link to a note, the person sees the message without following the link.

Let me know what you think!

I drew inspiration from Apple's quick notes: low latency made scribbling a pleasure, and sending notes to friends felt warm and original compared to a typical exchange. It was also intriguing to see my handwriting printed in a message chat. In a time of rising artificial generation, spreading my clumsy handwriting feels like an act of rebellion.

But I dislike the light background in Apple notes, which I don't think you can change when sharing. More importantly, no one sent a note back. With fingernotes the low-friction interaction is meant to make creating notes simple. I also find the image previews aesthetically more pleasing.

For implementation, fingernotes are publicly accessible links to collections of strokes that have been persisted to a Cloudflare D1 database and rendered in SVG. Like pen on a sticky note, each stroke is immutable but anyone can add to a note if they have the link. You can't undo strokes, so if you mess up your note just throw it out and start a new one. Having append-only collections avoids handling order of operations when multiple people edit the same note. Hosting it as a Cloudflare worker made it easy to get up and running. There's some latency in Safari on iOS which is absent on desktop. It's noticeable compared to Apple notes and I'm afraid it's a limitation of the browser.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43451222

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Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxV24so-dw8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43451212

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Article URL: https://meghanboilard.substack.com/p/the-great-hobby-lobby-artifact-heist

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43451207

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Classical Economics says that in the long run, it's impossible to defy full-employment or saturate any market, Lassez Faire or free trade is quite the norm. Needless to say, the classical framework is based on some rational assumptions like no entry barriers to competition, free flow of information, rational actors who act in their own interest, etc. And yet, given these basic assumptions, the market indeed seemed to work that way for decades and centuries. And most global markets too, not just the freelance market.

The phenomenon of a "long term recession" or "long term saturation" is an unprecedented one and happening for the first time in history. From the news I read and watch, this seems to be happening in almost all sectors but freelancing is what affecting me directly. While short-term corrections of excesses and anomalies have indeed affected economic activity in the past (like world wars) but these aren't such exceptional times. The broader narrative is one of increasing prosperity, GDP output and stock market profitability all over, yet the middle class struggles more and more to find every morsel to feed their hunger.

Coming back to Upwork, a massive entry-barrier in the form of having to purchase connects is itself a problematic symptom. This indicates that supply/demand ratio is heavily tilted in favor of clients; again, this should self-correct itself in a rational market given the classical assumptions but it has carried on for several years now.

Another reason for an unhealthy supply/demand ratio is "brandification" of things which is a symptom of excessive consumerism. This isn't about just freelancing but the increasing cynicism and lack of trust of humans towards one another. Humans have lost empathy towards fellow human, they'd rather trust a Dominos or McDonalds than the little guy cooking French Fries or Samosas in the basement. They'd rather trust an Infosys or Tech Mahindra than the little freelancer who is struggling to make a living.

And from their perspective, they could be right. Apple can give them 24x7 support which I can't, the most I can do is respond to emails or messages within a specified time. There is also the human limitation of how much Coding, Testing, Deployment and Support a single individual freelancer could provide. Does it mean the age of individual freelancers is finally coming to an end, and only big businesses and agencies will eventually thrive?

The only way I can see real revival of freelancing as career option happening is if society at large wakes up from its usual cynical blue-pilled bubble, and starts having some faith in fellow homo sapiens like them, not just abstract entities like brands, gpts and platforms.

Have a nice day ahead, and may the Logos bless everyone!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43451205

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Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/21/nasa-drops-plan-first-woman-moon

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43451203

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Article URL: https://www.honest-broker.com/p/whats-happening-to-students

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43451194

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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43451193

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Article URL: https://blend2d.com/blog/png-image-codec.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43451187

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Article URL: https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/happy-18th-birthday-cuda

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43451183

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Article URL: https://aeon.co/essays/why-physics-today-stands-on-the-wings-of-angels-and-demons

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43451179

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Article URL: https://vintagedata.org/blog/posts/designing-llm-agents

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43451172

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