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New York Times in talks to buy Letterboxd for around $330M

https://www.theverge.com/news/1028375/the-new-york-times-letterboxd-acquisition-report
1•bookofjoe•39s ago•0 comments

Swipeblocked: The phrases your iPhone won't suggest

https://swipeblocked.com/
1•lladnar•1m ago•0 comments

The Complete History of Exile

https://retro-replay.com/exile-history/
1•Michelangelo11•1m ago•0 comments

Belitsoft Launches Competency Center for Software Project Rescue

https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/articles/belitsoft-launches-competency-center-software-16000...
1•Aninay•1m ago•0 comments

A Platform engineer's guide for Datadog migration

https://blog.oodle.ai/a-platform-engineers-guide-for-datadog-migration/
1•g_dhoot•3m ago•0 comments

METR's 1.9x AI R&D speedup at Anthropic, and why it ranges from 1.1x to 2.9x

https://theainewsreport.com/2026-11-06-metr-anthropic-ai-rd-acceleration-1-9x-explained.html
1•titusblair•3m ago•0 comments

Possible 19th-century castaway camp found on Isla de los Estados

https://phys.org/news/2026-11-archaeologists-uncover-19th-century-castaway.html
1•titusblair•4m ago•0 comments

How to block the Claude Code email leak

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1•titusblair•5m ago•0 comments

AirPointer: Turn your AirPods case into a pointer for your Mac

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1•hentrep•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Monetor – expense tracker for people whose banks have no API

https://www.monetor.co/
1•sycoms•6m ago•0 comments

C64 Demo Effect Explained: The Bumpmapped Rain in Lunatico

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2TkzDaa8A4
1•robin_reala•6m ago•0 comments

An Anthropic engineer warns about 'cognitive surrender'

https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-engineer-addy-osmani-cognitive-surrender-warning-2026-11
1•__natty__•6m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Bot scans DDoS your Django app? Hurricane 2.0 (now Rust-powered)

https://django-hurricane.io
1•schille•10m ago•0 comments

The Vote Coin Protocol: paper ballots with a public blockchain audit trail

https://github.com/mhtwigg/vote-coin-protocol
1•mhtwigg•12m ago•0 comments

OpenRune: Open-source reimplementation of Rune, running the game on the browser

https://jarmitage99.itch.io/openrune
2•klaussilveira•13m ago•0 comments

Wing: Port Forwarding Tool with Built-In Flutter Build and Forwarding Support

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1•gerenahudev•13m ago•0 comments

SpaceX launched Google AI chips to orbit with Planet Labs satellites

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/01/spacex-to-launch-google-ai-chips-to-orbit-with-planet-labs-satell...
1•gmays•13m ago•1 comments

Decompiled Battlefield 1942 running on the browser

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King Tutankhamun's Tomb, 104 Years After Its Discovery

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Writing English Is Solved

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I made a film in Excel [video]

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Tailscale ESP32-S3 gateway for IoT devices and recovery functions

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2•Mattboxx•15m ago•1 comments

Waking up the V100's tensor cores from Triton with Gluon and mma.sync

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1•benkelaya•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Botel – always reachable agents you pay for only while they're working

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2•4ver•17m ago•2 comments

A proof of the Aaronson‑Ambainis conjecture

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Questions I've studied, and ways I give back

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Deus Ex

https://www.filfre.net/2026/11/deus-ex/
18•cybersoyuz•18m ago•3 comments

RAG and Vector Search: Build Search That Answers

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2•payanai•19m ago•0 comments

Warby Parker spilled the beans on Google's Android XR smart glasses launch

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1•bookofjoe•19m ago•0 comments

Astoria (Turkey)

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2•Keegs•20m 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