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You are the reason I am not reviewing this PR

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/479442
1•midzer•45s ago•0 comments

Show HN: FamilyMemories.video – Turn static old photos into 5s AI videos

https://familymemories.video
1•tareq_•2m ago•0 comments

How Meta Made Linux a Planet-Scale Load Balancer

https://softwarefrontier.substack.com/p/how-meta-turned-the-linux-kernel
1•CortexFlow•2m ago•0 comments

A Turing Test for AI Coding

https://t-cadet.github.io/programming-wisdom/#2026-02-06-a-turing-test-for-ai-coding
1•phi-system•2m ago•0 comments

How to Identify and Eliminate Unused AWS Resources

https://medium.com/@vkelk/how-to-identify-and-eliminate-unused-aws-resources-b0e2040b4de8
1•vkelk•3m ago•0 comments

A2CDVI – HDMI output from from the Apple IIc's digital video output connector

https://github.com/MrTechGadget/A2C_DVI_SMD
1•mmoogle•4m ago•0 comments

CLI for Common Playwright Actions

https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-cli
2•saikatsg•5m ago•0 comments

Would you use an e-commerce platform that shares transaction fees with users?

https://moondala.one/
1•HamoodBahzar•6m ago•1 comments

Show HN: SafeClaw – a way to manage multiple Claude Code instances in containers

https://github.com/ykdojo/safeclaw
2•ykdojo•9m ago•0 comments

The Future of the Global Open-Source AI Ecosystem: From DeepSeek to AI+

https://huggingface.co/blog/huggingface/one-year-since-the-deepseek-moment-blog-3
3•gmays•10m ago•0 comments

The Evolution of the Interface

https://www.asktog.com/columns/038MacUITrends.html
2•dhruv3006•11m ago•1 comments

Azure: Virtual network routing appliance overview

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/virtual-network-routing-appliance-overview
2•mariuz•12m ago•0 comments

Seedance2 – multi-shot AI video generation

https://www.genstory.app/story-template/seedance2-ai-story-generator
2•RyanMu•15m ago•1 comments

Πfs – The Data-Free Filesystem

https://github.com/philipl/pifs
2•ravenical•18m ago•0 comments

Go-busybox: A sandboxable port of busybox for AI agents

https://github.com/rcarmo/go-busybox
3•rcarmo•19m ago•0 comments

Quantization-Aware Distillation for NVFP4 Inference Accuracy Recovery [pdf]

https://research.nvidia.com/labs/nemotron/files/NVFP4-QAD-Report.pdf
2•gmays•20m ago•0 comments

xAI Merger Poses Bigger Threat to OpenAI, Anthropic

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-02-03/musk-s-xai-merger-poses-bigger-threat-to-op...
2•andsoitis•20m ago•0 comments

Atlas Airborne (Boston Dynamics and RAI Institute) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNorxwlZlFk
2•lysace•21m ago•0 comments

Zen Tools

http://postmake.io/zen-list
2•Malfunction92•24m ago•0 comments

Is the Detachment in the Room? – Agents, Cruelty, and Empathy

https://hailey.at/posts/3mear2n7v3k2r
2•carnevalem•24m ago•1 comments

The purpose of Continuous Integration is to fail

https://blog.nix-ci.com/post/2026-02-05_the-purpose-of-ci-is-to-fail
1•zdw•26m ago•0 comments

Apfelstrudel: Live coding music environment with AI agent chat

https://github.com/rcarmo/apfelstrudel
2•rcarmo•27m ago•0 comments

What Is Stoicism?

https://stoacentral.com/guides/what-is-stoicism
3•0xmattf•28m ago•0 comments

What happens when a neighborhood is built around a farm

https://grist.org/cities/what-happens-when-a-neighborhood-is-built-around-a-farm/
1•Brajeshwar•28m ago•0 comments

Every major galaxy is speeding away from the Milky Way, except one

https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/every-major-galaxy-is-speeding-away-from-the-milky-wa...
3•Brajeshwar•28m ago•0 comments

Extreme Inequality Presages the Revolt Against It

https://www.noemamag.com/extreme-inequality-presages-the-revolt-against-it/
2•Brajeshwar•28m ago•0 comments

There's no such thing as "tech" (Ten years later)

1•dtjb•29m ago•0 comments

What Really Killed Flash Player: A Six-Year Campaign of Deliberate Platform Work

https://medium.com/@aglaforge/what-really-killed-flash-player-a-six-year-campaign-of-deliberate-p...
1•jbegley•29m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Anyone orchestrating multiple AI coding agents in parallel?

1•buildingwdavid•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Knowledge-Bank

https://github.com/gabrywu-public/knowledge-bank
1•gabrywu•36m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: A visual size comparison tool for tech gadgets

https://comparisontabl.es/size-comparison/
1•GuidoL•5mo ago
I built this tool to visually compare the size of tech products - like smartphones, e-readers, handheld PCs, speakers, TV/monitor display sizes, and more. It's an interactive canvas on which you can place, drag, rotate, and duplicate items. You can also place reference items to get a better idea of the scale.

Except for smartphones, a good tool to do this just didn't seem to really exist. It occurred to me that I already had all of the dimension data and images on my comparison site (ComparisonTabl.es), so I figured I should just build the tool on top of that.

Getting it right was definitely more of a challenge than I thought it would be. One of the main headaches was figuring out how to deal with the fact that on most products the given dimensions are for the main body of the product, but product image might have buttons, straps, handles, etc sticking out from that.

I also had to pay for a rookie mistake I made earlier; using JPG's with white backgrounds for all of the roughly 900 products added to my site so far, that I had to replace with WebPs with transparent backgrounds.

After dealing with all of that (and more), it's finally at a state where I'm happy to share it. The part I'm happiest with is how customizable and shareable everything is. You can create a very specific comparison, get the layout just right, and then share the whole thing with a URL.

Next up, I'm hoping to tackle AR. I'm already playing around with auto-generating simple 3D models from the 2D images and dimensions I have. The goal is to let you place something like a TV or a speaker in your room to see how it actually fits. Apart from that, I'm always working on adding more products and product categories.

Anyway, I just launched and would love to hear your feedback! Whether that's on the UX, any bugs you might find, what you think of the AR idea, or any other potential functions you'd like to see!

Thanks!