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The Future of AI Codecs: Specialisation

https://deeprender.ai/blog/future-ai-codecs-specialisation
1•ksec•28s ago•0 comments

RIP John H. Wolfe, the inventor of model-based clustering for continuous data

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/san-diego-ca/john-wolfe-11789597
1•ohjeez•41s ago•0 comments

How AI can make coupon codes work – Kupondi

https://kupondi.com/?lang=en
1•pr-lanch•1m ago•0 comments

Oxford loses top 3 university ranking for the first time

https://hotminute.co.uk/2025/09/19/oxford-loses-top-3-university-ranking-for-the-first-time/
1•ilamont•2m ago•0 comments

Three Years and 100 Commits Later: A Reflection

https://priyavr.at/blog/100-commits/
1•prvt•3m ago•0 comments

Dan Brown: The human species has never created a technology it hasn't weaponized

https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-09-21/dan-brown-the-human-species-has-never-created-a-tec...
2•pilingual•7m ago•0 comments

What Is Man, That Thou Art Mindful of Him?

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/what-is-man-that-thou-art-mindful
1•pseudolus•8m ago•0 comments

Reese Witherspoon Figured Out Who She Is

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/magazine/reese-witherspoon-interview.html
1•whack•10m ago•0 comments

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https://hotttakehq.vercel.app/
1•lexokoh•10m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT and Claude can't code a complex algorithm

https://medium.com/@rviragh/chatgpt-and-claude-cant-code-a-complex-algorithm-48aa6e4b647a
1•logicallee•11m ago•1 comments

How do devs see the value of AI coding tools like Cursor or the $200 ChatGPT?

1•meta_xenia•11m ago•0 comments

The tactics criminals use in the age of AI and cryptocurrencies

https://theconversation.com/scams-and-frauds-here-are-the-tactics-criminals-use-on-you-in-the-age...
2•rntn•14m ago•0 comments

Why Vladimir Putin Decided to Arrest Evan Gershkovich

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/09/21/how-putin-forced-america-human-poker-00560958
3•c420•18m ago•1 comments

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1•aparadja•19m ago•0 comments

Night City: How Cyberpunk 2077's future megacity was built (2020)

https://www.domusweb.it/en/architecture/gallery/2020/12/21/night-city-how-the-cyberpunk-2077s-meg...
1•accrual•21m ago•0 comments

The Fed's Third Mandate

https://fortune.com/2025/09/21/fed-dual-triple-mandate-long-term-rates-financial-stability-econom...
2•kaycebasques•22m ago•0 comments

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https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/new-ai-model-turns-photos-into-explorable-3d-worlds-with-caveats/
2•PaulHoule•23m ago•0 comments

Dutch Finance Ministry: higher tobacco taxes yield no extra revenue

https://nltimes.nl/2025/09/20/dutch-finance-ministry-higher-tobacco-taxes-yield-extra-revenue
1•geox•23m ago•0 comments

How far can you go by train in 5 hours? (interactive map)

https://old.chronotrains.com
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https://github.com/L-A-Marchetti/Vec
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Garnet – A remote cache-store from Microsoft Research

https://github.com/microsoft/garnet
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BlurHash: A compact representation of a placeholder for an image

https://blurha.sh
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https://infrastructureas.ai/
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https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/sep/20/jaguar-land-rover-hack-factories-cybersecurity-jlr
1•jasoncartwright•41m ago•0 comments

RL in Name Only?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13697
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4•Y_Y•43m ago•0 comments

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https://www.ft.com/content/13e4fad3-9fa1-4534-b84e-aafed97ae073
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Unnecessary Anxiety in Software Development

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2•0x54MUR41•49m ago•0 comments
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Ask HN: What's stopping you from starting your side project?

3•ednite•1h ago
I used to hear that question, from friends or my own inner voice, and it stung. Why hadn’t I built that app, finished that novel, or launched that YouTube idea?

Recently I tried something simple, I think I might have read this in a book somewhere: I dumped every “someday” idea onto paper.

Then I split them:

Still excited about it = keep

Not anymore = trash

From the keep pile, I broke each dream into the tiniest first step, then scheduled it into my actual week.

The result? I’ve made some progress, but more importantly, I feel lighter. No more carrying the guilt of dozens of unfinished projects in my head.

So I’m curious:

What's the primary thing that stops you from starting? And what’s been the most effective way you’ve found to actually start?

Comments

softwaredoug•1h ago
Because I'm excited about all my side projects and I'm old and don't have the same energy I did in my 20s. And I have many more obligations :)
ednite•29m ago
Yeah, I get it! I passed my 20s decades ago, less energy, but passion makes up for it. Thanks for adding your take!
Desafinado•57m ago
Nothing is stopping me from starting my side project because I genuinely enjoy working on it. But the side project has nothing to do with software or financial incentives.

If you're having trouble starting a side project it may be because you don't actually want to work on it.

ednite•32m ago
Fair point. Thanks for commenting!
PaulHoule•48m ago
Lately I have been so busy taking photographs [1] and developing photographs and posting them to socials that I haven’t had time to code anything in my own account. Arknights eats up the rest of time.

I have an RSS reader and an “image sorter” that I wrote that I use everyday, there are a lot of things I could do to improve them but they work great so I don’t need to.

Winter is coming and since I took so many photographs I expect to run them out of my file and stay indoor more. If I can’t be a baller [2] I wish could get paid to shoot basketball this winter though and maybe I will get brave enough to bundle up and shoot landscapes outdoors.

The basic project management practice is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban

Which for creative projects is what you are doing: “finish what you start”. Normally I have three projects at any given time that I’ll say I am committed to, two I make real progress on, one is aspirational. That system works for me.

In the case of my photography the start-finish gap is in the developing. Particularly in sports it is easy to shoot 3000 pictures of the game and not develop any. I get paid to do running events where I’m expected to turn around the results quickly and my goal is to get a good shot of everyone who ran so I have to be fast and that’s changed the way I think about other sports —- now I can get 100 shots out of one game that are good enough to put in my file (on one level one game is as good as the next) but I’m learning how to get just a few great shots very quickly the way a pro photog would. For the two games I went to yesterday I saw just half so I’d have fewer to develop.

[1] yesterday that meant going to an American football game, then hiking up a creek in water shoes, then going to an association football game. Today I want to get good pictures of Goldenrods for the file and find at least one first-class sports pic from yesterday to post to the LinkedIn alumni group for my Uni.

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmXZOI7cM0M

ednite•35m ago
The “3 projects” rule sounds like a smart way to avoid overload. Do you share your photos on Instagram?
PaulHoule•19m ago
Instagram (up8photographer), Threads, Mastodon, Bluesky, LinkedIn (my Uni’s alumni group can get 4000 impressions), Facebook and Nextdoor (400 impressions in a small town w/o any network building)

https://mastodon.social/@UP8

Automation for posting to more places plus automation for network building are both “want to haves”

ednite•13m ago
impressive. Thanks!