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Notes on building CRDT-based local-first and end-to-end encrypted applications

https://kerkour.com/crdt-end-to-end-encryption-research-notes
2•Keyb0ardWarri0r•2m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to answer career gap in resume?

1•shivajikobardan•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Debug Console for Claude Code

https://github.com/eqtylab/agent-console
1•ramoz•4m ago•0 comments

Microsoft Word Is Immortal

https://theredline.versionstory.com/p/on-the-immortality-of-microsoft-word
2•jpbryan•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Agentic PDF Viewer for Schematics

https://alkali.engineering/designs/viewer
1•edmgood•4m ago•0 comments

New in 2025: Linux Patches Enable PCI Support for the Amiga 4000

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-PCI-Amiga-4000
1•doener•5m ago•0 comments

Celebrating 10 Years of DirectX 12

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/celebrating-10-years-of-directx-12/
2•ksec•6m ago•1 comments

Trump Media to Merge with Fusion Energy Firm in $6B Deal

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Cheese Linked to Lower Dementia Risk in 25-Year Study

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2•manidoraisamy•7m ago•0 comments

EXO v1 Release

https://github.com/exo-explore/exo
1•jburgess777•7m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Minimal reasoning determinism stress test (no claims)

https://github.com/seesea500-Hyb/reasoning-determinism-stress-test
1•seesea•8m ago•0 comments

Novel Security Framework for VSCode Extensions: Automated Runtime Sandboxing

https://nhsjs.com/2025/automated-security-framework-for-vs-code-extensions-risk-profiling-policy-...
1•shadow-ninja•8m ago•1 comments

Architecture Docs with Markdown and PlantUML

https://medium.com/@brodocs/diagrams-as-code-and-markdown-combined-4c1a7fc6de12
1•BroTechLead•9m ago•0 comments

Expose your DB as a ChatGPT app

https://supabase.com/blog/building-chatgpt-apps-with-supabase
2•rodriguespn•11m ago•0 comments

Type to Race – a cyberpunk typing game (TypeRacer × Subway Surfers)

https://www.typetorace.com/
5•selcuk•11m ago•1 comments

Sharp Monocular View Synthesis in Less Than a Second

https://github.com/apple/ml-sharp
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What Is Prompt Caching? Best Practices Explained

https://apidog.com/blog/what-is-prompt-caching/
1•walterbell•12m ago•0 comments

Mistral launches OCR 3 – 74% win rate over OCR 2

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ocr-3
6•pember•14m ago•0 comments

Rain Evolved Its Distinct Scent–and Why Animals and Humans Love It

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/smell-rain-explained-180974692/
1•keepamovin•14m ago•0 comments

Does swearing make you stronger? Science says yes

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/12/does-swearing-make-you-stronger-science-says-yes/
1•quapster•15m ago•1 comments

Using TypeScript to Obtain One of the Rarest License Plates

https://www.jack.bio/blog/licenseplate
5•lafond•15m ago•0 comments

Some not-so-bad ads from 80s computer magazines: Christmas edition

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2•rfarley04•15m ago•1 comments

Ads on the App Store in 2026: Additional opportunities in search results

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1•ksec•17m ago•0 comments

I built a website security scanner

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Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/code-proven-to-work/
30•simonw•23m ago•19 comments

AI's hidden carbon and water footprint

https://vu.nl/en/news/2025/ai-s-hidden-carbon-and-water-footprint
1•belter•26m ago•0 comments

Spain fines Airbnb €65M: Why the government is cracking down on illegal rentals

https://www.euronews.com/travel/2025/12/15/spain-fines-airbnb-65-million-why-the-government-is-cr...
25•robtherobber•26m ago•0 comments

The Continuity of Rotation Representations in Neural Networks [pdf]

https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_CVPR_2019/papers/Zhou_On_the_Continuity_of_Rotation_Represe...
1•jackling•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Ada – A governed AI that validates before generating

https://github.com/jaredlewiswechs/ada-newton
1•jared_lewisparc•27m ago•1 comments

Why your Economy class seat is torturing you – possibly on purpose

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2•Brajeshwar•27m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Built a tool to decode cocktail menus to stop ordering drinks I don't like

https://sipcandy.lovable.app/
2•buildandbrew•10h ago

Comments

buildandbrew•10h ago
I like going out to eat, but I’m surprisingly bad at knowing what I’ll actually like just from cocktail menu descriptions. I kept asking bartenders things like “is this sweet?” or “what’s this similar to?” and eventually decided to see if I could build something to help myself.

I put together a browser-based tool where you take a photo of a cocktail menu and get simple, plain-language flavor descriptions for each drink, along with a few similar cocktail suggestions.

I built this after dinner last week so no signup, no accounts needed. Mostly curious whether this approach makes sense or if there are obvious flaws I’m missing.

D-Machine•10h ago
I like the idea and site design, but don't have a menu on hand to test it out.

Having gotten into cocktails recently, it really only takes buying a few bottles and trying e.g. the top 50 or so most popular cocktails from a proper site like Difford's Guide to see that basically everything is a minor variation on the same base 5-12 or so cocktails. Which in practice means if you learn to make the 20 most historically-popular cocktails, you basically know enough to predict fairly accurately what an arbitrary cocktail is going to taste like.

There really aren't that many base spirits and/or liqueurs, and the financial (and time) cost of learning these things yourself is a mere fraction of what it takes to learn from going to bars or restaurants, and can be done in about 1-2 months max (assuming you make 1-2 cocktails a night, anyway). I also kind of feel like normies and/or regular cocktail samplers quickly figure out this stuff too, even just ordering at bars and etc., so I dunno that an app adds much here or who the audience would be.

Still, enjoyed the post.

EDIT: What I suppose is maybe unclear: If you are using the app regularly, you are sampling cocktails regularly, and, very quickly, in my experience, you will learn to predict cocktail profiles in this case, rendering the app irrelevant, as predicting the profile is very easy. There might be a use case for the app if you have never tried more than e.g. 5 cocktails, but, in that case, you probably also don't know your profile preferences either, so, I dunno, it just doesn't have a clear use case for me.

buildandbrew•9h ago
Thanks for this. totally agree that for anyone who’s actively getting into cocktails or making them at home, you’ll quickly learn your preferences and a tool like this probably adds very little.

I was thinking more about an in-the-moment context. I was out to dinner, staring at a menu, and realized something like this would have helped right then, even with a basic understanding of cocktails.

Appreciate you taking the time to share your perspective.

D-Machine•9h ago
Yup for sure, and good point. If you can do the SEO and make sure your app comes up in spur-of-the-moment searches, there's your use-case.