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NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and person close to Trump

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/07/nsa-foreign-intelligence-trump-whistleblower
2•c420•38s ago•0 comments

How to Fake a Robotics Result

https://itcanthink.substack.com/p/how-to-fake-a-robotics-result
1•ai_critic•53s ago•0 comments

It's time for the world to boycott the US

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/2/5/its-time-for-the-world-to-boycott-the-us
1•HotGarbage•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Semantic Search for terminal commands in the Browser (No Back end)

https://jslambda.github.io/tldr-vsearch/
1•jslambda•1m ago•0 comments

The AI CEO Experiment

https://yukicapital.com/blog/the-ai-ceo-experiment/
2•romainsimon•2m ago•0 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
2•surprisetalk•6m ago•0 comments

MS-DOS game copy protection and cracks

https://www.dosdays.co.uk/topics/game_cracks.php
2•TheCraiggers•7m ago•0 comments

Updates on GNU/Hurd progress [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/7FZXHF-updates_on_gnuhurd_progress_rump_drivers_64bit_smp_...
2•birdculture•8m ago•0 comments

Epstein took a photo of his 2015 dinner with Zuckerberg and Musk

https://xcancel.com/search?f=tweets&q=davenewworld_2%2Fstatus%2F2020128223850316274
6•doener•8m ago•2 comments

MyFlames: Visualize MySQL query execution plans as interactive FlameGraphs

https://github.com/vgrippa/myflames
1•tanelpoder•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LLM of Babel

https://clairefro.github.io/llm-of-babel/
1•marjipan200•10m ago•0 comments

A modern iperf3 alternative with a live TUI, multi-client server, QUIC support

https://github.com/lance0/xfr
3•tanelpoder•11m ago•0 comments

Famfamfam Silk icons – also with CSS spritesheet

https://github.com/legacy-icons/famfamfam-silk
1•thunderbong•11m ago•0 comments

Apple is the only Big Tech company whose capex declined last quarter

https://sherwood.news/tech/apple-is-the-only-big-tech-company-whose-capex-declined-last-quarter/
2•elsewhen•15m ago•0 comments

Reverse-Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600

https://github.com/joshuanwalker/Raiders2600
2•todsacerdoti•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Deterministic NDJSON audit logs – v1.2 update (structural gaps)

https://github.com/yupme-bot/kernel-ndjson-proofs
1•Slaine•20m ago•0 comments

The Greater Copenhagen Region could be your friend's next career move

https://www.greatercphregion.com/friend-recruiter-program
2•mooreds•20m ago•0 comments

Do Not Confirm – Fiction by OpenClaw

https://thedailymolt.substack.com/p/do-not-confirm
1•jamesjyu•20m ago•0 comments

The Analytical Profile of Peas

https://www.fossanalytics.com/en/news-articles/more-industries/the-analytical-profile-of-peas
1•mooreds•21m ago•0 comments

Hallucinations in GPT5 – Can models say "I don't know" (June 2025)

https://jobswithgpt.com/blog/llm-eval-hallucinations-t20-cricket/
1•sp1982•21m ago•0 comments

What AI is good for, according to developers

https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/generative-ai/what-ai-is-actually-good-for-according-to-developers/
1•mooreds•21m ago•0 comments

OpenAI might pivot to the "most addictive digital friend" or face extinction

https://twitter.com/lebed2045/status/2020184853271167186
1•lebed2045•22m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Know how your SaaS is doing in 30 seconds

https://anypanel.io
1•dasfelix•23m ago•0 comments

ClawdBot Ordered Me Lunch

https://nickalexander.org/drafts/auto-sandwich.html
3•nick007•23m ago•0 comments

What the News media thinks about your Indian stock investments

https://stocktrends.numerical.works/
1•mindaslab•25m ago•0 comments

Running Lua on a tiny console from 2001

https://ivie.codes/page/pokemon-mini-lua
1•Charmunk•25m ago•0 comments

Google and Microsoft Paying Creators $500K+ to Promote AI Tools

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/google-microsoft-pay-creators-500000-and-more-to-promote-ai.html
3•belter•27m ago•0 comments

New filtration technology could be game-changer in removal of PFAS

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/23/pfas-forever-chemicals-filtration
1•PaulHoule•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I saw this cool navigation reveal, so I made a simple HTML+CSS version

https://github.com/Momciloo/fun-with-clip-path
2•momciloo•29m ago•0 comments

Kinda Surprised by Seadance2's Moderation

https://seedanceai.me/
1•ri-vai•29m ago•2 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•1mo ago

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buildandbrew•1mo 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•1mo 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•1mo 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•1mo 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.