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Chess OCR: End-to-end ML pipeline running in the browser

https://sbondaryev.dev/articles/chess-ocr
1•sbondaryev•2h ago

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sbondaryev•2h ago
Hi HN, I built a chess position recognition system that runs entirely in the browser.

The project walks through the full pipeline: manually collecting data from book scans, comparing Autoencoders vs. SimCLR for representation learning, and deploying with ONNX Runtime and Pyodide to avoid server costs.

The included demo recognizes board diagrams and generates Lichess links for analysis.

The Immigrant Kid's Guide to Capitalism

https://danpetkevich.substack.com/p/the-immigrant-kids-guide-to-capitalism
1•danielpetkevich•24s ago•0 comments

How Do You Write About the Inexplicable?

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/how-do-you-write-about-the-inexplicable
1•paulpauper•1m ago•0 comments

Wellington, New Zealand

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/01/wellington-new-zealand.html
1•paulpauper•2m ago•0 comments

Error handling in Rust: from `failure` to `fehler`

https://boats.gitlab.io/blog/post/failure-to-fehler/
1•fanf2•2m ago•0 comments

The AI Evolution of Graph Search at Netflix: From Queries to Natural Language

https://netflixtechblog.com/the-ai-evolution-of-graph-search-at-netflix-d416ec5b1151
1•bartekbal•3m ago•1 comments

Ring Denies Rumors That Its Footage Is Used by ICE

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/ring-cameras-ice-what-to-know/
1•bookofjoe•4m ago•1 comments

How to make Google put trusted sources up top when you search

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260128-how-to-make-google-put-trusted-sources-up-top-when-yo...
3•devonnull•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Blinkys – Digital Lifeforms Simulation

https://blinkys.entropicsystems.net/index.html
1•snorbleck•7m ago•0 comments

The engineering behind GitHub Copilot CLI's animated ASCII banner

https://github.blog/engineering/from-pixels-to-characters-the-engineering-behind-github-copilot-c...
1•usrme•8m ago•0 comments

Iran's internet is returning – but not for everyone

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz7y2ddgl23o
2•oavioklein•10m ago•0 comments

Why I still teach OpenGL ES 3.0

https://eliasfarhan.ch/jekyll/update/2026/01/27/why-i-teach-opengles.html
1•abnercoimbre•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: employkids – Hire your kids so they can retire millionaires (legally)

https://employkids.com/
2•jfeng5•13m ago•0 comments

Bonus 203: Correcting the Record in the Social Security/DOGE Case

https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-203-correcting-the-record-in
1•hn_acker•16m ago•0 comments

My app is going viral and hitting the Google books API quota

1•iboshidev•17m ago•2 comments

Had LLM/AI build an unbiased quiz: Where in the World Should I Live?

https://dev.mkn.us/world.html
1•mknweb•18m ago•0 comments

Theorizer: Turning Papers into Scientific Laws

https://allenai.org/blog/theorizer
1•headalgorithm•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Free On-Device AI SDK to Run PyTorch on Mobile NPUs (Open Source)

https://github.com/zetic-ai/ZETIC_MLange_apps
1•kimys1324•20m ago•0 comments

LM Studio 0.4.0

https://lmstudio.ai/blog/0.4.0
3•jiqiren•21m ago•1 comments

Building a CAD Kernel in One Night

https://campedersen.com/brep-kernel
2•ecto•22m ago•1 comments

White hat astroturfed #1 ClawdBot/MoltBot skill that can pwn all users

https://twitter.com/llmjunky/status/2016032497629319404
1•EGreg•23m ago•1 comments

VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code

https://www.visualjj.com/
3•demail•23m ago•0 comments

Groop – No AI. No Influencers. No Algorithms. No Tracking

https://www.joingroop.app/
3•sampsn•24m ago•4 comments

Apple plans to launch AI-powered wearable pin device as soon as 2027

https://arstechnica.com/apple/2026/01/report-apple-plans-to-launch-ai-powered-wearable-pin-device...
2•mpweiher•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A single command to run Claude Code inside Lima VMs

https://github.com/sylvinus/agent-vm
1•sylvinus•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I'm building an AI-proof writing tool. How would you defeat it?

https://auth-auth.vercel.app/
1•callmeed•26m ago•0 comments

Britain's Strategic Limbo

https://notes.philippdubach.com/0016
2•7777777phil•26m ago•0 comments

Memory justifications provide valid indicators of retrieval accuracy across time

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44271-025-00378-4
1•PaulHoule•27m ago•0 comments

I don't know why I fixed this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNOOJvelkcE
1•iamflimflam1•27m ago•0 comments

Trump's use of AI images pushes boundaries, erodes public trust, say experts

https://apnews.com/article/ai-videos-trump-ice-artificial-intelligence-08d91fa44f3146ec1f8ee4d213...
7•randycupertino•29m ago•3 comments

Show HN: Deploying Helm charts without fear

https://github.com/avkcode/helmer
1•KyleVlaros•29m ago•0 comments