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Show HN: QuantTakeoff – Construction PDFs to takeoff and 3D scene

1•acaciabengo•48m ago
I built QuantTakeoff and releasing v1.0 for validation: Input a construction PDF, get back takeoff report with wall lengths, areas, door/window counts and sizes 3D GLB of the building at real-world scale all under ~10 mins.

The pain it solves: Reduce time estimator to trace out elements either by hand or software and extract out reports.

Stack: Ensemble of computer vision tools (95%), VLM OCR (5%)

Hard parts that are working: Auto-find the plan page in a 200-sheet bid set (most stacks make you point at the right sheet manually). I am still manually annotating a new dataset for the new models. Holds up on noisy as-builts and hand-marked sheets that break OCR-first pipelines Post CV processing to optimize for usability. Pixel accuracy to measure elements including size / width of doors and windows.

Demo: https://youtu.be/fVy7tDFqR98

Particularly want feedback on: Real world estimators feedback on what could be better for the practice. What would make use this or what is missing?

P.S Live demo has been removed to manage compute costs from a few enthusiasts who burn through the HF spaces bill.

Curl maintainer: AI security reports are no longer slop

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/04/22/high-quality-chaos/
1•notRobot•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Anagardens: A Daily Word Game

https://www.anagardens.com/
1•mperrotta•5m ago•0 comments

The offline desk gadget that got me to sit up straight

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/16/the-offline-desk-gadget-that-actually-got-me-to-sit-up-straight/
1•jnord•9m ago•1 comments

Insdubai.com: Motor insurance policies, data of insured persons was exposed

https://write-ups.security-chu.com/2026/05/insdubai-data-breach-incident.html
1•news_rt•10m ago•0 comments

Quantum-COSMOLOGICAL ALIGNMENT (d=16)

https://github.com/lizbeth307/quantum-superactivation-refutation
1•NeoOdim•13m ago•0 comments

Near-Earth Asteroid 2026 JH2 close encounter: 18 May 2026

https://www.virtualtelescope.eu/2026/05/12/near-earth-asteroid-2026-jh2-extremely-close-encounter...
1•rolph•15m ago•0 comments

My Thoughts on Bun's Rust Rewrite

https://en.liujiacai.net/2026/05/16/bun-rust-port/
1•jwzxgo•16m ago•0 comments

Singapore Former Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's Sudoku Solver Written in C++

https://github.com/Doppp/LHL-Sudoku-Solver
1•doppp•23m ago•0 comments

Let's Talk about Benchmarks

https://spacetimedb.com/blog/benchmarking
1•ChadNauseam•23m ago•0 comments

My Son's Math Homework Is Essentially Just Pokémon

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/homework-video-games-ed-tech/687198/
2•tekdude•24m ago•0 comments

Arm Holdings to Face US Antitrust Probe

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-15/arm-holdings-said-to-face-us-antitrust-probe-o...
2•fork-bomber•30m ago•0 comments

OpenAI is offering ChatGPT Plus to citizens of Malta for a year

https://www.engadget.com/2174473/openai-is-offering-chatgpt-plus-to-citizens-of-malta-for-a-year/
1•SpyCoder77•39m ago•0 comments

Assembly Language – Jesse Colin Jackson's Marching Cubes

https://www.creativeapplications.net/project/assembly-language-jesse-colin-jacksons-marching-cubes/
1•figomore•40m ago•0 comments

Your brain is always a fraction of a second behind the present

https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/brain-lives-past
3•amichail•43m ago•0 comments

Experimental weight-loss drug outperforms original GLP-1s

https://www.foxnews.com/health/experimental-obesity-drug-outperforms-traditional-weight-loss-trea...
2•paulpauper•44m ago•0 comments

We built a zero-telemetry Native Rust AI engine. (Ghost Lock included)

https://github.com/jrabbass/-esai-community-edition
1•jrabbass•45m ago•0 comments

Show HN: QuantTakeoff – Construction PDFs to takeoff and 3D scene

1•acaciabengo•48m ago•0 comments

Ane: CLI editor that uses LSPs to let agents explore/edit code with fewer tokens

https://github.com/prettysmartdev/ane
3•archnet•49m ago•0 comments

AI's eyes to help with component inspections

https://newsreleases.sandia.gov/ai-inspections/
1•hhs•49m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Where do I stand? – Household Health

https://wheredoistand.me/
1•vgrocha•52m ago•0 comments

Singapore Foreign Minister's Keynote at AI Engineer Singapore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-4a20_iYhg
1•doppp•54m ago•0 comments

White monkeys to make Chinese business look more global

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/may/16/fake-lawyers-scientists-chefs-punters-white-...
2•andsoitis•55m ago•1 comments

The mysterious disappearance of growth in US manufacturing: Was it China shock?

https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pandp.20261041
2•hhs•1h ago•0 comments

A Nicer Voltmeter Clock

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/a-nicer-voltmeter-clock
6•surprisetalk•1h ago•0 comments

'Transported' book review: Lost in a musical daydream

https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/transported-review-lost-in-a-musical-daydream-83d8f76d
1•hhs•1h ago•0 comments

AI Memory Reader – Native macOS app for browsing Claude Code memory files

https://github.com/nvwalj/ai-memory-reader
3•nvwalj•1h ago•0 comments

The Futility of Lava Lamps: What Random Means

https://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/lava-lamps-and-randomness
1•birdculture•1h ago•0 comments

Living with Class

https://philosophersmag.com/living-with-class/
1•Wicher•1h ago•0 comments

Adonis was Sumerian before he was Greek

https://storica.club/blog/adonis-was-sumerian/
6•aralsamuel•1h ago•0 comments

Token spend breaks budgets – what next?

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pulse-token-spend-breaks-budgets
5•eneveu•1h ago•1 comments