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I have some rather large PDFs that need to be transcribed, but every service I try has some minor but deal-breaking flaw. Either they don't support PDFs this large (hundreds of pag…

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> You can ask them to reverse numbers or re-arrange words and they'll faceplant in the same way as soon as the input gets beyond a small threshold. Here surely there wouldn't be an…

This should work fantastic in theory, since differing vocabulary (not grammar) is the main factor that determines the difficulty of a new language. Putting off this primary obstacl…

Exactly. The proof they did not actually crack Bitcoin is the fact they said they did.

In the context of Condorcet's jury theorem, the percentages refer to the chance of voting for the correct outcome. Think of a legal trial and there is no ambiguity about the meanin…

According to Condorcet's jury theorem, a committee of 10 identical members may be smarter than a single member.

Yes. Back around 2020 they forgave me a $1000 bill for a side project I thought was running on a free tier.

I love it! Going to use this instead of Pure.CSS from now on.

If you're not familiar with DragonRuby, you can check out a live demo here: http://fiddle.dragonruby.org.s3-website.us-east-2.amazonaws....

Hello HN — This is a desktop app that accepts typed text and synthesizes a handwritten version of it, using recurrent neural networks in real time. The network is implemented as a …

> All the languages in Europe descended from the Proto-Indo-European language Except for Basque!

Hey HN — This is a simple web app that allows you to draw an alphabet, type some text, and then have the text written in your own handwriting. I’m happy to hear feedback or answer …

Sciter is really great.

> you can't distribute the binaries yourself You can :) You just have to include a copyright notice unless you purchase an exemption.

I recommend Sciter.JS as a lightweight alternative to Electron. It's less than 10mb. If you visit the repo here: https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-js-sdk There's a database demo in…

How does this compare to Sciter? I understand this is primarily to overlay UIs over full screen applications (like games), but Sciter has that capability as well. Particularly how …

Would you be able to mention these apps? I would like to take a look.

I am convinced that the sort of Web API compatibility so many people demand is only a few native libraries away. I would like to start experimenting in this area but I can only get…

I've performed a couple experiments remaking Electron apps using Sciter. My first target was https://github.com/AkashRajpurohit/clipper , a neat little clipboard manager. The owner…

Compare the 32-bit Windows releases of Temps (42.6mb), made with Electron: https://github.com/jackd248/temps/releases/tag/v0.7.0 ... to the Temps -"lite" remake (4.49mb) using the …