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saran945

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About saran945

Hey HN,

I am reading HN from 2007. not an active participant :(

abt me: 44 yo, born in a tiny village in India. knows a bit AI & Startup.

thank you Saran

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    CLI-Anything generates a complete command-line interface for existing software (if codebase available). they've already generated CLIs for 11 complex applications, I guess this is …

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    Show HN: API to get structured data from any site's search

    SearchResult is a single POST endpoint. You pass a website URL and a query, it returns structured JSON (or Markdown/HTML tables). It auto-detects the schema of the results — titles…

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    Comment #46193501

    currencies are hard code as of now, Will connect with some api's. "100 watt hours to joules", Thanks for let me know - its a parsing error.

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    Algorithms are jailed in PDF files

    For decades, researchers have published thousands of algorithms in areas like optimization, ML, cryptography, and data science. Most of them are still locked away in PDFs—hard to e…

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    Automating IDEs: Who's Working on It?

    With modern screen automation capabilities, is anyone working on automating IDEs like Cursor/VS Code ? Key requirements: 1. UI agents with a knowledge base – Integrating IDE docume…

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    Comment #43023712

    “The AMT/AIT was also weaponized by certain political elements in India to proliferate harassment against the Brahmins of Tamil Nadu” I was born and raised in Tamil Nadu, having li…

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    Show HN: AI Feed

    I'm developing a tiny app that allows users to create AI-agents to filter the web for personalized content. Here’s how it works: users set up profiles describing their interests, l…

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    Future of Online Tasks

    I've been digging into some of the recent research from ICLR 2025, and I saw 20+ papers !! Tons of new work on web automation, like WebCanvas, AgentOccam, VeSX, and NNetscape Navig…

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    Show HN: Generate and follow Structured Feeds from any web page

    Hi HN, I created this product to monitor specific search result pages. It’s rare to find RSS feeds for SERPs, this tool also works well for any page that lists items. I used LLM fo…

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    Comment #41888436

    Extracting a list page using an LLM costs $1, so I reused the selectors when extracting data from the same page in subsequent operations to optimize costs. the extraction works wel…

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    Show HN: Monitor Any List Page Without RSS Feeds

    Hi HN, I wanted to share a tool I've been working on called WebList. I've often found myself repeatedly checking certain websites for updates, also watching some keywords in few we…

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    Comment #41828171

    I have downloaded exe for windows, Chrome saying "Failed virus detected"

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    Comment #41563268

    "We evaluated REAP using a dataset designed to highlight the limitations of large language models (LLMs), comparing zero-shot prompting with REAP-enhanced prompts across six state-…

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    Comment #41112494

    Cool. 1. Currently, it's a proof of concept only. In the next release, I will make sure to include some use cases/examples. 2. I haven’t finalized the pricing yet. For now, it's fr…

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    I made using https://www.screen.studio/

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    Comment #41108067

    Extended version Autogen. Added 8 new tools and modified some prompts. I never expected this much quality. linking my tiny benchmarking test in a tweet. https://x.com/saran945/stat…

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    I don't understand your question. . . Do you need more details about How it finds the answer? I already shared most of the part in this thread. The home page was done in 60 minutes…

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    I slept, sorry for the delay reply. The quality of LLM does not improve my product much, I am facing extraction issues, will have to improve continually. "You are going to see a lo…