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adulion··on I Hate Cookie Consent
Did you read the article? Many websites present cookie consent banners and never honour them
adulion··on I Hate Cookie Consent
thanks- i cant delete it now :( resubmitted it
adulion··on iPhone Duo
how do i put the inevitable military-grade case on it so when I bounces it off the ground it wont smash?
adulion··on Zed DeltaDB
why develop this when it seems jetbrains had a local history feature which recorded every change for the past decade(s)
adulion··on Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors
For cyber security examples there are real movement in europe - ciphercue is trying to create a directory of alternatives which is gaining traction - https://ciphercue.com/directory/eu

Maybe going beyond cyber alternatives is whats needed

adulion··on Europe Wants Digital Sovereignty. 2,165 Polish Organisations Show the Gap
Thats microsofts moat- its legacy applications are just part of peoples lvies

i think things like CDNs should be easier to shift

adulion··on Europe Wants Digital Sovereignty. 2,165 Polish Organisations Show the Gap
There are a few mailbox.org and tuta.com are both in Germany.

I havent used either but their website leads me to believe they are similar experiences

adulion··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
https://urlcv.com - The AI recruitment orchestration layer for agencies that need decision-ready candidates
adulion··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)
i’m working on instantrows, basically trying to kill the pain of dealing with csv/json/excel/parquet exports when all you really want is to join them together, do some quick aggregations, and share the result without begging a data engineer or spinning up a whole warehouse. excel breaks, bi tools are overkill, emailing final_v2.csv is a nightmare. the idea is a browser based, no download tool where you drop files in, it just works, and you get a live link you can send around. curious if anyone else here runs into this every week and what hacks you use today.

https://instantrows.com

adulion··on The DuckDB Local UI
Wow, big fan of duckdb and this is a great step forward.
adulion··on Searchcode.com’s SQLite database is probably 6 terabytes bigger than yours
Even taking of the language filter you only get 5 results for a very common function!
adulion··on Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads
I have done this as well. I once got an travel insurance claim rejected by some outsourced handler and found out who the CEO of the insurance startup was. I emailed him and magically it got resolved
adulion··on Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
https://datasignal.uk

I've been working on an exciting project called DataSignal, where I'm developing a sophisticated Named Entity Recognition (NER) and enrichment system. This system is designed to identify and extract key entities from blocks of text, such as names, locations, or organizations, and then provide rich contextual information about them. The goal is to transform raw text into meaningful data that users can easily understand and leverage in various applications.

The real magic of DataSignal lies in how it delivers this contextual information. It can be seamlessly integrated into your workflow through a browser plugin, which instantly highlights and explains entities as you browse the web. For developers, DataSignal can be embedded directly into a webpage via JavaScript, enhancing the content on the page with dynamic insights. Additionally, it offers a REST API, allowing for flexible and customizable integration into other software systems.

Whether you're a developer looking to enhance your application with smart text analysis or someone who wants to streamline research and data gathering, DataSignal is poised to bring a new level of insight and efficiency to text analysis. This project aims to make complex data more accessible and actionable, transforming how we interact with and interpret information.

adulion··on Use JSON to Evaluate and Compare Local Language Model NER Performance
I recently expanded a project that allows for easy benchmarking of local language models, specifically for Named Entity Recognition (NER) tasks. By using a simple JSON configuration, you can now evaluate and compare the performance of different models installed through Ollama without the need for extensive coding.

The idea is to make it easier for developers and data scientists to test various models and see how they perform on specific tasks, all within a streamlined framework.

If you're interested in learning more about the approach and trying it out, you can check out the full details in my blog post: Creating a JSON Framework to Test Local Language Models for NER — https://datasignal.uk/blog/ner-framework.html

The code is open source and available on GitHub: NER-llm-blog Repo — https://github.com/DataSignalOrg/NER-llm-blog/tree/master

I’d love to hear your thoughts or suggestions for improvements!

adulion··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024)
only one remote role?
adulion··on Dear Paul Graham, there is no cookie banner law
can you build a website nowadays with analytics without using cookies? or violating GDPR?
adulion··on SQLPage – Building a full web application with nothing but SQL queries [video]
Agreed- I worked at a company a few years back that build on a product using postgrest and an angular frontend for everything with nothing in between- which felt wrong as well
adulion··on UK 2022 rail station flow images
Its not UK- its Great Britain- Doesnt include northern ireland data
adulion··on Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?
I was working full time in mcdonalds and when the facebook API launched in 2009ish created a few blog posts integrating the API to php and codeignter.

This lead to picking up a few projects from agency which led to a full time job and the rest is history.

adulion··on ChDB: Embedded OLAP SQL Engine Powered by ClickHouse
not as simple as from 'a.csv' and 10 years without recursive CTES?
adulion··on ChDB: Embedded OLAP SQL Engine Powered by ClickHouse
does chdb have support for recursive CTES?

It and the ability to do `from 'https://example.com/.csv` is why i love duckdb

adulion··on ChDB: Embedded OLAP SQL Engine Powered by ClickHouse
why would you use this over duckdb?
adulion··on Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]
I seen him speak in ireland twice in the past 20 years so i assume he got here by plane
adulion··on Ask HN: How to handle Asian-style “Family name first” when designing interfaces?
i work in ecommerce and we have a conditional for the order of the fields based on the delivery country the user checking out
adulion··on Evernote has laid off most of its US staff and will move operations to Europe
i remember phil libin saying he wanted to build a 100 year company
adulion··on Ask HN: How do you test SQL?
I was going to mention pgtap as i had used it in a previous role and it works but its cumbersome. I was hoping for a better solution by reading the comments
adulion··on Ask HN: Do you hate software engineering but love programming?
Scaling things- i love hacking away at my own ideas and my own little projects that only I will use.

The requirements to make things scale- Being part of a team with procedures and processes kills the fun for me.

adulion··on Taiga: A free and open-source project management tool
i worked in a startup who where inexperienced and tried to save costs by using taiga.

Once experienced people joined the team we switched to jira.

adulion··on Meta fires a software engineer two days after he relocated from India to Canada
he's probably been given the pay but not the time to find his feet
adulion··on Mechanical Watch
mechanical watches fascinate me, i joined /r/seikomods and assmbled one form parts i found of ebay.
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