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donboxon Launch HN: Cuckoo (YC W25) – Real-time AI translator for global teams

Congrats on the launch! Does it support Hinglish (Hindi + English)? I'm a native Hindi speaker, but I found the Hindi in the demo video hard to follow. Many Hindi speakers, especially in everyday conversations, naturally mix Hindi and English — often using English for technical or difficult terms. Would love to know if the model handles that kind of language blend

donboxon Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row

I love their products: whatsapp and facebook

donboxon The Dumbest Trade War Fallout Begins

Yeah, especially the ones colored red, which are also usually on the bottom row.

donboxon Libraries and Well-Being: A Case Study from The New York Public Library

British council libraries have membership fees, at least in India https://www.britishcouncil.in/library/prices-and-plans

donboxon A UC Santa Cruz professor unearthed the oldest alphabet yet

Its friendly governors but not yet proven to be democratic.

donboxon U of T computational imaging researchers harness AI to fly with light in motion

To me it felt like its instant in the downwards direction

donboxon A 1.3B-light-year-across ring of galaxies has confounded astronomers

Or an eye. Almost.

donboxon The Ruin of Mumbai

INR 59,954 crore is around 7 Billion USD.

donboxon Uniqlo's Automated Self-Checkout

Seems Toronto Public Library uses a similar system to checkout books.

donboxon The British Library URL has been offline due to cyberattack for 10 days

Oh well, that is sad. Toronto Public Library's online services are still down since at least a month.

donboxon I will always prefer to work from home

Does your team use Slack (or something similar). Don't you get random pings, mentions or calls for help/input. Is there an expectation around for you to respond within a short period. I have been 100% WFH since last 5 years and I am only productive after 5 pm.

donboxon Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic

also good for "Alexa, how is the weather today?"

donboxon India could be behind killing of Canadian Sikh – Trudeau

It would have been more credible had he presented evidence as well. Until then its just allegations.

donboxon India suspends visas for Canadians as row escalates

That goes for Canada too, what was the need to go public and that too without presenting any evidence.

donboxon The Joy of Abstraction: An introduction to category theory

previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33740089

donboxon Mcmaster.com is the best e-commerce site I've ever used

and Canada, though only to business and school addresses only.

donboxon Turn spreadsheets into website designs

Great that you were able to build it.

Something similar https://www.sheet2site.com/

Also google search yeilds at least 5 similar services.

donboxon Did Britain Ever Have a Revolutionary Moment?

IRA? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_War_of_Independence#:~...

donboxon Facebook Whistleblower Leaks Thousands of Pages of Incriminating Internal Docs

hmm, without facebook.com, I would surely would not have been able to catchup with my old schoolmates, with me having left the hometown 20 years ago.

donboxon Why Can’t I Sleep?

I, as a 33 BMI person with insomnia issues and workaholic nature, started intermittent fasting (eat between 9am to 5pm) 5 days ago and since then, I have been consistently sleeping at least 5 hours daily. By midnight, I am tired enough to not care about any pending task.

donboxon LG is getting out of the mobile phone business

My 4 year old Samsung J2 is still going strong (for me).Received an update in Jan 2021, Its still on Android 9

donboxon Building Domain Driven Microservices

https://outline.com/ws4FFC

donboxon Tatsuo Horiuchi is painting pictures on PC with MS EXCEL

For excel art drawing instructions by T.Hiriuchi, see http://pasokonga.com/KakikataPageAA.htm

donboxon PGAdmin 4 demo: Try it in your browser!!

Really, How does it work ?

donboxon You’re Not Lazy, Bored, or Unmotivated

https://outline.com/3jMWxb Just in case you are asked to upgrade to read.

donboxon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2019)

Location:Toronto/Vancouver. Have PR, will be moving to Canada in August 2019 or earlier.

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Anywhere in Canada

Technologies: Backend Development using Java/Spring, Serverless using AWS services, Frontend using AngularJS. Device Middleware software developement using C++. Have also used Python extensively to automate tasks.

In general, I consider myself to be Programming Language and Platform agnostic.

Resume: http://www.linkedin.com/in/codenrun/

Email: aaggar24@asu.edu

donboxon Google changes its messaging strategy again: Goodbye to Allo, double down on RCS

Could not they just replace the XMPP protocol with whatever better protocol, while keeping the GTalk alive.

donboxon Codechef considering to launch a certification for DS and algorithms

Its a survey that I received from CodeChef.

donboxon The State of LTE (June 2017);South Korea leads, India springs a surprise.

As expected, South Korea leads both in 4G availability (rank 1) and 4G speed (rank 2). India makes to top 20 with 81% ( rank 14 )availability, though with lower average 4G speed.