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pheme1on Stealing secrets from developers using WebSockets

Another idea: an online json editor

pheme1on Show HN: Python package to collect normalized news from almost any website

There's seems to have a lot of news crawler APIs lately, a quite google and found these:

[1] https://currentsapi.services/en/product/price

[3] https://www.cityfalcon.com/products/api/financial-news

pheme1on Show HN: Python package to collect normalized news from almost any website

What does the normalized news means? Able to query from a predefined RSS feed? Because I was expecting news coverage from different partisan source pointing to the same news event.

pheme1on Show HN: Interface for all digital aspects of my life

I wish to see some kind of encryption and token access for each module. A quick glance of the setup.py, it seems to rely on appdirs to store user data unencrypted?

pheme1on Nubia: A SoTA evaluation metric for text generation

Based on your paper, it seems you didn't compare to other model based evaluation method such as Frechet Embedding Distance (FED). I would certainly like to see correlation study between each model evaluation method.

pheme1on A speech-to-text practitioner’s criticisms of industry and academia

As someone who thinker with Text to Speech (TTS), I can say this apply to TTS as well. Good model such as Tacotron2 rarely scale beyond clean ( good text and speech alignmen ) large ( > 12 hours ) datasets.

pheme1on Ask HN: Will this be the end of Airbnb?

Just sharing my friend experience, she had to end her exchange study early from Europe (due to recent escalation) and back to Taiwan. My friend however, wasn't a Taiwanese and require a place for her 14 days self isolation. She ended up finding an Airbnb willing to host her during the self isolation period (hotel usually have a central ventilation which isn't optimal for self isolation).

pheme1on TSMC Details 5 nm

> I can tell you that the industry is much more appreciative of each other's competitors

Totally agree, back in 2012 Intel, TSMC, Samsung pool together roughly 5 billions of investment [1] in ASML to manufacture the EUV machines needed to manufacture 5nm today.

[1] https://www.asml.com/en/news/press-releases/samsung-joins-as...

pheme1on Increase in demand for postgraduate degree courses (2009)

A global recession is expected to happen this year due to coronavirus [1,2]. So it reminded me of this "trend" during the 2008 recession.

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/global-recession-is-expect...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/17/morgan-stanley-a-global-rece...

pheme1on Automating receipt processing with deep learning

A similar discussion can be found here [1] as well which also got to front page as well. The content is strikingly similar : detail OCR introduction and goes to API introduction.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21626025

pheme1on The Future of War Technology

Probably what he means are weapons used in black ops and special ops. For example the assault on the Osama hideout in 2011. But I think the more significant version are subsonic weapon fueling for proxy wars in Middle East.

pheme1on Launch HN: Buy Me a Coffee (YC W19) – Give your audience a way to thank you

When I started using buy me a coffee(6 months ago?), the payment portal was Payoneer. Is my payment portal still valid or I need to migrate to Paypal/Stripe?