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The article examines the popular belief that ancient Greek and Roman statues were originally painted in bright colors, contrary to their current white appearance. It discusses the historical evidence and ongoing debates surrounding the polychrome nature of classical sculptures.

The article discusses a claim by the UK's Investigatory Powers Commissioner's Office that developing privacy-focused communication apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be considered 'hostile activity' under new anti-espionage laws. This raises concerns about the potential implications for developers and users of such applications.

The article examines the water crisis in Iran, exploring how unsustainable water management practices, including the overbuilding of dams and the decline of traditional irrigation systems, have led to severe drought and depletion of groundwater resources, posing significant challenges for the country's environment and population.

The article discusses the potential security risks of redeeming Apple gift cards, highlighting concerns about fraudulent activity and the need for consumers to exercise caution when using such cards.

The article explores the concept of 'slowness as a virtue' and how embracing a slower pace can lead to more meaningful and fulfilling experiences in our fast-paced world. It encourages readers to be mindful, savor the moment, and find joy in the simple pleasures of everyday life.

The article discusses how increased wealth and access to technology have impacted the lives of teenagers, including changes in their social interactions, mental health, and overall well-being. It explores the potential positive and negative effects of these societal shifts on the younger generation.

The article discusses the recent decline in cryptocurrency prices, particularly Bitcoin, and explores the potential factors contributing to this market downturn, including regulatory uncertainty, increased competition, and concerns about energy consumption.

The report explores the current state of AI-generated code compared to human-written code, analyzing factors like accuracy, code quality, and development speed. It provides insights into the strengths and limitations of both AI and human code generation, highlighting areas where AI is making significant progress.

The article announces the release of systemd version 259, detailing the key improvements and changes, including updates to the network stack, service management, and security features.

The article suggests that heart disease, kidney disease, and type 2 diabetes may be interconnected and potentially treatable as a single condition. It discusses research indicating that these three conditions may stem from a common underlying cause, which could lead to new treatment approaches targeting the root of the problem.

The article explores Valve Corporation, a video game company known for its unconventional management practices. It examines Valve's flat organizational structure, emphasis on employee autonomy, and efforts to create a self-organizing workplace, which contrast with the more hierarchical and structured approach of companies like Apple.

The article describes the process of fine-tuning the QWEN3 language model at home, including obtaining the necessary hardware and software, training the model, and evaluating its performance. It provides technical details and insights for users interested in customizing and experimenting with large language models.

Everyone's shipping AI tools right now, and here I am with a visual editor. Still, I think many teams are very familiar with the problem of "marketing wants to change the landing page again."

I've run into this for years. Campaign pages come in, engineers get pulled in, and tickets stack up. It's usually the same components, just rearranged.

A few years ago, at a startup I worked at, we built an internal tool to deal with this. You register your existing React components, they show up as drag-and-drop blocks, and the result is a JSX string. No schema to learn, no changes to your component code.

We used it in production, handling real traffic in a messy, legacy-heavy environment. It held up well. Over time, it powered roughly 60% of our traffic. Marketing shipped pages without filing tickets, and product teams ran layout-level A/B tests. That experience eventually led me to clean it up and open-source it.

Composify sits somewhere between a no-code page builder and a headless CMS. Page builders like Wix or Squarespace offer drag-and-drop, but lock you into their components. There are also solid tools like Builder.io, Puck, and Storyblok, but many require you to adapt your components to their model. Composify is intentionally minimal: it lets you use your actual production components as they are.

It's still early. The docs need work, and there are rough edges. But it's running in production and has solved a real problem for us. If you already have a component library and want non-devs to compose pages from it, it might be useful.

Homepage: https://composify.js.org

Happy to answer questions or hear feedback!

Mistral, an AI company, has released a new optical character recognition (OCR) solution, Mistral OCR 3, which promises improved accuracy and performance in extracting text from images and documents. The article highlights the key features and capabilities of the updated Mistral OCR solution.

The article announces the release of Toad, a new experimental Python library for building web applications. Toad aims to provide a more modern, Pythonic alternative to traditional web frameworks, with a focus on simplicity and developer productivity.

Most products that touch PDFs or images quietly rebuild the same thing: a hacked-together “router” that picks which OCR/vision API to call, normalizes the responses, and prays the bill is sane at the end of the month.

DocsRouter is that layer as a product: one stable API that talks to multiple OCR engines and vision LLMs, lets you route per document based on cost/quality/latency, and gives you normalized outputs (text, tables, fields) so your app doesn’t care which provider was used.

It’s meant for teams doing serious stuff with documents: invoices/receipts, contracts, payroll, medical/admin forms, logistics docs, etc., who are either stuck on “the OCR we picked years ago” or are overwhelmed by the churn of new vision models.

Right now you get a REST API, simple SDKs (coming soon), a few pluggable backends (classic OCR + newer vision models), some basic routing policies, and a playground where you can upload a doc and compare outputs side by side.

I’d love feedback from HN on two things:

1- If you already juggle multiple OCR/vision providers, what does your homegrown router look like, and what would you need to trust an external one?

2 - Would you prefer this or use the LLM/OCR providers directly, with the possibility of changing the provider every so often?

Demo and docs are here: https://docsrouter.com

Hey HN! We built DNS Directory (https://dnsdirectory.com), a free, searchable database of public DNS servers with live monitoring every 10 minutes.

We needed to find an up-to-date list of DNS servers used by carriers around the world for a proxy fingerprinting / web-scraping project but we were shocked to find that it didn’t exist so we built it ourselves in an internal Hackathon

We’re adding more features but so far we:

Test 77K+ servers every ~10 minutes Allow filtering by uptime, location, security features (ad blocking, malware protection, DNSSEC) Show info on IPv6 support, anycast, etc. Show all historical testing information

We have no plans to monetize the site and it will stay free so it can be used as a public resource.

I’d love to hear ways we can improve the site. It works but certain things like content filtering detection are rough around the edges, and we want to add test nodes in Asia + US for better coverage as right now we just test from Amsterdam.

If you want a DNS server that isn’t already on the website then you can add them via the form and if you’re a large org that has a bunch to add then you can email me at support@dnsdirectory.com and we’ll ingest them.

Cheers!

TypeToRace is an online platform that allows users to engage in competitive typing challenges, improving their typing speed and accuracy. The website offers a variety of text passages and timed exercises to help users enhance their typing skills.

The article discusses the pricing for GitHub Actions runners, including the free usage limits, pricing for self-hosted runners, and the ability to purchase additional minutes for self-hosted runners. It provides details on the different pricing tiers and how to manage GitHub Actions usage and costs.

The article provides an in-depth analysis of the SWE Bench, a comprehensive software engineering benchmark designed to evaluate the performance of software systems across a wide range of workloads. It delves into the benchmark's architecture, methodology, and its potential applications in assessing the efficiency and scalability of software solutions.