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Great to see this finally become stable. Congrats to the Base UI team!
Re:PastVu: Historical Photographs on Current Maps on Thursday August 07, 2025 @10:59AM (#44825367)
Pretty amazing!
Re:Kitten TTS: 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source Voice Model on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @03:14AM (#44808709)
This doesn’t seem to work on Safari. Works great on Chrome, though

Comparison Between Sync Engines

Hey! Has anyone read a good comparison between sync engines?I'm interested by them as they can shave off a lot of manual work, but I'm also skeptical of how they handle conflicts because the demos only show the happy path.I'm mostly focused on JavaScript sync engines, but the question is applicable to other language ecosystems as well.What are your thoughts on the options? If you have any...

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Seems very interesting!

I found that the word reader from the example isn’t using the Spanish language.

It’s using Portuguese, not sure if it’s because it’s able to find my locale or if just a mess up.

Also, it seems like it doesn’t properly handle German separate verbs, so it’s a bit hard to get a single word’s translation.

Pretty cool! Nice job
Re:Why I Switched to Vim Keybindings on Thursday July 24, 2025 @08:15AM (#44669739)
Great points! I’ve also done the same. Tried using just vim for some time, but it was too much of a hassle. Now I use WebStorm with vim keybindings and it works great. Even CodeSandbox has it. The only downside is that StackBlitz doesn’t support it and I sometimes use them.
Great! I use the user's timezone to try to guess the country, so it should work well for a lot of countries!

Show HN: Vacation Maximizer – Maximize PTO by taking days off around holidays

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Hey! In my last job I was constantly wondering when it would be best to take days off so I could enjoy the most days off in a row, so I made this tool!It tries to schedule PTO around holidays so that you get the most consecutive time off while spending as few days as possible.You can set some constraints, customize the holidays and define mandatory vacation days (in case your company mandates...

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Interested in knowing the answer. I’ve used React Native a couple of times, but it’s a bit hard for someone coming from the web, specially styling-wise. I’m curious if Lynx is actually better, though I suspect there will be a lot of shortcomings as it’s relatively new.
Re:Million Times Million on Friday July 11, 2025 @06:19AM (#44530469)
Isn’t “mil milhões” the proper term in the long scale? “Bilião” would be equivalent to the short-scale trillion, e.g., “NVidia vale $4 biliões”, which is equivalent to “NVidia is worth $4 trillion”.

I’m

Re:Million Times Million on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @08:14AM (#44509089)
Portugal uses it, but probably due to foreign influence there’s more and more people that use the short scale, which makes everything a mess
Good point. Is this something that expo maps can’t do?
Looks nice! As a suggestion, it would be easier to understand what this is about by adding a small video/GIF of the library in action.

Took me some time to understand what it was about.