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Hacker News mentions (670)

• Unprecedented role of Amazon fires in the record atmospheric CO₂ growth in 2024

  > Something to keep in mind in the comments is this is a repeated Hacker News news pattern for losers and simps. Fake 'scientists' find a new way to measure CO2, there are millions of ways directly and indirectly, so this is a citation/news machine. The fake 'scientists' never offer solutions, that would require science, something universities can no longer do. Hacker News users repeat how they are helpless and... - Source: Hacker News / 7 days ago

• Show HN: Claude Web Scraper

  Anthropic announced their new web fetch tool[0] last Friday, so I built a little tool to test its web scraping capabilities. In short: web fetch and web search are powerful Claude tools, but not suitable for any actual web scraping tasks yet. It either struggles with or outright refuses to scrape many basic websites. As an example, here is the result for - Source: Hacker News / 17 days ago

• Level Up Your Python: From Space Explorer to Project Master & Concurrency Alchemist

  Import requests Import threading From bs4 import BeautifulSoup Import time # Guild Master's "Supply List" (needs to be installed in a virtual environment using pip install requests beautifulsoup4) # Alchemist's "Time Splitting" technique Def fetch_news(site_name, url): """A "ghost assistant's" task: get the title from a single website""" try: print(f"Assistant-{site_name}: Starting to retrieve... - Source: dev.to / about 1 month ago

• No Clicks, No Content: The Unsustainable Future of AI Search

  The first thing when I open my browser is lookup at https://news.ycombinator.com/ :). - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Junior dev roles are rigged; the entry-level jobs (secretly) want seniors, and listings are impossible

  Hacker News more cynical, but good for spotting industry trends. - Source: dev.to / about 1 month ago

Biostars mentions (2)

• Bacteria store memories and pass them on for generations

  I wish there was more bio stuff on HN in general. Or that there was an HN for bio. (There is https://biostars.org , which is not at all really the same thing, more like a help forum). - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Sites like HN on other topics?

  For bioinformatics: https://biostars.org For them intersection of tech builders and bio people: Bits in Bio Slack https://bitsinbio.org/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago