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• Show HN: A new social giving platform

  Picture this: you’re scrolling through your social media feed, feeling the usual blend of amusement and boredom until suddenly, a video catches your eye. It’s not just entertaining; it’s transformative. It inspires you, educates you, or maybe just brings a smile to your face when you needed it most. You’re filled with gratitude for the creator behind this masterpiece, but a simple “like” or “share” feels... - Source: Hacker News / about 4 hours ago

• Show HN: We increased profits +42% for ecommerce with OSS data pipelines

  Long story short: Facebook Ads optimizes ad delivery based on ROAS (return on ad spent) but return is sales and not profits. I open sourced the data pipeline to do just that and explained it all here: https://medium.com/@theo_dot/how-we-increased-shopify-business-profits-by-42-in-3-months-using-data-d91de3add629. - Source: Hacker News / about 20 hours ago

• Novel prompting approach for Alice in Wonderland problem

  Https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02061v1 research paper shows the reasoning breakdown in SOTA LLMs by asking a simple question, “Alice has N brothers and she also has M sisters. How many sisters does Alice’s brother have?” I investigated performance of different prompts on this question, and show that 'Expand-then solve' prompt significantly outperforms standard and chain-of-thought prompts. Article link -... - Source: Hacker News / about 21 hours ago

• The many faces of undefined in JavaScript

  Well, well, well... Not so long ago, I joined the opposing camp where everyone was arguing to drop null into the Mountain of Doom. https://medium.com/@hbarcelos/why-i-banned-null-from-my-js-code-and-why-you-should-too-13df90323cfa. - Source: Hacker News / 2 days ago

• Julian Assange Is Free

  > The case was withdrawn due to the time it took to get to trial ... Which weakens the oral evidence. The only evidence they had; because there was no DNA found on the condom submitted as evidence. https://medium.com/@njmelzer/demasking-the-torture-of-julian-assange-b252ffdcb768. - Source: Hacker News / 4 days ago

Plus Codes by Google mentions (8)

• A Critical Analysis of the What3Words Geocoding Algorithm

  For more on this, and why I think we shouldn't advocate for W3W, see: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/03/why-bother-with-what-three-words/ for theoretical reasons and https://w3w.me.ss/ for some practical examples. https://plus.codes seems much better, but sadly it uses numbers instead of words, which are much harder for humans to remember ( https://xkcd.com/936/ ), so I don't think it will ever catch on. That's... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Houses having names instead of numbers.

  I wish https://plus.codes/ took off. The benefit compared to what 3 words is that you can use the closest city to give directions and cells next to each other share the bigger cell name. Source: over 1 year ago

• SpaceX is live with T-Mobile announcement

  And an additional shoutout for https://plus.codes/ from Google. Source: almost 2 years ago

• r/Starlink Questions Thread - March 2022

  New to this so sorry if this is stupid. I've been trying to use https://plus.codes to try to check an address for availability at starlink. Whatever code I put in, it simply tells me afterwards "please enter an address or a plus code". That website seems to give me either a shorter or a longer plus code. Neither of them seems to make the starlink website happy. When I try putting in the address, it doesn't like... Source: over 2 years ago

• Those of you who won the "get in on another cell" game- how did you systematically go about testing plus codes?

  Https://plus.codes/ is really helpful it allows you to select areas by plus code so you can do fine incrementing once you locate an active cell to locate it's edge. Source: almost 3 years ago