ethan_zhao

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by ethan_zhao 6mo ago
Thank you for your advice.
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by ethan_zhao 6mo ago
Totally. When I first launched my project, I literally couldn't sleep at night, kept worrying that some bug in my code would spiral into a self-inflicted Denial of Wallet attack by morning. That fear is what pushed me to build the cir
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by ethan_zhao 6mo ago
That's a solid default. I actually set my RSS polling interval to 1 hour, most sources I follow don't update frequently enough to justify anything shorter. Every 10 minutes works too, but you might end up burning cycles on unchang
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SHOW HN: A usage circuit breaker for Cloudflare Workers
29 points by ethan_zhao 6mo ago|9 comments
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by ethan_zhao 7mo ago
Good question. The short answer: a single global threshold (cosine similarity ≥ 0.7) works surprisingly well for news, but it's not because embeddings handle idioms perfectly — it's because news articles are structurally constrain
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by ethan_zhao 7mo ago
Author here. I built this for 3mins.news, an AI news aggregator covering 180+ sources in 17 languages. The trickiest part was figuring out that articles in different languages about the same event share zero tokens — MinHash/LSH gives
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Cross-Lingual News Dedup at $100/Month – Embeddings, Pgvector, and UnionFind(yingjiezhao.com)
2 points by ethan_zhao 7mo ago|3 comments
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by ethan_zhao 7mo ago
I built 3mins.news because I was tired of doomscrolling through news apps. I wanted something that would tell me what happened today and then let me go. The idea is simple: every day, AI scans 30,000+ articles from 180+ sources across 17 la
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Show HN: 3mins.news – AI daily news briefing in 17 languages, designed to end(3mins.news)
4 points by ethan_zhao 7mo ago|1 comments