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storywatchon Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm

I wonder if it's made by the same people behind

The project was partially started by some students/scholars from there.

storywatchon Ask HN: What are you reading?

I tend to prefer to avoid LitRPGs, they rot the brain and everything becomes a minmax number hacking endeavor.

Try Charles Stross's Accelerando and the Laundry Files series if you need good sci-fi. Foundryside and Empress of Forever are also decent. If you want fantasy, The Name of The Wind and Discworld are classics.

storywatchon Benjamin Franklin’s alter egos gave him the most freedom

Isn't PornHub Canada's biggest tech company by traffic? They are hardly anonymous.

storywatchon Previewing the Model Hardware Standard

More like MCP for robotics. IMO they are better off getting the robots to use existing human UIs than trying to get hardware manufacturers to play ball.

storywatchon Hit anything. Discover how it rings

Love it, it's a breath of fresh air compared to the usual vibe coded SaaS that's dominating Show HN these days.

storywatchon Show HN: We built the smallest dual-band aircraft tracker

Any plans to launch a competitor to the ForeFlight Sentry? The current Sentry is severely overpriced.

A normal non ADS-B iPad GPS flight module is almost 10% the price of the Sentry

https://www.garmin.com/p/645104/

storywatchon Bookshelf – Self-hosted eBook library that runs on object storage

Does Calibre support S3 these days as a storage backend?

storywatchon Pixel Watch 5

I assure you it's most certainly not waterproof in any reasonable sense of the word. The seals and glue on that thing is nowhere up to the standard of modern smartwatches.

storywatchon Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?

A lot of times the e-ink display can handle much higher refresh rates but the driver board and software are trash.

See the modos for what a clean sheet eink design would look like.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/modos-tech/modos-flow#products

storywatchon Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

Good catch, the content calendar revalidation code needs updating.

storywatchon Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

Building the GoodReads of fanfiction and web fiction. Currently growing really quickly so dealing with scaling pains :/

https://storywatch.org

storywatchon Qwen 3.0 Image Pro

What's the difference between Qwen Cloud and Alibaba Cloud? Same company?

storywatchon The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder

Worse, at least with boats most of them are made in this century.

storywatchon Kaisel – Routes as Values. Dart 3 Native Router for Flutter

The biggest issue with Go Router is that they keep changing the damn API. I can't believe the release cadence of a Flutter navbar library is faster than entire JS frontend frameworks like Next.js

storywatchon The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder

Now general aviation on the other hand..

storywatchon DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update

What's your use case? I will probably run some tests soon, stay tuned.

storywatchon DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update

How's their performance in English prose? We are currently searching for cost effective ways to keep story wikis up to date.

storywatchon Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up

It's good for the world but terrible for the practitioners in academia. Imagine you are in your last year of your PhD and then something new comes out and completely invalidates/obsoletes your results. Cough natural language processing PhDs during COVID when GPT-3 came around..

storywatchon Choose DuckDB rather than SQLite

* for other readers, VM here most likely refer to Victoria Metrics

storywatchon Show HN: tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction

Give https://storywatch.org a try...I am trying to recreate some of the old school web fiction link rings.

storywatchon Choose DuckDB rather than SQLite

Most people forget that clickhouse embedded exists

storywatchon Show HN: tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction

Questionable questing came out of SpaceBattles/Sufficient Velocity during one of their schisms.

storywatchon Show HN: tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction

They went full corporate. Naver (Korean manhwa conglomerate) bought them.

storywatchon Show HN: tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction

For fanfiction and web fiction, give us a try

https://storywatch.org

storywatchon Show HN: tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction

These days Patreon is another big platform

storywatchon Show HN: tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction

You forgot questionable questing

https://forum.questionablequesting.com/

storywatchon Turn And Face The Strange

Their pricing...also leaves much to be desired. They are almost at Big Three cloud/Vercel level of cost with none of the stability. Their anycast network however is decent.

storywatchon Unlimited OCR: One-shot long-horizon parsing

Haven't read the full paper but thr local generation window is a little small, especially since image inputs are especially token heavy. Depending on where the local attention layer is located, it would be nicer if it's bigger e.g. 4096 words at least.

storywatchon Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)

http://storywatch.org

It's an aggregator for fanfiction and web fiction. Planning on adding some Reddit like and social features.

storywatchon The Rise and (Potential) Fall of Letterboxd

The stack isn't anything too interesting right now, it's a pretty standard web stack. The architecture is a lot more distributed than I would prefer mostly because of the data ingestion pipeline. There's a lot more manual work that goes into this than it looks on the surface because many of the web fiction/fan fiction sites don't have proper APIs/RSS feeds. The big ones do but a significant percentage are just random WordPress sites where stuff can break at a moment's notice.

I will probably set up a Discord group for it if there's more interest, I have been getting a lot of requests for one from the user base (they don't particularly like email support, I suggested IRC or Zulip but I don't think most of them cares enough).