I've always been fascinated by thermal printers – there's something magical about seeing text and images materialize on paper in seconds. But I found that working with them programmatically was always a pain. You either had to deal with ancient printer protocols or use clunky vendor-specific SDKs. So I built Printercow (https://printercow.com) – it turns any thermal printer into an HTTP endpoint with just one command.
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I want to move our local communities off Facebook and onto our own platform. Is there a off-the-shelf solution or any collaborators I can join to move something along?
EDIT: I live in a more rural community (moved from a big city). We have 5-6 small (~50k people) towns, all well connected. Everything happens on Facebook. I would like to move to a different platforms. Plus points for self-hosted, federated.
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https://gist.github.com/hackermondev/45a3cdfa52246f1d1201c1e8cdef6117
Hi HN,
Founder here. We built Pica, an open-source platform in Rust to enable agentic AI with three main focus areas:
- Access to APIs and tools: Universal SDKs that let AI agents use thousands of external actions without blowing up your context window. - Visibility and traceability: Full audit logs of every decision/action to ensure transparency and accountability. - Alignment with human intentions: Seamless guardrails for autonomous tasks; e.g., restricting certain email actions to hum
Article URL: https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/should-we-use-llms-for-christian-apologetics/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42781293
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https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/should-we-use-llms-for-christian-apologetics/
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