Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/magazine/gambling-prediction-markets-statistics.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49959583 Points: 10 # Comments: 2
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I run SquishyFile, a video compressor that works entirely in the browser. Most files go through WebCodecs with Mediabunny. Files the browser can't decode natively, like AVI, MPG, MTS and FLV, fall back to ffmpeg.wasm. The same fallback kicks in when a browser has no working H.264 encoder. Last week a user sent me a bug report.
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend For six months, my colleague has sent me the same message: "Iche, git is doing something again." She's a Flutter developer learning a Node.js backend. The code isn't where she gets stuck. Git is. Push, pull, fetch, and the classic: "why was my push rejected?" Every time, I stop what I'm doing and explain the same few fixes again. She doesn't need a git course.
The core dashboard flow for veyra is now working. A YouTube video can now go through the complete pipeline: YouTube URL → Transcript → 5-minute sections → Gemma analysis → Structured results
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend TL;DR. My friend Zee has ADHD. I asked him what actually goes wrong, and he answered in two lines: things he can't see disappear, and the one thing he locks onto eats the whole day. So I built Actually. You brain-dump in your own messy words.
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