Hey buddy,

Man, you gotta check out Hacker News from yesterday, Wednesday. Some pretty cool stuff popped up. Lemme give you the quick rundown.

Workout.cool

First off, this dude showed off this open-source fitness coaching thing called Workout.cool. It's like, a platform for tracking workouts and stuff. The guy who made it jumped in the comments and said he's using videos from a partner for now but wants to do his own animations later. People were also talking about different workout plans, like 5x5 versus the older 3x8-12 thing, and why they chose PostgreSQL for the database.

Scrappy

Then there's this other cool project called Scrappy. The idea is you can make these little web apps just for you and your friends, without needing a whole complicated setup like React. The comments had a good point – it's for people who know a bit of JavaScript but don't want to mess with full frameworks. The creators also mentioned it's built local-first, which is pretty neat.

Unregistry

Someone else showed off Unregistry. This one's kinda techy, but the idea is you can do a "docker push" right to a server without needing a separate Docker registry in between. The guy who posted it was talking in the comments about how it compares to `podman image scp` and how it works by making the server's image storage look like a standard registry. One comment thread was hilarious, someone listed their crazy complex deployment pipeline and was like, "I need this in my life!"

US Visa Rules

Okay, this one's a bit wild. Apparently, new US visa rules might make foreign students unlock their social media profiles. Big discussion on this one, over 300 comments! People were debating privacy, obviously, and comparing it to other countries. Someone even said their only social media is their HN account and they don't even carry a cell phone – going full "ungovernable" mode!

iPhone 8 OCR Server

This dude did something cool with an old phone: He turned his old iPhone 8 into a solar-powered server to do OCR (that's reading text from images). He wrote about how it just won't die. Fun fact from the comments: He noticed the phone actually does the OCR faster when it's a little warm, but not hot. Cold Canadian mornings meant slower processing! People were also arguing about Apple's pricing models and how much easier this kind of project might be on Android.

Counting Yurts in Mongolia

Here's a unique one: Someone used machine learning to count all the yurts in Mongolia. Pretty specific! The comments got into the weeds a bit, like the licensing issues with using Google Maps imagery for this kind of thing. Someone else pointed out that even after a yurt is moved, it leaves a circular mark on the ground for a couple of years that the ML model might pick up, which is a cool detail.

Framework Laptop 12 Review

Finally, there was a review of the new Framework Laptop 12. Framework laptops are those modular ones you can fix and upgrade easily. Lots of debate in the comments, like usual. Some people thought it looked ugly, while others defended it saying the point isn't looks, it's the repairability and performance. Someone brought up how Apple's older M1 chips are still hard for PCs to match in terms of performance *and* being silent. Lots of chat about keyboard layouts too, oddly enough, specifically the arrow keys!

Yeah, so that was most of the interesting stuff from yesterday. Talk later!