Show HN: Briefer – multiplayer notebooks with schedules, SQL, and built-in LLMs

Hi HN! We're Lucas and Lucas from Briefer and we're building better notebooks.

Our notebooks are kind of a mix between Notion and Jupyter with extra features, like the ability to schedule notebooks, turn them into dashboards and apps, and write SQL queries whose results turn into data frames automatically.

We're building better notebooks because we think they're a great idea poorly executed - for three reasons.

The first problem with notebooks is that they're difficult to share. Non-te

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Show HN: Zerox – document OCR with GPT-mini

This started out as a weekend hack with gpt-4-mini, using the very basic strategy of "just ask the ai to ocr the document".

But this turned out to be better performing than our current implementation of Unstructured/Textract. At pretty much the same cost.

I've tested almost every variant of document OCR over the past year, especially trying things like table / chart extraction. I've found the rules based extraction has always been lacking. Documents are meant to be a visual representatio

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