#measure

Show HN: PDFMeasure – Measure PDF files in the browser

Hi HN, sharing a little app I built to measure architectural drawings in the browser. My architects on a remodel had this fancy software to do it, but I was frustrated to not be able to do the same easily. It does much of what the more complex software does: measure distance, surface areas, perimeters, angles; markup; takeoff (count & run lengths), ...etc. I even built an overlay feature to compare two pages. In this age of AI, I think simple software such as this can only ever be free. How do you offer a web app for free? Make it local only. I think there is a lot of space to explore in local

Show HN · EN

Add measure.sh to the Crash and Exception Handling section

Add measure.sh to the Crash and Exception Handling section

Free for Dev · EN

Measure Optimal AI Share of Labor Costs Instead of AI or Human-Only Performance

In a research post , Cunningham et al. of METR propose the “‘expenditure horizon’ over an optimization problem as the dollar value at which the improvement to the goal metric is equal to the improvement by a human with the same budget.” Though their work focuses on individual optimization problems (with NanoGPT as the main subject), the expenditure horizon can be meaningful for any task distribution: it’s the budget at which human-only and AI-only work reach the same performance. Though I like expenditure horizons as an operationalization of AI capability, I have a few critiques which suggest

LessWrong · EN

Universities must measure learning, both with and without AI assistance

Nature, Published online: 03 November 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03559-1 Universities must measure learning, both with and without AI assistance

Nature News · EN

Can You Scientifically Measure Fun?

Mark Rober · EN