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Francium Tech
Company blog · blog.francium.techprogrammingai
Francium Tech is the company blog at blog.francium.tech, writing about programming and ai. Since 2019, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment is a technical reply to the Nettle Magic post about scanning decks of barcoded cards. It discusses card image databases and OpenCV-based image retrieval and does not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
For some of the card games I am familiar with (Netrunner, MTG) there are resources online (wikis, dbs, deck builders) that have all the graphic assets. Alternatively, you can scan or photograph each card in your deck, but that may be time consuming. As for software, there are engines out there that do content-based image retrieval (CBIR) out of the box [1]. It should be possible to build something quickly in OpenCV.…
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