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Title: TLDR; Graphite enables a git workflow called “stacking” - the fastest way to develop and ship code, which many large tech companies have been using for years. Graphite makes stacking available to anyone with a GitHub account.<p>Hi HN!<p>I’m Tomas, co-founder of graphite.dev, and today we’re launching Graphite after almost two years of development in closed beta. [1] Graphite started as an internal solution to our own problem. When we (engineers from Meta, Google and Airbnb) left our previous roles, we lost access to the internal code review tools we loved. So we built our own.<p>https://graphite.dev<p>---<p>Graphite is how the fastest developers ship code - it’s a developer tool that allows you to create smaller pull requests, stay unblocked, and ship faster with “stacking” (creating a set of dependent pull requests). Stacking [2] allows developers to break up large pull requests (PRs) into smaller ones that can be reviewed & merged independently, while keeping ongoing development unblocked. Engineering best practices at Google advise that a “reasonable” PR be around 100 lines, and recommend splitting PRs in order to achieve this through stacking or other methods. [3]<p>Unlike other tools like Phabricator, Gerrit, or Sapling, Graphite syncs seamlessly with your GitHub repositories, so that you don’t have to manage any extra infrastructure. This also means that even if your teammates don’t use Graphite yet, you still can.<p>Here’s what you can expect when you sign in to Graphite with your GitHub account:<p>(1) First class support for stacking: At its core, Graphite enables “stacking”—a workflow used by engineers at top companies like Meta and Google to create small, dependent sets of pull requests. The Graphite CLI, web app, and VS Code extension all come together to empower engineers to start stacking.<p>(2) Pull request inbox: You can think of this as your home page on Graphite, where you have full visibility into the status of all your PRs and know what still needs to be done across every repo, author, and stage of review. You can also create custom inboxes that filter PRs on reviewers, authors, labels, CI status, and more.<p>(3) Streamlined code review interface: Graphite’s pull request page removes tabs and minimizes distractions, with the aim of putting your code front and center. You can use keyboard shortcuts to navigate between files and comments or to move between PRs in your stack. You can also import custom memes and gifs to add some to your reviews too!<p>(4) AI-powered pull requests: Auto-generate a detailed description for every PR with our OpenAI integration. You can even turn your comments into suggested code changes (coming soon!).<p>(5) Real-time notifications: Connect Graphite to your Slack workspace to stay up-to-date on review requests, comments threads, merge status, and other activity on your PRs. For smaller PRs, you can leave a review (and even merge) directly from Slack.<p>(6) Stack-aware merges: Since Graphite is built to support a stacking workflow, it automates the manual work of rebasing PRs when it’s time to merge. You can merge your stacks with one click from the web app, or in a single command from the CLI.<p>Feel free to take a look at our getting started guide [4] or product tour video [5] for a tutorial on how to get started, and drop your comments to us below!<p>[1] http://graphite.dev/blog/launch<p>[2] http://stacking.dev<p>[3] https://google.github.io/eng-practices/review/developer/small-cls.html<p>[4] https://graphite.dev/docs/getting-started-with-graphite<p>[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBcd9uopLOY
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Title: I bought a "Dr.ZX Hitachi Excavator Diagnostic Tool Dr. Zaxis palm version" from a top rated eBay seller sjsino99.<p>The seller reported the item as delivered, but I never received it. The seller used Speedpak to send the item, Speedpak then sent it via USPS. eBay shows my correct residential address, however the item was delivered to a PO Box. I asked my town's postmaster about this item's delivery and he said that not only did the item only weigh 1 oz (the item itself should be heavier), but that it was addressed to a PO box the whole time.<p>I contacted eBay and they refuse to provide any support as the Speedpak tracking link shows the item as successfully delivered. I provided them with images showing my address as the correct shipping address on ebay and comparing that to the USPS link, but they closed the case in just a few seconds anyways.<p>I tried to leave negative feedback for this seller, but the feedback was removed, leaving unsuspecting buyers to think this seller is a good one like I did.<p>I think the seller scammed me by sending an empty package to an incorrect address via speedpak and getting a tracking link saying it was successfully delivered. What do you think? Have you experienced anything like this?
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Title: Hey HN!<p>I'm excited to introduce Symphony – a toolkit designed to help developers write functions and let GPT-4 call them in whatever sequence that makes most sense based on conversation.<p>I've been quite amazed[1] by GPT-4's recent ability to both detect when a function needs to be called and to respond with JSON that adheres to the function's signature.<p>Since developers currently append descriptions of functions to API calls[2], I often found myself wishing for a toolkit that would automatically create these descriptions as I added and debugged functions during development.<p>You can get started by cloning the repository and adding functions by following the guide at <a href="https://symphony.run/docs" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://symphony.run/docs</a><p>As of now, the toolkit supports functions in TypeScript. I'll be adding support for more languages and features based on your feedback :)<p>[1] - Symphony Showcase: <a href="https://symphony.run/showcase" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://symphony.run/showcase</a><p>[2] - Function calling and other API updates from OpenAI: <a href="https://openai.com/blog/function-calling-and-other-api-updates" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://openai.com/blog/function-calling-and-other-api-updat...</a>
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Title: hi hn, hydra ceo here<p>hydra is an open-source extension that adds columnar tables to Postgres for efficient analytical reporting. With Hydra, you can analyze billions of rows instantly without changing code.<p>demo video (5 min): <a href="https://youtu.be/1yzxgb0Oyrw" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://youtu.be/1yzxgb0Oyrw</a>
github repo: <a href="https://github.com/hydradatabase/hydra">https://github.com/hydradatabase/hydra</a><p>For 1.0 GA release, aggregate queries are over *60% faster* than Hydra beta due to aggregate vectorization. Spatial indexes (gin, gist, spgist, and rum indexes) and pg_hint_plan are now enabled for performance optimization.<p>postgres is great, but aggregates can take minutes to hours to return results on large data sets. long-running analytical queries hog database resources and degrade performance. use hydra to run much faster analytics on postgres without changing code.<p>for testing, try the hydra free tier to create a column postgres instance on the cloud. <a href="https://dashboard.hydra.so/signup">https://dashboard.hydra.so/signup</a>
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Title: Hi HN, we've released Dittofeed v0.4.0, a significant update primarily focused on facilitating self-hosting. Dittofeed is an open source (MIT licensed) alternative to platforms like customer.io, mailchimp, klaviyo, iterable etc.<p>Self-hosting is particularly useful if you:<p>- Want to evaluate Dittofeed without a long-term commitment<p>- Prefer fixed, non-volume based pricing models<p>- Aim to keep all personally identifiable information within your own infrastructure<p>In this version, we introduced 'Dittofeed Lite,' which merges the dashboard, API, and worker services, simplifying deployment, along with providing an easy auth setup.<p>We've also configured a 1-Click Render deployment. The Render setup comes at a fixed cost of $39/month. However, by using alternative hosting solutions for the Postgres and ClickHouse instances (neon, clickhouse cloud), the monthly costs can be reduced to under $20.<p>We personally feel that there’s a big problem with how existing platforms handle pricing, charging insanely high prices with low contact limits, while restricting access to really basic table stakes features.<p>Excited to share this work, and hear your thoughts and feedback!<p>Github Repo - <a href="https://github.com/dittofeed/dittofeed">https://github.com/dittofeed/dittofeed</a><p>Demo - <a href="https://demo.dittofeed.com/dashboard/journeys">https://demo.dittofeed.com/dashboard/journeys</a><p>Docs - <a href="https://docs.dittofeed.com/getting-started">https://docs.dittofeed.com/getting-started</a>
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Title: Recently moved to Egypt, and in dire need to get the numbers down. Great excuse to explore learning software some more.<p>Possibly very niche, but maybe it is useful for someone else out there. Feedback is always welcome.
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Title: This is my overview of proof visualisation tools among all modern proof assistants.<p>If you're aware of any tools I might have missed, please @ me in the comments. I aimed to cover every one I could find.
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Title: Hi HN, James, Valter, Sam and the team from ElectricSQL here.<p>We're really excited to be sharing ElectricSQL with you today. It's an open source, local-first sync layer that can be used to build reactive, realtime, offline-capable apps directly on Postgres with two way active-active sync to SQLite (including with WASM in the browser).<p>Electric comprises a sync layer (built with Elixir) placed in front of your Postgres database and a type safe client that allows you to bidirectionally sync data from your Postgres to local SQLite databases. This sync is CRDT-based, resilient to conflicting edits from multiple nodes at the same time, and works after being offline for extended periods.<p>Some good links to get started:<p>- website: <a href="https://electric-sql.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://electric-sql.com</a><p>- docs: <a href="https://electric-sql.com/docs" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://electric-sql.com/docs</a><p>- code: <a href="https://github.com/electric-sql/electric">https://github.com/electric-sql/electric</a><p>- introducing post: <a href="https://electric-sql.com/blog/2023/09/20/introducing-electricsql-v0.6" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://electric-sql.com/blog/2023/09/20/introducing-electri...</a><p>You can also see some demo applications:<p>- Linear clone: <a href="https://linear-lite.electric-sql.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://linear-lite.electric-sql.com</a><p>- Realtime demo: <a href="https://electric-sql.com/docs/intro/multi-user" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://electric-sql.com/docs/intro/multi-user</a><p>- Conflict-free offline: <a href="https://electric-sql.com/docs/intro/offline" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://electric-sql.com/docs/intro/offline</a><p>The Electric team actually includes two of the inventors of CRDTs, Marc Shapiro and Nuno Preguiça, and a number of their collaborators who've pioneered a lot of tech underpinning local-first software. We are privileged to be building on their research and delighted to be surfacing so much work in a product you can now try out.
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Title: Repository with my filter lists that block some distractions from sites I want to keep using.<p>I am pretty ruthless removing distractions from my life (e.g. no Instagram, Facebook, TikTok), but some tools I'd like to keep using some parts of it. E.g. Twitter/X, I dislike the feed but I like reading some threads that are shared here or on blog posts. Same for YouTube, I enjoy some videos but I do not want recommendations when I finish the video I was watching.<p>Feel free to suggest more, open issues, pull requests or send me an email :)
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Title: I built Booklet to solve the problem of too many chat messages at work.<p>Booklet updates classic internet forums and email groups to have a modern UI and high polish. It organizes communications into threads, and summarizes activities into a neat email newsletter - so members can stay updated without having to stay logged in. The async format promotes deeper discussions, while also increasing engagement by making conversations easy to follow.<p>My goal is to make communications more asynchronous - so that I can get back to work, instead of slacking all day. Most early communities have been hobby groups, but my goal is to mature Booklet into a tool that sits alongside Slack in companies.<p>Try it out, and let me know what you think!
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Title: Swirl Is an Open-Source Search engine alternative to Algolia, and the likes. But Swirl queries anything with an API then uses Large Language Models to re-rank the unified results without copying any data!<p>If the database has an API it can connect to and provide search functionality. You can use it to generate AI insights over a large and spread-out database.<p>Check the website: <a href="https://swirl.today/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://swirl.today/</a><p>GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/swirlai/swirl-search">https://github.com/swirlai/swirl-search</a>
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Title: Hi folks. I launched my first startup on HN 15 years ago (see my profile), and I wanted to post here again now.<p>Like my last one, this project comes from one of my life's passions. I have played Magic: The Gathering for 30 years.<p>My co-founders and I think Magic deserves its own market, and this thinking will lead to dozens of ways to make a great app. We consider what we have an MVP, and we are all going to MagicCon this weekend in Las Vegas to walk around in our Mana Pool shirts and talk to people about the future.<p>If HN likes the site, I would appreciate you crashing it before we head out tomorrow night!<p><a href="https://manapool.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://manapool.com/</a>
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Title: I studied humanities in university. But I've been programming since I was a kid, so it was a natural career choice. I regret not doing CS. I work for a public sector org and have been promoted to a senior developer.<p>But I still don't think this is enough for me to make the move to FAANG or other tech companies unless I stay here for a long time to rack up experience (I only have 2 years SWE experience at this point). Also, as the org I work for is not a tech company, I'm not sure how seriously recruiters will take my time here.<p>I've studied data structures and algorithms, and I think I am a decent programmer. I could probably progress quite quickly through CS50 or some other online course. I just don't know if it's beneficial.<p>This topic online is full of misinformation and people just trying to sell you a course. So this seemed a good place to ask.<p>I'm UK-based by the way.<p>Thanks.
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Title: Hello HN! We're the team behind Loops (<a href="https://loops.so">https://loops.so</a>), a platform aimed at simplifying the email experience for SaaS companies. We support creating and sending marketing, product, and transactional email.<p>Email is important but painful to manage. If you've ever dealt with the frustration of coding emails by hand, testing them across multiple clients, or integrating them into various SaaS tools, you might find our approach interesting.<p>We make it simple to design and send email to your users either manually in the app, via API or triggered via an integration. We offer unlimited team seats, so your product team can help align copy, your marketing team can send newsletters, your revenue team can work on dunning and your engineers can have a solid API to help orchestrate the sends.<p>Most of our competitors use email editors that are licensed from a third party. Our editor is built from the ground up on the Lexical text editor from Meta, extended beyond just text nodes. It supports mobile editing and dark mode, and it autosaves your changes.<p>Our REST API is straightforward, and we have integrations with tools like Segment and Census. Documentation is available at <a href="https://loops.so/docs">https://loops.so/docs</a>. On our homepage, right under the fold, we list endpoints and sample payloads.<p>One issue we've worked hard to address is email compatibility across devices and platforms. It's a problem full of edge cases that we've mitigated by extending MJML, a markup language designed for responsive email, to be even more compliant across different platforms. We don't think you should have to code and test your emails. Email copy shouldn't live in your codebase.<p>If you're concerned about spam, we are too. We educate our users on CAN-SPAM rules and automatically add compliant footers to emails. We actively monitor to ensure our platform isn't used for spam, and we do not allow cold sales emails.<p>Our pricing is upfront and available on our website. You can try the platform for free without a credit card. We launched publicly a week ago. We're really interested in any technical feedback you have, as we aim to make this tool as developer-friendly as possible.<p>Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!
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Title: I've recently gone through Karpathy's Zero-to-Hero course (https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html) and the content is just superb. What other courses like this exist?
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Title: My immediate reaction to today's news that Splunk was being acquired was to comment in the HN discussion for that story:<p>"I hated Splunk so much that I spent a couple days a few months ago writing a single 1200 line python script that does absolutely everything I need in terms of automatic log collection, ingestion, and analysis from a fleet of cloud instances. It pulls in all the log lines, enriches them with useful metadata like the IP address of the instance, the machine name, the log source, the datetime, etc. and stores it all in SQlite, which it then exposes to a very convenient web interface using Datasette.<p>I put it in a cronjob and it's infinitely better (at least for my purposes) than Splunk, which is just a total nightmare to use, and can be customized super easily and quickly. My coworkers all prefer it to Splunk as well. And oh yeah, it's totally free instead of costing my company thousands of dollars a year! If I owned CSCO stock I would sell it-- this deal shows incredibly bad judgment."<p>I had been meaning to clean it up a bit and open-source it but never got around to it. However, someone asked today in response to my comment if I had released it, so I figured now would be a good time to go through it and clean it up, move the constants to an .env file, and create a README.<p>This code is obviously tailored to my own requirements for my project, but if you know Python, it's extremely straightforward to customize it for your own logs (plus, some of the logs are generic, like systemd logs, and the output of netstat/ss/lsof, which it combines to get a table of open connections by process over time for each machine-- extremely useful for finding code that is leaking connections!). And I also included the actual sample log files from my project that correspond to the parsing functions in the code, so you can easily reason by analogy to adapt it to your own log files.<p>As many people pointed out in responses to my comment, this is obviously not a real replacement for Splunk for enterprise users who are ingesting terabytes a day from thousands of machines and hundreds of sources. If it were, hopefully someone would be paying me $28 billion for it instead of me giving it away for free! But if you don't have a huge number of machines and really hate using Splunk while wasting thousands of dollars, this might be for you.
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Title: I always found sheet music way too hard to read - and I literally spent a year at a company building a sheet music rendering engine. I wanted an app that would display music like the tutorials on YouTube, but not be focused on upselling lessons etc. like most current apps, and also would let me import my own files<p>This works on MIDI files. If it’s a valid midi it probably plays.<p>Since releasing, I did add a subscription for classical music - on a theory that most normal users don’t know what a midi file is. It changed about a month ago from an up front price to in app purchases and/or a subscription - which has absolutely tanked revenue so far - but maybe it will pick up<p>Would love to hear your thoughts and if you have any suggestions!
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Title: I enjoy reading HN casually, and reddit is too much its own thing and scattered as an alternative.<p>I'm not looking for any particular topics, more interested in knowing what's out there that you follow.
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Title: Here's a thought, and someone please tell me if I'm wrong, but if you have bookmarks to favorite articles, essays, poems, etc... I recommend you use the browser print function to print them to PDF format and save them locally. Reasons:<p>1) With the advent of ChatAI people will be googling much less if at all, which will reduce traffic to websites. It may not make economic sense for the websites to stay up, so your favorite essay will go away. It might be saved in the internet archive, or it might not<p>2) Hard drives are ridiculously cheap. A 10 terabyte hard drive (10,000 gigabytes) is less than $200<p>3) An AI like ChapGPT is not guaranteed to be trained on your favorite information, so it may be lost to you or hard to find again<p>4) Soon we will have AI assistants which can be trained on all the PDFs you have saved to produce a highly customized and personal AI tailored to what you like
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Title: I have been using plaintext accounting for some time and had a duct-taped together reporting system. Paisa is my latest attempt at making it usable for others.<p>I am interested in knowing what people normally want to understand about their finances<p>PS: Please avoid editing the demo data. Download and run locally if you want to edit.
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Title: Hey everyone,<p>Really excited to share what I've been working on. Rapidpages is a prompt-first online IDE, think midjourney for front-end developers. I've been working on this for a while and it's great to see some interest from companies like Vercel in this space.<p>All you need for self-hosting is an OpenAI key and a GitHub oauth app. Simply clone the repo and play with it. It's also available on the cloud at www.rapidpages.io<p>Please give it a try and let me know if you have any feedback, and if you like what I'm doing with Rapidpages, please give it a star on GitHub.<p>Thanks!
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Title: If you have a make recipe which creates the target file, or modifies the timestamp of the existing out-or-date target, and that recipe fails, make will not delete the target. Thus it looks up-to-date, even though the recipe failed.<p>The manual says: <i>"So generally the right thing to do is to delete the target file if the recipe fails after beginning to change the file. make will do this if .DELETE_ON_ERROR appears as a target. This is almost always what you want make to do, but it is not historical practice; so for compatibility, you must explicitly request it."</i><p>So, hidden in the manual is the recommendation that, it's good practice to have<p><pre><code> .DELETE_ON_ERROR:
</code></pre>
somewhere in every GNU Makefile.<p>An example where this is relevant:<p><pre><code> foo: bar
generate bar > foo # redirection is used
</code></pre>
redirection will create the file or touch the timestamp of the existing one before the <i>generate</i> command is run. What if bar has syntax errors and generate fails? The foo file was touched and so looks updated. If you run "make foo" again, Make reports that foo is up-to-date.<p>With .DELETE_ON_ERROR, foo will be deleted.<p>If foo exists and its timestamp is not changed, then it's left alone.<p>If a recipe creates or touches the target, and fails due to Make being interrupted by a signal, in that case make deletes the target without any option having to be specified.
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Title: I really love Hacker News and the content I have discovered on here, but the content is mainly focused around technology and programming. As a programmer, I don’t mind this, but are there other independent sites like HN that focus mainly around politics? Architecture? Music?
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Title: Hello HN!<p>Please check out Summary Cat (<a href="https://www.summarycat.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.summarycat.com</a>). It uses OpenAI's GPT-3.5 to summarize YouTube transcripts.<p>Please note that it only works for<p><pre><code> - *English* videos.
- videos that are not too long in length.
</code></pre>
I'd appreciate any feedbacks, criticisms, or feature requests!! You can also find my contact info in my profile. Thank you in advance.<p>------------Technical Details---------------<p>Tech Stack<p><pre><code> - Frontend: HTML/CSS
- Backend: Python/Flask
</code></pre>
APIs:<p><pre><code> - For grabbing YouTube's transcripts: I used youtube-transcript-api (https://pypi.org/project/youtube-transcript-api/)
- For summarizing the transcripts: I used OpenAI's GPT-3.5-turbo-16k: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/gpt.
- I used GPT-3.5 because GPT-4 is quite a lot more expensive (roughly 10X).
</code></pre>
My Prompt (Super Simple!)<p><pre><code> - "please summarize the following text into a few paragraphs:" + the full transcript.
</code></pre>
Thoughts about GPT-4 vs GPT-3.5-Turbo-16k for Summary Cat<p><pre><code> - GPT-4 was 20% better for "summary quality"
- GPT-4 feels 50% faster
- However, GPT-4 is about 10X as expensive as GPT-3.5
- Winner: GPT-3.5-Turbo-16k</code></pre>
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Title: I've been out of work for a very long time and I'm not sure what to do anymore. It seems that I'm effecitvely unemployable.<p>For the longest time, I was trying to get another remote developer job. Nothing crazy wasn't really targeting tech companies or anything, just remote work that would pay me well enough to keep going. It took me too long to realize that this was going to be impossible and why. I managed to get interviews throughout this time, but it always ended with them selecting another candidate. Of course now, I’m more open to in-site roles, but I’m in no position to move, especially not to some high CoL area.<p>Now I'm fucked. I'm currently living off a friend, and this isn't going to last forever. I've been applying to anything that looks like I could remotely be considered qualified for. Retail and restaurant companies won't ever respond to my applications, despite constantly spamming the same jobs month after month.<p>If the job market is ostensibly so great, why can't I manage to find <i>anything</i>? I swear it was easier to find a job when I didn't have any work experience at all than it is now. It’s not just me. I had another friend, not a tech worker, who was out of work for a long time. Most of the interviews they got turned out to be MLMs and other sales related Ponzi schemes. They finally found a job, but it’s not paying nearly enough for them to get back on their feet.<p>My network has also utterly failed me. I’ve had people left and right offer their help in getting me a job, everything has fallen flat.
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Title: dlang.org
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Title: I am a solo dev working on a personal web project.<p>As ideas for features and enhancements are starting to accumulate, I feel that I need to introduce some structure to my process. However, every time (yes, I've done this many times before) I attempt to do so or try to add tools to my workflow , things quickly get OCD for me and I spend all of my time NOT working on the project but managing the project instead.<p>Thanks to this latest incarnation of madness I've done the following:<p>- Set up projects in Notion, GitHub Projects, and Jira, and compared them to one another to make THE BEST choice.
- Began doing detailed documentation of requirements and tracking design decisions in Notion or Confluence.
- Began thinking of what kind of process would be the best for me. What Kanban columns to set up? What issue types should I create? What labels to set up? Do I need to organize user stories into epics? Etc., etc., ad nauseam.<p>Meanwhile, somewhere deep inside I KNOW that all this is waaay overkill. That my time would be much better spent actually designing or writing code. Keeping things minimal and frictionless.<p>And yet, the lure of the perfect system is ever present. Maybe, just maybe, if I set things up right, this effort will be worth it. Maybe in the future I will want to know exactly what the thought process that made me choose one font over another was. Or how I came to decide which aspect ratio to use for the images. Maybe these things are important to keep track of?<p>But I suspect that all this specification and documentation is just going to result in a bunch of outdated artifacts specifying and documenting time well wasted. Because experience has shown that I am at my most productive with a structureless .md file and pen&paper setup.<p>Do you have any suggestions? How do you stop yourself from overthinking and over-engineering task/project management? How do you determine what is worth specifying/documenting/archiving, and what should be ephemeral and only exist for the sake of facilitating taking the next step? Thanks.
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Title: The most comprehensive repo out there with all the updated must-read papers for LLM Agents<p>From the repo - "We start by the general conceptual framework for LLM-based agents: comprising three main components: brain, perception, and action, and the framework can be tailored to suit different applications."
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Title: I got my start on the Internet in the very early 90s playing with, authoring in, and programming on LambdaMOO (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LambdaMOO" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LambdaMOO</a>) and similar systems. Shared virtual social spaces, with a persistent object oriented authoring / scripting language. They can be classified as MUDs (depending on who you talk to) but the focus is social, creative / authoring, and shared programming not RPG gaming.<p>I've always wanted to see this kind of thing modernized and further developed. Over the last 25 years or so I've worked on similar but novel & improved things, but never finished.<p>So I decided to just re-implement LambdaMOO and use that as a base, instead and keep compatibility as a goal, but build it out on a more modern foundation that takes advantage of multiple core machines, newer network protocols, newer connectivity methods, uses MVCC transactions for the shared database etc.<p>LambdaMOO is a somewhat extensive system in that it is composed of compiler, a virtual machine, an object database, user permissions system, network runtime. In some ways it's kind of like a shared, text-based Smalltalk image/runtime... So quite a bit to implement and get right before it all works together.<p>The big challenge throughout has been slavishly maintaining backwards compatibility so existing "cores" (databases) work.<p>It's not done, but it's darn close. Would like for people who are into this kind of thing to check it out, and maybe even help.<p>Many of the technical aspects here are still provisional, but this is the start. Constructive assistance welcome.<p>(Yes, it's a rewrite in Rust, but that's not really the point, even though that's a cliche that's fun.)
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Title: I'm honestly tired of seeing OSS tools/products like Gitea rely on centralized, proprietary tools like Discord and Slack for their communities. I could understand less technical communities staying on Discord, but for OSS tools - especially those that focus on self-hosted like Gitea! - to not run their own chat server seems weird. Why is this the case? Is self-hosting just too inconvenient/expensive/pointless?
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Title: Android: <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spreadvk.elim">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spreadvk.e...</a><p>iOS: <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-new-elim/id6463781107" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-new-elim/id6463781107</a><p>We know life can be busy. And we often struggle to make time for the people that matter most to us.<p>According to a Harvard study from 2021, "36% of all Americans [...] feel “serious loneliness.”" [1]<p>We created an app to help people focus on their most personal relationships and guide them through forming more meaningful connections with them, in the hopes to combat the "Loneliness Epidemic".<p>We just launched the first iteration - call it an MVP if you like - something to validate our ideas and get the conversation started.<p>We are looking for people to try out what we have built and share their thoughts. The functionality is very basic for now, but we are planning to expand based on our users' feedback.<p>Here is what you can do today:<p>* Tell us who the people are that matter most to you<p>* Get daily reminders to reach out to them<p>* Send them virtual postcards with over 50 handcrafted designs<p>[1] <a href="https://mcc.gse.harvard.edu/reports/loneliness-in-america" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://mcc.gse.harvard.edu/reports/loneliness-in-america</a>
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Title: Karektar is a React/TS app for building exportable bitmap fonts from custom glyph sets.<p>You can submit your own input string, and the app will generate the gallery of unique glyphs. Build your own designs using the various tools available, then export it to an OTF format when you're done.<p>This is my first front-end project, and one I picked up to learn React. I'd love to hear any feedback, especially on usability and additional features you'd like to see. Cheers!
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Title: I went to the Apple "Genius Bar" today to get my iphone screen repaired (it shows only a white screen). They told me I need to disable the "find my iphone feature" before they can start the repair. This requires me to confirm it on the phone itself - which does not work due to the broken screen. So the apple staff handed me a "Showcase iPhone" of the apple store which had a "apple support" app on which I need to enter the password of my phone. I have no idea what this apple support app is doing or if it is legitimate at all (ass this is a show phone where many people have access to). I ended up leaving without repairing the phone and now consider to go to an unofficial screen repair shop.
From a security point of view that does not look like a very good approach. Any thought on this?
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Title: I've been on HN a long time and the comments have always been my favorite part, but recently it seems like the comments have skewed far more cynical or negative.<p>Yesterday's post where the indie hacker was making 45k a month is a good example. So many comments deriding his businesses, his revenue, or suggesting he was lying (???).<p>Have things changed or do I remember the past with rosy glasses?
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Title: This is just a small thing I coded to help me see my entire convo history in beautiful markdown, in Obsidian (my note-taking app).<p>[Link to Github repo](<a href="https://github.com/mohamed-chs/chatgpt-history-export-to-md">https://github.com/mohamed-chs/chatgpt-history-export-to-md</a>).<p>The Python script helps you to convert conversations extracted from ChatGPT (ZIP export all your data, sent by Openai) into neatly formatted Markdown files.<p>Also adds YAML metadata headers and includes Code interpreter (Advanced data analysis) intput / output code.<p>Feel free to fork the repo and implement your own improvements, I feel like there's alot more to be extracted from the data. Any feedback or contributions are welcome !<p>I found chrome extensions to be a bit slow and sometimes overkill for this, although I did enjoy the folder system in some of them.<p>[Link to first post](<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/16k1ub5/i_made_a_simple_chatgpt_history_to_markdown/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/16k1ub5/i_made_a_s...</a>)
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Title: This is a website I developed in Crystal for hosting API documentation for Crystal shards (aka gems, crates, libraries, etc). It's built in Crystal itself and is using Postgres, Kemal, the built-in doc generation tooling, and Lexbor. I've been working on this for a number of months and I'm proud of where it's gotten. All feedback welcome!<p>Repo: <a href="https://github.com/nobodywasishere/crystaldoc.info">https://github.com/nobodywasishere/crystaldoc.info</a>
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Title: Just went onto /lists, and saw the new highlights link. It seems to be about interesting comments that is user curated.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights">https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights</a>
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Title: With the desire to clarify what's going on with Android low latency, see the links below from around 2018-2021, with a third link from an unknown date, however which claims devices that can go down to around 13ms round trip latency.<p>On March 11th of the first link, the author talks about using a MIDI device to be able to focus mainly on the output latency only, does that mean using another input device other than the screen can generally get Android output latency down to 20ms or lower!?<p>Any clarification gratefully received.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26388441">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26388441</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18199290">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18199290</a><p><a href="https://chromium.googlesource.com/external/github.com/google/oboe/+/refs/heads/devicelist/docs/Devices.md" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://chromium.googlesource.com/external/github.com/google...</a>
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Title: This is a project I’ve been working on for a couple of weeks now, and I feel it’s now in a state I can share it with the community here on Discord.<p>It all started when I saw Marc Lou launched ShipFast (a paid Next.js startup boilerplate). I wanted to build something similar for SvelteKit. I was planning to make it a paid product, but ended up open sourcing it.<p>You can see KitForStartups as a toolkit you can use to prototype and ship faster your MVPs, web applications, etc.<p>It comes with support for many databases (SQLite w/Turso, MySQL and Postgres), authentication (email + password, OAuth with Google and GitHub), email sending with Resend (local emails are configured to be sent with MailHog for faster debugging), toast notifications with Melt UI, etc…<p>I’m still actively working on the project and on things like support for Supabase, magic link authentication, MailGun, a CLI, etc…<p>Give a look at the repo here <a href="https://github.com/okupter/kitforstartups">https://github.com/okupter/kitforstartups</a>, and please feel free to open an issue or PR is there’s something you’d like to see included.
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Title: I am happy to announce my minimalist zero-dependency web framework, Minum, is out of beta.<p><a href="http://github.com/byronka/minum">http://github.com/byronka/minum</a><p>You will be hard-pressed to find another modern project as obsessively minimalistic. Other frameworks will claim simplicity and minimalism and then, casually, mention they are built on a multitude of libraries. This follows self-imposed constraints, predicated on a belief that smaller and lighter is long-term better.<p>Caveat emptor: This is a project by and for developers who know and like programming (rather than, let us say, configuring). It is written in Java, and presumes familiarity with the HTTP/HTML paradigm.<p>Driving paradigms of this project:<p>* ease of use
* maintainability / sustainability
* simplicity
* performance
* good documentation
* good testing<p>It requires Java 21, for its virtual threads (Project Loom)
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Title: Ditch The Bell is a desktop notifier for RSS/Atom feeds that lets you closely configure features of the freedesktop notification specification to unlock the most customizable feed notification experience possible on Linux.<p>I developed this program because I wanted a single, centralized location to easily manage my desktop notifications for all of the various websites I want to get updates from. Before creating this application, I found existing solutions unsatisfactory due to the following reasons:<p>- Built-In Notification Services: Some websites offer built-in desktop notification services, but these often require an account, staying signed in, and running a browser service worker continuously on your PC.<p>- RSS Readers: While existing RSS readers with notification support provide a simple solution, these project balance numerous aspects of reader development. Notifications and their configurations are usually not the priority in these projects.<p>- Custom Scripting: Implementing custom scripts using general-purpose notification tools like notify-send or GObject-Introspection is viable but becomes a maintenance headache as more granular control is introduced.<p>These alternatives are sufficient for basic notifications but lack the lightweight nature and advanced configurability that power users desire. Ditch The Bell fills this gap, offering granular control over your RSS feed notifications without the limitations of the approaches mentioned above.<p>Check it out!: <a href="https://github.com/EscherMoore/DitchTheBell">https://github.com/EscherMoore/DitchTheBell</a>
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Title: Hello,<p>1. Have you ever been laid off from a job for reasons that were not related to your performance?<p>2. Did this affect your job search / career afterwards?<p>3. Do you feel that being laid off from a job prevented you from recovering due to social stigma around being under / unemployed?<p>Context:<p>Yesterday I made a comment about layoffs, corporate ethics and the behavior of C-level folks as it affects the working population. I respect the comment I made wasn't helpful, but I do think there is a meaningful conversation to be had about the topic. I hope this can lead to more constructive criticism about the actual subject, which is how layoffs affect people beyond the job they are immediately losing.
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Title: Hey all, I’m coding up a new tour system for my 3d Egyptian work. After the last feedback, I focused on building more interactive content and fx into the guided tours with sound and telling the mythology in the wall art.<p>I’d love feedback with the new version – this is built with vanilla Three.js and footage captured on my iPhone 12. For various fx, I coded many of my own shaders based on work by <a href="https://twitter.com/akella" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://twitter.com/akella</a> and others on ShaderToy, so I’m keen to test on more devices.<p>As the hacker, so the (ancient) painter.
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Title: This is a Python package that allows you to write function signatures to define LLM queries. This makes it easy to mix regular code with calls to LLMs, which enables you to use the LLM for its creativity and reasoning while also enforcing structure/logic as necessary. LLM output is parsed for you according to the return type annotation of the function, including complex return types such as streaming an array of structured objects.<p>I built this to show that we can think about using LLMs more fluidly than just chains and chats, i.e. more interchangeably with regular code, and to make it easy to do that.<p>Please let me know what you think! Contributions welcome.<p><a href="https://github.com/jackmpcollins/magentic">https://github.com/jackmpcollins/magentic</a>
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Title: Hi HN,<p>Over the last few months I've been working with some folks on a tool named Ollama (<a href="https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama">https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama</a>) to run open-source LLMs like Llama 2, Code Llama and Falcon locally, starting with macOS.<p>The biggest ask since then has been "how can I run Ollama on Linux?" with GPU support out of the box. Setting up and configuring CUDA and then compiling and running llama.cpp (which is a fantastic library and runs under the hood) can be quite painful on different combinations of linux distributions and Nvidia GPUs. The goal for Ollama's linux version was to automate this process to make it easy to get up and running.<p>The is the first Linux release! There's still lots to do, but I wanted to share it here for to see what everyone thinks. Thanks for anyone who has given it a try and sent feedback!
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Title: Yo HN! I have been working on some design tools in my spare time to solve problems I've faced over and over, and I'm thinking about monetizing them.<p>I've been to some conferences recently and talked to a lot of people who have these problems as well, and they're keen to try it out. I have collected some emails, been communicating with them a bit and even got beers with one of them recently!<p>Here's my list of concerns:<p>1. It is just me - is that a red flag? Some people have asked me about my team and I told them it was just me. I got the feeling that it may have turned them off because the conversation kind of ended right there. To be fair, after that I did say that it is just me right now BUTTTTTTTT why that is okay due to my experience and work history. However, yes it is my first time doing a business.<p>2. How do I set appropriate milestones for me to reach? Do I think about reaching 100 customers before reaching 5 recurring customers for example?<p>3. I'm in a small town in PNW. Does that matter if this will be an online thing anyway? Why or when do people move to big cities like Seattle/SF/NYC/Austin etc.<p>4. What are some ways to do marketing? Should I even think about that before I have a few customers who are using my product consistently?<p>5. I've been inspired by the Startup School videos. Honestly though I'm not sure about fundraising and all these things, it seems very intimidating to me. What's the difference between those things and starting a company and slowly building it up?
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Title: In the wake of all the Unity nonsense, just wanted to toss the Raverie engine into this mix :)<p>We’re building off a previous engine that we worked on for DigiPen Institute of Technology called the Zero Engine with a similar component based design architecture to Unity. Our engine had a unique feature called Spaces: separate worlds/levels that you can instantiate and run at the same time, which became super useful for creating UI overlays using only game objects, running multiple simulations, etc. The lighting and rendering engine is scriptable, and the default deferred rendering implementation is based on the Unreal physically based rendering (PBR) approach. The physics engine was built from the ground up to handle both 2D and 3D physics together. The scripting language was also built in house to be a type safe language that binds to C++ objects and facilitates auto-complete (try it in editor!)<p>This particular fork by Raverie builds both the engine and editor to WebAssembly using only clang without Emscripten. We love Emscripten and in fact borrowed a tiny bit of exception code that we’d love to see up-streamed into LLVM, however we wanted to create a pure WASM binary without Emscripten bindings. We also love WASI too though we already had our own in memory virtual file system, hence we don’t use the WASI imports. All WASM imports and exports needed to run the engine are defined here:
<a href="https://github.com/raverie-us/raverie-engine/blob/main/Code/Foundation/Platform/PlatformCommunication.hpp">https://github.com/raverie-us/raverie-engine/blob/main/Code/...</a><p>The abstraction means that in the future, porting to other platforms that can support a WASM runtime should be trivial. It’s our dream to be able to export a build of your game to any platform, all from inside the browser. Our near term road-map includes getting the sound engine integrated with WebAudio, getting the script debugger working (currently freezes), porting our networking engine to WebRTC and WebSockets, and getting saving/loading from a database instead of browser local storage.<p>Our end goal is to use this engine to create an online Flash-like hub for games that people can share and remix, akin to Scratch or Tinkercad.<p><a href="https://github.com/raverie-us/raverie-engine">https://github.com/raverie-us/raverie-engine</a>
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Title: Last year I launched a website that allow people to see rainfall statistics that are based on satellite data. Historical rainfall information usually comes from rain gauges, and while these are fantastic there are many parts of the world that don't have many long term gauges, or where that data is hard to access. Satellite data can be an invaluable source of information for those data-scarce areas.<p>The business model is to sell "extreme precipitation" data that can be used for flood modelling. Unfortunately, after a year I still haven't made a single sale. I've tried various ways of advertising, mainly via messaging people on LinkedIn who would actually have a use for it. I'm still proud of what I've built, even if it's a flop!<p>The tech stack is SolidJS with a Django API backend.<p>Fun feature: jump to a completely random part of the world by clicking the "Random" button.<p>I'd love feedback on anything, such as how to improve the UI/UX of the mobile view of the map page.
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Title: My parents have physical photo albums from the film days. The albums are curated for events and memories, such as vacations and weddings etc.<p>When I got a new phone, I bought 128GB thinking it would be more than enough. But it's not.<p>I find that I just snap photos of things I want to remember. Some photos are nearly identical, but I don't delete them. I feel a sense of attachment. Though I never go back and look at them. Periodically, I offload a bunch to an HDD and then I definitely don't look at them.<p>I don't have social media to post photos. I have a digital frame I upload pics to, but that also just fills up over time.<p>How do you go about managing your photos? Does it feel like digital clutter? How do you approach memory making through photos?<p>Finally, any cool tech solutions are welcome.
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Title: This project was born from my passion for every Apple product and the entire ecosystem, along with the power of ChatGPT.<p>I was tired of copy-pasting and switching between apps on my Mac or iPhone, so I had this crazy idea to bring ChatGPT into every app that I use.<p>This was possible only with the Apple Shortcuts app. Very few people know about its power and potential, so I took this chance and built COPILOT.<p><a href="https://meetcopilot.app" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://meetcopilot.app</a><p>But I also loved the idea of AI agents using various tools so much that I leveraged OpenAI's function-calling feature to accomplish that.<p>Now, no matter what app I am using on my iPhone or Mac, the selected text or the current webpage from Safari will be passed automatically to COPILOT. Then I just ask it whatever I need and watch until it reaches the goal autonomously.<p>There was also another problem with ChatGPT - the knowledge cutoff. So I also integrated Google search and web scraping into it. Now, whenever my request needs real-time information, like what is the latest version of macOS, it will use these tools to gather the data and then give me the correct response.<p>Being an app built with Apple Shortcuts, all its "code", called actions, is actually open-source. I'm selling a Premium version of it to earn some revenue for my time.<p>I would love to hear all your thoughts on it! Thank you so much!
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Title: Hi Everyone,<p>I built a tool for interactive navigation in the terminal that is intended to replace the all-too-familiar cycle of `ls` to view a directory, followed by `cd`, then `ls`, and repeat.<p>nav is a terminal filesystem explorer built for interactive `ls` workflows. The key features I wanted to enable are interactivity and search without feeling like I'm using anything other than `ls`. nav supports common `ls` options/flags, as well as tab completion, and might expand its support for less common options in the future. These options exist as both CLI flags and interactive toggles.<p>nav works as a standalone tool or in a bash/zsh pipe or subshell to e.g., change directories, copy a file name to the clipboard, etc. For example, I use the simple functions from the README in my .zshrc for interactive `cd` and copy-to-clipboard workflows.<p>nav was inspired by the discussion of the excellent `walk` [0] tool and was written from the ground up to support its `ls`-centric interactive feature set. I hope you might find it useful and I'd love to take any feedback or suggestions that might come to mind!<p>[0] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37220828">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37220828</a>
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Title: Hi Hacker News! We’re Vadim and Chris from Highlight.io [1]. We do web app monitoring and are working on using LLMs/embeddings to add new functionality to our error monitoring product.<p>Given that there’s a lot of founders/engineers using LLMs in their products, we figured we’d share how we built the new functionality, their impact on our workflows, and how you can try it out.<p>Our goal was to build two features: (1) tagging errors (e.g. deeming an error as “authentication error” or a “database error”); and (2) grouping similar errors together (e.g. two errors that have a different stacktrace and body, but are semantically not very different).<p>Each of these rely heavily on comparing text across our application. After some experimentation with the OpenAI embeddings API [3], we went ahead and hosted a private model instance of thenlper/gte-large (an open-source MIT licensed model), which is a 1024-dimension model running on an Intel Ice Lake 2 vCPU machine on Hugging face [4].<p>Our general approach for classifying/comparing text is as follows. As each set of tokens (i.e a string) comes in, our backend makes a request to an inference endpoint and receives a 1024-dimension float vector as a response (see the code here [5]). We then store that vector using pgvector [6]. To compare any two sets for similarity, we simply look at the Euclidian distance between their respective embeddings using the ivfflat index implemented by pgvector (example code here [7]).<p>To tag errors, we assign an error its most relevant tag from a predetermined set decided by us. For example, if we tag an error as an "authentication error" or a "database error", we can allow developers to have a starting point before inspecting an issue.(see the logic here [8]).<p>Anecdotally, this approach seems to work very well. For example, here are two authentication errors that got tagged as “Authentication Error”:<p><pre><code> * Firebase: A network AuthError has occurred
* Error retrieving user from firebase api for email verification: cannot find user from uid.
</code></pre>
We also use these error embeddings to group similar errors. To decide whether an error joins a group or starts a new one, we decide on a distance threshold (using the euclidean distance) ahead of time. An interesting thing about this approach, compared to using a text-based heuristic, is that two errors with different stack traces can still be grouped together. Here’s an example:<p><pre><code> * github.com/highlight-run/highlight/backend/worker.(*Worker).ReportStripeUsage
* github.com/highlight-run/highlight/backend/private-graph/graph.(*Resolver).GetSlackChannelsFromSlack.func1
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Both reported as `integration api error` as they involve the Stripe and Slack integrations respectively. The neat thing is that the LLM can use the full context of an error and match based on the most relevant details about the error.<p>We have rolled out a first version of the error grouping logic to our cloud product [9], and there’s a demo of all the functionality at [2]. Long-term, if the HN community has other ideas of what we could build with LLM tooling in observability, we’re all ears. Let us know what you think!<p>Links<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36774611">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36774611</a><p>[2] <a href="https://app.highlight.io/error-tags">https://app.highlight.io/error-tags</a><p>[3] <a href="https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/embeddings" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/embeddings</a><p>[4] <a href="https://huggingface.co/thenlper/gte-large" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://huggingface.co/thenlper/gte-large</a><p>[5] <a href="https://github.com/highlight/highlight/blob/main/backend/embeddings/embeddings.go#L139-L189">https://github.com/highlight/highlight/blob/main/backend/emb...</a><p>[6] <a href="https://github.com/highlight/highlight/blob/main/backend/model/model.go#L957C1-L963">https://github.com/highlight/highlight/blob/main/backend/mod...</a><p>[7] <a href="https://github.com/highlight/highlight/blob/main/backend/public-graph/graph/resolver.go#L479-L487">https://github.com/highlight/highlight/blob/main/backend/pub...</a><p>[8] <a href="https://github.com/highlight/highlight/blob/main/backend/private-graph/graph/resolver.go#L3768-L3774">https://github.com/highlight/highlight/blob/main/backend/pri...</a><p>[9] <a href="https://app.highlight.io">https://app.highlight.io</a>
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Title: "Start talking to your users as early as possible" - this is one of the most common advice from founders and investors. I didn't listen to it, I've built an app and now I don't know how to get users and validate my idea.<p>But let's start from the beginning...<p>It all started almost 2 years ago when inflation began to kick in. Prices of everything started to rise, from groceries and bills to rent. At the same time, salaries didn't keep up with inflation, and more and more people started to struggle financially. Many started using food banks to get through the month. Even for working people, it got harder and harder to keep up, especially for single parents. Some people even lost their homes because they couldn't afford to pay their rent anymore.<p>And that got me thinking: there should be a way for people to raise funds quickly in those dark moments when they need it the most, whether to keep a roof over their heads, pay bills, buy groceries, or cover educational expenses.<p>At some point, as I'm a developer, I came up with an idea for an app - an app that would enable people to raise funds by offering services to their community. Services like tutoring, babysitting, pet sitting, transportation, home repair, and various other tasks they could carry out after their working hours.<p>I believed that this could be genuinely helpful to many people so I started working on it. I called the app Taskwer. So, how does it work?<p>People who want to raise funds are called creators. They start by creating their campaigns, where they set their funding goal, share their story, introduce themselves, explain why they're raising funds, and what kind of services are they offering. Once their campaign is all set, they can launch it and share it with their friends on social media, just like on Kickstarter.<p>After the campaign is launched, creators can begin receiving orders from their supporters, discuss details, create customized offers, and more. On an agreed-upon date, creators would complete their tasks, the supporter would confirm that the task has been completed, and creators would get paid. They could receive payment in cash from their supporters, or if the service is paid by card, they could withdraw funds from the app. There are no fees on cash payments. And in case of any issues, there is a support system in place.<p>I knew that I should start looking for potential users as soon as possible, even before I started building the app, to understand what they really want and need. However, there was just one problem; I'm an introvert. I have a small group of friends, I work remotely, and I don't use social media like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or LinkedIn. As a result, I kept postponing reaching out to people. And there was always a new feature to add, or a bug to fix so that was always a good excuse. I ended up sticking to what I was comfortable with and avoided talking to people for as long as possible.<p>Now, I have an MVP, and most of the features have been implemented, but I have no users. I don't know if this idea is any good, is it something people would even want to use. I believe it's not a bad idea, but my opinion doesn't matter here; it's the opinion of potential users that matters. The lack of a network and the inability to get users made me feel voiceless, like I'm a complete nobody. Over the past couple of weeks there have been numerous times when I've thought about giving up on this project.<p>So I came here today to ask for your help. I don't have a marketing budget unfortunately. What would you do in my place? What would be the best way to get my first 10 users, get some unbiased feedback and see if this project is even worth pursuing?<p>Here's the link: https://www.taskwer.com
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Title: I'm a long time user of Insomnia API client (<a href="https://insomnia.rest" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://insomnia.rest</a>) without an account and was prompted to update the app an hour ago. I thought this was a regular feature update and accepted. After the app relaunches, it gives me the option to create an account with them or use without an account. When I choose the latter, my data is gone. Many others are reporting the same problem (<a href="https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/6577">https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/6577</a>). It's actually a good app but this strong-arming behavior is simply unacceptable to me. What other choices do I have? Postman for Mac?
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Title: Since 2017, I've been on a mission to stop the deluge of paper mail that ends up in my trash. It's been a slow, manual process, but I've succeeded! I created Mel to help others rid themselves of physical junk mail.<p>Simply text a photo of junk mail and Mel contacts the sender to have you removed from their list – no registration or app required.
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Title: The goal of Carton is to let you use a single interface to run any machine learning model from any programming language.<p>It’s currently difficult to integrate models that use different technologies (e.g. TensorRT, Ludwig, TorchScript, JAX, GGML, etc) into your application, especially if you’re not using Python. Even if you learn the details of integrating each of these frameworks, running multiple frameworks in one process can cause hard-to-debug crashes.<p>Ideally, the ML framework a model was developed in should just be an implementation detail. Carton lets you decouple your application from specific ML frameworks so you can focus on the problem you actually want to solve.<p>At a high level, the way Carton works is by running models in their own processes and using an IPC system to communicate back and forth with low overhead. Carton is primarily implemented in Rust, with bindings to other languages. There are lots more details linked in the architecture doc below.<p>Importantly, Carton uses your model’s original underlying framework (e.g. PyTorch) under the hood to actually execute the model. This is meaningful because it makes Carton composable with other technologies. For example, it’s easy to use custom ops, TensorRT, etc without changes. This lets you keep up with cutting-edge advances, but decouples them from your application.<p>I’ve been working on Carton for almost a year now and I’m excited to open source it today!<p>Some useful links:<p>* Website, docs, quickstart - <a href="https://carton.run" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://carton.run</a><p>* Explore existing models - <a href="https://carton.pub" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://carton.pub</a><p>* Repo - <a href="https://github.com/VivekPanyam/carton">https://github.com/VivekPanyam/carton</a><p>* Architecture - <a href="https://github.com/VivekPanyam/carton/blob/main/ARCHITECTURE.md">https://github.com/VivekPanyam/carton/blob/main/ARCHITECTURE...</a><p>Please let me know what you think!
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Title: Imagine you get a lengthy help description which then you pipe to less.. and you only get (END) in your terminal. Turns out the author decided to print help message to stderr instead of stdout. I assume newcomers will be as confused as I was when it happened to me for the first time. GNU utils use stdout for help texts, and so should you.
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Title: I'm curious about how everyone stores old smartphones and other lithium-ion battery-dependent devices while preserving battery life. Especially when they might want the device to keep working over several years.<p>I've tried charging my backup devices to 50% and storing them in a cool, dry place, but I often forget to do so, resulting in a drained battery by the time I recharge them. I am worried this might be affecting the battery's longevity.<p>Does anyone have a better method, such as an automated charging system, for managing this?
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Title: We're currently writing an article about this.<p>If you'd be up for sharing some lessons / takeaways / challenges here, or even better, having a chat (I'll reach out) that would be amazing.<p>We'll of course fully attribute learnings / quotes etc.
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Title: Besides using tools such as Copilot, how do you take advantage of AI to automate your work or to improve your efficiency?
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Title: Code less sounds great for toy projects. People who aren't in tech aren't building no colde solutions beyond basic excel ones. So they end up hiring consultants to build them for them which costs at least 3-10x more if the solution were to be made with code. Ms powerapps for an example needs connector license for many basic things that costs a lot as well. This is from my experience as a consultant in many enterprises over last 3yrs watching code less explode in front my eyes.
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Title: I was setting up tests involving DNS resolution recently, where something like 127.0.0.1.service.foo would have been tremendously useful. Back in the day, I'd have used xip.io - but sadly that service died.<p>Well, every excuse is a good one when it comes to writing a DNS server! Backname.io joins nip.io and sslip.io in the wildcard DNS game.
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Title: Git worked until we hit a few gigabytes. S3 scales super well but version control, documentation, and change management isn't great (we just did lots of "v1" or "vsep28_2023" names).<p>DVC felt very clunky (now I need git AND s3 AND dvc) by the team.<p>What best practices and patterns have you seen work or have you implemented yourself?
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Title: Hey all,<p>You've probably seen projects that add objects to an image from a style or text prompt, like InteriorAI (levelsio) and Adobe Firefly. The prevalent issue with these diffusion-based inpainting approaches is that they don't yet have great conditioning on lighting, perspective, and structure. You'll often get incorrect or generic shadows; warped-looking objects; and distorted backgrounds.<p>What is Fill 3D?
Fill 3D is an exploration on doing generative fill in 3D to render ultra-realistic results that harmonize with the background image, using industry-standard path tracing, akin to compositing in Hollywood movies.<p>How does it work?
1. Deproject: First, deproject an image to a 3D shell using both geometric and photometric cues from the input image.
2. Place: Draw rectangles and describe what you want in them, akin to Photoshop's Generative Fill feature.
3. Render: Use good ol' path tracing to render ultra-realistic results.<p>Why Fill 3D?
+ The results are insanely realistic (see video in the github repo, or on the website).
+ Fast enough: Currently, generations take 40-80 seconds. Diffusion takes ~10seconds, so we're slower, but for the level of realism, it's pretty good.
+ Potential applications: I'm thinking of virtual staging in real estate media, what do you think?<p>Check it out at <a href="https://fill3d.ai" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://fill3d.ai</a>
+ There's API access! :D
+ Right now, you need an image of an empty room. Will loosen this restriction over time.<p>Fill 3D is built on Function (<a href="https://fxn.ai" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://fxn.ai</a>). With Function, I can run the Python functions that do the steps above on powerful GPUs with only code (no Dockerfile, YAML, k8s, etc), and invoke them from just about anywhere. I'm the founder of fxn.<p>Tell me what you think!!<p>PS: This is my first Show HN, so please be nice :)
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Title: Last year in May, YC sent an email[0] to its startups asking them to "plan for the worst" and try to be 'default alive' for 24 months. We took that advice seriously and drastically reduced our spend, which extended our runway at the expense of growth. I was wondering if other founders are still running their companies in 'economic uncertainty' mode, or things are relatively back to normal?<p>Anecdotally, from talking to other founders in the Bay Area, it seems like early stage fundraising hasn't reduced as drastically as predicted, albeit at lower valuations.<p>[0] https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/19/yc-advises-founders-to-plan-for-the-worst/
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Title: From what I have known and used, PuTTY seems to be the oldest software still in beta (0.79 at the moment), with it's first version released sometime in 1998, not sure about the exact date.<p>PuTTY's first Git commit shows "Fri Jan 8 13:02:13 1999" for beta 0.43, from r11 of SVN.<p>https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html
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Title: You can't access X without signing in, then there are the rate limits if you are signed in, but these things are not an issue with nitter. I went from checking Twitter as a logged out user every few days, to not using it at all after the access changes, to casually using nitter to check in on a few accounts I like.<p>https://nitter.net/search
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Title: Hey all!<p>I've been a frontend developer for years, primarily working with React and Vue, connecting them to REST or GraphQL APIs. Lately, I've been diving into Phoenix/Elixir, and I've been intrigued.<p>From the docs and examples, Phoenix seems to offer a significant amount of built-in functionality, potentially providing a more streamlined and robust approach than the separate backend/frontend architectures I've been using.<p>However, I know there's always more to the story. For those experienced with Phoenix/Elixir:<p>What are its pros and cons compared to popular frontend frameworks?<p>Why hasn't it gained as much traction as other frameworks?<p>Appreciate your insights!
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Title: I made this game to teach my daughter how buffer overflows work. I want her to look at programs as things she can change, and make them do whatever she wants.<p>Building your exploit in memory and jumping to it feels so cool. I hope this game teaches kids and programmers (who seem to have forgotten what computers actually are) that its quite fun to mess with programs. We used to have that excitement few years ago, just break into softice and change a branch into a nop and ignore the serial number check, or go to a different game level because this one is too annoying.<p>While working on the game I kept thinking what we have lost from 6502 to Apple Silicon, and the transition from 'personal computers' to 'you are completely not responsible for most the code running on your device', it made me a bit sad and happy in the same time, RISCV seems like a breath of fresh air, and many hackers will build many new things, new protocols, new networks, new programs. As PI4 cost increases, the esp32 cost is decreasing, we have transparent displays for 20$, good computers for 5$, cheap lora, and etc. Everything is more accessible than ever.<p>I played with a friend who saw completely different exploits than me, and I learned a lot just from few games, and because of the complexity of the game its often you enter into a position that you get surprised by your own actions :) So if you manage to find at least one friend who is not completely stunned by the assembler, I think you will have some good time.<p>A huge inspiration comes from phrack 49's 'Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit' which has demystified the stack for me: <a href="http://phrack.org/issues/49/14.html#article" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://phrack.org/issues/49/14.html#article</a><p>TLDR: computers are fun, and you can make them do things.<p>PS: In order to play with my friends I also built esp32 helper[1] that keeps track of the game state, and when I built it and wrote the code and everything I realized I could've just media queried the web version of the game.. but anyway, its way cooler to have a board game contraption.<p>[1]: <a href="https://punkx.org/overflow/esp32.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://punkx.org/overflow/esp32.html</a>
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Title: Hi HN,<p>I've been reading up on YubiKeys, which seem to be well-regarded on HN. When doing my own research, I discovered that the default authentication method requires a copy of the private key to be stored on a validation server[1] (YubiCloud, by default). This can be changed to a private validation server, however that would also need to have a copy of the private key in order to work.<p>My question is: why is this necessary at all? Surely the same functionality could be achieved with public-key cryptography rather than requiring the private key to be uploaded[2] to a validator.<p>[1] https://docs.yubico.com/yesdk/users-manual/application-otp/yubico-otp.html
[2] https://upload.yubico.com/
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Title: In the lines of the Mozilla Technology Fund, and others.
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Title: Are there examples of SaaS services and pricing pages that simply show their high prices up front? I'm talking about $500+/month minimum and isn't a "pay for as much as you use" pricing chart such as AWS or GCP.<p>The only one that comes to mind for me is HubSpot [0]. But I'm sure there are many more.<p>[0] https://www.hubspot.com/pricing/marketing/enterprise?hubs_content=www.hubspot.com%2F&hubs_content-cta=hsg-nav__link-active&products=marketing-hub-professional_1&term=annual
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Title: I am slowly adding more locations now. This is intended to be a crowdsourced map. Everyone is welcome to add more locations and provide comments/votes here.<p>Free people from going to a cafe for work only to leave because there's no wifi, restroom, or outlet!!<p>Demo:
<a href="https://x.com/KSeisai/status/1708273554041504028?s=20" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://x.com/KSeisai/status/1708273554041504028?s=20</a>
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Title: I fondly remember setting up and playing video games and learning all the DOS commands. Navigating the dos prompts, directories etc. I ask only that it felt navigable and you needed to be able to do that to get to playing games. It felt like an unintended introduction to the architecture of the games. This included edit files etc (sometimes to my detriment).<p>Was thinking about getting a system to play games in the house but my feeling is that theres no technical lift for installing playing games. That playing the game was enough of an incentive to figure out the shell.<p>Curious if anyone has ideas. Thanks!
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Title: I've used Linkedin for over two decades. Now I'm being forced to disclose my mobile number in order to log in.<p>Given their track record of being hacked, I'm reluctant to share it with them.<p>Moreover, I'm already inundated with spam phone calls, and I'm not looking for another source. This is a thinly veiled attempt to harvest my data so they can hide it in a page with six dozen toggles which will periodically make my phone number visible to people who buy it if I am not logging into check what they've changed every day. Have you seen how difficult it is to opt-out of email notifications using their website?<p>If they were actually concerned about my security, they would give me other 2FA options that are more secure, like a Yubikey or authenticator application.<p>No thanks. I'm done with Linkedin.
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Title: I'm going to be going to the middle of nowhere for a couple of weeks, and there's going to be no internet there.<p>I design with Figma and I code in React Native/ReactJS. How can I build something or learn a skill with no internet to make sure I'm productive over this time?
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Title: Hi HN, author here! For the past three months, I've been obsessively working on gala, a jailbreak for iOS 4 that currently targets the iPhone 4. While other jailbreaks for this device, and this iOS version, already exist, the 'special sauce' of this jailbreak is that it comes with a 6-part series describing the building of a jailbreak and the many challenges that arose when jailbreaking iOS. The series includes interactive visualizations at every step of exploiting the device - from pulling memory dumps of the boot ROM to debugging a flashed filesystem image.<p>That said, this isn't just a bare-bones jailbreak with some writing attached: gala is a fully-fledged suite that includes a significant Python application, a Cocoa GUI for end-users, a Rust payload, Cocoa Touch games to play within the boot environment while the jailbreak completes, and C utilities that run on-device.<p>This was a lot of fun, and the journey included lots of milestones: when an iOS device boots, it does so in discrete stages (boot ROM, then boot loader, then kernel, etc.). This meant that my experience of developing this jailbreak also included these milestones, as over time I successfully compromised and ran each of these stages!<p>Building this was personally exciting because I used to regularly make and sell tweaks for jailbroken phones on Cydia. The jailbreaks themselves always seemed like inscrutable black magic, until now!<p>I'm really gratified to have finished up this project, and am excited to put it out into the world. Please feel welcome to have a look at the code, the writeup, or give it a spin on an old iPhone 4 that you have lying around. I hope you enjoy!
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Title: Please state the location and include REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA
when that sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is <i>not</i> an option,
include ONSITE.<p>Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no
recruiting firms or job boards. One post per company. If it isn't a household name,
explain what your company does.<p>Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about
something. It's off topic here.<p>Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.<p>Searchers: try <a href="https://www.remotenbs.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.remotenbs.com</a>, <a href="https://hnjobs.u-turn.dev" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://hnjobs.u-turn.dev</a>, <a href="https://hnresumetojobs.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://hnresumetojobs.com</a>,
<a href="https://hnhired.fly.dev" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://hnhired.fly.dev</a>, <a href="https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/</a>, <a href="https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com</a>.<p>Don't miss these other fine threads:<p><i>Who wants to be hired?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37739026">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37739026</a><p><i>Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37739027">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37739027</a>
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Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER,
your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.
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Title: Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:<p><pre><code> Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
</code></pre>
Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities.
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Title: Hey HN!<p>We’re Max and Thibault building OpenStatus.dev an OpenSource synthetic monitoring platform with incident managements<p>1 min demo: <a href="https://twitter.com/mxkaske/status/1685666982786404352" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://twitter.com/mxkaske/status/1685666982786404352</a><p>We have just reached 2000 stars on GitHub<p><a href="https://github.com/openstatusHQ/openstatus">https://github.com/openstatusHQ/openstatus</a><p>We are really excited to hear your feedback/questions and connect further: our emails are max@openstatus.dev and thibault@openstatus.dev.<p>Thank you!
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Title: No gc, No goroutines, Produces small binaries while using the unmodified official go toolchain, and comes with complete Web SDK (generated from w3c/webref).<p>We are building `pcz` to provide a reimagination of Go the language, in an effort to make it suitable for all kinds of programming tasks, and currently you can use it to build efficient web applications in Go using the generated Web SDK (as shown with the live web demo[1]).<p>The journey is just starting, any suggestions? or any critics?<p>[1]: <a href="https://primecitizens.github.io/livedemos/10-plat-web/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://primecitizens.github.io/livedemos/10-plat-web/</a>
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Title: Just poking around HuggingFace, I see a whole lot of models and finetunes claiming to be SOTA in this and that... But not a whole lot of validation. In fact, the biggest LLM validation effort seems to be with llamav1 and v2, and testers had enormous difficulty reproducing Meta's metrics.<p>Many of these finetunes or base models are dumped with little info and private training datasets. How much of those datasets are questionably legal or ethical? How many are accidentally or intentionally contaminated with test data? No 3rd party ever seems to test for contamination outside the rare social media post.<p>I see a whole lot of frameworks, papers and APIs claiming SOTA transformers/diffusion performance in this or that, but they seem barebones and janky when one actually goes and investigate them, if you can get them to work at all. Or they are grand promises asking for money now and usability later.<p>...I am no data scientist, but I <i>am</i> a straight up AI fan. I was finetuning ESRGAN 1x models for img2img/vid2vid years ago. GenAI is the best thing since sliced bread as far as I am concerned. Yet I am getting a serious crypto fraud vibe from everything that is happening, albeit one more targeted at businesses and investors than the crypto wave.
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Title: So far I found Google for Startups Cloud Program, AWS Activate, Zendesk, Freshdesk, HubSpot, Ganttpro, Notion, and Typeform
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Title: One third of all commercials I see on youtube are outright fake. Either it's a fake business story, fake description of "inventions" or outright deep fakes of famous people dubbed to telling lies. I can't figure out why google / youtube are taking this so lightly, or what it is that is missing from their approval procedure (don't they have any?).<p>The production quality is good enough to cheat eg. my parents, but it doesn't take me 2 seconds to spot it, so I'm amazed it can go on.<p>Anyone with background insights into the approval / reporting procedure or knowledge of if Google just doesn't care?<p>I also assume there must be a healthy business for someone, producing these commercials for companies so eager for attention - could they maybe be called out?<p>For instance, the one triggering me to make this post was of Elon Musk, unveiling some trading platform leading to this site[1], where the video in the ad can also be seen. I have no idea how to link to the youtube ads, but if I did I would have collected a loonng list of fakes by now.<p>[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-tucker-carlson-elon-musk/fact-check-tucker-carlson-segment-on-elon-musk-quantum-ai-is-fake-idUSL1N3A90N2
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Title: Hi! Leporello.js is an interactive functional programming environment designed for pure functional subset of JavaScript. It executes code instantly as you type and displays results next to it. Leporello.js also features an omnipresent debugger. Just position your cursor on any line or select any expression, and immediately see its value.
Leporello.js visualizes a dynamic call tree of your program. Thanks to the data immutability in functional programming, it allows you to navigate the call tree both forward and backward, offering a time-travel-like experience.
Leporello.js offers the ability to develop HTML5 applications interactively, enabling you to update your code without losing the application's state.<p>It records an IO trace of your program, which is then transparently replayed during subsequent program executions. This allows you to instantly reexecute your code after making small tweaks, thereby tightening your feedback loop.<p>Furthermore, Leporello.js can serve as an interactive notebook. You have the flexibility to utilize any JavaScript libraries to visualize your data directly within your code.<p>For a more detailed walkthrough, please watch the product video.
Currently, Leporello.js is available as a free online application that you can try right in your browser.
My goal is to build the Leporello.js standalone Electron app and a VSCode plugin, both with TypeScript support. Additionally, I plan to add Node.js support (currently, Leporello.js is only for HTML5 apps). In the VSCode plugin, Leporello.js will sit on top of the built-in TypeScript/JavaScript mode, utilizing its code analysis information to enhance the default VSCode experience with unique Leporello.js features.<p>I am building Leporello.js as a single independent developer. Leporello.js is funded solely by donations. Support me on Github Sponsors [0] and be the first to gain access to the Leporello.js Visual Studio Code plugin with TypeScript support.<p>I'll be delighted to answer any questions you may have.<p>[0] <a href="https://github.com/sponsors/leporello-js">https://github.com/sponsors/leporello-js</a>
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Title: Back in February, we posted a Show HN about building a “developer-first open source Zapier alternative” (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34610686">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34610686</a>). This was v1 of Trigger.dev.<p>During the months since, we’ve gathered a lot of feedback from early users and realized that what developers actually wanted was more like an easier-to-use Temporal with integrations.<p>Here’s what we’ve learned so far:<p>- Serverless timeouts make it hard for anyone to write reliable background jobs. So our current product makes that easy for Next.js and other full-stack React frameworks. Long-running server support is coming soon.<p>- We simplified the architecture to make it far easier to self-host. This was the most common comment in our previous Show HN.<p>- We made it much easier to contribute to. You can now add new API integrations for any service we don’t already support. Either publicly (we appreciate PRs) or privately in your existing codebase.<p>We’re open about what we’re building (<a href="https://trigger.dev/changelog">https://trigger.dev/changelog</a>) and what we’re planning on doing next (<a href="https://trigger.dev#roadmap">https://trigger.dev#roadmap</a>) as we believe community feedback ensures that we’re solving real problems.<p>So here’s where we’re at, and where we’re headed:<p><pre><code> [x] Easy self-hosting.
[x] Serverless. Long-running Jobs on your serverless backend.
[x] Integration kit. Build your own integrations, or use ours.
[x] Bring-Your-Own-Auth. You can now authenticate integrations as your users.
[x] Dashboard. View every Task in every Run.
[x] Cloud service. No deployment required.
[x] React hooks. Easily update your UI with Job progress.
[x] React frameworks. Support for Next.js, Astro, Remix, Express.
[ ] More frameworks. Support for SvelteKit, Nuxt.js, Fastify, Redwood.
[ ] Background functions. Offload long or intense tasks to our infrastructure.
[ ] Long-running servers. Use Trigger.dev from your long-running backend.
[ ] Polling Triggers. Subscribe to changes without webhooks.
[ ] And lots more…
</code></pre>
I’d love to hear your thoughts on background jobs. Have we missed anything off the list? What should we be building next?<p><a href="https://github.com/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev">https://github.com/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev</a>
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Title: Hey HN - I timed how long it took me to go through the application process of 250 jobs. Some of my key findings:<p>- On average, it took a bit over two and a half minutes (162 seconds) to apply to a job.<p>- If company size doubles, the application time increases by 5%. If company size increases by a factor of 10, then the app time increases by 20%.<p>- Being a government company is the single largest determinant of a long application, followed closely by aerospace and consulting firms.<p>- The longest application time went to the United States Postal Service (10 minutes and 12 seconds).<p>- On the other hand, It took me just 17 seconds to apply to Renaissance Technologies.<p>- Older ATS like Workday and Taleo make job applications as much as 128% longer.
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Title: Netdata just added a plugin to view, query and explore SystemD Journal logs, using exclusively the journal files!<p>Centralize your logs with SystemD Journal Remote, and this Netdata plugin can provide Loki/Elastic/Splunk like views, by directly accessing the journal files!
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Title: Hi Hacker News! We launched an autonomous agent that helps debug production issues, and we’re curious to get your feedback.<p>Today's GenAI devtools, such as Copilot, are limited: they are great for writing code, but we all know that programming is only 20% coding, and 80% debugging.<p>So how can GenAI be used for debugging? As opposed to code completion or test automation, production debugging is not about generating text. Debugging is mostly about root-cause analysis. We realized two things:<p>1) Generative AI is drastically changing the way we work with data, thanks to its ability to not only generate queries, but also run code and analyze unstructured data. This enables building better data-exploration experiences with far more intuitive interfaces.<p>2) RCA is all about exploring different types of data. When you don’t know why a transaction was dropped or which customers are affected – you explore metrics, logs, your code, other people’s code, old slack messages, and whatnot, to figure out what’s broken.<p>Putting those two together, we built an autonomous agent that helps debug production issues. Our LLM "moose" (ok, it's corny but we like it) connects to your logs, metrics, and other observability data, and lets you extract and analyze them by conversing with it. Once it gets a task, it will start reasoning, invoking APIs, and running code, until it comes back with an answer.<p>For example, when requested to “show me IDs of transactions that took over 1 minute today”, it will fetch those transactions from Datadog for you. You might then ask it if long-running transactions correlate with a metric such as DB CPU load. It will fetch the metric values, visualize them on a graph alongside the long transaction frequency, and give you the answer.<p>Our software both runs code and invokes API calls; the interplay between these is nontrivial to design and a fertile ground for innovation. There are “textbook” solutions to let agents write and run code (open sourced by, for example, Open Interpreter), and also to invoke tools/APIs (for example, Gorilla). But doing both together is harder, and yet required. We welcome your thoughts on this!<p>Try our tool with your Datadog’s logs and metrics >> <a href="https://app.wildmoose.ai/slack/install">https://app.wildmoose.ai/slack/install</a><p>Setup demo >> <a href="https://www.loom.com/share/9a4adc39806742c48d14cdd39da6e560?sid=3d518e11-64b3-4139-82fd-451a3f055940" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.loom.com/share/9a4adc39806742c48d14cdd39da6e560?...</a><p>If you want to see other integrations, or have ideas for features, or you’ve spotted behaviors that seem off - we’d love to hear. Hit us up in the comments!
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Title: I've worked in tech a long time but always on software/internet side. Looking for some good books or guides to understand the semiconductor industry. Any suggestions?
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Title: I’m Frank, part of the engineering team re-imagining how software is built at Superblocks. We’re an extensible low-code platform that developers use to build mission-critical internal apps and workflows.<p>We just launched “Control Blocks”, a visual builder for backend business logic that enables developers to drag and drop “blocks” (conditional, loop, parallel, try/catch, variables etc.) onto a canvas and construct cohesive business logic that reads linearly like code.<p>The industry's approach to visual builders thus far has primarily been free-form flow diagrams where lines define the “control”. This approach works fine for a small set of blocks. However, as logical complexity increases, it quickly becomes impossible to read and debug. We wanted to take a much different approach that catered to the enterprise developer by retaining the same abstractions as code.<p>With Control Blocks, developers get a visual programming language that looks, feels, and scales like code. We provide the core primitives that allow you to build visually in Superblocks what you would through code. Some of these primitives, such as our take on parallelism, offer a much simpler abstraction than code. With this approach, operations like debugging and refactoring feel much more “native”. With this as our foundation, we’ve found that it is much easier to design features for testing, tracing, reusability, breakpoints, generative AI, and more.<p>On the technical side, we used this as an opportunity to improve our core execution engine so that it can provide the performance and reliability needed for enterprise usage. We migrated from TypeScript to Golang and started utilizing V8 for our binding resolution engine.<p>Read the linked blog and watch the embedded video and let’s have a conversation about your thoughts on our new take on this visual builder.
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Title: I search for a local company on Google. 'City Boss Roofing Calgary' and there's a bunch of results, and on the right a widget giving basic details about the company.<p>I decided I wanted to see if I could find some negative news. When I did the same search but added the word sucks my interface flashed as the Company details widget disappeared!<p>An interesting design problem that they seem to have taken a pretty opinionated stance on. I think it probably tacitly dissuades people who don't like the company from leaving reviews.<p>If you know a good roofing company in YYC...<p>https://ibb.co/vDd8dJt
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Title: In ~2015 when I was living in Chicago and frequently traveling, I could reliably find something interesting to do through Meetup.org. It seems that that are far fewer things being listed now. Are there really fewer things being organized in general or have people gravitated to another site/app?
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Title: Share thoughts and stories with friends worldwide, on your time.
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Title: Atlassian Design for Bootstrap 5. Beautifully crafted Bootstrap components ready for your next project.
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Title: Recently my wife and I have recently been trying to organize our lives together a little more, and consolidate+manage the tools and services we use use.<p>For example, we have a family email address (for shared bills, banking etc) and have use cases for a VPN so we pay for a ProtonMail Family subscription to include both. We also pay for 1Password Family (until ProtonMail's ProtonPass is good enough). I was considering paying for Notion so we could manage our various existing Apple notes, lists etc in a shared space (although I think it's overpriced for this use case).<p>This got me wondering what other software or tools are out there that have found their niche amongst bringing families value. What software (or hardware) have you bought/maintained a subscription for that has had a positive impact to your family life?
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Title: Via yesterday's whoishiring thread, I received more than 70 emails. A good percentage of them (nearly half of them) came with unedited AI-generated cover letters.<p>Please don't do this. I spend time going through the resume, the various links in it, and then responding to everyone who applied. But this time, with so much AI-generated verbiage I simply don't want to.<p>I understand non-native speakers of English wanting to use AI. But frankly, just saying "here's my resume (and github/blog/publications etc)" is better than ChatGPT content. Writing longer emails creates an obligation for us (at the hiring end), and when it's AI-generated you're just wasting our time. If there's a distinct AI-generated tone to the email, I'm inclined to not consider the application.
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Title: I'm a Unity 3D refugee, certified expert, started in 2005 when it was a two man-band with Joachim and David.<p>I've been lucky enough to make a good living out of Unity with my own consultancy over the years making data visualisation applications (Wind Energy) and innovation projects (Visualising accounting data for Wolters Kluwer etc.).<p>Godot is pretty amazing in my opinion. Wrote this game over a few days and was productive in Godot basically instantly. I couldn't get up and running in Unreal despite trying a few times.<p>It's my ambition to start a niche agency developing 80's style games of skill and chance for the corporate world.<p>So... If anyone has any leads for making Space Invaders for Nike - please help! Happy to pay 5% on whatever work I get.
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Title: Earlier this year, we released our open-source game engine [0] built with Rust, WebAssembly, and WebGPU. Today, we’re happy to announce the Ambient platform, which brings web deployment, server hosting, and more to the runtime. With Ambient, you can make a game, deploy it to the browser in one command, share your URL and instantly play with others, no downloads or installs needed.<p>Our WASM use is innovative; it is being used as both a sandboxed runtime for user code, and as a way to run the entire Ambient runtime in the browser. This, paired with our ECS data model, enables a highly modular architecture that allows other developers to make isolated packages (code, 3D models, tools, etc.) that they can add as a mod to your game.<p>Once deployed, these packages can be activated on-the-fly while running the game in the browser, acting as their own small applications inside the game. This can be great for testing out game features, but it also enables building games with others - whether they be friends or strangers. In the future, we hope that whole communities can build games together, not unlike open-source development.<p>The runtime already has many of the features expected from a capable game engine, including physics (PhysX), a React-like UI toolkit and a GPU-driven renderer.<p>Check out the blog post [1] to learn more, and to try out a live multiplayer demo on supported browsers. The team and I will be around to answer any questions you might have.<p>[0]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34906166">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34906166</a><p>[1]: <a href="https://ambient.run/blog/platform" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://ambient.run/blog/platform</a>
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