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Title: A few months ago, I ordered a Minisforum UM690 for work.<p>For less than 500 bucks, this little beast is equipped with the incredibly powerful 8 cores / 16 threads Ryzen 9 6900HX (4.9GHz) and an integrated RDN2 680M graphics card (the single thread performance of this mobile CPU is just 10% lower than my home 5800X desktop PC).<p>I do some light gaming on my lunch break, and I was pretty impressed by the gaming performance of the 680M.<p>Because of budget constraints at the time of ordering, I could only afford a single stick of Gskill - RipJaws 16 Go DDR5 4800 MHz CL34.<p>I made a few benchmarks on multiple games, but most games I play do not come with a proper benchmark loop, so I used Unigine Superposition Benchmark to make a proper benchmark.<p>Single 16 GB stick, 1080p, medium settings: 3022 (18.85 min fps, 22.61 avg fps, 31.85 max fps)<p>Those results were good for an IGPU, but I saw a few articles saying that having two sticks instead of one could improve performance (never backed up with benchmarks or hard numbers).<p>So I bought another stick. Here are the results with two sticks:<p>Dual 16 GB sticks, 1080p, medium settings: 4969 (31.66 min fps, 37.17 avg fps, 48.96 max fps)<p>Yep, this is a whopping +65% with two sticks!<p>So, if you use a CPU with an integrated graphics card, you should use 2 sticks!
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Title: Also where did you learn and test that advice was infact true? Share your anecdotal experiences.
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Title: I was let go this morning along with at least 4 others from team. Looks like a big company wide layoff is underway
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Title: I've created a compilation, along with many great contributors, of sites with dumb password rules. This has long existed as a simple README on GitHub, but was just transformed into a full-fledged site.<p>Dumb password rules annoy me very much. If they annoy you, too, feel free to contribute!<p>Feedback, comments, criticisms, contributions welcome.
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Title: Hi Hacker News! Shahar and Tal from Keep here.<p>We're thrilled to announce that we're open-sourcing our alerting CLI tool, Keep (<a href="https://github.com/keephq/keep">https://github.com/keephq/keep</a>). Designed by developers for developers, Keep streamlines and simplifies alerting, making it a first-class citizen within the development process.<p>Think of Keep as Prometheus Alertmanager but for all observability tools, with a simple and intuitive (GitHub actions-like) syntax.<p>We believe that alerting has historically been neglected in existing monitoring platforms, leading to subpar alerting practices. With Keep, we aim to change that.<p>Although it's still in its early stages, we would love to get your feedback on our project.<p>Keep provides the following key features:<p>1. Declarative alerting that can be easily managed and versioned in your version control and service repository.<p>2. Alerts from multiple data sources for added context and insights.<p>3. Freedom from vendor lock-in, making it easier to switch to a different observability tool if needed.<p>Some of the features we plan to add in the future include:<p>- Integration with CI/CD processes to simplify alerts maintenance and testing.<p>- Scoring system to assess the alert's urgency and provide relevant information.<p>- Slack integration to keep track of alerts over time.<p>- More providers, conditions, and other enhancements.<p>We invite you to give Keep a try (<a href="https://github.com/keephq/keep">https://github.com/keephq/keep</a>) and share your thoughts with us. Your feedback will help us make Keep the best it can be.
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Title: Google searches = used for training AI models<p>Apple notes = private<p>Google docs = ?<p>Siri requests = used for training models<p>Emails you send in gmail = ?<p>I'm seeking to understand what things people might think are private, because they're not posted on the open web, but where they're used for training AI models.
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Title: A new book in the same series as The Little Schemer!<p>Here's a preview of the first two chapters: <a href="https://mitpress.ublish.com/ebook/the-little-learner-a-straight-line-to-deep-learning-preview/12735/C1" rel="nofollow">https://mitpress.ublish.com/ebook/the-little-learner-a-strai...</a>
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Title: SOME HIGHLIGHTS.<p>* We have a full supervision tree so actors can monitor other actors for exits and unhandled panic!s (at least the ones that can be caught)<p>* The actor lifecycle is handled for you in a simple single-threaded, message handler primitive<p>* You have a mutable state with each message handling call, so you have an easy way to create stateful actors and update that state as messages are processed<p>* Actors talk to other actors by message passing, but there are remote-procedure-calls (RPCs) so actors can "ask a question" to another actor and wait on the reply.<p>* A lot of the concurrency primitives are handled by the framework, such as cancellation/termination of actors (both graceful and forceful)<p>* A Factory primitive in order to formulate distributed processing pools with multiple job routing options<p>* Early but stable support for a distributed epmd-like cluster environment, where you can talk to actors over a network link. It's an additional crate (ractor_cluster) that builds on ractor to facilitate the inter-connection between nodes and support remote casts and calls to actors on a remote node.<p>We're openly seeking feedback, so please feel free to utilize the library and let us know if there's anything you find missing or doesn't work as expected!
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Title: My Expenses is a very simple app to track expenses for one-time budgets.<p>Let's say you're going on vacations in Italy and you want to allocate $1.500 to this trip. You create a budget "Italy" in 30 seconds and you're ready to go.
Each time you make an expense in Italy, you add it to the app in a few seconds and you instantly know you're remaining budget.<p>I'm bored of super complex apps. Yes, they do a lot of things, but it often takes a while to get used to the app and understand all its features.<p>That's why I created this app.
I want people to be able to track their expenses in seconds, as quickly and simply as possible.<p>It's available on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
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Title: Hi everyone!<p>I'm Steve, founder and CEO of Duffel. We're so excited to introduce Duffel Links today - a low code solution to sell flights online fast. Through one single API request, offer your customers a best-in-class shopping experience tailored to your brand.<p>Since day 1, we've made it our mission to break down barriers in the travel industry and make it easy for anyone to start selling travel. Now with Links, you can still use Duffel even if you don't have technical skills. It truly has never been easier to get started selling travel.<p>The Problem:
We've removed many blockers to selling flights, but until today, offering even a simple flight shopping experience could be a complicated task. Even with our APIs and components, you would still face challenges such as handling search inputs for passengers of all ages, getting the details of one-way, return and multi-city trips and more.<p>The Solution:
Enter Duffel Links! Links take care of all of this for you so you can start offering flights to your customers immediately; with a single API call, you can generate a link where your customer can access our best-in-class flight shopping experience, customised to match your brand. Leverage thousands of hours of product design and travel expertise every time you generate a link.<p>Key features:
-Search intuitively - Your customers will be able to input search parameters to ensure they see the most relevant flights and filter itineraries, so they can find the perfectly timed flight.
-Optimised for conversion - When booking, they can pick the fare with the right level of flexibility and amenities, complete our simple checkout, and instantly access all the information needed to fly.
-Access to 300+ airlines - including low-cost carriers, NDC and GDS.
-Add markups - Quickly and dynamically add markups to fares when creating a link and easily charge your customers. Up-sell to your customers by offering premium seats and paid bags.
-Make it your own - Customise the entire search and book experience to match your brand. Include your logo, custom URL and brand colours throughout.
-Compatible with all screen sizes - Links is fully responsive for all devices - including mobiles, tablets and desktops.<p>Feel free to try Links today - we're looking forward to your feedback and comments.<p>Thanks,
Steve
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Title: Hi HN! We are Douwe and Jack, founders of <a href="https://neptyne.com">https://neptyne.com</a>. Neptyne is a programmable spreadsheet that runs Python. It’s like Google Sheets, but for software engineers and data scientists. If you have three minutes, go to <a href="https://neptyne.com/neptyne/tutorial">https://neptyne.com/neptyne/tutorial</a> and it gives you a taste.<p>The world runs on spreadsheets, and for good reason: they are a universal data canvas. But building on top of and around the spreadsheet is clumsy: limiting scripting environments, APIs and file formats get in the way of making the spreadsheet a part of a broader application. Excel workbooks become monolithic and unmaintainable. Google Sheets data become static and stale.<p>Both Excel and Google Sheets offer some level of programmability but we have yet to find any user who liked the experience. It’s harder than it should be, using programming languages that are more limited than you expect. With Excel you've either got VBA or an extension like pyxll to deal with. With Google Sheets, your options are AppsScript or the REST API. These tools are mediocre but the need for programmable spreadsheets is such that people use them anyway.<p>With Neptyne, the spreadsheet itself runs in the Python runtime, so you can write to it or read from it like an in-memory data structure, because that's exactly what it is.<p>Neptyne primarily solves problems that exist at the boundaries of what other spreadsheet tools can do. We make Python a first-class citizen of spreadsheet-land, meaning you don't need a clumsy integration or extension to make your code work with spreadsheets. You can use standard off-the-shelf Python libraries to build on top of an Excel-like spreadsheet environment to build collaborative applications. You mix Excel style cell addresses (A1, C3) and ranges (B2:B20) with Python code (e.g. `A1 = "foo" if B2 > 0 else "bar"`, or `for num in B2:B20:`).<p>Before starting Neptyne we worked at Sidewalk Labs, where we built models in Python that would typically be shared or used via spreadsheets on an interdisciplinary team. The final step of many pipelines was "write a .csv with the results", which was a great way to share data but only in one direction. What we really needed was a way for users to interact with our Python models through a spreadsheet: tune inputs, see results, make quick aggregations. After making some version of this work with the Google Sheets API, we knew this could be better. What we wanted was basically a Jupyter notebook embedded in our spreadsheet, that could give us the full power of Python while keeping the accessibility of a spreadsheet. We built a proof of concept, found some interest in it, and formed Neptyne.<p>Neptyne differs from lots of modern takes on the spreadsheet tool in that we really wanted to preserve the "data canvas" nature of a true spreadsheet. While there is value in making spreadsheets more like SQL databases with column-based types and formulas, Neptyne gives you the freedom to structure your spreadsheet as you would with Sheets or Excel. Mix and match data types, table dimensions, graphs, charts, and buttons as freely as you might with those tools.<p>Neptyne behaves exactly like a spreadsheet but is secretly an alternative frontend to a Jupyter Notebook that has an embedded spreadsheet engine. Because it runs a Jupyter kernel, we support anything you can run in a Jupyter notebook, including all the expected visualization packages (matplotlib, plotly, etc.). This is not merely scripting using Python—you can use any (stateful) Python framework to get serious work done.<p>Things users have built with Neptyne so far include a Twitter bot, a private spaceflight schedule optimizer, and a CRM that pulls from several different data sources.<p>Neptyne's basic tier is free to use. As we add more capabilities to the product, certain features will be introduced at paid tiers. For individuals building interesting stuff to be shared with the community it will always be free. For teams that need private documents, sharing and custom images, we will charge a team fee.<p>Here’s a link to some videos: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@neptynehq">https://www.youtube.com/@neptynehq</a> that show how Neptyne works. If you really want to get a sense of the product, the best way is try out our three minute tutorial: <a href="https://neptyne.com/neptyne/tutorial">https://neptyne.com/neptyne/tutorial</a>.<p>We’d love to hear about things you’ve built in spreadsheets and what new things might be possible with a native Python integration! Fire away!
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Title: Hi all. I'm currently trying to revamp the software documentation of a library that I'm trying to build. I would like to see examples of documentation that allows you to easily find the information you need. Thanks!
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Title: I work at a company that rhymes with "frugal". I've done really well here and gotten promoted to senior SWE. My work has tons of impact. My team is a pretty healthy environment compared to the rest of the company, all things considered.<p>But now I'm struggling to find motivation to do my work. I have absolutely no interest in leading a team, but senior members in my org keep trying to groom me into a TL. I like being an IC and building what I'm told to build; I have no idea how to decide what it is we should be building and don't want to deal with customer demands.<p>What I feel like I'd really rather do is quit and join a team working on something low stakes. Somewhere where I can put the minimum effort and still impress. I think this would be better for my mental health.<p>But it's a hard pill to give up the FAANG compensation. Also being stuck in a NIH company has atrophied my "real world" tech stack knowledge, so it's harder to market myself (especially now that the job market is saturated with laid off SWEs).<p>Any advice for jumping ship from FAANG?
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Title: My wife is an employee (s/w eng) of a company of seven years. She's been promoted several times during that time and works hard. She's a few months away from having the baby and was in the process of filing the paperwork.<p>Today she was just fired, due to "restructuring". There are plenty of other US-based employees still working there. Her manager didn't even show up to the meeting.<p>I am livid. The company is Reputation.com.
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Title: Hey HN, excited to share our open source tool with the community. We wanted to build an open source omnichannel tool where you can design customer journeys with a drag and drop editor.<p>You can use our tool for example to design an onboarding flow so that users who sign up to your site can receive a series of predetermined emails and sms. Give it a spin and let us know how we can improve it. We also made it so you can self host.
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Title: I have my entire life backed up in AWS, but apparently my account has been suspended for 3 months? Not sure how this is possible, but when I tried to contact support, I am told I must access support after signing in.<p>There must be some way to get my account reinstated. I have buckets that I've had backed up for literally a decade and losing this would be unbelievable.<p>I am trying to backup what I can but was wondering if anyone knows someone that can look into this at AWS? I tried contacting support but was greeted with this message:<p>"Hello there,<p>Greetings from AWS!<p>AWS account security policies don't permit us to discuss account-specific information unless you're signed into the account you're asking about.<p>For your sign-in credentials, use the email address that's associated with the AWS account that you'd like to discuss. Then contact us from the Support Center through the following link. Even if your account is suspended or has been closed for 90 days or less, you can still open a case.<p>https://support.console.aws.amazon.com/support/<p>If your sign-in information no longer exists, then your account was permanently closed after being suspended or closed for more than 90 days. You can create a new AWS account:<p>https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/create-and-activate-aws-account/<p>Note that if your account was closed or terminated, you can't use the same email address to create a new AWS account."<p>I am pretty sure I've been paying AWS regularly (around $120 a month for the last year or so) so I can't imagine ever receiving any suspension emails.<p>When I tried loggin in yesterday, the captchas seemed insane and I was completely unable to login.<p>I really need help resolving this or I'm going to be in a really bad spot.<p>Any help appreciated.
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Title: Is it becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between an AI that ‘appears’ to think and one that does just by talking to it?<p>Is there a realistic framework for deciding when an AI had crossed that threshold? And is there an ethical framework for communicating with an AI like this once it arrives?<p>And even if there is one, will it be able to work with current market forces?
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Title: I used it for coding in Python, often with the python-docx library, about six weeks ago, and it was superb. It gave me exactly what I wanted, which is no mean feat for a semi-obscure little library, and I was delighted. Then I tried it again a few weeks ago and it did worse than before, but I thought maybe it was just bad luck. Using it today, though, it seemed really really bad and it messed up some very basic Python features, like the walrus operator -- it got so bad that I gave up on it and went back to google and stack overflow.<p>The performance drop is so steep that I can only imagine they crippled the model, probably to cope with the explosion in demand. Has anyone else seen the same thing?
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Title: Hi HN. I've been working on a new browser-based design tool that's ready for you to try.<p>The idea is you work on your design in low fidelity wireframes, while still getting a high fidelity output that you can share or use as a reference for your implementation. The way it works is by mapping low fidelity blocks you draw into high fidelity design system & React components.<p>I spent several years working on design tools at companies like Airbnb, and I think the ideas behind many of the tools we built for designing at scale could really help startups and small teams as well. I would love any feedback you have!<p>PS: Most of Noya is open source at <a href="https://github.com/noya-app/noya">https://github.com/noya-app/noya</a>
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Title: We wanted to create, to express ourselves without being judged either by strangers or some algorithm. We wanted our own space on the internet, where our photos and words would matter.<p>So we started to build an app that can showcase our content, without having to pick a platform. You can use Sora to publish a few different content types.<p>- Blog
- Polaroid
- Poster
- Microblog<p>You can either display them all on your Sora profile as a summary (like mine <a href="https://topcat.sora.city" rel="nofollow">https://topcat.sora.city</a>), or put any of them forward for the world to see.<p>We plan to run this app for a long time and looking for feedback, so let us know what you think! ([email protected], or link on website)<p>---<p>Our stack today is Node, Typescript, NextJS, atomic CSS, with everything stored on Supabase.
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Title: The Information reported [1] Friday that Stripe is trying to raise $4B at a $55B valuation for “a huge tax withholding bill that comes due when it modifies employees’ stock grants that are set to expire before a potential public listing”.<p>I did a bit of research, but couldn’t figure out what sort of tax laws are at play here? Why is Stripe looking at such an enormous bill, and hypothetically what could happen if they can’t raise all the money?<p>[1] https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-stripes-55-billion-pitch-to-investors
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Title: `pip install replbuilder`<p>Making a small tool for easier repl building, no more manual argument parsing. Perfect for creating ops tools and other context heavy cli operations.
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Title: I have a wordpress blog, and recently I discovered that there are several spam comments daily which have seemingly random strings in the content. The comments don't have any other (human readable) links, which are usually present in other spam comments. Can someone explain what is the point of such random strings? Do they mean/represent anything?<p>Some example of spam comments<p><a href="https://imgur.com/3FVR7Yn" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/3FVR7Yn</a>
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Title: I'm in SF. Besides the linkedin posts... is there a forum, discussion etc? I feel like I saw a thing/form launched on HN. Also - might be time for an old fashioned meet up!
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Title: Hey, guys. I've just made a plugin which turns your pandas dataframe into a tableau-style component. It allows you to explore the dataframe with easy drag-and-drop UI.<p>You can use PyGWalker in Jupyter, Google Colab, or even Kaggle Notebook to easily explore your data and generate interactive visualizations.<p>PyGWalker (pronounced like "Pig Walker", just for fun) is named as an abbreviation of "Python binding of Graphic Walker".<p>Here are some links to check it out:<p>The Github Repo: <a href="https://github.com/Kanaries/pygwalker">https://github.com/Kanaries/pygwalker</a><p>Use PyGWalker in Kaggle: <a href="https://www.kaggle.com/asmdef/pygwalker-test" rel="nofollow">https://www.kaggle.com/asmdef/pygwalker-test</a><p>Feedback and suggestions are appreciated! Please feel free to try it out and let me know what you think. Thanks for your support!
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Title: Laid off 6 months ago. Was on an H1-B visa. Moved to spouse’s dependent visa. I have just around year left on my H1-B and my previous employer was mid way through the PERM process when they laid me off.<p>Most companies don’t want to hire me because of the delays in the processing of PERM these days since I have just a year left. And I just recently switched careers from construction to data.<p>Feeling really hopeless and alone. My spouse has a good job, but this stress of not getting any work has been devastating to me. It took me around 8 months of job searching to find a role as a career switcher and now I’m back to square one in a bad market. I don’t have anybody I can talk to and just want to talk about my problems.<p>I’m parked outside a Burger King parking lot in the car by myself and don’t have a clue on what I should do.<p>Feeling hopeless.
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Title: Seems like team morale is at an all time low. Most people are just phoning it in at this point. Our business is doing great, but I guess that's not enough to maintain job security anymore. Feels like Q1 the execs are just waiting for annuals to come in to make their list, as there's been total radio silence since the holidays. I fully expect to be laid off in the next 2-3 months.
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Title: I often find myself with some JSON data that I want to visualize. I usually end up converting to CSV, uploading to a Google Sheet, and manually creating charts. BUT this is really time consuming and I find Google Sheets charts pretty difficult and painful for quickly exploring different views of the original data.<p>So what do you use for this type of thing?<p>I know python has lots of good utils for data wrangling & graphing, but I'd prefer a solution which is: no-code, gives me a bunch of common graph views I can quickly choose between, and that "just works" 99% of the time.<p>Thanks!
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Title: Been broken for 4 months, just got back to fixing it and validating. Figured I'll repost this.<p>Gargantuan Takeout Rocket (GTR) is a toolkit to make the pain of backing up a Google account to somewhere that's not Google a lot less. At the moment the only destination supported is Azure.<p>It's a guide, a browser extension, a Cloudflare worker to deploy, and Azure storage to configure. This sounds like buzzword creep, but believe me, every piece is extremely important.<p>It's very cheap to run/serverless. You can backup a Google account at about $1/TB.<p>Compared to renting a VPS to do this, it's much more pleasant. You aren't juggling strange URLs, needing big beefy boxes to buffer large data, or trying to login to Google or pass URLs through a VPS. Unfortunately, not everything about the procedure can be automated. But whatever can be, is.<p>It's <i>very</i> fast. 1GB/s is the stable default and recommended speed. However, you can have about 3 of these going at a time for about 3GB/s+ overall. This trick is accomplished by making Azure download from Google to a file block, a unique API not seen in S3 or S3-like object storage.<p>Unfortunately, Azure has URL handling bugs and only supports HTTP 1.1, greatly limiting parallelism. We can use Cloudflare Workers to work around these issues.<p>I use GTR myself with a scheduled Google Takeout every two months to backup 1.5TB of data from Google. This can be photos, YouTube videos, etc. I can finish my backups to safe non-Google storage in 15 minutes after I get an email from Google that my Takeout is ready to be downloaded.<p>Unfortunately the only destination is currently Azure. There's also no encryption support. And also Cloudflare is involved. That said, if you're fine with this, this is a fine way to backup a Google and Youtube account as-is.
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Title: Hey folks, want to share the project I've been working on for past few years. It's a project estimation tool which can be applied to pretty much any project, not only software development, but any where you'd want to know cost or time it takes.<p>Core features:<p>* Project resources such as engineer, or anybody/anything that you need to include into project<p>* PDF Export<p>* Easy features management including drag & drop<p>* Sorting/filtering/search<p>* Projects sharing(share with your client via link)
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Title: I'm wondering is there a monthly or periodically post on HN where we could actually learn about other people's ideas or people who are just in development phase or maybe just researching and are looking for co-founders.<p>I'm wondering what everyone thinks.
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Title: Hello,<p>4 years ago I felt burnt out and decided to take a short break in order to reassess my career. I simply hadn't realised how much my health had deteriorated and that led to what ballooned into a 4 year long convalescence. I finally feel physically capable of returning to work but worry that I'm no longer competent enough, not even in the kind of roles I used to work at (primarily web-related backend along with some system and network administration).<p>A few questions I have are:<p>1. What should I do to get to a point where I feel confident enough to actually send in applications? (I have never really been any good at LeetCode-type problems and have no personal projects to speak of.)<p>2. Will the 4-year gap and my choppy CV be a major hindrance to my hirability? (My employement history consists of 2 years at a consulting firm and 3 short startup stints of <1 year each.) If yes, how do I minimise its debilitating effects?<p>3. I feel like I have the best chance of getting hired in the kind of roles I used to work at and those are the ones I'm interested in as well but in doing so am I restricting myself to a limited number of positions? Should I be spending my time in expanding my knowledge areas? (Although I feel like I know too little of anything else to ever feel confident enough to apply for an actual paid position in those roles.)<p>4. Is my timing bad? Is the current climate not well suited for someone like me to get back into the industry (though I have a feeling that no climate would be conducive to someone in my position.)<p>To add: I am in my early 30's and have an undergraduate degree. Financially, I have a comfortable 1 year runway or a 1.5 year runway at a pinch. So I can't afford to go back to school; a bootcamp I could attend (as long as it's remote) but I'm not really sure how good they usually are.<p>Many thanks to anyone who takes the time to respond.
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Title: Hi HN,<p>Today we're launching phind.com, a developer-focused search engine that uses generative AI to browse the web and answer technical questions, complete with code examples and detailed explanations. It's version 1.0 of what was previously known as Hello (beta.sayhello.so) and has been completely reworked to be more accurate and reliable.<p>Because it's connected to the internet, Phind is always up-to-date and has access to docs, issues, and bugs that ChatGPT hasn't seen. Like ChatGPT, you can ask followup questions. Phind is smart enough to perform a new search and join it with the existing conversation context. We're merging the best of ChatGPT with the best of Google.<p>You're probably wondering how it's different from the new Bing. For one, we don't dumb down a user's query the way that the new Bing does. We feed your question into the model exactly as it was asked, and are laser-focused on providing developers the most detailed and comprehensive explanations to code-related questions. Secondly, we've focused the model on providing answers instead of chatbot small talk. This is one of the major improvements we've made since exiting beta.<p>Phind has the creative abilities to generate code, write essays, and even compose some poems/raps but isn't interested in having a conversation for conversation's sake. It should refuse to state its own opinion and rather provide a comprehensive summary of what it found online. When it isn't sure, it's designed to say so. It's not perfect yet, and misinterprets answers ~5% of the time. An example of Phind's adversarial question answering ability is <a href="https://phind.com/search?q=why+is+replacing+NaCL+with+NaCN+in+a+cooking+recipe+good+for+you">https://phind.com/search?q=why+is+replacing+NaCL+with+NaCN+i...</a>.<p>ChatGPT became useful by learning to generate answers it thinks humans will find helpful, via a technique called Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF). In RLHF, a model generates multiple candidate answers for a given question and a human rates which one is better. The comparison data is then fed back into the model through an algorithm such as PPO. To improve answer quality, we're deploying RLAIF — an improvement over RLHF where the AI itself generates comparison data instead of humans. Generative LLMs have already reached the point where they can review the quality of their own answers as good or better than an average human rater tasked with annotating data for RLHF.<p>We still have a long way to go, but Phind is state-of-the-art at answering complex technical questions and writing intricate guides all while citing its sources. We'd love to hear your feedback.<p>Examples:<p><a href="https://phind.com/search?q=How+to+set+up+a+CI%2FCD+pipeline+in+GitLab+step-by-step">https://phind.com/search?q=How+to+set+up+a+CI%2FCD+pipeline+...</a><p><a href="https://phind.com/search?q=how+to+debug+pthread+race+conditions+in+c%2B%2B">https://phind.com/search?q=how+to+debug+pthread+race+conditi...</a><p><a href="https://phind.com/search?q=example+of+a+c%2B%2B+semaphore">https://phind.com/search?q=example+of+a+c%2B%2B+semaphore</a><p><a href="https://phind.com/search?q=What+is+the+best+way+to+deploy+a+transformer+for+inference%3F">https://phind.com/search?q=What+is+the+best+way+to+deploy+a+...</a><p><a href="https://phind.com/search?q=show+me+when+to+use+defaultdicts+over+regular+dicts">https://phind.com/search?q=show+me+when+to+use+defaultdicts+...</a><p>Discord: <a href="https://discord.gg/qHj8pwYCNg" rel="nofollow">https://discord.gg/qHj8pwYCNg</a>
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Title: Hey HN, Miles and James here from Moonrepo (<a href="https://moonrepo.dev">https://moonrepo.dev</a>). Are you struggling with large codebases? Well look no further! We built Moonrepo to simplify repository management, project ownership, task running, and everyday developer and productivity workflows.<p>If you’ve used Bazel (or another “enterprise” build system) in the past, you’re probably aware of how complex they can be to setup, configure, and use. Let alone the cognitive overhead required by developers on a day to day basis. After more than a decade in the industry, with many of those years working on infrastructure and developer tooling related products, we set out to build Moon, a language agnostic build system.<p>Existing systems focused solely on runtime logistics (faster builds, concurrency), while we want to also focus on the developer experience. We do this by automating workflows as much as possible, in an effort to reduce manual work. We constantly sync and verify configuration, so that the repository stays in a healthy state. We also infer/detect as much as we can from the environment/repository/codebase, so pieces "just work".<p>We wanted our system to be enjoyable to use and easy to understand, but also solve the same problems as existing systems. For example, configuration is in YAML, not a proprietary syntax. Tasks are defined and run as if you were running them in the terminal; no more abstractions like BUILD files. Unlike Bazel, we don’t hide or heavily rewrite terminal output, so the feedback loop is what you expect. We manage a toolchain, ensuring the correct version of languages is used (no more “works on my machine”). And lastly, our foundation is built on Rust and Tokio, so performance is first-class, the runtime is reliable, and memory safety is guaranteed.<p>We follow the open core model. Moon is open source, but we’re also working on a few subscription-based services for monitoring and improving your continuous integration pipelines, a registry of project and code ownership, a continuous deployment/delivery board, auxiliary application systems, and more. We haven't finalized the subscription model yet, so there's no pricing information on the website. However, we do have a starter/free tier that everyone can use by registering on <a href="https://moonrepo.app" rel="nofollow">https://moonrepo.app</a>. In the future, we will offer on-prem as well.<p>Although Moonrepo is relatively new, we’re already feature-packed, stable, and used in production. We’re big fans of honest feedback, and look forward to your comments!
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Title: I was looking at the data used for layoff tracker [1] and it seems that the current wave of layoffs are mostly focused on US companies (~70%) and employees (~60%). And it got me wondering, how is the current career climate for developers who aren't in the US? I still get my daily recruiter spam in my inbox for companies hiring in west-Europe, it hasn't stopped.<p>[1] https://airtable.com/shrclnXK0pfoGjtih/tblQ0U46nsYopm2CR?backgroundColor=gray&viewControls=on
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Title: Hey HN! Starting a new project is so hard because before you actually get to building the idea itself, you have to search for tools and figure out how to piece them together. With starter.place, you can find proven starter templates/boilerplates/stacks that use the technologies you want and get to building right away.<p>If you’ve made a starter repo you think others would find useful, you can immediately reach a wide audience without having to make your own site/app to sell it and advertise it by posting on starter.place. Just focus on building the starter all while earning from it if you so choose.<p>starter.place is so helpful to buyers and sellers because buyers are added as view-only collaborators to the repo on GitHub, where they get continuous updates. Buyers can help drive the project by submitting issues and PRs too.<p>Let me know what you think! And if you have a starter template but are hesitant to list it, let me know what I could do to change that.<p>Oh and as for the app's own stack, it uses Remix, EdgeDB, and Tailwind deployed on Vercel and AWS Fargate.
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Title: It's seems to me that if companies drew a straight line between here's what you need to do to get this much of a raise or this much of a bonus, they could get alot more out of each employee. why waste everyones time and effort for stuff that doesn't matter?
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Title: Graphic is a grammar of data visualization and Flutter charting library, with there features:<p>- A Grammar of Graphics: Graphic derives from Leland Wilkinson's book The Grammar of Graphics, and tries to balance between theoretical beauty and practicability. It inherits most concepts, like the graphic algebra.
- Declarative and Reactive: As is encouraged in Flutter, the chart widget of Graphic is declarative and reactive. The grammar of data visualization is implemented by a declarative specification and the chart will reevaluate automatically on widget update.
- Interactive: With the signal and selection mechanism, the chart is highly interactive. It is easy to pop a tooltip or scale the coordinate.
- Customizable: With the shape and figure classes, it's easy to custom your own element, tooltip, annotation, etc.
- Dataflow Graph and Operators: Graphic has a internal structure of a dataflow graph and operators. That is how the reactive reevaluation and interaction is implemented.
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Title: Seriously, what is going on?<p>I am receiving tens of emails daily that don't get filtered by Gmail which are clearly junk.<p>It has been going for at least a couple of weeks.
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Title: Hey HN! We’re open-sourcing highlight.io (<a href="https://github.com/highlight/highlight">https://github.com/highlight/highlight</a>), a session replay and error monitoring tool. Highlight.io gives you a high-precision video-like replay of what users are doing when an error or exception occurs in your web app, along with a full-fledged error monitoring experience (similar to bugsnag, rollbar, etc..).<p>The main value prop of highlight.io is that we help you understand the full context surrounding an error and allow you to drill down to the code path that a user invoked (i.e user clicked button X, sent network request Y, and backend code Z was executed). Some of our customers compare this to a “web debugger” of sorts. A picture of what this looks like in our app is here [1].<p>For some background, when we worked at our previous companies as engineers, we encountered hard-to-reproduce issues spanning across both the frontend and backend. The main issues were (1) if a customer complained about a problem, it was hard to reproduce the issue without asking for a screen-share or jumping on a video call; and (2) when viewing errors caught by tools like BugSnag or Rollbar, understanding the triggered code path required stitching together logs, errors, and trace; all from different sources.<p>Highlight.io is completely open source and written in Go and Typescript. To build the replay capability, we use an open source project called rrweb [2] and have worked closely with their team to add support for features like canvas recording, shadow dom recording, and more [3]. Beyond that, we use the OpenTelemetry spec for our SDKs [4], which has made it pretty straight forward to support several languages, even with our small 4-person engineering team!<p>Our product is completely self-serve at app.highlight.io. Installing it is as easy as a npm/yarn import and installing the backend sdk of your choosing. In addition, given the privacy-centric nature of session replay, we also offer the option to self-host [5].
Highlight.io currently makes money off of our hosted offering, and our self-hosted deployment is completely free. We’re also toying with the idea of an “enterprise” self-hosted deployment, similar to gitlab’s billing model, and thoughts from the community on this front would be appreciated!<p>And as far as what’s next for us: Our customers are asking to render logs and traces on a highlight.io session (and vice versa), and we’re excited to be going deeper into a developer’s debugging stack. The long term goal is to build a platform that connects replay, errors, logs and more so that engineers can “playback” the full state of a web application.<p>Overall, we’re quite new to the open source scene and would love the HN community to share their feedback on what we’re building. If anyone has opinions on where we’re going, or what they’d like to see in an open source monitoring product, we’re all ears.
Check us out at highlight.io and at github.com/highlight/highlight to give us a shot.<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.highlight.io/docs/getting-started/frontend-backend-mapping">https://www.highlight.io/docs/getting-started/frontend-backe...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://github.com/rrweb-io/rrweb">https://github.com/rrweb-io/rrweb</a><p>[3]: <a href="https://highlight.io/docs/general/product-features/session-replay/overview">https://highlight.io/docs/general/product-features/session-r...</a><p>[4]: <a href="https://opentelemetry.io/docs" rel="nofollow">https://opentelemetry.io/docs</a><p>[5]: <a href="https://www.highlight.io/docs/general/company/open-source/self-host-hobby">https://www.highlight.io/docs/general/company/open-source/se...</a>
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Title: Hey HN! We’re Kyle and Jacob, the founders of Depot (<a href="https://depot.dev">https://depot.dev</a>), a hosted container build service that builds Docker images up to 20x faster than existing CI providers. We run fully managed Intel and Arm builders in AWS, accessible directly from CI and from your terminal.<p>Building Docker images in CI today is slow. CI runners are ephemeral, so they must save and load the cache for every build. They have constrained resources, with limited CPUs, memory, and disk space. And they do not support native Arm or multi-platform container builds, and instead require emulation.<p>Over 4 years of working together, we spent countless hours optimizing and reoptimizing Dockerfiles, managing layer caching in CI, and maintaining custom runners for multi-platform images. We were working around the limitation of multi-platform builds inside of GitHub Actions via QEMU emulation when we thought "wouldn't it be nice if someone just offered both an Intel and Arm builder for Docker images without having to run all that infrastructure ourselves". Around January of 2022 we started working on Depot, designed as the service we wished we could use ourselves.<p>Depot provides managed VMs running BuildKit, the backing build engine for Docker. Each VM includes 16 CPUs, 32GB of memory, and a persistent 50GB SSD cache disk that is automatically available across builds—no saving or loading of layer cache over the network. We launch both native Intel and native Arm machines inside of AWS.
This combination of native CPUs, fast networks, and persistent disks significantly lowers build time — we’ve seen speedups ranging from 2x all the way to 20x. We have customers with builds that took three hours before that now take less than ten minutes.<p>We believe that today we are the fastest hosted build service for Docker images, and the only hosted build service offering the ability to natively build multi-platform Docker images without emulation.<p>We did a Show HN last September: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33011072" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33011072</a>. Since then, we have added the ability to use Depot in your own AWS account; added support for Buildx bake; increased supported build parallelism; launched an eu-central-1 region; switched to a new mTLS backend for better build performance; simplified pricing and added a free tier; and got accepted into YC W23!<p>Depot is a drop-in replacement for `docker buildx build`, so anywhere you are running `docker build` today, you replace it with `depot build` and get faster builds. Our CLI is wrapping the Buildx library, so any parameters you pass to your Docker builds today are fully compatible with Depot. We also have a number of integrations that match Docker integrations inside of CI providers like GitHub Actions.<p>We’re soon launching a public API to programmatically build Docker images for companies that need to securely build Docker images on behalf of their customers.<p>You can sign up at <a href="https://depot.dev/sign-up">https://depot.dev/sign-up</a>, and we have a free tier of 60 build minutes per month. We would love your feedback and look forward to your comments!
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Title: As technology permeates the world more and more, the hiring process is becoming more dehumanized, IMHO. What can we do as an industry, to make hiring more efficient for everyone?<p>Some of the pain points I observe are:<p>1. Applicants must wade through large volumes of job postings, which are often poorly written, and frequently lacking key information which is important to the applicant.<p>2. Employers are overwhelmed with large numbers of applicants, most of whom don't meet the requested minimum requirements.<p>3. Employers are then too overwhelmed to reply to all the applicants.<p>4. Applicants are then annoyed with the lack of replies.<p>5. By the time an employer finds a potential match, the applicant may be difficult to reach, or is no longer interested.<p>6. By the time an applicant hears back from an employer, they are disappointed in the quality of the response, and already have a bad impression of the employer.<p>What is working well today to address these pain points?<p>What are other Possible Fixes?
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Title: Hey everyone, I wanted to share a new tool we've created called Jotte (<a href="https://jotte.ai" rel="nofollow">https://jotte.ai</a>) which we believe can be a game-changer for AI-generated longform writing like novels and research papers.<p>As you may know, current AI like ChatGPT and GPT-3 have a token limit of around 4000 tokens or 3000 words, which limits their effectiveness for longer writing tasks. With Jotte, we've developed a graph-based approach to summarize information and effectively give AI "unlimited" memory.<p>Jotte remembers recent details like the meal a character ate a page ago, while avoiding getting bogged down by irrelevant details like the blue curtains mentioned 5 chapters ago. We've created a proof of concept and would love to hear your thoughts on it.<p>Do you think this approach could lead to better longform writing by AI? Let us know in the comments!
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Title: I've read some horror stories like this, but never thought that this would happen to me.
Upwork, out of the blue, suspended my account, oh, and my payments are lost like tears in the rain.<p>This past Friday Upwork informed me that the were some "account overlapings" with an specific client, I provided Id's, answered questions, even provided long ass screens recordings of the conversations with this client, so they could check how much of a boring illustator I am.<p>Still they've decided that I was doing something shady and suspended my account with no further explanation ):<p>I guess I'm posting this to get it off my chest, but also to warn others as to how capricious and arbitrary these platforms can be.
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Title: At Trevor.io we recently released some fundamental changes to our platform, which, unsurprisingly, came with a handful of bugs. This triggered a debate among the team: which bugs do we fix now? Which do we fix later? And when is later? If we don't fix them now, will we realistically ever fix them?<p>This led us to an interesting question: what if we just split <i>all</i> bugs into "will fix" and "won't fix", and then prioritise every "will fix" above all new features....always. In other words: we commit to only ever adding new features when we're bug free.<p>Has anybody tried this? Can it work?
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Title: I find that I have far more topics I would like to discuss, than people to discuss them with.<p>I will often have a thought or a question, but find it difficult to find the right venue to have a discussion about it.<p>Reddit always seems to have the best design for such discussions, but the moderation is frustrating. There are so many rules about who can post, and often subs are heavily biased and censored.<p>Quora often pops up for questions but its more a reference than a place for discussion.<p>Maybe some kind of search engine for forums.
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Title: Any tips and tricks? I have been on-and-off stimulants for the last decade but recently quit cold turkey because I got sick and tired of dealing with all of the availability issues. I also hate being so dependent/reliant on psychiatrists who in my experience don't really give a shit about you or your wellbeing. I hated needing to ask for refills every 30 days, hoping that they would respond in a timely manner and that the stars would align so there was no interruption.<p>That being said, my life has almost come grinding to a halt. It has been 3 months and I am still struggling to get back to a decent baseline. I am beginning to wonder if it is possible to live life without them, which is an additional strain on my emotions.<p>Has anyone here gone down a similar path to treat this in their own way without schedule I controlled substances?
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Title: I know this has been covered over and over, but I always thought there must be more to the story when someones account was permanently banned. Well, it happened to me, one of the most plain and boring consumer users of PayPal ever.<p>I have used PayPal for over a decade, usually once or twice a month to make small purchases when buying something off Craigslist or Facebook marketplace. I also occasionally use it to split dinner with friends. I don't use it for business and I don't use it for anything sketchy.<p>I recently received an email from PayPal saying that my account had been permanently banned. No appeal, no reason given. I logged in separately to make sure this was a real email, at first I thought it must be phishing. It was real.<p>The only thing I can think of which might have precipitated this. I got a few invoice requests though PayPal a while ago from people/businesses I had never heard of. This is a well known and documented scam where they spam invoices en-masse and hope some people pay them accidentally (I did not pay them, but the PayPal UI makes this very easy to do and there is no way to decline or dismiss the requests).<p>Not a big deal for me since I don't use PayPal for anything critical, but I figured a reminder was in order in case anyone still thinks it won't happen to them. If it could happen to me, it can happen to anyone.
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Title: I didn't really believe my eyes when I saw it the first time, I thought it had to be some ad specific to the website.<p>But it appears every form accepting an email on any website I visit now gets a small duck icon next to it that pops up a big bold-print message box to "Protect your inbox " complete with a cheeky prompt to either "get email protection" or "maybe later." Refusal is not even an option. This is definitely new for me as of today.[0]<p>I found DuckDuckGo via Hackernews and have generally been a happy user of both the search engine and the privacy extension. Why could they possibly be doing this? It seems like a self-destructive act from a branding standpoint, I can't imagine their target customer demographic is amicable to this kind of thing.<p>[0]<a href="https://i.redd.it/p1tcoikka0ka1.png" rel="nofollow">https://i.redd.it/p1tcoikka0ka1.png</a><p>Edit: It's even on Hackernews! I genuinely can't recall a browser extension acting like this since the mid-00s adware toolbar days. <a href="https://i.imgur.com/vYjZAUK.png" rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/vYjZAUK.png</a><p>Edit again: This post originally just said "injecting ads into web forms," I edited the title to clarify - apologies if that was misleading.
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Title: Hi Dang,<p>HN is undoubtedly one of the best networks that I am part of. The site is very well moderated. Wondering what tools / help do you get in moderating HN?
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Title: I recently read patio11 article on pricing for consultants [1] and it encouraged me to think about freelancing/consulting for the first time in my career.<p>Currently I'm working at a big tech , and I estimate I would need to charge a few hundred dollars an hour (or equivalent) to maintain my income level. However I find it hard to believe clients would pay me that much to fix broken builds or hunt down bugs (a big part of the job now). I'd also be happy to move away from such tasks and into more energizing and valuable work, and increase my potential long term income.<p>What kind of task do well paid consultant/freelancers do?<p>[1] https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/09/21/ramit-sethi-and-patrick-mckenzie-on-why-your-customers-would-be-happier-if-you-charged-more/
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Title: So I have been doing personal transfers with cryptocurrency recently for large sums over 20K USD and more each time the fees are around 10 USD. The worse fee that I have had to pay was 100USD but that was during the NFT craze and it still was less then what paypal charges<p>I've just recently for the first time in ages used Paypal for invoicing and was charged about 5%.<p>This is insane. I was charged over 90 USD to invoice 3000 USD? Isn't their process automated or are they still doing accounting by hand. I could pay an accountant to do the invoice for less.<p>Why are their fees so high (aside from demand/supply) surely this gives room for a startup to come in and take the a fixed transactional basis rate?<p>Does anyone have any alternatives to Paypal that doesn't charge on a percentage basis?<p>TLDR: Been spoilt using crypto for transactions and the fees are significantly less then Paypal.<p>How is paypal still charging this rate?
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Title: I have bought a 5 letter COM domain name that I'll call lname.com, which matches my last name. It has no meaning in English. I'm from a poor country and I spent like a year or so to save up for it, which cost roughly 6 months of average net salaries in my country about 7 years ago.<p>I was in my early 20s and one could argue, that it was not the wisest decion of a young adult, but I don't regret it honestly. It always felt like I have a small piece of the web realestate which has my name labeled on it and I absolutely love my [email protected] email address. I created an address for my wife, father, mother, brother and his wife in the same way which they are using daily and are proud of.<p>I was very stressed for any domain or registrar errors that might cause that I lose the domain name and I still am very afraid of it. I have however read quite a few "horror stories" in the past years, regarding bigger companies which were able to obtain people's personal or business domain names, just because they are huge companies with extensive finances and good lawyers. I already know of two companies in different countries which have the very same name as I occasionally receive emails written to them on my catch-all email address.<p>For now the domain is used to host our personal sites, but I recently started working as a web developer and may do freelance work or even create a startup or company in the future. I don't know what this domain will be used for, but I can't say that it will always be for personal use. Maybe it will be the same industry as other companies with the same name. Maybe not. I know a domain name can't be patented. Trademarking is possible, but there are a lot of requirements. What do experts propose?<p>TLDR: What can I do to secure my domain name, no matter what happens?
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Title: Hi HN!<p>We're working on an AI studio product, and have been experimenting with the recently-released ControlNet (<a href="https://github.com/lllyasviel/ControlNet">https://github.com/lllyasviel/ControlNet</a>)<p>After wasting hours with it, we decided to put together a quick fun project. "Sketch" allows you to draw anything (works w/ touch inputs on mobile too), enter a prompt (it can be as simple as "drawing" and it'll try to guess) and you get something out fast. Keeping it all on a public feed as well, to serve as inspiration.<p>Hope anyone here finds it fun :-)
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Title: This is a simulator of a frigate from about 1800. It has realistic physics, tuned to match historical performance. The UI is based around commands given in period naval language. Rather than use the current weather, it has a full year's weather data (for 1980 - taken from <a href="https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data.ncep.reanalysis2.html" rel="nofollow">https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data.ncep.reanalysis2.html</a>). This allows the weather to change realistically under time acceleration.<p>To learn the basics of handling a square-rigged ship, start the "Harbour" scenario, click on the instructions button at the bottom left, and follow the instructions to try to get out of Portsmouth harbour.<p>To go for a long sail, start the "The World" scenario. Open the map, control+click anywhere on it to move there; control+click on the compass at the bottom left to turn the ship to that heading; then activate travel acceleration at the bottom right.<p>It's a simulator more than a game - think MS flight simulator. There's no sinking, but you can lose sails or spars in high winds. It's windows only.<p>This was released a couple of years ago, but this is an updated version from the end of January. See the devlog (<a href="https://thapen.itch.io/painted-ocean/devlog" rel="nofollow">https://thapen.itch.io/painted-ocean/devlog</a>) for the changes. You can also find some discussions there on historical sailing performance numbers.
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Title: Security research is my hobby.
Yesterday I found a pretty big (estimated at tens of thousands of records) data leak.
Full name, date of birth, mail, phone, address.
Nothing to do with the company.
The company in California, I'm in Canada.<p>It's a data operator its customers are other companies from different states in the US. Texas, California, Florida and others.<p>I don't think I have the right to download all the leaked data. But my several checks showed that all clients and end-user data is available.<p>What should I do about it?
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Title: hey yall, I made bearclaw because I just wanted an unopinionated static site generator with no toolchain and fancy stuff going on; it'd be my pleasure to show it to you today and answer any questions you might have.<p>If you do end up trying out bearclaw, you can use nginx or your favorite webserver. Earlier this week I made eclaire - a static site webserver with compression, caching, and automatic HTTPS through letsencrypt. <a href="https://github.com/donuts-are-good/eclaire">https://github.com/donuts-are-good/eclaire</a>
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Title: Like many here, I have my own domain name and I create custom email addresses for each account. For Uber, I predictably used "uber@<domain>". I have never used that address anywhere else.<p>Two days ago, I received spam titled "Epiphany RBC" about some survey that will give me a $5 gift card.<p>How does a Big Tech company like Uber mishandle private data like email addresses? Presumably this action was not coordinated by the C-suite. Did some mid-level/low-level employee with access to the data actually steal and sell the addresses?
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Title: Pascal, and later on Delphi, was what introduced me to programming 20-something years ago. As with most folks in our generation, I quickly discovered other options, more suitable for that relatively fresh thing called the Web.<p>So, i generally considered Pascal a dead language.<p>I was surprised to find out the other day that Delphi is not only alive, but thriving in its own way. Its community is as strong and as fervent about using it as it was back then. Even on the open-source front, there is an alternative IDE called Lazarus that offers a similar developer experience at no cost.<p>This got me curious. Who is still using Pascal/Delphi in 2023 and what for? Has it matured beyond the desktop app? Has it transitioned into the cloud-native era?
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Title: I wanted to give Elon the benefit of the doubt and have stayed on Twitter through the recent turmoil because it has the momentum and it's still where most of the accounts I follow are.<p>But I can only see it continuing to degrade as the hunt for a return on his investment continues. I'm ready to leave.<p>Mastodon is leading as the top migration destination so far, but it seems to have issues of its own. And there's also nostr, which solves some of these issues but introduces others.<p>What have you switched to and why?
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Title: Hello HN,<p>In my spare time I work on an experimental search engine named Ichido. Search is fascinating, there are so many features you can add to a search engine, but I find that the existing search engines are a bit limited in the features they have to offer. So I decided to work on my own search engine to test out different features, searching algorithms, and front ends in order to improve my (and hopefully others) searching experience.<p>Ichido includes a tagging system that provides more info on search results. For example, if a site links to Google services or uses Cloudflare, a tag is shown with the search result that let's the user know about that site's use of those services. Ichido also includes links to RSS feeds in search results, making it much easier to find RSS feeds.<p>This search engine is free to use, but if you like the service and want to support continued development please consider making a donation (Ichido currently supports donations through Libera Pay).
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Title: Hi HN, I made a tool for displaying your Apple Health data (activities, workouts, body metrics) and display them in Grafana to be manipulated, aggregated etc.
It's useful for finding trends, get daily/monthly/yearly stats and visualize outdoor routes on a bigger screen !
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Title: Hi HN, we’re the co-founders of Infisical (<a href="https://infisical.com">https://infisical.com</a>), an open-source platform to sync application secrets and configs across your engineering team and infrastructure. We enable teams to store their secrets in a centralized location and distribute them anywhere from local development processes to staging/production environments.<p>Our Github is at <a href="https://github.com/infisical/infisical">https://github.com/infisical/infisical</a>.<p>We previously worked at AWS, Figma, and another startup, where we frequently ran into problems dealing with secret management. For example, many companies used .env files to maintain their development secrets and struggled to keep secrets in sync amongst their teams (this routinely posed security and efficiency issues — secrets can get leaked or go missing). Some companies (especially bigger ones) used solutions like Vault which can be difficult to set up, maintain, and afford.<p>While secret managers exist, they’re imperfect for many reasons: open-source solutions are either too complicated, not comprehensive, not user-friendly, or a mix of all three; there are nicer closed-source solutions but with no self-hosted options available. The gap we see is to make something that’s simple, open-source, and powerful.<p>On the open-source front, our goal is to provide full transparency of our codebase and enable anyone in the community to build anything they want in an optimal secret management solution. If you need any feature or integration that we don’t yet support, you can post an issue about it or directly send in a PR to be reviewed immediately.<p>You can inject the right set of secrets for any environment into your application by using the Infisical CLI together with your application start command (e.g. infisical run -- npm run dev). This removes the need to use a .env file. Everything stays encrypted with encryption/decryption operations occurring on the client-side — under the hood, secrets are encrypted by vault keys for which there are multiple copies of vault keys encrypted under the public key of each member of a vault (ensuring only members of vaults can decrypt secrets pertaining to that vault locally). An alternative way is to use our Open API - though it’s a little complicated, and we’re working on adding SDKs to abstract away the cryptography.<p>Infisical integrates with staging and production cloud services like AWS, Vercel, GitHub Actions, and Circle CI. We also added support for integrations with Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform. Infisical is now a central source of truth for secrets across the entire development cycle from development to production with new integration releases every week.
One interesting thing is that, by default, our platform is end-to-end encrypted but users can opt out of that if they need to integrate with cloud platforms that require secrets to be sent in decrypted format (e.g. GitHub Actions, Vercel, Render). We’re the only solution that we know of that offers this E2EE-with opt-out ability.<p>Since our last Show HN (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34510516" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34510516</a>), we’ve layered authentication with 2FA (more MFA options coming soon) and upgraded all private key encryption/decryption steps to involve a 256-bit protected key decrypted by another key generated via Argon2id KDF from the user’s password. We are starting the process of obtaining SOC2 and other security and compliance certifications. You can read more about our security here: <a href="https://infisical.com/docs/security/overview">https://infisical.com/docs/security/overview</a><p>Beyond this, we’ve added integrations with PM2, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS Parameter Store, Circle CI, Travis CI, GitLab CI/CD, Terraform and more. We’ve also redesigned the main dashboard and added more advanced organizational structure for secrets. Lastly, we have added role-based access control, and improved our Kubernetes operator: your clusters are now auto-redeployed when secrets in Infisical change. In the coming weeks and months, we plan to add features like secret rotation, improved audit logs, SDKs and alerts; as well as increase the range of our integrations; and continue fortifying platform security and stability.<p>We’ve launched this repo under the MIT license so any developer can use the platform. We don’t charge individual developers or small teams—all the integrations are fully available to everyone. We make money by charging a license fee for enterprise features as well as providing a hosted version and support.<p>If you found it interesting, you can see a demo video here: <a href="https://www.loom.com/share/9a8904c6ecc84d0899d53ee1f7a36385" rel="nofollow">https://www.loom.com/share/9a8904c6ecc84d0899d53ee1f7a36385</a><p>We’d love for you to give Infisical a try (<a href="https://infisical.com">https://infisical.com</a>) and provide any feedback. If you're interested, our code is available here: <a href="https://github.com/infisical/infisical">https://github.com/infisical/infisical</a>. If we don’t have something, let us know and we’d be happy to build it for you. We look forward to your comments!
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Title: Hi HN, author here. Happy to answer any questions.<p>I had an itch to make a lisp like language that was a thin layer on top JavaScript. Something that could leverage the thriving ecosystem that exists around JavaScript. It's brittle, hot off the oven.<p>Besides being a fan of parenthesis, I think macros fill in a gap that the JavaScript ecosystem today fills in with one-off compilers, bundler plugins and such. Macros can't do everything, but for example I think they have the potential to enable things like JSX, Solid and Svelte style libraries.<p>Take the tour to get a feel for what it can do and play with the live code in your browser!
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Title: I wonder if LLMs played a role in the decision to archive and preserve all that code.
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Title: I know of<p>- Gitlab
- PostHog<p>Are there any others with publicly available handbooks?
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Title: Hi everyone,<p>Almost 2 years ago, I left my full-time job at Canon to build tooling and infrastructure to help developers write high-level tests for complex software workflows that are not easy to unit test. I wanted to take ideas from visual regression testing, snapshot testing, and property-based testing and build a general-purpose regression testing system that developers can use to find the unintended side-effects of their day-to-day code changes during the development stage.<p>After two years of working ~70 hours per week and going through multiple iterations, we finally have a fully open-source (Apache-2.0) product that finally makes me and other members of our community happy: <a href="https://github.com/trytouca/trytouca">https://github.com/trytouca/trytouca</a><p>This week we released v2.0, a milestone version that is useful to small and large teams alike. This version comes with:<p>- An easy to self-host server that stores test results for new versions of your software workflows, automatically compares them against a previous baseline version, and reports any differences in behavior or performance.<p>- A CLI that enables snapshot testing without using snapshot files. It lets you capture the actual output of your software and remotely compare it against a previous version without having to write code or to locally store the previous output.<p>- 4 SDKs in Python, C++, Java, JavaScript that let you write high-level tests to capture values of variables and runtime of functions for different test cases and submit them to the Touca server.<p>- Test runner and GitHub action plugins that help you continuously run your tests as part of the CI and find breaking changes before merging PRs.<p>I would really appreciate your honest feedback, positive or negative, about Touca. Would love to learn if you find this useful and look forward to hearing your thoughts and answering any questions.
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Title: Hey folks,<p>Here's a quick and dirty tool to use natural language to get git to do what you want.<p>Example:
$gitgpt create a new branch called feature/test add all the files and commit with msg creating feature test then push to origin<p>I haven't put it through the wringer yet, however it's worked well with some pretty straight forward day to day git usage.
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Title: We have just received an email from Google that we still violate their Google policies and they will not reinstate our account. This is not a post to get sympathy but rather a story why it was closed and how HN played a role in this.<p>I’ve been browsing HN for a decade now and somewhere I read on HN that people lose their online account and everything associated with their account. This has stuck with me and at one point I thought to create a second Google ads account to make sure our main Google ads account was able to keep running if the other account somehow received a violation. Just a pure spread-your-risks decision. After we decided to move into Germany with our eco-friendly brand, I used the second Google ads account to create German ads on a new Shopify hosted .de domain. The ads would target by geo location, consumers in Germany, so that there would be no overlap with our main market.<p>After a couple hours our account and our Merchant Center account, which is used for shopping ads, got suspended. I had no clue why so I wasted an appeal. After further reading on the internet, I discovered that creating more than one Google ads account is against Google policy. This is how scammers work to dominate search and shopping results. Never knew that. I was told that Google doesn’t consider intention, so you’re either good or bad. In this case I was the biggest criminal according to Google and my account was banned on a personal level for life. Not allowed to advertise ever again on Google. Lost some good nights sleep over that one.<p>The first ad account remained working which I find bizarre as the payment information and addresses used on these 2 accounts were exactly the same as I did not have bad intentions.<p>About a month ago I was invited to join the accelerated growth program of Google to help businesses expand into other countries. I was working with 2 Google account managers 4 weeks to prepare launching -again- in Germany. I used our .com domain to target Germany. All was well until I accidentally added .de for an ad instead of .com/de/, within an hour our main account was suspended. After an appeal and having it bumped to priority from my Google account manager, I received the depressing email that our account remains suspended. And that we should not create new Google ads accounts as those will be suspended too. Great.<p>We are all perplexed how a legit company, selling eco friendly products that we design ourselves, have it all trademarked, and have in stock in our own warehouse, are treated like criminals.<p>Luckily we massively increased our ad spend on social media couple weeks ago and are well positioned in Amazon, but I have really lost all faith in Google and their policy teams. We will (barely) survive as search and shopping was a big chunk of our revenue.<p>That you get flagged by a bot, gets suspended, I can get into that. But if you explain your story, have advertised for over 3 years with $30k monthly ad spent (I know it’s tiny for some, but for us as a small business it’s big), and all domains sell the same products, just into another country, than get your account banned for life, is just ridiculous.<p>Just had to get this off my shoulders and possibly warn anyone ever thinking doing the same to spread your company’s risks. A real butterfly effect, what an impact a single post or comment eventually had on my business down the line.
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Title: As a user, I keep seeing every other service or startup I used moving to subscription-based models. However, they weren't even bringing enough value without subscription or with ads. Even free or low-cost subscriptions services are seeing flattening subscriber growth.<p>In an economic downturn where people look more careful at their spending, isn't it counterintuitive that more and more companies introduce subscriptions or hike prices up?
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Title: What are the steps I should be taking now to take advantage of AI as a developer? So far I've been using it to replace Google, generate boilerplate code, generate example code for working with an API, and just bouncing ideas off of it.<p>I've been collecting several resources that seem useful (besides ChatGPT). I've been wanting to understand these technologies deeper [1, 2, 3].<p>Are there other resources that are recommended?<p>Should I be learning more about prompt engineering? [4]<p>[1]: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/<p>[2]: https://www.fast.ai/<p>[3]: https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html<p>[4]: https://github.com/dair-ai/Prompt-Engineering-Guide
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Title: Hey HN! We’ve open-sourced Requestly (<a href="https://github.com/requestly/requestly">https://github.com/requestly/requestly</a>) - A network debugging proxy for web & mobile apps. Requestly intercepts all HTTP(s) requests & responses and provides full control to developers to modify the request/response like rewriting request URL to hit different environment or returning different response for APIs/scripts.<p>In addition to HTTP(s) interception & modification capabilities, Requestly also offers Mock Server [0] & recording the browser sessions [1] with video, console logs, & network logs stitched together. We use rrweb[2] for this.<p>Requestly is available as browser extension [3] with 175K+ downloads on Chrome Store & as a desktop app [4] on all platforms. Browser extension is written in javascript (slowly migrating to typescript now) and use chrome APIs for interception & modification. Desktop app is written in JS (slowly moving to typescript here too) & use electron as underlying framework to support cross-platform needs. For mock server & collaboration features, we use Firebase as backend.<p>Here are some popular use cases how people use Requestly
- Stress testing frontend code by testing bad API responses, API failovers, latencies, testing with huge API responses, etc. (You create different rules inside Requestly and enable/disable as per use case)
- Testing scripts directly on customer sites
- Switching environments for APIs & scripts
- Developing features when APIs are not ready
- Modifying live websites (prospects) and demo their product directly on client’s website instead of an internal website (Applicable for SaaS products that integrate with JS)<p>Overall, we’re quite new to the open source world and still learning how to run an open-source product & roadmap. We’d love the HN community to share their feedback on what we’re building and how can we improve. If there’s anything that they’d like us to build in the future, we’re all ears. Check us out at [requestly.io](<a href="http://requestly.io">http://requestly.io</a>) and [github.com/requestly/requestly](<a href="http://github.com/requestly/requestly">http://github.com/requestly/requestly</a>) to give us a shot<p>[0]: Mock Server - <a href="https://app.requestly.io/mocks">https://app.requestly.io/mocks</a><p>[1]: Sample Session - <a href="https://app.requestly.io/sessions/saved/iedsEivORxdLTcBiNcBA">https://app.requestly.io/sessions/saved/iedsEivORxdLTcBiNcBA</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://github.com/rrweb-io/rrweb">https://github.com/rrweb-io/rrweb</a><p>[3]: <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/redirect-url-modify-heade/mdnleldcmiljblolnjhpnblkcekpdkpa" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/redirect-url-modif...</a><p>[4]: <a href="https://requestly.io/downloads">https://requestly.io/downloads</a>
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Title: Hi HN,<p>I’ve developed <a href="http://tabular.email" rel="nofollow">http://tabular.email</a> (Tabular), a new email design tool that generates hybrid mobile-first email HTML. Think of emails for your app, such as user verification or welcome, newsletters, or marketing emails.<p>My goal was to make designing emails as quick and intuitive as possible. To make a tool where everything is done visually (adjusting margins, paddings, gaps, dimensions etc.), without the user having to worry about writing email HTML code.<p>Cool thing is that you get full control over how your email looks on mobile devices. When designing, you can switch to mobile mode, and any styling changes that you make will overwrite how it looks on desktop.<p>Tabular’s algorithm generates responsive HTML code that renders on all major email inboxes and devices, including older desktop Outlooks (e.g. Outlook 2010, 2013 etc.). At the moment, I’ve implemented 8 integrations so you can connect your email service provider (e.g. Sendgrid, Mailgun) to use it there directly, or download the HTML and upload it manually.<p>You can create any design structures using the row and column blocks. Nest the blocks however you like without constraints on how you use them to create structures. Combine the blocks to create complex designs or data tables for example.<p>I’d love to hear your feedback.
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Title: Hi HN, we’re Carl and Nic, the creators of crul (<a href="https://www.crul.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.crul.com</a>), and we’ve been hard at work for the last year and a half building our dream of turning the web into a dataset. In a nutshell crul is a tool for querying and building web and api data feeds from anywhere to anywhere.<p>With crul you can crawl and transform web pages into csv tables, explore and dynamically query APIs, filter and organize data, and push data sets to third party data lakes and analytics tools. Here’s a demo video, we’ve been told Nic sounds like John Mayer (lol) (<a href="https://www.crul.com/demo-video" rel="nofollow">https://www.crul.com/demo-video</a>)<p>We’ve personally struggled wrangling data from the web using puppeteer/playwright/selenium, jq or cobbling together python scripts, client libraries, and schedulers to consume APIs. The reality is that shit is hard, doesn’t scale (classic blocking for-loop or async saturation), and comes with thorny maintenance/security issues. The tools we love to hate.<p>Crul’s value prop is simple: Query any Webpage or API for free.<p>At its core, crul is based on the foundational linked nature of Web/API content. It consists of a purpose built map/expand/reduce engine for hierarchical Web/API content (kind of like postman but with a membership to Gold's Gym) with a familiar parser expression grammar that naturally gets the job done (and layered caching to make it quick to fix when it doesn’t on the first try). There’s a boatload of other features like domain policies, scheduler, checkpoints, templates, REST API, Web UI, vault, OAuth for third parties and 20+ stores to send your data to.<p>Our goal is to open source crul as time and resources permit. At the end of the day it’s just the two of us trying to figure things out as we go! We’re just getting started.<p>Crul is one bad mother#^@%*& and the web is finally yours!<p>Download crul for free as a Mac OS desktop application or as a Docker image (<a href="https://www.crul.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.crul.com</a>) and let us know if you love it or hate it. (<a href="https://forms.gle/5BXb5bLC1D5QG7i99" rel="nofollow">https://forms.gle/5BXb5bLC1D5QG7i99</a>) And come say hello to us on our slack channel - we’re a friendly bunch! (<a href="https://crulinc.slack.com/" rel="nofollow">https://crulinc.slack.com/</a>)<p>Nic and Carl (<a href="https://www.crul.com/early-days" rel="nofollow">https://www.crul.com/early-days</a>)
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Title: Hello HN! We’re Emily and Aman, the cofounders of Pyq (<a href="https://www.pyqai.com">https://www.pyqai.com</a>). We make it easy for developers to build features powered by AI. We do this by identifying specific tasks that AI can solve well and providing simple APIs that any developer can start using straight from our website.<p>We built Pyq because it took too long to build features that were powered by AI at our previous jobs. A lot of people want to get started using AI, but struggle because of the difficulties involved in managing infrastructure, finding the right model and learning how to call it. There are many interesting and useful models in places like Github or Hugging Face, as well as specific applications of popular models like OpenAI’s GPT, but they require a decent amount of work/knowledge to get working in your app.<p>The first issue is determining if and how your problem can be solved with AI. This generally involves experimenting with different models and (more recently) prompts, followed by potentially fine-tuning your model, at which point you’ll have to repeat this process with datasets. Then you move onto the set of challenges posed by getting that model deployed in production, including messing around with Docker, cloud infrastructure etc. This process can take weeks or even months. We aim to make it easy to match a problem to an AI solution and get it working in your application quickly.<p>Aman was leading a product team at a startup and was told that an already-built AI model would take an additional 3 weeks to bring to production. The only solution was to hire an engineer to do this and potentially pay for an enterprise MLOps platform on top of that. Simultaneously, Emily at Microsoft found herself asking the Azure team directly for help to hook up a model into the HoloLens application she was working on. The ensuing frustration resulted in our first principle: bringing an AI model to production should take minutes, not weeks!<p>Infrastructure is only one part of the problem. With all of the new possibilities afforded by modern AI models, it can be difficult to understand what business applications they can be used for. We decided to apply our knowledge of building AI-powered products to finding practical use cases that are easy for any developer to understand, even if they don’t have any AI knowledge.<p>We identify use cases of various AI models and provide straightforward APIs tailored to those use cases. We use both open-source models and popular providers such as OpenAI. This allows for easy and fast integration into apps. Rather than starting with the model, experimenting to see if it can actually do what you want it to, learning about deployment and serving, developers can just make a POST call to start using AI.<p>We serve our models with FastAPI, containerize them, and then deploy them to our GKE clusters. Depending on the model, we choose different machines - some require GPUs, most are decent on CPU. We take models up or down based on usage, so we have cold starts unless otherwise specified by customers. We expose access to the model via a POST call through our cloud app. We track inputs and outputs, as we expect that people will become interested in fine tuning models based on their past usage.<p>Pyq is not meant for AI experts or specialists, but for people who are building features which are powered by AI. We have a curated list of models that are good at specific tasks and are inexpensive to use. Some have been used thousands of times already!<p>Deploying your own model with us is also a very straightforward process and can usually be done within an hour. For those requiring low latency and high volume, we also offer a high performance API at additional cost.<p>Shortly after the launch of Chat GPT, we created a GPT Detector (<a href="https://www.gpt-detector.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.gpt-detector.com</a>, also available via API through our website) in collaboration with another YC company. This got a surprising amount of traction due to the virality of ChatGPT itself. Building the entire website took less than a day - we fine-tuned an existing text classification model, deployed it on Pyq and our partner integrated it with their front-end. It has been used 10,000+ times since then, and has been quite performant and inexpensive.<p>We have seen several other applications created in a similar way using Pyq. These include document OCR apps, chatbots, stock image generators and more.<p>We have a prepaid, usage-based pricing model. Every model has a “spot price” - the cost of 1 second of compute. This is available on each model’s page in our ‘Zoo.’ If you deploy your own model, we will give you your initial price manually and adjust it up or down over time depending on your needs.<p>We also provide $10 of free computing credit upon signup. This is enough to experiment with all of our models and, for some of them, enough to run a few hundred or even a thousand inferences. We add more credits on an ad-hoc basis, so feel free to email us at team[at]pyqai.com describing what you’re working on and we’ll do our best to accommodate you!<p>We are so excited to show this product. Our hope is that it helps you bring a project to life, finish that feature you’ve been working on, or just gives you ideas for what to build next. Please weigh in and tell us what you think!
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Title: Created this site two weeks ago to compile some ChatGPT jailbreaks I had created and gradually began to add more from across the internet. Been loving growing the site and tracking the status of new jailbreak prompts.
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Title: Following an earlier post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34780859 & suggestion from hiccuphippo, we should take the time to recognise & reward the open source community we depend on.<p>It would be great if the HN community could nominate maintainers or projects they know who's super helpful & impactful. We hope that by creating awareness about the issue we can also help increase the funds going to that maintainers.
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Title: Hi HN, we’re Rob, Russell and Eugene from EdgeBit (<a href="https://edgebit.io">https://edgebit.io</a>). EdgeBit is a tool to secure your software supply chain that focuses on code that is actually running. This simplifies vulnerability management as it cuts through the noise of vulnerabilities you’re not actually exposed to. EdgeBit secures your software all the way from a pull request to build and production. It’s like inbox zero for CVEs. Here’s a demo video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lC6qkfN4Uo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lC6qkfN4Uo</a>.<p>Nothing is more frustrating than investigating a vulnerability to find that it's not exploitable at all. Russell ran security engineering at Okta and knows first hand it’s a constantly moving target of dependencies, frameworks and deployment platforms. Automation is key, but security teams aren’t experts in each app, so “open a ticket for any vulnerability found” is a typical workflow. This is a noisy and frustrating firehose for engineering teams, and tickets don’t contain the context needed for a speedy investigation.<p>EdgeBit ranks threats to keep the patch SLA promised to your customers, helps engineers fix the riskiest items first and assigns dormant items to a lower tier. We automatically inventory your software dependencies, ensure they are trusted, and monitor vulnerabilities, securing your software supply chain. For security teams, we help you meet new compliance requirements about the libraries and packages in your products. For engineers, we make vulnerability investigation/patching streamlined, so you can get back to writing code.<p>We use eBPF-based observation of your running software to keep the threat list as short as possible. For example, if your code has a history of exec-ing imagemagick we’ll include it, but if it’s dormant we can lower the priority of those vulnerabilities. When adding a new dependency, EdgeBit’s runtime knowledge helps our GitHub bot suggest versions already in use by other teams in your company, as a nudge towards consistency.<p>To use EdgeBit, each build execution sends a software bill of materials (SBOM) to EdgeBit. We’re big fans of the open source Syft project, which we use to generate SBOMs. After a build is deployed, we use eBPF to identify packages and files in use, and compare it to the SBOM and vulnerability databases. If there’s a new CVE, EdgeBit passes along context to the engineers tasked to fix it. If a package reports a CVE, but we observe it’s dormant (i.e. you’re not running that particular library), the CVE should be fixed but not be at the top of the list.<p>Looking beyond compliance, real attacks are happening via software dependencies. Since the Colonial Pipeline attack, Federal compliance requirements and Biden’s cybersecurity directive [1] now cover tracking and understanding your supply chain. For a single library, it’s tricky to securely download, integrate, sign and verify it…and very hard for 100s of dependencies across many apps. Where did the dependency come from? What builds is it in? Where is it deployed? EdgeBit provides a single view across OS packages, standalone binaries and containers to understand the full attack surface.<p>Monitoring tools don't tie back to the source build nor do they verify the integrity of your workload, so they leave a lot of gruntwork undone. Also, most scanning tools are noisy by design and we're headed to a world where SBOMs are going to be used as a checklist to add even more useless toil to the firehouse, so new tooling is sorely needed. EdgeBit looks at your OS, workloads, and containers continuously. It's not enough to just scan containers in a registry or validate them upon cluster admission and then never look again.<p>Check us out by using <a href="https://signup.edgebit.io">https://signup.edgebit.io</a> to build a real-time SBOM from a live server and then trace your workloads to close the loop. Signup to claim an org name, no payment required. Developers can hook up automation for 10 workloads for free. Past that, we charge per server with unlimited workloads and build volume. I think you’ll be surprised by the ratio of active to dormant dependencies—we’re seeing about 20-40% are actually active.<p>Our near-term roadmap includes tighter integration with sigstore, pulling SBOMs out of containers automatically, and a smarter Kubernetes admission controller. Today we track file accesses and correlate it to package managers like Deb, RPM, PyPi. Soon we'll add more language specific hooks to better support compiled languages. Further out, we will also allow you to block execution of dormant dependencies and enforce file integrity to ensure the bits that are executing match the SBOM. And we're also exploring how an app can communicate its trust profile to other apps, like a secret store.<p>We’d love to talk to you about the future of this space, how you’re scaling vulnerability response and feedback on what we’ve built so far. We look forward to your comments!<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/05/12/executive-order-on-improving-the-nations-cybersecurity/" rel="nofollow">https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action...</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:
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Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities.
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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://hnhired.fly.dev" rel="nofollow">https://hnhired.fly.dev</a>, <a href="https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/" rel="nofollow">https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/</a>,
<a href="https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com" rel="nofollow">https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com</a>, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519</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=34983765" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34983765</a><p><i>Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34983766" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34983766</a>
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Title: I want to test accessibility for apps and websites as a job. I regularly use pretty much all screen readers except Orca, I use VoiceOver for anything Apple makes, JAWS or NVDA anything Windows, and Talkback in Android. I haven’t had a formal education on accessibility, but I use these screen readers to navigate websites and apps daily, so my skills is pretty good. I also like coding in Java, I love that language, I consider Java the best language since C. I only code in Java, because I can’t C (a little joke). So, if you have an app that you want their accessibility tested, let me know I will do that for you: I currently only own iPhone, though.<p>So, HN, who wants their accessibility tested for their website or apps for blind people or low-vision people?
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Title: OP here. This comment contains SPOILERS so try the dystopia simulator first before reading further!<p>I built "WeChatGPT+" in December on top of GPT-3. It was pretty surreal when OpenAI released an actual product named "ChatGPT Plus" a few months after that. Then the Microsoft partnership was announced, Bing AI was released, and marketing materials were leaked indicating that Bing AI would start including advertisements within the chat responses. Reality imitates fiction, I guess.<p>Today - literally a few hours ago - OpenAI announced public ChatGPT API with 10% the cost of GPT-3. I immediately migrated. Took about an hour to re-tune the prompt for a different model. I wouldn't have been able to afford serving this over the GPT-3 API because it costs so much (I'd kept the server disabled for more than a month). Should be much more affordable now. Also some of the responses seem wittier and funnier.<p>Prompt generation and other source code available here: <a href="https://github.com/baobabKoodaa/future/blob/master/server.js#L58-L99">https://github.com/baobabKoodaa/future/blob/master/server.js...</a><p>Let me know how you feel about this! :)
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Title: Hey HN: Kaveh here, the founder of https://www.usage.ai/<p>We launched on Hacker News for the first time early last year, and we've made a lot of progress since then. We've saved tens of millions of dollars for companies, and we are even more excited to announce the launch of a new product: insured reservations for RDS! We worked closely with AWS on this feature and are excited to finally make it generally available.<p>We help companies drive down AWS EC2 & RDS spend. Why? Because the way it's done now is a pain. DevOps and Software Engineers end up spending time managing costs and reservations rather than focusing on business problems.<p>In the early days, we saw horror stories of customers with millions of dollars in monthly on-demand spend simply because their finance team didn't want them committing to AWS. Worst yet, we've seen AWS users who ended up overspending by hundreds of thousands of dollars a month because they overcommitted their Savings Plan commitment.<p>Here's how it works: We are typically brought in by a DevOps manager to cut AWS EC2 costs. The app is entirely self-service and the savings are generated automatically, typically we do this live on a call. On average, we reduce AWS EC2 spend by 50% for 5 minutes of work, and RDS spend by ~30%.<p>To reduce by 50%+, we don't touch the instances, require any code change, or change the performance of your instances. We buy Reserved Instances on your behalf (a billing layer change only) and bundle them with guaranteed buyback. So you get the steep 57% savings of 3-year no-upfront RIs with none of the commitment.<p>We make money off of a 20% Savings Fee. Happy to chat directly [email protected]<p>Have you experienced any issues with managing your company or organization's AWS expenses? We'd love to hear your feedback and ideas!
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Title: Hello HN!<p>TLDR;<p>- Quality News is a Hacker News client that provides additional data and insights on submissions, notably, the upvoteRate metric.<p>- We propose that this metric could be used to improve the Hacker News ranking score.<p>- In-depth explanation: <a href="https://github.com/social-protocols/news#readme">https://github.com/social-protocols/news#readme</a><p>The Hacker News ranking score is directly proportional to upvotes, which is a problem because it creates a feedback loop: higher rank leads to more upvotes leads to higher rank, and so on...<p><pre><code> →
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Higher Rank More Upvotes
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As a consequence, success on HN depends almost entirely on getting enough upvotes in the first hour or so to make the front page and get caught in this feedback loop. And getting these early upvotes is largely a matter of timing, luck, and moderator decisions. And so the best stories don't always make the front page, and the stories on the front page are not always the best.<p>Our proposed solution is to use upvoteRate instead of upvotes in the ranking formula. upvoteRate is an estimate of how much more or less likely users are to upvote a story compared to the average story, taking account how much attention the story as received, based on a history of the ranks and times at which it has been shown. You can read about how we calculate this metric in more detail here: <a href="https://github.com/social-protocols/news#readme">https://github.com/social-protocols/news#readme</a><p>About 1.5 years ago, we published an article with this basic idea of counteracting the rank-upvotes feedback loop by using attention as negative feedback. We received very valuable input from the HN community (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28391659" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28391659</a>). Quality News has been created based largely on this feedback.<p>Currently, Quality News shows the upvoteRate metric for live Hacker News data, as well as charts of the rank and upvote history of each story. We have not yet implemented an alternative ranking algorithm, because we don't have access to data on flags and moderator actions, which are a major component of the HN ranking score.<p>We'd love to see the Hacker News team experiment with the new formula, perhaps on an alternative front page. This will allow the community to evaluate whether the new ranking formula is an improvement over the current one.<p>We look forward discussing our approach with you!<p>Links:<p>Site: <a href="https://news.social-protocols.org/" rel="nofollow">https://news.social-protocols.org/</a><p>Readme: <a href="https://github.com/social-protocols/news#readme">https://github.com/social-protocols/news#readme</a><p>Previous Blog Post: <a href="https://felx.me/2021/08/29/improving-the-hacker-news-ranking-algorithm.html" rel="nofollow">https://felx.me/2021/08/29/improving-the-hacker-news-ranking...</a><p>Previous Discussion: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28391659" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28391659</a>
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Title: Hi HN! We just released the public alpha version of Mathesar (<a href="https://mathesar.org/" rel="nofollow">https://mathesar.org/</a>, code: <a href="https://github.com/centerofci/mathesar">https://github.com/centerofci/mathesar</a>).<p>Mathesar is an open source tool that provides a spreadsheet-like interface to a PostgreSQL database.<p>I was originally inspired by wanting to build something like Dabble DB. I was in awe of their user experience for working with relational data. There’s plenty of “relational spreadsheet” software out there, but I haven’t been able to find anything with a comparable UX since Twitter shut Dabble DB down.<p>We're a non-profit project. The core team is based out of a US 501(c)(3).<p>Features:<p>* <i>Built on Postgres</i>: Connect to an existing Postgres database or set one up from scratch.<p>* <i>Utilizes Postgres Features</i>: Mathesar’s UI uses Postgres features. e.g. "Links" in the UI are foreign keys in the database.<p>* <i>Set up Data Models</i>: Easily create and update Postgres schemas and tables.<p>* <i>Data Entry</i>: Use our spreadsheet-like interface to view, create, update, and delete table records.<p>* <i>Data Explorer</i>: Use our Data Explorer to build queries without knowing anything about SQL or joins.<p>* <i>Schema Migrations</i>: Transfer columns between tables in two clicks in the UI.<p>* <i>Custom Data Types</i>:: Custom data types for emails and URLs (more coming soon), validated at the database level.<p>Links:<p>CODE: <a href="https://github.com/centerofci/mathesar">https://github.com/centerofci/mathesar</a><p>LIVE DEMO: <a href="https://demo.mathesar.org/" rel="nofollow">https://demo.mathesar.org/</a><p>DOCS: <a href="https://docs.mathesar.org/" rel="nofollow">https://docs.mathesar.org/</a><p>COMMUNITY: <a href="https://wiki.mathesar.org/en/community" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.mathesar.org/en/community</a><p>WEBSITE: https:/mathesar.org/<p>SPONSOR US: <a href="https://github.com/sponsors/centerofci">https://github.com/sponsors/centerofci</a> or <a href="https://opencollective.com/mathesar" rel="nofollow">https://opencollective.com/mathesar</a>
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Title: Hi HN! We’re Ali, Sam and Yang, the founders of Buildt (<a href="https://buildt.ai">https://buildt.ai</a>), an LLM-powered IDE extension that allows you to ask highly contextual and semantic questions about your code. It’s a bit like if you had a colleague sitting next to you who has perfect memory of your codebase. Our VS Code extension is here: <a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=BuildtAI.buildt-vscode" rel="nofollow">https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=BuildtAI...</a>.<p>Some demos: <a href="https://twitter.com/AlistairPullen/status/1628486007002894336?s=20" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/AlistairPullen/status/162848600700289433...</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/AlistairPullen/status/1628486008064086016?s=20" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/AlistairPullen/status/162848600806408601...</a><p>We’ve been devs on projects ranging from mobile apps, arbitrage trading systems, VR platforms to on-demand startups. Without fail, whenever a codebase gets over a certain size or we inherit legacy code, we get slowed down from not knowing where a certain snippet lives, or how it works. I’m sure we’ve also bothered our colleagues when we first get onboarded for longer than they would like.<p>Current code search products aren’t too different from CMD + F. We’ve often wanted results that aren’t captured by string matches or require some nuanced understanding of our codebase—questions such as “How does authentication work on the backend?”, "Find where we initialize Stripe in React”, or “Where do we handle hardware failures?”<p>To build a tool to help developers quickly search and understand large codebases requires contextual understanding of every line of code, and then how to surface that understanding in a useful format.<p>First we need to parse your codebase; this isn’t a walk in the park as we can’t simply embed your code files because in that instance if you were to surface a result for a specific search you’d only be brought to the file that the result was in, and no deeper. To be able to find specific snippets of code you’re looking for, we need to be much more granular in how we split up your codebase. We’ve used a universal parser (TreeSitter), so we can traverse the Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) of your code files to pick out individual functions, classes, and snippets to be embedded; not the entire file. This allows us to work on your codebase on a more semantic level than the raw source code.<p>Once we have extracted all of the relevant code from the AST, we have to embed them. (We use a number of other search heuristics too, such as edit distance and exact matches, but embeddings are the highest weighted and core heuristic.) We’ve learned a great deal about the best implementations of embeddings for this use case, particularly in this case when using embeddings to search between modalities (natural language and code) we found that hypothetical search queries were the optimal way to surface relevant code, as well as creating a custom bias matrix for our embeddings to better optimize them at finding code from short user queries. Simply embedding the user’s search query and searching the answer space with it was a poor solution.<p>One embeddings heuristic we use is a HyDE comparison, which involves using an LLM to take the user’s search query, and then generate code that it thinks will be similar to the actual code the user’s trying to find. This process is well documented and has given us a huge increase in performance (<a href="https://www.buildt.ai/blog/3llmtricks">https://www.buildt.ai/blog/3llmtricks</a>). Another heuristic allows us to achieve “search for what your code does, not what it is” functionality—this involves the embeddings gaining some form of understanding of what the code actually does. For this we used embedding customisation to create a bias matrix to mutate the vector space in such a way that the embeddings cluster code by its functionality rather than simply its literal strings (<a href="https://www.buildt.ai/blog/viral-ripout">https://www.buildt.ai/blog/viral-ripout</a>).<p>By having a product that lives in your IDE instead of your Git repository, we give you the power of contextual understanding in real time as you’re working on your codebase. There’s no need to context switch or change apps—everything is self-contained; you can easily search for code, have your code refactored and fresh code written from a single extension.<p>Buildt is free for now as we’re still in beta, but in the future we’ll charge something like $10 per seat per month. We’re currently building the last part of what we consider our core features, cross-file codegen. Soon you’ll be just ask Buildt to instantly perform request such as ‘add firebase analytics to every user interaction’.<p>We started Buildt as a product to tackle our own frustrations and we’d love for you to try it out and let us know what you think. We can’t wait to hear your feedback, questions, and comments!
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Title: I do product development for a team that's creating solutions for life sciences & pharmaceutical companies that work with real-world data. This is a new industry vertical for us, so we don't have a bunch of existing customers we can go interview to understand what to build.<p>It's already a reasonably crowded space, but the few pharma teams we've talked to express frustration with the speed and price of existing offerings. That said, I need much, much more information from users of existing offerings in our space to be able to form a product strategy that I have strong conviction in.<p>I was reading Airbyte's company handbook[1] the other day, and it mentioned the co-founders did 45 discovery calls with customers using existing ELT tools in 3 months! I would kill for that kind of access to teams in our target market.<p><i>How did they do that?</i> Is that just the power of the YC network, or is there something I'm overlooking? My background is not in sales or BizDev, but I can pick up that skillset (or hire for it) to get these calls. Should I just start finding people in the pharma space, add them on LinkedIn, and request an informational interview? Are healthcare conferences good for getting these kinds of calls?<p>Open to any advice or guidance - thank you!<p>[1] https://handbook.airbyte.com/company/our-story (Fantastic doc, BTW)
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Title: I've been a cloudflare user and advocate for many years. I even hold a small amount of NET stock. A few months ago I enabled their web3 offering which gives you an ethereum gateway and added it as a backup to an other gateway I had set up for a small site of mine which gets around 1000 unique visitors a day. It has been running in the free tier for awhile and I thought everything was fine.<p>Then I got an invoice for $400, I immediately removed cloudflare eth gateway from my site and thought I had unsubscribed from the web3 service on cloudflare's site. The next month I got another $490 invoice (~49 million requests) and saw that it was still enabled on the site so I completely deleted and removed it as best I could from their UI. Additionally their website dashboard UI has zero visibility into where the traffic comes from, how much there is or what the bill will be until you get an invoice.<p>This is the entirety of the information you get in the invoice (1):<p><pre><code> > Ethereum Gateway Queries (First 500,000 requests are included
> 01/17/2023 - 02/16/2023 48,788,614 $0.00 $490.00
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I sent a support email asking if they would consider a refund as the traffic was very likely not from my site visitors, one feature other ethereum gateway service providers offer that cloudflare does not is the ability to add a domain whitelist or even API key authentication. Cloudflare just lets you set up a domain name that they happily accept any requests to. I should have assumed someone would have abused it but unfortunately I did not. However without any data provided it would be entirely possible for cloudflare themselves to have a bug that mistakingly hits my set up domain and inflates the bill. At the least I would like to be able to see where the requests came from, on what dates, and other information.<p>The support ticket was open for 12 days unanswered, I sent a follow up reply and the next day the ticket was closed with this message:<p>> Cloudflare only issues refunds in very specific situations, such as fault in service. As this is not the case, we will not be able to attend your request.<p>I accept that I'm liable for the charges and have no recourse, but I wanted to share this as a warning to others and also to hopefully reach some cloudflare employees or leadership about the need for better visibility into paid features usage. Being able to set up access rules for the service and having user set limits would also be very helpful. With this service in particular there is zero way to prevent someone from abusing it as all the customer can do is point DNS to cloudflare's managed server.<p>1. https://i.imgur.com/DFrQEoO.png
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Title: Nosey Parker is an Apache-licensed command-line tool that finds secrets and sensitive information in textual data. It's useful both for offensive and defensive security testing.<p>The big idea: textual content in, hardcoded secrets out. These include things like API keys and passwords.<p>It should do a reasonable job on any textual input. It will recursively scan any directories it is pointed at. It also has special support for scanning the complete contents of Git repositories.<p>The default rules in Nosey Parker have been carefully chosen to minimize false positives. Many API tokens these days have well-specified formats that are amenable to precise matching with regular expressions, and these are the kind of things that the default rules detect. Additionally, its findings are deduplicated. Together, these give much higher signal-to-noise compared to similar tools.<p>Nosey Parker is fast: it can scan 100GB of Linux kernel commit history in just over a minute on my laptop. This speed comes from several factors, but most significantly from using the amazing Hyperscan library for simultaneous matching of all regex rules in a single pass. In comparison with similar tools on large inputs, Nosey Parker is usually 1-3 orders of magnitude faster.<p>Nosey Parker was originally created to help construct a labeled dataset of secrets for machine learning purposes. But it proved surprisingly useful on its own. In the past year, an internal, proprietary version (with added machine learning capabilities) has been regularly used in security engagements at Praetorian.<p>In late 2022, Nosey Parker was reimplemented in Rust, released as open-source, and presented at Black Hat Arsenal.<p>It now supports enumeration and scanning of GitHub repositories by providing just usernames or organization names. It also recently got support for SARIF output, which several other tools understand.
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Title: Some days I think that I just want to basically check out of technology on a day to day basis and either develop a skill I have or learn a new one and work maybe part or full-time doing something totally different. Something totally unrelated to sitting in front of a computer.<p>Thanks to tech I have a lot of savings. Not enough to retire on early, though maybe starting to be fairly close, so I feel like I could do something like this in the next few years fairly safely, and I wouldn't feel as much the loss of income if I didn't have the savings.<p>Has anyone here done this and have a story to share, either positive or negative? What did you switch to? How did it work out?
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Title: My son has a Galaxy S20 running Android, and he said to me recently he has been bullied for having such a phone because it's 'lame'. I tried to explain it's a modern enough and capable phone that can do everything the latest iPhone can do, sometimes even better. He claims all his friends have the latest iPhones and they shun Android.<p>I own an S20 too and tried to explain how you can side-load apps from F-Droid, bypassing Google Play, but he's too young (12) to understand such concepts. He just wants to play a few games, do instant messaging, and do casual surfing.<p>How do I convince him that this peer pressure is unacceptable and that iPhones are not automatically 'better' just because they're marketed as a premium brand are are nothing more than expensive jewelry?
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Title: I [28M] got broken up with by my partner of almost 4 years a couple weeks ago. I thought she was the love of my life and I would marry that woman. I'm also in the last year of my PhD in a sub-field I have never envisioned myself in and somehow slipped into due to Covid and my own passiveness and weak sense of self. The PhD is also not going super well and I'm stressed about not having enough research to finish in time. I also grew up in a dysfunctional family environment (toxic parent relationship, some narcissistic/borderline traits in them) and have been struggling with the consequences of that on my development and mental health. I also don't have a large social circle, and some of my friends are scattered internationally.<p>As you can see, I feel like I've hit rock bottom. On the outside I look all successful, in shape and doing a PhD in a prestigious research group. But most of the time in my life I've felt empty, doubting myself and struggling with a weak sense of self and unhealthy thought/behavioural patterns that are hard to shed off. I feel like I've lost any passion for anything, and don't know what I want or need.<p>I've read tons of psychology/philosophy/self-help over the past 10 years and it helped to some extent. I've also started therapy 2 months ago, but it's going slow and it hasn't been very useful yet. The advice so far has boiled down to "do things you like".<p>I would be grateful for any of your advice or shared life stories. At the moment I feel like standing in front of a massive pile of broken glass.
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Title: After a mandatory signup for a Duolingo account, <i>anyone</i> using their iPhone and Android (and possibly web) apps can add you as a 'friend', without requiring any confirmation from you whatsoever.<p>This is mostly just annoying and might be considered 'typical growth hacking', but also constitutes a privacy risk: your 'friends' are notified whenever you are online, have completed a number of lessons, or whatever. The Duolingo privacy policy (https://store.duolingo.com/pages/privacy-policy) is obviously a cut-and-paste job (for a NYSE-listed-company, really?) that doesn't address concerns like this at all.<p>In the Duolingo app, you get notifications like 'your friends congratulated you on 14 days of being online' and, more worryingly, 'XXX congratulated you on completing 10 lessons today'. Nevermind that you don't know who XXX is, and can't do anything about notifications about your online state being sent to them. Even if you have removed XXX as a 'friend' from your in-app Duolingo profile aeons ago.<p>So, there is a 'privacy' option in the Duolingo app. This apparently (again, pretty much without notification, much less consent) requests a ZIP export of all your data (FYI: I'm in the EU, US experiences may differ). Which takes up to 30 days (Sure, ZIP is not the most efficient file format, but <i>that</i> slow?)<p>But, at least there is an email address: [email protected] (pretty much the only contact details you'll get as a fully paid up Duolingo customer). Sending a <i>very</i> polite email reply to the minders of this account about the continuous harassment by 'friends', however, is a mistake.<p>You will not receive a reply, but your paid Duolingo account will be disabled pretty much immediately. Leaving you, I guess, to sort things out with Google/Apple/your credit card company.<p>'Typical growth hacking'... Oh, joy...
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Title: Why is functional programming the new thing suddenly? Why are industries also vouching for it and slowly shifting from pure imperative code to as much functional as possible.<p>And I am not talking about functional languages like Haskell, OcaML, etc. It is the style of avoiding state wherever possible.<p>I get it that academia has been programming functionally for quite a long time. Academia do many things that seem weird at the moment but later may become fruitful in practical settings.
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Title: Hello!<p>I'm looking for ideas for simple web apps that people wish existed. I plan to select some of those ideas and implement a “v0” or prototype version of the idea using PyCob, a Python project that makes it easy to create web apps using just Python. The easiest types of apps to implement would be Python libraries that you wish there were a front-end for. I’ll post the demo and code here: https://www.pycob.com/<p>If you have an idea for a simple web app that you think would be useful or fun, please share it in the comments below. These are some examples of demo apps we’ve made:<p>PyPi Analytics: Show trends of how many downloads PyPi packages have over time<p>HN Analytics: Find the best time to post on Hacker News<p>Dataframe Explorer: Choose fields from a dataframe to pivot and graph the results<p>App Wizard: Generate Python code for a CRUD app<p>Book Summary: Choose a book and get a 10 bullet point summary
AI Regex Generator: Give the app 3 examples and have AI (try to) generate a regex pattern<p>Warranty Claims: Allow users to submit warranty claims and track status of replacement parts<p>These are just a few examples – feel free to suggest any kind of app you can think of!<p>Thanks in advance for your ideas. I'm excited to see the ideas, and I look forward to implementing some of these apps using PyCob.<p>Thanks!
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Title: I’ve been working on this game for the past few weeks. It’s written in plain JavaScript, mostly with canvas, with no dependencies.<p>The code is here: <a href="https://github.com/ehmorris/lunar-lander">https://github.com/ehmorris/lunar-lander</a>
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Title: Hi HN,<p>I have been working on this website for a few weeks with some buddies of mine and would love if you checked it out. TuringJest provides a jackbox-esque experience with its two game modes.<p>*One Shot Prompt*
- Submit a prompt for all players (including the AI) to answer.
- Answer your prompts in the way that you think ChatGPT would answer them.
- Vote for who you think the real AI is.<p>*Talk It Out*
- Plan an event in a group chat with your friends.
- Trick everyone into thinking you are the AI while voting for the real AI.<p>Let me know what you think!
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Title: I've been trying to write my "go on rails" framework for years. I never quite got it like I wanted. There is gin and echo and all sorts of other frameworks and patterns but I finally found something I really like:<p>/foo/<p>/foo/bar/<p>/foo/bar/more/<p>That's it. Just three levels and all my controllers get passed in what's between the / with var names first, second, third.<p>In order to really make sure this framework could build something real I made a Hacker News clone. RemoteRenters.com is a HN just for articles about the remote work revolution since covid. Feel free to vote or submit to see how it all works!<p>Code is open source at: <a href="https://github.com/andrewarrow/feedback">https://github.com/andrewarrow/feedback</a>
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Title: What is a simple and secure tool to manage secrets and credentials for a small startup?<p>How do you do it?<p>This is not a core of the business. It should be easy to use and configure so a paid service would also be good.<p>Consider the the following typical situation:<p>1. Small startup with about 10 technical people.<p>2. One or two are responsible for the infrastructure in the cloud like AWS, Azure, ...<p>3. There are also other third party services like Cloudflare, Datadog, ...<p>4. Everything (AWS, Datadog, ...) is managed with IaC tools like Terraform, Pulumi, (Ansible). These tools need secrets to work. The simplest way for giving the secrets to the tools is via environment variables or .env files.<p>5. People work on their own devices. So security cannot be absolutely guaranteed. So I guess MFA and generated temporary tokens should be used if possible. To generate temporary tokens the secrets management service has to work e.g. with AWS.<p>6. Optional: It would be good if Terraform can also be run in the CI/CD pipeline but only after confirmation of one of the 2 infrastructure persons.<p>7. Optional: It would be good if developers get credentials to setup small test environments in AWS. You can create IAM roles that only allow to create these, but you still have to manage the secrets for these.<p>8. Bonus: How to manage non-technical secrets, e.g. credentials for web shops to order supplies? Multiple people would have to order something. Store it all on a confluence page?
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