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Title: Hi,
As a 8-bit C64 game coder in eaarly 90ties and currently mostly FE-focused dev, decided to give a go to a simple retro game archive. This is purely fun project - so i decided to post it to HN, mayne it'll resonate :)
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Title: Which of the software you authored continued to be useful the longest? What do you think caused it to last longer than other software you've written?
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Title: I'm exploring an idea for a platform that will allow job interviewees (esp. techies) to share their interview recordings to help others prepare for similar interviews. I believe this will be extremely valuable for job seekers who are looking to improve their interview skills and gain insights into what employers are really looking for.<p>However, I'm aware that privacy and anonymity is a big concern and I want to make sure that interviewees feel safe and comfortable sharing their recordings. So, I've put a lot of thought into how we can ensure anonymity while still providing valuable insights to job seekers.<p>Here's what I'm thinking so far:<p>- All videos will be completely anonymized before being shared on the platform. This includes blurring out faces, changing voices (if requested), and removing any identifying information such as company names and any personal info.<p>- All videos will be thoroughly reviewed before being published to ensure that they meet strict standards for anonymity and content.<p>As a means to reward them, interviewees can also choose to receive compensation for their video through a system similar to Buy Me A Coffee where viewers tip them if they found it helpful.<p>I would really appreciate any feedback on this. Do you think this would be valuable for job seekers? And do you have any concerns or suggestions?<p>Let me know what y'all think!
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Title: Hey there! I’ve been working on DB Pilot for the last couple of months, and I recently added an AI assistant powered by GPT 3.5 to help you write SQL queries tailored to your DB schema.<p>Simply ask what data you are looking for - GPT will figure out which tables to use, how to join them, and then write a query for you.<p>The AI assistant knows which tables and columns exist in your database, meaning it can write queries specific to your schema.<p>Besides that, it doesn't have access to any actual data from your database though, meaning your data doesn't get exposed to OpenAI.
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Title: Hi HN,<p>Frogmouth is a TUI to display Markdown files. It does a passable job of displaying Markdown, with code blocks and tables. No image support as yet.<p>It's very browser like, with navigation stack, history, and bookmarks. Works with both the mouse and keyboard.<p>There are shortcuts for viewing README.md files and other Markdown on GitHub and GitLab.<p>License is MIT.<p>Let me know what you think...
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Title: Hi friends,<p>We are building EVA, an AI-Relational database system with first-class support for deep learning models. Our goal with EVA is to create a platform that supports AI-powered multi-modal database applications operating on structured (tables, feature vectors, etc.) and unstructured data (videos, podcasts, pdf, etc.) with deep learning models. EVA comes with a wide range of models for analyzing unstructured data, including models for object detection, OCR, text summarization, audio speech recognition, and more.<p>The key feature of EVA is its AI-centric query optimizer. This optimizer is designed to speed up AI-powered applications using a collection of optimizations inspired by relational database systems. Two of the most important optimizations are:<p>+ Caching: EVA automatically reuses previous query results (e.g., inference results), eliminating redundant computation and saving you money on inference.<p>+ Predicate Reordering: EVA optimizes the order in which query predicates are evaluated (e.g., running faster, more selective deep learning models first), leading to faster queries.<p>Besides saving money spent on inference, EVA also makes it easier to write SQL queries to set up multi-modal AI pipelines. With EVA, you can quickly integrate your AI models into the database system and seamlessly query structured and unstructured data.<p>We are constantly working on improving EVA and would love to hear your feedback!
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Title: Hi HN,<p>Recently, I’ve noticed there’s a decently high barrier to entry in developing competitive, full-stack SaaS applications.<p>Beside the standard, boring features that take months to implement, you typically have to know several languages and frameworks, and be familiar with fancy frontend styling classes.<p>I’m working hard right now to solve this problem by building PySaaS- The 100% pure Python SaaS starter kit.<p>PySaaS is a boilerplate Python codebase that takes care of the fundamental components standard to all SaaS applications.<p>The codebase uses the Pynecone web framework to compile your frontend into a NextJS app, so you never have to touch any HTML, CSS, or Javascript. Pynecone is easy to learn, yet fully flexible and powerful enough for advanced use cases. We implement out-of-the-box functionality for secure Firebase user authentication, Lemon Squeezy subscription management (MoR removes a major tax headache), Notion as a headless blog CMS, and more.<p>Our mission is to help developers and founders save months of development time and focus on building unique features, which will in turn provide more opportunities to generate revenue and give value to customers.<p>And easily do it in pure Python! Frontend. Backend. All in Python.<p>To check out the live demo for free, click the link and then the “See Demo” button.<p>Let me know what you think.
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Title: Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:<p><pre><code> Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
</code></pre>
Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities.
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Title: 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=35773705" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35773705</a><p><i>Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35773706" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35773706</a>
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Title: I got logged out and can't log in anymore. Seems to be widespread
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Title: Hi HN,
I wanted to share an app I've created recently since it might be useful for you:<p>guitos is a free open-source budgeting app that helps you figure out where your money went and plan your budget ahead of time.<p>It was initially created to replace a spreadsheet I created based on the budgeting advice given on the r/personalfinance subreddits and as an opportunity to learn React.<p>The app stores data in your browser's local storage (IndexedDB). Your private financial data doesn't leave your browser.<p>(If you're wondering what the app's name means: "guitos" is portuguese slang for money/cash. )<p>source code available @ <a href="https://github.com/rare-magma/guitos">https://github.com/rare-magma/guitos</a>
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Title: Hey HN,
I'm currently a senior CS student (graduating in fall), I wanted to align my career with low level/embedded systems and I wanted to focus more on the kernel/firmware side of things.<p>so to that end, What would be a good idea for a linux kernel module I can work on, something that may get me to interact with any topics involving communication standards/protocols ( i2c, SPI, or JTAG, wireless, BLE).<p>thank you.
Upvote: | 81 |
Title: I'm trying to setup server to run ML inferences. I need to provision a somewhat beefy gpu with a decent amount of RAM (8-16 GB). Does anyone here have personal experience and recommendations about the various companies operating in this space?
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Title: ChatGPT and other generative AI seems to be taking a lions share of mindspace in the tech industry right now.<p>I'm curious to hear what interesting new things people are seeing that AREN'T trendy right now (yet?!).
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Title: Hey - I was recently laid off from an early stage start up (Pre-Series A) and haven't received my last two paychecks. Do I have any legal avenues to recoup these missed payments?<p>I've opened a case with the state DOL office but I'm worried the company will fold / file for bankruptcy. Does anyone have a similar experience? Any luck getting missed paychecks? Should I attempt to sue the founder?
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Title: I'm working on a new website and it has some marketing on the landing page. The product hasn't launched, but I want people to be able to sign up to a newsletter to find out more information.<p>I create projects here and there every other year or so, but I've never seen a Deceptive Site Warning put on any of them. Not only did I get this when I went to my site initially, I got it again when I clicked a link, in Safari.<p>I apparently have to verify my domain so that it's registered with Google before anyone can freely visit it.<p>What are your thoughts? Maybe I'm overreacting.
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Title: I was deciding between a Macbook Air and framework laptop. I thought one way I can justify buying a Framework over MBA(and give up stellar battery life, proper sleep/instant wakeup function etc) is if it could be had with 5G connectivity that would allow me to use the laptop even while I''m on the train without drining my phone battery for a hotspot.<p>But, to my surprise, I could not find any 5G dongles that are cheap and available to buy easily...
I found one on an Austrian website intended for IOT uses coming at a price almost as that of a laptop.https://www.fts-hennig.at/netztechnik/router/mobilfunkrouter/hocell-5g-dongle-m210.html<p>What am I missing?
If my phone could have 5G and even my watch could have 5G for cheap, why not a laptop?
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Title: Here is a library of the most common components I've created in the last decade. It aims to solve the toughest UI problems like Carousel, Modal and Select, while using native browser capabilities as much as possible, and focusing on accessibility, stability and customisation. 14 KB of CSS, JS optional.<p><a href="https://rado.bg/niui-3-0-native-internet-user-interface/" rel="nofollow">https://rado.bg/niui-3-0-native-internet-user-interface/</a>
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Title: TLDR: Stripe will give you a better rate if you agree to a "Minimum Fee Commitment", meaning you agree to process $X in fees over a certain amount of time, and if you fall short, you have to pay them the difference. However, there's nothing in the contract that lets you off the hook if <i>Stripe</i> decides to freeze your payouts, which in our case they did, and repeatedly keep doing.<p>Long version: The company I work for processes tens of millions annually, and Stripe was able to offer a better rate than our current processor, so we entered into what would become a months-long sales process.<p>The salesperson pushed hard to get us to sign up for a Minimum Fee Commitment: if we agreed to run at least $X million in processing fees over five years, they could give us a <i>really</i> good rate. If there was a shortfall, we'd have to make up the difference.<p>We almost agreed as we could easily meet the amount, but in the end we declined since the contract didn't let us off the hook if <i>Stripe</i> decided to stop doing business with <i>us</i>.<p>Shortly after we started collecting payments through Stripe, we got a notice that they had frozen our payouts because of a "surge in processing volume". Weird! Must be a mistake, right? They obviously know who we are and what volume we process; after all, we've been working with them for the past X months to get this thing off the ground, submitted financial statements, processing history, all sorts of documentation about our business.<p>What we discovered pretty quickly, however, is that the Stripe risk teams (apparently) don't communicate with the rest of the organization, and they also don't communicate with customers, which is to say they ask but don't answer questions. They wanted things like "Invoices for the past 7-14 days" or "copies of one or two contracts with vendors", but wouldn't respond to requests for clarification or acknowledge our emails to them in any way. They'd say, "Send us X," and I would reply, "What do you mean exactly by X?" and they'd reply with, "Send us Y". A black box.<p>Our rep figured out that our account hadn't been flagged properly: even though we had gone through a sales process and signed a contract, our account had been configured as "self serve", which puts us in a higher risk category with a different risk team than we should have had. So... payouts frozen for a week, a bit scary but resolved now, no big deal.<p>Less than 24 hours later, however, our payouts were frozen again, this time by a different Stripe risk team with even weirder demands: among other things, they wanted a "working website" (our website works?) and "contact information to appear on the website" (it's on every page?) It was as if Stripe had never heard of or talked to us before, and just like the other risk team, they asked questions but didn't respond to our emails.<p>We've been able to make some progress, but due-diligence is ongoing and feels arbitrary, with new and different teams taking an interest in our account every so often, which leads to new questions, documents we need to produce, etc., and as of yesterday our payouts are frozen once again.<p>I'm hopeful we'll resolve our issues, but I feel pretty strongly that we would be in deep trouble had we agreed to the Minimum Fee Commitment. Our ability to walk away has been the one piece of leverage we have had in order to achieve any resolution whatsoever.<p>To sum up: Stripe has a lot going for them, and I definitely not saying you shouldn't use them to process payments, but: beware the Minimum Fee Commitment. No matter how warm and fuzzy the salesperson makes you feel, Stripe proper doesn't do any due diligence until after you sign the contract and start collecting money, and their policy is "freeze payouts first, ask questions later", so you'll want the ability to roll back to another processor (which is what we're currently doing) if you can't meet their ever-changing demands by their deadlines.
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Title: Hey HN! I'm Miraan, the founder at Hypertune, and I'm excited to be posting this on HN. Hypertune lets you make your code configurable to let teammates like PMs and marketers quickly change feature flags, in-app copy, pricing plans, etc.<p>It's like a CMS but instead of only letting you set static content, you can insert arbitrary logic from the UI, including A/B tests and ML "loops".<p>I previously built a landing page optimization tool that let marketers define variants of their headline, CTA, cover image, etc, then used a genetic algorithm to find the best combination of them. They used my Chrome extension to define changes on DOM elements based on their unique CSS selector. But this broke when the underlying page changed and didn't work with sites that used CSS modules. Developers hated it.<p>I took a step back.<p>The problem I was trying to solve was making the page configurable by marketers in a way that developers liked. I decided to solve it from first principles and this led to Hypertune.<p>Here's how it works. You define a strongly typed configuration schema in GraphQL, e.g.<p><pre><code> type Query {
page(language: Language!, deviceType: DeviceType!): Page!
}
type Page {
headline: String!
imageUrl: String!
showPromotion: Boolean!
benefits: [String!]!
}
enum Language { English, French, Spanish }
enum DeviceType { Desktop, Mobile, Tablet }
</code></pre>
Then marketers can configure these fields from the UI using our visual, functional, statically-typed language. The language UI is <i>type-directed</i> so we only show expression options that satisfy the required type of the hole in the logic tree. So for the "headline" field, you can insert a String expression or an If / Else expression that returns a String. If you insert the latter, more holes appear. This means marketers don't need to know any syntax and can't get into invalid states. They can use arguments you define in the schema like "language" and "deviceType", and drop A/B tests and contextual multi-armed bandits anywhere in their logic. We overlay live counts on the logic tree UI so they can see how often different branches are called.<p>You get the config via our SDK which fetches your logic tree once on initialization (from our CDN) then evaluates it locally so you can get flags or content with different arguments (e.g. for different users) immediately with no network latency. So you can use the SDK on your backend without adding extra latency to every request, or on the frontend without blocking renders. The SDK includes a command line tool that auto-generates code for end-to-end type-safety based on your schema. You can also query your config via the GraphQL API.<p>If you use the SDK, you can also embed a build-time snapshot of your logic tree in your app bundle. The SDK initializes from this instantly then fetches the latest logic from the server. So it'll still work in the unlikely event the CDN is down. And on the frontend, you can evaluate flags, content, A/B tests, personalization logic, etc, instantly on page load without any network latency, which makes it compatible with static Jamstack sites.<p>I started building this for landing pages but realized it could be used for configuring feature flags, in-app content, translations, onboarding flows, permissions, rules, limits, magic numbers, pricing plans, backend services, cron jobs, etc, as it's all just "code configuration".<p>This configuration is usually hardcoded, sprawled across json or yaml files, or in separate platforms for feature flags, content management, A/B testing, pricing plans, etc. So if a PM wants to A/B test new onboarding content, they need a developer to write glue code that stitches their A/B testing tool with their CMS for that specific test, then wait for a code deployment. And at that point, it may not be worth the effort.<p>The general problem with having separate platforms is that all this configuration naturally overlaps. Feature flags and content management overlap with A/B testing and analytics. Pricing plans overlap with feature flags. Keeping them separate leads to inflexibility and duplication and requires hacky glue code, which defeats the purpose of configuration.<p>I think the solution is a flexible, type-safe code configuration platform with a strongly typed schema, type-safe SDKs and APIs, and a visual, functional, statically-typed language with analytics, A/B testing and ML built in. I think this solves the problem with having separate platforms, but also results in a better solution for individual use cases and makes new use cases possible.<p>For example, compared specifically to other feature flag platforms, you get auto-generated type-safe code to catch flag typos and errors at compile-time (instead of run-time), code completion and "find all references" in your IDE (no figuring out if a flag is in kebab-case or camelCase), type-safe enum flags you can exhaustively switch on, type-safe object and list flags, and a type-safe logic UI. You pass context arguments like userId, email, etc, in a type-safe way too with compiler errors if you miss or misspell one. To clean up a flag, you remove it from your query, re-run code generation and fix all the type errors to remove all references. The full programming language under the hood means there are no limits on your flag logic (you're not locked into basic disjunctive normal form). You can embed a build-time snapshot of your flag logic in your app bundle for guaranteed, instant initialization with no network latency (and keep this up to date with a commit webhook). And all your flags are versioned together in a single Git history for instant rollbacks to known good states (no figuring out what combination of flag changes caused an incident).<p>There are other flexible configuration languages like Dhall (discussed here: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32102203" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32102203</a>), Jsonnet (discussed here: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19656821" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19656821</a>) and Cue (discussed here: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20847943" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20847943</a>). But they lack a UI for nontechnical users, can't be updated at run-time and don't support analytics, A/B testing and ML.<p>I was actually going to start with a basic language that had primitives (Boolean, Int, String), a Comparison expression and an If / Else. Then users could implement the logic for each field in the schema separately.<p>But then I realized they might want to share logic for a group of fields at the object level, e.g. instead of repeating "if (deviceType == Mobile) { primitiveA } else { primitiveB }" for each primitive field separately, they could have the logic once at the Page level: "if (deviceType == Mobile) { pageObjectA } else { pageObjectB }". I also needed to represent field arguments like "deviceType" in the language. And I realized users may want to define other variables to reuse bits of logic, like a specific "benefit" which appears in different variations of the "benefits" list.<p>So at this point, it made sense to build a full, functional language with Object expressions (that have a type defined in the schema) and Function, Variable and Application expressions (to implement the lambda calculus). Then all the configuration can be represented as a single Object with the root Query type from the schema, e.g.<p><pre><code> Query {
page: f({ deviceType }) =>
switch (true) {
case (deviceType == DeviceType.Mobile) =>
Page {
headline: f({}) => "Headline A"
imageUrl: f({}) => "Image A"
showPromotion: f({}) => true
benefits: f({}) => ["Ben", "efits", "A"]
}
default =>
Page {
headline: f({}) => "Headline B"
imageUrl: f({}) => "Image B"
showPromotion: f({}) => false
benefits: f({}) => ["Ben", "efits", "B"]
}
}
}
</code></pre>
So each schema field is implemented by a Function that takes a single Object parameter (a dictionary of field argument name => value). I needed to evaluate this logic tree given a GraphQL query that looks like:<p><pre><code> query {
page(deviceType: Mobile) {
headline
showPromotion
}
}
</code></pre>
So I built an interpreter that recursively selects the queried parts of the logic tree, evaluating the Functions for each query field with the given arguments. It ignores fields that aren't in the query so the logic tree can grow large without affecting query performance.<p>The interpreter is used by the SDK, to evaluate logic locally, and on our CDN edge server that hosts the GraphQL API. The response for the example above would be:<p><pre><code> {
"__typename": "Query",
"page": {
"__typename": "Page",
"headline": "Headline A",
"showPromotion": true
}
}
</code></pre>
Developers were concerned about using the SDK on the frontend as it could leak sensitive configuration logic, like lists of user IDs, to the browser.<p>To solve this, I modified the interpreter to support "partial evaluation". This is where it takes a GraphQL query that only provides some of the required field arguments and then partially evaluates the logic tree as much as possible. Any logic which can't be evaluated is left intact.<p>The SDK can leverage this at initialization time by passing already known arguments (e.g. the user ID) in its initialization query so that sensitive logic (like lists of user IDs) are evaluated (and eliminated) on the server. The rest of the logic is evaluated locally by the SDK when client code calls its methods with the remaining arguments. This also minimizes the payload size sent to the client and means less logic needs to be evaluated locally, which improves both page load and render performance.<p>The interpreter also keeps a count of expression evaluations as well as events for A/B tests and ML loops, which are flushed back to Hypertune in the background to overlay live analytics on the logic tree UI.<p>It's been a challenge to build a simple UI given there's a full functional language under the hood. For example, I needed to build a way for users to convert any expression into a variable in one click. Under the hood, to make expression X a variable, we wrap the parent of X in a Function that takes a single parameter, then wrap that Function in an Application that passes X as an argument. Then we replace X in the Function body with a reference to the parameter. So we go from:<p><pre><code> if (X) {
Y
} else {
Z
}
</code></pre>
to<p><pre><code> ((paramX) =>
if (paramX) {
Y
} else {
Z
}
)(X)
</code></pre>
So a variable is just an Application argument that can be referenced in the called Function's body. And once we have a variable, we can reference it in more than one place in the Function body. To undo this, users can "drop" a variable in one click which replaces all its references with a copy of its value.<p>Converting X into a variable gets more tricky if the parent of X is a Function itself which defines parameters referenced inside of X. In this case, when we make X a variable, we lift it outside of this Function. But then it doesn't have access to the Function's parameters anymore. So we automatically convert X into a Function itself which takes the parameters it needs. Then we call this new Function where we originally had X, passing in the original parameters. There are more interesting details about how we lift variables to higher scopes in one click but that's for another post.<p>Thanks for reading this far! I'm glad I got to share Hypertune with you. I'm curious about what use case appeals to you the most. Is it type-safe feature flags, in-app content management, A/B testing static Jamstack sites, managing permissions, pricing plans or something else? Please let me know any thoughts or questions!
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Title: Hey HN, I've been using GPT a lot lately in some side projects around data generation and benchmarking. During the course of prompt tuning I ended up with a pretty complicated request: the value that I was looking for, an explanation, a criticism, etc. JSON was the most natural output format for this but results would often be broken, have wrong types, or contain missing fields.<p>There's been some positive movement in this space, like with jsonformer (<a href="https://github.com/1rgs/jsonformer">https://github.com/1rgs/jsonformer</a>) the other day. But nothing that was plug and play with GPT.<p>This library consolidates the separate logic that I built across 5 different projects. It lets you prompt the model for how it should return fields, inject variable prompts, handle common formatting errors, then cast to pydantic when you're done for typehinting and validation in your IDE. If you're able to play around with it, let me know what you think.
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Title: Hey all,<p>Last time when we were on HackerNews [1], we received a lot of feedback, and we incorporated most of it.<p>- We have changed our name from grep.help to usegrasp.com<p>- A privacy policy page<p>- Bulk import<p>- Pricing page<p>We are happy to introduce a new feature: a personalized answer search engine that provides direct citations to the content on the page.<p>Demo: <a href="https://usegrasp.com/search?q=is+starship+fully+reusable%3F" rel="nofollow">https://usegrasp.com/search?q=is+starship+fully+reusable%3F</a><p>1 - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35510949" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35510949</a>
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Title: Hi HN,<p>This is a project [1] I've been working on for a little while and I'm interested in your feedback and point of view.<p>Many of us would have verified a domain name by pasting a string into a DNS TXT record. Some providers ask us to store this DNS TXT record at a domain using a DNS label like "_provider" e.g. _provider.yourdomain.com, and some providers ask that you do it at the zone apex (God help us [2]).<p>The Domain Verification protocol stores a DNS TXT record at a DNS name derived from a hashed "verifiable identifier" (think email, telephone, DID), enabling anyone that can prove control over the verifiable identifier to prove authority for the domain name.<p>For example, the domain verification record giving the email address [email protected] authority over the domain dvexample.com can be seen with this terminal command:<p>dig 4i7ozur385y5nsqoo0mg0mxv6t9333s2rarxrtvlpag1gsk8pg._dv.dvexample.com TXT<p>The record can specify what type of services the authorised party is allowed to use (e.g. SEO, Storage, Advertising) or specify an exact provider (ads.google.com), you can also specify an expiry date.<p>The benefits of this approach are:<p>- Domain owners can grant time-limited, granular permissions for third parties to verify a domain<p>- Every service provider could use the same verification record<p>- Once a domain owner creates a verification record by following instructions from one service provider, that same record could be used by other service providers<p>- Domain registrars could set these records up on behalf of users, perhaps even upon domain registration (with registrant opt-in). This would provide domain registrants with a fast lane for signing up to services like Google Ads, Facebook Ads, Dropbox, whatever<p>I'm still working on licensing but creating these records will always be free. I hope to find service providers that see significant upside in reducing friction for user onboarding that are willing to pay to license it.<p>Worked example:
Let's say you want to authenticate the user with the email [email protected] with the domain dvexample.com, these are the steps:<p>1. HASH([email protected]) -> 4i7ozur385y5nsqoo0mg0mxv6t9333s2rarxrtvlpag1gsk8pg<p>2. Store Domain Verification record at:
4i7ozur385y5nsqoo0mg0mxv6t9333s2rarxrtvlpag1gsk8pg._dv.dvexample.com<p>3. TXT record determines permissions and time limit:<p>@dv=1;d=Example user emali;e=2025-01-01;s=[seo;email];h=4i7ozur385y5nsqoo0mg0mxv6t9333s2rarxrtvlpag1gsk8pg<p>BTW, if you're interested the syntax of that DNS record is a compact data serialisation format I created especially for DNS [3].<p>Thanks for taking a look,<p>Elliott<p>1. <a href="https://www.domainverification.org" rel="nofollow">https://www.domainverification.org</a><p>2. dig target.com TXT<p>3. <a href="https://www.compactdata.org" rel="nofollow">https://www.compactdata.org</a><p>(edit: formatting)
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Title: Or maybe there <i>are</i>, and my Google-fu is weak.<p>"Traditional" compilable languages, like C, C++, FORTRAN, etc all <i>ought</i> to be targetable to a portable runtime like the JVM (since it defines its own instruction set (Java byte code)).<p>Scala and other languages target the JVM as their runtime environment.<p>Why not older/traditionally-compiled languages?
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Title: I spend 99% of my work time using computer and I'm considering abandonig this career/business completely. I'm thinking of picking a physical craft. I'm looking for something useful, sonething I could make a living with even if internet ceased to exist. Because I have to feed my family the criteria I must also consider are margins, market need and some scaling capacity (not huge, I don't want to get rich) ...
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Title: We've been running The HN Recap for a month to make it easier to consume Hacker News. While this was a PoC in understanding adoption for AI-generated podcasts, we now plan to keep this going, since lots of people are now listening to this daily.<p>Let us know what other content channels you'd like to receive as Podcasts and we'll get on it.<p>Read more about our learnings here → <a href="https://wondercraft.ai/blog/learnings-from-1-month-of-ai-podcast">https://wondercraft.ai/blog/learnings-from-1-month-of-ai-pod...</a>
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Title: Loneliness can be a challenging and isolating experience. Have you ever struggled with loneliness? If so, how did you cope with it? And what are some strategies you've found helpful in building and maintaining meaningful connections with others?
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Title: Over the last decade I've built a number of different digital asset managers (mostly media files) that met the needs of my companies at the time. It is an area I enjoy working in. A month ago, when asked what was next for me, I jokingly said I would build another DAM.<p>Then on Saturday, two weeks ago, I learnt that Imgur was going to delete all anonymous & NSFW files on the 15th of May. It was pointed out that this would mean broken links in communities that had relied on Imgur. By the Sunday I had decided that I would build another DAM, initially with the intent of avoiding Imgur link rot.<p>It was challenging to find time to spend on this, the project was put together over about 8 evenings. It still has rough patches, this is an early MVP (a Michael Seibel "brick").<p>I have many ideas of where to take this project, but for now it only does one thing: backup Imgur files and produce new links that are easy to swap out for old soon-to-be-deleted Imgur links.
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Title: Hello dear HN. I am looking for advise,
I have a Facebook account that has been suspended for unknown reasons, other than I somehow 'broke' the community standards.
It is unclear to me which ones however. When I try to re-log in I am stopped by an endless AI bot, and cannot get a hold of a real person.<p>I am still paying monthly for Facebook Ads for my small business. However, I cannot log in to cancel these Ads. I tried contacting my credit card company, but FB uses a different vendor account for each bill posted, making it difficult for the credit card company to stop these transactions.<p>I attempted emailing FB several time to [email protected].
And I wrote a letter twice, and sent in the mail via postage, with tracking, which was delivered, to cancel my Ad services and provide a refund. No response however.<p>Should I proceed to small claims court to recover about $300 of lost Ad revenue, for a service which I can no longer use? I am still being billed to.
Does anybody have any experience with this?
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Title: Hey HN community!<p>We're excited to introduce UnionX, an AI Copilot for Work designed to revolutionize the way you perform research, write long documents, and extract insights. Our platform is perfect for PMs, students, lawyers, finance professionals, and more.<p>UnionX is built on cutting-edge technology, leveraging OpenAI's GPT4 model and Jupyter notebook-style workflows to create a seamless, AI-powered experience. Our block-based editor allows you to easily upload documents, analyze them, and generate new insights or docs with the help of AI. If you don't have ideas about what to do with your data, UnionX provides AI Actions that provide common and AI-generated suggestions to help you transform your documents and deliver your work on time.<p>Some key features include:<p>- Jupyter-style notebooks<p>- Document & spreadsheet editors<p>- AI action & chat blocks<p>- Knowledge bases with large document support<p>- Visualizations (coming soon)<p>- Form filling (coming soon)<p>Give our GPT4-powered beta a try for free and let us know what you think!<p>Check it out: <a href="https://unionx.io" rel="nofollow">https://unionx.io</a><p>-David
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Title: What makes you go “wow” at documentation?<p>I’m looking for some inspiration on technical product documentation in the DevTools space (think cloud platforms, CI/CD, etc.)
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Title: What's the last time that ChatGPT4 blew your mind with its response?
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Title: I am curious how other people are using the API in their company. I've mostly just used it to help write up generic emails in my personal life.
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Title: 00's called, they want their RSS feeds back.<p>I was looking at my growing Github gist collection when a sudden urge to blog and make a name for myself "by not programming" struck. Part way into implementing my oh so special static website generator it occurred to me that, quite frankly, Github gists is a pretty decent publishing platform. I mean, it gives you reasonably extended markdown with previews, heck I could even write in org-mode, has comments, follower - followee relationship, extended search with filters, check out locally and push your edits. Did someone say "edit button"?<p>Thus the idea behind <a href="https://git.ht" rel="nofollow">https://git.ht</a> was born: collect gists into RSS feeds and force everyone, kicking and screaming, into the good old days when Google Reader was king. Well, it's a bit more than that now. But basically, you create a gist or grab an old one, name its main file `hoot.md` or `hoot.org` if org-mode is your poison, make it public and voila. These "hoots" make it into your RSS feed and will get permalinks with social graph metatags, so you get nice previews when you share them on Twitter and such.<p>To take it for a spin:
- pick a subdomain e.g. foo.git.ht,
- navigate you browser there,
- login with Github.<p>I still consider it alpha, but it should work. Report any issues as you would normally on Github <a href="https://github.com/fullmeta-dev/githoot-public">https://github.com/fullmeta-dev/githoot-public</a>.<p>Thank you
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Title: What tools do you use to keep track of your daily tasks, projects, and other obligations?<p>What do you like about these tools and what would you like to change?
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Title: With high school math knowledge of geometry and algebra and quite a bit of programming knowledge, what is the best resource to get started with studying college level mathematics?<p>Basically I want to learn how to read and write proofs. The main goal is to understand and work through higher math books like analysis, combinatorics, graph theory, abstract algebra, etc.
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Title: Reading through the comment section on “I'm never investing in Google's smart home ecosystem again” (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35849060) made me realize:<p>Is there no company smaller than Google or Amazon or Apple willing or able to make a better smart home device? Especially now with AI solving the language-proficiency problem in talking to these devices, it seems like the rest of the product is just API integrations with a few hundred smart home hardware vendors, and some easy lookups like weather and calendar.<p>Is there something I'm missing about why the current generation of these still suck so bad? As a weekend project I bolted speech-synthesis and speech-recognition to ChatGPT (and have seen similar "Show HN" posts) and immediately had a more interesting conversational partner than Alexa or, god help them, Siri has ever been.<p>Why are three of the most profitable technology companies in the history of mankind unable to come up with better than Google Home, Alexa, and Siri? Is there some unusual challenge here that I fail to understand?<p>Plenty of people I know would spend $500-1000 (not to mention the lightbulbs, appliances, or various “smart” gadgets) on just the smart home “brain” itself, and not even for something HN folks might consider “ideal” (privacy respecting, no ads etc), but just for a device that actually, usefully, and consistently does most of the things these devices purport to do. Why can’t three different trillion-dollar companies even manage that, and more to the point, why aren’t there more billion-dollar companies even trying?
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Title: Messing with your TI-84 graphing calculator is a rite of passage for every teenager who has ever been bored in a math class. In 2013 I was that teenager, and it gave me an idea for a tiny game about sledding on graphs. This project grew into my white whale, and I spent my twenties trying and failing to finish it alone. I shelved the game when I started working for Hack Club in 2018—until last May, when a few community members took it off the shelf. The project took on a life of its own, and turned into a year of nights and weekends from a global team of 20+ teens in 8+ countries. Today SineRider enters public beta!<p>SineRider is literally an infinite universe of function composition puzzles, each with infinite solutions, that range from welcoming for 9th graders to difficult for even the most serious matlab user. And every day we tweet out a fresh one to be solved with your morning coffee.<p>We hope you enjoy playing SineRider as much as we’ve enjoyed making it. And we’re not done! Mobile support, polar coordinates, and a level editor are all on the roadmap. SineRider is a living project, to be continuously built and maintained as free OSS by the Hack Club community: <a href="https://github.com/hackclub/sinerider">https://github.com/hackclub/sinerider</a><p>The team that built the game will try to be in the comments today between high school classes and AP tests.<p>—chris walker, creative director<p>Watch the trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35nDYoIwiA8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35nDYoIwiA8</a><p>Play now: <a href="https://sinerider.com" rel="nofollow">https://sinerider.com</a>
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Title: Hi, I am Krishna Thota. I am building an open source integration and data platform(<a href="https://cptn.io" rel="nofollow">https://cptn.io</a>). The product is MIT licensed and the repo is at <a href="https://github.com/cptn-io/el-cptn">https://github.com/cptn-io/el-cptn</a>.<p>I have started on my startup journey an year ago and launched a monitoring platform called DevRaven. Unfortunately the product did not takeoff as expected. That story is for another day.<p>But during the course of building the product, I have built several integrations leveraging MQs and Cloud Functions. While building and deploying Cloud Functions for happy paths is easy, I had to monitor logs for failures, build retry mechanisms or manually process failed events, keep instances running to prevent cold start timeouts. It can also get expensive with charges for MQs, server time for running cloud functions etc and costs can be unpredictable.<p>I thought of building a platform where I can build integrations quickly, have the ability to look at incoming/outgoing events, look at logs, retry any failed events etc. And finally, predictable costs for running the infrastructure. cptn.io provides all these capabilities and more. You can build pipelines to integrate with any cloud services, send data from your backend to data warehouses, listen to web hook events etc. The platform can be integrated into any stack by sending events to HTTP end points.<p>Instead of trying to build a business first or launch an open source product under restrictive licenses, the platform will be available under MIT license so any user or customer can use it. There is no ee folder or complex dual licensing and I am also committing to releasing SSO under MIT. The plan is to offer a managed service in the cloud at a later time, accept sponsors for prioritizing features for enterprise customers and charge for enterprise support.<p>It should take less than 5 minutes to get the platform running on your machine. Welcome any feedback, feature requests, PRs and bug reports.
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Title: I'm here asking for advice, as I'm not sure what to do next.<p>I got a job 3 weeks ago, as a front-end developer. Obviously still on probation. Just got terminated today, reason given was
I do not know how to use tools. They say the fact that I use Firefox as my preferred browser means that I'll most likely be
terrible at cross-browser testing. That the fact that I do not use chrome dev tools is a red flag. Or the fact that I said I
prefer using text editors (vs code) over full blown IDES (visual studio).<p>So my question is, is it fair to terminate a new developer because they use Firefox?
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Title: Hello everyone,<p>I would like to introduce our startup to HN: Mineo.app. Mineo.app is a production-ready SaaS Python notebook that provides a complete environment for building your data applications: Dashboards, Reports, and Data Pipelines based on Python notebooks.<p>Key features:<p>* Superpowered jupyter-compatible Python notebooks with extra goodies like: version control, commenting support, custom docker images, etc... enhanced with no code components that allow to create beautiful dashboards and reports.<p>* Data Pipelines: Ability to schedule and run one or more notebooks.<p>* Integrated file system to manage your files and projects with detailed permissions and groups.<p>We have a freemium licensing model, so you can start using Mineo just by registering with your Github/Google/Microsoft account for free without a credit card. And it's free for educational purposes ;-)<p>Diego.
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Title: Am a software developer located in Khartoum, Sudan. The country is going through a turmoil.<p>Long story short Internet access is becoming more and more unstable, probably will go completely out within the next week.<p>I want to know what can I do to utilize my free time to be a better developer, but almost every development environment/learning resources requires internet access.<p>- I have 1 YOE as an Android Developer<p>- I am self-taught
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Title: G'day, HN!<p>I'm one of the maintainers of `llm`. I've been working alongside a trusty group of contributors to bring this project to life, and we're now at a point where we're ready to share it with the world.<p>Large language models (LLMs) are taking the computing world by storm due to their emergent abilities that allow them to perform a wide variety of tasks, including translation, summarization, code generation, and even some degree of reasoning. However, the ecosystem around LLMs is still in its infancy, and it can be difficult to get started with these models.<p>`llm` is a one-stop shop for running inference on large language models (of the kind that power ChatGPT and more); we provide a CLI and a Rust crate for running inference on these models, all entirely open-source. The crate can be embedded in your own projects, allowing you to easily integrate LLMs into your own applications.<p>We hope that `llm` can help to alleviate some of the pain points that users face when working with LLMs. Our goal is to build a robust solution for inferencing on LLMs that users can rely on for their projects, so that we can provide a moment of peace in the chaos of the LLM ecosystem.<p>At present, we are powered by `ggml` (similar to `llama.cpp`), but we intend to add additional backends in the near-future. This means that we currently only support CPU inference, but we have several ideas in mind for how to add GPU support, as well as other accelerators.<p>We're looking for feedback on the project, and we'd love to hear from you! If you're interested in contributing, please reach out to us on our Discord (<a href="https://discord.gg/YB9WaXYAWU" rel="nofollow">https://discord.gg/YB9WaXYAWU</a>), or post an issue on our GitHub (<a href="https://github.com/rustformers/llm/issues">https://github.com/rustformers/llm/issues</a>).
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Title: An online community that enjoys reading and discussing engineering books together.
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Title: Wordbots is a long-running side project I've been working on on-and-off for the past ~7 years that I finally feel comfortable enough with to share with the HN community.<p>It's an online tactical card game (inspired by games like Hearthstone and Magic: the Gathering), where players write their own cards in natural language, that gets parsed down to JavaScript. The English-to-JavaScript translation is handled by a semantic parser operating on a hand-crafted CCG grammar – kind of an “old-school” approach in this age of LLMs but one that performs quite well on the very constrained language of Wordbots cards.<p>The resulting game gets pretty wacky as players can create all sorts of cards, though there are some game formats that try to produce more balanced gameplay as well (e.g. one format in which both players shuffle their decks together, and various draft formats).<p>If you're curious about how it all works, I made a write-up about it here: <a href="https://app.wordbots.io/how-it-works" rel="nofollow">https://app.wordbots.io/how-it-works</a><p>And if you want to chat about Wordbots beyond this thread, please don't hesitate to join our discord at <a href="https://discord.wordbots.io/" rel="nofollow">https://discord.wordbots.io/</a> . I'd love to hear any and all feedback.<p>-Alex
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Title: Fir leverages Golang’s standard library html/template package and a bit of alpinejs to allow building reactive UIs. You start with plain old html and use alpinejs to enhance it to bring no-page-reload interactivity to web apps.<p>The Fir toolkit is designed for Go developers with moderate html/css & js skills who want to progressively build reactive web apps without mastering complex web frameworks. It includes a Go library and an Alpine.js plugin.<p>How it works ?<p>On receiving user-interactions the fir server re-renders html templates and sends it over the wire where the fir client library selectively updates the changed areas.<p>When a user event is received by a Fir route, an array of html templates are rendered on the server and returned as an array of DOM events to the browser. The DOM events are consumed by the alpinejs plugin and dispatched within the DOM where listeners attached to elements can use the event to update the DOM.<p>See the demo and quickstart here: <a href="https://livefir.fly.dev/" rel="nofollow">https://livefir.fly.dev/</a>
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Title: I bought a "lifetime" 1Password license over a decade ago before they switched to a monthly-fee model. Now I'm getting a notice that I must upgrade to a monthly-fee-based model to continue using 1Password (see https://support.1password.com/upgrade-mac/). What the heck? Can I sue?
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Title: I started to add an ai.txt to my projects. The file is just a basic text file with some useful info about the website like what it is about, when was it published, the author, etc etc.<p>It can be great if the website somehow ends up in a training dataset (who knows), and it can be super helpful for AI website crawlers, instead of using thousands of tokens to know what your website is about, they can do it with just a few hundred.
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Title: Algs/DS were my first love in CS. Nowadays, all we hear about is AI/ML. There must be hardware/software improvements coming from or necessitating fundamental Algs/DS research.<p>Care to share any of the favorite recent results?<p>Are there big fields still making gains behind all this computing surge?
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Title: Hey HN, we're Royce and Oliver, the founders of Clearspace (<a href="https://www.getclearspace.com">https://www.getclearspace.com</a>). We make an iPhone app that helps you reduce compulsive phone use. It regulates your social media experiences and app usage, saving you from impulse opens and mindless scrolls. Here’s a demo: <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zXLYvtG1zZ6ZRq01eGc8jlsn70vlUZLj/view" rel="nofollow">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zXLYvtG1zZ6ZRq01eGc8jlsn70v...</a><p>During the pandemic, we found ourselves spending more and more of our lives on digital content. Youtube, Instagram, Twitter, even HN were always <i>right</i> there, and the impulse to open and consume became stronger than ever. We realized how much of our technology use was compulsive rather than intentional. Willpower alone was not enough to solve the problem. Most of these products have been designed to activate dopamine feedback loops and, to be blunt, keep users hooked [1].<p>Not wanting to be addicted, we started cobbling together "attention protection stacks": iPhone shortcuts, Chrome Extensions, custom /etc/ files, anything to create digital environments that aligned with our own goals rather than the engagement metrics of big tech. We had some surprising successes with that, so we decided to build a comprehensive and approachable solution. We began with our worst pain point: mindless scrolling on our phones.<p>How it works: you tell us what apps you want to reduce your usage of (edit: and websites! we just rolled out website support this week), and we do the following to train better habits:<p>(1) App Intercepts: we inject a mandatory 15 second breathing exercise before opening apps you’ve added to Clearspace. This helps to break the dopamine feedback loop that your brain has learned, where tapping an app icon yields an instant reward.<p>(2) Intentional Sessions: at the end of said breathing exercise, you tell us how long you want to use an app for. Then you enter and we'll pull you out after that amount of time.<p>(3) Cumulative Progress: each day you stay below your intended time limit adds to your streak of successes. Over time, protecting your streak frequently becomes more important than a "quick scroll" before bed (and if you get a 100 day under-budget streak, we'll send you a hat).<p>(4) Teammates: you can add “teammates” who will receive automatic texts if you exceed your budget on an app, remove it from Clearspace, or delete Clearspace entirely.<p>You may notice how this is fighting fire with fire: we use tech to limit your tech use, social features to curtail social media, and so on. The mechanisms built into the big apps have such a conditioning effect on the brain, they’re nearly impossible for most people to resist. We invoke similarly powerful mechanisms on <i>your</i> behalf, to help your life be less dominated by these things.<p>Some of this only recently became technically possible. The new ScreenTime API from Apple allows users to connect apps on their phone to third party apps (like us). We receive opaque "tokens" for each user app selection and we can perform actions on the tokens, which affects the apps without us knowing what the actual apps are. We can add and remove "shields" to a token, which presents an obstructing interface over an app or website. We can display a user's usage of a token over a time period and display that data to them.<p>Btw, after 3M "app intercepts" (a 15 second wait), we’ve found that people opt <i>not</i> to continue to the app they tried to open 54% of the time. We think that says something about how much of our social media use as a society is compulsive rather than intentional.<p>Here are some typical testimonials from users who have been recovering their time by using our app: <a href="https://twitter.com/martindaniel4/status/1630175865496584193" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/martindaniel4/status/1630175865496584193</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/timzyu/status/1632551744340123650" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/timzyu/status/1632551744340123650</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/jandralee/status/1650674167174377473" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/jandralee/status/1650674167174377473</a><p>If you're an iPhone user, we'd love for you to try our app and let us know what you think! We have a freemium model: adding one app is free, paid tier gives you unlimited apps. Your feedback on the app would be deeply appreciated and more broadly we’d love to hear about how you’ve navigated this problem in your life.<p>[1] though maybe not HN: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=77173" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=77173</a>, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=372593" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=372593</a>.
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Title: Hey folks, I made 2Quiet2Market for busy solopreneurs who are "too quiet to market" what they build.<p>I've been building this since September 2022 because I am a software dev who likes to talk factually but doesn't enjoy to "pound the drum" and "toot the horn" to market my stuff.<p>On the other hand, if I don't market my stuff, people won't know about it and won't buy it. Bummer.<p>So what did I do to make life better for quiet or factual people like me who like to build stuff and want to make money with it?<p>I made a web-based app that helps you create your own habit for marketing. When people have a habit, they are more likely to do what needs to be done (marketing in this case).<p>The free plan of my SaaS contains these tools:<p>* Positioning blackboard<p>* Story Composer<p>* Experiment Designer<p>Positioning blackboards provide you with Lego-like building blocks to make your product look awesome and desirable. They clarify your marketing until you reach a story you want to tell that will make your customer buy.<p>Story Composer helps you create those stories step-by-step, and Experiment Designer lets you plan which stories to tell on which marketing channels, with a recipe on how to execute each marketing experiment.<p>Already with the Free plan, you can create your specific marketing playbook and turn it into a habit.<p>The Free plan allows you to have 1 project with 2 blackboards, and an "invite" feature to have a friend look at your stuff.<p>There are two paid plans as well:<p>- the Pro plan offers unlimited projects and blackboards, as well as an integration with the Todoist.com task management system. It automatically turns experiments into to-dos to get them done. And: The Pro plan also allows you to edit other people's stuff if they invite you to do so.<p>- the Advanced plan adds GPT to spice up the factual marketing copy from Story Composer, in order to make it more engaging for your audience.<p>Have fun, please try it out, and tell me whether you can use it to market your own stuff to the world.<p>It comes with interactive demos on its dashboard, and with comprehensive docs at <a href="https://2quiet2market.com/docs/" rel="nofollow">https://2quiet2market.com/docs/</a><p>Cheers,
Matthias
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Title: I am early 50's and still code around half of my day. I do manage a small team but my primary love has always been development. I'm wondering what resources there are for us senior devs who keep coding? My older friends in the field chat when we are able about the cyclic nature of tech, coding, managing, mentoring and sometimes (unfortunately) strategies for dealing with ageism. But the pool of 40+ yr old devs is not huge in my area so I'd like access to a online community if anyone has pointers. Thanks!
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Title: Hi, I’m Kirubakaran. I’m building histre - a knowledge tool for individuals and teams.<p>One of the features of histre is to auto-organize your knowledge. I thought that a fun way to demo that could be to apply that to the Hacker News front page.<p>This page mirrors HN with tags automatically applied: <a href="https://histre.com/hn/" rel="nofollow">https://histre.com/hn/</a><p>You can filter by or exclude multiple tags. For example, if you’re tired of posts related to ai and politics, this will remove them <a href="https://histre.com/hn/?tags=+all-ai-politics" rel="nofollow">https://histre.com/hn/?tags=+all-ai-politics</a><p>The tags for the posts are picked by gpt-3.5<p>You can get these tags inside Hacker News itself with these open-source browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox:<p>Source: <a href="https://gitlab.com/histre/hn-tags" rel="nofollow">https://gitlab.com/histre/hn-tags</a><p>Chrome: <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-tags/iinmfmdejkafpmakbofheoiddalpobca" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-tags/i...</a><p>Firefox: <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hacker-news-tags/" rel="nofollow">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hacker-news-t...</a><p>People use <a href="https://histre.com/" rel="nofollow">https://histre.com/</a> to keep track of all kinds of web research, make highlights, collaborate with their teams, generate documentation from chat conversations, automatically extract information from pages and create comparison tables, etc. I’m excited to be building a comprehensive knowledge tool.<p>If you can play with it and share your thoughts, I’d really appreciate it.
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Title: In today's world, catchy headlines and articles often distract readers from the facts and relevant information. By utilizing OpenAI's language models, Boring Report processes sensationalist news articles, transforms them into the content you see, and helps readers focus on the essential details. We recently updated our iOS app experience, so any and all feedback would be appreciated.<p>App Link: <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/boring-report-news-by-ai/id6446786839?itsct=apps_box_link&itscg=30200" rel="nofollow">https://apps.apple.com/us/app/boring-report-news-by-ai/id644...</a>
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Title: Hello HN,<p>Over the past months at Oneleet (YC S22), our team has been building <a href="https://app.oneleet.com">https://app.oneleet.com</a>, a compliance-focused pentesting-as-a-service platform. It allows companies to easily schedule and manage penetration tests, designed for both compliance and security enhancement.<p>We collaborate exclusively with top-tier vetted penetration testers based in NATO countries, ensuring superior quality results. Competitors like Cobalt work with just about anyone, of which they put multiple on a single engagement to ‘average out’ the quality. Despite their efforts, it is still hit-and-miss.<p>By being very selective about who we work with (many Cobalt pentesters don’t make the cut), we are very consistent in the level of insight and quality we provide.<p>Our team puts a lot of work into making sure that pentest results can be leveraged beyond security improvements. We are fully aware that with the current SOC 2 craze[1] most companies are just looking to tick their compliance and control boxes[2][3], but that doesn’t mean you can’t have both that box ticked and fundamentally improve your app’s security. Which is why we make sure our pentests serve both purposes: Present technical detail at a deep level but also provide documentation that is meant to be a sales and trust-building tool.<p>Some of the things I used to hate when I worked as a pentester myself was seeing how common it had become for pentesters to just take Nessus findings, slap a pentest report title page on it and then proudly proclaim how they found these critical ‘SSL’ and ‘HTTP Header’ findings. Not to mention how much trouble it can get you in with your auditor when they see all those criticals they don’t understand the nature of. When those auditors then require you to fix all those criticals, you quickly find yourself going down a rabbit hole of unnecessary engineering effort.<p>Great pentesters, on the other hand, use those exact same tools but know what to do with the information that they generate. Take a tool like Burp Suite, which is known among pentesters as the go-to tool for manual web app pentesting. Despite it primarily being used for manual testing, it also has ‘auto scanning’ functionality built in that is mostly useless without a human guiding the tool. More than once I heard both pentesters and clients state: “We already do Burp Suite scanning, so we have that covered.”<p>Don’t get me wrong.. there are plenty of tools that provide a lot of insight without needing human guidance. Running Nuclei[4] frequently on your web-facing hosts is a great way to spot low-hanging fruit-type vulnerabilities, but it will require you to at least have some basic understanding of what the reported findings entail, and whether the associated severities are accurate or not (CVSS scores can be very random, so using them as a yardstick can be a terrible idea).<p>This is why we’re strict about not allowing testers to inflate the severity of findings, or to revert to reporting boilerplate findings that many automated tools spit out by default.<p>If you’re interested in having a pentest performed, you can get started by going to <a href="https://app.oneleet.com">https://app.oneleet.com</a>. After registration, you will be guided through an onboarding flow after which you can schedule a call with the founding team and a pentester.<p>We’d love to get your feedback and answer any questions you might have!<p>References:
[1] <a href="https://latacora.micro.blog/2020/03/12/the-soc-starting.html" rel="nofollow">https://latacora.micro.blog/2020/03/12/the-soc-starting.html</a>]
[2] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32018066" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32018066</a>
[3] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32039828" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32039828</a>
[4] <a href="https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei">https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei</a>
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Title: Imagine you are starting a new project, and your backing datastore options are restricted to mysql or postgres (and/or their cloud-tailored equivalents.) What sort of functional requirements would cause you to choose one over the other?
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Title: Hello there!<p>I want to collect websites where I can feature (list) my SaaS-startup for Spanish, Portuguese, German and French speaking audience. I know that there're a lot of listing's set for English speaking but I haven't met for Spanish, Portuguese, German and French.<p>If you know some that websites, please, write it in the comments. I'll put it together in a single list and then post it here.
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Title: PetaPixel article: <a href="https://petapixel.com/2023/05/11/the-post-digital-leica-mpi-a-leica-m2-with-a-raspberry-pi-camera/" rel="nofollow">https://petapixel.com/2023/05/11/the-post-digital-leica-mpi-...</a>
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Title: Hey folks!<p>I’m the founder of LogicLoop AI SQL Copilot. If you’re familiar with querying data, you’ve probably spent quite some time manually writing and debugging SQL queries. If you’re a non-technical business user, you will often need to wait and ask engineers to help you write the SQL to pull the data you need. If you’re an engineer, you might be overwhelmed by all these data pull requests from business users.<p>With LogicLoop's AI SQL Helper Suite, you can ask your data questions using natural language. Ask AI to discover patterns, suggest, write, fix and optimize SQL queries directly on your custom data schema. You can get results on your own data instantly. Once you have your results, you can visualize them on a dashboard or set up recurring alerts and automations. AI makes data more accessible for business users, and faster to work with for engineers/analysts.<p>Some ways LogicLoop's AI SQL Helper Suite has helped early users:
- Business operations teams can find top customers to email and automate outreach
- Risk analysts can discover gaps in their fraud monitoring rules to flag more bad actors
- Data engineers can fix and optimize long queries to reduce costs<p>We don’t think this is a panacea that can replace data analysts, but we think this will make data analysis faster and more accessible to more people. Would love for you to give it a try and share any feedback. Thank you.
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Title: In spirit of the tweet by Michael Nielsen: https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1656708273343459328?s=20
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Title: I have come across several advice posts targeted towards younger individuals, and sometimes I find myself thinking, "I wish I had known these things earlier in my life."<p>However, there are certain pieces of advice that are applicable to people of all ages, such as maintaining clean eating habits, engaging in regular exercise, fostering healthy relationships, and building a strong network of friends and acquaintances.<p>Considering this, what kind of advice can individuals in their 60s offer to those in their 40s?
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Title: Hi HN — we’re John and Vish! We built WhyBot, a tool to help you deeply explore a question or topic. You ask a question, and WhyBot responds by building an ever-expanding knowledge graph. It does this by recursively generating answers and follow-up questions. You can change its persona to change the flavor of the generations (try toddler mode!).<p>We originally built this for the AngelList Agent Hackathon (<a href="https://twitter.com/AqeelMeetsWorld/status/1650279974405042178?s=20" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/AqeelMeetsWorld/status/16502799744050421...</a>) and got a lot of interest from folks asking to play around with it. So we thought it’d be fun to brush it up and release it as a web app! It’s a work in progress and we plan on adding more features, such as saving, sharing, focusing on one branch and potentially executing code.<p>We hope you enjoy playing around with it and would love to hear any of your feedback or thoughts.
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Title: I am constantly coming up with new ideas. I read about a new language, a new framework, a new API and immediately I feel compelled to build something with it. I start planning the project, thinking up a design, a name. I set up the new codebase and feel completely consumed by this new project, even to the detriment of my day job.<p>After a few days or weeks I completely forget about it, having not really made any progress on the project and not having released anything.<p>Looking through my github I've done this nearly 100 times. Each time I feel like I'm really gonna finish and release something. I intentionally plan to have extremely minimal features, cut corners because this is just a first attempt and yet still it fizzles out.<p>How did you go from a chronic project starter to actually finishing and releasing projects? What can you do to keep your focus on one thing long enough to bring it to fruition?
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Title: Last year I purchased 2 standing mirrors, one that stands astride my monitor viewing area, but is ahead in the distance about 7 feet, and one that is directly lateral to me, that lets me check my posture every so often. I think the lack of good data for "how I'm sitting" can result in unsavory posture choices throughout the day, so by adding data or visibility to the equation, I am now able to do something about it. Sure, you can do it with one mirror, but something about having two distinct angles gives extra nuance for tilt and lean.
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Title: There have been many tools powered by GPTs coming out over the past few months. Too many. Which ones are actually worth using?
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Title: As the Home Assistant project says, it's the year of voice!<p>I love Home Assistant and I've always thought the ESP BOX[0] hardware is cool. I finally got around to starting a project to use the ESP BOX hardware with Home Assistant and other platforms. Why?<p>- It's actually "Alexa/Echo competitive". Wake word detection, voice activity detection, echo cancellation, automatic gain control, and high quality audio for $50 means with Willow and the support of Home Assistant there are no compromises on looks, quality, accuracy, speed, and cost.<p>- It's cheap. With a touch LCD display, dual microphones, speaker, enclosure, buttons, etc it can be bought today for $50 all-in.<p>- It's ready to go. Take it out of the box, flash with Willow, put it somewhere.<p>- It's not creepy. Voice is either sent to a self-hosted inference server or commands are recognized locally on the ESP BOX.<p>- It doesn't hassle or try to sell you. If I hear "Did you know?" one more time from Alexa I think I'm going to lose it.<p>- It's open source.<p>- It's capable. This is the first "release" of Willow and I don't think we've even begun scratching the surface of what the hardware and software components are capable of.<p>- It can integrate with anything. Simple on the wire format - speech output text is sent via HTTP POST to whatever URI you configure. Send it anywhere, and do anything!<p>- It still does cool maker stuff. With 16 GPIOs exposed on the back of the enclosure there are all kinds of interesting possibilities.<p>This is the first (and VERY early) release but we're really interested to hear what HN thinks!<p>[0] - <a href="https://github.com/espressif/esp-box">https://github.com/espressif/esp-box</a>
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Title: We built Sortabase to let communities collaborate on visual databases of the things they know and care about.<p>The fields of each database are defined by its moderators using a no-code drag-n-drop interface, and the resulting database is easy to search, filter, sort, and contribute to.<p>The platform is 100% free to use - take a look, and feedback is appreciated!
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Title: Hey HN, my name is Vikas, and my cofounders Rish, Gabe and I are building Openlayer: <a href="http://openlayer.com/">http://openlayer.com/</a><p>Openlayer is an ML testing, evaluation, and observability platform designed to help teams pinpoint and resolve issues in their models.<p>We were ML engineers experiencing the struggle that goes into properly evaluating models, making them robust to the myriad of unexpected edge cases they encounter in production, and understanding the reasons behind their mistakes. It was like playing an endless game of whack-a-mole with Jupyter notebooks and CSV files — fix one issue and another pops up. This shouldn’t be the case. Error analysis is vital to establishing guardrails for AI and ensuring fairness across model predictions.<p>Traditional software testing platforms are designed for deterministic systems, where a given input produces an expected output. Since ML models are probabilistic, testing them reliably has been a challenge. What sets Openlayer apart from other companies in the space is our end-to-end approach to tackling both pre- and post-deployment stages of the ML pipeline. This "shift-left" approach emphasizes the importance of thorough validation before you ship, rather than relying solely on monitoring after you deploy. Having a strong evaluation process pre-ship means fewer bugs for your users, shorter and more efficient dev-cycles, and lower chances of getting into a PR disaster or having to recall a model.<p>Openlayer provides ML teams and individuals with a suite of powerful tools to understand models and data beyond your typical metrics. The platform offers insights about the quality of your training and validation sets, the performance of your model across subpopulations of your data, and much more. Each of these insights can be turned into a “goal.” As you commit new versions of your models and data, you can see how your model progresses towards these goals, as you guard against regressions you may have otherwise not picked up on and continually raise the bar.<p>Here's a quick rundown of the Openlayer workflow:<p>1. Add a hook in your training / data ingestion pipeline to upload your data and model predictions to Openlayer via our API<p>2. Explore insights about your models and data and create goals around them [1]<p>3. Diagnose issues with the help of our platform, using powerful tools like explainability (e.g. SHAP values) to get actionable recommendations on how to improve<p>4. Track the progress over time towards your goals with our UI and API and create new ones to keep improving<p>We've got a free sandbox for you to try out the platform today! You can sign up here: <a href="https://app.openlayer.com/">https://app.openlayer.com/</a>. We are also soon adding support for even more ML tasks, so please reach out if your use case is not supported and we can add you to a waitlist.<p>Give Openlayer a spin and join us in revolutionizing ML development for greater efficiency and success. Let us know what you think, or if you have any questions about Openlayer or model evaluation in general.<p>[1] A quick run-down of the categories of goals you can track:<p>- <i>Integrity</i> goals measure the quality of your validation and training sets<p>- <i>Consistency</i> goals guard against drift between your datasets<p>- <i>Performance</i> goals evaluate your model's performance across subpopulations of the data<p>- <i>Robustness</i> goals stress-test your model using synthetic data to uncover edge cases<p>- <i>Fairness</i> goals help you understand biases in your model on sensitive populations
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Title: Several years ago, I was pushed out of my full-time job, along with all other engineers over 55. Similar situation for four of seven colleagues in our consulting consortia, where we do occasional side jobs. Our consortia previously numbered 13, but four had got their fill of American employers and went back to their home countries, while two 'near-shored' themselves into Mexico and Argentina.<p>For last three months, phone has been ringing and email is full of both contract and full-time offers. I have doubled fees and am more selective (fishing and reading and harassing my wife are my preferred tasks). None of this made sense when you look at reports of the thousands of people being kicked to the curb (but maybe that's particular to coders and not hardware engineers). But I did see this:<p>businessinsider.com/baby-boomer-retirement-surge-spark-forever-labor-shortage-jobs-workers-2023-5<p>Older workers, are you being sought after? Do you think that gen X and Y will have less stressful employment situations, or will employers always be able to mitigate worker costs?
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Title: I started thinking about this approach after working on a large-scale project for a major financial company where our group developed a distributed in-house data processing solution. On a regular basis, it ingested a few gigabytes of financial data and, within a tight SLA time limit, produced a lot of enriched/aggregated/validated data for a number of customers. Sometimes, source data had errors, so operators with domain knowledge had to verify data validity at some checkpoints, immediately make corrections, and re-run parts of the workflow manually. The solution involved complex web service orchestration, custom database and was very demanding on the infrastructure availability.<p>Capillaries is a built from scratch, open-source Go solution that does just that: ingests data and applies user-defined transforms - Go one-liner expressions, Python formulas, joins, aggregations, denormalization - using Cassandra for intermediate data storage and RabbitMQ for task scheduling. End users just have to provide:
- source data in CSV files;
- Capillaries script (JSON file) that defines the workflow and the transforms;
- Python code that performs complex calculations (only if needed).<p>The whole data processing pipeline can be split into separate runs that can be started independently and re-run by the user if needed.<p>The goal is to build a platform that is tolerant to database and processing node failures, and allows users to focus on data transform logic and data quality control.<p>“Getting started” Docker-based demo calculates ARK funds performance, using EOD holdings and transactions data acquired from public sources. There are also integration tests that use non-financial data. There is a test deploy tool that uses Openstack API for provisioning in the cloud.
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Title: Greetings HN!<p>This is Doruk from Oblivus, and I'm excited to announce the launch of our platform, Oblivus Cloud. After more than a year of beta testing, we're excited to offer you a platform where you can deploy affordable and scalable GPU virtual machines in as little as 30 seconds! <a href="https://oblivus.com/cloud" rel="nofollow">https://oblivus.com/cloud</a><p>- What sets Oblivus Cloud apart?<p>At the start of our journey, we had two primary goals in mind: to democratize High-Performance Computing and make it as straightforward as possible. We understand that maintaining GPU servers through major cloud service providers can be expensive, with hidden fees adding to the burden of running and maintaining servers. Additionally, the cloud can sometimes be overly complex for individuals who don't have much knowledge but still require powerful computing resources. That's why we decided to create a platform that offers affordable pricing, easy usability, and high-quality performance.<p>- Features<p>1. Fully customizable infrastructure that lets you switch between CPU and GPU configurations to suit your needs.<p>2. Transparent and affordable per-minute-based Pay-As-You-Go pricing with no hidden fees. Plus, free data ingress and egress. (Pricing: <a href="https://oblivus.com/pricing/" rel="nofollow">https://oblivus.com/pricing/</a>)<p>3. Optimized cost with storage and IP address-only billing when the virtual machine is shut down.<p>4. Each virtual machine comes with 10Gbps to 40Gbps public network connectivity.<p>5. NVMe ($0.00011/GB/hr) and HDD ($0.00006/GB/hr) storage that is 3x replicated to fulfill your storage needs.<p>6. Choose from a variety of cutting-edge CPUs and 10 state-of-the-art GPU SKUs. (Availability: <a href="https://oblivus.com/availability/" rel="nofollow">https://oblivus.com/availability/</a>)<p>7. OblivusAI OS images come with pre-installed ML libraries, so you can start training your models right away without the hassle of installing and configuring the necessary libraries.<p>8. If you're working with a team, utilize our organization feature to simplify the billing process. Everyone in your organization uses the same billing profile, so you don't need to keep track of multiple accounts.<p>9. No quotas or complex verification processes. Whether you represent a company, an institution, or you're a researcher, you have full access to our infrastructure without any limitations.<p>10. Easy-to-use API with detailed documentation so that you can integrate your code with ours.<p>- Pricing<p>At Oblivus Cloud, we provide pricing that is affordable, transparent, and up to 80% cheaper than major cloud service providers. Here is a breakdown of our pricing:<p>1. CPU-based virtual machines starting from just $0.019/hour.<p>2. NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000s starting from $0.27/hour.<p>3. Tesla V100s starting from $0.51/hour.<p>4. NVIDIA A40s and RTX A6000s starting from $1.41/hour.<p>We also offer 6 other GPU SKUs to help you accurately size your workloads and only pay for what you need. Say goodbye to hidden fees and unpredictable costs.<p>If you represent a company, be sure to register for a business account to access even better pricing rates.<p>- Promo Code<p>Join us in celebrating the launch of Oblivus Cloud by claiming your $1 free credit! This may sound small, but it's enough to get started with us and experience the power of our platform. With $1, you can get over 3 hours of computing on our most affordable GPU-based configuration, or over 50 hours of computing on our cheapest CPU-based configuration.<p>To redeem this free credit, simply use the code HN_1 on the 'Add Balance' page after registration.<p>Register now at <a href="https://console.oblivus.com/register" rel="nofollow">https://console.oblivus.com/register</a><p>- Quick Links<p>Website: <a href="https://oblivus.com/" rel="nofollow">https://oblivus.com/</a><p>Console: <a href="https://console.oblivus.com/" rel="nofollow">https://console.oblivus.com/</a><p>Company Documentation: <a href="https://docs.oblivus.com/" rel="nofollow">https://docs.oblivus.com/</a><p>API Documentation: <a href="https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/21699896/UzBtoQ3e" rel="nofollow">https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/21699896/UzBtoQ3e</a><p>If you have any questions, feel free to post them below and I'll be happy to assist you. You can also directly email me at [email protected]!
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Title: I haven't touched frontend code for a couple years now, but I have a long history with it. I've been making websites since I was a kid, used to write Rails apps for work, lots of JS and jQuery, various CSS frameworks, and even used React for a while when it was initially released. And lots of other frameworks of course. So I'm not new to this stuff.<p>I just had an idea for a side project and I want to make a modern website. I spent the last 20 hours trying to figure out what the best practices are now. Everything should've gotten easier, right? It has been 10 years after all.<p>But I'm totally lost. 4 layers of bundlers. Two layers of language abstractions. CSS frameworks that need to be compiled!? Several more layers of database abstractions and services that I have no idea what they do by looking at their landing pages.<p>My requirements are pretty simple. I want it to work on all devices and look good. I need some user authentication and user state, but nothing complex. The data model is relatively simple, but it needs to be stored somewhere, local storage is not enough.<p>From all my research, my best bet right now seems to be next.js + React + Tailwind because that combination seems to be relatively popular and well-documented with good editor integrations. Not sure what to use for the database/backend though. I also looked at htmx but don't really like the idea of templating html snippets on the server without great editor integration.<p>So, how do I actually make a modern website? Is it really this hard?<p>(I'm aware there have been similar threads the past year, but they're already a year old, which is an eternity in JS world)
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Title: I know there are quite a few people here, who journal frequently, and I was curious about how it has improved your life.<p>How do you journal? What has it done for you?
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Title: Anecdotally, I’ve noticed a large uptick in MBA-types who are expressing interest and being admitted into YC. It feels as if YC is becoming yet another prestigious line-item that status-chasers are using to stack their resume. Have you noticed similarly?
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Title: This is version 2 of my ongoing heirloom device project, a digital photo frame built with the goal of lasting longer than your typical gadget.<p>There's a part of me that wishes to commercialize a polished version of this product, but the more I speak to people, the more I become convinced that I belong to a very small minority.
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Title: Hi everyone - Looking for feedback for this new open source project we launched. It's called DevPod and it's built on the devcontainer.json standard to create reproducible dev environments. It lets you spin up dev environments in any infra, kind of like a Terraform but for dev environments.<p>Compared to hosted services such as Github Codespaces, JetBrains Spaces, or Google Cloud Workstations, DevPod has the following advantages:<p>- Open Source: DevPod is 100% open-source and extensible. A provider doesn’t exist? Just create your own.<p>- Client-only: No need to install a server backend. DevPod runs solely on your computer.<p>- Cross IDE support: VS Code and the full JetBrains suite is supported. Other IDEs can be connected through ssh.<p>- Rich feature set: DevPod already supports prebuilds, auto inactivity shutdown, git & docker credentials sync, with many more features to come.<p>I've gotten tons of good feedback from folks here in the past for other OSS projects, so I'm hoping to get some thoughts on this new project today.<p>What do you think? Open for any feedback - even if you think DevPod sucks, let me know.
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Title: Neucards is an end-to-end encrypted contact information sharing and updating iOS app that protects your identity while letting you keep in touch with people. I started working on neucards as a side project more than ten years ago, and I decided three years ago to go full-time and try to build a community around it.<p>There are two major problems that neucards addresses. First, most people end up with contact lists that are hopelessly out of date. Over time, people move, change jobs, or add social profiles and unless they tell you, chances are you could lose touch. Second, your contact information ends up in the wrong hands. There has been a huge increase in robocalls, unsolicited emails, data breaches, and online scams that is driven by accessing a person's contact info. Even worse, with AI now being able to imitate a person's voice or other mannerisms, knowledge about the connections you have with others can be used against you.<p>Neucards automatically updates your contact information for anyone who has your digital contact card. You control your contact information and who has access. This is possible because of end-to-end encryption. Neucards brings the same level of protection for your contact information as Signal or WhatsApp does for your chats. Privacy is built it.<p>But, even with these protections, you can share your contact info with anyone. As an example, here is a link to my Social card:<p><a href="https://www.neucards.com/of/braddominy?id=M6TC5PLngD&k=4R98iwnoRi" rel="nofollow">https://www.neucards.com/of/braddominy?id=M6TC5PLngD&k=4R98i...</a><p>I'm excited about how much neucards has grown and what I have planned for the future to do even more to protect people's privacy. If you have any comments, please let me know.<p>Brad
<a href="https://www.neucards.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.neucards.com</a>
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Title: Father's day coming up. Looking for what you think makes a great father. What activities or time that you spend with your children that you find most valuable? How can a new father make a difference in my kids lives?
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Title: A little web server written in C for Linux.<p>Supports: CGI, Reverse Proxy.<p>Single threaded using I/O multiplexing (select).
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Title: I'm intrigued by the claims about them but also don't entirely understand the marketing<p>"Elixir is a dynamic, functional language for building scalable and maintainable applications."<p>OK, there are lots of languages that are either or both dynamic and functional, and they can all used to build scalable and maintainable transactions.<p>"Elixir runs on the Erlang VM, known for creating low-latency, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems."<p>Let's skip over "low-latency", because virtually all programming languages and VMs are "low-latency".<p>"distributed" and "fault-tolerant" are what's most often touted as "special".<p>I'm not sure what "distributed" means here? Any app in most languages can be coded to be "distributed" both on the scale of within a single machine and at the scale of deploying multiple small instances of it. (eg Kubernetes, running it on multiple EC2s etc etc)<p>As for "fault tolerant": "The unavoidable truth about software in production is that things will go wrong. Even more when we take network, file systems, and other third-party resources into account. To react to failures, Elixir supervisors describe how to restart parts of your system when things go awry, going back to a known initial state that is guaranteed to work"<p>Don't entirely understand this either. In a run of the mill corporate Java app, if you experience an exception eg calling another service, unless you're doing something very strange, your app will not stop running, it will just keep error logging those exceptions until the problem is resolved. (whether by the target service coming back online or you send out a fix for the call or whatever) Really the only time an app will outright crash and completely stop is if it experiences errors attempting to boot in the first place, and the correct solution there is to not allow instances that don't respond 200 OK on /health to take traffic. You certainly don't want to attempt restart the system as it won't do any good.<p>So I'm left wondering, am I missing something or is there really not much to the claims about Erlang and Elixir? Don't get me wrong, this is not me criticizing Erlang or Elixir or the hype machine around them, every language has to have marketing and that's fine. It's also not me advocating corporate Java (shudder) - I'm just using it as an example of a common technology that also seems to tick all the same boxes as Erlang and Elixir as far as these claims go.
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Title: Hello HN, I am Parth. In my experience, the current form of testing automation takes too long. To solve this, I am creating a developer tool to speed up the code-test cycle for Java developers. It has two main parts:<p>Direct Invoke - lets you call any Java function directly, without the need to execute the whole call hierarchy. (e.g. an HTTP endpoint) In my normal coding workflow, I use the “Evaluate Expression” feature inside IntelliJ IDE. I usually put a breakpoint somewhere in the code and after hitting the breakpoint by calling an HTTP api, let the execution remain paused while I explore and see the return values of functions. “Evaluate Expression” was quite useful in exploring new codebases and checking return values of my own functions as a sanity test. The direct invoke feature implements the same functionality without needing to hit a breakpoint. Now, I can just navigate to any function in the editor and execute it. The parameter values are input as JSON and deserialize to an object of the required class instances.<p>Atomic Run - lets you hot-reload the code changes and highlights the difference in the return values of the changed function before and after the hot-reload. I feel Atomic Run has the potential of replacing unit test cases, but there is a long way to go. I am thinking of implementing<p><pre><code> - Option for mocking dependency calls: We want to give the developer more control over the testing environment by allowing them to mock downstream dependency calls.
- Customizing assertions: Not all differences in return values indicate breaking changes. Assertions should be flexible to accommodate non-breaking changes.
- Workflow to save this data to a file (thinking something like JSON based fixtures): making it easier to organize and reuse test data.
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This plugin is still in the early stages, so we'd appreciate your help in ironing out any bugs you come across. Get in touch with me on my discord channel.<p>To try it out, install Unlogged from the IntelliJ Marketplace and start your java application using the java agent (the plugin has instructions to download)<p>Link to try the plugin: <a href="https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/18529-unlogged" rel="nofollow">https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/18529-unlogged</a>
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Title: Tldr; OpenAI registered the brand GPT and wants us to take down our gptsomething.io domain. The domain was a blank page.<p>OpenAl brand guideline outreach<p>Dear Team,
We are contacting you on behalf of our client OpenAl, Inc. ("OpenAI"). Our job is to work with developers to ensure that they are marketing their products in accordance with OpenAl's brand guidelines https://openal.com/brandand in a way that doesn't create confusion for the consumer.<p>Today, we're writing regarding your use of the mark "GPT" in connection with your GPT' product.<p>https://branddb.wipo.int/en/quicksearch/brand/CH502023000001493?
by-brandName&v=GPT&rows=30&sort=score%20desc&start=0& -1682836548861&fcstatus-Registered&fcdesign
ation=CH&I=Q<p>Stating "GPT" is inaccurate and may imply a partnership or endorsement where there isn't one. If your project uses GPT-3, GPT-4, or ChatGPT you may choose to say in the Product description (not in the Product/Site name) that it is "Powered by GPT-3" or "Powered by GPT-4" or "Powered by ChatGPT" and/or "Powered by DALLE" as applicable. We do not permit model names in products/site titles because there is concern that it can confuse end users, and it also triggers our enforcement mechanisms. It's important to identify the GPT-3, GPT-4, or ChatGPT (or DALL-E) model specifically, as opposed to just referencing GPT.<p>Please reply to this message by 05.10.2023 to let us know that you received it and intend to make the applicable changes. If you have any questions, please contact us directly at [email protected].<p>Sincerely,<p>BrandShield Ltd.
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Title: I was just digging through some old projects to find a link for a potential new employer and stumbled upon this reminder of how much I enjoyed middle-management office politics.
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Title: Hello HN, I’m Kamil.<p>The past months have been filled with news about ChatGPT, Bard, etc. Thankfully, there are some heroic attempts to bring that power to the users.<p>I wanted to contribute to that effort with my side project, an extension for Chrome: it makes searching the history by meaning – instead of the exact words – possible.<p>This is only a proof of concept, building on the excellent transformers.js[0], and running entirely in the browser. My goal here is to explore the possibilities unlocked by a client-side AI.<p>I would love to have your feedback, to know which direction that project should follow!<p>[0] <a href="https://xenova.github.io/transformers.js" rel="nofollow">https://xenova.github.io/transformers.js</a>
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Title: I've heard about some crazy Stripe stories from HN, but never thought our tiny microbiology conference (go phage therapy!) would ever be in the cross-hairs, but yet here we are.<p>Apparently we're selling "adult content" — maybe because we use the words "early-bird" and "student" in the same sentence?<p>Either way, appealing doesn't seem to work. We DID use Stripe two years ago, on the same account, for the same event, with no problems.<p>Help???
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Title: Hi. I heard HN likes e-paper gadgets so I wanted to share a little side project I’ve been working on with @sqfmi. We’re building Beepberry - a portable e-paper computer for hackers, designed for chatting on Beeper. My day job is running Beeper [0], but I will always have a soft spot for building hardware.<p>I wanted to create a ‘weekend’ device that would let me stay in touch with friends and family, without the distractions of a full smartphone. I imagined a tiny, hackable e-paper screen with a physical keyboard, powered by a Raspberry Pi, that I could use to chat around my home…and pretty much nothing else.<p>Before Beeper, the idea probably would not have gone anywhere. Most chat apps do not have an API, making it practically impossible to hack something like this together. Enter Beeper, with connections to 15+ chat networks. Built on top of Matrix, Beeper is fully hackable. You can write alternative fun clients [1], bots [2] and more!<p>Today, sqfmi is starting to take pre-orders at <a href="https://beepberry.sqfmi.com" rel="nofollow">https://beepberry.sqfmi.com</a> for the first batch. It’s $79 (or $99 including a Pi Zero). Specs: Sharp Memory LCD (same display tech as in Pebble!), Pi Zero (BT/WIFI), physical keyboard, 2000mAh lipo.<p>On top of being an amazing Beeper chat device, it’s basically an e-paper Cyberdeck that fits in your pocket. It’s a ton of fun to hack on. Keep in mind - THIS IS NOT A REAL FINISHED PRODUCT. It’s basically a devkit.<p>More info in the blog post: <a href="https://blog.beeper.com/p/beeper-x-sqmfi-beepberry">https://blog.beeper.com/p/beeper-x-sqmfi-beepberry</a>, or join the Discord/Matrix channel <a href="https://beepberry.sqfmi.com/docs/getting-started#join-the-beepberry-discord" rel="nofollow">https://beepberry.sqfmi.com/docs/getting-started#join-the-be...</a>. I’ll hang out a bit here to answer questions as well.<p>[0] <a href="https://beeper.com">https://beeper.com</a>
[1] <a href="https://github.com/tulir/gomuks">https://github.com/tulir/gomuks</a>
[2] <a href="https://github.com/maubot/maubot">https://github.com/maubot/maubot</a>
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Title: Hello HN! Daniele, Ilia, and Thomas here to share Cloudthread’s new Cost Savings Hub to help companies surface and eliminate cloud waste.<p>We’re putting our money where our mouth is: for the next two weeks, find over $500 in monthly AWS savings with Cloudthread’s Savings Hub or we’ll give you a $100 Amazon Gift Card. More context:
<a href="https://www.cloudthread.io/aws-save-or-get-paid">https://www.cloudthread.io/aws-save-or-get-paid</a><p>Most cloud infrastructure managers know there’s waste in their cloud environment but it’s challenging and time consuming to 1) surface all the waste, 2) convert those opportunities into actualized savings, and 3) have confidence in cloud cost efficiency as you continue to grow.<p>We make it easy to uncover all your waste in AWS, easily filter/prioritize by cost impact/difficulty, group opportunities for action, create Jira tickets to enter engineering sprints, and analyze savings progress.<p>A video walkthrough of the Savings Hub by Ilia, Cloudthread CPO, is here:
<a href="https://youtu.be/0j12fiXDgYc" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/0j12fiXDgYc</a><p>The Savings Opportunities Explorer aggregates recommendations from native AWS tools (e.g. EC2 rightsizing from Compute Optimizer) and Cloudthread computed savings recommendations (e.g. RDS/ElastiCache rightsizing, S3 intelligent tiering savings, unattached EBS, NAT Gateway savings, & many more). For a full list of the savings opportunities we surface, see here:
<a href="https://docs.cloudthread.io/guides/optimizing-cloud-costs/supported-optimization-opportunities">https://docs.cloudthread.io/guides/optimizing-cloud-costs/su...</a><p>Opportunities are assigned a Difficulty to make it easy to filter/prioritize by cost impact and implementation complexity. Each opportunity shows relevant usage data to evaluate the recommended action directly from Cloudthread (e.g. for an RDS rightsizing recommendation, see max CPU and Memory utilization in the last 30 days).<p>Opportunities can be grouped into Threads which are mini cost management projects - track progress, create a Jira ticket, and eventually close threads to track actualized savings.<p>Excited for any and all feedback and excited to help you reclaim cash from AWS asap. If there are other cloud cost-saving actions you’re manually evaluating that can be done programmatically, please let us know and we’ll add it as a savings opportunity!
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Title: I have zero AI/ML knowledge but Steve Yegge on Medium thinks that the team behind Transformers deserves a Nobel.<p>Makes me want to better understand this tech.<p>Edit: thank you for some amazing top level responses and links to valuable content on this subject.
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Title: Smallville can be used to create NPCs with the same level of realism as human players without having to pre-program interactions. The agents store and retrieve past memories which they use to create plans so they can decide where to move, what to say, and how to react to observations. Agents are also capable of interacting with the world around them to change the state of objects on their own.<p>This project was intended to make it easy for anyone to create custom simulations and my attempt to recreate Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior. I’ve been working on Smallville for the past few weeks and hope other people also find it useful. Would love to hear any thoughts about the project and where I should take it from here.
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Title: This is like 4 years old, but I’m braver now and ready to share stuff with this community. I’ve been a lurker for a while.<p>I made this tool - it’s kind of like “explain” but it tells you about what locks would be required by the query.<p>I was making it as part of a larger tool that would try to prevent deadlocks during migrations at my last company, I never finished it.
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Title: I've found it increasingly hard to get useful information out of ChatGPT. Whenever I ask for rough approximations, it refuses to even attempt to answer the question: "unfortunately, I don't have the capacity to provide even a rough approximation..." These are questions that Google is easily be able to pull up numbers for.<p>I assume that this is in response to the public complaining about "hallucinating facts", but this seems like an unfortunate direction. I would much rather have an opinionated and insightful ChatGPT that sometimes makes mistakes than one that punts 80% of my questions.
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Title: I made this project.<p>It is automated and checks museum collection pages for changes in the "on view" status for the various impressions of "The Great Wave" by Katsushika Hokusai that are infrequently displayed around the world.<p>I've only seen two different impressions in the past 20 5 years and I want to see as many as I can.<p>The automation is a bunch of Huginn scenarios scraping pages on a schedule and checking for changes. I can't do all museums this way, some simply don't have good websites, but enough are covered to make this project worthwhile. The hard work was finding all the collection pages, figuring out the data to be watched and settings up the automation.<p>The static website presenting the results is hosted on a free Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute instance running Docker, EasyEngine for nginx. That's pretty much it!
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Title: As builders and creators we want to maximize our impact. There's a lot of talk about ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance). Which for most us is pretty abstract and something only really big companies invest a small % of their revenue into to attract certain kinds of investors (there are exceptions).<p>One way we can all directly make impact is making a commitment to make our software accessible to all, starting with educating ourselves about common mistakes folks make when designing UI that produce software that can't be used by folks who have temporary or long term low vision, low hearing, neurological, and other disabilities.<p>There are a ton of free educational events on accessibility going on today, and if you don't have time today, find a recording, or listen to a podcast, there is a huge opportunity to make impact once you better understand the challenges.<p>A couple of years ago while doing research on accessibility I came across the Global Accessibility Awareness Day, and the GAAD foundation (https://accessibility.day/) - there are many such orgs, but if you consider yourself accessibility curious, today's a good day to get curious.<p>/PSA
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Title: Hi HN! I created this lib in the need of a simple and tiny framework to easily do AJAX-style navigation / replacement of fragments in the page, in a web application.<p>For people who don't want to use client-side-rendering and complex frameworks à la React, there are nowadays a few "HTML-over-the-wire" libraries, like HTMX, Unpoly or this super-tiny one Swap.js :)<p>One other key thing is that no external tool is needed: no bundler, no webpack, no TypeScript compiler, no minification needed. Just write HTML, JS (+ your preferred server-side language: PHP, Python, etc.) and it works.<p>The framework makes use of fetch (of course) but also MutationObserver API to be able to launch actions when parts of the DOM change.<p>Let me know what you think!
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Title: Every once in a while I see an article that seems to claim that Moore's Law is over, or slowing down, or about to be over. Then I see some counter-claim, that no, if you account for added cores, or GPUs, or some other third thing, that actually it's still right on track. This cycle has repeated every year for like the past 10 years, but the last few years feel like things have really started to slow down. Maybe that was partially illusory with the chip slowdown from the pandemic, but I figure now that we're several years out we should be able to say for sure.<p>It also seems like a pretty important question to answer because it has big implications for the advancement of AI technology which has everyone so freaked out.<p>So what's the consensus around here? Is Moore's Law actually over yet, or not?
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Title: This project demonstrates a new build of retro style audio and graphics hardware, like that seen in 1980s arcade games. It includes software emulation, an SDK, and hardware schematics.
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Title: Over breakfast this morning I was thinking that training on publicly available knowledge is the backbone of AI models.<p>A plethora of posts, articles and comments lament how the back breaking work which all of the new models were built upon is devalues all of that work by making it available to the masses with a simple chat prompt...<p>My gut feeling is that the natural consequence of this for individuals and organizations that build expert knowledge in various domains will be to avoid sharing knowledge, code and general information at all costs...<p>Is this the end of the "open" era?
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Title: My Amazon seller account got deactivated 5 months ago with no specified reason.
Due to being busy with school and some health issues, I stopped selling this year and did not see this message.
My account is now deleted, with "no way to access any information." All my tax documents, sale records and revenue info is gone. My fund is frozen with an appeal method that is ghosted (idk how much balance i have). Customer support told me to seek legal advise when doing tax return and wait for refund appeal<p>What can I do?
I paid seller subscription which includes tax handling. Do I have a legal case to require them to send me my account data? Does Amazon actually delete account data in just 5 months?<p>edit: im willing to spend good effort and money to fight this corporate whim
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Title: Mentally calculating the day-of-the-week for any date in history sounds like an impossible task for a normal person, but the algorithm is actually pretty simple to learn.<p>Although there are tutorials for this elsewhere online, and little quizzes available, there didn't seem to be anything well optimised with multiple practice modes etc.<p>I originally created a basic version of this just for myself, but a small group of friends and family found it interesting and gave suggestions such as the daily game.<p>Multi-lingual support is a bit rudimentary at the moment, it will only translate the month names and weekday names, not other text. If any translation mistakes are identified please let me know.<p>Other feedback is welcome too.
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Title: yt-fts is a simple python script that uses yt-dlp to scrape all of a youtube channels subtitles and load them into an sqlite database that is searchable from the command line. It allows you to query a channel for specific key word or phrase and will generate time stamped youtube urls to the video containing the keyword.
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