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Title: Hello HN,<p>with mapname you can create a unique name for any particular point of interest as in prefix(id).group(optional).suffix.<p>Once a mapname created then this can be used as an address, discovered and socialised.<p>Mapname is free and has no advertisements. At onboarding pick a unique prefix. That is all about onboarding.<p>Users can also organise collection of places with just two words, for example coffee shops i like at NY is abc.1 or I have visited Melbourne last year where you can see at abc.melbourne<p>Mapname designed as an anonymous Social Network where users particular perspective engage with like minded users, instead of their persona. Personal Images are not promoted.<p>Here is one minute user guide <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G42THV9YcY4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G42THV9YcY4</a><p>More mapnames are on twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/NameYourWay" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/NameYourWay</a><p>You can consider this as "Pinterest of coordinates"<p>Another way to think this; mapname(s) to coordinate(s) is similar to domain name(s) to ip address(es).<p>Instead of hard to remember IP Addresses we use domain names. Similarly instead of coordinates or map list urls a mapname can be in use.<p>Between mapname and a coordinate 1->1 or N->1 or 1->N relationships are possible.<p>Whenever a mapname visited, the most relevant what3words attached to it so that you may communicate whichever is more relevant.<p>Mapname is trying to reduce friction while describing addresses and organising points of interests, for transportation, navigation, directions uses integrations.<p>A mapname can be viewed in your favourite maps (Google Maps, Apple Maps, Yandex Maps, Bing Maps, Baidu Maps) or with what3words, citymapper, waze.<p>it is available on android & ios, feel free play with it, any feedback or question is appreciated.<p>What other location/navigation/map integration would you benefit?
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Title: I have developed an application called "echoserver" and I would like to share its details on Hacker News. The purpose of "echoserver" is to simplify the testing of HTTP clients. It functions as an echo server, meaning it responds to requests by echoing back the received data. This allows users to simulate various server responses and test their HTTP clients accordingly.<p>With "echoserver," users can generate custom responses by specifying the desired status code, headers, and response body. This flexibility enables thorough testing of HTTP clients and simplifies the process of verifying client behavior under various scenarios. Whether it's testing error handling, handling specific headers, or evaluating performance under different response sizes, "echoserver" provides a convenient solution.<p>Overall, "echoserver" aims to streamline the testing process for developers and enhance their ability to verify the functionality and robustness of their HTTP clients. Its simplicity, versatility, and user-friendly interface make it an invaluable tool in the development and testing workflow. I invite the Hacker News community to explore and provide feedback on the app, as I believe it has the potential to greatly benefit developers and testers worldwide.
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Title: Greetings, Hacker News community!<p>I am thrilled to present SpaceBadgers, a new free and open-source SVG badge generator I've been working on. It's located at badgers.space.<p>SpaceBadgers is born out of the desire to offer more flexibility and customization for project badges, often used in open-source projects.<p>It's fully open source, provided under the permissive MIT license, and will always be provided for free. The core badge worker is written in Rust, and so is the library behind it, which you can also find on crates.io under the name spacebadgers.<p>I am excited to receive your feedback and suggestions. Check it out and let me know what you think in the comments. Contributions are also welcomed and appreciated. You can find the source code here: <a href="https://github.com/splittydev/spacebadgers">https://github.com/splittydev/spacebadgers</a>.
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Title: Here is a screenshot of my Bitwarden: https://imgur.com/a/UdG7Inb<p>They include some really important things such as:<p>Health insurance
G-Suite for work
Bill.com (which I use to get paid)
IRS.gov (which I use to get un-paid)
UK Companies House Register
Interactive Brokers
My bank<p>Obviously, anything with OAuth is "bundled" into my Google account. So if anything this is a huge underestimate.<p>I'm asking because of how insane auth has become. I know companies like OnePassword and Bitwarden are working on this and overall they do a great job. But I still have a near-stroke every time I have to do the "forgot my password" loop, or use Duo Mobile/other 2FA.<p>The only really good auth feature I've ever encountered has been Apple's "fill from Messages" feature as well as their Touch.
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Title: I was mostly reading non-fiction in the past but recently got into sci-fi after reading Seveneves, so I'm looking for more recommendations :)
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Title: Hi HN,<p>Trogon is a project to generate a TUI for command line apps.<p>It presents the arguments, options, and switches as a form. Editing the form generates a command line, which you can then run with a keypress.<p>I'm a lover of the command line. But I can recall only a fraction of the switches for most commands I use. I would love it if there was a TUI available for most commands.<p>Trogon currently works with Python and the Click library, but I would like it to cover more of the Python ecosystem and also generate TUIs for apps not written in Python.<p>More information in the repository.<p>Let me know what you think...
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Title: In short, I just received a nice proposal to work on a new contract, the potential customer sent me a "document" with the project specs which turned out to be a password-protected compressed file with some pictures and a ".exe" file inside.<p>I submitted the executable to virustotal which reports this as a trojan (https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/088e2dabf218024d30e6899152b6a031dc30ae6f7d516492cb797292d6255d27/detection), seems like this takes screenshots and steals browser data which can be used for other purposes later.<p>Anyway, be cautious with proposals you receive.
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Title: Seeing so many different testing frameworks in every programming language. Would love to understand how this happened, when they all seemingly do the same thing. Would love to know which is your favorite and what makes it different than whatever else popular framework in your language?
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Title: Aside from excel/Google Sheets,<p>Does anyone know of a web app (preferably) that lets you manually input blood test results?<p>The hope is a service that creates graphs of historic records, provides reference values comparison, unit conversion, and offers insights (like what high/low values could indicate)?
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Title: I feel like I achieved almost everything I wanted as a frontend developer (even moved from just working with UI/react/etc to pure R&D, researching and working with browser api for innovarive/obscure tasks) and while backend looks interesting for me, I know that I will have to take a paycut if I would move there.
Becoming a team leader or moving to other management position looks more promising from salary and work enjoyment (for me) purposes, so what are my next steps are?<p>Is there any good reads, courses, videos, lectures etc I should know of? I work in small startup for the past year so I don't have anything to take example of nor I have any opportunity to lead a team (except one guy I'm mentoring)
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Title: Hi HN,<p>WikTok is a UI for Wikipedia that lets you quickly swipe (or use your arrow keys) to navigate between random and recommended articles (based on the previous articles you interacted most with).<p>It's just a fun project I hacked together this weekend, so may be a little rough around the edges, but I'd love to get your thoughts.<p>Let me know if you have any suggestions (or find any interesting articles!)<p>Cheers,
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Title: What are your best practices for welcoming onboard new developers?
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Title: Alpha preview for the ki programming language. Currently linux-x64, macos-x64 only. Windows users can use WSL for now. Feedback is much appreciated.
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Title: I bought an HP printer that came with an HP Instant Ink subscription a year ago. The subscription promises to send you ink when you're running low as long as you print within the designated number of pages.<p>I recently changed my card and figured I would let the subscription expire.<p>Fast forward to today. I go to print something and find that the printer is "unable to print" even though there is ample ink left in the cartridges. I press a button on the printer and it spits out a report that states the printer is unable to print, except for printer reports (!).<p>I dig a little (since the error message they show provides no additional information beyond not being able to print) and find this thread [0] in their support forum. It turns out that once the subscription is cancelled or suspended, you are no longer able to use the ink that has been sent to you. Some even report not being able to print with cartridges they bought independently.<p>It turns out that their terms state that you're buying the ability to print x pages and the ink is actually always owned by HP, even when in your possession.<p>This has to be one shadiest and just overall worst product experiences I've come across in a while.<p>Printers have always been a bit of a pain but since when did they have to be near permanently connected to the internet else threaten to cut you off from all of their capabilities.<p>[0] <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230522114823/https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Printers-Knowledge-Base/Cancelled-Instant-Ink-service-and-now-I-can-t-print/ta-p/7037780" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20230522114823/https://h30434.ww...</a>
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Title: Hey HN!<p>After my own experiences with learning Vim, I wanted to skip the frustrating process of configuring a new tool before even learning how to use it. In an attempt to solve this problem, I started working on Vim Ninja, a web app that would allow developers to learn Vim through interactive lessons in the browser. It’s been a couple of months, and I’m proud to say that I’ve finally released <a href="https://VimNinja.com" rel="nofollow">https://VimNinja.com</a>!<p>Check out a demo of the app here: <a href="https://youtu.be/reukQHKqMZE" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/reukQHKqMZE</a>.<p>On the technical side of things, I used SvelteKit to build the entire app and Tailwind, which turned out to be an amazing decision. I actually really like SvelteKit’s filesystem-based router as well as Svelte’s brevity, and Tailwind actually makes styling a fun task for me. I’m using CodeMirror 6 as a base for Vim Ninja’s code editor, and I really prefer it over more feature-packed alternatives like the Monaco Editor, which is what I started out with but soon abandoned due to its worse performance when compared to alternatives like CM6 and the sheer amount of bells and whistles that I just didn’t need.
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Title: I was struggling with navigating HN discussions using existing solutions, so I decided to implement a completely different approach, think of it as depth-first reading vs breadth-first reading. Visually it looks like swipeable stacks of comments and it offers several advantages over traditional interfaces:<p>- Comment width doesn't get narrower no matter how deep in the comment tree you are<p>- You always see the parent of the comment you're currently reading<p>- Swiping allows you to move in and out of subtrees with animated transitions that you fully control<p>- You can easily skip subtrees that don't interest you by scrolling<p>As a result it's easier to maintain the context and to keep track of where you are in the discussion tree. The app is fully featured, it does all the things that you would expect it to do, and there's extra: custom boards, search, in-thread search, anchors, reading list, recent items.<p>Video preview: <a href="https://imgur.com/a/tzBdpXw" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/tzBdpXw</a><p>or <a href="https://streamable.com/arq45m" rel="nofollow">https://streamable.com/arq45m</a>
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Title: My cofounder and I used to work at Robinhood where we shipped the company’s first OAuth integrations, so we know a lot about how data moves between companies.<p>For example, we know that the pain of building new API integrations scales with the level of fragmentation and number of competing "standards". In the current meta, we see this pain with a lot of AI startups who invariably need to connect to their customers data, but have to support 50+ integrations before they even scale to 50+ customers.<p>This is the process for an AI startup to add a new integration for a customer:<p>- Pore over the API docs for each source application and write a connector for each<p>- Play email tag to find the right stakeholders and get them to share sensitive API keys, or give them an OAuth app. It can take 6+ weeks for some platforms to review new OAuth apps<p>- Normalize data that arrives in a different formats from each source (HTML, XML, text dumps, 3 different flavors of markdown, JSON, etc)<p>- Figure out what data should be vectorized, what should be stored as SQL, and what should be discarded<p>- Detect when data has been updated and synchronize it<p>- Monitor when pipelines break so data doesn’t go stale<p>This is a LOT of work for something that doesn’t move the needle on product quality.<p>That’s why we built Psychic.dev to be the fastest and most secure way for startups to connect to their customer’s data. You integrate once with our universal APIs and get N integrations with CRMs, knowledge bases, ticketing systems and more with no incremental engineering effort.<p>We abstract away the quirks of each data source into Document and Conversation data models, and try to find a good balance to allow for deep integrations while maintaining broad utility. Since it’s open source, we encourage founders to fork and extend our data models to fit their needs as they evolve, even if it means migrating off our paid version.<p>To see an example in action, check out our demo repo here: <a href="https://github.com/psychic-api/psychic-langchain-tutorial/">https://github.com/psychic-api/psychic-langchain-tutorial/</a><p>We are also open source and open to contributions, learn more at docs.psychic.dev or by emailing us at [email protected]!
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Title: Just curious to know if anyone is hosting their own Jitsi server or an equivalent alternative?<p>https://jitsi.org/
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Title: One day I was listening to a playlist and wished there could be some cool visuals to go along with it.<p>Blotter is a proof of concept I hacked together that does a bit of audio recognition combined with a few generative AI models (both text and img) to create visuals that are relevant to the song.<p>The video stream is generated in real time at 24fps - you can try it yourself by requesting visuals in the Twitch chat using the "!v" command!<p>Right now it's mostly a fun hack project, but I am tinkering with new model architectures for higher fidelity video as well as an interactive tool so people can make videos with their own audio files.<p>I'd love to hear any feedback or suggestions, thanks!
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Title: Personally, GPT-4 has wasted about as much of my time as it's saved with its constant hallucinations and lack of insight when writing NixOS derivations and a Rust web backend. I wouldn't let it near my delicate-hackish checkpointing work in C++.<p>What are you doing where it serves you well?
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Title: Hi folks! I'm excited to show you gis.chat, a geospatial chat platform in both senses: a platform about geospatial topics and a geospatial platform itself, referencing the location of our communities.<p>The setup is fairly simple and reproducible: a plain Zulip instance and a homepage with geospatial search capabilities.<p>It seems almost trivial but it has some very nice features. I guess you should be familiar with Zulips stream/topic model to follow along (<a href="https://zulip.com/help/streams-and-topics" rel="nofollow">https://zulip.com/help/streams-and-topics</a>).<p>The core idea is that there are city-specific streams (currently represented by a pin), but there could just as well be streams about points of interest, line geometries (e.g. a river) or polygons (e.g. national park).<p>- Every local stream can have the same topics, e.g. "general", "news", "meetups", "jobs" etc.
- With Zulip's search you can either search for a particular topic, e.g. "news" in a local stream or instead in all streams and have some kind of news feed of the community with "topic:news"
- Once more communities are added, specific filters could be added, e.g. country-wise or by drawing your own area of interest
- Eventually, for the ones who like, users could associate themselves with a local community in their profile or add there main location so one could not only search for the local communities but instead also for individuals<p>There are many nice features in Zulip's pipeline that would foster gis.chat:<p>- Further nesting of streams/topics
- Semantic search<p>If for example Zulip would allow for saving coordinates (or better an entire geometry) in the Postgres DB, with the help of PostGIS, Zulip's search could allow for bounding boxes (or custom geometries).<p>Let me know if you have any kind of other ideas or feedback!
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Title: i’ve seen a movement recently. we’ve been more and more nostalgic here, talking about software, hardware, and things in general from the past. why so?
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Title: Hey HN, we’re Ben and Jake, founders of Common Paper (<a href="https://commonpaper.com">https://commonpaper.com</a>). We provide standard, open-source contracts and a platform for getting them signed quickly. See <a href="https://youtu.be/f7maIapJpU4" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/f7maIapJpU4</a> for an overview, and <a href="https://youtu.be/A1PWjWiheFk" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/A1PWjWiheFk</a> for a demo of sending and signing a contract.<p>I (Jake) was a co-founder of two B2B SaaS companies, RJMetrics (where Ben and I met), and Stitch. Everything about contracts was frustrating, both at those startups and the larger companies that acquired us.<p>Way too often, the contracting process with a customer got adversarial—arguing over whose template to use, emailing Word docs back and forth, huge legal fees, and unpredictable delays that made it hard to know if a deal would ever close. Then, when we finally got the customer to sign, we had to keep track of all of the promises embedded in the contract. This is difficult when you have hundreds of customers and contract PDFs full of unstructured text.<p>The breaking point came when one of our customers was acquired by Oracle. They wanted to keep using our product, but had to move from our original contract to the one that Oracle uses. In exchange for this, they were willing to increase the price they were paying from $6,000 to $24,000 per year.<p>It took us 9 months to get the new contract in place, just to enable them to keep using the product. We spent more on attorneys than we gained from the upsell. And there was basically nothing we could do to improve that process as a single company operating in a system where standards don’t exist.<p>Contrast that to the standardization that the SAFE, or Simple Agreement for Future Equity, brought to seed investments, and the potential is obvious. (Past discussion of the SAFE at <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33639191" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33639191</a>)<p>If you’re a startup raising money on a SAFE, the process is simple, whether you’re raising $10k from an angel or $1M from a VC. Everyone already uses, or at least is familiar with, the same basic contract. There are a few variables that change on a deal-by-deal basis, but the transactions are vastly more efficient because everyone is on the same standard contract.<p>If you start with standard contracts, you can build very different software to manage them compared to traditional contracts. Our business model is to provide the standard contracts for free and charge money from companies who use our software to sell to their customers (more on this below).<p>The standard contracts we create are all related to buying and selling B2B software. This includes a non-disclosure agreement, (<a href="https://commonpaper.com/standards/mutual-nda/">https://commonpaper.com/standards/mutual-nda/</a>), sales contract (<a href="https://commonpaper.com/standards/cloud-service-agreement/">https://commonpaper.com/standards/cloud-service-agreement/</a>), SLA, DPA, ToS, etc. The full list is at <a href="https://commonpaper.com/standards/">https://commonpaper.com/standards/</a>.<p>The process for creating and revising the contracts is modeled after an open-source software project, and they are released for free (as in both speech and beer) under the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license.<p>We have a committee of 40+ attorneys from tech companies and law firms who are analogous to code contributors (<a href="https://commonpaper.com/committee">https://commonpaper.com/committee</a>). An attorney on our team, who you can think about like a maintainer, collects all of their feedback and synthesizes it into a version for release (eg the Design Partner Agreement v1.0). We post the agreements as DOCX, PDF, and HTML on our website and host markdown on Github.<p>Most of the usage of the agreements happens outside of our platform, and we don’t have any visibility into that unless people choose to tell us. However, we do know that thousands of companies have signed the agreements, and millions of dollars worth of deals have been closed on them.<p>Each agreement is split into two sections: the standard terms, which are the same across all instances, and a cover page, with variables that can be customized for a particular company and deal. The latter is basically a schema for each agreement type, and that leads to the fundamental trade-off in how we build our software. We have less flexibility around types of contracts (because we’re focused on the standard agreements, not arbitrary DOCX files), but in exchange, every agreement type has a consistent data model, which means that we can build integrations and features that work across all customers. This gain is huge.<p>For example, we can use the data in the fees section of our standard Cloud Service Agreement to automatically generate invoices and subscriptions using Stripe. Similarly, it’s trivial to use our API (<a href="https://api.commonpaper.com/docs">https://api.commonpaper.com/docs</a>) to check if an active NDA is in place before sharing confidential information or to keep a spreadsheet up to date with the SLA obligations for different customers.<p>Traditional contract management tools are built around adding electronic signatures to documents full of unstructured text and/or creating a custom data model from a particular company’s bespoke contract. There’s no way they can offer features like this without a custom project for each particular contract. It’s basically the difference between custom software and a software product.<p>Part of our feature set overlaps with the traditional tools. We can do things like send a contract to the other side, propose changes, approve, and sign. But our negotiation model is different in that it encourages both sides to keep changes narrowly scoped to the variables in the cover page. That makes it faster both to propose the changes and for each side to understand, and accept or reject, the changes proposed by their counterparty.<p>We believe that, just as with SAFEs in the investment world, the potential efficiency gains and positive side effects of this model are so big that the transition is inevitable. We’d love for you all to try it out and let us know your feedback and suggestions. The agreements are free forever, and our software is free as well until you use it to close deals with 5 customers. <a href="https://commonpaper.com/product/">https://commonpaper.com/product/</a>.<p>We’re interested to hear about any experiences you’ve had with contracts and how you’ve worked with them. We look forward to your comments!
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Title: My friends and I were complaining about having to decipher incomprehensible code one day and decided to pass the code through GPT to see if it could write easily understandable comments to help us out. It turns out that GPT can but it was still a hassle to generate comments for large files.<p>So we decided to develop a basic web application that automatically integrates with your Github repository, generate comments, create a pull request and send you an email when it is all done.<p>There is definitely a lot more that can be done but we wanted to gain feedback on whether this is a problem that you face too. Do you often find it challenging to understand complex code? Do you have difficulties in writing informative comments? And if so, would you find value in a tool that can automatically generate comments for your code?<p>Really appreciate any feedback and suggestions! Thanks in advance!
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Title: Hello HN! We just launched a new feature we built at Depot that accelerates Docker image builds on your local machine in a team environment, and we wanted to share some of the details with you all.<p>The launch blog post: https://depot.dev/blog/local-builds<p>Depot is a hosted container build service - we run fully managed Intel and Arm remote build machines in AWS, with large instance sizes and SSD cache disks. The machines run BuildKit, the build engine that powers Docker, so generally anything you can `docker build`, you can also `depot build`.<p>Most people use Depot in CI, and you could also run `depot build` from your local machine as well. That would perform the build using the remote builder, with associated fast hardware and extra fast datacenter network speeds.<p>But then to download the container back to your local machine, BuildKit would transfer the <i>entire</i> container back for every build, including base image layers, since BuildKit wasn’t aware of what layers already existed on your device.<p>The new release fixes this! To make it work, we replaced the BuildKit `--load` by making the Depot CLI itself serve the Docker registry API on a local port, then asking Docker to pull the image from that localhost registry. The CLI in turn intercepts the requests for layers and fetches them directly using BuildKit’s content API.<p>This means Docker only asks for the layers it needs! This actually speeds up both local builds, where you only need to download changed layers, as well as CI where it can skip building an expensive tarball of the whole image every time!<p>We ran into one major obstacle when first testing: the machine running the Docker daemon might not be the same machine running the `depot build` command. Notably, CircleCI has a remote Docker daemon, where asking it to pull from localhost does not reach the CLI’s temporary registry.<p>For this, we built a "helper" container that the CLI launches to run the HTTP server portion of the temporary registry - since it’s launched as a container, it does run on the same machine as the Docker daemon, and localhost is reachable. The Depot CLI then communicates with the helper container over stdio, receiving requests for layers and sending their contents back using a custom simple transport protocol.<p>This makes everything very efficient! One cool part about the remote build machines: you can share cache with anyone on your team who has access to the same project. This means that if your teammate already built all or part of the container, your build just reuses the result. This means that, in addition to using the fast remote builders instead of your local device, you can actually have cache hits on code you haven’t personally built yet.<p>We’d love for you to check it out, and are happy to answer any questions you have about technical details!<p>https://depot.dev/docs/guides/local-development
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Title: I own a 2021 Honda Civic and have been annoyed by the lack of public documentation/hacking tools for the Android-based headunit. I hope to address this by publishing my research into the headunit and encouraging discussion and community contribution
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Title: I’ve come to realize that I often take constructive criticisms personally. Everything from an unintentionally snarky comment in a PR I’ve made to someone highlight a mistake I’ve made that I probably couldn’t have known about.<p>I see this as one of my major flaws and try hard to mask how I feel. But I just hope to learn to stop feeling bad for honest mistakes.
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Title: Hi HN,<p>I’m the founder of a SaaS platform called CommandBar (YC S20). We’ve been mucking around with AI-related side quests for a while, but recently got excited enough about one to test it with some customers. Results were surprisingly good so we decided to launch it.<p>HelpHub is AI chat + semantic search for any website or web app.<p>You can add source content in 3 ways:
-Crawling any public site via a URL (e.g. your marketing site or blog)
-Syncing with a CMS (like Zendesk or Intercom)
-Add content manually<p>The chatbot is then “trained” on that content and will answer question’s based on that content only, not referencing directly the knowledge.<p>The output is an embeddable widget the contains two things: the chatbot interface for user’s to ask questions, and a search interface for users to search through the content the bot is trained on directly (as well as view source content).<p>You can play around with a demo on some popular sites here: <a href="https://helphub.commandbar.com">https://helphub.commandbar.com</a><p>Some features we added that make it better IMO than just chat:
-Suggested questions (based on the page the user is on and their chat history)
-Suggested follow-up questions in a chat response
-Ask a question about a specific doc
-Recommend content based on who the user is and where they are<p>Would love to hear feedback (not lost on me that there are other chatgpt-for-your-site products and we are probably missing a ton of functionality from there) and can also share details about how we built this. It’s not rocket science but does feel magic :)<p>-James
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Title: I'm considering a big career change. Early 30s, male, Physics degree and I have a good job in sales in finance in the UK. Earn 100k GBP in a good year and I had a startup before were a more a good cash lump sum.<p>I think like many people I find more work uninspiring, pointless and eroding. However, it's well paid, high status and hard to break into.<p>I have an interview next week for a coffee engineer role which pays around a third of what I currently earn and would involve being on the road four out of five days.<p>Has anyone else made a change like this? How did you find it? Did you miss the money and status?<p>I know that office work is desirable for a reason (people like to sit down!!) but I think there might be something inspiring and rewarding about working with me hands. Am I being naïve because I've never really had to work with my hand?<p>Thanks for your help and honest feedback.<p>W
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Title: How do you battle against (self-inflicted) anxiety/paralysis when you are attempting to tackle a problem you are not sure has a solution? I have a very open mind to solving problems but it can make it difficult to come to conclusions. Anyone know what I'm talking about here? Have any advice?
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Title: If it simply visits sites, it will face a paywall too. If it identifies itself as archive.is, then other people could identify themselves the same way.
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Title: Hi HN - we’re Max and Chandler, and we’re building Dittofeed <a href="https://dittofeed.com">https://dittofeed.com</a>. We make it easy for growth and marketing teams to message their customers across multiple channels. We're an open source alternative to platforms like Iterable, <a href="http://customer.io/" rel="nofollow">http://customer.io/</a>, Braze, and OneSignal. Here’s a short demo video showing how to run the platform locally, and use it to automate a customer onboarding journey:<p><a href="https://www.loom.com/share/0f7b67170b3a4205add00c22844ca06f" rel="nofollow">https://www.loom.com/share/0f7b67170b3a4205add00c22844ca06f</a><p>We created Dittofeed to tackle some commonly felt pains with customer engagement platforms:<p>First, existing platforms make it difficult to keep imported user data accurate and up to date with your primary user datastore. To solve this, we’re building first-class support for importing data from your data warehouse, for better data consistency.<p>Second, graphical “journey builders” are fragile, and difficult to debug at scale, so we’re building git-based workflows to check your messaging automation into git as configuration, as well the ability to run Dittofeed locally in development, or in CI with our testing sdk, for improved ease of debugging.<p>Third, companies in industries like finance and healthcare are often forced to implement their own solutions in-house to avoid sharing sensitive PII with third parties. As an open source platform, companies can now self-host us to keep their PII in their network.<p>Chandler, having worked in marketing for startups, experienced these challenges first hand. Max, on the other hand, was a senior platform infrastructure engineer at Braze, where he witnessed similar challenges from a technical perspective. Our combined experiences sparked the idea for Dittofeed.<p>We decided to create an open source, developer-focused customer engagement platform, because the often unspoken truth is that maximizing the effectiveness of these tools requires ongoing engineering involvement.<p>Dittofeed is built on Clickhouse (OLAP store used for storing user events, performing user segmentation, and aggregations) and Postgres (OLTP store for persisting application configuration, and serving user aggregations for efficient single-row reads).<p>If you can use the following, we’d love it if you checked us out:<p>Email support via sendgrid (other channels coming soon).<p>User data import via Segment integration.<p>We have a cloud offering, and offer paid support. You can find our pricing on our site <a href="https://dittofeed.com/pricing">https://dittofeed.com/pricing</a>.<p>How to try Dittofeed out:<p>Check out our demo site to play around with the app <a href="https://demo.dittofeed.com/dashboard">https://demo.dittofeed.com/dashboard</a><p>Run the app locally via docker compose (<a href="https://docs.dittofeed.com/deployment/self-hosted/docker-compose">https://docs.dittofeed.com/deployment/self-hosted/docker-com...</a>).<p>Join our slack and we’ll set you up with cloud hosting (<a href="https://join.slack.com/t/dittofeed-community/shared_invite/zt-1u3lyts83-P6npff1AbjniNRLVlrlM5A" rel="nofollow">https://join.slack.com/t/dittofeed-community/shared_invite/z...</a>)<p>We’d love to hear your thoughts, opinions, and experiences with these tools. What’s been your experience working with this kind of tech?
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Title: Hi HN,<p>Removing the background from images is a surprisingly common image processing task, and AI has made it really easy. The technology has come a long way since segment leader remove.bg launched here on hn in Dec 2018 [1]. Chasing remove.bg's success, a legion of providers have come on the market offering varying levels of quality & service.<p>Despite there being a large number of competing services, most still price for very high (~95%?) gross margins. Furthermore, subscriptions make the effective unit price a lot higher than the list price for infrequent users, and requires effort & attention to ensure you're getting value for money. This has prevented a host of use cases (e.g. infrequent professional / hobbyist) and business models (e.g. ad-supported websites & mobile apps).<p>We see this as an opportunity where we can jump to the market's logical conclusion to gain market share and build goodwill: cost-plus PAYGO pricing, i.e. the "S3 pricing model".<p>So we've built yet-another image background removal service ( <a href="https://pixian.ai" rel="nofollow">https://pixian.ai</a> - introductory post 6 months ago [2], a ton has been improved since then) but with a couple of twists:<p>1. Quantified quality comparison (90-120% of remove.bg, depending on image category), free for you to check your own images so you can make an informed choice.<p>2. Customer-friendly pricing (PAYGO @ 1-10% of competitors' subscriptions) with a generous free tier (and free while in beta).<p>3. A novel API result format: Delta PNG [3], which offers excellent latency & bandwidth savings. Especially useful for mobile apps.<p>4. Operational transparency: actual volume & latency metrics public, with more coming soon (all API providers should be showing this).<p>There's of course more to it than just price and we see several sources of differentiation in this market: quality, price, capability, reliability, latency, and goodwill.<p>As a new entrant we're looking to meet-or-beat the quality bar; beat on price, capability, reliability and latency; and to build up goodwill over time.<p>Our goal is to make it a no-brainer for new accounts to choose us, and to provide the tools and guidance necessary for existing accounts to make the switch with confidence.<p>We'd love for you to try it out and to hear your thoughts!<p><a href="https://pixian.ai" rel="nofollow">https://pixian.ai</a><p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18697601" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18697601</a>
[2] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33439405" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33439405</a>
[3] <a href="https://pixian.ai/api/deltaPng" rel="nofollow">https://pixian.ai/api/deltaPng</a>
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Title: Fuzzy Logic was a very talked about field few decades ago. What is the state of that field of research? Is it still being persued or are there applications of it already implemented commercially?
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Title: Just curious about the economics of karma. For me, it takes so much mental energy just to even read a typical link shared on HN, so I usually skim through it and read the comments. So naturally got curious how much time do people spend if they have active discussions about topics here.
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Title: Some desktop apps have been developed for 20+ years and still running and available. There are not many desktop apps with longevity (and rewrites).<p>Examples of apps still available:<p>- <i>Quarx</i>: QuarkXPress (1987)<p>- <i>Corel</i>: WordPerfect (bought by Corel in 1996), CorelDraw (1989)<p>- <i>Xara</i>: Xara (1994) - a Windows vector illustration app still in development<p>- <i>Fontlab</i>: Fontlab (1993 for Windows)<p>- <i>Bare Bones Software</i>: BBEdit (1993)<p>- <i>UltraEdit</i>: UltraEdit (1994)<p>- <i>Borland/Embarcadero</i>: Delphi (1995)<p>- <i>Fantaisie Software</i>: PureBasic (2000 for Windows)<p>- <i>IBM/Eclipse Foundation</i>: Eclipse (2001)<p>What other examples of desktop apps 20+ years old and still in development? (Excluding Microsoft, Apple and Adobe examples because everyone recognise their apps.)
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Title: Hi HN,<p>We've just published a lot of original, visual, and intuitive explanations of concepts to introduce people to large language models.<p>It's available for free with no sign-up needed and it includes text articles, some video explanations, and code examples/notebooks as well. And we're available to answer your questions in a dedicated Discord channel.<p>You can find it here: https://llm.university/<p>Having written https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer/, I've been thinking about these topics and how best to communicate them for half a decade. But this project is extra special to me because I got to collaborate on it with two of who I think of as some of the best ML educators out there. Luis Serrano of https://www.youtube.com/@SerranoAcademy and Meor Amer, author of "A Visual Introduction to Deep Learning" https://kdimensions.gumroad.com/l/visualdl<p>We're planning to roll out more content to it (let us know what concepts interest you). But as of now, it has the following structure (With some links for highlighted articles for you to audit):<p>---<p>Module 1: What are Large Language Models<p>- Text Embeddings (https://docs.cohere.com/docs/text-embeddings)<p>- Similarity between words and sentences (https://docs.cohere.com/docs/similarity-between-words-and-sentences)<p>- The attention mechanism<p>- Transformer models (https://docs.cohere.com/docs/transformer-models HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35576918)<p>- Semantic search<p>---<p>Module 2: Text representation<p>- Classification models (https://docs.cohere.com/docs/classification-models)<p>- Classification Evaluation metrics (https://docs.cohere.com/docs/evaluation-metrics)<p>- Classification / Embedding API endpoints<p>- Semantic search<p>- Text clustering<p>- Topic modeling (goes over clustering Ask HN posts https://docs.cohere.com/docs/clustering-hacker-news-posts)<p>- Multilingual semantic search<p>- Multilingual sentiment analysis<p>---<p>Module 3: Text generation<p>- Prompt engineering (https://docs.cohere.com/docs/model-prompting)<p>- Use case ideation<p>- Chaining prompts<p>---<p>A lot of the content originates from common questions we get from users of the LLMs we serve at Cohere. So the focus is more on application of LLMs than theory or training LLMs.<p>Hope you enjoy it, open to all feedback and suggestions!
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Title: Hey everyone.<p>I have dedicated 4 years of my life to building a solution for easy deployment of [primarily] Python and Django apps.<p>Think of it as an equivalent of Laravel Forge/Hatchbox but for Python apps.<p>For those who are not familiar – Platform as a service on your cloud or on-prem servers.<p>I have posted here 2 years ago and a lot has changed since then.<p>What's new:
- New great and easy to use dashboard
- backups for databases
- cronjobs
- stats resources of servers and apps
- tons of stability improvements.
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Title: HN Follow lets you follow authors on Hacker News, and get email notifications when they post. It was inspired by alerthn.com and hnreplies.com.<p>The app was built in an experimental style on Val Town. We’re trying to create a new web primitive that you can:<p>1. write like a function
2. run like a script
3. fork like a repo
4. install like an app<p>This is our 5th iteration of this same “HN Follow” app. We launched the 3rd version here on Hacker News six months ago[1], but it was very kindly removed from the front page by dang in favor of us launching Val Town itself first, which we did in January[2].<p>We’re trying to strike the right balance between something you can use and install with one click, and something you can infinitely customize. For example, you could fork `@rodrigoTello.hnFollowApp`[3] and change the input parameter from authors to a generic query, like I do here[4] to get notifications whenever “val town” is mentioned on HN. In addition to emailing myself (via `console.email`), I also send a message to our team’s Discord. The possibilities are endless, but it can also be overwhelming. We’re trying to find the balance where we help you navigate the space of possible integrations, without limiting you the way a no-code tool would. We would really appreciate your guys’ feedback and suggestions!<p>[1] - HN Follow, first launch: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33533830" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33533830</a><p>[2] - Val Town launch: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34343122" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34343122</a><p>[3] - `@rodrigotello.hnFollowApp`: <a href="https://www.val.town/v/rodrigotello.hnFollowApp" rel="nofollow">https://www.val.town/v/rodrigotello.hnFollowApp</a><p>[4] - My fork of hnFollow: <a href="https://www.val.town/v/stevekrouse.hnValTown" rel="nofollow">https://www.val.town/v/stevekrouse.hnValTown</a>
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Title: It may just be the circles of the internet I’ve been hanging around in, but it seems very commonly assumed that the pace of progress in the field of AI is so rapid that — unless we take steps to avoid it — someone (or more likely, some large organization) will soon develop a super-intelligent AI.<p>And it’s not just the fringe. We can see see such apparently sober voices as Geoffrey Hinton sounding the alarm about super-smart AI.<p>But … why? All the recent exciting progress has been due to large language models, which are basically hacks that allow us to use large volumes of normally-intelligent text to train a statistical model for next-token prediction. It’s not even particularly complex to do this in principle (though wrangling all the compute you need can be quite difficult). It’s all very clever, yes, but at bottom it’s just a brute force approach.<p>These solutions get us neat tools but I don’t see how they bring us even one step closer to super-intelligence. You can’t just train an LLM with more and more parameters and more and more tokens and expect it to be smarter than the data it was trained on. And such models don’t bring us any real understanding of what it would take to <i>make</i> super-intelligent machines.<p>But if Geoffrey Hinton is worried surely I’ve gone wrong somewhere. What am I not seeing?
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Title: There are plenty of podcasts to listen to some slow basic Italian, but often they just talk about random things I'm not that interested in. Nothing a few hours of tinkering with Python cannot solve these days!<p>Introducing Hacker News in Slow Italian. Each episode is generated automatically, using GPT4 API to summarise the top articles on Hacker News and then fed to Play.ht for text-to-speech.<p>The (very short) code is available on Github: <a href="https://github.com/laky/hn-slow-italian">https://github.com/laky/hn-slow-italian</a>
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Title: I've been messing around with writing a toy database for fun/learning, and realised I've got a fairly big gap in my knowledge when it comes to dealing with performance and durability when dealing with file reads/writes.<p>Example of some questions I'd like to be able to answer or at least make reasonable decisions about (<i>note</i>: I don't actually want any answers to the above now, they're just examples of the sort of thing I'd like to read in depth about, and build up
some background knowledge):<p><pre><code> * how to ensure data's been safely written (e.g. when to flush, fsync, what
guarantees that gives, using WAL)
* blocks sizes to read/write for different purposes, tradeoffs, etc.
* considerations for writing to different media/filesystems (e.g. disk, ssd, NFS)
* when to rely on OS disk cache vs. using own cache
* when to use/not use mmap
* performance considerations (e.g. multiple small files vs. few larger ones,
concurrent readers/writers, locking, etc.)
* OS specific considerations
</code></pre>
I recall reading some posts (related to Redis/SQLite/Postgres) related to this, which made me realise that it's a fairly complex topic, but not one I've found a good entry point for.<p>Any pointers to books, documentation, etc. on the above would be much
appreciated.
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Title: Hello everyone!<p>This is a browser extension that attempts to enhance Hacker News user experience, while your data is kept secure, and private (never leaves the browser).<p>Browsers have evolved significantly since doing a v1 back in 2010, which was one of the contributing factors, for attempting a complete re-take few months ago.<p>Personally, I was surprised how useful it turned out to be when browsing around HN.<p>On the linked page you can find install link(s) from web-browser stores, and demo video/screenshots of the features[1]<p>What do you think ?<p>[1] including, browsing content with multiple columns, infinite scroll for lists, user profile tooltips, dynamic comment reply, dark-mode, ...
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Title: Hey guys
I've been playing the guitar for many years but I felt like I had hit a wall and wasnt making progress. One of the things I realized was holding me back was unfamiliarity with the fretboard. I'd often find myself in situations like<p>“Uhh…Where’s the C# here?”<p>“Where’s the flat-3rd of this root on the 4th string?”<p>“Sure would be nice to know the closest min7 triad shape to play over here..”<p>I tried memorizing the fretboard the obvious way but it extreeemly boring for me. Being a developer, I decided to turn it into a game. I'd love for you guys to try it out and let me know what you think: It's at [www.fretboardfly.com](<a href="https://www.fretboardfly.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.fretboardfly.com</a>)<p>I've only built the first module right now which is for note memorization but there's been enough interest that I'm planning on building more modules. Please let me know if you like it, what you'd change about it and what other modules you'd like to see in future.<p>The stack is Vue 3/Nuxt 3/Firebase/Firestore/Tailwind deployed on Vercel. Happy to field questions on the tech side of things as well
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Title: I've been asked to start reviewing layoffs in terms of AI automation. The IBM layoffs articles have been passed around executive management recently.<p>I'm wondering how common this is right now ?
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Title: This thread may prove helpful for someone wanting to study some topic in Computer Science on their own if it becomes well populated.<p>What are some of the best materials (courses, books, notes, video talks, etc) on any CS/programming topic that you have gone through or know of?<p>Also mention a bit about why it is useful.
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Title: I made a Logicboard.com — A collaborative code editor with code-replay feature.<p>Code-replay lets you run the coding session like a movie, I wrote a blog post on how I implemented this: <a href="https://logicboard.com/blog/code-replay" rel="nofollow">https://logicboard.com/blog/code-replay</a><p>You can try out the demo here: <a href="https://logicboard.com/demo/:replay" rel="nofollow">https://logicboard.com/demo/:replay</a><p>And play around with the code editor here: <a href="https://logicboard.com/demo/" rel="nofollow">https://logicboard.com/demo/</a><p>Logicboard also has an REPL shell, just type "start()" and hit enter in the output area.
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Title: I was reading the Deep Double Descent paper by OpenAI: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02292" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02292</a>. The writing is so lucid. Even the structure of the paper is non-conventional. They have a results section before the Related Works section to give sneak peak of what the paper is about. More like telling a story. Even before starting the Introduction there is a self explanatory image spanning the entier two columns.<p>Can you link to more papers that are written in such style and are easy to read if you have the background knowledge?
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Title: With all the current news about NVIDIA AI/ML chips;<p>Can anybody give an overview of AI/ML/NPU/TPU/etc chips and pointers to detailed technical papers/books/videos about them? All i am able to find are marketing/sales/general overviews which really don't explain anything.<p>Am looking for a technical deep dive.
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Title: A Bank-holiday weekend in the UK, the passport-control system (e-gates) goes down and all passports have to be checked manually, so huge queues etc. I'd assumed an unwise Friday deploy, but the press says the issue is "too sensitive to discuss", eg: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65731795<p>Anyone with inside information they'd like to share?
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Title: I'm looking for suggestions to possibly replace dedicated servers that would be cost-effective considering the bandwidth.
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Title: Introducing the Code ChatGPT Plugin - a new era of seamless interaction between ChatGPT and your codebase. This TypeScript Code Analyzer furnishes a suite of utilities to analyze TypeScript code, enabling ChatGPT to "talk" with YOUR code.<p>Fetch a list of all the files in your project, list of every function in a TypeScript or JavaScript file, or even get the content of a specific function, all while staying in your conversation with ChatGPT. With accessible API endpoints, you can effortlessly navigate your codebase and ask ChatGPT anything you can think of about it.<p>Say goodbye to the days of incessant copy-pasting and welcome a more streamlined code discussion experience .<p>I'd love to hear your thoughts, experiences, and suggestions for improvement. Let's discuss and evolve this tool together!
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Title: Hello,<p>I'm an HN user for 5-6 years but I wanted to use an alt for this as it's a bit sensitive.<p>Last week I created a ChatGPT clone for my city. It's basically a laravel app hooked up to GPT3.5-turbo with a custom prompt that makes local references and talks in the way that people in my city talk.<p>It's been a surprise hit and now I've had 20,000 chats coming through in one day - people where I live really seem to love it<p>The problem is that I likely can't afford to keep hosting this. It's cost me $50/day for one day, and Adsense doesn't allow 'chat apps', so I'm at a loss at how to cover the bill for this app. I've already optimised the prompt and reduced the number of tokens I'm sending<p>The app a joke really, but it's a local joke that seems to be quite popular and connecting with my city. Should I try to raise donations? Is there an advertising provider I could use that would potentially cover the costs? Is there an alternative to OpenAI that is comparable to GPT-3.5 that I could self-host cheaper?<p>Any and all advice appreciated. I don't care about profit - I just want to keep the app online so people can enjoy it.
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Title: While browsing Hacker News, I wished for an easier way to find related submissions (instead of googling and going back and forth). So I made this small chrome extension that automatically shows relevant submissions on page load. It's intergrated as a sidebar right in the page (for ease & native look), with customization options for fine control.<p>It's based on HN algolia search API[1] and uses the submission title as its initial query with the ability to customize the query if you're not satisfied with the initial results.<p>Originally, I took it as an opportunity to try my hands at creating a browser extension, but I was quite satisfied with the result and so I decided to release it.<p>[1] HN algolia search API: <a href="https://hn.algolia.com/api" rel="nofollow">https://hn.algolia.com/api</a>
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Title: I've become really interested in the history and evolution of religion. I would like to get a basic understanding of all the major religions in the world. What books should I read?
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Title: I've been programming in high-level languages for a while and recently I was thinking about learning something more bare metal. Rust stood out as one of the popular C/C++ alternatives. But for me, the investment in a language is driven by not just the beauty of the language itself, but the community around it.<p>As an outsider who's keeping an eye on Rust, am I better off sticking to vanilla C/C++?
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Title: Almost all of my tech news comes via HN, SubStack, Twitter and Reddit, but they only occasionally cite blogs or reports from China, Japan, South Korea or India - countries where a significant proportion of technology is built, designed, or supported from.<p>While there is a lot of tech news related to what is going on in those countries (often for the wrong reasons), it’s hard to gage what the tech ecosystem is up to without knowing where to look.<p>Language barriers aside (which are becoming less of an issue anyway), where would one go for reliable and direct news around semiconductor developments in Taiwan, or the weird products that emerge out of Shenzhen through AliExpress?<p>Is there an HN of India? Or Indonesia?
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Title: You can't save it to iCloud files and open it<p>You can't use the share button<p>You can't open an .ics file on your browser and add to the Calendar<p>You can't open the Calendar app and import from there<p>Apparently you can only add it to the Calendar if you receive the file as an attachment in the native Mail app<p>https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253646020<p>I thought the whole idea behind iOS was that "it just works"
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Title: I created a small 2D game engine named Tiny.<p>The engine was created using Kotlin Multiplatform and can run on a JVM and JS.
Funny things: Games can be created using the programming language Lua.<p>Tiny is designed to help you create and test your ideas quickly and effectively. Not only can you run your games on your desktop computer, but you can also export them for the web, making it easy to share your creations with others.<p>You can create games easily with the hot reload, small API and Lua, which is very easy to learn.<p>If you want to test a game idea, to try to create your first game or just have fun, give it a try to Tiny.
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Title: Hi HN.<p>I kind of feel I have wasted my time/life on this career. Maybe someone can give me decent advice.<p>I am in my 40s now. I started coding when I was a young teen, copying code from books in the library to build text based games. I ended up making lots of my own games, some got popular. I grew a love for tinkering, coding, and building things. I eagerly joined the CS dept at university in the early 2000s, when CS attendance was at a record low. But I didn't care, I loved it.<p>When I graduated, I could not get a job. This was around 2004-2005. I submitted my resume to many companies and got nothing. I ended up working temp jobs, until I finally got lucky at a career fair, hit it off with a software QA person, and got my first SWE role.<p>This job wasn't exactly pure coding, but more like a data scientist/engineer role. But I became the coding expert on my team, and built many critical things for the company. I got the best perf reviews, threw myself into the job and did pretty well. It wasn't the most satisfying work (I just wanted to code), but I got my itch scratched enough. Unfortunately the company tanked right as I was having a kid, and I had to leave.<p>Next up was, in retrospect, probably the highlight of my career. Almost a pure coding job in HFT. I gelled very well with my manager and my team, and I threw myself into it. Again I was top ranked in perf reviews, and I got my first big pay check after 6 years of relatively low salaries. Then it kind of fell apart. Some controversial stuff came out, all the SWEs realized they were getting screwed, and morale sunk. It hit me very hard personally - I felt I had given my soul and life to this company, and they had screwed me over. I left and went abroad.<p>At this point, my career started to stagnate and I became more and more disillusioned with the software field. I could not find the same environment I had at the HFT company. Everywhere I went had people who barely had any work ethic, or were barely able to perform their job. I found it very hard to enjoy working in these environments. I started consulting to at least earn more money and try and find better roles, but nothing ever improved.<p>After several years of this, I was getting miserable and depressed, and my marriage was falling apart. Combined with my experience at work, I developed deep burn out. I found myself unable to work more than an hour or two a day. It was incredibly depressing. But worse, at the places I worked at, no one seemed to care. So I guess at this point I had just become like everyone else. Oh man. That was eye opening and depressing at the same time.<p>I decided to try and rekindle my love for engineering again. I started working on my M.S., with a plan to join FAANG when I was done. Everyone says how these are the best places to work, a true engineer's paradise. Doing the M.S. was great - I was back to programming and the basics, which I love, and I enjoyed it a lot.<p>I'm now an IC at a FAANG (one of F/G, you guess). And you know what? It sucks. I could go into great depth why it sucks. But suffice to say, my expectations were sorely disappointed. This was supposed to be a pinnacle of my career. Instead, it is one of the most dysfunctional places I have worked at. The only positive is the pay is extraordinary. But I don't see how I can work here for more than a year or two. It is stressful for all the wrong reasons.<p>At this point in my career, I'm thinking what else is there for me? I'm exhausted - tired of chasing the next dream for it to be a disappointment. I just want a job where I can flex my engineering skills without BS, work with good, competent people who care as much as I do, and be able to relax when I get home, knowing I've done what was expected of me. Does this even exist anymore?
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Title: I am seeing YC startups hiring for supposedly in-demand roles (e.g. Senior TypeScript, Senior ML) and offering 50-80k$/year.<p>This sounds very low to me, even if those are fully remote positions. As far as I know, this salary wouldn't attract strong talent even in medium cost-of-living countries (like Portugal/Spain).<p>Anyone has more insights around this decision? For example:
- Are they targeting extremely low-cost of living countries? Have they seen more success with that strategy?
- Will globalisation finally equalize developer salaries across the globe?
- Do they offer something else which is unusually attractive?<p>Intrigued to learn more.
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Title: in Google Cloud, you can assign admin, billing, etc to a google group.<p>Years ago I made a google group for google cloud administration<p>A company in Spain, a bunch of startups, etc have added that google group (by accident) as an IAM user with varying level of roles attached<p>I now have billing access to one account, admin access to another, can just hop into the database of at least two of the accounts<p>I try to reach out to google support but because I don’t have “business” or “enterprise” level support I can’t even submit a ticket<p>I’m trying to let them know but can’t, they do t do chat, no phone number, even billing contact is an automated chatbot only<p>GCloud should have like “emergency reach out to a person” link or something
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Title: My designer is somewhat special, if I do say so myself, as it allows you to put arbitrary designs in the middle area of the QR while still being totally scannable.
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Title: Asking for myself and those who are looking for what good communities often provide: feeling of connection, purpose, a place to go, etc.
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Title: Storytime!<p>A friend of mine asked me to create a rather niche 3D printed part for him. That worked very well for him, so I thought about providing this part to others, too.<p>As I'm good with technical things, but not so good with marketing, I turned to Etsy to sell these parts. They handle SEO, payments etc. pp. for you, so you can focus on creating.<p>Now, for everyone who doesn't know it, Etsy is also FULL of people who just print articulated dragons and other "entertainment stuff", where copyright/proper CC-licensing is, I would say, seems to be handled rather lax.<p>Anyway, I created all my models myself, so I'm safe on that.<p>I set my store up, put up my parts and waited. Etsys SEO magic (and paid advertisements) did its work and after about two weeks, orders started coming in.<p>And it was just not a single order, but one every two days or so, with a basket value of about 25 Euro (after Etsy commissions). Of course, that's not "big money", but it's nice money nevertheless for something that runs basically overnight.<p>I also did everything "very nice" to try to be a good seller. Took care of proper packaging, clean labels, got some white shipment packages from Amazon to leave an overall good and professional impression.<p>After the first six or seven orders, bank confirmation was still standing out on Etsys side, they just froze my account and all the funds within.<p>No warning, nothing at all. No reason given, too.<p>Just an ominous mail that I would have broken the TOS or rules of the house or whatnot. As with any service, these rules are so broad that they cover anything from praising satan to selling body parts.<p>As I did nothing like that, I filed an appeal to this decision through their Zendesk.<p>After _exactly_ 10 minutes I received an automated mail that my case was dismissed but I could reply to have it reviewed again.<p>I obviously did that and I also added that I did the bank authorization, because I thought that would most likely be the reason for the account lock.<p>Two weeks have passed now, no reply from Etsy at all but the ticket was closed yesterday, probably by another automated process.<p>My 150 Euro revenue, which has some real value in printed parts and shipping costs etc. against it, has of course not been paid to me.<p>Etsy has probably also not refunded the buyers, so they have kept the money of both parties, which looks like a good deal to me, at least from their perspective.<p>Anybody out here with some connections who can help? Anybody out here who has made the same experiences and can advise on what to do next?<p>Thanks!<p>edit: What I wanted to say when making that comment about the dragons: I'm baffled that downloading a file from Thingiverse and printing and selling that hundred times is no problem at all, but creative and new designs get the ban hammer. If you want to sell articulated dragons, you're probably fine, but beware of anything else.<p>edit2: The part in question is a little addition to the normal window locks. You can slide the part over the window lock handle and it will anchor itself between handle and window frame due to its geometry. My friend asked for this, so his children would not be able to open the windows and fall out.
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Title: It is much faster than before but the quality of its responses is more like a GPT-3.5++. It generates more buggy code, the answers have less depth and analysis to them, and overall it feels much worse than before.<p>For a while, the GPT-4 on phind.com gave even better results than GPT-4-powered ChatGPT. I could notice the difference in speed of both GPT-4s. Phind's was slower and more accurate. I say "was" because apparently phind is now trying to use GPT-3.5 and their own Phind model more frequently, so much for GPT-4 powered search engine....<p>I wonder if I use Poe's GPT-4, maybe I'll get the good old GPT-4 back?
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Title: Hey all<p>I'm Asim. I'm an engineer who's been hacking on an open source project called Micro for the past eight years (<a href="https://micro.dev" rel="nofollow">https://micro.dev</a>). In that time I've done a lot of things, all Dev related but ultimately most of my career was spent working on platforms for consumer products. After many attempts I've decided the path forward is to focus on building something that solves my own problem. Micro Chat is a solution to some of the social media problems I've been having.<p>What I've been looking for most of my life is a community. A place to belong. I scoured the internet for that with strangers. But I think that's wrong. The public forums are also the wrong place to find that connection. What we need to do is focus on smaller communities starting with real connections. We need to strip away a lot of the addictive behaviours and issues created by social media. I think things like hackernews are great because it's very simple text based, with no notification and centers around conversations about topics of interest. I think that's how group chat should also be. The difference here is, I want a place to build small private communities e.g micro communities. Most real groups lose their value beyond a certain size. For me that's around 20 people. As an introvert I really care about strong connections with a handful of people. Unfortunately those real world connections are now spread globally as people moved away and while we have private slacks or WhatsApp grojps to stay in touch it just feels like the wrong setup for that. If anything I want to consolidate it into one place.<p>Anyway I'm sharing this now to get some feedback. I think the tech and the product will evolve but only by finding out if others feel the same.<p><a href="https://micro.mu" rel="nofollow">https://micro.mu</a>
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Title: Constant outages and the model seemingly getting nerfed[^1] are driving me insane.
Which viable alternatives to GPT-4 exist? Preferably self-hosted (I'm okay with paying for it) and with an API that's compatible with the OpenAI API.<p>[^1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36134249
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Title: That's it, with batteries included like file grant privilege/permission control, or presigned url with path support.
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Title: Hey HN community, I've noticed an intriguing shift in Google search results lately. As someone who often shares comedy videos with friends via WhatsApp, I typically search for "YouTube Download" on Google and click on one of the first few results. However, today I was taken aback to find that no working websites appeared in the search.<p>Upon further investigation, I discovered that numerous recent DMCA reports have called for the removal of these websites, e.g., (<a href="https://lumendatabase.org/notices/34141048#" rel="nofollow">https://lumendatabase.org/notices/34141048#</a>) and (<a href="https://lumendatabase.org/notices/34226349#" rel="nofollow">https://lumendatabase.org/notices/34226349#</a>). Interestingly, this development coincides with YouTube's ongoing ad-blocker crackdown.<p>I don´t agree that those websites necessarily violate copyrighted content. I can't help but feel that my trust in Google search results has been further eroded.
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Title: Hey HN! Chine and Lindsey here from Onu (<a href="https://joinonu.com">https://joinonu.com</a>). Onu lets you write scripts and turn them into internal tools suitable for use by non-technical teammates. We built Onu to help you spend more time coding and less time running scripts for ops or customer support. Unlike no-code/low-code products, we’re code-first and let you use your preferred tools. We take care of the annoying parts for you: most importantly the frontend, but also auditing, permissions, and 3rd party integrations (e.g. Slack, email, Jira, Pagerduty).<p>We’ve put up a few sample screenshots at <a href="https://joinonu.com/examples">https://joinonu.com/examples</a>, and a demo video here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XMnBRsktsw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XMnBRsktsw</a>.<p>Many engineers lose hours a week fielding requests from other teams. While most companies have a home-grown internal dashboard (or are using a third party tool builder for this such as Retool), there is still a long tail of scripts that engineers have to run regularly for their ops and CX teammates, either locally or by SSHing into prod. Maybe a user’s account got stuck in a weird state, or you have a script to manually onboard new customers to your B2B product, or you have to run a custom provisioning script each time you add a bike to your e-bike fleet (something we experienced at Lyft).<p>We experienced these problems while working on engineering teams at Lyft and Stripe. Our teams needed internal tooling, but we didn’t have time to build feature-rich dashboards. Stripe had a homegrown tool that allowed engineers to quickly spin up simple internal tools without writing any frontend code. When we started working on Onu with a different idea we immediately felt the pain of not having a similar tool. We pivoted to working on our current product instead because we already knew how powerful it can be for speeding up engineering teams.<p>Internal tool builders mostly take a no code/low code approach that requires engineers to duplicate a lot of business logic in the browser. This leads to brittle internal apps that are hard to keep in sync with the business logic in your codebase, and difficult to maintain as you scale. In addition, such tools subject you to point-and-click / drag-and-drop workflows that just aren’t the sweet spot for programmers. We don’t like working that way ourselves, so we focus on a code-first approach, allowing you to hand scripts to non-technical teammates to own and run without engineering oversight.<p>Onu works with your existing dev workflow. You write scripts in your editor of choice—not the browser—and deploy tasks the same way you deploy any other code. We can host your scripts if you prefer, but you can also add Onu to your existing Express server and our frontend will handle routing requests to the correct script. We currently have a Node SDK and are rolling out Python next.<p>You can try Onu now by heading to <a href="https://auth.joinonu.com/signup">https://auth.joinonu.com/signup</a> and signing up for an account. It’s free for personal use cases and for teams of up to 5 people.<p>We’re looking forward to your thoughts and feedback!
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Title: Hello,<p>I have seen a lot of people on the internet say that the dragon book is horrible book to learn compilers from.<p>well, I have read some of the second edition of the dragon book and I think it is a great book. The main criticism is that its too focused on parsing. Thats just like 5 chapters. I skipped these and went straight into the intermediate language, code generation, and optimizing chapters.<p>These chapters give a detailed account of things such as register allocation, instruction selection, and instruction scheduling. The optimizing chapters are also good.<p>im not claiming im an expert compiler person. I am not but compilers is something i want to learn and so i gave the dragon book a try and i really liked it.<p>more importantly the dragon book made me realize that compilers are mathematical systems in a way. the ast is tree and trees have mathematical properties but graphs are needed for register allocation, dataflow analysis for optimization. optimization is math problem.<p>So i think this book gave me a better understanding of the field and it made appreciate compilers.<p>i'd say if youre interested in compilers you can start with "essence of compilation" by dr. siek and get some experience writing compilers and then read the dragon book.<p>i just wanted to share my experience. i think the dragon book is a great book.
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Title: I authenticate to many Git hosts from many machines and got tired of generating and copying personal access tokens. With credential helper git-credential-oauth, there are no personal access tokens or SSH keys to configure. Instead you authenticate in browser using OAuth.<p>Git Credential Manager (included with Git for Windows) has a similar feature but it's awkward for Linux users to install. git-credential-oauth is cross platform and packaged in many Linux distributions.
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Title: Here's a small demonstration of the fundamental aspects of the word-to-vec
algorithm. It's implemented in a single python script and depends only on a single text file for training.<p>It's not meant to be blazingly fast or anything, just a toy example to aid my understanding of how word vectors might be learnt from a corpus.
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Title: I'm building a startup which focusses on automated cyber defense and tries to build products which can adapt to changing situations in the network landscape as well as network behaviours or process behaviours (EDR/XDR/whatever BS term).<p>In my case I'm building everything from the ground up, and the MVP is trying to start with a better inventory of everything; whereas the inventory focusses on the network-scale rather than the "per single machine scale" that other solutions offer (if they even offer anything like it, which in practice they actually don't for the most parts).<p>My journey started with log4j's log4shell1/2, after realizing that most blueteams (my one included) don't actually have a full, reliable and correctly indexed inventory. If you ask around in other blueteams something simple like "How many machines you got?" you'll always get responses like "well, one software says 30.000, the other one 24.000 and our SNMP sensors say around 38.000..." which is kinda ridiculous to start with. If you then ask whether or not they use log4j in any of their software they either shrug or say "nope" with a panicking voice, because they don't really know for sure.<p>Anyways, my solution currently is a peer-to-peer approach where the systems themselves decide to mitigate issues, propagate patches (or even vaccines for zero-days) and also share incidents that look suspicious, so the surrounding nodes can start to quarantine themselves off, for example, when something really bad happened. For this to be a reliable product I decided to ditch the whole Windows "hooks are kinda useless" shitshow, and went for Linux/BSD/Unizes in general first, while leveraging a mixture of golang for userspace and eBPF for kernelspace.<p>But I wouldn't be a good founder if I ignored my customers, right?<p>So my questions are now somewhat to all the cyber security professionals out there:<p>- What are your biggest pain points? Do you use yet another Elastic Search dashboard that's painful to use in practice?<p>- Do you have a reliable software inventory / SBOM?<p>- Do you have a reliable network inventory / NBOM / SaaSBOM?<p>- Do you have an SBOM for all third-party software that's only available via binaries, where you don't have the source code available?<p>- Does your anti-virus / EDR solution still require signatures or is it behaviour driven?<p>- What about golang malware (aka malware that doesn't need to call hooked APIs in the kernel and can instead just use something like purego to generate shellcode directly)?<p>- How confident are you that your CVE/NVD vulnerability database is correctly tagged? (hint: I think it's not reliable for more than 80% of entries)<p>- Do you use Linux in your infrastructure? If so, which distributions?
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Title: Hey HN,<p>Long story short I have a lot (~$10K) of AWS credits expiring in a few months. Any ideas on the best way to make money / do some good with those? I can't directly sell them. Thanks!
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Title: I thought I'd be more likely to do the things on my todo list if GPT-4 was watching me (fail to) do them, so I built this. Let me know what you think!
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Title: Hi there, we’re Kenneth and Michal, the co-founders of DLT Payments<p>Our journey began with the vision to build a business-centric DeFi platform, serving as a one-stop gateway to the world of Web3 for professional users.<p>Today, we’re officially announcing our open beta. Check it out!
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Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER,
your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.
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Title: 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=36152012" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36152012</a><p><i>Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36152013" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36152013</a>
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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: Hi HN,<p>It's super hard to quit addicting apps. Existing solutions are non-binding, and therefore, require constant self-discipline and vigilance to be effective. Which is ironic, considering the problem we are trying to solve, is a lack of self-discipline.<p>There exists a physical solution to this problem, in the form of a time-locked safe[1]. It’s effective for reducing app usage, but it's cumbersome and inconvenient.<p>Fundamentally, what these lock-boxes do is impose a real-world cost on breaking your commitment. It’s not impossible to break your commitment, but it would require destroying the lock-box, and that incurs a cost.<p>I created a digital version of this, as an app (Android-only). Commitment’s are backed with cash deposits, and the phone API’s are used to detect violations and enforce compliance. No self-reporting required. And it even works if the monitoring app is uninstalled, or its background service disabled.<p>An example commitment: Stop using Tinder, for the next week, or forfeit $20 to the Red Cross charity.<p>The solution also generalizes to other types of commitments:<p><pre><code> - Commit to using an app more (e.g. meditation)
- Commit to visiting a location (e.g. gym)
- Commit to making a phone call (e.g. mom)
</code></pre>
It’s currently only available for Android, but I'm considering doing an IOS version as well. Hope you like it, and please share any feedback you might have in the comments!<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.thekitchensafe.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.thekitchensafe.com</a>
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Title: Hey HN! Been a minute. We launched Mito here last year (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32723766" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32723766</a>).<p>Mito is a spreadsheet that generates Python code as you edit it. We've spent the past three years trying to lower the startup cost to use Python for data work. In doing so, we’ve been thrust into the middle of many Python transition processes at larger enterprises, and we’ve seen up-close how non-technical folks interact with generated code.<p>The Mito AI chatbot lives inside of the Mito spreadsheet (<a href="https://www.trymito.io/">https://www.trymito.io/</a>>. The obvious benefit of this is that you can use the chatbot to transform your data and write a repeatable Pythons script. The less obvious (but equally important) benefit is that by connecting a spreadsheet and chatbot, Mito helps you understand the impact of your edits and verify LLM generated code. Every time you use the chatbot, Mito highlights the changed data in the spreadsheet. You can see a quick demo here (<a href="https://www.tella.tv/video/clibtwssv00000fl65oky13nu/view">https://www.tella.tv/video/clibtwssv00000fl65oky13nu/view</a>).<p>Three main insights shaped our approach to LLM code generation:<p># Consumers of generated code don't know enough Python to verify and correct the code<p>Mito users span the range of Python experience. For new programmers, generating code using LLMs is an easy step one. Ensuring the generated code is correct is the forgotten step two.<p>In practice, LLMs often generate incorrect code, or code with unexpected side effects. A user will prompt an LLM to calculate a total_revenue column from price and quantity columns. The LLM correctly calculates total_revenue = price * quantity but then mistakenly deletes price and quantity.<p>New programmers find it almost impossible to verify generated code by reading it alone. They need tooling designed for their skillsets.<p># Not everyone knows how to use a chat interface for transformations<p>We were surprised to learn that many Mito users a) had no experience with ChatGPT, and b) didn’t understand the chat interface at all! Mito AI presents users a few example prompts and an input field. A surprising number of users thought the example prompts were all they could use Mito AI for.<p>AI chatbots are new. Us builders might be using them for natural language interactions, but users are still learning how to use them in new contexts. This stands in stark contrast to spreadsheets, where pretty much ever business user has experience. Shout out 40 years of Excel dominance!<p># The more context a prompt has about the user’s data + edits, the better the LLM results<p>For the LLM to generate code that can execute correctly, the prompt should include the names of the dataframes, the column headers, (some) dataframe values, and a few previous edits as examples. Duh.<p>But there’s no reason users should be responsible for writing this prompt. No one loves writing long chats, and in practice Mito AI users expect to be able to write ~12 words. Spreadsheets are well-suited to building the rest of the prompt for you - they have all of your data context, and know your recent edits.<p>With these three insights, it became very clear to us what role a spreadsheet could play in LLM based code-gen: a spreadsheet is the prompt builder, and a spreadsheet is the code verifier.<p>Mito AI builds an effective prompt by supplementing your input with the context of your data and recent edits.<p>Mito AI then helps you to verify the LLM generated code by highlighting the added, modified, and removed data within the chat interface - and within the spreadsheet. This way, you can ensure your LLM generated code is correct.<p>Give it a spin. Let us know what you think of the recon and how we can make it more helpful!<p>Also, if you like what we’re doing, we’re hiring – come help us build! (<a href="https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/mito/jobs" rel="nofollow">https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/mito/jobs</a>)
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Title: I recall the comp., sci., and soc.culture., from just before AOL opened the flood gates (access), and even soon thereafter, as they used to be so fun...
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Title: Hey HN! I'm excited to show off this side project I've been working on. This project matches your resume with the best matching jobs from the monthly HN Who's Hiring post. It works by creating a vector embedding of your resume using OpenAI's embedding API, and then ranking the jobs using a vector similarity score. (You can toggle between max inner product, cosine, and euclidean in the "Advanced Options")<p>I was laid off in August and it took a whole 6 months for me to find my new job. Fortunately, I found my new role on January's HN Who's Hiring post. So I hope this will prove useful to any job seekers out there. I know it's a tough time right now, but you will get through it!<p>Thanks HN! I would greatly appreciate any and all feedback!
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Title: It's the first of the month, so that means "Who's Hiring".<p>Roles which do not list a salary (or reasonable salary range) will have worse signal-to-noise applications the more senior the roles.<p>Missed opportunity: company and candidate may never meet because candidate assumes low salary.<p>Wasted company and candidate time: candidate is enthusiastic and goes through some effort/process before discovering the salary is too low.<p>The days of hiding salary numbers need to end. Imagine shopping at some stores where the cost of items were not displayed until checkout. Shoppers would favor the stores which listed prices up front; they would only visit the hidden-price stores for unique or specialty items which were not available at stores which listed prices.<p>If a company cannot compete on salary, and they know it, they should explain why they are still worth considering. And if they have no value to offer to make up for the comparatively low salary, then they should make clear that they accept more junior developers (or are willing to train).<p>(reposted with title change based on previous comment recommendation)
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Title: We have who wants to be hired posts, I'd like to know who got hired from those.
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Title: I was just browsing through the "Who got hired?" thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36160198) and it caused me to think about all of the things that happened in my real life due to HN.<p>In 2012 I was hired from a post in the "Who's Hiring" thread that turned out to be a complete life and career transformation. It was at a very famous company that everyone here has heard of and used. They were pre-IPO and I got to be a "part" of that IPO. It exposed me to people smarter than I had ever met, and allowed me to learn from them. It allowed me a path into "big tech" that I did not otherwise have, and has made a rather enormous difference in my net worth over the last decade+.<p>And also, I have hired 3 other people from those threads into a great company with great pay, great support, great people...and they've all been wonderful hires.<p>And also, HN is the reason I live in the house I do today. My wife and I bought a fixer-upper in our dream neighborhood that turned out to be a teardown. I was getting ready to walk away and sell at a loss, but via HN ended up meeting a custom home builder in my area who turned out to be <i>amazing</i> and built us our home, which we moved into in 2020.<p>Anyway, just a shoutout and a thanks to this site and this community. It's more than just an online forum for me :)
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Title: Author here. Mercury is the simplest way to serve your notebooks as web apps.
The simplicity of the framework is very important to us. Mercury has some useful features to make sharing easier:<p>- you can show or hide your code,<p>- your users can easily export executed notebook to PDF/HTML,<p>- there is built-in authentication,<p>- you can produce files in the notebook and make them downloadable,<p>- you can share multiple notebooks.<p>We also care about deployment simplicity. That's why we created a shared hosting service called Mercury Cloud. You can deploy notebook by uploading a file. Below clickable links:<p>The GitHub repository <a href="https://github.com/mljar/mercury">https://github.com/mljar/mercury</a><p>Documentation <a href="https://RunMercury.com/docs/" rel="nofollow">https://RunMercury.com/docs/</a><p>Mercury Cloud <a href="https://cloud.runmercury.com" rel="nofollow">https://cloud.runmercury.com</a>
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Title: There is so much churn in software. For new kids its easy, you just pick up the latest thing. But for older folks, over the years you've placed bets on longevity of stuff, invested in the ecosystem, only to see those replaced overnight by new projects. It's despairing.<p>At every point, you felt like the tech was good enough, but then the community and ecosystem just packed up and left somewhere else - to something that is not debuggable, and has crappy IDE support, and is slow to compile (e.g. Rust) or even run (e.g. React). And this is going to keep happening.<p>Does anyone see this changing anytime soon? I just want to have one stack and master it.
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Title: What's worse is that their "real time" status is not showing any issues.<p>https://ocistatus.oraclecloud.com/#/<p>I had to confirm the outage based on community reported down detector.<p>https://downdetector.com/status/oracle-cloud/<p>All of our services, instances and backups for https://searchadsoptimization.com are in Oracle cloud.<p>This shows a critical issue when relying on a single Cloud provider. It's time to build a cross cloud infrastructure design to handle these issues.<p>Update: It looks like they have updated their “real time” status page after good 25 minutes of severe outage. My trust and assumptions with real time status pages changed completely.<p>I don't understand the point of real time status pages if they are clearly not real time and not accurate.<p>My error notifications were blowing up my phone, the first thing I did is check their status page and assumed issue is within my application, and I couldn't even access my backend application. Out of desperation, I had to check downdetector to confirm the issue. I have formed new respect for downdetector.
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Title: I was reading some of the comments in this submission about attackers trying to brute force ssh credentials.<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36169954<p>In the comments fellow HN'ers were discussing the possibilities of XSS attacks using the password.<p>This had me thinking, have there actually been such <i>successful</i> attacks in your experience and how regular are they? Think of some kind of ridiculous XSS using <script>...</script> or anything similar.<p>Are these still <i>successfully</i> happening in 2023?
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Title: If you have unlimited PTO how much of it do you actually use? I can see how unlimited PTO can work if you are working on projects - you take time off between projects. But what if you are a team lead or if your job is infrastructure related? Do you have a team mate that covers for you and then you cover some other person when needed?
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Title: Hi HN,<p>As many of you already know, Google has discontinued their coding competitions and is shutting down the competitions website.
Before it's gone forever, I've scraped everything I could from their website and set up my own archive.<p>(Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with Google besides participating in these contests years ago)<p>While the initial version was ready back in March, today I'm rolling out big and hopefully the final update, so this might be a good time to share it with the HN community.<p>Everything is static HTML and SQLite archives (with a very minimal backend to serve files directly from SQLite), so you can easily grab your own copy.
May these 3.5 million source files be a nice training dataset for some fancy future AI!<p>Some useless stats:<p>Tabs or spaces? 28% tabs vs 72% spaces for the whole dataset, but quite unexpectedly, 66% tabs vs 34% spaces if we consider only the final rounds.<p>Most used languages: 63% C/C++, 20% Python, 12% Java, 2% C#, with others less than 1% each. For the final rounds it's 83% C/C++, 13% Java, 2% Python.
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Title: Please answer in comments. Thank you!
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Title: Despite being a smart person, I've never been the kind of A type personality who does well at school. The environment just doesn't suit me. I don't know why. I've been told I have ADHD, but I do fine and manage time well when I'm in an actual job setting with stakes.<p>I'm in college now and have just been told I won't be receiving my CS degree. I came in as an English major because my grades weren't good enough to enter the competitive CS program at my school, so I just took CS courses on override. But here too, my grades were not good enough and I won't be allowed to transfer into the major. I'll have to settle for an informatics degree, and after graduation get a CS degree from WGU or something like that.<p>I suppose I'm looking for validation from anybody else who had a tortured academic path. I'm a little sick of being told I am not good enough because I don't meet the metrics.
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Title: From time to time I get emails from PayPal stating that someone sent me a small amount of money (always an odd number, between 5 and 21 Euro), and that I should register to claim this amount.<p>It is obviously a scam, because<p>- I don’t know the senders<p>- It’s to an email address I no longer use and that gets spammed frequently<p>- It’s from a PayPal affiliate in the country of the email domain (I no longer live there)<p>What is the game here? Is it to confirm my email address is real? Will they claim the money back? Or would I become a money laundering mule when they ask me to send the money back to a different account? I just can’t come up with anything that sounds remotely profitable to me.
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Title: Just saw a few creators building better UI versions of HN.<p>I realize now, that one of the important factors that keep HN's audience selective is its simple UI.<p>IMO if we put the design and UI/UX elements of modern social platforms, it may start to attract a wider audience which certainly is not the intent of this platform.
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Title: I struggle with staying productive and organizing myself. I am a chronic procrastinator and have tried everything to be more productive like lists, calendars, apps, etc. but I still can't seem to get things done. I want to study more, read more, and finish my coding projects. However, I end up not doing much and feel terribly guilty. I suspect I may have ADHD or some kind of dopamine addiction but I'm not sure. I do well in school even by studying at the last minute, and I attend a rather challenging school. In my free time though, I end up doing very little or nothing, not knowing where my time went. I try to remove all distractions but it doesn't seem to work.<p>Does anyone have any advice or strategies on how I can improve my productivity and focus? How have you overcome similar challenges to achieve your goals and stay focused? I feel stuck in this cycle of procrastination and distraction and want to break free.
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Title: My name is Weston Goodwin. I created a tool called SQL Simulator which allows you to do Dry Runs with your SQL Scripts. The reason I created the tool was because I wanted to verify that my SQL scripts did what I thought they would do without executing them against the database.<p>It is similar in concept to Redgate SQL Clone or Windocs. If you are not familiar with these tools they make clones of your database. The key difference with SQL Simulator is, it only makes a clone of the database objects affected by your sql script, not the entire database. Nor does it copy the entire table (if your sql has where clauses). Once those database objects have been cloned, SQL Simulator then executes your script against the cloned database it created.<p>This software is only compatible with Oracle and SQL Server at the present time. My plan is to make it compatible with more databases in the future.<p>For a more in depth technical overview click here:
<a href="https://docs.tribalknowledge.tech/ratifier-tutorials/sql-simulator/technical-overview" rel="nofollow">https://docs.tribalknowledge.tech/ratifier-tutorials/sql-sim...</a><p>You can download the software here:
<a href="https://www.tribalknowledge.tech/download.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.tribalknowledge.tech/download.html</a><p>You can read the documentation here:
<a href="https://docs.tribalknowledge.tech/ratifier-tutorials/sql-simulator" rel="nofollow">https://docs.tribalknowledge.tech/ratifier-tutorials/sql-sim...</a>
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