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Title: I just shared a post about the world’s oceans setting record temperatures for 80 continuous days. After the post achieved 130+ upvotes and the top spot within several hours, it was nuked. My experience is that every post on Hacker News addressing climate change is removed or downvoted to oblivion. I don’t want to be part of a community that turns away from probably the most important threat facing humanity in the 21st century. Goodbye and farewell!
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Title: As you may be aware, there is an upcoming protest[0] on June 12-14 where many subreddits[1] are going private for 48 hours in protest of reddit's API fee increase[2][3], which many expect will lead to the end of all third party apps.<p>I moderate a few subreddits for a niche hobby, and decided to join the protest. We're fairly small, if non-negligible potatos: altogether, maybe 10k-15k active users on a busy day, but still want to show support.<p>So, I commented to add the subs to the list[1] and made announcement posts based on the template[4] linked from r/modcoord.<p>Several minutes later, the site logged me out. I received an email from reddit that said my account had been locked for "suspicious activity" and I would need to reset my password.<p>The timing seemed curious, but as I was logged in over an Airbnb's wifi, I figured it could be legitimate.<p>When I logged back in, I saw that all of the posts and comments I've made from this account had been deleted. The password reset requirement is understandable; the fact that the posts and comments were not restored, less so.<p>Looks like it's finally time to encourage my community to move to another site.<p>0. <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36187705" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36187705</a><p>1. <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/1401qw5/incomplete_and_growing_list_of_participating/" rel="nofollow">https://old.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/1401qw5/incomplet...</a><p>2. <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/13xh1e7/an_open_letter_on_the_state_of_affairs_regarding/" rel="nofollow">https://old.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/13xh1e7/an_open_l...</a><p>3. <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/evilbuildings/comments/140n3m3/hey_reddit_execs_stop_being_greedy_assholes_this/jmwbkpv/" rel="nofollow">https://old.reddit.com/r/evilbuildings/comments/140n3m3/hey_...</a><p>4. <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/ProCSS/wiki/api_protest_template" rel="nofollow">https://old.reddit.com/r/ProCSS/wiki/api_protest_template</a>
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Title: Hey Hacker News!<p>I wanted to share the open source project I have been working on during the last year: SQLPage, a tool to build small web applications entirely in SQL.<p>Building web applications with just SQL isn't as crazy as it seems. Most simple applications can be expressed declaratively as just data queries that fill pre-defined web components.<p>I'd love to hear your feedback and thoughts on it. Would you potentially use it? How can it be improved?<p>Website: <a href="https://sql.ophir.dev/" rel="nofollow">https://sql.ophir.dev/</a>
Github: <a href="https://github.com/lovasoa/SQLpage">https://github.com/lovasoa/SQLpage</a>
Example app: <a href="https://conundrum.ophir.dev/" rel="nofollow">https://conundrum.ophir.dev/</a>
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Title: It appears that Cloudflare's Turnstile captcha product has decided Linux users are no longer considered "human" and therefore locked out of websites using this product.<p>While the usual explanation is that there may be a compromised device on the network, I can pass these challenges myself using my Mac, but not on Linux on the very same network. This is from a residential ISP in India, and as you can see in the screen recording, I'm using an incognito window with all extensions disabled, so it's unlikely that the IP address or the browser configuration are at fault here.<p>* Mac: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1glfS_9OkV5mw5ysU3ASZCwR5c5eCeRT3/view?usp=sharing<p>* Linux: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WnNRUlikqfmqdELfcohu7SBfjJr9aNzZ/view?usp=sharing<p>At a societal level, it is scary how things seem to resemble RMS' "Right To Read" with one corporation deciding to unilaterally deciding what browser should have access, as I've said elsewhere.<p>At a technical level, I speculate the issues are because Cloudflare is unable to properly distinguish between headless and regular Chrome because of changes in Chromium[1] as well as because of TLS ClientHello permutations[2].<p>[1] https://antoinevastel.com/bot%20detection/2023/02/19/new-headless-chrome.html<p>[2] https://www.fastly.com/blog/a-first-look-at-chromes-tls-clienthello-permutation-in-the-wild
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Title: Hi HN! We’re Evis and Nick and we’re the founders of Nucleus (<a href="https://nucleuscloud.com">https://nucleuscloud.com</a>), a Kubernetes developer platform. We automate infrastructure, security, integrations, and more, helping developers ship faster while also automating a lot of repetitive tasks for devops and platform teams. Here’s a demo: <a href="https://www.loom.com/share/95265177704346c7b379e981978cd8c5" rel="nofollow">https://www.loom.com/share/95265177704346c7b379e981978cd8c5</a>.<p>It's expensive, time-consuming, and technically difficult to build a secure, scalable Kubernetes platform. Yet many companies that do this spend 6+ months building it themselves and then hire an expensive platform team to manage it. We've talked to customers who have spent $1.5M to build something that isn't their core product.<p>On the technology side, you have to solve for authentication, authorization, service registry and discovery, scalability, observability, infrastructure and more. Most teams end up stitching together a bunch of OS tools and cloud primitives just to end up with a fragile system that’s difficult to maintain as it grows. On the people side, it’s difficult and expensive to find developers and devops engineers who deeply understand Kubernetes and distributed systems. When they leave, tech and process documentation is incomplete, hard to find and often outdated.<p>Nick and I have been building infrastructure platforms for the past 7 years at companies like NewFront, Skyflow, IBM and Garmin. Companies like ours were spending a lot of time and energy in building internal developer platforms from scratch and then hiring expensive teams to maintain them. These were important platforms but never the companies’ core product. It seemed crazy to us that a series A company would have 2-3 developers spend 6+ months building something that wasn't their core product. We felt like there had to be a better way.<p>We’re building a platform that accomplishes 4 things: (1) Reduce the time it takes to spin up Kubernetes environments and services; (2) Provide an intuitive developer experience that simplifies working with Kubernetes; (3) Empower devops and platform teams to automate manual tasks and enable developer self service without spending months building infra; (4) Centralize, organize and be a source of truth for infra-related configurations, processes and documentation.<p>To get into the architecture a bit, you can think of Nucleus as three layers:<p>At the bottom layer, we build and manage pre-configured Kubernetes clusters in your AWS accounts. We install different add-ons into the cluster that enable key functionality such as security, autoscaling and metrics. You can find a full list in our docs - <a href="https://docs.nucleuscloud.com">https://docs.nucleuscloud.com</a>. The idea is that you can run Nucleus on autopilot without needing to be a Kubernetes expert. That said, many engineers want access to kubectl, so we make it easy to provision different user-profiles with different access to kubectl via an IAM role.<p>The next layer up is the service mesh layer. We built on top of Istio to implement things like authN, authZ, service discovery and registry. We were also really inspired by this blogpost from the neobank Monzo (<a href="https://monzo.com/blog/2022/03/31/how-we-secure-monzos-banking-platform" rel="nofollow">https://monzo.com/blog/2022/03/31/how-we-secure-monzos-banki...</a>). Each cluster has a dedicated load balancer that sits in a public subnet while the cluster and services are in a private subnet. Communication between these services uses mTLS. Private services are, by default, isolated and can’t talk to any other service unless you explicitly authorize it. We make that as easy as passing in the service name. This is all automated and transparent to the end-user. We’re soon going to be coming out with more features around managing load balancers and enabling blue-green deploys with zero downtime cutovers.<p>The top layer is our integration layer. We provide a bunch of integrations and we’re continuing to building out more. This includes container registry tools (DockerHub, ECR, Github), Observability (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana), Secrets Managers (param store), DBs (Aurora, MongoDb), and CI/CD (github actions). The idea is that you shouldn’t be spending time trying to build integrations for each of your services, you should just point-and-click which ones you need. We’ve built a permissioning system which makes it easy to give/revoke access for an integration to any service or environment. For example, if you want your dev services to have access to your dev db, you shouldn’t have to build that separately for each service. You just configure it once, pick the services or environment that needs access to and we automatically expose those environment variables to those services.<p>Ultimately, the vision is to build a platform across all cloud providers that developers and devops teams can use to build, test, deploy and manage environments and services transparently. We strongly believe that developers and devops/platform teams should be working on the same platform. So many of the communication and siloing issues happen because teams use different platforms and tools. Consolidating those into one platform helps everyone stay in sync and have access to everything they need.<p>We’ve never been big fans of the complicated pricing that most SaaS companies have so we sell Nucleus as a single annual license where you get everything. In full transparency, we currently price Nucleus around $35k/license, or about 10% of what it would cost you to build and maintain this yourself.<p>Our current customers range from small startups who want to focus on getting to market fast and not worry about infra or devops, to mid-market companies that want to empower their existing devops teams with automation. Their main use-cases are: 1. Automatically containerizing their services (with our built-in CI/CD pipeline) and deploying them on Kubernetes 2. Building out a microservices architecture (we have a built-in in service mesh) 3. Making it easy for developers to self-service environments, environment variables and more.<p>If you're interested to learn more, check out our docs (<a href="https://docs.nucleuscloud.com">https://docs.nucleuscloud.com</a>) and you can sign up for a free account here (<a href="https://app.nucleuscloud.com">https://app.nucleuscloud.com</a>). We're always looking for feedback so please let us know your thoughts/questions and thanks for having us!
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Title: Hey HN! We're building Seam (<a href="https://www.seam.co">https://www.seam.co</a>), a universal API for controlling IoT devices such as smart locks, thermostats, sensors, and (soon) cameras. Our hope is to make device integration simple, with a Plaid-like UI flow for obtaining device authorization and standardized API/SDKs for device control.<p>We started Seam out of our frustration with the challenges of integrating IoT devices with software apps.<p>For example, my co-founder Dawn led Sonder's efforts to integrate smartlocks with their reservation systems in order to automate access for guests. She struggled with poorly documented and unreliable device APIs along the way. Our founding engineer Max authored the popular TuyAPI library and has spent countless hours trying to build sensible interfaces on top of unreliable devices.<p>For my part, I was an early engineer at Nest and saw firsthand how manufacturers often lack the resources and motivation to support third-party developers.<p>As a result, most devices lack public APIs, and getting access to the private ones (if they exist) requires lengthy negotiations with manufacturers. This task grows in complexity with each additional device brand a developer may need to integrate.<p>Seam serves as a single API that works across dozens of brands and hundreds of devices.<p>We start by testing each device in our hardware lab in San Francisco. We study their behaviors & quirks, and faithfully reproduce those in our development sandbox. We take time to craft custom client libraries that maximize developer ergonomics while accounting for the asynchronous nature of the devices. We offer pre-built UI components (React, Web-native…etc) to let developers rapidly assemble complex UIs that can manage large fleets of devices. And we even have a small hardware gateway to connect on-prem and legacy devices.<p>A few app developers like Guesty (YC S14) already use Seam to connect to their end users’ devices. We have a generous free tier and charge a small fee for additional devices. We work closely with manufacturers to improve device reliability, add OAuth support, and patch security holes. We also spend time educating them on the importance of supporting open source projects like Home Assistant, OpenHab...etc and we will be contributing some of our own integrations to those ecosystems.<p>Seam is still very much a work in progress with many aspects that need to be improved. But our hope is that it will help push IoT devices from being (mostly) point solutions, to becoming a set of API endpoints software engineers can tap to interact with the physical world.
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Title: Hey HN,<p>Arroyo is a modern, open-source stream processing engine, that lets anyone write complex queries on event streams just by writing SQL—windowing, aggregating, and joining events with sub-second latency.<p>Today data processing typically happens in batch data warehouses like BigQuery and Snowflake despite the fact that most of the data is coming in as streams. Data teams have to build complex orchestration systems to handle late-arriving data and job failures while trying to minimize latency. Stream processing offers an alternative approach, where the query is compiled into a streaming program that constantly updates as new data comes in, providing low-latency results as soon as the data is available.<p>I started the Arroyo project after spending the past five years building real-time platforms at Lyft and Splunk. I saw first hand how hard it is for users to build correct, reliable pipelines on top of existing systems like Flink and Spark Streaming, and how hard those pipelines are to operate for infra teams. I saw the need for a new system that would be easy enough for any data team to adopt, built on modern foundations and with the lessons of the past decade of research and industry development.<p>Arroyo works by taking SQL queries and compiling them into an optimized streaming dataflow program, a distributed DAG of computation with nodes that read from sources (like Kafka), perform stateful computations, and eventually write results to sinks. That state is consistently snapshotted using a variation of the Chandy-Lamport checkpointing algorithm for fault-tolerance and to enable fast rescaling and updates of the pipelines. The entire system is easy to self-host on Kubernetes and Nomad.<p>See it in action here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1Nv0gQy9TA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1Nv0gQy9TA</a> or follow the getting started guide (<a href="https://doc.arroyo.dev/getting-started">https://doc.arroyo.dev/getting-started</a>) to run it locally.
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Title: Hello HN! I'm an engineer at Splitgraph and recently started learning Rust so I could make my first contribution to Seafowl [0], an early stage analytical database. Along the way I figured out a database hosting hack on GCP and wanted to share it with HN. It's a way to achieve "true" scale to zero database hosting that could be useful for certain side projects or spiky traffic situations.<p>A recurring problem I've faced with side projects is the need for Postgres, but no desire to deploy or maintain new instances. So when I learned GCP's "always free" tier includes serverless [1] I got curious to see if I could run a database.<p>While a lot of classic databases aren't usually a great fit for serverless, Seafowl separates compute, storage and catalog (catalog == a SQLite file of metadata). [2] Last month I was able to introduce GCS bucket compat to Seafowl, which enabled me to mount the catalog via gcsfuse (i.e. an adapter that allows attaching GCS buckets to local filesystems). Upshot: while FUSE does add HTTP requests to container startup, init time remains comparatively quick, even cold starts, because fetching is limited to the single catalog SQLite file only.<p>With this approach you get a URL you can query directly from your FE if you want, e.g. fetch() can send SELECT * ... queries straight from your users' browser. You could plot a graph from a static React frontend, or observablehq.com editor, with no persistent backend needed. So at times when nobody's using your app, 100% of your stack can scale to zero with obvious cloud spend advantages. And even if you exceed free tier limits, being PAYG offers a good chance you'll come out ahead on hosting costs anyway.<p>NB: Seafowl is an early stage project, so it's not really suitable if you need transactions or fast single-row writes. Otherwise, this could be a nice way to get free database hosting at a big 3 cloud provider, especially for e.g. read-only analytical reporting queries.<p>Feedback and suggestions are appreciated. Hope it helps you! More available if you want [3].<p>[0] <a href="https://seafowl.io/docs/getting-started/introduction" rel="nofollow">https://seafowl.io/docs/getting-started/introduction</a><p>[1] <a href="https://cloud.google.com/run/pricing#cpu-requests" rel="nofollow">https://cloud.google.com/run/pricing#cpu-requests</a><p>[2] Neon is another interesting project that separates compute and storage. <a href="https://neon.tech/blog/architecture-decisions-in-neon" rel="nofollow">https://neon.tech/blog/architecture-decisions-in-neon</a><p>One issue I observed was a noticeably longer startup time vs this FUSE approach, which I believe may be related to Postgres connection setup time/roundtrips. Looking forward to trying Neon again in future.<p>[3] <a href="https://www.splitgraph.com/blog/deploying-serverless-seafowl" rel="nofollow">https://www.splitgraph.com/blog/deploying-serverless-seafowl</a>
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Title: I personally think that GraphQL is one of those technologies that has a wide gap in how useful it actually is. For smaller projects it's easy to setup, write out your schema, and get going. Likewise, for much larger more complex projects some of the benefits you can get out of GraphQL can warrant the use of it. But there is a massive gap in the middle where it just seems unnecessary.<p>98% of the literature I have seen about GraphQL has always been positive, and it seems to have become the standard recommendation for anything from starting a small web app as a side project, to running a fortune 500 company. I'm fairly sure that this is because a lot of larger tech companies use GraphQL in some way, so there is this misconception that using it must be the correct choice for all use cases, but who knows.<p>I have worked with GraphQL in a few different companies now, and in all except the largest company where there was a dedicated team of engineers that worked on the GraphQL implementation for the company, I have felt strongly that we would have been better off with a more boring approach like REST.<p>I am curious to hear others perspectives on this, do you like using GraphQL? do you disagree with me and think that it is actually a good solution for the "middle ground" of use cases?<p>Also, I do think that GraphQL has some cool features and I'm not trying to write it off as a useless tool with no benefits. Like all tools, it has it's place but I think that where it's really helpful is not where people end up using it in the vast majority of use cases.
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Title: Hi Hacker News! Shahar and Tal from Keep Here.<p>We were tired of creating alerts for our applications, so we've built an open-source GitHub Bot that lets you write application alerts using plain English. The code is open-sourced: <a href="https://github.com/keephq/keep">https://github.com/keephq/keep</a> so you can review it yourself.<p>Every developer and DevOps professional is familiar with the fact that in order to ensure your application works in production, you need to access your observability tool's user interface (such as Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, etc.) and carefully determine how to create alerts that effectively monitor your application.<p>Instead, by installing Keep, every time you open a PR, the bot combines the alert description (alerts under the .keep directory) with the tool context (mostly the configuration of the alerts you already have) to generate (GPT) new alerts that keep you monitored.<p>So, for example, if you create a .keep/db-timeout.yaml and open a PR, the bot will comment on the PR with the actual alert you can deploy to your tool.<p># The alert text in plain English
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Alert when the connections to the database are slower than 5 seconds for more than 5 minutes
provider: grafana<p>You can Install the bot and connect your providers via <a href="https://platform.keephq.dev">https://platform.keephq.dev</a> (after login, you'll start the installation flow) or just clone the repository and use docker-compose to start the web app and the installation flow.<p>Demo Video - <a href="https://www.loom.com/share/23541a03944c4dca99b0504a1753d1b4" rel="nofollow">https://www.loom.com/share/23541a03944c4dca99b0504a1753d1b4</a>
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Title: Hi HN! I’m Constantin and together with my co-founders David and Mike we’re building Fastgen, a low code API and workflow builder with an integrated Postgres DB. You can use it to quickly build any custom business logic, cron jobs or complete backends.<p>We just launched our public beta, you can try it out here: <a href="https://fastgen.com/">https://fastgen.com/</a>. You can find demo videos <a href="https://youtu.be/O9IM7rLYIQU" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/O9IM7rLYIQU</a> and <a href="https://youtu.be/Hc1CYJDEDQw" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/Hc1CYJDEDQw</a>.<p>At our previous company, a student financing platform, we built several internal and external facing tools and encountered how tedious it can be to create and maintain myriads of APIs/CRUD operations. We especially felt that when building for edge cases and “what if” scenarios, as well as integrating with lots of third party services which receive, update and return data. In our case, a custom servicing platform which handled student repayments had to account for different student categories and repayment plans, while factoring in data we received from our KYC and ACH banking partners for each student. With Fastgen we try to eliminate boilerplate code and make it easier to adjust and share your work in a visual environment.<p>We’re low-code fans ourselves and believe it’s sometimes underappreciated how much complexity existing solutions can already handle, and we are excited to contribute to that market. The low-code space is crowded with front-end tools, but with a comparatively small number of backend tools. There is lots of busywork that comes with setting up a backend; we remove that busywork. Also, most low-code tools restrict users in what they are able to do. Our goal is to provide you with the flexibility and control inherent in coding, while still making it easier to use and faster to deploy.<p>In Fastgen you sequence 'actions' to form rest APIs and workflows through a drag-and-drop interface. Actions are essentially functions that perform specific tasks such as sending an HTTP request, checking for conditions or interacting with a database.<p>We support SQL for database operations, JSON for data structure, and comparison operators similar to JavaScript for decision-making in workflows. Everything you create can be deployed and tested instantly in the platform and will be hosted for you. Fastgen has a 'Debug Mode' that gives insights into the step-by-step execution of workflows. This aids in pinpointing issues and optimizing workflow performance.<p>While some users have created backends for full MVPs with us, others use the platform to build automations for their data/operations teams. For example, one team was missing functionality in Pipedrive for their sales team, so they created a sequence of conditions and HTTP requests to the Pipedrive API to create their own custom lead recycling process.<p>Other things our users have done include the creation of KYC onboarding flows, a Chinese translation app using ChatGPT, an API that retrieves a company’s financial filings from the SEC for a crowdfunding platform, a cron job that checks for the health status of all other APIs in a code base, a categorizer of well performing product launches, a sitemap checker for a SEO project, and others.<p>We would love for you to try out the platform and are excited for your thoughts and feedback in the comments!
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Title: With the recent rumblings over on reddit, I do wonder if reddit will experience its own “Digg moment”.<p>Is anyone here working on their own reddit-like site?<p>I feel part of what they are fundamentally missing is decent embedded search functionality as most people are still using google to search and find a relevant discussion of interest e.g “topic x reddit”
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Title: It's said that amazon asks their product makers to write a press release about the release of the product and work backwards from there.<p>Working backwards has its uses...<p>I recently wanted validation on a product I had already finished developing<p>I thought I needed it so others will too. I put in a lot of time architecting it, designing it with careful UX and UI.<p>When it came time to show and tell through a demo video i couldn't create a simple enough one that explains what it does.<p>So anyway I posted it in some communities and people we just confused and nobody signed up.<p>So I had to abandon the project as there were no takers<p>Cut to about a week back where I had another idea... This time instead of simply developing it further, I jumped straight to see if I can create a explainer video of the product. So with zero expectations about it working I made one without audio or music or even subtitles and posted on reddit. It was just a screen recording of it working on my laptop.<p>To my surprise people wanted it. Some even demanding it. I quickly put up a "coming soon" website to capture emails. 36 people gave their emails! Many more I could message on reddit once I am ready.<p>Here is the link to the reddit post...
https://www.reddit.com/r/EntrepreneurRideAlong/comments/13xm1s5/i_made_this_seo_keyword_searching_thingie_for_my/<p>here is what I wrote...<p>-------
Headline: I made this SEO keyword searching thingie for my own needs... Does anyone want it? Its very ugly at the moment<p>Description: Lets say you want to rank high on Google for the keyword "pet dog care"<p>Before you write any content, you want to know what questions people ask on Google, Who is ranking on the top 10 and what other keywords do they rank for?, and 'Google Suggestions' for the phrase.<p>So I made one and I find it damn bloody useful when creating highly relevant and SEO potimised content. Wonder if anyone else finds this stuff useful.<p>I have been burnt building unnecessary stuff before so I am very careful to validate first now. I will only develop this further is there is any interest here :-)
-------<p>The ugly video I shared... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-873SkJ2RI<p>link to the coming soon page... https://keywordranking.me/<p>Now I am developing the product into something others could use in collaboration with actual users and i have to do it fast since so many are waiting. This is a first for me. This is probably what product Market fit feels like... probably.
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Title: Hello Hacker News,<p>When learning foreign languages, I made the most progress by speaking them throughout the day, every day. So I made a site where you can *speak* to an AI language teacher to practice both listening and speaking.<p># The product<p>*What I have now:*<p>* Multilingual speech recognition: You can ask a question in English and get an answer in your target language.
* Feedback on your grammar.
* Suggestions: See examples of what to say next to keep the conversation flowing.
* Speed: Choose a lower speed for beginners or a faster one for advanced levels.
* Translations: Click to see a translation into English (or another language).
* Role-playing: Practice real-life situations.
* Available to learn American English, British English, Australian English, French, Spanish from Spain, Spanish from Mexico, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, Russian, and more.<p>*What I'd like to add:*<p>* More Situations/Characters/Customizations: A "Creator mode".
* Feedback on your pronunciation.
* Text-based responses (Type or click – would feel like a "Create Your Own Adventure" book!)
* A dictionary.
* Phonetics: Zoom in and repeat a sound to help you hear phonemes and words more clearly.
* …and so much more!…<p># The startup<p>Been working on this for 6-7 months now.<p>I love this project and got lots of laudatory comments about it, but still find it hard to make it take off. 31% of people come back to it, traffic is growing through word of mouth with language teachers in schools or Telegram or private intranets sharing it with others. So that's nice. But nice words alone don't pay the bills.<p>My goal is to achieve enough growth to cover costs, which would then allow me to focus 100% on the product (currently it's more like 50% of my time). But I'm not there yet.<p>A challenge I see is that most places forbid self-promotion. So I'm just not sure how on Earth I'm supposed to have a product take off. I could pay for ads, but I use AdBlock everywhere so this feels out of character. I'm a big fan of Pieter Levels (@levelsio on Twitter) because he's doing things solo, so I'm trying to emulate the same kind of success. But it seems that something is missing.<p>What features would you find most useful? How can I better market this without resorting to ads?<p>Thanks for reading! If you've got thoughts or ideas, I would love to hear them.<p>Cheers,
Fabien
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Title: Hello HN! I'm one of the founders of Clerky :) For the uninitiated, we're one of the most popular ways for startups to incorporate (and get all sorts of other legal paperwork done).<p>We've written a handbook about startup incorporation and I wanted to share it with all of you :)<p>There is, of course, a lot of content about startup incorporation out there already. Why did we decide to add to the pile? Honestly, I often wince when I read what's out there, because so much of it is misguided or just plain wrong. A lot of it is people with no legal expertise regurgitating the same (often misguided / wrong) information they've read/heard elsewhere. Basically, the setup for the Gell-Mann amnesia effect, except the culprits are content marketers instead of the media.<p>We also felt there was a need to have something comprehensive. While there's a lot of bad information out there, there is also a lot of great, accurate information. It's just usually spread across various blogs from startup attorneys, which makes it difficult to get a comprehensive view. With this handbook, our goal was to provide a central resource covering everything you need to know about startup incorporation.<p>A few content-related notes:<p>• We mention this in the handbook, but this is all written with US-based startups in mind. We fully recognize a lot of founders are elsewhere, but there's just too much to cover if we were to expand the scope to beyond the US. Sorry about that!<p>• The word "startup" means different things to different people. We use the word in pretty much the way PG uses it here: <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html</a><p>• As the name implies, this handbook is narrowly focused on startup incorporation. A lot of people don't know this, but there's a lot more to forming a startup than just incorporation, like setting up a board, issuing stock to founders, etc. We previously published a handbook called Legal Concepts for Founders, which touches on those topics: <a href="https://handbooks.clerky.com/legal-concepts" rel="nofollow">https://handbooks.clerky.com/legal-concepts</a><p>On more of a UI-related note, some personal pain points that we tried to address with our handbook design:<p>• It's easy to jump down to a footnote and jump back up to where you came from (just click on the footnote number).<p>• Every subheading is link-able, as are any callouts that you might want to link to.<p>• We've been very generous with linking to glossary terms so that readers can quickly learn what they need to know in order to understand what they're reading. The challenge was that regular link styling would leave the copy way too busy. To solve for this, we made each link look super close to regular text so that the linking isn't distracting. That way readers that are puzzled by a term, who might be looking at it more closely anyways, will be able to click through and learn more, and other readers won't be distracted by the link styling.<p>I'd love to hear any thoughts or questions about either the content or the UI! I'll be here all day to respond. Also happy to answer random questions related to startup law.<p>Thanks :)
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Title: Looking for feedback on the API, happy hacking!
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Title: Hello Hackers,<p>I built this webapp over a weekend and launched on May 11 to help (also to impress) my cousins and friends who were obsessed with high paying jobs. As a matter of fact they look for high paying jobs everyday.<p>Currently, a few thousand websites(including YC Jobs) are crawled to find high paying jobs. That number will go way up in the coming months.<p>Remarks and suggestions are most welcome.<p>Thanks
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Title: Hi HN, we’re Steve, Allison, and Andy, founders of Infield (<a href="https://infield.ai">https://infield.ai</a>). Infield makes it clear which open source dependencies you should upgrade next, and how to do so safely. We do this by using a LLM to read every changelog.<p>Here’s a short demo video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diCGmtMUeRU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diCGmtMUeRU</a><p>We’re launching today with support for Ruby packages. If you’ve ever run `bundle outdated` or upgraded a Rails app, Infield is for you. You can try it on your own project at <a href="https://app.infield.ai/hn">https://app.infield.ai/hn</a>. Upload your Gemfile and Gemfile.lock (no email/name/cc required) and we’ll show you Infield on your code.<p>I (Steve) have been building open source software and commercial web apps for more than a decade. I spent the last year personally upgrading Rails apps by hand for companies in order to research this problem. I'm convinced that every company is re-inventing the wheel and doing by hand a bunch of toilsome work that can be done with software.<p>As one example, I was working as a consultant upgrading an app to Rails 7. This company was using the attr_encrypted gem to encrypt information at the database level. Rails 7 brings built-in support for encryption in a way that's incompatible with this gem. Having hit this same problem at two other companies I already knew how to handle the migration; but if I hadn’t, they could have risked their most sensitive customer data (this is what you tend to encrypt). After that project I started building a personal database of "upgrade experiences" and before long felt sure we could make useful software.<p>The time-consuming part of package upgrades is not coding—it’s mostly risk assessment, research, and project planning. If I’m on a maintenance rotation and have half a day to pay down some technical debt, which package upgrades should I look at? I might end up spending that time trying to upgrade something only to get blocked and give up. Worse, many breaking changes are subtle and won’t be caught by CI. I’ve brought down production only to find an issue was buried in a changelog I didn’t read!<p>Infield scans all of your dependencies to prioritize upgrades based on effort (how much work is this? Is it risky?) and impact (will upgrading fix a security issue? will it get me onto a supported branch?). We can do this because we use GPT to read the changelog for every package you rely on. Changelogs are broken apart into discrete changes and classified according to the keepachangelog.com standard. Then a human expert reviews the output. We can spend more time researching each package than you because we’re going to re-use this work for every future customer doing the same upgrade.<p>Sometimes you want to do a complex upgrade like Rails that might be blocked on other packages being upgraded first. For this case we run an optimization based on the PubGrub
algorithm to solve for a suggested target version of all your dependencies that will be compatible with the next version of Rails. We group and order these blockers into an "Upgrade path" you can follow.<p>Most of the existing work in this space is security monitoring software like Dependabot or Snyk. These tools are primarily sold to security teams to let you know about CVEs that affect your dependencies. They’re reactive, a way to let developers know when they need to upgrade something but not how to do it. Our goal with Infield is to make it so easy to keep dependencies up to date that you’re always on the latest versions.<p>Infield is $60/mo/repo and we’re launching today with support for Ruby. Javascript and Python are probably next, but we’re very interested to hear which language you feel this pain in most acutely. Ruby is first since the consolidation around Rails allows us to really nail the experience for a focused set of packages.<p>You can try Infield on your own codebase at <a href="https://app.infield.ai/hn">https://app.infield.ai/hn</a>. With the paid plan we’ll hook into your codebase to continuously scan your dependencies as you merge PRs. That works via a Github app, or you can use our CLI tool to send us just the files we need as part of your CI pipeline.<p>Please give it a try and comments are welcome! We’d love to hear everything you hate (or love, or just think) about dependency management and how we can make it better!
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Title: Let's say you are a junior dev that wants to maximize their income over the next 10 years, median outcome for someone capable of getting into a FAANG, not lottery tickets. What should you focus on?<p>ML+Python+Pytorch because it's hot right now? Java because no one wants to maintain legacy Java code but there are lots of it and the demand will be there? COBOL to take that even further? Node.js because it's popular? Swift because Apple will continue to dominate the high end? Practice and pass the tests to get into a FAANG? Go work for a high frequency trading company? Learn SAP?<p>Asking for a friend (TM). Seems like a particularly interesting time to ponder this question (again), with layoffs in tech all the rage and geopolitics looking a bit less 'steady as she goes' than say, 10 years ago.
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Title: Time to remove the Beta label. Tremor v3 is here, adding:<p>- Global theming via tailwind.config.js<p>- An out-of-the-box dark mode<p>- A new Tremor CLI helping you set up projects faster
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Title: I've been working on this tool that lets you build a personal knowledge graph from articles, blog posts, podcasts, YouTube videos, and other content you find interesting online. You can safely forget everything and trust that Recall will resurface it when something new that is related comes up. Looking forward to your thoughts and feedback on how it could be improved!<p>The original version of Recall was posted last year nov on HN: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33425947" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33425947</a><p>Since then I have pivoted to a browser extension.
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Title: Hey HN! I’m Nick, the founder of Visibly (<a href="https://visibly.dev" rel="nofollow">https://visibly.dev</a>). Visibly is a GitHub App and Chrome extension that makes code review more efficient, collaborative, and visible by enabling you to:<p>- See review comment thread statuses so that you can quickly address each thread and focus your attention on the ones that actually require it<p>- Indicate whether feedback is blocking or non-blocking so only crucial feedback blocks PR merge<p>- Ensure all blocking review threads are addressed before merge via a status check<p>- Track total active review time per reviewer so that you can understand the effort and review time going into each PR<p>- See reviewer presence so that you can see if someone is already reviewing and avoid unnecessary pings.<p>In addition to these workflow improvements, Visibly provides a personalized metrics dashboard so you can understand your real-time performance and better advocate for yourself and advance your career.<p>You can see a demo and a breakdown of all of the current features at <a href="https://visibly.dev" rel="nofollow">https://visibly.dev</a>.<p>I created Visibly after seeing the same pain points across Microsoft, Snap, Headspace, and Brex:<p>- Code review was frequently undervalued and invisible. Developers recognized this and prioritized code production instead, which resulted in knowledge silos, poor code quality, and a culture of rubber stamp reviews.<p>- Engineering performance review was broken. From the manager’s perspective, it was difficult to identify top performers and to provide timely, actionable feedback. From the IC’s perspective, feedback was infrequent and subjective around many aspects of the job. The process was also time-consuming and required everyone to sift through 3-6 months of work to quantify “impact and scope”.<p>Visibly solves these issues by using objective measures to make code review more visible and efficient.<p>Visibly values privacy and security above all else; it does not require source code access and requests the fewest possible permissions to provide these experiences. Visibly is also differentiated in its belief that individuals should know how they’re doing and have personalized metrics so that they can advance in their careers.<p>If you use GitHub, you can try Visibly today for free by heading to <a href="https://visibly.dev/login" rel="nofollow">https://visibly.dev/login</a>. Visibly is currently free, but we plan to introduce paid features and pricing plans soon. Our pricing is still under development, but based on existing customer feedback, we expect to price at $20/seat/month. For those that sign up over the next week, we plan to provide 50% off for the first year once our pricing plans launch.<p>We look forward to your thoughts and feedback!
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Title: It happened to me :( I thought this was super rare but I've run into a few other people to whom this happened so now I'm wondering, how many people have been laid off twice already this year?
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Title: Hello HN,<p>Would love to hear from devs who started their YouTube channel and what was the journey like
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Title: I am 40+ years old and have never had weekly 1:1s with my manager in my career. I think I can manage myself well enough and when I need his help or vice versa, I just schedule an hour together. What's your experience and opinions on this. I feel like I am the only one feeling like this?
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Title: I want to create a personal health dashboard to track regular blood work, cardiovascular data and some other health metrics. Some of these might be recorded via apps (e.g. Apple Health) others would be manually put in (e.g. blood work sheet from my doctor).<p>I've looked around and didn't really find any platform like this. Some options were very much geared towards the U.S. market and provided connections to health care providers. I think, what I am looking for is much more simple than this.<p>So far I've been putting everything in an Excel sheet but I'm not a big fan of Excel and would like something standalone that might also show me progressions and changes more easily.<p>Any suggestions?
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Title: Hi HN! We launched bloop 10 weeks ago (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35236275" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35236275</a>) and received a huge amount of feedback (both positive + constructive). We've undertaken a rewrite of the core search framework, which now acts as an LLM agent, significantly improving the number of queries that can be successfully answered.<p>There's a bunch of hype surrounding LLM agents, but we're positive this is one of the first implementations of an agent that can deliver immediate value for engineers working on existing projects, especially larger ones. We'll do a full write up of how the agent works and the tools it can use soon, but we wanted to share our progress, now that we've got a stable release.<p>bloop is a developer assistant that uses GPT-4 to answer questions about your codebase. The agent searches both your local and remote repositories with natural language, regex and filtered queries.<p>Some of the ways engineers use bloop to improve their efficiency when working on large codebases:<p>- Summarise how large files work and how multiple files work together<p>- Understand how to use open source libraries when documentation is lacking<p>- Identify the origin of errors<p>- Ask questions about English-language codebases in other languages<p>- Reduce code duplication by checking for existing functionality<p>- Write new code, taking into account existing codebase context (eg: "write a dockerfile for this project")<p>bloop runs as a free desktop app on Mac, Windows and Linux: <a href="https://github.com/bloopAI/bloop/releases/latest">https://github.com/bloopAI/bloop/releases/latest</a>. On desktop, your code is indexed with a MiniLM embedding model and stored locally, meaning at index time your codebase stays private. 'Private' here means that no code is shared with us or OpenAI at index time, and when a search is made only relevant code snippets are shared to generate the response. (This is more or less the same data usage as Copilot).<p>We also have a paid cloud offering for teams ($45 per user per month). Members of the same organisation can search a shared index hosted by us and will get access to enterprise only features down the line (currently there's no feature gap between desktop and cloud).
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Title: The current events of Reddit and Stack Exchange amplifying a thought that communities and users' contributions should be decentralized. The current structure of online communication poses a major risk.<p>1. There has to be a movement at both protocol and community-level to bring a Usenet like forum for general consumption. Different decetralized subgroups hosting and replicating the communities for others.<p>2. The model needs to be rethought to ensure that the thoughts and knowledge of communities and users belong to them.<p>3. These forums should encourage less anonymity and more persistent communication.<p>4. Trustworthy individuals should run these forums, chosen by the community. Individual groups, academia, organizations running the communities but easily redistributed across to people who want it. This was usenet.<p>Failure to address these issues allows mega companies to exploit data and control access against users' wishes.<p>Taking action is crucial to prevent unfavorable outcomes and hold ourselves accountable.
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Title: I pay for JetBrains, Creative cloud, chatGpt, figma, and mid journey. I also pay for quick books. Are there any must have dev productivity tools you can recommend?
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Title: Hi there,<p>I'm terrible at addressing the current environmental challenges.<p>This morning, I discovered the Website Carbon Calculator [0] and tested all the websites I've created. To my surprise, some of my websites turned out to be disastrous.<p>Until now, I hadn't been concerned about the carbon footprint of my apps, but having access to this information encourages us, as developers, to take responsibility for the performance of what we build. This article [1] details how to reduce this footprint when building websites, serving as a great starting point for considering how we can minimize our impact (e.g. using less JavaScript)<p>I don't want to engage in the cliché of “greenwashing”, but rather aim to make a positive impact as a developer.<p>What are your thoughts? Were you already aware of this?<p>[0] https://www.websitecarbon.com/<p>[1] https://www.wholegraindigital.com/blog/website-energy-efficiency/<p>(I'm not affiliated with any of the website I quote)
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Title: Hello folks,<p>We are launching OpenObserve. An open source Elasticsearch/Splunk/Datadog alternative written in rust and vue that is super easy to get started with and has 140x lower storage cost compared to elasticsearch. It offers logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts, functions (run aws lambda like functions during ingestion and query to enrich, redact, transform, normalize and whatever else you want to do. Think redacting email IDs from logs, adding geolocation based on IP address, etc). You can do all of this from the UI, no messing up with configuration files.<p>OpenObserve can use local disk for storage in single node mode or s3/gcs/minio/azure blob or any s3 compatible store in HA mode.<p>We found that setting up observability often involved setting up 4 different tools (grafana for dashboarding, elasticsearch/loki/etc for logs, jaeger for tracing, thanos, cortex etc for metrics) and its not simple to do these things.<p>Here is a blog on why we built OpenObserve - <a href="https://openobserve.ai/blog/launching-openobserve" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://openobserve.ai/blog/launching-openobserve</a>.<p>We are in early days and would love to get feedback and suggestions.
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Title: grumpyrest is a Java REST server framework that does not use annotations, automatic dependency injection or reactive streams, and minimizes the use of reflection. I created this because I got fed up with annotation-mad frameworks that you cannot easily understand, step into or reason about. grumpyrest uses the type system to guide JSON mapping and validation, and (possibly virtual) threads for parallelism. It's for grumpy people who don't like what REST server programming in Java has become.<p>I made this because I intend to use it in one of my own projects, but at the same time I want to make it available to others to (hopefully) get some good ideas on how to extend it.
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Title: Given that a person's bookmarks reveal some of the most personal interests, preferences and worries about that individual, it would be nice to erase them from my browser, but have them running on some privacy-focused solution that I can add new links to on the fly. Any suggestions from anyone?
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Title: Looks like Reddit has gone dark. I logged out and deleted the apps. How are things internally?
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Title: Today's subreddit strike showed me just how reliant I've become on reddit including my local subreddits and adding site:reddit.com to all my web searches.<p>Going forward, are there any good comprehensive alternatives to reddit?
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Title: Errors<p>>Something went wrong. Just don't panic.<p>> Sorry, we couldn't load posts for this page. [RETRY]
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Title: HN certainly feels a little sluggish today. As a result of the reddit blackout, I imagine traffic has spiked.<p>Can you provide any insights?
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Title: Hey folks, I’ve been working on using control-net to take in a video game level (input as a depth image) and output a beautiful illustration of that level. Play with it here: dimensionhopper.com or read the blog post about what it took to get it to work. Been a super fun project.
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Title: Hi HN, Cobi here, Co-Founder of DevCycle (<a href="https://devcycle.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://devcycle.com</a>). DevCycle is a feature flag platform focused on developer experience, speed of delivery and long-term maintainability.<p>To give the platform a shot, anyone can sign up and use DevCycle for free here: <a href="https://devcycle.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://devcycle.com</a><p>Here’s a general platform demo video if you’re interested: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZD-pyKGwR4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZD-pyKGwR4</a><p>Feature flagging is a technique that lets developers switch features on or off in a software application without redeploying it, enhancing testing and rollback capabilities. At their core, feature flagging platforms solve the problem of separating production code deploys from feature releases to users. While DevCycle solves that same general pain, we also aim to solve core problems in developer experience and code maintainability that hold developers back from fully adopting feature flagging into their workflow.<p>In traditional feature flagging platforms, extended flag usage increases code complexity over time. Most engineers with feature flagging experience are worried about the build-up of stale flags and their code being filled with unnecessary conditionals. Dealing with this problem is important because if an engineer is worried about this increasing complexity, they are likely to avoid using feature flags.<p>We came upon this problem when we were building Taplytics, the startup we joined YC with. We experienced it not only from our own struggles with feature flagging and transitioning to continuous deployment but also from our time spent with Taplytics customers who were often on the same journey.<p>Given this experience, we developed DevCycle with a few core differences in how we solve these problems.<p>Features, Not Just Flags: Many in-house and competitive feature flag systems operate on the simple idea that features exist in a binary state - they are either ‘ON’ or ‘OFF.’ In reality, software is never this simple. DevCycle treats features the same way you do in every other context, by attaching highly-extensible remote configuration to every feature in your product, allowing multiple flags to be combined under the context of a single feature and configured together.<p>Developer Experience: To get the benefits of feature flagging you need broad adoption by all developers touching a codebase. Our primary goal is to provide the best developer experience possible. Providing tools and integrations so we can get out of developers’ way. For example, to address the problem of long-running feature flags that build up over time, we offer developer-facing features to easily track, detect (deploy pipeline actions), and eventually remove unnecessary technical debt (CLI code cleanup commands).<p>Given that we are building this as a developer-first product, we’d love your feedback on whether our approach better fits your workflow and any other thoughts on our solution. Thanks so much!
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Title: Heya HN, I've been working on a reddit-like platform as my primary side project for the last few years. Doing a (very) soft launch today, mainly because I want to use it to encourage discussion of alternatives.<p>How non.io works:<p>1. Free to browse, paid to interact.<p>2. Minimum subscription is $2 (though you can choose more). I take $1 to run the servers, everything left gets split evenly between everything you upvote that month.<p>It's a simple model, but I hope it's a better one than the freemium model we've been relying on for the last few years. Fundamentally I feel like any ad-supported network doesn't have alignment between the needs of the users and the needs of the platform, which is what drove me to make this.<p>Because this is a soft launch, if you do subscribe I'd encourage you <i>not</i> to pay for the time being. I'm still testing the distribution algorithm for returning funds - you won't get overcharged or anything, but I just want to guarantee your funds are properly distributed at the end of the month. I've opened up free accounts to post and interact in the meantime. If you want to try a test account, use this login:<p>login: hackernews pw: helloworld<p>Edit: Loginless browsing here: <a href="https://non.io/#all" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://non.io/#all</a><p>If you want to browse the code or the api:<p><a href="https://api.non.io" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://api.non.io</a><p><a href="https://github.com/jjcm/nonio">https://github.com/jjcm/nonio</a>
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Title: Hey HN,<p>I'm trying to install some old (german) Win 98 / 32 bit games for kids, but unfortunately they cannot be installed on modern operating systems. I already tried:<p><pre><code> Not working:
- Dosbox (windows is required, I tried all tricks I found)
- Windows 7 or greater (even with compatibility mode)
- Wine on Linux (installer crash)
</code></pre>
The only way I could get them to work (see references) is to install a Virtual Machine running Windows 98 SE, but on my wife's Windows 10 notebook this did not work (Virtual Box crashed).<p>Is there any better way, that I did not find?<p>References:<p>https://archive.org/details/windows-98se-vmdk<p>https://archive.org/details/Microsoft_Windows_98_Second_Edition_Virtual_Machine_VMware_WinWorld<p>https://archive.org/details/Windows98vdi<p>https://github.com/JHRobotics/patcher9x/releases/
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Title: I built this last year but never posted it anywhere, but now with Reddit hiatus it seems like the right time to give it a shot.<p>The main goal of zsync is to foster high quality content and discussion. That's it. If it can't accomplish that, then to me it is a failure. I watched Reddit go from having high quality discussion in 2008-9 to devolving into the PC meme dumpster it is today [1]. HN still has the highest discussion quality of any "forum" I know of, but (1) it can sometimes randomly be very hostile/toxic to new tech, the most glaring example being crypto. (2) HN is basically a single subreddit mostly geared towards tech and startups. It'd be nice to have an equivalent of "subreddits"<p>Zsync's version of subreddits are tags. You can tag your posts. Instead of viewing a subreddit for, let's say neuroscience, you view the tag for neuroscience. This eliminates the need to submit the same post multiple times to many different subreddits.<p>The core challenge is incentivizing/rewarding high quality content (I don't believe in censorship). Users can have custom avatars and links to their personal website and Twitter next to their username, which I believe provides a little more incentive to write a more thoughtful comment vs. your post merely showing up next to an anonymous handle with some autogenerated alien avatar (which you're free to still do if you prefer).<p>Anyone who connects an ethereum wallet to their account will also have a (non-invasive) "Tip" option at the bottom of their comment, allowing anyone to directly tip commenters cryptocurrency (no middleman taking a cut here), offering a financial incentive. I was thinking of some other ideas to use crypto to reward quality, but I wouldn't want to implement anything that could be gamed or exploited ultimately defeating its purpose. Open to ideas though.<p>In the future, we could use ML to offer options to sort comments in more useful ways, such as by sorting by "most insightful". We could determine based on your upvote history the type of content you'd be most likely to enjoy. Anyways I admittedly didn't implement this ML stuff yet, those are just ideas for future improvement.<p>Anyways would love to hear your thoughts. What do you think of this idea, and what would it take to accomplish its mission? Regardless of whether my little project amounts to anything or not, I hope something like this will be made to exist. And thank you HN for not deteriorating in quality even remotely to the extent that Reddit has. It was really sad watching Reddit devolve into what it is today (way before all this recent stuff). We can do better, and now is a better time than ever to shake up the status quo and start envisioning what better platforms for online communities can look like.<p>[1] <a href="https://jsavage.xyz/2022/03/13/the-downfall-of-reddit-why-reddit-sucks-and-how-to-fix-it/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://jsavage.xyz/2022/03/13/the-downfall-of-reddit-why-re...</a>
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Title: I recall reading a comment on here at some point in the last year where someone who worked on a team that wrote compilers lamented the difficulty in hiring qualified people because the practice of compiler construction differs so wildly from what is taught in university programs or even most recently published compiler books. Apparently modern compiler construction scarcely resembles what is taught in university courses based on the Dragon book or similar, both in the higher level architecture and the lower level techniques and patterns<p>I know that one recent innovation is that compilers have adopted a more service-oriented architecture, kind of like the Roslyn compiler. This allows them to not only compile your code, but (for instance) inform your text editor and linter and similar tooling of syntax issues<p>What are other differences? Is llvm still relevant outside of academia?<p>Are there any books, papers, or open source projects one could study to learn how compilers are built in this day and age?<p>Also: does the more abstract "programming language theory" popular in the more formal functional programming world (e.g. denotational semantics, lambda calculus, Floyd-Hoare logic, type theory, etc: this sort of stuff[1]) have any relevance to compiler writers and language/language tooling developers in industry?<p>[1] <a href="https://steshaw.org/plt/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://steshaw.org/plt/</a>
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Title: We are getting really good weather in Sweden right now and I'd love to be able to sit and work comfortably in a park and got the idea that I should invest in a folding camping chair.<p>There is quite a lot of folding chairs and since this is a first for me, would love to know if someone else have done this research.<p>What I would love in my folding camping chair is<p>* Comfortable<p>* High quality<p>* Small size when folded down<p>* Adjustable<p>* Dream feature: Built in sun-shade :)
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Title: Hi HN! I'm Zeno, founder of Resend (<a href="https://resend.com">https://resend.com</a>). We're building a modern email sending platform focused on providing the best developer experience.<p>Why? When you look at all the biggest competitors like Sendgrid, Mailgun, Postmark, and SparkPost, you'll notice that they were all founded around 2009/2010, and they all have been acquired by now. Because of that, it's common to see them only prioritizing enterprise requirements and optimizing for sales-led growth.<p>Nobody is building an exceptional developer experience. Nobody is trying to innovate. There isn't a single developer-first email platform in the market today. We want to change that.<p>Email sending is the kind of thing that you should integrate and forget, but instead, you have…<p>- Templates that are hard to build: Typically, you can only send emails using HTML or plain text. Although we support both, we're introducing a new way of developing and sending your emails. With Resend, you can code your email using React instead of outdated <table> layouts thanks to our open source project (<a href="https://react.email" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://react.email</a>).<p>- Slow performance: Current solutions only offer a single region for email sending, even when all your end users are located in another part of the world. We allow you to choose what region your emails should be sent from (US, Europe, or LATAM), which minimizes latency and improves time-to-inbox.<p>- Poor observability: Most tools keep you in the dark without knowing what really happened after you sent an email. Resend exposes all the events associated with your email via webhooks.<p>- Designed for marketers only: Existing solutions are too generic and built exclusively for product marketers and product managers. We're building a platform with a clean REST API and SDKs for Node.js, Python, Ruby, Elixir, Go, and Java. We also have examples of how to send emails using Vercel Edge Functions, Cloudflare Workers, Supabase Edge Functions, and other serverless solutions.<p>What's our backstory? When I was a CPO at Liferay, I faced the problem of sending emails at scale. We had enterprise customers complaining about deliverability, and I've been frustrated with existing services ever since. More recently, as a VP of Developer Experience at WorkOS, I once again had to deal with emails landing in the spam folder. After looking at all the different solutions out there, I've been obsessed with the idea of solving this problem once and for all.<p>We need to stop developing emails like it's 2010 and rethink how email can be done in 2023 and beyond. We believe that email development needs a revamp. A renovation. Modernized for the way we build apps today. That's why we're building Resend.<p>What issues have you had with email sending? I would love to hear your ideas, experiences, and feedback on any and all of the above.
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Title: I’ve been using RSS readers for decades, but they’ve started feeling more and more like a chore. Something about the inbox/to-do list design, counts of unread items, managing teams and complex filtering rules... I realized they add to my stress level instead of reducing it.<p>I’ve also come to rely on social media for discovery – hearing about new ideas, tools, papers, people, etc., but I’m so tired of the ads, spam, addictiveness, and toxicity.<p>Apricot is my attempt to distill the best of both worlds. It’s a web app where users subscribe to feeds like an RSS reader then see new items as they come in, in a single, combined, social media-style feed.<p>Apricot goes beyond traditional RSS readers in a couple other ways:<p><pre><code> * Users can follow TV shows (via TVmaze), Spotify podcasts, Substack newsletters, YouTube channels, and Subreddits (if/when they come back online) in addition to traditional RSS feeds. I’m open to adding other platforms if there’s demand and the content is programmatically accessible.
* Cross-platform feed search. I know search isn’t hot at the moment but it’s pretty useful in this context. Search for “Star Trek” and find not just the TV shows, but the podcasts and Subreddits too.
* Items can be sorted chronologically or with an ML-powered recommender system.
* Users can filter their feed by platform, which is helpful for specific use cases like finding a good podcast episode for a car ride or a good TV episode to watch after dinner.
* On-demand, GPT-powered content summaries help users see what an article is really about before clicking. (gotta sprinkle some gen AI on there!)
</code></pre>
Apricot is free while it’s in beta. I’m still thinking through the pricing model, but it will likely be some form of freemium starting in September. I want to avoid ads if at all possible.<p>If you’ve got a few minutes (and come on, with Reddit offline, I know you do), check it out and let me know what you think!<p>App: <a href="https://app.theapricot.io" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://app.theapricot.io</a><p>Homepage: <a href="https://theapricot.io" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://theapricot.io</a><p>Blog: <a href="https://blog.theapricot.io" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://blog.theapricot.io</a>
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Title: The status page says everything is fine though.
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Title: I can't seem to get good answers -- YouTube just shows mostly suggestions or things "I may like".<p>I was trying to find videos on specific IKEA furniture, but only got semi-related content. Interestingly enough, tiktok worked perfectly.<p>Curious if anyone has tried some other video platforms or video search tools.
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Title: The rate of change in the AI space is super fast. What are some of the best ways to stay on top on what's going on in AI (let's say on a weekly or bi-weekly basis) without having to be glued to social media or compile a bunch of different sources together from across the Internet manually?<p>Let's say for example that I'm a founder in the space, and want to be abreast of what the major new things are this week.<p>I'm thinking, at the least:<p>* Press releases from relevant companies<p>* Relevant new research papers<p>* News articles<p>* Blogs<p>* Open-source library updates<p>* Videos<p>* Tweets
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Title: In the last few years I've been doing a lot of technical writing, both for my own programming blog and others, and I've noticed there is a lack of good tools for this kind of writing.<p>Whether that was a programming blog post or documentation, I always had to move back an forth between different editors, and sometimes even other apps for content management and the actual content publication. A lot of copy-pasting, and wasted time.<p>Based on this experience I decided to try and build a tool that could provide a good experience for this kind of content from writing to publishing. This (I call it Vrite) ended up being essentially a headless CMS, but optimized for technical content and a pretty unique one overall, I'd say.<p>I tried to combine what can be seen as 3 separate products into one:
- WYSIWYG editor (with the addition of code-specific tooling like code editor or formatter)
- Kanban dashboard (inspired by my experience of tools like Trello used in larger technical content teams to manage content production process)
- The actual headless CMS (content delivery via API, integrations, etc.)<p>Most recently I decided to open-source it and see if there's any interest in such a tool. Right now the primary focus was my personal use-case (kind-of "promotional" technical writing seen in programming and start-up blogs), but I think, with more customization, something like this could extend to the documentation space and make writing and managing docs a lot easier.<p>Let me know what do you think about this.
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Title: I don't know about you guys but over the last 2 years, I saw A LOT of people with classic commerce, marketing or management training and experience switch to a product management position. Either within the companies they work at or by doing a 1-3 month bootcamp and be hired for a new position.
I am the only one to notice this? Is this a good thing?
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Title: Hi HN. This is a project I've been building for the last month.<p>It's a macOS postgres client that uses your OpenAI key to generate and immediately execute queries against your database locally on your machine.<p>I imagine the user being someone familiar with SQL and able to identify errors in the generated code, but regularly needs to write queries to answer relatively simple questions.<p>This is my first software project I'm intending on selling myself and would love feedback on the product and landing page. I'd also love ideas on how to market it to users, as I'm very new to this.<p>In the near future I want to flesh out the features to include:<p>* toggle immediate execution<p>* better export/editing<p>* local model inference<p>* windows & linux support<p>* themes<p>Thanks for trying it out and let me know what you think!
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Title: Hey, we're Phil and Ian, the founders of Scribbler.<p>We're huge podcast fans, but found we never had enough time to soak it all in. So, we built Scribbler - a tool that leverages GPT to condense podcast episodes into bite-sized summaries for when life's too busy.<p>Now, we can catch the best bits from any episode, discover new shows, and best of all, stop wasting valuable time figuring out what's worth listening to and what's not. We hope you'll find it useful!
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Title: Hi Hacker News! We’re Ravin and Jack, the founders of Credal.ai (<a href="https://www.credal.ai/">https://www.credal.ai/</a>). We provide a Chat UI and APIs that enforce PII redaction, audit logging, and data access controls for companies that want to use LLMs with their corporate data from Google Docs, Slack, or Confluence. There’s a demo video here: <a href="https://www.loom.com/share/2b5409fd64464dc9b5b6277f2be4e90f?sid=7a728d97-58ac-4355-9c87-75eaf12b0775" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.loom.com/share/2b5409fd64464dc9b5b6277f2be4e90f?...</a>.<p>One big thing enterprises and businesses are worried about with LLMs is “what’s happening to my data”? The way we see it, there are three big security and privacy barriers companies need to solve:<p>1. Controlling what data goes to whom: the basic stuff is just putting controls in place around customer and employee PII, but it can get trickier when you also want to be putting controls in place around business secrets, so companies can ensure the Coca Cola recipe doesn’t accidentally leave the company.<p>2. Visibility: Enterprise IT wants to know exactly what data was shared by whom, when, at what time, and what the model responded with (not to mention how much the request cost!). Each provider gives you a piece of the puzzle in their dashboard, but getting all this visibility per request from either of the main providers currently requires writing code yourself.<p>3. Access Controls: Enterprises have lots of documents that for whatever reason cannot be shared internally to everyone. So how do I make sure employees can use AI with this stuff, without compromising the sensitivity of the data?<p>Typically this pain is something that is felt most acutely by Enterprise IT, but also of course by the developers and business people who get told not to build the great stuff they can envision.
We think it’s critical to solve these issues since the more visibility and control we can give Enterprise IT about how data is used, the more we can actually build on top of these APIs and start applying some of the awesome capabilities of the foundation models across every business problem.<p>You can easily grab data from sources like Google Docs via their APIs, but for production use cases, you have to respect the permissions on each Google Doc, Confluence Page, Slack channel etc. This gets tricky when these systems combine some permissions defined totally inside their product, with permissions that are inherited from the company’s SSO provider (often Okta or Azure AD). Respecting all these permissions becomes both hard and vital as the number of employees and tools accessing the data grows.<p>The current state of the art is to use a vector database like Pinecone, Milvus, or Chroma, integrate your internal data with those systems, and then when a user asks a question, dynamically figure out which bits are relevant to the user’s question and send those to the AI as part of the prompt. We handle all this automatically for you (using Milvus for now, which we host ourselves), including the point and click connectors for your data (Google Docs/Sheets, Slack, Confluence with many more coming soon). You can use that data through our UI already and we’re in the process of adding this search functionality to the API as well.<p>There’s other schlep work that devs would rather not worry about: building out request level audit logs, staying on top of the rapidly changing API formats from these providers, implementing failover for when these heavily overburdened APIs go down etc, We think individual devs should not have to do these themselves, but the foundation model providers are unlikely to provide consistent, customer centric approaches for them. The PII detection piece in some ways is the easiest - there are a lot of good open source models for doing this, and companies using Azure OpenAI and AWS Bedrock seem less concerned with it anyway. We expect that the emphasis companies place on the redactions we provide may actually go down over time, while the emphasis on unified, consistent audit logging and data access controls will increase.<p>Right now we have three plans: a free tier (which is admittedly very limited but intended to give you a feel for the product), the business plan which starts at $500pm which gets you access to the data integration as well as the most powerful models like GPT 4 32k, Anthropic 100k etc, and an enterprise plan which starts at $5000pm, which is a scaled up version of the business tier and lets you go on-prem (more details on each plan are on the website). You can try the free tier self-serve, but we haven’t yet built out fully self service onboarding for the paid plans so for now it is a “book a meeting” button, apologies! (But it only takes 5 minutes and if you want it, we can fully onboard you in the meeting itself).<p>When Jack and I started Credal, we actually set out to solve a different problem: an ‘AI Chief of Staff’ that could read your documents and task trackers, and guide your strategic decision making. We knew that data security was going to be a critical problem for enterprises. Jack and I were both deep in the Enterprise Data Security + AI space before Credal, so we naturally took a security first approach to building out our AI Chief of Staff. But in reality, when we started showing the product to customers, we learned pretty fast that the ‘Chief of Staff’ features were at best nice to have, and the security features were what they were actually excited by. So we stripped the product back to basics, and built out the thing our customers actually needed. Since then we’ve signed a bunch of customers and thousands of users, which has been really exciting.<p>Now that our product is concretely helping a bunch of people at work, is SOC 2 T1 Compliant, and is ready for anyone to just walk up and use, we’re super excited to share it with the Hacker News community, which Jack and I have been avid readers of for a decade now. It’s still a very early product (the private beta opened in March), but we can’t wait to get your feedback and see how we can make it even better!
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Title: Hello hackernews! I'm excited to share a new open source python library I just released for creating AI agent-integrated systems.<p>The name is `agency`. It differs from other agent libraries, most importantly in that it's intended to address a distinct part of the overall problem, that of agent integration. It is not an agent toolchain like LangChain and others.<p>`agency` is a framework intended for safely integrating agents with computing systems and humans in a way that all parties can easily understand and communicate with each other.<p>I've spent a lot of time on the readme which contains a detailed and working walkthrough of building an agent integrated system that includes multiple types of agents, operating system integration, access control, and a flask+react based web application where users can appear as individual "agents" as well.<p>Also worth noting is that I _just_ pushed an update to integrate with the new functions support on the OpenAI API! (<a href="https://openai.com/blog/function-calling-and-other-api-updates" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://openai.com/blog/function-calling-and-other-api-updat...</a>)<p>I'm eager to hear what people think! I developed this in order to build a foundation for some of my own ambitious ideas. If you find this useful for your own projects I'd love to know!<p>Thanks for checking it out! I hope this helps you build amazing things!
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Title: I have two instances that I'd love to see HN hug to death at <a href="https://jonline.io" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://jonline.io</a> (to which I manually deploy) and <a href="https://getj.online" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://getj.online</a> (which is deployed to for any commit to main on GitHub). They're both running (side by side, in their own namespaces) on a bare minimum 2GB/50GB DigitalOcean droplet using DOKS (DigitalOcean Kubernetes). The configurations are in: <a href="https://github.com/JonLatane/jonline/tree/main/deploys/k8s">https://github.com/JonLatane/jonline/tree/main/deploys/k8s</a><p>So far this is a solo endeavor, but with my recent CI integrations and consolidations of things within the codebase, it's pretty much ready for anyone who wants to contribute to do so. I've labeled some "good first issues" if anyone is interested in contributing: <a href="https://github.com/JonLatane/jonline/issues">https://github.com/JonLatane/jonline/issues</a><p>A few more tech details are available within the app itself, at <a href="https://jonline.io/about_jonline" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://jonline.io/about_jonline</a> or <a href="https://getj.online/about_jonline" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://getj.online/about_jonline</a>.<p>Edit: Hug of death is in full effect! I think it's the CPU required for all the TLS stuff being done. I can't even `kubectl logs` to get more information.<p>I should really be limiting the resources of my containers, etc. as I'm obviously running way beyond what my rinky-dink single server is really meant for. If you're interested, let me know!<p>CPU/Load/Memory graphs in case y'all are curious (yes, I know I'm already using most of that poor server's memory!): <a href="https://imgur.com/7xGpvRI" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://imgur.com/7xGpvRI</a>
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Title: A user interface to quickly and easily convert media files using FFMPEG behind the scenes.
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Title: A long time ago I set up a Gmail backup account and transferred all my Yahoo Mail emails there to save them for posterity. Once in a blue moon I would log in, reminisce over 20+ year old messages and attachments, and move on. I did just that in June 2021, except this time it triggered some suspicious activity flag and that account got locked. Unfortunately (lesson learned!) I did not associate any recovery information with this address, so Google basically refused to let me back in, despite the valid password. I tried every suggestion I came upon - resurrected old phones and laptops, attempted logging in in the same geographical area that I used to live in, etc - nothing worked. Eventually I came to terms with the idea that those memories are forever lost, behind Google's unresponsiveness.<p>Every few months I tried logging in, without any expectations or success. Except today it worked! Logged from an incognito window and during the recovery process got asked for a phone number. And then I was in (and as a first step fixed the backup info). I can't help but notice that almost exactly two years have passed since the lockout. Don't know if there is significance there, but just wanted to share with folks that there might still be some hope. Too many stories of locked out Google accounts with zero transparency or follow-up possibility from the company.
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Title: I created this throwaway account to talk completely openly. I am an engineer with 20 years in, working mostly on web development. I have a pretty high salary in the top %5 band of my area and sector.<p>I don't know where to start this. So let's just jump right into it.<p>I can't tell what will happen immediately next year. This has never happened to me before professionally. I was born a nerd, started programming early, and jobs just came to me.<p>AI scares me for job security. My entire pitch to get to top %5 of salary band has been that I have many years of experience in my specialty. Thus securing me high roles in my field along with high salary.<p>I have been already working nearly at a burn-out level for many years to reach this comp.<p>Rent is sky high. I don't feel comfortable taking on mortgage despite having multiples of needed deposit, because I am not sure how much longer I can maintain my comp. with AI automating everything.<p>Many people share the comforting stories, that there will be other jobs for engineers/programmers.<p>How am I supposed to retain my TC if I have to switch to another field from web?<p>I am unable to enjoy any content, movie, tv show anymore. Even the SciFi from last year, feels outdated. Reddit comments feel like they're all AI-generated. I made an AI reddit bot myself. None noticed.<p>I use ChatGPT on a daily basis to build projects, and the more I use it, the more scared I get. It is just too powerful. The more I use it, the less proud I feel for my output. It just feels like anyone could do it.<p>Where are we really going? Can we just stop the optimistic techie talk and accept UBI is not happening... They don't give you healthcare, do you think they will give you CASH like that???<p>I hope this doesn't get flagged, because I really need your inputs.
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Title: Hackers like dark modes. Hacker News therefore should provide its users with a dark mode option. Maybe even automatically select it based on their browser preferences.<p>Note: Telling me to load up some browser extension to handle it is a bit silly as it requires me to implicitly trust the author of said extension which will see and have access to virtually everything on every website I enable it for.<p>All thoughts and criticisms of this statement are welcomed.<p>Viva la Dark Mode!
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Title: Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?
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Title: It's crazy that so much content is now unaccessible due to subs going private. I don't know what to blame more: centralization of forums into one giant company like Reddit, or Google's algorithm that still shows those private Reddit pages.
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Title: I find Google amazing for some kinds of queries, such as directly answering simple factual questions or finding content within a defined domain.<p>However, for a lot of things it's quite bad. If I want to find a good website for some use-case (as opposed to directly finding information inside a page), or if I want anything where there might be a commercial interest in ~~lying~~ advertising to me, Google is truly awful.<p>It's also, obviously, very bad for privacy.<p>Surely there are a bunch of interesting new search engines popping up given the recent deep learning explosion? What interesting alternatives have you discovered?
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Title: The messages contain end-user information. No data breach has been announced.
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Title: It started on March 17th, 2022 and was resolved on May 26th, 2023.<p>What was potentially exposed?
User account information and order details including names, physical addresses, email, phone numbers.<p>Your system76.com credentials and credit card were not compromised at any point. It was not the contents of our entire database, but a random selection of what happened to be in our web servers' memory at the time. It is not possible to determine which users had their information visible over the course of time when this leak was occurring.<p>Can any of this data still be accessible?
This data was embedded directly into the source code of our website, so it will be included in any archives that were taken during this time period. We have already been in contact with the internet archive, and they have removed their data, but there are other potential places where it could have been stored.<p>What pages on our site contained this data?
Due to the nature of the flaw, the data was being included to some extent on every page on our site.<p>Why was there a delay before resolving this and making an announcement?
We wanted to do our best to clean up any residual customer data that was easily accessible before disclosing the nature of this leak. This involved working with the internet archive to delete their copy of the data before public disclosure.<p>Is there any evidence that any of this data was misused?
To date, the only indications of misuse that we have are reports of spam emails being sent to customers.<p>Why did it take so long to discover?
There were a number of factors that play into this, but they do not change the fact that it should not have been happening for over a year.<p>You would need to look at just the right location in a very long single-line string. This is a common method for minimizing javascript and most developers are used to seeing such long lines on a website. There's usually not much reason to look into them in more detail.
It was not something a dev would ever see in their local environment. It was also not noticeable in our staging environment due to the difference in activity there.
It is entirely unexpected to see sensitive data exposed in this fashion.<p>What are the technical details?
One of the technologies that we use on our website is server-side rendering with nuxt. Several years ago a caching layer was implemented so that the server-side rendering wouldn't have to ask our backend API every time it needed the same information. It worked fine, but front-end technologies shifted and the way it was implemented became outdated.
Last year our team made an update to a seemingly unrelated piece of code, to fix a deprecation message no less. However, this exposed the initial implementation of this cache to a new style of handling state, which it had not been written for and was not prepared to handle.
So what happened is the following: state that shouldn't have been shared was shared between sessions. This is one of the major pitfalls of using server-side rendering in a web application. Unlike an API, the code in an SSR application doesn't always have distinct boundaries between what happens on a single client vs. what happens on the server.<p>What is being done to prevent similar leaks in the future?
For the time being we are running an automated scan to alert us if sensitive data is ever found on our website again. We are also continually performing manual inspections to make sure nothing else is in there that shouldn't be, but we are confident that we have identified and fixed this issue.
In the long term, we are moving towards a static model (SSG instead of SSR) for our website, which will eliminate the majority of the risk of shared state.<p>This is a mistake that we will learn from and we offer our sincerest apologies for leaking information that was entrusted to us. We deeply regret the incident and remain committed to safeguarding your information and trust.
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Title: See: How to customize Firefox Suggest settings, https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-suggest<p>They have added a new option to Firefox privacy settings, enabled by default of course, to allow "suggestions from sponsors" to "occasional"ly appear in the navigation bar dropdown, as if they were bookmarks. I noticed this by seeing a link to Office Depot in the pulldown, wondering what Office Depot page I had bookmarked or in my history, and discovering that it was an in-browser "sponsored suggestion". It appears to work by sending all your navigation bar typeahead to Mozilla so it can match you with a sponsor (oops about that privacy, lol). I'm not sure how recent this "feature" is, but I think it is recent, and I only noticed it today (I'm on LTS Firefox but installed an update a few days ago). Maybe the less stable releases have had it for longer.<p>Turning the sponsored suggestions off is not that difficult (see the url above for instructions), but Mozilla's unceasing obsession with inveigling advertising into the browser is... disturbing. Another day in the enshittification of the web.
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Title: I’ve been thinking about this all day and it just doesn’t make sense to me. I was hoping someone here would have a well-informed opinion/answer.<p>Google domains seemed like a natural tool in the GCP and Google ecosystem. It provided one-click access to setup website, Google workspace, provided direct verification in Google Search Console and Google Analytics, and just made sense.<p>Unlike some of the other investments like Stadia, domains is also not capital or resource intensive. They never offered discount on domains, they sold them at standard prices. The team working on domains must be small. It’s also a low risk project. Why would they kill it?<p>What next? They’ll sell Google Fi to T-mobile and abandon Google voice?
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Title: just curious for some good insightful reading on whatever you’re passionate about.
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Title: Hi HN, this is a platform (Discuit, pronounced "diskette") I've been working on for about two years. I initially built it for a niche demographic (my native country). But now with Reddit going dark and people looking for a new place to migrate to, I'm doing a quick launch today.<p>A few quick things:<p>1. I don't believe federated platforms will ever become mainstream. They have a whole host of problems, not the least of which is that they're too complicated for most people to use. This platform is not, therefore, federated.<p>2. I don't know what the best way of monetizing a thing like this is. I see only two options: the Wikipedia model of running on donations, or being advertising supported (along with a paid ad-free tier). The Wikipedia model works quite well for small-scale and bandwidth light projects, but I don't think a large social media platform can ever be funded that way.<p>3. Whichever option of monetization I take (if this takes off, that is) what I can say with certainty is that this will not go down the path of previous platforms. I don't believe the SV grow-fast model has worked very well for the end users. I have no interest in chasing growth for its own sake, or in chasing valuations, or in capturing as much attention from the users as possible. On this platform, therefore, there <i>never</i> will be any dark UI patterns. Avoiding enshittification is a primary goal of mine.<p>4. My vision for this platform, and for social media in general, is about giving users agency; the freedom to choose their social experience to their liking. What this would mean in practice are things like: ability to customize the UI; ability to filter content as one wants; ability to tweak recommendation algorithms; ability to turn on and off things like infinite scroll and suggested posts; and so on. I hate how all the current platforms want to tightly control my experience for me.<p>I go into all this in a bit more detail in my introductory blog post: <a href="https://discuit.substack.com/p/introducing-discuit" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://discuit.substack.com/p/introducing-discuit</a><p>I know many HN users hate the New Reddit layout, which is what I've based this site on, but don't be bothered by it too much, I will be adding a much more compact layout sometime later.
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Title: I recall seeing a guide on what to put in a text file so that surviving family have an easier time dealing with all of your loose ends, e.g., digital accounts, safe deposit boxes, utilities, etc. Do any of you have thoughts on what to put in a file like this? Here is a rough list of things:<p><pre><code> - Will
- Living trust
- Power of attorney
- Life insurance policy
- Birth certificate
- Marriage license
- Bank and credit card accounts
- Loan documents
- Automobile titles
- Property deeds
- Copies of keys to automobiles, safe deposit boxes, etc.
- Account and device passwords</code></pre>
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Title: Richard Montgomery ([email protected]). I believe PropBox is the first advertising platform to facilitate a home seller and buyer to directly negotiate and close real estate transactions within the platform and zero commissions entirely online. Looking for feedback to continuously improve the product.
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Title: It’s honesty shocking that in 2023, MacOS still has a nonexistent window managing system. Forget us on the outside. How are the tens of thousands of employees who work for Apple not sending the executive team daily feedback on this?
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Title: Needed to isolate a bit of DRY logic for some of my projects. Might be of use to others out there.
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Title: Your favorite language can be anything - Lisp, Python, C, Haskell, etc.<p>Which codebases are the most elegant ones written in your favorite language that new comers to the language can learn something from?
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Title: It seems google search has changed to using infinite scrolling for me, an incredibly annoying change.<p>Has anyone else got it? Is there a way to get the old pagination back?
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Title: According to https://downdetector.com/status/xfinity/ and r/comcast, looks like Comcast/Xfinity is having a DNS outage. Anyone have any insight into what's going on over there?
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Title: Hi!<p>I'm Rhys, I develop Answer Overflow a search engine for Discord channels. Answer Overflow indexes content from channels into Google making them discoverable on the web.<p>I'm sharing this again after seeing a lot of discussion during the Reddit blackout about the inaccessibility of information sent in Discord servers.<p>Answer Overflow is a verified bot in over 100 communities, fully complies with the Discord ToS, and is open source! <a href="https://github.com/AnswerOverflow/AnswerOverflow">https://github.com/AnswerOverflow/AnswerOverflow</a><p>Check out some of the communities here!<p>T3 Community - <a href="https://www.answeroverflow.com/c/966627436387266600" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.answeroverflow.com/c/966627436387266600</a><p>C# - <a href="https://www.answeroverflow.com/c/143867839282020352" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.answeroverflow.com/c/143867839282020352</a><p>Reactiflux - <a href="https://www.answeroverflow.com/c/143867839282020352" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.answeroverflow.com/c/143867839282020352</a><p>All - <a href="https://www.answeroverflow.com/browse" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.answeroverflow.com/browse</a><p>Please let me know what feedback you have, thanks for checking it out!
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Title: Have you had a really great manager? Someone that helped you grow and succeed.<p>Would you tell us about them, about what made them so good?
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Title: Slint is a declarative GUI toolkit written primarily in Rust, with API support for multiple programming languages such as C++ and JavaScript. It is designed for desktop and embedded usage.<p>The Slint website has just been redesigned. And we added a new Royalty-Free License option besides GPL and commercial
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Title: With the Reddit blackout, I see plenty of communities redirecting their members to their Discord.<p>But Discord is far from being a real knowledge base, it's overwhelming and information is not searchable through a search engine.<p>Why not use a forum-like solution like Discourse?
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Title: Hi!
I’m Julien and I built a recommendation engine for Hacker News.<p>I feel like this website is a gold mine. Every day, I find some very interesting stories about a topic. And sometimes, I want to find other stories covering that same topic but I can’t.<p>Hacker News has years of history of awesome discussion and ressources. Unfortunately, I think HN Algolia isn’t helpful in searching these old threads. As a student, I want to learn a lot from this website.<p>This is why I created HN Recommend. Input a sentence or the URL of an article, and get the most popular and similar posts from Hacker News.<p>About the technical details, I've computed the embeddings of over 100,000 articles from HN and indexed it using Faiss. I made a blog post for a deeper explanation.<p>Source code: <a href="https://github.com/julien040/hn-recommendation-api">https://github.com/julien040/hn-recommendation-api</a><p>Article: <a href="https://julienc.me/articles/Extract_embeddings_Hacker_News_article" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://julienc.me/articles/Extract_embeddings_Hacker_News_a...</a><p>Project: <a href="https://hn-recommend.julienc.me" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://hn-recommend.julienc.me</a>
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Title: I have a Pixel 3XL, an old model I know, but very suitable for my mom's light usage. All of a sudden the device stopped working and a lock icon appeared at the top right of the screen.<p>https://imgur.com/sk0M6lX<p>We first tried fixing it by resetting the phone but all we see now is the welcome screen with the same lock icon. After conducting some research, I discovered that the lock indicates a remote device lock. This device was given to me by Google Store in replaced of another one that malfunctioned during its warranty period.<p>Now I'm waiting on Google Store to give a me . but so far it has being only a handful of back and forth emails with instructions to reset the device, that changes nothing, and questions if there is any liquid damage.<p>I'm very disappointed with their lack of effort to really solve the problem.
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Title: I love using the Pomodoro technique with my friends. We each share what we want to accomplish in 25 minutes, work together, and then take a 5-minute break to discuss our progress.<p>Recently, I had an idea to take this concept to the next level. If you think about it, 25 + 5 = 30 minutes - the perfect amount of time for a global Pomodoro session to start every half hour.<p>After several evenings of brainstorming and collaboration, I'm excited to introduce Pomodorr.io. This platform allows individuals from around the world to come together and work on their projects during these global Pomodoro sessions.<p>So, meet Pomodorr.io. Every 30 minutes, a global pomodoro kicks off in the world. There is a general chat to feel the shoulder of remote colleagues in terms of efficiency. You can meet me and my friends there almost every day.
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Title: This is a personal take on making a classless semantic CSS library.
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Title: Hi HN! We’re Dan and Tony - founders of Inngest (<a href="https://www.inngest.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.inngest.com/</a>). Inngest is a developer platform and toolchain for developing, testing and running background jobs, and workflows. Inngest invokes your jobs via HTTP, wherever you want to deploy your code.<p>Shipping reliable background jobs and workflows is a time suck for any software team. They’re painful to develop locally and getting into production is a tedious experience of configuring infra. When you want to add scheduling, orchestrate multi-step workflows or handle concurrency or idempotency, you spend even more time building bespoke systems - not your actual product.<p>Software engineers spend a ton of duplicated effort building and rebuilding this at every company. It shouldn’t be this way.<p>We’ve taken our experience building and scaling reliable, secure queueing systems across Healthcare, B2B SaaS, and developer infra companies. With Inngest, we sought out to create a single platform and set of developer tools to unburden the developer.<p>- You write functions alongside your API, in your existing codebase with our simple SDK. We invoke your functions via HTTPS, so there are no additional worker services to setup.<p>- End-to-end local development, with one command. Our dev server runs Inngest on any machine with a web interface to visualize, debug, and test your functions with zero additional dependencies.<p>- Our serverless queue calls you, so you can run your code anywhere - serverless, servers or edge.<p>- Inngest manages state across functions and long-running workflows for you. We handle retries, concurrency, idempotency, and coordinating parallel and sequential workloads out-of-the-box.<p>We’ve helped users like:<p>- Snaplet.dev uses Inngest to handle the lifecycle of managing preview databases for their developer platform.<p>- Ocoya.com re-build their e-commerce and social media scheduling workflows in days while dramatically simplifying their infra to run solely with Inngest + serverless functions.<p>- Secta.ai uses Inngest to run all of their AI image generation models on GPU-optimized instances.<p>Today, we have a TypeScript SDK and we will expand to other languages soon (Go is next). We’re building in the open on Github and we offer usage-based plans with a generous free tier.<p>We’re excited to share this with HN and we’re eager for your feedback! What are your experiences building systems for background jobs and workflows?
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Title: Just bumped into this this morning - I'm so sick of these dark patterns.<p>1. Try to cancel your hulu subscription on account and billing
2. You'll be presented with an option to "pause" subscription
3. If you ignore that, you'll be presented with new "offer"
4. Now finally if you ALSO ignore that, you'll get a CORS error trying to actually cancel<p>account/cancel:1 Access to fetch at 'https://www.hulu.com/api/v1/subscription/cancel' from origin 'https://secure.hulu.com' has been blocked by CORS policy: Response to preflight request doesn't pass access control check: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. If an opaque response serves your needs, set the request's mode to 'no-cors' to fetch the resource with CORS disabled.
_app-bf55b49463c4f36f.js:1 POST https://www.hulu.com/api/v1/subscription/cancel net::ERR_FAILED<p>There's zero UI feedback about the cancellation status.<p>Fuck hulu.<p>Also good luck trying to get support for this.
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Title: I'm writing this to warn anyone who might have a similar service, including backup hosting services.<p>I run a small website at inter.tube. It lets you upload your music collection and stores it in Backblaze B2. It provides a simple web interface to listen to your collection, and support for the Subsonic API (allowing native apps to use it). Fundamentally it is not very different from something like Dropbox or Backblaze: it is a "dumb" backup that simply stores what you give it. It doesn't perform "matching" against other files, it doesn't allow you to access music you didn't explicitly upload, and it doesn't even deduplicate files between different users. It doesn't allow "sharing" of music either, download links are tied to a short access token for a specific user's login session. The only difference between other backup services is that we use the metadata tags in your uploads to organize things better. According to Capitol Records, Inc. v. MP3Tunes, LLC, this is absolutely OK in the eyes of the law (thank you to a fellow HN user for telling me about this court case). Note that we don't even perform deduplication, which was the main controversy in that case.<p>I have been using Stripe happily for a couple years now, but suddenly (less than 10 minutes after a subscription payment went through), Stripe decided that I violated their Restricted Business policy, in particular "Products and services that infringe intellectual property rights: Sales or distribution of music, movies, software, or any other licensed materials without appropriate authorization". I thought this was a misunderstanding so I clarified that we don't sell music, just storage space (see paragraph above), but they denied my appeal with a short template response.<p>This saddens me because my reasons for starting the site are the exact opposite of piracy! I was sick of artists getting paid virtually nothing for streaming service plays, so I decided to buy full albums directly from the artist as much as I could. inter.tube just allows you to keep your collection safe and easily accessible.<p>I'm posting this mostly to warn other Stripe users that essentially any backup service could "violate" these terms, so be careful about the marketing blurbs on your website. Probably any mention of "music" whatsoever is enough to get your account nuked. I really liked Stripe, always recommended it because of its nice API, but I won't be doing that anymore.<p>inter.tube will likely die. I'm going to refund my few paying users and disable account registration later, I guess.<p>As a bonus, I've open-sourced inter.tube. However, it is difficult to run because it relies on a bunch of random cloud services (Backblaze B2 + Cloudflare Workers + Lambda) and there's some hard-coded stuff in there, so it's probably not very useful beyond curiosity. If anyone would like to help me with the open sourcing, let me know, and I'll get back to you whenever I have time. Of course, feel free to fork it as well. I am also on GitHub sponsors if anyone would like to sponsor me to help make it easier to self-host (or at least self-deploy).<p>Source code: https://github.com/guregu/intertube
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Title: Context: I'm a mid career level software developer in US that was recently laid off. My family's basic expenses are taken care of by previous investments and passive cash flow, but it's not enough for discretionary spending, and health insurance.<p>What tech career options do exist for someone who wants to have a 9-5 tech/programming career for another decade?
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Title: Hi HN! I'm excited to share Autolabel, an open-source Python library to label and enrich text datasets with any Large Language Model (LLM) of your choice.<p>We built Autolabel because access to clean, labeled data is a huge bottleneck for most ML/data science teams. The most capable LLMs are able to label data with high accuracy, and at a fraction of the cost and time compared to manual labeling. With Autolabel, you can leverage LLMs to label any text dataset with <5 lines of code.<p>We’re eager for your feedback!
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Title: I created this small guide for people starting with postgresql. I added some queries I commonly used as well. Any feedback?
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Title: I was navigating around YouTube and found a channel I wanted to watch its most popular videos and have noticed they added back the oldest option!
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Title: Reddit has removed the entire moderator teams for several communities, includes:<p>* /r/InterestingAsFuck (11.5 million subs)<p>* /r/MildlyInteresting (22.3 million subs)<p>* /r/TIHI (1.7 million subs)<p>Plus many others.<p>These were subreddits that held a community vote with tens of thousands of votes to decide what type of content to allow.<p>NSFW content won, with the implication that NSFW subreddits cannot be monetized.<p>These subreddits are now restricted and unmoderated, available for request to new moderators through /r/redditrequest.
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Title: Does it matter which country the employee is located in if the job is remote?<p>I understand that timezones may mismatch but employees generally accomodate to the timezone everyone wants.<p>The different countries payroll can be handled by a decent Saas itself.<p>So, why are companies hellbent on getting US Remote Employees instead of Remote anywhere?
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Title: Hi HN, may I ask about any best practices guides that you're aware of. It could be about architectures or coding in general. Something like the two below:<p>- https://12factor.net/<p>- https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/
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Title: On a blank new work computer using Chrome but not logged in, I refuse all cookies but still see myself being tracked, for example by ads targeted to my surf history.<p>I could think of sophisticated methods, but maybe the simple answer is that refusing cookies doesn't actually do anything?
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Title: Hey there! We use this currently for releasing the Agent [1] and thought it would be nice to open up broadly for others.<p>[1]: <a href="https://docs.datadoghq.com/agent/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.datadoghq.com/agent/</a>
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Title: I have been working on my project for the last one year and developed around 600+ tools. The units converter covers almost every possible unit and I am planning to add more to it.
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Title: I'm curious if anyone who works for Reddit might want to chime in anonymously or give insight. Is this going to turn out like Twitter with a huge purge of Reddit staff too, Spez said he wanted to do to Reddit what Elon did to Twitter.<p>As an employee do you support the blackout secretly? What is your opinion of things? Some huge subs have migrated to other platforms, how do you think this ends?
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Title: Hello Hacker News community,<p>Wanted to share a project I started working on during my spare time and was then discovered by many in the open source community last week.<p>GPT Engineer’s mission:
Be the open platform for devs to tinker with and build their personal code-generation toolbox.<p>I believe it's key for us devs to engage in how building software can and will change.<p>You can find more info about the flexible technical "philosophy" to make it work well, and the community we want it to become on github:
https://github.com/AntonOsika/gpt-engineer<p>The project is still in early stages. It's clear that there is a lot of room for improvement as the space to combine tricks that guide LLM's is large.<p>Appreciate any suggestions, experiences, or ideas on the project from you all!
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Title: Posted this before and didn't have anyone comment, hoping someone sees this and can assist.<p>Stripe is holding over $200,000 in deposits on my account and I have spent hours trying to get a hold of someone higher up to release the funds. If I don't receive a large portion of the funds back by next week, I will not be able to make payroll for the employees and contractors that work for me and they will not be able to feed their families and pay rent. I've tried numerous emails and contacts at Stripe but NO ONE has been responsive or willing to let me speak to someone higher up who has the authority to release the funds. This is criminal as my business will have to shut down unless I receive a large portion of those funds, asap.
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