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Title: New Reddit is so bad that it's a meme at this point. Why is it this way?<p>I'm <i>not</i> asking about why the growth-hacking features exist - recommendations, larger images, looking like TikTok, steering people towards the mobile app. I don't <i>like</i> those, but I can understand why they do them (they want more money).<p>I'm just asking why the implementation is so terrible:<p>- The video player is so bad that it <i>itself</i> is a meme.<p>- Loading more comments often just doesn't work, the loading state disappears and no comments appear.<p>- The back button is totally broken, the entire page resets when going back.<p>- On mobile there are <i>multiple</i> "use the app" upsells, and clicking them takes me to the App Store. <i>I already have the app installed!</i> I wouldn't even be mad if these would just properly link me to the matching post in the actual app!<p>- Really bad memory usage and general performance, and so on.<p>It's just a genuinely awful website. Do they not notice this? Surely fixing this would improve revenue at least somewhat (people watch more videos on websites with functioning video players!), which they seem to be desperate for?<p>The weird thing is that old Reddit is a really good website. It works, I use it all the time and have a redirect installed, so that I never see new Reddit. It's performant. New Reddit could have just been a layer of CSS and some relatively minor markup tweaks (for inline images etc.) on top of that. Why build an entire new thing that <i>barely works</i>?<p>Anyways... it's been around for so long that someone internal has quit and can speak on a throwaway, or maybe someone still employed on a personal computer with Tor :)
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Title: Your life is yours. There are many sectors to it. So you decide what meaningful actually means and which sector it belongs to.
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Title: Greetings fellow engineers.<p>I wanted to share my experience as a software engineer, which is that USA based job seekers are currently having a difficult time. I would't call the global market overall bad though.<p>What is your experience?
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Title: Hi HN! I’m Peter, the co-founder of OpenMeter (<a href="http://openmeter.io">http://openmeter.io</a>). We are building an open-source project to help engineers to meter and attribute AI and compute usage for billing and analytics use cases. Our GitHub is at <a href="https://github.com/openmeterio/openmeter">https://github.com/openmeterio/openmeter</a>, and there’s a demo video here: <a href="https://www.loom.com/share/bc1cfa1b7ed94e65bd3a82f9f0334d04" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.loom.com/share/bc1cfa1b7ed94e65bd3a82f9f0334d04</a>.<p>Why? Companies are increasingly adopting usage-based pricing models, requiring accurate metering. In addition, many SaaS products are expected to offer AI capabilities. To effectively cover costs and stay profitable, these companies must meter AI usage and attribute it to their customers.<p>When I worked at Stripe, my job was to price and attribute database usage to product teams. You can think about it like internal usage-based pricing to keep teams accountable and the business in the margins. This was when I realized that it’s challenging to extract usage data from various cloud infrastructure components (execution time, bytes stored, query complexity, backup size, etc.), meter it accurately, and handle failure scenarios like backfills and meter resets. I was frustrated that no standard exists to meter cloud infrastructure, and we had to do this on our own.<p>Usage metering requires accurately processing large volumes of events in real-time to power billing use cases and modern data-intensive applications. Imagine you want to meter and bill workload execution on a per-second granularity or meter the number of API calls you make to a third party and act instantly on events like a user hitting a billing threshold. The real-time aspect requires instant aggregations and queries; scalability means to able to ingest and process millions of usage events per second; it must be accurate—billing requires precise metering; and it must be fault tolerant, with built-in idempotency, event backfills, and meter resets.<p>This is challenging to build out, and the obvious approaches don’t work well: writing to a database for each usage event is expensive; monitoring systems are cheaper but inaccurate and lack idempotency (distributed systems use at-least-once delivery); batch processing in the data warehouse has unacceptable latency.<p>Companies also need to extract usage data from cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, AWS, etc.), vendors (OpenAI, Twilio, etc.), and hardware components to attribute metered usage to their customers. Collecting usage in many cases requires writing custom code like measuring execution duration, listening to lifecycle events, scraping APIs periodically, parsing log streams, and attributing usage of shared and multi-tenant resources.<p>OpenMeter leverages stream processing to be able to update meters in real-time while processing large volumes of events simultaneously. The core is written in Go and uses the CloudEvents format to describe usage, Kafka to ingest events, and ksqlDB to dedupe and aggregate meters. We are also working on a Postgres sink for long-term storage. Check out our GitHub to learn more: <a href="https://github.com/openmeterio/openmeter">https://github.com/openmeterio/openmeter</a><p>Other companies in the usage-based billing space are focused on payments and basically want to be Stripe replacements. With OpenMeter, we’re focusing instead on the engineering challenge of collecting usage data from cloud infrastructure and balancing tradeoffs between cost, scale, accuracy, and staleness. We’re not trying to be a payment platform—rather, we want to empower engineers to provide fresh and accurate usage data to Product, Sales, and Finance, helping them with billing, analytics, and revenue use cases.<p>We’re building OpenMeter as an open-source project (Apache 2.0), with the goal of making it the standard to collect and share usage across many solutions and providers. In the future, we’ll offer a hosted / cloud version of OpenMeter with high availability guarantees and easy integrations to payment, CRM, and analytics solutions.<p>What usage metering issues or experiences do you have? We would love to hear your feedback on OpenMeter and to learn from which sources you need to extract usage and how the metered data is leveraged. Looking forward to your comments!
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Title: Hi HN, this is Peleg from Configu.<p>We have open-sourced Configu (<a href="https://github.com/configu/configu">https://github.com/configu/configu</a>). It’s a simple yet powerful tool designed to manage application configurations (env vars, secrets, feature flags, and more) at scale across environments – from code to runtime – by providing configuration orchestration along with a Configuration-as-Code (CaC) approach.<p>You can easily sync and connect it to any configuration store you use (files in git repo, secret managers, feature flags, databases, etc.) and Configu Orchestrator provides a unified interface that rules them all and allows developers to define and deploy configurations consistently. This ensures that the desired settings are applied accurately throughout the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC). By automating the configuration orchestration process, it reduces tedious manual work and errors and promotes efficient deployments.<p>It can be used with any programming language/framework and is platform independent with a super easy setup.<p>Give it a try (<a href="https://github.com/configu/configu">https://github.com/configu/configu</a>), and let us know what you think!
Docs: <a href="https://configu.com/docs/configu-orchestrator/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://configu.com/docs/configu-orchestrator/</a>
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Title: What are some great resources for learning the skills and knowledge necessary to start a career as an AI engineer?<p>Gracias!
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Title: I’ve read a lot of good things about Apple Silicon, but preferably run Linux. What are the experiences here on running Asahi Linux? Or maybe a related question, are any laptop manufacturers getting close to Apple Silicon in terms of energy usage and performance?
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Title: I recently had a more junior coworker take an AWS Solutions Architect course, and I realized I am missing out on my company's personal development resources, but I am not all that interested in an AWS Solutions Architecture course, in part because a) I don't want to, and b) I know a bunch of AWS stuff by now anyway<p>So I am curious what are some interesting educational resources for people in more advanced engineering roles? Courses or resources that might help one move to an Architect or Principal/Staff role?
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Title: Inspired by the design and UI/UX of apps like Notion, and utility of open-source apps like StackEdit, I decided to create a minimalistic, local-only WYSIWYG Markdown editor.<p>Some features worth highlighting:<p>- Monaco editor and Prettier integration for code snippets<p>- Tables (apparently the holy grail of WYSIWYG editing)<p>- Embeds (for CodePen, CodeSandbox and YouTube, most useful for HTML or JSON exports)<p>- Accepts Markdown paste-in, and "exports"/generates HTML, Markdown and JSON outputs<p>- Collaboration (with real-time awareness and initial commenting system, available only when logged in)<p>- GPT-3.5 integration (only when logged-in with the corresponding extension installed)<p>Stack used: TipTap, Solid.js, HocusPocus, Fastify, tRPC.<p>Some notable drawbacks:<p>- No mobile support<p>- Collaboration available only between signed-in users, in the same workspace;<p>- I tried my best to support most common Markdown formatting, pasting and in-editor shortcuts, though there might still be room for improvement<p>- Self-hosting isn't easy right now, though you should be able to figure it out from the source code<p>The editor itself is a standalone app, extracted from the larger Vrite CMS project (<a href="https://github.com/vriteio/vrite">https://github.com/vriteio/vrite</a>) which you can also test out (only with sign-in) here: <a href="https://app.vrite.io/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://app.vrite.io/</a>
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Title: I'm in the process of interviewing for senior and staff front end positions. I've done several multi-hour take home projects now and a couple were rejected with generic rejection messages. It's pretty insulting to be frank. Spending 2-4 hours on likely valueless work is a substantial amount of time relative to the week day. If I've spent the time making the project and they've spent the time recruiting me and reviewing the project, the recruiter and reviewer could spend 5 minutes sending constructive feedback.<p>Anyone else share in this frustrating experience? Have you successfully asked for feedback before?
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Title: I've been using Amcrest and foscam IP cameras at my home for the past several years. I have then connected to a no internet VLAN with an NVR.<p>The models I've been using have an ethernet port and wifi. Setup was connecting to the ethernet port and then accessing the web ui in a browser to configure settings (most importantly turning on RTSP or ONVIF feeds). The cameras I have are starting to show their age and a couple of them are starting to fail (PTZ slow or require reboots every few weeks).<p>I picked up newer models from Amcrest and foscam assuming they would have the same set up procedure (i made sure to get ethernet+wifi models and did research on being RSTP capable) but they all require downloading an app and creating an account to set them up, even if the end configuration is without internet for local video)<p>The foscam cameras have a web ui that just has links to the app stores and the amcrest cameras don't have any web ui available. I tried directly accessing the RTSP URLs and still no luck. both apps require account creation in order to use.<p>I've also tried some tp link, wyze and aqara cameras in the past but they all required an app/account. They also had the worst reliability, both in connection stability and physical failure rates.<p>Does anyone have specific model numbers of currently purchasable (US) IP cameras that genuinely don't require an app and account to set up?
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Title: Many JS libraries exist to build graphs on the web (Vega, chartJS, Plotly...).<p>They allow to make charts quickly.
But you lose flexibility: you're limited by the options they offer.<p>I just created a gallery with hundreds of graphs made with d3.js and React.
- Examples are split by graph types
- They all come with explanation and code sandboxes
- Gradual complexity to ease the learning curve<p>It took me ages to create this project! Feedback welcome!
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Title: Heya HN, after 7 years of dedicated work, we're thrilled to unveil Factiverse AI Editor - a revolutionary tool to validate or debunk factual claims in any text, including AI-generated content.<p>Here's how it works: Our cutting-edge machine learning models analyze your text and identify check-worthy claims. We then scour search engines like Google, Bing, and Wikipedia, alongside manual fact-checks, to retrieve supporting and disputing evidence. The credibility of each source is carefully assessed using another machine learning model trained on expert fact-checks.<p>Try out the Factiverse AI Editor at <a href="https://editor.factiverse.ai/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://editor.factiverse.ai/</a> and be sure to sign up and provide feedback on our Product Hunt page at <a href="https://www.producthunt.com/posts/factiverse-ai-editor" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.producthunt.com/posts/factiverse-ai-editor</a> or directly within the app.<p>To get started, check out our tutorial video at <a href="https://youtu.be/rMBHHfn6mk0" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://youtu.be/rMBHHfn6mk0</a> and hear a special message from the founders at <a href="https://youtu.be/Ri5rR_clpxg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://youtu.be/Ri5rR_clpxg</a>. Visit our homepage at <a href="http://factiverse.ai" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://factiverse.ai</a> for more information.<p>Join us in revolutionizing fact-checking with AI!
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Title: I am working for a large tech scale up - joined them 2 years ago. Pace is intense and I find myself attending 15-20 hours a week in "important" meetings. To the point where I can't find any proper focus time to do meaningful engineering work.<p>Am I the only one in the situation? Almost thinking to change jobs for a smaller tech firm hoping this provides a better control on my calendar... Curious to hear your thoughts.
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Title: A full 3rd or more of the time when i try to tap on the "new" link at the top of HN, i accidentally tap the "jobs" link with my average-sized fingers because my phone wraps HN such that "jobs" is directly below "new", with like 3 pixels of gap between them.<p>Similarly, the links across each post in the list, along with the near-microscopic "up" arrow, require teeny tiny baby fingers to tap reliably.<p>Certainly no tiny babies are using HN, so... please, HN, fontSize+=2 for the links! :-D
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Title: Why does Google not (want to?) support the full Markdown experience in Google Drive? I'm not talking about the limited, mostly useless support in Docs, but supporting opening, reading / editing real (.MD extension) files. Just, why?
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Title: How does one find high quality games on mobile? There's so much crap out there on the Play store, it's really hard to pick games. I don't care much about the genre or the price, I just want to play some high quality, low bullshit (no ads, spam, loot boxes, etc.) games.<p>Is there a website that curates games? What games do HN readers like?
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Title: I'm creating a UI/UX Primer as an e-book to help students learn about user iterfaces, user experience, and usability in general.<p>I have 100 topics or so thus far. What topics do you suggest that UI/UX practitioners should learn a bit about in a primer?<p><a href="https://github.com/sixarm/ui-ux-primer">https://github.com/sixarm/ui-ux-primer</a>
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Title: So just for fun, I wrote a complete multiplayer game in pure C++. I even wrote my own texture atlas packer, which is now used by Assassin's Creed, 2 scientific publications as well as a drone manufacturing company - each of these basically mentions the name of my game. There is even a claim that Unity patented some of the ECS ideas that originate from this project. See <a href="https://github.com/TeamHypersomnia/Hypersomnia#tech-highlights">https://github.com/TeamHypersomnia/Hypersomnia#tech-highligh...</a> for details.<p>By the way the game is pretty darn good. 10 people connected yesterday to test a new map:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHLPzZqANlM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHLPzZqANlM</a><p>It took me well over 10 years to code it all by hand, but the journey was truly worth it.
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Title: Hi HN, I recently created and published an open-source resume builder as a weekend project. The idea came to me while I was mentoring students and noticing common mistakes they made in their resumes that I had also made in the past. I thought to build a tool to help people easily create a modern professional resume with built-in best practices to avoid those mistakes.<p>Top highlights of the resume builder are:<p>1. Real time UI update as you type<p>2. ATS friendly to top ATS platforms, e.g. Greenhouse, Lever<p>3. Privacy focus - no sign up is required and data is stored locally in browser that only users have access<p>4. Support import from existing resume PDF<p>The tool also includes a resume parser to help people test their existing resumes’ ATS readability if they might not be interested in using the builder. I also explained the parser algorithm in an article with interactive tables that might be an interesting read to see the steps and logics it uses (<a href="https://www.open-resume.com/resume-parser" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.open-resume.com/resume-parser</a>).<p>I hope others might find this tool useful and I look forward to hearing any feedback the community has. Thanks all.<p>Home Page: <a href="https://open-resume.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://open-resume.com</a><p>Github Repo: <a href="https://github.com/xitanggg/open-resume">https://github.com/xitanggg/open-resume</a><p>Product Hunt: <a href="https://producthunt.com/posts/openresume" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://producthunt.com/posts/openresume</a>
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Title: The index lists either companies that work on open-source products or those that heavily contribute to open-source. Either way, ideal for devs that want to keep an eye out for opportunities.<p>Engineering teams can post for free. Open directory of available positions is here [0].<p>[0] <a href="https://github.com/fossfox-com/fossfox">https://github.com/fossfox-com/fossfox</a>
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Title: Why are timestamps increasingly being replaced by vaguely worded junk?<p>This has been happening for a long time, but today Github told me that when filtering issues based on creation time, "Date formatting must follow the ISO8601 standard". This is the hill they die on, I guess... Except, the reason I was looking up the syntax for this in the first place was because the creation times are displayed in such a useless manner.<p>I don't know, it just seems like for anything older than a day it's easier to think about when things happened, not how long ago something happened.
And then the resolution degrades to useless levels for anything older than 'today' anyway.
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Title: ...completely breaking accessibility for people who primarily, or solely use a mouse.<p>As of about a day ago they decided to hijack the right click to take focus away from whatever you selected, possibly to support this new "Embed" feature that overlays a button that opens a new tab, any time you select new text.<p>I wonder what the hell the end goal is for them? I can't imagine this could have any sort of positive business outcome associated with it.
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Title: Hey HN, I didn't want my Gateway 4DX2-66 from 1993 to be left out of the AI revolution, so I built an AI Assistant for Windows 3.1, based on the OpenAI API.<p>The most interesting parts of building this were:<p>- Getting TLS 1.2 and 1.3 working on Windows 3.1 so that WinGPT could directly connect to OpenAI's server without relying on a modern machine for TLS termination.<p>- Learning about the memory segmentation architecture on 16-bit Windows, including the difference between <i>far</i> and <i>near</i> pointers.<p>- Building the UI in plain C code with the Windows API and limited selection of controls in Windows 3.1.<p>You can check it out here and learn more about what it was like to build it: <a href="https://www.dialup.net/wingpt/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.dialup.net/wingpt/</a>
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Title: I skimmed through Nim website and some code snippets, and see very exciting features such as macro support, pythonic syntax, transpiles to C/C++/JavaScript, no VM, systems programming language, suitable for hard real-time systems etc. So why has it not caught on as wild fire like Rust?<p>Also, what is its FFI story? How easy it is to interop with C++ and JavaScript?
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Title: I recently subscribed to Bloomberg and because of difficulty signing in, I turned off my ad blocker only to see that the site is almost unusable with all of the ads on (even as a paying subscriber).<p>Does anybody in HN (even/especially those in the media industry) not use an adblocker of some sort to browse the web anymore? If so, can you tell us about your experiences and why?
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Title: Hello HN, I'm Surya, the founder of Argonaut (<a href="https://www.argonaut.dev/">https://www.argonaut.dev/</a>), a unified platform that tries to make software ops painless, so teams can focus on building features instead of building and managing infrastructure. Argonaut combines Kubernetes PaaS, a CI pipeline builder, and a Terraform state manager with prebuilt AWS and GCP modules. Here’s a demo: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DZsYXxA2tQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DZsYXxA2tQ</a>.<p>I’ve helped build infrastructure tooling from scratch at multiple companies and realized two things: that the shape of the solution with the advent of containerization, Kubernetes, and hyperscalers is quite similar across orgs, and that highly knowledgeable engineers are needed to build and manage this system.<p>Internal infrastructure teams juggle a multitude of tasks—provisioning cloud infrastructure, configuring runtimes, building code, securing artifacts, running tests, and deploying at scale. Post-deployment, they're also tasked with monitoring app performance, errors, uptime, and cost visibility. It's a lot of work, and having to build this tooling in-house is a deep inefficiency in engineering teams. The root of the problem is that AWS and GCP provide a lower level of abstraction than the entities, such as environments and applications, that developers have to deal with, and a ton of work is getting duplicated, often by underfunded teams, across many orgs. Argonaut’s objective is to be the developer platform and control center that you would otherwise have to build internally.<p>Argonaut provides an intuitive developer experience that simplifies working with Kubernetes and enables developer self-service, reducing the burden on devops and platform teams. We've productized this workflow orchestration, incorporating best practices to provide a push-to-deploy experience with flexible pipelines and scalable infrastructure, all within minutes.<p>Our users are startups across various domains like healthcare, IoT, fintech, AI, and SaaS products. Over the last two years, we’ve enabled customers to scale their engineering teams 10x and manage 10+ environments in parallel without needing a dedicated infra/DevOps team, saving them precious time and resources.<p>Argonaut lets you set up production-ready infrastructure and customize as you scale. We then let you set up automated deployments of your application in minutes. We offer configurable build-and-deploy pipelines, powered by Dagger and ArgoCD, and deep integration with GitHub Actions and GitLab CI. In addition, we support container registries, multiple cloud accounts, observability stacks, cost visibility providers, CDNs, and the entire helm chart ecosystem of Kubernetes, with more integrations on the way.<p>Key features include: (1) easily create environments encapsulating cloud infrastructure, applications, and deployment pipelines (2) autoscaling deployments for apps and cronjobs to GCP and AWS with a progression across environments (3) compose deployments across multiple environments with our visual pipeline builder (4) get cost estimates before making infra changes, giving you a clear understanding of your expenses; (5) managed Terraform state and pre-built modules that just work, fostering team collaboration on infrastructure.<p>Argonaut is self-serve, so you can sign up and start using the product right away: <a href="https://ship.argonaut.dev">https://ship.argonaut.dev</a>. There is a free tier that doesn't require a credit card to get started. We'd be delighted to have you try it, and are happy to help with onboarding.<p>If your teams work with AWS, GCP, or Kubernetes, I’d love to hear about your experiences, pain points, and what you think a product like Argonaut should be able to do. Looking forward to your comments!
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Title: I worked on a web service that allows you to import a song and define a target length that the song will be shortened or lengthened to. It does this by analyzing the song and finding repeating audio patterns. This is helpful for making any song match a video or performance with a set duration. You can also specify areas of the song to prefer or avoid. An example is available here: <a href="https://mofi.loud.red/edit/8bd3fdf780f8c3927e41029f3b957f8a7ed96863" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://mofi.loud.red/edit/8bd3fdf780f8c3927e41029f3b957f8a7...</a><p>The cool thing is that after the song is analyzed on the server, the client can recompute and preview the results completely client-side through an implementation that uses Web Workers and WebAssembly. The audio previewing uses Tone.js. I am thinking of writing up some more details about the implementation in the future.<p>I'm still working on a way to explain this easily, but I like the idea of carrying over the concept of content-aware fill from images to audio.<p>Please let me know if you have any comments or questions!
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Title: Hi,<p>clang-uml is an open-source C++ to UML diagram generator, driven by YAML configuration files.<p>The main idea behind the project is to easily maintain up-to-date diagrams within a code-base or document legacy code.<p>The configuration file for clang-uml defines the types and contents of each generated diagram.<p>The diagrams can be currently generated in PlantUML and JSON formats.<p>Main features:
- class, sequence, package and include diagrams
- up to C++17 with support for C++20 concepts
- visualization of template specialization relationships
- declarative diagram content filtering based on namespaces, elements and relationships
- relationship inference from C++ containers, smart pointers and custom templates
- customizable interactive links in diagrams (SVG output only)
- generation of UML packages from namespaces or directories
- JSON output containing intermediate diagram model representation for custom processing<p>More features, usage information and examples are in README at <a href="https://github.com/bkryza/clang-uml">https://github.com/bkryza/clang-uml</a> and online docs at <a href="https://clang-uml.github.io" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://clang-uml.github.io</a><p>In particular, checkout diagrams generated from test cases here: <a href="https://clang-uml.github.io/md_docs_2test__cases.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://clang-uml.github.io/md_docs_2test__cases.html</a>
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Title: Hi HN, this is my efforts in reverse engineering a BLE car battery monitor where it's app has over 100,000 downloads on the Google Play store alone.<p>It turns out it's sending GPS, cell phone tower cell IDs and Wifi beacon data to servers in Hong Kong and mainland China on a continued basis. Google and Apple app store pages say no personal data is collected or sent to 3rd parties.<p>Hopefully readers pick up a few tips on reversing apps for their connected devices.
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Title: Hey HN, we’re the co-founders of Fuse (<a href="https://www.letsfuse.com/">https://www.letsfuse.com/</a>). We offer a single integration to multiple financial data aggregators and automatically select the most reliable one for each institution. Here’s a quick demo: <a href="https://youtu.be/w7sNHGav0Fg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://youtu.be/w7sNHGav0Fg</a><p>If you're building a product that requires customers to link their financial accounts, you might integrate a financial data aggregator (such as Plaid, Truelayer, or Finicity) to connect with your user's bank account. You’ll probably then experience the following issues: customers unable to use your product because their financial institution is not supported (e.g., credit unions, local or community banks); frequent disconnections; API errors; and high drop-offs during the bank linking flow.<p>We spent 2.5 years developing YSplit, a fintech app providing joint spending cards for couples. Users linked their bank accounts for spend limits but faced issues with unsupported banks and frequent disconnections. We looked at other apps and saw that the ideal solution was to rely on multiple aggregators, but it wasn’t the right use of engineering resources for that startup. Upon pivoting from YSplit, though, we decided to go back to that problem and address it.<p>We provide a UI component for React, React Native, Flutter, iOS & Android native to facilitate bank account linkage within your app. When a user taps on an institution, we use a time series model to identify the most optimal aggregator to show based on historical success rates and disconnection as well as downtime. After linkage, we provide a Fuse access token for querying balance, transactions, and more via our unified API, offering a consistent model irrespective of the aggregator.<p>We also provide other products to translate historical bank data into consumer/business credit risk to help you answer questions like: How much credit can I feel comfortable offering this user or company? Is a user likely to pay me on time? Can I offer instant ACH to this customer?<p>By combining aggregators, you gain from their diverse connection methods, favoring APIs over screen scraping. Our customers have cut disconnections by 16%, increased coverage by 5k institutions in the US, and boosted conversions by 20% with Fuse. Moreover, we support aggregators in Africa, Europe, South America, Australia, and Asia, enabling global product expansion with a single API.<p>We don't store personal info and only act as a pass-through. We are currently undergoing SOC 2 II audit and can provide engagement letters for anyone looking to go to production.<p>We have a self-serve onboarding <a href="https://dashboard.letsfuse.com">https://dashboard.letsfuse.com</a> to get sandbox keys. Our docs are available here <a href="https://docs.letsfuse.com">https://docs.letsfuse.com</a>. We’d love for you to try it and give us feedback on improvements to the product and docs. If you have any feature requests or any aggregators you’d like us to support, let us know.
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Title: I’m Frank, the Head of AI Engineering at Superblocks. We’re a platform for enterprise developers to build and host mission-critical internal apps.<p>Today we launched Superblocks AI and are excited to hear feedback from the HN community!<p>Superblocks AI combines the power of the Superblocks drag-and-drop App Builder with robust AI code generation, code optimization, code explanation, mock data generation, and API call generation across SQL, Python, JavaScript, JSON and HTML.<p>We built Superblocks AI with the intention to streamline some of the repetitive and often confusing aspects of building internal tools, here’s a brief overview:<p>Generate Code: LLMs like ChatGPT have quickly become a critical part of developers' lives and we wanted to bring that experience natively into our product. The response is streamed for the best UX, similar to Chat-GPT, and can be modified before use.<p>Explain Code: Understanding someone else’s code for large internal engineering teams is often a challenge. Highlight code and Superblocks AI offers an explanation that you then have the ability to add as a comment.<p>Edit Code: You can make alterations to code by highlighting it and choosing prompts like optimize performance, enhance readability, or something custom. We've added an inline code diff view for easy verification of changes.<p>Generate API Calls: You often want to make an API call but need to spend 30 minutes looking up the documentation and crafting the correct call in Postman. We provided a way for you to give a prompt, and Superblocks AI will generate REST and GraphQL queries for APIs like Stripe, Salesforce, your favorite SaaS provider, and more.<p>Generate Mock Data: This enables faster UI development by generating mock data for components like tables, charts, grids etc., which can be especially handy during prototyping.<p>I'd love to hear feedback from the HN community on how you think this feature should evolve over the next few months!
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Title: Hey guys,<p>Endless is an open-source mobile app that curates posts from your favorite websites in one place with a common interface. The application uses custom extractors specifically written for each website. This way you can endlessly scroll through posts and save the ones you like without having to deal with ads.<p>With the Endless server I am hosting you can also upvote and leave comments on posts without creating an account! With random tokens linked to your actions you basically use your device as your account and undo your actions in the future without spoiling your identity.<p>I hope to add more extractors in the future. Feel free to install the app and check out the extractors yourself or contribute to the project! I always love to hear your comments and feedback.<p>GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/kaangiray26/endless">https://github.com/kaangiray26/endless</a><p>APK Releases: <a href="https://github.com/kaangiray26/endless/releases">https://github.com/kaangiray26/endless/releases</a>
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Title: I'm excited to share with HN a new pet project I've been working on to explore how AI can create and explain harmonic chord progressions - Chord Variations.<p>The project uses GPT-4 to generate unique and interesting chord combinations based on user input chord progression. It's akin to having a virtual musical assistant that can help non-musicians and musicians alike explore and create harmonious sound without needing any prior knowledge of music theory. The generated chord suggestions maintain a similar vibe to the user input. Alternative chord progression includes extended chords, chord substitutions, unique passing chords, and more.<p>Additionally, musical theory explanations within the tool is helpful for users not just to create music, but understand the underlying structure it's built on a bit better. These chord progression suggestions can be used for practice or composition. As a musician myself, I am having quite a lot of fun playing around with it.<p>One of the things I'm proud of is how the application really dips into music theory. It includes nuanced aspects such as dominant chords, secondary dominant chords, and the famous 2-5-1 chord progressions.<p>That said, the development journey was full of lessons. Dealing with the latency of the GPT-4 API was particularly challenging. I used a Celery based queue system + client polling to manage the delay between request and response (from OpenAI API). Additionally, to keep the chord names consistent, I used a combination of prompting and regex. There are still some bugs that need to be squashed but overall I am pretty happy with the results.<p>I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback on the project. Also, if you're curious about anything, I am happy to delve into the details in comments.<p>Feel free to take Chord Variations for a spin here: <a href="https://chord-alt.vercel.app/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://chord-alt.vercel.app/</a><p>Looking forward to some interesting discussions!
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Title: noticed that the 'amazon lens' feature keeps running in the background until you open another app, even after you exit the mode - i noticed this because you cannot launch the flashlight until you switch apps. not sure if the camera is actually running or some flag is not reset, but ios seems to think so as well.
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Title: Hey everyone, I'm Petr. I'm excited to share LangTale Playground (<a href="https://langtale.ai/playground" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://langtale.ai/playground</a>), a first-of-its-kind tool enabling anyone to experiment with OpenAI function calls without coding.<p>Born out of a hackathon project, it's now a part of our broader LangTale platform aimed at tackling common developer challenges with Language Learning Models (LLM). These include prompt integration, testing and debugging, version control, auditing, and usage/cost management.<p>Here's our tech stack: Next.js by Vercel, Tailwind CSS, OpenAI, PlanetScale's Vitess database, and the Radix UI & Shadcn's component library.<p>We're eager to hear your feedback as we launch LangTale Playground today. Give it a spin and let us know what you think.
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Title: Ok, so this is a bit of an odd one, but I'm about to finally attempt to organize 20 years of digital clutter...<p>Before taking off on this endeavor, I want to make sure I have a good system in place for where things go.. I have thousands and thousands of various folders and files, things like projects, music, photos, zip files and other downloads, personal notes, backups, etc..<p>How do you organize your digital library?
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Title: Hello. I'm 17, in the UK, doing A levels. I was previously highly successful for my age, academically and in extracurricular programming projects. I was reasonably competent at programming, and have created and deployed dozens of small-medium projects, some in teams. Computer science, physics, biology, and maths were easy; I got top of the class without trying. I went to a technical school that was almost perfect.<p>I had a pretty clear plan: Apply to Oxbridge. Failing that, do a degree apprenticeship at GCHQ etc.<p>March last year my friend was attacked by bullies at school. I tried to help, I was kicked in the head multiple times. The perpetrators got away with it because of our pathetic "justice" system. I was off school for 6 months and I have post-concussion syndrome. I am now below average intelligence. I am constantly fatigued. I have constant headaches. When symptoms are particularly bad I can barely walk or process speech. When I've been able to rest for a extended period I feel almost like I used to, but everything degrades whenever I try to actually do something. My doctor has been helpful and sympathetic, but I am still waiting on specialist help via the NHS.<p>I am a year into my A levels. I have done nothing but study this year. I wake up, go to school, stay awake with caffeine tablets and strong painkillers, get home, revise, then sleep. It's the same at weekends. Studying is extremely difficult and I retain far less information. I optimise my time with Anki, spaced repetition, and Obsidian. Despite this effort, I had to drop an A level (further maths), which made my already infitesimal chance of Oxbridge zero, and I am barely staying afloat in other qualifications. My current A levels are maths, physics, and compsci.<p>I don't do much programming now, but when I do I'm significantly worse. The most noticeable difference is in my working memory; where previously I would just write something, I now become overwhelmed if I don't meticulously plan and break the problem up first.<p>I have no clue how to continue. At the current rate, I will get good enough grades to get into one of the local unis. I think I'd be OK with a computer science course, as I already know much of the content. However, I don't think I can do an apprenticeship or other form of inflexible work - I am not reliably awake, and I'm simply not that intelligent anymore. I plan to take a gap year whatever I do to get some rest.<p>I've considered trying to work as a freelancer running a software business (after A levels/degree), as that would hopefully allow for more flexibility regarding symptoms. However, I have absolutely no clue how I would go about doing that, or if it's a good option. I can do desktop or web dev, I know Python, Rust, and TS well.<p>I'm not really sure what I'm asking. Is the freelance idea a good one? I really don't know how to do things as someone who's motivated, and retains a lot of knowledge I learnt before my concussion, but struggles to learn new things and stay awake. I'd appreciate some advice.
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Title: Two and a half years ago my co-founder and I left our jobs on the product team at Intercom to try and build a startup. We went through YC and launched an analytics tool on top of Segment that allowed you to generate some pre-made reports for common product metrics (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26155327">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26155327</a>). We raised a seed round, then spent a year building templates of reports for startups.<p>After a year of building our product we tried to monetise and failed. Our free users weren’t willing to pay us money for individual reports.<p>Among the users we had, there were a handful of later stage B2B companies with few customers but a lot of revenue (one had 50 customers and $1m in annual revenue). These companies looked at their analytics in a different way. They cared a lot more about specific individual users than consumer apps do, and they spent a lot of time using our product.<p>After learning this we spent some time trying to understand the differences between product analytics for a B2C product versus a B2B one. We learned three main things that led us to pivot our company into building a product analytics tool for B2B SaaS companies:<p>(1) Most of the revenue in B2B products comes from a handful of customers. In Slack’s case, 500 customers out of 700,000 made up to 40% of revenue[1]!
(2) Most of the revenue B2B products make comes from expansion. Contracts start small and grow over time, as a company wins more trust and delivers value. This means that growing product usage among existing users, over time, draws in more users and more revenue.
(3) Product management in B2B is a lot less quantitative than in B2C. It is more a collaboration with Sales and Customer Success teams. The kind of insights you need from analytics are different. You need to know “Are our key customers adopting the new feature we launched?” and not “Does our new redesign improve activation by 2%?”<p>After learning these things we went back to the drawing board and rebuilt our product with them in mind. That is, we built a product analytics tool that (1) has automatically set up reports that allow you to track acquisition, activation, retention and feature usage; (2) supports measuring metrics both in terms of how many users or companies use your product; and (3) helps you answer common questions for your users like “Who used our product the most in the last 90 days?”, “Who tried our new feature once and never came back?”, “What’s our feature with the highest retention? How many people use it?”<p>This realization happened a year ago and we’ve now reached the point where more than a thousand B2B SaaS companies at seed and Series A use us every month.<p>We would love to get some feedback from the broader HN community! You can find our product at: <a href="https://june.so">https://june.so</a><p>[1] <a href="https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/04/29/slack-relies-heavily-on-its-biggest-customers.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/04/29/slack-relies-heavi...</a>
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Title: @imgly/background-removal is a powerful javascript library that allows seamlessly background removal of images directly in the browser. With its unique features and capabilities, this package offers an innovative and cost-effective solution for background removal tasks without compromising data privacy.
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Title: Hi HN! Anisa here from Litnerd (<a href="https://www.litnerd.com">https://www.litnerd.com</a>). We’re a reading club for kids. It’s been two years since our first HN launch and I am back today to share some updates we're extremely excited about.<p>Litnerd is an online reading club program with a weekly live meetup to help students make reading a lifelong habit. Think of us as “book club meets gaming”. New books go live weekly, and each book has movie adaptations, music, reading courseware, mini lessons with a virtual teacher and worksheets. There are reading tournaments every month to recognize the top reader. The goal of our app is to create a fun and engaging way of cultivating a child’s natural curiosity by bringing the subject matter to life (movie adaptation of books with real actors, cartoon animation, enacted experiences) and through gamification—our community is obsessed with earning “Litcoin” (yup, we actually did this and it really works!) and winning monthly tournaments.<p>Here’s a video that shows how Litnerd works: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSVjWi-rE8k">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSVjWi-rE8k</a>. Here’s a video I made for parents, summarizing what’s new with our product: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mniVUWx6tvM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mniVUWx6tvM</a>, and here is an older video that gives you a quick demo: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1wdk9ofb5w">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1wdk9ofb5w</a>.<p>When we did our Launch HN back in 2021 (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28300640">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28300640</a>), we got two prominent themes of feedback. One was B2C access—you asked us to open the app for parents to buy directly rather than selling it only to schools. The other was that it gave you massive Diamond Age vibes. I read the Diamond Age. It gave me chills. Thank you!<p>Originally, Litnerd was only sold to schools, and teachers had to administer the product in classroom time. We were also streaming live actors into the classroom to reenact books and build interest and fun.<p>Now, our program is a standalone web app used by both schools and parents (B2C access is live—thanks HN!) We no longer stream live actors into classrooms, but rather have films and cartoons in-app to bring the book to life, all filmed in our Brooklyn studio. We also have original soundtracks for each book, in both the app and on Spotify.<p>Our product is now used by kids primarily after school hours—and the average kid is spending 30 minutes in the app daily! Parents in our first B2C cohort commented on how this is the only educational app their child wants to use without being pushed by a parent/teacher. With just 4 months of Litnerd usage, students improved comprehension by 72% and phonics improvement by 48%.
Your child is auto-enrolled in a cohort when they sign up. They are also auto-enrolled in the current reading tournament of the month. The goal is to earn the most amount of Litcoin so that you can win tournaments and go shopping in the Litnerd Store. To earn Litcoin, your child does 3 things. First, they complete at least 15 minutes of daily reading. Second, they have daily reading tasks, such as quizzes and worksheets to build vocabulary and comprehension. Third, they attend a weekly live (virtual) meetup with their cohort.<p>Why a live meetup? The Litnerd Reading Club is a <i>community</i> experience with a weekly meetup (if you miss the weekly meetup, you miss out on a lot of Litcoin earning potential). This ensures kids using the app feel like they are in a classroom or pod experience. Each child is entered into a cohort when they enroll, and each week your child will meet virtually with other kids in their cohort and discuss the book they are reading with our special guest (which might be the author of the book, an actor from the movie adaptation of the book, a literacy coach, etc). Here is a video to show what happens in these cohort sessions: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOcybwyGelo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOcybwyGelo</a><p>We have so much more to build out our version of the Primer from Diamond Age and inspire millions of kids, just like Nell, to fall in love with learning. We are working on turning the entire app into a game-ux interface, where kids can explore different cities in the app and read books/go through materials at their own pace and that the app will adapt to their interests. We also have our eye on adding other subjects and older grades in the future.<p>As always, I would love to hear your thoughts and ideas on how you foster reading amongst your children! I am excited to hear your feedback and ideas to help us inspire the next generation of readers.
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Title: Hey HN<p>We made a site that let's anyone measure the forever chemicals in their blood with the gold standard LC-MS/MS blood serum test at Quest Diagnostics.<p>If you're a firefighter, plant worker, planning to become pregnant or just someone who lives in an area with contaminated drinking water, check it out.<p>I live in Santa Cruz. Here are my results:<p>My lab findings: <a href="https://res.cloudinary.com/mpsh87/image/upload/v1687923285/lab_results_redacted_final_e28vh4.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://res.cloudinary.com/mpsh87/image/upload/v1687923285/l...</a><p>My total PFAS calculation: <a href="https://res.cloudinary.com/mpsh87/image/upload/v1687923482/pfas_report_calculator_ntal6v.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://res.cloudinary.com/mpsh87/image/upload/v1687923482/p...</a><p>NASEM clinical recommendations based on Total PFAS: <a href="https://res.cloudinary.com/mpsh87/image/upload/c_scale,dpr_2.0,h_1200/v1687923501/NASEM_clinical_recommendations_stcvq9.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://res.cloudinary.com/mpsh87/image/upload/c_scale,dpr_2...</a><p>The goal is to be under 2 ng/mL. I'm 10.86.<p>Honestly I was a bit surprised by my result and am currently deciding what to do next.<p>There's some research out of Australia indicating blood donation/phlebotomy is effective at removing it (<a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2790905" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...</a>) from the body. Fluorochemicals seem to bind to the albumin in the blood. I might try that.<p>Right now the site only works at Quest locations in California, but we're looking to expand to other states soon.<p>If you're local, the site is live and you can order the test right now. Results are currently taking between 11 and 18 days.<p>Thanks for reading my post.
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Title: Hello HN,<p>We’d like to show you our project — Nohooks[0]. The aim is to add webhooks to platforms that do not natively support webhooks. We really believe many APIs can provide a better developer experience by providing webhook notifications to enable us to automate more things.<p>Nohooks works by intelligently polling the integrated platform's APIs, determining if a change has occurred, and generating webhook events. Nohooks currently supports webhooks from Notion’s Databases, Render’s Services & Deployments, and DigitalOcean’s Droplets. We will add more in the coming days and improve the types of events/payloads generated to enable new workflows that were previously impossible or difficult to achieve. It uses Convoy[1] to power its webhooks delivery and debugging dashboard.<p>We welcome you to try it out and give us your feedback — what platform would you love to have webhooks for that doesn’t currently exist? What webhooks best practices would you like to see implemented?<p>[0]<a href="https://nohooks.io" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://nohooks.io</a><p>[1]<a href="https://github.com/frain-dev/convoy">https://github.com/frain-dev/convoy</a>
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Title: Hey HN! We're Parth and Faza and we'd like to introduce you to Gitopia - <a href="https://gitopia.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://gitopia.com/</a>.
Our vision with Gitopia is to create a decentralized platform for open-source code collaboration that is both resilient against censorship and promotes free exchange of ideas. To make this vision a reality, we've developed tools that foster community-led governance and incentivize active participation.<p>Our journey into the open-source world started with Google Summer of Code, where we contributed to syslog-ng and GDAL, respectively. It was a transformative experience that truly highlighted the value of open-source development to us.<p>During the pandemic, we participated in an Arweave hackathon hosted on Gitcoin. It was here that our initial project, Dgit - <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201029162838/https://dgit.sh/#/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://web.archive.org/web/20201029162838/https://dgit.sh/#...</a>, took form. This sparked the idea of a decentralized code collaboration platform and set us on the path towards what we now call Gitopia - a 'utopia' for open-source collaboration.<p>One of our guiding principles while developing Gitopia has been to maintain familiarity for users. To achieve this, we designed Gitopia to work directly with the git CLI and incorporated Gitopia's git remote helper - <a href="https://docs.gitopia.com/git-remote-gitopia" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.gitopia.com/git-remote-gitopia</a>, that allows git to understand our custom transport protocol. This integration ensures that you can continue using the git commands you use daily, thereby offering a decentralized experience that doesn't disrupt your existing workflow.<p>Making the transition easier, we have also released a GitHub action, gitopia-mirror-action: <a href="https://github.com/marketplace/actions/gitopia-mirror-action">https://github.com/marketplace/actions/gitopia-mirror-action</a>, that mirrors your repositories from GitHub to Gitopia. Each commit is backed up on IPFS, Filecoin, and Arweave, safeguarding your code against censorship and eliminating single points of failure. A basic search feature is also enabled on Gitopia using the graph protocol.<p>We recognize the challenges in the open-source community around lack of incentivization. Developers often find themselves contributing their time and skills for free, leading to potential burnout. To combat this, we have implemented bounties, allowing contributors to earn rewards when their PRs get merged. We encourage you to contribute and get involved with the bounties open in various Gitopia repositories.<p>- gitopia-web: <a href="https://gitopia.com/Gitopia/gitopia-web/issues" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://gitopia.com/Gitopia/gitopia-web/issues</a><p>- gitopia chain: <a href="https://gitopia.com/Gitopia/gitopia/issues" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://gitopia.com/Gitopia/gitopia/issues</a><p>- git-remote-gitopia: <a href="https://gitopia.com/Gitopia/git-remote-gitopia/issues" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://gitopia.com/Gitopia/git-remote-gitopia/issues</a><p>Gitopia introduces a utility token, $LORE, which plays a crucial role in our platform. $LORE not only incentivizes open-source maintainers and contributors but also empowers the community to participate in platform governance via proposals. You can find more details about our token model here - <a href="https://blog.gitopia.com/post/2023/03/lore-token-model/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://blog.gitopia.com/post/2023/03/lore-token-model/</a><p>The journey towards building Gitopia is ongoing, and there are exciting features in our pipeline:<p>- Activity feed<p>- Improve search ranking<p>- CI/CD workflows<p>- DAO workflows<p>We're also actively working on tackling challenges in platform moderation, reducing maintainer fatigue, improving platform governance, and enhancing discovery on the platform.
We invite you to try out Gitopia - <a href="https://gitopia.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://gitopia.com</a> and share your feedback, ideas or suggestions. Please comment here or reach out to us at hi [at] gitopia.org. We look forward to hearing from you!<p>Helpful links:<p>Documentation: <a href="https://docs.gitopia.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.gitopia.com/</a>
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Title: Eight days ago, PayPal broke their Buy Now buttons ^[1] for customers who sell electronic goods (i.e. who don't collect shipping addresses).<p>The error is because they use `eval()` in their JavaScript, which browsers block. So far, they have been unable to fix the issue.<p>If you are a PayPal merchant using a payment button who sells digital goods, this might be why your payments stopped over a week ago. PayPal support is mostly unhelpful.<p>A workaround purported in the community forum is to start collecting a shipping address, and set the shipping rate to 0.00.<p>[1]: https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/PayPal-Payments-Standard/Complete-Purchase-Button-failing/td-p/3073625
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Title: A few days back, I logged into my 2 year old Yahoo Mail account, which I hadn't opened in the last 1.5 years.<p>Today, my account was "reactivated" and I was greeted by the following email:<p>> Dear USER,<p>> We’re so glad to see you’re back! Due to inactivity, your mailbox entered an inactive state. This means we stopped accepting your incoming emails. If your period of inactivity was long enough, we also deleted all of your emails. Now that you’ve signed back in, your mailbox has been reactivated and you will start receiving new emails again shortly. For more information, please visit the Yahoo Mail policy page at: https://en-global.help.yahoo.com/kb/mail/SLN2018.html<p>Rest of my inbox was empty and I've lost some important emails (I only used this email for some legal matters 2 years ago).<p>A word of caution to all, set up a reminder to logon to your dormant email addresses every few weeks.
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Title: It works on top of the open-source workflow engine windmill [1] that you can easily self-host on a tiny server or a large k8s cluster.<p>You will also need pgvector (here hosted on supabase) and of course a GPT4 api key.<p>It showcases an approval step so that you only provide answers you are confident giving to your users, which feels less robotic.<p>All the building blocks are scripts that you can reuse outside of windmill and you could build this in any other workflow engines (although less conveniently).<p>We use it for our own needs on discord [2] and thoughts this was a common need for any product having community support on slack or discord.<p>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill">https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://discord.com/invite/V7PM2YHsPB" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://discord.com/invite/V7PM2YHsPB</a>
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Title: I have 0 interest in using ChatGPT, Github's Copilot, or any other AI coding tool.<p>I have a hard enough time using and trusting snippet engines or doing due diligence in implementing a solution I find on stack overflow.<p>Roughly 30% of developers in the 2023 stack overflow survey responded the same way which is the minority and I would guess will shrink every year https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-sentiment-and-usage-ai-tools-in-the-development-process
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Title: Not loading for me at all, but status page shows green across the board.
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Title: Hi!<p>I've been a Software Engineer at a medium sized Canadian company for almost 4 years now. It was my first job out of university. The work is backend application development for the company's platform. While the work can be interesting at times, I feel like I don't enjoy it anymore. I want to switch into a new software engineering domain that isn't as high-level. I'm fine with switching to any other field, I'm just don't know how to properly make that transition in a way that would allow me to get a job.<p>Currently, I've been doing some personal projects in computer graphics, and I've always enjoyed C programming (I was a TA for my systems programming course in undergrad). I also just completed my Masters in Computer Science.<p>Despite this, I'm having trouble applying for jobs. I usually don't meet any of the requirements, as I don't have actual work experience that the job description expects. And when I do apply, I get rejected before an interview.<p>For those who have switched domains, any advice on how to go about this transition?
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Title: Saw there was an update for 1Password on Mac, and accepted the update. After it restarted, and I logged in, a banner said:<p>"Some changes could not be synced with your other devices. View Offline Items"<p>Clicking on View Offline Items crashed the app a few times, but eventually after some tries now shows Offline Items.<p>I have no other devices and there are now a number of (old) items in the Offline Items section. That section did not exist (for me) before.<p>These are logins created months ago, so I wonder if they were never synced, or what is broken now. In any case, it seems its gotten itself into a bad state and cannot sync properly any more.
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Title: Is there an Android phone available that comes without any pre-installed bloatware, offers long-term support, and ensures access to the latest Android versions?
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Title: I'm doing embarrassingly parallel simulations (think Monte Carlo runs of a legacy scientific binary) and am trying to find the cheapest possible host source of x86 compute, at scale. These are jobs that are single-threaded, use maybe 2-4GB of ram, last an hour, and can be checkpointed if necessary. A c5.18xlarge on AWS has 36 physical (real) cores and on the spot market is $0.74/hr which works out to $0.02/core-hour. Does anyone know of cheaper options?
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Title: I'm trying to access a Twitter profile as a logged-out user.<p>Previously I would have been able to see tweets and other information. Now I'm being redirected to a login page.<p>For example, try this in incognito / private browsing mode:<p>https://twitter.com/nasaearth?lang=en
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Title: Hi, I have a really chill job at the moment, but I'm underpaid. I know I could make twice as more, I was even recently contacted for a job paying 3 times more.(I would have tried if it didn't require relocation)<p>I'm looking for a new job, but I don't know if I should aim for a really high salary, depending on how much more work I'll have to put in.<p>So I'm wondering about your experience, how many hours do you put in weekly or monthly/salary after of before taxes/location/job title/experience?
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Title: Not once.<p>I don't care how hard you worked on it, I don't care how many web technologies you abused to get it working, I don't care how many hits or views or conversions or whatchamacallits it got for you.<p>If I visit your website and I see a scrolljacking, window-breaking, bandwidth hogging accessibility nightmare, I'm either going to force it to open in Safari Reader or leave entirely.<p>No content is worth this crap.
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Title: Like many others, they just permanently damaged our platform by closing our account without notice. It's plain sad considering how much we've worked on it — for more than 2 years as a team of 2 college students.<p>Despite seeing these kinds of posts on HN every week, we mistakingly thought taking extra care of our account and forming our company under Stripe Atlas would at least help us survive until we got big enough. Also, some part of us thought – "Clearly, these people must have done <i>something</i> wrong. Stripe wouldn't be this aggressive. They are terrific for entrepreneurs after all!" We were dead wrong.<p>The truly insane part about it is that we had no issues with *anyone*: no complaints, no chargebacks, no anything. We went further by regularly checking purchases and manually refunding suspicious sales, which happened once when someone started card testing and we stopped it immediately — we also kept Stripe updated at every step, and they told us that they were impressed with how we handled it and that someone would contact us about the matter. With all that said, these shouldn't even matter because we are so new and small as a company that nearly all our paying customers are our friends & family.<p>What's even better is how they permanently damaged our brand by sending the same email about our account's closure due to "unauthorized charges" to our Connect users/sellers.<p>I just cannot help but feel like they are simply doing a summer cleanup, removing low revenue companies that might be making them lose a few bucks.<p>We contacted support 3 times, yet the answer is always the same automated "We still think your account is high risk" nonsense — even though we've had less than 100 transactions this year, all cleared up by the IRS & Cleer Tax.<p>Honestly, it's like they don't even want to find a solution since when we offered to axe a whole part of our service, just to be "low risk" and comply with their demands (that we were guessing as they just won't tell us), they again replied with the automated message.<p>We were baffled by how we were cut off without a single warning and without reason. The only plausible move seems to take legal action to at least get some answers?
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Title: Tabserve gives you a https url for localhost using only the browser (tabserve.dev).<p>Take a look:
<a href="https://tabserve.dev" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://tabserve.dev</a>
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Title: I was actively using the app on my phone and it suddenly crashed at 4:10pm PDT. I thought it was just my phone acting up but then I realized that’s about 12am UTC. With the death of Apollo also goes the metaphorical death of all the best parts (IMO) of the internet: open-source, creativity, entrepreneurial spirit. Sad day. I guess I’ll go outside now.<p>Edit: sorry, Apollo wasn’t open source. That’s what happens when I make a post while two beers deep I guess. Hopefully you get the general spirit of what I was trying to convey.
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Title: Okay, so I was browsing Twitter on my phone and then suddenly, tweets stopped loading. I thought it was the app acting up, so I copied the link to the tweet I was reading and opened it in my mobile browser.<p>Everything worked fine for like 10 minutes until, the tweets stopped loading (again) and now there is a messageplastered on the screen saying that I am rate-limited. What? I don't even tweet that much. In fact, I cannot even remember the last time I tweeted. Is anyone else experiencing this?
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Title: Elon Musk:<p>"To address extreme level of data scraping & system manipulation, we've applied the following temporary limits:<p>- Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day<p>- Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day<p>- New unverified accounts to 300/day"<p>Source: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fz94eReWYAEhkHS?format=png&name=900x900<p>Source (backup): https://i.imgur.com/WvwtHez.png
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Title: Hello everyone, I am from China. In 2019, I was sentenced to three and a half years in prison for providing VPN services (to access foreign websites). The charge was "providing hacker tools". I have just been released from jail, and I want to tell you that many people in China are currently being sentenced for this. There is no freedom in China.
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Title: This is a question I've often wondered, and am perhaps asking now out of sheer frustration. I have ADHD, of which my particular 'mutation' of ADHD makes it difficult to read and absorb written text.<p>I'm not afraid of programming in general, being a data analyst by trade I often use Python and SQL in my day job. I've trained on Java, and C# (though admittedly with some difficulty) and had dabbled in Delphi (Object Pascal) and Visual Basic as a little girl so the concept of programming isn't new to me. Perhaps the 'low-level-nes' of Rust, a language I would love to learn, is new to me which is perhaps one of the reasons I'm having some trouble understanding it.<p>I'm struggling with heavy implementations of symbols, and perhaps 'shorthand' reserved keywords in languages like Rust, C++ and to some extent JavaScript; I find they aren't as readable as 'higher level' languages like Python.<p>Given that Rust is one of the newer languages on the block, Python is 21 years it's senior, was the syntax of Rust determined by performance factors or because of it's 'low-level-ness'? Are languages like Python and SQL more legible because they're interpreted and compiled into bytecode, rather than just compiled into specific machine code? Or is it purely a decision of the language's developer?<p>This question is focused on Rust specifically, given that's a newer language, perhaps wondering why it didn't adopt some of the design principles of easier to read languages, though I am certainly not singling it out. Are there ADHD friendly tutorials/books on Rust?
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Title: I have a book gift card for a 100€, on Amazon. Looking for inspiration?<p>Circle of interest : Programming languages, [Symbolic] Logic, algorithms in general sense<p>Circle of non-interest : AI & machine learning, video games programming
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Title: script is a text editor powering truly digital documents recently launched. Feel free to play with and share your feedback.
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Title: Welcome to Project S.A.T.U.R.D.A.Y. This is a project that allows anyone to easily build their own self-hosted J.A.R.V.I.S-like voice assistant. In my mind vocal computing is the future of human-computer interaction and by open sourcing this code I hope to expedite us on that path.<p>I have had a blast working on this so far and I'm excited to continue to build with it. It uses whisper.cpp [1], Coqui TTS [2] and OpenAI [3] to do speech-to-text, text-to-text and text-to-speech inference all 100% locally (except for text-to-text). In the future I plan to swap out OpenAI for llama.cpp [4]. It is built on top of WebRTC as the media transmission layer which will allow this technology to be deployed anywhere as it does not rely on any native or 3rd party APIs.<p>The purpose of this project is to be a toolbox for vocal computing. It provides high-level abstractions for dealing with speech-to-text, text-to-text and text-to-speech tasks. The tools remain decoupled from underlying AI models allowing for quick and easy upgrades when new technology is realeased. The main demo for this project is a J.A.R.V.I.S-like assistant however this is meant to be used for a wide variety of use cases.<p>In the coming months I plan to continue to build (hopefully with some of you) on top of this project in order to refine the abstraction level and better understand the kinds of tools required. I hope to build a community of like-minded individuals who want to see J.A.R.V.I.S finally come to life! If you are interested in vocal computing come join the Discord server and build with us! Hope to see you there :)<p>Video demo: <a href="https://youtu.be/xqEQSw2Wq54" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://youtu.be/xqEQSw2Wq54</a><p>[1] whisper.cpp: <a href="https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp">https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp</a><p>[2] Coqui TTS: <a href="https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS">https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS</a><p>[3] OpenAI: <a href="https://openai.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://openai.com/</a><p>[4] llama.cpp: <a href="https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp">https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp</a>
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Title: The canonical advice from PG was to always have the .com (or be able to get it) for your business.<p>There just aren't that many .coms available at this point. My personal use case is just a basic portfolio site. However curious about the broader community thoughts on this. Also, notable concerns for me are:<p>- SEO<p>- Email/Email Validation<p>- Price: Hip .io & .ai domains are 10x the cost if .com ($5-$10 vs. $50-$100 a year)<p>- General frustration with squatters (not solution oriented on this one, just venting)
Upvote: | 42 |
Title: I recently spoke with a friend who is not in the tech space and he hadn’t even heard of ChatGPT. He’s a millennial & a white collar worker and smart. I have had conversations with non-tech people about ChatGPT/AI, but not very frequently, which led me to think, are we just in an echo chamber? Not that this would be a bad thing, as we’re all quite aware that AI will play an increasing role in our lives (in & out of the office), but maybe AI mainstream adoption will take longer than we anticipate. What do you think?
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Title: Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:<p><pre><code> Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
</code></pre>
Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities.
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Title: Please state the location and include REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA
when that sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is <i>not</i> an option,
include ONSITE.<p>Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no
recruiting firms or job boards. One post per company. If it isn't a household name,
explain what your company does.<p>Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about
something. It's off topic here.<p>Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.<p>Searchers: try <a href="https://hnhired.fly.dev" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://hnhired.fly.dev</a>, <a href="https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/</a>,
<a href="https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com</a>, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519</a>.<p>Don't miss these other fine threads:<p><i>Who wants to be hired?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36573869">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36573869</a><p><i>Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36573870">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36573870</a>
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Title: There are existing HN job aggregators, but I thought we could take it a step further.
Inspired by an insightful comment on a previous thread (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36163021">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36163021</a>), I built a tool that aggregates job postings and intelligently categorizes them based on user-specific preferences:<p>* Country and remote work preferences<p>* Employer type (e.g., startup, corporation, government)<p>* Industry<p>* Technologies used<p>* Role type (developer, architect, product owner, etc.)<p>* Salary range (where available)<p>One of the superpowers of LLMs is reformatting information from any format X to any other format Y.
We leverage this to map all the unstructured job postings into the same unified structure. The new GPT functions feature and the extended context windows are really helpful for this.
Instead of having to build a custom NER pipeline, it works very well with GPT out-of-the box.<p>One challenge is keeping the filters consistent and merging of duplicates. Embeddings help with that.<p>What's next:<p>* Integrate additional sources. We can generate web scrapers and data processing steps on the fly that extract and transform data into the same structure.<p>* Add location distance filters.<p>* Expand beyond jobs to monitor personalized data like events or real estate. Imagine using AI to rate local events from multiple sources based on your preferences, considering factors like your interests and distance from home.<p>* Smaller improvements based on your feedback :)
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Title: I'm interested primarily in serious work -- books and papers -- probably by technology history professors and the like, but pop books are fine, too.<p>Thanks.
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Title: Hello HN,<p>I’m planning to build a product but how can i perform market research related to the product<p>Let’s say I’m launching a product for restaurant owners helping them ease some their operations for example here’s my idea.<p>I see a problem with restaurants keeping their menus up to date on delivery apps or even online sometimes and some restaurants aren’t tech savy so how about I build a simple product which can help ease this and help them easily update menu and publish them on all platforms<p>Also I want to thank everyone for commenting on this post as I have been reading each one of them and each comment is useful for me
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Title: One of my pet peeves is when people specify a temperature in "degrees" when it’s not clear from the context which scale is being used. I always want to ask “degrees what?”<p>So I made this little conversion tool that uses degrees angle to convert between degrees Fahrenheit and degrees Celsius.<p>Tip: you can add a number in a query to link directly to a temperature. e.g. <a href="https://degreeswhat.com/?100" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://degreeswhat.com/?100</a>
Upvote: | 171 |
Title: Amidst the sea of software startups, I'm keen to learn who in our community is braving the often-quoted "hardware is hard" mantra. Whether you're working on IoT, robotics, consumer electronics, or something completely off the wall, please feel free to share below.<p>Remember, no venture is too small or niche! It's the passion and innovation that counts.
Upvote: | 509 |
Title: When working remotely, sometimes I find myself at the end of the day and see that I did nothing today for my software engineering work. Does it happen to you too? What do you say the next morning in the daily meeting to your manager, do you say honestly or come up with something?
Upvote: | 49 |
Title: When anyone starts out in a new craft, even after grasping the fundamentals of the tools they are quite shaky and low on confidence until they have a significant experience in doing something that ultimately ramps up their confidence in their craftsmanship.<p>Similar things happen with novice programmers when they start out.<p>Then they read a beautiful codebase which they can fully understand and replicate, or build a project from scratch, or read a book or take a class on a subject. And their confidence is tremendously boosted thereafter.<p>What was it for you? How did you gain this confidence to take the first step from being a tinkerer to being a skilled craftman?
Upvote: | 211 |
Title: <p><pre><code> from flask import Flask
import requests
app = Flask(__name__)
@app.route('/<path:url>')
def proxy(url):
return requests.get(f'https://twitter.com/{url}', headers={'User-Agent': 'Googlebot'}).text
if __name__ == '__main__':
app.run()</code></pre>
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Title: A while ago I discovered three.js, a JavaScript library to manipulate 3D objects. It looked really interesting, but I had no real need for it...<p>To change that I recently challenged myself to make one 3D web game per month with three.js. And I just release game #2, a puzzle game called Cuboid, and you can try it here: <a href="https://www.thomasfriday.com/cuboid/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.thomasfriday.com/cuboid/</a><p>Please let me know if you have any questions or feedback. Thanks!
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Title: Allows you to "pause" a shell pipeline to interactively select a subset of lines to proceed with. I've always wanted a tool like this, as it effectively combines the best of shell pipes (easy to automate) and visual file managers (easy to make selections). Now that I have it I can't believe a tool like this is not already part of the standard set of shell utilities. There are so many situations where it is useful.<p>Tested on Linux but should also work on MacOS.<p>Also: please help me come up with a better name!
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Title: I saw this [0] pretty cool thread by user revskill, and wanted a quicker way to search through it, but also to keep them all in one place so I can read them at my leisure whenever I get time.<p>Right now is like 60 lines of Ruby using Nokogiri, but I will certainly look into it further down the line and improve the list.<p>There's a cronjob checking the thread every 12 hours but I will eventually shut that down and it will become static after that.<p>There are some really awesome blogs in there. I really recommend going through the list, it made my day.<p>[0] "Could you share your personal blog here". <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081</a>
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Title: This is a neat trick I've used to write self-extracting software or scripts that extract files from archives by just using<p><pre><code> tail -c <number of bytes for the binary> $0
</code></pre>
All you have to do is make sure you append an explicit 'exit' to the end of your program before your new 'data section', so that bash won't parse any of the 'data section'.<p>One thing to bear in mind is that if you append binary data, it will be corrupted if you save it in most text editors so when I want to make changes I just delete all the binary and reappend it.
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Title: Its acquirer (Bending Spoons) has taken over operations. They’ve also hiked subscriptions prices and told customers they intend to use new revenues to pay for new features. How they intend to do that without any staff is something I would like to know about.<p>If you’re still using Evernote, probably a good time to stop.
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Title: Like others on here, I was inspired by the "personal blogs" post :)<p>[0] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081</a><p>In proper HN fashion, the site is open-source and requires no JS!<p>There's instructions on how to add/edit a blog on the Github README.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/surprisetalk/blogs.hn">https://github.com/surprisetalk/blogs.hn</a><p>Note that your blog might appear in blogs.json, but not on the site! Right now I'm using the following code to filter out blogs. Your blog might appear if you add more metadata:<p><pre><code> if (
3 > 0
+ !!blog.title
+ (blog.desc.length > 40)
+ !!blog.about
+ !!blog.now
+ !!blog.feed
+ 3 * (blog.hn.length > 1)
)
continue;
</code></pre>
As I mention on the /about page, if you don't already have a blog, I recently made a minimal static site generator! It's easier than ever to begin your writing journey :)<p>[2] <a href="https://github.com/surprisetalk/worstpress">https://github.com/surprisetalk/worstpress</a>
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Title: I've been a developer for entire 15 years career.<p>Used to enjoy but no more. Very difficult to tolerate the work. Every day is mental pain as I get older and younger folks are above me. It feels undignified, humiliating at times.<p>Stagnant in my current job for 6 years. No promotion opportunities. No motivation for the interview process.<p>Feels like i'm driving at 70km/hr towards a brick wall. Not close enough to panic. But no forks in the road also.<p>Can I leverage my experience (i think i have a lot..) to move into a management role when i don't have any job experience in that role?<p>Should I just lie on my resume?<p>Thanks
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Title: I am collecting my favorite internet rabbit holes on my website (https://ph-uhl.com/links/internet-rabbit-holes/) and went through my old lists but I think I lost a few of the good ones.<p>So I was wandering, what are your favorites? The stuff that you loose a night to, when finding it?
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Title: I made an app for music producers to tease their music in a fancy way. Something that looks better than this: <a href="https://twitter.com/eprombeats/status/1647072160547246081" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://twitter.com/eprombeats/status/1647072160547246081</a>
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Title: Howdy HN, as part of my ongoing programming language experiments I've ended up creating my own C++20 lexing and parsing library of sorts.<p>Matcheroni is an alternative to parser generators and regular expressions that uses trees of C++ templates to implement highly customizable lexers and parsers that have minimal impact on build times or binary sizes, while still remaining comparable in performance to Boost regular expressions.<p>The repo includes two example projects - a simple regex parser in ~300 heavily documented lines of code, and a much larger but not quite finished C99 lexer and parser.<p>All feedback appreciated!
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Title: After hearing the news I think it’s finally time to move on, or at least backup my data.<p>There’s a few export options and 3rd party tools. Any have any recommendations?
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Title: I buy a lot of books from Amazon (EU). Recently, more and more of the books I received were printed by Amazon themselves with the message "Printed in Poland by Amazon Fulfillment" on the last page.<p>They are of decent quality, though sometimes the cover art might be lower-resolution than that of an equivalent book from a bookshop. I double checked and all of these were sold by Amazon themselves (i.e., not a marketplace seller, where I would suspect a piracy issue). The cover material is always this unpleasant matte rough-feeling paper.<p>Is there anything nefarious going on here? Does Amazon have permission from the publishers to distribute their books like this? The books that I received were of different publishers (Penguin, Basic Books, among others).
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Title: With the use of asset management software, iCloud accounts pose an issue for me.<p>If you receive a Mac from work, often times it requires an iCloud account. If you for example, want to respond to iMessages, or listen to your Music, you would have to login with your personal account.<p>If you were to create a separate iCloud account, then you will basically need to have two subscriptions for Music for example. And different ids you are contactable at.<p>In addition, assuming that they don't need to do password entry, an admin could view some contents of your iCloud account.<p>Is there a solution to this that might not be commonly known? Does this actually require me to have a separate iCloud account for work and home, and a separate Mac for work and home?<p>I understand that Apple are releasing a work and home mode for safari to help with some of this personal usage, but I think it is an issue, and a waste for people to maintain multiple iCloud accounts, purchase multiple machines, and have notes and other materials scattered across machines and accounts. At the same time, the company has an interest to be able to update or wipe the machine in case of security issues.<p>Would appreciate your opinions.
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Title: Why are there no startups in the real estate construction sector?
It is a highly profitable business and yet there are no startups involved in constructing building, although the secondary works related to construction like B2B market place for construction materials or layout designing softwares startups are there but no startup is primary associated with real estate construction.
If there are any , please let me know!
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Title: I have been working on this game somewhat sparsely for the past three years or so. However, it is still in a very early stage, and there is a lot of work to do.<p>One of my friends encouraged me to post about it here, since he felt people might find interesting how I don’t use any libraries for it.<p>The game can be played on a browser by virtue of WebAssembly. There are native ports using either MiniFB or SDL2, but you have to build those yourself.<p>I decided to write the game in C because I feel like it is a simple language that a lot of people can understand well enough, and I didn’t think I needed anything more involved or complicated.<p>Over time, the game’s code became complicated, and I decided to use advanced features such as coroutines and higher order procedures, besides general overly engineered abstractions.<p>But then, over time I grew to feel like a lot of those abstractions didn’t really add anything to it, and just made it more complicated (and oftentimes more buggy) than it really needed to be, so a few weeks ago, I made a significant refactoring to it to remove all of those abstractions without removing almost any features from the game.<p>Milestones are released effectively whenever I get the game’s code to a decently presentable state. Sometimes, this means there are a lot of changes and big refactorings, but sometimes it means there are only a few small changes.<p>The game uses a simple 2D model system to generate images for the character’s animations dynamically during initialisation. (The source code can be browsed using a web browser on its page.)<p>The character can be controlled using the arrow keys or “WASD” (“A” and “D”) (double-tap a direction to jump).
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Title: Before I was laid off, I'd been working on a side project and had been looking for an excuse to quit my job to commit to it fully. I have quite a lot saved, and now I can survive off severance alone for over a year.<p>My fear is that should I return to the job market, I'll look like I'm trying to cover up a long period of unemployment on my resume. Employers would see that I only committed to this project after being laid off.<p>At any rate, it wouldn't be much of a handicap signal.
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Title: Hi HN, this paper is my first proper academic publication, it's on arxiv only for now--this is a pre-print--but is being considered for publication by peer-reviewed journals concurrently. Open-access journals, of course.<p>I'm totally disinterested in tenure or academic recognition. For my goals being a Stanford dropout is better than any other amount of academic recognition. So i don't care about journals uh prestige numbers the impact factors i know that term but anything paywalled is bad for what i do care about, which is my business, fgemm. Means Fast/Faster/Fastest GEneral Matrix-Matrix multiplication. gemm is an acronym already used in BLAS libraries, Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms, which is what most of the time n money spent on ML goes to.<p>I'm going to be available to answer questions insofar as i can.
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Title: Dear Tim,<p>I've been thinking about this letter for a while now.<p>There was a time (an eternity in IT age) where you did a lot for Perl and I thank you so much for this<p>But time passed and Perl has lost its value to your eyes.<p>Thanks to you Perl inherited a logo: the camel
But because of you, Perl actually never had a logo at all<p>Over the years, you never ever made the Perl camel open enough for us (Perl community) to freely use or modify.
Consequently, we are in a very uncomfortable position.<p>Let's just use a new logo, what's the point?<p>No, it's not that simple and we were never able to achieve this.<p>As of today, we are torn between:<p>- Your camel that we are not allowed to use<p>- A shadowed camel derived from your camel, still problematic even if it's de facto used everywhere<p>- An onion that is not Perl but foundation logo (and not even free to use/modify)<p>- A raptor that some people don't like or don't recognize well the association<p>- Various other attempts<p>It's a long standing problem with numerous discussions, attempts and continuous frustrations for us.<p>Now, the thing is, only YOU can fix this<p>And it's time.<p>So I'm asking solemnly, free the Perl camel!
And do it with a nice and clear license.<p>#FreeThePerlCamel<p>Please.<p>Thibault<p>Notes: it was sent to [email protected], I don't have an answer yet
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Title: In my quest for finding high yield dividend stocks, I've noticed there isn't really a good tool for finding such stocks (that I can find, anyway), only pay-walled sites that are confusing and inaccessible. This little project seeks to remedy that.<p>I'm sharing this in the hopes that you'll find it useful, but also to get feedback, in particular, about monetizing. While I built this to be useful, I would like to make some money on it, so if you have any recommendations, I'm all eyeballs. I fear I may have to resort to advertisements to keep the barrier to entry low.
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Title: Environment, people, technology are changing rapidly. What are some worthwhile problems or ideas that you think would be important to solve or work on by end of the decade.
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Title: I guess most of them still have some runway left with the VC or ICO money they raised. How is it to work at such a place after the hype and after the sentiment turned negative?
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Title: I noticed it just now in my status page. I'm fairly convinced it wasn't there last time I viewed it.<p>It's a useful addition, if only to check occasionally that I haven't mistakenly flagged a comment or a submission.
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