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Title: Hello Hacker News! We're Yangqing, Xiang and JJ from lepton.ai. We are building a platform to run any AI models as easy as writing local code, and to get your favorite models in minutes. It's like container for AI, but without the hassle of actually building a docker image.<p>We built and contributed to some of the world's most popular AI software - PyTorch 1.0, ONNX, Caffe, etcd, Kubernetes, etc. We also managed hundreds of thousands of computers in our previous jobs. And we found that the AI software stack is usually unnecessarily complex - and we want to change that.<p>Imagine if you are a developer who sees a good model on github, or HuggingFace. To make it a production ready service, the current solution usually requires you to build a docker image. But think about it - I have a few python code and a few python dependencies. That sounds like a huge overhead, right?<p>lepton.ai is really a pythonic way to free you from such difficulties. You write a simple python scaffold around your PyTorch / TensorFlow code, and lepton launches it as a full-fledged service callable via python, javascript, or any language that understands OpenAPI. We use containers under the hood, but you don't need to worry about all the infrastructure nuts and bolts.<p>One of the biggest challenge in AI is that it's really "all-stack": in addition to a plethora of models, AI applications usually involves GPUs, cloud infra, web services, DevOps, and SysOps. But we want you to focus on your job - and we take care of the rest "boring but essential" work.<p>We're really excited we get to show this to you all! Please let us know your thoughts and questions in the comments.
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Title: Hey HN! We’re Ioannis & Zaf, building Algora.io to help OSS projects reward their contributors & grow their communities.<p>1 min demo: <a href="https://twitter.com/algoraio/status/1641560954746839042" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://twitter.com/algoraio/status/1641560954746839042</a><p>The context: contributing to open source helps developers gain experience, grow their networks & land jobs while helping maintainers ship product updates and push their projects forward for the whole community<p>The problem: there's too much work to be done in open source and not enough people contributing. Introducing payments can make contributing more accessible & benefit both sides, however today paid open source is scarce, low trust & high friction<p>Our solution: we built an app that streamlines open source bounties on Github<p>To date, OSS projects on the plaftorm have awarded $65,785 (600 bounties) to 188 contributors from 48 countries<p>Right now, 43 OSS projects (mainly Typescript, Rust & Scala) have made 242 bounties ($46,899) available to solve<p>To create bounties in your project, simply register, install our app in your repo(s) and use the /bounty command on issues<p>To solve bounties, submit a PR including the /claim command & connect with Stripe/Alipay to receive payouts<p>We also started a COSS founder podcast to share lessons & advice for building open source companies: <a href="https://youtube.com/@algora-io">https://youtube.com/@algora-io</a><p>We think it's now a great time to welcome new contributors & maintainers on the Algora platform - happy Hacktoberfest!<p>We are really excited to hear your feedback/questions and connect further: our emails are ioannis@algora.io & zafer@algora.io<p>Thank you!
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Title: Been having a lot of fun reading an SC2Replay collection through nom parsers, serializing into Arrow files so that pola.rs can read them and perform data analysis with jupyter lab, plotly or interact with SQL operations, etc.
Looking for feedback and ideas on what to progress on.
For example, "through history, are my timings getting better?". etc. Also would love to have ideas on what libraries to use to perform forecasting.
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Title: Not much more to say than the title. I enabled ModHeader to test something a couple days ago and started noticing the same add showing up in the sidebar on both Google and Bing. I keep a constant vigilance with uBlock Origin and denying all 3rd party cookies.<p>Since that was the only extension I've modified recently, I disabled it and refreshed a search page and voila, the ad is gone.
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Title: I'm excited to introduce my own developed Markdown editor to everyone. It's built on the Monaco editor and designed specifically for developers. This editor integrates various features such as document management, resource management, and MDX extensions. You can embed images, audio, video, and even use plugins like drawing tools, calendars, and cards to showcase your creativity. What's even more thrilling is that it allows users to customize PostgreSQL table structures, insert and display data in Markdown documents, and even collect form submissions.<p>My original intention in design was to use MDX to describe pages (with limited differentiation), and utilize low-code building tools to present and collect data. This way, users can use simple text to describe individual web pages and aggregate multiple web pages into their site.<p>Now, it has completed a portion of the work; for instance, the blog on my official website is self-generated using this method.<p>However, most users should use it as a markdown editor with extension components. I'm not sure how to better describe my vision. I really hope that you are interested in trying it out and providing suggestions.
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Title: I can see the Faraday cage in my microwave. It's never cooked anything outside of it. But if I put my phone on one side of it and a Bluetooth speaker on the other, running it interrupts the connection to the speaker. Sound gets through but it's choppy.<p>Seems bad, right?
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Title: Hello all<p>To preface this is just something I've been making as a learning exercise, so all feedback is appreciated.<p>This is a tool that converts JSON schemas into TypeScript utility classes for use in Deno.<p>Automatic Type Generation: Typescript interfaces for the compressed and uncompressed versions of your data.<p>Compression & Decompression: Compress and decompress your data.<p>Validation: Built-in data validation using Ajv ensures your data adheres to the schema.<p>Reusability: Once generated, the utility classes can be used in other Deno projects.<p>It currently only supports a subset of JSON schema features. I'll eventually hope to expand it to support more features.<p>Reasons behind the project:
I have been working with OpenAI LLMs recently and I like to get my data output in structured JSON. I realised it's rather good at taking a schema where properties are compressed within an instruction, and then in return it return data based on the compressed schema. These utility classes provide help with the validation, decompression etc.
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Title: but only for terminal and curses apps
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Title: Apple, Meta, Amazon, and now even LinkedIn have asked workers to come back into the office. They’ve all made passing comments that they will continue to support remote workers, but from my perspective the writing is ultimately on the wall. Meta has even implemented limits on how often these workers hired as remote are allowed to come into the office, but have not divulged the reason for doing so. Given that many of these companies began hiring and marking certain employees with designated offices as far back as 2 years ago, would signify this has been a long tail deliberate plan.<p>What are the odds (0-100%) that these permanently remote workers will be heavily targeted in the next large wave of layoffs?
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Title: This has been my Covid burnout project and I would love any thoughts or input, especially about the Bash code. I just am finishing the first chapter of the audiobook and would love any thoughts, positive or negative.<p>The full pdf here: https://KyleBenzle.com/BlueScreen.pdf<p>Free first chapter of the audiobook: https://soundcloud.com/landgrant/blue-screen-chapter-1<p>Giving away the Amazon ebook: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084GHLYSX<p><i>Blurb</i>: Peter Gustafson wants to save the world. In the year 2984, Peter is an average kid with a secret; he’s a well-behaved tenth-grader by day but cryptographic entrepreneur and hacker by night. When the electricity mysteriously goes out in his hometown, Peter takes it upon himself to investigate. The adventure leads the young hacker to a large transmitting station and into a battle of wits with the greatest AI ever created. The machine requires a human to help "throw the switch" and give it full control so engineered the power outage as a test to lure its latest recruit, Peter Gustafson.
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Title: Using throwaway...<p>Fastmail is leaking the distribution mail address/username via the X-Resolved-to header.<p>Now, normally this wouldn't be such a big problem, but when someone (needs to) forward(s) the original email as attachment, the internal email addresses are revealed, which is many cases is your Fastmail username. In my opinion this is a security / data leak. Fastmail's "fix" is to manually remove the X-Resolved-to form the email source. Of course this is ludicrous because:<p>1) People in your team would never do that, and non-technical people wouldn't even know how to.<p>2) It's easy to forget.<p>3) It changes the email, so any signature will not be valid anymore, marking it as corrupted.<p>I asked to escalate the issue when support couldn't reproduce (not sure why not, as my screenshots were clear, and their KB article explains that these headers exist). Even though it has been "escalated" to the "Support Lead - customer/technical" the "solution" still is to remove the header manually.<p>The header is of no use for Fastmail's customers, and is probably only used to Fastmail's internal routing for the team-mailbox-feature. It actually makes me second guess if JMAP is even properly designed. I'm very disappointed by the way this has been handled, as I clearly described why this is an issue.<p>Over the course of two weeks:<p><pre><code> Reply 1:</code></pre>
> The X-Resolved-To header is only added to incoming emails to Fastmail, hence only you will be able to see this header. It is not applied to outgoing emails, that is the X-Resolved-To header is not passed along when forwarding an email or replying to an email.<p>> However, I have shared your suggestion with our development team as a feature request. Please note that we're unable to offer any timeline as to if or when this feature could be implemented.<p><pre><code> Reply 2:</code></pre>
> I'm afraid I was unable to reproduce the issue you are seeing. When forwarding an email as an attachment and later checking the headers of the attached email, I could not find the X-resolved-to header nor was my Fastmail username mentioned in the headers.<p>> Therefore, could you please share a screenshot of the issue?<p>> On the other hand, I understand that your Fastmail username will be exposed when sharing a screenshot of the email headers. Therefore, I recommend refraining from doing so. If needed, you could copy-paste the headers to a Word doc, remove the X-resolved-to header and then share the screenshot.<p><pre><code> Reply 3:</code></pre>
> I’ve escalated your ticket to a Tier 2 agent, as they are best suited to assist with this issue. Please note that if you have a complex issue, or if they’re handling a large number of tickets, response time may be longer.<p><pre><code> Reply 4:</code></pre>
> I’ve escalated your ticket to a Tier 3 agent, as they are best suited to assist with this issue. Please note that if you have a complex issue, or if they’re handling a large number of tickets, response time may be longer.<p><pre><code> Reply 5:</code></pre>
> Unfortunately there is currently no way to remove the X-Resolved-to header if you forwarding the raw form of the email. You will need to manually remove the header, by downloading the email, opening it in a text editor and then attaching the email again. Note that, the email authentication is checked against the email and not the attached ones, so that shouldn't fail the sending email authentication. However, if you are doing any checksum against the original email content, then yes that would fail because of change in headers. I am sorry, but there is currently no work around to this
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Title: I just launched fixpdfs.com having landed my first customer (woot!). Now I'm trying to figure out how to acquire more customers. Turns out it's not so easy...<p>I guess like many here, I am way more skilled on the software side than on the sales side. Any advice for people like me?
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Title: Just go to the link and click on "Start Creating". No signing in required.<p>I built shortbread to help anyone to create comics / manga series. The onboarding process helps you kick start a page from 60%, then you can use your creativity to bring it to 1000% in a fully-controllable editor.<p>Tech stack:<p>GPT 3.5 Turbo - the comic script generation. It handled everything from layout, character, scene, SD prompts, to dialogue.<p>SD 1.5 - We put up SD servers on GCP. For every comic we generate one large image and crop it into panels. Per the experiments of u/Deathmarkedadc on Reddit, this massively helps with consistency. The models are trained on anime scenes tho, and might not be so great with animals.<p>Frontend: Next.js 13 on Vercel, React + Typescript. We built the entire editor from scratch to compose the comic (images, panels, speech bubbles, text) like a webpage. This allows you to edit and republish your comics like a website.
You can dynamically generate panels as well. Try resizing a panel into a long narrow box and generate.<p>Backend: Firebase.<p>Sample comics:<p>a japanese couple sits at dinner table. The husband told the wife a secret (link <a href="https://create.shortbread.ai/viewer/debdf25c-3f95-492a-952a-3098e0044bf5_2">https://create.shortbread.ai/viewer/debdf25c-3f95-492a-952a-...</a>)<p>An army of male soldiers fighting against an army of female soldiers in ancient china (<a href="https://create.shortbread.ai/viewer/4566613c-7146-4ed7-9b8d-85bcd2e58785_2">https://create.shortbread.ai/viewer/4566613c-7146-4ed7-9b8d-...</a>)<p>a team of girls play volleyball against a team of boys (<a href="https://create.shortbread.ai/viewer/aafc2f61-d008-4f3f-aa8f-62d87080d66b_2">https://create.shortbread.ai/viewer/aafc2f61-d008-4f3f-aa8f-...</a> )<p>Next steps:<p>- More pages<p>- Fine panel-level control. Poses, control net, etc.<p>- Multi-character.<p>- Different styles.<p>- Allows you to control character design.<p>I’m Fengjiao Peng, founder and chief engineer at Shortbread. I was previously a webtoon artist. We want to build this into something you can create entire comics series / manga / webtoons with. Criticism and suggestions welcome!
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Title: Hey folks. Rolepad is a product born out of my dissatisfaction with hiring processes - both as a candidate and as a hiring manager. Processes that are non-transparent, inefficient, and full of frustration for both sides. This early iteration has focused on the application tracking aspects with a few extra goodies.<p>These days it is common to apply to dozens of positions (some users track over a hundred opportunities). Without a record-keeping system, it can quickly become an unmanageable mess. Even the better-organized among us often end up juggling spreadsheets, emails, and various notes. Rolepad was built to keep this data (company facts, role details, interview stages, contact info, freeform notes, follow-up actions, and more) in one place. Some of the other neat additions:<p>- Forward emails to save@rolepad.com to save them as notes connected to specific opportunities. Forward recruiter messages to no@rolepad.com to have the system automatically reply with a decline response.<p>- Generate shareable Sankey charts of your progress like this: <a href="https://app.rolepad.com/metrics/6QEbaktB7bqR8glhuYR32" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://app.rolepad.com/metrics/6QEbaktB7bqR8glhuYR32</a><p>- Submit anonymous reviews and insights about application/interview/offer processes at a company . This is new and there aren’t great examples to share yet (<a href="https://rolepad.com/companies/brilliant.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://rolepad.com/companies/brilliant.org</a> is an early glimpse), and I didn’t want to create fake data as a matter of principle.<p>Oh yeah, and it’s totally free :) Creating an account is passwordless and takes seconds, but if you want to kick the tires even faster, I created test credentials for this occasion:<p><pre><code> username: test@rolepad.com
password: hntest
</code></pre>
With this release, I am also starting conversations with employers (<a href="https://rolepad.com/employers" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://rolepad.com/employers</a>). A unified platform for candidates and employers can significantly reduce frustration for both in ways that email cannot. I should note that any solutions here have privacy implications and will require an exceedingly thoughtful execution.<p>And now for the tech stack. The main application uses React with Tailwind on the frontend, C# on the backend, hosted in AWS (App Runner, Lambda, RDS Postgres, SES), with auth provided by Google Firebase, and CI/CD via GitHub Actions. The home page is actually an SSR (server-side rendered) application built with vite-plugin-ssr (now vike) and hosted in a Cloudflare Worker that hits the AWS-hosted API. This is basically a best-of-all-worlds SSR configuration - very fast, zero cold start (!), and essentially free.<p>Any and all feedback is sincerely appreciated!
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Title: I have been using postman offline without an account for a long time. Today when I opened the program it asked me to create an account. When I declined, it wiped all my collections and everything else.<p>All I have is a 'history' to work with and try to piece back together all the variables and collections that I had setup.<p>I relented and created an account, but it did not recover anything. Beware!<p>Update: I was able to manually import/restore using a backup I found in ~/.config/Postman but I have no trust for continued use of this tool. Any alternatives that I can migrate to?
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Title: I opened youtube this morning to see a big popup:<p>Ad blockers are not allowed on YouTube<p>- It looks like you may be using an ad blocker.<p>- Ads allow YouTube to be used by billions worldwide.<p>- You can go ad-free with YouTube Premium, and creators can still get paid from your subscription
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Title: This is a simple Pastebin clone I made using the Deno Typescript runtime.<p>I created a simple templating system, and implemented server-side rendering for the UI.<p>Demo: <a href="https://paste.jlcarveth.dev/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://paste.jlcarveth.dev/</a>
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Title: Hi, can you give me your opinion about this project? What else I should add?
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Title: With all the turmoil in the game engine world recently, I thought I'd quickly post to show progress on our game platform dotbigbang.com.<p>It's a fully integrated game platform where the multiplayer game editor and games all run on the web. You can make multiplayer games and share them with just a link with no setup at all.<p>Breakdown of major features here: <a href="https://twitter.com/bobbydigitales/status/1526470671034818561" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://twitter.com/bobbydigitales/status/152647067103481856...</a><p>We have comprehensive docs at <a href="http://docs.dotbigbang.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://docs.dotbigbang.com</a> and a cosy Discord server at <a href="https://dotbigbang.com/discord" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://dotbigbang.com/discord</a><p>All updates are on our blog here: <a href="https://blog.dotbigbang.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://blog.dotbigbang.com/</a>
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Title: I like Duolingo, but the delays between each session, and the number of buttons I have to push between each learning session, are absolutely killing me. I’m already paying for premium, so no ads, but each time a session ends the number of buttons I have to push just to get out of “rewards”, committing to a streak when I don’t want to, or getting some gems or acknowledging some news feature, are killing my desire to learn new languages. Is there any way to turn off the gamification on Duolingo? Or reduce the number of buttons I need to press to get from one session to the next? Or, alternatively, are there any language learning apps that avoid this gamification? I do like Duolingo’s progress tracking, and gradual buildup of vocabulary. I’ve tried making my own flashcards in Anki, but that’s a ton of work and it’s hard to factor in any language roadmap element on my own. Duolingo is not bad, but the percentage of time doing things other than learning, specifically pushing buttons and waiting for or watching animation, is far too high. I’d love if I could just turn all of this stuff off.
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Title: I was curious how Starlink would work when connected in international locations? Would it show a US IP address? Would it show a Starlink ISP ASN?<p>For comparision - cell phone tethering plans, you can be "anywhere" in the world, but the roaming telcom provider will (lack of a better word) "tunnel" your connection to your local telcom so you could be in China, France, UK but you would have the country of origin IP address/telcom provider ASN? E.g. T-Mobile from USA, but in Europe would show that you're either in California or Kansas.
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Title: Hey all, I'm currently a solo iOS developer who just released my first app, Timbre, onto the App Store (iPhone only for now). Here's a demo to show you how it works: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALoPAFb31Bk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALoPAFb31Bk</a>.<p>Timbre originally came about because I wanted to build a sleep sounds & sleep tracker app. I had used Headspace, Calm, Pillow, etc. and figured that instead of paying $70 / year I could just build my own app and pay $100 / year (not a great plan in retrospect). As I started building Timbre, I realized that one of the biggest issues I had with these other apps is that I could never really see which sounds genuinely helped me sleep. With that in mind, I pivoted on my original idea and decided to really hone in on connecting sleep quality and sounds.<p>Using a custom ML model, Apple's CoreML framework and HealthKit's sleep stage data, I made it so that Timbre could calculate a personal sleep quality score. Therefore, when you record a sleep session while listening to a sound, the app can rank the sounds you've listened to based on your sleep quality scores over time.<p>Of course, the app also has a smart alarm, offline support, sleep analysis and more, but I'd love to get some feedback & suggestions from the demo video. Also feel free to ask me any questions and I'd be happy to answer them!
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Title: I made what I believe is a joyful slow social media. Would love to know what you think!
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Title: This started as a project to scratch my own itch and has grown from there.<p>Initially I wanted a way to easily see if potential funny license plates were available in a given state, but I've also started using it at car shows when I'm curious which engine or transmission is in a car.<p>It most cases the plate can be matched to a VIN using DMV data, and then some information about the vehicle can be decoded into basic car specs<p>You can also purchase a full vehicle history report which uses data from the NMVTIS and other services to show accident history, previous titles, and salvage issues.<p>The site is built using the Laravel framework and connects to a bunch of APIs like the DOT and NHTSA for Safety and recall information.<p>This is my first time running Laravel on AWS Lambda so let me know how the site feels to you
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Title: I've built an MVP and am talking to a prospective customer. They would be my first customer. They're asking how many people are in the company and I don't know how to respond to that in a reassuring way. It's just me.<p>Some background is I've built a pretty niche / domain specific product, so there's actually no one else doing what I'm doing. The MVP works. I don't have any customers yet (some trialing).
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Title: I've been getting into game dev lately and chose to start with Godot 4, given all the recent events. I've spent quite a lot of time looking for quality learning resources, and most of them are on YouTube. The problem with that is that you don't really get a well structured path, and most of the times you don't really find stuff that's meant to be production ready.
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Title: A most unusual thing. Every once in a while I get an email from Amazon that it's time to re-order Brother ink. I always delete these because I rarely print, but also figure it's just Amazon reminding me to buy something.<p>Today I decided to opt out/unsubscribe once and for all. Instead I see this at the bottom of the email:<p>"Click here to view or manage settings, including the option to opt out if you are already using another replenishment service.<p>This took me to https://drs-web.amazon.com/settings<p>"The data shown is based on estimated consumption reported by smart devices and orders you place through Amazon."<p>Here it had a link to "Consumption history" which upon clicking showed me the ink levels of my Brother printer for the past <i>two weeks</i>. Date and time.<p>WTF?! It is not apparent that I can disable this function. Can anyone else duplicate?<p><i>Update</i> : This is part of Alexa it seems, and folded in to the Dash replenishment protocol; note I have never had a Dash button.<p>Amazon's instructions for this were not very helpful.<p>https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201357520<p>Some digging revealed a Brother help document:<p>https://help.brother-usa.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/172810/~/cancel-enrollment-%28amazon-smart-reorders%29<p>This bothers me quite a lot. I never authorized, opted in, or gave either device permission to connect, let alone Amazon to monitor and nag me about it!<p>Model: Brother MFC-J485DW<p>Purchased from: Best Buy, an American retailer, after July of 2019.<p>Firmware: N1901041316
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Title: I know a game where people say it has a keylogger implemented.
Is there any way to tell if the program is not open source?<p>Thanks
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Title: Hey folks,<p>I'm a fairly "nerdy" person who loves to spend time in text-editors, terminals and (if needed) browsers .. and I'm trying to understand the self-authoring tooling landscape suitable for me.<p>My work will not contain mathematical formulae, nor would it contain code snippets. But I would like to include images, or generate diagrams (flow charts, event sequence diagrams etc.)<p>A quick Google shows me mkbook and mkdocs. Both of these take in markdown files and generate HTMLs. I plan to evaluate these.<p>Any other authoring frameworks worth considering?<p>What are my options in terms of self-publishing? Amazon still king? What other stage of self-authoring would I need tooling for?<p>Ah, must mention I primarily use Fedora but I'd like to sync the repo on my MBP as well, and would like to work seamlessly on both machines.<p>Any direction would be helpful. Ty.
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Title: Hi HN! I wrote a post about the things I have been working on for Webbu, an app to learn languages via short stories. Initially, a few HN readers tried the app, so I wanted to share some more details of what I'm doing and would love to hear any feedback you have.
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Title: With this standalone compiler, you can rely on all Java 11 javac features to be available, even when using newer Java versions. Specifically, this allows you to:<p>- compile code even if your Java environment isn't a full JDK (Java JRE, for example!)<p>- target Java 1.7 for compilation without any warnings or restrictions.<p>- use the Compiler Tree API without resorting to --add-opens trickery that may eventually fail in newer Java releases<p>- build a modified compiler with additional features or custom tweaks<p>I made this after finding that the otherwise superb "jsweet" Java-to-JavaScript transpiler failed to build and run with Java 16 or newer. Surprisingly, I couldn't find any prior work other than "proper" standalone compilers like Eclipse's ecj that would properly work with modern Java runtimes.<p>I'm excited to see what can be done now that we have this scaffolding.
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Title: To those currently operating or have built successful SaaS - what 3 lessons from experience have you learnt that you would tell your younger selves?
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Title: Hey everyone!<p>I am an enthusiast trader and a year ago I had this idea to create a free-to-use website that would feature all the most essential tools that traders would use on a daily basis.<p>So I learned to code and build it—I did everything including design, texts, code, and SEO—which took me 12 months to launch and a year and a half to make it look like it currently does.<p>I was into marketing and design before, but I didn't know barely anything about coding. The website is built using Next.js, Tailwind CSS, and Typescript with Framer Motion animations and lots of APIs.<p>I’m actively working on the project and in the following months I will release a huge update that will feature a renewed interface and access to real time on chain data and analytics.<p>Feel free to ask any questions and thanks a lot for reading this, it means a lot to me. Any feedback and your opinions would be highly appreciated.
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Title: I have a 9:5 job and work also alone on a side project where I have to do tech related tasks as well as market sale (content creation, emails and sometime calls).<p>So, I'm asking if you are in same position as me, how are you organizing yourself to do everything ?
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Title: I'm a software engineer who has struggled massively with performance and presentation anxiety for the past ten years. This was the result of a presentation gone horribly wrong in my first couple of years in the workplace. I suffered my first ever panic attack mid-speech and had to flee the room.<p>As a consequence, this issue has been in the back of my mind (and potentially the front of my sub-conscious) ever since. I've gradually shifted as far away from management positions as possible, and tried to avoid roles at work that would require me to speak or perform in any nature. I'm terrified of panic arising mid-speech, turning me into a wreck before any presentations. This has begun to spill over into social events, parties, networking meetups, or anything else remotely performative in nature.<p>The worst part about this is that I was actually quite a natural speaker prior to this anxiety arising, and was often complimented on my speaking ability.<p>I've tried all sorts of techniques to fix this. Some work better than others - beta blockers help a lot, as does alcohol. Obviously, I don't want to become overly reliant on booze or anything stronger than propranalol, but sometimes the immediate relief feels necessary. Exposure therapy like Toastmasters seems to provide big short-term gains, but the effects fade fairly quickly, and if I don't do it for a few weeks I'm back where I started.<p>Please share any suggestions! I'd love to hear your own stories.
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Title: Hey HN!<p>We built Speech Meter as a tool to practice and improve English pronunciation. It uses AI to analyze your accent and score your pronunciation accuracy. It’s great for anyone who wants to practice their pronunciation in English. I’d love to hear your thoughts and suggestions for improvements. I really appreciate any feedback you could have (:
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Title: Hey HN, Nir, Gal and Tomer here. We’re open-sourcing a set of extensions we’ve built on top of OpenTelemetry that provide visibility into LLM applications - whether it be prompts, vector DBs and more. Here’s the repo: <a href="https://github.com/traceloop/openllmetry">https://github.com/traceloop/openllmetry</a>.<p>There’s already a decent number of tools for LLM observability, some open-source and some not. But what we found was missing for all of them is that they were closed-protocol by design, vendor-locking you to use their observability platform or their proprietary framework for running your LLMs.<p>It’s still early in the gen-AI space so we think it’s the right time to define an open protocol for observability. So we built OpenLLMetry. It extends OpenTelemetry and provides instrumentations for LLM-specific libraries which automatically monitor and trace prompts, token usage, embeddings, etc.<p>Two key benefits with OpenTelemetry are (1) you can trace your entire system execution, not just the LLM (so you can see how requests to DBs, or other calls affect the overall result); and (2) you can connect to any monitoring platform—no need to adopt new tools. Install the SDK and plug it into Datadog, Sentry, or both. Or switch between them easily.<p>We’ve already built instrumentations for LLMs like OpenAI, Anthropic and Cohere, vector DBs like Pinecone and LLM Frameworks like LangChain and Haystack. And we’ve built an SDK that makes it easy to use all of these instrumentations in case you’re not too familiar with OpenTelemetry.<p>Everything is written in Python (with Typescript around the corner) and licensed with Apache-2.0.<p>We’re using this SDK for our own platform (Traceloop), but our hope is that OpenLLMetry can evolve and thrive independently, giving everyone (including our users) the power of choice. We’ll be working with the OpenTelemetry community to get this to become a first-class citizen of OpenTelemetry.<p>Would love to hear your thoughts and opinions!<p>Check it out -<p>Docs: <a href="https://www.traceloop.com/docs/python-sdk/introduction">https://www.traceloop.com/docs/python-sdk/introduction</a><p>Github: <a href="https://github.com/traceloop/openllmetry">https://github.com/traceloop/openllmetry</a>
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Title: This is a Goodreads + Libby app integration which shows you the library availability for each of the books on your Goodreads want to read list.<p>Basically, I got sick of manually looking up each book on my Want to Read list on the Libby app to see if it was available or how long the wait was. So I made this site which easily gathers all that info for me.<p>At this point, I'm scraping Goodreads to figure out the "Want to Read" list. Libby provides a nice API though.<p>Any feedback is appreciated!! I also have a substack that I'm going to use to post updates, so follow along there if you're interested :) projecttbr.substack.com
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Title: As far as I can tell, there's no universally accepted "cure" for tinnitus, but there are a number of "therapies" out there, some of which seem to prey upon people looking for relief but some of which seem plausible.<p>I'm wondering if any subscribers here have had tinnitus and experience <i>permanent relief</i> from the ringing? Not just reduction, but actual permanent relief that never comes back even when doing things that previously worsened the tinnitus.<p>If you can't tell, I'm trying to establish an "existence proof" here, if no one has ever gotten permanent relief then it seems like it might not be worth bothering with the "symptom reduction" therapies since they would most likely lead to focusing on the symptoms more intensely.
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Title: I use adblockers. My YouTube experience is pretty clean.<p>But I got the pop-up this morning saying that adblockers are not allowed on YouTube. Fair enough.<p>But it got me wondering: would Google go so far as to disable accounts that do this? Losing access to my Google account would be bad, even though I have degoogled as much as possible.<p>If Google would do this, I think I'll stop YouTube, which is fine too; my account is just too critical at this point. I would love if it weren't.<p>So Googlers, whether speaking for yourself and giving your own opinion, or officially, would Google do that?<p>For everyone else, would it even be legal for Google to do that? Why or why not?
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Title: Release early, release often. Don't worry, be crappy. Fail fast. Iterate.<p>Show us your half baked, not really ready for prime time projects.<p>Also, if you need any help with a project, a startup, or an idea, just post it here.
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Title: Diceright is a virtual tabletop for playing dungeons and dragons with friends on the web. You can watch a quick overview of how it works here: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/diceright" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://tinyurl.com/diceright</a>. And there’s a list of the main features right on the homepage.<p>It’s a Ruby on Rails site that makes heavy use of action cable for keeping the maps and tokens in sync for all players. On the front end, I’m using HTML canvas for the maps and a js library called fabric.js for interacting with the canvas. Otherwise, just jQuery on the front end. I optimized it all to work on mobile too.<p>I built this as a side project for fun over of the past couple years. It took a lot longer than expected, but it was also a lot of fun. I did all the design / UX for it too which was a struggle at first but was a great learning experience.<p>Let me know what you think and if you have any questions. Thanks!
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Title: Hey! I have been using many note managers for years: Onenote, Workflowy, Notion... but none of them were perfect for me.<p>That's why I made Fluski. Some of its characteristics are an infinite outline of pages, and that all blocks are collapsible and expandable.
Coming soon bi-directional links, offline mode, databases, and much more!
If you find it interesting, I would love for you to try it and hear your feedback! - <a href="https://fluski.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://fluski.com</a>.<p>Also, there is a short Demo video in the Product Hunt post: <a href="https://www.producthunt.com/products/fluski" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.producthunt.com/products/fluski</a>
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Title: OpenBLE is an API specification language and client generator for Bluetooth services built on the generic attribute (GATT) profile.<p>Bluetooth development is a mess. Too many datasheets, too little documentation and SDK fragmentation across platforms. I built this tool to improve documentation, version control and development speed for BLE programs.<p>Even though shunned by Apple and Mozilla, Web Bluetooth enjoys wide support and just works. It makes sense to build the frontend for OpenBLE using web Bluetooth. No SDK hell, no installations, wide support albeit experimental. I could ship the spec, SDK, code generator and testing framework in pure JavaScript.
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Title: Quick background: Grew up in an immigrant household with very little in the way of resources, guidance, encouragement. Was enamored by Silicon Valley and tech from a young age, but foolishly followed the family tradition of medicine despite hating it as I felt I had no choice. Went to medical school, dropped out, worked a few odd end gigs for the next couple years, stumbled into a PM role that I was let go from due to performance.<p>I am now 37 without an impressive educational or professional background, no network of colleagues, no mastery in any one skill, and a whole lot of mental health debt. And yet the child inside of me still wants to pursue the scrappy Silicon Valley tech dream.<p>Am I deluded? Where do I even begin?
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Title: I've got an iPhone X. It's not the latest and greatest, but still runs fine and does basically everything I need it to do.<p>However, it seems like any time I need to visit an actual web site from my phone, the entire experience is just terrible. Nearly every web site fills the screen with resource-intensive ads, enormous newsletter sign up dialogs with tiny close buttons, and of course, the obligatory cookie notice.<p>I don't want to have an app for every single business I visit or service I subscribe to, but I also do what I can to avoid visiting their horrid web pages.<p>How do you tackle this? Or am I just making a big deal over nothing?
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Title: This article says that one of the datasets for chatGPT was obtained by scraping all links with reddit with more than 2 upvotes:
<a href="https://www.searchenginejournal.com/how-to-block-chatgpt-from-using-your-website-content/478384/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.searchenginejournal.com/how-to-block-chatgpt-fro...</a><p>I don't want big companies to scrape my content and then sell it on their platform.<p>Novelty of LLM output may be an open question, but input is just someone else's stuff. I assumed that default copyright protects from this kind of bullshitttery. That it says that work can not be used, adapted, copied without creators permission. (I can only guess that it was allowed to happen, because that's the first time someone stole IP in this particular manner on this scale?) But now that we know that it's a thing, how can we maintain ownership of the inputs legally and engineering wise?
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Title: Hi all, hope you are having a good weekend.<p>I have been a solo dev / indie hacker for a few (many?) years until recently when I added 2 people to my team (one engineer and one for marketing). Initially when adding them to my team I was kind of relieved that they would solve certain problems for me however after a few weeks I learnt while they do what I ask of them they also create new problems for me and I need to prepare a lot more which leaves less time to work solo. My impulsive thought at first was that maybe I should go back to being solo but soon I realised that I enjoy working solo and don’t really know how to be a manager or how to delegate.<p>Has anyone here faced something similar? How did you learn to become a manager?<p>I would really appreciate if you could point me to some good sources books videos courses any material that could give me a good 101 on being a manager and delegating work / using Human Resources, also using positive approach whilst giving feedback. Also, do you have any heuristics you use to measure your effectiveness at delegating?<p>Any help is appreciated, thanks!
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Title: I listed all the advice I give about Pull Requests and Code Review into a short (37 pages) and free guide, with real-life examples and actionable insights.
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Title: I'm a contractor, things were strange during COVID. I worked on project rewrites that got abandoned, and made the mistake of doing test consulting for companies that had never tested before. I will never do that again.<p>It used to take two-weeks max to find a new position. It's now been two months, and I have no leads. I will call out the exact situation I've run into.<p>I have received nearly 20 calls from a dozen different recruiting firms all for the same two back-fill jobs at Charter in St. Louis. I interviewed with them once, and it's not a match. .NET, Knockout, and TSQL... They weren't interested in me either. I'm not exactly offended by that.<p>I get two calls a day about Charter at this point. I've been told, "they just finished a round of interviews, and didn't find anyone." At this point, I have to ask straight away to anyone that calls me about a position, "Is this for Charter?" It's always yes, and I always say, I've already interviewed and I'm not interested.<p>One of these firms told me they don't want to work with Charter anymore because they've basically gone through everyone, and still haven't hired for these two back-fill positions they've been interviewing for. And they seem to be the only company in the city that's hiring. Or pretending to hire, because they've been giving everyone the runaround for months. I asked to add a note for me in their system that I don't want anymore calls for Charter. They added it and told me they have a shared system with a few other organizations.<p>That same firm told me they are focusing more on remote positions instead of St. Louis. Which is the least safe city in the country, which includes financial security.<p>I've always struggled with St. Louis overall. Enterprise is ancient here. When I'm told, "But we have Boeing, Centene, and Bayer!" I have to groan a bit. I'm not talking about tech stack, it's all old as far as I'm concerned, I'm talking about mentality. Nobody tests, CI automation is unheard of. And everyone rolls their eyes at the web. These companies want to build web applications, but they don't want to use the tools of the trade, they want to use desktop tools and pretend browsers don't exist. It's like building a skyscraper with nothing but wood planks and screw driver. I won't get into that at the risk of a much longer rant.<p>This place feels like a barren wasteland. But I know people in other areas are struggling to find work too. I'm open to move at this point, but I haven't decided which market to focus on. Is there anywhere that's actually growing right now?
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Title: YouTube started blocking me because I use an adblocker. So I made this simple Firefox Add-On (haven't made it cross-browser yet, contributions welcome!) to open videos in alternative front-ends (piped.video by default).<p>Default keybinding: Alt+J to reopen current page in the configured frontend.<p>Shift+Click to open any video in a new tab in the configured frontend.<p>You can change the default frontend to something else if you like.
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Title: Just wondering since things seem to be kind of broken on both ends right now: Tech people reporting that it's hard to find a new gig right now and hiring managers reporting that it's hard to find people right now. (thoughts on why this seems to be even more broke than usual?)
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Title: Just a random thought while analyzing some Next.js v13 website HTML markup.<p>Due to the way that RSC hydrates elements during client-side rendering, Next.js has to provide all their property data using JSON (see this issue https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions/42170)<p>As a result, any website that uses Next.js with RSC is extremely easy to extract data from since you can tap into JSON of every element.<p>Just an interesting observation without implying whether it is good or bad for the ecosystem.
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Title: I just out of boredom maybe started to rewatch some old bookmarks and (re)discovered this Eddie Woo.<p>Here is an example of a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2z5uzqxJNU where he explains divide by zero.<p>My kid (almost 6yo) seems very interested in numbers and math. I am doing my best not only explain some formulas but try to understand what it means.<p>We are doing a lot of drawings or using sticks or some other materials to grasp some basic math knowledge. But I am not a math teacher so I assume my approach could be improved a lot.<p>I recently (re)watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2z5uzqxJNU from Eddie Woo where he so beautifully explains to (what I assume are) high-school students divide by zero.<p>I am looking for something similar but for more basic math concepts fit for children 6 to 10 years old.<p>Any recommendations? I am mostly looking for video but any content is also welcome.
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Title: It's hard to appreciate poetry in a language one doesn't know, so this is my attempt to make Italian poetry more easily enjoyable to English speakers. The approach is probably a bit nerdy, so I hope that at least it will be of interest on HN.<p>I basically implemented what I would like to have when I listen to songs or poems in a language I don't speak: karaoke-like, word by word, literal translation, with notes about word usage and some context when needed.<p>And some stuff about the language itself --- the part needed for the poems, at least.<p>The tech stack is as minimal as it gets: I was hoping for an old web vibe.<p>Feedback welcome!
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Title: I have really bad tooth sensitivity and I recently learned about n-Ha toothpaste being a solid treatment for it (mainly the one Boka sells) The fact that n-Ha is the compound that enamel is made of seems really promising but I don’t know enough about it to know if it’ll work and it’s really hard to trust product reviews. Money is in short supply so I really want to make sure I’m not buying into a fad.<p>I know you all are not dentists or chemists (I’m assuming anyway), but we’ll have the same teeth, so if you happened to use it for a similar purpose and saw good results, I want to know about your experience.<p>Thank you all.
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Title: Framework agnostic chat component used to communicate with AI based APIs.
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Title: Originally inspired by pg_regress, pg_yregress provides a TAP-compatible test executor that allows for better test organization, easier instance management, native JSON handling and so on.
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Title: Hi HN,
NVMe disks, when addressed natively in userland, offer massive performance improvements compared to other forms of persistent storage. However, in spite of the existence of projects like SPDK and SplinterDB, there don't seem to be any open source, non-embedded key value stores or DBs out in the wild yet.<p>Why do you think that is? Are there possibly other projects out there that I'm not familiar with?
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Title: Hey, HN! We're James and Cyriel, co-founders of Radical. We're making an autonomous solar-powered aircraft designed for continuous flight in the stratosphere. Our 20 ft. prototype recently flew nonstop for over 24 hours, which you can see in this video: <a href="https://youtu.be/E6oDxQYEksc" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://youtu.be/E6oDxQYEksc</a> (edit—warning, there are rapidly flashing lights starting just after 1m, in case you're sensitive to that). Our website is at <a href="https://www.radicalaero.com/">https://www.radicalaero.com/</a>, but it's pretty bare. If you use LinkedIn, we have a few more posts at <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/radicalaero" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.linkedin.com/company/radicalaero</a>.<p>Our aircraft is designed to fly over specific areas for months, carrying various payloads for tasks like imagery, sensing, and telecommunications. What we’re building behaves like a drone in some ways, and like a satellite in other ways. Much like satellites, we’re able to provide service for long periods of time, but we’re also much closer to users (we fly at around 20 km altitude) and able to maneuver or remain over an area of interest. This makes what we’re building really well suited to applications that require continuous coverage or high-resolution/bandwidth data.<p>Examples of this include continuous real-time monitoring (such as in wildfire management or illegal fishing), high-resolution mapping and imagery (we’re able to collect sub-10 cm resolution imagery), and high-speed direct-to-device internet. The ability to permanently host sensors and devices in the sky in this way opens the door to lots of new opportunities. In truth, we still don’t know all the new applications that will arise from this (we’re really interested to hear your thoughts on potential applications!).<p>As for the technical details: Our aircraft is battery electric and driven by propellers. It has a large wing for high aerodynamic efficiency and to generate the necessary lift required to fly in the thin air of the stratosphere. The wing is covered in solar cells, during the day, these power the aircraft and charge its batteries. Through the night, battery energy is deployed to continue flight. We repeat this process daily, enabling us to fly for up to a year without needing to land. Ultimately, battery cycle life is what limits our aircraft’s flight endurance - and we can land, carry out simple maintenance tasks and then re-launch to continue flying. Our aircraft has multiple tails which help to stabilize the ultra-lightweight structure (our 20 ft. prototype weighs just 13 lbs.). We also use these tails to control the aircraft, they provide roll control by twisting the main wing of the aircraft, increasing or decreasing lift as needed.<p>The aircraft is fully autonomous; it has a full autopilot system onboard and various sensors for position, airspeed, and other key data streams (much like a typical drone or UAS). The aircraft flies at high altitudes of around 70,000 ft. (20 km) avoiding cloud cover, civil air traffic, and the turbulent winds of the troposphere.<p>Long endurance flight has been the goal of many past projects. NASA’s Helios and the DARPA Vulture program tried to develop long endurance aircraft. Helios’s crash led to an overhaul of aircraft structural analysis codes, and DARPA Vulture led to advancements in battery and solar tech. More recently, both Facebook’s Aquila and Google’s Loon were discontinued. Recent advancements in battery and solar tech, and miniaturization of electronics mean long endurance flight is now feasible - but we are aware we need to do things differently to succeed. Unlike those before us, we’re not tying ourselves to a single application and are focused on bringing a cost-effective solution to market. That means avoiding research-grade components and moving quickly. Additionally, we firmly believe that iterating to a solution will allow us to continue making progress where others have stalled and lost momentum. We’ve seen this before in hard tech where companies like SpaceX and Helion Energy have made rapid progress against difficult problems.<p>We approach our technology with an iterative design philosophy - we’ll keep building and learning as we go. We use-off-the-shelf components, iterate quickly, and design for easy assembly to keep costs low. For example, from clean sheet to flight, we designed, built, and flew our 20 ft. aircraft in less than two months. After our first flights, we prepared our 24-hour-capable prototype in two weeks, which successfully completed its non-stop 24-hour flight on first launch. Having proved our core technologies at a smaller scale, we’re now moving onto bigger things. Our next goal is to fly a full-scale 110 ft. wingspan aircraft in the stratosphere next year!<p>Both of us have Masters degrees in Aerospace Engineering and we then spent 6 years working together on delivery drones at Amazon Prime Air. Whilst the application is very different - we’ve found our knowledge of drone and robotics hardware to be invaluable so far with Radical. By using readily available components, learning through iteration, and designing an aircraft that is easy to assemble, we can keep the cost of our aircraft low and address many markets that weren’t feasible before.<p>We’re really excited about the technology we’re developing, it's a challenging physics problem that pushes the boundaries of what is possible. Super excited to share this with you and to hear your thoughts and comments!
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Title: Software dev of 12+ years.<p>I'm in the worst creative and motivational rut I've ever been in.<p>I can't get excited about code anymore, and creative solutions simply will not come to me. Every single coding task feels 100x the effort that it actually is.<p>I desperately need to get out of this rut, as it's killing my mood and causing me to spiral downward. I've always been a great engineer but something changed in the last few months.<p>How have you gotten out of ruts in your life?
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Title: I'm a mid-level Software Engineer with a focus on Backend engineering, primarily working with application servers and some DevOps. I have a budget of $400 and I'm looking for recommendations on technology courses or certifications that can help me advance my skills. My main goal is to work on a personal project related to distributed systems, but I'm also considering certifications like AWS Solutions Architect and CKAD to enhance my job prospects. Can you recommend specific courses or certifications within this budget? Additionally, I'd love to hear about any personal experiences or insights you have regarding these certifications or technology courses. Your advice will be greatly appreciated!
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Title: 1 in 5 of those laid off were managers. Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but that’s higher than the typical ratio, correct?
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Title: On things I care about I used U2F (Yubikey) which as a second factor is ideal. People trying to break into an account won't have my U2F device and fail. (I've seen them try this). Google's support of U2F devices sucks. Like really badly. But they seem to get that these things are safer than "passwords" that are reversible with rainbow tables. Now they are all about "passkeys" which they STORE ON YOUR DAMN COMPUTER OR PHONE.<p>Here is where I fall off the boat. If we learned EXACTLY ONE THING from the Crypto Coin world it was this, if you put something valuable on your computer or your phone, PEOPLE WILL WORK DILIGENTLY TO STEAL IT. Often in creative ways like otherwise silent drive by clickless exploits in browsers delivered by Ad Networks.<p>What part of "Good security is security where you don't get to run code on the device providing the security, ever." did they miss?<p>I am completely at a loss to explain this fail.
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Title: Almost a year ago someone stumbled upon our hobby project and posted it to HN (edit: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33999162">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33999162</a>). It was magical to see so many of you enjoy something we built for our love of music. We’re back today with a real product and are excited to see what you think!<p>riffusion.com lets you create original music via short, shareable audio clips called “riffs”. You describe the lyrics and a musical style to generate riffs complete with singing and custom artwork in a few seconds. From inspiring musicians, to wishing your mom a ‘good morning!’, we are having a lot of fun with riffs as a form of expression and communication.<p>We hope you have as much of a blast traveling the latent space of music as we did making it. You can generate music from text, remix other riffs, or record your own lyric timings.<p>A riff for HN: <a href="https://www.riffusion.com/riffs/ac7ff4c3-d86d-4dfa-884e-bb19ec6c4e40" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.riffusion.com/riffs/ac7ff4c3-d86d-4dfa-884e-bb19...</a><p>Hayk + Seth
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Title: Hi HN! This is Daniel from Floutwork (<a href="https://www.floutwork.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.floutwork.com</a>)<p>Floutwork is an all-in-one desktop app designed to serve as a personal work system, offering a no-BS approach to getting real work done online.<p>Background:
When I transitioned from a development role to a product management role, I realized there was no real organization or structure to the way I worked as a PM. Tasks I needed to complete were scattered across emails, Teams, meetings, etc. I was inundated with emails and found myself juggling multiple browser windows, numerous open tabs, and other desktop applications. This overwhelming situation made it clear that success in my new role hinged on being self-organized and focused. After reading the book "Deep Work" by Cal Newport, I recognized that my work habits were counterproductive to accomplishing meaningful work. After that, I delved further into the "focus and productivity" path, read more books on the subject, and decided to integrate these concepts and methodologies into a single app. I could have created a specialized tool that addressed only one or two problems, like many other apps out there, but I knew that building a single app designed to assist with the workflow from start to finish was the only way to eliminate as many distractions and friction points as possible. Honestly, I could've wrapped up development way sooner if I'd just tackled one issue. But what's the point if one part of my workflow rocks and the rest sucks?<p>What's the problem with modern work?
You might be using a combination of a task manager and a calendar to track tasks. To work on a task, though, you probably bounce to your browser full of tabs. If you use desktop apps like Teams, Slack, or Discord, this bouncing back and forth becomes even worse because every link you click on opens in the browser. The real problem is when we jump to a browser full of tabs every time, we get distracted by all the tabs and get sidetracked, or our old habits kick in due to how our brains are now wired, and we start aimlessly browsing. This causes a lot of friction in our flow. This is one of the main reasons why people today are not able to focus or don't feel motivated to get work done. What usually takes 1 hour to complete can take up to 3 hours.<p>What's unique about Floutwork?
Floutwork has an excellent task management system and a calendar view right next to it to intelligently show you when you can work on your tasks amidst your busy schedule. However, it goes beyond that and lets you pin your work apps right within Floutwork. Once you know you need to work on a task, you can quickly hop on to your web apps right within Floutwork and get that done, and then repeat. Every time you access a web app within Floutwork, any tabs you open within that app stay within that app, so you only get to see the tabs to get your current task done. This powerful flow cuts down all the distractions and friction points that come between tasks and work getting done.<p>Now that all your work can be consolidated into one unified system, you can access powerful tools in a distraction-free way to:<p>- Monitor your work habits<p>- Gamify your tasks<p>- Experience an immersive focus mode for tasks<p>- Open a command bar without losing your flow to open apps, links, tools, add tasks, ask ChatGPT, etc.<p>- Quickly take work notes in context<p>- Clean out your emails with a few clicks<p>- Access AI tools via ChatGPT meaningfully right within your flow<p>This app is designed for people in roles like PMs, freelancers, managers, admins, and marketers, where being self-organized online is crucial for success. I know the HN community has a lot of developers. While this app can offer some benefits to devs, it won't be a game-changer for your workflow, especially if you're primarily in VS Code or other desktop development tools most of the day.<p>I'd love to invite you all to try out the product and would appreciate hearing your feedback!
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Title: Is there such a thing as what I described in the title or is it just my imagination/biased thinking?<p>I am only talking about tech orgs in a company and not other sectors like marketing, HR or sales. Feels like hiring individual contributors is still going on but there is a lot of managers/directors looking for jobs. Are there any stats that give a percentage breakdown of the layoffs?<p>If so, which level in the management is safer relatively speaking, if there is such a thing?
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Title: Is there a list anywhere of released games built on FOSS game engines?
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Title: I recently realized that I rarely upvote or downvote so I decided to be more of a good community citizen and start doing so. Then came the question of what does an upvote or downvote mean? Do I downvote an opinion I disagree with even though it is interesting and well reasoned? (By some reasoning, perhaps I should actually be upvoting such comments). I'm obviously overthinking here but I'm curious so indulge me. What is your heuristic for up/down-voting?
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Title: I recall games like Full Tilt! Pinball and the 3D pinball game included in Windows were pretty popular and good showcases for the speed and quality of computer graphics back in the 90s. Then it occured to me that modern GPUs like the nVidia 4090 would be incredible for simulating a pinball machine with insane fidelity using RTX ray tracing and the optimized physics simulator (PhysX) they have. You could probably end up with something that truly looks and feels like the real thing. I'm certainly no expert on the subject, but after doing a quick search on Steam, I don't see anything like that on the market. Why do you think that is? Would it really be so hard to do? Wouldn't that be popular?<p>I know I'd love to see it just because it would be such a great showcase for the power of modern machines, especially the integration of super realistic physics. Imagine bumping the machine hard to cheat? Or being able to smash the glass with a hammer and then put objects in the case and see what happens to them while you play? Could also be an amazing physics education thing if you could see real-time free-body diagrams overlaid on the ball that you could freeze in time and study showing all the forces acting on it. You could turn a dial and see what it would be like to play pinball on the moon! I hope someone sees this and makes it!
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Title: I study at college. Getting my degree in Data Analytics. I study programming almost every day and as many students I also work part time. But in the last 6 months I found that I often live in a cycle where I have a productive day and the next day is lazy. So, I find it super unattractive to do anything. Then it repeats again and again.
Have you ever experienced something like this? What would you recommend me to do to get out of this cycle?
P.S. I push myself to do stuff on the bad days to gain that ‘work flow’. But it doesn’t feel like it helps me. Because of low energy levels on lazy days I do things slowly, I can’t concentrate on things and so on.
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Title: So I know there are a lot of stories like this and this is not the first or the last one, but Wise, my bank, froze all our main operational bank accounts last Monday. They want proof of 'the source of my funds'. I have been a client with them for over three years but apparently that does not count for anything.<p>I've done everything they want but their verification team is "busy" and needs "5 working days" to check what I submitted. That was 10 days ago - I'm not sure how many days per week they regard as working days.<p>Luckily, because I have heard of Wise, Stripe, etc doing this on a regular basis I very strictly transfer any excess funds to a real brick-and-mortar bank, but this could easily have caused huge cashflow problems if I hadn't. As it is, it's pretty hard to set up an alternative, pay contractors etc etc, but I figured it's a good reminder for others who might be going "Surely if I don't do anything wrong they won't do anything bad to me right?"<p>Some of the other stories have been from people who turned out to be doing things - e.g. cryptocurrency trading - where I can kind of see why their finance providers would maybe get suspicious of illegal activity. We (Ritza) just offer technical writing services, which means we get paid by a few customers around the world every month and pay out contractors also around the world. We're headquartered in the Netherlands, not Cayman Islands or Mauritius or anything dodgy, and we pay out to people mainly in South Africa.<p>Posting as a warning to others, but also if you know of any alternatives to Wise that serve EU businesses I am all ears. I tried Revolut Business and Airwallex and got a generic "We can't offer you services at this time and you can't appeal and we can't tell you why" rejection from both of them. I would love to know if I'm on some kind of list and how I got there if I am.<p>https://x.com/sixhobbits/status/1714531389326979112?s=20<p>https://x.com/sixhobbits/status/1713084385585504359
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Title: I'm asking both from a technical perspective, and from a mental perspective. From the technical side, are there programming languages that, due to things like code syntax or structure, are either especially good or especially bad because of having to be read through a screen reader?<p>And when it comes to just being able to grok the code, are there languages that are simply easier to keep a mental model of than others? Are there properties, attributes, or types of languages that you would tend to gravitate towards? For example, are functional languages easier or more difficult to keep in your head than a procedural language? Is it even any different from a sighted programmer who can see a whole screen's worth of code at a glance? From my position of ignorance, I could see arguments for or against any language, but would appreciate the perspective of anyone that actually has experience with this.
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Title: Is this some accidental artifact, or intentional?<p>It strains the eye, it is pain to read asks for example.
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Title: Greeting Hackers,<p>I recently acquired a very uncommon PlayStation 1 devkit and I've set about a personal sidequest to write a _very basic_ PSOne game.<p>I've started by prototyping in JavaScript/canvas and am now porting it to C/SDL. Once that's done I aim to port the C code to use the PSX C SDKs.<p>As well as hobbyism, I'm doing this to understand C better and at least grasp the practices of C programmers, even if I end up seldom writing C myself.<p>With that out of the way, what practices are good to internalise working in a C project?<p>- What footguns do you often see beginners trip over?<p>- Do you use prefixes like g_ or p_ for globals / pointers?<p>- What's your "approach" to modularisation in C? Do you prefix non-static function names to mark them as being part of a package?<p>- What are your preferred patterns for ensuring all allocations are eventually freed?<p>- What IDEs do people use for hobbyist C projects? Right now I am editing in VSCode, which is okay, but a little limited<p>- Will I be "okay" in the real world using more "recent" C features like VLAs? Or are these typically proscribed?<p>- Does it generally matter how I do error handling, so long as it isn't setjmp / longjmp?<p>- Are there any tools that will help me avoid many footguns or UB? I am compiling with -Wall -Wextra -Wpedantic, and using "leaks" on MacOS.<p>Any advice from C programmers new or seasoned is a help!
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Title: I enjoy calculating hard integrals and would like to master it. I just started with my master in physics, so I would love to see some "next-level" techniques.
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Title: Hey HN! Alex & Jess here, cofounders at Pier (<a href="https://www.pier-finance.com">https://www.pier-finance.com</a>). Pier is an API for launching credit products. We enable any company to offer credit by handling origination, underwriting, compliance and servicing with just a few lines of code.<p>There’s no ‘try it out’ link, primarily because (as most fintech devs know) there are compliance and regulatory thresholds that make it hard for us to give out sandbox keys freely. However, we’ve put together this video to show you the basics of how Pier works: <a href="https://www.loom.com/share/04883eb17f394b46a67cce919cb77356" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.loom.com/share/04883eb17f394b46a67cce919cb77356</a>.<p>Alex & I worked together at our last company, a credit tech startup, where we saw how businesses struggle to launch credit products quickly & compliantly, due to fragmented solutions and high compliance hurdles. We’ve talked to many companies looking to launch their own product, and are taking our learnings from before to build a modular, flexible credit stack.<p>Credit is highly complex and requires a dedicated team -—and few people specialize in this. Unlike social apps where you can launch with a 70% product and iterate over time, credit is heavily regulated and needs to be done 100% right from the beginning. When you factor this in with federal and state regulations across 50 states, the tech stack and compliance hurdles become too time-consuming and expensive for companies to build in-house, especially for fast-moving teams trying to build innovative products. We’re talking 9-12 months of buildout and millions of dollars. This is what most companies struggle with and it’s why we’re valuable to them.<p>Our credit infrastructure gives developers the freedom of not having to worry about the details of managing a credit program. Using Pier, they can offer credit to their users without ever directing them outside their app. Our API powers it all under the hood (see API docs: <a href="https://pier-dev.readme.io" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://pier-dev.readme.io</a>)<p>For example, a business (say "ACME") has a user who comes to their platform & applies for a loan. That user stays on ACME’s platform and is never redirected to a 3rd party. ACME owns the entire UX from presenting loan offer, to signing loan docs, to disbursing funds, sending statements and collecting payments. What ACME doesn’t have to deal with is any of the back end. Each part of this flow is powered by Pier API.<p>We support the full credit lifecycle from loan origination to loan servicing. Want to generate a loan doc for a specific credit offer & user? We've an endpoint that creates a pdf to present to the user, and ensures it doesn’t violate any laws for the state the user is in. Want to retrieve loan balance, generate loan statement or process loan payment? We've API endpoints for that too.<p>There're existing products that solve parts of the credit stack, such as KYC & underwriting, but nothing that solves the credit stack end-to-end. Credit is different from payments and banking-—those are 1x activities, while loan terms are for 12 months or more. We see “credit” as a living-and-breathing creature that evolves throughout each loan’s life cycle due to a variety of behaviors, hence requires an end-to-end solution to properly address.<p>Since launching a few months ago, we’ve onboarded several customers and have live loan traffic on our platform. Our existing customers use Pier to provide a wide variety of credit products to their users, including BNPL for wedding, credit builder, BNPL for clean energy, salary advance loans, portfolio line of credit, etc.<p>Pricing - Monthly min Saas fee ($7-20k/mth), and a usage fee of 0.2-1.0% of loan volume for origination and servicing. This largely depends on the credit program and loan volume.<p>We’re building devtools to enable the next-gen of credit products, with our goal to make credit more accessible to everyone! We’re super eager to get your feedback — What’s your experience building in fintech/credit? What can we do to make this better? Anything else that comes to mind? Thank you!
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Title: I'm looking for examples of web games with slick animations and / or an elegant aesthetic. Think 'Two Dots' or 'Monument Valley'. Bonus points if your example performs well on mobile as well.
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Title: A lot of devs I know are excited about Cloud Development Environments (CDEs) like GitHub Codespaces, Gitpod, Codeanywhere, Coder, Replit, and CodeSandbox. They seem great, and simplify many aspects of the dev workflow: easy to onboard onto new projects, everyone on the project stays in sync, etc.<p>But I rarely hear of actual teams using them; it's usually individuals using CDEs for side projects.<p>Are you using a CDE at work? Would love to hear about your experience.
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Title: Wise Business has changed the number of our USD account on a very short notice - just two weeks. The message was "Your old account details will continue to work until October 31, 2023. After that, any payments sent to these details will automatically be refunded to the sender. And any direct debits using these details will fail."<p>I can't believe how irresponsible and unwise (pun intended) this is.<p>We use(d) Wise to receive payments from enterprise customers. These payments are frequently made on a NET 30 or NET 60 term. The account number is registered in many procurement systems of our customers. Changing it is a huge hassle, and what's worse - there is absolutely no guarantee that it won't happen again.<p>Don't use Wise Business for receiving payments. Always assume that your account numbers can change at any moment on a short notice.
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Title: Trying to decide what books to bring with me on my upcoming trip.
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Title: Code is still in pre-alpha but is perfectly usable, what do you think we can do better ?
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Title: IMG.LY's popular background removal js library is now available for NodeJS.
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Title: Autotab is a Chrome extension that writes Selenium code to mirror your actions as you navigate the browser. See it in action: <a href="https://youtu.be/UypAcozIaoo" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://youtu.be/UypAcozIaoo</a><p>Autotab lets you create browser automations that actually work. We designed it around two principles:<p><pre><code> 1. Show, don’t tell: In a domain like web automation, it's often easier to *show* the model what you want rather than to explain it in sentences.
2. Code is the best output: Code is easy to inspect and enables manual tweaking of the model’s suggested actions. On top of that, code output avoids lock in and is straightforward to extend and integrate with larger projects.
</code></pre>
Autotab runs as a Chrome extension. As you navigate in the browser, autotab generates the Selenium code to reproduce your actions. You can copy that code into your own project or use our starter GitHub repo to get your automation up and running in <5 minutes: <a href="https://github.com/Planetary-Computers/autotab-starter">https://github.com/Planetary-Computers/autotab-starter</a>.<p>We'd love to hear what you think!
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Title: 3D-to-photo is an open source tool for Generative AI product photography, that uses 3D models to allow fine camera angle control in generated images.<p>If you have 3D models created using the iOS 3D scanner you can upload them directly on to 3D-to-photo and describe the scene you want to create. For example:<p>"on a city side walk"
"near a lake, overlooking the water"<p>Then click "generate" to get the final images.<p>The tech stack behind 3D-to-photo:<p>Handling 3d models on the web: @threejs
Hosting the diffusion model: @replicate
3D scanning apps: shopify,Polycam3D or LumaLabsAI
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Title: If so, how’d that work out? Advice?
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Title: Your own browser extension to get rid of unwanted social media feed! 5 minutes to setup, hours saved.
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Title: Ok, first let me classify companies that offer these services.
Tier1: Twilio, Plivio, MessgBird, Vonage, Amazon SNS
Tier 2: Alternatives for these
Tier 3: More Alternatives, but geo based and also focussed on bulk SMS as primary offering<p>Now, ì do not want to get into Tier 2 also as the API approach ad DX is not available compared to how it is with Tier1. Also I don’t want to risk my customers phone numbers with providers who do not have good support and privacy handling features.<p>There are couple or more apps that I am building where I like the simplicity of SMS. I don’t have to request for push notification permissions, I do not need an app on the stores to push relevant info and updates.
Most basic User signup. If user does not want to use the phone, then maybe the service is not for them. And then occasional updates on Direct messages on the platform. (Order completion, delivery instructions, Direct Messages from users etc.) I see most of these as small messages only if they ever did take actions on the platform.<p>However, based on my initial calculations, even with 1000 users signing up.
Allowing SMS code input and DM messages or info messages, these can reach a number of close to 300 to 500 Euros or Dollars monthly. This is including alpa numeric sending options. Where I do not allow messages to be replied back.<p>When I started programming SMS was the cheapest option. Now I feel it has become expensive
However I still see small and big companies using these options.
1. Are there other alternatives I am not seeing?
2. Since my volume of push and sending is low, I do not want to ask users push notification and scare them away
3. What other options can we see here.
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Title: I constantly see people complaining about ticketmaster with scalping, nasty business tactics, broken interfaces, etc. and they get sued left and right after countless big events.<p>Yet even with all that, it seems no competitor has been able to reasonably get off the ground and poise a viable alternative. What gives? What's their moat/why do they have a monopoly?
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Title: We're considering adopting Luau for our project (a platform where users create games with cubes and Lua scripts). We're pretty happy with Lua already, but Luau brings type annotations and performance improvements while remaining backwards compatible with Lua 5.1.
Luau's been developped by Roblox, open sourced in 2020, and still mostly used by Roblox apparently.
Timing would be good for us if we decide to switch to Luau, but still, feedback from others who've been through the same Lua to Luau transition would be very helpful.
Any ideas? Are we crazy to even consider this?
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Title: Hey there! Just released a project I've been working on for a bit which uses Remotion and other awesome tech. It let's you create code animations by simply entering a series of code snippets and exporting them to popular video formats.<p>Let me know if anyone has feedback!
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Title: Subaru partnered with a service called STARLINK which shares your location in the event of collisions, among other things.<p>STARLINK intermittently tries to phone home by hitting 3G towers.<p>Now that 3G is shutting down, the digital communications module (DCM) gets stuck in an infinite loop of<p>1. Phone home, expending battery charge
2. Fail, because 3G doesn't work anymore
3. Go back to step 1<p>This effectively remotely drains the battery of every Subaru Outback built between 2015 and 2020.<p>Even if you drive your car every day, its battery will die and you won't be able to start it.<p>Other models are probably affected, too.<p>There was a class action lawsuit. But this is a pretty egregious engineering oversight, given they were still producing defective cars in 2020, hardly two years before 3G flipped off.<p>Will a brand ever produce a reliable, mechanical car? Why should 3G towers have anything to do with my car being able to start?
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Title: Not sure how long these feeds have been broken, just noticed today. I used per-user RSS feeds to follow a few posters who generally write on subjects I'm interested in, but now they aren't resolving.<p>Typically used this format:
https://hn.algolia.com/userfeed/<username><p>Is there an alternative available or is the RSS option gone permanently?
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Title: Used to use trix but my current project is CMS-like, so I think I need better WYSIWYG HTML based editor<p>atleast I need to be as useful as wordpress article editor<p>for extra note I think I will built the project using ruby on rails, if anyone have stack suggestions, please tell me I will happy to have that
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Title: Recently I have noticed that when using DuckDuckGo to search, it's returning unrelated 'news' in my results. For example, I just searched < circle.co video calls > and in the first page of results got links related to the war and Speaker votes. This has been happening generally now when I search using DDG. (I'll put a link in the comments to an image)
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Title: Would love to hear from the folks who have been looking for a new role.<p>What strategies are they using to find a new role and how much success have they had in terms of landing an interview
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Title: I remember when hackerspaces were in every major city, and quite a few medium sized cities also had them.<p>Now, most are gone, for various reasons.<p>What gives?
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Title: pypipe is a command-line tool for writing data pipelines in Python. When working with data processing in the terminal, I often find myself wanting to pass the output of commands to Python for further processing. In such cases, one can either write one-liners or create regular Python scripts and connect them through pipes. However, using pypipe makes this process more convenient and efficient.
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Title: About seven years ago, HN veterans 'elptacek, 'patio11 and 'tptacek launched an hiring startup called Starfighter.
Their approach aimed to shift away from traditional interviews and instead employ a CTF/Microcorruption kind of test, inspired by 'tptacek experience at Matasano.
Unfortunately, Starfighter eventually wound down.<p>Was there ever any post-mortem written on Starfighter? If not, would 'elptacek, 'patio11 and 'tptacek be willing to provide any details?
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Title: Startup founders/employees, how's it going?<p>I know that VC funding has been harder to come by lately, and the "macroeconomic environment" may not be helping either.<p>I just want to know, for founders/employees at startups, how have things been going?<p>Has growth kept on track? Are you worried about your next round?
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