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Show HN: GSoftApp – Build end-to-end app from a prompt
Hi HN,
I am Garik, Co-founder of GSoftApp. I have spent the last few years developing a low-code framework for building end-to-end apps. I have always been traditional engineer, and as many of us, would not go close to low-code platforms because of their limitations. After all us engineers want to have control over what we are building. So I decided to build a fully extensible low-code framework, which means now anyone can have their own low-code platform, in your own development environment.

Key features

- Bootstrap your own self-hosted (or cloud-based) low-code platform in seconds

- Build technology-agnostic applications: Works with any database, file storage, you can set up your own security etc.

- Create and package modular solutions: these are your reusable building blocks

- Deploy in microservices environments

I made sure in the framework nothing is hard-coded and everything is dynamically generated as metadata. As a sneak peek, here is our recent AI implementation, where you build end-to-end app from a prompt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaZ9vgr1oD0

Would love to hear your thoughts and see if it would be useful to you. AMA!

Thanks!
I feel like it used to work better than before. I don't just mean "and they all had more of the restaurants" I mean there will be a ton of restaurants in the map and Google Maps will only pick about half to make red when I click "Restaurants". It'd make some sense as a density problem but it still shows the restaurant markers, just with orange labels instead of red ones!
Deluded + bots.
The $100 price point seems strange to me. For many, things in the $20-$50 range are an easy impulse buy. This is now just barely in the $100-$200 range, which puts it up against Apple's and Nvidia's offerings.
About to collapse? How so?
> Do you really believe you can conclude this from your personal observations?

My experience is admittedly anecdata.

> The company has all the data on theft. At the end of the day, they are motivated by profit.

One of the modern fallacies that we've all fallen victim to at one point or another is that "more data" == "logical action".

> Don’t you think they ran the numbers and found that locking items to prevent crime, even if it’s an additional barrier to paying customers, was better for business?

It prevents an aspect of shrink that they can control through an affordable means, that does not mean that it is the vast majority of shrink.

Companies are short term irrational thinkers. Thank the market for that. If they can lock everything up and say "You can expect a reduction in shrink, please pay me and my shareholders", they will. That's easier than locking up employee thieves, which is even easier than actually trying to fight Amazon (who is eating their revenue/lunch).
The Nintendo 3DS is presumably (with over 75 million units sold) the most popular camera that takes 3D photos in the MPO format. Unfortunately, the original 3DS's cameras are rather poor: absolutely dreadful dynamic range and tons of color noise. However, they did improve the cameras on the New Nintendo 3DS, which I've never owned. I've even considered making some homebrew to apply computational photography techniques on the 3DS to reduce noise and improve dynamic range, but I'm not at a point in my life where I can justify that right now.

I was looking at my old 3DS photos just recently, and there's not much software to read MPO files, so this project looks pretty darn cool and I'll be checking it out.

Something that I'm sure some people aren't aware of is that the 3DS's 640x480 photos don't match the resolution or aspect ratio of the 15:9 400x240 (800x240, but halved horizontally for 3D) screen, so the 3DS photo gallery actually shows photos zoomed in by default. If you didn't know this, now you can revisit your 3DS photos and see extra photo for free by pulling down on the circle pad.

Edit: I should mention - I did say that there's not much software that reads MPO files, but one program that does is StereoPhoto Maker.
https://stereo.jpn.org/eng/stphmkr/index.html
I haven't tried it out yet, but it supports aligning and batch-processing 3D images, among other features.
I'm not saying that at all.
I'd argue that it is a consideration, but other factors still cause the purchase. Things aren't black and white in real life as they are in an economic theory. People can financially support something for a plethora of reasons: Their friends are on there, they're psychologically affected by the FOMO that the game studio has hired psychologists to maximize (this really happens), the game itself is outstandingly fun (all the more reason to not want it killed arbitrarily). It may seem counter intuitive, but giving money to something does not necessarily mean that you support every facet of it unquestioningly. I think it's totally fine to say you enjoy a game but hate that it's going to be killed, then still buy it so you can at least enjoy it before it gets killed.

Doubly so in this case where the perverse incentive to kill games that game studios have doesn't depend on how well a game does. They have every incentive to kill every old game they make regardless of how well it does because they always want to sell you their new game no matter what. Not buying a game won't make it not die.
It's not an "older gaming system", but developing maps and mods for the original half-life goldsrc engine was great
This is crazy and amazing, thanks for sharing.

I now want Matt Parker to do a video about it.

He loves both spreadsheets and hexagons.
We have 5 Chromecasts with Android TV and they all work perfectly. We really only use Plex, Youtube, Netflix and a few other streaming apps, but none of them has any problems. It sounds like your problems with Chromecast are due to the rest of your network infrastructure and not the Chromecast.
> Without going into too much detail, Stealth also establishes VPN connections in a specific and unique way that avoids alerting internet filters.

I began mistrusting Proton some time ago with their hit piece on RAM-only VPN server confirming my bias.

Let's assume any adversary interested in reversing that new protocol, what's the point of not being transparent on how this new and fancy obfuscation works.

The TOR project has a lot of innovation in censorship circumvention[1] while still being transparent to their userbase.

[1] https://snowflake.torproject.org/
SAP Core AI bugs allowed access to internal network servers, say researchers
In that regard, his argument that corporate entities are illegally censoring X for political views flies in the face of the SCOTUS opinion in Citizens United.

Ironic since Citizens United enables billionaires like Musk to use their corporate entities to engage in political speech. Musk is just a child who expects the world to bow down in his presence.
At the bottom:

>Acknowledgements
Structured Outputs takes inspiration from excellent work from the open source community: namely, the outlines, jsonformer, instructor, guidance, and lark libraries.

It is cool to see them acknowledge this, but it's also lame for a company named "OpenAI" to acknowledge getting their ideas from open source, then contributing absolutely NOTHING back to open source with their own implementation.
I find modeling to be super intractable. I've sat down several times to attempt a project and I always get super fixated on details. It's seldom good enough for me to just make it look right, I want it to be technically correct. A pic-rail needs to be modeled to spec, dimensions need to be correct. All the shader functions need to be tuned to the real world measurements. Of course I have to model the mechanism! And the geometry needs to be manifold and the topology needs to be technically perfect... It tends towards a crash course every time.

With that said I love it, I've learned so much just toying around with the software: optics, material science, psychology, illusion, compsci, math... Not to mention the actual artistry of CG which is so diverse. And I find overall it facilitates a unique form of reasoning. It's a confluence of a dozen different disciplines and it's a great playground for the ADHD mind if one isn't fixated on productivity.
> [0] The article says Wireguard is easy to block, but in my experience GFW lets it through.

For some time. After a while, the connection eventually gets blocked or throttled. The annoying thing about understanding the GFW is that it's not quite deterministic.
How does llama.cpp’s grammar adherence work?

Does it keep validating the predicted tokens and backtrack when it’s not valid?
Can you make an OTE environment so we can test without payment or needing to contact you?
Haha whoops

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/06/nyregion/pharmacies-vacan...
I strongly agree with this, but in a pinch, have been super helpful helping folks get Plan B when it absolutely must be delivered to an Amazon locker tomorrow (and a barcode/locker code provided to someone in need) hundreds or thousands of miles away. Their last mile game is solid, but the supply chain security and provenance leaves much to be desired.
>but it’s good for everyone else.

Probably not good for the two parties negotiating the lease though
> A lot of my thinking has been around "descope the web".

I thought so too.

> Downloads not related to a HTML file work over FTP or BitTorrent.

It is not related to whether or not the file is HTML; protocols such as HTTP and Gemini can still be used to download any kinds of files (and I think the range requests is a good feature of HTTP for this purpose; my own Scorpion protocol also has range requests, but unlike HTTP it does not allow multiple ranges per request and does not have range units other than bytes).

For some kinds of large files, BitTorrent would help. However, I think there are many problems with FTP, so I would not want to use that.

> Interactive apps (e.g. Spotify) can run over SSH or (gasp) run locally.

Yes. Using interactive protocols such as SSH, Telnet, etc, are good ideas, and local programs are also good ideas.

(A local program (and even a HTML-based web app) are not always usable on all computers and there may be security issues, but there are ways around these things; simple and limited VM codes can easily ignore them. Having them for multiple systems available, having FOSS (so that you can compile it yourself, view the code if necessary, and modify it if necessary (whether it is needed to work on your system or because what you want the program to do is different from what the existing implementation does)), operating system design, etc, can also help.)

> Forums like HN or Reddit move to NNTP.

Yes. I think it is a good idea.

> I find that the essence of "the Web" is basically wikis.

It is something that HTTP could work well with, if used in a better way (rather than adding the webapps and that stuff on top of HTTP that is used by Wikipedia and other wikis like that). However, to work better for a wiki, an additional command should be added into HTTP, which would be a HISTORY command; that is the only function that seems to be missing when using HTTP directly. (HTTP already has such things as: PUT, If-Match, etc.)

However, even then, it could be designed better; there are still problems with it. (Furthermore, protocols other than HTTP may also potentially be suitable, maybe.)
I'm sorry. That's a triple negative like "no, no, no", an absolute denial.
> not everyone values the same things

Pardon? We don't all value human lives? I'm not sure we're having the same conversation if your attitude to pollution is "that's just your opinion"

These things are objectively measurable. I don't even know where to begin, your comment is so odd to read idk if I'm misunderstanding you or what part of climate warming leading to all sorts of issues virtually everywhere, air pollution leading to health issues and premature deaths, the ongoing mass extinction that threatens our food system, etc. you're unaware of
How about the tile data of a strategy game?
Cool and interesting. Thank you for sharing on HN.

As Nash proved, under very general conditions (e.g., payoffs are finite), in every game there's always at least one equilibrium, i.e., at least one fixed point.

Alas, as Papadimitriou proved in the 90's, finding Nash equilibria is PPAD-complete.[a][b]

So, as games get larger and more complex -- say, with rules and payoffs that evolve over time -- finding equilibria can become... intractable: There will always exist at least one Nash equilibrium, but you'll never be able to reach it. Simulation may well be the only way to model such games.

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[a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPAD_(complexity)

[b] There's a great intro lecture on this by Papadimitriou himself at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUbfCY_8Dzs
Is this just a brand name for tunneling traffic over TLS on port 443 (which has been a thing for decades) or am I missing something here?
I do agree. If persistent heroic acts are a requirement to keep any system running, then let's allocate resources to determine why that's the case and how the system can be changed into something more resilient.
How does search make them money? They are paying everyone to be their default search. Isn't search just an input of data to push ads based on the search as well as taking the user with more metrics based on the search query?
Avgas (most commonly 100LL) continues to spew out lead, which was phased out for cars in 1996 in the US, is a major pollutant.

[1] https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-determines-lead-emissio...
[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/leaded-gas-wa...
https://www.framefounder.com/unveiling-the-secrets-of-rotosc...

> Rotoscoping is the process of tracing over live-action footage frame-by-frame to create accurate and detailed mattes or masks.. ensuring a seamless blend between the foreground and background.. requires a keen eye for detail and patience, as it can be a time-consuming process.. Rotoscoping plays a crucial role in integrating visual effects seamlessly into live-action footage. Artists meticulously trace elements like explosions, fire, or magical effects to match the movements and perspectives of the scene. This process ensures the VFX elements appear natural and believably interact with the real-world elements.

Feb 2024, https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09883

> ..automatically synthetise retro-style 2D animations from videos. The method approaches the challenge mainly as an object segmentation and tracking problem. Video frames are processed with the Segment Anything Model (SAM) and the resulting masks are tracked through subsequent frames with DeAOT, a method of hierarchical propagation for semi-supervised video object segmentation. The geometry of the masks' contours is simplified with the Douglas-Peucker algorithm. Finally, facial traits, pixelation and a basic shadow effect can be optionally added. The results show that the method exhibits an excellent temporal consistency and can correctly process videos with different poses and appearances, dynamic shots, partial shots and diverse backgrounds.

Apr 2023, [SAM 1] "Segment Anything Model and the hard problems of computer vision", 52 comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35558522

Jul 2024, "SAM 2: Segment Anything in Images and Videos", 147 comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41104523
That must have been a very long time ago.
That’s an interesting point. I think use without permission would work in my method since the source model is identified by it. They could put a public ledger of which ones are in use, too, if they wanted.

The training thing is outside the scope of my proposal. It’s amusing, though, since all major models infringed on copyrighted works when I surveyed them a year or so ago. They wanted people to obey their terms, like credit or no knowledge distillation. The same companies would illegally copy 1TB+ of others’ work without blinking. Is it even really their I.P. in that case?

So, I decided not to get involved in securing I.P. often built on infringed I.P.. The other proposal is more like stopping fraud against consumers.
No. Many, perhaps most US major cities have suburban type zoning all over the place.
Not really, revenue seems to have fallen but not so much and it's growing again according to this: https://www.businessofapps.com/data/twitter-statistics/

2014 1.4
2015 2.2
2016 2.5
2017 2.4
2018 3
2019 3.4
2020 3.7
2021 5
2022 4.4
2023 3.4

Number of users is actually larger than ever now:

2015 304
2016 313
2017 310
2018 298
2019 312
2020 347
2021 362
2022 401
2023 421

I think everyone can agree this looks nothing like "collapse".
Rule 0 for backups: Whatever scheme you use, periodically verify your backups by restoring some files off them. Before you have a problem. You'll thank yourself eventually.
Absolutely +1!

I love Chromecast on vacations for the same reason: I can continue using my subscriptions without logging my account into the hosts TV.
Parody site ClownStrike refused to bow to CrowdStrike's bogus DMCA takedown
In politics generally, there's much more incentive for a small interest group to lobby[1] or advocate for a policy that provides a concentrated benefit to the group, than there is for the whole population to fight back to eliminate the small per-capita cost of the policy to the population. Also, many of the voters in SF have at least progressive sympathies, which include not "oppressing" groups that are seen to be "oppressed", even if they happen to break the law or make life unpleasant. So lots of money is spent in an ineffective but superficially compassionate way.

[1] In the broadest sense, not at all restricted to professional political lobbyists.
It's pretty undeniable that the bot problem is significantly worse than it was before Musk. (I'm not going to take a position on the value of any of the other changes to the product.)
Japanese also has that distinction: kore, sore, are

https://wp.stolaf.edu/japanese/grammar-index/genki-i-ii-gram...
I miss HTTP/1.1. Yeah it’s slow, but it’s dead simple to implement. HTTP/2/3 are way more bloated and complex.
Reproducible Builds for macOS
GPT is still a language model, so at some point it's still just tokens.

Is this just a schema validation layer on their end to avoid the round trip (and cost) of repeating the call?
Yeah, because that works...
This take is so uninformed it's ridiculous:

They released a refreshed Model X and Model S in 2021, a refreshed Model 3 in 2023, and the Cybertruck in 2023/2024. FSD 12 was also released in 2024. Most of the world does not care about Elon Musk's political opinions, and the fact that some people do is a testament to how unhinged everyone is in 2024. The Cybertruck is terrible based on what? It's an incredible piece of technology, and everyone who owns one loves it.

Twitter is a dumpster fire—fine. I couldn't care less about Twitter, but at least it's not heavily moderated like its competitors. If you don't like Twitter, don't use it. SpaceX is very successful by every metric, even without Starship.
Except that spammers have the incentive to spend months figuring out and normal people don't. So the spammers prevail anyway.
There are many. For example, you're leaving your home computer and going to work. Save a link and see what's going on there. The same for remote desktops.

Another use case if when you have a long-running meeting, and still need to share. I found I sometimes just do not sit and listen for those 1-2 hours meetings, but prefer to code.

And for those of us who just don't like audio, like myself. I have many students who I am willing to help, but I don't wanna get audio-involved. My voice chat is not a very parallelable resource.
I think I first saw the concept of a 3D spreadsheet in Quattro Pro.

The following link seems to confirm this :

https://www.kstreetstudio.com/science/sams/qpro/concept.html
A lot of the locales where commercial is underwater are the same locales where residential prices are through the roof. This is because of decades of regulatory capture by the housing cartel. Supply has been strangled through various land-use regulations, particularly height and volume limits, byzantine red tape, and the anti-sprawl push.

Now many of those municipalities are flirting with residential conversion of commercial buildings. Obviously this only works in the densest areas, but would be a great exit plan for many properties. If the regulations were streamlined enough, it could take a nice bite out of the residential pyramid scheme.

Which is why these plans are being sabotaged behind the scenes. Conversion is pretty much guaranteed to be limited to a trickle. Commercial owners have a lot less political leverage than the residential cartel.
That's not how a bankruptcy works. In a bankruptcy, the company is owned by the creditors and gets resolved by them. Usually a business will attempt to avoid bankruptcy by filing Chapter 11[1] or similar so they get to propose a plan for restructuring that will pay back the creditors over time, but their actions as debtor in posession are scrutinized by the US trustee to ensure they meet a fiduciary obligation to the debtors, and the debtors can file a court case to appeal both the chap 11 and can try to get the debtor kicked out and a trustee appointed if they aren't acting in their interests.

[1] https://www.uscourts.gov/services-forms/bankruptcy/bankruptc...
Yeah, but what percentage of drug store purchases fall into that category? I'd guess not very much.
Give, not sell. They (and I, and many others) received that box for free as part of a promo.
That's why ssh config allows setting up alias names for servers.
The "Chromecast with Google TV (4k)" is $50 to this device's $100. $50 is a really attractive price point, $100 immediately feels less like a casual buy. The previous device was also a nice tiny dongle, not requiring any real estate (great for the "TV hanging on the wall with no console" types), while this is a set top box. This feels like a huge step back for new purchasers.

It's not going to drive upgraders either?

More memory, better chipset - These are weird, hard sells for normal people. The previous device could already play 4k HDR streams as well as anything. It improves loading times of apps? So what? You can download more apps? Most TV apps are sized on the order of tens of megabytes, why do I need more storage?

AI features. I don't want any of these, who wants any of these? AI summaries: Shows already have summaries, but now I guess I can have them written by a machine instead. AI screensavers: You have to be kidding, that's not a selling point. I also assume all of this could have been a software update on the old device since it's probably on-cloud.

Smart home features. Again, they could just been a software update? And who wants to turn on their TV and browse through their Google TV's interface to get to their smart light controls or whatever? We have phones and we have voice assistants already.

I just can't understand this. Am I missing something?
> Yes, there's blocks in the East Village where people are clearly selling stuff on the sidewalk they only recently stole from the nearby pharmacy/bodega/grocery.

Who said that there wasn't? Prior to current history, people sold boosted goods out of the back of cars or in the back of the same bodegas.

> The recent double stabbing near 14th & 1st was a mentally ill guy in a drug deal dispute in which he was paying via stolen merchandise. People interviewed described him as a regular who would barter his stolen goods for whatever he needed (in the NYT before someone accuses me of reading the wrong sources).

This still is not a brazen robbery, so it doesn't address what I said at all. Addicts have been fighting and killing each other in this city for literally decades.
Well, luckily whenever that happens, someone asks "wtf is going on?" and the entire comment thread fills with all the context you could possibly need
It’s misleading to call it an “email platform” you can self-host though.