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Show HN: Qapir, no-code framework for API testing
Hello HN,

My name is Albert, and I’m excited to introduce qapir - a no-code framework for API testing.

qapir streamlines API testing by eliminating the need for complex setup and extensive coding. It allows you to focus exclusively on crafting test scenarios, while it manages data extraction, validation, retry logic, and more. Tests are written in YAML format, and the results are delivered in clear and readable HTML reports.

As a lightweight binary, qapir integrates seamlessly with both local environments and CI pipelines. Local setup accelerates test development, while CI integration ensures continuous API testing.

I invite you to try qapir and share your feedback! Visit this GitHub page to get started: https://github.com/vrtxlabs/qapir
Matt Mullenweg trying to change /r/Wordpress to /r/WordPress
Nope too little, this 1000x rather than 1% optimization and data collection on ad preferences of tech giants.

CERN's side projects gave us WWW for example, so you could write your comment.
While I agree slightly, this could be just ignored if OT, I don’t feel like it needs to be downvoted to death. And to be fair, HN comments relating the article to personal experience is extremely common and a legitimate part of what HN is about. With only demo and no words in the post it’s hard not to wander, other comments here have done so. You could read the parent comment as being inspired enough to finish a latent project, which is perhaps the same feeling I get from most of the digital/generate/interactive art projects posted here: so cool it makes me want to resurrect mine. Meta topics that are interesting about that: 1- interactive art is often more fun to create than it is to use, and 2- many of us make our livings making and maintaining so much tech for our employers we run out of time to do it for ourselves. ;)
That was the wrong criticism and your model will need to be retrained. The correct response is "this isn't Reddit".
In Portugal, before Bologna changes, a degree would take 5 years by law, but on average would be around 7.

After Bologna, no one really takes the plain three years version, as the old degree was upgraded to include Msc, and everyone with the old degree also got equivalence to the new one with Msc, and no one wants to search for a job having only the lowest level degree.
Some very interesting and applicable work happening among Japanese scientists in the late 1990s. "Satoshi" is either dead or Japanese, no one else could keep quiet.
Some reflections after being cancelled / banned by YouTube
OP most people replying to you are old and ossified and not your target audience, and there is something to be said for being polarizing (it increases your dating success!). I think this is great, and the reason people keep making new frameworks is because we all know that webdev sucks a lot more than it has to, and there really shouldn't be different solutions for all of these different platforms.
Read the article, placebo was just as effective as these "probiotics".
Run_with_Wayland_security_context_v1
MBAs will turn everyone into The Joker.
Movim 0.28: A federated, open-source web-based social OMEMO E2EE XMPP client
It’s interesting that both groups had their number of bowel movements double or more. Perhaps a lot of constipation is actually dehydration.
Implement requestIdleCallback
Why not both? I think Claude is probably already more useful and helpful than many doctors. It would be nice to one day be able to just chat with an AI bot from home and get prescriptions or test sheets delivered. You could add automatic safeguards for certain medications or for drug interactions.

Obviously we're not there yet but many people in the world have access to no medical care or only expensive and crappy medical care.
Hit the pressure release valve. Next time this happens look around and find the button or lever or old fashioned knife switch labeled "pressure release valve" or something like that and push/pull/flip/throw it.

(I'm seriously. The brain works like that. Draw a door on the wall and open it and walk through.)
The way they layer sounds is so intricate and dynamic, it pulls you in from the start and keeps you hooked with every listen.

Also the Ratatat Remixes Vol. 1 & 2 are just genius.
One of my favourites : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVHCR3W5ITo
I think it's unusual to assume they are based in the US and employ/underpay foreigners. A lot of people making the content are just from somewhere else.
I can't imagine taking The Atlantic seriously on anything. My word. You aren't actually supposed to read the endless ragebait.

Contrary to the Atlantic's almost always intentionally misleading framing, the "dot com boom" did in fact go on to print trillions later and it is still printing them. After what was an ultimately marginal if account clearing dip for many.

I say that as someone who would be deemed to be an Ai pessimist, by many.

But its wildly early to declare anything to be "what it is" and only that, in terms of ultimate benefit. Just like it was and is wild to declare the dot com boom to be over.
Politicians used to resign because of the expectation that they'd be voted out, in turn because of the expectation that the media would inform the voters of their mendacity.

The media has become so partisan that each side will attack the other with equal ferocity regardless of who was right on a particular issue, so now the politicians roll the dice and most of the time they still get reelected right after their own misbehavior.

The question is why the media continues to do this, given that they are clearly not benefiting from it -- their viewership/readership numbers are in the toilet, a lot of them have already gone out of business and the others are on the same trajectory.

I suspect it's something like, they've cultivated a partisan audience and if they now try to be neutral, they short-term lose partisans faster than they gain moderates and then some MBA who can't think past next quarter insists that they stop.

But returning to the original intercept course with the ground is hardly a genius plan.
This is about Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis.

Personally I take L. Reuteri supplements, which for me have made an unbelievable difference in suffering from IBS symptoms (and have some clinical evidence to support having an effect). This was a result a recommendation somewhere else on HN about 2 years ago now, so I'll pass it forward whenever the topic comes up.

In my experience it took about 3 months to see effects (during which time I did feel somewhat worse), and currently if something happens - i.e. I get sick - then there's a bit of reversion towards feeling bad. But: I was also able to stop taking them for about 6-9 months before it seemed like the effect was diminishing.
Did you RTFA?

"This jaundiced real-estate porn is meant to satirize the housing crunch in cities like Hong Kong and Shanghai, and the commenters are all in on the joke"

I come from a cultural background such that I clued in on this when I first encountered the videos. Is the joke overplayed now? Definitely - but it's not braindead, it's equal parts over-the-top satire and wish fulfilment (if ONLY you could knock out your building's walls and extend your coffin apartment, Kowloon Walled City-style)
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I had the exact opposite experience. when I stopped eating meat I got worse. When I stopped eating vegetables I got better. I’m not saying you shouldn’t eat vegetables, I’m saying your claim isn’t as strong as you think it is and peoples gut issues are different.
Verge Built a Groundbreaking Motorcycle. Is That What Bikers Want?
Is it because Microsoft Word default spellchecker settings?
That also sounds like a recipe for inducing antibiotic resistance in the staph in your nose.
How can I avoid an ER run by private equity?
Must be because Facebook use php
Tiktok is what you consume and IMHO it's far better at this than any other social media.

It can be as simple as watching a video that is a "part 1" and if you watch the whole thing, your fyp will almost certainly show you "part 2" without you having to do anything. Your fyp quickly becomes whatever you interact with. I have gone down so many rabbit holes this way like medical residency Tiktok. I'm not a doctor. I won't ever be a doctor. Do I find this fascinating? Absolutely. Same with, say, people rescuing dogs.

Every other platform I've seen is "global" in the sense that all they really end up doing is pushing their top creators down your throat. Tiktok it seems is the only one that has successfully "localized" their content such that there are top creators on Tiktok that I have never seen a video from.

So I'm not sure where this idea that "Tiktok is extreme brainrot" comes from. If you're seeing garbage on Tiktok, I suspect you either barely or have never used Tiktok.
While I broadly agree that AI metrics have a "lies, damn lies, and statistics" problem that makes it hard to even agree how competent they are, if someone says "robotaxi" then I have no reason to expect they mean anything more nor less than "a taxi with no human driver".

I would be shocked if we're really 50 years away from that level of AI. 50 years is a long time in computing — late 70s computers were still using punched tape:

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NSA_Punch_Verifica...
> Western society is hopelessly locked into and dependent on manufacturing scarcity, and the idea that people have to pay for things.

How do you reconcile that with the fact that Western society has invented, improved, and supplied many of the things we lament that other countries don't have (and those countries also lament it - it's not just our own Stockholm Syndrome).
There's absolutely no evidence that a vegan diet provides a benefit for gut health relative to a diet including meat.
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The article doesn't say how the spray affects the sense of smell, which I'd guess it diminishes or blocks. We evolved that sense for good survival reasons.
I strongly believe this technology is bad
Just wondering, have you ever managed to convert or convince a single person by acting like a stereotypical vegan?
> That means they need to communicate with those programs primarily through the command line interface for invoking a program, which is a very thin bottleneck for interactive feedback.

On the off chance you, or other readers, were not aware, Tcl drives the most famous example of that use case that I know of: https://core.tcl-lang.org/expect/index

While trying to dig up the repo for it, I came across https://github.com/Netflix/go-expect#osexec-example which really highlights your point about "wowzers, what a lot of boilerplate to communicate with a subprocess". I had to deal with a few projects where folks thought that using Python as a "better bash" was a good thing to do, and it, too, was horrific, made worse by the fact that poor subprocess.Popen doesn't have a raise_for_status() equivalent to have it STOP RUNNING if something goes wrong, cheerfully leading to a cascade of errors that is far less likely to happen in bash or likely in Expect, either
Does it affect the sense of smell?
I’m pretty sure the GP was thinking of something having qualities such as "funny", "well-written", or "creative".
The techbro whining about as staid a publication as the Atlantic is truly hilarious. They published some of the first pieces in support of abolition, and now you're upset that they're swinging at the richest grifter in Silicon Valley. Get a grip.
The federal system for allocating power badly needs a rewrite. The number of Representatives hasn’t been adjusted in over 100 years. A Representative from North Dakota represents far fewer people than one from California. The rules of the Senate need to be rewritten. Having one Senator hold up military promotions for a year is absurd. California should have more than 2 senators. Etc.
Anecdotal but I'm on a very strict diet, to the point where I have the same thing every meal, every day. There's certain probiotics I take that help bowel movements and some that slow things down. It's very repeatable and given I eat the same thing every meal every day and I'm on a regular eating and activity schedule that leaves very little other variables.

My guess is that for regular people the benefit is insignificant but it's greater for people with issues (dysbiosis).

And the type of dysbiosis you have will determine the effect of the probiotics. For some it can slow motility or cause constipation and others increase motility or cause diarrhea.

There's so many internal variables with your gut microbiome and there's a general lack of reliable methods to test your microbiome. This makes tests like these really difficult and also makes it difficult to treat digestion issues. Because of this, all gastro doctors can really do is slap on IBS/IBS label but not really have a course of action with any decent success rate.
And that’s not really the same thing. Did someone invent the LED bulb in 1920 and that cartel crushed it? Not really.

In reality, the biggest problem was they had no incentive to invest in new lighting technology research, although they had the money to do so. It takes a lot of effort to develop a new technology, and significantly more to make it practical and affordable.

I think the story of the development of the blue LED which led to modern LED lighting is more illustrative of the real obstacles of technological development.

Companies/managers don't want to invest in R&D bc it’s too uncertain and they typically are more interested in the short term.

And it’s hard for someone without deep technical knowledge to identify a realistic worthwhile technical idea from a bad one. So they focus on what they can understand and what they can quantify ().

And even technical people can fail to properly evaluate ideas that are even slightly outside their area of expertise (or even sometimes the ones that are within it )
> but it is a bias we control through the selection of training data

I don't find this to be very satisfying. It implies that the "bias of the model" is something we can quantify, understand, and control for during training. I'm sure you can come up with canned pat answers about coarse grained biases that have a lot of social valiance, but how do you know the model is weighted towards or against subtle word choices in millions of different scenarios.

People seem to have enough trouble understanding the nuances of texts that are coming from another cultural perspective or form merely 20 years ago. Its a common enough experience to see young people cringing in response to the popular media of 30 years ago, because cultural expectations change, words shift in meaning, the "biases" of society move. LLMs are trained on a mountain of old books, media, internet forms, twitter and facebook posts, etc. How could you ever get a handle on just the "biases" of the training data from the contemporary internet sources, let alone trying to pick apart the backed in cultural assumptions of a bunch of books spanning decades?
This is marked as RESOLVED FIXED now which means the [MDN page] (which links this bug) is outdated.

requestIdleCallback

is now cross-browser. At least... technically.

I could only get it to work on Safari Technology Preview. But [looks like] it should be landing soon. Seems to just be blocked on high CPU on [ARM 7].

[MDN page]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/requ...

[looks like]: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=262551 and https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/30619#issuecomment-222...

[ARM 7]: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/34182
What a bizarre statement in an age when the phrase "executive meddling" can describe the sameness of so much content output, and most of the greatest flops have a story which goes "yeah there were too many people involved".

Like the second Avengers movie had this problem in spades.
Just wait until your successor lets the choice of db leak all over the code base, and their successor gets tasked with changing the db to something else decided by the current management. They will be cursing your name until the end of time.
> I first ran into Tcl on Sparc stations in the mid 90s, and came away with the impression that it was just a bad language. I was implicitly comparing it to Perl

To be fair, I think that Tcl really improved with 8.5 (apply, dict and no more expr). No idea what I would have thought of it if my first encounter had been way before that point.

> I think there's room for a new language which speaks to Tcl's strength as a command language.

As mentioned in the "Cons" section, have you looked at Rebol's revival https://github.com/red/red?
It is not so long ago since we are exposed to so many different viruses. I think way to less time for evolution to be effective.

Our ancestors a few thousand years ago still lived in largely isolated, at least not as extremely mobile and transcontinental communities as we do. And in terms of the number of generations, that is so few that we can say we are at the very beginning of an evolutionary development .
Would be nice if we were able to go to communities of human verified users. Smaller in scope than social media
Sounds like they use a method called federated learning. I.e. each site can train a local model on their own data and then share model parameters to a central entity that aggregates several sites model parameters. Superior performance can then be achieved (and also raw training data between sites are not shared).
Learning how things work under the hood is fun, and you should do this if your job revolves around Linux.
I love the elegance of a simple solution like this to solve seemingly much more sophisticated problems.

This is very good engineering imo.
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My understanding is that it's a lot more work for a company to have employees across many different countries.

Things like payroll, insurance, health benefits, retirement benefits, equity, unions, etc. all need to be done differently for different countries. This means that there's a lot of "extra stuff" that's specific to each country. For example, US employees expect a 401(k) plan and health insurance. For a US company, that's par for the course, but for a French company (for example), you need local expertise to navigate all the laws and protocols.

There are middlemen like Rippling that help centralize some of those things, and paper over the differences. But it's still a lot of added complexity. Not insurmountable, but smaller companies may decide to not burden themselves with it.
This argument simply asserts that the LLMs (or their successor systems including scaffolding) will asymptote somewhere below human capabilities.

It’s possible that this could happen but you need to propose a mechanism and metric for this argument to be taken seriously (and to avoid fooling yourself with moving goalposts). Under what grounds do you assert that the trend line will stop where you claim it will stop?

Yes, if super-human AGI simply never happens then the alignment problem is mostly solved. Seems like wishful thinking to me.
DJ Khaleds response to this: Anotha' one
Sure, 100%.
You're getting downvoted, but I agree with you except for your timeline. This won't be possible in a year. What's here is a concept demo, but the gulf between "that's neat" and "you can make a decent 10 minute short film" is pretty vast.
I am 10,000% ready for forums to make a comeback. The internet hasn't been good since 2010
I know a surgeon who had their employer bought up by private equity. It's a disaster; the paperclipification of care
As someone who has used it in my day job since 2014, I find it around 5% believable. I've had nasty performance issues on old kernels, but never a single instance of unrecoverable data loss, and I've run it in plenty of pathological cases. Experiences differ
The article is useless because it says nothing about what the active ingredients are. The corresponding reference is also equally useless since it's paywalled. Nothing to see here.
> If any algorithm can take over the “engineering”

Well it's already happened. Mindless, lifeless carbon orbiting around a star iteratively configured itself into a machine capable of creative thought. Our human brains. Unless there is some unknown missing ingredient (divine intervention, souls, etc) it may be possible to create new intelligence.

> If you ask this question - you fundamentally don’t understand the essence of engineering.

Current LLM's, sure just a tool. They may not be "real" intelligence by some measure of "real".

But the premise of the question is "what if" we do achieve the real thing and it can take over any thought process a human is capable of. With means to observe surroundings and think outside the box, just like we do.
Only if someone can make money from it. If the people who have it can't do that (or won't) then it won't happen. E.g. there's no private industry for nuclear bombs selling to any bidder in the world. But anything else you just need to let people make companies and that'll get it out there, in a thousand shades of value to match all the possible demands.
Don't think of it like buying a stock on the spot market like retail investors typically do. Many hedge funds place their bets by using the options market, which limits the downside on a bad bet (see e.g. the butterfly strategy [1]).

The size of the bet also depends on a lot of factors. Many hedge funds don't work like monolithic entities, rather they have a bunch of portfolio managers (PMs) who have their own allocated pools of assets from investors. These PMs decide on placing their bets based on lots of different things like their liquidity position (e.g. you don't want to lock up your cash in one position even if you're sure it'll make money when there's a risk of being margin called because of another trade) in addition to signals such as the one dicussed above.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_(options)
This is ridiculous. What exactly does Chrome do that Firefox doesn't?
> React has className as a special attribute that's definitely on a similar level same-but-not-really.

The special React-ism that bugs me the most in this area is that React elements map the "change" event to "input". There's no way to handle "change" without getting a ref and wiring it up yourself. As a consequence, most developers don't seem to remember or ever knew what "change" actually is.
IRC is more active than forums, but I miss forums
Come now, it's only lying when poor people do it, don'tcha know.
Emailed transcription of a meeting == AI assistants blabbing

...according to washingtonpost.com. Unsubscribe.
As other comments have mentioned, AGI doesn't mean god-like or super-human intelligence.

For these models today, if we measure the amount of energy expended for training and inference how do humans compare?