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Show HN: Automating release notes generation process using GenAI
If you like what you see, drop a star on the repo! https://github.com/teearkay/AI-Generated-Release-Notes

I was hacking around on automations that leverage GenAI which led to this personal project that ended up reducing the time taken for generating release notes by approximately 70% for our product's release management team at Microsoft. We're now rapidly expanding this to other teams and products.

This solution extracts work item data from an Azure DevOps query—a popular method for tracking items in every release—and automatically generates release notes in Markdown format.

The repository contains the source code for an Azure Durable Function App that exposes APIs encapsulating the release note generation logic. A PowerAutomate workflow invokes these APIs to orchestrate the overall process

The solution leverages a prompt-chained framework to process input data at various stages (see: Low Level Architecture). Additionally, retrieval-augmented generation is employed to perform semantic searches on public product documentation, ensuring that the output is aligned with the language familiar to customers.
It's more readable than C++, C or Rust though
What European Fighter Jets Have Critical US Components? (2024)
Italy moves to reverse anti-nuclear stance
> you need some help

That seems a bit strong given all the wild stuff believe in a religious context.
Would you share the salary range?
You can ignore errors in Rust too, just like any language. And people do, just like with any language.
It's the same for the mainstream debuggers for .NET.
This mentality is how we get incidents like CrowdStrike. Relying on auto-updates for security is a crutch that allows insecure designs to spread.
China bans imports of Illumina's gene sequencers right after Trump tariff action
I 90% agree with you, except that there is nothing technically correct about the word cis.
He has been predictable in his handling of Ukraine and Israel. He favours the aggressors. He's also predictable in isolationism and wanting manufacturing moved back to America. None of this bodes well for Taiwan.
working on it rn
EVs have heavier batteries and ICEs have heavier engines and drivetrains. Go compare two similar models at most brands and the curb weight will be within 50-100kg. Add in a full tank of gas to the ICE and the will likely weigh about the same.
The reality of auto-updates is that you get your workflow broken during critical project phases.
Like most Asians and most Muslims, I have been opposed to the “rules based international order” my entire adult life. American proxy wars have caused tremendous damage around the world. And I’m incredibly proud we finally have an American President who realizes they don’t serve American interests either.

This is not a new sentiment and it caused by Russian social media propaganda: https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4473508,00.html. I cite Chomsky less these days than I used to, but I recall back when I was a Gore-supporting Democrat and we were mocking “Team America: World Police” he was seen as pretty respectable. Is he Russian propaganda?
The US is hardly a functioning democracy. You have two bad choices every four years who can only get elected if they have billions to spend on campaigning.
To port advanced new games like Minesweeper and Solitaire to their Gamecube. Freecell is indispensable of course.
I don't know about OpenAI, but I'm generating training data from Deepseek 671b to train smaller models.
True, but Ukraine was on a very great trajectory, just like the baltic states. They were all proof that you don’t need the Russian federation.
You’re right but my point is that if we look through the lens of pure economics then the world would be a noticeably worse place.
You aren't kidding.

Line 143 - 182...

You'd think they'd come up with a short form for something that gets written so often.
> problems which are not problems (readability of serialized representation)

I don't know that I fully agree. A format that is both human- and machine-readable is very useful, for configuration and debuggability for example. It's indeed more expensive in compute and storage, but that's additional work _for machines_ rather than _for humans_ (having to compile/encode/decode data at the human/machine interface).

Certainly doesn't mean it's always the right trade-off, but it's an appealing one, as the popularity of these formats shows, in particular JSON which isn't even that good for human-readability (eg no comments in standard JSON).
Because there's a big difference between the situations and you can't really judge a theoretical situation against an ongoing reality. Ukraine is an active war whereas Taiwan is a stalemate of sabre rattling and diplomatic posing. We don't know what each country will do if China invades Taiwan and this is part of what stops it happening.

The security guarantees for Ukraine stem from a 1994 agreement that assured some ex-USSR countries that they could safely give up their nuclear stockpile in return for guarantees that their sovereignty would be protected.

Europe supports Ukraine because it is in Europe, European countries were part of that agreement and European countries do not trust Russia. Not counting Belarus, there's 7 countries with direct borders to Russia, 4 of which used to be part of the USSR, 1 of which is being invaded and the other 3 wonder if they're next.

Whereas Taiwan is not in Europe and doesn't have any historical agreements with European countries.

Canada & Australia have cultural, racial and historical ties to Europe, so it is understandable they often align with Europe.
interesting. I've been thinking about building something like this to provide a structured framework for social media discussions and argument chains.
By getting rid of the GPL, users can't request the source code anymore:

https://github.com/vsrinivas/fuchsia/blob/main/LICENSE

OpenWRT was born because companies were forced to give the source code back to users.
pfd is not standard and is doing all the work---what is it?
Quo Vadis is french and in fact now belongs to the Clairefontaine group, just like Rhodia.
"history" is what's trotted out when the right of self-determination needs to be ignored.

As though a people have no right to change their minds about their affiliation or government.
The Impact of Google's Manifest Version 3 Update on Ad Blocker Effectiveness
I was walking by the sea the other day and saw a man drowning.

"You need help," I said helpfully. Mercifully, even!
An ice cream innovator influenced Lisp pioneers at the MIT AI Lab
I grew up with a flip phone and an old laptop without a wireless card. I managed to learn how to program on it just fine, and that's what it was given to be for. I also played lots of video games. Oh no? No porn though. No communication with adults online either. For that I went to the computer lab or the library, both monitored.

Why would this be hard to do in today's age? There are even movements organized by the kids themselves that recognize the danger of the smartphone.
How is it a fact exactly ?
Yeah, I'm sure all the black people, women, disabled people, and veterans that voted for Trump and got fired by Musk feel the same way.
Of course it increases the risk - it's the whole point of the ask.
He’s insisting on something that the U.S. already agreed to…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum
Back in the 90s, Apple seemed to have a lot of these same problems. Software quality was declining and they had real trouble executing on anything strategic. They aren't there yet, but they certainly seem to be headed down a similar path.
I think it’s something in between. The new pump actually cost more to make than the old one it replaced. The old pump would 90 percent make it through warranty, but sometimes failed early.

If the old pump failed, it often did so in a way that caused additional warranty expenses and reduced reliability perception. The problem was that a seal failure could cause catastrophic bearing failure.

So, the new pump was designed so that a seal failure would not cause bearing damage. Good sealed Bearings properly specced are very reliable these days, and seals on a true shaft wear very little. The problem was that the new pump would invariably make it to EOL.

So after spending a few weeks designing a no-fail pump, they had him redesign it so there was criticality in one of the bearings, so that one was effectively overloaded and would develop enough play to cause seal wear, (and dripping) while the other bearings would prevent the shaft from actually failing. The thing is, it’s hard to spec a bearing for “will wear a little out of tolerance but won’t fail” so it took two years and a lot of testing to get it right.

In all, there was a considerable amount of moustache twirling going on. But not as much as in those damnable disintegrating plastics or the unneeded battery in the thermostat.
The article is definitely wrong on the DSL being able to be replaced by some function call. You need to be able to do conditional rendering in a convenient way. The way SwiftUI’s DSL works means a lot of dynamic equality checks for updates can be statically resolved.

Also in terms of magic values, Apple’s UI doesn’t have a fixed set of spacing values they choose from. They’ll have padding of 14px and 15px all over the place. It’s not practical to expect a developer to get them all right. And of course, this behaviour is easily disabled just by providing explicit values.
Yes! Playing Dance Central enough will teach you a vocabulary of moves that start to fit even for other songs.
That feature is the single worst thing Apple has done I have ever encountered: it stole my music library.

At some point when migrating from one Mac to another, it "forgot" which songs were actually mine. It's all Apple Music now. I have songs that the application _knows_ were added to my library in 2003, but for which it steadfastly maintains they're Apple Music downloads. Worse: some songs have been replaced with other recordings. Other are "unavailable" for unexplained reasons.
The article makes some great points about how iOS software is regressing, but it still feels so much better than almost any other software I use on a daily basis.

I’ve only ever noticed maybe like a few actually bothersome bugs in the however many years I’ve been using iPhones which is pretty impressive.

Anyway, hope they get it together. Performance and optimization are a very difficult and very thankless job that might not get you promoted the same way cool sexy feature work does. Such is corporate life I guess.
Woof woof
> theocracy

If you mean a Christian one, I can't see it. Trump's discomfort at having even Sunday School levels of belief explained to him makes me doubt he could sustain that.
I moved out of iPhone because of one such thing: the call log can only be 100 items long, like what? The most powerful processor ever, hundreds of GB and i can't see who I called last month?? I was done at that moment.
I'm not very good at using it, but every now and then try to do a small project in Chicken Scheme. Mostly I'm unsuccessful, but I enjoy the language a lot and have a great time using it.
Bringing up fraud is jarring. Failed bets are not fraud. Fraud is a huge accusation. There's a huge distinction between the twos.

> which should be well calculated based on how capable your employees are, how innovative your product is and what are the expected earnings.

If anyone can calculate this accurately, they would easily become a billionaire. Let's not pretend you (or anyone) know a good calculation lmao.

Just because your personal "calculation" doesn't deem Anthropic worthy of the valuation / investment (and you might eventually be right) ... doesn't mean it is a fraud.
The answer is obviously no, otherwise my comment would not make any logical sense
The point, I guess, is that we had and still have mass organized protests against what happened in Iraq and Gaza. Some leaders paid a political price for that.
> From China’s perspective, the cost of war is much higher than the cost of developing these chips themselves.

You are being economically rational. Not all human decisions are done through that lens.

"Thucydides found that people go to war out of 'honor, fear, and interest.'” — Donald Kagan, On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Kagan

* https://acoup.blog/2019/12/05/collections-a-trip-through-thu...
Kind of a random fact but speaking of “owned by the US” many of the leaders and ruling class hold US citizenship too.
Define shambles. Italy’s economy isn’t doing great either but there are ways to hide it
It has preformed broadly in line with other western European economics. If you look at GDP numbers over time the big problem was COVID. The UK is richer relative to France or Italy than it was 25 years ago, but no European country has done as well as the US:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-worldbank?...
There are proxies for that.

The page doesn't seem to mention the Gamecube Ethernet card or the Wii's Wi-Fi support, so it might not have any working networking, so that might be a more important issue.
Trellis (YC W24) Is Hiring Eng to Build the Best AI Agents for PDF
Why does a monolithic kernel make those features have "hoops to jump through" compared with how a micro-kernel would handle those features?
Show HN: Nebula – A DSL for scripting TestContainers-based demos
Hey HN,

I'm Marty, founder of Orbital[0]—a semantic data integration platform.

As we've been demo'ing Orbital to people, we kept hitting a common challenge: when people evaluate Orbital, they need a demo to play with. But since Orbital is all about integration, those demos need real data sources—Kafka topics, S3 buckets, SQL databases, microservices, etc.—that actually do stuff: emit messages, respond to API calls, and contain data.

Historically, we shipped demos as a mix of Docker Compose files and Spring Boot microservices (for the "doing stuff" part). But that was painful—Spring Boot services had to be dockerized and deployed somewhere, and code got messy.

So we built Nebula[1] to fix this. It’s a simple DSL where you declare the Docker images you need, then write Kotlin code to script them—all in a single file.

Nebula itself runs as a standalone Docker image. At runtime, it takes in the script, pulls and starts the required Docker images, then executes the Kotlin code you've written. The docker parts are handled by the awesome TestContainers, and scripting by Kotlin. Since it's just Kotlin, you can write whatever you need—we've even simulated full food delivery systems inside Nebula scripts.

We split it into its own repo under Apache 2. It's simple but surprisingly powerful (and kinda fun) for quickly hacking together demo ecosystems.

Thought I'd share!

[0]: Orbital - https://github.com/orbitalapi/orbital

[1]: Nebula - https://github.com/orbitalapi/nebula
Open source end-to-end RAG-based Deep Research implemented within RAGFlow
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The members of the Rust Project work together to build and advance this language and its related tooling and infrastructure. We take a particular pride in shipping tools that are stable and well polished.

We've lately been doing more explicit program management as part of our ongoing work to improve and scale our processes for shipping our language and these high quality tools. We've developed systems and standards for this that have proven to work well within the Rust Project, and we've been seeing substantial value from this work being done in the context of our edition and project goal programs.

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> many people believe this is an absolute bubble

The authors of "The internet is just a fad"?
"...even AI doesn't work well enough." He sounds surprised. He thinks this is an outlier. He hasn't been paying attention.
Electric self-driving taxis are going to be big in the medium-term. Or some other personal transportation method. Static routes and stations are not really up to the job.

(Edit: not that these necessarily need car parks, but they'll need to wait somewhere when they're not carrying passengers)
Yep, spreading democracy and freedom is PR. I think there's a historical preference to installing or supporting a dictator rather than a messy democracy. There's several cases where democratic elections delivered a government the US didn't agree with, so they orchestrated regime change.
bc [1] for a little bit of everything.

[1] - https://linux.die.net/man/1/bc
> Mozilla is violating user privacy.

They have changed literally nothing except the FAQ. The "selling" is describing behaviour they already do and have been doing for years. They set the default search engine to Google, this is now considered selling user data.

> There are already multiple forks for Firefox and destroying Mozilla as an organization would greatly help one or more of them take off and carry the banner of true enabling privacy for the user, which Mozilla is not doing.

You do realize that if Mozilla dies then every single one of these forks dies with it? Surely?

None of the teams working on these forks actually do any core browser engine work. Without Mozilla you are an ECMAScript update or a new web standard away from your fork of choice becoming a brick.
TigerBeetle Architecture
On Star Wars and derivations... Bertram Thomas' Arabia Felix, about his crossing of the Empty Quarter, listed some names of stars, transliterated from the arabic.

The north star, was written as Al Jedi... the Jedi. It goes a step further, in that it's arabic which translates as the kid (as in a goat, but the same way Hans refers to Luke).

I'm not sure how much is coincidence, but reading about Thomas preparing to travel by starlight, it struck me as being remarkably reminiscent. I guess there are no original stories.
Interesting to say the least. Shows there are still opportunities for a social media app to be successful by being original and creative.
WhatsApp firearms trade thrives in India, Digital Witness Lab finds
Yeah bit they werd removed because they were supposedly written in a LBQT focused way?
I think they have so much compromat that the entire GOO would seize to exist.
Irritating bullies is not a bad thing.
This is absolutely key. The lobbies are very rich (because they own lots of land) and therefore very influential.
E.g. France24[1], they have all sources linked. Then there are individual governments, like e.g. the Latvians[2], warning that Russia is preparing for a confrontation with NATO. Or the German DoD[3]. Yes, no politician is explictily saying "Russia will invade country Y in X years", but "Russia prepares all resources they need to invade, and NATO confrontation is not unlikely" is good enough for me, at least as long as Russian state TV shows nukes exploding over Western Europe or battlegroups invading the Baltics.

The Baltics have no beef with Russia, but Russia with the Baltic states[4], according to e.g. Medwedjew, who thinks they literally belong to Russia. Or Россия 1[5].

[1] https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250219-baltic-region-pr...
[2] https://www.sab.gov.lv/en/news/russia-is-purposefully-develo...
[3] https://www-bundestag-de.translate.goog/dokumente/textarchiv...
[4] https://www.euronews.com/2023/05/17/russias-dmitry-medvedev-...
[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSJ6py0uVQ4, from 1:30 onwards
From my reading, that says we agreed not to invade Ukraine, not that we agreed to put american boots on the ground to defend Ukraine.
Is this fad/scam still going?
Yes, the Baltic states in particular were fanatical (um, "single-minded") about getting NATO security guarantees. Wild horses couldn't drag them away.
Here's one that doesn't require a login: https://svg.io/
> Why is this stuff not reported in the mainstream media?

- Because a lot of journalists are Apple fanbois

- The press publishers don't want to sour relationships with Apple (because of advertising deals)

- Publishing bad things about Apple would infuriate the many Apple fanbois among the readers, causing a shitstorm against the medium
Densely populated areas shouldn't have surface-area-inefficient cars as a main mode of transportation at all! Good public transport and the other 2-wheel modes should do just fine, but of course those aren't as profitable.
I have many times watched guitar players at their work, and gone home to try and do the same thing. I definitely value that differently.
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Why is nobody being open about that? Because I suspect the appetite for that is low. Germany is about closer to Russia than we are—how many Germans are willing to go die in Ukraine?
There was no Google in time of Joseph Stalin, but even his fans can use it freely now
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> It's extremely unlikely to ever happen. I think westerners are simply projecting their own war mongering tendencies on their rivals.

Talk to Xi then: "Xi says no one can stop China's 'reunification' with Taiwan":

* https://www.reuters.com/world/china/xi-says-no-one-can-stop-...
They just want the US to keep their word on promises already made. Is that so unreasonable? They gave up their nukes for it.
Well I can certainly imagine the kind of person who sees writing about such things as boring, and do wish that kind of view had more sway over people.

Warfare, spycraft, and statecraft are, on some level, immensely stupid affairs; that's exactly why one of them even gets termed intelligence.
> As someone who has tried something similar, institutional bureaucracy expands to fill all available time.

Can you give examples? I'm very curious what their useless work looks like.
The goal is stupid supremacy without respect for anticipating consequences. People will die and life for everyone will suck more because of this unnecessary bullshit.
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He had a brother though and he likes powerups too.