skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried all of that and they all just suck. E.g. neither pinta nor krita don’t show selection rectangle coords in the status bar. How the heck should I e.g. investigate screenshot-based automation fails with that? What makes paint.net stand out is that it is a pixel canvas tool with layers rather than an artistic canvas for soft brushes. And at the same time it has all its features easily accessible.

I have also worked as a “designer” in a real typography for some time and know a thing or two about the process (not fully, but count me as sort of an insider). And I can tell you that gimp is only “an artist’s impression” of a graphical toolbox, and that artist is heavily drunk. If you need something like gimp and paint.net/etc isn’t enough, you need photoshop. Cause we’re talking about serious pre-print color management, etc. Gimp is two parts: very poor home graphics editor and very poor industrial graphics manager.

Youtube thumbnails are paint.net 100%. I use that all the time for all my graphics, technical and creative, tried all others, and have no reason to switch, apart from OS requirements.
I work for a big tech and your solution has already been built. The on-call software uses an LLM to summarize the tickets, and a vector db to find troubleshooting guides and similar tickets.
It’s considerably out of date, but theoretically yes? https://h41379.www4.hpe.com/openvms/products/ips/firefox/
What if the murderer works in the lab?
How to get subscription notifications on iPhone without RevenueCat
What’s that like? Fun? Annoying? Interesting? Boring?
Show HN: Prompt Engineering Studio – Toolkit for deploying AI prompts at scale
Hey HN! Long-time reader, occasional commenter here. I wanted to share something my team and I have been building to solve our own frustrations.

We've all seen the explosion of prompt engineering tools lately. While playing around in playgrounds is fun, when we tried to take our AI prompts to production, we hit a wall. I'm guessing many of you have experienced similar pain points.

We kept hitting questions nobody seemed to be answering: How do you version control thousands of prompts? How do you handle multiple production deployments? How do you scale from prototype to millions of requests per day? How do you collaborate across hundreds of engineers without stepping on each other's toes?

So we built Portkey's Prompt Engineering Studio - a complete toolkit designed specifically for productionizing AI prompts across 1600+ models.

Some technical details that make our approach different:

- High-performance infrastructure: We've deployed prompts as large as 500,000 tokens with production-level latency
- Git-like version control with instant rollbacks for prompt deployments
- Mustache templating system for parameterization and reusable snippets
- Publish/release flow with proper dev/staging/prod environments
- Real-time analytics tracking prompt performance, latency, and token usage
- Native integrations with Langchain, Llamaindex, and Promptfoo

The scaling capabilities have enabled some impressive use cases:

- A content company running 500+ prompts across 700+ websites
- A tech firm that cut deployment times from 3 days to near-instant
- Education platforms with hundreds of non-technical creators building AI workflows

Our platform has processed hundreds of millions of prompt completion requests already, with over 10,000 prompts deployed to production environments.

We think the HN community will especially appreciate our approach to bringing software engineering best practices to AI development!

You can try it yourself at prompt.new

I'd genuinely love to hear how others in the community are handling these challenges, what you think of our approach, or any other feedback you might have. This community has been invaluable in shaping how we think about developer tools.
Law enforcement sees the negative energy and responds

Typically, in sane societies, it's preferable that the coercive part of state power is deployed for things more concrete and definable than 'negative energy'.
FWIW I've recently seen this exact thing play out, I can't really go into the nitty gritty but someone who had VP/Director positions in well known US public companies was brought in on a big project that's local to Europe and he's failing spectacularly.

So your theory might not work as well in practice, just my 2c from what I've seen in the real world.
Yes well, perhaps. But this kind of defeatism has never brought anyone to victory.
Reminds me of this article about outsourcing:

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/how-tech-loses-out/
You have one guess.
The recipe is simple but nobody supposedly wants to do it.

1. Find all (e.g. LinkedIn) the EU-based engineers working or having worked for American cloud companies.

2. Offer them a proportional salary to join and start building the EU cloud product.

3. Incentivize the engineers to top-performance by giving them bonuses, stocks, whatever ...

4. Go back to the garage engineering and cut-off the bureaucratic BS with endless PMs, milestones, JIRA boards, scrum masters, chapter masters, architects, and all other similar BS.

But EU doesn't want to do it - they rather spend money in ways so that "EU funds", which are supposedly public, end up running up to their pockets directly. Dozens of examples out there but "AI factories" being the last embodiment of that.
A legal cite, please. Yes, I know about the loitering case, Chicago v. Morales; it was struck down on vagueness.

But again, why are the police in this case monitoring a constitutionally protected activity?
I kinda disagree on both accounts. Many many people give their all for less than that. More money will get you better (foreign) talent, but the correlation between pay and effort is much lower.

I work in the EU for an American company. The consensus here is Americans work more, but not harder. We deliver better work in less time.

The edge Americans have is a can do attitude and not being afraid of failure.
Very easy. You could do it yourself after 5 min of reading ;-)
Thank you, that does look interesting! I haven't really considered the Frameworks so far because of my secondhand Thinkpad habit, but I do like the idea so I should probably think more seriously about it.
Makes sense. I see nothing wrong with any of them, I just never heard of Envoy and I used mostly Traefik.

I even used its experimental http3 support in v2, and now it's stable in v3. As stable as it can get I guess.
> People don't really care about privacy, it's as simple as that. Yes, they worry about privacy, and complain about violations of privacy.

Your second sentences proves that the first is a lie. People very clearly care about their privacy. These surveillance systems are designed so that users never see the line between the collection of their private data and the consequences. People are upset when they know that their privacy has been violated, but Amazon tells them that they are safe and they never see the contractor working for Amazon listening to them having sex so they don't have the sense of outrage that they should.

Amazon is exploiting well known and researched limitations of human's brain/perception and they've crafted their marketing to be as manipulative and reassuring as possible to keep people bugging their own homes with their devices. It's a little unfair to blame the public being fleeced and not the multi-billion dollar corporation who has devoted unimaginable resources into manipulating the customers they are screwing over. You and I know better than to fall for their bullshit, but it's easy to see how most will struggle.
Rippling's suit against Deel is wild
Hooray, every ten years, the charcuterie board of lands that Russia is dining from, has is still restocked- and they even have those little paper-towels, contracts and agreements and memorandums, they are so important to get the sweet-meat juices from the fingertips during the dining experience.

Now if the frack-addicts, could refill the whine about how their addiction sufferings are worse then those of the conquered, we have the full experience. Five out of five stars, would war there again.
This looks like a powerful step toward making prompt engineering more scalable and production-ready. The version control approach, along with staging environments and real-time analytics, seems particularly useful for teams handling high-volume AI workloads.

One question: How do you handle prompt drift over time? As models evolve, prompt effectiveness can degrade—do you provide any automated testing or monitoring to detect when a deployed prompt needs adjustment?

Looking forward to exploring Portkey’s capabilities.
TypeScript & Rust don't "look nice to work with" because they force you to write maintainable code that doesn't just stop working because of a random runtime error. In my opinion, Go looks nice to work with but actually is a hidden monster full of footguns.
You may want to look at this. Neural network models with enough capacity to memorize random labels are still capable of generalizing well when fed actual data

Zhang et al (2021) 'Understanding deep learning (still) requires rethinking generalization'

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3446776
Considering that people have been making such complaints for millennium and we aren't so terrible as so many generations of detiraration would imply they're usuallybut not always wrong
Is HTTP the issue here though? Most of the time it seems to be more to do with the server taking ages to respond to queries. E.g. Facebook is equally poor on mobile as it is on my fibre-connected desktop (which I assume is using HTTP/3 as well) so I have my doubts that swapping HTTP versions will make a difference on mobile.

I did find it amusing how the author of the linked article says the megacorps are obsessed with improving performance (including the use of HTTP/3 to apparently help improve performance). In my experience the worst performing apps are those from the megacorps! I use Microsoft apps regularly at work and the performance is woeful even on a fibre connection using a HTTP/3 capable browser and/or their very own apps on their very own OS.
> The problem with all this is the same thing great animation runs into. Because of the medium, many people choose to ignore the show or dismiss it as made for kids

This reminds me of Yonderland, an absolutely amazing TV show that has plot, characters and occasionally adult humour that will fly over the heads of children in the same way that a lot of great Simpsons gags did, in the good old days. Yonderland is made by the same people who did Ghosts (no, not the American rehash, the far superior original). Find it, watch it, it's brilliant.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2938522/
You forgot async/await. But all that wasn't what propelled C# to popularity, and I say that as someone who's been writing it since 2002. It was an army of VB6 and Delphi line-of-business programmers migrating to the new stack and enterprises running Windows.

The next big killer application was Unity, which didn't even use Microsoft .NET.

Everything else is just marginal advantage: if you're a JVM shop, the existing experience of your programmers is more valuable than the speed of modern .NET or better pattern matching. But if you want to switch to making games, then switching to C# and/or C++ starts making sense.
Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf (2022)
Weight doesn't really matter with modern laptops. They are almost universally lightweight.

I'm from a generation that walked to the school with a backpack full of books. I also enjoy hiking, which often involves carrying a backpack much heavier than your typical office backpack. When I take my office backpack, I have to double-check that the 16" MBP is there, because I can't tell it reliably from the weight. While I prefer small backpacks and avoid carrying unnecessary stuff, the laptop just doesn't contribute that much to the weight.

Physical dimension, on the other hand, matter. A 16" laptop can be inconvenient in tight spaces such as train/plane seats.
OVH (french) is very well known and I like them a lot. Used them for domains a lot, because they are very cheap and their management is nice.
I also like very much ScaleWay (french also) for price and quality of service, have used them for years on my startup, can highly recommend.
Also heard a lot of good things about Infomaniak (swiss), but never used them myself.

Would love to hear about european cloud providers with comments from users.
> That guy has a serious gift for explaining stuff

I'd like to challenge this idea.

I don't believe he's more gifted than other people. I strongly believe that the point is he spent a lot of time and effort to get better at explaining stuff.

He contemplated feedback and improved his explanations throughout the years.

His videos are excellent because he poured himself into making them excellent, not because he has a gift.

In my experience the professors who lack this ability do so because they don't put enough effort into it, not because they were born without it.
That’s an interesting challenge. Stars on GitHub indicate interest, but discussions elsewhere often require a mix of strong community engagement, clear use cases, and active outreach.

Projects that naturally spark discussions tend to:

1. Solve a pressing problem—People talk about tools that significantly impact their workflows.

2. Have strong storytelling—A compelling narrative around the project’s origin, challenges, or breakthroughs makes it more shareable.

3. Engage actively in relevant communities—Posting insightful content on HN, Reddit, and Twitter (not just announcements) can help.

4. Encourage contributions beyond code—If the project welcomes blog posts, case studies, and integrations, it creates more discussion opportunities.

Have you tried running AMAs or writing deep-dive articles about the project’s internals and use cases? That often sparks technical conversations beyond GitHub.
> Also maybe LLM integration so you can just explain what you want done, then it does it, instead of needing to follow some tutorial to learn the software

I like how this counts as a reasonable side remark today but would have been utterly delusional just a few years ago.
> you have control of who can use that memory and aren't risking it not being available

overcommit would like to have a word
> That would be like saying you can judge the quality of a cereal-brand by its box. Special-K? That is really special.

> The Book might be full of lies or incorrect information no matter how beautiful its cover is.

Cereal "might be", but almost nobody has motivation to do so — this is market differentiation to tell you what you're buying.

Compare and contrast:

https://i5.walmartimages.com/seo/Kellogg-s-Special-K-Origina...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=budget+cornflakes&t=iphone&iar=ima...

https://www.kaufland.de/product/338169035/?search_value=cere...

None of these will be surprise Weetabix in soy sauce. None is actually a frozen pizza. None is garden fertiliser.

Similar with books and youtube videos. It's not a claim that "beauty is truth and truth beauty", it's a claim the thumbnail/cover tells you what the video/book is about.

For "quality"? Good branding used to be expensive, before GenAI (now I'm not sure). If you could afford it, you could afford good content; if you could only afford good branding or good content but not both… it happens, of course, but it leads to angry refund demands IRL, and no organic viral growth for videos.
If your solution to some problem relies on “If everyone would just...” then you do not have a solution. Everyone is not going to just. At no time in the history of the universe has everyone just, and they’re not going to start now.
MSFT provides some of the slowest experiences I've had e.g. SharePoint, Teams, etc. Am laughing at the assumption that non-MSFT/etc properties are seen as slower when it is i fact MSFT that are the slowpokes. I haven't used Google much lately but they can be pretty poor too.

AWS are pretty good though. However it is notable I get good speeds and latency using S3 over HTTP/1.1 for backing up several hundreds gigs of data, so not sure if HTTP/3 makes any difference if it is already good enough without.
Why is it a terrible take? You first have to understand a community in order to reform it. You can't just say "I actually have no idea how to do research in this field, have not contributed anything substantial, have no money or soft power, but let me tell y'all how to do better science according to my subjective and very limited understanding."
I was twenty-something and in college, and just wanted my $300 back. I really didn't want to get involved with the courts.
Both would be fine? It’s a corp machine. If you find the amount of data disturbing don’t look what MS365/Teams is tracking…
Yikes! Good ol’ honeypot, works all the time.
Really weird that none of this is included as a screenshot or GIF in the release article - my opinion is that this matters a lot when you release a major version of a gfx package.
"most don't give two hoots about looting and vandalism."

of course who give a shit is the owner, its all sunshine until it happen on your neighbourhood
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This. As someone who works for a US company from Europe, there are no financial alternatives. I need to get my kids through college.
> have locally owned partners that will own the technology produced locally

This may be the way to go. It seems common in countries like China, India, Brazil, ME / Gulf countries.
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If I am not mistaken, the trade still has to be reported after the fact. What they are avoiding is leaking signals about what they want to trade before the trade occurs.
> LLM integration

you mean diffusion-model integration?
I agree with yah
why shouldn't this fall under "all's fair in love and war"
> How do you version control thousands of prompts?

Kill me now.

> How do you collaborate across hundreds of engineers

What do you mean by that? This only targets a few big companies.

> A tech firm that cut deployment times from 3 days to near-instant

That's a process and maybe CI issue, I don't see how AI would improve any of that but I'll be gladly proven wrong.

> You can try it yourself at prompt.new

All I see is a login page from another company. Don't you have a web site with all those serious prompting you do?
Just as long as the eggs keep decreasing in price from $4 to $6, everything is fine.
> if having 1 HTML file is somehow very important, but it's not

It is.
The Phantom of Heilbronn!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_of_Heilbronn
Do you think investors just give money away?
That would ideal, yet we still got things like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_of_Heilbronn

Woman at a cotton swab factory was identified after being considered a serial killer.
Isn't head of line blocking a problem with the design of web servers?
The Art of Assembly Language [pdf]
Addressing Crime as a Root Cause of Migration [pdf]
A lot of traffic still goes over 4G or even 3G in many countries. Most countries have only deployed 5G NSA (non-standalone) which means mobiles uses both 4G and 5G at the same time. Only a few networks in a few countries have deployed 5G SA (standalone) where mobiles use 5G only -- and even those few networks only deploy 5G SA in certain places e.g. selected CBDs. I live in the largest city in my country and I only get 4G still in my suburb and much of rest of my city is 5G NSA which means in most places phones stil use 4G for uplink and a mix of 4G and 5G for the downlink. Hence there is still a long way to go until most traffic (in both directions -- i.e. uplink AND downlink) is over 5G.
Sure, and I happen to agree, I release stuff under (A)GPL for exactly this reason.

I guess the confusion stems from this phrasing:

> If it's MIT, the person who buys it ISN'T allowed to give away more copies for free if the seller doesn't want them to

I assume you meant:

> If it's MIT, a seller is allowed to relicense under a proprietary license and then the buyer isn't allowed to give away copies

I had understood the opposite.
I'm so glad somebody else has heard of The Dream Machine, it's great!

Harold Halibut is also worth a look, though it's not fully stop-motion I believe
The blog post is quite nice: https://blog.min.io/minlz-compression-algorithm/

But comparisons with zstd & lz4 would be nice.

Is someone planning on a wuffs/rust implementation with C API so that it wouldn't be Go only?
That time would only be enough to read the overview, go through the examples, click on the "uniquely customizable" link hoping to see the answer and then be flooded with the garbage digital tokens of the scientific world - 100+ references...
That's an oversimplification, it's when cops start keeping track on people based on such data, plus analyzing their behavior as a group.
Thanks for the great insights! Really appreciate your suggestions.

We haven’t tried doing an AMA yet, but that sounds like a great idea. As for use cases, we’ve written some, but they might be too high-level—more focused on what users are building rather than how they’re implementing it in detail.

Do you think deep-dive technical breakdowns (e.g., architecture decisions, implementation challenges) tend to spark more discussions? Or have you seen good examples of projects that did this well?
It's not false. Those are the people who have already proven that they have the necessary experience to build those products so the rate of success is simply much higher rather than seeking the talent elsewhere. Startups and US companies apply this strategy all the time - you want success, poach the good people from competing companies.

I think people outside the domain often underestimate the complexity of Internet-scale infrastructure software and hardware. You don't find such challenges very easily elsewhere so simply paying more money to random engineer doesn't stand more chance than paying the same money to already established engineer in that domain.
> Do you have data backing this claim? For example, homicides (that are not a subject for reporting bias) don’t follow a uniform distribution, so I would expect other crimes to also be non-uniform.

Crime rates are likely different for different socioeconomic classes for many reasons, but also the socioeconomic class likely determines in part the types of crimes.

For example, poor people are more likely to do petty crime and physical crimes, while rich people tend to do complex frauds involving large sums.

So you cannot compare rates for one particular crime across socioeconomic groups because they will gravitate towards the opportunities that are present to their class.
Tape is generally available, I don't think in of those more esoteric storage medium, like 3D glass cubes are commercially available.
Calling yourself a cloud doesn't make you one. Can you do auto scale groups with dynamically scaling load balancers yet on OVH? AWS has had that for 15 years now.
Do you know of any type of system or situation where this is used? Outside this DNS record itself obviously (that doesn't send emails by itself)
Nice! Yea it should be easy to use the internal layerManager.import and .encodeAll

This might break state for the online version, but I can do some tweaks and get it merged if you open the PR.

to be clear, the short url feature is useful in that other people can easily edit / update diagrams they see referenced in code comments. If privacy is a concern and you're not distributing the diagram, then indeed exporting JSON is a good way to go.