Friday, 29 December 2023

Thursday, 21 December 2023

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Who needs holiday help? (Follow up thread)

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Who needs holiday help? (Follow up thread)

Ask HN: Who needs holiday help? (Follow up thread)
28 by atdrummond | 2 comments on Hacker News.
Hi all, I wanted to make sure that, ahead of Christmas and New Years, that everyone on HN who needs help (whether that’s affording a Christmas Day dinner or with longer term needs) is able to communicate such. I will be inaccessible from the 27th of December onwards for ten days, so I want to make sure I’m able to fulfill all/the majority of requests prior to then. Thanks to our previous thread ( https://ift.tt/3h9nOS2 ) I was able to distribute nearly $30,000 in support to those who needed it. Unfortunately, this year the requests were not only far more numerous than in year’s past but also much more significant in the amounts asked. Given this, I kindly request that if you’re asking for support, that you do two things: 1. Make sure that the request is necessary. We had some asks for things like children’s college funds for kids who are 1-2 years old. While this is a worthy investment, it is somewhat outside the scope of this particular support programme. 2. Keep your request to $1,000 or less. Last year, the vast majority of funding requests were under $100. This year, a good 25%+ of all requests were over $1000 and we had a decent number (2-3%) over $10,000. While I did my best to finance the larger requests, please remember that I can have a greater impact the larger the number of people I can support. This cap might be overridden in truly extenuating circumstances but I want to encourage people to ask for what they truly need. Finally, please post in this thread once your support request has been filled. I want to avoid the otherwise-inevitable double funding that seems to happen when fulfillments are not noted. Once again, thank you to this wonderful community for all you’ve done for me and others. I truly hope that this is a small way in which I can begin to repay my karmic debt. - alexander EDIT: if you DID not receive a response from me (I got well over 300 emails) please send me a NEW email with your request. please include: 1. total needed 2. name + address 3. how to pay (preferred methods are, in order of preference, cashapp, bank transfer (wise, wire, ACH, etc), PayPal, crypto)

Wednesday, 20 December 2023

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Friday, 24 November 2023

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: UI Library Creator

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: UI Library Creator

Show HN: UI Library Creator
4 by kemyd | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN! The "Generative" trend is booming, and UI Library Creator is our original approach to it. In the last three years, we have added 60+ professional UI libraries to Shuffle's catalog (Shuffle = visual editor for web developers). Still, we know we need more than this to satisfy our growing user base! That's why we created the UI Library Creator. In this tool, you can combine elements and styles to create unique UI libraries that work seamlessly with the Shuffle Editor and all its capabilities (drag-and-drop, customizations, live preview, and more). We provide you with UX solutions (components) written in Tailwind CSS and presets so you can quickly combine them to create what you need. You don't need to talk to a "black box" AI with a chat interface. Possible combinations are in gazillions. We aim for original creations, but you have complete control over the final effect. How to use the UI Library Creator: * Visit: https://ift.tt/7aO0Bs3 * We recommend starting by selecting Assets and Copywriting for your target audience. * When these two options are locked, use the "Shuffle Styles" button to bootstrap your project with the first style. * If you like something, lock the category and then repeat shuffling. You can also change options manually, but with "Shuffle Styles," you can quickly see many creations. If you enjoy the final result, click "Publish now" and send your UI Library to Shuffle. Once processed, it will be available for use in your Dashboard. Let us know what you think! Video (2min) with product tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZFlWEDr7XM

Tuesday, 21 November 2023

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Tuesday, 7 November 2023

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How do you start a research based company?

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How do you start a research based company?

Ask HN: How do you start a research based company?
17 by mnky9800n | 7 comments on Hacker News.
Looking around hacker news it seems like everyone everywhere has their new AI company whose main goal is to develop some kind of new algorithm and then find customers later. Where do people get funding for such initiatives? I believe I'm a bit naive but it also seems like this could be a better way of doing research for the time being than continuing on in academia. But how do you get money to start a company whose goal is "make AI and worry about customers later"?

Sunday, 5 November 2023

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Thursday, 19 October 2023

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Why is there no modern successor to the 3D Pinball games of yesteryear?

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Why is there no modern successor to the 3D Pinball games of yesteryear?

Ask HN: Why is there no modern successor to the 3D Pinball games of yesteryear?
5 by eigenvalue | 7 comments on Hacker News.
I recall games like Full Tilt! Pinball and the 3D pinball game included in Windows were pretty popular and good showcases for the speed and quality of computer graphics back in the 90s. Then it occured to me that modern GPUs like the nVidia 4090 would be incredible for simulating a pinball machine with insane fidelity using RTX ray tracing and the optimized physics simulator (PhysX) they have. You could probably end up with something that truly looks and feels like the real thing. I'm certainly no expert on the subject, but after doing a quick search on Steam, I don't see anything like that on the market. Why do you think that is? Would it really be so hard to do? Wouldn't that be popular? I know I'd love to see it just because it would be such a great showcase for the power of modern machines, especially the integration of super realistic physics. Imagine bumping the machine hard to cheat? Or being able to smash the glass with a hammer and then put objects in the case and see what happens to them while you play? Could also be an amazing physics education thing if you could see real-time free-body diagrams overlaid on the ball that you could freeze in time and study showing all the forces acting on it. You could turn a dial and see what it would be like to play pinball on the moon! I hope someone sees this and makes it!

Wednesday, 18 October 2023

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Sunday, 15 October 2023

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How to be a manager? Any good sources for learning how to delegate?

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How to be a manager? Any good sources for learning how to delegate?

Ask HN: How to be a manager? Any good sources for learning how to delegate?
42 by r_singh | 21 comments on Hacker News.
Hi all, hope you are having a good weekend. I have been a solo dev / indie hacker for a few (many?) years until recently when I added 2 people to my team (one engineer and one for marketing). Initially when adding them to my team I was kind of relieved that they would solve certain problems for me however after a few weeks I learnt while they do what I ask of them they also create new problems for me and I need to prepare a lot more which leaves less time to work solo. My impulsive thought at first was that maybe I should go back to being solo but soon I realised that I enjoy working solo and don’t really know how to be a manager or how to delegate. Has anyone here faced something similar? How did you learn to become a manager? I would really appreciate if you could point me to some good sources books videos courses any material that could give me a good 101 on being a manager and delegating work / using Human Resources, also using positive approach whilst giving feedback. Also, do you have any heuristics you use to measure your effectiveness at delegating? Any help is appreciated, thanks!

Friday, 13 October 2023

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Kali – Scheduling Assistant for iOS

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Kali – Scheduling Assistant for iOS

Show HN: Kali – Scheduling Assistant for iOS
7 by evansjp | 2 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN! Launching Kali today and I'm super excited to iterate on this. I hate scheduling and my gf got sick of managing my calendar for me, so I made an AI do it instead. :) Please let me know what you think!

Thursday, 12 October 2023

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New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Leporello.js – interactive functional programming IDE for JavaScript

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Leporello.js – interactive functional programming IDE for JavaScript

Show HN: Leporello.js – interactive functional programming IDE for JavaScript
16 by dmitry-vsl | 3 comments on Hacker News.
Hi! Leporello.js is an interactive functional programming environment designed for pure functional subset of JavaScript. It executes code instantly as you type and displays results next to it. Leporello.js also features an omnipresent debugger. Just position your cursor on any line or select any expression, and immediately see its value. Leporello.js visualizes a dynamic call tree of your program. Thanks to the data immutability in functional programming, it allows you to navigate the call tree both forward and backward, offering a time-travel-like experience. Leporello.js offers the ability to develop HTML5 applications interactively, enabling you to update your code without losing the application's state. It records an IO trace of your program, which is then transparently replayed during subsequent program executions. This allows you to instantly reexecute your code after making small tweaks, thereby tightening your feedback loop. Furthermore, Leporello.js can serve as an interactive notebook. You have the flexibility to utilize any JavaScript libraries to visualize your data directly within your code. For a more detailed walkthrough, please watch the product video. Currently, Leporello.js is available as a free online application that you can try right in your browser. My goal is to build the Leporello.js standalone Electron app and a VSCode plugin, both with TypeScript support. Additionally, I plan to add Node.js support (currently, Leporello.js is only for HTML5 apps). In the VSCode plugin, Leporello.js will sit on top of the built-in TypeScript/JavaScript mode, utilizing its code analysis information to enhance the default VSCode experience with unique Leporello.js features. I am building Leporello.js as a single independent developer. Leporello.js is funded solely by donations. Support me on Github Sponsors [0] and be the first to gain access to the Leporello.js Visual Studio Code plugin with TypeScript support. I'll be delighted to answer any questions you may have. [0] https://ift.tt/LoxCMwu

Tuesday, 3 October 2023

Wednesday, 27 September 2023

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Tips for Solopreneur?

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Tips for Solopreneur?

Ask HN: Tips for Solopreneur?
41 by solo_prono | 9 comments on Hacker News.
Yo HN! I have been working on some design tools in my spare time to solve problems I've faced over and over, and I'm thinking about monetizing them. I've been to some conferences recently and talked to a lot of people who have these problems as well, and they're keen to try it out. I have collected some emails, been communicating with them a bit and even got beers with one of them recently! Here's my list of concerns: 1. It is just me - is that a red flag? Some people have asked me about my team and I told them it was just me. I got the feeling that it may have turned them off because the conversation kind of ended right there. To be fair, after that I did say that it is just me right now BUTTTTTTTT why that is okay due to my experience and work history. However, yes it is my first time doing a business. 2. How do I set appropriate milestones for me to reach? Do I think about reaching 100 customers before reaching 5 recurring customers for example? 3. I'm in a small town in PNW. Does that matter if this will be an online thing anyway? Why or when do people move to big cities like Seattle/SF/NYC/Austin etc. 4. What are some ways to do marketing? Should I even think about that before I have a few customers who are using my product consistently? 5. I've been inspired by the Startup School videos. Honestly though I'm not sure about fundraising and all these things, it seems very intimidating to me. What's the difference between those things and starting a company and slowly building it up?

Tuesday, 26 September 2023

Saturday, 23 September 2023

Apple's secret: $999 iPhone 15 Pro manipulating your psyche into forgeting Android exists

Apple's secret: $999 iPhone 15 Pro manipulating your psyche into forgeting Android exists

Each year, Apple comes out with a new iPhone model, and each year, millions around the world face the same pressing question: to upgrade or not to upgrade? At that point, Apple (just like all other companies do) bombards you with an array of carefully crafted marketing messages that use your emotional triggers, in order to entice you into making a purchase.

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Thursday, 21 September 2023

Wednesday, 20 September 2023

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Hydra - Open-Source Columnar Postgres

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Hydra - Open-Source Columnar Postgres

Show HN: Hydra - Open-Source Columnar Postgres
37 by coatue | 2 comments on Hacker News.
hi hn, hydra ceo here hydra is an open-source extension that adds columnar tables to Postgres for efficient analytical reporting. With Hydra, you can analyze billions of rows instantly without changing code. demo video (5 min): https://youtu.be/1yzxgb0Oyrw github repo: https://ift.tt/bUcD9fr For 1.0 GA release, aggregate queries are over *60% faster* than Hydra beta due to aggregate vectorization. Spatial indexes (gin, gist, spgist, and rum indexes) and pg_hint_plan are now enabled for performance optimization. postgres is great, but aggregates can take minutes to hours to return results on large data sets. long-running analytical queries hog database resources and degrade performance. use hydra to run much faster analytics on postgres without changing code. for testing, try the hydra free tier to create a column postgres instance on the cloud. https://ift.tt/l5UDEam

Tuesday, 19 September 2023

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New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Why did Visual Basic die?

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Why did Visual Basic die?

Ask HN: Why did Visual Basic die?
61 by Zelphyr | 98 comments on Hacker News.
I've been a software developer for almost 30 years. I remember using VB back in the 90's and I was thinking about it the other day and it dawned on me; despite all the advances in technology since then, nothing I have found compares to that development experience today. I would go so far as to say we've gone backwards in a big way. Now, I'm no fan of Microsoft products but, I have yet to find a tool that can allow me to be as productive in so short a time as Visual Basic. Yet I can't help wondering what problems it had that caused them to abandon it? Moreover, why hasn't someone come out with a solid replacement?

Monday, 11 September 2023

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Erlmacs – a script to update your .emacs file for Erlang development

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Erlmacs – a script to update your .emacs file for Erlang development

Show HN: Erlmacs – a script to update your .emacs file for Erlang development
9 by dlachausse | 0 comments on Hacker News.
erlmacs automatically configures and updates your .emacs file with support for the emacs mode that is included with Erlang/OTP. It frees you from having to locate the installation directory of Erlang/OTP and its bundled emacs mode. It is an escript that only depends upon Erlang/OTP and Emacs. Note: There is not much in the way of error checking at this moment, but it does make a backup of your .emacs files before any destructive operations.

Sunday, 10 September 2023

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Productonboarding.com – Mobbin for SaaS product onboarding

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Productonboarding.com – Mobbin for SaaS product onboarding

Show HN: Productonboarding.com – Mobbin for SaaS product onboarding
6 by brownrout | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Hey Hackernews, Eric here! Wanted to share a new website we just built called productonboarding.com (Next.js and RSC). The site has screenshots and videos of product onboarding from companies like Figma, Notion, Framer, and more. It’s sort of like Mobbin for web-based product onboarding. We build a lot of product onboarding at our startup Frigade, and over the last year we’ve put together an internal library of hundreds of product onboarding examples that we refer to all the time with customers. It helps them find and copy patterns that work at other companies so they don’t need to create net new experiences or A/B test their way into the best performing pattern from scratch. Given it's been so useful to us, we decided to open it up to the world. We bought productonboarding.com and have started adding examples from our collection and made them browsable and sortable. We’re planning to add new examples weekly. Hope this is helpful to any of you who are currently thinking through building new onboarding experiences. Would love any ideas and feedback. Thanks!

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New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Modular Diffusion – A modular Python library for diffusion models

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Modular Diffusion – A modular Python library for diffusion models

Show HN: Modular Diffusion – A modular Python library for diffusion models
4 by secularchapel | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hello everyone! I've been working on this project for a few months as part of my thesis in Machine Learning. It's meant to be a library that provides an easy-to-use but flexible API to design and train Diffusion Models. I decided to make it because I wanted to quickly prototype a Diffusion Model but there were no good tools to do it with. I think it really can help people prototype their own Diffusion Models a lot faster and only in a few lines of code. The base idea is to have a Model class that takes different modules corresponding to the different aspects of the Diffusion Model process (noise schedule, noise type, denoising network, loss function, guidance, etc.) and allow the user to mix and match different modules to achieve different results. The library ships with a bunch of prebuilt modules and the plan is to add many more. I also made it super easy to implement your own modules, you just need to extend from one of the base classes available. Contrary to HuggingFace Diffusers, this library is focused on designing and training your own Diffusion Models rather than finetuning pretrained ones (although this is possible). I would really appreciate your feedback.

Saturday, 2 September 2023

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2023)

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2023)

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2023)
36 by whoishiring | 95 comments on Hacker News.
Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format: Location: Remote: Willing to relocate: Technologies: Résumé/CV: Email: Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities.

Monday, 28 August 2023

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New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Gentrace – evaluation and observability for generative AI

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Gentrace – evaluation and observability for generative AI

Show HN: Gentrace – evaluation and observability for generative AI
9 by dsaffy | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, Gentrace is our new evaluation and observability tool for generative AI (open beta). Generative pipelines are hard to evaluate because outputs are subjective. Lots of developers end up just doing “gut checks” on a few inputs before shipping changes, or they build up a spreadsheet of test cases that they manually run through the pipeline. Some companies outsource filling out the spreadsheet. However, in any of these cases, you end up with a very slow and expensive process for evaluation. At one point, we did this too. Gentrace is the result of a pivot; it was an internal tool we used to automatically grade new PRs as developers shipped changes to generative pipelines that other people thought might be useful. Gentrace makes pre-production testing of generative pipelines continuous and nearly instantaneous. In Gentrace, you: - Import and/or construct suites of test data - Use a combination of AI and heuristic evaluators to grade for quality, hallucination, safety, etc - Use our interface to correct automated grades or add your own (yourself or a member of your team) Gentrace integrates at a code level for evaluation, meaning we test your generative AI pipeline the way you would test normal code. This allows you to test more than just prompt changes; for example, you can compare models (eg Claude 2 vs GPT-4 vs GPT 3.5 vs Llama 2) or see the effects of additional chained steps (”Rewrite the previous answer in the following tone:”). Here’s a video overview that goes into a bit more detail: https://youtu.be/XxgDPSrTWIw In production, Gentrace observes for speed, cost, and data flow. It also shows real user feedback as well. We do this by integrating via our SDK at a code level; Gentrace does not proxy requests. Soon, we’ll allow you to convert production data into test cases, allowing customer support to turn bad production generations into “failing tests” for AI teams to make pass. We process interim steps and multiple outputs as well, helping evaluate agent flows / chains where the “last output” isn’t always the only thing that matters. There’s been a lot of observability tools published recently. We differ from those by focusing more strongly on blending observability with strong evaluation and by using an SDK rather than a “man-in-the-middle” approach to capturing data (ie Gentrace can be down and your request to OpenAI will still succeed). Within the evaluation landscape, we differentiate by integrating with code (see above for benefits) for capturing generative outputs and by providing a customizable UI workflow for building evaluators. In Gentrace, you start with off-the-shelf automated evaluators and then customize them to your specific task. You also build and run new evaluators on old generative outputs. Finally, you easily override automated evaluators and/or blend automated evaluation with evaluation by humans on your team. We also focus on being suitable for business use. We are SOC 2 Type 1 compliant (Type 2 coming shortly), have robust legal documentation around data processing, security, and privacy, and have already passed several vendor legal and security reviews at large technology companies. Our standard usage-based pricing is available on the website: https://ift.tt/Sf0eauU If you are building features with generative AI, we would love to get your feedback. You can self-serve sign up (without a credit card) for a 14 day trial here: https://gentrace.ai/ We’re available right here for feedback and questions. We’re also available at support@gentrace.ai. Best, Doug, Vivek, and Daniel

Monday, 21 August 2023

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Talk to AI Models in Terminal

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Talk to AI Models in Terminal

Show HN: Talk to AI Models in Terminal
7 by today072 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi everyone, nice to meet you and I am a newcomer of HN. I have made a binary tool Aih that could communicate with Bard, ChatGPT, Claude, and Llama(HuggingChat) from the terminal. https://ift.tt/EbUNcid Since CAPTCHA challenges and bots detecting have become increasingly difficult, I've changed my strategy from hacking the APIs to simulating a real browser's action. The tool first takes the logged-in cookies of Google, ChatGPT, Claude, and HuggingChat accounts from the real Chrome browser, then it opens an invisible instance of Chromium for communication, then displays the answers in terminal. I think it's useful especially when I am researching some topics and need to compare answers of those AI models at the same time. Feel free to test and welcome provide feedback!

Saturday, 19 August 2023