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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Tuesday, 12 September 2023

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!

Saturday, 9 September 2023

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Sunday, 3 September 2023

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.