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Ask HN: 4chan Archives Pre-2008? 2 by TerryHasRisen | 1 comments on Hacker News. hey, I've been recently going down a rabbit hole in terms of 4chan history. I am wondering if there are any archives of 4chan, regardless of image availability, out there. Thanks!

Ask HN: Delaware C-Corp Governing Law Jurisdiction 2 by user01010011 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hey everyone, I'm in the middle of filling out the Post-Incorporation Documents for a Delaware C-Corp on Clerky. My startup hasn't launched yet, and I'm planning to be in the SF/Bay Area when it does. However, I'm not 100% sure how long I'll stay there. My current residency is in another state (State A), but I plan to move to California or another state (State B). Which state should I choose for the Governing Law Jurisdiction? Delaware, California, or State A, or State B? Thank you in advance for your help!

Ask HN: Replacing Cloudflare Durable Object with Hibernate WebSocket for Hetzner 5 by spxneo | 1 comments on Hacker News. So like the title says im looking at Hetzner's 6 core, 64GB ram for running uWebsocket.js (maybe ill try Bun/Elysia for a small performance hit but tryna squeeze every bit of performance) after I learned how expensive cloudflare durable objects would be (with Hibernate) for 1 million websocket connections (sending 1 message per minute): Requests: 10,000 WebSocket connections * 100 Durable Objects to establish the WebSockets = 1,000,000 initial WebSocket connection requests. 10,000 messages per minute * 100 Durable Objects * 60 minutes * 24 hours * 30 days = 43,200,000,000 requests. 1,000,000 + (43.2 billion requests / 20 for WebSocket billing ratio) = 2,160,010,000 million requests. (2.16 billion requests - included 1 million requests) * $0.15 / 1,000,000 = $324.00. Compute Duration: 100 Durable Objects * 100 seconds * 60 minutes * 24 hours * 30 days = 432,00

Ask HN: What do you use to build internal dashboards? 3 by shipit | 0 comments on Hacker News. Especially as part of a DevOps team that releases artifacts by publishing to site and/or app store and then turns on traffic / feature flags and monitors activity for crashes, endpoint usage etc. It is quite common to have multiple tabs logged into Rollbar, Crashlytics, CI / CD dashboard and a set of spreadsheets to record actions. It grows from one quick-n-dirty solution to a collection of manual work. Is there something that you use to a) create a read only view of operations, progress, reports b) expose actions as switches, buttons to e.g. increase or halt rollout? Thanks!

Ask HN: Successful one person online businesses in 2024 2 by mraza007 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I believe this question has been asked many times on HN. But I would love to hear what money making side projects are you hacking on and how are you making money

Ask HN: Not a personal assistant, but a manager to get things done? 2 by delopsu | 6 comments on Hacker News. Imagine a dedicated manager, who calls you in the morning (or when you have planed during the week planning call) and checks how is your plan for the day, ensures that week goals are in the focus and if you need some help to unstuck. Actually not joking, partially. Would such "service" help you get things done? Reverse of concierge service that would push you whatever goals you set.

Ask HN: How are you using GenAI/LLMs? 3 by HNUser01100011 | 2 comments on Hacker News. Good morning/afternoon/evening. I figured this would be an appropriate place to ask due to the demographic and wide ranging roles and responsibilities of the users. So if you're using LLMs or indeed some other Gen AI tool; What specific LLM are you using and for what reason? What are you using it for? Are you using it in a professional or personal capacity? What does your workflow look like? Personally I've only used them for simple code snippets, basic research, summarization and image generation. They each have their own pros and cons[1] but more often than not I find myself either double checking sources or tweaking the end results most of them and only saving maybe 5-10 minutes. [1] The most amusing of which is Gemini, it won't link to any political parties website but will happily help you plan a terrorist attack under the guise of vulnerability analyses and risk management...

Ask HN: Why is Tesla deploying 400V superchargers when others do 800V? 2 by iknowstuff | 1 comments on Hacker News. Every other DCFC network is mounting massive losses and has huge reliability issues, so I’m not surprised Tesla is doing things differently, but still wondering. First 800V deployments started 5 years ago. How come Tesla never decided to future-proof their hardware? Is the higher voltage contributing to the high fault rate of other chargers? Arcing problems? Is it significantly more expensive to deploy, because silicon carbide or whatever? The cybertruck just splits its 800V pack into 400V in parallel to charge off 400V. They must have anticipated that backward compatibility won’t be an issue, so they’re in no rush, but I assume they’d prefer to deploy 800V if it wasn’t for some downsides. What are they?

Ask HN: I can no longer like React, do you? 4 by techsin101 | 2 comments on Hacker News. If you resonate with what I said, there is no need for me to write anything here, and if you disagree then no amount of reasoning will be enough. Instead I'll just say where I am coming from and avoid going into technical reasons too much.. I started frontend as a hobby in 2010, I've been working as one for 8 years. Jquery was great but everytime you had to invent your own MVP. Came angular and it was extremely verbose. Then came react, it didn't have proper state thing nailed down like angular but it was simple, elegant, easy to reason and made code standardized and easy to read. I could join a new team and be productive in 3 days as a FE dev. Unheard of prior to React. However, gradually all that has been taken away. In my view peak React was when it used class.. in constructor you defined state in componentDidMount and simple life cycles methods you did things you needed to do. No

Ask HN: What are your best Emacs tips? 3 by Decabytes | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Agents? Are you making them? 2 by kva | 1 comments on Hacker News. I wanted to start a discussion around AI agents, where you see them being helpful and whether you're working on any. Didn't see much in search about this.

Ask HN: How to MITM SD-Card? 6 by sudonanohome | 5 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN! I own a small industrial automation business (Europe). Enshittification is reaching to us as well. We recently signed a contract to supporting a business of using new piece of automation hardware that can only store its state on SD cards. The hardware is VERY proprietary and exposes no APIs. SD card writes ain't handled properly and files often get corrupted after power outages. My operators are diving around to clone SD cards and replace them all day. This is maddening. Contract is very attractive for the company so I would like to solve this on our own. We did our best to reach out to the manufacturer and they plainly deny any wrongdoing and refuse to fix their bugs (we are too small company to care). So after a quick brainstorming with my engineering team, we discovered these wifi-enabled SD card products. They are all positioned at the photographer market segment and wifi interface is only acc

What are the biggest questions you ask yourself? 4 by parker8798 | 5 comments on Hacker News. Just doing research...

I have a laptop and desire to deep dive into astronomy and astrophysics 3 by landyrev | 1 comments on Hacker News. Where do I start?

Ask HN: Is it well known that iOS devices transmit large ICMP echo/replies? 2 by nickburns | 2 comments on Hacker News. and if so, with what kind of data encapsulated? i've observed this behavior in packet captures while blocking/unblocking/reblocking ICMP outbound ping.

How to Scale a SaaS Startup from $1M to $100M ARR Without Investor Funding? 3 by pajuhaan | 2 comments on Hacker News. I have a SaaS startup in the ecommerce space; it's like Shopify but with a no-plugin approach. The storefront is open source (Vue Project + JS SDK) and available on GitHub, allowing everyone to build their storefronts and deploy them on our servers. This gives it the flexibility of Woocommerce and Wordpress. We are two founders + one employee + zero investors. I personally wrote all the code for the backend, frontend, iOS, Android app, and more so we can figure out the product side at any level. Also most of our users are agencies, primarily from North America and Europe. Our revenue comes from selling deals to agencies, freelancers, and business owners. So, the next step is making ARR. I don't want to raise money from investors because they thought my nationality was not ok to secure funding. Therefore, I'm looking to scale without their support, and I&

Ask HN: Any Alternative to Stripe? (Startup-Friendly) 2 by Kalpeshbhalekar | 1 comments on Hacker News.

How much do you trust your Linux distro devs? 2 by PrimaryAlibi | 1 comments on Hacker News. I will assume everyone understands the security problem when a build isn't reproducible. In short, just because something is open source, doesn't mean the compiled application you're downloading and installing hasn't had any malicious modules added to it before being compiled. It's not enough for something to be open source, it has to be reproducible as well. I don't think there are any reproducible linux distros. Every one I have looked into requires you to download and install from an image file. That means you must trust the developer who signed that image because they could add all kinds of malicious code to it. We always suspected that winows, mac, android, ios are spyware for the intel agencies and now it has been proven that ios has a backdoor most likely put there by NSA. Why don't we suspect the devs of linux distros to do the same thing? What do we reall

Ask HN: What licenses avoid AWS-like predators while preserving OSS spirit? 1 by develatio | 4 comments on Hacker News. I'm currently working on a project (SaaS) that I intend to release on GitHub. I want the code to be freely available for anybody to read and contribute. I also want companies to be able to freely (both "as in beer" and "as in speech") use it ("use" as in "fulfil their own needs") without having any legal doubts / problems (a-la GPL / AGPL viral licenses). Last, but not least important, I want to avoid AWS-like predators from taking the project, shoving the "Elastic" prefix, hosting it and profiting from my work (making it extremely difficult for me to be able to compete and economically benefit from my own work). I have been reading the terms and conditions of several licenses, including the Commons Clause, AGPL, BUSL, etc... and they seem to be designed for that purpose (with more or less restrictions), but jud

Ask HN: Anyone else depressed by the relentless monetization and spying? 33 by Razengan | 20 comments on Hacker News. Almost every facet of human life in our current civilization is being funneled through corporations trying to watch and make money from everything we do. And the average HN user seems to support it, likely because they work for those companies.

How can I leave Seattle without screwing my career? 3 by tomhanks_clone | 1 comments on Hacker News. I grew up in eastern wa, BS EE, MS CS, first 3 years teaching CS at a state school and currently a patent examiner. I'm mid excited about the job b/c I expect to learn cool stuff, and because I realize my resume isn't competitive, especially in this job market. That said, I'm also self-aware that I can't afford to live in Seattle with this job. I'm still applying and hoping to get a better role, and trying to build users for a consumer web startup. We're default alive on AWS credits, MVP built&passed first 20 users test, the challenge is the chicken//egg problem of all online communities. I have been reading this board for like a decade. This is all the stuff I think is cool. I don't feel like I've found it in Seattle; this seems like a very 9-5 town where most who still have jobs want to recreate after work. And power to them! If I was making that

How to Catch a "Thief" 3 by sudoaptinstall | 3 comments on Hacker News. I work at an international school and an incident has recently arisen. A disgruntled employee has downloaded the parent email list (thus the thievery) and is sending defamatory emails a few times a week based on meeting minutes and general gossip. The individual is switching emails each time (they are using protonmail and gmail accounts). I also suspect that they are using an AI language filter or some sort of program that alters writing style. The suspect list has been narrowed down to a handful of admin. My first inclination is to send different (juicy as it were) information to different people coming from a teacher unaware of the situation and claim that I accidentally used bcc instead of cc and apologize in an email sent to all the admin staff for "my poor use of tech", thus lessening the suspicion of misinformation. This would hopefully entice the perpetrator to share some identifying i

Ask HN: What are some words that you learned on Hacker News? 5 by neilyio | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'll start. "Orthogonal".

Ask HN: Do you use ChatGPT to generate code? What were your experiences? 2 by spxneo | 0 comments on Hacker News. So I was experimenting with Swift without knowing any Swift code to see if I could generate an app. To my surprise I see a repeating theme: - ChatGPT generates ample amount of code that eventually runs after refinement through multiple prompts. - Solution hits a hard edge case and we need to rework, refactor stuff, involving even more prompts to get it working (this is understandable as more tech debt is introduced) - Solution hits an edge case and eventually ChatGPT4 starts hitting a loop saying it has a new solution or it fixed something but it really didn't. - Manual inspection of code and simple logic removes that edge case from that solution. To me this was an interesting to see: ChatGPT4 seems quite apt at handling requirements but it is unable to see very obvious mistakes or one liners. I've spent about a week developing an iOS app with ChatGPT4 and these

Ask HN: Has ADHD Become Overdiagnosed? 4 by Akcium | 3 comments on Hacker News. In psychiatry, we have a problem: we cannot simply take a blood test or perform an MRI to determine a diagnosis. Typically, psychiatrists make judgments based on what patients say, how they complete questionnaires, and so on. In fact, if someone wants to get stimulants (or tranquilizers, in the case of GAD), it might be enough to describe symptoms that align with the diagnosis. Many people argue, 'No, a competent psychiatrist will definitely know if you have ADHD, GAD, or any other condition.' However, it seems to me that if you say "the right things", you can receive the diagnosis you desire and thus obtain a prescription for stimulants, for example. Recently, my feed has become full of content about ADHD. I'm not claiming it doesn't exist or that it's not a problem, but it has started to feel "mainstream". Just a couple of days ago, I saw a tweet where a girl on

Ask HN: Job Titles Solutions Architect vs. Architect 3 by cranberryturkey | 3 comments on Hacker News. Which is more robust/higher paying?

Has anyone else had their Reddit account Kafka'd? How did you solve the issue? 5 by kafkad | 2 comments on Hacker News. I recently got a message that my Reddit account was banned, with the following message: >Your account has been permanently banned for breaking the rules. >This account has been permanently banned due to multiple, repeated violations of Reddit's Content Policy on your other account(s). For more information about what rules you broke and how to appeal, check your account inboxes. >If you feel like this account was banned in error, visit our Help Center to learn more how to file an appeal. Neither of my accounts had done this, and neither of my accounts received "information about what rules you broke and how to appeal" When I filed an appeal stating the above: that I only have two accounts, neither has repeatedly violated the content policy, and I appear to have been lumped in with another user who uses the same wifi I do. (I don't have

Ask HN: Feedback on ChatGPT Memory 2 by gverrilla | 0 comments on Hacker News. Today I opened ChatGPT Premium and there was a dialog box [0] announcing this new Memory feature. It seems they are releasing it since the start of the year, but I only got it now. Has anyone been using it? Is it good? 0: Your GPT can now learn from your chats Keep the conversation going. Your GPT will carry what it learns between chats, allowing it to provide more relevant responses. Improves over time. As you chat your GPT will become more helpful, remembering details and preferences. Your GPT has been designed to follow your instructions in chats. You can reset your GPT's memory or turn this feature off in settings.

Ask HN: How to improve PCB prototyping iteration time? 6 by RohKo | 12 comments on Hacker News. I'm building wearable tech, and the JLCPCB lead times are my biggest bottleneck for iteration. 3-4 weeks is way too long. Has anyone figured out a way to make this quicker? Strongly considering moving to Shenzen to build the prototype. Has anyone done this, and was it quicker/worth it?

Tell HN: Update your RDS, EKS or you may got charge for extended support 3 by kureikain | 0 comments on Hacker News. Last night, I found out we got charge $760 for extended support because we're running stuff like Postgres 11(our prod is on 14 but one of dev db is on 11) and a EKS v1.23. Our entire AWS is about $3k so getting charge $760 for this is absurd. The charge started since March 2024. So make sure to review your bill and upgrade all software.

Ask HN: Llama-2-7B adapter merged with llama-2-7B-chat model? 2 by dynamo_ | 0 comments on Hacker News. I realized that I fine-tuned a llama-2-7b model and merged the adapter with llama-2-7b-chat model. This was a mistake. But when I ran inference on benchmark medqa tests and found that the llama-2-7b-chat merged with llama-2-7b adapter out performs a base llama-2-7b-chat model. Why did this work - was this a fluke? Or are adapter's modifications compatible with both the general Llama-2-7b model and the chat-specific version? Thanks!

Ask HN: What rabbit hole(s) did you dive into recently? 17 by RetroTechie | 15 comments on Hacker News. You get nerd-sniped. Assigned a bug to squash. Some new tech or gadget arrived, to familiarize yourself with. While researching / reading up / debugging, you stumble upon something interesting. Upon looking into that, yet another subject catches your attention. You know how this goes. So... (see title). Bonus questions: what intermediate steps did you pass along the way? What stuck in your mind the most?

Ask HN: Is Hacker News under attack from spam bots? 55 by joeyhage | 19 comments on Hacker News. Seeing a lot of spam comments in the last few minutes from accounts that all have similar names. Omitting name since it is NSFW.

Ask HN: What are your go to shell one-liners? 5 by nbbaier | 5 comments on Hacker News. What are the commands/pipelines you keep coming back to again and again?

Ask HN: Are Personal Finance Apps Falling Short for Anyone Else? 4 by srcc0de | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi! I hope this is the right forum for this. Lately, I've been looking into personal finance apps, hoping to find something that could help me manage my finances and plan for the future. Despite there being so many apps designed to do this, I find myself continually reverting an Excel spreadsheet. It seems like these apps should be making financial management easier, but in my experience—and from what I've gathered from doing a bit of research online (reddit and HN) others people find they often don't meet all our needs. This has left me wondering, do they just not work? Has anyone else here experienced similar frustrations? I'm curious to hear your experiences with finance apps (or do you just use a spreadsheet?) What specific features or issues have made you stick with or abandon these tools? Do you think these apps lack certain functionalities, or is it somet

Ask HN: What would a TikTok ban look like? 6 by HotGarbage | 3 comments on Hacker News. I've seen a lot of discourse here on the business and politics of a ban, but nothing technical. I imagine if ByteDance can't/won't divest, their US presence will dissolve: App store and server contracts are orphaned if not explicitly voided. But then what? tiktok.com will still exist, albeit hosted outside the US. Would the government insist Verisign revoke the domain? If so, there's always other TLDs. Then what? Compelling DNS providers to block certain domains ala EU piracy bans? Well, there's always DNS providers outside of the US, or doing the recursive lookups yourself. And then? Compelling ISPs to block IPs aka the UK? Well, then what about VPNs/proxies/Tor? I guess I see this as a slippery slope to a Great Firewall of America. I can't imagine most people will care, but it leaves the Internet in a pretty sad state. On the other hand, maybe this will inspire the next

Ask HN: Which books/resources to understand modern Assembler? 3 by throwaway63467 | 3 comments on Hacker News. I’d like to learn more about Assembler in order to be able to work with LLVM and JIT as well as to write high performance low-level code. I’m familiar with the basics of x86 but I haven’t touched Assembler in a while, so I’m wondering which resources and in particular books you’d recommend?

Ask HN: How can I get better at explaining things? 4 by throwaway9021 | 2 comments on Hacker News. Similar to 3B1B, Karpathy etc

Ask HN: Any book recommendations about QA and automated testing? 2 by Sincere | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Please recommend how to manage personal serverss 4 by scott01 | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hey guys, I'm not an infrastructure engineer nor do I work in web, but I'm pretty comfortable with Linux. I realised I need to spin up a couple of home servers and VPSs to simplify and localise my digital life, and I have an RPi and an x86 NAS in my home network, and a VPS in the cloud. They run different hardware and distros, so I have to set them up a bit differently, which is a pain of itself, but what makes matters worse is a situation when I mess something up real bad or when there's another reason that essentially forces me to reinstall. I tried Ansible and find it hard to use. E.g. at some point I decided to redeploy my server to a different VPS type in the same cloud, but I had to patch my Ansible scripts to do so, even though it was the same Rocky Linux distro (and it failed at some random docker compose networking config IIRC). I guess, Ansible scripts aren't

Ask HN: At what age did you become interested in coding? 6 by Genius_um | 5 comments on Hacker News. At what age did you write your first lines of code, and how?

Tell HN: Ever think of applying to YC? Do it this weekend for S24 37 by dang | 22 comments on Hacker News. (Usually I put an "Apply to YC" thing in the HN footer [1] but I forgot this time, so here is my pitch to make up for it.) If you've ever thought about applying to YC, here's a tip: just do it. It doesn't take long and could change your life, like it did for me and many others. In particular, if you have either of these two bogus thoughts, ignore them pronto and just go to https://ift.tt/jzSadvh and apply: (1) "probably not good enough / won't get in" - you'd be surprised at how many people feel that way, whether because of impostor syndrome, lack of credentials, whatever—and often they turn out to be among the best founders. So this a terrible reason not to apply! The nice thing is, it's YC's job to evaluate that, not yours. They're looking for aptitude which doesn't look like what most people (probably including you) ass

A community approach to making the AI more explainable 2 by xdeshati | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hi Friends , A well-crafted prompt can drive the desired result from LLM's .Andrej Karpathy said it best in one of his twitter threads "The hottest new programming language is English". We've build a platform called "The Prompt Square" is a community-driven platform, where users can share, discover, and test AI prompts in real time .Each prompt is analyzed for its purpose, topic, category, and driving keywords, also users can try out prompts and discuss results in real-time . Being an interactive platform, features like commenting and rating , allow users to evaluate responses and contribute collectively on a better understanding of model behavior . There's still a lot of work to be done.We've just launched the mvp currently having 12 users . Here is the link https://ift.tt/OqbLmEw. We think it has potential ,what do you think ?

Looking for a co-founder to apply for YC and changing psychiatry with AI 3 by aidan_tsai | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi, I'm Aidan. I'm on the lookout for a co-founder to apply to YC with a de-risked idea set to change the landscape of psychiatry treatment through AI. Here’s what we’re tackling: The Issue: Accurate diagnosis of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is just the beginning; the real challenge lies in identifying its biological subtypes which dictate treatment strategies. Currently, there’s no reliable method to detect these subtypes, making treatment a hit-or-miss scenario. Our Solution: We’re developing an AI platform that uses EEG data and ML models to predict the most effective TMS treatments for MDD and potentially other diseases. Market Potential: There are 17 million MDD patients in need, plus countless others suffering from conditions that could benefit from better TMS treatment strategies. Our Team: I am an ex-founder of a VC-backed AI startup and have worke

I studied 5k Series A/B startups in the USA to identify the next unicorns 4 by loondri | 1 comments on Hacker News. I researched over 5000 Series A and Series B stage companies in the USA to identify the next unicorns. I identified 10 companies that I feel could become unicorns very soon based on several factors including growth rates, hiring trends, and leadership. I then ranked them on a few metrics and presented the data to you below. I used Crustdata's database for this research. Top 10 Fastest Growing Soonicorn Companies in the USA 1. LangChain is a language model application development library that develops a language model framework to power applications. 2. Vilya is a biotechnology company developing a novel class of drugs that precisely target the biology of disease. 3. Duckbill is an execution engine for daily tasks that functions as a personal assistant copilot using AI-powered technology. 4. Gutsy is a data-driven security governance platform that applies process mi

Ask HN: AI summary and filter in custom RSS feed 2 by andrew_zhong | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi folks, I am working on an AI newsfeed app. It uses LLM to summarize and filter stories on any website or RSS. When exporting this custom AI feed to custom RSS (so that users on RSS readers can subscribe them), I am wondering which RSS field should I use for AI summary, the summary prompt or AI filter. Namely: 1. AI summary per top feed links (AI will summarize the page pointed by the link URL) - I am thinking of adding a new namespace within item: `channel > item > ai:summary` 2. User's summary prompt (.e.g "What are key points it covers" or "What are the key financial metrics") - What about `channel > item > ai:summaryPrompt` 3. Handle AI filtered feed and user's filter prompt (e.g. "Anything about open source") - I am thinking of including only the filtered feed items in RSS and adding a per channel tag like `channel > ai:filterPro

Working at Google has been utterly depressing for over a year 16 by amusable | 1 comments on Hacker News. I've been at Google for nearly a decade as a SWE, and internally it's the most depressing it's ever been. Some symptoms come to mind: - constant rounds of layoffs - morale is terrible; everyone is overworked and burnt out - perks constantly being cut - suddenly extremely hard to get promoted - executives are suddenly micromanaging teams - general atmosphere of culture decay and leadership disconnect I think these are probably just the vibes at MOST companies, but among several competing offers I initially joined google FOR its good culture, so this hits me especially hard. Are all tech companies like this? Some companies prioritize employee well-being and maintain a better atmosphere...but I have no insight into who those companies are. Anyone have thoughts?

Wayfair fired a bunch of people again today, after using them to train AI 11 by MountainMan1312 | 5 comments on Hacker News. As my friend logged into work today, they were told to join a mandatory meeting, as was everyone on their team and everyone they had known at the company. It wasn't a meeting though, they were the only one in it. After being shown some stupid bullshit video about how Wayfair is "moving in a new direction" or whatever, they were locked out of their accounts almost without warning. Friends barely got a chance to say goodbye to each other. For the last few months, they've been training an absolutely useless AI to replace themselves. They made all the managers wait till later in the day to come into work so they could be fired separately. Of course, they kept the one manager who lives in a place with underpaid labor, where they are offshoring the work for managing this new AI to near-slaves. Of course they were told not to go posting about it on

Ask HN: Are there AI prompt builder products? 2 by hanniabu | 0 comments on Hacker News. What I'm looking for is a tool that will help you create a good prompt. I'd specifically like this for images so I'll use that as an example, but it can be used for text, video, and procedures. For example, I will write a prompt in my own words, then it'll walk me through a few questions to make it better, such as image color (colored, vibrant, neon, black/white, etc), what style image do I want (photorealistic, anime, drawing, digital, 3d, etc), lighting (soft, natural, direct, dim, etc), and whatever other details that might be helpful such as photography style, clothing style, scenery, etc depending on previous answers. I envision each of these steps having an example image for each option to give you an idea of what that means (like what does soft vs natural vs direct lighting look like.) If this doesn't exist, I do believe this is a very useful product worth building.

Coinbase Will Liquidate Assets, Denies Withdrawal Access 4 by cesarizu | 1 comments on Hacker News. I find myself in a dire situation that I never imagined possible with Coinbase, one of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges. Despite my relentless efforts, I'm trapped in a nightmarish scenario where my assets are on the verge of being liquidated, and I've been rendered helpless in withdrawing them. The issue stemmed from Coinbase's sudden imposition of new terms and conditions, which I was unable to accept due to a persistent technical glitch. Despite exhaustive attempts across various browsers and devices, I've been met with an impenetrable wall preventing me from accessing my account. Compounding my frustration is the fact that I'm not based in the US or EU, leading me to suspect that my geographical location might be a contributing factor to this ordeal. Months of attempting to contact Coinbase have yielded no resolution. I've meticulously followed every in

What's the best (non-tablet) software for kids? 2 by qq66 | 2 comments on Hacker News. I'm setting up a computer for my 6-year-old and would like to put good software on it. It can be a Mac or PC as I haven't bought it yet. I'm going to install Microsoft Word because I think it's fun to just type random stuff and mess around with fonts, I remember doing that a lot as a kid. I'm looking for a good turtle LOGO program that isn't too complicated. I think I'll install SimCity 2000 as the first game and show him how to use it. I'll install Google Earth because it's mindboggling how much information is in there. Any other ideas?

Our Instagram account got hacked and no one at Meta will help, what to do? 6 by jcelerier | 0 comments on Hacker News. Our instagram account at the SAT - Société des Arts Technologiques, https://sat.qc.ca/en - got hacked 4 weeks ago. We spent two days every week to try to get it back, and spoke to countless Meta persons, bots, etc. to no avail, it's like talking to a wall ; we had 30k-ish followers, which is critical for a tech / art-oriented venue. https://ift.tt/7QVkuoe Posting here in case any Meta employee could have a way to unlock this as we are out of options on our side.

Ask HN: Best stack for real time data intensive apps 2 by warthog | 1 comments on Hacker News. Question to HN: I have been overwhelmed with the variety of new database and analytics solutions out there. This question is meant to hear the experiences of everyone who built data intensive apps like a financial information app or a CRM. Purpose is to simply make data loading speeds fast, whether purely by speed or using sockets or GraphQL does not matter. I am looking for opinionated views. So far seen: - DuckDB (guess makes things faster but no experience with it) - Tinybird (real time data APIs?) - GraphQL (learning curve?) - and many more I am relatively new to this stuff but a long time user of Postgres. Looking to learn but wildly confused and overwhelmed around what I should work on to implement for the best UX[1] [1] Best UX defined as fast loading times for large number of rows and dynamically being able to load data (sockets?) and realtime data communication

Tell HN: We should snapshot a mostly AI output free version of the web 9 by jacquesm | 4 comments on Hacker News. While we can, and if it isn't too late already. The web is overrun with AI generated drivel, I've been searching for information on some widely varying subjects and I keep landing in recently auto-generated junk. Unfortunately most search engines associate 'recency' with 'quality' or 'relevance' and that is very much no longer true. While there is still a chance I think we should snapshot a version of the web and make it publicly available. That can serve as something to calibrate various information sources against to get an idea of whether or not they are to be used or rather not. I'm pretty sure Google, OpenAI and Facebook all have such snapshots stashed away that they train their AIs on, and such data will rapidly become as precious as 'low background steel'. https://ift.tt/UN7RxnT

List of popular projects using Protobuf 2 by edmondo_por | 0 comments on Hacker News. Where can I find it?

Ask HN: Visited Venice Recently? 4 by chrisjj | 2 comments on Hacker News. If so, how are those street artists collecting donations these days? Cash still? Card payment terminals?

Ask HN: What's It Like at Intuit/TurboTax on Tax Day? 4 by dc_rog | 0 comments on Hacker News. (Very US centric question around tax day / April 15). I've always wondered what it's like to work on these products at Intuit/TurboTax (or competitors) that get such high demand seasonally and on one day specifically. Is it an all-hands 24-hour event? Any crazy stories of things breaking? What's something that the normal user or tech person wouldn't realize?

Ask HN: Is RAG the Future of LLMs? 18 by Gooblebrai | 19 comments on Hacker News. It seems to be in vogue that RAG is one of the best solutions to reduce the problem of hallucinations in LLMs. What do you think? Are there any other alternatives or solutions on sight?

Ask HN: Does it still matter to be in the Bay Area? 3 by b20000 | 1 comments on Hacker News. A while ago lots of people moved out. Due to the current AI fad people came back (?). Does it still matter to be there and in what circumstances?

Ask HN: What job titles involve designing chips? 2 by altdataseller | 1 comments on Hacker News. I’m interested in learning more about jobs that involve designing AI chips. What are the typical job titles to search for to see what skills and responsibilities these jobs have?

Ask HN: Will you switch back if Windows on Arm becomes as snappy as macOS? 3 by ricc | 5 comments on Hacker News. Title field is limited, but the full question is: If you were a former Windows user who switched to macOS for its snappiness, will you consider switching back to Windows if a future Arm processor finally makes Windows as snappy as macOS?

Ask HN: It's 2024, why are voice assistants still so buggy? 3 by samuelg123 | 1 comments on Hacker News. Still feels like 20% of the time I try to use Siri/Alexa, they hit one of these failure modes: 1. Fail to activate 2. Fail to respond (just keep listening forever) 3. Activate on the wrong device (talking to Siri on Phone, HomePod 2 rooms over responds) 4. Fail to access data they should have ("Who is speaking?" or "I'm having trouble...") Thinking over it, I think voice assistants have the most bugs of any technology I use daily.

Who is hiring interns (April 2024) 5 by Heidaradar | 0 comments on Hacker News. Like `who is hiring (MM YYYY)` but for INTERNS! Please state the location and include REMOTE, and/or VISA when that sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE. Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. One post per company. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.

Ask HN: Best Email Client for Mac? 3 by simonebrunozzi | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Building free tools is a not a viable long-term SEO strategy 4 by lucgagan | 1 comments on Hacker News. When I started https://ray.run/tools/, I started with a simple premise: I will build free tools relevant to my target audience, without ads or anything else that would negatively weigh on user experience, with one goal – building long-term SEO ranking. I thought that if I build a collection of the most polished tools that are pleasant to use, over time Google will start recommending them to more and more people. My goal was to invest upfront into developing domain reputation, so that when I launch my SaaS in the future, I am not starting from 0. At first, it looked like this strategy is working. The first month I got roughly 1k unique visitors. Then it quickly grew to 4k uniques, and maxed out at 5k uniques after 5 months. But then (2023 November) some Google update launched and it was a downhill ride since. It wasn't all at once, but it slowly dwindled to about 800 uniques pe

Ask HN: What programming jobs are least likely to be disrupted by AI? 2 by div3rs3 | 3 comments on Hacker News. There are now prominent people in tech suggesting our next generation shouldn't learn coding because that'll be done by AI. What programming jobs do you expect will be less affected?

Are YC Acceptances Out 2 by marcusleopoldo | 0 comments on Hacker News. met with a founder who says he got into yc a few weeks ago. Is this possible? Thought it might be part of YCs early interviews for their request for startups

Generating Code Documentation with AI 4 by daviddom | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi there, community. I'm building a product that will create documentation for front-end code using AI. This will include comments on the codebase, diagrams, component render tree, etc. The purpose of this is to decrease the time it takes to a new developer to be productive on an existing codebase. Would you find this useful? I'd love to know if you have this problem. Thanks.

Ask HN: What activities are you motivated to do? 3 by codingclaws | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Looking for tech city without hayfever risk in May/June 2 by timdaub | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi, I'm allergic to grass pollen, and it has its season in May and June in Europe. So this year I want to try to escape Europe and to not get exposed to pollen. For this reason, I've been looking for places that: - Have a nice tech scene - No pollen in the air in May and June - Affordable - Safe - the closer to Europe, the better The best I could find for now was: - Iceland (bit cold lol) - Capetown (do they have a big enough tech scene)? - Canary Islands (I don't want to be a beach tourist) What other options are there? Also: Have you already done this, and what was your experience? Does this plan generally work?

Ask HN: What are your favorite puzzle websites and games? 2 by r2b2 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Best tools for creating user and developer documentation for web apps? 2 by pettycashstash2 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm working on multiple web portal projects and am looking for effective tools to create documentation for both end-users and developers. Ideally, it should be easy to navigate, visually clean, and able to communicate workflows, UI, and code samples (see https://ift.tt/P7MtYLn for a solid example). What tools have you found work well for building SaaS user guides and technical references that strike a good balance between usability and depth? Bonus if it can output both user and developer-friendly formats. Appreciate any recommendations from the HN community!

Ask HN: Turn off automated Time Machine backups for the sake of SSD health? 2 by amichail | 1 comments on Hacker News. In particular, I am worried about the local snapshots that it makes.

Ask HN: Search engine ranking monitoring tool? 3 by b20000 | 1 comments on Hacker News. What are your favourite tools to monitor your website search engine ranking daily/weekly?

Ask HN: Which US news outlets do you still trust? 3 by g4zj | 7 comments on Hacker News. I'm tired of all the sensationalism and editorialized headlines. Where can I go each day to get a _reasonably_ unbiased take on current events without all the bullshit? Edit: On the subject, how does NPR hold up these days, in your opinion?

How might software development have unfolded if CPU speeds were 20x slower? 4 by EvanWard97 | 8 comments on Hacker News. I was pondering how internet latency seems to be just barely sufficient for a decent fast-paced online multiplayer gaming experience. If human cognition were say, 20x faster relative to the speed of light, we'd be limited to playing many games only with players from the same city. More significantly, single-threaded compute performance relative to human cognition would effectively be limited to the equivalent of 300 MHz (6 GHz / 20), which I suspect makes it a challenge to run even barebones versions of many modern games. This led me to wondering how software development would have progressed if CPU clock speeds were effectively 20x slower. Might the overall greater pressure for performance have kept us writing lower-level code with more bugs while shipping less features? Or could it actually be that having all the free compute to throw around has comparativel

How was the oldest law (Code of Ur-Nammu)deciphered? 2 by celestiallylvd1 | 0 comments on Hacker News. All I could find was a photograph at https://ift.tt/daR1PbG, and an English translation in Wikipedia. But the intermediate steps are missing documentation.

Why big corps don't give donations to open-source maintainers? 3 by jerawaj749 | 5 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: How important is a public GitHub repo for job applications in 2024? 2 by J253 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I’m a US-based senior software engineer with almost 15 years of experience. Graduated from a top 50 uni in the states. I have worked mostly for smaller companies because I prefer the autonomy and outsized impact you can have—so no FAANG-like companies on the resume but I have cofounded a startup and had a successful exit. I’m not a job hopper by any means—spent over a decade with one company. However, by choice I have zero online presence. No LinkedIn, no Facebook, no X, not even a public GitHub repo. I have plenty of stuff in a private repo that mostly contains foundations for a handful of other half-baked startup ideas. Nothing I’d be willing to share for job search purposes because it’s just brain dump-type code and some POC stuff. I’m not necessarily job searching, but I’m casually looking and have applied for a half dozen or so specific positions that I’m really in

Ask HN: How do you leave hobby mode and enter business mode, for a side project? 4 by syndicatedjelly | 1 comments on Hacker News. Like many of you, I seek refuge in my programming side-projects by treating them as hobbies. I pursue projects and learn things that have no relevance to my specific day job. I spend weeks exploring rabbit holes because, well, it's fun. I am under no pressures in my hobbies. One of my programming hobby projects has become a joint venture with a friend, and now we're getting serious about turning it into a business. What started out as a way for me to try out some new frameworks and tools I've wanted to experiment with, is now on the cusp of being the IP for a registered business. We want to start paying contractors to do more coding work (I have barely any time, but will continue to oversee and guide the higher vision while someone does more of the coding). We want to also be able to accept money from people in exchange for licenses. The thin

Ask HN: Fast way to relearn React industry best practices? 2 by mettamage | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm in a coding session with a recruiter soon to show off my front-end skills. The truth is, I haven't coded front-end in a while and am out of date with industry best practices. What's a good way to as quickly as possible relearn this? I have about 4 years of software dev experience, mostly back-end. In my first year it was mostly front-end (in React). I was wondering if something like [1] would help. But I just remember that name from somewhere. I don't know if it's any good. What's your advice? [1] https://ift.tt/eaQgEiY

Any ideas to monetize a 3yr old podcast? 2 by elcazador | 3 comments on Hacker News. Looking to (further) monetize a podcast I started in January 2021. Thanks!

Ask HN: Which news aggregators can provide an alternative to Hacker News? 6 by gorpo85 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Tell: Thunderbird just made me lose a contract 2 by nothrowaways | 3 comments on Hacker News. So I have been a long time fan of Thunderbird mail client. But today, I just realized a sad event that made me lose an email that was buried in a thread. I had an email thread started a week ago. I sent, they replied, then I replied back. They were supposed to reply within a day or two. I didn't get any, or Thunderbird made me believe so. I was waiting and waiting even checking in the junk. Nothing new, nothing unread, the thread is still all read. Eventually, I learned that they have been replying and Thunderbird has been burying it under the thread. No way to find out. Looked up in the bugzilla, and it is a known issue. So if any of you use this client I suggest you to check deep within threads. Don't expect to see it at the top of the thread, or for the thread activated to be unread like Gmail and others, even outlook. End of rant.

Ask HN: How to get uncensored version of LLM models 4 by daemon_9009 | 1 comments on Hacker News. talking to LLMs feels like life is rainbows and butterflies, if one wants to create a beleiveable experience for the user say in entertainment or gaming industry, we will need uncensored versions of LLMs which can converse like humans do! any way to get it? if not, then forget GPTs will go anywhere in entertainment industry.

Ask HN: How to train an image recognition AI 2 by quirk | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm working to create a sort of Operating Manual for a specific large building. There are a lot of pieces of equipment from various manufacturers. My idea is to have the maintenance person snap a photo of a piece of equipment, have AI recognize the model/manufacturer, and provide a quick link to that equipment's repair manual and parts list. Any guidance on where to start would be much appreciated.

Ask HN: What new tech gives you the same thrill you got from PCs and the web? 2 by fnckfjekdnd | 0 comments on Hacker News. From childhood through young adulthood, I was enamored with PCs, the web, and the things you could do and learn with them. Now that I’m older and work in the industry, neither of these things bring me the joy they used to. I suspect many on HN may find themselves in a similar position. If so, what emerging technologies give you the same thrill that the early days of personal computing or the web did?

Ask HN: Have you felt a rise of AI-generated posts in your feeds across the web? 3 by baapercollege | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What to do with digital assets of shutdown organization? 3 by takinola | 1 comments on Hacker News. I am working with a charitable organization that is unfortunately shutting down. They are wondering what to do with their digital assets (eg websites, social media accounts, images, donor and volunteer lists, etc). My instinct is to archive them but I am wondering where to keep the archives (thumbdrive?) and how to handle any PII (email addresses, etc) to ensure it is safe long term. I'm curious if anyone has had to deal with this issue and what steps they took to handle digital assets of dissolved organizations.

Ask HN: Why did Apple stop working on EVs? 2 by jppope | 5 comments on Hacker News. Curious if anyone knows anything about the situation. The news articles on the topic suck. I'm assuming theres some sort of financial or technological reason that they stopped development.

Ask HN: Most efficient way to fine-tune an LLM in 2024? 46 by holomorphiclabs | 25 comments on Hacker News. In Apr 2024 what is the most efficient way to fine-tune an LLM? In particular we are trying to understand performance vs. cost trade-offs. We don't have a budget to train from scratch. We are working with a proprietary data set on the order of 100M tokens and are looking to fine-tune a general purpose language model and also create task-specific models based on the same corpus. Any help would be appreciated!

Ask HN: What is the best site to track eclipse weather predictions? 4 by kloch | 4 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Where to host my personal email 5 by louwrentius | 4 comments on Hacker News. I have a personal email address dating back 20+ years. It’s tied to my parents internet provider and when they are gone, my email address will disappear with them. I got this mail address when their internet provider was called “Multikabel” (now Ziggo), some older Dutch people will remember. I’m going to buy my own domain for my new email address, but I wonder where I should host my email. As email is so important and tied to many things, it must be robust. So gmail seems obvious. But I feel exposed by that, I don’t like it. Ideally I don’t put my email straight in the hands of the USA, although I admit I don’t know how Ziggo is handling Email, who knows what they do. I feel it should be a Dutch or European company, but I’m open to any ideas. I’m also open to how people look at this “challenge” Any suggestions are welcome!

Ask HN: Why can't the US government run their own social media? 2 by rglullis | 2 comments on Hacker News. With the news yesterday of POTUS joining threads.net and with the fanfare about the possibility of following him from other AP-compatible servers (like Mastodon), I was left wondering why is it that the White House couldn't just run their own services? Doesn't "POTUS is using threads for social media" feel a bit like "POTUS is using outlook.com for email"? Is there anything about the bureaucracy that stops their some small team to setup a Mastodon server on "social.whitehouse.gov" and make this a reality? I find it hard to believe that this would be "if it got hacked it could create diplomacy issues", because I don't think that Facebook is setting up any type of special infrastructure to deal with political figures on their platform. Also, none of this seems to be a problem for some of the EU governments. Maybe I am missin

Ask HN: Is a Geo-Based Audio Chat App Viable? (For the Blind Community) 3 by blindprogrammer | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi hackers, I'm a blind programmer who loves chatting. Text chats with screen readers aren't ideal, so I'm building a location-based audio chat app for easy neighborhood connections. Think of it as an audio-based YikYak for your area. The technical side is manageable, but I need help with the human aspect: 1. Spam Control: How can we prevent misuse? 2. Monetization: How can we discourage self-promotion? 3. Safety: Would age restrictions help combat bullying? Looking for insights from product managers on tackling these non-technical challenges. Thanks!

Hypothesis: Repeating the task description increases quality of ChatGPT output 3 by kuboble | 2 comments on Hacker News. There has been some experiments showing that ChatGPT performs better if given some incentives like tips or threats, etc. Also it's known that the chat GPT performs constant amount of computation per token. I wanted to test a hypothesis that adding any number of tokens after the initial task description increases quality of the output. The experiment consists of relatively simple coding tasks and we will compare two prompts: Please help me X. and I will provide an identical task description 10 times: Please help me X. Please help me X. Please help me X. Please help me X. Please help me X. Please help me X. Please help me X. Please help me X. Please help me X. Please help me X. I have decided to run 3 experiments and not cherry-pick the results. Experiments: 1) create an SVG element of a 5 edged star item 2) write a function to check if a number is prime in pyth

Ask HN: Small/medium tech gadgets available in the US to buy while traveling? 2 by 101008 | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hello! Going to the USA in the next months and I was thinking in making an interesting purchase whlie being there, since I am from a country where we don't have many available tech. In past trips I bought a Google Pixel and a PSVR headset, and I would like to try something new this time, maybe more exotic. So I am open to any suggestions! It has to be easy to transport back to my country, and while I am not a millonaire, if the price is right I am OK with spend some money on it.

Ask HN: Is anyone using the Grayskull TPU for hobby projects? If so, what? 2 by kkukshtel | 1 comments on Hacker News. As the title says. I saw the Grayskull chips go live and am interested in picking one up, but have seen little about how to utilize it for hobby/side project purposes (or even how you would "route" a model to use the unit). Would love to hear from people using them (or planning to use them) and for what.

Ask HN: Are you worried about the US dollar collapse? 5 by ccorcos | 6 comments on Hacker News. Given the enormous US government debt conservatively estimated at $37T and annual revenues of $1.86T, it seems like we are on the precipice of a debt spiral. And yet everywhere I look it seems like business as usual. It's hard to find credible reading to learn about all of this and how the situation is expected to reconcile. Are you worried? What do you think it doing to happen? Is there any reading you can recommend? What are you doing to financially protect yourself?

Ask HN: How do I become an asset to my developers? 3 by karles | 4 comments on Hacker News. I'm working for an it-consultancy, and I've sort of gotten myself into a project manager/consultant role, where my job is to "own the backlog/sprint" as well as managing clients and their expectations. I'm not an engineer/developer/programmer, although I have taken a few courses in actual programming during my time at University. I realize there's a lot of "hate" towards non-technical it-project managers, and I'm painfully aware that I don't have the technical skills needed to line-up work for my devs. Sometimes I feel like I'm just taking notes, doing busywork, which pains me. Right now, I'm focussing on "shielding" my devs from managers/clients, by translating the business-needs of the clients to somewhat accessible backlog items (stories, features etc.) that I simply ask my team to complete with proper descriptions, estimates et

Ask HN: What is the state of AI data annotation of pdf documents using LLM 2 by ak_111 | 0 comments on Hacker News. As an example I have a corpus of scientific papers for which I would like to label the segments that contain an application to organic chemistry. Assuming the labeling is not very sophisticated (literally "this passage contains an application to organic chemistry") Do I need to train models to detect and label these segments or is it viable to feed into an LLM model with no prior training? What are currently the best/cheapest services/libraries that help with this kind of workflow that doesn't involve reinventing the wheel?