Monday 31 July 2023

New best story on Hacker News: If we want a shift to walking we need to prioritize dignity

If we want a shift to walking we need to prioritize dignity
589 by PaulHoule | 663 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Play deprivation is a major cause of the teen mental health crisis

Play deprivation is a major cause of the teen mental health crisis
457 by trevin | 385 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: San Francisco Compute – 512 H100s at <$2/hr for research and startups

Show HN: San Francisco Compute – 512 H100s at <$2/hr for research and startups
682 by flaque | 162 comments on Hacker News.
Hey folks! We're Alex and Evan, and we're working on putting together a 512 H100 compute cluster for startups and researchers to train large generative models on. - it runs at the lowest possible margins (<$2.00/hr per H100) - designed for bursty training runs, so you can take say 128 H100s for a week - you don’t need to commit to multiple years of compute or pay for a year upfront Big labs like OpenAI and Deepmind have big clusters that support this kind of bursty allocation for their researchers, but startups so far have had to get very small clusters on very long term contracts, wait months of lead time, and try to keep them busy all the time. Our goal is to make it about 10-20x cheaper to do an AI startup than it is right now. Stable Diffusion only costs about $100k to train -- in theory every YC company could get up to that scale. It's just that no cloud provider in the world will give you $100k of compute for just a couple weeks, so startups have to raise 20x that much to buy a whole year of compute. Once the cluster is online, we're going to be pretty much the only option for startups to do big training runs like that on.

Friday 28 July 2023

New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?

Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?
609 by imadkhan | 905 comments on Hacker News.
I got laid off at the start of the year, and ever since then, I've been applying constantly but have only gotten one interview. Before being laid off, I held a job as a front-end dev for the previous 5 and a half years. I've had my resume looked at by three different services (TopResume, Indeed, Levels.fyi) and am currently subscribed to Resume Worded, which scores my resume. Despite all these efforts, I keep receiving rejection emails. So, I just wanted to reach out and see if anyone else has had any similar experiences with applying for jobs.

New best story on Hacker News: Wavy walls use fewer bricks than a straight wall (2020)

Wavy walls use fewer bricks than a straight wall (2020)
593 by caiobegotti | 249 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3

Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3
573 by werner | 121 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: BlazingMQ: High-performance open source message queuing system

BlazingMQ: High-performance open source message queuing system
566 by carride | 192 comments on Hacker News.


Monday 24 July 2023

New best story on Hacker News: Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web

Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web
498 by jakobdabo | 228 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: 40 years ago yesterday Air Canada Flight 143 ran out of fuel mid-flight

40 years ago yesterday Air Canada Flight 143 ran out of fuel mid-flight
496 by bookofjoe | 206 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: I spent 2 years building a personal finance simulator

Show HN: I spent 2 years building a personal finance simulator
492 by scubakid | 167 comments on Hacker News.
Hey everyone! After another year of building as a solo dev on nights and weekends, I'm back with an update on this post: https://ift.tt/KSMyDQ0 . TL;DR - ProjectionLab ( https://ift.tt/Jhl7bsY ) is a privacy-friendly personal finance planning tool where you can create financial plans that go beyond the standard online retirement calculators. And by popular request, it now supports self-hosting for Lifetime users! Something I'm grateful for is that our community here on HN is the difference between PL existing and not. There was actually a time early on when I was one day away from halting work on it. I posted here on a whim, and was shocked to receive some really constructive and energizing feedback that went on to power my indie dev journey over the past two and a half years. As a quick recap, the story started when I dove head-first down the financial independence rabbit hole. I wanted a hands-on and visual way to explore the trade-offs between different life paths. One thing led to another, and I decided to build ProjectionLab. After last year's Show HN, I really put my nose to the grindstone, and here are some of the big developments: - Self-hosting for Lifetime users (spin up your own private deployment, based on Docker Compose, includes support for auth/encryption) - Cash-flow visualization for each simulated year (sankey charts) - Tax analytics (detailed breakdowns for projected income, taxes, marginal rates, effective brackets, etc) - Major redesign of entire app, with landing page and resources now split into separate project - Filing separately option to improve support for international locations that don't have joint filing - Roth Conversions and 72t (SEPP) distribution modeling - Improvements to US tax estimation (Secure 2.0 updates, rental property tax deductions, Medicare + IRMAA, NIIT, principal residence exclusion, etc) - Better support for planning as a couple - More modeling options for cash-flow priorities to support different budgeting philosophies and goals - Extra liquidity + withdrawal options, ability to fund expenses with specific accounts or route income to specific accounts - Customization options for Monte Carlo simulations (characterization of success rates and outcome types, option to set random seed, etc) - And a whole bunch more! ( https://ift.tt/5kNmKvC ) The HN community has had a huge role in shaping my overall direction with PL, and I can't wait to hear what you all think of the updates and where you would like to see things go from here. As always, PL is free to try, with no need to create an account. It does not ask to link your financial accounts, and it has a sandbox mode if you just want to hop in and see how it works. --Kyle

New best story on Hacker News: Attention Is Off By One

Attention Is Off By One
504 by elbasti | 179 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’

Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’
487 by pallas_athena | 1183 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: U.S. Senate bill crafted with DEA targets end-to-end encryption

U.S. Senate bill crafted with DEA targets end-to-end encryption
434 by walterbell | 310 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Study finds billions of nanoplastics released when microwaving containers

Study finds billions of nanoplastics released when microwaving containers
468 by thunderbong | 332 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Llama2.c: Inference llama 2 in one file of pure C

Llama2.c: Inference llama 2 in one file of pure C
583 by anjneymidha | 144 comments on Hacker News.


Monday 10 July 2023

New best story on Hacker News: InfluxDB Cloud shuts down in Belgium; some weren't notified before data deletion

InfluxDB Cloud shuts down in Belgium; some weren't notified before data deletion
407 by PaulAA | 241 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: ProtonMail Rewrites Your Emails

ProtonMail Rewrites Your Emails
408 by floren | 260 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Firefox address bar

Firefox address bar
516 by todsacerdoti | 146 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Thunderbird 115

Thunderbird 115
448 by patadune | 278 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Workout.lol a web app to easily create a workout routine

Show HN: Workout.lol – a web app to easily create a workout routine
424 by Vincenius | 135 comments on Hacker News.
Hey everyone, I here is a small open-source project I've been working on lately. I'd love to hear your thoughts and improvement ideas :) GitHub: [github.com/Vincenius/workout-lol]( https://ift.tt/Yydi0VZ )

Friday 7 July 2023

New best story on Hacker News: Excellence is a habit but so is failure

Excellence is a habit, but so is failure
577 by dvrp | 179 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Air France denied my delay compensation so I challenged them and won

Air France denied my delay compensation, so I challenged them and won
528 by cromka | 256 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Godot 4.1

Godot 4.1
495 by freeCandy | 148 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Rejected GitHub profile achievements

Rejected GitHub profile achievements
525 by kelseyfrog | 129 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Why is desalination so difficult?

Why is desalination so difficult?
632 by mrzool | 421 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: GPT-4 API General Availability

GPT-4 API General Availability
639 by mfiguiere | 408 comments on Hacker News.


Thursday 6 July 2023

New best story on Hacker News: Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernotes remaining staff has been laid off

Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off
587 by baron816 | 315 comments on Hacker News.
Its acquirer (Bending Spoons) has taken over operations. They’ve also hiked subscriptions prices and told customers they intend to use new revenues to pay for new features. How they intend to do that without any staff is something I would like to know about. If you’re still using Evernote, probably a good time to stop.

Wednesday 5 July 2023

New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Hacker News user blogroll

Show HN: Hacker News user blogroll
553 by deathbypenguin | 130 comments on Hacker News.
I saw this [0] pretty cool thread by user revskill, and wanted a quicker way to search through it, but also to keep them all in one place so I can read them at my leisure whenever I get time. Right now is like 60 lines of Ruby using Nokogiri, but I will certainly look into it further down the line and improve the list. There's a cronjob checking the thread every 12 hours but I will eventually shut that down and it will become static after that. There are some really awesome blogs in there. I really recommend going through the list, it made my day. [0] "Could you share your personal blog here". https://ift.tt/Pp0OBmN

New best story on Hacker News: Fast

Fast
575 by valtism | 216 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: PhD Simulator

PhD Simulator
523 by Smith42 | 165 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in The Netherlands

Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in The Netherlands
581 by Vinnl | 96 comments on Hacker News.


Tuesday 4 July 2023

New best story on Hacker News: More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck

More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck
524 by ekianjo | 327 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Companies must stop using Google Analytics

Companies must stop using Google Analytics
509 by pseudotrash | 367 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Hunting for Nginx alias traversals in the wild

Hunting for Nginx alias traversals in the wild
495 by celesian | 149 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Goodreads was the future of book reviews then Amazon bought it

Goodreads was the future of book reviews, then Amazon bought it
544 by pseudolus | 434 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: 55 GiB/s FizzBuzz (2021)

55 GiB/s FizzBuzz (2021)
520 by tentacleuno | 215 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Threads an Instagram app

Threads, an Instagram app
600 by Xeophon | 645 comments on Hacker News.


Monday 3 July 2023

New best story on Hacker News: Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode

Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode
551 by 3cats-in-a-coat | 714 comments on Hacker News.
Elon Musk: "To address extreme level of data scraping & system manipulation, we've applied the following temporary limits: - Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day - Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day - New unverified accounts to 300/day" Source: https://ift.tt/2A9Bdcy Source (backup): https://ift.tt/HSdvWeY

New best story on Hacker News: Far Cry 1.34 source code (2006)

Far Cry 1.34 source code (2006)
580 by KomoD | 302 comments on Hacker News.