Saturday, August 26, 2023

New top story on Hacker News: SwiftUI Is Convenient, but Slow

SwiftUI Is Convenient, but Slow
5 by goranmoomin | 0 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Atop an Underwater Hot Spring, an ‘Octopus Garden’ Thrives

Atop an Underwater Hot Spring, an ‘Octopus Garden’ Thrives
6 by Petiver | 3 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Slack’s Migration to a Cellular Architecture

Slack’s Migration to a Cellular Architecture
34 by serial_dev | 7 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: UK's infrastructure is too expensive: Railways, Trams, and Roads all cost more

UK's infrastructure is too expensive: Railways, Trams, and Roads all cost more
34 by kilotaras | 10 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Rust Cryptography Should Be Written in Rust

Rust Cryptography Should Be Written in Rust
31 by bigfish24 | 11 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Introducing Coalton to lispers without a background in ML-like languages

Introducing Coalton to lispers without a background in ML-like languages
7 by reikonomusha | 0 comments on Hacker News.


Sunday, August 20, 2023

New top story on Hacker News: Vector databases: analyzing the trade-offs

Vector databases: analyzing the trade-offs
19 by chop | 5 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: It’s Lambdas All the Way Down

It’s Lambdas All the Way Down
11 by behnamoh | 1 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Heat Your House with a Mechanical Windmill

Heat Your House with a Mechanical Windmill
5 by solalf | 1 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: The Next New Thing: Venture Capital Stories

The Next New Thing: Venture Capital Stories
7 by andsoitis | 2 comments on Hacker News.


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

Show HN: Talk to AI Models in Terminal
5 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/BHuEnRP 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!

Thursday, August 17, 2023

New top story on Hacker News: I am afraid to inform you that you have built a compiler (2022)

I am afraid to inform you that you have built a compiler (2022)
53 by mutant_glofish | 13 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Beautiful data visualization of the US stock market

Beautiful data visualization of the US stock market
13 by ernaem | 2 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: SQLite: the secret behind Apple's success? (humor)

SQLite: the secret behind Apple's success? (humor)
11 by mpereira | 4 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Too Many Fonts in Windows 10 Can Cause Slow Application Starts

Too Many Fonts in Windows 10 Can Cause Slow Application Starts
38 by todsacerdoti | 26 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Shadeform – Single Platform and API for Provisioning GPUs

Show HN: Shadeform – Single Platform and API for Provisioning GPUs
9 by edgoode | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, we are Ed, Zach, and Ronald, creators of Shadeform ( https://ift.tt/aCZQoMf ), a GPU marketplace to see live availability and prices across the GPU market, as well as to deploy and reserve on-demand instances. We have aggregated 8+ GPU providers into a single platform and API, so you can easily provision instances like A100s and H100s where they are available. From our experience working at AWS and Azure, we believe that cloud could evolve from all-encompassing hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP) to specialized clouds for high-performance use cases. After the launch of ChatGPT, we noticed GPU capacity thinning across major providers and emerging GPU and HPC clouds, so we decided it was the right time to build a single interface for IaaS across clouds. With the explosion of Llama 2 and open source models, we are seeing individuals, startups, and organizations struggling to access A100s and H100s for model fine-tuning, training, and inference. This encouraged us to help everyone access compute and increase flexibility with their cloud infra. Right now, we’ve built a platform that allows users to find GPU availability and launch instances from a unified platform. Our long term goal is to build a hardwareless GPU cloud where you can leverage managed ML services to train and infer in different clouds, reducing vendor lock-in. We shipped a few features to help teams access GPUs today: - a “single plane of glass” for GPU availability and prices; - a “single control plane” for provisioning GPUs in any cloud through our platform and API; - a reservation system that monitors real time availability and launches GPUs as soon as they become available. Next up, we’re building multi-cloud load balanced inference, streamlining self hosting open source models, and more. You can try our platform at https://ift.tt/hDxOlF3 . You can provision instances in your accounts by adding your cloud credentials and api keys, or you can leverage “ShadeCloud” and provision GPUs in our accounts. If you deploy in your account, it is free. If you deploy in our accounts, we charge a 5% platform fee. We’d love your feedback on how we’re approaching this problem. What do you think?

New top story on Hacker News: Copyright and fair use in the digital era

Copyright and fair use in the digital era
5 by webmaven | 1 comments on Hacker News.


Tuesday, August 15, 2023

New top story on Hacker News: Peter Pan Copyright

Peter Pan Copyright
3 by thunderbong | 1 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Private jet came ‘within 100 feet’ of colliding with Southwest plane, NTSB says

Private jet came ‘within 100 feet’ of colliding with Southwest plane, NTSB says
30 by jaboutboul | 24 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Opendream: A layer-based UI for Stable Diffusion

Opendream: A layer-based UI for Stable Diffusion
15 by varunshenoy | 1 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: China Stops Publishing Youth Unemployment Numbers Amid Faltering Economy

China Stops Publishing Youth Unemployment Numbers Amid Faltering Economy
47 by mensetmanusman | 24 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Wright's Book of Poultry (1911)

Wright's Book of Poultry (1911)
5 by Tomte | 1 comments on Hacker News.


Thursday, August 3, 2023

New top story on Hacker News: On-disk HNSW index for Postgres with pg_embedding

On-disk HNSW index for Postgres with pg_embedding
10 by nikita | 2 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Why ISO was retired (2021)

Why ISO was retired (2021)
26 by worez | 11 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Tell HN: I think I found Toyota's battery

Tell HN: I think I found Toyota's battery
161 by scythe | 23 comments on Hacker News.
Recently there was a thread about a "breakthrough" in battery technology at Toyota. https://ift.tt/aJyLrCn Toyota has been putting out PR puff pieces about their "solid-state" (solid-electrolyte) batteries for years, but this story was unique in that it had a quote from Keiji Kaita, who holds some high-level role at Toyota. Anyway, I didn't think much of it, because there was no paper referenced in the Guardian article, which seemed to be the original source. But while reading about something else, I came across the paper "A near dimensionally invariable high-capacity positive electrode material", published in Nature Materials last December: https://ift.tt/AuW7UQF This paper, reporting a cathode that has very little (much less than normal) change in size or shape when charged and discharged, claims reversible storage with a solid electrolyte. It stands to reason that dimensional stability of the cathode is necessary for interfacing with a solid electrolyte, since if it swells and shrinks, it will probably detach from the electrolyte, and possibly damage it further. Looking at the affiliations of some of the authors we see a number of contributors from the "Lithium Ion Battery Technology and Evaluation Center (LIBTEC)". A web search about LIBTEC leads to several articles from 2018: https://ift.tt/zPShvWM... which state that Toyota, along with Nissan, Honda and Panasonic (Tesla's major collaborator), have established this consortium to work on solid-electrolyte batteries as of five years ago. So what does this thing look like? It's a vanadium–titanium cathode, Li8Ti2V4O14. Titanium is common; vanadium technically has a higher crustal abundance than nickel, but it tends to be spread across low-quality deposits, so production is low right now. A review considering the resource outlook for V-based batteries [1] was guardedly optimistic. 750 Wh/kg is great . Vanadium cathodes historically had a problem with high dimensional instability , but it appears that cocrystallization with titanium may have fixed that, and the weird properties of vanadium became an advantage in compensating for Li+ influx/efflux. The use of a sulfide electrolyte pours doubt on claims of safety, though. It's reasonably likely that if water were to come into contact with the electrolyte, it could release highly toxic hydrogen sulfide gas. Also, since the battery was developed in collaboration with other major automakers (and funded by the Japanese government), it's somewhat questionable to think it would give Toyota a major advantage in the EV race. But for the Japanese economy, which has been rather slow lately, it could be a boost. 1: https://ift.tt/Ly0TKJe....

Tuesday, August 1, 2023

New top story on Hacker News: The Ultra-Rich Are Flourishing and Sticking Around in California

The Ultra-Rich Are Flourishing and Sticking Around in California
25 by Tiktaalik | 9 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Oregon Decriminalized Hard Drugs

Oregon Decriminalized Hard Drugs
16 by slapshot | 20 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: City officials attempt to doxx Wikipedians

City officials attempt to doxx Wikipedians
44 by akolbe | 12 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Speed isn’t everything, and slowness may in fact be more beneficial (2017)

Speed isn’t everything, and slowness may in fact be more beneficial (2017)
4 by yamrzou | 0 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Splitting the Web

Splitting the Web
6 by bertman | 1 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Cryptography may offer a solution to the AI-labeling problem

Cryptography may offer a solution to the AI-labeling problem
5 by rntn | 1 comments on Hacker News.