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I reckon Sony get a few more years of even more profitable rent seeking before the EU regulates them like Apple’s App Store and forces a game purchase to be valid on all platforms …

There are some pretty callous comments on this thread. This is really sad. Suchir was just 26, and graduated from Berkeley 3 years ago. Here’s his personal site: https://suchir.net…

I found the same - market is actually getting worse (if HN is representative of the market). This month there were more job seekers on HN than jobs for the first time since 2014. h…

Quicker to type and scan! Though I admit this is preference, delimiters would work fine too. Parsing works the same but is based on a simple regex rather than splitting on a hyphen…

Thank you! The cloud servers are sufficiently cheap for us that we could afford the extra flexibility we get from them. Hetzner can move around VMs without us noticing but in contr…

I didn’t touch on that in the article, but essentially it’s a one line change to add a worker node (or nodes) to the cluster, then it’s automatically enrolled. We don’t have such b…

Thanks, hadn’t heard of pigsty. As you say, I had to use nvme ssds for the dbs, the performance is pretty good so I didn’t look to get metal nodes.

I read about 30 LLM papers a couple months ago dated from 2018-2024. Mostly folks are publishing on the “how do we prompt better” problem, and you can kind of get the gist in about…

I stopped using GitHub copilot. I really didn’t like my train of thought being interrupted. I have heard more comprehensive “leave the thinking to us” tools like cursor give better…

To be fair to them, they have done a significant amount of work to design the network to be open to competing servers, and I think it would be quite tricky to unpick that. In compa…

It looked like a PR stunt

Depends why you are doing outbound for a low ARPA product. What problem is cold email solving, and will it eventually solve it? If the product is good enough for the initial custom…

Cold email by definition is not inbound interest. You can still do cold email don’t get me wrong. But generally for a low ARPA service ( From Apollo, which sells an outbound sales …

Personal network to get the first 20 - literally going to meet people and helping them set up over coffee, then marketing for the rest. The audience were SaaS founders mostly, sinc…

This would be a tremendous amount of steel for the size of building they are creating. Crude steel production in 2023: 18.88 billion mt. 20% = 3,776,000,000 metric tons. If you jus…

+1 Fred's book is great -- I learned Erlang using it

Yes I hope they’ll find a solution and get re-elected. In some cases changes to frameworks require a 1 year consultation (planning permission to change planning permission rules!) …

This is pretty bleak reading for a resident of the UK! It's a good explanation for why there's stagnation (generally not allowed to build here). I'm a fan of their work (see the ho…

Someone got a $10m bounty in another crypto platform Wormhole

This is great to hear, though I'm curious why photos on your phone / pinterest would be relevant to a recommendation system? Surely the biggest signal would be what Spotify already…