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According to [1] there is - unfortunately - increasingly more state in LLM sessions. 1: https://earendil.com/posts/session-portability

Given 6 months have passed since this article has been published, would you also pick MicroOS? I'm currently setting up a single-node k8s cluster on Hetzner but I went with Talos. …

I am / was very intrigued by Karpathys LLM-Wiki idea. But so far I wasn't able to get much value out of the concept. The knowledge base is either in my mind, or in the Agentic Rese…

I've started a side business to support local artisans. I want to help people making a living from what they've created with their hands. A major focus to do so is to connect with …

I notice a lot of the suggestions are news-oriented. However, the thing I like about HN are all the non-news gold nuggets about tech. I'd love to find such gold nuggets for other i…

Can you recommend some of your favorite RSS feeds for non-technical topics?

I appreciate HN for staying up-to-date with technical news. For my side hustle I have to ramp-up on other areas like marketing, legal, sales, ... So I wonder if there are similar h…

Nostr is append only, if an event is published to someone else's relay, you can't delete it.

Nostr has built-in support (NIP idk) for Bitcoin Lightning payments. Bitcoiners see Nostr doing to social media what Bitcoin did to fiat.

I think George is right about vibe coding. It's great for rapid prototyping, but in my daily programming on a production codebase, PRs must be reviewable, so I have to understand w…

I love the example with git blame for the current line. Helix is my daily driver alongside lazygit, however I much appreciate a tighter integration of Git in Helix. A colleague sho…

The way I prioritize my time (work / family / hobbies / ...) I don't do any serious side projects. However, when I became a father I started valuing my time much higher (watching l…

I'm considering switching from a selfhosted Nextcloud AIO to a managed cloud provider (e.g. MS OneDrive) so I don't have to care about backups, security, etc.. However I like the f…

btw it cost 10$ for an epub that is about 300 pages in print

This is such a nice project utilizing the advances in TTS models. Just converted an ePub in German via OpenAI. This gives me way more flexibility in reading / listening to books.

I'm trying to understand the memristor and have an idea for how to build a mechanical system, that might exhibit the characteristics of a memristor. However, ChatGPT keeps telling …

I'd like to know how you use gnome-keyring. From their Security Philosophy [1], Basics of Storing Secrets [2] and Security FAQ [3] wiki pages, I understand that the keyring helps a…

I'm very curious if this works. I'd like to have this product, but so far it's hard to find independent assessments and (long term) side effects as well are unknown. Also I think i…

Thanks for the insight! A use case could be that anyone can provide a piece of content with the accompanying embedding and this can be used for semantic search. I.e. the search eng…