Launch HN: Moonglow (YC S24) – Serverless Jupyter Notebooks

Post by tmychow » Fri, Aug 23, 2024, 6:41 PM UTC

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Ah, yeah, I misspoke, sorry. I was aware of that feature, but everyone I've talked to said it's so annoying to use they basically never use it, so I didn't think it was worth mentioning. The big reason it's annoying is because (I believe) Colab still only lets you connect to runtimes running on your computer - which is why at the end at the end of that article they suggest using SSH port forwarding if you want to con…

> I think Moonglow's target audience is slightly different than Colab's though because of the tight VSCode/Cursor integration - many people we've talked to said they really value the code-complete, which you can't get in any web frontend! At the risk of repeating the famous Dropbox comment I like the idea and that the ease of usage is your selling point. But I don't know if that is actually a reasonable reason. Peopl…

Post by dovholuknf » Fri, Aug 23, 2024, 7:05 PM UTC

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> Colab only lets you connect to compute provided by Google. That is no longer true - you can use remote kernels on your own compute via colab: https://research.google.com/colaboratory/local-runtimes.html There is also the same feature in CoCalc, including using the official colab Docker image: https://doc.cocalc.com/compute_server.html#onprem Cocalc also supports 1 click use of vscode. (The above might not work with…

Ah, yeah, I misspoke, sorry. I was aware of that feature, but everyone I've talked to said it's so annoying to use they basically never use it, so I didn't think it was worth mentioning. The big reason it's annoying is because (I believe) Colab still only lets you connect to runtimes running on your computer - which is why at the end at the end of that article they suggest using SSH port forwarding if you want to con…

Post by tmychow » Fri, Aug 23, 2024, 7:07 PM UTC

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Congrats on the launch!

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Aug 23, 2024, 7:26 PM UTC

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In fact a quick google: https://github.com/jtpio/jupyterlite Yay I really can have serverless notebooks! Not just an easy to manage server environment but literally a static html file that can be passed around and runs the full notebook environment. It’s weird it was ever done any other way.

Does that run with your GPU in the way this service offers?

Post by williamstein » Fri, Aug 23, 2024, 7:34 PM UTC

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Ah, yeah, I misspoke, sorry. I was aware of that feature, but everyone I've talked to said it's so annoying to use they basically never use it, so I didn't think it was worth mentioning. The big reason it's annoying is because (I believe) Colab still only lets you connect to runtimes running on your computer - which is why at the end at the end of that article they suggest using SSH port forwarding if you want to con…

Interesting idea. I'm not very well-versed in training models or LLMs or even Jupyter Notebooks, but the comment about port forwarding SSH caught my eye since I work on a free, open source zero-trust overlay network (OpenZiti). I tried to find some information about moonglow under the hood / how it worked but didn't succeed. If you're interested, you might find embedding OpenZiti into Moonglow a pretty compelling alt…