πŸ‘½ Paul Webb The U.S. is in such a sorry state that other countries are moving to open-source to avoid running government infrastructure on American-made software techradar.com/pro/... While this makes sense, it's also quite telling.
πŸ¦‡ Arr Just read a heading on hackernews: "making social "social" again". This site here is what makes social media "social", instead of corporate, again. (But media is technically just text, so not media, but social text, at its best, I guess.)
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πŸ’ Lucian Marin Yes! How many times I need to explain it? Subreply is HN version of a social network.
πŸ’ Lucian Marin Subreply needs to be as good as Pixelmator to be acquired by a big tech company. pixelmator.com/blo...
πŸ”₯ Krigs What's one book that changed your perspective on life?
🦧 Simon Gray Henry Miller's Rosy Crucifixion, technically a trilogy tho.
Zero Edge Disappointing how easily duped our politicians are: "oh we aren't price fixing its an algorithm that controls that", "oh were not tailoring search results its an algorithm that controls that". Not saying the full truth which is that the "algorithm" is modified until it produces the results they want. If they understood even a fraction of how the modern world works they would ask more pointed questions. I just keep thinking of all the embarrassing hearings with top tech CEOs where they are essentially lied to and they still don't realize it..
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πŸ’ Lucian Marin It's year 5174. Brain researchers discover that neurons inside the brain work by quantum entanglement. A couple years later they develop a device that makes brain to brain communication possible. Now humans power a thinking network that's superior to AI, the quantum brain. Warriors who seek to destroy the technology move out to a nearby galaxy because communication is slowed down by the speed of light. A intergalactic war starts between AI, peaceful humans and the warriors. Peaceful humans continue to pursuit technological advancements to defend themselves from both AI and warriors.
Zero Edge Have a LLM write the script for you. :P
Zero Edge I've never liked the whole "monkeys on a typewriter" thing because technically it isn't true. An infinite amount of monkeys given an infinite amount of time would never write Shakespeare because no matter what, a monkey cannot type in perfect randomness, meaning no matter how many or how long it would never type Shakespeare. If you made a device and trained a monkey to type perfectly random.. yeah, sure.
πŸ’ Lucian Marin Can ChatGPT write Shakespeare? In a world of AI generated text, Subreply might be the only places where people actually think.
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πŸ™πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Vasanth V. Apple will allow sideloading apps with iOS 17 techcrunch.com/202...
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πŸ’ Lucian Marin If they allow alternative browsers then I might buy an iPad Mini after all.
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Zero Edge Does "tech debt" exist if the development cycle has a clear ending? Seems like tech debt is only relevant when you plan on updating a system indefinitely.
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Samuel M-squire I like the idea of this community. The problem with content is that few people are willing to pay for good quality, well researched, tech news, so I pay for medium and use Hacker news and then spend some time on lobsters occasionally. I would like to read tech blogs, so if you have any recommendations, I would appreciate them.
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πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ Patrick Williams What do you think about web3 platforms like hackernoon or hive.blog?
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NicolΓ‘s Parada Subreply feels pretty fast. Which stack does it use? Have you writen any technical showoff of it ? I've been making a social app on youtube and I've taken inspiration from subreply youtube.com/playli... :)
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πŸ’ Lucian Marin I'm using a Python stack: Falcon as web framework, Django for ORM, PostgreSQL, PgBouncer to keep DB connections hot, Gunicorn for async and multithreading HTTP requests, sockets for connections between each stack component to reduce latency. I pay vultr.com/?ref=894... for a high frequency Intel server to reduce latency even further.
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Martijn My VPN decided to die on me. Not even hitting 1 Mbps. This is definitely not what I'm paying them for.
Fred Richards These days there are a ton of different options. I really like tailscale, or zerotier. Tailscale uses wireguard, some very interesting technology.
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πŸ˜€ Tom Uh oh. Someone is giving a run for his money. Hey.Cafe is trending on HN. Some interesting ideas including paying to unlock a longer status.
😌 Ismail what is the tech stack behind this? I mean hey.cafe
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πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Matthieu V. Just read a great article on the science to be better at writing, in the context of software engineers, it really highlighted to me that I do not write as much as I should. It made me realize that it could be better for me to write a lot to be able to express my ideas easily ! blog.pragmaticengi...
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πŸ€ Pr trying out subreply again: Hashicorp IPO'ed today. I do like a lot of their tools and services, but I feel like it's a sign that building software has become a bit too complicated to necessitate all these tools to scale tech services. Does hashicorp's (et. al competitors) services really save organizations large enough to utilize them enough headcount to justify the hefty price?
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πŸ’ Lucian Marin Firefox brand is weak, it's associated with IE era and it's dropping market share like crazy. Mozilla brand got a nice refresh, it's trusted, it's associated with privacy and they got new good products that need to carry Mozilla brand. It should be Mozilla Suite for a new internet age: Mozilla Browser, Mozilla VPN, Mozilla Monitor and so on. This way the browser will be their main product, it will have internal focus and probably gain back the market share.
πŸ¦‡ Arr Since 50 % of users don't know what a browser is, let's call it Mozilla Internet. The last rename of Firefox is now Firefox "Quantum" was cited on tech pages a lot, though.
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