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arxiv.org 1y ago

An existing, successful genus of intelligent artificial creatures (2012)

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codeberg.org 2y ago

Request for Hacks

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www.documentcloud.org 4y ago

Consensys alleges resume fraud against Kavita Gupta

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github.com 4y ago

Show HN: DevToolbox - Developer utilities as an offline desktop app in Flutter

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cleartax.github.io 4y ago

Show HN: Randomize HTML content to test your defensive CSS

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twitter.com 4y ago

ENS just airdropped 1.55B $ to developers, early adopters and community members

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infosec-handbook.eu 4y ago

XMPP: Admin-in-the-Middle

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gist.github.com 5y ago

Putting Raspberry Pi Online with Caddy and SSH Tunnel

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learnawesome.org 5y ago

Syllabus for teaching Scratch programming to kids

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conf.activitypub.rocks 5y ago

ActivityPub Conf 2020 talks are now available

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github.com 5y ago

Tell HN: AppSmith as an open-source internal tool builder

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github.com 5y ago

Show HN: Better – Browser extension that recommends alternative products/service

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Show HN: Learnawesome.org – Open-source learning map for humanity

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learnawesome.org 6y ago

Use TiddlyWiki to set up your digital garden on GitHub

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gist.io 6y ago

WorldView: A Propositional Knowledge Base

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nilesh.trivedi.pw 6y ago

Show HN: Spaced Repetition for the Entire Web?

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opensource.google 6y ago

Google's AGPL Policy

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polyglot.network 6y ago

FOSS Projects Built in India

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Show HN: Learnawesome.org – Discover the best learning resources on any topic

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cloudcron.polyglot.network 7y ago

Show HN: CloudCron: Run Docker-based cron jobs in cloud easily

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polyglot.network 7y ago

Making open-source development work for businesses

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: Which proprietary SaaS can be replaced with FOSS cron jobs?

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polyglot.network 7y ago

Show HN: CloudCron: Run Docker-based cron jobs in cloud easily

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: A comprehensive guide to choosing a messaging app for a community?

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: Why not rethink Web Identity with browser sync and push?

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: We have free SSL certs now. Isn't it time we got free domain names?

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: Which learning style is better? Mastery Learning or Spiral approach?

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github.com 7y ago

Show HN: Learn-Awesome (curated lists of links to learning resources)

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medium.com 7y ago

Enumerating test cases by multiplying state machines

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medium.com 7y ago

Indane (Gas Company in India) Leaked 6,700,000 Aadhaar Numbers

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Rails 8.0 Released 2 years ago

There is a lot to like here. It can be a nice stack when combined with async/falcon and viewcomponents, at least where you don't need a lot of client-side state and browser API usage (canvas/usermedia etc) where javascript-first is a better approach, or a lot of number crunching, for which Python is better.

AFAIK, Apple took away those slots when Mac minis transitioned to Apple silicon. Attempts to replace SSD with re-soldering have not been successful.

Try dropping him in one of these math discord groups (for eg: Summer of Math Exposition)? Teens care a lot about social approval and seeing so many people having fun with math might help.

Pipe Syntax in SQL 2 years ago

Isn't this fan-in?

let A = select * from tbla

let B = select * from tblb

let C = select * from A join B

One improvement of the first "super-naive" approach is to break down the state into a whole hierarchy of files, rather than a single file. This helps reduce (but not eliminate) conflicts when multiple clients are making changes to different parts of the state.

You have only tested the current "FREE" AIs, right? How do GPT-4 or Perplexity Pro work on the very same tests?

At polyglot.network, we have been taking a much more direct approach: Hire us, and we work like a typical agency on open issues that you care about. It's in our best interest to work with upstream maintainers, but if for whatever reason, that's not practical, we work with either remote freelancers or in-house developers to get the job done. In the end, we solve the actual problems you have, in a sustainable way.

I recently started building an offline, desktop app in Flutter as a collection of dev utilities: https://github.com/nileshtrivedi/devtoolbox

Flutter was a promising choice as it'd give me Windows, Mac OS and Linux build from a single codebase - and even the possibility of orgs running this internally as a self-hosted webapp. But one of the ideas I had was to bundle CyberChef with my app and open in a webview. Turns out, Flutter doesn't support webviews on desktop platforms at all. https://github.com/nileshtrivedi/devtoolbox/issues/4

Hi HN, dev here.

There are existing projects like CyberChef and DevUtils, but I wanted an offline app that was at least eventually open-source. This also gave me an opportunity to explore Flutter for cross-platform desktop apps. Flutter gives the ability to build native GUI apps for Windows, Linux, MacOS _and_ Web (in case organizations want to self-host it internally for their entire team). The value proposition is unresistable, because the only real alternative seems to be Electron.

Mac and Windows builds have been tested. The UI style is standard from the macos_ui package.

So far, Flutter has been a pleasant experience but the desktop platform seems not quite ready for prime time. For example, webviews are only supported on Android and iOS.

New Year, New CEO 5 years ago

Mobilecoin is a quasi-security and not a stablecoin. The price went 5X in the days before Signal announced that they have built MobileCoin integration (in secret).

In a way, crypto has given non-profits a way to take profits out to personal accounts.

On keeping the captable "clean", this is what Michael Siebel had to say:

Can we kill the myth that your company is screwed if there are too many investors on your angel/seed round cap table? Having too many angel/seed investors on a cap table has never killed a single YC startup. For founders who are raising: if you can get the money you need and reduce dilution as much as possible - I don’t care if you collect 1 check or 20.

https://twitter.com/mwseibel/status/1424437194479915009

"Cheaper" for a use-case like hosting static assets for your website/webapp. Torrents have high overhead which only becomes justifiable for big files and high latency being acceptable.

Re: Moxie on Web3 5 years ago

WhatsApp does the counting of message forward completely on the client side. Their server does not know how many times a message has been forwarded.

THe article author's point was not that metadata is being sent in the clear, but that the real goal of encryption is to be unable to manipulate social behaviour. And because WhatsApp controls the client, they are able to do this without breaking E2EE or leaking metadata.

the centralized platform aspect and the use of phone number

Don't forget how Signal built MobileCoin integration completely in secret for a whole year. Public was kept in dark just so $MOB insiders could benefit handsomely.

Sure, S3 is also cheaper than torrents. And HTTP/Telnet is cheaper than HTTPS/SSH. But some people do see value in math-based guarantees over those given by governments and courts. And others don't. We need both approaches to keep each other in check.

The quality problems often come from the poor proxy. Money being fungible means that the rich get higher weight in determining what's considered valuable. In this marketized system, who will value journalism - especially the kind that people in power need to hear, not what they want to hear. If the rich want to suppress a fact, they can buy fake news - and because price = value, the fake news becomes the new truth.

Quality of content is not quite "subjective" in general. Perhaps in entertainment.

I didn't say "income tax" or "federal tax". I asked for examples of economies that don't collect taxes but have been effective. Survival is one important aspect of "being effective". So, an example that has survived to the present day would be more relevant.

The reason why charities underfund public goods is because of the well-known free-rider problem. It's the same reason why cryptocurrencies need to collect transaction fees and reward miners and cannot rely on charitable miners. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-rider_problem