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mclightning

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arstechnica.com 1y ago

California Governor Vetoes Requiring Global Privacy Opt-Out in Browsers and OS

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maximusabrams.medium.com 2y ago

Show HN: Generate lock files for your scripts with MacroLock

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www.npmjs.com 2y ago

Show HN: MacroLock – A Checksum-Based Change Detection and Task Automation Tool

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maximusabrams.medium.com 3y ago

Embracing Criticism: A Software Engineer’s Guide

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maximusabrams.medium.com 3y ago

From ‘Blame’ to ‘Credits’: Programmers and Their Unique Love-Hate Relationship

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Tell HN: Google search results include more genuine blogs lately

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maximusabrams.medium.com 3y ago

Road to Space: The Struts

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maximusabrams.medium.com 3y ago

Transformational yet Simple: Story-Telling Tips for Leaders

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Would you admit being unfit for role, or use a simpler excuse to quit?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: How did you adjust your “side-projects” personality to adult life?

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www.theverge.com 4y ago

Xiaomi Launches Cyberdog – Similar to Boston Dynamics Robot Dog

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www.reddit.com 4y ago

AppleNeuralHash2ONNX: Reverse-Engineered Apple NeuralHash, in ONNX and Python

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www.telegraph.co.uk 5y ago

Apple authorized repair leaks customer's sex tape during iPhone repair

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: Why HN discussions are almost always on a tangent?

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medium.com 5y ago

Bicameral Mind – Humanoid robot with GPT-3 as the story-teller

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: GPT-3 as an attentive-reading test for humans?

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medium.com 6y ago

Simple 3D Printing Guidelines for Ease of Mind

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: How to avoid people mistake your hobbies as profession on social media?

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: Which blogs, podcasts to follow on the progress in AGI?

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medium.com 6y ago

You’re not angry at Facebook, but with your friends

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: You are not angry at Facebook, You are angry at your friends

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medium.com 6y ago

The Feed: Illusion there is something interesting everyday

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runkit.com 6y ago

Fearifier.js – When am I getting Corona?

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: Are DevOps increasingly becoming managers to Software Eng. teams?

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www.roughtype.com 6y ago

TikTok and the coming of infinite media – Nicholas Carr

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medium.com 6y ago

On the Matter of Consciousness; Senses, Decisions and Actions

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: What's up with all the WeWork posts lately?

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: How to improve emotional intelligence to be a more creative inventor?

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: Would you agree Dapps are bad for programmer's biz value?

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: What are the internal repercussions of vast $$$ fines to big corps?

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It is a lot more complicated than that. Your content is not simply used, copied, or even just simply distributed. The very terrain that you produce, distribute, represent your content has shifted due to the mechanics of it. Anything you produce is grabbed into AI summaries. They're grabbed into the training data. Humans produce free/open materials for many reasons. A lot of them don't have room to breathe and gain structure due to AI siphoning the entire atmosphere of web; eg communities

PGLite Evangelism 3 months ago

This is why I built https://db4.app. This solves the biggest hurdle with using a PGLite instance from your browser, by giving you a universal postgres url. You can connect to it from anywhere with your credentials. Your data and queries are fully encrypted end-to-end. So it is only between your app, and your browser tab. Your data stays with you and db4.app provides the relay basically.

You can also host the Relay app yourself locally, if you'd like.

It comes with support for PG-vector, so you can use it for RAG in LLM Studio. We have a few MCP applications already built in the community apps section.

Happy to answer any questions.

I made the biggest donations in my life via Watsi. Thank you for building this site. I love you guys have an API as well. I thought of building an app on top of your API but never got round to complete it. If you are curious, I can share; I think there may be an opportunity to capture value in free giveaways and turn it into charity. Many people try to give away their things quickly on fb marketplace or letgo, ...what if they could ask for a donation to a charity? I know there are challenges like, what if they want to return. But there has to be a way to solve this with an escrow service or something. A similar model already works in used, 2nd stores that work for charities.

Sora 2 10 months ago

It is very underwhelming. It seems like a step backward. Scam altman should be replaced before he runs the company to bankruptcy.

Low Cost Robot Arm 2 years ago

this is why servo-powered robotic arms are not interesting to me at all. I want one with brushless motors and harmonic or planetary drive gearbox. unfortunately you cant build those under $750 as far as I have seen so far. that's putting aside the added complexity. but I will definitely build one some day. there are quite few opensource projects with that setup.

I believe it offers higher torque, better precision and ability to just stick to a position with relatively low/or no power due to gearing-side resistance.

PR move is in motion guys. Regulatory capture will be justified only through this new persona/identity the OpenAI will be dressed up in. I am not buying none of it.

Only money and profit makes the mountains move. Not moral stature. I don't believe that optimistic take for a second.

None with a moral stance to take such action stays quiet so long, without alternate motives.