Hacker News·4yAstro 1.0
Astro v1.0 is a web framework for building fast, content-focused websites. Over the last 16 months, Astro has grown from an empty repo to over 13,000 stars on GitHub and 30,000 early users around the world. Astro has already been Addy Osmani, Software Engineer, Google Chrome Astro’s fast performance is even more noticeable to end users.
Hacker News·4yan open-source GitHub Copilot server
FauxPilot is an attempt to build a locally hosted version of GitHub Copilot. It uses the SalesForce CodeGen models inside of NVIDIA's Triton Inference Server with the FasterTransformer backend. If you have two NVIDIA RTX 3080 GPUs, you should be able to run the 6B model by putting fauxpilot-triton-1. The container image is governed by the NVIDIA Deep Learning Container License. Don't use it.
Hacker News·4yTypescipt is terrible for library developers
library developers are shifting complexity from end-developers to library developers. As a library developer, typescript sucks for library developers, but at the end of the day it reduces developer productivity. The only tool that I know library developers use is the Typescript playground so they can isolate discrete parts of their type logic to figure.
Hacker News·4yBig Changes Ahead for Deno
The next release of Deno will include a new HTTP server. It is the fastest JavaScript web server ever built. Deno users have been split on the best level of compatibility with Node. Deno recently passed 4.1m downloads on GitHub with 250k monthly active users. The rate of adoption has continued to increase.
Hacker News·4yStable Diffusion is a really big deal
Stable Diffusion is a new ‘text-to-image diffusion model’ that was released to the public by Stability.ai six days ago. You can download and run the model on your own computer (if you have a powerful enough graphics card) You can use it for commercial and non-commercial purposes, I’m personally more concerned with the morality.
Hacker News·4yWrite a Note to Your Spouse Every Day
Over the last 6 months I have written a note every single day to my wife. It has changed a lot in our marriage, and our future will likely be Now, instead of talking about money, our time, or our kids when we sit down together, we debate politics, talk about the oddities of human perception and what motivates us.
Hacker News·4yTime Till Open Source Alternative
The average TTOSA for the cases I measured is 7 years, and that seems like plenty of time for a business to be profitable with proprietary software. For instance, take BitKeeper (proprietary) versus Git (open source) Anyone who is a developer today knows what Git is, whileBitKeeper is just a small anecdote in Git's history.
Hacker News·4yUse TouchID to Authenticate sudo on macOS
Use TouchID to Authenticate sudo on macOS Your TouchID equipped Mac can easily be configured to use your fingerprint to approve sudo commands. If you also have your Apple Watch set to unlock your Mac, you will also be able to approve commands by double-clicking the side button on the watch.
Hacker News·4yjetpack-io/devbox: Instant, easy, predictable shells and containers.
Devbox analyzes your source code and turns it into an OCI-compliant image that can be deployed to any cloud. Join our Developer Community - Chat with us by joining the Jetpack.io Discord Server – we have a #devbox channel dedicated to this project.
Hacker News·4yThe silent majority
In software development, the silent majority are the engineers who write the code, debug the programs, and solve the complex issues behind the scenes. Not everyone is willing to do the work just to bring their opinions to the masses. It also takes confidence — whenever you voice an opinion on the internet, there will always be people who have an opposite one.
Hacker News·4yWhy I built a dictionary app even with more than +300 apps available at AppStore?
Zeh Fernandes built a dictionary app even with more than +300 apps available at AppStore. The main challenge of having a good dictionary app isn’t tech or design; it is the license models of the companies that maintain and sell dictionaries. All pricing and licensing models I found so far are API based; they charge per call and forbid you to cache the result.
Hacker News·4yravynOS – Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD.
We're building familiar apps native to ravynOS, packaged as portable.app bundles and built with our core technologies of Cocoa, Qt, and Mach. These are guaranteed to work and fit seamlessly into your desktop. Many Linux applications that support Wayland are expected to work with the Linux emulation layer.
Hacker News·4yA pizzeria owner made money buying his own $24 pizzas from DoorDash for $16
The only profitable restaurant delivery business, GrubHub, lost $33.4 million over the last 3 months. If these businesses collapse, as Uber is currently collapsing, I can't imagine that customers won’t go back to how things were before, assuming restaurants et alia survive.
Hacker News·4y6 Docker Compose Best Practices for Dev and Prod
Docker Compose is a tool for defining and running multi-container Docker applications. It allows you to bring up and link multiple containers into one logical unit. If you want to use Docker containers, you create one container that listens on an unused port on your machine. The alias will give it precedence when two services could share a Dockerfile and a code base but have some slight variations.
Hacker News·4yDon’t call it a comeback: Why Java is still champ
Java has been among the top three languages since its launch in 1995. Companies like Amazon, Google, Netflix, Pinterest, Spotify, Square, and Zoom all employ Java across their codebases. In just two years Java ranked number three in popularity, outpaced only by C and C++.
Hacker News·4yWhen Billionaires And The Government Work Together To Control Information
Facebook restricted visibility of the New York Post's Hunter Biden laptop story in the lead-up to the 2020 election. Facebook/Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said a decision was made to restrict that information on Facebook's multibillion-user platform. Facebook opted for the somewhat subtler option of censorship by The best way to see the stuff I publish is to subscribe to the mailing list.
Hacker News·4yI replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2 for $45: here’s what I learned
AI generated images from DALL-E make better blog thumbnails, do it cheaper, and generally just be more fun? I spent the weekend and $45 in OpenAi credits generating new thumbnails that better represent the content of all 100+ posts from It’s worth some time browsing r/dalle2 to get some ideas for what goes into a good prompt.
Hacker News·4ySelf Hosted Compiler Upgrade Guide · ziglang/zig Wiki
The new compiler, sometimes called "stage2" or "stage3" is in many ways better than the old compiler. All 0.10.x releases will have the -fstage1 option; the upgrade only will become mandatory starting with 0.11.0.0. For Zig, building itself went from using 9. is a comptime-only function due to its Comptime only return type. However, pointers are still zero bit types.
Hacker News·4yOpen-source rival for OpenAI’s DALL-E runs on your graphics card
Stable Diffusion is already expected to run on a single graphics card with 5.1 gigabytes of VRAM – bringing AI technology to the edge that until now has only been available through cloud services. The code and a trained model will be published as open source. There will be a hosted version with a web interface August 7, 2022 Stable diffusion. The model is also supposed to running on MacBooks with Apple's M1 chip.