Best of Hacker NewsSeptember 2023

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    My solopreneur story: zero to $45K/mo in 2 years

    Tony Dinh quit his job and became a full-time indie hacker in September 2021. His total revenue across all products is about $45K/month at ~90% profit. His first software product was built with Visual Basic 6 in high school. He created a product with it and survived a drama that almost killed his business.

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    The Worst Programmer I Know

    Dan North & Associates Ltd The Worst Programmer I Know is Tim Mackinnon. He is the worst programmer I know, and why I fought to keep him in the team. Tim's productivity score was zero, and he never signed up for any stories.

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    ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak

    ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak We are beginning to roll out new voice and image capabilities. They offer a new, more intuitive type of interface by allowing you to have a voice conversation or show ChatGPT what you’re talking about. You can now use voice to engage in a back-and-forth conversation.

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    DALL·E 3

    ChatGPT will automatically generate tailored, detailed prompts for DALL·E 3 that bring your idea to life. Creators can now opt their images out from training of our future image generation models. DALL ·E 3 will be available to ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise customers in early October.

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    Unity Silently Deletes GitHub Repo that Tracks Terms of Service Changes and Updated Its License

    Unity Silently Deletes GitHub Repo that Tracks Terms of Service Changes and Updated Its License - GamerBraves. As a result of the repository deletion, the webpage is no longer accessible, resulting in an Error 404 unless users visit through a web archive.

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    ‘Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed By Mozilla — Including Ford, Volkswagen and Toyota — Flunks Privacy Test

    Mozilla Foundation - ‘Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed By Mozilla - Including Ford, Volkswagen and Toyota - Flunks Privacy Test. Mozilla’s latest edition of *PNI reveals how 25 major car brands collect and share deeply personal data, including sexual activity, facial expressions, and genetic and health information.

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    hyperdxio/hyperdx: Resolve production issues, fast. An open source observability platform unifying session replays, logs, metrics, traces and errors.

    HyperDX helps engineers figure out why production is broken faster by centralizing and correlating logs, metrics, traces, exceptions and session replays in one place. HyperDX is compatible with OpenTelemetry, a vendor-neutral standard for instrumenting your application. We recommend at least 4GB of RAM and 2 cores for testing.

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    nginx/unit: NGINX Unit – universal web app server – a lightweight and versatile open source server project that works as a reverse proxy, serves static assets, and runs applications in multiple langua

    NGINX Unit is a lightweight and versatile open source server that works as a reverse proxy, serves static assets, and runs applications in multiple languages. Unit compresses several layers of the modern application stack into a potent, coherent solution. It is intended as a universal building block for any web architecture regardless of its complexity.

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    Raspberry Pi 5 – Raspberry Pi

    Raspberry Pi 5 is the next generation of the popular computer, offering improved speed and performance. It requires a high-quality power supply and has its own dedicated case with integrated fan. The release date is set for October 2023.

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    Choose Postgres queue technology

    Adriano Caloiaro: Postgres queue tech is a thing of beauty, but far from mainstream. He says Postgres isn’t suitably scalable for anyone’s queueing needs. The cult of scalability fractures, but they congeal around new principles like operational simplicity, maintainability, understandability.