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Re:A Markdown-based test suite on Thursday May 21, 2026 @01:08AM (#48218121)
Interesting approach, I can see the benefits of such approach where the md is acting like a Jupyter notebook of some sort. You place the content with documentation and it becomes a self standing unit of test.

I wonder if this can be replicated to other notions where the docs/data needed for test add more value to live with the test

They have a roadmap of where they want to be, I think that’s normal. As long as they don’t pull a fast one on the oss community then I think if this catch on and it’s worth it then even if they sell the community can fork if the new owners are not so welcoming.
This looks really interesting especially in the age of agents running wild, having code execution be tracked using this as the ingress/egress you can allow and block things based on context and needs, you can setup policies and have them loaded on demand for a specific execution
The concept of what you describe is interesting and useful. I struggle to make the same conclusion from the website, it feels like it is written as too abstract to allow the reader to grasp exactly what you will get. Was the text improved by an LLM?

It would be great to have a simple example or a scenario or a hello world for someone to say “Aha! I get what it is and how it can help me”

I think the project is saying, in cases where you are deploying the Frontend with server side serving, then you can include this. Given projects like NextJS have a server side serving for react server-side-rendering and for APIs this project uses the server side to add additional services as mentioned in the post.
Re:Meta under fire for 'polluting' open-source on Thursday October 17, 2024 @12:46PM (#41871303)
“ Open Source Initiative chief accuses tech group of ‘polluting’ the term by using it to describe its Llama models”

I agree that the use of open source might be incorrect, but it’s more because the definition of open source up to this point was more for the software, the data, the art.

For these models that consume all the data available can we use the same term? What criteria needs to be defined that you evaluate a released model on? (Model and weight, or more and include the data too????)

Re:3Blue1Brown: Animated Math on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @08:04AM (#41786954)
I think 3Blue1Brown content is so good and educational that having well thought material like this would elevate the understanding of complex topics and help people learn in a more enjoyable way.

I also would subscribe to a commercial offering that provides me with rich content that educates me on topics I find interesting busy not my field of expertise like some of their other videos.

Kudos to the team behind it

Re:Coding on iPad using self-hosted VSCode, Caddy, and code-server on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @02:18PM (#41448788)
Since VSCode can be installed as a PWA on chrome, is it installable on iPad as a PWA app to use from the desktop and avoid pressing back to a webpage?

Also interested how it handles when network is lagging. Is the input laggy or does it smooth on the client and it syncs once network stable things sync?

Re:Building LLMs from the Ground Up: A 3-Hour Coding Workshop on Saturday August 31, 2024 @06:34PM (#41412552)
Nice write up Sebastian, looking forward to the book. There are lots of details on the LLM and how it’s composed, would be great if you can expand on how Llama and OpenAI could be cleaning and structuring their training data given it seems this is where the battle is heading in the long run.
I think framing it as being able to run LLMs with ease and portability across machines and hardware is an amazing sell. Most guides are very technical and detailed that it’s a barrier for many to self host.
How is this k8s alternative when the homepage is focusing about running LLM models and AI content in containers rather than being for all workloads?

Maybe it’s k8s alternative for AI/LLM!

This is a great looking project. The combo of single binary Go-lang and the ability to package assets like css, js and html makes this a killed multi platform distributable one click run.

It might be an interesting experiment to have the UI be installable as PWA and thereby not need the electron stack to achieve the common functionality offered by these apps.

This looks neat. Getting a few examples on how it can connect to multiple sources like docker engine and k8s may make it a solid tool for developers that need to develop in complex infra setup. I have seen K9s fill this space with room for improvement.
Nice demo, I tried some of the examples and tweaked to see what happens. I noticed no mention of UTF-8 and I tried to add some arabic letters and other RTL letters and it printed garbage chars.

Are langs other than english supported?

Re:Show HN: Pip Imports in Deno on Saturday August 12, 2023 @06:12AM (#37098687)
This is really fun indeed, well done, I like it. It’s funny how you decided to demo it with a library that does lots of c++ bindings it’s self. Now someone can put a wrapper around this to hide the python imports, so we can claim JS is the only language we need.
Re:Sketch.systems on Monday June 19, 2023 @04:08AM (#36388519)
This is a very interesting take on "how can we test/poc a given component. I would be great to see a demo for a full application given this can help system designers build complex systems and track what activities are needed. Looking at the iPhone lock screen example [1], this is very useful. you can see that this is not aiming to do the UI render of the actual components, more about plugging in other resources like images.

[1] https://sketch.systems/tutorials/iphone-lock-screen/

Interesting statement and would be keen to see if businesses would trust Google to try out these capabilities, or other smaller recent services as the preferred choice given their flexibility of integration with existing cloud choices.

It seems we may find companies on all major cloud providers in the near future to guarantee access to unique proprietary services that cloud providers are starting to differentiate themselves with from their competitors

Re:Remembering GitHub's Office, a Monument to Tech Culture on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @08:22AM (#36137476)
Was on my phone and thought it was bizarre indeed. Left me hanging and didn’t read the rest of the article.
Re:Apache Baremaps: online maps toolkit on Sunday May 28, 2023 @04:41PM (#36107581)
This is a great addition to the space. Do you plan to fill the gap left by mapbox for the open source community?

Things like map libs for mobile and the web with advanced things like 3d, navigation, elevation and the likes?

I feel like we need a go to solution that unchains away from the commercial solutions to power osm solutions across devices and use cases.

Re:Olric: Distributed, embeddable data structures in Go on Sunday November 27, 2022 @07:49AM (#33762617)
I was excited to read its embeddable data structure then found it did Redis serialisation. I was hoping for something close to plasma store given that one isn’t getting much love these days. Would be great to get something that can save binary formats like arrow.
Re:Fake CISO Profiles on LinkedIn Target Fortune 500s on Friday September 30, 2022 @05:06AM (#33032650)
That was really funny and imbarassing for the BBC [1] when they interviewed them and they. I remember this and was so fun I watched their movie after.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JszDiLiY7EY

Re:DataBorg – Knowledge Management Simplified on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @10:45AM (#32995918)
I got following error after trying the demos on the homepage

“You have made too many requests. Please login or try again in a few seconds.”

You might think about adding exception for your domain or the sample text you provide.

Re:Volvo is using Rust for its in-vehicle software on Saturday September 24, 2022 @05:53AM (#32961114)
“ Why Rust is actually good for your car.” That gave me a chuckle. It’s a better title the one in here too
Re:Tell HN: HN London Meetup on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @07:49AM (#32660962)
This is great, I am on Leave outside London ATM. I will join the group, this is a great opportunity to meet and share ideas post lockdown
Re:Facebook's Zookeeper Implementation on Delos on Thursday June 09, 2022 @03:39AM (#31678568)
Thanks, I clearly forgot about this given how little I visit it.
Re:Facebook's Zookeeper Implementation on Delos on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @05:39PM (#31674663)
anyone loose their history to go back after opening the article page? I had to double check I didn't open in external tab. browsing on firefox.
Re:Low-code online store builder on Saturday May 28, 2022 @06:03AM (#31539053)
another thing to point out when visiting the site from UK I am met with option of languages, welsh (UK flag) and English (US Flag). :| Wales has its own flag and and english you can use the UK or England flag if you wanted to distinguish regions
Yes, I mean Brexit.

As I noted, I understand that some products would increase in price due to Brexit but that would be EU provided products and I would have thought as a one off increase rather than incremental increase every Month.

I haven't ran a similar comparison given I don't keep track of the receipts of good from other places. Amazon orders page reports the price I bought with every time.

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