Show HN: Color Name Game
https://andrewmatte.itch.io/colour-test
How well do you know the 700 plus named colours? No penalties, no ads, no tracking, just guess the colour name. Feedback welcome.
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Re:Bye Sequence, Hello UUIDv7
on Monday October 02, 2023 @12:31AM (#37734011)
jonhohle, thanks. Do you know of examples of when milliseconds are part of the session tokens or accounts being created has been exploited?
Re:Zap – Blazingly fast backends in Zig
on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @05:21PM (#36332883)
There might also be a chance you can have your webserver included in the techempower benchmarks for their next round. Their code is submitted by experts and open-source: https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks
Re:Zap – Blazingly fast backends in Zig
on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @05:20PM (#36332853)
Congratulations! This is really great. I am going to try it.
In your benchmarks, consider adding actix which is also in Rust but considerably faster than rust axum according to: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r21&tes...
Re:Big Meat just can’t quit antibiotics
on Friday January 13, 2023 @11:57AM (#34370467)
I am not a doctor - I just write code... I remember being up in arms about weird stuff in my food when I first heard about it but now I think about the wellbeing of the animals while they're alive and shit, man, if I were sick I'd want antibiotics too. When is it excessive? Is it because they're all so close together in the factory "farm"? What do the veterinarians say about this?
Re:The next time Wikipedia asks for a donation, ignore it
on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @09:30AM (#33176679)
If you use wikipedia and you think they would be reliable if they were poor service, you are living a lie.
Show HN: ML-Powered Search Demo
Before NLP-powered text search, it was difficult to handle synonyms or text records with different languages. This demo is a note-taking app that can accommodate 16 languages for semantic search that makes searching through your content way better than substrings.Please feel free to ask any questions and leave comments about your impressions. There is no CSS - it's intentional. Function over...
Re:Embodiment is indispensable for AGI
on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @08:09PM (#31661637)
I'm glad someone else is saying it: AGI will emerge from sexbots.
Re:Transformers, originally designed to handle language, are taking on...
on Thursday March 10, 2022 @12:24PM (#30629544)
I have not given transformers enough attention... but my impression is that this is still storing entities in the weights of the neural network instead of in a database where the can be operated on with CRUD. What are the knowledge discovery researchers doing with respect to transformers? And the SAT solver researchers?
Here is an article on KDNuggets that explains transformers but doesn't answer my questions: https://www.kdnuggets.com/2021/06/essential-guide-transforme...
Re:Building a full-text search engine in 150 lines of Python code
on Thursday March 25, 2021 @04:37PM (#26585068)
This doesn't account for synonyms. I'd rather use a document embedding search.
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Re:20% of requests for Wikimedia Commons are for one image of a flower
on Monday February 08, 2021 @09:29PM (#26073193)
90M requests daily from India? I wonder if KaiOS is checking whether it's got internet access.
Re:Show HN: Hvr, a Social Browser
on Thursday July 16, 2020 @07:34PM (#23865114)
I'll take that as a compliment! Thanks.
Re:Show HN: Hvr, a Social Browser
on Thursday July 16, 2020 @07:33PM (#23865109)
Eventually ads but, as the head of tech of this venture, we have no plans to sell browsing history. Also, we've taken care to never expose your email address. Deleting a post genuinely deletes the data from our database, unless the post has been reported as violating standards. What other privacy concerns would you like to see addressed?
Re:Show HN: Hvr, a Social Browser
on Thursday July 16, 2020 @11:50AM (#23860201)
Post directly on a page for the rest of the community to see. Share privately or publicly, reply, like, mention your friends, hashstag your interests.
Mobile app built in Flutter, backend with python+postgres+redis
Your public posts get showcased on a board like this: https://prod.hvr.world/profile?referrerId=58&u=Andreud&inten...
Show HN: Hvr, a Social Browser
Re:Write Libraries, Not Frameworks
on Saturday May 09, 2020 @10:20AM (#23124901)
I like microframeworks because they do one thing well and they don't in the way - like a library. When I use batteries-included frameworks, I end up not using a lot of what they offer.
Re:Ask HN: I've saved up $80k USD. What should I do with it?
on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @07:05PM (#23097473)
Dollar cost averaging means you aren't trying to time the market.
Re:Ask HN: I've saved up $80k USD. What should I do with it?
on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @07:05AM (#23089666)
I used to be a stock broker. But right now I am not your stock broker. This is not advice.
Great fundamental wisdom is that you can't (consistently) time the market but you should try to Buy Low, Sell High. That said, we experience a massive COVID crash. It's a great time to buy, but we don't know how long it will last or whether it will be long recession afterwards.
Index investing through ETFs is a great way to get diversity in a single financial instrument such as the S&P (large companies), NASDAQ (tech), or the Russell (small companies.) The NASDAQ has largely recovered but the Russell still has a long way to go back to February prices.
I have an old friend whose parents sold their home recently and gave him a sum. He's putting in 10% per month for the next 10 months, all in the S&P.
Re:Show HN: Full Text Search on Podcasts
on Friday May 01, 2020 @09:13AM (#23041657)
Cool idea for an add-on!
I've noticed that I feel better about giving feedback to uncompensated developers using "this is great and" instead of "this is great but."
It could make or break someone's day.
Re:How to learn how to write great tests in Python?
on Monday March 09, 2020 @01:21PM (#22527272)
My best advice for you is to write modular functions that can be tested separately rather than integrated stuff that can't be disentangled.
A unit test should test the functionality of a single chunk of code. What kind of stuff are you writing?
I write webservers most of the time. So what I do is, at the top level of the request, immediately pull data off of the request so that I can access to the data in native python types that are easy to mock for testing. Each layer of my webserver does only one thing which could be gluing the auth+services together, but is still easy to mock.
Re:Smart Algorithms beat Hardware Acceleration for Large-Scale Deep Le...
on Friday March 06, 2020 @10:46AM (#22504455)
A reminder for us all: No matter how much faster your hardware, you can still write slower code
Re:Million WebSockets and Go (2017)
on Monday December 23, 2019 @03:27PM (#21867054)
https://lwn.net/Articles/775238/
Dave Doyle and Dylan O'Mahony did something pretty amazing related too with websockets for Bose.
Re:Million WebSockets and Go (2017)
on Monday December 23, 2019 @03:25PM (#21867035)
This is still super interesting, two years later but does anyone have an update?
Susheel Aroskar, a Netflix engineer, did a talk about push notifications https://www.infoq.com/presentations/neflix-push-messaging-sc... (2018)
Re:K-means clustering using sklearn and Python
on Thursday October 31, 2019 @01:59PM (#21411729)
Yes and the bait and switch from business for flowers?
And K-means??? Why not HDBSCAN?
Re:Challenges in Implementing a Full-Text-Search Engine
on Thursday September 19, 2019 @10:49AM (#21016690)
Nice article. I am interested to see this stuff blended with the GPU/ML powered databases rather than the TF-IDF of decades ago - as well as it works
Re:Canada might hold Mark Zuckerberg in contempt of parliament
on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @11:07AM (#20030862)
Please cite a serious source for "news" like this.
Re:Lost in Math?
on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @03:38PM (#19266716)
I have long felt like "beauty" in mathematics is just oversimplification.
Ironic that intelligent mathematics types get caught up in what could be analogous to socially hurtful stereotypes.
I am going to follow the author.
Show HN: Bookends – Book discovery and bookmarking app
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bookends Apple: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bookends/id1417646662Content discovery is powered by user-content, via collaborative filtering. The app is written in react-native and the server is Python3 with the bottle micro-framework.It requires Facebook login but we only ask for your pic, name, and account number.What do you like...
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2014)
on Saturday November 01, 2014 @02:18PM (#8544022)
Hello,
I'm interested in freelancing opportunities outside of my 9-5, where I work in the innovation department.
Location: Toronto, Canada
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Currently: Python, PHP, Visual Basic, javascript, html. Experience in: R, Java
Résumé/CV: Upon request. I have mostly worked in Finance and Health
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