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Re:AI Broke Coding Interviews on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @04:18PM (#44055870)
In the short term this probably means companies will shift to in person interviews.
Thanks Vlad, appreciate it!
Looks cool! It'd be great to play with it without needing to log in. I'd recommend prompting for login on the second prompt, after initial value seen.
Re:Ask HN: How will the tariffs affect investor funding? on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @06:38PM (#43627159)
I think it's early to tell. But generally tariffs = more uncertainty = tighter capital. If a startup raised high before, it might have to do a down round in the future unless growth is real.
Re:Xata Agent: AI agent expert in PostgreSQL on Thursday March 13, 2025 @03:30PM (#43356512)
Looks cool! This may actually save a lot of manual dba work for myself
Tried it out briefly—this is great. I'll use it more to double-check my portfolio for ETF duplication. Bookmarked!
This looks great. I'm usually very much a DIY type of person when it comes to investing because of the typical fees mentioned, but excited to try this out!
Re:IronCalc – Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine on Saturday November 09, 2024 @04:49PM (#42097119)
Looks cool! What sort of different solutions do you imagine devs building on top of the engine?
Thank you Lucas!
Thanks! Give it a try and let us know any feedback :)
Re:The EU's AI Act is now in force on Friday August 02, 2024 @03:26AM (#41136818)
Classic EU
Re:What Is Entropy? on Monday July 22, 2024 @08:23PM (#41041250)
ΔS = ΔQ/T
Re:The magic of small engineering teams on Saturday July 06, 2024 @03:54PM (#40892779)
This was particularly bad at Meta pre-efficiency push Zuck. There was huge bloat that was counterproductive. Empire builders were incentivized by promotions based on the size of their orgs.

One thing the article didn't mention is how crucial it is for a team to have focus and to ruthlessly prioritize. It's easier for bigger teams to fall into the trap of doing "busy work" and people fighting for scope on their performance reviews. This is the worst possible outcome for company and employee where you have work driven by optics vs value.

Re:The Ultimate Guide to PostgreSQL Data Change Tracking on Monday February 26, 2024 @07:11PM (#39518467)
Hey I'm one of the maintainers of https://github.com/BemiHQ/bemi that was recommended in the article. Please feel free to ask me any questions!
Re:The Ultimate Guide to PostgreSQL Data Change Tracking on Monday February 26, 2024 @07:05PM (#39518428)
It depends on your reliability and performance constraints. I'd recommend just doing this via hooks on the application layer if it's a simple application. If you're building a production scalable application that required reliability guarantees - you can do this with https://github.com/BemiHQ/bemi too (I'm one of the maintainers from the article). I saw you mentioned you're using Node.js, check out the Bemi github there's a few Node.js compatible libraries too. Feel free to ping me any q's!
Re:Implementing system-versioned tables in Postgres on Monday February 12, 2024 @03:33PM (#39350092)
This is actually what we're building @ Bemi https://bemi.io/

We're hoping to make it so that this becomes automatic with Postgres vs moving to specialized databases.

We recently open sourced the core tech that implements system versioned tables https://github.com/BemiHQ/bemi, check it out if interested :)

Re:Bemi: Data Change Observability for Ops on Monday January 15, 2024 @03:52PM (#39005957)
Thanks throwaway-blaze! And that's actually very interesting to hear that you've already covered something like this using Amplitude events. Do you remember what your initial motivation for doing this was? Were you trying to capture server-side state transitions for analytics or for troubleshooting purposes?
Re:Bemi: Data Change Observability for Ops on Monday January 15, 2024 @03:43PM (#39005842)
Thank you for the interest! We're too early stage to start hiring right now. Let's stay in touch for now, can you DM me?

For anyone else that's interested in getting involved - we have some open-source libraries that we'll work to make more accessible for contributions down the line. Stay tuned for updates, and appreciate the interest!

Re:Bemi: Data Change Observability for Ops on Monday January 15, 2024 @12:22PM (#39003409)
Something like that :)
Re:Bemi: Data Change Observability for Ops on Monday January 15, 2024 @12:21PM (#39003399)
Yup so you got it exactly right that Bemi is higher level than Debezium. We actually do use Debezium under the hood, but we also enhance this lower-level data with context via lightweight application libraries. So we're integrating at both the database and application layers on the write side.
Re:DevDocs on Friday January 12, 2024 @08:13PM (#38976365)
Awesome, this is a great project

Show HN: Bemi – Empower your customer success teams with non-technical logging

https://bemi.io

Hi HN! We're the Bemi team, and we're eager to get your input on our tool that simplifies customer data understanding for ops and customer success teams.What We Do: Our tool seamlessly integrates with your database to automatically create a user-friendly audit trail for critical customer data changes.How We Help: By presenting these logs in a digestible, human-readable format, we shield on...

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Re:Show HN: Bemi – Supercharge Engineering Onboarding on Friday March 24, 2023 @06:25PM (#35296517)
So currently we were storing embeddings of the code, and only going to pass OpenAI summarized context as needed. But short answer, yes :) I may look into if there's some code obfuscation methods that can utilized if there's demand (not sure what this would look like yet).

Show HN: Bemi – Supercharge Engineering Onboarding

https://bemi.ai/

Hi HN! We're the team at @ Bemi and we're looking for feedback on our tooling that eases engineering onboarding at companies.From our experience as devs, we found that the early days at a company were critical and are surprised that there's not more tooling available specifically for engineering onboarding. During this time, devs are typically the most motivated, most open to feedback,...

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Re:Show HN: Watermelon – GPT-powered code contextualizer on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @05:21PM (#35252745)
I'll message you, it'd be great to chat! I was working on https://bemi.ai/, which was pretty early stage. Also random suggestion- I don't think there's a need for the homepage header text & image to be delayed showing with the side swoop in animation, or at least the delay timer could be lessened. I found myself almost scrolling past without seeing it when I tried reloading your page.
Re:Show HN: Watermelon – GPT-powered code contextualizer on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @04:57PM (#35252457)
This is great! Also awesome that it's open source. I was actually in the process of building this exact thing, I'll pause on that. I'm curious- what size companies do you envision as your target customer? And have you gotten any pushback yet about security/compliance concerns?
Re:Show HN: Generate regex patterns from examples on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @01:34PM (#34972978)
Thanks! I actually haven't open sourced it yet. Would you be interested in contributing if I open sourced?

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