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Re:iOS 27 Trust Insights API [video] on Thursday September 24, 2026 @04:38AM (#49827919)
Trust Insights, a new iOS 27 framework that helps your app detect coercion and social engineering
Re:KDB-X: KX releases FREE Commercial KDB license on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @02:42PM (#44585528)
TL;DR TOS

Summary of the KX Community Edition License Agreement:

Key Points:

What you get:

- Free license to use KX software for personal or internal business purposes only

- No support or maintenance services included

- Software provided "as is" without warranties

Major restrictions:

- NO commercial use

- Cannot sell, distribute, or monetize any product that uses or depends on this software

- Cannot bundle it with commercial products

- Cannot reverse engineer, modify, or create derivative works

- Cannot remove copyright notices or trademarks

- Software may phone home to verify valid license

Important limitations:

- KX's liability capped at $100

- They disclaim all warranties including fitness for purpose

- You must delete software if agreement terminates

- Subject to export control laws

- KX can audit your compliance

Legal terms:

- Governed by New York law

- You retain no IP rights in the software

- Confidentiality obligations for 5 years

- KX can terminate at any time

Bottom line:

This is a restrictive free license meant for evaluation/personal use only. Any commercial use or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you need commercial rights, you'll need a different license.

This is awesome! Thank you for building it!

Another open source app that I’ve been using to practice is https://github.com/sightread/sightread

Re:Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @05:26AM (#43170163)
Neither Claude Sonet 3.5 or 3.7 could solve this correctly unless you add to the prompt “ Prove it with the js analysis tool, please use an efficient combinatorial algorithm to find the solution”… and I had to correct 3.7 because it was not following the instructions as 3.5 did
Re:Sightread learn to play the piano in the browser on Thursday August 10, 2023 @07:51AM (#37074951)
Open Source app to learn how to play the piano https://github.com/sightread/sightread
Re:DIY-Audio-Heaven on Sunday June 18, 2023 @03:16PM (#36383389)
I don't know what in my comment made you assume I use an EQ.

As a first-time Hi-Fi headphone buyer, the reviews on Amazon and Youtube didn't surface the nuances of the different headphone models using quantitative information as DIY-Audio-Heaven does.

Re:DIY-Audio-Heaven on Sunday June 18, 2023 @12:31PM (#36381743)
After purchasing the Beyerdynamic DT 770 PRO, I discovered the Superlux HD 662 EVO on this website and decided to buy them for $38 to see how they would compare. I was pleasantly surprised by the significant difference in quality, considering the Superlux headphones were almost five times cheaper. This experience led me to return the Beyerdynamic headphones and approach overpriced headphone reviews with more skepticism.
Re:DIY-Audio-Heaven on Sunday June 18, 2023 @09:44AM (#36380248)
Given the recent discussions about hi-fi headphone misleading marketing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36377875, and how hard it is to quantify quality, I found this resource a while ago and loved how they tear them apart and fixed the shortcomings of $40 headphones with simple hacks like adding a coffee filter on the cup to make them sound better than $500 models
Re:Oxen.ai: Very Fast Unstructured Data Version Control on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @05:16PM (#34888409)
Shameless plug. I open-sourced https://snapdir.org/ to explore how to solve these exact issues.

It's an early prototype to gather feedback around the ergonomics of the interface and the manifest format, and I would love to learn if people might find it useful enough for the use cases where LFS falls short.

Re:Show HN: We scaled Git to support 1 TB repos on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @11:00AM (#33970625)
Shameless plug for https://snapdir.org which focuses on this particular use case using regular git and auditable plain text manifests
I enjoyed Jane Street's podcast during my last long drive https://signalsandthreads.com/
Re:Show HN: Snapdir. Directory Snapshot Sharing and Auditing on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @09:21AM (#32836797)
The performance is directly related to the number of files you track. The first time it runs, it will be slow for large datasets, but incremental changes can use the local cache to speed up things.

That said, I built the bash version as a proof-of-concept with the idea of implementing it using Zig once I'm happy with the tool's usability.

Show HN: Snapdir. Directory Snapshot Sharing and Auditing

https://github.com/bermi/snapdir

Hello HN!,After having it lingering in a private repo for a while, I decided to open source Snapdir, a reasonably documented and tested set of bash scripts for creating, sharing, and verifying snapshots of directories and their contents using human-readable manifests.While I created Snapdir to solve a specific problem around ML pipeline reproducibility and data distribution, I've also found it...

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Full title of the article: "I'm Probably Less Deterministic Than I Used to Be: Embracing randomness is necessary in cloud environments.".

Here is a link to the pdf: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3546935

Re:Viewstamped Replication Revisited (2015) on Monday August 01, 2022 @11:19AM (#32307252)
This 2015 post and the code on the 20k challenge to find correctness and liveness bugs on TiggerBettle's implementation are helping my understand better what VSR is all about.

I wonder what other projects are using it in the wild.

Re:Protocol-Aware Recovery for Consensus-Based Storage on Monday August 01, 2022 @08:22AM (#32304968)
A couple of videos discussing this paper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXb76NtoduA and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wii1LX_ltIs, the last one within the context of Viewstamped Replication, which pre-dates Paxos and Raft.

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