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Re:Microsoft Agent Framework on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @01:42PM (#46378060)
OpenAI agent sdk makes it extremely simple to get started with function calling and subagent-as-tools delegations.

If you use it with OpenAI responses api, there’s not even any need to store input items in your own DB

Re:Claude in Chrome on Sunday December 21, 2025 @03:56PM (#46348336)
My personal benchmark for ChatGPT Atlas and Claude for Chrome is how fast they can run through a list of 100+ Hertz CDP codes scraped from the internet, and narrow down the best offers for a mid-sized SUV rental in my destination.

Atlas has problem where it just gives up and quits after a few minutes, but Claude doesn't seem to have a time limit and will work through a batch of CDP codes successfully.

Show HN: Shadowfax AI – an agentic workhorse to 10x data analysts productivity

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Re:Servers as they should be – shipping early 2022 on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @03:17PM (#27294837)
Looks like a white labeled viking VDS2249R running custom software.
Google has a private linux drive client. It's in use in Google Colab: https://colab.research.google.com/notebooks/io.ipynb

Ask HN: Is your Google CloudShell provisioned in Asia region?

I recently have started relying Google CloudShell as my remote development workspace. One thing I noticed is that all of my shells seem to come up in Google's Taiwan datacenter, so the latency to the US is horrible (100ms+ ping).Are you also experiencing this? You can check by `curl http://checkip.amazonaws.com` and then looking up the IP in a geoip database.

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This is getting out of hand, at this point, going with the special deals at Comcast is a better option.
Frontend should definitely be something along the lines of Typescript and React. Typescript's typing support is a good investment for long term UI dev productivity as the project scales.

Native desktop client could utilize the same stack via Electron.

Backend could start with Python using a popular all-in-one framework like Django to begin with, and scale towards micro-service architecture over time as components grow in complexity.

Heroku is a good all-in-one infrastructure service that takes care of dev-ops for the first year.

Re:Bypass Paywalls Clean for Chrome/Firefox on Monday April 20, 2020 @03:07PM (#22927205)
How does this work?
Yes, it defines the venue for civil cases.
Courts are based on facts, not popular opinions, and it's innocent until proven guilty.

If there really was patent infringement, then it would be difficult to erase all traces. Similar to the Zenimax Oculus lawsuit where computers were erased, but the verdict still came down against Oculus.

Suppose a startup has a runway of 6 months and a full stack web dev who can build the backend and web frontend.

Are they going to fragment the code-base with Java to introduce a desktop client? Are they going to hire another enterprise Java dev, who most likely isn't familiar with the rest of the stack?

The rise of Electron is fundamentally driven by the cost effectiveness of the wide availability of developers and community support.

might be this or something similar, http://erlangonxen.org/
You're saturating your SATA2 port, the bottleneck isn't the filesystem in your case, its the physical hardware.
Re:Show HN: Dply – Free temporary Linux servers on Thursday November 24, 2016 @08:42PM (#13033899)
something that would be awesome is if there was a command line tool to spin one up & it'd have a ticking timer to let me know how much time is left.
Re:Atlantic.net launches $0.99 SSD-based VPS servers on Saturday October 04, 2014 @07:14PM (#8410945)
The CPU performance is pretty good for a single core. http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/932814
I've been using it to study good open source code.
Re:InfiniSQL on Friday December 06, 2013 @12:36AM (#6859590)
Have you tried Vertica? One of the big data project my team did used more than 200 servers in a single Vertica cluster. At the enterprise OEM level, the pricing is actually really affordable. You should try out Vertica Community Edition, the free 3 node version.
Re:InfiniSQL on Thursday December 05, 2013 @11:47PM (#6859447)
I see this as fairly similar to memSQL, but less mature.
Re:Help me build the developers nightmare list: on Sunday December 01, 2013 @02:24AM (#6826491)
Really? Source maps lets you debug the coffeescript directly.

Ask HN: Would you use a cloud hosted Varnish cache?

If you had a cloud based Varnish service that had a good web interface for defining simple/common caching rules, and also exposed advanced scripting, and had live debugging + logging, would you use it?Would you pay ~$40/month for an instance that had 10GB of SSD backed cache, 512MB of memory cache and 1TB of bandwidth? Would you pay more if it were actually two smaller instances that were...

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Re:The Rule of Awesome on Sunday April 07, 2013 @06:27PM (#5509029)
I think this standard is probably a lot easier to beat than people expect.

From personal experience, my hypothesis is that in any organization, there are a handful of high impact but low cost improvements to make. These low-hanging fruits will not be blatantly obvious, and will not be discernible to someone who isn't "awesome" for whatever reason, e.g. lack of curiosity, incompetence, bad business sense, etc... In a startup with sufficient autonomy, it's probably even doable to make a lasting difference in the first week.

This is probably also tied to the idea of a 10x engineer, because they can figure out the right problems to solve and use 100% of their time to provide 1000% value.

Re:The Rule of Awesome on Sunday April 07, 2013 @06:15PM (#5508993)
I fixed 100 bugs in a single milestone at my current job last year, it just took a lot of time, nothing that demanded too much brain power. It was still recognized as awesome because the average on the team was 30 or so.
I don't think putting down email is a good idea, you'll end up getting spammed by headhunters directly.