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Re:Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines on Sunday February 09, 2025 @08:37PM (#42996054)
Funny, I feel the same way about humans.
Re:I am rich and have no idea what to do on Friday January 03, 2025 @11:53PM (#42592517)
How did he pull millions out of the economy? How is his money not in the economy?
Re:Neon Serverless Postgres is generally available on Monday April 15, 2024 @11:09AM (#40041576)
Fwiw my experience has been the exact opposite. It is by far away, the best serverless database I’ve used.
Why should we make it more efficient? Why not make more energy from clean sources first?
Re:Grok on Sunday March 17, 2024 @08:27PM (#39739334)
> they were favoring elon

No, and that's not what the article says either. They were just tracking how well his tweets were doing versus others. They were not favoring Elon.

Re:The Techno-Optimist Manifesto on Monday October 16, 2023 @09:46PM (#37909359)
Which parts do you reject?
I've been using SuperWhisper since the start and it's totally changed my workflow. I actually bought a mic because of it and I now mostly narrate my emails and other long form texts. The larger models are very accurate.

I know Neil is working on improving the speed of it using CoreML, which is I think the next big leap forward. Congratulations Neil!

Re:Scaling Linear's Sync Engine on Thursday June 29, 2023 @01:38PM (#36523803)
The trouble with coupling the two is that now I have to either trust some third party db service, or some custom db.

The DB is so fundamental, and so hard to get right / scale, that it's hard to trust a startup to do it well.

We use Firebase and even with all the resources google has this has a lot of issues (especially with the client libs).

Re:Scaling Linear's Sync Engine on Thursday June 29, 2023 @11:10AM (#36521456)
I have a genuine appreciation for how Linear has built this. We have had to build something similar for our note taking application (Reflect). It is very tricky to do and I wish there was more research on this.

In my opinion, what we need is:

1) A client-side performant SQLite database that supports live queries. I.e. you can automatically re-render the page when the queries change. That way your database can drive the UI and be the source of truth in regards to what's displayed on the screen.

2) A separate realtime syncing protocol that syncs database state to client state.

And ideally this is all open source, and that these two endeavors are not coupled tightly.

[1] Wa-sqlite is the best (imo) client-side db - better than than the official Sqlite WASM build (for now) because it had a indexeddb fallback for browsers that aren't the cutting edge Chrome.

[2] cr-sqlite is an interesting project using CRDTs to sync state around. However I still believe that for many production use-cases you want a ultimate server source of truth.

[3] Replicache is still the best closed source solution I know of.

[1] - https://github.com/rhashimoto/wa-sqlite [2] - https://github.com/vlcn-io/cr-sqlite [3] - https://replicache.dev/

Re:Show HN: I built a package manager for AI plugins on Friday June 23, 2023 @12:16PM (#36448928)
We've made it pretty abstract, so it should play nicely with langchain etc. We're all open-source and using open protocols like OpenAPI.

You make a good point though. We should write a langchain plugin to our API.

Re:Help Getting Back in the Saddle on Thursday June 15, 2023 @05:53PM (#36347118)
Learn TypeScript, Next.js, Vercel, and Tailwind. That's my advice.

Sign up for Vercel and play around with the sample apps.

Re:FANN: Vector Search in 200 Lines of Rust on Thursday June 15, 2023 @12:09PM (#36342612)
This is great! See also Voy, A WASM vector similarity search written in Rust:

https://github.com/tantaraio/voy

Re:Storage on Vercel on Monday May 01, 2023 @01:32PM (#35776240)
Re:Whisper.cpp v1.4.0 on Sunday April 30, 2023 @05:20PM (#35766726)
We make both Whisper and GPT-4 available in https://reflect.app

Show HN: An open-source OpenAPI package manager – openpm.ai

https://openpm.ai

I've been building openpm, a package manager for OpenAPI specs released under the MIT license.The goal is to create a free and open-source API directory layer which AIs can use to discover and interact with the world via APIs.AI is the next platform. I think it's very important that this platform's "app-store" is not controlled by a corporation that extracts a tax and exerts editorial control.

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Re:Think Better with Reflect on Sunday March 26, 2023 @01:37AM (#35311369)
We have all of the above. Export anytime. It's part of our company values.

https://reflect.academy/492a5b05bc2b4538ac6d1c08c971070d

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