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Re:Gemini 3 Pro Model Card on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @07:42AM (#45964904)
Trying to open this link from Italy leads to a CSAM warning
Re:GCP Outage on Thursday June 12, 2025 @02:20PM (#44260978)
Having issues with services in cloud run as well

Show HN: A tool to transcribe and summarize WhatsApp audio notes and audio files

https://audiobriefly.com

Hello HN, and happy new year!Towards the end of last year I finally released AudioBriefly, a tool that transcribes and summarizes your voice notes. It doesn't require installing any apps, and also works on WhatsApp.I know that there are competing services out there but the main advantages are:- Speed: we perform optimizations on the audio files to be able to transcribe them quickly -...

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Re:TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS on Friday December 17, 2021 @10:42AM (#29593661)
The EFF lost all credibility by jumping into the crypto bandwagon
Re:Helm (the Kubernetes package manager) 3.0.0 has been released on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @12:51PM (#21527112)
Re:Dhall: A Non-Repetitive Alternative to YAML on Friday July 05, 2019 @04:58AM (#20360938)
I get your point, but you don't need to run imports over the network (local imports are fine).

Also, if you were to import over the network, by running `dhall freeze` a semantic hash of the content is computed so you are 100% sure that what you are importing is not going to change. Moreover, files that have a hash value will be cached by dhall.

If you don't want to bother with copying over Prelude and you don't trust the cache, you can also normalize the code before pushing it to the network. This will flatten all your imports and reduce your file to normal form.

You might be interested in what they say about imports here: https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-lang/blob/master/standar...

Re:Dhall: A Non-Repetitive Alternative to YAML on Thursday July 04, 2019 @04:55PM (#20357710)
I'm trying to use it for Kubernetes since it can both work like helm (paramerizing functions) and kustomize (using the merge // operator). Moreover it has (safe) imports which make defining constants quite easy.

There are already kubernetes bindings available https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-kubernetes .

The syntax in the examples looks a bit more verbose and less readable than yaml but I think building sensible abstractions on top of it will alleviate the pain (abstractions here are innocuous since you can 'normalize' the code and they disappear)

I'm not too happy with the default formatting though. I think if the formatter indented nested values similar to yaml that would look better to the human eye.

Re:Absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer on Friday June 07, 2019 @01:15PM (#20126727)
Types can help. Your code simply won't compile if the types are wrong.

The catch is that you have to define way more types, but if the code is complex enough it's really worth it.

Re:What Airbnb really does to a neighbourhood on Thursday August 30, 2018 @02:19PM (#17879254)
Not sure if it's useful, but they have www.airbnb.com/neighbors
Re:Learn You a Haskell for Great Good on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @04:23PM (#17813423)
Another good (imho better) option is the Haskell book https://haskellbook.com/
Re:Scala: Understanding implicits on Monday July 23, 2018 @08:27AM (#17592212)
What are the points which in your opinion make Scala complex?
Also from a user's perspective, I'd prefer everything that doesn't need to be a native app to be a pwa. They are much more lightweight and more limited in permissions. Probably those apps don't need to be submitted to the store either, except for discoverability (users are now used to search for apps on the store)
Re:Python, Go or Haskell? on Monday March 12, 2018 @12:55PM (#16569483)
I know it's not in the options you listed, but why not Scala?

It has the nice things of the languages above, combined together:

- a concise high-level programming language

- a compiler that helps avoiding bugs

- fast runtime

- access to a great ecosystem of libraries

(In better words: https://github.com/scala/scala-lang/pull/852#issuecomment-37...)

Moreover, if you work with Data Scientists you might find convenient working in Spark's native language.

A great thing about Scala is that you can either use as a better Java (availability of developers) or go fully functional-category theory like Haskell with libraries such as Cats.

All these complaints from the ad industry feel like an endorsement for Safari