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Re:False claims in a widely-cited paper on Thursday March 26, 2026 @01:58AM (#47527063)
Peer reviews need to be more transparent and accountable. Otherwise, we are sure to lose to the misinformation war that is rapidly reaching its peak, thanks but no thanks to AI.
Agree. SOC2 is becoming a standard these days. No SOC2, no enterprise customer.
Re:The Brand Age on Friday March 06, 2026 @01:40AM (#47271688)
I never understood the demand for luxury watch businesses. From what I have heard, it is widely used as a tool to transfer value (read $$ laundering). I do not know how prominent it is but if so then we might want to look at it from the utility perspective (to achieve that goal) than the "brand" story.
Re:Show HN: ÆTHRA – Writing Music as Code on Sunday February 01, 2026 @11:28PM (#46852405)
How to use it? Why does it not have any guide on how to use it?
Re: on Thursday January 29, 2026 @02:24AM (#46806896)
Open Hardware + Open Software is good enough for me to hit the buy button. Seems like a good toy, I hope I don't lose interest within a month of buying.

Tell HN: My Experience with Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA) in 2025

It was counter-intuitive to see this much cost saving by vertical scaling, by increasing CPU. VPA played a big role in this. If you are exploring to use VPA in production, I hope my experience helps you learn a thing or two. Do share your experience as well for a well-rounded discussion.# Background (The challenge and the subject system)My goal was to improve performance/cost ratio for my...

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Re:Show HN: I built a minimal open-source CMS (FREE) on Friday January 02, 2026 @07:20AM (#46464075)
Looks like a great work. My main concern with CMS is SEO/GEO. Where would this stand in terms of SEO/GEO? Any particular reason to choose Next.js? Could there have ben a better choice to optimize for SEO/GEO?
Re:Revolut hits $75B valuation on Monday November 24, 2025 @11:47PM (#46042431)
The UK neobank completed a share sale at a $75 billion valuation, up from $45 billion last year Bloomberg, led by Coatue, Fidelity, and—wait for it—Nvidia's NVentures PYMNTS.com. Because apparently Nvidia is now just investing in everything that moves.

Revolut's 2024 revenue grew 72% to $4 billion with profit before tax increasing 149% to $1.4 billion Disruption Banking. Unlike most fintech darlings, they're actually profitable and growing fast across 65 million customers.

But here's the kicker: this is a secondary sale—meaning existing shareholders are cashing out. When insiders are selling at these valuations, it's worth asking who's buying the peak. Especially when traditional banks are still struggling to innovate and Revolut is building a global bank from scratch.

The company is solid, but $75 billion for a neobank? That's more than many established global banks. The fintech premium is alive and well, even as the AI bubble inflates around it. What do you think?

Re:The Case Against PGVector on Monday November 03, 2025 @09:46AM (#45799547)
As others have commented, all the mentioned issues are resolved, I will favour in using the PGVector. If Postgres can be a good choice over Kafka to deliver 100k events/sec [1], then why not PGVector over Chroma or other specialized vector search (unless there is a specific requirement that can't be solved wit minor code/config changes)!

[1] Ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44659678

Re:Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @11:24AM (#45748054)
Discussion on the same topic "Postgres over Kafka" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44445841
Bots everywhere
Re:Privacy Isn't Dead – It's Being Sold in Pieces on Sunday October 12, 2025 @10:24PM (#45564130)
Agree. The resistance has become exhausting. The solution cannot be just to ask businesses to not collect data. The solution has to be orthogonal. Maybe one solution can be to develop new tools that act as a seamless filter/mask between us vs the party collecting data ensuring we have to think less at the same time fulfilling the requirement by the party collecting data.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2025) on Sunday October 12, 2025 @09:58PM (#45563989)
I have found a hack. If you wait long enough, someone will build what you wanted to build :)

Thanks for building this. I am trying to set it up but facing this issu

> `torch` (v2.3.1) only has wheels for the following platforms: `manylinux1_x86_64`, `manylinux2014_aarch64`, `macosx_11_0_arm64`, `win_amd64`

Re:Tangled, a Git collaboration platform, built on atproto on Saturday October 11, 2025 @09:30AM (#45548982)
Not receiving the signup code on email for tangled.org
Looks promising. Will try this weekend. Any tips to quickly try it out?
Re:F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree on Monday September 29, 2025 @10:40AM (#45414418)
thank you for posting this, emotional roller coaster the parent comment was
Did you miss to share the details?

Ask HN: Experienced the counter-intuitive cost reduction by increasing CPU?

Wanted to share the insights I learned while working on RudderStack. It was counter-intuitive to see this much cost saving by vertical scaling, by increasing CPU. Have you experienced something similar? In my story, the Kubernetes Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA) is the hero.Anyone thinking about vertical scaling or using VPA in production, I hope my experience helps you learn a thing or two. Do...

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Ask HN: Experience automating E2E manual testing with AI

I see lots of discussions around using AI in testing. Let's make this discussion more objective and useful by sharing our experiences, here's my experience of using AI to automate e2e manual testing (especially where user interaction is required):What I’m testing: RudderStack iOS SDK, it is used to track customer event data and send it to various product, marketing, and business tools.The...

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My experience with Apache Pulsar to solve PostgreSQL multi-tenant pain

Background: At RudderStack, I had been successfully using Postgres for the event streaming use case, scaled to 100k events/sec (note: there were good reasons to choose Postgres over Kafka). Nevertheless, we continue to further explore opportunities to optimize. So I and my team started experimenting with Pulsar (only for the parts of our system - data ingestion specifically). We experimented...

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Too much marketing speak without the demo. I have read this long article and did read some more related content on the internet, so let me summarize it for you.

With Neuralink,

- Noland can control cursor of his computer - He can schedule calendar meetings - He can control his purifier, television, etc. - He can play games like mario kart

I could only find this demo on the internet where Noland plays chess - https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1ypJdkXjaLNGW

Re:Ask HN: What are some advanced fact check strategies on Friday August 01, 2025 @01:51AM (#44753391)
> If you reduce your consumption of sources that require frequent fact checking

Can you name some of the sources (related to tech news) that don't require fact checking?

Ask HN: What are some advanced fact check strategies

I have been reading a lot of technology news lately from diverse sources and observed some patterns that are easy to verify - outdated info presented as news, misleading title, etc. On the other hand, some news pieces look credible but when I start to verify it leads to a dead-end (or at least nothing that wouldn't take hours to verify). Google's fact-check tool seems to work only on old and...

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