stephenheron
Re:GCP Europe-West2 Outage
on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @04:12AM (#50162831)
Yup, a few of our services are having "difficulties".....
Re:Investors get real-time view of UK bond market activity for the fir...
on Monday June 22, 2026 @06:35AM (#48628330)
https://ets-connect.co.uk/ < Slightly more information here.
Re:Hamming Distance for Hybrid Search in SQLite
on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @11:00AM (#47048947)
I've had good success in using this: https://github.com/sqliteai/sqlite-vector if you want something a bit more "off the shelf" if you are using SQLite.
Re:Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @11:29AM (#46528390)
We bought Tailwind UI and it was very good and I learned a lot of nice tricks from it.
Real shame, and I fear it is just the start of the impacts of AI on our industry.
Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series?
Hi,My daily workhorse is a M1 Pro that I purchased on release date, It has been one of the best tech purchases I have made, even now it really deals with anything I throw at it. My daily work load is regularly having a Android emulator, iOS simulator and a number of Dockers containers running simultaneously and I never hear the fans, battery life has taken a bit of a hit but it is still very...
Elon Musk's AI Company Acquires X in $45B Deal
Re:OpenAI Audio Models
on Thursday March 20, 2025 @01:38PM (#43426308)
Quite disappointing their speech to text models are not open source. Whisper was really good and it was great it was open to play around with. I guess this continues OpenAI's approach of not really being open!
KBLaM: Bringing plug-and-play external knowledge to LLMs
Re:Google Play adding permissions we don't use, then failing us for la...
on Friday February 07, 2025 @05:47PM (#42978391)
One thing to checkout is perhaps some plugin/module you have might be adding this permission without you knowing about it.
Trying using the 'Merged Manifest' in Android Studio (https://developer.android.com/build/manage-manifests#inspect...) to see if you can see coming from anywhere.
Ask HN: Limitations of LLMs?
I have been thinking about LLMs just like everyone else, I guess! The prevailing sentiment seems to be they are going to change the world, from jobs to politics and everything in between. However, I have been wondering if we are perhaps reaching “peak” LLM and we will see a dramatic reduction in progress.I am a casual observer of this space so I may be barking up the totally wrong tree, but I...
Ask HN: Google Load Balancer / Cloudflare Issues
Hi HN,I am a bit of a loss so I am coming to Hacker News in the hopes someone has seen anything like this.Approximately 6 hours ago we started getting a very strange error back from our site, that appears intermittently:"<html><title>Error 500 (Internal Server Error)!</title></html>"This error is a little bit strange, with only an HTML title and no body and a '!' being...
Re:Ask HN: How to Deal with ChatGPT Anxiety?
on Sunday January 29, 2023 @06:48AM (#34567220)
I am glad people are talking about this. I have been feeling like this for the past couple of weeks. It's a difficult thing as I really enjoy coding but it feels like that part of the job will be changing in the future.
I think it's all about being adaptable, being here on HN and thinking about these things will put you ahead of others who simply don't see the change coming. Unfortunately we can't put the AI genie back in the bottle and we just have to be ready to adapt.
Re:Ask HN: How to learn about Linux system internals?
on Thursday April 08, 2021 @07:37AM (#26737537)
I have never applied at Google so I don't know what they are looking for exactly, however I read "Linux Kernel Development" by Robert Love a few years ago and I really enjoyed it. It might be the best technical book I have ever read now that I think about it.
Re:Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027
on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @08:59AM (#23831351)
I would encourage people to read the NCSC blog post on this as it goes into technical detail on why the decision was made.
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/a-different-future-for-tel...
Facebook iOS SDK causing crashes on startup
Re:Spotify iOS App Is Down
on Friday July 10, 2020 @06:39AM (#23790068)
A fair few apps are crashing for me. I wonder if it is a similar problem to the Facebook SDK issues a few months ago.
Re:92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people
on Thursday May 14, 2020 @09:41AM (#23179347)
I quite like the Autosport forums: https://forums.autosport.com/forum/2-racing-comments/
Or if you are more into the technical side of things: https://www.f1technical.net/forum/
Re:NHS open-sources contract tracing iOS and Android apps
on Thursday May 07, 2020 @05:34PM (#23108645)
Some quite interesting stuff around how they might be getting around the background iOS restrictions[1] can be found in the Android source.
Looking at the Apple documentation on background peripheral bluetooth, they state "All service UUIDs contained in the value of the CBAdvertisementDataServiceUUIDsKey advertisement key are placed in a special “overflow” area; they can be discovered only by an iOS device that is explicitly scanning for them"[2]
I wonder if they have managed to reverse engineer this overflow area so it is accessible via Android.
Someone did some looking into this and it seems at least feasible[3]
[1]: https://github.com/nhsx/COVID-19-app-Android-BETA/blob/maste...
[2]: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ne...
[3]: https://crownstone.rocks/2018/06/27/ios-advertisements-in-th...
The source code for the NHSX Covid-19 BETA Apps
Re:How Apple And Google Are Going To Enable Contact Tracing
on Monday April 13, 2020 @08:14AM (#22855117)
I wonder if they could reduce the power to the Bluetooth chipset to artificially reduce the range?
Might be possible with iOS devices as it's pretty easy to test each of them. Harder to do with the 1000s of Android devices that exist.
Re:Apple acquires Dark Sky
on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @02:42PM (#22740955)
Good for them but at the same time it is a shame for non Apple Users.
We use their embed widget quite heavily. Anyone know of any equivalents? I had a quick Google but can't find anything that looks totally equal in feature set.
Re:Ask HN: React Native or Flutter?
on Monday September 16, 2019 @04:42AM (#20982158)
We picked React Native and while it's not without its problems in general we quite like it. The community around it is pretty good and being able to use a wide range of JS/React packages is really handy.
Re:Ask HN: Developers in Edinburgh?
on Monday January 28, 2019 @06:42AM (#19016699)
Hi,
I am developer based in Edinburgh. I would recommend popping along to a few meetups. There is something on nearly every night of the week!
https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/area/62-edinburgh
Thanks, Stephen
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Ask HN: At what size do Microservices make sense?
I like the idea of Microservices, however I have yet to have a project of the size where I felt the benefits of them outweighed the drawbacks. However I am going to meetups and conferences and seeing 1 - 2 people startups start with a microservice architecture.I am wondering if I am missing something and microservices are perhaps more suitable for smaller projects / teams that I had originally...
Red Hat acquires CoreOS for $250M in Kubernetes expansion
Ask HN: Cryptocurrencies
I am backend web developer by trade and I am sure like many of you have been hearing more and more about cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. I did research about the underlying Blockchain technology and after some perseverance I think I understand the basics.However I am struggling to understand the economics of these cryptocurrencies and I am hoping the HN crowd can shed some light on it by...
Ask HN: How to take notes?
I seemed to have avoided taking any sort of notes for most of my professional career mostly relying on my memory. However as I get a touch older I can sense that I am forgetting certain points from meetings etc.I am looking for advice on how others take notes or perhaps some good resources on note taking. It seems like such a simple skill but it is one I am definitely missing out on!Thanks!