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Re:Mistral Large 4 on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @09:30AM (#49978170)
Is there consensus on if this was https://openrouter.ai/stealth/space-bunny-alpha ?
Re:DaVinci Resolve 21.1 on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @03:26PM (#49615557)
I tried and as a individual (single/one at a time) image editor is it fantastic, beats Lightroom by a mile and the node editor gives me the ability to "emulate" panels from CaptureOne (and OFX plugin support means I can just LLM my own if I need).

Library management is where Lightroom (and honestly CaptureOne) still wins, I couldn't find a good way to manage a 100k photo library.

I created one project and tried importing the whole library, but it took more than 8 hours and didn't make meaningful progress (~10%?) so I stopped (compared to 15hr for the whole thing in Lightroom).

I also did a project for about 1K photos and while the import worked, the library management itself was lacking. I could not find ways to do image stacks for bursts, group by metadata, etc. The obvious filters are there, but I think it needs more work.

Re:Airport Simulator on Monday July 20, 2026 @08:51AM (#48978187)
Open up https://www.liveatc.net/ in another tab and you have a complete experience. Really fun!

Show HN: DWS A LLM Generated, "Drudge Report" style news site

https://news.dws.rip/

Hi folks!As a weekend experiment, I created DWS Report. A simple news link aggregator site where the layout is modeled after Drudge Report (while I don't agree with the news style, the simple site style is fun).The engine collects articles from RSS feeds every 15 minutes, has a LLM score the importance of the articles, dedupes via an embedding DB, and then decays article scores over time.The...

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Re:Mistral OCR 4 on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @11:02AM (#48646115)
Are there benchmarks for how this performs on charts, or maybe more accurately, plots? I've yet to find a model that can digitize a plot into X,Y points with some accuracy in my use case of digitizing old datasheets.
Re:Emacs Appearances in Pop Culture on Thursday June 11, 2026 @01:47PM (#48493798)
Hilariously, the Arctic Blast screenshot seems to be the Audacity audio editor with Emacs overlaid! https://ianyepan.github.io/images/arctic-blast-emacs.png
Re:Zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included on Friday December 05, 2025 @02:47PM (#46166339)
Is there improved guidance on migrating from tmux to zellij?

I've attempted to move over a few times, and while this is certainly user skill, it just felt too different from screen/tmux. Perhaps I should bite the bullet and force myself to get used to a new paradigm...

Re:Ask HN: Is AWS Down Again? on Monday October 27, 2025 @12:32PM (#45722975)
Disclosure, I work for Datadog:

https://updog.ai/status/amazonaws

Looks fine for now.

Show HN: DWS OS, a Plan 9 Inspired Web "OS"

https://dws.rip

Hi HN,I've always loved the aesthetic, quirks, and concepts of Plan9, and I wanted to see how far I could vibe-code a web desktop/OS that resembled it. The result is DWS OS.My goal was to reach a point where I could build "userspace" apps for this OS, in the OS. DWS OS has a virtual filesystem, an approximation of the ACME editor, file browser, internet browser (just an iframe for fun), and a...

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Re:GIMP 3.0 Released on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @08:23AM (#43398555)
I'd posit this is more knowing your user. Lots of photo editors/multimedia types use Macs, so it would only help GIMP if they offered Mac keybinds out of the box, or even mimicked the keybinds Adobe Photoshop has.
Re:Quickwit Joins Datadog on Friday January 10, 2025 @05:59PM (#42661306)
Loki by Grafana Labs is nice (https://grafana.com/oss/loki/). There was a time (3+ years ago) where the product was changing pretty rapidly and much of the documentation was on git, so we had a few headaches doing minor version bumps, but I believe its much more mature now.
Re:Terminal Tinder: Find your next colorscheme on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @05:59PM (#41506053)
Hi HN.

I am teaching myself some more full-stack dev and try out AI assisted coding, I decided to build Terminal Tinder, a way for your machine to learn what colorschemes you like, and maybe generate some novel ones for you.

Would love for people to try it out and hopefully find some fun or use out of it!

Open to feedback, bugs, PR, etc here: https://github.com/tanishq-dubey/TerminalTinder and thanks!

Re:Ente Auth: open-source Authy alternative for 2FA on Friday July 05, 2024 @02:20PM (#40884871)
Throwing my own hat into the ring here: https://apps.apple.com/ro/app/sesame-2fa/id6445877867

Similarly, I wrote this to get away from Authy, have the ability to inspect codes, share them (sometimes you need to at work) and export the data out in an agnostic format (JSON dump).

It uses the iCloud Keychain for syncing keys between your devices and storing the data itself -- which seems to be the big difference between Ente and what I'm shilling.

Source is available here:

https://github.com/tanishq-dubey/Sesame

If you see any problems, please make an issue and I'd be happy to fix it!

(The app store requires a website, so if you want a quick overview, DWS is me - Dubey Web Services) https://sesame.dws.rip

Re:Ask HN: How can a junior dev maximize their income? on Thursday June 08, 2023 @11:27AM (#36243502)
You solve a lot of the same problems that other tech companies solve, just with different constraints. An example I like to use is: "Facebook can afford to lose a 'like' on a post -- whether that is through data loss or just eventual consistency -- while we cannot afford to lose a penny (exaggerating a bit here) since there are people making live decisions on that penny"

Those sort of problems are more on the product side, along with the regular slew of product development tech problems. On the infrastructure/platform side (where I work) it is remarkably close to "regular tech". Same types of distributed systems problems, database issues, CI/CD pipelines, engineering efficiency, etc. The "new" part here is working with the finance specific areas such as physical data centers and networking to clients, or domain specific items such as data retention for compliance.

The firm I work at developed an internal library (open source soon hopefully!) that does all our templating in Python, example:

  import os

  """
  Imports redacted, but this imports our library
  """

  NAME = "my_app"
  PORT = 5000
  DEPLOY_ENV = os.environ["DEPLOY_ENV"]

  deploy_all(
      create_stateful_service(
          NAME, http_port=PORT, cpu=2000, memory=500
      ),
      create_ingress(
          NAME,
          service_name=NAME,
          service_port=PORT,
          hostnames=["myapp.internal.com"],
      ),
  )

In the background, this converts a bunch of objects to YAML, leveraging the fact that objects in Python are just dictionaries. It then takes these objects and sends them to the K8S API. Really improved our DevEx since you can do complex tasks like "define a deployment, deploy it, and then check server status" because it is all just Python at the end of the day.

Edit: formatting

Re:Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus at Zerodha on Monday April 27, 2020 @11:32AM (#22996778)
Cortex was just released, and while it doesn’t solve HA right away, it does make it easier: https://cortexmetrics.io