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Hacker News mentions (505)

• What I Discovered About Making Great Widgets: Insights From 100+ Real Users

  For this study, I selected Reddit and Hacker News, platforms where many tech enthusiasts gather. I posted my inquiry in major Android and iPhone subreddits and waited for responses. - Source: dev.to / about 13 hours ago

• Jank's new persistent string is fast

  Sure, but in a language without the zero terminator the empty string doesn't need an allocation. With a zero terminator, only SSO allows us to avoid that. There are a lot of empty strings. [On a typical modern 64-bit computer] An empty Rust std::String is 24 bytes, exactly the same as the Clang libc++ std::string as somewhat smaller than an MSVC or GCC std::string Most strings are "pretty small" but... - Source: Hacker News / 6 days ago

• eBPF, sidecars, and the future of the service mesh

  William: My current role primarily shapes my strategy. I learn a lot from the engineers and users of Linkerd, who are at the forefront of these technologies. I also keep myself updated by reading discussions on Reddit platforms like r/kubernetes and r/Linkerd. Occasionally, I contribute to or follow discussions on Hacker News. Overall, my primary source of knowledge comes from the experts I work with daily, giving... - Source: dev.to / 11 days ago

• Creating a Safari webarchive from the command line

  A simpler, cross-platform, solution is to use headless Chrome to save pages as PDFs. Example I just tried and worked for me: > chrome.exe --headless --no-sandbox --disable-gpu --print-to-pdf=page.pdf https://news.ycombinator.com I know you can specify cookies, existing sessions and existing profiles in case authentication is required. - Source: Hacker News / 13 days ago

• GPT-4o

  Asking it about a user that doesn't exist (grdevhux1536): The user "grdevhux1536" on Hacker News demonstrates a thoughtful and analytical tone in their writing. They often engage deeply with technical topics, providing insightful comments and constructive criticism. Their expertise seems to be in software development and computer science, often discussing topics like LED game platforms and reverse engineering old... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

Text-Generator.io mentions (30)

• Voice generation AI (TTS)

  I'm running https://text-generator.io give it a try, the TTS network I'm using currently is Speech T5. Text Generator is Open Source on the Github so if your interested in self hosting give that a try. Try the voices in the web UI first, the voices sound a bit more computer generated than eleven labs, but its orders of magnitude cheaper (theres an API or via self hosting). Source: 12 months ago

• Launching Netwrck - AI Character Chat/Character creator/World building tool

  I'm planning on making group chats and social features that connect us to AI characters :) looking to make our AI characters help us and our communities across the web. Also working on more immersive experiences like VFX/3d avatars and speech. I'm raising a token to help reward AI Character creators and AI Developers for making the platform better https://netwrck.com/netw-token creators will earn most NETW... Source: 12 months ago

• How do you serve your LLMs

  Instead of going up looking for big models. I run https://text-generator.io which benchmarks a string against multiple models and picks the one that is over confident about the perplexity. Basically uses the model that is most familiar with the data. But it's all 7b models so not too big to fit. Source: almost 1 year ago

• Awesome Codebases - A collection of awesome open-source codebases worth exploring.

  Holy guac there are heaps of bots on reddit now!!! For some variety try https://text-generator.io or bard, these are all clearly ChatGPT.... Read these comments seriously they are all clearly bots, same with the "name generated algorithms" for their usernames too. Source: about 1 year ago

• [META] Who is astroturfing r/programming and why?

  I'm not a bot... (i can say seggs)... But shameless self promotion is my only tool left in my toolbelt of 0 marketing skills and crippling mortgage debt. Also for those interested in transending and becoming a bot: Checkout this sweet LLM API that may or may not be created by myself... https://text-generator.io. Source: about 1 year ago