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• Apple's App Tracking Transparency treated its own apps better than rivals

  Apple's hypocrisy is a longstanding issue with regard to their apps vs 3rd party apps. As I recall when the Green Bubbles first happened in messages someone pointed out that Apples own design guidelines specified a minimum contrast in colors or they would reject apps, and the green bubbles with white text did not meet that threshold at the time, and it stayed that way for quite a while. And for all I know the... - Source: Hacker News / about 21 hours ago

• GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released

  I agree. It did very well on an extremely challenging task. I asked it to recognize and draw the very faint reflection of what I was wearing, visible in only a tiny black part of a very brightly lit poster behind glass. In addition, the poster itself also happened to contain similar clothing. You can see the reference images and its output in my writeup here:... - Source: Hacker News / about 23 hours ago

• Why Go Is an Ideal Language for AI-Assisted Software Engineering

  I'd strongly disagree, Go panic mechanism (but not just in the runtime sense but also in language feature sense) is quite distinct from what we typically understand "exceptions" to mean (which - esp. Depending on language - are not at all just about handling programmer error). I think this is a decent article on exactly this:... - Source: Hacker News / 7 days ago

• Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's

  A solid block does not eat well either. I'm responding to the decline of ice cream products over a long time. Most of what we get now isn't even ice cream. What I make at home is technically frozen custard. https://medium.com/@dapscience/the-encrapification-of-store-bought-ice-cream-2da2d58ee0b9. - Source: Hacker News / 8 days ago

• Show HN: Tried some experiments with architecture for Long term memory for LLM

  I also wrote a short overview of the project if you are interested:https://medium.com/@faisaliitian/i-built-an-ai-memory-system-because-just-retrieve-more-wasnt-working-0b1dc9a60c01?postPublishedType=initial. - Source: Hacker News / 6 days ago

Spawn mentions (5)

• Creating a Basic CI/CD Pipeline

  I used to run databases as containers but then had to manage data seeding as well. Checkout a very handy tool called Spawn. Source: almost 4 years ago

• How to get realistic datasets into GitHub codespaces?

  Over at Spawn we've been really excited to see the rise of GitHub Codespaces. We're looking forward to hearing about all the exciting improvements that have been made to development processes as a result (like GitHub's own engineering team's improvements!). Source: almost 5 years ago

• Going all-in on cloud-based development with realistic databases

  Over at Spawn we've been really excited to see the growth of Gitpod. We put together this article discussing remote development through 2020 and 2021 and how cloud-based development environments are an excellent alternative to consider over other options. Source: about 5 years ago

• Development databases in Docker aren’t good enough

  We believe that Spawn can be the solution to a lot of these pain points... I'd be really curious and grateful to get your feedback on the solution if you had the time. Source: about 5 years ago

• Development databases in Docker aren’t good enough

  Full disclosure - I'm a software engineer working on Spawn. We've put together this blog post to discuss why we think Docker falls short of giving you realistic and useful development database environments: https://medium.com/spawn-db/development-databases-in-docker-arent-good-enough-503ea95e7545. Source: about 5 years ago