Laudspeaker (YC W21) hiring to build open source customer journey software
Our mission is to build a new, open source suite of software tools to completely handle the “customer journey”. You can see our repo here: (https://github.com/laudspeaker/laudspeaker) we had successful launch on HN a few weeks ago and are moving quickly with a very ambitious roadmap. We are looking for two senior software engineers, who will […]
Who rules Earth? Wild mammals far outweighed by humans and domestic animals
What wild mammal treads most heavily on the land? Not elephants, according to a new global estimate of the total masses of mammal species. Not wild mice, despite their numbers. The heavyweight champion is that furtive denizen of parks, meadows, and forests throughout the Americas, the white-tailed deer. It accounts for almost 10% of the […]
We will not ‘walk out’ of UK, nor comply with any request to bypass encryption
Signal would walk, but we will not Three days ago, the encrypted messaging app Signal said they would ‘walk’ from UK if the Online Safety Bill undermined encryption. However, ‘walking out’ is not the solution here. We at Tutanota say the opposite: We will not ‘walk’ from the UK. If Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and […]
Why and How I use Org Mode for my writing and more
You won’t know of Org Mode if you live a normal life. This page has pictures that will help you visualise it. It is a decidedly un-sexy under-marketed weirdly niche tool for note taking (and a lot more). “Your life in plain text”, they say. Yet, I find myself telling people that they will have […]
World Building with GPT
I’ve been doing lots of experiments with GPT, though I’ve only written about one until now… the more serious something is the harder it is to call it finished or identify the outcomes. Here I’ll describe something a bit lighter: world building, or specifically city building, with GPT. This post is for people who are […]
Where has all the Chartreuse gone?
Brother Jean-Jacques, one of monks who knows the secret recipe of Chartreuse, checking on the barrels (Jean-Pierre Clator/AFP via Getty Images) Last month, a letter from the Carthusian monks in Voiron, France circulated through the world of spirits. It was, in the hackneyed parlance of journalism, a “bombshell.” The letter explains a decision by the […]
“Clean” code, horrible performance
This is a free bonus video from the Performance-Aware Programming series. It shows the real-world performance costs of following “clean code” guidelines. For more information about the course, please see the About page or the Table of Contents. A lightly-edited transcript of the video appears below. Some of the most-often repeated programming advice, especially to […]
pgvector: Open-source vector similarity search for Postgres
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FFmpeg 6.0
If you find FFmpeg useful, you are welcome to contribute by donating. More downloading options Get packages & executable files FFmpeg only provides source code. Below are some links that provide it already compiled and ready to go. Linux Packages Linux Static Builds Windows EXE Files Get the Sources Download Snapshot You can retrieve the […]
LastPass says DevOps engineer’s hacked computer led to security breach in 2022
The popular password manager LastPass faced a major attack last year that compromised sensitive data of its users, including passwords. Back in December, the company shared a statement confirming that attackers obtained such data and that users should change their passwords. Now LastPass has revealed that the incident was caused by credentials stolen from a […]