Launch HN: Dashdive (YC W23) – Track your cloud costs precisely
Hi, HN. We (Adam, Micah and Ben) are excited to show you Dashdive (https://www.dashdive.com/), which calculates the cloud cost incurred by each user action taken in your product. There’s a demo video at https://www.dashdive.com/#video and an interactive demo here: https://demo.dashdive.com. We talked to dozens of software engineers and kept hearing about three problems caused by […]
Helios: A distribution of Illumos powering the Oxide Rack
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Viewing Illegal Streams: No Cautions, Fines or Arrests Say GM Police
Home > Anti-Piracy > After two UK regional police forces refused to supply information on the number of people cautioned, fined or arrested for simply watching illegal streams, this weekend it emerged that Greater Manchester Police received the same request and actually responded. For the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, the number of […]
How we had our Nectar Points stolen, and this is how yours will be too
I woke up on the 9th June 2023 to find Vicki quite upset.. She’d been looking at our Nectar account in the Nectar app and found that our 13,500 points (£67.50) had been spent that morning in Sainsburys in Hendon. Obviously, it wasn’t us, we’d literally just woken up (in Essex), but it was in […]
Paintings of the Traditional Porcelain Process
“Export” Art During the 18th Century, Guangdong province was the hub for trade with the West. The dialogue between Western merchants and artists with both painters and porcelain producers resulted in a unique blend of Chinese and Western styles. This blend was reflected in the painting styles for both Export Paintings as well as Export […]
Coding on Copilot: 2023 Data Suggests Downward Pressure on Code Quality
Including 2024 projections for specific code reuse GitHub and other sources have reported more than 50% of developers adopting AI Assisted-development during 2023. What these sources haven’t reported is how the composition of code changes when AI is used. We examine 4 years worth of data, encompassing more than 150m changed lines of code, to […]
The Apple Vision Pro’s Missing Apps
Om Malik has been observing, writing about, and investing in technology for going on three decades; that’s one reason I find his unabashed enthusiasm for the Apple Vision Pro to be notable. Malik wrote on his blog: Apple touts Vision Pro as a new canvas for productivity and a new way to play games. Maybe, […]
Convert Curl Commands to Code
curl from Google Chrome Open the Network tab in the DevTools Right click (or Ctrl-click) a request Click “Copy” → “Copy as cURL”“Copy as cURL (bash)” Paste it in the curl command box above This also works in Safari and Firefox. Warning: the copied command may contain cookies or other sensitive data. Be careful if […]
What I Talk About When I Talk About Query Optimizer (Part 1): IR Design
I recently came across an insightful article on SQL Query Optimizers by @leiysky on Zhihu, and I must say it was excellent! To make it accessible to a wider audience, I have translated the piece into English. Enjoy reading! Please note that @leiysky deserves full credit for the quality of this article. Any mistakes are […]
A Tinkertoy computer that plays tic-tac-toe (1989)
A Tinkertoy computer that plays tic-tac-toe by A. K. Dewdney indirectly kicks an “output duck,” a bird-shaped construction. The output duck swings down from its perch so that its beak points at a number- which identifies the computer’s next move […]