Meticulous (YC S21) is hiring to eliminate E2E UI tests
Hey HN! I’m Gabriel, CEO and co-founder of Meticulous, https://meticulous.ai/?utm_source=hn. Backed by YC, Coatue, the CTO of GitHub, CEO of Vercel, CPO of Adobe etc., https://meticulous.ai?utm_source=hn monitors how developers interact with your app and automatically generates and maintains test coverage nearing 100%. Even for the most complex applications. All without needing to write or maintain […]
Chang’e 6 lunar sample return mission returns with samples from moon’s far side
China has become the first country to gather samples from the far side of the moon and bring them back to Earth in a landmark achievement for the Beijing space programme. A re-entry capsule containing the precious cargo parachuted into a landing zone in the rural Siziwang Banner region of Inner Mongolia on Tuesday after […]
Show HN: I built a large JavaScript powered flipdisc display. Here’s a guide
Flipdiscs (or flip dots) are a display type that utilizes electromagnetic pulses to flip a small disc between two colors. Despite being invented over 80 years ago, the underlying technology is mostly the same today. I chose them because I wanted to design a large interactive wall art for my office, and didn’t like the […]
Show HN: I built a large JavaScript powered flipdisc display. Here’s a guide
Flipdiscs (or flip dots) are a display type that utilizes electromagnetic pulses to flip a small disc between two colors. Despite being invented over 80 years ago, the underlying technology is mostly the same today. I chose them because I wanted to design a large interactive wall art for my office, and didn’t like the […]
From Dotenv to Dotenvx: Next Generation Config Management
The day after July 4th 🇺🇸, I wrote dotenv’s first commit and released version 0.0.1 on npm. It looked like this. In the 11 years since, it’s become one of the most depended-upon packages worldwide 🌎 – adjacent ubiquitous software like TypeScript and ESLint. It’s an example of “big things have small beginnings”. The README […]
The art of saying no without saying no
How does a non-Japanese business person know that a Japanese person is declining something, if that person never actually says, “No”? The “indirectness” for which the Japanese are known can cause some stress and confusion for non-Japanese business people. In this blog post, I would like to raise a case of how to say “No” […]
How to generate realistic people in Stable Diffusion
One of the most popular uses of Stable Diffusion is to generate realistic people. They can look as real as taken from a camera. In this post, you will learn the mechanics of generating photo-style portrait images. You will learn about prompts, models, and upscalers for generating realistic people. Table of Contents Software We will […]
Show HN: Triplit – Open-source syncing database that runs on server and client
Hey HN, we’re Matt and Will, the co-founders of Triplit (https://www.triplit.dev). Triplit is an open-source database (https://github.com/aspen-cloud/triplit) that combines a server-side database, client-side cache, and a sync engine into one cohesive product. You can try it out with a new project by running: (npm|bun|yarn) create triplit-app As a team, we’ve worked on several projects that […]
Hard work wins in business (a.k.a. it ain’t just about luck)
On the great How I Built This podcast, Guy Raz, always closes by asking how much of an entrepreneur’s success was luck vs hard work/smarts The “right” thing to say is that it was luck. It hits the right humility notes. And then people drop all this convoluted word salad about being born in the […]
Slack updates retention policy for free workspaces
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