Show HN: Remove-bg – open-source remove background using WebGPU
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Dinosaur Footprints on Either Side of the Atlantic Are Matching Sets
A team of paleontologists has identified over 260 dinosaur footprints in South America and Africa that match up, neatly showing how the continents were once joined at the hip. The footprints were of similar age, about 120 million years old, and were pressed into mud and silt of ancient riverbanks and lakeshores. Most of the […]
Make your health insurance company cry: One woman’s fight to turn the tables
“Most of the time, my relationship with my health insurance company is more adversarial than collaborative,” she said. “You’re trying to force them to comply with the rules, and they’re trying to spend the least amount of money.” A Fight Health Insurance user can scan their insurance denial, and the system will craft several appeal […]
Dokku: My favorite personal serverless platform
With Dokku, you can turn a VPS into a powerful serverless platform What is Dokku? Dokku is an open-source Platform as a Service (PaaS) that runs on a single server of your choice. It’s like Heroku, but you own it. It is a great way to get the benefits of Heroku without the costs (Heroku […]
Launch HN: Parity (YC S24) – AI for on-call engineers working with Kubernetes
Hey HN — we’re Jeffrey, Coleman, and Wilson, and we’re building Parity (https://tryparity.com), an AI SRE copilot for on-call engineers working with Kubernetes. Before you’ve opened your laptop, Parity has conducted an investigation to triage, determine root cause, and suggest a remediation for an issue. You can check out a quick demo of Parity here: […]
DOJ Files Antitrust Suit Against RealPage, Maker of Rent-Setting Algorithm
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The Department of Justice and eight states on Friday sued the maker of rent-setting software that critics blame for sending rents soaring in apartment buildings across the country. The civil lawsuit, filed in […]
Emacs-like editor written in Common Lisp
and more Terminal integration, multiple cursors, interactive grep, directory mode, tabs, Git interface, keyboard macros, and support for: C, Scheme, Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Rust, Elixir, Haskell, Java, Nim, Dart, OCaml, Scala, Swift, Lua, shell, asm Markdown, ASCII, JSON, HTML and CSS, SQL…
Leader Election with S3 Conditional Writes
To address this situation, you can add another attribute to the lock file format, defining for how long it should be valid: 1 2 3 4 { “validity_ms” : 60000, “expired” : false } In this example, the lock should be valid for 60 seconds. For each file, S3 provides the last modification timestamp, specifying […]
In 2024, it really is better to run a startup in SF
San Francisco’s AI startup boom is so big, even international founders who don’t run AI startups are relocating there to help their companies grow, according to several founders who recently moved. This is largely because the tech talent and investor money is still overwhelmingly concentrated there, according to new data that VC firm SignalFire exclusively […]
Pie doesn’t need to be original (unless you claim it so)
August 25, 2024 View this post in browser Imagine you bake a delicious peach pie over the weekend, and you offer a slice to your friend. They respond: “Wait, how is this different from every other peach pie that’s ever been baked? It seems really similar to another pie I had recently.” This is obviously […]