Poly (YC S22) is hiring Rust experts in SF to build “Arc browser for files”
About Us Poly is building a better file storage platform for everyone. We’ve raised $8M from YC, Bloomberg Beta, Felicis, Figma Ventures, AI Grant, and more, and we’re looking to grow our founding team of superstar builders and dreamers. Our product is a file storage application that’s aimed at “replacing Finder and File Explorer” as […]
Elasticsearch is open source, again
[D.N.A] Elasticsearch and Kibana can be called Open Source again. It is hard to express how happy this statement makes me. Literally jumping up and down with excitement here. All of us at Elastic are. Open source is in my DNA. It is in Elastic DNA. Being able to call Elasticsearch Open Source again is […]
Dawn of a new era in Search: Balancing innovation, competition, and public good
Google search is in the news. Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google search is a monopoly and is behaving in a manner that suppresses search competition with their distribution agreements. The debate on this has started, and various experts have presented pros and cons on the arguments, along with proposed remedies. We will analyze the […]
Launch HN: CodeViz (YC S24) – Visual maps of your codebase in VS Code
Hey HN — we’re Liam and Will from CodeViz (https://codeviz.ai). We’re building a VS Code extension that generates interactive diagrams of codebases, from system architecture down to function call graphs. Here’s a demo where we analyze OpenHands, uv, and webviz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgfDXUtWzRk. The extension is public if you want to try it on your own repos: […]
MindsDB (YC W20) Is Hiring
MindsDB is a fast-growing open-source company that enables developers to quickly integrate Artificial Intelligence Logic into applications and ship AI-powered solutions from prototyping & experimentation to production in a fast & scalable way. MindsDB was founded in 2017 by Adam Carrigan (COO) and Jorge Torres (CEO) and based in San Francisco, California, is backed with over […]
Judge Rules $400M Algorithmic System Illegally Denied People’s Medicaid Benefits
Thousands of Tennesseans were illegally denied Medicaid and other benefits due to programming and data errors in an algorithmic system the state uses to determine eligibility for low-income residents and people with disabilities, a U.S. District Court judge ruled this week. The TennCare Connect system—built by Deloitte and other contractors for more than $400 million—is […]
Show HN: A discovery-focused search engine for Hacker News
There aren’t specific strings of words (AKA search queries) which you should use for fulltext and not semantic search. Really, it’s about the type of results you want to see. Here’s an explanation of what the search index will do in different modes with a query like “React vs. SolidJS”: – Fulltext: There are 6 […]
New 2GB Raspberry Pi 5 has 33% smaller die, 30% idle power savings
Raspberry Pi launched the 2 gig Pi 5 for $50, and besides half the RAM and a lower price, it has a new stepping of the main BCM2712 chip. This is the BCM2712 D0 stepping. Older Pi 5’s shipped with a C1. In their blog post, they said: The new D0 stepping strips away all […]
Bypassing airport security via SQL injection
Introduction Like many, Sam Curry and I spend a lot of time waiting in airport security lines. If you do this enough, you might sometimes see a special lane at airport security called Known Crewmember (KCM). KCM is a TSA program that allows pilots and flight attendants to bypass security screening, even when flying on […]
Launch HN: Patchwork (YC W24) – Automatically add structured logs to your code
Hey HN! We are Sam, Alex and Ben from Patchwork Technologies (https://getpatchwork.io). Patchwork automatically adds actionable structured logs to your code. Big picture: we are building a next generation logging and observability platform which gives engineers the rich debugging context they need. There’s a demo video (https://youtu.be/ObIepiXfVx0), as well as a demo^ instance with some […]