xena Near 400 posts, writing about a lot of stuff. Here’s some of my favorites over the years:- https://xeiaso.net/blog/anything-message-queue – Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough- https://xeiaso.net/blog/a-weapon-to-surpass-metal-gear – A weapon to surpass Metal Gear- … Read more
3M faces an existential threat from lawsuits over allegedly cancer-linked “forever chemicals” that have leached into municipal water supplies, with the company’s liability possibly hitting $143 billion for cleanup alone. The first trial out of some 4,000 lawsuits against 3M, … Read more
Hacker News UX is an early adopter of Manifest V3 which imposes stricter security to extensions. Hacker News UX is designed to function requiring minimal permissions, that ensure your data never leaves the browser. Extensions can not update their permission … Read more
T-A 11 hours ago How to Finetune GPT Like Large Language Models on a Custom Dataset The AI community’s effort has led to the development of many high-quality open-source LLMs, including but not limited to Open LLaMA, StableLM, and Pythia. … Read more
I know I’m on thin ice with a title like that. Getting featured on the HN front page is high on every Indie Hacker’s bingo card, not to mention “hacking Hacker News.” However, we found a way to consistently get … Read more
Fyi, some of those photos are much later than 1981. I wrote added the Arabic/Hebrew support to the Star document editor which probably was about 1984 and showed in one of the photos. I was still in college in 1981 … Read more
One of my favorite sites to visit daily is HackerNews(HN), it never failed me to deliver good quality links and very interesting discussions. This is just a small thought experiment for a different ranking algorithm for HN. There’s nothing wrong … Read more
This extension summarizes articles on Hacker News. Introducing “Hacker News Summarizer,” a free and fast Chrome extension designed to enhance your browsing experience on Hacker News by providing concise and informative summaries of articles. With no login or configuration required, … Read more
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One of the consequences of refusing to drink the in vogue kool-aid is that you remain sober and take in the full brunt of the silliness going on around you. The technology industry overflows with such silliness, like any credible … Read more