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DLA··on US deports Venezuelans despite court order
That is NOT what the SCOTUS decision said at all. This is a hysterical comment that’s not cool on HN.

Here’s the ruling which talks about what Presidential actions carry executive immunity and when they do not (Syllabus (2), when authority is shared by Congress). https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-939_e2pg.pdf

DLA··on OneDrive shared folder syncing has been broken for months, with no fix in sight
I use Box and am very happy with it. No Microsoft O365 issues. I use it across 2 Macs, an iPhone and an iPad.
DLA··on Sigma BF, a mirrorless camera unlike anything you've seen
This camera looks incredible. Carved from a block of aluminum with super clean controls and a great minimalist design. The iPhone of cameras. B&H Camera shows it for $1999.
DLA··on We ditched Next.js and never looked back
Sticking to my SSR sites with Go, Fiber, and Go Templates plus a touch of HTMX for interactive islands. Fast AF, simple, reliable. Great dev and user experiences.
DLA··on Ask HN: How can I get my 7-year-old started with web development?
why?
DLA··on MemSed: A New MEMory Search and EDit Tool for Linux, Inspired by Cheat Engine
willyjl: This work looks really interesting. I think this is also useful for memory forensics and reverse engineering. And welcome to HN.
DLA··on Alex Karp Wants Silicon Valley to Fight for America
Karp’s new book “The Technological Republic” https://www.amazon.com/Technological-Republic-Power-Belief-F...
DLA··on When a Telescope Is a National-Security Risk
MSN spam article - requires app download. No reader viable reader view. Why do people abuse the web like this? Just why.
DLA··on Ask HN: Best Cyber Warfare Books?
The Perfect Weapon

We Are All Targets

Countdown to Zero Day

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends (about the Zero Day market)

Cyber Warfare - Truth, Tactics, and Strategies

The Art of Cyberwarfare: An Investigator's Guide to Espionage, Ransomware, and Organized Cybercrime

DLA··on ParadeDB: Search and analytics for Postgres with zero ETL
Discovered this awesome tool a couple months ago, evaluated it, and began a new enterprise project with it. So far we’re getting great results. So happy not to need a separate search cluster.
DLA··on Show HN: ConvexValue – Financial Analytics Browser
This looks incredible. Love the Bloomberg-like window panels interface. Would love to understand more about the quote feed sources on the platform.
DLA··on SpaceX launches mission for 2 NASA astronauts who are stuck on the ISS
It is a rescue mission. The original mission was supposed to be a couple weeks and that extended to nearly 8 months due to unrecoverable issues with Starliner. That’s not a crew rotation, it’s a major failure of Starliner. As for the escape option while docked, even a leaky boat is better than no boat if the ship is sinking, but the fact is NASA elected to not return the crew on Starliner for safety reasons.
DLA··on Show HN: htmgo - build simple and scalable systems with golang + htmx
This is useful! Love the Go & HTMX combination and use it often. Good documentation too for an alpha release. Nice work.
DLA··on Launch HN: Modern Realty (YC S24) – AI Real Estate Agent for Home Buyers
You can buy, for example, literally millions of dollars of corporate bonds for “The smaller of $250 or 1% of Trade Value” at IB.

https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/pricing/commissions-bo...

The real estate market is still largely price fixed and quite inefficient.

DLA··on Taking steps that drive resiliency and security for Windows customers
Maybe provide a button in Windows to flip the OS … make WSL the base OS and cram Windows into a (sandboxed) subsystem; a Linux Subsystem for Windows (LSW).

Kidding aside, robcohen makes a great point about the infinite backwards compatibility … if MSFT were to sunset more product versions more quickly it could accelerate upgrade cycles. But then again “new code considered harmful” applies.

What could help is a much more modular OS that installs a very slim base set of functionality and lets users choose additional capabilities to install or not. This would (perhaps) cut vuln and misconfig surface area if it were implemented in a real way.

DLA··on Elon Musk Is a National Security Risk
A “press” that is very biased and does not hold leaders to account is a national security threat. A press that ignores very obvious elite capture is a threat. A press that perpetuates stories that have been debunked or memory holes stories that don’t fit their agenda is a threat.
DLA··on Russ Cox is stepping down as the Go tech lead
Russ thank you so very much for your outstanding leadership, dedication, design wisdom, and technical contributions to Go. This language, its libraries and tools, and especially the Go community are incredible. You are a class act sir!
DLA··on Jay Leno Announces Microsoft Windows 95 Launch
why?
DLA··on Copywriters from Latvia turned startupers: Textok is launched
This looks really well done and quite useful. Great job on your launch! Love how this can help with tone and style which are subtle, difficult and important in communications.

It reminds me somewhat of the insanely priced AxiosHQ tool from Axios which is something like $50,000 year. The Axios tool is less about tone and more about copiloting writers to the Smart Brevity format of writing (https://www.axios.com/smart-brevity) Axios made famous. Axios is very non-transparent about their pricing. Bravo to Textok for being open and transparent.

DLA··on I sent 500M HTTP requests to 2.5M hosts
Really good write up. Thanks for giving some details about using Digital Ocean for the projects. Learned a lot, Standing by for part 2!
DLA··on A mathematician's introduction to transformers and large language models
This is a very good summary with great narrative, helpful diagrams, and very approachable math explained clearly. Good references. Well worth the read.
DLA··on Sometimes Red, Sometimes Blue
Red Red Red Blue Red Red Blue Blue Red Blue. Not at all sure what the heck the point of this is.
DLA··on Exploring How Cache Memory Works
I learned so much from this blog and from the discussion. HN is so awesome. +1 for learning about lacpu -C here.

A while back I had to create a high speed steaming data processor (not a spark cluster and similar creatures), but a c program that could sit in-line in a high speed data stream and match specific patterns and take actions based on the type of pattern that hit. As part of optimizing for speed and throughput a colleague and I did an obnoxious level of experimentation with read sizes (slurps of data) to minimize io wait queues and memory pressure. Being aligned with the cache-line size, either 1x or 2x was the winner. Good low level close to the hardware c fun for sure.

DLA··on Htmx 2.0.0 has been released
We use the alpinejs for when we choose not to round trip the server (like data validators, for example) and for cases when we need to do some client side JSON work. Mostly htmx handles what we need. You could also consider it’s client-side template rendering extension, as needed.
DLA··on A "million dollar idea" for give
Many vendors and researchers have looked at this. Electric fields can indeed repel sharks - at some level the field over stimulates the shark’s Ampullae of Lorenzini (electroreceptors in shark’s nose).

Here’s one of these systems https://www.sharkbanz.com/ Disclosure: Info only. I have no connections to this company.

DLA··on Htmx 2.0.0 has been released
We are building an enterprise application that manages (create, update data) and interacts with (read, display, enable user to browse via linked entities) a large-scale knowledge graph. In some views we have live updates from the server with SSEs (alerts, logs, etc.). Everything is rendered server side with Go + stdlib templates, Material Design Bootstrap for CSS, and HTMX for all the in interactive bits like fetching and rendering an entity's properties panel, enabling add/edit for entity or edge properties, and so on. Search updates results with HTMX. Entity/property edits are done with HTMX "panels".

The entire experience using Go + Fiber (gofiber.io) + templates + HTMX (htmx.org) is fantastic. This approach has allowed us to create a beautiful modern application that's highly performant, interactive in all the places you'd expect, and simple code, deps, devops, etc.

DLA··on Htmx 2.0.0 has been released
Huge congrats on the major number release. HTMX is simply wonderful. Using it for a major project as we speak!
DLA··on Entropy, a CLI that scans files to find high entropy lines (might be secrets)
This looks like a very handy CLI tool. Nice Go code also. Thanks.
DLA··on Marcus.com locked me out of my account and retains control of my life savings
I had my Robinhood account locked for nearly a month for a simple transfer. Horrible customer service and overall a clown show.

Lesson learned - use a professional brokerage like IBKR, Schwab, etc.

DLA··on Ask HN: Invest in your own bootstrapped company or in the stock market?
VCs are not the only source of funding. There are many small business programs (USA); there are grants, small business loans, receivable factoring (sell your accounts receivables for cash now at a discount), and crowd funding platforms.

You can also "yes and" this. Invest in the startup, by some investments, etc. Multiple streams of returns that are uncorrelated is the holy grail formula for investing [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu4lHaSh7D4

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