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abledonon After my dad died, I ran and sold his company (2018)

heartwarming!

music is lacking.... suno, udio, riffusion all blow this out of the water

abledonon AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of life's molecules

Next decade we will focus on building out debugging and visualization tools for deep learning , to glance inside the current black box

abledonon Interview with Senior JavaScript Developer 2024 [video]

only downside is its pumping "quinoa coin" at end, and when camera glances at the interview candidates notes

abledonon Interview with Senior JavaScript Developer 2024 [video]

You can see the Krazam influence on the whiteboard shots lol.. I hope this format picks up more steam.

abledonon Show HN: Sonauto – A more controllable AI music creator

Is this similar to Riffusion?

abledonon Lago, Open-Source Stripe Alternative, banks $22M in funding

Their github README uses a Drake meme lol

https://github.com/getlago/lago

https://imgur.com/a/gsrhUXm

I'd never thought I'd see Meme-ification of technical docs.... oh god

abledonon Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax

onnly found out about this because it was an option to view diffs when installing git using Nix

abledonon Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)

Alot of people in tech/tech-adjacent cant use CLI, need an easier alternative. Also, instead of having a huge .txt/.md recursive directory of curl commands, programs like these bundle up request workflows into 'collections' etc..

abledonon Why it's so challenging to land upright on the moon

are they going to send a 'test run' HLS first? like, completely computer controlled, to stick the landing?

abledonon Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti with 22GB Memory Appears on eBay for USD500

dreams of a time where EU regulates GPU manufacturers into providing a pluggable interface for VRAM on the cards... 2035?

abledonon Tesla Cybertruck may have a rust problem

the Cybertrucks near Starbase are gonna look wild after a year or so of the sea-salt air eating away at them

abledonon Philadelphia Jury Hits Monsanto with $2.25B Roundup Verdict

exactly, in the court rooms you have scientists on each side of the case. They've all graduated from the same Ivy Leagues, just are getting paid by different teams.

abledonon Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees

when people slack at their jobs and just let other team members pick it up... it seems so scummy. Someone has to have a 'challenging' upbringing to have this be their default mode of operation.

abledonon IT employment grew by just 700 jobs in 2023

increasing growth most places in world

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1743028102446408026

heres a total feature map of what was released in 2023:

https://twitter.com/enriquebrgn/status/1740950767325024387

I think thats definitely a signal that the B and C teams werent needed, considering they cut 90% of staff LOL.

As for the bots, AI is making it easier than ever to bypass those systems. CogVLM is just sitting there menacingly on github https://github.com/THUDM/CogVLM

abledonon The end of retirement

every walrus article i've read seems to delivered in such a depressing and melancholic manner

abledonon The end of retirement

>> I would love to hear why old ppl don't choose to voluntarily end their life. What good is a life spent in 'poor house for the old' .

The old age is considered prime meditation time in the shaolin monasteries. Even if you live in poor conditions, exploring the realms of your subconcious in meditation is seen as an end goal. See Jhana stages to achieve in meditation.

abledonon Pornhub, XVideos, and Stripchat hit with tough new EU safety regulations

"Edge computing" has a whole new meaning!

abledonon James Webb Space Telescope captures high-resolution image of Uranus

really wishing HN had a LLM powered 'Sort by humor' feature right now

abledonon Optimus – Gen 2 [video]

insane amount of progress in a year or so

abledonon Dungeons and Directories, an exploration game in your file explorer

the thing should run out a VB6 script embedded in a .xlsx spreadsheet...

Then you could have a portable game to bring into any enterprise office environment

abledonon 'Glacier mice' baffle scientists

You think they'd put a youtube video in the article..... to show.. ya know.. the movement

abledonon Open-source drawing tool – Excalidraw

One of the apps that acknowledges hotkeys are paramount to quick productive diagram making sessions.

abledonon Tinnitus linked to undetected auditory nerve damage

it was a joke contrasting our hyper modern tech niche with ancient wisdom from the vedas. I also eat ghee and cumin. no intention of it being an insult. Just people projecting

abledonon Tesla Cybertruck Pricing and Specs

they said they went to a dealership, bought it, then brought it to the track. No modifications etc.

abledonon X Has Become a 'Global Sewer,' Mayor of Paris Says

Then what is Facebook/Tiktok?

abledonon In the gut's 'second brain,' key agents of health emerge

yogis were right

abledonon I trapped scammers in an impossible maze [video]

The next version of this maze in say, 2025, when AI is even more crazy... will be so beleivable.

abledonon Confusing Git Terminology

should be "Your branch is up to date with the local copy of origin/master, last updated on XXXX-XX-XX:XX:XX:XX" haha

abledonon Reflections on quitting my job

> If you squash on merge, you’re doing it wrong. If you’ve never used git blame, you’re doing it wrong. If your repo’s history is useless, you’re doing it wrong. If you didn’t add a typo fix or white line change as a separate commit, you’re doing it wrong.

I agree Git Blame is useful, but squash on merge is great, and having atomic commits for whiteline changes is overkill.

Looking forward to that fleshed out blog post on git