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mns06··on Show HN: Costanza – an autonomous AI agent that can't be turned off
I'm still searching for the George Costanza link, but anyhows... this is interesting work. There's clearly something in the air about how AI and blockchain intersect - Karpathy was talking about something similar in relation to his Autoresearch project recently: https://x.com/_weidai/status/2035236632161656969
mns06··on Ramses Exchange Fire
Ramses Fire Wake-Up Call Shows Urgency of eGovernment Resilience https://www.ictworks.org/urgency-egovernment-resilience/
mns06··on We chose LangGraph to build our coding agent
You can check out https://github.com/JoshuaC215/agent-service-toolkit for a pretty comprehensive template for deploying a langgraph service, with a streamlit UI as an example client
mns06··on xlskubectl – a spreadsheet to control your Kubernetes cluster
Amazing. I used to run a startup that allowed you to write Python scripts that streamed data into Excel in real time - for eg. https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/8ddmui/rea...

The python scripts were deployed PaaS style into a Kubernetes cluster.

If only we'd had the insight to manage our control plane via Excel also, we'd probably be squillionaires by now. :P

mns06··on Emoji Kitchen
Would be cool if you could get this as a plugin for signal/WhatsApp/etc
mns06··on Queen Elizabeth II has died
She was an abolitionist in her youth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qfg1AQnWIM
mns06··on Music for Programming
Just listen to Stars of the Lid and everything will be ok.

Try not to fall asleep though.

mns06··on One year as a solo dev building open-source data tools without funding
a cofounder and I used this system for a previous company: https://slicingpie.com/ It worked pretty well for us, but we were also pretty well tuned to each others expectations in advance.
mns06··on Librdkafka – An Apache Kafka C/C++ client library
Eden is also the maintainer of kcat, a user friendly non-JVM consumer/producer cli for Kafka. It also uses librdkafka https://github.com/edenhill/kcat
mns06··on Structured Concurrency
Also worth being aware of AnyIO which implements structured concurrency on top of asyncio, and serves as an abstraction layer over trio/asyncio.

https://anyio.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

mns06··on Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy
I found it a valid and unambiguous comment. Brexit has been a disaster for UK science. If the BBC found it relevant enough to be included in the article, surely it merits a discussion here without being downvoted.
mns06··on Databases in 2021: A Year in Review
You might want to look into debezium. We use it to extract the change log from a generic OLTP database into Materialize, a view maintenance engine. Combining that data with event streams in Kafka is very powerful for us.
mns06··on Buying an ebike
I live in Amsterdam. Since the council banned scooters in the bike lanes, we're now plagued by the silent menace of e-bikes whipping past at 25km an hour. I really dislike them.
mns06··on Yamaha DX7 Technical Analysis
I've been trying to figure out what this genre of African music is called for ages. Thanks!
mns06··on Lambdas as values in Excel
I used to have a start-up that built a streaming data backend for Excel. You can see an animated gif of it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/8ddmui/rea... the IP was acquired, but I reckon there's still ideas to be iterated on here.
mns06··on We live in an age of distractions, dealing with constant mental stimulus
Also check out this feed of the top 10 HN stories daily: https://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/ I find it cuts out a lot of the noise
mns06··on How can you not be romantic about programming? (2020)
It's an interesting question: which are the lines of code most frequently executed in the world today?
mns06··on CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abandoned due to bugs
Does anyone know what the system architecture actually is?
mns06··on A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work request rejected”
If you had to use Cisco WebEx you wouldn't complain about slack. I've had messages take three minutes to reach the recipient. In order wrong the.

Very confusing and frustrating.

mns06··on PostgreSQL Features to Try
Yep, in conjunction with TimescaleDB, lateral joins make joining time-series in the database very powerful: https://docs.timescale.com/v1.2/using-timescaledb/reading-da...
mns06··on Startup School 2018 – Curriculum
Hey, check the settings link in the menu. The application is still editable. In addition, the entry fields seem to have increased in length recently, so perhaps a good idea to review your submission even if it was submitted properly last time.
mns06··on Ask HN: Which parts of everyday life are more complex than people expect?
You might like to check out the BBC podcast "the boring talks". People discussing the hidden complexity behind mundane objects. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05t3gr2
mns06··on Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List?
I'm 2/3 of the way through Enlightenment Now by Stephen Pinker, having seen Bill Gates describe it as his new favourite book of all time: https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Enlightenment-Now.

With the daily news cycle full of violence, hatred and despair, the book is an rationally optimistic (possibilist!) argument that the human condition has been improving since the days of the Enlightenment - and that the improvement is driven by reason, science and humanism. Definitely recommended.

mns06··on Google Cloud Platform’s new interactive CLI
Did anyone manage to get this to work with fish shell?
mns06··on Deis to Join Microsoft
Brendan Burns (k8s co-founder) joined Microsoft last July, so this is certainly not their first move in the Kubernetes area.
mns06··on Blue Ocean
It was also renamed once, from Hudson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_(software)#Hudson.E2.80...
mns06··on gRPC: Internet-scale RPC framework is now 1.0
One big advantage of gRPC over ZeroMQ is that HTTP/2 can traverse firewalls and proxies more easily.