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mukundeshon AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator

Surprising no mention of Google on the page or domain.

I am not sure how this is JEV, but just a llm following the JEV api, as it is using standard LLMS. The main contribution of JEV is not the API but the model itself. Can someone please explain ?

mukundeshon Show HN: Mediator.ai – Using Nash bargaining and LLMs to systematize fairness

How about Iran/US conflict ? or Israel/Palestine conflict ?

Is anyone working on this ? seems like a big win for AI if it can be done.

mukundeshon How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution

https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/generative-ai/spec-driven-deve...

mukundeshon Show HN: Jsonic – Python JSON serialization that works

Thanks for sharing, could you please comment on the performance aspect vis-a-vis json reader/writer provided by pydantic

mukundeshon Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out

Though not Github, worth mentioning Huggingface, which is also using git, but managing large files with their(?) xet protocol. https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/xet/index

mukundeshon Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions are amazing ! For a public repository who will give you a free machine to run for 6 hours at a stretch for a job !!

mukundeshon Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

Will OSS (public) repositories also have to pay if they use self-hosted GitHub runners ? If yes, that seems a bit counterintuitive, given that Github hosted runners are free for public repos.

Why would a public repo use a self-hosted runner ? because the self-hosted runner storage available is only 14GB !!

mukundeshon Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

Github, thanks for making this service available free for public repos, it's a big boon. Currently the runner has only 14GB of disk space, if that can be made to 50 GB, that would be amazing !

mukundeshon Vega – A declarative language for interactive visualization designs

Wish GitHub markdown would support Vega-lite to create charts that would be a great combination.

Here is a brief discussion on the same https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/16963

mukundeshon Worklenz: Open-Source, All in one project management tool

Does it have Gantt chart ?

mukundeshon Ask HN: Have you coded any productivity software just for yourself?

Windows service for tracking how much time I spend in each app.

mukundeshon Friends don't let friends export to CSV

Using parquet in python requires installing pyarrow and numpy, whereas CSV comes with stdlib.

Also, the csv has a very pythonic interface vis-a-vis parquet, in most cases if I can fit the file in memory I would go with CSV.

mukundeshon macOS Sonoma is available today

Safari finally has the Chrome feature that I miss the most, ability to create separate app like experience for a particular website.

mukundeshon Launch HN: Refine (YC S23) – Open-source platform for enterprise web apps

Would like to recommend an open source Low Code framework https://frappeframework.com, significantly reduces the code to be written.

mukundeshon Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off

Have been using notes on macOS, works great. I do worry that notes are stored in a proprietary format, would love to have a backup in markdown...

mukundeshon Observable Plot: A JavaScript library for exploratory data visualization

Nice, would be nice to have it integrated in GitHub markdown.

Looks similar to Vega or Vega-lite(https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/). Definitely as rich as D3.js but gets the job done for simple visualisations.

mukundeshon Show HN: Google Analytics alternative with the most generous free tier

Thanks for the generous free tier. I used plausible for a month then shifted to cloudflare web-analytics, that also has a free tier. Cloudflare UI is very basic, will give beamanalytics a try. Would appreciated if there were any comparisons.

mukundeshon Bob Metcalfe wins Turing Award

I read the ethernet paper(https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/360248.360253) in college - one of the few instances where the paper did a better job of explaining the concept that the textbook.

mukundeshon Vikings went to Mediterranean for ‘summer jobs’ as mercenaries, left graffiti

Why `summer jobs`, I would have thought they would have gone there for a `winter jobs`.

mukundeshon Twenty years of Valgrind

Using Cachegrind to get hardware independent performance numbers (https://pythonspeed.com/articles/consistent-benchmarking-in-...)

Also used by SQLite in their performance measurement workflow(https://sqlite.org/cpu.html#performance_measurement)

mukundeshon The Price of Nails Since 1695

Wish there were some tables and charts to consume the data easily.

mukundeshon Thoughts on Markdown

GitHub is doubling down on Markdown

https://github.blog/2022-02-14-include-diagrams-markdown-fil...

https://github.blog/changelog/2022-01-21-allow-to-upload-svg...

Long live Markdown !!

mukundeshon Microsoft YARP

Only available in .NET ecosystem, got excited after I read the title, but forgot Microsoft is Microsoft.

"YARP is a reverse proxy toolkit for building fast proxy servers in .NET using the infrastructure from ASP.NET and .NET."

mukundeshon Apache Arrow Flight SQL: Accelerating Database Access

Performance quote:

Compared to existing libraries like PyODBC, Arrow Flight is already as much as 20x faster (~00:21:00). Flight SQL will package these performance advantages into a standard interface, ready for clients and databases to implement.

Would be good to compare with more main stream ODBC/JDBC drivers, especially how it compares to the ones provided by the DBMS providers.

mukundeshon Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid

Would be good to copy from MkDocs Material

https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/reference/code-b...

``` py hl_lines="2 3"

def bubble_sort(items):

    for i in range(len(items)):
        for j in range(len(items) - 1 - i):
            if items[j] > items[j + 1]:
                items[j], items[j + 1] = items[j + 1], items[j]

```

mukundeshon Free public domain ebooks in PDf, ePub, mobi formats

https://archive.org/details/books?sort=titleSorter another great source, sadly not well formatted.

mukundeshon Lorinda Cherry, author of dc, bc, eqn has died

Completely agree, 'eqn' was a pioneering achievement followed by TeX and Mathematica

mukundeshon Lorinda Cherry, author of dc, bc, eqn has died

"The eqn program was created in 1974 by Brian Kernighan and Lorinda Cherry. It was implemented using yacc compiler-compiler.[1]" eqn Wikipedia.

Interesting to know that eqn pre-dates TeX, TeX was released in 1978

mukundeshon Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid

Would be great if Github added maths support in markdown.