redbell

See also: Redis is fast – I'll cache in Postgres: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45380699

The title reminds me of the quote that goes.. : "You are not what you think you are, but what you think, you are".

The other day, I was home with my kids, who then asked me to show them how Japanese schools look like, I fired up my YT app on my Android phone, turned incognito mode and searched "Japanese schools", and the results were beyond imagination: the first result was an ad, the following results were ten successive shorts, two per row for five columns!!

Yes.. Too bad we ended up here :(, It's Apple's Software Quality Crisis: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243075

For reference, here's the paper: https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR/blob/main/DeepSe...

> This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

This is interesting, but it appears to be in its early days as none of the major browsers seem to support it.. yet.

Under the Software section, when he clicks the side button [0], watching the live stream of text as it is generated appears like ChatGPT :)

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0. https://dotslashwatch.com/images/Run_Example.webp

I'd like to add that, the need for an open phone OS matters now more than ever before.

Nice writeup, I like it and would definitely bookmark for future reference.

One weak take however in the article that I felt not quite right is the pricing saving part. By saying 1/4 of the price. I was expecting to see the AWS bill in the range of $10k/month, or more but it turned out to be just around ~$550 or, a total saving of $420.

Whith the above said, it does really make me questioning whether it worth the hassle of migration because, probably, one of the main reasons to move away from AWS is to save the cost.

Finally, let me conclude with this comment from /r/programminghumor:

    You're not a real engineer until you've accidentally sponsored Amazon's quarterly earnings

Unrelated: don't recall I heard this term (chief trust officer) before and immediately started questioning what its abbreviation will look like since CTO is already reserved. Turned out, from the article, to be CTrO.

> But <output>? Most have never touched it. Some don’t even know it exists.

Yeah, count me on with those who don't even know it exists. I'm adding this to my TIL.

> When I searched GitHub public repos, it barely showed up at all.

> That absence creates a feedback loop: if no one teaches it, no one uses it.

This has triggered an instant question in my head: Do LLMs actually use it when generating code or they are not well-trained for this specific tag?

Since π is a constant, I am afraid :)

> These types of purchases are common in mobile game revenue models where the base game is ‘free-to- play’, but the player is encouraged to spend money to make unimpeded progress in the game

I miss the old 90's days at the arcade where we were stacked horizontally in a queue waiting for our turn, holding coins in our hands. We've been forced to trade the "pay to play" purity of skill and community for the predatory economics of "pay to win."

This evolution is well-explained in this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNjI03CGkb4), entitled "Let’s go whaling: Tricks for monetizing mobile game players with free-to-play." which has been cited in countless YouTube analyses, and for good reason. It perfectly captures the sad reality of modern gaming culture and how deeply monetization has replaced passion.

A little bit of history..

In 1974, The Swedish Academy was heavily criticized for awarding the Nobel Prize in Literature to two of its own members. One laureate, Harry Martinson, was so shaken by the backlash he committed suicide 4 years later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Martinson#Later_life_and...

> there's a lot of AI junk recently in bug bounty reports

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45330378

Great summary for beginners like me! Definitely bookmarking it.

One negative feeling however is that the author didn't mentioned Coolify in the article while being stated in the title :(

Another good article on the same topic that I have already bookmarked is: Setting up a Production-Ready VPS from Scratch (https://dreamsofcode.io/blog/setting-up-a-production-ready-v...)

To expand my knowledge on this topic, generally, after I finish reading this type of content, I copy the article link, put it in an LLM and prompt it:

"here's an article on 'topic name/article title': https://article.link. Grasp it, analyze it then expand each section mentioned from your own knowledge. Add additional sections relative to the subject"

Somehow related:

You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45330378

Oh, I missed that! Here's the post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45086020

> With this post, I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse, and frankly, they were profiting off my work and my visitor’s data.

Ironically, if you look at the screenshot, just below the comments' section, you will read: 'Subscribe', 'Privacy' and 'Do Not Sell My Data'. Seriously?! You are already torturing my visitors by throwing many ads, at the same time, on their faces. How can I trust you?

Also, what drives me cra*y the most about online Ads is that they are random and have no relation with the content of the page I am looking at. Oftentimes, they went extremely far by showing what I consider near explicit content.

Here's the announcement from Atlman: https://x.com/sama/status/1971297661748953263

Quoted from that tweet:

> It performs super well if you tell ChatGPT more about what's important to you. In regular chat, you could mention “I’d like to go visit Bora Bora someday” or “My kid is 6 months old and I’m interested in developmental milestones” and in the future you might get useful updates.

At this point in time, I'd say: bye privacy, see you!

Unrelated: So your name is Ahmed from Tunisia living in the Capital :)

Google got misled by the term mid journey so, it put the result mid page :)

An interesting search term that, at least for me, always returns the four top results as sponsored is "web hosting": https://www.google.com/search?q=web+hosting

Also, searching for "netcup", I got two sponsored cloud services before seeing "https://www.netcup.com/": https://www.google.com/search?q=netcup

That was a difficult and frustrating reading! I never imagined that sanctions could hit individuals this hard, especially on the digital side. You get banned from outside and blocked from inside. You can read about The Internet situation inside Iran here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33025954

There was a lot of interesting stuff went into the article:

1. Microsoft:

> Back when I was a student, I got access to the Microsoft Imagine, and as a result, I got access to the Microsoft Store as a developer.

Then:

> Microsoft deleted my app, my developer account, and all those comments on my app supporting me and suggesting ideas on how to improve the program.. but I assume it's because of the sanctions.

Here, I got a novice question: Knowing this individual is from a sanctioned country, Why you are allowing him in the first place to put a lot of work to build an app but, after having some success, you destroyed him entirely?!

Also, suggesting ideas on how to improve the program after deleting my account is one of the most hilarious things I have ever read. It is a strong indicator that these emails are just templates built automatically with no soul or human touch. Yes, you heard it right: you are just a row in a table!.. but you still manage to have a PRIMARY_KEY!

2. Notion:

> Since It has been suspended permanently, there's still no option to get it back even by going outside those countries. Sorry for the Inconvenience. Take care.

Same as above! Why letting me build a base of data then one day, you delete it permanently without prior notice or the ability to export it then you apologize for the Inconvenience and tell me to take care of myself!

3. Mike Cardwell:

> I read hackernews on a daily basis

Oh, this made me relief a little bit! I hope Hacker News is neither being banned in any country nor blocking traffic from any country.

> Iranian IPs are blocked here, due to your decision to arm Russia with drones so that they can indiscriminately massacre civilians.

Blaming then punishing an ordinary citizen for arming a foreign country to kill civilians without clear evidence is so dumb.

Also, this reminds me of this post entitled Namecheap: Russia Service Termination (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30504812):

   Unfortunately, due to the Russian regime's war crimes and human rights violations in Ukraine, we will no longer be providing services to users registered in Russia.

4. GitHub:

> However, later, GitHub announced that github is now available in Iran

Good News! read here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25648585

5. TIL

TIL about this 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons status code. I won't ever return this code for my websites, everybody, from everywhere, is welcome :)

Finally, I have a dream.. the dream to live to the day where a true open internet sees the light where the entire world have unrestricted access to the same online resources.

That's really cool, I like it!

Somehow, it reminded me of WikiTok (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936723)

Jump to the point: https://hackerone.com/reports/3340109#:~:text=you%20did%20th...

As always, you will certainly going to have some fun with Neal :)

Some of the funniest works of Neal that crossed 1,000 points here on HN:

1. Stimulation Clicker (3082 Pts, 8 months ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42611536

2. Design the next iPhone (1463 Pts, 2022): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32567147

3. Space Elevator (1456 Pts, 2023): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35629972

4. The Password Game (1413 Pts, 2023): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36493715

5. Absurd Trolley Problems (1296 Pts, 2022): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31996235

6. Infinite Craft (1177 Pts, 2024): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39205020

It's only Google, Microsoft is also heavily pushing Copilot on its products, mainly Windows and Office and, by next month, it will start forcing install the Microsoft 365 Copilot App (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45251593).

In your case, this is being called "invited": Overlooked links, invited to repost: https://news.ycombinator.com/invited

OP here..

Yes, I agree that HN is the place to discover the most interesting, coolest and weirdest stuff on the internet but unfortunately, sometimes, these posts don't get enough traction in their first minutes and once they got pushed to the second page of newest submissions, they are technically dead!

Fortunately, HN had introduced what's called pool, or second chance, where the mods of the site periodically watch for past submissions and pick what they believe is interesting then throw it to the front page and see if it sticks by having users upvoting it.

Leatherman story was one of those cases. I submitted it three days ago without getting a single upvote and was surprised to see it made it to the front page this morning.

> Today at Connect, Mark Zuckerberg debuted the next exciting evolution of AI glasses..

Why this wasn't written as: "Meta debuted the next.."? You know what?! I have always felt that Meta is owned, managed, and totally controlled by Zuck alone! No board members and no investors.

I have been following Zuck in his Metaverse journey and more specifically, in his interviews like the one with The Verge and he is always speaking with this tone: "This is how I see it", "My vision is..", "I plan to make it this way..", like he is the only employee in his company.

If it was Apple that released this product, we would read something like: "Cupertino: Apple debuted the next exciting.." which reflects the vision, strategy, and innovation made by the company as whole and not a single person. I don't recall that Steve Jobs had behaved like this even in his prime time.