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sweca

389 karma · joined July 13, 2024

meet.hn/city/ca-Montreal

Interests: Web Development, Remote Work, Privacy, Philosophy, Science, Freelancing, Technology, Startups, UI/UX Design

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sweca··on Tell HN: The Google Tenor GIF API has been shut down
Ahh I didn't realize it was completely free. That's pretty crazy
sweca··on Tell HN: The Google Tenor GIF API has been shut down
> We are making this change to focus our resources on enhancing the main Tenor experience.

Is it really that hard to just keep the API running?

sweca··on Show HN: J_PyDB – tiny encrypted file-based Python DB
SHA-256 should not be used as a KDF. Use Argon2 instead.
sweca··on Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files
Jemini is such a nice touch
sweca··on TikTok unlawfully tracks shopping habits and use of dating apps?
This is because when you click a shared TikTok link, your account and the sharer's accounts are associated in a social graph. The sharer will see your account as a suggested friend and vice versa.
sweca··on [dead]
Limitless Pendant gets support for another year with existing customers getting full access without the need to continue paying for a subscription.

Rewind is being sunset.

sweca··on Rouille – Rust Programming, in French
hahaha j'adore que le mot québécois "calisse" est inclus
sweca··on Meta tightens privacy policy around Ray-Ban glasses to boost AI training
The best feature is capturing photos and recording life's moments with a button, but that's also not something I'd want to introduce to my friend group for its own privacy and ethical reasons (vs. the implicit consent you have with the motions of pulling out a phone)
sweca··on Gemini 2.5 Flash
I have Claude Pro and peak hours are in the afternoon and at night for me in EST
sweca··on Gemini 2.5 Flash
Google Pixel marketing is doing wonders for Gemini in young populations. I have been seeing a lot more of their phones in my generation's hands.
sweca··on Gemini 2.5 Flash
Custom TPUs ftw
sweca··on Gemini 2.5 Flash
Honestly, the best part about Gemini, especially as a consumer product, is their super lax, or lack thereof, ratelimits. They never have capacity issues, unlike Claude which always feels slow or sometimes outright rejects requests during peak hours. Gemini is constantly speedy and has extremely generous context window limits on the Gemini apps.
sweca··on Gemini 2.5 Flash
Raycast[0] has Gemini support in their AI offering and it's native, fast and intuitive.

[0] https://raycast.com/ai

sweca··on Reducing latency with esoteric Linux process flags
Haha, yea. When I was writing this blog post (we had already pushed to production) I came across that post when searching for sources to confirm my findings. Antonio and I were so surprised at the coincidence.
sweca··on Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?
It just means a virtual onsite type interview process. Real time interviews for both skill and cultural fit.
sweca··on Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?
My company actually encourages the use of AI. My interview process was one relatively complex take home, an explanation of my solutions and thinking, then a live "onsite" (via zoom) where I had to code in front of a senior engineer while thinking aloud.

If I was incompetent, I could've shoved the problem into o1 on ChatGPT and probably solved the problems, but I wouldn't have been able to provide insight into why I made the design choices I made and how I optimized my solutions, and that would've ultimately gotten me thrown out of the candidate pool.

sweca··on Digitalocean banning accounts before you even choose a product
DO sucks anyways. Hetzner is better.
sweca··on A story on home server security
Tailscale also has funnel which would be more secure for public exposure.
sweca··on Ask HN: Tips on building a search engine?
You're going to face a challenge of scalability. With so many results like Google, you can't fit every embeddings vector in memory. You'll need to work a database hybrid of in memory caching and disk persistent indices.
sweca··on Minimal Vanilla JavaScript Framework
It's an SPA framework so that's pretty expected
sweca··on A ChatGPT clone, in 3000 bytes of C, backed by GPT-2 (2023)
Because it's novel and interesting. This person wrote a super optimized dependency free implementation of GPT in C.
sweca··on I Don't Have Spotify
the repository description sums it up already: Effortlessly convert Spotify links to your preferred streaming service
sweca··on Easy and straightforward SRP PAKE library in TypeScript
I want to see SRP authentication implemented in more apps and services, so I decided to make a modern client and server library for JS runtimes.
sweca··on Two new Gemini models, reduced 1.5 Pro pricing, increased rate limits, and more
If you are on the pay as you go model your data is exempted from training.

> When you're using Paid Services, Google doesn't use your prompts (including associated system instructions, cached content, and files such as images, videos, or documents) or responses to improve our products, and will process your prompts and responses in accordance with the Data Processing Addendum for Products Where Google is a Data Processor. This data may be stored transiently or cached in any country in which Google or its agents maintain facilities.

https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms

sweca··on Two new Gemini models, reduced 1.5 Pro pricing, increased rate limits, and more
No Human eval benchmark result?
sweca··on Reflection-Tuning allows LLMs to detect mistakes in reasoning and self-correct
Ollama has added support in a prerelease version.

https://github.com/ollama/ollama/releases/tag/v0.3.10-rc1

sweca··on The secret inside One Million Checkboxes
This is a really heartwarming story
sweca··on TIL: Versions of UUID and when to use them
No, it's not a standard library, but my point is UUID is standard and thus present in almost every language with a one line abstraction.
sweca··on TIL: Versions of UUID and when to use them
True but the appeal for most developers is it's simple to implement. Virtually every language has a UUID library that works in one line or code.

Like in Go, it's just uuid.New().String() vs using crypto/rand to read random data, convert it into Base64 of hex... which will take more lines and effort.

sweca··on I sped up serde_json strings by 20%
jaw drops
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