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turbocon··on Show HN: I made a free tool that analyzes SEC filings and posts detailed reports
Seriously fantastic tool, I'm going to use the hell out of this, I appreciate you creating this so much! Let me know if there's a way to donate.
turbocon··on Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative
I maybe the only person on here that had no idea this is a thing, but thank you this is incredible
turbocon··on The "Take It Down" Act
It just worked for me so maybe it's a been fixed.
turbocon··on DOOM CAPTCHA
There is a pad on the screen for mobile, I think you just need to tap it
turbocon··on Watermark Anything
Is this a big deal? I'm a layman here so this seems like a needed product but I have a feeling I'm missing something.
turbocon··on 35% Faster Than the Filesystem (2017)
Well "SQLite is likely used more than all other database engines combined. Billions and billions of copies of SQLite exist in the wild."[1]

And

"SQLite has exhibited very high reliability in the field and a very low defect rate, especially considering how rapidly it is evolving. The quality of SQLite is achieved in part by careful code design and implementation. But extensive testing also plays a vital role in maintaining and improving the quality of SQLite."[2]

[1] https://www.sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html

[2] https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html#summary

turbocon··on An NFC movie library for my kids
V4 all the cards are stored in a little blockbuster and the child has tokens he can use to 'rent' movies

V5 he starts franchising....

turbocon··on Why we no longer use LangChain for building our AI agents
Id just like to point out the source of the Gorilla Banana problem is Joe Armstrong. He really had an amazing way of explain complex problems in a simple way.

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/07/19/you-wanted-banana/

turbocon··on Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?
Link?
turbocon··on The first commercial carbon-sucking facility in the US opens in California
This is off topic, but does anyone else always get an infinitely reloading captcha for archive[.]is links?
turbocon··on Dalai: Automatically install, run, and play with LLaMA on your computer
Yea not a nodejs/javascript dev at all but this is failing to install on Fedora. I don't have time to dig into it at the moment but if anybody has any well known gotchas that could be the issue that would be helpful :)

Edit: I do have nodejs and npx installed

turbocon··on Why the conventional wisdom on how to grow muscles is wrong
I know others are suggesting workout here so it thought I'd contribute back. I had a lot of success following Julian Shapiro's guide I'm how to build muscle [1], like so much so that I had to get rid of a few shirts because my arms wouldn't fit anymore.

It's detailed in explaining multiple faucets including nutrition and rest, I didn't follow every source he listed but he claims to have done quite a bit of research regardless everything is listed.

[1] https://www.julian.com/guide/muscle/intro

turbocon··on Python type hints are Turing complete
Anyone know what they use to convert the PDF to html here? I'm looking for a good converter and so far I've only found a few bad ones.
turbocon··on 1Password delisting forum posts critical of their new Electron based 1Password 8
Personally I'm a big fan of bitwarden. It's open source so you can host it yourself if you want, the free version is very usable and the pricing for the more advanced features and the family plans is very reasonable.

https://bitwarden.com

turbocon··on mCaptcha – Proof of work based, privacy respecting CAPTCHA system
This is a really intriguing idea. What would stop a spammer from taking the time to get a single token and sharing it among a pool of bots?
turbocon··on Bayes Rules – An Introduction to Applied Bayesian Modeling (2021)
I've come across this format a couple times now, does anyone know how to export it to PDF?

I honestly don't even mind paying for them but I want the flat file.

turbocon··on Pronunciation Guide for Unix
You have solved a mystery that has plagued me for years, thank you!

tac took off at a former company of mine and I really like it. The hard t and k sound make it a much a better word than dash if you're describing a set of command line options.

turbocon··on Impressions from a first-time Mac user
This, I'm not sure why people don't talk about as much but Finder is awful and I've not been able to find a replacement.
turbocon··on Show HN: Hubfs – File System for GitHub
Gists are just repos under the hood, it should work natively.
turbocon··on Brandon Sanderson’s advice for doing hard things
Patrick Rothfuss
turbocon··on Show HN: Sioyek – PDF viewer for reading research papers and textbooks
So I use Moonreader on Android and it preserves the zoom level as you scroll/flip through pages so it kind of does this. Not sure if that's relevant for you.
turbocon··on Things I learned from building a production database
Yes, it means "individual contributor", pretty common terminology at least in the FAANG world. He mentioned this was a project at Facebook/Meta.
turbocon··on Things I learned from building a production database
I really think this is a great list however I think one of the major factors why this project succeeded isn't listed but is mentioned in the intro.

> We hit production with a 3-person team in less than a year; and subsequently scaled the team to 30+ engineers spanning multiple sub-teams

Starting with a small skilled team to build the core and actively plan for a larger team at some point is absolutely critical for project success in my experience, especially with complex projects like this. That small team can have a much tighter communication loop and all keep a single unified picture of what the end goal is. When the team grows this single unified picture is no longer feasible so it has to be broken down into sections, which is a good thing, but if the core isn't setup so that the sections are sufficiently decoupled things fall apart quickly.

turbocon··on Bash patterns I use weekly
Yea, I've yet to come across a regex replacement tool as easy to use as jetbrains find & replace. Invaluable for certain tasks.
turbocon··on Dask – A flexible library for parallel computing in Python
It's been over a year now, but I had an identical experience.
turbocon··on The 50th anniversary of the launch of the Intel 4004
I don't think it a hard fact statement, more of a "I believe this to be so, isn't this incredible!" type of statement.
turbocon··on “This project will only take 2 hours”
Honestly I learned this lesson as a young engineer, as I suspect many others did, by giving a project manager an off the cuff answer to "how long will this take".

The next month of embarrassingly explaining why I was late every Tuesday and Thursday was enough for me to now take a serious amount of time, come up with a realistic estimate, and then add a lot of buffer. Better to under promise and over deliver.

turbocon··on We saved millions in SSD costs by upgrading our filesystem
To the contrary! This decreases their storage need by ~20% which will increase their cost savings over time. Yes they pushed off increasing their storage footprint in the short term but in the long term they decreased their rate of total storage increase.
turbocon··on Welcome to the brand new Erlang Forums
By all means not a erlang expert, just read an intro book on it and it mentioned that erlang was not a good heavy computation language, so maybe that's why?
turbocon··on MoonHome: Remote Development Environment
Jetbrains IDEs have hooks where you can run the ide local and execute code on an external machine. You can also host the IDE on the server and use the ide in a browser although I've never tried that before

https://lp.jetbrains.com/projector/

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