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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024)

news.ycombinator.com — Please state the location and include REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when that sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE. WHO, 1

My Python code is a neural network

gabornyeki.com — Many programs that we write can be embedded in recurrent neural networks (RNNs). For such programs, a trained RNN can perform better than if we write the algorithm by hand, refining it via trial and error. I walk through an example in detail. PYTHON, 2

Show HN: Doggo – A powerful, human-friendly DNS client for the command line

mrkaran.dev — Doggo Command-line DNS client for humans Visit Demo Features Human-readable output with color-coded and tabular format JSON output support for easy scripting and parsing Multiple transport protocols: DNS over HTTPS (DoH) DNS over TLS (DoT) DNS over QUIC (DoQ) DNS over TCP DNS over UDP DNSCrypt Support for ndots and search configurations from resolv.conf or command-line arguments Multiple resolver support with customizable query strategies IPv4 and IPv6 support Web interface available at doggo.mrkaran.dev Shell completions for zsh and fish Reverse DNS lookups Flexible query options including various DNS flags (AA, AD, CD, DO, etc.) Debug mode for troubleshooting Response time measurement Cross-platform support (Linux, macOS, Windows, FreeBSD, NetBSD) DOGGO, 3

RegreSSHion: RCE in OpenSSH's server, on glibc-based Linux systems

qualys.com — REGRESSHION, 4

The Windows Console gets support for Sixel images

github.com — Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community. THE, 5

Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative

news.ycombinator.com — Many years ago, I made VJ softwares (to mix live visuals in clubs) for unexpected platforms like the Game Boy Advance, the Playstation 2 and the Raspberry Pi. This year, I’m back with a new web-app: Pikimov. CREATED, 6

Using SIMD for Parallel Processing in Rust

nrempel.com — SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) is a powerful tool for accelerating data-intensive operations in high-performance computing. While our previous exploration focused on thread-level parallelism with Rayon, SIMD enables parallelism within a single core, simultaneously operating on multiple data points. Understanding and leveraging SIMD is vital to squeeze every ounce of performance out of your code. USING, 7

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2024)

news.ycombinator.com — Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format: WHO, 8

Writing HTML by hand is easier than debugging your static site generator

wordpress.com — As someone who has used a static site generator every day at work for years I am on the threshold of believing “actually just writing HTML by hand is probably easier” WRITING, 9

Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for official acts

apnews.com — The Supreme Court extended the delay in the criminal case against Donald Trump on charges he plotted to overturn the 2020 election, reducing the chance that Trump could be tried before the November election. SUPREME, 10

Delivering Signals for Fun and Profit (2001)

coredump.cx — DELIVERING, 11

What goes around comes around and around [pdf]

cmu.edu — WHAT, 12

My finetuned models beat OpenAI's GPT-4

mlops.systems — My last post outlined the kinds of evaluation I need and want to understand how well my finetuned LLM is performing in the task of structured data extraction from press releases. Let’s start with the core metric I’m interested in, accuracy, and then later we can dive into some of the other evaluation metrics as well. FINETUNED, 13

A write-ahead log is not a universal part of durability

eatonphil.com — A database does not need a write-ahead log (WAL) to achieve durability. A database can write its long-term data structure durably to disk before returning to a client. Granted, this is a bad idea! And granted, a WAL is critical for durability by design in most databases. But I think it's helpful to understand WALs by understanding what you could do without them. WRITE-AHEAD, 14

Quantum is unimportant to post-quantum

trailofbits.com — You might be hearing a lot about post-quantum (PQ) cryptography lately, and it’s easy to wonder why it’s such a big deal when nobody has actually seen a quantum computer. But even if a quantum computer is never built, new PQ standards are safer, more resilient, and more flexible than their classical counterparts. QUANTUM, 15

Pipes: A spiritual successor to Yahoo Pipes

pipes.digital — Pipes is a spiritual successor to Yahoo! Pipes, but if you did not know that site, you can think of Pipes as a visual programing editor specialized on feeds, or a visual shell, or simply as a glorified feed configurator. PIPES, 16

Show HN: Programming Is Easier Than Most People Think

easylang.online — PROGRAMMING, 17

Can You Make It Bigger? – A Journey in Building Collapsable Arcade Cabinets

leighhack.org — This is a post by Kian Ryan.Posted Sunday, June 23, 2024 CAN, 18

Show HN: AI assisted image editing with audio instructions

news.ycombinator.com — Excited to launch AAIELA, an AI-powered tool that understands your spoken commands and edits images accordingly. By leveraging open-source AI models for computer vision, speech-to-text, large language models (LLMs), and text-to-image inpainting, we have created a seamless editing experience that bridges the gap between spoken language and visual transformation. ASSISTED, 19

Unification in Elixir

ericpfahl.com — Pattern matching is a pervasive and powerful tool in Elixir. This isn't too surprising if you know a little about the history of Elixir's parent language, Erlang. Erlang was originally inspired by and written in Prolog, a logic programming language where pattern matching has first-class support. UNIFICATION, 20

Quaternions in Signal and Image Processing

ieee.org — The requested URL was rejected. Please consult with your administrator.Your support ID is: < 8203161992114470611>[Go Back] QUATERNIONS, 21

HTML-ivating your Django web app with Htmx, AlpineJS, and streaming HTML

youtube.com — HTML-IVATING, 22

Convolutions, Fast Fourier Transform and polynomials (2022)

alvarorevuelta.com — You may remember from high school what a polynomial is. If so, you may also remember how to multiply two of them. But what if I told you that the method you were taught is slow as F? CONVOLUTIONS, 23

Show HN: Edna, note taking app for developers

news.ycombinator.com — I took a small break from coding SumatraPDF and wrote a note taking application that is perfect for me: https://edna.arslexis.io/ EDNA, 24

How to get root access to your Sleep Number bed

dillan.org — Disclaimer: Following this guide will require modifying internal files on your Sleep Number hub. This will void your warranty and if something goes wrong as a result of this process, you will not receive help from Sleep Number to fix it. There are many ways you can damage your system, through both hardware and software modifications. The author provides no guarantees and you follow this process at your own risk. HOW, 25

The Leopold and Loeb case, a century Later

smithsonianmag.com — In the summer of 1924, the Leopold and Loeb murder case triggered a media frenzy and a debate over whether anyone can truly know what’s inside the mind of a cold-blooded killer THE, 26

Four lines of code it was four lines of code

conman.org — The ongoing saga of a programmer who doesn't live in Boston, nor does he even like Boston, but yet named his weblog/journal “The Boston Diaries.” FOUR, 27

Newswire: A large-scale structured database of a century of historical news

arxiv.org — arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. NEWSWIRE, 28

Surprising Phosphate Finding in NASA's Osiris-Rex Asteroid Sample

nasa.gov — Scientists have eagerly awaited the opportunity to dig into the 4.3-ounce (121.6-gram) pristine asteroid Bennu sample collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer) mission since it was delivered to Earth last fall. They hoped the material would hold secrets of the solar system’s past and the prebiotic chemistry that might have led to the origin of life on Earth. An early analysis of the Bennu sample, published June 26 in Meteoritics & Planetary Science, demonstrates this excitement was warranted. SURPRISING, 29

Optery (YC W22) Is Hiring Back End Engineers (Python and Django) & Sales (Remote)

Bitmovin (YC S15) is hiring video solution architects in the US

Nango (YC W23) Is Hiring a Senior Product Engineer (100% Remote, EST Timezone)