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• Nginx Unit: open-source, lightweight and versatile application runtime

  Nginx is a reverse proxy, it can work as the load balancer, the static asset server, a response caching server, an authorization server, etc. Nginx has a lot of usecases in one package, most larger companies and more technical workplaces, use Nginx or similar alternatives. Nginx Unit typically is meant for unifying the entire application space of multiple programming languages served by 1 Server (which also acts... - Source: Hacker News / 1 day ago

• WordPress next, and beyond: breaking the technical enclosure

  I know this is controversial, but I was in his EXACT spot and I did something else that many of us at some point in our lives ended up doing - I wrote my own CMS. But, I wrote mine for the last 10 years. I iterated it with various different languages, frameworks and eventually settled for a Phoenix/Elixir based backend that is locally / cloud hostable, with a more or less similar UI to Wordpress. I actually wrote... - Source: Hacker News / 1 day ago

• 1-Bit LLMs Could Solve AI's Energy Demands

  Binarized on the fly during the forward pass and never used for the inference process. In this case there are two areas to optimize for: training efficiency and inference efficiency. If I understand correctly, it stores the weights, gradients and second-moment estimates in FP32 like every other mixed-precision training (the Gopher paper has details on why storing them in FP32 is important), and quantized weights... - Source: Hacker News / 2 days ago

• Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3

  Related: https://medium.com/@maciej.pocwierz/how-an-empty-s3-bucket-can-make-your-aws-bill-explode-934a383cb8b1. - Source: Hacker News / 2 days ago

• Salesforce Shares Plunge by Most Since 2008 After Weak Outlook

  I was thinking of that a few weeks ago and wrote a (dumb) little story about it; I imagined Astro (SF mascot) is a ruthless mob boss controlling it all behind the scenes lol https://medium.com/@dannyisaphantom/benioff-astro-and-the-art-of-the-deal-692149f5dd36. - Source: Hacker News / 3 days ago

• Better RAG Results with Reciprocal Rank Fusion and Hybrid Search

  Thanks for sharing, I like the approach and it makes a lot of sense for the problem space. Especially using existing products vs building/hosting your own. I was however tripped up by this sentence close to the beginning: > we encountered a significant challenge with RAG: relying solely on vector search (even using both dense and sparse vectors) doesn’t always deliver satisfactory results for certain queries. Not... - Source: Hacker News / 3 days ago

• Julia Evans' Git Cheat Sheet [pdf]

  This is a better one: https://medium.com/@lordmoma/so-you-think-you-know-git-673f9c4b0792. - Source: Hacker News / 6 days ago

• Mistral Fine-Tune

  This article reviews some of the most advanced RAG methods: https://medium.com/@krtarunsingh/advanced-rag-techniques-unlocking-the-next-level-040c205b95bc (not mine). - Source: Hacker News / 8 days ago

• Fossil fuels could have been left in the dust 25 years ago

  I find this an interesting statistics, in 2023 there were 36.5k total people employed in the US coal industry. [1] It's simply just not a lot of people in the grand scheme. That speaks to how industrialized coal production is in the US - it doesn't take that many people to do mountain top removal and drive heavy machinery. FWIW & for comparison, Circuit city at its peak employed 40k people, that's more people... - Source: Hacker News / 10 days ago

• Pink Horse Power Male Enhancement Maximize Your Confidence: Effective Strategies

  Https://medium.com/@PinkHorsePower/pink-horse-power-male-enhancement-beyond-limits-exploring-advanced-male-enhancement-techniques-41edf63a394b. - Source: Hacker News / 9 days ago

• S3 Is Showing Its Age

  Presumably, you could have searched and found this https://medium.com/@ivaramme/systems-design-notes-aws-s3-6ef82a101e15. - Source: Hacker News / 11 days ago

• Apple's foldable MacBooks rumored to ship in 2026

  Source, https://medium.com/@mingchikuo/apple%E7%9A%84%E9%A6%96%E6%AC%BE%E6%8A%98%E7%96%8A%E7%94%A2%E5%93%81-%E5%85%A8%E8%9E%A2%E5%B9%95%E6%8A%98%E7%96%8Amacbook%E8%AA%BF%E6%9F%A5%E6%9B%B4%E6%96%B0-apples-first-folding-product-the-full-screen-foldable-macbook-0a78c2772568 (has English translation below) Who is Ming-Chi Kuo? > Ming-Chi Kuo, an analyst for TF International Securities and icon in the community,... - Source: Hacker News / 10 days ago

• The Collapse Is Coming. Will Humanity Adapt?

  Https://medium.com/@samyoureyes/the-busy-workers-handbook-to-the-apocalypse-7790666afde7. - Source: Hacker News / 10 days ago

• Degoogled Android – My Experience

  Perhaps I phrased it a bit badly but the developers say that they sandbox Google Play as they would for any other app installed on the device. https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-google-play I unfortunately can’t speak to what they mean by sandboxed Google Play being ‘close to fully functional’ as I haven’t used it yet. I’ve also been trying to replace notification push servers for msg notifications as those... - Source: Hacker News / 12 days ago

• Top LangChain Alternatives for AI Development

  Many people seem to feel the same way: https://medium.com/@woyera/6-reasons-why-langchain-sucks-b6c99c98efbe. - Source: Hacker News / 11 days ago

• Chameleon: Meta's New Multi-Modal LLM

  If our standard is cool math, crypto is also full of cool math. (Have you read Vitalik's explanation of Quadratic Arithmetic Programs?) Our standard can't be that low. https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/quadratic-arithmetic-programs-from-zero-to-hero-f6d558cea649. - Source: Hacker News / 12 days ago

• Show HN: Simplified PyTorch Implementation of AlphaFold 3

  I created a simplified implementation of AlphaFold 3 (limited strictly to protein monomers) in PyTorch to see if it was possible to train on a single GPU. Rather than aiming to reproduce the accuracy of the original paper, the goal was only to generate plausible looking 3D protein structures. This turned out to be harder than expected - you can find a more in depth write up at... - Source: Hacker News / 13 days ago

• iPad Pro M4 review: ludicrously good hardware that's total overkill for most

  You can run VSCode on iPad simply by not using Electron: https://medium.com/@thebaselab/my-attempt-to-run-vs-code-on-ipad-687aceaa82f4. - Source: Hacker News / 13 days ago

• Ask HN: Good Resources for UX/UI

  I'd consider diving into A/B testing. For UX/UI designers, it will literally help your products generate additional revenue. You can read this comprehensive guide on A/B Testing by Tony Hancock - https://medium.com/@ashancock/the-art-of-the-a-b-test-statistics-101-for-ux-designers-ux-researchers-780229e1e378. - Source: Hacker News / 14 days ago

• A Man with an Impossible Memory

  A few weeks ago I read his essay "What We Might Mean When We Say a Clock is Wrong" and found it very compelling. He's an excellent writer. https://medium.com/@108/what-we-might-mean-when-we-say-a-clock-is-wrong-5f055ff631a6. - Source: Hacker News / 18 days ago

• I'm Bearish OpenAI

  > and yet one year after GPT-4 release, no one has caught up to OpenAI You're wrong, Claude 3 Opus beat OpenAI’s GPT-4 in Elo rating just a month ago. They since lost the top position, but they are at ELO 1246 compared to GPT-4 at 1250 and GPT-4o at 1287. They are bottlenecked at GPT-4 level with small variations. That's the issue. Why have they stopped advancing? The gap between GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 is so much wider... - Source: Hacker News / 16 days ago