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by hobofan 4mo ago
Thanks, that looks awesome! We were looking to add DOCX and XLSX preview to our app, and were planning to do server-side conversion to PDF (which seems to be what most other apps resort to) due to the lack of good libraries to render it, an
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by hobofan 4mo ago
10+ years ago, when most "grassroots" (and some of the better startup) hackathons were displaced by enterprise-sponsored hackathons. I can mostly talk about the Berlin hackathon scene, but as far as I understand it the same thing
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by hobofan 4mo ago
Most of them are using it for data extraction use-cases on complex where they are already in a tricky cost vs. quality compromise. Some of them have evaluated 3.1 Flash Lite but for all of them it performed worse than 2.5 Flash and below re
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by hobofan 4mo ago
> you may not want your org to be held hostage by OpenAI / Anthropic Or Google. I'm working with multiple customers right now that are very pissed at Google for deprecating Gemini 2.5 Flash, canning the GA release of 3.0 Flash
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by hobofan 5mo ago
If you join an company with next to no monetizable business model like this, you already have made your choice that you are fine with acquisition when you joined, or have deferred your choice to make a stay/leave decision until the acq
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by hobofan 5mo ago
Google has a committed cloud compute backlog of $462b. That's their compute buildout for the next ~2.5 years completely financed.
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by hobofan 5mo ago
Main points that came to my mind: - I think the comparison to TCP/DNS/BGP is the more apt one compared to MCP/A2A - Those protocols negotiate capabilities and exchange information about themselves, but not in a self-serving m
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by hobofan 5mo ago
Yes they would be. MCP servers on the side of the consuming organizations fit into the existing IT landscape, with centralized safeguard on who can access what a lot better and are easier to administer than letting their employees run arbit
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by hobofan 5mo ago
They didn't say that they are retiring, just that they are ending their career as a software engineer.
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by hobofan 5mo ago
That seems better than the alternative in Belgium. There the prevalent ID app "itsme" was launched by a consortium of banks. Last year the government launched an goverment owned alternative "myGov" and now has to claw ba
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by hobofan 5mo ago
This didn't sound like a "soft ban" to me. With things happening in general, and with Bun's LLM-aided move away from Zig in particular, there is bound to be some interest in talking about LLMs and how that impacts Zig&#x
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by hobofan 5mo ago
They didn't optimize their own kernels and optimize their own runtime, which I think is what you are implying.
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by hobofan 5mo ago
> Sadly, that zero-hop setup requires a sophisticated client execution engine, which it doesn’t appear Cloudflare has implemented here. It doesn't have to be sophisticated and they don't need to implement it themselves. They pi
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by hobofan 5mo ago
You are not wrong. But the reality of this government in Germany is that they are also cutting down on the assistance that parents receive. With both of those combined they are currently just redistributing wealth to the elderly that have c
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by hobofan 5mo ago
Childless people have a shorter life expectancy by ~2 years. So if we unsocalize the cost and base it on that factor, people with children should be paying more as they are a strain on the system for longer.
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by hobofan 5mo ago
> It looks vaguely comparable on benchmarks, but it tends to be fragile and a lot of management overhead in reality. I'm working on an self-hostable LLM (web) UI[0] that aims to provide a comparable good UX to e.g. ChatGPT, and you
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by hobofan 5mo ago
They did lay off ~half the company ~2 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47467746
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by hobofan 5mo ago
It is almost comically bad. I've had a few simple parts to design for 3d printing in the last weeks and tried it with them (each are about 4 operations on the timeline), and it never created close to what I was trying to do even if spe
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by hobofan 5mo ago
I'm wondering how this will effect the Palantir London office, which is their biggest European office. Local employment has often been a pawn in deals like this (see e.g. Microsoft & Munich), so I'm positively surprised to see
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by hobofan 5mo ago
The Viet Cong parallels in the original Star Wars about as much "winking at the camera" as current Star Wars is to current politics.
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by hobofan 5mo ago
All main OpenAI SDK libraries are made with stainless[0][1]. [0]: https://github.com/openai/openai-python [1]: https://github.com/openai/openai-node
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by hobofan 5mo ago
All main OpenAI SDK libraries are made with stainless[0][1]. [0]: https://github.com/openai/openai-python [1]: https://github.com/openai/openai-node
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by hobofan 5mo ago
That's the biggest engineering office, but not the biggest overall European Google office, right? That would be in low tax low salary Ireland.
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by hobofan 5mo ago
They are not delusional. Japanese car manufacturers were late to EVs, and in order to prevent a gap in the market where EV-first competitors can steal market share from them, they lobby the government to subsidize and create a new market se
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by hobofan 5mo ago
Sorry, I think think my comment came off too dismissive. I do think that self-reports on permission usage are a step in the right direction, and can also help in decentralized uncovering of unintended API access. However I think with the re
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by hobofan 5mo ago
It doesn't do anything about first-party malware, but it can help a lot in gauging how dependencies are kept up-to-date and whether they contain any known CVEs, e.g. the same way that e.g. Trivy does and Artifacthub highlights. I am cu
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by hobofan 5mo ago
> A permissions system is planned I'm not sure that "Plugins will declare what they access" should be interpreted as a planned sandbox system. My (cynic) interpretation that it's an opt-in honor system, that would giv
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by hobofan 5mo ago
I'm wondering how much of the net contribution comes from tech companies and how it compares to the loss of taxes due to Ireland acting as a tax haven for tech companies. EDIT: Net contributions seem to be $3bn/year (total, indepe
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by hobofan 5mo ago
> Scoops up everything from cigarette butts to lawn chairs. From some of the videos you can find of it on Youtube, the cigarette butt claim doesn't look believable. It can definitely leave smaller debris behind, and certainly won&#x
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by hobofan 6mo ago
Not sure what content you are seeing on the page, but the only 100% I see on that page is for something called "Copilot AI Model Providers" that was launched less then a month ago.

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