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alienrebornon Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200

Why is xAI giving up their advantage? Is this a signal that their frontier model improvements are plateauing and decided there is no value in hoarding all their compute?

alienrebornon Agent-to-agent pair programming

I have been trying a similar setup since last week using https://rjcorwin.github.io/cook/

alienrebornon Show HN: Maths, CS and AI Compendium

Thank you for sharing. Is there a gitbook link?

alienrebornon Launch HN: Indy (YC S21) – A support app designed for ADHD brains

Do you mind sharing your system that worked for you in detail or re-direct any good posts that detail them? Appreciate it.

alienrebornon AI is not our future

Air works fine

alienrebornon Presentation Slides with Markdown

I have been using https://www.deckset.com/ for the same for years and have no complaints.

alienrebornon Apache iceberg the Hadoop of the modern-data-stack?

Better article (imo) on similar topic: https://www.dataengineeringweekly.com/p/is-apache-iceberg-th...

alienrebornon Vibe Coding

Cursor or Vscode+Github Copilot Chat.

alienrebornon Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

Relevant: https://www.nintendo.com/successor/en-us/index.html

Nintendo Direct focused on Switch 2: Apr 2nd.

Looks like joy-cons will have 'mouse-like' functionality and there's a 'C' on right joy-con but its functionality is not reveled. New Mario Kart showcased would probably be one of the first exclusives.

alienrebornon Ask HN: Spending Tracking Tools

Used lunchmoney for years before moving to CoPilot couple of years ago. Can vouch for both of them to being great. I just moved to CoPilot because they got macos and ios apps unlike lunchmoney (web only back when I used it)

alienrebornon Tokyo is set to introduce a four-day workweek for government employees

I would still take 40 hrs in 4 days vs 5 days. Full extra day is a blessing.

alienrebornon Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%

I have migrated services couple of times and used Soundiz and Songshift. They miss few matches but overall gets the job done.

alienrebornon Easy Stable Diffusion XL in your device, offline

Interesting, will check it out to see how it compares with https://diffusionbee.com which I am using for last few months for fun.

alienrebornon Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada

No NJ Transit trains?

alienrebornon Classic fountain pens

Ten cheap yet great fountain pens from my experience:

- Platinum Preppy/Prefounte/Plasir ($3-$20)

- TWSBI ECO ($30-$50)

- Pilot Metro/Cavalier ($20-$50)

Cheap and OK pens (I found these better for drawing than writing):

- Lamy Safari/Al-Star ($20-$50)

- Kaweco Sport Classic ($20 -- )

'Affordable' Gold Nib pens (These aren't necessarily 'better' but writing experience is different(softer feel) which some people prefer)

- Pilot Elite 95S ($80-$100)

- Pilot Decimo/Capless ($115-$160)

All prices are from online stores available in US.

alienrebornon Sam Altman: OpenAI is not training GPT-5 and "won't for some time"

Out of the box midjourneyv5 generates great images but SD has controlnet, plethora of custom models to pick from, can run locally on most machines gives it an edge in my opinion.

alienrebornon 30 Days of Python

Similar course that's pretty good: https://dabeaz-course.github.io/practical-python/

alienrebornon Architecture diagrams should be code

In our team, we use https://diagrams.mingrammer.com to create architectural or dataflow diagrams in our docs via code.

alienrebornon Apple TV+ to adapt William Gibson’s cyberpunk novel Neuromancer

They've also botched The Wheel of Time.

alienrebornon DbDiagram – Draw Entity-Relationship Diagrams, Painlessly

Same team developed dbdocs.io where you can have both diagrams and data dictionaries of your tables and db together.

alienrebornon Design structured diagrams, built to increase your team's trust in your docs

We use http://diagrams.mingrammer.com in our team. Diagrams from python code.

alienrebornon Apache Airflow Releases 2.0.0

Docs: http://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow/2.0.0/

Upgrade path: http://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow/2.0.0/upgradin...

Blog post: http://airflow.apache.org/blog/airflow-two-point-oh-is-here/

alienrebornon Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th

Relevant: https://cdn2.unrealengine.com/epic-v-apple-8-17-20-768927327...

alienrebornon Apple to terminate developer account of Epic Games on August 28th

Relevant: https://cdn2.unrealengine.com/epic-v-apple-8-17-20-768927327...

alienrebornon New York Times phasing out all 3rd-party advertising data

Print ads are so much better than online ads though. - Print ads generally don't break reading lines as most of them are generally between articles or between pages - Print ads don't move.

There are multiple moving ads in between paras of a long form online articles which is a much worse experience than reading the same article in print.

alienrebornon Microsoft next console revealed: Xbox Series X (12 teraflop GPU and a NVMe SSD)

Better link: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2019/12/12/microsoft-unveils-xbo...

alienrebornon AWS Elasticsearch: a fundamentally-flawed offering

Confluent Cloud is pay by usage (per GB in, per GB out, per GB stored), so its much pricier based on your org's usage. However, it is definitely feature rich.

- Doesn't expose metrics via JMX but does provide a nice tool called confluent control center for monitoring and managing kafka cluster - Built in and Managed Schema Registry

but - AFAIK they won't reveal cluster size or cluster version (except client compability). So, they do scaling and upgrades automatically. It's a double edged-sword but should work for lot of orgs.

- Overall, definitely a better product than aws msk.

alienrebornon AWS Elasticsearch: a fundamentally-flawed offering

Their "managed" kafka service is even bigger clusterfuck

- Doesn't expose metrics via JMX port

- Doesn't support version upgrade

- Doesn't support schema versioning afaik

- Doesn't support adding a node or two to an existing cluster

I could go on...