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bx376··on Launch HN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) – Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud FS
Sounds similar to https://juicefs.com/
bx376··on Huawei's First Tri-Fold Phone
Sorry, wrong link. There isn't an English product page yet. Here is the Chinese version:

https://consumer.huawei.com/cn/phones/mate-xt-ultimate-desig...

bx376··on Launch HN: Promi (YC S24) – AI-powered ecommerce discounts
This is a perfect example of automated price management.

I think you need to better communicate the causality between applying your model and increased profits to justify your 1% commission.

bx376··on Xi Jinping's Great Economic Rewiring Is Cushioning China's Slowdown
A recent report by The Economist on the effects of US policy of banning Huawei:

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2024/06/13/americas-assas...

bx376··on DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2024/06/13/americas-assas...
bx376··on DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate
https://www.skydio.com/solutions/defense
bx376··on Qwen2 LLM Released
I believe besides the legacy Nvidia cards, Alibaba has built training clusters from domestic AI accelerator vendor like https://e.huawei.com/en/products/computing/ascend.

But that means a lot of extra in-house engineering work to utilize those niche hardware.

bx376··on Google CEO Sundar Pichai on AI-powered search and the future of the web
Why Sundar suddenly takes a lot of interviews like this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5puu3kN9l7c

Is there an intentional strategy?

bx376··on Our approach to data and AI
OpenAI is building its own search engine.

What they really want is a web-scale index, instead of protecting your work from AI training.

bx376··on The Arc Product-Market Fit Framework
> Runway always costs. By that definition it’s artificially subsidized.That definition sounds more like a project than a product/startup.
bx376··on Launch HN: Dart (YC W22) – Project management with automatic report generation
Great pricing model when compared with Linear.app. If I have a budget of $8 I’d love to subscribe Dart rather than Linear.app
bx376··on LlamaCloud and LlamaParse
What will the pricing be like?
bx376··on Gvisor: Application Kernel for Containers
Talos has a gvisor system extension to make it easier for users to adapt:

https://github.com/siderolabs/extensions/tree/main/container...

bx376··on Dev onboarding, then and now
https://coder.com/
bx376··on AWS to begin charging for public IPv4 addresses
See https://world.hey.com/dhh/we-stand-to-save-7m-over-five-year...
bx376··on AWS to begin charging for public IPv4 addresses
Stateless applications are far cheaper than stateful applications to host on AWS. Computing is cheap, object storage is where AWS make unreasonable profit and lock you in their platform.
bx376··on Zotero Better Notes – Knowledge management inside Zotero
You can use https://github.com/KosmosisDire/obsidian-webpage-export to turn Obsidian into a static site generator, and deploy the html to Vercel or github pages for free
bx376··on Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer
Fair point! Anyone can do a quick math on the PPD with their announcement of "23 million pixel microOLED" with this calculator? https://qasimk.io/screen-ppd/
bx376··on A Mathematician's Lament (2002) [pdf]
> "A piece of mathematics is like a poem, and we can ask if it satisfies our aesthetic criteria: Is this argument sound? Does it make sense? Is it simple and elegant? Does it get me closer to the heart of the matter?"

This reminds me of June Huh, the 2022 Fields Medel winner. He dropped out of high school to focus on writing poetry after becoming bored and exhausted by the routine of constantly studying during his youth.

bx376··on Show HN: Readwise Reader, an all-in-one reading app
Congrats! This is truly a game-changer.

Personally, I have two suggestions for a future release:

1). Invert-color PDF dark mode harms readability.

Simply invert the color will make serif fonts less readable. I use PDF.js with the following canvas renderer snippet to create a more pleasant reading experience.

```css

#viewerContainer > #viewer > .page > .canvasWrapper > canvas { filter: sepia(23%); filter: saturate(45%); filter: hue-rotate(181deg); filter: brightness(90%); filter: contrast(93%); filter: invert(81%); }

#viewerContainer > #viewer > .spread > .page > .canvasWrapper > canvas { filter: sepia(23%); filter: saturate(45%); filter: hue-rotate(181deg); filter: brightness(90%); filter: contrast(93%); filter: invert(81%); }

```

Try this with this PDF.js extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pdf-reader/ieepebp... by pasting it to the option page.

2). Custom Font support.

As a power user, I'd like to render the article with my personally preferable font (locally installed in most cases.) Why not simply give users the option to set css:font-family? It's really easy to implement.

Anyway, the current product is pleasing enough! I'm already spiritually a paid-user.

bx376··on The Lean Theorem Prover
The Lean theorem prover is a proof assistant developed principally by Leonardo de Moura at Microsoft Research.
bx376··on The Debugging Book
Tools and Techniques for Automated Software Debugging, by Andreas Zeller
bx376··on Show HN: Annotate PDFs in Markdown
Thx for the reminder! But the edit option is no longer in the page, probably cuz I've already edited it multiple times. I'll pay attention to this the next time. Anyway, we have the real author in this thread Lol
bx376··on Show HN: Annotate PDFs in Markdown
Met this by accident. The app is not under intense development, and doesn't have alpha/beta release.