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intrepidsoldieron Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel

Just the beginning. AI is going to expose how fragile the entire computing infrastructure in our world is.

intrepidsoldieron Nvidia is the central bank of AI

I called it long ago https://ramansharma.substack.com/p/nvidia-is-the-federal-res...

intrepidsoldieron Visualizing the Artemis II Mission

I work for Foxglove. You should give it a try. The product has come a long way. See this post - https://foxglove.dev/blog/foxglove-vs-foxglove-studio-two-ye...

And lots more on the way.

intrepidsoldieron SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

Use cash to buy GPUs and stock to buy companies.

intrepidsoldieron Anthropic acquires Bun

In other news - Amp Code is a separate company now - https://ampcode.com/news/amp-inc

intrepidsoldieron AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms

This is Google solving Google-sized problems. I am afraid the rest of the world will look at this and say - "yeah we want to be like Google and adopt this". That is how Kubernetes took over the world.

intrepidsoldieron Effective AI code suggestions: less is more

So even the LLMs want to keep doing just easy stuff given a choice?

intrepidsoldieron PaaS is cool but IaaS sells

Fair point. I agree that K8s is not quite IaaS as I talked about here: https://ramansharma.substack.com/p/multiple-stops-on-the-clo...

But I think several of its characteristics resemble IaaS more than PaaS.

intrepidsoldieron GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic

Can it help you work in large messy codebases or is it good only to "build tic tac toe games in 5 mins"?

intrepidsoldieron Regular expression search with suffix arrays (2015)

Just curious - does anyone use livegrep?

intrepidsoldieron Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution

IT and Kubernetes

intrepidsoldieron RAG to Riches

Almost every example mentioned in that announcement blog post I linked above is that of Cody working with local files in VSCode.

intrepidsoldieron RAG to Riches

Details were left for the actual announcement blog post - https://sourcegraph.com/blog/cody-is-generally-available

Disclaimer: I work for Sourcegraph.

intrepidsoldieron Prompt engineering

"large language models (sometimes referred to as GPT models)"

lol

intrepidsoldieron The surprising connection between after-hours work and decreased productivity

Have they considered how Slack contributes to decreased productivity?

intrepidsoldieron Are Open-Source Large Language Models Catching Up?

Big fan of Starcoder

intrepidsoldieron Git Branches: Intuition and Reality

Anything about Git reminds me of this:

https://youtu.be/EReooAZoMO0?si=sHqcYsf8v6LyWLAx

intrepidsoldieron Workers AI Update: Stable Diffusion, Code Llama and Workers AI in 100 Cities

Trying to understand why a developer would like to call an API to generate code rather than use a coding AI assistant within their editor? Genuinely curious.

intrepidsoldieron A coder considers the waning days of the craft

* AI is good at hard (to human) tasks like explaining complex code but bad at easy (to human) tasks like counting C files in a codebase. * AI is particularly effective at taking over repetitive work full of toil e.g., reviewing large PRs. As a result, it will allow more developers to focus on fun things like building new features. * AI will increase the number of developers worldwide because it reduces the barrier to entry for programming. * AI will reduce the fear involved in starting large-scale projects like migrating codebases from one framework/technology to another.

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GitHub now has a $1B ARR and 90M active users.

These are the most interesting numbers of all the things that Microsoft shared in its FY23Q1 earnings call.

Looking just at that 90M active users number - let us say the definition of active is a little wonky since we don't know which product gesture they qualify as a signal of active usage. Let us say that number is inflated by 100% (unlikely). It still comes down to 45M active users. This number is greater than the global developer population number estimated by many reputed analysts. Remember, this is not an e-commerce company; this is not a consumer social networking app; this is not a business productivity app that is useful for all information workers. This is a technical product meant for a technical audience (mostly developers). With that in mind, the 90M active users is a mind-boggling statistic.

In the freemium world, 2% is considered a decent conversion rate. Let us say GitHub has just half of that (1% conversion to paid) since their freemium is so good that people have fewer reasons to upgrade. This would mean they are generating $1B in revenue from 900K customers, which is again remarkable.

What started as a source control system is now developer productivity + developer collaboration + deployment orchestration + supply chain security, and the list goes on and on.

It would not be a stretch to say that GitHub is by far the most "touched" cloud-based developer tool/service in the world. Great job by the GitHub team. But also a huge credit to Microsoft for not just "leaving GitHub alone" but for recognizing its potential as their primary developer offering and pouring so much new investment into it. That could not have been easy for a company that was already a powerhouse of developer tooling with their existing tools to promote.

If software is eating the world, I must say GitHub is playing a massive role in building software's appetite.

intrepidsoldieron Deployment and infrastructure for a bootstrapped webapp with 150k monthly visits

Containers are more than just Kubernetes

intrepidsoldieron DALL·E 2 vs. Stable Diffusion

Results for “3 horses running on moon with a humongous backdrop of earth, Hollywood style”

intrepidsoldieron GitHub Copilot is generally available

I don't understand the argument that they analyzed all the code from their users, used it to train their service, and are now charging for the service.

Do people want to see ads instead?

Or would they be ok paying for Google search (another service trained by all the information we willingly volunteer to them)?

Copilot adds tremendous value and they are justified charging for it.

intrepidsoldieron Ask HN: Best dev tool pitches of all time?

The original LowCode demo.

intrepidsoldieron Cricket is changing for many reasons, one of which is AI

Once I tried to explain to an coworker about Cricket:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Cricket/comments/lq2zh3/cricket_in_...

intrepidsoldieron Broadcom in Talks to Acquire VMware

CA, Symantec, and now VMWare. Doesn't look like the who's who of the cloud world TBH. Shows the limited understanding of the cloud world by a company still primarily run as a hardware factory.

intrepidsoldieron Ask HN: Are there any free Cloudflare competitors?

Cloudflare is moving at the speed of light and with the openness of fresh air.

intrepidsoldieron Ask HN: What should I use instead of Heroku?

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/

intrepidsoldieron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022)

DigitalOcean | Remote (North America) | Full-Time | https://www.digitalocean.com/

We have several roles open across Product Marketing, Developer Relations, and Community Engagement. Consider these roles if you are passionate about cloud and developer tools and love helping developers and entrepreneurs build amazing apps and businesses.

Senior Product Marketing Manager - Kubernetes https://grnh.se/2e3cdf341us

Senior Developer Advocate https://grnh.se/c5889d3e1us

Senior Marketing Manager - Startup Engagement https://grnh.se/54a9a3e31us

intrepidsoldieron Ask HN: Beyond AWS/Azure/GCP, what cloud providers should I know more about?

Disclaimer: I work for DigitalOcean.

We at DigitalOcean tend to see a lot of SaaS builders on our cloud. We obviously are smaller as compared to the big 3, but in our experience most people starting out with an idea don't really need all the bells and whistles.

Price-competitive, performant, and easily-automatable IaaS (compute/network/storage), and some managed services on top of it, are sufficient for a vast majority of builders.

I think about this thread all the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22310879

Here is some marketing material with more information: - https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/how-to-scale-your-saas-pro... - https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/forrester-total-economic-i...