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rudderdev··on False claims in a widely-cited paper
Peer reviews need to be more transparent and accountable. Otherwise, we are sure to lose to the misinformation war that is rapidly reaching its peak, thanks but no thanks to AI.
rudderdev··on Uber and Walmart customer data at risk as its vendor Woflow gets compromised
Agree. SOC2 is becoming a standard these days. No SOC2, no enterprise customer.
rudderdev··on The Brand Age
I never understood the demand for luxury watch businesses. From what I have heard, it is widely used as a tool to transfer value (read $$ laundering). I do not know how prominent it is but if so then we might want to look at it from the utility perspective (to achieve that goal) than the "brand" story.
rudderdev··on Show HN: ÆTHRA – Writing Music as Code
How to use it? Why does it not have any guide on how to use it?
rudderdev··on Mecha Comet – Open Modular Linux Handheld Computer
Open Hardware + Open Software is good enough for me to hit the buy button. Seems like a good toy, I hope I don't lose interest within a month of buying.
rudderdev··on Show HN: I built a minimal open-source CMS (FREE)
Looks like a great work. My main concern with CMS is SEO/GEO. Where would this stand in terms of SEO/GEO? Any particular reason to choose Next.js? Could there have ben a better choice to optimize for SEO/GEO?
rudderdev··on Revolut hits $75B valuation
The UK neobank completed a share sale at a $75 billion valuation, up from $45 billion last year Bloomberg, led by Coatue, Fidelity, and—wait for it—Nvidia's NVentures PYMNTS.com. Because apparently Nvidia is now just investing in everything that moves.

Revolut's 2024 revenue grew 72% to $4 billion with profit before tax increasing 149% to $1.4 billion Disruption Banking. Unlike most fintech darlings, they're actually profitable and growing fast across 65 million customers.

But here's the kicker: this is a secondary sale—meaning existing shareholders are cashing out. When insiders are selling at these valuations, it's worth asking who's buying the peak. Especially when traditional banks are still struggling to innovate and Revolut is building a global bank from scratch.

The company is solid, but $75 billion for a neobank? That's more than many established global banks. The fintech premium is alive and well, even as the AI bubble inflates around it. What do you think?

rudderdev··on The Case Against PGVector
As others have commented, all the mentioned issues are resolved, I will favour in using the PGVector. If Postgres can be a good choice over Kafka to deliver 100k events/sec [1], then why not PGVector over Chroma or other specialized vector search (unless there is a specific requirement that can't be solved wit minor code/config changes)!

[1] Ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44659678

rudderdev··on Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres
Discussion on the same topic "Postgres over Kafka" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44445841
rudderdev··on Bots are getting good at mimicking engagement
Bots everywhere
rudderdev··on [dead]
Agree. The resistance has become exhausting. The solution cannot be just to ask businesses to not collect data. The solution has to be orthogonal. Maybe one solution can be to develop new tools that act as a seamless filter/mask between us vs the party collecting data ensuring we have to think less at the same time fulfilling the requirement by the party collecting data.
rudderdev··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)
I have found a hack. If you wait long enough, someone will build what you wanted to build :)

Thanks for building this. I am trying to set it up but facing this issu

> `torch` (v2.3.1) only has wheels for the following platforms: `manylinux1_x86_64`, `manylinux2014_aarch64`, `macosx_11_0_arm64`, `win_amd64`

rudderdev··on Tangled, a Git collaboration platform built on atproto
Not receiving the signup code on email for tangled.org
rudderdev··on FyneDesk: A full desktop environment for Linux written in Go
Looks promising. Will try this weekend. Any tips to quickly try it out?
rudderdev··on F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree
thank you for posting this, emotional roller coaster the parent comment was
rudderdev··on Google signed me out of YouTube, Gmail redirects to Google subdomain/Gmail
Did you miss to share the details?
rudderdev··on Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed
Too much marketing speak without the demo. I have read this long article and did read some more related content on the internet, so let me summarize it for you.

With Neuralink,

- Noland can control cursor of his computer - He can schedule calendar meetings - He can control his purifier, television, etc. - He can play games like mario kart

I could only find this demo on the internet where Noland plays chess - https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1ypJdkXjaLNGW

rudderdev··on Ask HN: What are some advanced fact check strategies
> If you reduce your consumption of sources that require frequent fact checking

Can you name some of the sources (related to tech news) that don't require fact checking?

rudderdev··on Study mode
Impressive. The next feature could be to prepare notes for revision.
rudderdev··on Two narratives about AI
Love the balance this post shows in supporting and dismissing ai impact, unlike the other post on hn today ;)
rudderdev··on The current hype around autonomous agents, and what actually works in production
Same experience. I started in mid 2023 building agents. The agents that are still working on production - they do one specific thing and the only coordination/integration I allow is via automation framework based on deterministic api only.
rudderdev··on Show HN: Anemos – CLI tool to manage Kubernetes manifests using JavaScript
I was looking for something like this for automation for one of my ai agents. Going to try out this weekend.
rudderdev··on Ask HN: How to find developers interested in open-source concepts?
You don't, they do. You go to GitHub or a hackathon and start building in open, you frequently talk about your project and make it useful for someone other than yourself. You make sure that you highlight your interest to partner up with someone and provide a way to start the discussion with you. If you do this long enough, many will contribute to fix their own issue, and some of them may contribute more than that if they find the contribution to your project aligns with their current goals (career, reputation, learning, etc.).
rudderdev··on Graph Theory Applications in Video Games
Good read. Well written and great visuals, specially for the racetrack example. How did you create those visuals?