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Northern Ontario man solves local legend, finds vintage liquor at bottom of lake (Score: 150+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fye5
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fye5
Don't build your castle in other people's kingdoms (2021) (Score: 150+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fxiX
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fxiX
Vanishing Culture: Preserving Cookbooks (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6frZE
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6frZE
Juno for YouTube has been removed from the App Store (🔥 Score: 150+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fxKX
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fxKX
AGI is far from inevitable (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fpSq
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fpSq
The Netherlands has returned some stolen artifacts to Indonesia (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fvYJ
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fvYJ
Pro bettors disguising themselves as gambling addicts (Score: 150+ in 16 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fuDx
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fuDx
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024) (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6fwaX
Please state the location and include REMOTE for remote work, REMOTE (US)
or similar if the country is restricted, and ONSITE when remote work is not an option.
Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no
recruiting firms or job boards. One post per company. If it isn't a household name,
explain what your company does.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about
something. It's off topic here.
Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.
Searchers: try https://vawogbemi-whoishiring.web.val.run, http://nchelluri.github.io/hnjobs/, https://hnresumetojobs.com,
https://hnhired.fly.dev, https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/, https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com.
Don't miss these other fine threads:
Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41709299
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41709300
Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from GitHub (🔥 Score: 170+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fwVX
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fwVX
Bots, so many bots (🔥 Score: 150+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fw2F
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fw2F
PyTorch Native Architecture Optimization: Torchao (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fkfn
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fkfn
Pear AI founder: We made two big mistakes (Score: 150+ in 19 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ftBt
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6ftBt
Essential node in global semiconductor supply chain hit by Hurricane Helene (Score: 150+ in 17 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ftN8
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6ftN8
YC criticized for backing AI startup that simply cloned another AI startup (🔥 Score: 167+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fvAH
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fvAH
MtCellEdit – Lightweight Spreadsheet Program (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fkEh
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fkEh
Math from Three to Seven (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fyek
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fyek
Pledging $300k to the Zig Software Foundation (Score: 152+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fwU3
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fwU3
Show HN: Sourcebot, an open-source Sourcegraph alternative (Score: 150+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fwHS
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fwHS
Hi HN,
We’re Brendan and Michael, the creators of Sourcebot (https://github.com/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot). Sourcebot is an open-source code search tool that allows you to quickly search across many large codebases. Check out our demo video here: https://youtu.be/mrIFYSB_1F4, or try it for yourself on our demo site here: https://demo.sourcebot.dev
While at prior roles, we’ve both felt the pain of searching across hundreds of multi-million line codebases. Using local tools like grep were ill-suited since you often only had a handful of codebases checked out at a time. Sourcegraph (https://sourcegraph.com/) solves this issue by indexing a collection of codebases in the background and exposing a web-based search interface. It is the de-facto search solution for medium to large orgs, but is often cited as expensive ($49 per user / month) and recently went closed source (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41296481). That’s why we built Sourcebot.
We designed Sourcebot to be:
- Easily deployed: we provide a single, self-contained Docker image (https://github.com/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot/pkgs/container/so...).
- Fast & scalable: designed to minimize search times (current average is ~73ms) across many large repositories.
- Cross code-host support: we currently support syncing public & private repositories in GitHub and GitLab.
- Quality UI: we like to think that a good looking dev-tool is more pleasant to use.
- Open source: Sourcebot is free to use by anyone.
Under the hood, we use Zoekt (https://github.com/sourcegraph/zoekt) as our code search engine, which was originally authored by Han-Wen Nienhuys and now maintained by Sourcegraph (https://sourcegraph.com/blog/sourcegraph-accepting-zoekt-mai...). Zoekt works by building a trigram index from the source code enabling extremely fast regular expression matching. Russ Cox has a great article on how trigram indexes work if you’re interested: https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp4.html
In the shorter-term, there are several improvements we want to make, like:
- Improving how we communicate indexing progress (this is currently non-existent so it’s not obvious how long things will take)
- UX improvements like search history, query syntax highlighting & suggestions, etc.
- Small QOL improvements like bookmarking code snippets.
- Support for more code hosts (e.g., BitBucket, SourceForge, ADO, etc.)
In the longer-term, we want to investigate how we could go beyond just traditional code search by leveraging machine learning to enable experiences like semantic code search (“where is system X located?”) and code explanations (”how does system X interact with system Y?”). You could think of this as a copilot being embedded into Sourcebot. Our hunch is that will be useful to devs, especially when packaged with the traditional code search, but let us know what you think.
Give it a try: https://github.com/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot. Cheers!
COBOL has been “dead” for so long, my grandpa wrote about it (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fxn9
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fxn9
Ask HN: Who is pretending to be hiring? (🔥 Score: 173+ in 55 minutes)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6fxSS
I’m looking for a job and like many people in this situation am finding it unusually difficult.
I’ve read rumors that many firms are actually in a hiring freeze, but they keep job reqs open for appearances. Apparently some investors use job postings as a company health metric.
From my contacts, I am personally aware of situations where internally-recommended CVs are ignored by HR, and other cases had open job postings and passed people successfully through the interview process, and then the hiring manager still didn’t pull the trigger. I have no way of knowing how widespread this is, but it is happening at some places.
Is your company like this? If you have real info and not just suspicions, let’s name some names.
OpenAI DevDay 2024 live blog (Score: 153+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fwVG
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fwVG
A $1k Wheelchair (🔥 Score: 165+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fwR7
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fwR7
Gorhill pulls uBlock Origin Lite from Firefox store (Score: 153+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fvzk
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fvzk
Is the world really running out of sand? (🔥 Score: 156+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fwsq
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fwsq
Mozilla's lapse in judgement causes clash with uBlock Origin developer (🔥 Score: 154+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fvMZ
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fvMZ
ESO telescope captures the most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way (Score: 151+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fvmD
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fvmD
Comedy Theory (2022) (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fhxD
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fhxD
Ask HN: Should you reply STOP to unwanted texts? (Score: 152+ in 13 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6fug2
I have been advising people I know to block, then delete and report junk (iOS) to unwanted texts. Others have argued with me that you should reply STOP. I disagree, especially after checking a shortened link in a “campaign” text and finding the link was a phishing attempt. What do you think?
Text2CAD: Generating sequential cad designs from text prompts (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fnCu
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fnCu
Ask HN: Any good essays/books/advice about software sales? (Score: 151+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6freW
I'm a software engineer trying to build an agency, would love to hear anything(literally) about how can an engineer learn to generate leads and convert them.
Thanks!