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The Forgotten Story of How IBM Invented the Automated Fab (Score: 150+ in 20 hours)
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MIT Aluminum Bicycle Project 1974 (2016) (Score: 150+ in 18 hours)
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Float Self-Tagging (Score: 153+ in 19 hours)
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London's 850-year-old food markets to close (Score: 150+ in 18 hours)
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picoCAD – a tiny modeler for tiny models (Score: 150+ in 9 hours)
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Hetzner cuts traffic from 20 TB –> 1..5 TB on US VPSs (🔥 Score: 151+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6iFbV
Just received by email:
We are writing to inform you about important changes to the tariff structure of our Cloud servers (CCX and CPX lines) and our Load balancers at our US locations in Ashburn and Hillsboro.
What will change?
Starting on 1 December 2024, 01:00 am CET, we will begin charging new prices for newly-created Cloud servers and introduce new amounts for included traffic for Cloud Servers and Load balancers at the US locations in Ashburn (ASH) and Hillsboro (HIL). This also applies to existing Cloud servers and Load balancers that are switched to a different tariff using the “Rescale” function. For any existing Cloud servers and Load balancers you have at these locations, the new prices and the new amounts for included traffic will apply later, starting on 1 February 2025, 01:00 am CET. The price for traffic overage will remain unchanged in the new price structure.
What are the new prices and amounts of included traffic?
Below, you can see a list of the old and new prices and the included traffic.
Product Old price New price Old included traffic New included traffic
CPX11 € 3.85 € 4.49 20 TB 1 TB
CPX21 € 7.05 € 8.99 20 TB 2 TB
CPX31 € 13.10 € 15.99 20 TB 3 TB
CPX41 € 24.70 € 29.99 20 TB 4 TB
CPX51 € 54.40 € 59.99 20 TB 5 TB
CCX13 € 11.99 € 12.99 20 TB 1 TB
CCX23 € 23.99 € 25.99 20 TB 2 TB
CCX33 € 47.99 € 49.99 30 TB 3 TB
CCX43 € 95.99 € 99.99 40 TB 4 TB
CCX53 € 191.99 € 199.99 50 TB 6 TB
CCX63 € 287.99 € 299.99 60 TB 8 TB
LB11 € 5.39 unchanged 20 TB 1 TB
LB21 € 16.40 unchanged 20 TB 2 TB
LB31 € 32.90 unchanged 20 TB 3 TB
All monthly prices are excl. VAT and excl. IPv4 addresses.
Why are we making these changes?
With the new tariff structure, we want to make conditions for our customers around the world as fair as possible. To do that, we will calculate our prices based on local conditions in Europe, Singapore, and the USA. Until this change, customers who have used fewer resources have covered the costs, in a way, for other customers who have used much more resources. We want to make things more balanced. The new prices will give our customers the best possible price for the resources they use.
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Ancient Sumerians created the first writing system (Score: 150+ in 19 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6iCsp
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Show HN: Feels Like Paper (Score: 150+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6iDiN
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"Feels Like Paper!" is a series of prototypes about augmenting physical paper through AI. Various ML models, LLMs and a mixed reality headset are used to infuse physical paper and ink with properties of the digital world without compromising on their physical traits.
Comparing AWS S3 with Cloudflare R2: Price, Performance and User Experience (Score: 150+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6iCKd
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You can use C-Reduce for any language (🔥 Score: 150+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6iDaZ
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I Wrote "Janet for Mortals" (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6iBCb
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We can mine asteroids for space food (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
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Show HN: App that asks 'why?' every time you unlock your phone (🔥 Score: 155+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6iBUw
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NASA: Mystery of Life's Handedness Deepens (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
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ZetaOffice: LibreOffice in the Browser (Score: 151+ in 12 hours)
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Dell is posting unsigned updates to their website which fail to install (Score: 150+ in 16 hours)
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Developing a cancer drug without Big Pharma: this hospital shows it can be done (Score: 150+ in 20 hours)
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Australia: Kids under 16 to be banned from social media after Senate passes laws (Score: 157+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6iFhp
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In Praise of Print: Reading Is Essential in an Era of Epistemological Collapse (Score: 152+ in 6 hours)
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Show HN: Voice-Pro – AI Voice Cloning Magic: Transform Any Voice in 15 Seconds (Score: 151+ in 12 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6iEnX
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Imagine creating a podcast where Mark Zuckerberg interviews Elon Musk – using their actual voices?
What sounds like science fiction is now reality.
Voice-Pro is an open-source Gradio WebUI that breaks the boundaries of audio manipulation.
Powered by cutting-edge Whisper engines, this tool turns voice replication into child's play.
Key Features:
- Zero-shot Voice Cloning
- Voice Changer with 50+ Celebrity Voices
- YouTube Audio Downloading
- Vocal Isolation
- Multi-Language Text-to-Speech (Edge-TTS, F5-TTS)
- Multi-Language Translation
- Powered by Whisper Engines (Whisper, Faster-Whisper, Whisper-Timestamped)
Video Demos:
1. Voice-Pro Usage Tutorial: https://youtu.be/z8g8LMhoh_o
2. Voice Cloning Celebrity Podcast Demo: https://youtu.be/Wfo7vQCD4no
3. Full Demo Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwx5dnMDVC9Y7dAjm9r26...
Whether you're a content creator, developer, or audio experiment enthusiast,
Voice-Pro provides a user-friendly interface to push the boundaries of audio manipulation.
GitHub: https://github.com/abus-aikorea/voice-pro
SSH Artwork (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
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Show HN: TeaTime – distributed book library powered by SQLite, IPFS and GitHub (Score: 151+ in 18 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6iCxi
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6iCxi
Recently there seem to be a surge in SQLite related projects. TeaTime is riding that wave...
A couple of years ago I was intrigued by phiresky's post[0] about querying SQLite over HTTP. It made me think that if anyone can publish a database using GitHub Pages, I could probably build a frontend in which users can decide which database to query. TeaTime is like that - when you first visit it, you'll need to choose your database. Everyone can create additional databases[1]. TeaTime then queries it, and fetches files using an IPFS gateway (I'm looking into using Helia so that users are also contributing nodes in the network). Files are then rendered in the website itself. Everything is done in the browser - no users, no cookies, no tracking. LocalStorage and IndexedDB are used for saving your last readings, and your position in each file.
Since TeaTime is a static site, it's super easy (and free) to deploy. GitHub repo tags are used for maintaining a list of public instances[2].
Note that a GitHub repository isn't mandatory for storing the SQLite files or the front end - it's only for the configuration file (config.json) of each database, and for listing instances. Both the instances themselves and the database files can be hosted on Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, your Raspberry Pi, or any other server that can host static files.
I'm curious to see what other kinds of databases people can create, and what other types of files TeaTime could be used for.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27016630
[1] https://github.com/bjesus/teatime-json-database/
[2] https://github.com/bjesus/teatime/wiki/Creating-a-TeaTime-in...
QwQ: Alibaba's O1 Like Reasoning LLM (Score: 151+ in 7 hours)
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Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonstrated on ThinkPad X230 (🔥 Score: 163+ in 1 hour)
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Ask HN: Recommendation for a SWE looking to get up to speed with latest on AI (Score: 155+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6iCx7
I am looking to get up to speed with the latest things happening in AI, I use ChatGPT almost everyday and i last used the open AI api for 3.5 last year. I am looking for a tech blogs like HN to keep updated on things AI, I came across https://simonwillison.net/ but it appears fragmented
I Stopped Using Kubernetes. Our DevOps Team Is Happier Than Ever (Score: 150+ in 22 hours)
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Raspberry Pi CM5 is a faster, drop-in upgrade (Score: 151+ in 4 hours)
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Lonely individuals tend to think and talk in an unusual way, study finds (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
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The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory (Score: 155+ in 4 hours)
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ISPs say their "excellent customer service" is why users don't switch providers (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
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