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NASA Pulls Off Delicate Thruster Swap, Keeping Voyager 1 Mission Alive (Score: 150+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6eqVS
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Large-Scale Generation of Transit Maps from OpenStreetMap Data (❄️ Score: 151+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6efQa
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Show HN: Konty – A Balsamiq-alternative lo-fi wireframe tool for modern apps (Score: 154+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6eqWA
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How we made Jupyter notebooks load faster (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ejAL
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Feeld dating app – Your nudes and data were publicly available (Score: 154+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6eqnH
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Mistral releases Pixtral 12B, its first multimodal model (Score: 151+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6eq8r
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My business card runs Linux and Ultrix (2022) (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6eqFE
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Noisy neighbor detection with eBPF (Score: 152+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6epQW
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The first release candidate of FreeCAD 1.0 is out (Score: 154+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6eqf7
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A MiniGolf game for Palm OS (🔥 Score: 151+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6eqci
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Iron Mountain: It's Time to Talk About Hard Drives (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ekNM
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Possibly all the ways to get loop-finding in graphs wrong (Score: 150+ in 12 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6en6D
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Show HN: Visual DB – Web front end for your database (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ektv
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If you have a cloud-hosted database, read on: Visual DB was designed for you.
Visual DB is the fastest way to create data entry forms for your database: Starting with an Excel spreadsheet, you can import your data into the database and create a great-looking form in under 10 minutes. Watch this video: https://youtu.be/6rVD5rmrjN8
Visual DB is a comprehensive SaaS frontend for your database. In addition to data entry forms, Visual DB also has a spreadsheet-like interface for inserting and updating data in your database. You can also build interactive reports using Visual DB. Finally, although not intended as a replacement for your database's admin tool, Visual DB can browse schema, create tables, set up relationships, and import and export data.
Visual DB began as a drag-and-drop form builder for databases. Forms created with Visual DB are practically indistinguishable from those hand-coded using React. You can add client-side validation, set available values (displayed in dropdowns), define default values, and even add logic to dynamically hide or disable fields—all without writing a single line of code! With Visual DB Forms, you’ll never have to write another CRUD app again.
If you have been using Excel to manage data and running into its limits because the volume of data has grown, Visual DB Sheets may be of interest to you. With its spreadsheet-like interface, Visual DB Sheets allows users to interact with data as they would in Excel, while securely storing that data in a robust relational database. Spreadsheet-database hybrids have been around for a while now, but we believe we have one of the best implementations, with features such as advanced grouping, support for foreign keys and lookup tables, query parameters, full-text as-you-type filtering, and so on.
The newest feature of Visual DB is interactive reporting. Traditional reporting tools offer limited interactivity. For example, while most reporting tools support time series charts, they do not allow users to zoom or pan along the time axis. In contrast, Visual DB supports this capability thanks to its innovative approach: it downloads the dataset to the client and processes and visualizes data directly in the browser. This allows it to handle user interactions without a server round trip. Visual DB has excellent support for query parameters, which allows you to bring only the subset of data that's of interest (up to 100K rows), to the client.
Visual DB supports PostgreSQL (including Neon), MySQL, SQL Server and Oracle. Give it a whirl, and we look forward to getting your feedback: https://visualdb.com
Some of us like "interdiff" code review (Score: 150+ in 19 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6em7u
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How economical is your local Taco Bell? (Score: 152+ in 11 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6emQv
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A Uruguayan company teaches people how to turn regular cars into EVs (Score: 150+ in 19 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6epvy
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Show HN: Tune LLaMa3.1 on Google Cloud TPUs (Score: 150+ in 19 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6epig
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Hey HN, we wanted to share our repo where we fine-tuned Llama 3.1 on Google TPUs. We’re building AI infra to fine-tune and serve LLMs on non-NVIDIA GPUs (TPUs, Trainium, AMD GPUs).
The problem: Right now, 90% of LLM workloads run on NVIDIA GPUs, but there are equally powerful and more cost-effective alternatives out there. For example, training and serving Llama 3.1 on Google TPUs is about 30% cheaper than NVIDIA GPUs.
But developer tooling for non-NVIDIA chipsets is lacking. We felt this pain ourselves. We initially tried using PyTorch XLA to train Llama 3.1 on TPUs, but it was rough: xla integration with pytorch is clunky, missing libraries (bitsandbytes didn't work), and cryptic HuggingFace errors.
We then took a different route and translated Llama 3.1 from PyTorch to JAX. Now, it’s running smoothly on TPUs! We still have challenges ahead, there is no good LoRA library in JAX, but this feels like the right path forward.
Here's a demo (https://dub.sh/felafax-demo) of our managed solution.
Would love your thoughts on our repo and vision as we keep chugging along!
Be a Thermostat, Not a Thermometer (Score: 151+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6eqCZ
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Max Headroom and the World of Pseudo-CGI (2013) (Score: 150+ in 22 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6enu8
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Scientists use magnetic nanotech to safely rewarm frozen tissues for transplant (Score: 150+ in 16 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6epes
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The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6en4X
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Transparenttextures.com (❄️ Score: 151+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6eghv
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OpenSSH Keystroke Obfuscation Bypass (Score: 150+ in 21 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6en9L
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David Chang on the long, hard, stupid way (Score: 152+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6epjr
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SQLite on Rails: The how and why of optimal performance (Score: 150+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6epMa
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Microwave spontaneously turned on by its LED display (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ed4Y
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AppleWatchAmmeter (Score: 155+ in 11 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6endJ
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Building the same app using various web frameworks (Score: 150+ in 15 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6emKh
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I wish I didn't miss the '90s-00s internet (Score: 151+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6emZ2
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Consent-O-Matic – automatically fills ubiquitous pop-ups with your preferences (❄️ Score: 151+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ed2c
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