Distro (YC S24) Is Hiring a Head of Marketing (B2B)
We are seeking a Head of Marketing at Distro to own and lead all marketing channels, including: Content (LinkedIn posts + videos, articles in trade publications) Email marketing Paid (search, trade publications, conference advertising, etc) Website + SEO Event planning Previous B2B startup experience required. This is a hybrid role with 4 days per week […]
DOJ wants to force Google Chrome sale, Android de-bundling
Preferred by 61 percent of Internet users, Google’s Chrome browser plays too big a role in maintaining the tech giant’s search monopoly, the US Department of Justice has reportedly decided. On Monday, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg that top antitrust officials are planning to ask the court on Wednesday to order Google to […]
AlphaQubit: AI to identify errors in Quantum Computers
Quantum computers have the potential to revolutionize drug discovery, material design and fundamental physics — that is, if we can get them to work reliably. Certain problems, which would take a conventional computer billions of years to solve, would take a quantum computer just hours. However, these new processors are more prone to noise than […]
Show HN: Rebuild of Blossom, an open-source social robot
This post presents updates to Blossom, the robot that I developed in grad school. The current version of Blossom, with a new chevron cover and accessories: glasses for seeing; hearing aid for listening; name tag for communicating. Stereographic GIF courtesy of Cyril and the PIMSLO camera. Blossom is an open-source robot platform for human-robot interaction […]
Between the Booms: AI in Winter – Communications of the ACM
Observing the tsunami of artificial intelligence (AI) hype that has swept over the world in the past few years, science fiction writer Ted Chiang staked out a contrarian position. “Artificial intelligence,” he insisted, was just a “poor choice of words … back in the ’50s” that had caused “a lot of confusion.” Under the rubric […]
SQL, Homomorphisms and Constraint Satisfaction Problems
Database queries are a pretty surprisingly powerful tool that can solve seemingly intractable problems. It is a fun coding challenge to do things in SQL. I’ve seen people solve sudokus or do advent of code, or you can build a datalog on SQL with a little metaprogramming (maybe even fully internally). It is also possible […]
Converge (YC S23) is hiring senior product engineers (NYC, in-person)
Converge is building the unified marketing measurement stack for online stores. We make it easy for marketeers to understand where their customers come from, cut unprofitable channels, and scale when things are working. We graduated from the YC S23 cohort last year. Since then, we scaled to 7-figures in ARR, now serving 180+ customers (including […]
Show HN: I’m 17 and made a tool to help students study smarter
Designed For Students. Hey, I’m Dris. I built LIRA to help busy students like us study smarter, not longer. MonthlyYearlyFree tokens Basic FREE For (soon-to-be) dropouts. Simple notetaking Instant answers & summaries Works on any site Add LIRA to Chrome Plus $3 / month For honor-role students. 200K credits/month Advanced features High-level limits & responses […]
La Basilica Di San Pietro
Photogrammetry, AI, and digital preservation combine to create a digital twin of St. Peter’s Basilica with thousands of images, allowing visitors to explore it in detail from anywhere in the world. Located in Vatican City, St. Peter’s Basilica is over 400 years old, and is one of the most well-known churches in the world revered […]
The Rise of Malört, an Unexpected Midwest Princess
Malört is, in one word, unforgiving. Made from neutral spirits, wormwood and sugar, it tastes a little like sucking dandelion juice through a straw made of car tires. It is also kind of good. Intensely bitter, it’s herbaceous and a touch citrusy, as if you were to bite a grapefruit like an apple. It is […]