Craniometrix (YC W22) Is Hiring Founding Engineer on CTO Track
At Craniometrix, we’re more than just a startup: we’re a dedicated team working to make Alzheimer’s disease suck a little less. We build software to help keep grandma happy, healthy, and at home. We have millions of dollars in the bank and millions in contracts, and are looking for a founding engineer that wants to […]
Dbt Labs acquires SDF Labs to accelerate the dbt developer experience
I am not generally an excitable person. I do not dance. I try to avoid hyperbole. And yet. And yet! It is very, very hard for me to avoid literally jumping up and down as I share this news with you. The TL;DR: today, I have the pleasure of announcing that dbt Labs has acquired […]
Show HN: A blocklist to remove spam and bad websites from search results
This is a blocklist that intends to remove garbage websites from search results, such as AI-generated articles, low-effort spam sites, and thinly-veiled advertisements acting as information. Comparison with the blocklist vs without (AI & SEO spam are removed to make room for good articles) Another big goal of this repo is to try to be […]
Servo vs. steppers: Speed, Torque and Accuracy [video]
Leaving a permanent record of humanity on the moon – in 100B pixels
With a population of just over 5,000, the French village of Nuit-Saint-Georges may be small, but this pastoral Burgundy hamlet has an oversized connection to the moon. It is the birthplace of famed 19th-century astronomer Felix Tisserand, whose name was given to the Tisserand crater located in a vast lunar plain known as the Sea […]
In the Belly of the MrBeast
It’s been a year since I sent off the proofs for The YouTube Apparatus (now free to download!), and I haven’t been following the platform as closely while I was focused more on Twitch, TikTok and moving to Italy. One nice thing about studying social media through the lens of creators and influencers is that […]
Plant CO2 uptake rises by nearly one third in new global estimates
Lianhong Gu, co-author, photosynthesis expert and distinguished staff scientist in ORNL’s Environmental Sciences Division, helped develop the project’s mesophyll conductance model, which represents numerically the diffusion of OCS in leaves, as well as the linkage between OCS diffusion and photosynthesis. “Figuring out how much CO2 plants fix each year is a conundrum that scientists have […]
Show HN: Simple Docker Hosting
Push-to-deploy We setup a convenient deploy pipeline for you. New commits to your repository automatically get shipped. Deploy from Docker Hub Deploy from a library of more than 400k public images with the click of a button. Secrets Management Easily add and remove environment variables. We will keep them securly stored for you and your […]
What Every Hacker Should Know About TLB Invalidation [pdf]
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PostgreSQL Is the Database Management System of the Year 2024
Blog > Post by Tom Russell, 13 January 2025 DB-Engines is today announcing that PostgreSQL is our DBMS of the Year for the second year in a row, winning for the fifth time overall. DB-Engines is today announcing that PostgreSQL is our DBMS of the Year for the second year in a row, winning for […]