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 […]
Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free at MIT
Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting next fall, thanks to newly expanded financial aid. Eighty percent of American households meet this income threshold. And for the 50 percent of American families with income below $100,000, parents can expect to pay nothing at all toward the full cost of their students’ MIT education, which […]
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 […]
How good are American roads?
We’re in an era where US infrastructure is getting a lot of attention. We need a lot of energy infrastructure for decarbonization, and to enable the AI data center buildout. There’s lots of interest in building high-speed rail, mass transit infrastructure, desalination plants in arid regions, and better ports. One facet of infrastructure that doesn’t […]
GNU Artanis 1.0.0 Released
GNU Artanis was born in 2013, and it’s a web application framework written in Guile Scheme. It’s designed to be simple and easy to use, and it’s suitable for small to medium web applications. It’s licensed under GPLv3+ and LGPLv3. In the beginning, Artanis was largely inspired by Ruby on Rails to generate the scaffold […]
Ensō: design constraints of a focussed writing tool
20·11·2024 This note is #fleeting and very much a work-in-progress! In short: Kind software Less is more, more or less Longer version: One click, and you should be ready to start writing. That click should be on the app icon. Private by default (How I Use Analytics With My Indie Projects, Defaults Matter, Don’t Assume […]
Using gRPC for (local) inter-process communication – F. Werner’s Research Page
Using a full-featured RPC framework for IPC seems like overkill when the processes run on the same machine. However, if your project anyway exposes RPCs for public APIs or would benefit from a schema-based serialisation layer it makes sense to use only one tool that combines these—also for IPC. Microservices for beginners# For the FlashCam […]