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Inspiration drives users to action by showing them something they want. Fear triggers “loss aversion”, and pictures of faces naturally grab attention due to human nature. This post includes un-ignorable content examples from Codie Sanchez, Lenny Rachitsky, and Mr Beast.
85% of online shoppers hesitate to re-order from a retailer after a poor delivery experience. Over 80% of consumers expect regular updates through the order fulfillment process. Trust is built through seamless order tracking, responsive technical support, and hassle-free return and refund processes. Free shipping, quick customer service, and leveraging real-time info also play key roles in converting one-time buyers into lifelong advocates.
Link exchanges are a link-building tactic where you link to a website, and they link back to you. Google's link spam guidelines say “excessive link exchanges” are against its policies, but reciprocal linking is natural and not bad for SEO. Thoroughly check the website's quality and relevance and avoid link networks or PBNs. Conduct link exchange outreach by pitching post ideas or proactively mentioning the site in a post.
A guide on how to use Screaming Frog and ChatGPT's API to map related pages on your website. First, use an existing custom Custom Javascript in Screaming Frog to get an export of the URLs with vector embeddings, which represent the relationships. Then, use the provided Python script in Google Colab to map the most relevant other URLs to each of the URLs.
TikTok partnered with Eventbrite to streamline ticket sales for live experiences on TikTok. Events can be managed directly within the app. This new feature lets fans purchase tickets without leaving TikTok, simplifying the process for both organizers and attendees. Event organizers can easily link events to their videos, and users will see the most relevant events based on their location.
Megan Morreale, former Head of Content Marketing at Reddit and Taboola, believes that the traditional content marketing role is fading. Companies now prefer specialized roles focusing on specific aspects like SEO, email, or social media. Morreale advises content marketers to leverage their skills in more strategic, revenue-driven roles within growth or product marketing teams.
A chart that maps out growth channels, comparing brand-building vs. pipeline-generation and difficult vs. easy.
Commenting, creating content in batches, diversifying content formats, and utilizing polls are key ways to increase engagement on LinkedIn.
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Does shipping digital experiences quickly mean compromising on quality? Not necessarily. AI and visual development create new ways to build, iterate upon, and optimize applications and websites. This live session will cut through the hype [4] and provide a realistic view of how traditional CMS architecture misses the mark and how emerging technologies address long-standing challenges:
This developer rebuilt a 10-year-old iOS app using Expo, adding Android and TV support along the way. They successfully replicated the original app's functionality using Expo and React Native packages, avoiding the need for custom native code. The new UI design used responsive layouts for different devices, and the app was built and submitted using EAS Build and Submit.
React projects often suffer from messy architecture due to the framework's unopinionated nature. This article focuses on domain logic, which is code that operates on domain models like user objects. The goal is to isolate domain logic from components and move it to a dedicated domain layer, improving code readability, testability, and reusability.
German Strings, designed for data processing, are a custom string type that optimizes for short, immutable strings. Unlike C or C++ strings, German Strings store short strings directly in place and include a prefix for faster comparisons. Long strings are stored with a pointer, length, and prefix, but without extra capacity for appending. German Strings also have three storage classes: temporary, persistent, and transient.
You should review your own pull requests (PRs) in the GitHub UI to catch mistakes and improve code quality before involving other team members. This practice helps identify issues that might be overlooked in the code editor and allows for more productive and focused code reviews. Add comments to PRs to explain design choices and alternative solutions tried before sending them out for review.
Story points, used to estimate effort in Agile development, are unreliable due to their relative nature and inherent variability. Velocity, which converts story points into time, further worsens this problem by creating unrealistic deadlines and discouraging teams from exceeding expectations. A better approach is to break down projects into smaller tasks, creating queues, and tracking the average task rate, which provides a more reliable way to project completion times and adjust for scope changes.
Engineering teams often face a problem when choosing system design tools: they focus on the solution (diagramming tools) rather than the underlying problem (understanding and communicating complex systems). System design is a continuous process that goes beyond diagrams and includes documenting requirements, architecture, and decisions. Modern software systems are too complex for traditional diagramming tools, which lack real-time updates, collaborative features, and the ability to manage cloud resources.
Codestral Mamba is a new open-source model designed to improve code productivity. Unlike Transformer models, it has linear time inference and the ability to model infinite length sequences. It can be used as a local code assistant and deployed using the mistral-inference SDK or TensorRT-LLM.
The AWS Secrets Manager Agent is a client-side HTTP service that can be used to standardize the consumption of secrets from Secrets Manager across environments such as AWS Lambda, Amazon Elastic Container Service, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. The Secrets Manager Agent can retrieve and cache secrets in memory so that your applications can consume secrets directly from the cache. That means you can fetch the secrets your application needs from the localhost instead of making calls to the Secrets Manager.
Eidos is an extensible framework for managing personal data throughout its lifetime in one place. It runs in the browser and has offline support and local AI features.
This author initially implemented a bignum library using base-10 digits, but it was slow. They then optimized it by switching to 30-bit digits, which improved memory efficiency and arithmetic operations. This change resulted in an 83% faster addition and a 99% faster multiplication.
AI Lab is a pre-production framework at Meta that continuously A/B tests common ML workflows to proactively improve and prevent regressions on Time to First Batch (TTFB), a key metric for ML engineer productivity.
Andrej Karpathy has announced a new AI+Education company, Eureka Labs, which aims to create an AI-powered learning platform where students can learn from high-quality course materials guided by AI Teaching Assistants.
Small, focused pull requests that do exactly one thing each are easier to review, less likely to have merge conflicts, easier to rollback if something goes wrong, and lead to more accurate descriptions and increased code coverage.
Jon Kern, co-author of the Agile Manifesto, criticizes a recent report on Agile failure rates, arguing that it misrepresents Agile principles and promotes excessive processes that obscure the original spirit of the Manifesto.
An ex-Coinbase employee discusses performance challenges faced when using React Native at Coinbase, including re-rendering issues and solutions implemented, as well as platform-specific optimizations between iOS and Android.
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The iOS 18 public preview is now available. The update allows users to put icons anywhere on the home screen, change app icon color, add lock screen shortcuts for apps other than camera and flashlight, and more. It has a more customizable Control Center menu and a redesigned Photos app. The update will only run on iPhones released in 2018 or later.
Cloud cybersecurity company Wiz was founded four years ago by four former Israeli military officers. It grew quickly to become the dominant company in cloud cybersecurity and is headed toward the largest exit for any tech startup since Rivian's $77 billion initial public offering in November 2021. Google is looking to acquire the company for a $23 billion sale price. The deal will likely draw scrutiny from antitrust regulators in the US and EU.
The human immune system is very good at attacking anything it registers as a disease - if it could be turned against cancer, it could eliminate tumors more thoroughly than surgery and more durably than chemotherapy. Scientists have managed to modify T cells to react to cancer as if it were a virus and destroy it. The therapy has been used to remove glioblastomas, a common type of brain cancer with a median time of diagnosis to death of just over a year.
The creation of synthetic blood is one of the holy grails of biomedical research. There are two main approaches to making synthetic blood products: the biologist's approach and the chemist's approach. The biologist's approach involves coaxing stem cells into becoming blood cells, while the chemist's approach synthesizes molecules and particles that mimic the functions of blood cells. Both approaches need to overcome economic and manufacturing challenges before they can scale for use in patients.
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SCALE is a GPGPU programming toolkit that allows programs written using the popular CUDA language to be natively compiled for AMD GPUs. It accepts CUDA programs as is and serves as a drop-in replacement for nvcc. SCALE acts as an installation of the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit, so it will work with existing build tools and scripts. It offers opt-in language extensions that can make writing GPU code easier and more efficient.
Facebook uses Mercurial instead of Git, building custom workflows on top of the tool for performance. Facebook used Git years ago, but it started facing performance issues, and the response from Git maintainers wasn't cooperative, with the maintainers pushing back on improving performance and instead recommending that Facebook shard its monorepo. The Facebook team looked at its alternatives and chose Mercurial, which had a community of maintainers who were welcoming to changes made by them. The story shows how kindness and openness can go far in the world of devtools.
The Saudi government plans to invest $38 billion in video games by 2030 through its Public Investment Fund. It is holding the inaugural Esports World Cup this month in Riyadh, the Saudi capital. Many of the world's largest video game companies and influencers have quietly partnered with the Saudis. Photos from the event, which will run for eight weeks, are available in the article.
This Hacker News thread takes a look at what the job market is currently like, both for recruiters and job seekers. While many respondents confirm that a lot of employment is found through direct connections rather than through job postings, many companies still require potential workers to go through the interview process. The thread contains a lot of advice for job seekers from people who have been successful at finding new employment during their careers.
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SpreadsheetLLM uses a Chain of Spreadsheet framework that can decompose spreadsheet reasoning into a table detection-match-reasoning pipeline.
This article looks at why developers should avoid Graph QL and presents alternatives to use instead.
Critics in the AI community say that progress in large language models has plateaued and the development may be approaching diminishing returns.
HR software company Lattice will no longer pursue digital workers in its products after backlash.
Most people underestimate how close AI tools are to replacing the work of a human because they aren't using the latest models or making use of prompt engineering.
In a recent interview, Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott expressed confidence that large language model "scaling laws" will continue to drive AI progress, countering skepticism about diminishing returns.
OpenAI recently shared a five-level system for tracking its artificial general intelligence progress. The levels go from what is currently available to AI that can perform the same amount of work as an organization. They may change based on feedback from employees, investors, and the company's board. OpenAI executives believe the company's AI is currently on the first level, but it is getting close to level two, where AI can perform basic problem-solving.
VC firm Andreessen Horowitz has secured thousands of AI chips to exchange for equity.
A great paper that outlines how you can turn a spreadsheet into a representation that is useful to a modern LLM. This can be used for Q/A, formatting, and other data operations.