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Elixir is a great language for simplified web app development as it allows developers to collapse the tech stack through features like Phoenix LiveView, built-in concurrency and fault tolerance, and integration with familiar tools. The language also has a fairly stable ecosystem with mature tooling to speed up development, making it ideal for bootstrapped startups.
An infrastructure lead had to make various infrastructure decisions for a startup over the past four years. He endorses choosing AWS, RDS, and Redis ElastiCache, but regrets opting for other things, like AWS’s premium support. He also recommends considering dependency management and identity platforms earlier rather than later in order to save the company from a painful migration later on.
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Stract is an open-source web search engine targeted towards tinkerers and developers. It features keyword search, advanced query syntax, a Wikipedia and StackOverflow sidebar, priority of personally-selected trusted websites, and more.
Sapling is a code editor that prioritizes editing speed, allowing users to edit code at the pace of their thoughts. It is similar to editors like Vim and supports editing in any language through plugins.
Sweep Assistant, a locally operating developer tool, collaborates with you while coding. It prioritizes your security by exclusively transmitting code to your OpenAI endpoint. When using Azure OpenAI, all your code remains within the confines of your network.
A Google engineer named Eric Lehman warned in 2018 that AI posed a serious threat to Google's search dominance. This concern stemmed from Google's BERT project, which achieved impressive results in web answers (featured snippets). Lehman urged proactive measures to avoid being blindsided by a potential competitor, even a startup, using a similar approach. While Google acknowledged the threat, Lehman eventually left the company in 2022. This internal email highlights Google's early concerns about AI disruption and foretells the rise of alternative search engines like Perplexity, which capitalize on unsupervised learning from raw text.
European app developers are expressing discontent with Apple's new App Store rules, criticizing Apple's fees and restrictions. Despite the potential for alternative app stores and payment systems, developers feel pressured to adhere to Apple's terms to avoid warnings and fees. Apple is defending its changes as compliant with regulations and necessary for user security.
Design engineers are crucial for creating interactive features in web interfaces. They can design and code at the same time, ensuring that the final product feels intentional and well-designed.
A group of volunteers led by a former Safari developer embarked on building SerenityOS and Ladybird browser from scratch to understand complexity. After encountering a crash while testing, the author of this article delved into the code, identified a CSS compliance issue, and collaborated with the developers to resolve it. The lesson for developers is that if you are motivated and skilled, you can single-handedly get very far. No complexity is too much to be understood.
Big Tech is losing its luster compared to the past due to layoffs, disillusionment among employees, and stagnant career growth.
A Reddit user had to take a personality test for FedEx’s software engineering role that had them pick whether characters in displayed images represented them or not.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is in talks with investors to raise up to $7 trillion for AI chip manufacturing. The project aims to address GPU scarcity as the chips are crucial for training and running large language models. Potential investors include sovereign wealth funds and government entities, which may raise geopolitical concerns. The US has been cautious about allowing foreign control over the supply of microchips - it recently announced a $5 billion investment in R&D to advance US-made semiconductor technologies.
OpenAI has been reportedly developing two types of AI agent software for over a year. The first type can be used to automate complex tasks by taking over a customer's device. The second AI agent class handles web-based tasks and can gather public data. It is unclear when the company plans to release these agents.
Epic Games and Disney are designing an entertainment universe text full of Disney-flavored games to play and things to buy. The project will use Epic's technology and Fortnite's social gaming ecosystem to bring Disney characters to life. Disney has invested $1.5 billion into Epic as part of the deal. While Meta has been busy trying to make the Oculus a mainstream consumer product, companies like Epic have been building avatar-driven virtual worlds that are widely available and hardware agnostic.
Developments in robots and CGI are making it harder and harder to tell what's real. Even if the footage is real, video demos are often the best-performing clips - behind every video is likely hours and hours of video that didn't make it into the final cut. CES lacked cool robotic demos, yet there are many amazing videos out there. Viewers should approach these videos with discernment and skepticism. This article covers several ways that robotics videos can be enhanced or faked.
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This article looks at some of the core decisions that an infrastructure lead had to make for a startup over the past four years. It notes whether they recommend or regret the decision and provides details on why. The decisions covered areas such as AWS, processes, SaaS, software, and more.
Toolong is a terminal application for viewing, tailing, merging, and searching log files and JSONL. It features live tailing of log files, syntax highlighting for common web server log formats, pretty printed JSONL files, support for .bz and .bz2 files, and merging via auto detection of timestamps. Screenshots and video demos are available in the repository.
This article takes a look at the Apple Vision Pro: its hardware, operating system, and applications. It covers each part of the device, explaining how they work and how they affect the experience. While the technology feels incredible to use, there's currently not that much to do on the device. As the technology gets better, the amount of content will multiply and its value proposition will improve.
Tech companies are typically best at adopting new technology, leading to productivity gains. Some roles at tech companies are highly leveraged, like systems, engineering, and design, and the rest of the company exists to support these roles. Businesses wanting to be more efficient will cut inefficiencies in their support roles, especially when technologies exist that can replace them. Tech allows fewer people to create more value for society - it might be time to start finding alternative ways to provide for all living beings.
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Social networks have realized the value of the data they are sitting on - the walls they have put up to access their data have resulted in some developers moving to decentralized platforms.
RSS feeds are the best way to consume a curated list of high-quality information with very little noise.
New forms of browsing enabled by AI allow people to get information without having to visit websites, removing the incentive for content creators to make content - how creators monetize web pages needs to evolve.
Miracode is a readable version of Monocraft, a font based on the typeface used in the Minecraft UI.
OpenAI believes it can more than double this figure in 2025.
The team working on the Vision Pro says there's much to be done before the device can be considered refined enough for customers to use on a day-to-day basis.
The Laion research group has released an open assistant that uses natural voice and extremely optimized language models that can run on a gaming laptop. The project aims to provide a low-resource assistant that is easy to install and powerful for personal use.
Microsoft-backed OpenAI hit the $2 billion revenue milestone in December and it believes it can more than double this figure in 2025.
AI agents are emerging as a new distribution channel, potentially leveling the playing field between startups and incumbents by making purchasing decisions on behalf of consumers. As this trend progresses, businesses must optimize their products for AI preferences rather than human ones, changing the traditional dynamics of product discovery, evaluation, and purchase. AI's advancements suggest a future where agent-driven commerce could transform how products are marketed and purchased.
This post is about the role of humans in data generation. It also talks about collecting preference data, annotating, labeling, and more.
Transferring skills from one RL agent to another has proved challenging thus far. This work optimizes for a set of skills that can be used across environments. It shows promising generalization performance.
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Allowing a language model to generate its own training data is a challenging but promising area of research. SPIN is a method that has shown promise. The code has been released but is reportedly challenging to work with.
A reinforcement learning framework based on MLX.
Llmware is a unified framework for developing LLM-based application patterns including Retrieval Augmented Generation.
Point Transformer V3 (PTv3) is a simple and efficient model for processing 3D point clouds. It achieves faster processing speeds and better memory efficiency by focusing on scaling up and efficiency rather than on intricate design details.
AI will fundamentally change how we produce and consume art and ultimately the type of art we create. This article explores this point in more depth and highlights the companies driving the change.
Research talk from Google about reading music from a person’s brain.
Shipments of AI PCs equipped with hardware and software for local generative AI tasks are predicted to hit nearly 50 million units this year, with potential growth to triple in a few years.
According to Elon Musk, Neuralink has conducted its first FCA-approved surgical test of a brain implant. Techno accelerationism in action.
A toolkit for building AI Assistants using function calling.