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New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Drop-in SQS replacement based on SQLite

Show HN: Drop-in SQS replacement based on SQLite 494 by memset | 122 comments on Hacker News. Hi! I wanted to share an open source API-compatible replacement for SQS. It's written in Go, distributes as a single binary, and uses SQLite for underlying storage. I wrote this because I wanted a queue with all the bells and whistles - searching, scheduling into the future, observability, and rate limiting - all the things that many modern task queue systems have. But I didn't want to rewrite my app, which was already using SQS. And I was frustrated that many of the best solutions out there (BullMQ, Oban, Sidekiq) were language-specific. So I made an SQS-compatible replacement. All you have to do is replace the endpoint using AWS' native library in your language of choice. For example, the queue works with Celery - you just change the connection string. From there, you can see all of your messages and their status, which is hard today in the SQS console (and flower doesn't ...

New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: I am building an open-source Confluence and Notion alternative

Show HN: I am building an open-source Confluence and Notion alternative 501 by Pi9h | 197 comments on Hacker News. Hello HN, I am building Docmost, an open-source collaborative wiki and documentation software. It is an open-source alternative to Confluence and Notion. I have been working on it for the past 12 months. This is the first public release (beta). The rich-text editor has support for real-time collaboration, LaTex, inline comments, tables, and callouts to name a few. Features - Collaborative real-time editor - Spaces (Teamspace) - User permissions - Groups - Comments - Page history - Nested pages - Search - File attachments You can find screenshots of the product on the website. Website: https://docmost.com Github: https://ift.tt/5J6YLN9 Documentation: https://ift.tt/ytL6EIB I would love to hear your feedback. Thank you.

New best story on Hacker News: Imhex: A hex editor for reverse engineers

Imhex: A hex editor for reverse engineers 466 by wsc981 | 97 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: I built a JavaScript-powered flipdisc display

Show HN: I built a JavaScript-powered flipdisc display 453 by simpsoka | 120 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Software galaxies

Software galaxies 602 by matesz | 105 comments on Hacker News.

Tackling organized crime essential to stabilizing Sahel region and achieving Sustainable Development Goals, says UNODC report

Tackling organized crime essential to stabilizing Sahel region and achieving Sustainable Development Goals, says UNODC report Published June 29, 2024 at 01:26AM Read more at unodc.org

New best story on Hacker News: Remembering Larry Finger, who made Linux wireless work

Remembering Larry Finger, who made Linux wireless work 492 by bookofjoe | 50 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Waymo One is now open to everyone in San Francisco

Waymo One is now open to everyone in San Francisco 480 by ra7 | 614 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: One Million Checkboxes

One Million Checkboxes 677 by LorenDB | 240 comments on Hacker News.

UNODC World Drug Report 2024: Harms of world drug problem continue to mount amid expansions in drug use and markets

UNODC World Drug Report 2024: Harms of world drug problem continue to mount amid expansions in drug use and markets Published June 26, 2024 at 07:30PM Read more at unodc.org

New best story on Hacker News: Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites

Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites 589 by gnabgib | 226 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Microsoft removes documentation for switching to a local account in Windows 11

Microsoft removes documentation for switching to a local account in Windows 11 570 by redbell | 339 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Local First, Forever

Local First, Forever 569 by WhyNotHugo | 246 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Allan McDonald refused to approve Challenger launch, exposed cover-up (2021)

Allan McDonald refused to approve Challenger launch, exposed cover-up (2021) 560 by EndXA | 379 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Apple found in breach of EU competition rules

Apple found in breach of EU competition rules 669 by malermeister | 746 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free

Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free 768 by amima | 374 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites 752 by fabianholzer | 322 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: The tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets

The tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets 656 by todsacerdoti | 322 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: I am using AI to drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers

I am using AI to drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers 635 by jimhi | 177 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Claude 3.5 Sonnet 639 by squadrick | 271 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Gilead shot prevents all HIV cases in trial

Gilead shot prevents all HIV cases in trial 700 by toomuchtodo | 319 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Tetris Font

Tetris Font 597 by Bluestein | 80 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: I made a puzzle game that gently introduces my favorite math mysteries

Show HN: I made a puzzle game that gently introduces my favorite math mysteries 642 by MCSP | 124 comments on Hacker News. This is the first iteration of a short game I’m making that tries to interactively explain some of my favorite math questions / ideas. My goal is mostly to get the player curious and not necessarily to explain absolutely everything. There were a lot of fun technical parts to building this: - For implementation reasons, it’s much easier if the lines all have integer intersection points with each other. To do this, when a new line is added I “cheat” by rounding intersections to integers and then splitting the old lines at the intersection into new linds (with potentially different slopes) going through the rounded point - I had to draw semi accurate maps of actual places (UK, South America, US west coast) in the HTML canvas using just line segments. I tried a few different solutions, including using SVG data. I ended up using the topojson library to give nice line...

New best story on Hacker News: EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control

EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control 647 by skilled | 310 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Please don't mention AI again

Please don't mention AI again 596 by ludicity | 379 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Safe Superintelligence Inc.

Safe Superintelligence Inc. 583 by nick_pou | 383 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: KidPix

KidPix 506 by wonger_ | 82 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: EU to greenlight Chat Control tomorrow

EU to greenlight Chat Control tomorrow 494 by FionnMc | 318 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Chat Control: Incompatible with Fundamental Rights

Chat Control: Incompatible with Fundamental Rights 621 by Bluestein | 152 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Chat Control Must Be Stopped – Now

Chat Control Must Be Stopped – Now 548 by andrew918277 | 164 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Nvidia Warp: A Python framework for high performance GPU simulation and graphics

Nvidia Warp: A Python framework for high performance GPU simulation and graphics 485 by jarmitage | 134 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations

FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations 742 by ChrisArchitect | 302 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: MicroMac, a Macintosh for under £5

MicroMac, a Macintosh for under £5 511 by als0 | 62 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: What You Get After Running an SSH Honeypot for 30 Days

What You Get After Running an SSH Honeypot for 30 Days 483 by SofianeHamlaoui | 328 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: We Made The World's Smallest and Cheapest Network Switch

Show HN: We Made The World's Smallest and Cheapest Network Switch 492 by Hello9999901 | 137 comments on Hacker News. Hello, we're Max and Byran from MUREX Robotics, a high school robotics team from Exeter, New Hampshire. We are super proud to have made this open source piece of technology! It is only 6.9 dollars (actually!) from JLCPCB :) I hope you like it. You can find us at byran@mrx.ee and max@mrx.ee as well if you have any questions. We will be putting a small run of these boards for sale somewhere (we have <25 units of stock), probably for $10+shipping. Let us know if you're interested in more! Board files for everything we make is here: https://github.com/murexrobotics/electrical-2024

New best story on Hacker News: Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent

Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent 544 by cdme | 479 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Uncensor any LLM with abliteration

Uncensor any LLM with abliteration 559 by mizzao | 285 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Voyager 1 is back online! NASA spacecraft returns data from all 4 instruments

Voyager 1 is back online! NASA spacecraft returns data from all 4 instruments 580 by dev_tty01 | 105 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: MLow: Meta's low bitrate audio codec

MLow: Meta's low bitrate audio codec 558 by mikece | 194 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Microsoft Chose Profit over Security, Whistleblower Says

Microsoft Chose Profit over Security, Whistleblower Says 496 by tyleroconnell | 246 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Elixir 1.17 released: set-theoretic types in patterns, durations, OTP 27

Elixir 1.17 released: set-theoretic types in patterns, durations, OTP 27 402 by clessg | 92 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Apple blocks PC emulator in iOS App Store and third-party app stores

Apple blocks PC emulator in iOS App Store and third-party app stores 399 by ajdude | 189 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: ARC Prize – a $1M+ competition towards open AGI progress

ARC Prize – a $1M+ competition towards open AGI progress 453 by mikeknoop | 206 comments on Hacker News. Hey folks! Mike here. Francois Chollet and I are launching ARC Prize, a public competition to beat and open-source the solution to the ARC-AGI eval. ARC-AGI is (to our knowledge) the only eval which measures AGI: a system that can efficiently acquire new skill and solve novel, open-ended problems. Most AI evals measure skill directly vs the acquisition of new skill. Francois created the eval in 2019, SOTA was 20% at inception, SOTA today is only 34%. Humans score 85-100%. 300 teams attempted ARC-AGI last year and several bigger labs have attempted it. While most other skill-based evals have rapidly saturated to human-level, ARC-AGI was designed to resist “memorization” techniques (eg. LLMs) Solving ARC-AGI tasks is quite easy for humans (even children) but impossible for modern AI. You can try ARC-AGI tasks yourself here: https://ift.tt/0wYSjvr ARC-AGI consists of 400 public trai...

New best story on Hacker News: Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity

Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity 490 by mooreds | 192 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: I like the RP2040

I like the RP2040 434 by dgroshev | 288 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Lynn Conway Has Died

Lynn Conway Has Died 596 by kevvok | 95 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs

The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs 418 by jseliger | 460 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac

Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac 551 by terramex | 528 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Economic Termites: Monopolies not noticeable enough for most of us

Economic Termites: Monopolies not noticeable enough for most of us 390 by passwordoops | 382 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: OpenSSH introduces options to penalize undesirable behavior

OpenSSH introduces options to penalize undesirable behavior 392 by zdw | 270 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Piku: Allows git push deployments to your own servers

Piku: Allows git push deployments to your own servers 428 by tosh | 115 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited deafness

Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited deafness 416 by keploy | 179 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: The Backrooms of the Internet Archive

The Backrooms of the Internet Archive 434 by passing | 66 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Own a weather station? We want your data

Own a weather station? We want your data 404 by dylan604 | 174 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders ID'd in WA plane crash

Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders ID'd in WA plane crash 401 by TMWNN | 202 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: ASCII Silhouettify

ASCII Silhouettify 380 by thunderbong | 58 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Roman Roads (2017)

Roman Roads (2017) 466 by gslin | 150 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it

I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it 369 by eliasdaler | 147 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Employees who stay in companies longer than two years get paid 50% less (2014)

Employees who stay in companies longer than two years get paid 50% less (2014) 353 by AlgoRitmo | 317 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Simple tasks showing reasoning breakdown in state-of-the-art LLMs

Simple tasks showing reasoning breakdown in state-of-the-art LLMs 350 by tosh | 371 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Diffusion on syntax trees for program synthesis

Diffusion on syntax trees for program synthesis 391 by pouwerkerk | 88 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: You'll regret using natural keys

You'll regret using natural keys 464 by thunderbong | 327 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: I am sick of LeetCode-style interviews

I am sick of LeetCode-style interviews 420 by nelsonfigueroa | 539 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Hacking millions of modems and investigating who hacked my modem

Hacking millions of modems and investigating who hacked my modem 443 by albinowax_ | 234 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Recall: Stealing everything you've ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC

Recall: Stealing everything you've ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC 418 by todsacerdoti | 363 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: How many photons are received per bit transmitted from Voyager 1?

How many photons are received per bit transmitted from Voyager 1? 581 by williamsmj | 119 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Repairing my mug with Kintsugi

Repairing my mug with Kintsugi 601 by fellerts | 78 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: This Message Does Not Exist

This Message Does Not Exist 635 by sebtron | 182 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: UI elements with a hand-drawn, sketchy look

UI elements with a hand-drawn, sketchy look 656 by nickca | 104 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Every mountain, building and tree shadow mapped for any date and time

Show HN: Every mountain, building and tree shadow mapped for any date and time 602 by tppiotrowski | 179 comments on Hacker News. I've been working on this project for about 4 years. It began as terrain only because world wide elevation data was publicly available. I then added buildings from OpenStreetMap (crowd sourced) and more recently from Overture Maps data. Some computer vision/machine learning advancements [1] in the past few years have made it possible to estimate tree canopy heights using satellite imagery alone making it possible to finally add trees to the map. The data isn't perfect, but it's within +/- 3 meters of so. Good enough to give a general idea for any location on Earth. Happy to answer any questions. [1] https://ift.tt/uVhB45U