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Why building a self-hosted SaaS is harder

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-08 22:58:02

In the 90s, we flew in technicians to install Oracle databases in server basements. Today, Supabase spins up a backend, in seconds, for free. Over the past 30 years, software has gotten faster, cheaper and easier in almost every way. Some engineers might miss 24-month cycles of tranquil coding, but nobody wants to do code reviews over email or contort software to run on a 10 year-old server rack your eighth-biggest customer is still using. As an open source SaaS startup, we need to be able to

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AI Is Making It Nearly Impossible to Find a Well-Paying Job. Is This the World We Want?

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-13 09:21:01

What jobs, exactly, is so-called "artificial intelligence" supposed to revolutionize, and for whose benefit? The answers to those rarely-asked questions have become increasingly clear in recent months, as the looming threat of AI automation appears to be taking a concrete toll on the workforce. The bombshell July jobs report has finally confirmed what many US workers have been feeling for months: it's almost impossible to find meaningful employment anymore. With just 73,000 nonfarm jobs added

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Hubble Captures Glorious New Image of That Mysterious Object Cruising Into Our Solar System

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-13 11:10:25

As the mysterious interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS plummets through our Solar System, NASA's good old Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best look yet at the interstellar visitor. On July 21, the interstellar interloper passed close enough to Earth — and to Hubble, which orbits us at about 320 miles above the planet — that the veteran space telescope was able to capture a surprisingly detailed image of it, NASA explains in a statement about the image. In the space agency's incredible

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Disney 1985 film The Black Cauldron was an experiment that failed

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-13 11:52:07

Disney Animation's ambitious and innovative 1985 film The Black Cauldron was an experiment that dramatically failed, arguably putting the future of the studio in question. Disney Animation was on the lookout for a new identity in the 1980s. After half-a-century of success, this decade of the company's history is commonly referred to as the "Bronze" or "Dark Age", neither exactly a ringing endorsement of its films. Hope came in the form of The Black Cauldron, which seemed like the perfect way to

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Get Ready to See Six Planets Line Up in the Upcoming Planet Parade

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-13 11:27:00

Fresh off the excitement of the Perseids meteor shower is a chance to see six planets lined up in the sky at once. These events, colloquially known as planet parades, only occur about once or twice a year, with the most recent one in February showing off all seven planets in our solar system at once. The next one will feature six of our closest celestial neighbors, and the event starts on Aug. 20. The six planets sharing the sky will be Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. Mars

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Tesla Robotaxi scores permit to run ride-hailing service in Texas

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2025-12-13 16:53:53

In an aerial view, the Tesla headquarters is seen in Austin, Texas, on July 24, 2025. Tesla has been granted a permit to run a ride-hailing business in Texas, allowing the electric vehicle maker to compete against companies including Uber and Lyft . Tesla Robotaxi LLC is licensed to operate a "transportation network company" until August 6, 2026, according to a listing on the website of the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, or TDLR. The permit was issued this week. Elon Musk's EV

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Apple pushes back on Fintiv’s latest litigious attempt to profit off Apple Pay

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-13 17:05:52

Fintiv, a firm you’ve probably only heard of in the context of patent litigation, is once again suing Apple over Apple Pay. Apple’s secure mobile payment solution launched over a decade ago in 2014. Fintiv has been unsuccessfully suing Apple over Apple Pay since 2018. Apple is not hiding its frustration. In a statement to 9to5Mac, the company accused the Texas-based firm of trying to “distract from their failed patent case” with a new set of allegations. “The court has repeatedly rejected Fint

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Someone keeps stealing, flying, fixing and returning this man's 1958 Cessna

news.ycombinator.com Staff Writer 2025-12-13 15:45:26

Jason Hong, 75, has had his 1958 Cessna Skyhawk stolen, and returned, multiple times in the last couple of months, but he and police have no idea who has been taking the colorful plane. While Jason Hong was celebrating his 75th birthday, he suddenly found himself thinking about his 1958 Cessna Skyhawk, a white and red single-engine beauty with colorful stripes that he calls his “old treasure.” He doesn’t fly it much anymore, but given the occasion he resolved to visit his plane as soon as he c

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A robust, open-source framework for Spiking Neural Networks on low-end FPGAs

news.ycombinator.com Fan 2025-12-08 22:36:09

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Job growth has slowed sharply; the question is why

news.ycombinator.com Claudia Sahm 2025-12-13 16:57:56

After an avalanche of data last week, there are more signs of a slowing economy. Real GDP rose modestly in the first half, and inflation started to drift up. The labor market was the last piece to fall in line, and it did with a bang on Friday. Job growth slowed sharply starting in May (including large downward revisions in May and June), and the unemployment rate increased in July. It’s a complicated mix of supply and demand shocks, but an unsurprising outcome given the significant policy chang

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Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-13 17:27:28

Sam said yesterday that chatgpt handles ~700M weekly users. Meanwhile, I can't even run a single GPT-4-class model locally without insane VRAM or painfully slow speeds. Sure, they have huge GPU clusters, but there must be more going on - model optimizations, sharding, custom hardware, clever load balancing, etc. What engineering tricks make this possible at such massive scale while keeping latency low? Curious to hear insights from people who've built large-scale ML systems.

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HRT's Python fork: Leveraging PEP 690 for faster imports

news.ycombinator.com Noah Kim 2025-12-13 14:12:03

Python @ HRT At Hudson River Trading (HRT), we’ve found that centralizing our codebase facilitates cross-team collaboration and rapid deployment of new projects. Therefore, the majority of our software development takes place in a monorepo, and our Python ecosystem is set up such that internal modules are importable everywhere. Unfortunately, the convenience of this arrangement has led to a conundrum: a vast proliferation of imports. In Python, imports occur at runtime. For each imported name,

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Environmentalist Lawsuit Halts Construction of Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-12-13 17:40:25

Progress on Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” ground to a halt on Thursday, August 7, when a federal judge ordered a two-week ban on construction. The ruling follows a hearing in a lawsuit by environmental groups and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians. The plaintiffs—Earthjustice, the Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of the Everglades, and the Miccosukee—allege that hasty construction of the facility in the Everglades unlawfully moved forward without public input or an environmental impact st

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The Tesla Cybertruck May Have Found Its True Calling: Military Target Practice

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-13 15:56:00

Table of Contents The Tesla Cybertruck May Have Found Its True Calling: Military Target Practice The Tesla Cybertruck inspires strong opinions. People either love or hate the shiny, sharp-angled trucks, many of which have been vandalized and even shot with paintball guns as a reaction against Tesla CEO and former Trump administration staffer Elon Musk. So this one's for you, Cybertruck haters: The Air Force recently had 33 vehicles, including two Cybertrucks, delivered to the White Sands Missi

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The Vibes-Based Pricing of ‘Pro’ AI Software

wired.com Lauren Goode 2025-12-13 17:46:11

Michael Calore: OK. Lauren Goode: All right. Actually not. But last fall I went to an event for Worldcoin, which is Sam Altman's other company. It was a super weird vibey crypto eye scanning thing at a warehouse in the Mission District of San Francisco. Michael Calore: The orb? Lauren Goode: This party had everything. Yeah. But there was swag there and there was a really nice sweatshirt that had World emblazoned on it, and I looked at the label and it's by a company called Original Favorites,

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Someone keeps stealing, flying, fixing and returning this man's plane. But why?

news.ycombinator.com Staff Writer 2025-12-13 21:45:26

Jason Hong, 75, has had his 1958 Cessna Skyhawk stolen, and returned, multiple times in the last couple of months, but he and police have no idea who has been taking the colorful plane. While Jason Hong was celebrating his 75th birthday, he suddenly found himself thinking about his 1958 Cessna Skyhawk, a white and red single-engine beauty with colorful stripes that he calls his “old treasure.” He doesn’t fly it much anymore, but given the occasion he resolved to visit his plane as soon as he c

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AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-13 21:58:30

AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified. They've warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic's AI training now threatens to "financially ruin" the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement. Last week, Anthropic petitioned to appeal the class certification, urging the court to weigh questions that the district court judge, William

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A Robust, Open-Source Framework for Spiking Neural Networks on Low-End FPGAs

news.ycombinator.com Fan 2025-12-09 04:36:09

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Heaviest Black Hole Ever Found Pushes Limit of What’s Cosmologically Possible

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-13 22:45:21

The largest black hole ever detected is 36 billion times the mass of our Sun. It exists near the upper limit predicted by our cosmological models, leaving astronomers with burning questions surrounding the relationship between black holes and their galaxy hosts. In a paper published August 7 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, researchers announced the discovery of a black hole inside a supermassive galaxy 5 billion light-years from Earth, dubbed the Cosmic Horseshoe. The newl

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The War for the Web Has Begun

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-12-13 22:54:30

A high-stakes war has just broken out over the future of the internet. In one corner is Cloudflare, a giant of web infrastructure that acts as a gatekeeper for a huge portion of online traffic. In the other is Perplexity, a darling of the AI world, a search engine threatening to upend Google’s dominance. The accusation is explosive: Cloudflare claims Perplexity is a bad actor, a rogue bot that ignores the internet’s oldest rules to secretly scrape data from websites that have explicitly told it

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AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-13 21:44:05

AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified. They've warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic's AI training now threatens to "financially ruin" the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement. Last week, Anthropic petitioned to appeal the class certification, urging the court to weigh questions that the district court judge, William

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I clustered four Framework Mainboards to test LLMs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-14 03:20:39

Framework casually mentioned they were testing a mini-rack AI cluster in their Framework Desktop presentation back in March. Imagine my surprise when Nirav Patel, Framework's founder and CEO, was at Open Sauce a couple weeks ago, and wanted to talk! He said they had seen my Project Mini Rack posts earlier this year and thought it was the perfect application to try out their new AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395-powered Mainboard, as it's mini ITX dimensions fit inside a 10" rack. Framework sent over four

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Sony Wants Its Anime Boom to Be as Big as the PlayStation 2

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-12-14 03:00:50

While Sony has been a quietly influential force in the anime landscape—owning studio Aniplex and acquiring Crunchyroll, which absorbed its former rival Funimation to expand its roster of shows and films—the PlayStation maker still sees itself as just getting started. According to a new report, Sony is still building an anime empire, treating this moment like the dawn of the PlayStation era, with more room to grow looming over the horizon. Speaking with the Japanese publication Toyo Keizai (hat-

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Meta Says ‘Big Wearable’ News Is Coming, but There’s Only One Thing I Want to Know

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-12-14 03:25:42

Meta has been on a pretty serious campaign to prove it’s at the cutting edge of consumer tech, and AI isn’t the only target on the board. AR/XR has also clearly been a priority if the last few weeks are any indication (see this paper in Nature about its wristband tech and drips on groundbreaking VR research for proof), and its vision on that front is starting to actually take shape. According to Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth, the company’s annual Connect conference in September, where it showcases t

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The Atlantic Hurricane Season Is About to Get Real

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-12-14 03:40:04

After an unusually slow start to hurricane season, it’s looking like storm activity is about to ramp up. Meteorologists are keeping a watchful eye on the Atlantic Basin as ocean surface temperatures rise to record levels. So far, the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season has produced four tropical storms and no hurricanes. As of Friday, August 8, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) was monitoring two areas of interest for storm development—one off the southeastern U.S. and the other in the Central Atl

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Add the Tesla Diner to the List of Elon Musk Projects That Fail to Deliver on Promises

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-12-14 03:55:31

You are not going to believe this, because there is absolutely zero precedent for it happening; it appears Elon Musk has overpromised on something. It has only been two weeks since the Tesla Diner, a charging station and restaurant with a retro-futuristic aesthetic, and it is already significantly narrowing down its menu offerings, according to a report from Eater. In classic diner fashion, the restaurant offered a robust menu when it first opened, but it is down to just five sandwiches, two si

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Apple's iPad Air M3 is $150 off and down to a new all-time low

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-14 08:29:08

For a lot of people, the iPad Air is Apple’s goldilocks tablet. It’s more powerful and available in a larger size than the entry-level iPad, but a lot less expensive than the iPad Pro, which can be overkill for some. Right now, Apple’s 2025 iPad Air M3 can be picked up for $150 off at Amazon. This deal applies to each configuration of the 11-inch and 13-inch versions of the most recent iPad Air. So, the 11-inch model is as low as $449, while the 13-inch model is down to $649. The same deals can

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HRT's Python Fork: Leveraging PEP 690 for Faster Imports

news.ycombinator.com Noah Kim 2025-12-14 08:12:03

Python @ HRT At Hudson River Trading (HRT), we’ve found that centralizing our codebase facilitates cross-team collaboration and rapid deployment of new projects. Therefore, the majority of our software development takes place in a monorepo, and our Python ecosystem is set up such that internal modules are importable everywhere. Unfortunately, the convenience of this arrangement has led to a conundrum: a vast proliferation of imports. In Python, imports occur at runtime. For each imported name,

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‘Weapons’ Once Had a Whole Chapter About That Crucial, Mystery Character

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-12-14 08:15:34

Weapons is a film filled with huge secrets and reveals. Secrets and reveals that were very carefully talked around and avoided in the marketing. But now that the film is in theaters, we can talk about them, and in terms of arguably the biggest reveal, writer-director Zack Cregger spoke to us about the different ways he approached it. We’re about to dive into some of Weapons’ biggest spoilers, so if you haven’t seen it yet, be aware. One of Weapons’ biggest reveals comes right at the beginning.

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Travelers Are Unknowingly Smuggling Invasive Ticks Into the U.S.

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-12-14 08:30:32

Here’s an important tip for international travelers coming back home: Be sure to check for any blood-sucking creepy-crawlies attached to you. In a study out today, health experts warn that exotic, potentially disease-carrying ticks are regularly entering the U.S. by hitching a ride onto returning Americans. Tick scientists in Connecticut conducted the research, published Friday in the journal iScience. They detailed seven separate cases of nonnative ticks entering the state via travelers in rec

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Why building a self-hosted SaaS is harder

AI Is Making It Nearly Impossible to Find a Well-Paying Job. Is This the World We Want?

Hubble Captures Glorious New Image of That Mysterious Object Cruising Into Our Solar System

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Get Ready to See Six Planets Line Up in the Upcoming Planet Parade

Tesla Robotaxi scores permit to run ride-hailing service in Texas

Apple pushes back on Fintiv’s latest litigious attempt to profit off Apple Pay

Someone keeps stealing, flying, fixing and returning this man's 1958 Cessna

A robust, open-source framework for Spiking Neural Networks on low-end FPGAs

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HRT's Python fork: Leveraging PEP 690 for faster imports

Environmentalist Lawsuit Halts Construction of Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

The Tesla Cybertruck May Have Found Its True Calling: Military Target Practice

The Vibes-Based Pricing of ‘Pro’ AI Software

Someone keeps stealing, flying, fixing and returning this man's plane. But why?

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

A Robust, Open-Source Framework for Spiking Neural Networks on Low-End FPGAs

Heaviest Black Hole Ever Found Pushes Limit of What’s Cosmologically Possible

The War for the Web Has Begun

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I clustered four Framework Mainboards to test LLMs

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The Atlantic Hurricane Season Is About to Get Real

Add the Tesla Diner to the List of Elon Musk Projects That Fail to Deliver on Promises

Apple's iPad Air M3 is $150 off and down to a new all-time low

HRT's Python Fork: Leveraging PEP 690 for Faster Imports

‘Weapons’ Once Had a Whole Chapter About That Crucial, Mystery Character

Travelers Are Unknowingly Smuggling Invasive Ticks Into the U.S.

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