Wednesday, January 31, 2024

New top story on Hacker News: The Far Side – By Gary Larson

The Far Side – By Gary Larson
11 by keepamovin | 0 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Telescope – Hassle-free company research

Show HN: Telescope – Hassle-free company research
9 by GRVYDEV | 3 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN. I recently started a company and found myself constantly doing company research for competitors, prospective customers, and outbound leads. As an engineer, I found it challenging to figure out where to get up-to-date company information as well as tedious needing to visit multiple sites often. I built Telescope to solve that problem. Under the hood, Telescope performs multiple search queries the same way I would and synthesizes the results for me. This is very much a WIP but I would love for you to try it out and let me know what you think. Over the next couple of weeks, I plan on continuing to improve Telescope and add more features. Cheers :)

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

New top story on Hacker News: Benchmarks and comparison of LLM AI models and API hosting providers

Benchmarks and comparison of LLM AI models and API hosting providers
30 by Gcam | 7 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, ArtificialAnalysis.ai provides objective benchmarks and analysis of LLM AI models and API hosting providers so you can compare which to use in your next (or current) project. The site consolidates different quality benchmarks, pricing information and our own technical benchmarking data. Technical benchmarking (throughput, latency) is conducted through sending API requests every 3 hours. Check out the site at https://artificialanalysis.ai , and our twitter at https://twitter.com/ArtificialAnlys Twitter thread with initial insights: https://twitter.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/17472648324397343... All feedback is welcome and happy to discuss methodology, etc.

Friday, January 12, 2024

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Conway's Game of Life, but with a gallery of other peoples patterns

Show HN: Conway's Game of Life, but with a gallery of other peoples patterns
6 by Dave_Bruwer | 4 comments on Hacker News.
This is my spin on Conway's Game of Life. I have added the ability to create an account, save grids that you have discovered, and browse the gallery of grids saved by other people and replay them. This project has served as a sandbox for me to practice various aspects of developing a comprehensive web application from scratch. This was my first time developing a full scale web app with [almost] all the features you would expect. I know it is nowhere near perfect in its current state, but I feel it has reached a point of diminishing returns, and therefore my time is better spent focussing on other projects with more potential. I may continue to develop this project further in the future just for fun.

Sunday, January 7, 2024

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Quickwit – OSS Alternative to Elasticsearch, Splunk, Datadog

Show HN: Quickwit – OSS Alternative to Elasticsearch, Splunk, Datadog
12 by francoismassot | 6 comments on Hacker News.
Hi folks, Quickwit cofounder here. We started Quickwit 3 years ago with a POC, "Searching the web for under $1000/month" (see HN discussions [0]), with the goal of making a robust OSS alternative to Elasticsearch / Splunk / Datadog. We have reached a significant milestone with our latest release (0.7) [1], as we have witnessed users of the nightly version of Quickwit deploy clusters with hundreds of nodes, ingest hundreds of terabytes of data daily, and enjoy considerable cost savings. To give you a concrete example, one company is ingesting hundreds of terabytes of logs daily and migrating from Elasticsearch to Quickwit. They divided their compute costs by 5x and storage costs by 2x while increasing retention from 3 to 30 days. They also increased their durability, accuracy with exactly-once semantics thanks to the native Kafka support, and elasticity. The 0.7 release also brings better integrations with the Observability ecosystem: improvements of the Elasticsearch-compatible API and better support of OpenTelemetry standards, Grafana, and Jaeger. Of course, we still have a lot of work to be a fully-fledged observability engine, and we would love to get some feedback or suggestions. To give you a glance at our 2024 roadmap, we planned to focus on Kibana/OpenDashboard integration, metrics support, and pipe-based query language. [0] Searching the web for under $1000/month: https://ift.tt/dN0qGuI [1] Release blog post: https://ift.tt/lbOIKe9 [2] Open Source Repo: https://ift.tt/mpwG3SU [3] Home Page: https://quickwit.io