Source: Launch HN: Fastgen (YC W23) – Visual Low-Code Backend Builder
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Fastgen is a low-code API and workflow builder with an integrated Postgres DB. It allows users to easily create custom business logic, cron jobs or complete backends without the need for boilerplate code. The platform offers flexibility and control for users while ensuring ease of use and faster deployment.
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Source: How landlords became monsters
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The author shares a disgusting experience with a leaking ceiling from the upstairs toilet, caused by a negligent private landlord. The author argues that the problem of housing inequality has become a political issue and questions the political psychology of young people affected by it.
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Source: An LSFMM development-process discussion [LWN.net]
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The Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit discussed the issues faced by developers and maintainers in the kernel development process. The session highlighted the lack of clear guidelines for patch sets, unpredictable acceptance of patches, and inconsistent maintainer behavior. The Btrfs community addressed these issues by providing early indications of worthiness of a project and guiding it along. The need for clearer definitions of a maintainer’s role and better communication between the community and maintainers was emphasized.
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💻 Patch sets that are proposed by authors have no clear guidelines for acceptance, leading to unpredictability, making it hard for companies to know what will happen when they start on a development project.
💻 There is a need for early indications that a project is worth doing, and if it is, to put in the work to shepherd the project along.
💻 Communication between developers and maintainers is inconsistent, making it hard to get feedback and know who to pay attention to. There is a lack of a clear definition of the maintainer’s role.
💻 The need for better communication between the community and maintainers was emphasized. Maintainers should provide clear indications to newcomers, feedback on ideas, and ensure that patches get reviews. The community needs an equivalent forum for discussions.
Source: Introducing Daft: A High-Performance Distributed Dataframe Library for Multimodal Data
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Daft is a distributed dataframe library that handles multimodal data leveraging Rust and the Arrow format. It supports complex types, out-of-core processing, and maximizes performance potential. Developers can work with various data types from different sources within a unified framework and easily manipulate data, including metadata. The TPC-H benchmark confirms Daft’s high performance on larger-than-memory datasets.
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Source: Dell in hot water for making shoppers think overpriced monitors were discounted
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Dell Technologies’ Australia subsidiary, Dell Australia, has been found by the Australian Federal Court to have misled online shoppers by giving the impression that by adding a monitor to their purchase they would get it at a discount. Instead, some customers ended up paying a higher price for their monitor through the purchase option deal. Dell Australia is ordered to give full or partial refunds to affected customers, and may face additional fines in the future.
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Source: Ask HN: Anyone Building a Competitor to Reddit?
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Reddit might suffer from a “Digg moment” due to recent criticism. The lack of decent embedded search functionality is a concern, and some people might be working on a Reddit-like site.
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Source: Monitoring Self-Hosted Services
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The writer has set up Grafana to monitor the health of their 40 running Docker containers. They will be using Prometheus for metrics and aggregation, Loki for building metrics and alerts based on logs, Promtail to deliver log lines to Loki, Node-Exporter for hardware and kernel level metrics, and cAdvisor for container-level metrics.
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Source: Service Rents Email Addresses for Account Signups – Krebs on Security
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Kopeechka is a new email confirmation-as-a-service that pays people for their email account credentials and offers the ability to rent access to established accounts at major providers, which can save costs associated with large-scale spam and account creation campaigns.
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Source: The Student Loan Pause Has Made Borrowers Worse Off
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According to a new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research, the federal student loan moratorium – which has been praised by President Biden – has resulted in borrowers who had their loans frozen accruing more debt and leaving them financially worse off than they were before the pause was enacted. While they did see benefits like increased credit scores, they took on more credit card debt, mortgage debt, and even a further $1,500 in student loan debt.Facts