AlphaGeek

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[AlphaGeek @_AlphaGeek]

If you run workflows — Temporal, Airflow, Prefect, BullMQ, anything custom — would love your thoughts on the HN thread. Especially the operational pain points nobody's solving for small teams. https://t.co/izp40dDz0F

[AlphaGeek @_AlphaGeek]

Spent the last few months building Orch8 — durable workflow engine in Rust. One binary. Postgres or SQLite. No JVM, no Cassandra, no SDK lock-in.
https://t.co/izp40dDz0F

[AlphaGeek @_AlphaGeek]

License: BUSL-1.1 → Apache 2.0 in 4 years. Run it in-house, modify it, build on it, use it commercially — all free. The only thing forbidden is reselling Orch8 itself as a hosted competing service. Honest about it being source-available, not OSI.

[nisten🇨🇦e/acc @nisten]

Gen-z is now using deepfakes to teach each other calculus 🤣 @OnlockLearning 👏

[Julius @jullerino]

This Biome thing is pretty solid

[Erdem Kirmitci @erdemkirmit]

I must say, this time zone converter has the best user experience. 🕐🔄

→ https://t.co/LmiCEuS8Tt

[Matt Pocock @mattpocockuk]

Fun fact: TypeScript lets you chain '!' operators together.

Actually pretty useful for indicating that the code is unsafe.

[Sam Selikoff @samselikoff]

New recipe: Animated Toast

Radix UI + Framer Motion made this a breeze!

https://t.co/kjuHq4wGkF

[Barsee 🐶 @heyBarsee]

🚨BREAKING: PIKA just launched idea-to-video AI 🤯

This could be the most advanced AI video tool to date.

Here are 7 things you need to know: 🧵👇

[Barsee 🐶 @heyBarsee]

AI turning memes into video

It's funny and scary at the same time.

A thread: 🧵👇

[Rory Flynn @Ror_Fly]

Motion brush in runway...damn good.

Much better control.

This was very needed.

#runwayml #midjourneyV52 #AIArtCommuity #aiart

[Addy Osmani @addyosmani]

This is a phenomenal web demo. Enabled by window.getScreenDetails() which provides basic live info (size, position etc) from all screens on the device.

[Nick @nickbakeddesign]

Life at Meta
$29k/m

9am: Stand up
10:30am: Meeting with the Manager
12:00pm: XFN catch up
2:30pm: New designer interview
4:00pm: Last minute call!

Life at https://t.co/kGMmp3lT24
$100k/m

10am: wake up
11:00am: check emails
12:00pm: New client calls on Cal
1:30pm: drop dogs for grooming
2:00pm: Feedback from clients shared on Loom videos
3:00pm - 10pm: deep work!

[AlphaGeek @_AlphaGeek]

@levelsio There is one more use case, I would pay money for. Documents photo. The photo booth did not manage to make good quality printed photos for documents 3/4. Which was rejected. If it can take a poor quality photos and clean/improve it - it will bring more customers

[gaut @0xgaut]

Microsoft released copilot in Excel, and it is officially caught up with Google on the AI race.

Fantastic to watch.

[Josh Kirk @joshgkirk]

The following code will tell you if a user's phone is in low power mode, with 100% accuracy, immediate feedback and no network requests.

This strategy loads a 16x16 video made of just 2 black frames as a base64 (text) source. This means no load time for the test asset, which has a total inline weight of 2.4kb.

Put this video immediately inside the body tag and hide it with CSS (base64 src pasted in this thread):

[Andrew Branch @atcb]

Let’s look at each piece of this to go over what it does, why it is (or more often *isn’t*) needed, and why I can tell this package.json is misconfigured just from this small snippet. 🧵