I bet they were already in talks for being acquired and not open sourcing Arc was one of the conditions.

Who knows what Atlassian will do with it, but I did find it a bit frustrating that in the Atlassian blog announcing the acquisition, they showcase images of Arc when they're specifically talking about Dia. The two browsers do not have UI parity, and much of what I loved about Arc would need to be recreated in Dia.

Exactly! I hope Atlassian actually has some sense: either Arc's UX needs to be merged into Dia or Dia's functionality needs to be merged into Arc. You can't keep either going otherwise.

This was so fun; thank you! Congrats on getting it licensed!

Am I interpreting this correctly? It sounds like the lawsuit is filed on behalf of at least 6,632 employees. $28,000,000 distributed amongst that many is roughly $4,221.95. That's not even accounting for the law firm's stake. That seems like an absurdly low amount to pay to folks to say "sorry we screwed your career over".

Google can and absolutely should be paying these people more in compensation.

If you read the title of this submission, this was not about getting a job at Google but rather treatment of Google employees.

Yes. They became billionaires overnight.

The marketing design approach feels very off to me. You barrage me with an annoying scrolling marquee showing me the most abstract, unrecognizable logos telling me I should trust you because they do. 10+ companies on board feels rather small.

You said AI-driven analysis to identify logs, but I'm already skeptical of AI doing tasks like this, and you obfuscate it further by not actually showing me how it works, just another generic abstract marketing design graphic.

I dunno. It just seems like vaporware-as-a-service from the design vibes.

Early-stage startups often have websites that are little more than landing pages. That's because a full commercial website isn't in their critical path yet—first they need to build their product and attract early users, who don't typically come in through general web traffic.

That's one reason why Launch HNs usually include a demo video. That's the link you should be clicking on if you want to see these guys' product. If you do that, you'll see that it isn't vaporware.

We also advise startups doing Launch HNs to provide a link for users to try the product (preferably without a signup gate, but that's not always doable). There's such a link in the text above as well.

I suppose one way to avoid complaints about stub websites would be not to link to them at all—but then other comments would say "why would I trust you, you don't even have a website"!

Edit: I've replaced https://runsift.com/ with https://app.trysift.dev/docs in the text above. Perhaps that will help.

I want to jump in here and post this Launch HN form [0]. Obviously do not submit it if you are not a YC startup, but the questions on there are very helpful in terms of thinking about how to post about your startup on HN and elsewhere.

[0] https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1pRMkNiD-FKjYL-La5JWMwwrcWsp...

There's also https://news.ycombinator.com/yli.html, which is the guide for YC startups who want to launch on Hacker News. The formal mechanism is YC-only but the principles apply more broadly.

I'm not in YC, but I want to launch my startup here as it's relevant to the audience. Can I go through a process like this to coordinate with you for a launch, or should we just follow the guidelines, make a submission and hope for the best?

You would have to do a “Show HN”, the YC launch (post to the front page) is only for YC startups. You can certainly try and go through the process to do a “Launch HN” - but it would start with applying to YC.

Apart from show vs launch I think following the guidelines and hoping for the best is the norm. Launch HN is nice to get a one-time boost but it doesn’t confer any long-term special treatment on your post afaict.

What's not recognizable about Duck, Square, Triangle, Asterisk, C, two different cubes, and the letter 'n'?

These, coupled with the random number generator to claim how many logs they're processing makes me wonder if the entire product is just AI generated slop.

University-taught computer science curriculum is going to have to change drastically.

Disclaimer: I am not a CS degree holder. But I did attempt a masters in software engineering and it was really eye-opening to me to see how far behind "traditional" curriculum was when compared to real-world opportunities. My university completely overlooked things like front-end web development and a host of other modern needs at the time; when I spoke to the dean, he recommended the school might just not be a fit.

So if we're leaving students behind for AI outputs and shutting the door in favor of the old guard, what happens to the new wave? Will schools train them to get to the point of working with systems enough to call bullshit on AI? Are schools even teaching students AI right now?

I ask sincerely just because when I pushed for change in curriculum, I basically was shown the door that led to me dropping out and (thankfully) landing a gig at a startup that opened up another (better) door for me.

I disagree that front end web development should be taught in a computer science curriculum. It seems like it's more of a designer job rather than science/engineering. I am currently in university, and machine learning is a mandatory part of the curriculum. I think most universities do AI in one form or another actually.

Modern frontend development often involves a large degree of cross-domain expertise that extends well beyond design, so much that in large enough companies, the designer is a dedicated role, and the frontend developer simply implements their design according to spec. In even larger companies, you will see further specialized roles such as UX engineer.

If you think of FE web development as just HTML, CSS, JS and the framework de jour then I could see that. However, the most skilled FE engineers I know aren’t just doing that. It involves handling CI/CD, performance profiling/enhancements, CDNs, debugging node environments, asset management, caching strategies and the list goes on. I’m not necessarily arguing that it should be included in CS degrees but all of that is surely not a designers job.

I think there should be a new SE field for this.

They weren't in a CS curriculum, they said they were pursuing software engineering.

Ah I see, I got confused because they mentioned not holding a CS-degree.

If you were looking for learning front end development in a CS masters program, I would agree with the dean.

There must be plenty of opportunities to learn that also in USA.

That was just an example, not strictly what I was there for. I just pointed it out to the dean as something that was always mentioned, but glanced over like "ew, this doesn't matter so much".

It, in fact, ended up mattering a lot.

My 2 year college taught web, linux scripting, C, C++, Java, C#, even Android and iOS, and I studied from 2011 to 2013. I definitely think some schools are more behind than others in terms of what they teach.

It's a shame since once you have the foundation, the degree is irrelevant imho. You continue learning on the job and off the job.

To some extent, AI needs less extensive teaching than the problem-solving skills taught in school because it works in natural language anyways and builds off whatever else you know. You can easily talk to an AI about CS if you know CS, or even use it for coding, but not so much if you only know "AI".

It's not that learning AI isn't important, it's just that school isn't necessarily the place for it: AI is always changing, and can be learned relatively easily online, while properly learning something like linear algebra or operating systems online is pretty unlikely except for a very motivated student.

Computer Science curriculum is often different from the practice of software development or "software engineering," in practice, which academic-learning departments may consider too-vocational and to the detriment of their students.

Some programs have had to supplement their CS-curriculum with courses incorporating instruction on software engineering practices (e.g. version control). The "AI" being sold today isn't going to replace these practices.

In general the dean of any institution oversees dozens of departments. The CS department chair or department head is the person who actually understands and represents the department and its specific curriculum.

I probably am misremembering then and just use the dean as a generalized title. This was almost 13 years ago. This person was definitely in charge of curriculum, I remember that much, so probably not the dean. Thanks for correcting my misuse of the word.

Computer science is about the science of computing not the latest trends in software development. Those don't change the fundamentals of computer science.

I mean I guess but CS is also the track you get put on if you want to be a SWE. I would make an even stronger statement that within a rounding error 0% of the students in a given CS course will go on to be computer scientists. So while what you're saying is literally true there is a real disconnect between what students in CS programs want to learn and the skills they want to acquire and what is being taught. The parent is very reasonably picking up on that.

This isn't really limited to CS programs either, something is deeply wrong with the system when college grads are only marginally more prepared to enter their chosen field than HS grads. One of my friends does work building cutting edge sensors for scientific equipment— literally the ideal case for an academic curriculum. They not two months ago rejected an ivy ECE major in favor of a guy with no degree but who builds custom toy drones as a hobby.

I think that we'll need to adopt network-level filtering if we want to outsmart the browsers. I haven't looked back since adopting NextDNS and configuring my router to filter all traffic through it. It does a great job of stripping ads out of all my devices connected to it, and that's something I don't mind paying a few bucks for a year (I think it's like $19/year).

Check it out here: https://nextdns.io/

Unfortunately, the browsers are one step ahead of you. They already have a way to ignore your DHCP-provided DNS and instead use DoH, which you can't inspect and filter easily, especially since it's over the HTTPS port. There is also a proposal for individual web properties to tell the browser what DNS (DoH) servers should be used for further requests to them, so even blocking a few well-known DoH resolvers could become impossible: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9462/

Ugh. Can't someone please just let us customize how we want to experience the Internet? It seems like a right to repair law. But right to remove. If I know how to take out ads and I want them gone, I should be free to do so.

Alfred does a lot more beyond just searching.

Very true, for me, spotlight search felt so broken that Alfred would be worth it even if search was all it did.

Such as?

I should do a lot more with Alfred, but apart from using it as a launcher my most used feature is the clipboard search. After invoking it by typing 'clip' into the box, I get an incremental search on all clipboard contents it has tracked, and can re-copy any of those items to the current clipboard by pressing enter. Very useful and efficient when it's part of your workflow.

> - There's still no good window manager for macOS. Rectangle is as close as it gets, but it's not good IMO because it only works on non full size windows. (the solution is just get ninja-like with three finger swipe, and endure using the mouse/trackpad more than you'd prefer)

I use Magnet and it does the job well. If you're familiar with it, I'd love to know why you don't think it's a good window manager. Or do you just mean there's not a good NATIVE window manager for the OS?

+1 for magnet. Indispensable to the extent that on rare occasions I use others Macs where it’s not installed I’ll gift it to them (and they invariably become passionate about it).

I only tried the intersection of 'free' and 'trusted' (the latter being subjective, based on a glance at website/repo). I hadn't yet tried Magnet, but I see it's $5 so I'll splash out over the weekend and give it a try. Thanks for the rec! Any newb tips appreciated.

They want these people to quit. In a company that basically selects for survival of the fittest and operates on constant evolution of talent and speed, do you really think they honestly care about disabled employees?

Ability to endure is very different than general fitness for a role