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Show HN: Anypost – transactional and broadcast email API, 8¢ per 1k
2 months ago
- Anypost offers transactional and broadcast email at a fraction of legacy pricing, with a modern API and 8 SDKs.
- Emails can be written in Markdown and automatically rendered to tested HTML and plain text, with an open-source emailmd tool.
- An AI template generator allows users to describe an email in plain language to get a professional template.
- Tracking is built-in for events like delivery, opens, clicks, and bounces, accessible via webhooks, API, or dashboard.
- Supports HTTP and SMTP sending, with features like batching, idempotency keys, and automatic DKIM/SPF setup.
- Pricing starts free for 3,000 emails/month, with paid plans as low as 8¢ per 1,000, and a custom plan for high volume.
- The service runs on modern bare-metal infrastructure for efficiency and reliability, with reputation management for inbox delivery.
Ollama: All Aboard Open Models
2 months ago
- Ollama is an open-source AI platform that simplifies running and using open models locally and in the cloud.
- Founded by Jeff and Michael, previously known for Kitematic and Docker Desktop, Ollama has grown to serve 8.9 million developers.
- Ollama promotes ownership, affordability, and privacy by allowing models to run on user hardware without API keys or data leaving machines.
- The platform is used by 85% of Fortune 500 companies, supporting models like GLM, Nemotron, DeepSeek, Kimi, and MiniMax.
- Ollama recently raised $88M in funding to advance hybrid inference, new model support, and cloud accessibility while maintaining openness.
Battery packs: Let's talk about crates, baby
2 months ago
- Battery packs are curated sets of crates around common themes to help developers choose high-quality crates without extensive research.
- Anyone can create a battery pack by publishing a crate named X-battery-pack with dependencies as recommendations.
- Battery packs include dependencies, features, templates, and structured categories (e.g., 'pick at most one' or 'pick any number').
- They aim to address challenges like crate selection for new Rust adopters and foster interoperability and maintenance funding.
- Risks include potential overcrowding of packs, but they are designed to evolve and avoid stagnation in the ecosystem.
Crates.io: Development Update
2 months ago
- Crates.io now includes a source code viewer with a 'Code' tab for browsing published crate files, featuring a file tree, search, syntax highlighting, and shareable line URLs.
- User accounts are being decoupled from GitHub with new crates.io-native usernames, as per RFC #3946, paving the way for future multi-provider login options.
- Security advisories from RustSec are integrated, showing warnings for unmaintained crates and banners for crates superseded by Rust standard library alternatives.
- The frontend has been successfully migrated from Ember.js to Svelte, maintaining feature parity while modernizing the framework for easier contribution and faster iteration.
- Performance improvements include bounded search ranking, precomputed reverse dependencies, CDN cache optimizations, and better git index handling for background workers.
- Accessibility enhancements have been made, such as hiding decorative icons from screen readers and fixing heading hierarchies, with ongoing plans for further improvements.
Superfile: A fancy, modern terminal file manager
2 months ago
- Superfile is a modern terminal file manager designed for developers.
- Built with Go and Bubble Tea, focusing on UI refinement and terminal speed.
- Supports file operations like copy, move, delete, rename, fuzzy search, bulk actions, and image previews.
- Highly customizable with remappable hotkeys, 20+ themes, and adjustable borders and colors.
- Features split panes for simultaneous directory management and easy cross-panel copy-paste.
- Extensible via community plugins for Git integration, system monitoring, and custom commands.
- Open-source under MIT license, welcoming contributions, themes, plugins, and feedback.
Cargo-nextest: 3x faster than cargo test, per-test isolation, first-class CI
3 months ago
- Clean UI for clear test pass/fail status.
- Up to 3x faster than cargo test via modern execution.
- Advanced selection using expressions for filtering.
- Detects and terminates slow tests; supports stress testing.
- Customizable test settings: retry, mark heavy, run serially.
- Records runs, replays CI, reruns failures, exports Perfetto traces.
- CI-friendly: archives, partitions, exports JUnit, uses profiles.
- Setup scripts pre-test for databases, services, fixtures.
- Ecosystem tools: coverage, mutation testing, debuggers, probes.
- Cross-platform: Linux, Mac, Windows, Unix; binary or source.
- Open source, trusted from indie projects to large companies.
- Infrastructure-grade reliability with attention to detail.
TypeScript 7
3 months ago
- TypeScript 7 is a native port built in Go, offering 8-12x speed improvements on full builds and reduced memory usage.
- It introduces parallelization with flags like --checkers and --builders, and a new --singleThreaded flag for debugging or limited environments.
- TypeScript 7 includes a rebuilt --watch mode based on Parcel's file watcher, improving cross-platform efficiency.
- Editor support is enhanced via LSP, with faster load times, auto-completions, and diagnostics in VS Code, Visual Studio, and others.
- Compatibility with TypeScript 6.0 is maintained via the @typescript/typescript6 package for side-by-side usage.
- JavaScript support is reworked for consistency with TypeScript files, removing some legacy JSDoc patterns.
- Template literal types now preserve Unicode code points, treating characters like emojis as single units.
- Notable defaults changed in TypeScript 7 include strict mode being true, module defaulting to esnext, and types defaulting to an empty array.
- Workflows using Vue, MDX, Astro, Svelte, or Angular may not yet leverage TypeScript 7 due to lack of stable API, but CLI usage is possible.
- The TypeScript team plans to return to feature work, with TypeScript 7.1 expected to introduce a new API and further improvements.
The Amazon SES alternative for developers – MailKite
3 months ago
- Amazon SES is cost-effective for high-volume email sending but requires complex setup for receiving, involving sandbox approval, S3, SNS, Lambda, and IAM.
- MailKite simplifies email handling with instant sending upon DNS verification and delivers inbound emails as parsed JSON webhooks without additional infrastructure.
- The comparison highlights SES's advantages in per-email pricing and deliverability, while MailKite offers lower total cost of ownership and developer-friendly features.
- A code example demonstrates MailKite's minimal receiving pipeline in Node.js, contrasting with SES's more involved process requiring multiple AWS services.
- MailKite provides built-in bounce/complaint handling, a dashboard, and support, whereas SES requires custom implementation and paid support tiers.
- The FAQ clarifies cost differences, sandbox policies, infrastructure compatibility, and deliverability, emphasizing MailKite's ease of use for developers.

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Show HN: Anypost – transactional and broadcast email API, 8¢ per 1k

Ollama: All Aboard Open Models

Battery packs: Let's talk about crates, baby

Crates.io: Development Update

Superfile: A fancy, modern terminal file manager

Cargo-nextest: 3x faster than cargo test, per-test isolation, first-class CI

TypeScript 7

The Amazon SES alternative for developers – MailKite