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Show HN: Rentaflop – Render your Blender projects without sacrificing quality
Hi HN,<p>My name is David Sokol, and I'm the founder of rentaflop (<a href="https://rentaflop.com" rel="nofollow">https://rentaflop.com</a>). We're a crowdsourced render farm aimed at making Blender rendering fast and affordable.<p>If you've used Blender, then I'm sure you've experienced the pain of waiting around for your animations to render. You've probably even had to sacrifice the quality of your work to reduce your render times. I've been there too.<p>If you're like me, then you're also disappointed with the alternative solutions: spending thousands of dollars on graphics cards or using prohibitively expensive cloud render farms to get fast render times. Our solution to this dilemma is to leverage low opportunity cost hardware from around the world to allow Blender artists to render their projects quickly, affordably, and without compromising on quality. Since most graphics card owners aren't utilizing their hardware to do valuable work 24/7, we provide them with a way to make money without lifting a finger, while lowering the cost curve for 3D rendering.<p>We're currently doing a public beta. If you'd like to try us, check out our site (<a href="https://rentaflop.com" rel="nofollow">https://rentaflop.com</a>) and render your Blender project quickly and affordably! If you're a graphics card owner who wants to help Blender artists while earning money, reach out to support@rentaflop.com and we'll help you get set up.<p>We posted about our private beta on HN a few weeks ago. If you'd like, you can check out the discussion here (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32299674" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32299674</a>).<p>Please leave a comment below, we'd love to hear your thoughts :)
Show HN: Rentaflop – Render your Blender projects without sacrificing quality
Hi HN,<p>My name is David Sokol, and I'm the founder of rentaflop (<a href="https://rentaflop.com" rel="nofollow">https://rentaflop.com</a>). We're a crowdsourced render farm aimed at making Blender rendering fast and affordable.<p>If you've used Blender, then I'm sure you've experienced the pain of waiting around for your animations to render. You've probably even had to sacrifice the quality of your work to reduce your render times. I've been there too.<p>If you're like me, then you're also disappointed with the alternative solutions: spending thousands of dollars on graphics cards or using prohibitively expensive cloud render farms to get fast render times. Our solution to this dilemma is to leverage low opportunity cost hardware from around the world to allow Blender artists to render their projects quickly, affordably, and without compromising on quality. Since most graphics card owners aren't utilizing their hardware to do valuable work 24/7, we provide them with a way to make money without lifting a finger, while lowering the cost curve for 3D rendering.<p>We're currently doing a public beta. If you'd like to try us, check out our site (<a href="https://rentaflop.com" rel="nofollow">https://rentaflop.com</a>) and render your Blender project quickly and affordably! If you're a graphics card owner who wants to help Blender artists while earning money, reach out to support@rentaflop.com and we'll help you get set up.<p>We posted about our private beta on HN a few weeks ago. If you'd like, you can check out the discussion here (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32299674" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32299674</a>).<p>Please leave a comment below, we'd love to hear your thoughts :)
Show HN: Rentaflop – Render your Blender projects without sacrificing quality
Hi HN,<p>My name is David Sokol, and I'm the founder of rentaflop (<a href="https://rentaflop.com" rel="nofollow">https://rentaflop.com</a>). We're a crowdsourced render farm aimed at making Blender rendering fast and affordable.<p>If you've used Blender, then I'm sure you've experienced the pain of waiting around for your animations to render. You've probably even had to sacrifice the quality of your work to reduce your render times. I've been there too.<p>If you're like me, then you're also disappointed with the alternative solutions: spending thousands of dollars on graphics cards or using prohibitively expensive cloud render farms to get fast render times. Our solution to this dilemma is to leverage low opportunity cost hardware from around the world to allow Blender artists to render their projects quickly, affordably, and without compromising on quality. Since most graphics card owners aren't utilizing their hardware to do valuable work 24/7, we provide them with a way to make money without lifting a finger, while lowering the cost curve for 3D rendering.<p>We're currently doing a public beta. If you'd like to try us, check out our site (<a href="https://rentaflop.com" rel="nofollow">https://rentaflop.com</a>) and render your Blender project quickly and affordably! If you're a graphics card owner who wants to help Blender artists while earning money, reach out to support@rentaflop.com and we'll help you get set up.<p>We posted about our private beta on HN a few weeks ago. If you'd like, you can check out the discussion here (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32299674" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32299674</a>).<p>Please leave a comment below, we'd love to hear your thoughts :)
Show HN: Cachegrand – a fast OSS Key-Value store built for modern hardware
I am the author of the platform, happy to reply to any question you might have!<p>It scales up really nicely thanks to a year of research and development of the hashtable implemented in cachegrand, on the hardware used for benchmarking, an AMD EPYC 7502P, it was able to reach up to 5mln GET QPS and 4.5mln SET QPS, with batching up to 60mln GET QPS and up to 26MLN SET QPS.<p>cachegrand is fast, it's fully Open Source, it's under a BSD 3-clause license - it can be used easily as standalone platform or incorporated in other ones without any licensing issue - and we are working to expand the Redis functionalities supported and to impelement a tiered storage to cache more data than the available memory.
Longer term our goal is to expand the support to different platforms (e.g. memcache, kafka, etc.), add support to webassembly to have user defined functions and server side events, and of course a network bypass (combining XDP and a lockless FreeBSD tcp/ip stack) and a storage bypass.<p>Although it can easily used via docker, here a direct link to the latest release
<a href="https://github.com/danielealbano/cachegrand/releases/tag/v0.1.4" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/danielealbano/cachegrand/releases/tag/v0....</a><p>Currently we are focused on supporting Redis, here the list of commands currently implemented
<a href="https://github.com/danielealbano/cachegrand/blob/main/docs/architecture/modules/redis.md" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/danielealbano/cachegrand/blob/main/docs/a...</a>
Show HN: Cachegrand – a fast OSS Key-Value store built for modern hardware
I am the author of the platform, happy to reply to any question you might have!<p>It scales up really nicely thanks to a year of research and development of the hashtable implemented in cachegrand, on the hardware used for benchmarking, an AMD EPYC 7502P, it was able to reach up to 5mln GET QPS and 4.5mln SET QPS, with batching up to 60mln GET QPS and up to 26MLN SET QPS.<p>cachegrand is fast, it's fully Open Source, it's under a BSD 3-clause license - it can be used easily as standalone platform or incorporated in other ones without any licensing issue - and we are working to expand the Redis functionalities supported and to impelement a tiered storage to cache more data than the available memory.
Longer term our goal is to expand the support to different platforms (e.g. memcache, kafka, etc.), add support to webassembly to have user defined functions and server side events, and of course a network bypass (combining XDP and a lockless FreeBSD tcp/ip stack) and a storage bypass.<p>Although it can easily used via docker, here a direct link to the latest release
<a href="https://github.com/danielealbano/cachegrand/releases/tag/v0.1.4" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/danielealbano/cachegrand/releases/tag/v0....</a><p>Currently we are focused on supporting Redis, here the list of commands currently implemented
<a href="https://github.com/danielealbano/cachegrand/blob/main/docs/architecture/modules/redis.md" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/danielealbano/cachegrand/blob/main/docs/a...</a>
Show HN: Cachegrand – a fast OSS Key-Value store built for modern hardware
I am the author of the platform, happy to reply to any question you might have!<p>It scales up really nicely thanks to a year of research and development of the hashtable implemented in cachegrand, on the hardware used for benchmarking, an AMD EPYC 7502P, it was able to reach up to 5mln GET QPS and 4.5mln SET QPS, with batching up to 60mln GET QPS and up to 26MLN SET QPS.<p>cachegrand is fast, it's fully Open Source, it's under a BSD 3-clause license - it can be used easily as standalone platform or incorporated in other ones without any licensing issue - and we are working to expand the Redis functionalities supported and to impelement a tiered storage to cache more data than the available memory.
Longer term our goal is to expand the support to different platforms (e.g. memcache, kafka, etc.), add support to webassembly to have user defined functions and server side events, and of course a network bypass (combining XDP and a lockless FreeBSD tcp/ip stack) and a storage bypass.<p>Although it can easily used via docker, here a direct link to the latest release
<a href="https://github.com/danielealbano/cachegrand/releases/tag/v0.1.4" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/danielealbano/cachegrand/releases/tag/v0....</a><p>Currently we are focused on supporting Redis, here the list of commands currently implemented
<a href="https://github.com/danielealbano/cachegrand/blob/main/docs/architecture/modules/redis.md" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/danielealbano/cachegrand/blob/main/docs/a...</a>
Show HN: StackAid – Fund all your open-source dependencies
We strongly believe working on open source software should be a viable source of income for many more developers. Unfortunately, the following barriers limit the extent of open source funding:<p>- Only a small fraction of open source projects are funded, and most money goes to a few notable projects.<p>- Each project has to market is self to get significant funding.<p>- Large corporate donations provide the bulk of the funding, making it unreliable and unattainable for many.<p>- Finding and supporting each of your dependencies is a cumbersome task. Which ones, how much, and on which platforms?<p>So we built StackAid, a service that automatically discovers and funds your direct and indirect (second order) open source dependencies with a monthly subscription. StackAid is early and has a unique allocation model, so we're working with supporters and open source projects to validate the experience further. We're matching subscriptions up to $100/month during the beta.
Show HN: StackAid – Fund all your open-source dependencies
We strongly believe working on open source software should be a viable source of income for many more developers. Unfortunately, the following barriers limit the extent of open source funding:<p>- Only a small fraction of open source projects are funded, and most money goes to a few notable projects.<p>- Each project has to market is self to get significant funding.<p>- Large corporate donations provide the bulk of the funding, making it unreliable and unattainable for many.<p>- Finding and supporting each of your dependencies is a cumbersome task. Which ones, how much, and on which platforms?<p>So we built StackAid, a service that automatically discovers and funds your direct and indirect (second order) open source dependencies with a monthly subscription. StackAid is early and has a unique allocation model, so we're working with supporters and open source projects to validate the experience further. We're matching subscriptions up to $100/month during the beta.
Show HN: StackAid – Fund all your open-source dependencies
We strongly believe working on open source software should be a viable source of income for many more developers. Unfortunately, the following barriers limit the extent of open source funding:<p>- Only a small fraction of open source projects are funded, and most money goes to a few notable projects.<p>- Each project has to market is self to get significant funding.<p>- Large corporate donations provide the bulk of the funding, making it unreliable and unattainable for many.<p>- Finding and supporting each of your dependencies is a cumbersome task. Which ones, how much, and on which platforms?<p>So we built StackAid, a service that automatically discovers and funds your direct and indirect (second order) open source dependencies with a monthly subscription. StackAid is early and has a unique allocation model, so we're working with supporters and open source projects to validate the experience further. We're matching subscriptions up to $100/month during the beta.
Show HN: StackAid – Fund all your open-source dependencies
We strongly believe working on open source software should be a viable source of income for many more developers. Unfortunately, the following barriers limit the extent of open source funding:<p>- Only a small fraction of open source projects are funded, and most money goes to a few notable projects.<p>- Each project has to market is self to get significant funding.<p>- Large corporate donations provide the bulk of the funding, making it unreliable and unattainable for many.<p>- Finding and supporting each of your dependencies is a cumbersome task. Which ones, how much, and on which platforms?<p>So we built StackAid, a service that automatically discovers and funds your direct and indirect (second order) open source dependencies with a monthly subscription. StackAid is early and has a unique allocation model, so we're working with supporters and open source projects to validate the experience further. We're matching subscriptions up to $100/month during the beta.
Show HN: BoldContacts – Mobile App for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, ALS, MS, MD
I'm the developer of this small mobile app, and I'm seeking constructive feedback and people to try it. I'm writing the app because my folks have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
Show HN: Tombl – Easily query .toml files from bash
Show HN: IPDetective – An API for IP bot detection
IPDetective collects data from about 60+ different sources such as official cloud provider endpoints and public VPN/Proxy/Tor/Bot net lists. Then aggregates this data into a fast and easy to use API that can be integrated into applications or scripts easily.<p>IPDetective started as a hobby project for my other hobby projects :) and I decided to wrap a simple website around and offer it as a service.<p>Let me know what your thoughts, if you find value in this service or if you have any feature requests.
Show HN: IPDetective – An API for IP bot detection
IPDetective collects data from about 60+ different sources such as official cloud provider endpoints and public VPN/Proxy/Tor/Bot net lists. Then aggregates this data into a fast and easy to use API that can be integrated into applications or scripts easily.<p>IPDetective started as a hobby project for my other hobby projects :) and I decided to wrap a simple website around and offer it as a service.<p>Let me know what your thoughts, if you find value in this service or if you have any feature requests.
Show HN: IPDetective – An API for IP bot detection
IPDetective collects data from about 60+ different sources such as official cloud provider endpoints and public VPN/Proxy/Tor/Bot net lists. Then aggregates this data into a fast and easy to use API that can be integrated into applications or scripts easily.<p>IPDetective started as a hobby project for my other hobby projects :) and I decided to wrap a simple website around and offer it as a service.<p>Let me know what your thoughts, if you find value in this service or if you have any feature requests.
Show HN: I made 7k images with DALL-E 2 to create a reference/inspiration table
Show HN: I made 7k images with DALL-E 2 to create a reference/inspiration table
Show HN: pg_netstat, a Postgres extension to monitor database network traffic
pg_netstat is a Postgres extension to monitor database network traffic. It uses libpcap to capture packets and aggregates at user-specified interval.
Show HN: pg_netstat, a Postgres extension to monitor database network traffic
pg_netstat is a Postgres extension to monitor database network traffic. It uses libpcap to capture packets and aggregates at user-specified interval.
Show HN: pg_netstat, a Postgres extension to monitor database network traffic
pg_netstat is a Postgres extension to monitor database network traffic. It uses libpcap to capture packets and aggregates at user-specified interval.