# Nibble #2

👋🏻 Hola! Welcome to the #2 edition of Nibbles.

### News 🗞️

* ✨ Recent YC Batch has a 1.4% acceptance rate, here's a quick look at them, complete the dataset [here](https://app.launchgravity.com/data-drops/y-combinator-winter-2023-batch)
    
    ![](https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/D5622AQF6NXr15kqc9w/feedshare-shrink_2048_1536/0/1680546362904?e=1683763200&v=beta&t=JPqgARCOOpqzIhNGgkeJjMl2U444d7l4QiQurahuThQ align="left")
    
* Talking about YC, someone created a Chatbot exclusively for YC's Knowledge base so that you can ask your doubts to it. [Try it](https://yc-knowledge-app.vercel.app/)
    
* 🚀 Chome ships WebGPU **\[**[**Link**](https://developer.chrome.com/blog/webgpu-release/)**\]** (*so, now you can develop more graphic-intensive shitty stuff and fill the web with that to poison DALL-E too*)
    
* 🐣 Twitter chooses a bad-ass way *again* to hunt down the leaker \[[Link](https://theintercept.com/2023/04/08/twitter-dmca-github-musk/)\] (*definitely, not the first time Elon is doing this sort of sorcery, also I like how the "The Intercept" has a section at the end "****Takeaways for Leakers****"* 🤣)
    
* 🏞️ Well, well, well, Guess who is back (*It's <s>Zuck</s> Meta*), Meta released [SAM (Segment Anything Model)](https://segment-anything.com/demo) which recognizes a different object in an image with mind-blowing accuracy. It has been trained over 11M images. (*so, yes our FB Images are being put to good use and what's this obsession of AI tool names with SAM{a}*)
    
* 💰 Meet [Pull](https://www.pullnow.com/), a company that lets you withdraw up to 6 months' salary in advance with a 3% fee and no interest (*BNPL was definitely a mess here in India, but these guys took this to next level, also the domain reminds of some of the scariest order I have been given*)
    

### Wild World & Web 🫠

* 🐆 Meet [Cheetah](https://github.com/leetcode-mafia/cheetah), a Whisper & GPT-based app for passing remote SWE interviews (*looking forward to the era where we'll interview LLMs and enjoy this all self-deprecating humor, joke apart it's getting really scary down here, do you guys have a link to Farming Tutorials?*)
    
* 📺 Meet [More Episodes!](https://moreepisodes.com/), it's a tool that generates the natural extension episodes to your favorite shows. (*Finished watching a TV Series, wishing that there should have been more episodes of the same. Worry not. GPT-4 has got you covered)*
    
* 💬 [Ask HN: What lesser-known accessories do you use with your computer?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35429801) (*yup! the idea is to find the devices to burn money, if you still have doubts, I know a* [*guy*](https://twitter.com/avtansk))
    
* 🌉 Have you ever wondered why the Golden Gate Bridge is called "Golden Gate" when it's not Golden and not even Gate? - \[[Link](https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/why-isnt-the-golden-gate-bridge-gold/)\] (*we might do one nomenclature link in every post, I know tons more of them*)
    
* 🐦‍⬛ [How Killing Sparrows Led to Great Famines in China](https://www.historydefined.net/how-killing-sparrows-led-to-one-of-the-greatest-famines-in-history/) (*this post is a quick reminder of how all the species on this planet live in harmony and why you shouldn't mess with things you don't understand*) - Shared by [Divyesh](http://divye.sh/)
    

### Catch up with the tech 🤓

* Why you should avoid HTTP3 for some time? ⚠️ - [Link](https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/AvoidingHTTP3ForNow) (*TLDR; your container's OS might be a bottleneck*)
    
* A COBOD Printer is being used to print a 2-Story 3D building in Namma Bengaluru, also, the first in India 🖨️🏚️. (*yup, forget Indiranagar roads, let's focus on what's easy first, huh!*) - [Link](https://www.3dnatives.com/en/cobod-printer-used-for-indias-first-2-story-3d-printed-building-180120216/#!)
    
* Learn Quantum Computing with IQM Academy's [Curriculum](https://academy.meetiqm.com/curriculum/index.html) (*really can't wait for these chips to be GA and then go again re-inventing all of the cryptography*)
    
* 🧵 [Tech Opportunities you can't afford to miss in April](https://twitter.com/TiyaTwts/status/1646219314788278277)
    

### "Today I Learned" moments 🤯

* `NaN` always had a complicated relationship with `NaN`, `indexOf` joins the party as the third wheel.
    
    ![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1681562666963/83ca12e4-6474-484d-9f4e-ec5c27a906dd.png align="center")
    
* You have the BTC whitepaper 📃 hidden on your Mac, you can open that right now using  
    `open /System/Library/Image\ Capture/Devices/VirtualScanner.app/Contents/Resources/simpledoc.pdf`  
    Source: [Twitter](https://twitter.com/chrisatmachine/status/1643752250752507906?t=54oXCt-ddwU1ZgpeAtW64Q&s=19)
    
* `@here` only notifies all online members of the channel, while `@channel` or `@all` notifies everyone in the channel 🔔 (*been bombing 5 timezones at work lately, gotta keep it to wakey ones from now on.*)
    

### New tools in town 👀

* [EnhanceAI](https://www.producthunt.com/posts/enhance-ai) lets you quickly add autocomplete using AI in your applications (*shorter sprints for such features now*)
    
* [PWA Builder](https://web.dev/pwas-in-app-stores/) helps you to build packages out of PWA that can be distributed to Google, MS & Apple Store (*so, we have 1 good and 1 bad news, it'll be easy to distribute your web apps and it'll be easy to distribute your web apps*)
    
* [Freefy](https://freefy.app/) lets you stream music without ads in between (*it is open source, and uses APIs from YT & Spotify for the sole purpose of being an alternative* 👏🏻)
    
* [MemeCam](https://www.memecam.io/) allows you to generate a meme from any image, just upload it and it'll add some funny and relevant text on top of the image (*Content Creator era what??*)
    
* [Copilot for Dating](https://copilot4dating.com/): Having a hard time breaking the ice? (*I don't know where this thing will stop*)
    
* [ToolBuilder](https://toolbuilder.ai/), this scary tool allows you to generate AI Tools just by using prompts. (*NGL, this one is scary, I wanted to build an Ingredient based recipe finder and I gave it the prompt, it took less than 5 seconds to give me a functional app*)
    
    ![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1681564598967/1b6655b9-a904-4eb3-a220-c763b531fa07.png align="center")
    

### Tools Recommendations 💫

* [RClone](https://rclone.org/): a CLI tool to manage your files on the cloud that supports all major storage providers (*this one has a crazy amount of features in it, oh! and yes it comes with an experimental Web-based GUI too*)
    
* [ProxyMan](https://proxyman.io/): A simple tool that lets you monitor all the network requests going out from your computer (*this is pretty nifty at times, it basically creates a proxy that gives you the ability to intercept all the requests, save lives & hack stuff sometimes too*)
    
* [Gamma](https://gamma.app/): It's a new way to communicate ideas, I have been using this at work for a while. (*can't say it'll replace any app from your workflow, but you can try it out*)
    

### Watching 📺

* [AlphaGo - The Movie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXuK6gekU1Y) - this one will surprisingly bring water to your eyes, it's one hell of a gripping documentary, and also reminds us of how early we started addressing AI as some unpredictable human (*I mean long before GeePeeTee*)
    
* [Why π is in the normal distribution by 3B1B](https://youtu.be/cy8r7WSuT1I) (*this stuff I don't know should have been part of my degree, but anyways YT University it is!*)
    

### Meme of the week

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1681566948286/ff98aa52-eca7-4ebd-b4d7-cf4e153d5810.png align="center")

### Quote of the week

> "The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you."  
> ~ Carl Jung

### Note

This newsletter might be a little stale, but the next one will come a little early as I want to keep it shorter and we are lagging by a week.  
Also, I know some of you told me to tweak the banner designs a bit, I'll try to get it done by the next one.

**As promised, Postcard from my trip last week**

![Living Root Bridge, Riwai, Meghalaya](https://lh3.google.com/pw/AJFCJaVUcYpzULhVt6HlwNkcFuMIkxgDmS_Mjnr9v_gPjckiuUGcIaDRyQKYslGZpKkqiY2Hh4VRXXPkFAwSFltVGg7a2VQ4vP0=w1940-h1091-s-no?authuser=0 align="left")

\[**Alt**: Living Root Bridge, Riwai, Meghalaya\]

#### **Where do we stand in the year** powered by [Year Progress Bot](https://twitter.com/year_progress/status/1642406532556943360?t=YKFDLRU9TG9gqay_xLmmAQ&s=19)

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👋🏻 I’ll see you next one!