YC's Demo Day 🚀, Mario meets economics 🍄, FFMPeg 7.0 📹

Today's TechToks: Y Combinator's game-changing startups, GitHub's emerging projects LLocalSearch and Plandex, Mario Kart's link to economic principles, AWS Edge-to-Cloud innovation and more!

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TechTok by João Martins
April 05, 2024

🤯 Game Changers

The most impactful articles of the day

Y Combinator's latest Demo Day featured a diverse range of startups, including those focused on hardware design automation, veterinary practice management, vector search, AI-powered task automation, AI-assisted writing, no-code app development, and commodity trading management, showcasing the breadth of innovation emerging from the accelerator program.

🧐 Daily Picks

Curated picks and most shared articles on techtok.today

This article explores the parallels between the gameplay mechanics of the Mario Kart series and the Pareto principle, a fundamental concept in economics and management.

FFmpeg, an open-source multimedia framework, has released version 7.0 with new features like Vulkan-powered decoding hardware acceleration, and plans to better stick to a new release schedule starting in February 2023.

JetMoE-8B, trained on a budget of less than $0.1 million, outperforms Meta AI's LLaMA2-7B, demonstrating cost-effective and accessible large language model training without proprietary resources.

✨ "Too long don't README"

GitHub trending repos of today

LLocalSearch is a locally running search aggregator that uses LLM Agents to find answers to user questions without requiring OpenAI or Google API keys, featuring progress logs, follow-up questions, mobile-friendly interface, and easy deployment with Docker Compose.

Plandex is an open-source, terminal-based AI coding engine that helps users build complex software by breaking down tasks into smaller subtasks, managing context efficiently, and allowing for experimentation, revision, and review in a protected sandbox.

📱 Product Picks

Curated products from Product Hunt

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Select a Google Sheet and turn it into a form, making form fields out of column headers. Streamline data collection and automate your business processes. With Sheetgo forms, your whole team collaborates with data management for free, no onboarding necessary.

Today from Engineering Blogs

Articles from engineering blogs of leading tech companies

The article discusses how Amazon Web Services (AWS) will showcase its latest innovations and solutions in the field of Internet of Things (IoT) at the Embedded World 2024 trade fair, with a focus on accelerating innovation from edge to cloud for the embedded industry.