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Re:Ask HN: Advice for selling a tech domain name on Sunday August 23, 2026 @10:40PM (#49414684)
As with most things, the price is what a buyer is willing to pay. As for the mechanics, sell it through an escrow service. I’ve used Escrow.com in the past.

Show HN: Telex Page – Turn secrets into AES 256 encrypted PDFs, locally

https://telexpage.com/

Hey! Every time I had to send something confidential, like a password, secret, .env, etc, I ended up using some openssl enchantment. It worked, but it was annoying for the team and impossible for my family.PDF docs already support strong AES 256 encryption and open pretty much everywhere. The annoying part was creating a doc and then jumping into a cli just to encrypt it.So I made...

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Re:Magnifica Humanitas (Encyclical Letter) on Monday May 25, 2026 @11:53AM (#48268292)
Here is an easier to read version, in clean markdown: https://github.com/cucho/magnifica-humanitas/blob/master/mar...
> Not sure how we arrived at the present title

It was me. Sorry, I didn’t mean to imply that Chris Olah co-authored the encyclical with the Pope. I just found it noteworthy that there was someone from the “industry” at the encyclical presentation on May 25, which I think is a first. Usually, they are all clergy or academics.

We are using LangGraph, which is quite low level, but has useful features like time travel, human in the loop capabilities (interruptions), flexibility on the paradigm.
Soon: "Amazon has teamed up with Lennar to transform select Lennar homes into Amazon Experience Centers" http://theopendoor.lennar.com/real-estate-news/amazon-lennar...
In my day job, I work as an advisor to UHNW families and individuals. They have their investments spread across multiple institutions, each providing their own monthly statement, holdings, etc. Our clients pay 4-figures fees monthly to have a consolidated statement (how much money I earned on August, what has been my return YTD, etc.) and portfolio holdings (How much fixed income do I have? How much I am exposed to the Turkish lira? to Argentinian stocks?). Most of the information is in the individual statements (in pdf) and the rest from providers such as Bloomberg and Morningstar. The solutions out there are custom-made and have a lot of manual input. I think a bit of AI and good visualizations can go great lengths to solve this problem.

Ask HN: Advice on where to incorporate a SaaS startup, we can't in our country

We are building a SaaS targeted to European companies. We are based in a latin american country where the exports of services is treated the same as the export of, for example, a container full of apples: For each SaaS subscription over a $1,000 we sell, we need pay a customs agent a fee (starting at ~$150). Also we would like to use Stripe and their broad range of european payment methods,...

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Ask HN: Advice on where to incorporate a SaaS startup, we can't in our country

We are building a SaaS targeted to European companies. We are based in a latin american country where the exports of services is treated the same as the export of, for example, a container full of apples: For each SaaS subscription over a $1,000 we sell, we need pay a customs agent a fee (starting at ~$150). Also we would like to use Stripe and their broad range of european payment methods, and...

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Ask HN: Choosing where to incorporate (between US and EU)

We are building a SaaS targeted to European companies. We are based in a latin american country where the exports of services is treated the same as the export of, for example, a container full of apples: For each SaaS subscription over a $1,000 we sell, we need pay a customs agent a fee (starting at ~$150). Also we would like to use Stripe and their broad range of european payment methods, and...

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Re:Ask HN: What paid email provider service on Friday March 16, 2018 @09:02AM (#16600338)
There is a less expensive ($5/mo) option without the desktop apps.
Re:Ask HN: How do you keep your ideas? on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @04:24PM (#14555826)
Thanks! How many ideas do you have in ideas.txt. How often do you read them?

Ask HN: How do you keep your ideas?

I'm thinking of tackling these two problems: (1) Ideas happen anywhere, anytime (running, in the shower, driving, etc). How to capture these ideas before they vanish?(2) I use notebooks, but once I write down an idea chances are that I will never see it again. I have a box full of notebooks collecting dust.I want to know how do you capture/keep your ideas (notebook, an app, eidetic memory,...

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Re:Ask HN: How do you capture/keep your ideas? on Monday June 12, 2017 @11:47AM (#14538183)
Nice. Do you use the variation described in the linked post, or did you do a variation of your own? (If so, please can you explain it?)

Ask HN: How do you capture/keep your ideas?

I'm thinking of tackling these two problems:(1) Ideas happen anywhere, anytime (running, in the shower, driving, etc). How to capture these ideas before they vanish?(2) I use notebooks, but once I write down an idea chances are that I will never see it again. I have a box full of notebooks collecting dust.I want to know how do you capture/keep your ideas (notebook, an app, eidetic memory,...

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what about the opposite? example.com/johndoe, example.com/~about, example.com/~legal
Re:Ask HN: Who else keeps a secret diary of startup ideas? on Monday February 06, 2012 @09:40PM (#3560189)
I keep a moleskine journal, 100+ ideas. I also collect everyday unsolved problems.
Last startup:

  zendesk (customer support),
  github (private repo),
  campfire (team communication),
  google apps (email, docs),
  odesk (extra hands),
  highrise (potential-investor relations),
  clicky (real time web analytics),
  dropbox (file sharing),
  wordy (proof-reading),
  mygengo (translations),
  new relic (monitor rails apps),
  zerigo (dns),
  sendgrid (sending mails),
  hoptoad (app logging),
  transloadit (image uploading, processing),
  heroku (app hosting)
Edit: learned HN formatting

C-Corp: Is it a good idea for a offshore web startup?

Hello.I am from Chile. I want to start a company that receives money from Apple (selling apps worldwide) and pays a % of the sales to people worldwide (through PayPal). I receive a % of the sales.I am considering to start a C-Corp in Delaware to do this. Reasons:- To open a US bank/merchant account - Closer to Apple (no bank transfer fees, currency exchanges, etc) - I can raise VC moneyI have...

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