Hi HN,I built Pollsight, an simple civic web application that aims to solve the problem of the amount of time++research needed to vote based on your preferences on an overwhelming amount of races and referendums by collecting data from various sources and aggregating and summarizing that content in line with what you care about.In Austin we have 53 Races, and 10 Propositions to vote on, and...
I don't have time to read white papers (nor am I very good at it), but want to know what they consist of. I also want to take my dog for a walk which is hard to do while staring at a screen. This, and other tools like it are useful in achieving that.
Hey everyone,I've been working on this tool CustomPod to give you daily podcasts of your news with only the content that you care about so you're not depressed or overwhelmed with your "media intake".CustomPod lets you select a set of topics from trusted news providers to get a quick rundown of all of the updates for the day on those topics. We've recently launched on ProductHunt and received...
I've been inundated with political ads, news and commentary from all angles and it's exhausting. I've wanted just to hear about interesting topics about tech, and other areas of interest- especially in my podcasts while taking the dog for a walk.So I built a simple tool that allows you to determine news articles that goes into each podcast. You can select a few topics you're interested in, and...
https://twitter.com/gaieges/status/1787225101630325075
I've been working on a few new things for Vaconga, the tool that makes it easy to get friends and family on the same page about everyone's available dates, where to go, and places to stay / things to do there.Let me know what you think with the recent update and what you'd like to see in the future!(Sorry about the sign-in still being a requirement, that'll change soon!)
Totally agree on most of that, I'll add it to my checklist!
You're not the first person to say that; I do need some basic info though in order to keep in touch so this was a quick way to get that info. But agree, I intend on making a public view and people can join if they want (and then create possibly)
What browser did you use? Did the google workflow complete at least?
Good call on the meeting idea, especially for folks who aren't in the same org / can't see each others schedules for example.
I've been working on this project to simplify the organization done by one or two people to get a group of people to agree on a place to go that works with everyone's schedule.I've found in the past that email/text makes it tricky to get everyone to get a sense of the details of a trip, and also puts one person in the position to be persistent and spend a lot of time ensuring everyone's needs...
I'd bet a good amount that they store that along with all the other personally identifying info they have on you (and google of course has a massive amount of that); which is basically why after a single reCAPTCHA solve, you wont see them prompt you again for ages - they know who you are.
> Worth noting that this title is primarily due to Cloudflare having switched to them from ReCAPTCHA, and Cloudflare is... well, relatively popular, to say the least.
That's definitely a part of it, but we also have a number of other large sites and services that use hCaptcha to protect against bots, and more that get added every day because of our more advanced bot detection special sauce.
> I'm curious what kind of data may exist on the experience of switching for larger providers; do the users like it? how much more/less time do they spend solving? do they care, let alone even notice that it's not Google's ReCAPTCHA?
From what we've seen, the integration process is generally smooth, especially if you're a previous reCAPTCHA user, since we keep the interface and workflow largely the same.
Solving is roughly the same although we have a number of other protections that irritate bot maintainers and get activated when we detect them.
Not sure if the majority of people are aware of the change, I'm sure some technically savvy people pick up on it more than not.
> Regardless, as ReCAPTCHA is not only terribly annoying but also built for surveillance from the ground up, I still view this as a good improvement.
That's actually one the top reasons we've had a lot of customers come over to us; we put a heavy emphasis on user privacy / security, including adopting/supporting privacy-preserving protocols (PrivacyPass, Tor), and minimal retention of data (see our data privacy policy on our site).