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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025) on Friday December 12, 2025 @01:19PM (#46246953)
https://audiopea.com - Inspired by photopea, I'm building an online audio editor. Trying to do everything myself and make it all run on the client. Not too far along, but I plan on continue hammering at it...
Really cool project. I've been wanting to do something like this for my kids for a while.
Yes. YouTube kids in my experience wasn't enough - I didn't like the fact that it had recommendations of more videos to watch on the side, which allowed kids to move to another video every 10 seconds. Also, you need to manually block channels you don't like, so you keep discovering more channels when they've already watched them and it's too late.

Show HN: Cubflix – A TV-style YouTube for kids with parent-approved channels

https://www.cubflix.com/

As the title says - I created a TV-like experience using Youtube channels that are allowed, to give kids a much healthier and safer experience.YouTube has tons of great educational channels, the problem is with all the garbage it has too, not to mention shorts, other short form content and recommendations always sucking your kids into the most brainwashing channels.I assume most of the people...

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I don't think GPL licenses really stop companies from scraping the code and using it to train their LLM's. Also, how would you prove they actually used your code ?
Yeah, I'm aware, but didn't bother yet to go further... I have been thinking about hosting my own git server to work on.

I'm not a prolific open source contributor anyways, but i'm wondering if the tides are changing in regards to open source.

I can imaging that many people in the open source community - even if they're giving away their code for free under the most permissive licenses, still somewhere enjoy the fact that people know they're looking at their code on github or wherever it may be hosted. But now that slowly people shifting to only looking at code via LLM chat apps, then they might want to contirbute less to open source... just wondering... ?

Re:Ask HN: Where do you go for parenting advice? on Thursday February 01, 2024 @04:46AM (#39214255)
Thanks, I really appreciate the answer!

I've read a few books on parenting, various online articles and was also at some short seminars. My experience is very similar to yours in that when the people writing/teaching were just basing their knowledge on opinions or trends I feel like it was usually bad advice. When I read a book or article coming from people that worked in the field as developmental psychologists or experienced and well-educated social workers I felt the advice given was much, much better. That was the point of my question - trying to find resources that come from reputable people. I feel like it's very hard to find 'the good stuff'..

Regarding your point on seeking experts advice - I totally agree. I'm no stranger to the idea, and have been to psychologists quite a few times throughout the years. I'm definitely not against it, and when I'll run into difficult situations i'll definitely take that as an option as well. I was hoping to find sources of good advice for the day-to-day stuff that all parents deal with.

Re:Ask HN: Where do you go for parenting advice? on Thursday February 01, 2024 @04:37AM (#39214194)
I feel that's a little like saying 'Everyone is unique, so psychologists are useless'.. Although everyone IS truly unique, there are still common patterns that emerge, and many commonalities in our upbringings.

We don't act completely randomly, not as children and definitely not as adults. We exist within a common environment with a common set of laws or norms that most people live by (excluding extreme cases, for various reasons).

Re:Ask HN: Where do you go for parenting advice? on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @04:48PM (#39209877)
btw - I like the article you shared here, and would love to find more sources of information like that.

Specifically regarding potty training and diapers though - I've heard that before (don't remember where), but since diaper money isn't a big issue for me, I would rather go with more 'modern' diapers and have the convenience that comes with that over cotton diapers (or no diapers at all) and have my kids potty trained earlier. But it's still very interesting and important to know the story behind it.

Re:Ask HN: Where do you go for parenting advice? on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @04:43PM (#39209813)
Maybe I should've added some more details, but I'm also interested in general. For me, I have 2 kids, one is 7 years old and the other 1 year old.

I know reading peer-reviewed papers would be very difficult, and I don't plan on reading a ton of research papers, but there is so much information out there from people that aren't educated or in a position to give out information.. I would like to know where I can read opinions from well known psychologists perhaps or other professionals that read and rely on peer-reviewed papers.

What I have in mind is something like how Andrew Huberman (the podcast HubermanLab) talks about various subjects and gives advice on certain health topics, while referencing research papers and studies on the subject, but on subjects related to parenting.

Some of the subjects that interest me are: suggested nutrition for young kids, how to develop healthy sleep habbits, toys and games that have healthy developmental impact on kids, effective punishments/rewards systems, good sources and ways to teach kids math/science/physics, effective ways to deal with ADHD, and more..

Ask HN: Where do you go for parenting advice?

I can search Google for parenting advice, but it seems (just like many other subjects) that the web is riddled with paid articles and junk content sites with clickbait articles. Parenting is also one of those subjects where it seems (to me at least) that there's so much psuedo-science out there, but I'm looking for more science based, researched information.Since I feel somewhat part of the...

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Love the very clean UI
I created TubeMail.io to get an email digest of new videos from a list of YouTube channels u define.

It's not open source, but free to use (with no ads or catches)

Show HN: Get an email digest of (only) the YouTube videos that interest you

https://tubemail.io

Hey HN, Like many other people here, I found myself lurking too much on YouTube, mindlessly scrolling the homepage to see what the algorithm throws at me.At first I wanted to quit YouTube all together, but then realized some channels are important to me and very educational.I decided to create TubeMail.io - You can sign up for free, pick the channels that interest you and get an email with...

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Re:Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout? on Friday June 26, 2020 @03:08PM (#23655742)
Wow, I think you didn't get enough credit here for replying to this thread! Kudos to you!

I personally like some aspects of it and dislike some other, but nothing major in my opinion. What I can say is that only recently I started using the 'Projects' feature and it's really awesome!

Amazing work, and assuming you're the real 'natfriedman' it's amazing you answered!! :)

Re:A special app for “Tu Bishvat” on Sunday January 20, 2019 @02:20PM (#18954969)
This is just a fun project I did with a friend of mine. It's a "dating" app to find your soul mate tree :) (No money, no ads, no affiliate links, no data collecting, just pure fun!)
just out of curiosity - founder of what?
Re:Show HN: A poor-man's paywall destroyer on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @04:40PM (#16701717)
yep, I used to do it for so long myself too with dev tools, but today finally got fed up with that, and decided to create something a little more 'generic' that I could run as a bookmarklet. It already works for a few sites I ran into, hope it will continue to work!
Can you share at least a ballpark figure of how much you make from the affiliates on the site? And how many monthly users you have?
Can you share how much money you make? And is it all from Adsense?

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