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Re:Apple TV 4K (New) on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @05:52PM (#50079392)
Man what a letdown. Price and features actually wanted
Re:Twitter Is Back at Twitter.now on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @10:10PM (#49458617)
Is it Bluebird or Twitter.now?

I sense some issues incoming if the latter.

Also why ask for money immediately?

Re:My Homelab Got Hacked – A Postmortem on Thursday August 13, 2026 @12:23AM (#49281768)
What's up with this bit?

Note: I know the LLM-use will (understandably) piss some people off.

They used it to be able to read the code better!

Re:Reddit now requiring an account to access old.reddit.com on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @07:15PM (#49279850)
To better stop / control AI crawlers
Melatonin makes me feel dopey the next day.
Had me rolling
Re:The Web We Know Is Going to Disappear on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @08:28PM (#48564224)
Definitely still exists. You just can't find it amidst everything else.
Re:How are you feeling about the first Trillionaire? on Sunday June 14, 2026 @09:42PM (#48535519)
Absolutely fine.
Re:AI slowly sucking the joy out of work on Sunday June 14, 2026 @09:42PM (#48535514)
I feel more empowered than ever
Re:Ferrari Luce – Designed with Jony Ive on Monday May 25, 2026 @10:12PM (#48274174)
Nissan Leaf with a hideous bodykit
You're right, the market is flooded with simple "button grid" apps. That saturation is actually why I built FlowPDF.

I didn't want another list of basic tools; I wanted to chain them. I built a node-based editor so you can create actual pipelines (Merge -> OCR -> Filter -> Compress) rather than just doing one-off tasks.

I think that's the only way to actually add value over the 50 other "Hello World" clones.

https://www.flowpdf.app/ if you wanna check it out!

I've been working on exactly this with FlowPDF (https://www.flowpdf.app/). It was a huge pain to find a tool that didn't rely on Google APIs.

I integrated a local translation model. It downloads the model to your browser cache on the first run (so it's a bit heavy initially), but after that, you can OCR and translate documents 100% offline without uploading anything.

I actually built a tool called FlowPDF - https://www.flowpdf.app/ - specifically to solve this "logic" problem. I found that single-button tools were too limiting for things like "Merge -> Check Size -> Compress".

It uses a node-based graph so you can literally string those steps together (e.g., Merge files -> Split out page 35 -> Compress the rest) and save it as a repeatable workflow.

Re:Samsung confirms its smart fridges will start showing you ads on Thursday September 18, 2025 @05:39PM (#45295337)
Just another reason not to buy Samsung. They're already notoriously fragile fridges.
Re:Devs Cancel Claude Code En Masse – But Why? on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @04:53PM (#45188922)
Codex just seems to have a much bigger context and doesn't chew up tokens as readily as Claude. It seems to be able to do a much wider and broader range of things, accepting much wider and broader instructions and implementing them perfectly.Whereas Claude would struggle.
Re:Apple barely talked about AI at its big iPhone 17 event on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @04:52PM (#45188889)
I think it's more because they're way behind on AI and they literally have nothing to actually tell us.
Isn't the playbook with a $120M+ annual LLM bill?
*Tim Sweeney
Re:Ask HN: How promote your project? on Thursday July 17, 2025 @04:06AM (#44590895)
FB ads is probably the cheapest way to start getting the word out

Show HN: I built Settle.nz a searchable, daily-updated housing auction database

https://www.settle.nz/

Hey HN,I’ve been working on Settle.nz — a clean, searchable, daily-updated database of property auction results across New Zealand.I come from a WordPress/PHP/HTML background and used Cursor start learning about TypeScript, React and full-stack development.What it does: - Tracks all NZ auctions daily - Clean interface with filtering by price, location, status, and date - Market dashboards:...

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You wouldn't know it looking at stock market indexes
Very old news. The website seems to be republishing stories
Re:WP Engine sent "cease and desist" letter to Automattic on Monday September 23, 2024 @09:38PM (#41632337)
I'm no fan of WP Engine and their outrageous prices for very average performance, but this is a terrible look for Matt M if true. reply
I'm no fan of WP Engine and their outrageous prices for very average performance, but this is a terrible look for Matt M if true.
Re:Just use fucking paper, man on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @04:46PM (#41372824)
Emails to myself and snoozing combined with inbox-zero.

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