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Anthropic's warning about its own product
The new app to avoid homeless people [video]
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
on Sunday June 29, 2025 @09:35PM (#44418330)
Working on https://ireact.to/, basically a centralized link in bio to collect feedback, questions, urls, ideas from your community.
Saturated market riddled with alternatives, but I wasn't really able to find low friction way to collect these things that met all my needs. Most of this stuff gets lost in DMs or comment sections, which just wasnt working for me.
Also figured it would be a neat way to re-think paying for a creators attention. IE, giving the option to tip (and soon subscribe to a VIP inbox of sorts).
Show HN: Ireact.to – Forever AMA link in bio
A free lightweight inbox for creators to collect ideas, feedback, content suggestions, and links from their community, all in one place.Your audience submits and upvotes what they want you to react to next so you can focus on the most relevant, engaging, and high-impact content.Great use cases include: - AMAs - React channels / creating reaction content - Getting suggestions on what video to...
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
on Monday May 26, 2025 @01:21PM (#44099469)
Currently working on https://ireact.to/ - A public inbox for content creators.
Its a super simple way for your community to submit and vote on the content that they'd like you to check out/react to next.
Are Hashtags Anti-Creative?
Re:Ask HN: I have so many 'bots' signing up to my site. Why?
on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @04:54PM (#40149499)
Any recommendation to stop this? Perhaps only offer social sign on?
Re:Ask HN: I have so many 'bots' signing up to my site. Why?
on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @03:39PM (#40148648)
Thanks for the write up, that makes sense.
I would of thought these 'spammers' would of given up because of verification, but it seems to continue despite many of accounts not being verified yet, perhaps they think they can verify later (which makes me think a TTL on verification emails is important) or that was an oversight completely on their end.
Ask HN: I have so many 'bots' signing up to my site. Why?
Hello HN,Was wondering if anyone else has seen this type of activity on any of the projects they have worked on, and/or know what is going on.My friends and I have a small community site for content creators to discuss news (think of it like hn but for content creators specifically)[0].Recently, I have seen a ton of accounts being registered with our email and pw option (the only option). This...
Dear software engineer, you are not making the world a better place
Audience building: how long can you keep up the charade?
Re:Ask HN: What are some excellent blogs, news boards, YouTube channel...
on Thursday December 07, 2023 @02:13PM (#38560517)
https://www.cbx.gg/
Creator Economy news and discussion.
It’s great for content creators or those building audiences.
Re:Hire vs. Do Yourself for Indies
on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @05:29PM (#33087250)
Had a conversation about this (podcast) and was looking to get some perspective from other indie creators / founders. The article I linked is just a boiled down TLDR from a 1 hour conversation.
What do HNers think ?
Hire vs. Do Yourself for Indies
Re:Ask HN: Have You Worked for a DAO?
on Saturday September 24, 2022 @09:47PM (#32968245)
Funny enough, before I posted the question I thought to myself "I wonder how this would be received"?
Ask HN: Have You Worked for a DAO?
I'm in the market for a new opportunity, and recently listened to a podcast about working for a DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) e.g. yearn.finance .It got me wondering - is it possible to work at a DAO full-time and make a comparable living wage to a full time salaried employee? If so, it seems like something interested to try.Have you worked for a DAO?What was your experience...
Ask HN: Does your traffic slow down in the summer?
Looking to survey my fellow startup/project hackers who monitor their traffic year round.Does your traffic slow down during the summer? Or better yet, do seasons change the amount of traffic your site gets?I am most interested in those who host projects that aren't affected by industry (IE. obviously if produce you produce tax tools you would see an influx during that time.)
Hacking Breakthrough Ideas
Ask HN: Suggested Curriculum for scaling web applications and services
There is a lot of material teaching the basics of programming and computer science. I have been hard pressed to find information that will help an experienced developer build scalable systems. Ideally, when starting a project, I want to know _how_ to start in order to make something that will actually be able to scale without pain points and/or obviously pitfalls.Are there any suggested...
Has Deepmind really passed go?
CERN scientists 'break the speed of light'
Re:Ask HN: What books are you reading?
on Saturday September 05, 2015 @02:34PM (#10175610)
Stuff Matters - Mark Miodownik
This is a really casual Material Science book. It's sub-title is "Exploring the marvelous materials that shape our man-made world." I am about a quarter of the way through and am really enjoying it. I really knew nothing about materials, this book served as a fun/interesting introduction to modern materials. The first chapter (my favorite thus far) was about metals. It goes into how different types of alloys are created and into sword making; what makes a good blade vs a brittle blade that will fall apart in combat(hint: it has to do with the amount of carbon in the blade. Too much and it is brittle. You want about 1% in the entire blade.)
Yes, androids do dream of electric sheep
The small lives
Facebook lets users use Encryption Keys
Re:The Shazam Effect (2014)
on Saturday May 23, 2015 @04:53PM (#9594337)
I remember posting this awhile ago. Here is the Original Thread if you are looking for more comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8634357
Great article regardless. Glad to see more peoples take on it.
Re:Show HN: JavaScript Graphing Library Comparison
on Thursday May 21, 2015 @04:34PM (#9585219)
Interestingly enough, I had a problem with ChartJS that no one seemed to be able to remedy. It was quite bizarre and at first seemed to be a cross browser issue, but after further investigation it seemed to just be some type of strange cross-machine issue. See it here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30063762/side-effects-fro...
Given that, I had to do some hacky stuff upon every refresh. Instead of using destroy() on the canvas, I had to remove the Canvas DOM object itself, building it back up, and inserting it again. Because of this I am a bit skeptical about using ChartJS again, which is unfortunate because I do love their Charts. I feel like maybe SVG might be the better way to go for analytics.