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Re:Magnifica Humanitas (Encyclical Letter) on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @07:59AM (#48278511)
But companies and governments owning the natural resources that powers the utilities took over the world.

US for example owns the LNG trade right now and that’s a major choke for power production across the world, China owns the rare earth metals that goes into solar and wind.

Re:Agent Skills – Open Security Database on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @04:59PM (#47418229)
took me a minute to figure out what this is but this is nice. i've already caught a few repos i blindly installed with obvious security risk
we use a service called Briefhq.

First: It’s a MCP/cli you can hook up to Claude code and slack, it integrates with GitHub.

the harness lets you record decision as contextual info you can pull up whenever your start a planning session.

It also makes sure your decisions don’t conflict with each other.

I find myself talking through a decision I made months ago with it, update it with any new decisions and it just figures out how to merge everything.

No extra workflow outside of this.

Re:Ask HN: How do you orchestrate ops across tools? on Monday December 22, 2025 @06:41PM (#46360620)
_Are you letting AI interact directly with ops tools?_

Yes but very cautiously and always with human in the loop. AI is great at cutting away ops noise (false alerts), OK at root cause analysis / debugging and terrible at actually prioritizing and fixing the thing.

It's not a solved a problem and companies like Rootly's actively speaking in this area. I'd read their blog and see what's the latest in the field.

why do this instead of using a merchant of record?

Show HN: Indiestories (Email Lottery)

https://indiestories.so/

Eleven years ago, I signed up to a special newsletter.For the next five years, I got an email every single day from different people.Every email came with a story, each story was a window into the lives of the writer. I loved reading every single one of them.The emails came to an abrupt end in 2018, and ever since then I've been looking for something similar on the internet.Recently I've...

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Well they did and Facebook refused. Hence the "do not track" feature.
Re:Show HN: I made a tool to HTTPS your localhost on Sunday July 21, 2024 @03:19PM (#41027421)
Too. many. features
if you're in the same geo - small claims court.

otherwise, consider it lost + name and shame

Tug of war with tencent. Hope they figure it out like Apple did with Google.
Re:No one will read your book on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @09:05AM (#40297668)
They had entire section on substack as well, which is basically what I'm doing.

Stat seems like only 15(?) authors on substack makes $1,000/m or more. Which is wild.

Re:No one will read your book on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @08:52AM (#40297562)
True in strict monetary senses.

But through this process I've

- gained an engaging audience on X - multiple inbound leads that turned into long term collabs - a discord community of my best readers where we meet once a week

Worth the investment

Re:No one will read your book on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @08:50AM (#40297533)
Agreed. Much like a founder building a company for the sake of being a founder.

Rarely makes good products.

Re:No one will read your book on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @08:43AM (#40297438)
You nailed it.

Thank you.

So just to clarify I didn't have an audience when I wrote the book. I took the time and told people my story over the past 6 months, and while I did that - sold books.

I think good storytellers should be able to build an audience regardless of the format - highly recommend any aspiring author to try it.

Re:No one will read your book on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @08:39AM (#40297391)
I have a site, user can pay and get an email with the pdf/Epub link.

No paper.

I write in notion, export to markdown, then compile to pdf / Epub with pandoc

It's super easy, highly recommend

Re:No one will read your book on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @08:37AM (#40297368)
Absolutely get what you mean and that's ok!

Send me an email, I'll share you the first chapter

Re:No one will read your book on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @02:54AM (#40295104)
500k.agency
Re:No one will read your book on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @02:34AM (#40294994)
On X and Reddit, for free.

I basically gave bits and pieces of each chapter away as content - then funneled interested readers into DMs and profile visits with link to my ebook.

Re:No one will read your book on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @02:22AM (#40294919)
So I don't consider my self an author but I wrote a 60 pages ebook in 3 month on a topic I consider am pretty savvy in.

I've marketed and sold 400+ copies of it at $19 so far and about to raise the price to $39, near 100% margin minus stripe fees.

What stops authors doing what I did? Plenty of people want to read, to blame lack of readership is just completely wrong.

Client Runs on Waterfall

I'm secretly loving it.I got hired to migrate a client's existing excel spreadsheet internal tool over to a customized React SPA.This is the first contract where I'm not rushing around every sprint trying to piece together half baked features and pushing them out the door. While not strictly waterfall (more kanban) I'm enjoying the heck out of the process either way:• Everything is rigorously...

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Re:Ask HN: Why is hosting a contact form so difficult? on Monday March 11, 2024 @12:43AM (#39664979)
Here's what I use

- tally.so forms, can embed anywhere

- cloud function (gcp)

- sendgrid (adds to contact list)

Unless you're getting hundreds of contacts a day this setup is basically free.

Demo:

https://500k.agency/mba-interest

Source

https://github.com/500k-agency/functions/blob/master/functio...

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2024) on Saturday March 02, 2024 @12:43PM (#39574186)
SpacesStation Labs | REMOTE Contract | US| Go, React/NextJS/TS/JS

https://spacestation.github.io/ Who we typically work with:

- Early stage SaaS startups about to raise a new round and need staff augmentation - but don't have the HR resource.

Why us:

- We're entrepreneur and founders first. We understand that crossing the finish line is #1 priority, and we understand the venture funding cycle and urgency.

- We're based in Toronto

- We're fast and flexible, darn good at delivering.

- We got focused experience, built multiple web startups from the ground up.

- We're more than SWEs, we've built an audience and community on X (twitter) and discord. We can help you test and market your SaaS with the right audience.

Let us know what you need help with:

paul at spacestationlabs dot ltd

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2024) on Friday February 02, 2024 @09:17AM (#39228725)
SpacesStation Labs | REMOTE Contract | US/Canada | Go, React/NextJS/TS/JS https://spacestation.github.io/

Who we typically work with:

- Early stage (Seed, Series-A) startups in the US with a big idea and need some extra firepower to get it done.

- US companies who needs a specialized dev to bring your product to life.

Why us:

- We're entrepreneur and founders first. We understand that crossing the finish line is #1 priority.

- We're based in Toronto

- We're fast and flexible, darn good at delivering.

- We got focused experience, built multiple web startups from the ground up.

- We're more than SWEs, we've built an audience and community on X (twitter) and discord.

Let us know what you need help with:

[email protected]

or come say hi in Discord

https://discord.gg/NU7a7rBb

Yup. We live in a simulation.
Re:How to Eat a Big Burger on Sunday January 21, 2024 @11:05PM (#39086062)
With knife and fork obviously.
Go to places where your potential customers are looking for help.
Been contracting for 7 years and there's been a 10x in opportunities from Q42023 to Q12024.

Things are looking very up.

Re:Lee Kuan Yew on Malta on Saturday January 20, 2024 @10:26AM (#39068472)
Alternatively, Lee was smart enough to NOT make generalized conclusion and to just leave it at an observation.
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2024) on Thursday January 04, 2024 @10:07PM (#38875251)
SpacesStation Labs | REMOTE Contract | US/Canada | Go, React/NextJS/TS/JS

https://spacestation.github.io/

Who we typically work with:

- Seed/Series A startups in the US with big ideas.

- US companies who needs a specialized dev to bring your product to life.

Why us:

- We're entrepreneur and founders first. We understand that crossing the finish line is #1 priority.

- We're fast and flexible, darn good at delivering.

- We got focused experience, built multiple web startups from the ground up.

- We're more than SWEs, we also own marketing and sales in-house.

Let us know what you need help with:

[email protected]

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2023) on Saturday December 02, 2023 @11:17PM (#38504795)
SpacesStation Labs | REMOTE Contract | EST

Go, React/NextJS/TS/JS, Devops, Data warehouse

https://spacestation.github.io/

Who we typically work with:

- Seed/Series A startups in the US with big ideas.

- US companies who needs a specialized dev to bring your product to life.

Why us:

- We're entrepreneur and founders first. We understand that crossing the finish line is #1 priority.

- We're fast and flexible, darn good at delivering.

- We got focused experience, built multiple web startups from the ground up.

- We're more than SWEs, we also own marketing and sales in-house.

Let us know what you need help with:

https://forms.gle/jcmVSuxfzt6MBbuA8

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