(Usually I put an &quot;Apply to YC&quot; thing in the HN footer [1] but I forgot this time, so here is my pitch to make up for it.)If you&#x27;ve ever thought about applying to YC, here&#x27;s a tip: just do it. It doesn&#x27;t take long and could change your life, like it did for me and many others.In particular, if you have either of these two bogus thoughts, ignore them pronto and just go to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apply.ycombinator.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apply.ycombinator.com</a> and apply:(1) &quot;probably not good enough &#x2F; won&#x27;t get in&quot; - you&#x27;d be surprised at how many people feel that way, whether because of impostor syndrome, lack of credentials, whatever—and often they turn out to be among the best founders. So this a terrible reason not to apply!The nice thing is, it&#x27;s YC&#x27;s job to evaluate that, not yours. They&#x27;re looking for aptitude which doesn&#x27;t look like what most people (probably including you) assume. You needn&#x27;t look impressive, and you don&#x27;t have to be a competent founder—you learn that from doing YC. Just be yourself as you are, fill out the application and don&#x27;t worry about it.(2) &quot;too early&quot; - there&#x27;s no such thing. YC looks for good potential founders—meaning anyone who can learn what they teach—and nothing else. You&#x27;re already yourself, which is all you need.Some of YC&#x27;s big successes start off as last-minute applications on a whim; and many start with totally different ideas than what ends up succeeding. It&#x27;s YC&#x27;s job to teach you how to play the startup game, and that can start at any time.(&quot;Too far along already&quot; is another bogus notion but I&#x27;ll stick with the top 2 for today.)If you know the game Snakes and Ladders [2], YC is a massive ladder in an area where there are no snakes. Sure it&#x27;s a dice roll, but what reason do you have not to? If you&#x27;re uninterested in the game, no problem—but if you have any impulse to participate, do it! If you&#x27;re the &quot;out of nowhere&quot; type of founder YC loves to fund, your chances are likely a lot better than you imagine.Apply by 8pm PT on Monday 4&#x2F;22 to get a decision by May 29: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apply.ycombinator.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apply.ycombinator.com</a>.---[1] like last October - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20231011022307&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20231011022307&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycom...</a>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Snakes_and_ladders" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Snakes_and_ladders</a>

Tell HN: Ever think of applying to YC? Do it this weekend for S24

I&#x27;m looking for a product or startup that can extract all my emails, use GPT-4 to learn &quot;me,&quot; then draft responses. It would be nice if it also had other integrations, like Slack, Messenger, Twilio, Todoist, etc., and could extract all those too for a complete second-brain&#x2F;sidekick&#x2F;assistant-like replacement of me. I want to grow my side projects, but 80% of my day is just managing day-to-day issues which AI can handle if it knew me.And the key point is to update the knowledge base with each new email, whether sent or received.

Ask HN: Is there a tool to extract ALL emails, learn "me", draft responses

Like a few of us here, I run multiple side hustles&#x2F;projects - only a couple make a profit. Enough to pay the bills. And I realised, whereas in 2011 only say 30% of my costs were tech&#x2F;SaaS, now, 80% of them are. Is there a way to avoid this?The crux of the matter is that I find some SaaS completely invaluable, like watching session replays (= finding bugs&#x2F;why people buy), accounting, and recently, using AI to prospect&#x2F;lead gen (and doing actual content myself, at conferences, via phone). Many times hosting is free on startup plans on cloud, but if you don&#x27;t create a new company entity, you often cannot access cloud credits for the smaller projects (sensibly), or you are paying OpenAI, so you are looking at $100-$500 for the tech too. I also feel they are kind of unoptional now: Sales response rates are 3-4x lower than what they were in 2011, because of AI prospecting&#x2F;the gradual train of spam and investors focusing on tech. So you need to counter this with tooling.The thing is each of these services hit minimum plans these days of say $50-$100 for decent usage. And with 3-4 projects, this means I am paying the majority of my margins to them. I think back to 2011, when I had a short term startup, and with the market being less crowded (and luck), was able to generate revenue without any of this tech. Our only running cost was servers and accounting (which was cheaper). The problem then was always distribution, but now I know how to do that, the problem is actually the fixed costs. Nowadays I feel like if you don&#x27;t have a good enough UI&#x2F;quality (i.e. use session replay&#x2F;pay users for feedback), you just can&#x27;t get high enough revenue and retention. So I buy service after service for each project (as since 2022, more and more limit to one domain per plan etc or have worse free tiers than they used to), but it feels like I&#x27;m no further along than I was in 2011. Yes I have tried to self-host supabase and highlight.io, both were too hard to do for each site. Other software was self-hostable, but not the ones I&#x27;m paying for! (without all sorts of config for email auth, etc)Come to think of it, will we ever see a service like &quot;Once&quot; cover these kind of things? Because SaaS boilerplates sort of solved that issue for me. It&#x27;s now the &quot;improvement and listening to users&quot; part that I am forking out money for.

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I&#x27;m interested in the healthcare&#x2F;medical space and trying to find a worthy problem to work on. I&#x27;m applying the YC method of asking as many doctors as possible what their pain point is.It&#x27;s not going well. Just scraping LinkedIn and trying to make connections, I&#x27;m getting a 25% connection rate and a 1% interview rate.My message is super concise and trying to be as non-salesy as possible. I&#x27;m pretty clear I&#x27;m just looking to learn&#x2F;listen and not pitch.BTW I&#x27;m also looking into other avenues than LinkedIn, just not 100% sure what that may be.So, startup folks, how did you manage to land these early discovery interviews? Especially those in the healthcare sector.

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I&#x27;ve seen basic functions split across apps, broken cloud services, and even big-budget banking apps that are painful to use. Reliability and security often feel lacking too.I have a few theories why this happens: Are we all too distracted to do focused work? Does the industry focus too much on the newest trends rather than building things right the first time? Have easy coding tools led to devs who don&#x27;t grasp the fundamentals?Plus, what does the rise of AI mean for software quality? Could things get a LOT worse before they get better?What are the worst examples of bad software that drive you crazy? Are there shining examples of exceptional quality that give you hope?

Why did software become worse lately?

I found that reading other people&#x27;s code is very beneficial for my own coding. But I haven&#x27;t found a resource that lists some great code in Python which is not a giant codebase. Any suggestions?

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We&#x27;re in the stage of the adblocker cat and mouse game where sites will ask you to whitelist their site for their ads.In most cases, the internet these days is unusable without an adblocker. But maybe there are some good faith actors out there that deserve to not have their ads blocked?What sites do you have whitelisted on your adblocker? I personally have none.

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I want to be able to let others in my office see the music everyone is listening to, or has listened to, share albums and have a communal library. But I want the library to be distinct from something like Spotify, but would allow someone to browse and play using their own account. This is not a central jukebox, just a central library.Is there anything out there like that? A sort of shared music library app?

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It&#x27;s been 4 weeks since the GoFetch vulnerability in Apple Silicon chips has been disclosed. It appears a simple workaround for the problem is to pin execution of Crypto libraries to the Icestorm (aka &#x27;efficiency&#x27;) cores.I have not seen nor heard of any attempts to go in this direction, so I&#x27;m asking my community, are you all hearing anything about this? Thanks.

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At what age did you write your first lines of code, and how?

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Hi, I&#x27;m Aidan.I&#x27;m on the lookout for a co-founder to apply to YC with a de-risked idea set to change the landscape of psychiatry treatment through AI. Here’s what we’re tackling:The Issue: Accurate diagnosis of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is just the beginning; the real challenge lies in identifying its biological subtypes which dictate treatment strategies. Currently, there’s no reliable method to detect these subtypes, making treatment a hit-or-miss scenario.Our Solution: We’re developing an AI platform that uses EEG data and ML models to predict the most effective TMS treatments for MDD and potentially other diseases.Market Potential: There are 17 million MDD patients in need, plus countless others suffering from conditions that could benefit from better TMS treatment strategies.Our Team: I am an ex-founder of a VC-backed AI startup and have worked at companies like Microsoft and EY. My partner, as a researcher and ex-engineer at MediaTek, has successfully developed similar models, implemented in a major medical center in Asia, and is now eager to adapt this experience to the U.S. market.Why You Should Join: You&#x27;d be part of a venture that&#x27;s not only technically validated but also has shown commercial promise.We need a co-founder who is as passionate about improving mental health as we are, with strong ties in the healthcare industry and experience in sales &amp; BD or psychiatric research.Interested? Shoot me an email at aidan.new.venture@gmail.com with details about something impressive you&#x27;ve built, why you think you&#x27;d be a great fit, and your whatsapp.Join us to make a real difference in mental health care.

Looking for a co-founder to apply for YC and changing psychiatry with AI

I know I will get a massive shitstorm, but I always forget the flags and options for the numerous linux command line Tools like grep etc.
I&#x27;m using the shell from time to time and so I&#x27;m not using the commands daily and forget about them.
So my question: Are there any Tools to help here? I do not mean a man page but some kind of GUI for the commands or something like regex101 for a shell command.

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Hi Friends ,A well-crafted prompt can drive the desired result from LLM&#x27;s .Andrej
Karpathy said it best in one of his twitter threads &quot;The hottest new programming language is English&quot;.We&#x27;ve build a platform called &quot;The Prompt Square&quot; is a community-driven platform, where users can share, discover, and test AI prompts in real time .Each prompt is analyzed for its purpose, topic, category, and driving keywords, also users can try out prompts and discuss results in real-time .Being an interactive platform, features like commenting and rating , allow users to evaluate responses and contribute collectively on a better understanding of model behavior .
There&#x27;s still a lot of work to be done.We&#x27;ve just launched the mvp currently having 12 users .
Here is the link https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thepromptsquare.com&#x2F;.We think it has potential ,what do you think ?

A community approach to making the AI more explainable

I think that Twitter is broken (DOH). It stopped sending SMS messages and it asks me to use a code from SMS message.Is anyone besides Elon working there?Support seems to be a bot that asks me to do the same and ignores input from me. This is a terrible experience. How did you fix you issue with twitter?

Is anyone human still working at X/Twitter?

Hello,I am going to work on my new SaaS product in React and Node.js(and Python). I don’t want to build basic feature like Auth, Teams and other basic functionality. Also expecting good react components and sidebar navigations and filters functionality and planning to use Postgres or MongoDB and redis for caching. I am looking for open source projects with above features with MIT and Apache license.Can you suggest some projects?

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I run a small remote startup with two other developers. I&#x27;ve heard good things about pair programming, but I have never done it myself. Any suggestions or advice on how to approach pair programming?

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I just want to remove stories that link to sites like bloomberg, New York Times, Wired, etc. because they are paywalled&#x2F;account-walled articles.

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I am an undergraduate student interested in deep learning. Just curious on how applicable deep learning theory knowledge is in the practical setting? Based on my very limited amount of conversation with people in my university, career fairs, and online information, what I get from them is that a lot of the hyperparameter selection decisions comes from the engineer&#x27;s intuition and past experience. Trying to combine my knowledge of statistics and some deep learning theory survey that I&#x27;ve tried my best to understand, it seems to be possible to come up with a rigorous and procedural way (something that could be streamlined) to determine hyperparameters and possible architectures if we know certain properties of the dataset and intended task.Is the theory good enough for the practical applications? (by practical I don&#x27;t mean large scale projects that Google or OpenAI does. More of just small companies who seek to apply established methodologies on their own dataset). If yes, then do people actually do this? If no, can I have more of your thoughts on why?

Ask HN: Are deep learning theorist employable in the industry

Generally speaking,between a spoon and a fork, which shape would induce better dissolution and diffusion of sugar into milk&#x2F;tea&#x2F;coffee ?I am wondering about this becauseForks: Their tines (usually 3-4 tines) should theoretically cause more agitation and enable better dissolution and diffusion of sugar with more &quot;churns&quot; while stirring.Spoons: They act as a shallow bowl and help in serving sugar into the liquid, and can also double up and do the job of mixing it.Strictly for the purpose of mixing the sugar into the liquid, do spoons have any design advantage over forks if we ignore the aspect that they help in transferring the heap of sugar into liquids ?

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Recently, Yilei Chen reported an attack on a post-quantum cryptography primitive: Learning With Errors (LWE), a hard problem on lattices.[1]Hongxun Wu and Thomas Vidick found a bug in the paper which invalidates the attack:&gt; Update on April 18: Step 9 of the algorithm contains a bug, which I don’t know how to fix. See Section 3.5.9 (Page 37) for details. I sincerely thank Hongxun Wu and (independently) Thomas Vidick for finding the bug today. Now the claim of showing a polynomial time quantum algorithm for solving LWE with polynomial modulus-noise ratios does not hold. I leave the rest of the paper as it is (added a clarification of an operation in Step 8) as a hope that ideas like Complex Gaussian and windowed QFT may find other applications in quantum computation, or tackle LWE in other ways. [2][1] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39998396[2] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eprint.iacr.org&#x2F;2024&#x2F;555

Update on "Quantum Algorithms for Lattice Problems"

While we can, and if it isn&#x27;t too late already. The web is overrun with AI generated drivel, I&#x27;ve been searching for information on some widely varying subjects and I keep landing in recently auto-generated junk. Unfortunately most search engines associate &#x27;recency&#x27; with &#x27;quality&#x27; or &#x27;relevance&#x27; and that is very much no longer true.While there is still a chance I think we should snapshot a version of the web and make it publicly available. That can serve as something to calibrate various information sources against to get an idea of whether or not they are to be used or rather not. I&#x27;m pretty sure Google, OpenAI and Facebook all have such snapshots stashed away that they train their AIs on, and such data will rapidly become as precious as &#x27;low background steel&#x27;.https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Low-background_steel

Tell HN: We should snapshot a mostly AI output free version of the web

What I&#x27;m looking for is a tool that will help you create a good prompt. I&#x27;d specifically like this for images so I&#x27;ll use that as an example, but it can be used for text, video, and procedures.For example, I will write a prompt in my own words, then it&#x27;ll walk me through a few questions to make it better, such as image color (colored, vibrant, neon, black&#x2F;white, etc), what style image do I want (photorealistic, anime, drawing, digital, 3d, etc), lighting (soft, natural, direct, dim, etc), and whatever other details that might be helpful such as photography style, clothing style, scenery, etc depending on previous answers. I envision each of these steps having an example image for each option to give you an idea of what that means (like what does soft vs natural vs direct lighting look like.)If this doesn&#x27;t exist, I do believe this is a very useful product worth building.

Ask HN: Are there AI prompt builder products?

I have been in Data Science for 8 years now. The latest developments in deep learning and LLMs are moving at such high pace. It is getting difficult to keep myself updated with latest trends while simultaneously delivering work at my current job. 
How are others managing?

Ask HN: How are Data Scientist keeping themselves updated?

After all the layoffs, and Firefox not really gaining much traction - How is the current culture? I am seeing a few open positions and wonder if people left and they have to hire new ones, or what is it like still being there? Would you recommend Mozilla?

Ask HN: What is it like working for Mozilla Labs these days?

Hi folks,I am working on an AI newsfeed app. It uses LLM to summarize and filter stories on any website or RSS. When exporting this custom AI feed to custom RSS (so that users on RSS readers can subscribe them), I am wondering which RSS field should I use for AI summary, the summary prompt or AI filter. Namely:1. AI summary per top feed links (AI will summarize the page pointed by the link URL)
- I am thinking of adding a new namespace within item: `channel &gt; item &gt; ai:summary`2. User&#x27;s summary prompt (.e.g &quot;What are key points it covers&quot; or &quot;What are the key financial metrics&quot;)
- What about `channel &gt; item &gt; ai:summaryPrompt`3. Handle AI filtered feed and user&#x27;s filter prompt (e.g. &quot;Anything about open source&quot;)
- I am thinking of including only the filtered feed items in RSS and adding a per channel tag like `channel &gt; ai:filterPrompt`. Or alternatively include all the feed items but add `channel &gt; item &gt; ai:filterPrompt` only for the items filtered by AI (but I doubt RSS readers can handle it properly).(I want to preserve existing RSS fields if possible, like item description `channel &gt; item &gt; description`)Any feedback is welcome!

Ask HN: Where to put AI summary and filter in custom RSS feed

Hi there!I manage a tech team, and one of my direct reports replied to a negative feedback received from a member of our sales team with support from ChatGPT.The content of the response was good, as it acknowledged the negative feedback and demonstrated a desire to improve.However, the salesperson noticed that the reply he received was clearly generated through ChatGPT, and he was somewhat frustrated by this.I can see how the salesperson might interpret this as a sign of apathy toward him. At the same time, my direct report is genuinely interested in acting on the feedback.Do you think using ChatGPT in this situation was inappropriate?

Ask HN: Is it polite to respond to colleagues using ChatGPT?

As my friend logged into work today, they were told to join a mandatory meeting, as was everyone on their team and everyone they had known at the company. It wasn&#x27;t a meeting though, they were the only one in it.After being shown some stupid bullshit video about how Wayfair is &quot;moving in a new direction&quot; or whatever, they were locked out of their accounts almost without warning. Friends barely got a chance to say goodbye to each other.For the last few months, they&#x27;ve been training an absolutely useless AI to replace themselves.They made all the managers wait till later in the day to come into work so they could be fired separately.
Of course, they kept the one manager who lives in a place with underpaid labor, where they are offshoring the work for managing this new AI to near-slaves.Of course they were told not to go posting about it on social media, and I couldn&#x27;t find anything yet, so I took it upon myself. What a trash company that doesn&#x27;t care about its people one bit.

Wayfair fired a bunch of people again today, after using them to train AI

I&#x27;ve used a Zoho Mail account for years as my primary email. Last time I attempted to sign in after not doing so for a few weeks, I was prompted to enter an OTP from SMS to a long-defunct mobile number, though I had not activated 2FA myself. No recovery options or alternatives are offered. I contacted customer support and was advised to re-activate the mobile number, which is impossible.Relying on a free email account and failing to update the associated mobile number were stupid blunders on my part – lessons learned. I had years of (to me) valuable correspondence, contacts, and other data in there. Anything I can still try?

Ask HN: Help – locked out of longstanding Zoho Mail account

I run a one-person company and struggle with the workload across planning, development, finance and managing contractors.How do others in similar situations manage tasks and maintain sanity? Which strategies and tools do you find effective?

Ask HN: One-person companies—how do you manage it all and stay sane?

I work on the front-end usually with Vue, and am in the process of building out a full-stack project.I&#x27;m sure I don&#x27;t have to explain the sheer amount of choices (analysis paralysis, yay!), but wanted to hear how other FE devs are doing it. Below are the options I&#x27;ve looked into:- Supabase- Nhost- XanoWould love to hear from anybody who has experience with the above choices. Any pros&#x2F;cons of each? Doing research and wading through the BS is tough, especially with lots of conflicting information I&#x27;m coming across.p.s - I know the best answer is &quot;just choose one and build!&quot;, but I&#x27;m more curious to hear some anecdotes about what others are liking&#x2F;disliking

Ask HN: Front-end devs, what is your current db and backend of choice?

I am old enough to have lived the dot-com era. In the mid-90&#x27;s I had a &quot;cushy&quot; job but once I realized that the internet was going to be huge, I quit my job and rode the dot-com wave.And now here we are with AI.The way I see it AI is going to be evermore disruptive of old business model than the Internet has been; but contrary to the dot-com era, the barrier to entry is a lot higher. Is it?Aside from YC&#x27;s recent batch, where&#x2F;how does HN see Innovation leveraging AI and where are the opportunities?I asked ChatGTP and what I got back was average cliche&#x27; answers.Can we have a human-powered large scale brainstorming?TIA

Ask HN: How's AI different than the dot-com era?

So many journalist&#x2F;news websites require an account&#x2F;subscription. It didnt used to be that way. With the volume of news sites on the web, do they really expect it to be productive to ask users to make an account? People are actively seeking to reduce the number of accounts they have to create on the web, because they dont want to keep track of them all, or risk their data being leaked. Sure, they will get die-hard readers&#x2F;fans to make an account or subscribe, but how can they expect to gain new readers or fans if most of them throw up a full-screen &quot;Create an account to continue reading&quot;? Like the user cant even deduce if its a good article, they have no incentive to create an account. Just an incentive to mark your publication in their mind on a mental blacklist because you deny them content. Is this bigger than what I can see? Would love to hear different viewpoints.

Ask HN: Why do news websites think this is a good idea?

I&#x27;m attempting to upload 2TB to google drive.My upload speed is 250mbps, so 200gb should take around 2 hours, but it takes 20h. I&#x27;ve tried on multiple different wifi networks and on different times&#x2F;days for the past week.yesterday I tried dropbox app on macOS, and the 200gb directory uploaded in well under 2h.This differential is abstruse and I have no idea what&#x27;s going on nor where to get help on this. The tl;dr is I&#x27;d like to keep using Google Drive because it&#x27;s what I&#x27;m familiar with, but it seems upload speeds greater than 25mbps are not possible.I realise I could &quot;just wait&quot;. But I much prefer to understand what&#x27;s going on; if this is a google policy, or if I&#x27;m doing something wrong.FWIW I&#x27;m drop and dragging files from macOS to the google drive web interface. (I don&#x27;t believe google has an official drive app for macOS app as Dropbox has).Any improvements to my understanding or help on this are greatly appreciated.

Ask HN: Why is uploading to Google Drive so slow?

Sorry if this is trite, but I&#x27;m looking for life advice. Right now, I&#x27;m not making much money, and that needs to change relatively soon.For the past few years I&#x27;ve been applying to programming jobs, but I just can&#x27;t get any interviews. I&#x27;m guessing this is because I don&#x27;t have formal education nor do I have relevant work experience. If there was a cookie cutter for Joe Developer, I just don&#x27;t fit.My second thought was to start a company&#x2F;side hustle of my own. Over the past year or two I&#x27;ve done a small amount of this and made a profit thus far, but I&#x27;m definitely more passionate about making things than sales or running a business. It doesn&#x27;t help that all my interests are in bad markets, like games.This leaves me with a very uncomfortable feeling, where I feel confident that I can create things, but nervous that the final result will earn nothing and be a huge waste of time. I feel like an obscure fine artist, who can paint a beautiful scene but will die in poverty because nobody cares about owning it. And I do love &quot;painting&quot;, but I have bills to pay.If I was sitting on a wad of cash, I&#x27;d probably feel better about this. But with my lack of funds, I don&#x27;t know what to do. Companies don&#x27;t want me, and the path to self employment feels like a risky grind. And yet, I still want to write code. Is there any advice for someone like me?

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Tookie-OSINT is an advanced OSINT tool that searches for social media accounts based on the input username. Tookie has lots of options and settings and is currently in heavy development by our team so more features are to come. Tookie will now include more then just social media OSINT. Thanks for your time and thanks to everyone who made this possible. :D https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Alfredredbird&#x2F;tookie-osint

Tookie-OSINT, an advanced OSINT tool

I&#x27;m setting up a computer for my 6-year-old and would like to put good software on it. It can be a Mac or PC as I haven&#x27;t bought it yet.
I&#x27;m going to install Microsoft Word because I think it&#x27;s fun to just type random stuff and mess around with fonts, I remember doing that a lot as a kid.I&#x27;m looking for a good turtle LOGO program that isn&#x27;t too complicated.I think I&#x27;ll install SimCity 2000 as the first game and show him how to use it.I&#x27;ll install Google Earth because it&#x27;s mindboggling how much information is in there.Any other ideas?

What's the best (non-tablet) software for kids?

What&#x27;s the closest thing to Rails, Laravel or Django but works really well with React or Svelte like Nextjs?Doesn&#x27;t seem like it exists - why not? React&#x2F;Svelte clearly won on the frontend, but nextjs leaves a lot to be desired on the full stack DX. I&#x27;m looking for something more opinionated and full-featured like the traditional frameworks but that has first class support for modern frontend.

Ask HN: What's a batteries-included framework that's React-first?

Let&#x27;s assume this person is college educated and fluent in your native language. They show up to work every day and will do research in their spare time if needed.Assume no prior programming or domain knowledge.

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I have been running linux and want to use windows 10 in virtualbox.I need some tips to make it less bloat, avoiding telemetry and tracking.

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I liked SendGrids free tier of 100 emails per day.Unfortunately, they are forcing me to login via twilio which has really horrible on boarding (I can&#x27;t get my account verified).I was wondering if there is any other email sending service as reliable as SendGrid but also has an equally generous free tier?I need it to primarily send emails via an APIThanks in advance.

Ask HN: What is a good alternative to SendGrid?

I tried air drop but it fails with large directories.I also tried looking at the Time Machine backup of the old Mac but the new Mac doesn&#x27;t have permission to see it for some reason.As for migration assistant, I don&#x27;t think it allows you to copy a home directory from your old Mac to a subdirectory of your home directory in your new Mac.So what should I try?P.S. It seems that I can&#x27;t use a Time Machine external disk to copy files back and forth, even manually using &quot;cp -rp&quot;.

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Can someone help me understand how it is different from the traditional schemes like ACH and SEPA? Or is the built on top of these existing rails to make the payment?From a consumer POV is there a preference for open banking tools like Plaid or Trustly while shopping online?

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Im a new startup founder and was wondering if any previous founders have advice on generating organic traffic to your product.Are there any specific channels you use or any strategies you can share that produced the most significant increase in traffic?

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Question to HN: I have been overwhelmed with the variety of new database and analytics solutions out there. This question is meant to hear the experiences of everyone who built data intensive apps like a financial information app or a CRM. Purpose is to simply make data loading speeds fast, whether purely by speed or using sockets or GraphQL does not matter. I am looking for opinionated views.So far seen:
- DuckDB (guess makes things faster but no experience with it)
- Tinybird (real time data APIs?)
- GraphQL (learning curve?)
- and many moreI am relatively new to this stuff but a long time user of Postgres. Looking to learn but wildly confused and overwhelmed around what I should work on to implement for the best UX[1][1] Best UX defined as fast loading times for large number of rows and dynamically being able to load data (sockets?) and realtime data communication