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HyprMusicon Amazon is trying to trick me into signing up for Prime services

You only get so many of those £0.99 offers before it goes up to £8 without making it clear.

I just did a checkout to test and it says "Click here to get your Prime eligible items with Premium Delivery for £4.99 no extra charge". Yet clicking that button costs anywhere between £0.99 and £8 without any obvious warning.

HyprMusicon Peerfetch – Peer-to-Peer HTTP over WebRTC

https://recordrtc.org/ should be able to do it.

HyprMusicon Stripe acquires Lemon Squeezy

Also wondering this. I was planning on making the jump to LS soon but if Stripe will be offering MoR services then I'd rather stay within Stripe's stack.

I suspect (hope) Stripe Tax will soon offer a MoR service. I imagine this acquisition is mostly for their tax expertise & perhaps internal tools that do all the hard work behind the scenes.

HyprMusicon Stripe acquires Lemon Squeezy

I've never understood the notion that US based companies have it easier. They still to pay applicable tax in every country/state that their customers reside.

If anything, EU companies have it slightly easier because they can file all of their EU-based taxes using One Stop Shop.

HyprMusicon Rrweb – record and replay debugger for the web

Yes, chrome has this built-in: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/recorder

HyprMusicon Google won’t comment on a leak of its search algorithm documentation

Maybe I'm missing something but all the document seems to imply is that Google collects this data... Nothing about it being used as ranking factors. It doesn't seem unreasonable for Google to collect and correlate extra data that it may want to use as future ranking factors, experiments, quality analysis etc.

HyprMusicon Microsoft Paint's new AI image generator builds on your brushstrokes

Thanks for sharing, I've been struggling to learn Draw Things and this feels much more intuitive.

HyprMusicon Twitter's pivot to x.com is a gift to phishers

I believe it only happens on the iOS app. Strange the article doesn't mention that.

HyprMusicon Should you use a Lambda Monolith, a.k.a. Lambdalith, for your API?

There are plenty of cases where lambda is a better fit than hosting a server. Just like there are plenty of cases where it's not an appropriate fit.

By flat out refusing to consider it, you become as much of a "drone" as the people you call out.

HyprMusicon Meta to charge for ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram in Europe

Thank you so much, this is perfect!

HyprMusicon Meta to charge for ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram in Europe

My Facebook is completely useless due to all the suggested posts that appear in my feed. They're all memes that are of no interest to me and they cover up any posts from the few friends that still use Facebook.

Not being active on social media has meant a lot of old friends have drifted out of my life so I'm trying to force myself to be more active on it but sadly there are no enjoyable (or usable) platforms left.

HyprMusicon Stocketa – An app I designed, built and never launched

I think the thing that helped the most is we built great relationships with our small clients. We convinced them to let us observe their day to day, speak to staff etc. From that we got an intimate idea of all their biggest pain points and we were able to offer complimentary products that worked with their existing core banking (and abstracted it wherever possible). Things like secure communications, document management, form builders - things we were planning on building after our core banking but were actually a bigger pain point for them. It made such a difference to the actual staff that they would be bragging about us at conferences and networking events. Eventually the word spread in the community/industry and soon enough the big clients went from ignoring our calls to asking for "exactly what they have" (referring to the small clients who took the risk innovating).

TLDR: Try starting with easier to sell, complimentary products. Focus on the smaller clients as they're more willing to innovate. Do such a good job that they can't help but brag.

HyprMusicon Stocketa – An app I designed, built and never launched

As someone in this space, I highly recommend you start engaging with your potential customers and building trust ASAP. It took us a lot longer than 5 years to gain enough trust to convince our customers over to our core banking platform - despite their existing platforms being fraught with bugs, limitations and insecurities.

HyprMusicon Why Japanese Websites Look So Different

If you read the following sentence you'll see the author is referencing fax machines and floppy disks.

HyprMusicon Pyobd - a free and open source program for car diagnostics

Same port but the cable you want depends on the brand, for example BMWs use DCAN so you need a cable with a chipset that supports that protocol. They can be had for fairly cheap, I'm sure other brands are similar.

HyprMusicon 37signals Introduces "Once" - Buy software one time

I think they're implying he's drumming up attention through controversy, in the hope that some of it spills onto "Once".

HyprMusicon Kagi Number of Users and Searches Stats

Wow, people really hate Pinterest (the top 6 blocked domains are all pinterest).

I wonder if this data could be fed into an algorithm to lead to better search results overall. I guess it could be easily abused but it appears whatever is current used to determine rankings (backlinks still?) is easily abused.

HyprMusicon New study finds microplastics infiltrate all systems of body, alter behaviour

Fat by itself is very satiating, you'd struggle to rack up the calories eating purely fat unless you were really trying. However too much sugar without fibre will spike your blood sugar levels which triggers an insulin response, causing your body to effectively store any glucose in your bloodstream into muscle and fat cells[0]. The end result is you're hungry again and able to eat more calories. Combine that with a high fat diet and you have a recipe for obesity.

When I used to weight train, during my cuts (weight loss phases), I had much more success with a high fat/low carb diet than I ever did calorie counting (which naturally makes you avoid fat since they have a higher calorie density).

[0] Not an expert but this is my layman's understanding after reading lots of books on the subject.

HyprMusicon The WordPress 100 Year Plan

But back then $2 would have been worth more than $2 is now so, assuming you paid upfront, you'd be no better off.

HyprMusicon UBC device uses wood dust to trap up to 99.9 per cent of microplastics in water

Sadly they still contain plastic to seal them:

"We’ve worked hard to ensure that our tea bags are 99% bio degradable. However, as a result of the manufacturing process, Tetley tea bags do contain a very small amount of plastic to ensure the bags remain closed for you to enjoy your cup of tea."

https://www.tetley.co.uk/frequently-asked-questions

HyprMusicon UBC device uses wood dust to trap up to 99.9 per cent of microplastics in water

It's the same in the UK but those filter paper looking ones actually used to contain small amounts of plastic.

I believe most have transitioned away now... or, at least, the only brand that matters if you're British has transitioned[0]

[0] https://www.yorkshiretea.co.uk/brew-news/plastic-in-tea-bags...

HyprMusicon Show HN: Get notified when sites update their terms of service

I was thinking about this idea when the Zoom saga happened, that's an amazingly quick implementation!

My plan for getting a list of subscribed services was to get people to add a forwarder to their email account with specific keywords (i.e "thanks for creating an account" or perhaps just "unsubscribe" would be enough). This would forward to an API which would check for a recognised service and add it to the list to notify. It has some privacy implications but I think you could narrow the scope enough for people to go for it.

The other method I had considered was getting a list of places your SSO is used from Google etc. Not sure if that's possible through their API but I'm sure with enough of the hacker spirit you could work out a way.

If you go for either of those ideas I expect a lifetime VIP account! (Just kidding)

HyprMusicon Uber CEO surprised after Wired reporter pays $51 for a 2.9-mile Uber ride

Based off my many conversations with Uber drivers, Uber takes 40% in the UK (including from tips).

Sure it's a majority but I think "vast majority" is a bit of a stretch.

HyprMusicon Launch HN: Highlight.io (YC W23) – Open-source, full stack web app monitoring

Thanks for clarifying, no need to provide specifics - those blog posts demonstrate that that Sentry is indeed committed to giving back to FOSS. Apologies for my initial cynicism.

HyprMusicon Launch HN: Highlight.io (YC W23) – Open-source, full stack web app monitoring

Thanks, I appreciate the response. Re-reading my original post, it came off more aggressively than I indented. It's just frustrating to see so many "open-source" companies use rrweb as a big selling point in their product yet not give anything back in terms of financial support or contributions (present company excluded of course).

That's great to hear, thank you for supporting open-source! I'll be sure to give your product a trial.

HyprMusicon Launch HN: Highlight.io (YC W23) – Open-source, full stack web app monitoring

Congrats on being the only commercial company to actually sponsor rrweb[0] rather than just fork it and contribute absolutely nothing back (or in the case of Sentry - remove their copyright and violate their license).

Seeing as you're "open-source", why chose to fork and detach the project rather than contribute directly to it? With a detached fork, other users can't even compare your changes to the original and pull in fixes. If you truly believed in the spirit of open source, you'd believe in working together and giving back; not just taking advantage of a free lunch.

It feels like all these "open-source" companies are just closed source but with open-source as a marketing gimmick.

[0] https://github.com/rrweb-io/rrweb

HyprMusicon Claude 2 Internal API Client and CLI

We're still in the early stages of testing v2 in the real world but it aced our suite of internal tests... we are very impressed. Claude 1.2 did ok but it struggled with nuance & accuracy whereas v2 seems to handle nuance very well and is both accurate and, most importantly, consistent. The thing with evaluating LLMs is it's not about how well they do on your first evaluation - consistency is key and even the slightest little deviation in circumstance can throw them off so we're being very cautious before we make the jump. GPT4 brought that consistency but the slow speed and constant downtime makes it vey difficult to use in a product so we'd love to move to Anthropic.

Our product is a tool to turn user stories into end-to-end tests so we use LLMs for NLP, identifying key parts of HTML and writing very simple code (we've not officially launched to the public just yet but for the curious, https://carbonate.dev is our product).

HyprMusicon B.C. government hit tweet limit amid wildfire evacuations

They did. From the article:

"DriveBC has a dedicated website, but many access its automated messages through its Twitter account, a platform accessed by more than a quarter of Canadians in 2023, according to the company’s advertising data."

The issue is no-one is going to know about that website whereas a tweet it likely to get retweeted by other residents.

HyprMusicon Delhi man gets AliExpress order after four years

This is exactly why I buy everything I can off of AliExpress. The question of "will I still want this in 4-12 weeks?" really takes the impulse out of impulse buying.