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Kkoala··on GPT-6 Astra
AGI-level model will be 18 months away in 18 months. (Well, at least according to the commenter above you)
Kkoala··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
I'm building my own product, Produktly. An all-in-one SaaS platform for product adoption. Allows you to build onboarding flows, add feedback collection, and communicate in-app, all with no-code builders.

https://produktly.com

Most recently been expanding our REST API and MCP server to support building almost any widget, making it possible for people to use their favorite AI agent with Produktly.

Kkoala··on Render.com Raises Prices
Bandwidth limits on Pro are insanely low, and extra bandwidth is still insanely expensive.

Time to move to something else, unfortunately :(

For context, my bill is going up by 75%. Solo-builder and medium/high bandwidth app

Kkoala··on DaVinci Resolve – Photo
Looks like a rendered scene yes
Kkoala··on Trust signals as sparklines for Hacker News
This should have at least a basic description of how the trust signal works and is calculated
Kkoala··on Proof of Corn
Interesting!

But where is the prompt or api calls to Claude? I can't see that in the repo

Or did Claude generate the code and repo too? And there is a separate project to run it

Kkoala··on Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC
Nice, very cool!

Reminds me of https://queensmuseum.org/exhibition/panorama-of-the-city-of-...

Kkoala··on The Startup Graveyard
"Where $32.5B+ in venture capital was burned to ashes." isn't exactly a positive spin.

At least the copy seems AI-generated though, so I guess can't read too much into it.

Kkoala··on Video games can alter reality
A similar thing happened to me, not with a video game, but with chess!

Started seeing a chessboard overlayed everywhere, and thinking what the next move for me and other "game objects" would be.

This was after just getting into chess and playing it many times a day, almost every day.

It was a very weird feeling. Luckily, it passed after a while. I stopped playing chess after a while too, and kinda been avoiding it since.

Kkoala··on How a mysterious epidemic of kidney disease is killing young men
No, you can leave the sauna any time you want and go cool down, so there shouldn't ever be any damage done from the heat really. Unless, of course, you purposefully stay there way past being uncomfortable, but that's not really what a sauna is about
Kkoala··on Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal
That sounds like the sensible reaction, at the time at least.

It's interesting to think about and realize how much things have changed now though, and how reliant people are on everything, and especially their tiktoks etc. working all the time.

Some of the panic is likely related to the war in Europe too, and especially the general talk about war

Kkoala··on Ask HN: Ways from the EU to the USA
Without going into whether it's a good idea, or how the current administration and climate might affect things, these are some common options I have personally heard of:

- L1 visa: Get an internal transfer from a company that has offices both in the EU and the US

- H1B visa: Get hired by a US company and enter into a queue/lottery type of thing

- Green card lottery: Enter the annual lottery to get a Green Card to enter the US

- OPT visa + extensions: Graduate from an accredited college/university in the US

- O1 / EB-1 visas etc: Convince the immigration office that you have some extraordinary ability that would greatly benefit the US

- E2 visa and similar: Start a business in the US and invest a substantial amount of money into it

- New "Gold Card": Buy your way into the US with 5 million

Some of these also have different variations with slightly different requirements

Kkoala··on Dow plunges 2,200 points, Nasdaq enters bear market
Yeah Americans are going to learn that the hard way, if they haven't already
Kkoala··on Dow plunges 2,200 points, Nasdaq enters bear market
That's the long-term theory, yeah.

It's interesting to see how the U.S. could make it happen though, given that there is already a shortage of labor and materials. It will be a long, long road.

Kkoala··on The 2005 Sony Bravia ad
Yeah, it might also mean that the suppliers just didn't have balls to restock into those machines
Kkoala··on X.com Is Down
Good time to consider and try out alternatives!

Such as Bluesky

Kkoala··on Go European: Discover European products and services
This is same as https://www.goeuropean.org/

> Why did you change your name from Buy European Made to Go European?

> We changed our name to better reflect our evolving mission and values. "Go European" encompasses a broader range of initiatives and activities that support European culture, tourism, and services, beyond just promoting European-made products.

Kkoala··on Show HN: Make your YC application stand out (Spring 2025 edition)
Nicely executed joke! :D
Kkoala··on Show HN: Haystack Code Reviewer – Perform code reviews on a canvas
Maybe this is not for me, but I don't understand what it does

What do those groups and arrows mean?

Kkoala··on Stripe sent a duck image in layoff notices by mistake
So many questions

Is there some meaning behind a duck, and specifically a "US-Non-California Duck"?

Kkoala··on Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline
My experience is that it serves you the content that you spent time watching and engaging with.

And it's quite easy to steer it towards a certain topic if you want to

Kkoala··on Show HN: I built a fair alternative to Product Hunt for indie makers
Nice, congratz on the launch!

Submitted my product for tomorrow, excited to see how it goes!

Some feedback: - Could probably benefit from adding white-space: pre-line; in a couple of places, e.g. comments to support line breaks - The encoding issue mentioned elsewhere too, stuff showing up as like ' - Launched today should maybe be a bit more prominent, but maybe it also looks better once there are more products that just one.

Kkoala··on Software engineer pay heatmap for Europe
Of course, it depends on your situation, but even taking that into account the gap is usually still quite massive
Kkoala··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
https://produktly.com/ - a suite of tools to improve onboarding, product adoption, and retention. Things like product tours, checklists, feedback widgets, changelogs etc. that help you proactively guide your users, listen to their feedback, and communicate progress and upcoming features.

All manageable without any coding (after the initial copy-paste script integration), so e.g. product managers or customer success can build and add these from the web dashboard.

Kkoala··on Buy Nothing Day
Yeah, some just increase the price 30 days before black Friday though, and then offer a huge "discount"
Kkoala··on Spotify has shut down several API endpoints
That's very sad. The api had some cool stuff. I used to hack with it during COVID, and build e.g. https://tunemeet.com.

It generally seemed like they encouraged third-party apps, and I have heard that also used to be the culture inside Spotify, but I guess that's no more.

Kkoala··on Synapse still can't find its money
Not necessary or sufficient, but with append only model you can at least trace back what has happened if/when something goes wrong
Kkoala··on Americans' new TV habit: Subscribe, watch, cancel, repeat
That seems like common sense, no? Why would you pay for something that you don't use?
Kkoala··on Show HN: Beyond text splitting – improved file parsing for LLMs
Is this only for PDFs? Or does it support other formats too? E.g. markdown, text, docx etc.
Kkoala··on Ask HN: Projects You Thought Were Cool but Failed Miserably – What Happened?
What's Google Photo?

I know Google Photos, but that's still active, and haven't failed to my knowledge

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