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bkfhon New YC homepage

Interesting to see the OG Twitter logo rather than X in the footer. Must have been an explicit choice

bkfhon Tell HN: Tonic (.to registrar) took away my domain without notice

Two reasons:

1. Maybe someone reads thhis and in fact can help or knows more than I do at this moment

2. Other readers might want others were victims as well and possibly find a solution in this thread

bkfhon Show HN: OnAir – create link, receive calls

Are you dog fooding your own product?

Can’t find a link to „onair“ you on your website.

bkfhon Review of Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World

Really nice read

bkfhon Tesla Robotaxi

I don‘t want a car, I want mobility

bkfhon Bootstrap Your SaaS (The Fast Way)

I agree with you on the numbers game here, but what it provides quickly is validation.

Many founders build products and features in vacuum, not knowing whether they are relevant to any kind of customers.

This growth model is not a long-term strategy, but a form of letting people vote with their wallets to build a foundation to further improve from.

bkfhon Bootstrap Your SaaS (The Fast Way)

Love this. I agree, the more you can get evangelists to root for you and your product, the more valuable each LTD customer becomes.

bkfhon Bootstrap Your SaaS (The Fast Way)

Yep, good point. A considerably large TAM is definintely an important factor of this strategy.

bkfhon I acquired a small SaaS business called Pixel

This first acquisition was done pretty quickly.

In fact, I probably looked at 2 dozen of businesses until this one stood out. the founder and I got along super well which made the acquisition process a breeze.

bkfhon Apple Vision Pro review

You are so right.

The moment you use different Apple IDs you lose a lot of nice features of Apple‘s products

bkfhon I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]

The two most powerful things you can do:

1. Vote for the party that protects the environment 2. Work on smt that has positive climate impact

bkfhon Time is encoded in the weights of finetuned language models

Can someone ELI5 this?

bkfhon New models and developer products

I wonder how many startups are obsolete after each OpenAI product release

bkfhon We are beginning to roll out new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT

Does anyone know how they linked image recognition with an LLM to give such specific instructions as shown in the bike video on the website?

bkfhon Ask HN: How can I as a PM break into AI/LLM consulting?

Yes, I think especially being on the intersection between tech and business should be ideal. My only concern is just how technical one has to be to provide real value.

bkfhon Ask HN: How can I as a PM break into AI/LLM consulting?

Really good view. I think especially that it’s so early still there is lots of learnings to be made until this technology can be applied at scale.

bkfhon Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me?

When my TV is not in use, I just completely disconnect it from power with a simple switch. Saves power as well

bkfhon Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me?

When my TV is not in use I just completely disconnect it from power — and hence the Internet. It’s just a small switch I use. Low-tech

bkfhon Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English words

Nice, let's solve people's real problems </sarcasm>

bkfhon B2B startups stop innovating the day you give power to product managers

> The consequence of that is interviewing users in B2B is almost useless, and taking decisions from what users tell you is a severe error and in most cases the path to stagnation.

Who would come up with such a nonsense? Regardless of B2C or B2B, knowing what your users need solved is crucial, irrelevant who eventually the buyer is (user vs Manager)

bkfhon Show HN: Whole Git repo was made with ChatGPT

The typos in the description are a nice touch to highlight it was created by the author themself

bkfhon EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, approved

What I don't understand about messaging is, do only the large providers have to be interoperable among each other or can I create my own crappy messaging app and integrate with WhatsApp, Messenger, Signal et al.?

Edit: typo

bkfhon Happy 15th birthday Hacker News

2007 is... 15 years ago OMG

bkfhon Ask HN: Do you have a go-to joke for job interviews?

I will def remember that one for future interviews

bkfhon US Robotics 56k Modems

I remember the dubstep it used to play to connect to the Internet. Good times

bkfhon Klimaticket: All public transport in Austria with a single ticket for 1095 EUR/y

In the Klimaticket, all public transport is included. Cities as well as inter cities

bkfhon Ask HN: What radio stations are you listening to while working?

http://deepmix.eu/

A DJ has been streaming this from his living room for many years now. Not always good, but every now and then a nice alternative to Spotify