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guybedoon Ask HN: PG's 'Do Things That Don't Scale' manual examples?

basically you can do manually everything that could be automated, and should be automated if high volume.

- Manually send user welcome email, trial expiration email, etc...

- Manually fix some errors although the process could be automated.

- Manually cleanup logs, db tables, etc...

- Manually check every service, db, website, etc... is up

guybedoon Ask HN: What is the error alerting stack at your startup?

i keep it simple with an uptime monitoring service that monitors all the elements of my stack and run tests every minute:

- regular http monitoring for websites

- run test queries on my sql & mongo databases

- check that rabbitmq queues are not overflowing

- check that docker container are up

If something goes wrong, email & telegram alerts.

fwiw i'm using https://uptimefunk.com

guybedoon Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

https://routineshub.com

As a long time lifestyle design/self-dev enthusiast, i've been trying a lot of routines, workouts, etc... along the years and i keep forgetting good stuff.

So i built this tool to keep track of my routines, create (complex) routine schedules, and share/discover other people's routines

guybedoon Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

https://uptimefunk.com - (Yet) Another Uptime Monitoring Service.

Couldn't find an easy setup uptime monitoring service with some advanced features, so i built one. The features i missed in existing tools:

- monitoring databases (sql, mongodb) with simple queries, checking rabbitmq queues, checking OS memory and disk space.

- monitoring private resources not exposed on the internet and/or on private networks.

guybedoon Our Journey with Apache Arrow (Part 2): Adaptive Schemas and Sorting

not directly related to the article, but might be useful to some people:

I recently used pymongoarrow to speed up data extraction from mongo in python as the deserialization from bson to python is super slow. Using pymongoarrow helped achieve nice speed improvements (average 3x to 5x)

guybedoon Threads, an Instagram app

as much as i dislike Facebook/Meta and its galaxy, there's a need for a viable alternative to Twitter especially now with this rate limit debacle.

Not only there's this limit but they also broke Tweetdeck which is the only way to really use Twitter

guybedoon Show HN: Homelab Monitoring Setup with Grafana

shameless plug for uptimeFunk (https://uptimefunk.com) that i soft launched a some time ago. I wanted some uptime monitoring with nice ui and a few advanced features that i didn't find anywhere: - monitoring mongo db/replicaset status

- monitoring sql databases with basic sql queries

- monitoring host cpu, ram and disk usage

- monitoring docker containers

- and being able to monitor all of this through ssh tunnels because not all my services are on the internet

guybedoon Simple exercise to eliminate gastroesophageal reflux (2022)

a few routines to help w/ barret's esopahgus and gerd:

https://routineshub.com/public/popular/tags/Barrett's%20Esop...

https://routineshub.com/public/popular/tags/Gastroesophageal...

guybedoon Shane Pitman, leader of the warez group Razor 1911: life after prison (2005)

wow i hadn't heard about Razor 1911 in a while. In the 90s they released so many cracks

guybedoon Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”

we aren't much more than fancy auto-complete + memory + activity thread/process.

ChatGpt is a statistical machine, but so are our brains. I guess we think of ourselves as conscious because we have a memory and that helps us build our own identity. And we have a main processing thread so we can iniate thoughts and actions, we don't need to wait on a user's input to respond to... So, if ChatGpt had a memory and a processing thread, it could build itself an identity and randomly initiate thoughts and/or actions. The results would be interesting i think, and not that far from what we call consciousness.

guybedoon Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

https://routineshub.com - a place to create, schedule and share your everyday routines.

I've been a long time self development enthusiast, regularly trying out new health/mediation/workout routines and wanted a tool to keep track of my routines, help me schedule everything automatically and where i could share my routines and explore other users routines too.

guybedoon Brief structured respiration enhances mood and reduces physiological arousal

there are many interesting breathing techniques, interestingly it usually provides benefits similar to a meditation practice. I added this one to my routines: https://routineshub.com/public/items/760bb353-35cc-483c-adce...

I also regularly practice Andrew Weil's 478 breathing https://routineshub.com/public/items/fb2c75bd-4d6d-424e-925a...

guybedoon Turn to RSS Feeds to Regain Control of the World Wide Web

https://aktu.io is a news aggregator / rss reader that does just that. It automatically categorizes your feed items (politics, science, tech, etc...), extract topics and aggregates your feed items to news stories. You can then browse/filter your feeds by categories/topics.

guybedoon My Resignation from the Intercept

> https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/how-fake-persona-laid-... This is why the Intercept didn't want to run Glenn's story.

Intercept's decision has nothing to do with this nbc article. Here's the emails exchange between Greenwald and Intercept editors: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/emails-with-intercept-edito...

guybedoon Ask HN: How do you deal with chronic illness?

fwiw you can have a look at https://www.virtahealth.com/. They are reversing T2D with ketogenic diets

guybedoon 'Doomscrolling' breeds anxiety – how to stop the cycle

This is the reason why I added a sentiment filter to the rss reader I built. Now I can put together a few rss feeds in a folder and filter out bad news, needs some more work but it gives good results already. (Https://aktu.io)

guybedoon ZFS Removes References to Slavery

good to see i'm not the only one, i had the exact same epiphany about the whitelist/blacklist thing a few weeks ago.

guybedoon Show HN: I built a tool to remove news articles from HN

I you like RSS and want to find more content related to your feeds, maybe you can give Aktu a try (https://aktu.io).

It's an online RSS reader that i built, and one of the features might be of interest to you: It automatically aggregates news articles to items in your RSS feeds. That means that for most articles in your feeds, you have the original item from the website you subscribed to, but you also have a list of articles from different sources talking about the same story.

A nice side effect is that it can help avoid filter bubbles by giving more context to the stories you read.

guybedoon Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?

Oh My Zsh: https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh

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wasn't aware of that, thanks.

guybedoon Early Large Dose Intravenous Vitamin C Is the Treatment of Choice for 2019-NCov

not sure why people are downvoting this.

I'm no expert and if someone more knowledgeable thinks there is something incorrect, it would be useful to clearly state what's wrong with this article instead of downvoting.

Well, you can downvote too if you want, but some explanations would be great!

guybedoon WHO says it no longer uses 'pandemic' category, but virus still emergency

4 independent estimates place the Infection Fatality Ratio at about 0.5% to 1.7% which is between 5x and 17x deadlier than the flu (0.1%): https://twitter.com/zorinaq/status/1230977769795776512

guybedoon Early Large Dose Intravenous Vitamin C Is the Treatment of Choice for 2019-NCov

Acute organ failure, especially pulmonary failure (acute respiratory distress syndrome, ARDS) is the key mechanism for 2019-nCov's fatality. Significantly increased oxidative stress due to the rapid release of free radicals and cytokines etc. is the hallmark of ARDS which leads to cellular injury, organ failure and death. Early use of large dose antioxidants, especially vitamin C (VC), therefore, plays a key role in the management of these patients.

Dietary antioxidants (vitamin C and sulforaphane) were shown to reduce oxidative-stress-induced acute inflammatory lung injury in patients receiving mechanical ventilation [15]. Other antioxidants (curcumin) have also been shown to have promising anti-inflammatory potential in pneumonia

guybedoon Show HN: Thinc, a new deep learning library by the makers of spaCy and FastAPI

how does it compare to Tensorflow, Keras, PyTorch ?

guybedoon Tendon stem cells enhance regeneration

As it might be of interest to someone suffering from tendonitis:

i've had pain in my right achilles tendon for well over a year now, and although i've never had any symptoms, i've been diagnosed with gout / high uric acid levels in the blood. I didn't know that urate crystals can deposit in soft tissues/tendons, causing inflammation.

I've been taking allopurinol for a few months now and the tendonitis seems to be slowly going away but i'm not recovered yet.

guybedoon Google shouldn’t be the only source of interest-based recommendations

To be fair, Google is doing a great job, although it's true we shouldn't rely on only a few big companies to provide recommendations.

Fwiw, i've built a RSS reader and i'm currently adding a recommendation feature to it. That's a feature i've always wanted to have in a RSS reader. If you want to check it out, it should available in the next few weeks (https://aktu.io)

guybedoon Ask HN: What are some niche or alternative news aggregators worth checking out?

I built https://aktu.io, it's a rss reader with machine learning and news aggregation.

Main features are: - items in your rss feeds are automatically categorized, names of people, places, etc... extracted. That means it's way easier to browse/filter your feeds when you have thousands of articles waiting to be read...

- items in your rss feeds are grouped together if about the same story. It really helps to reduce the noise in your feeds as you don't have duplicates any more, and at the same time it's convenient to have different sources/point of views for articles in your feeds.

guybedoon Ask HN: Are you put off building something because it already exists?

It's pretty hard nowadays to come up with a brilliant unique idea that has never been implemented before. I'm not even sure it's possible at all. Competition means there's a market and customers willing to pay for a product. This is a validation of your idea.

Now, unless you're shooting for the unicorn status, there's a pretty good chance you can build a good product, compete and get enough customers to make a living. You don't have to be the best or the cheapest to compete and you don't need hundreds of thousands of customers to make a living.

In the end, i think it really depends on what you're trying to achieve: unicorn status or small side project that you'll enjoy working on and might someday become a full time job.

Either way you should try to do what you love, or if that's not an option, to learn to love what you do. That way, even if you don't succeed, your time won't be wasted and will be spent doing something you love.

guybedoon RSS Is Better Than Twitter

Hey i'm working on a News Aggregation platform / RSS reader, aktu.io. It doesn't have the features you need but if you'd like to give it a try anyway, would love your feedback.

You can check out the main features here: - https://aktu.io/about - and here https://medium.com/@julien.aktu/rss-less-noise-more-informat...

guybedoon RSS Is Better Than Twitter

Although the title is a little bit provocative, i tend to agree that RSS is a better way to consume news than Twitter or any other social media platform by the way. Social platforms should be used for social, not for news, but i guess Twitter is a special case in that one of its core values is to deliver news in real time. But do we need realtime? Twitter being a social platform, it means you can't easily avoid trolls, offensive/aggressive/idiotic comments...

Off the top of my head, some issues i had with RSS and/or with the tools/RSS readers: - RSS can become en echo chamber if you have a limited number of feeds - Too many feeds and your feeds are flooded with a lot of noise - want to check the top stories of the day, or trending content? need to use a different tool than your RSS reader. - want to follow some social feeds but without the noise of social platforms?

I wrote something about the signal/noise ratio in RSS recently: https://medium.com/@julien.aktu/rss-less-noise-more-informat...

To solve these issues, i'm trying to bring something to the RSS ecosystem, and i built a news platform mixing RSS and traditional news aggregation. It has features to limit the noise and help avoid echo chambers. You can follow Facebook pages, Twitter users, etc... add your newsletters to declutter your mail box, and much more to come.

You can check it out here: https://aktu.io/about