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hookedonwinteron Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

https://hiddensignal.app - newsletter aggregator and digest. I have a few users but I’m the power user and love it.

hookedonwinteron Show HN: Sunday AI – Personal weekly brief from your newsletters

It’s Django with a similar custom email that you can forward emails to or sign up through that email. And then uses open AI mini for summarization and nano for categorization. Then it sends you a digest with the summaries on your schedule.

Nice work!

hookedonwinteron Show HN: Sunday AI – Personal weekly brief from your newsletters

I built something similar! https://hiddensignal.app

hookedonwinteron Ask HN: What is your knowledge domain and how do you stay up-to-date?

Same here. What are some of your favorite newsletters?

hookedonwinteron Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)

I'm working on a newsletter digest platform to collect your newsletters and give them back to you, summarized, in a daily (or multiple times a day) digest.

I've been using it myself for a few weeks and it's helped me actually read newsletters instead of ignoring them in my inbox.

https://hiddensignal.app

hookedonwinteron Show HN: Hidden Signal – Newsletter digest with web dashboard and scheduling

I don't! It doesn't access your email account at all. You choose what to forward, and you have a separate login to Hidden Signal (unless you reuse your password of course, but I can't stop that!)

Edit on your edit: That's a great idea! I'll look into that. But, I promise, I don't want access to your email. You just auto-forward via filter or manually forward to HiddenSignal, or use the forwarding email I give you and sign up for things that way. Easy peasy, no access to your email account.

hookedonwinteron Show HN: Enhanced Queens Game – A Queens puzzle with a 3rd constraint (regions)

I love playing queens (and tango) on LinkedIn every morning. It’s doing its job and bringing me back every day.

How is your version different than the one on LinkedIn? I played one game on yours and it seems the same but maybe I missed something.

Also, the crown is really hard to see for me with some color blindness. I ended up clicking crown squares to mark them a few times without realizing they already had a crown there.

Nice work overall!

hookedonwinteron Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?

I’ve been using Matter as a replacement. So far it’s pretty nice, and they have a 50% off deal for pocket users.

hookedonwinteron Show HN: Req Update Check

You can still manage packages, but it's similar to pip list in that it shows all the dependencies, so it can get cumbersome.

Additionally, the context it gives you when you're trying to read release notes isn't great, and it tries to upgrade to the absolute latest release, even if it's only a release candidate.

Heard on the name, I'll think more on it. Thanks!

hookedonwinteron Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?

https://waitbutwhy.com/2018/04/picking-career.html

This made me realize I didn’t want to run the company I was running anymore. That my unhappiness was due to my company.

It also lead me to find 80,000 hours, explore jobs on techjobsforgood.com, and generally be more aware of myself.

hookedonwinteron Ask HN: What are your favorite sci-fi books?

I recommend Bobiverse all the time as a good sci fi intro or just a solid trilogy to crush in a weekend. And I always recommend reading it on kindle as he drops astrophysics terms with no context or explanation. It’s nice to touch the word and learn along the way. I didn’t know what a Lagrange Point was before, but now I do and it’s so cool!

hookedonwinteron Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?

https://waitbutwhy.com/2018/04/picking-career.html

I read everything on this blog. This post made me realize how absolutely miserable I was running a company I had started, and led me down a path that resulted in selling my part of my company, taking time to be a stay at home dad, and getting back into tech. It also caused me to go off the deep end into 80000hours.org and read that whole site and associated books, and only apply for jobs with social impact.

Pretty influential post in my life!

hookedonwinteron What are some resources to help self-taught developers learn CS theory?

That's great advice. Thank you!