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johntiroron Show HN: In a single HTML file, an app to encourage my children to invest

There’s an old story about Rothschild getting a haircut when the barber started giving him stock tips. Rothschild thanked him, left the shop, and immediately sold all his holdings. The reason was: “When even the barber is investing, the market’s gone too far.”

I might be wrong, but reading this, I couldn’t help but think: if we’ve reached the point where we’re building apps to get our kids into investing, maybe we’re living through our own “barber moment.”

johntiroron Launch HN: Airhart Aeronautics (YC S22) – A modern personal airplane

As a pilot and tech professional, I completely resonate with your observations. However, the fly-by-wire concept concerns me a bit. I imagine it significantly complicates the onboard technology and makes maintenance more complex and costly. Additionally, I assume the training will need to address potential malfunctions, such as alternate law and direct law scenarios, which might make the rating process more complicated rather than less. How do you plan to tackle these challenges?

johntiroron CloudAcademy.com is free for a full week – no credit card required

This is great! Thanks for sharing

johntiroron The business model for botnets

The team say that distributed denial-of-service attacks using a network of 30,000 bots can generate around $26,000 a month. Spam advertising with 10,000 bots generates around $300,000 a month, and bank fraud with 30,000 bots can generate over $18 million per month. But the most profitable undertaking is click fraud, which generates well over $20 million a month of profit.

Does anyone know how those hacks can generate revenues? I mean how can a DDOS generate revenue? What kind of bank fraud can a botnet do? How can click fraud generate profit (I guess if you suddenly receive $20 million on your adsense account google will immediately ban you)?

johntiroron Show HN: Vote and discover ProductHunt posts with this ChatBot

Hi everyone, this is my first chatbot. I made it in php with the awesome botman.io framework (really recommended!).

I created this bot because polls are useful but terribly boring, so I decided to change a bit the voting strategy to make it more fun. I believe you never seen such a voting strategy in polls apps.

The bot is currently available for:

- Telegram: telegram.me/PixideBot?start=join-nLD6O

- Facebook Messenger: m.me/pixideapp?ref=join-nLD6O

Please let me know your thoughts, it's the first release so I'm very open to feedback! Thanks

johntiroron Show HN: Crowd rank community photos, a different way to enjoy content

Thanks very much for your feedback! When you are voting the photos, at the top there is the name of the competition (animal, nature, people...). You can also see the ranks of the various competitions (it's the second tab from the right)

johntiroron Show HN: Crowd rank community photos, a different way to enjoy content

Hi, Pixide is the app that we worked on in the last year. It's an app about photo contests, we're currently in beta testing and we'd love to have your feedbacks. We're a team of 7 people from Italy, we hope you'll like it :) If you have an iPhone please send me your email at info@pixide.org or submit your email on www.pixide.org so I can invite you on TestFlight. Any comment/suggestion is really appreciated!

johntiroron Crowd rank community photos, a different way to enjoy user generated content

If you have an iPhone please send me your email at info@pixide.org or submit your email on www.pixide.org so I can invite you on TestFlight.

Any comment/suggestion is really appreciated!

johntiroron Show HN: Bingewatch tells you when a TV show has ended so you can binge watch it

Great idea! I thought I was the only one needing this

johntiroron Show HN: Natural Language Processing and Text Mining API

Does anyone tried this service? I'm curious about feedback of actual usage

johntiroron List of lists of lists

I love this recursive topic, thanks!

johntiroron Show HN: FractalViewer: A JavaScript fractal explorer

You got completely right! Version 2 answered my question, thanks!

johntiroron Show HN: FractalViewer: A JavaScript fractal explorer

Love it! Nice job! Did you think about using a render technique like the maps one? (render smaller square intead of all the screen multiple times)

johntiroron Show HN: Hotcold Typing! – Learning Touch Typing Smartly

Amazing, I'll definitely use it to improve my writing speed. A note: is it possible to change keyboard? Because i'm from Italy and our keyboard is slightly different.

johntiroron Show HN: Tool Time - how well do you know your dev tools?

Hi, interesting quiz. I might discover some new tools here. I would suggest a "I don't know" button.

johntiroron Show HN: Online Heartrate Monitor Using Webcam and JS

That's actually pretty impressive, good job! Should I use my phone flash to achieve better results?

johntiroron Show HN: Gist Noesis, Welcome to the semantic web

Hi, it seems interesting! But I wasn't able to understand how to use it. I believe it's because the "top interface" is not that self explanatory. Is the training only done manually by users? I look forward to try a more advance version!