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What is the effect of this on Demo Day? Is Demo Day less relevant (since lean companies might just skip it)? Isn't the Demo Day a motivational deadline that adds value to the YC experience, so it reduces the weight of the "acceleration" part of the program?

I don't know those answers, just wondering in the hope that someone from YC comments on that.

Drip coffee with foamed milk using a cheap handheld milk frother.

I drink one in the morning and one after lunch and that's it.

I buy ground coffee (too much work to grind it myself) and not the most expensive ones. I tried almost 10 different very expensive coffee bought on boutique coffe shops and they all tasted horribly. One didn't even smell (or tasted) like coffee, but some fruity aroma. I learned that, for me, the sweet spot are the higher-end ones that are sold on regular supermarkets.

The fanciest that I go is using Hario filters, but mostly because I make coffee just for myself and they have those one cup filters.

Of course I need motivation to eat or sleep. They are called hunger and sleepiness.

And it's down again

Well... no. Crypto is crypto. It's the adaptation of a greek word to be used as prefix in the english language. For some time some people used it as short for cryptography. But most other people didn't.

It makes no sense to me that those people that assimilated and adapted the word to their context are now upset that other people are assimilating and adapting the word for their own context.

Not a logo, but a "seal". The distinction makes sense, since the intricate design would not work well as logo I think. I found it beautiful, but obviously it's only "news" because of who created it.

Yeah, I got this advice before and it makes sense. Even if I was looking for more of a "full-time-like" position that would happen to hire through a 1099 contract (not exactly sure if it's that form exactly for foreign contractors).

I ended up finding a job exactly like that on a small startup, so I am happy. But next time I am in the market, I will for sure apply to those "Remote(US)" jobs. Even though, in Substack case, the internal recruiter that told me that I couldn't apply.

Ha! I have a kind of similar [0] story with Substack.

I couldn't get to work there (I really wanted to) so created a "read fiction on your email" side-project[1], which evolved to a more ambitious "substack for fiction" project: https://www.confabulistas.com.br (for Brazilian market, so in portuguese).

[0] "Kind of" because I couldn't even apply. Very early on I exchanged a few emails with the founder and they wouldn't hire remote. Then months later a recruiter reached out, but they wouldn't hire remote still. Then they started to hire remote, so I sent an email to the recruiter to apply, but they only hire remote in the US. So I wasn't exactly "rejected", but prevented from applying.

[1] https://www.serialliterature.com It got to the front page of HN when I launched.

Fun experiment. My suggestion is to add "Iosevka" as a contester.

It is my font of choice and I am curious if it would win for me (while trying not to look in the names).

It had some popularity with HN in the past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14009963

Ok, that was confusing and no one seemed to care. Some Monty Python vibe here.

> "It's mostly just calories in, calories out."

Is it? Not all calories are burnt equally by the human body, right? It seems that you are just trying to simplify something that it is easy to understand rather than scientifically sound.

Sorry, I could not understand most of what you meant, but regarding that I am "jumping to conclusions" too I disagree.

Comments making fun of a site praising jamstack being down are jumping to two conclusions: the site is itself is using jamstack and the praise of jamstack is for use in blogs. That's what the commenter above pointed out.

When I point out that these commenters are jumping to conclusions I am not jumping to conclusions. It is pretty clear that they are associating the use of jamstack and the site being down.

> "We could not see the article, source, or that link."

That's exactly the point of saying people are "jumping to conclusions".

> "Powered by Ghost."

I changed at the time to Mailgun and I am happy there, so not looking into other options for now.

But at the time I look at those and preferred a solution with less upfront configuration required and less things to manage in general. It was a side-project that required a very quick solution. Mailgun was perfect for this.

That's my biggest issue.

One day at the front page of HN of a single page where the only thing you can do is sign up to receive emails is enough to justify 1,000 emails a day IMO. Without knowing anything else, I think the customer support person that took the time to reply me a few times to explain the issue, could have made the decision that likelihood of my service being spam is ~0%.

edit: that's exactly what they did at Mailgun btw. The first reply came with a "I'll need to check with other team". Hours later, without any followup from me, came the second reply with "Thanks for providing the information. We have removed the limitations to your account." (copied pasted). Excellent execution in both getting the account and keeping the risk of delivering spam through their service very low. Compare this to Sendgrid, with three or four cryptic replies, and a lost account.

Check Amplitude's CEO HN thread about what drove the success of the company to the IPO. Among other things, making it easy/free for small companies to use Amplitude, even though their sole business model was to aim at big corporate accounts. For a few small companies that would turn into big corporate accounts or that were acquired by big corporations that would then adopt Amplitude and become big corporate accounts.

I think it would make strategic sense for SendGrid to greenlight my account. It was not a sensible, necessary anti-spam policy IMO, it was just poor execution.

I hope their customer support continues to be good.

I had a hit on HN with a side-project last year [0]. It delivers public domain books in chapters to your email. So I was needing to send over 1,000 emails a day from day one basically.

I initially used SendGrid for my project, but SendGrid's free trial had a limit of 100 emails a day. Well, I just needed to upgrade, right? Wrong. Sendgrid had a rule where it was impossible to upgrade from the free trial until the trial period was over. So 90% of my emails were not being delivered because I wasn't in a paid plan and I couldn't upgrade to a paid plan.

The worst part is that it wasn't very straightforward to understand I was in that catch 22. It took me about 4 or 5 days of sending their customer support messages and them taking too long to reply and not being very clear in their replies to understand the whole issue. And even proving that my traffic was legit (the HN post was enough evidence that I was not sending spam I think) was not enough for them to allow me to upgrade.

So I immediately changed to MailGun. They had similar worries about a new account with significant email traffic, but I sent an email to customer support right after signing up, they replied in an hour or so already allowing me to upgrade. Never had an issue with MailGun and I am very happy with their tech and service.

I am now creating a business on top of email delivery and staying with them. Hope this acquisition doesn't change much in that front.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24307752

If 12,000 of them were fired (all at once?), so they are not that critical to the economy and the safety of the country to the point that can't strike, right?

This is the "Who wants to be hired?" thread, you should post this on "Who is hiring?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27699704

My understanding: how will your company learn and innovate? Hire McKinsey to create a plan for you (analysis) or give a small team resources and autonomy to try something new (experimentation)?

Has anyone ever tried a "glove" keyboard?

It seems feasible, and it could be beneficial by giving more flexibility for your arms, wrist, and hands position (I imagine myself typing with my arms resting in chair arms or my thighs). Also, it would be great for VR, I would assume.

I got this list (that I found on HN a while ago btw) and used to showcase my new simple web app (a list of links creator). I hope you enjoy both the content and the form.

That’s interesting. As side-projects I just created two sibling games using JavaScript:

https://www.gameofpainting.com

https://www.paintingpuzzles.com

I optimized for the “fasted path to ship”, so I used React only, as it is what I know. The games reflect the limitations of the tools of course. They are just tapping games with simple game logic.

It would be nice to have something more powerful but still in a language that I know (I have no intention of going full game-developer). I’ll take a look at it.

I remember facing this situation a couple of times and all I did was ignore the initial "Hi", after a long time my interlocutor would insist "Hi? Are you there?"; and then I would finally reply "Yes! I just thought you would continue to write your message and I was waiting".

This "play dumb" strategy worked great for me and I think it has less risk to be perceived as "rude" compared to sending a link to the nohello.com site.

Sure. I will work on expanding the options, and it makes sense to add the original language to it too. Just not sure I can promise a date for date. If you care to send me an email to sl@serialliterature.com I will make a note to let you know when I do.

Ok, sorry, definitely not the experiment I planned with the ink drop effect. What's your browser/device? It should be just a drop on click/touch that disappears with further clicks or scroll.

The custom size for each installment is interesting, but tricky to do right. I'll think about it.

Thanks! I get the timezone from your browser, so it should work as expected for you (if not, it's a bug, please let me know by replying the email). But enough people asked me about the timezone that it is worth adding it explicitly in the UI.

The ink drops are just a quirky effect that I found cool to add. Hopefully it didn't disrupt your experience (it works better on desktop btw).

You are right! I did a better research while creating the site, so it is correct there. To answer this question I just went to check Google's explanation and copied their mistake.

Yes, 1844 is the correct year.

(I can't edit my reply above anymore)

It uses your browser timezone

I do it in the background. The hour you select will be the hour you receive your email in your timezone (if everything goes right at least lol). But maybe I should make the timezone explicit in the UI (maybe even editable).