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sameline··on Rivian's TM-B electric bike
Amazon has been using a vehicle that looks very similar to the enclosed version in upper Manhattan the last few months. Given their existing relationship with Rivian maybe they have some kind of early access.
sameline··on Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?
Apple Maps added a Visited Places (beta) feature recently.
sameline··on Blog Feeds
https://kill-the-newsletter.com is a great way to turn email newsletters into RSS.
sameline··on In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information
Cool project! I use https://ooh.directory but will check your directory out too.
sameline··on Largest Wildlife Bridge Spanning 10 Lanes of CA 101 Is Nearly Complete
For those interested in learning more about road ecology, Crossings is an interesting read.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123627807-crossings

sameline··on Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom
Verizon (and I assume many other US carriers) offer junk call identification which your iPhone can block if you have ”Silence Junk Callers” toggled in Settings > Phone > Call Blocking & Identification.

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/block-or-avoid-unwant...

sameline··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
Cool idea! Does it take your team’s prior estimations into account to improve future estimates?
sameline··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
Cool idea! I’m a big fan of AnyList so this was intriguing.

I think it could be useful to have a “recently generated” section in the Recipes tab that lets you find things you might have forgotten to save. Substitutions could also be a useful feature. For example, if I can’t find Mexican oregano, what else can I use?

sameline··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
I try to use JSON-LD metadata on the page if it’s available and fall back to AI if it’s not.
sameline··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
I shared this last month as well but I’ve added a couple new features since then: a weekly digest email, a list of what you’re tracking and a price history chart.

I’ve been building https://lowlow.bot, it tracks price changes on any website. I was inspired by https://camelcamelcamel.com, but wanted something that worked for more than just Amazon. It’s been handy for big purchases I’m ok waiting for and stocking up on recurring non-perishable essentials when they go on sale. It also lets me know when something has come back in stock.

sameline··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
Please share feedback if you have any!
sameline··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
I’ve been building https://lowlow.bot, it tracks price changes on any website. I was inspired by https://camelcamelcamel.com, but wanted something that worked for more than just Amazon.

It’s been handy for big purchases I’m ok waiting for and stocking up on recurring non-perishable essentials when they go on sale. It also lets me know when something has come back in stock.

sameline··on Show HN: Get an email when the price drops on any product's URL. No spam
This is also worth considering, thanks. We would need to be careful to avoid overwriting any pre-existing affiliate tags set on a user provided URL like Honey was doing [0]. I’m curious why you stopped pursuing the idea if you don’t mind sharing.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc4yL3YTwWk

sameline··on Show HN: Get an email when the price drops on any product's URL. No spam
We're still working on answering that but we want the user experience to be something that we really like using ourselves. That means that the website will remain ad-free, we won't send email marketing spam and we won't sell user data to advertisers.

Some options we're considering:

1. Offering premium plans that allow tracking more products with more frequent updates.

2. Allow users to opt-in for offers on the specific products they're already tracking.

We're still not sure if we've found product market fit with this idea so we're staying open-minded and trying to avoid getting too attached to any specific monetization tactic.

sameline··on Show HN: Get an email when the price drop on any product's URL. No spam
blancotech and I have been working on this together and sharing it with friends and family over the last few months. Looking forward to any feedback on whether this seems like a useful tool!
sameline··on Claude 2
Eventually one of these comment threads is going to be included in the training set invalidating this as a test.
sameline··on PelotonCal
My partner and I use anylist.com on iOS to plan each week’s meals. It supports creation of a calendar that you can subscribe to in your calendaring app. That calendar has all-day event for all the meals in a day. Handy to see at a glance what we’ll cook for dinner along with the rest of our evening plans.
sameline··on PelotonCal
flightyapp.com on iOS also supports flight import via email and has calendar integration.
sameline··on Shottr – macOS Screenshot Utility
The device emulation tools in Firefox and Chrome let you specify viewport dimensions and allow you to capture a screenshot of the viewport. I like to use this feature to standardize “full window” screenshots. It also excludes the window chrome which is nice.
sameline··on Difficult situation on campus: traffic jam of food delivery robots
This looks like UCLA so probably Starship.

https://asucla.ucla.edu/2021/01/27/asucla-restaurants-brings...

sameline··on Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
Allowing remote images to load allows for a tracking signal to be sent from the email client. Blocking images allows the user to choose whether that signal is sent.
sameline··on The Nightmare Letter: A Subject Access Request Under GDPR
If a business cannot afford to properly handle and audit customer data then it should avoid any sort of collection. Businesses that produce value from customer data should be able to pay for necessary protections.
sameline··on The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018
It’s not unreasonable to imagine that any of the examples provided in the source post could require a team larger than 10 people.