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slowmotarget··on Show HN: OpenWand – A mission to remove chat interface from working with AI
Very clever indeed! I think it's probably something that AI non-power-users will appreciate.
slowmotarget··on Show HN: Ambient CSS – Physically Based CSS and React Components
I dreamt about this for a long time. I started a similar endeavor thrice in the past. Congrats for making this a reality.
slowmotarget··on Show HN: Build Web Automations via Demonstration
Congrats on the launch and nice identity. You might want to check Selenium as a source of inspiration
slowmotarget··on We Paid Users $300K to Upload Their Camera Rolls, Homework, and Dashcam Footage
It's funny I had a similar idea but with dashcams, for the automotive industry. You could pay people to install additional cameras to there cars and pay them by the miles driven. I'm sure car manufacturers would love this training data.
slowmotarget··on Ask HN: I think I might have a brand new idea of internet revolution
"The journey is the reward". Youtube is entertainment, not information. Information is the byproduct of being entertained.

However it's a great idea, go for it!

slowmotarget··on Dark patterns
Open question: if a bartender greets you with a compliment and a wink, and then proceeds to sell you a cocktail, is it a dark pattern?
slowmotarget··on Ask HN: How to deal with wrist pain, and prevent?
I’ve been doing body weight exercise for a few months. Doing push ups helped a lot with wrist pain.
slowmotarget··on Mac OS 9
It's a great reminder of how well MacOS 9 UI and UX were designed, and how space efficient the whole OS was on screen.

Even the window handle bars were subtly shadowed, the window shadows evolved when they were collapsed. Like Windows 95 at the time, Mac OS 9 was a beautiful work of interaction design.

slowmotarget··on Show HN: I made a Google Chrome extension automatically with ChatGPT
This is beyond imagination. It's a glimpse of what is going to become the job of programmers in the next 10 years imho.
slowmotarget··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
As a French founder, am I authorized to do a business trip in the US (meet local customers, pitch product features, invite prospects at a restaurant) with a simple ESTA?
slowmotarget··on Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient
> It does not have an ability to independently think and imagine/dream

We neither if we're not supplied with energy. By the way, haven't we tried to replicate an inner dialogue by prompting the AI to recursively converse with itself? This could resemble imagination, don't you think?

> It suffers from catastrophic forgetting under certain internal circumstances (in addition to changing what dataset we trained it on)

I believe that the persistence of previous answers is what currently distinguishes us the most from the "AI". As soon as we're able to make the realtime discussions part of an ever evolving dataset constituting the AI itself, the gap will get thinner and thinner. But even then, are people suffering from Alzheimer sentient? I believe they are. Isn't it comparable with what happens when an AI catastrophically forgets?

slowmotarget··on Show HN: Turn SQL, Node, Python scripts into safe, shareable internal tools
I really dig the product and demo. Nevertheless, I feel there are crucial points missing in your landing page: - Where is the code hosted? - Where is it executed? - Are my tasks versioned in a GIT repo? - How do you manage secrets?
slowmotarget··on Show HN: Low-Code Internal Chrome Extension Builder (Developer Preview)
I've got the chance to be one of the interviewed. I really like the way this is going. Their idea for extensions building and distribution is really clever and I appreciate how they've been tackling the developer experience.
slowmotarget··on Ask HN: What would you think of a new HTTP method named PREVIEW?
If this behavior is to be implemented through request headers, I'd prefer not to mess with Content-Type because it may be needed in the request: you could still want to PREVIEW but ask for a preferred content-type, like text/xml or application/json
slowmotarget··on Phelia – React for Slack Apps
Fantastic, thank you so much. I'd like to add that while WFH is getting a lot of traction, this is a wonderful time to market for your lib.
slowmotarget··on Show HN: Paced Email
This is genius ! Congratulations for the idea and the execution. It's been a while since a tech product amazed me that much.
slowmotarget··on Tesla’s success in Europe catches industry off guard
It's a non-issue for most French people like myself. In France, the Tesla cars are in the luxury price segment. There's no need to incentive the car that only wealthy people can afford.
slowmotarget··on Show HN: A Different (Code-First) Headless CMS for SPA’s Like Vue.js and React
To be honest and having been there before you, it's not a good idea. You entered a crowded space with a product that do not yield blatant differentiation. Your marketing, brand image and storytelling are the only things that will lead users to your app.

I don't think web developers will elect a newborn CMS, trust that it doesn't fail for the 5 or more years, if you don't convince them your CMS and the company behind it is future proof. And on that matter, your landing page and your documentation matter more than everything else. Invest time and money in it.

slowmotarget··on Show HN: Nebula – a distributed graph database written in C++
It looks really neat! What's your plan on making this project viable in the long run? Do you envisage to monetize hosting, or maybe create a community vs. paid edition?
slowmotarget··on Show HN: UXtweak – online user testing platform
Hey there, congratulations for the launch. I just wanted to give a quick hint that bothered us a lot. I see in this screen (https://www.uxtweak.com/statics/overview/rpl-record.png) that you provide a script tag with data attributes. Don't do that! You'll notice that a lot of your potential users are using a tag manager like GoogleTagManager. Those platform rewrite JS on the fly and do not take these attributes into account. Good luck!
slowmotarget··on Show HN: I built a spreadsheet app with Python to make data science easier
I see a great potential for cleaning CRM data with this tool. Nicely done!
slowmotarget··on Show HN: I've collected, categorized and tagged 500 email newsletters
Awesome work! Thank you
slowmotarget··on Show HN: Dancemusic.wtf – Quiz Game for Learning Electronic Dance Music Styles
Awesome! We need the same for metal music
slowmotarget··on Show HN: I'm collecting programming quotes for years
That's so cool! Needs a bit of CSS polishing but it successfully distracted me for at least 5 minutes...
slowmotarget··on Ask HN: Which Telescope Should I Buy?
Looking directly at the stars will only show you white dots. Astrophotography requires long time exposures to reveal the colors and details of outer solar system objects. That's what Stellina is for :-)
slowmotarget··on Ask HN: Which Telescope Should I Buy?
There's a French company named Vaonis, they're releasing Stellina, a smart telescope ("smart" in a sense that it is interactive and works with a mobile app).

It's on sale at the MoMa design store for the time being : https://store.moma.org/tech/home-electronics/vaonis-stellina...

slowmotarget··on Show HN: Axeptio, consent collection made GDPR compliant
Hello everyone,

A month after our french roll out, I come here to present you our last product. It's called Axeptio and it's basically reCAPTCHA for user consent.

Backstory:

In november we were attending a conference about GDPR and we learned that opt-in and personal data collection was about to change, a lot. It was pretty obvious that no one except the GAFAs were to be ready on time and we saw it as an opportunity to create a new niche. We came up with the idea of a "consent-as-a-service" platform.

Technically, it's a iframe served upon HTTPS, displaying a form that follows the guidelines of the regulation. When a user checks to give its consent, we store the event and take it as the "proof". We don't know anything about the user and just store the information of acceptation.

If you have any question please leave a message here!

slowmotarget··on Show HN: Flatris – A fast-paced two-player web game
Excellent! I love the animated feedback when bursting a line. Hope you won't get copyright issues.
slowmotarget··on Why is most software so hard to use?
Maybe because when you ask a user what he wants, it turns to be a freaking bloated nightmare ? And we tend to use the word "tool" to describe software but I think it's misleading, Photoshop is not a hammer... it's more of a car factory.

We should keep in mind that most software replace tasks that are too complex or impossible for a human to do!

slowmotarget··on Node v9.8.0
You're absolutely right about the backward compatibility. If you're still learning and not on a production server, no need to rush on the latest release.
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