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whatnotests2··on Ask HN: Ideas are cheap, so what ideas can make $100k/year?
Ideas are cheap.

Execution is what matters. And business model.

Market, price fit, strategy. And the team. These must be aligned.

whatnotests2··on [dead]
Can we keep the texts secure from the FBI?
whatnotests2··on Web Crawler and Scraper for AI
Very cool - and impressive speed!

How does it compare with headless browser services like https://browserless.io or https://browserbase.com ?

whatnotests2··on Ask HN: How do I have more fun building?
If you want to finish something, start by thinking about, designing, and testing the end-user experience.

Examples:

  * documentation first
  * low fidelity mockups 
  * think of the problems it will solve
  * how will life improve by using the result of your efforts?
That way, you're more focused on the "what" than the "how" - as we often get discouraged when the "how" changes because we haven't realized the "what" we're building (or why we're building it).

If you don't know where you're going, you're already there before you begin.

whatnotests2··on Show HN: TideCloak – Decentralized IAM for security and user sovereignty
Amazing. I wanted this, but didn't want to build it.

You did.

Thank you!

whatnotests2··on A vanilla Rails stack is plenty
Rails really is enough, almost all the time.

I add tailwind, but you can go a long, long way without needing more.

whatnotests2··on What we know about CEO shooting suspect
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whatnotests2··on Show HN: Get blog post ideas for YOUR project for free
Cool idea!
whatnotests2··on Dead Internet Theory?
I went through something like this with my ex.

One day, she was fine.

The next day, it was all about The Beatles conspiracy theories which never seem to end. Ever.

I stuck with her for two years before finally, reluctantly, leaving. We divorced a few years later, by which time her psychotic break had finished.

It was truly awful. I didn't understand it at the time, and was angry then guilty. I should have dragged her to a hospital for examination, but I didn't.

Get your friend some professional help.

whatnotests2··on Show HN: ChatGPT-Like Tool for GA4 Analytics
As someone who absolutely loathes GA4, I remain hopeful that this can be useful.
whatnotests2··on Kids are getting ruder, teachers say. And new research backs that up
"Kids today have no respect."

-- Socrates, probably

whatnotests2··on New, endogenous molecular clock discovered
Amazing. I wonder how we could use this elsewhere, or if it already is used elsewhere?
whatnotests2··on Show HN: Railway – A better way to build software. Period
Is this like Ruby on Rails but for Heroku-esque cloud environments?
whatnotests2··on Algorithms We Develop Software By
Nice play on words from Lakoff's "Metaphors We Live By"
whatnotests2··on 3 Years After Allocating $5B for EV Chargers, 17 Stations Completed
Build back better. Or something like that.
whatnotests2··on Startup REMSpace claims to have achieved communication between sleeping people
Minority Report, here we come.
whatnotests2··on Open/close transition of Flex SDK's tree view takes 300+ lines of ActionScript
I believe the successor to Flash and Flex is React, but we also lost almost 20 years while waiting for React to grow up, and it still isn't as accessible to novices like Flash was.
whatnotests2··on Bop Spotter
As a resident of the Mission, I approve of this.
whatnotests2··on Ask HN: How to thrive in tech without post-secondary education?
I don't have post-secondary education, but I have always enjoyed learning new things and mastering interesting concepts and challenges.

Technology fits my predisposition just fine. It's always changing, so I'm always learning.

I started out by making a website for a girlfriend's business 25 years ago, enjoyed it, and just kept on going.

Nowadays I have worked at on important projects and products for some of the most well known companies pushing the boundaries of technology forward.

It turns out that soft kills are extremely important, and self mastery is a powerful skill. As powerful in some cases as knowing how to twiddle bits or predict the results of a left-outer SQL join.

Learning how to enjoy learning, and how to work effectively alone and with others cannot be replaced by a diploma on the wall. The diploma may serve as evidence that one has been tested and proved to have the qualities necessary to acquire the diploma, but absence of the diploma is not proof of the absence of those qualities.

Develop yourself. You will be rewarded.

whatnotests2··on Ask HN: What would make you partner with someone non-technical?
If they can think strategically about the product, the market, and how to compete now and in the future.

Also if they think about the business model as enabled by our product and dynamics within the marketplace, versus viewing things from an adversarial perspective.

whatnotests2··on Semiosis: On Meaning in the Human and Machine
In order for AI systems to learn in a more "human" way, I wonder if semiosis and metaphor will help?

It seems clear to me that the way we humans generate meaning and metaphor are related to our senses and our physicality, and our experience of pain and pleasure, but it's difficult to know how precisely a machine's experience would need to approximate ours in order for it's sense of meaning and metaphor to be intelligible to us.

whatnotests2··on Ask HN: Any AWS S3 alternatives to reduce the PUT cost?
Self hosted OpenStack
whatnotests2··on Ask HN: How do you handle in-place cloud upgrades or parallel cloud migrations?
I hope you're using some kind of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool, like CloudFormation or Terraform.

Second, if it's a major change, I might begin with a clean slate, instead of trying to make sweeping changes to the existing environment.

Configuration management (CM) isn't something to add at the end. I tend to use AWS SecretsManager to store a .env file for each "environment" and "role" - like staging.env and production.env, and staging.webapp.env and production.webapp.env. The files can be requested and loaded during the initialization phase (startup) of a container or server or service.

And security is important to consider at the beginning as well. Bastion hosts, deployment strategies, network security (firewalls and open ports), and user management (IAM) must be considered.

ChatGPT is pretty good at helping with such tasks, but it does hallucinate frequently so keep the CloudFormation documentation open and refer to it often.

whatnotests2··on Show HN: Seezo SDR – Automated security design reviews
Very cool.

Maybe update the link to a page that doesn't require login?

https://seezo.io/

whatnotests2··on Tell HN: Pivotal Tracker is being shut down
Indeed. Their sign up page is now a 404.
whatnotests2··on Using Security Engineering to Prevent Phishing – Doyensec
Great list of examples of common security bugs and some simple remedies for them.

I would like to see more content like this.

whatnotests2··on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
Until you look at the cybersecurity industry players. Many big players are based in Tel Aviv
whatnotests2··on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
Isreal is doing just fine, drumming up dissent, based on it's behavior alone.
whatnotests2··on Show HN: Finic – Open source platform for building browser automations
With agents like Finic, soon the web will be built for agents, rather than humans.

I can see a few years from now almost all web traffic is agents.

whatnotests2··on Apple Watch sleep apnea detection gets FDA approval
Now we know why it's called Apple Watch.

It watches you.

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