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zeronight··on Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]
The part I can't get past, where would you source live human brain cells?

Does anyone have insight into how you would even start to source or grow/create the cells?

Also the machines look very organic and clearly have to keep the cells alive. Do they have to change them out every so often?

zeronight··on Up next: a lawsuit threatening your YouTube watch queue
Would promoting Twitter Blue Subscribers content over non-subscribers be promoting specific accounts? Musk has said this was going to happen and I think we saw it in the code + it sure feels like when using the site.

Seems like that would could even be considered hardcoding - Buy Twitter Blue get higher on replies on threads.

zeronight··on Show HN: ExecAPI – Zero-Infra Background Jobs as a Service
Congrats on launching - Its so hard to get this far!

A few points of feedback:

- Some real world use cases would be helpful to people frame your product. I saw your guide but that isn't a really something useful and could do in my app itself.

- You should add how this service compares to other function as a service SaaS's on the market. I'm not sure why I would pay $10 a month when AWS lambda can offer the same features.

- Whats a project? The pricing page mentions it but I don't see it anywhere else

- Is their a free tier? I see it mentioned on the change log but no where on the site.

zeronight··on Show HN: I made a GH repo to curate remote jobs that don't ask for a location
This won't work for us employers as they need your location to know how much to tax you.
zeronight··on Reverse Engineering Netgear Auth and Shape Security to add MMS to my photo frame
Not sure if you wanted the challenge, but this doc 1 has been floating around for a while. I've used it and been told by people who know that it works but is slight out of data as they added new features.

1. https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/1657302/RVnWjKUL

zeronight··on Scooter startup Bird is seeking a $2B valuation
I disagree. Bikes aren't much faster .
zeronight··on Show HN: Upcall - Non-AI Sales Assistant
I agree with you, but for the foreseeable future this will remain easy to test. Just ask the caller something out of it's domain. Get a call about life insurance? Ask about ratios of trail mix.
zeronight··on Show HN: Apply to Date – Create a page where people can apply to date you
This great, I like the design. Removes clutter that most dating sites are filled with.

I would highly recommend implementing phone number verition on signup. I know its its hassle on the sign up flow but for a dating site the worst thing is for it to be covered with "hot single in your area" profiles.

zeronight··on Vero – An ad-free social network
I downloaded and looked around the app a few days ago, it seems really consumer media focused. Where Twitter allows you to post just text and later added photos, links and videos Vero seems to be taking the opposite and forces you to pick a category for the post.

It also encourages sharing movies and music but that's not what I go to social networks for.

zeronight··on Direct-to-consumer companies bypass traditional retailers via online stores
There is something to be said for physically holding an item. Recently I was on the fence about getting some Lifx light bulbs, but I was in Best Buy holding the box and found myself at the registrar before I knew what happened.
zeronight··on Show HN: Turn your SMS into postcards for your grandma, every month
Not unless they are on your phone, but create a Facebook chat bot as an opinion in addition to SMS would be good idea.
zeronight··on Show HN: Turn your SMS into postcards for your grandma, every month
This is one of those, "Why didn't I think of this idea" ideas.

Fun service

zeronight··on Show HN: API to check where a TV show or movie is available
This is great.

I would suggest giving shows an ID though. Looking at the docs, it looks like I have to search every time and just hope the show is still returned in the search and the results are in the same order every query.

something like a /show/{id} or similar.

zeronight··on Front-End Checklist
It will be interesting to find what the visitor percentages are for iPhone x.

Even though its Apple, at some point its not worth spending the time and money.

zeronight··on Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated?
I have this same thing.

Maybe their is a market for simple non-intrusive weather notifications.

zeronight··on Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated?
I recently got three lifx lights and they are bright enough to light my entire room.

Simply having them turn on at sunset is awesome. Such a small but great convenience.

zeronight··on Show HN: Manage your cost of app subscriptions in one place
Agreed, right now I use a spreadsheet to track subscriptions, it works great. I think an app like this can replace and add value to a simple spreadsheet but $300 more dollars year to track services I already subscribe too is way to much.

I would shoot for lower per year cost, around the $20 to $25 mark.

zeronight··on Node.js is forked to Ayo.js (pronounced like “IO”)
And this one is pronounced the same way?

That won't be confusing in conversation.

zeronight··on An 89-year-old Reinventing the Train in His Backyard
I don't understand how you could have many trains on the same track. If one train needs to stop then do they all stop?

I guess you could have sections every half mile or so but that sounds crazy expensive. Putting a pump out in the middle of nowhere.

And how would train yards work? Assuming you used sections how long would they be? 10 feet?

Cool idea though, first time I've seen it.

zeronight··on Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family
Its on Github and is easy to selfhost. And yes I agree, adding "import from FB would be awesome"
zeronight··on Ringless voice mails from telemarketers
Voicemail are just other phone numbers, most of the time they are internal to the network though.