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Please stop the coding challenges (Score: 151+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hZZ8
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Show HN: OnAir – create link, receive calls (Score: 152+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hZeM
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hZeM
Hello HN community,
This is bootstrapped/indie hacker-ish. Would appreciate feedback.
What it is: You create a link (e.g. onair/yourname), and anyone can call you from it. Caller uses a web browser to make the call (not dedicated app). You can create as many links as you want, and can direct calls to colleagues in a round-robin or escalation manner.
In a way, it's like the "opposite of Calendly"; whereas Calendly is about meetings in the future, OnAir is about immediate meetings.
Motivation behind it: One of our SaaS products was struggling to grow. We believed that if we provide more "hand holding" to visitors on the landing page, it will increase conversion. It's like speaking to the guy behind the counter before making a purchase. That idea/experiment, over time, became OnAir.
Feedback: Identifying the perfect use case / customer has not been easy. E-Commerce store owners, which I thought would be ideal customer profile, are not responding as expected (e.g. "why use this instead of a WhatsApp button?"). The value of branded links, round-robin, recording/transcription, lead capture, etc does not seem to matter much to them. Ideas are welcome.
On Building Git for Lawyers (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hWFr
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Upcoming Hardening in PHP (❄️ Score: 152+ in 1 week)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hxa3
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Relativty: An open-source VR headset for $200 (Score: 151+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hYyp
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PyPI now supports digital attestations (Score: 150+ in 14 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hWmh
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Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess (Score: 157+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hWXt
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The brain summons deep sleep for healing from life-threatening injury (❄️ Score: 151+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hJgr
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hJgr
A memory leak in Apple's Network Extension framework (Score: 150+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hWh2
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How we built the Black Friday Cyber Monday 2023 globe (❄️ Score: 150+ in 5 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hHQw
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The barriers to AI engineering are crumbling fast (Score: 151+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hWth
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OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are struggling to build more advanced AI (Score: 156+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hT22
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AI Makes Tech Debt More Expensive (🔥 Score: 151+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hWHR
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Keycloak took 10 months to fix a 2FA bypass (Score: 153+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hWeA
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The Onion Buys Alex Jones's Infowars Out of Bankruptcy (🔥 Score: 178+ in 40 minutes)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hWjd
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Old Vintage Computing Research: Dusting Off Dreamcast Linux (Score: 151+ in 23 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hXMr
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The OpenFlexure 3D printable microscope (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hPBV
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Seer: A GUI front end to GDB for Linux (Score: 151+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hZxc
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In Memoriam: Thomas E. Kurtz, 1928–2024 (Score: 152+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hY5t
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New Apple security feature reboots iPhones after 3 days, researchers confirm (🔥 Score: 150+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hYyj
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Abusing Ubuntu 24.04 features for root privilege escalation (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hRHX
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Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C# (🔥 Score: 154+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hY2m
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Ask HN: How to deal with a serious mental health breakdown? (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6hRDY
I am dealing with a delicate problem concerning my housemate who has recently had a very serious mental health breakdown.
This man is my friend of a decade and a housemate for 5 (uneventful) years. He began behaving erratically last week, and got progressivlely worse over the last weekend to the point where he was not really making any sense at all anymore. ("Reality is an illusion - but he knows the truth now" type stuff). He was not sleeping and began talking to himself.
I no choice but to call his family and also a mental health crisis team. The crisis team arrived first with police and forcibly entered his space.
This made him very angry, both at them and me, and he was forcibly removed to a hospital where I understand that he is refusing any sort of treatment and cannot be forced.
His family arrived to pack some things for his stay and found a half-written suicide note in his room. He is claiming it is "creative writing".
My flatmate is fiercely intelligent, and very highly educated. He is a professional working scientist and way smarter than me, or almost anyone I know.
He is insisting on returning to our house (as his legal right) but obviously I am very worried about him and terrified of making wrong decisions for both myself and him.
I know am not responsible for him, but his family are not really helping him properly (imo) either and he is my friend.
Has anyone dealt with a situation like this before? I am lost and desperate for advice.
dang: please delete this post if you deem it inappropriate.
Europeans Spend 575M Hours Clicking Cookie Banners Every Year (🔥 Score: 154+ in 56 minutes)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hY6V
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SQLite Index Visualization (Score: 150+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hVU6
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Red Hat to contribute container tech (Podman, bootc, ComposeFS...) to CNCF (🔥 Score: 151+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hXcW
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The letter ℘: name and origin? (2017) (Score: 155+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hWP4
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O2 unveils Daisy, the AI granny wasting scammers' time (🔥 Score: 175+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hWUm
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Why is it so hard to find a job now? Enter Ghost Jobs (🔥 Score: 157+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hWnX
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Backdoor attempt on Exolabs GitHub repo through an innocent looking PR (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hQwT
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