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cdvonstinkpoton Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy

This isn't surprising to me. I'm on Topamax as an appetite suppressant & I notice a similar effect. A lot of the time a Soylent will do the trick, or a small snack that can't even be considered a meal.

cdvonstinkpoton Ask HN: We built an air-gapped document vault with encrypted print and export

2FA would be helpful here for evil maid protection.

cdvonstinkpoton Ask HN: Has anyone else been struggling with search lately?

Here to second Kagi, never going back to Google, etc.

cdvonstinkpoton Show HN: A website that gives voice to unfulfilled customer needs

It looks like today, 9/28, the AI generated content is filtered out automatically, kind of nice to know it's all organic.

cdvonstinkpoton Show HN: A website that gives voice to unfulfilled customer needs

I had to "Like" my own post, a bit redundant.

cdvonstinkpoton Show HN: A website that gives voice to unfulfilled customer needs

I'd like to be able to simply vote for a product. If you already can, I'm missing the UI where you can do that. There's a cool one for a woman that I wouldn't use but is so good I want to vote for it.

cdvonstinkpoton Show HN: A website that gives voice to unfulfilled customer needs

You could clarify that by putting it in a box called recurring revenue or annual revenue or just revenue. I don't know the right term for that.

cdvonstinkpoton Show HN: A website that gives voice to unfulfilled customer needs

I like it. I've wished for something like it in the past. I'd like to see it get widespread popularity.

Some things:

I set my price at $100 per use, but I see there's a $20 per year in my listing along with it. Not sure where that came from.

Also, location info would likely be helpful- if someone opens/starts my idea elsewhere that's great for elsewhere, but doesn't help me.

At the bottom of the page where I'm scrolling through the list of tiles I can't tell there's more unless I scroll or I look at the scrollbar. The way the footer blends together at the bottom now doesn't look right to me.

I think the header should be locked like the footer is so when you scroll it stays visible, the part with the tags, not the account one. Maybe if the account one were to become visible on scrolling up from anywhere, but the tags one should stay locked visible like the footer is.

I think the items in the footer belong at the top.

This seems like the kind of thing where RSS feeds would be helpful to keep people up to date on trending stuff.

cdvonstinkpoton Apollo 11 in Real Time

Thanks so much for building this & making it available. I haven't been this excited about a website since the internet was brand new!

cdvonstinkpoton Ask HN: What are some project ideas for a web developer with 2 years exp.?

If you were to build a WiFi digital picture frame that periodically displayed top entries from https://old.reddit.com/r/Cinemagraphs/, I for one would want to buy one. Or three.

cdvonstinkpoton Best Alternative to DigitalOcean?

$5/month is rather minimal, IMO. I was happy with Prgmr @ their $20/month service level.

Customer service is supposedly minimal with them, in accordance with their motto: "We don't assume you are stupid", but were helpful the few times I needed it. A bit slow maybe, but problem solved well within a week. (Turns out Rsync.net's ssh console has limited bash commands available, so Prgmr's wiki instructions to dd my disk there didn't work)

https://billing.prgmr.com/index.php/order/main/packages/xen/...

cdvonstinkpoton Ask HN: Which futuristic companies are you excited about?

https://numer.ai/

AI/ML for financial market data

cdvonstinkpoton Ask HN: Good Books or Resources for Web Design

A bit dated, still useful:

Seth Godin: The Big Red Fez

https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743227905/permissio...

cdvonstinkpoton Show HN: Daily e-mail with all HN stories over x points

The highest number in your threshold drop-down (250 at the moment) is far too low for my taste. I'd have signed up if I could set it to 1,000.

cdvonstinkpoton Ask HN: How to stream low latency audio from one machine to another over LAN?

Maybe something along the lines of Vortexbox [1] in a VM?

[1]

https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=vortexbox

cdvonstinkpoton Ask HN: Why are we as a society unable to account for negative externalities?

IIRC what you're talking about is called "True Cost Economics". I first read about it years ago, & when I look for the article now it's a 404.

However I was able to find an excerpt here:

http://www.utne.com/community/truecosteconomics

cdvonstinkpoton Ask HN: Which distributed web platform should I sink my teeth into?

MaidSafe seems most promising, IMO.

cdvonstinkpoton Ask HN: Where can I get design feedback?

I've had limited success here [0]. YMMV.

[0]

http://www.criticue.com

cdvonstinkpoton Ask HN: Where would you host 100 small, customizable, static sites?

FastMail accounts come with ftp/webdav storage & an interface for turning a directory into a static site. Fast backend, reseller accounts, DNS, etc. No complaints.

cdvonstinkpoton Ask HN: What are your personal projects that helped in landing a job?

After learning you could swap out chips in CB radios for extra features my senior year of HS, I discovered Free Radio Berkeley [1]. Spent a summer building their kits & had a great time figuring out how to do it all.

Eventually I brought some of my work to a repair facility as part of my interview & got the first job I ever liked!

[1] http://www.freeradio.org/

cdvonstinkpoton Ask HN: I'm late to the crypto currencies boom, what are my options?

Being a developer you might enjoy https://cryptotrader.org

Years ago I used an EMA bot & got a feel for what kind of volatility patterns it was good with. Haven't kept up with any of that for years now though.

cdvonstinkpoton Ask HN: I'm late to the crypto currencies boom, what are my options?

When I got in at ~$150/BTC I thought I was late because the last time I looked was < $0.10, & even so I was able to profit enough to perma-grin for weeks. However after having a better look at the landscape I'm not what could be called 'bullish' by any means. I've since decided BTC-type tokens are inately inferior to 'smart contract'-types. I've also developed a personal opinion that distributed computing-types will come to outshine the rest. I've been lurking & watching MaidSafe from before they rewrote everything in rust, & to me at least it's what seems most promising long-term. In the meantime I don't spend my money on speculation, since I already got lucky when BTC hit $1k that first time & I don't want to press my luck.

cdvonstinkpoton Ask HN: Recommendation for remote conferencing equipments

AFAIK Polycom is the industry standard. I installed lots of these during the dot-com boom long ago. Things might have changed, but a quick Google search returns similar offerings as what I was used to then.

Best of luck!

cdvonstinkpoton Ask HN: What is a good way to get into trading cryptocurrency as a developer?

At least circa whenever it was that BTC broke $100, the state of exchanges' APIs was such that arbitrage wasn't practical. I remember reading about it on an old bitcointalk.org thread when the Butter-Bot developers were soliciting feedback regarding what direction their paid customer base wanted them to go.

The only working arbitrage software I ever saw was this short-lived one with a circular UI (IIRC), & it wasn't fully automated.

I'd be interested to learn the current state of affairs on the subject.

cdvonstinkpoton Ask HN: What is a good way to get into trading cryptocurrency as a developer?

I found Cryptotrader [1] interesting years ago, & found myself wishing I knew how to code so I could get in on maybe making some money there.

Was using a minimal bot that came as a Chrome extension called "Butter-Bot", but it stopped working right after that one Thanksgiving when it broke $1k- when the market started going sideways. The developer was building a newer version called "Butter-X", which looked promising, but was never completed after money ran out.

[1]

https://cryptotrader.org

cdvonstinkpoton Ask HN: When will gigabit broadband go mainstream?

Not soon enough. Where I live the best you can get is 300/300 fiber, only in select parts of town, & for prices that (to me) aren't affordable. For now I put up with 3/1, since it's included with rent. Until I can afford to move & maybe do better then.

cdvonstinkpoton Yet another piece on Basic Income

Just saw your comment. Can't edit the title anymore, as too much time has passed. Can't delete it either. Best hope is if a mod could change it. Apologies for title.

cdvonstinkpoton Ask HN: Tool to follow or favorite HN users?

Fantastic! Thanks...

cdvonstinkpoton Ask HN: What are some reliable sources on nutrition?

http://efficiencyiseverything.com/calorie-per-dollar-list/

cdvonstinkpoton Ask HN: Tool to follow or favorite HN users?

I haven't been doing it long, but it came to mind after noticing a user with a ton of karma & being interested in many of their previous submissions. Then I realized I'd seen patterns before when reading other users' submissions- someone with lots of AI/ML -related stuff for example. But I never bookmarked them so I feel like I'll miss out on others' themed contributions unless I bookmark & look regularly.