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freefruiton Figma will IPO on July 31

https://penpot.app/ is doing pretty well and quite well featured!

freefruiton Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

Point number 2, was a great success with a controversial owner.

freefruiton Reverse Engineering Bambu Connect

What can't you fix? All the issues I've had you could find a video on YouTube on what to do.

freefruiton A Uruguayan company teaches people how to turn regular cars into EVs

https://www.revr.tech/news

Poor guys workshop burt down.

freefruiton StoryDiffusion: Long-range image and video generation

So is Amazon flooded with hyper niche e-books yet?

freefruiton Want to start a startup? Meet all the YC partners in Boston – Apr 20th

Or apply with something they are looking to fund. Then change your idea to what you really want to do when you get in. (This is what Tiktok told me to do)

freefruiton "Many in Silicon Valley feel the same about him (David Sacks) as you do."

I understand someone having the viewpoint of America first, look after home first and don't get involved in foreign wars. He however, seems to go way beyond this.

His latest tweet connecting the terrorist attack to Ukraine, with no evidence. Is just repeating the Kremlin talking points. For someone who should analytical, it is just strange.

The All -In pod, often tease him about being a robot. I genuinely believe he is on the spectrum.

I have never heard or read his words showing empathy, even for the terror attacks in Israel and he is Jewish.

freefruiton Show HN: I scraped 25M Shopify products to build a search engine

Could you make it so, that I can easily open a product in a new tab. I like to compare lots of products at the same time.

freefruiton Australia to ban engineered stone

Bunnings & Ikea recently stopped selling this product. My guess is Bunnings probably wanted to stop competition. So they probably lobbied the government for the full ban. After all, you can't have the competition selling a popular product that they don't. (Bunnings is like Australia's Home Depot or Lowe's)

freefruiton ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak

"We are beginning to roll out new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT. They offer a new, more intuitive type of interface by allowing you to have a voice conversation or show ChatGPT what you’re talking about."

freefruiton Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off

Also, do you have a plugin so you can save an email directly as a note from desktop Outlook?

freefruiton Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off

Does it have OCR for images?

freefruiton The retaliation: Pranking my roommate with targeted Facebook ads (2014)

Tiktok targeting is not very good, best bet would be finding out what hashtag to target.

freefruiton Need help with students who've turned my class into a dating service

Trolling, or they have an actual app they're trying to advertise.

freefruiton Need help with students who've turned my class into a dating service

Isn't this just marketing for the app? I could be wrong, but this is more than likely someone doing some 'growth hacking'.

I'm sure people will now go looking for the app.

freefruiton UK ditches ban on 'legal but harmful' online content

As an Australian this true, but does vary a bit depending on each state. Most Aussies want more government control in their lives and are rather apathetic.

freefruiton AirDrop is now limited to 10 minutes

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/10/23450967/apple-airdrop-l...

It was brought in because of protests in mainland China. Just not because of the current ones, but previous ones.

freefruiton Robinhood cuts losses after transaction revenue drops

You are the product for Robinhood, as they are selling deal flow. Vladimir Tenev will always put his customers first since they are paying for the deal flow information.

How can you trust any company that has you as the product?

freefruiton Ford and VW pulling the plug on self-driving vehicles

Just a matter of time before the auto industry heads the way of the smartphone. Foxcon is already pitching to be a OEM manufacturer for automotive brands. EVs are taking over china, with many of them being from local brands, giving them the required scale.

Tech first companies like Tesla, Rivian, Xpeng and Nio will lead the way.

freefruiton Lego Is Discontinuing Mindstorms

I have made compatible parts with my at home FDM printer.

freefruiton How to request removal of your contact info from Google search results

Sounds like that would be open to abuse of from black hat seo types.

freefruiton Search 5.8B images used to train popular AI art models

Seems it's related to what alt tags the images are using.

freefruiton Search 5.8B images used to train popular AI art models

How do you have the rights to use any of the images? They are clearly the same as what a Google image search would result in. However google links to the source.

freefruiton Reddit's favorite products in one place

Will you add the ability to search other subreddits? I would like to search some more niche subreddits.

freefruiton UST Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg

or MIM which may become the defacto decentralized stablecoin.

freefruiton UST Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg

Easy to send and trade a stablecoin. May also avoid tax in certain countries.

Particularly useful in decentralized finance as it's on the same chain as the token you are trading.

freefruiton You either die an MVP or live long enough to build content moderation

Governor Dao has a better working system for this already. Authenticated anonymous identities. They are currently targeting the NFT space, but this tech could also be applied to online communities. https://authentication.governordao.org/