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gbourne1on Bending Spoons entered definitive agreement to acquire Airtable for $1.28B

And they had raise $1.4B across 7 funding rounds.

gbourne1on Anti-fraud tools can't keep pace with robocall scammers

I too set it up so all unknown calls go to VM. I figure if legit they will leave a message. If two calls and no message I block the unknown number.

gbourne1on Cursor now has a mobile app for guiding your coding agent on the go

I love and hate this feature. I use it all the time with Claude, and find it super useful. At the same time I wish it didn’t exist so I was unable to continue to do work away from my computer. Kinda like the days before mobile phone and when you left the office work mostly ended.

gbourne1on Best GitHub Alternatives

After writing this up we are seriously considering moving to GitLab.

gbourne1on Sony Accidentally Created a Camera That Could See Through Clothing

I thought the link in the article about FDR also quite interesting. https://commonplacefacts.com/2022/02/23/fdrs-fishing-trip-an...

gbourne1on Gemini App on Mac

I think they are releasing the native app so they can have the omni-present ask bar that some people I assume like. Also I assume their CLI will be eventually integrated into this app.

gbourne1on Ask HN: How do you handle marketing as a solo technical founder?

As a builder/developer, marketing often isn't considered "fun". But you need to do it, else the build was for your personal entertainment/learning exp (which is sometimes a good thing).

What I do is stop building and focus 100% on marketing - well, 90% because I can't help myself. Even if this isn't as "fun", you need to switch modes and stop building.

As for my approach, I start with Google Ads + SEO/AEO. Google ads can get results in a few weeks (Google does have a learning phase) and SEO and AEO is a much longer process, which can be months before you see results. I use AHREF to check my SEO/AEO progress. While AHREF isn't a direct measurement of Google, I've found their DR to be correlated with my organic traffic.

gbourne1on Meta delays rollout of new AI model after performance concerns

> “ The model, code-named Avocado, outperformed Meta’s previous A.I. model and did better than Google’s Gemini 2.5 model from March, two of the people said. But it has not performed as strongly as Gemini 3.0 from November, they said.”

So in two months they will make it better than 3.1? But by then there will probably be even newer models. It would be great if we get another competing model, but it isn’t going to be easy for Meta.

gbourne1on M5 MacBook Air Review: Not just more of the same–the same, but more

The SSD speed increase seems to be the most interesting enhancement.

gbourne1on How we hacked McKinsey's AI platform

- "The agent mapped the attack surface and found the API documentation publicly exposed — over 200 endpoints, fully documented. Most required authentication. Twenty-two didn't."

Well, there you go.

gbourne1on Stripe: Billing for LLM Tokens

I’m tired of every AI capability at SaaS companies charging usage fees. I get it: they both have their own token costs and want to make a profit on the feature. But it makes a $50 a month product potentially hundreds if I’m not careful. For example our customer chat tool with AI on is going to be hundreds a month instead of the $39/mo we pay. We turned off the AI capability.

gbourne1on The Last Generation to Read Source Code

It might go that way - skip the higher level languages or an AI fit to purpose language. Right now we want to have a comfort feeling for being able to read the code if we need to. I would love to see a study of a year ago the percentage of code reviewed vs today’s AI generated code

gbourne1on Claude's Cycles [pdf]

And Brenda Milner is still alive at 107. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenda_Milner

gbourne1on She went to sleep and woke up 30 years later (1998)

For a reprint from a newspaper there seems to be a lot of spelling mistakes…rally.

gbourne1on Ask HN: Why are you programming your hobby projects in a niche language?

Closure is awesome, but I wouldn’t define it as niche.

gbourne1on Status Page for monitoring your websites and applications with beautiful graphs

I’m a big fan of upptime. https://upptime.js.org/

gbourne1on Ask HN: What low-code “dashboarding“ SaaS would you recommend in 2021?

I’m also a fan of Bubble and have made a few dashboards and apps with it.

gbourne1on Cory Doctorow is fighting back against Amazon's Audible

I’m listening to Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson right now, read by them. They are fantastic.

gbourne1on Supabase (YC S20) – An open source Firebase alternative

A plug here, but we built an app around tracking Firebase usage and costs because there it a worry about getting a big monthly bill. Check it out at https://www.firerun.io

gbourne1on Show HN: Connect customer feedback to your roadmap

Canny.io doesn’t have a free tier for bootstrapping.

gbourne1on Show HN: Open – Free React landing page template

First off, thank you for building and sharing with the community. I have built a few landing pages with React and always end up regretting because you always need a React developer to maintain. I think best to build the landing pages (about, homepage, faq, etc) in something a non tech person can use like Wordpress or at least Hugo (markdown). You don’t need to bring in a React developer when you want to add a new marketing section to the homepage.

gbourne1on Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?

http://www.anothermadworld.com

I write about programming and recently about Firebase. You would want to read it if you use Firebase or are interested in learning about it.

gbourne1on Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

I am working on a way to better track and gain transparency into your Firebase costs. The goal is prevent you from getting a surprise bill at the end of the month. I’ve started out with a daily and month end reports of your usage and costs. I’ve even been able to give cost metrics that aren’t in the Firebase console. Eventually will have a dashboard so you can dive into your historical costs and setup custom alert that are more fine grained than what google allows.

https://www.firerun.io

gbourne1on Show HN: A little app to keep your free Heroku apps awake

You only get a limited number of free hours. 1000 with a credit card otherwise 550.

https://www.heroku.com/free

gbourne1on Forty Percent of the Buildings in Manhattan Could Not Be Built Today

The zoning laws actually help the diversity, aesthetics aside. As the laws change, the buildings change with it. Some bulky and tall, now skinny and short. The buildings of the era are influenced from the changing laws.