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this. I am almost addicted to dropping long voice notes (pronounced rambling) and LLMs do such a great job at creating and managing these notes. I can then convert that format into anything.

although, I agree with the author since many emails and messages onlinkedin i get these days are just long post shits by AI. I am not reading them anymore but it's some other ai summarising ebcause no human talks or writes like basic ai prompting does. so so difficult to read that

YouTube changed to thumbs up/down from 5-star rating system many years ago like Netflix. They learnt most people either give it 1 star or 5 stars. It’s also hard to understand the meaning of 2,3, and 4 stars in the context of a video.

If you are a good at your job and want to deliver fast then you need to adapt to changing circumstances and continue on. Nothing wrong if you can’t but I have learnt that’s how you play along to deliver your best continuously.

Good read. Most lakes around southern India seem to derive their name from small kingdoms that once occupied the land.

Many of them don’t have meanings and I’m not sure what they mean to further analyse like you did.

The extension is install once forget forever.

Reader mode is an additional step. Plus, I haven’t quite figured reader mode on chrome.

Same with my old man. He is a farmer in southern India. All the farms nearby are super identical with tall beetlenut trees. Im often confused where we are and which direction is the house, he is not. He has set over a 100 water gates across the farms and the instructions he gives is always east face or turn the gate north facing as an example.

Yeah, that's another website I would like to center.

Thanks, I wanted something that can be installed once and forgotten forever.

10 Tintin comics/books came as donations to my small school in a small town in India. Hardy boys were also donated but Tintin just hit the sweet spot for me.

I sometimes think it's the artsy design which feels so warm. As an 11-year-old, I was mesmerised by them. I didn't understand a ton of things Captain Haddock said with English being the 2nd language.

The adventures were sooo good. I saw the movie when it came out more than a decade ago and it brought back so many memories.

Even today, I love it's aesthetic design a lot. I discovered Asterix and Obelix when I was 17 and they had similar vibes and energy with their designs in them too.

Popular Indian comics at the time (Chacha Choudhary and others) were great too but the design aesthetic were worlds apart.

I have been using healthchecks.io for over 4 years and I can vouch for it. Super reliable, I think it might do the job :)

I feel saddened to see this as a heroku side-project user since 2011.

We are a small team and were hoping to migrate all our infra to Heroku in the upcoming quarter.

I am Kaushik, Co-Founder of Spike.sh

We build Spike.sh to be a very simple incident alerting alternative to Pagerduty. I had put shown this community what we had built 2 years ago as well (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24503585)

It didn't get a lot of attention. eh!

I started Spike.sh (https://spike.sh) because I always thought the potential of incident management is a lot lot more. There are numerous things once can do but yet nothing has been done by any of the others, even OpsGenie (which is quite neat in itself)

Spike.sh is my attempt to improve the current systems of how incidents are handled.

Problems we are looking to solve

- alert noise

- a better way to classify incidents (symptom - cause - effect categorization of incidents)

- responder care (responders should be able to go into cooldown after resolving a critical incident)

- transparency for everyone and not just managers

- a more welcoming user experience

Since the last time I showed HN about Spike.sh, a lot has changed. Let the features stay aside, we actually got 100s of customers using Spike.sh. I hadn't ever imagined that could happen when I started. Super happy about it :)

Me and the team at https://spike.sh are incident management nerds. Its rare to find people interested in this practice. I usually keep my ears to the ground finding Incident management nerds, its not easy though.

Open to collaborate on content, practices, experiments, and in general of how different engineering and non-engineering teams across the world instill and follow incident management practices.

We named our product https://Spike.sh, an incident management product with alerts. Our server "spiked" is commonly used so we thought it made a lot of sense that we will alert every time it does.

It also fits into our target audience better. Allows us to foray into horizontal products too.

There are two types of commonly used names. One is a combination of two words such as Datadog and others are single worded like Spike, Stripe, Slack

Single worded domains are neat and are quite sticky in my opinion. I recommend it. We also live in a world of increasing adoption of rare tlds. Magic.link, reflect.run and plenty more. I believe people are leveraging it pretty well. We share our .sh tld with shell extensions, which is pretty cool.

For single words - stick to 6 or less characters and explore tlds other than .com

For double words - ensure at least one word is super relatable and one of the words is short. Peter Parker (pp) -> Datadog (DD) helps in remembering and using it more.

We create separate 404 and 500 error pages. Question is - should we do this for most status codes?

What is Rust's equivalent of https://node.green?

Rate of features added being high could be directly proportional to our code going obsolete sooner than later. Wouldn't it?

I also understand that Rust is quite backwards compatible which is good but a planned better version of releases would be easier for everyone to keep track, update codes, etc.

Rust is pretty stable. The point is that the work on Rust is happening so fast it's getting impossible to keep track of releases whilst making sure that your code doesn't go obsolete.

The URL to download the course is on HTTP and not HTTPS. Quick link - https://openmedia.yale.edu/cgi-bin/open_yale/media_downloade...

Perhaps to begin with just having A,B,C columns are fine and your comment justifies.

However, it still stands true in a test of time when you will end up with a lot more columns.

This is dope! I played Spot the fake game on our slack and honestly it was more fun than I expected.

We are a small team working remotely for thr past year. Most of us have never met and this game was a great ice-breaker.

I'm not sure how to start the game at a specific time. Seems like anyone can start at any time right now. Is this by design?

A carousel of screenshot is good to begin with

Hello HN,

I am Kaushik from Spike.sh. We built https://incidents.sh, a "days since last incident timer" for dev teams to keep track of when the last major incident occurred.

You just select the date of the last major incident and the timer will update everyday. Whenever there is a major incident, you can reset the timer which will take it back to 0 days. You can show the timer to others by sharing a public link.

Previously, we used a whiteboard (before going remote) for this and as you can imagine, it got quite tedious to update it everyday.

Our small remote team found this helpful and I hope you will too.

And yes, Simpsons already did it! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfzbB_B3HS0)

Most designers will end up use this

Calculating cost of downtime ==>

World economic output is - $150mn/minute

Current world population is 7.8bn.

Google has 4.8bn users. That's approx 61% of the population.

Let's assume about 50% of the users were impacted = 2.4bn (which is 30% of the population).

So, the loss could have been about $50mn/minute.

This is without taking SLA into consideration. There will be losses incurred on that too, wouldn't it?

why?

Looks great, the only concern I have is about privacy and couldn't find anything.

You are underestimating the small learning curve, even in case of grandmother. My mom's a grandmom who juts bought a Netflix, Prime and Voot subscription. I now bought her a new fire tv. More importantly, my parents now transact using Phone Pe.

Yes, there are times though when she writes her message on paper, takes it's picture and whatsapps it to me because typing so much takes a lot more time.

> I hope you can find a moment of joy in this ridiculous project

I did enjoy this, not screamed though.

Would love to give it a shot !