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needcaffeine··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
Thank you!
needcaffeine··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
Thank you!
needcaffeine··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
I'm working on https://www.OnetimeFax.com - it's a way to send and receive faxes for a flat fee without needing to subscribe to anything.

Version 1 was a script I wrote for myself to fax the courts a jury duty deferral during covid lockdown, and then during my parental leave I productized it.

needcaffeine··on Nvidia won, we all lost
What RTS games are you playing now, please?
needcaffeine··on Show HN: I built a browser-based tutorial for learning RAG for LLMs
VERY COOL! I joined the waitlist.
needcaffeine··on American founders and tech workers: Call your Congressperson ASAP
Wow, thanks for making it so easy for me to know who to call and what to say. They answered the phone in 1 second (seriously), I told them what I wanted to say, and they recorded my name and that was it.
needcaffeine··on Leaked Slack all-hands meeting reveals a ‘strong culture clash’ with Salesforce
Is the joke that every one of those is an acquisition?
needcaffeine··on Google launches Health Studies app
I look forward to seeing this on https://killedbygoogle.com in a few weeks.
needcaffeine··on Why I believe the US has herd immunity in some states
Preprints.
needcaffeine··on Ask HN: How does your company manage its encryption keys?
At a previous job they refused to give me database access and instead insisted I ask them whenever I needed any columns added/altered, however I did have access to the code to do my job and...mysql root credentials were committed to the repo.

To keep the charade up I sent one of every 20 requests to them to do for me.

needcaffeine··on Ask HN: Has anybody shipped a web app at scale with 1 DB per account?
And easier deletes if customer X wants all their data deleted!
needcaffeine··on 6 months in and $1k MRR: my biggest mistakes so far
This was an excellent exchange that I learned a lot from. Thank you both.
needcaffeine··on Ask HN: What do you use tools like IFTTT or Zapier for?
I watch some running race registration sites with Zapier and when it tells me that they are open I go register immediately so I can have a low bib number.
needcaffeine··on Security Update
Because if they didn't, they'd get criticism about not doing so right away. Also...GDPR?
needcaffeine··on Lawyer's Led Zeppelin Complaint Is a Work of Art (2014)
What is the right way to redact a pdf?
needcaffeine··on 24 Amazon workers sent to hospital after robot accidentally unleashes bear spray
“accidentally”
needcaffeine··on Stripe has democratised online payments and reshaped the digital economy
Not to take away from your point, but Braintree and Braintree-owned Venmo were acquired by PayPal in 2013.
needcaffeine··on Scaling Your Static Site to a Global Market for a Fraction of the Cost on AWS
https://www.netlify.com/
needcaffeine··on Show HN: Progress Bar OS X. How much % of a year/month/day has passed in menubar
I love this. This is what I'm using now!
needcaffeine··on Ask HN: Who do you trust most with your data?
I sync my photos, iPhone backups, and documents to iCloud Drive.

My documents folder is backed up by Google Drive.

needcaffeine··on Ask HN: Who do you trust most with your data?
What would happen to your personal data if you got burgled?
needcaffeine··on Facebook retracted Zuckerberg’s messages from recipients’ inboxes
Like...Slack.
needcaffeine··on Ask HN: What tech stack would you choose for a serious, long-term business app
Postgres, PHP w/ Slim Framework, Python w/ Django, React, Redis, AWS.

This is a combination of things I'm most familiar with and things I'd build shit in if not for the fact that other devs at my company aren't familiar with it. i.e. We use MySQL everywhere, so I can't just spin up a new project using Postgres for the sake of consistency.

needcaffeine··on Storyboarder: free, cross-platform storyboard tool
I cannot get the site to load in Chrome 65, by the way. I'm getting:

>This site can’t provide a secure connection

>wonderunit.com uses an unsupported protocol.

>ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH

needcaffeine··on FBI makes it official: Russia is attacking US energy, water, critical systems
But why? What’s the point? ELI5 please.
needcaffeine··on Show HN: Using AI to Summarize Terms and Conditions
The title used to be "Using machine learning to...".
needcaffeine··on Show HN: Using AI to Summarize Terms and Conditions
It's a cool project, I just wish its capabilities weren't being misrepresented like this. It's currently just sumy, tokenization, and summarization. Like got2surf said, you'll benefit greatly from lemmatization.
needcaffeine··on Show HN: Using AI to Summarize Terms and Conditions
When you say machine learning...do you mean NLP text summarization?
needcaffeine··on PopcornNotify – Send simple emails and text messages from one API
Great product! FYI that your terms page is broken: https://popcornnotify.com/terms
needcaffeine··on 57% of Americans Have Less Than $1,000 in Savings (2017)
Well, last time this was posted, 69% had less than $1000: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12548610

So I guess things are getting better?

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