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Nice work!

I've been using it myself for a few weeks and it's helped me actually read newsletters instead of ignoring them in my inbox.

https://hiddensignal.app

Edit on your edit: That's a great idea! I'll look into that. But, I promise, I don't want access to your email. You just auto-forward via filter or manually forward to HiddenSignal, or use the forwarding email I give you and sign up for things that way. Easy peasy, no access to your email account.

Core features:

- Three ingestion methods: auto-forward from Gmail, manual forwarding, or sign up with your dedicated email address

- Web dashboard to browse all newsletters in one place

- Scheduled email digests (configurable times, skips if nothing new)

- Save/star functionality for read-later

I've been using it for a few weeks, and it's really helped me. I set mine to arrive at 8am and 1pm. The save feature is nice, too.

Tech: Django, OpenAI for summarization, hosted on Hetzner. Email parsing is surprisingly gnarly—lots of edge cases with different newsletter formats. Free for now, likely paid tiers eventually. Feedback welcome!

Link: https://hiddensignal.app

Screenshot of a recent digest: https://imgur.com/a/tuTBYKV

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46595859

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How is your version different than the one on LinkedIn? I played one game on yours and it seems the same but maybe I missed something.

Also, the crown is really hard to see for me with some color blindness. I ended up clicking crown squares to mark them a few times without realizing they already had a crown there.

Nice work overall!

What are some good tech or tech-adjacent books that are good on audio? Here are some I've listened to over the years already:

- Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41436213-sandworm)

- Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18465875-countdown-to-zero-day

- Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25666050-algorithms-to-live-by

- Alan Turing: The Enigma - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/150731.Alan_Turing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44270736

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Additionally, the context it gives you when you're trying to read release notes isn't great, and it tries to upgrade to the absolute latest release, even if it's only a release candidate.

Heard on the name, I'll think more on it. Thanks!

The package was written in a few languages that I have no experience with, but I figured I'd build something that worked for my use case, and maybe it can help you, too. After installing, you point it at your requirements.txt file, and it will spit out something like this:

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File caching enabled The following packages need to be updated:

requests: 2.28.0 -> 2.31.0 [minor]

- Pypi page: https://pypi.python.org/project/requests/

- Homepage: https://requests.readthedocs.io

- Changelog: https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/community/updates/...

redis: 4.5.0 -> 5.0.1 [major]

- Pypi page: https://pypi.python.org/project/redis/

- Homepage: https://github.com/redis/redis-py

- Changelog: https://github.com/redis/redis-py/blob/master/CHANGES

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Unlike some pip tools that will show you every single package that's outdated, this focuses only on the top level packages you have in your requirements file.

I'd love any feedback! Thanks for your time.

https://github.com/ontherivt/req-update-check

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43932010

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This made me realize I didn’t want to run the company I was running anymore. That my unhappiness was due to my company.

It also lead me to find 80,000 hours, explore jobs on techjobsforgood.com, and generally be more aware of myself.

I read everything on this blog. This post made me realize how absolutely miserable I was running a company I had started, and led me down a path that resulted in selling my part of my company, taking time to be a stay at home dad, and getting back into tech. It also caused me to go off the deep end into 80000hours.org and read that whole site and associated books, and only apply for jobs with social impact.

Pretty influential post in my life!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23440328

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