Hacker News: klous

New comment by klous in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

klous — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 23:28:09 +0000

Interesting, nice landing page. But I wonder if users care that it is "AI-native" As in, do users look for contract generation or eSignature that is infused with AI? Or rather are users interested in their own "job to be done" - whether that be creating a contract, agreement, or getting it signed efficiently.

New comment by klous in "Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside programming?"

klous — Sun, 21 Apr 2019 16:01:17 +0000

Can you help me understand why you need to use a bunch of python scripts to generate the PDF?

Couldn’t you just make it in Adobe InDesign? Cool item, btw. I used to play saxophone years back.

Why Those Millennials with Tons of Loans Won’t Refinance

klous — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 15:05:06 +0000

Article URL: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-12/why-those-millennials-with-tons-of-loans-won-t-refinance

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12079625

Points: 1

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New comment by klous in "Show HN: Klart – Capture Anything (Pocket for Screenshots)"

klous — Mon, 16 May 2016 10:24:27 +0000

I sometimes screenshot an entire w full page, sometimes just a portion with a manual crop with Screenshot Minus extemsion. I only want to index the part I capture and search the content within.

New comment by klous in "Show HN: Klart – Capture Anything (Pocket for Screenshots)"

klous — Mon, 16 May 2016 10:06:01 +0000

I take a lot of screenshots for work doing competitive analysis with Chrome Extension Screenshot Minus, which are saved to Dropbox.

Now, what problem do I actually have that I have sought out a solution for but couldn't find? The abilty to automatically search these screenshots' content. eg. I know I took a screen of a certain site and want to find it quickly, without estimating when it was captured and previewing images around that date and hope to find it.

Accomplish this by either OCR on the images and index the content to make is searchable or save the HTML of the page with the image and index that.

I've looked into OneNote, Evernote and although they have some OCR it's meant for taking pictures of documents and doesn't kill my pain.

Put that in a Chrome extension and service I would gladly pay for that since it solves a real pain that costs me time and had too much friction.

New comment by klous in "Detroit gentrifiers face daunting task buying $500 homes evicting poor residents"

klous — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 17:35:58 +0000

Well my friend raised over $6,000 on IndieGoGo [1] to buy homes at the foreclosure auctions to give to the families who live in them. There's a potluck tomorrow with all the families and funders to celebrate the success.

I could see many more of this type of effort in Detroit being successful.

[1] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-tricycle-collective

Zetta – An API-First Internet of Things Platform

klous — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 13:40:31 +0000

Article URL: http://www.zettajs.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8302466

Points: 1

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FTC Announces Winners of “Zapping Rachel” Robocall Contest

klous — Thu, 04 Sep 2014 17:58:49 +0000

Article URL: http://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2014/08/ftc-announces-winners-zapping-rachel-robocall-contest

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8269685

Points: 22

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Magazine Advertisers Pay to Increase Circulation Numbers

klous — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 20:06:48 +0000

Article URL: http://www.kloustin.com/magazine-advertisers-pay-to-increase-circulation-numbers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7922594

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by klous in "Ask HN: Idea Sunday"

klous — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 19:55:50 +0000

Along these lines, what if the tabs could pop back up at a certain day/time or if you could just snooze tabs? I see people use tabs as a pseudo todo list. Reminding you to do, schedule, research, or buy something. What if you could continue to use tabs that way, yet not clog up your computer, use up memory, or distract you from getting stuff done with open tabs.

New comment by klous in "Banks need to take on Amazon and Google or die"

klous — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 00:24:57 +0000

One weird thing you can't do with Simple is deposit cash directly through any ATM. They do not allow that. The only way is to get a cashier's check or similar instrument OR deposit cash in an account that does accept cash then transfer the money (and wait several days for it to clear)

Dear Detroit, Stop Watching Sunsets.

klous — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 19:12:15 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/changing-city/cc8d9e230f7d

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6684741

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by klous in ""Crowdfunding will never raise that kind of money""

klous — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 19:56:51 +0000

I just couldn't let that quote slip by without responding.

"Crowdfunding will never raise that kind of money"

klous — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 19:33:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fundington.com/shortsighted-traditional-investor-crowdfunding-will-never-raise-that-kind-of-money/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6587702

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

BoS 2012: Videos of Business of Software Talks All In One Place

klous — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 13:26:22 +0000

Article URL: http://businessofsoftware.org/2013/10/business-of-software-conference-2012-videos-of-business-of-software-talks-all-in-one-place/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6527476

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

PayPal reveals Beacon: a new way to check out and interact at stores

klous — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 14:42:34 +0000

Article URL: http://gigaom.com/2013/09/09/paypal-reveals-beacon-a-new-way-to-check-out-and-interact-at-stores/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6360270

Points: 1

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New comment by klous in "Genderize.io determines the gender of a first name"

klous — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 16:43:45 +0000

I've thought about this before, you also should be able to get a somewhat accurate estimate of the median age of a group of attendees to an event based on the first names alone. See Baby Name Wizard Voyager tool for visualizations of first name occurences since 1900s: http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager

Black Hat hacker claims he can make $15k to $20k an hour

klous — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 02:04:06 +0000

Article URL: http://gigaom.com/2013/08/07/black-hat-hacker-describes-how-he-makes-15k-to-20k-an-hour/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6176943

Points: 12

# Comments: 4

Hypothesis: The purpose of Google Chromecast is to gather data

klous — Sun, 28 Jul 2013 20:00:30 +0000

Article URL: http://www.kloustin.com/google-chromecast-is-a-mini-trojan-horse/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6117872

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

Get off Idea Island

klous — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 16:57:59 +0000

Article URL: http://www.brittanymlaughlin.com/post/56142760040/get-off-idea-island

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6097330

Points: 1

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