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Show HN: Built a City Explorer Because My Wife and I Got Tired of Switching Appshttps://travo.me/Hey HN!You know that feeling when you're exploring a new city, and you stop in front of this stunning building or quirky statue, but have no clue about its significance? That was me and my wife last year, constantly switching between apps and guidebooks instead of actually enjoying our travels together.After one too many times of saying "I wish we knew the story behind that," I decided to build Travo. It's a city guide that lives in your pocket, born from real frustration and countless hours of getting lost in beautiful places (sometimes intentionally, often not).I've spent the past year working solo on this, turning those travel pain points into something I hope makes exploring cities more enjoyable and less about staring at multiple screens. The goal? Let you wander freely while still knowing the rich stories behind everything you're seeing. Travo transforms your smartphone into an interactive city guide that combines maps, audio narration, and local insights. It helps you discover hDec 4, 2024 2:36 PM
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Proba-3: Because it is hardhttps://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2024/12/Proba-3_Because_it_is_hardNot because it is easy but because it is hard: this historic space phrase is pretty much the definition of ESA’s double-satellite Proba-3 mission, which will employ precise formation flying to produce artificial total solar eclipses in orbit, casting a shadow from one spacecraft to the other. No-one has ever flown a mission like this, up until now. So how is it going to work? Find out in this second trailer video.Dec 4, 2024 9:20 AM
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Edward Gonzales Fosters a Culturally Safe Workplace for Current, Future Employeeshttps://www.nasa.gov/people-of-nasa/goddard-people/edward-gonzales-fosters-a-culturally-safe-workplace-for-current-future-employees/As the program manager for people, culture and equity, “people whisperer” Edward Victor Gonzales helps ensure people’s wellbeing, comfort, and safety. Name: Edward Victor Gonzales Title: Program Manager for People, Culture, and Equity Organization: Heliophysics Division, Science and Exploration Directorate (Code 670) What do you do and what is most interesting about your role here […]Dec 3, 2024 4:40 PM
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What I Learned Building Two SaaS Projects in 6https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42297198Hi HN, I wanted to share the journey of building *two SaaS projects* over the past six months, highlighting the mistakes I made, what I learned, and how those lessons are helping me build something better today.---### *Project 1: TailorReach (August - Mid-November)* TailorReach is an AI agent for personalized customer engagement.#### *What Happened:* - *Pivoted after 2 months of building with Flutter*, transitioning to Next.js. - Learned Next.js from scratch, using resources like YouTube. - Spent *3 weeks on Webflow* to design what I thought was the perfect launch page. - Designed detailed dashboards, workflows, but no one used them. - Struggled with Supabase’s *Row-Level Security (RLS)*. - Tried launching multiple times on Reddit and directories but gained *zero traction*.#### *What I Learned:* 1. *Product-Market Fit is Crucial*: Without it, no amount of effort will get users. 2. *Validate Your Idea Early*: Before writing code, talk to potential users to see if they want what you’re bDec 2, 2024 3:37 PM
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Why Sasha Luccioni wants to create Energy Star ratings for AIhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cbe56ccfc41148c9a6495f7228653&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fastcompany.com%2F91233692%2Fwhy-sasha-luccioni-wants-to-create-energy-star-ratings-for-ai&c=12086551056738615306&mkt=en-usSasha Luccioni was experiencing something of a quarter-life crisis. It was early 2018, and Luccioni was working as an AI researcher at Morgan Stanley, where she spent her days thinking about how to ...Dec 2, 2024 3:00 AM
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Why Sasha Luccioni wants to create Energy Star ratings for AIhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d98c242be4fa1905b2f19bb1d0162&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fastcompany.com%2F91233692%2Fwhy-sasha-luccioni-wants-to-create-energy-star-ratings-for-ai&c=12086551056738615306&mkt=en-usSasha Luccioni was experiencing something of a quarter-life crisis. It was early 2018, and Luccioni was working as an AI researcher at Morgan Stanley, where she spent her days thinking about how to ...Dec 2, 2024 3:00 AM
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Why Sasha Luccioni wants to create Energy Star ratings for AIhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cb3ea5ee7407baa85410d22a72c62&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fastcompany.com%2F91233692%2Fwhy-sasha-luccioni-wants-to-create-energy-star-ratings-for-ai&c=12086551056738615306&mkt=en-usSasha Luccioni was experiencing something of a quarter-life crisis. It was early 2018, and Luccioni was working as an AI researcher at Morgan Stanley, where she spent her days thinking about how to ...Dec 2, 2024 3:00 AM
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Be honest, have you had work? 11 people open up about what they do – or don’t do – to their face - The Guardianhttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMi0wFBVV95cUxNakcwOXBUdkZTbHd4MFBvLUdsMXVMV0NxOTc5T2lLd05vekRhdV9hSGFUX3E1QTJFZFFLT1EwUWJobm0zb09HYVZVNElfVW02anY3Z0xVQVRxQzZqM19UeEpCVURPdExrbUdGMzBwYi1USUJGYjNFLWNTcjYybV9jdFFTazQ5bFVkeHBHZ3F1dzBiOWRtT2NJVzFxQVdINXRaTWx1akU4amFiVlZBZktsY2J6MGpRbGswempJQkFjS2FrTUFGMG11SmxLN21zRE9fQVRv?oc=5Be honest, have you had work? 11 people open up about what they do – or don’t do – to their face The GuardianNov 30, 2024 8:00 AM
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Aaron Yazzie: Bridging Indigenous Heritage and Space Explorationhttps://www.nasa.gov/learning-resources/bridging-indigenous-heritage-and-space-exploration/Aaron Yazzie’s dream of being part of humanity’s exploration of space took him on a journey from his childhood home on the Navajo Nation to working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California. His journey reflects not only his personal ambition, but also a commitment to elevating Indigenous representation in science, technology, engineering, […]Nov 27, 2024 10:21 PM
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Show HN: TeaTime – distributed book library powered by SQLite, IPFS and GitHubhttps://github.com/bjesus/teatimeRecently there seem to be a surge in SQLite related projects. TeaTime is riding that wave...A couple of years ago I was intrigued by phiresky's post[0] about querying SQLite over HTTP. It made me think that if anyone can publish a database using GitHub Pages, I could probably build a frontend in which users can decide which database to query. TeaTime is like that - when you first visit it, you'll need to choose your database. Everyone can create additional databases[1]. TeaTime then queries it, and fetches files using an IPFS gateway (I'm looking into using Helia so that users are also contributing nodes in the network). Files are then rendered in the website itself. Everything is done in the browser - no users, no cookies, no tracking. LocalStorage and IndexedDB are used for saving your last readings, and your position in each file.Since TeaTime is a static site, it's super easy (and free) to deploy. GitHub repo tags are used for maintaining a list of public instances[2].Note that a GNov 27, 2024 1:56 PM
flectai.com
Show HN: Flect AI – The Podcast Search Tool I Wish Existedhttps://flectai.com/loginHey HN! Checkout Flect, a modern AI powered search engine for YouTube podcasts. Describe the content not the keywords.Flect lets you describe a moment in a podcast and it returns a list of relevant YouTube podcast clips with links to the exact timestamp in the episode. So far I have the top 40 podcasts, 16k episodes, 30k+ hours of content, all searchable by context.Lex Fridman (3+ years ago) - "one of the things that sucks with podcasts is it's hard to find stuff..." https://flectai.com/link/?id=677d98e4bb1e4ace8a95598df6cefbb...Background: I love podcasts but I can never find the clips I’m looking for. Podcasts are exploding in popularity but theres no good search tools out there to find what I'm looking for. I feel like I'm in the pre-search engine age of the internet again but for podcasts. I tried a ton of tools out there but was unable to find anything that worked well. All I could find was naive keyword title searches or AI transcript summarization apps. I want to type in the conNov 26, 2024 3:40 AM
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Show HN: A web app for hosting quiz gameshttps://quiz-buzz.com/I wrote a tiny version of this in Covid lockdowns because I felt playing trivia with friends was a bit boring, and we should all have buzzers like on game shows. I've been using it as a test project for trying out frameworks for years but I finally polished it up into a proper product. I'd love it if people try it out and give me some feedback, at the moment it sends you an emailed validation code which might put some people off trying it, if it does put you off then please let me know, I was also toying with just having free time-limited games.Nov 24, 2024 4:17 AM
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Show HN: I made an affordable SEO tool for Startup Foundershttps://ranqio.comI launched my second product last month (October).Ranqio was born to be an easy and affordable SEO tool for startup solofounders like me.Here is the background:I'm not an SEO expert, and I don't have +$100 to use a robust tool like SEMRush or Ahrefs, which, BTW, are incredible tools.Following online communities, I saw a lot of new entrepreneurs struggling to generate leads.Another point is the rising of the ads cost and the decrease in outbound conversion.That's why I chose this market—to address my own needs, and I think there is still space for a small solutions (yes, I'm seeing a lot of SEO tools).I built this entire product using ChatGPT in the last 2-3 months (working 1 hour/day after my job).Regarding the go-to-market strategy, I decided to start globally.Some people that I spoke asked me if it's not better to build an audience in Brazil (I'm Brazilian) first and expand later. It's an excellent question.My takeaways about this:As someone with a full-time job and a few free hours/Nov 21, 2024 6:33 PM
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What is a Student-Athlete?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cd2e31dd045f2aaf99fb5ebe00b12&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.snhu.edu%2Fabout-us%2Fnewsroom%2Fcommunity%2Fwhat-is-a-student-athlete&c=6679900391314868738&mkt=en-usThe life of a student-athlete blends academics and athletics into unique college experiences. As a student-athlete, you'll likely have all kinds of obligations, such as classes, workouts, practices, ...Nov 20, 2024 4:00 PM
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Show HN: FastGraphRAG – Better RAG using good old PageRankhttps://github.com/circlemind-ai/fast-graphragHey there HN! We’re Antonio, Luca, and Yuhang, and we’re excited to introduce Fast GraphRAG, an open-source RAG approach that leverages knowledge graphs and the 25 years old PageRank for better information retrieval and reasoning.Building a good RAG pipeline these days takes a lot of manual optimizations. Most engineers intuitively start from naive RAG: throw everything in a vector database and hope that semantic search is powerful enough. This can work for use cases where accuracy isn’t too important and hallucinations are tolerable, but it doesn’t work for more difficult queries that involve multi-hop reasoning or more advanced domain understanding. Also, it’s impossible to debug it.To address these limitations, many engineers find themselves adding extra layers like agent-based preprocessing, custom embeddings, reranking mechanisms, and hybrid search strategies. Much like the early days of machine learning when we manually crafted feature vectors to squeeze out marginal gains, buildNov 18, 2024 5:43 PM
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Ask HN: Code Generation – Infinite Monkey Theorem or SWE of the Future?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42174232The infinite monkey theorem suggests that a monkey typing randomly on a keyboard for an infinite amount of time will eventually type any given text, including the complete works of William Shakespeare. [1]The argument is that a monkey’s keystrokes are random and independent, so, if a keyboard has 50 keys, the probability of typing any letter is 1/50. Multiply those probabilities together and you get a 1 in 15,625,000,000 chance of typing "banana.That’s close to zero, but you’ll notice it’s not zero. So on an infinite time scale, a monkey should eventually come out the other end with any given text, including, say, Hamlet.I’m the CTO of a startup with three non-technical co-founders, and when my co-founders first started trying to contribute with AI generated code, I have to confess that I was worried. Unlike the monkeys, we don’t have an infinite amount of time to find product-market fit.But after two months of this AI-assisted approach, I've realized that there's a paradigm shift happNov 18, 2024 4:51 PM
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Ask HN: As a junior, how do I deal with a lack of guidance from my boss?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42158038Background:I started as a back-end dev apprentice a year ago. I moved up to junior six months later. My primary job is to build REST and SOAP APIs. I report directly to my boss who is the head of all three dev teams. For a while, it was just my boss and myself writing the back-end code, until a few months ago when he hired two more back-end apprentices.Issue 1: Feeling IsolatedThis is an in-office position where I spend nearly the entire work week alone. It's not unusual for two weeks to go by without me seeing my boss. Before I became a programmer, I thought I would love that. It turns out, I'm really struggling with it. I find the lack of human interaction actually leaves me feeling isolated in a negative sense. It's gotten to the point where I'm questioning if programming was the correct career transition.Issue 2: Lack of GuidanceI feel like there's a severe lack of guidance on our team. For instance, when I interviewed for the position, we discussed that code reviews were mandatoryNov 16, 2024 6:23 PM
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NASA, Peru Agree to Study Potential Sounding Rocket Campaignhttps://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-peru-agree-to-study-potential-sounding-rocket-campaign/NASA and Peru’s National Commission for Aerospace Research and Development (CONIDA) laid the groundwork for a potential multi-year scientific rocket launch campaign in the South American country. Both countries signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding Thursday that includes safety training, a joint feasibility study for the potential campaign, and technical assistance for CONIDA on sounding […]Nov 14, 2024 8:43 PM
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3 new states passed paid sick leave for workers—here's where employees get the benefithttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d92b5cc5048988c61c1d71a39a961&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2F2024%2F11%2F13%2F3-more-us-states-passed-paid-sick-leave-lawswhere-workers-are-covered.html&c=6179488447458826532&mkt=en-usThe U.S. is one of few developed nations without federal laws that provide workers paid time off, and just over a dozen states have their own laws to offer paid sick leave. But last week, Americans in ...Nov 13, 2024 9:10 AM
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3 new states passed paid sick leave for workers—here's where employees get the benefithttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d27ac0b6b4f2ba4e49a83e9ec3591&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2F2024%2F11%2F13%2F3-more-us-states-passed-paid-sick-leave-lawswhere-workers-are-covered.html&c=6179488447458826532&mkt=en-usThe U.S. is one of few developed nations without federal laws that provide workers paid time off, and just over a dozen states have their own laws to offer paid sick leave. But last week, Americans in ...Nov 13, 2024 9:10 AM
