I own one of the largest driving schools in the Bay Area (and California!), and while trying to hire offshore staff, I discovered just how hard it is.
IT'S (surprisingly) WAY TOO HARD!!
My best friend Alex and I realized that throughout our careers in F500 companies, startups of every stage, and small businesses that we ran into this problem many times over.
You pretty much have 3 choices:
1) you go to an agency and pay upwards of $3k+ a month for a resource that should cost closer to $1k/mo.\n2) you go to a legacy marketplace like Upwork/Fiverr and screen all the resumes yourself, interview each candidate, figure out payments, and then negotiate/contract with each candidate.\n3) you buy a bunch of software like LinkedIn recruiter (or AI slop recruiting tools) and Deel/Rippling for payroll, and you build the entire hiring process/infrastructure yourself
All 3 of these options straight up suck.
We realized that if we were to reimagine how a marketplace functions using AI, we could create a seamless experience that has never existed before.
Here are some features that set us apart:
1) No more reviewing resumes:\nWe parse, vectorize, and serve up whatever candidate you need.
2) No more interviews:\nWe launch AI interviews to interview candidates on your behalf. You can watch the replays.
3) No more negotiating:\nWe set market rates ourselves (think Uber, Lyft, Doordash, etc.). There's no negotiating with candidates, ever.
4) Global payments and compliance:\nWe handle all global payments and all compliance. One Stripe payment, and you're good to go.
5) Labor liquidity:\nYour hire sucks? no prob. We'll replace them in hours bc we're a marketplace and have ample supply/demand.
We believe that labor markets should function as financial markets do, and we think we're one step closer to achieving this reality.
Oh and btw, you can do all this through our API/MCP using your own agent (we're calling this "Vibe Hiring")
Alex and I hope you enjoy our product as much as our customers (and we) do. We literally use HireNewTalent.ai ourselves to staff our own companies, so we live, breathe, and eat this!
Any feedback helps. Thanks y'all!!"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["ai"],"value":"Show HN: Hirenewtalent.ai \u2013 Hire offshore in minutes via API"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["ai"],"value":"https://hirenewtalent.ai/"}},"_tags":["story","author_jaikannan1","story_49212866","show_hn"],"author":"jaikannan1","children":[49213389],"created_at":"2026-08-07T16:28:39Z","created_at_i":1786120119,"num_comments":1,"objectID":"49212866","points":2,"story_id":49212866,"story_text":"hi everyone. My name is Jai.
I own one of the largest driving schools in the Bay Area (and California!), and while trying to hire offshore staff, I discovered just how hard it is.
IT'S (surprisingly) WAY TOO HARD!!
My best friend Alex and I realized that throughout our careers in F500 companies, startups of every stage, and small businesses that we ran into this problem many times over.
You pretty much have 3 choices:
1) you go to an agency and pay upwards of $3k+ a month for a resource that should cost closer to $1k/mo.\n2) you go to a legacy marketplace like Upwork/Fiverr and screen all the resumes yourself, interview each candidate, figure out payments, and then negotiate/contract with each candidate.\n3) you buy a bunch of software like LinkedIn recruiter (or AI slop recruiting tools) and Deel/Rippling for payroll, and you build the entire hiring process/infrastructure yourself
All 3 of these options straight up suck.
We realized that if we were to reimagine how a marketplace functions using AI, we could create a seamless experience that has never existed before.
Here are some features that set us apart:
1) No more reviewing resumes:\nWe parse, vectorize, and serve up whatever candidate you need.
2) No more interviews:\nWe launch AI interviews to interview candidates on your behalf. You can watch the replays.
3) No more negotiating:\nWe set market rates ourselves (think Uber, Lyft, Doordash, etc.). There's no negotiating with candidates, ever.
4) Global payments and compliance:\nWe handle all global payments and all compliance. One Stripe payment, and you're good to go.
5) Labor liquidity:\nYour hire sucks? no prob. We'll replace them in hours bc we're a marketplace and have ample supply/demand.
We believe that labor markets should function as financial markets do, and we think we're one step closer to achieving this reality.
Oh and btw, you can do all this through our API/MCP using your own agent (we're calling this "Vibe Hiring")
Alex and I hope you enjoy our product as much as our customers (and we) do. We literally use HireNewTalent.ai ourselves to staff our own companies, so we live, breathe, and eat this!
Any feedback helps. Thanks y'all!!","title":"Show HN: Hirenewtalent.ai \u2013 Hire offshore in minutes via API","updated_at":"2026-08-07T17:15:27Z","url":"https://hirenewtalent.ai/"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"pfduke02"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["rippling","ai"],"value":"Hi HN, we're Pete and Dan, and together with our team we\u2019ve built Mozart Data (https://www.mozartdata.com/), a tool to get companies started on collecting and organizing data to help drive better decisions. Mozart is a \u201cmodern data stack\u201d -- we set up and manage a (Snowflake) data warehouse, automate ETL pipelines, provide an interface to schedule and visualize data transformations, and connect whatever data-visualization tool you want to use. For most teams, in under an hour, you can be querying data from your SaaS tools and databases.
Ten years ago, we started a hot sauce company, Bacon Hot Sauce, together. But more relevantly, we have spent the last two decades building data pipelines at startups like Clover Health, Eaze, Opendoor, Playdom, and Zenefits. For example, at Yammer, we built a tool called \u201cAvocado,\u201d which was our end to end analysis tool chain -- we loaded data from our production database and relevant SaaS tools like Salesforce, we scheduled data transformations (similar to Airflow), and we had a front-end BI tool where we wrote and shared queries and dashboards. Today Avocado is two tools, Mozart Data and Mode Analytics (a collaborative analytics tool). We basically have been building similar data tools for years (though the names and underlying technologies have changed).
Dan & I decided to build a product to bring the same tools and technology to earlier stage companies (so that you don\u2019t need to make an early hire in data engineering). We\u2019ve built a platform where business users can load data and create & schedule transformations with just SQL, wrapped in an interface anyone can use -- no Python, no Jinja, no custom language. We connect to over 150 SaaS tools and databases, most just need credentials to send data to Mozart. There is no need to define DAGs (we parse your SQL transforms to automatically infer the way data flows through the pipeline). Mozart does the rote and cumbersome data engineering that typically takes a while to set up and maintain, so that you can tackle the problems your company is uniquely suited to do.
Most data companies have focused on a single slice of the data pipeline (ETL, warehousing, BI). The maturation of data tools over the last decade has made now the time to combine them into an easy solution accessible to data scientists and business operations alike. We believe that there is immense value in centralizing and cleaning your data, as well as setting up the core tables for downstream analysis in your BI tool. Customers like Rippling, Tempo, & Zeplin use Mozart to automate key metrics dashboards, calculate CAC and LTV, or identify customers at risk of churn. We want to empower the teams -- like revenue and sales ops -- that have a lot of data, know what they want to do with it, but don\u2019t have the engineering bandwidth to execute it.
Try us out and see for yourself - you can sign up (https://app.mozartdata.com/signup) and immediately start loading, querying, cleaning, and analyzing your data in Mozart. We offer a free 14-day trial (no credit card required). After the free trial, we charge metered pricing based on compute time used and data ingested. We\u2019d love to hear about your experiences with data pipelines and any ideas/feedback/questions you might have about what we\u2019re building."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Launch HN: Mozart Data (YC S20) \u2013 One-stop shop for a modern data pipeline"}},"_tags":["story","author_pfduke02","story_27182720","launch_hn"],"author":"pfduke02","children":[27182820,27183025,27183241,27184472,27184631,27185339,27185540,27185703,27186118,27186356,27186685,27188493,27188840,27193154,27293425],"created_at":"2021-05-17T12:35:02Z","created_at_i":1621254902,"num_comments":37,"objectID":"27182720","points":106,"story_id":27182720,"story_text":"Hi HN, we're Pete and Dan, and together with our team we\u2019ve built Mozart Data (https://www.mozartdata.com/), a tool to get companies started on collecting and organizing data to help drive better decisions. Mozart is a \u201cmodern data stack\u201d -- we set up and manage a (Snowflake) data warehouse, automate ETL pipelines, provide an interface to schedule and visualize data transformations, and connect whatever data-visualization tool you want to use. For most teams, in under an hour, you can be querying data from your SaaS tools and databases.
Ten years ago, we started a hot sauce company, Bacon Hot Sauce, together. But more relevantly, we have spent the last two decades building data pipelines at startups like Clover Health, Eaze, Opendoor, Playdom, and Zenefits. For example, at Yammer, we built a tool called \u201cAvocado,\u201d which was our end to end analysis tool chain -- we loaded data from our production database and relevant SaaS tools like Salesforce, we scheduled data transformations (similar to Airflow), and we had a front-end BI tool where we wrote and shared queries and dashboards. Today Avocado is two tools, Mozart Data and Mode Analytics (a collaborative analytics tool). We basically have been building similar data tools for years (though the names and underlying technologies have changed).
Dan & I decided to build a product to bring the same tools and technology to earlier stage companies (so that you don\u2019t need to make an early hire in data engineering). We\u2019ve built a platform where business users can load data and create & schedule transformations with just SQL, wrapped in an interface anyone can use -- no Python, no Jinja, no custom language. We connect to over 150 SaaS tools and databases, most just need credentials to send data to Mozart. There is no need to define DAGs (we parse your SQL transforms to automatically infer the way data flows through the pipeline). Mozart does the rote and cumbersome data engineering that typically takes a while to set up and maintain, so that you can tackle the problems your company is uniquely suited to do.
Most data companies have focused on a single slice of the data pipeline (ETL, warehousing, BI). The maturation of data tools over the last decade has made now the time to combine them into an easy solution accessible to data scientists and business operations alike. We believe that there is immense value in centralizing and cleaning your data, as well as setting up the core tables for downstream analysis in your BI tool. Customers like Rippling, Tempo, & Zeplin use Mozart to automate key metrics dashboards, calculate CAC and LTV, or identify customers at risk of churn. We want to empower the teams -- like revenue and sales ops -- that have a lot of data, know what they want to do with it, but don\u2019t have the engineering bandwidth to execute it.
Try us out and see for yourself - you can sign up (https://app.mozartdata.com/signup) and immediately start loading, querying, cleaning, and analyzing your data in Mozart. We offer a free 14-day trial (no credit card required). After the free trial, we charge metered pricing based on compute time used and data ingested. We\u2019d love to hear about your experiences with data pipelines and any ideas/feedback/questions you might have about what we\u2019re building.","title":"Launch HN: Mozart Data (YC S20) \u2013 One-stop shop for a modern data pipeline","updated_at":"2024-09-20T08:37:13Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"pancomplex"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["rippling","ai"],"value":"Hey HN! I've built a way to launch simple, stateful React components like promotions, banners, and announcements in your web app through reusable in-app UI channels. Here's a demo of how it works: https://youtu.be/qrPip41Ecyg. The docs are here: https://docs.frigade.com/v2/platform/collections.
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Air traffic control is decided server side, and we knew we didn\u2019t want to keep a web socket open indefinitely to render a simple component. So, we had to come up with a performant scheme that allowed the ATC logic tree to be transferred on initial render so the client-side can determine when each component should get rendered.\nFor the first release, we offer a library of pre-built React components that can be easily launched in your web application. We\u2019ll soon be adding the ability to launch any custom React components as well.
We built this server-driven UI approach because we believe it provides teams an option that balances quality and speed. It\u2019s also how companies like Uber, Pinterest and Rippling build and launch these in-app experiences internally, as well.
Compared to some of the existing no-code tools in the space, we believe this approach offers more control and flexibility. We like the idea that product and engineering can define the boundaries and designs of what non-technical teammates can launch in production. Especially when compared to similar tools where content can be injected any which way with WYSIWYG editors on top of an otherwise carefully crafted web application.
What do you think about this approach? Have you built these kinds of flows in-house before or used one of the injection-based no-code tools? I\u2019d love to hear any feedback or ideas on the launch. And feel free to play around with Collections yourself for free at frigade.com!"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Show HN: Launch React components in your app with no-code"}},"_tags":["story","author_pancomplex","story_41171144","show_hn"],"author":"pancomplex","children":[41194372,41194452,41194566,41194874,41199317],"created_at":"2024-08-06T14:25:45Z","created_at_i":1722954345,"num_comments":17,"objectID":"41171144","points":33,"story_id":41171144,"story_text":"Hey HN! I've built a way to launch simple, stateful React components like promotions, banners, and announcements in your web app through reusable in-app UI channels. Here's a demo of how it works: https://youtu.be/qrPip41Ecyg. The docs are here: https://docs.frigade.com/v2/platform/collections.
This enables non-technical teammates to launch native, prebuilt components directly in the product UI without involving engineering. We also provide the ability to update content (i.e. CMS), track user progress/state and target components to specific users from our admin panel.
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We were surprised by how hard it was to build this. The main challenges were:\nIn order for the engine to respect the cool-offs and limits, we had to dig deep into the React rendering lifecycle to prevent the same component from rendering twice. This can happen when the same component is used in multiple Collections across the DOM tree. This is tough because a component can adhoc show up at any given time without notice due to the nature of dynamic web applications. We solved this by building a centralized client-side registry that keeps track of the DOM tree.
Air traffic control is decided server side, and we knew we didn\u2019t want to keep a web socket open indefinitely to render a simple component. So, we had to come up with a performant scheme that allowed the ATC logic tree to be transferred on initial render so the client-side can determine when each component should get rendered.\nFor the first release, we offer a library of pre-built React components that can be easily launched in your web application. We\u2019ll soon be adding the ability to launch any custom React components as well.
We built this server-driven UI approach because we believe it provides teams an option that balances quality and speed. It\u2019s also how companies like Uber, Pinterest and Rippling build and launch these in-app experiences internally, as well.
Compared to some of the existing no-code tools in the space, we believe this approach offers more control and flexibility. We like the idea that product and engineering can define the boundaries and designs of what non-technical teammates can launch in production. Especially when compared to similar tools where content can be injected any which way with WYSIWYG editors on top of an otherwise carefully crafted web application.
What do you think about this approach? Have you built these kinds of flows in-house before or used one of the injection-based no-code tools? I\u2019d love to hear any feedback or ideas on the launch. 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Off Content from News Outlets","updated_at":"2025-08-14T22:38:05Z","url":"https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahemerson/2024/06/07/buzzy-ai-search-engine-perplexity-is-directly-ripping-off-content-from-news-outlets/"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"hkjarral"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["rippling","ai"],"value":"Hi HN, I'm the creator of AVA - AI Voice Agent for Asterisk
My repo was shared here once before by someone else so I wanted to follow up with the progress since then.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46380399
I've been working with Asterisk/FreePBX systems for years. I wanted to add AI voice capabilities to legacy phone systems without paying per-minute SaaS fees or ripping out the entire telephony stack.
So I built AVA, a self-hosted AI voice agent that can integrate into any traditional phone system. While most solutions demand expensive migrations to cloud-only providers, AVA provides a self-hosted path to connect AI agents to existing phone systems while ensuring data privacy and lowering operational costs
AVA is a Dockerized Python app that sits alongside your Asterisk server. It connects via ARI (Asterisk REST Interface) and routes call audio to AI providers \u2014 OpenAI Realtime, Deepgram, Google Live API, ElevenLabs, Telnyx, or fully local models (Vosk + llama.cpp + Piper). You can mix and match STT/LLM/TTS in a modular pipeline, or use a single provider end-to-end.
Two audio transport paths: We support both AudioSocket (low-latency TCP with TLV framing) and ExternalMedia RTP (UDP, better for NAT). A transport orchestrator auto-negotiates sample rates and codecs between what Asterisk sends on the wire and what each AI provider expects \u2014 so you can run 8kHz ulaw from Asterisk into a provider that wants 24kHz linear16 without manual config.
Session lifecycle: A typed session store tracks every call from StasisStart through hangup \u2014 audio diagnostics, barge-in counts, provider state, conversation turns. Every call is fully observable and debuggable after the fact.
Barge-in and VAD were the hardest problems. We use a dual-mode VAD \u2014 WebRTC VAD combined with energy-based RMS detection, scored into a single confidence value (40% WebRTC weight, 40% energy ratio, 20% agreement bonus). Frame smoothing prevents single-frame glitches from triggering false interrupts. When barge-in fires, we kill active playback (both streaming and file-based) via ARI, flush provider audio buffers, release conversation gating tokens, and optionally suppress provider output for a configurable window to prevent pre-barge audio from re-queuing. The system supports three interrupt sources: local VAD, Asterisk's native talk detection events, and provider-side interruption signals.
The hardest latency challenge was bridging legacy SIP/RTP with modern WebSocket streams. We use a two-container architecture: a lightweight orchestrator for ARI state management and an optional heavier container for local model inference. There are 6 pre-validated golden baseline configs if you just want something working out of the box, plus an Admin UI for visual setup.
Try the live demo: (925)-736-6718 Option 5 for Google, 6 for Deepgram, 7 for Openai realtime, 8 for Local hybrid and 9 for Elevenlabs
Code is MIT. I'd love feedback on the transport layer (src/core/transport_orchestrator.py) and the VAD tuning (src/core/vad_manager.py)."},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["ai"],"value":"Show HN: Ava \u2013 AI Voice Agent for Traditional Phone Systems(Python+Asterisk/ARI)"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["ai"],"value":"https://github.com/hkjarral/AVA-AI-Voice-Agent-for-Asterisk"}},"_tags":["story","author_hkjarral","story_47354996","show_hn"],"author":"hkjarral","children":[47360696,47472391],"created_at":"2026-03-12T18:16:24Z","created_at_i":1773339384,"num_comments":1,"objectID":"47354996","points":7,"story_id":47354996,"story_text":"Hi HN, I'm the creator of AVA - AI Voice Agent for Asterisk
My repo was shared here once before by someone else so I wanted to follow up with the progress since then.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46380399
I've been working with Asterisk/FreePBX systems for years. I wanted to add AI voice capabilities to legacy phone systems without paying per-minute SaaS fees or ripping out the entire telephony stack.
So I built AVA, a self-hosted AI voice agent that can integrate into any traditional phone system. While most solutions demand expensive migrations to cloud-only providers, AVA provides a self-hosted path to connect AI agents to existing phone systems while ensuring data privacy and lowering operational costs
AVA is a Dockerized Python app that sits alongside your Asterisk server. It connects via ARI (Asterisk REST Interface) and routes call audio to AI providers \u2014 OpenAI Realtime, Deepgram, Google Live API, ElevenLabs, Telnyx, or fully local models (Vosk + llama.cpp + Piper). You can mix and match STT/LLM/TTS in a modular pipeline, or use a single provider end-to-end.
Two audio transport paths: We support both AudioSocket (low-latency TCP with TLV framing) and ExternalMedia RTP (UDP, better for NAT). A transport orchestrator auto-negotiates sample rates and codecs between what Asterisk sends on the wire and what each AI provider expects \u2014 so you can run 8kHz ulaw from Asterisk into a provider that wants 24kHz linear16 without manual config.
Session lifecycle: A typed session store tracks every call from StasisStart through hangup \u2014 audio diagnostics, barge-in counts, provider state, conversation turns. Every call is fully observable and debuggable after the fact.
Barge-in and VAD were the hardest problems. We use a dual-mode VAD \u2014 WebRTC VAD combined with energy-based RMS detection, scored into a single confidence value (40% WebRTC weight, 40% energy ratio, 20% agreement bonus). Frame smoothing prevents single-frame glitches from triggering false interrupts. When barge-in fires, we kill active playback (both streaming and file-based) via ARI, flush provider audio buffers, release conversation gating tokens, and optionally suppress provider output for a configurable window to prevent pre-barge audio from re-queuing. The system supports three interrupt sources: local VAD, Asterisk's native talk detection events, and provider-side interruption signals.
The hardest latency challenge was bridging legacy SIP/RTP with modern WebSocket streams. We use a two-container architecture: a lightweight orchestrator for ARI state management and an optional heavier container for local model inference. There are 6 pre-validated golden baseline configs if you just want something working out of the box, plus an Admin UI for visual setup.
Try the live demo: (925)-736-6718 Option 5 for Google, 6 for Deepgram, 7 for Openai realtime, 8 for Local hybrid and 9 for Elevenlabs
Code is MIT. I'd love feedback on the transport layer (src/core/transport_orchestrator.py) and the VAD tuning (src/core/vad_manager.py).","title":"Show HN: Ava \u2013 AI Voice Agent for Traditional Phone Systems(Python+Asterisk/ARI)","updated_at":"2026-03-23T04:30:19Z","url":"https://github.com/hkjarral/AVA-AI-Voice-Agent-for-Asterisk"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"dnoberon"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["rippling","ai"],"value":"Disclaimer that this post is about AI and its use in engineering.
I\u2019m a senior engineer and have been in the professional business for 12 years and I have no idea how much, or if I should even use AI for anything. I feel much like I did when I left my former religion: in a new world where I\u2019m struggling to find identity and what my values actually are.
I value craftsmanship - but I also value getting things done. I\u2019ve always advocated for using the strongest tools, pushing for debuggers over print debugging, using modern editor features like LSPs etc. I value uniqueness over uniformity and creativity over rote recital. Some of these values support AI use and some of them seem to strongly suggest avoiding it. Like some of the inventions during and after WWII which were discovered through terrible means; I feel like AI has incredible potential while at the same time ripping away copyright and poisoning the ecosystem and communities.
I have to keep my job so I can provide for my family, but I don\u2019t want to keep any job that requires that I give up any of my values. Yet at work I see the output of engineers relying heavily on AI and it trends very heavily towards garbage - but of course not all the time. I read the \u201cAI use is like a slot machine\u201d post and can feel part of that, but isn\u2019t still a powerful tool to save us time?
Am I falling behind and will be unable to work in the field which I\u2019ve loved for my whole life if I don\u2019t use AI enough?
I know this is like screaming into the void; but some of you have to be listening though, right?"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["ai"],"value":"Screaming into the AI Void"}},"_tags":["story","author_dnoberon","story_47459048","ask_hn"],"author":"dnoberon","children":[47459994,47479504],"created_at":"2026-03-20T18:58:52Z","created_at_i":1774033132,"num_comments":2,"objectID":"47459048","points":5,"story_id":47459048,"story_text":"Disclaimer that this post is about AI and its use in engineering.
I\u2019m a senior engineer and have been in the professional business for 12 years and I have no idea how much, or if I should even use AI for anything. I feel much like I did when I left my former religion: in a new world where I\u2019m struggling to find identity and what my values actually are.
I value craftsmanship - but I also value getting things done. I\u2019ve always advocated for using the strongest tools, pushing for debuggers over print debugging, using modern editor features like LSPs etc. I value uniqueness over uniformity and creativity over rote recital. Some of these values support AI use and some of them seem to strongly suggest avoiding it. Like some of the inventions during and after WWII which were discovered through terrible means; I feel like AI has incredible potential while at the same time ripping away copyright and poisoning the ecosystem and communities.
I have to keep my job so I can provide for my family, but I don\u2019t want to keep any job that requires that I give up any of my values. Yet at work I see the output of engineers relying heavily on AI and it trends very heavily towards garbage - but of course not all the time. I read the \u201cAI use is like a slot machine\u201d post and can feel part of that, but isn\u2019t still a powerful tool to save us time?
Am I falling behind and will be unable to work in the field which I\u2019ve loved for my whole life if I don\u2019t use AI enough?
I know this is like screaming into the void; but some of you have to be listening though, right?","title":"Screaming into the AI Void","updated_at":"2026-03-28T05:12:55Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"benfosterdev"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["rippling","ai"],"value":"Hey HN! I'm the founder of Credyt (https://credyt.ai).
If you're running an AI product that burns $0.50+ per interaction, you need to bill customers as usage happens, not at the end of the month. Otherwise you're a bank for your customers, and you'll run out of money before they do.
Why invoice-based billing doesn't work for AI:
Most usage-based billing tools (Stripe Billing, Orb, etc.) were built for SaaS. They meter usage all month, then send an invoice. That works fine when your COGS is 5%. It's a disaster when you're paying your AI vendor upfront for every request and your margins are 15-30%.
If a power user runs up $10K in costs and churns or their card declines at month-end, you've just eaten $10K. We've seen multiple startups nearly run out of runway because of this.
"Just build a wallet in Postgres" \u2013 harder than it sounds:
Everyone starts there. Track a balance, decrement on usage, done. Then you hit race conditions when usage spikes, auto-top-up logic that needs to be bulletproof, credit grants with expiry dates and priority rules, pricing versioning (customer X is on v1 rates, customer Y on v2, customer Z has a custom deal), profitability analysis (what did this customer cost us vs. what we charged them?), refunds, disputes, partial credits, reserves...
Three months later you've hacked together a billing system instead of building your product.
What Credyt does:
It's a wallet-native billing engine. Your customers get a balance (in USD, credits, tokens, minutes, whatever you want), you send usage events as they happen, and Credyt handles the debiting, auto-top-ups via Stripe, and gives you an embeddable billing portal.
We match against your pricing rules (which you can version and test before publishing), debit the wallet atomically, trigger top-ups via Stripe when they hit their threshold, and give you a hosted billing portal so you're not building balance UIs.
Unlike tools that only track revenue, Credyt lets you log both what you charged and what it cost you. So you can see margins per customer, per product, per pricing tier\u2014in real-time. Most founders are shocked when they realize their most active users are unprofitable.
Docs: https://docs.credyt.ai
Quickstart video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48XJlId7098
Pricing: Free to start, then $1/month per active wallet. No processing markup\u2014Stripe fees pass through directly.
We're still early stage and genuinely want feedback from people in the trenches:
What would stop you from ripping out your current system for this?
What's missing that would make this production-ready for you?
If you tried to build wallets yourself, where did it break?"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["ai"],"value":"Show HN: Credyt \u2013 Real-time billing, built for AI"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["ai"],"value":"https://credyt.ai"}},"_tags":["story","author_benfosterdev","story_46808714","show_hn"],"author":"benfosterdev","created_at":"2026-01-29T11:24:51Z","created_at_i":1769685891,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"46808714","points":5,"story_id":46808714,"story_text":"Hey HN! I'm the founder of Credyt (https://credyt.ai).
If you're running an AI product that burns $0.50+ per interaction, you need to bill customers as usage happens, not at the end of the month. Otherwise you're a bank for your customers, and you'll run out of money before they do.
Why invoice-based billing doesn't work for AI:
Most usage-based billing tools (Stripe Billing, Orb, etc.) were built for SaaS. They meter usage all month, then send an invoice. That works fine when your COGS is 5%. It's a disaster when you're paying your AI vendor upfront for every request and your margins are 15-30%.
If a power user runs up $10K in costs and churns or their card declines at month-end, you've just eaten $10K. We've seen multiple startups nearly run out of runway because of this.
"Just build a wallet in Postgres" \u2013 harder than it sounds:
Everyone starts there. Track a balance, decrement on usage, done. Then you hit race conditions when usage spikes, auto-top-up logic that needs to be bulletproof, credit grants with expiry dates and priority rules, pricing versioning (customer X is on v1 rates, customer Y on v2, customer Z has a custom deal), profitability analysis (what did this customer cost us vs. what we charged them?), refunds, disputes, partial credits, reserves...
Three months later you've hacked together a billing system instead of building your product.
What Credyt does:
It's a wallet-native billing engine. Your customers get a balance (in USD, credits, tokens, minutes, whatever you want), you send usage events as they happen, and Credyt handles the debiting, auto-top-ups via Stripe, and gives you an embeddable billing portal.
We match against your pricing rules (which you can version and test before publishing), debit the wallet atomically, trigger top-ups via Stripe when they hit their threshold, and give you a hosted billing portal so you're not building balance UIs.
Unlike tools that only track revenue, Credyt lets you log both what you charged and what it cost you. So you can see margins per customer, per product, per pricing tier\u2014in real-time. Most founders are shocked when they realize their most active users are unprofitable.
Docs: https://docs.credyt.ai
Quickstart video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48XJlId7098
Pricing: Free to start, then $1/month per active wallet. No processing markup\u2014Stripe fees pass through directly.
We're still early stage and genuinely want feedback from people in the trenches:
What would stop you from ripping out your current system for this?
What's missing that would make this production-ready for you?
If you tried to build wallets yourself, where did it break?","title":"Show HN: Credyt \u2013 Real-time billing, built for AI","updated_at":"2026-03-05T23:25:54Z","url":"https://credyt.ai"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"isnotchicago"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["ai"],"value":"Figma disables its AI design feature"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["rippling","ai"],"value":"https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/02/figma-disables-its-ai-design-feature-that-appeared-to-be-ripping-off-apples-weather-app/"}},"_tags":["story","author_isnotchicago","story_40866495"],"author":"isnotchicago","created_at":"2024-07-03T14:51:37Z","created_at_i":1720018297,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"40866495","points":3,"story_id":40866495,"title":"Figma disables its AI design feature","updated_at":"2024-09-20T17:24:59Z","url":"https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/02/figma-disables-its-ai-design-feature-that-appeared-to-be-ripping-off-apples-weather-app/"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"speckx"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["ai"],"value":"Daily News Now tops search results for local news podcasts with AI content"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["rippling","ai"],"value":"https://indicator.media/p/this-ai-generated-podcast-network-publishes-11-000-episodes-a-day-it-s-also-ripping-off-media-outlet"}},"_tags":["story","author_speckx","story_47209868"],"author":"speckx","created_at":"2026-03-01T19:34:03Z","created_at_i":1772393643,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"47209868","points":1,"story_id":47209868,"title":"Daily News Now tops search results for local news podcasts with AI content","updated_at":"2026-03-05T23:39:10Z","url":"https://indicator.media/p/this-ai-generated-podcast-network-publishes-11-000-episodes-a-day-it-s-also-ripping-off-media-outlet"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"jaredwiener"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["ai"],"value":"AI podcast network publishes 11,000 episodes a day. It rips off media outlets"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["rippling","ai"],"value":"https://indicator.media/p/this-ai-generated-podcast-network-publishes-11-000-episodes-a-day-it-s-also-ripping-off-media-outlet"}},"_tags":["story","author_jaredwiener","story_47157630"],"author":"jaredwiener","created_at":"2026-02-25T20:48:02Z","created_at_i":1772052482,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"47157630","points":1,"story_id":47157630,"title":"AI podcast network publishes 11,000 episodes a day. It rips off media outlets","updated_at":"2026-03-05T23:37:22Z","url":"https://indicator.media/p/this-ai-generated-podcast-network-publishes-11-000-episodes-a-day-it-s-also-ripping-off-media-outlet"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"maerF0x0"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["rippling","ai"],"value":"Is anyone else noticing that for several 5 year blocks (pentad) the world just seems to get markedly worse? It's like no body seems to give a shit about anyone except themselves anymore. Whats the cause of this? What's the solution?
A bunch of things I've noticed:
* Landlords seem extremely greedy and do terrible rent seeking tactics like fees upon fees (250 admin fee to rent here, $75 to apply, $300 non refundable pet deposit, $25 a month pet rent, $12.50 community fee, $15 trash valet, $5 online payment fee, $100 a month community internet (for the $50 a month package), going Month to month after a lease ends is 2x the annual price. And then they use RealPage to collude to make prices higher[1]
* People are noisy as fuck and dont seem to give a shit. Seems like every night there's someone with loud as exhaust on "sportish" car ripping around the neihborhood. For months this guy would start up his loud car at 7am and no one care when I complained.
* General worker apathy is endemic everywhere I go people seem aggravated I would dare to check my order and point out they didn't put in the ketchup i asked for, or the napkins, or whatever. Or when I dine in the tables are dirty. Or the gym is filthy, the cleaner just drags the mop around looking busy but accomplishing nothing. But in many instances they keep asking for more tips.
* Software seems to be overrun by a mentality that any future cost is worth it to save even 1 minute of development time today. And this one I think I've observed the root, it seems that people get promoted away from their problems so they're not the ones to solve them. And those who do write good software (albeit slightly slower) are not promotable beacuse they're "under performing" their peers. Why does it seem management (and many thusly incentivized engineers) have abandoned decades of experience showing how to create reliable, robust, reusable code that is both great the customer, fast to iterate on, and only a tiny tiny bit slower to write.
* Seems like everything is subscription model and you have to pay N times to access something thats only worth 1-3x . Eg: I Netflix for a couple hours a month. At the price for 4k access I can almost go out to a theatre. Video games are all trending to subscription models. I just learned the other day that the PS4 games I got with my subcription to PSN all are locked because I stopped subscribing (nearly 50 games) . So I paid them like $125 for access to these games for 24 months, and now I cannot play any of them? At least I still own NES/SNES/N64 Game cartridges that will never lock me out.
* Police seem to not give a shit anymore. I've noticed what seems to be total lawlessness going on in my world. Folks stealing shit. People driving absurdly dangerously in cars that are not designed to travel like that. (tailgating, lane switch, accelerating at the fastest I've ever seen a beat up Sentra do...) . I never see cops hit lights and sirens at them. And every year our taxes (their paycheck) and our insurance goes up (a consequence of poor driving habits). And at the same time, we get these cases where a dude like Tyre, at least as I see the body cam, seems to be basically complying and the police freak out on him, he basically complies, and they taze and pepper spay him, no wonder he ran away -- what is someone supposed to think when they say "on the ground" and you get on the ground and then just keep getting more and more aggressive. Like are you gonna just lay on your face while they potentially pull their gun and just shoot you in the back of the head? How do you know what's going on unless you can face and see them? How can you trust they wont, cause even if it's 99.999999% they wont, you only get 1 one chance and if you get it wrong you're dead without any coming back.
* Over and over again we keep hearing stories of fake people becoming the top paid, respected, or otherwise status people in society. Elizabeth Holmes, Frank/JP Morgan scam for $175M[2], fraudulent crypto schemes
* And there's a ton of little things too like the water is poison, the air is poison, the food system is poison or crashing etc.
I'm aware of pinker's general argument that many numbers are getting better. But it seems like people just treat eachother like shit these days.
Anyone else have other examples? I am I way off base here?
[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/26/23479034/doj-investigating-rent-setting-software-company-realpage
[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/21/business/jpmorgan-chase-charlie-javice-fraud.html"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Why Is Everything Declining?"}},"_tags":["story","author_maerF0x0","story_34560255","ask_hn"],"author":"maerF0x0","children":[34560574,34560588,34560613,34560617,34560625,34560660,34560680,34560681,34560688,34560695,34560702,34560706,34560712,34560723,34560739,34560745,34560762,34560765,34560773,34560777,34560779,34560781,34560786,34560787,34560788,34560790,34560798,34560806,34560821,34560834,34560876,34560881,34560886,34560887,34560891,34560899,34560913,34560918,34560936,34560940,34560948,34560953,34560957,34560968,34560975,34560999,34561008,34561013,34561030,34561032,34561057,34561084,34561094,34561103,34561112,34561125,34561132,34561137,34561141,34561142,34561163,34561169,34561177,34561179,34561183,34561185,34561219,34561224,34561226,34561240,34561241,34561267,34561275,34561277,34561279,34561295,34561333,34561343,34561362,34561372,34561391,34561397,34561399,34561412,34561413,34561416,34561426,34561432,34561444,34561453,34561457,34561468,34561473,34561494,34561516,34561524,34561528,34561540,34561557,34561574,34561576,34561579,34561580,34561581,34561599,34561601,34561611,34561613,34561615,34561636,34561720,34561774,34561777,34561780,34561784,34561788,34561795,34561815,34561821,34561839,34561843,34561844,34561851,34561869,34561870,34561874,34561879,34561892,34561895,34561911,34561933,34561940,34561945,34561953,34561964,34561982,34562004,34562007,34562034,34562036,34562058,34562068,34562075,34562088,34562093,34562098,34562112,34562119,34562133,34562140,34562156,34562157,34562168,34562189,34562196,34562208,34562218,34562222,34562233,34562234,34562235,34562240,34562241,34562247,34562270,34562274,34562304,34562311,34562323,34562332,34562339,34562349,34562351,34562352,34562357,34562368,34562390,34562395,34562396,34562399,34562400,34562441,34562477,34562478,34562499,34562525,34562526,34562531,34562532,34562537,34562540,34562562,34562574,34562585,34562635,34562645,34562681,34562719,34562725,34562736,34562748,34562837,34562954,34562956,34563184,34563219,34563467,34563541,34563683,34563749,34563798,34563856,34563880,34564127,34564177,34564246,34564471,34564544,34564671,34565415,34566535,34567128,34568125,34568234,34568860,34568949,34569442,34570659,34571559,34571615,34575274,34576303,34578566,34596030,34598342,34660559,34694158],"created_at":"2023-01-28T18:44:24Z","created_at_i":1674931464,"num_comments":791,"objectID":"34560255","points":483,"story_id":34560255,"story_text":"Is anyone else noticing that for several 5 year blocks (pentad) the world just seems to get markedly worse? It's like no body seems to give a shit about anyone except themselves anymore. Whats the cause of this? What's the solution?
A bunch of things I've noticed:
* Landlords seem extremely greedy and do terrible rent seeking tactics like fees upon fees (250 admin fee to rent here, $75 to apply, $300 non refundable pet deposit, $25 a month pet rent, $12.50 community fee, $15 trash valet, $5 online payment fee, $100 a month community internet (for the $50 a month package), going Month to month after a lease ends is 2x the annual price. And then they use RealPage to collude to make prices higher[1]
* People are noisy as fuck and dont seem to give a shit. Seems like every night there's someone with loud as exhaust on "sportish" car ripping around the neihborhood. For months this guy would start up his loud car at 7am and no one care when I complained.
* General worker apathy is endemic everywhere I go people seem aggravated I would dare to check my order and point out they didn't put in the ketchup i asked for, or the napkins, or whatever. Or when I dine in the tables are dirty. Or the gym is filthy, the cleaner just drags the mop around looking busy but accomplishing nothing. But in many instances they keep asking for more tips.
* Software seems to be overrun by a mentality that any future cost is worth it to save even 1 minute of development time today. And this one I think I've observed the root, it seems that people get promoted away from their problems so they're not the ones to solve them. And those who do write good software (albeit slightly slower) are not promotable beacuse they're "under performing" their peers. Why does it seem management (and many thusly incentivized engineers) have abandoned decades of experience showing how to create reliable, robust, reusable code that is both great the customer, fast to iterate on, and only a tiny tiny bit slower to write.
* Seems like everything is subscription model and you have to pay N times to access something thats only worth 1-3x . Eg: I Netflix for a couple hours a month. At the price for 4k access I can almost go out to a theatre. Video games are all trending to subscription models. I just learned the other day that the PS4 games I got with my subcription to PSN all are locked because I stopped subscribing (nearly 50 games) . So I paid them like $125 for access to these games for 24 months, and now I cannot play any of them? At least I still own NES/SNES/N64 Game cartridges that will never lock me out.
* Police seem to not give a shit anymore. I've noticed what seems to be total lawlessness going on in my world. Folks stealing shit. People driving absurdly dangerously in cars that are not designed to travel like that. (tailgating, lane switch, accelerating at the fastest I've ever seen a beat up Sentra do...) . I never see cops hit lights and sirens at them. And every year our taxes (their paycheck) and our insurance goes up (a consequence of poor driving habits). And at the same time, we get these cases where a dude like Tyre, at least as I see the body cam, seems to be basically complying and the police freak out on him, he basically complies, and they taze and pepper spay him, no wonder he ran away -- what is someone supposed to think when they say "on the ground" and you get on the ground and then just keep getting more and more aggressive. Like are you gonna just lay on your face while they potentially pull their gun and just shoot you in the back of the head? How do you know what's going on unless you can face and see them? How can you trust they wont, cause even if it's 99.999999% they wont, you only get 1 one chance and if you get it wrong you're dead without any coming back.
* Over and over again we keep hearing stories of fake people becoming the top paid, respected, or otherwise status people in society. Elizabeth Holmes, Frank/JP Morgan scam for $175M[2], fraudulent crypto schemes
* And there's a ton of little things too like the water is poison, the air is poison, the food system is poison or crashing etc.
I'm aware of pinker's general argument that many numbers are getting better. But it seems like people just treat eachother like shit these days.
Anyone else have other examples? I am I way off base here?
[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/26/23479034/doj-investigating-rent-setting-software-company-realpage
[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/21/business/jpmorgan-chase-charlie-javice-fraud.html","title":"Ask HN: Why Is Everything Declining?","updated_at":"2025-11-11T17:52:39Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"ayushrodrigues"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["rippling","ai"],"value":"Hey HN, I\u2019m Ayush from Autumn (https://useautumn.com/). Autumn is an open source layer over Stripe that decouples pricing and billing logic from your application. We let you efficiently manage pricing plans, feature permissions, and payments, regardless of the pricing model being used. It\u2019s a bit like if Supabase and Stripe had a baby.
Typically, you have to write code to handle checkouts, upgrades/downgrades, failed payments, then receive webhooks to provision features, reset usage limits etc. We abstract this into one function call for all payments flows (checkouts, upgrades, downgrades etc), one function to record usage (so we can track usage limits), and a customer state React hook you can access from your frontend (to handle paywalls, display usage data etc).
Here\u2019s a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFARthC7JXc
Stripe\u2019s great! But there are 2 main reasons people use Autumn over a direct Stripe setup:
(1) Billing infra can get complex. After payments, there\u2019s still handling webhooks, permission management, metering, usage resets, and connecting them all to upgrade, downgrade, cancellation and failed payments states.
(2) Growing companies iterate on pricing often: raising prices, experimenting with credits or charging for new features, etc. We save you from having to handle usage-based limits (super common in pricing today), rebuilding in-app flows, DB migrations, internal dashboards for custom pricing, and grandfathering users on different pricing.
Ripping out billing flows etc, really sucks. With Autumn, you just make pricing changes in our UI and it all auto-updates. We have a shadcn/ui component library that helps with this.
Because we support a lot of different pricing models (subscriptions, usage, credits, seat based etc), we have to handle a lot of different scenarios and cases under the hood. We try to keep setup simple while maintaining flexibility of a native integration. Here\u2019s a little snippet of the architecture of our main endpoint: https://useautumn.com/blog/attach
Currently, the users who get the most value out of us are founders that need to move fast and keep things flexible, but also new/non-technical devs that are more AI native.
You can clone the project and explore the repo, or try it out at https://useautumn.com/, where it\u2019s free for builders. Our repo is https://github.com/useautumn/autumn, docs are at https://docs.useautumn.com/ and demo at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFARthC7JXc
We\u2019d love to hear your feedback and how we could make it better!"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Show HN: Autumn \u2013 Open-source infra over Stripe"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://github.com/useautumn/autumn"}},"_tags":["story","author_ayushrodrigues","story_44365620","show_hn"],"author":"ayushrodrigues","children":[44365676,44365684,44365697,44366066,44367511,44367646,44367689,44368354,44368428,44368595,44368930,44368965,44369582,44371541,44372161,44373876,44374093,44374122,44374308,44374349,44374807,44420804],"created_at":"2025-06-24T12:48:48Z","created_at_i":1750769328,"num_comments":47,"objectID":"44365620","points":141,"story_id":44365620,"story_text":"Hey HN, I\u2019m Ayush from Autumn (https://useautumn.com/). Autumn is an open source layer over Stripe that decouples pricing and billing logic from your application. We let you efficiently manage pricing plans, feature permissions, and payments, regardless of the pricing model being used. It\u2019s a bit like if Supabase and Stripe had a baby.
Typically, you have to write code to handle checkouts, upgrades/downgrades, failed payments, then receive webhooks to provision features, reset usage limits etc. We abstract this into one function call for all payments flows (checkouts, upgrades, downgrades etc), one function to record usage (so we can track usage limits), and a customer state React hook you can access from your frontend (to handle paywalls, display usage data etc).
Here\u2019s a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFARthC7JXc
Stripe\u2019s great! But there are 2 main reasons people use Autumn over a direct Stripe setup:
(1) Billing infra can get complex. After payments, there\u2019s still handling webhooks, permission management, metering, usage resets, and connecting them all to upgrade, downgrade, cancellation and failed payments states.
(2) Growing companies iterate on pricing often: raising prices, experimenting with credits or charging for new features, etc. We save you from having to handle usage-based limits (super common in pricing today), rebuilding in-app flows, DB migrations, internal dashboards for custom pricing, and grandfathering users on different pricing.
Ripping out billing flows etc, really sucks. With Autumn, you just make pricing changes in our UI and it all auto-updates. We have a shadcn/ui component library that helps with this.
Because we support a lot of different pricing models (subscriptions, usage, credits, seat based etc), we have to handle a lot of different scenarios and cases under the hood. We try to keep setup simple while maintaining flexibility of a native integration. Here\u2019s a little snippet of the architecture of our main endpoint: https://useautumn.com/blog/attach
Currently, the users who get the most value out of us are founders that need to move fast and keep things flexible, but also new/non-technical devs that are more AI native.
You can clone the project and explore the repo, or try it out at https://useautumn.com/, where it\u2019s free for builders. Our repo is https://github.com/useautumn/autumn, docs are at https://docs.useautumn.com/ and demo at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFARthC7JXc
We\u2019d love to hear your feedback and how we could make it better!","title":"Show HN: Autumn \u2013 Open-source infra over Stripe","updated_at":"2025-11-03T00:12:22Z","url":"https://github.com/useautumn/autumn"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"ok_orco"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["rippling","ai"],"value":"The first time I pulled usage costs after running Chatter.Plus - a tool I'm building that aggregates community feedback from Discord/GitHub/forums - for a day hours, I saw $2.30. Did the math. $70/month. $840/year. For one instance. Felt sick.
I'd done napkin math beforehand, so I knew it was probably a bug, but still. Turns out it was only partially a bug. The rest was me needing to rethink how I built this thing.\nSpent the next couple days ripping it apart. Making tweaks, testing with live data, checking results, trying again. What I found was I was sending API requests too often and not optimizing what I was sending and receiving.
Here's what moved the needle, roughly big to small (besides that bug that was costin me a buck a day alone):
- Dropped Claude Sonnet entirely - tested both models on the same data, Haiku actually performed better at a third of the cost
- Started batching everything - hourly calls were a money fire
- Filter before the AI - "lol" and "thanks" are a lot of online chatter. I was paying AI to tell me that's not feedback. That said, I still process agreements like "+1" and "me too."
- Shorter outputs - "H/M/L" instead of "high/medium/low", 40-char title recommendation
- Strip code snippets before processing - just reiterating the issue and bloating the call
End of the week: pennies a day. Same quality.
I'm not building a VC-backed app that can run at a loss for years. I'm unemployed, trying to build something that might also pay rent. The math has to work from day one.
The upside: these savings let me 3x my pricing tier limits and add intermittent quality checks. Headroom I wouldn't have had otherwise.
Happy to answer questions."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Tell HN: I cut Claude API costs from $70/month to pennies"}},"_tags":["story","author_ok_orco","story_46760285","ask_hn"],"author":"ok_orco","children":[46760305,46762519,46762593,46762663,46762668,46762752,46762900,46763219,46776160],"created_at":"2026-01-26T00:34:17Z","created_at_i":1769387657,"num_comments":30,"objectID":"46760285","points":40,"story_id":46760285,"story_text":"The first time I pulled usage costs after running Chatter.Plus - a tool I'm building that aggregates community feedback from Discord/GitHub/forums - for a day hours, I saw $2.30. Did the math. $70/month. $840/year. For one instance. Felt sick.
I'd done napkin math beforehand, so I knew it was probably a bug, but still. Turns out it was only partially a bug. The rest was me needing to rethink how I built this thing.\nSpent the next couple days ripping it apart. Making tweaks, testing with live data, checking results, trying again. What I found was I was sending API requests too often and not optimizing what I was sending and receiving.
Here's what moved the needle, roughly big to small (besides that bug that was costin me a buck a day alone):
- Dropped Claude Sonnet entirely - tested both models on the same data, Haiku actually performed better at a third of the cost
- Started batching everything - hourly calls were a money fire
- Filter before the AI - "lol" and "thanks" are a lot of online chatter. I was paying AI to tell me that's not feedback. That said, I still process agreements like "+1" and "me too."
- Shorter outputs - "H/M/L" instead of "high/medium/low", 40-char title recommendation
- Strip code snippets before processing - just reiterating the issue and bloating the call
End of the week: pennies a day. Same quality.
I'm not building a VC-backed app that can run at a loss for years. I'm unemployed, trying to build something that might also pay rent. The math has to work from day one.
The upside: these savings let me 3x my pricing tier limits and add intermittent quality checks. Headroom I wouldn't have had otherwise.
Happy to answer questions.","title":"Tell HN: I cut Claude API costs from $70/month to pennies","updated_at":"2026-03-05T23:25:40Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"rwakefield"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["rippling","ai"],"value":"For those who know/have been through the process..my business partner and I are considering relocating to the US upon receipt of $300k in angel seed capital.
1) We're both EU Nationals (Treaty countries), long-term resident in the UK.
2) Most likely, we would be aiming for E-2 Visas.
Qs -
1) Is it worth getting help from professional immigration lawyers?
2) Any particular recommendations for London-based, or focused on the London Embassy (which seems to hold a special status?), lawyers?
The experience I've had when doing some primary research so far has not been encouraging - most seemed more concerned with ripping me off on introductory meeting fees etc.
Many thanks."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"US (E2) Visa: Worth getting an immigration lawyer/London recommendations?"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":""}},"_tags":["story","author_rwakefield","story_2417206","ask_hn"],"author":"rwakefield","children":[2417369,2432195],"created_at":"2011-04-06T22:09:27Z","created_at_i":1302127767,"num_comments":2,"objectID":"2417206","points":4,"story_id":2417206,"story_text":"For those who know/have been through the process..my business partner and I are considering relocating to the US upon receipt of $300k in angel seed capital.
1) We're both EU Nationals (Treaty countries), long-term resident in the UK.
2) Most likely, we would be aiming for E-2 Visas.
Qs -
1) Is it worth getting help from professional immigration lawyers?
2) Any particular recommendations for London-based, or focused on the London Embassy (which seems to hold a special status?), lawyers?
The experience I've had when doing some primary research so far has not been encouraging - most seemed more concerned with ripping me off on introductory meeting fees etc.
Many thanks.","title":"US (E2) Visa: Worth getting an immigration lawyer/London recommendations?","updated_at":"2023-09-06T19:37:31Z","url":""},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"MagicMoonlight"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["rippling","ai"],"value":"These language models are not intelligence. They are not a store of knowledge. You've got companies like Google with a complete record of the entirety of human knowledge... and they're replacing it with Bob. Bob doesn't know everything and he can't do math but by god will he give it a go. He'll always give an answer even if he doesn't know. Is that a great idea? No.
With GPT they have a model that can understand human language. It's not an AI, it's not thinking, it can just understand language. But that's something huge in itself. I just asked ChatGPT to write me a love poem in a Shakespearean style, from a man to a lobster. And it did it. It did it well. That's a ridiculously good piece of software.
But now everyone is going crazy. They're ripping up functioning software and replacing it with the model because it can talk. Just because it can talk doesn't mean it can do things. It doesn't even know what a number is. Even if they were correct and it was now a sentient organism that can think and feel... that doesn't make it better than database. You could be the smartest organism in the universe but a biologically inspired brain is never going to be able to losslessly store 150b pages of content. So why are they trying to replace a database with Bob?
The correct way to use GPT is as a language model. It understands language. So use it to understand. Re-write Siri so that when I ask my phone to find me where I can buy tickets to the london zoo... it understands it. It doesn't try and bing it, it doesn't start playing "London zoo" by "the sheebles" on Spotify, it just does what I asked. If it can't do what I asked then tell me that. Then tell the developers so that they can know what to add next.
Re-write autopilot so that I can talk to my car. "Car, it's too hot in here." "Sorry about that steve, I'll turn the temperature down. By the way, the engine oil is getting a bit low. Do you know which oil you need to buy?" "STEVE WATCH OUT THERE'S A KID RUNNING INTO THE ROAD"
Imagine how good it would be if your existing software actually understood you and you could tell it what to do in normal language. But instead we get Bob, who doesn't know what a child is and keeps telling you that Mexico is a short drive away, take the next left at the cliff."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Why is everyone using GPT incorrectly?"}},"_tags":["story","author_MagicMoonlight","story_34777060","ask_hn"],"author":"MagicMoonlight","children":[34778414],"created_at":"2023-02-13T17:40:53Z","created_at_i":1676310053,"num_comments":1,"objectID":"34777060","points":4,"story_id":34777060,"story_text":"These language models are not intelligence. They are not a store of knowledge. You've got companies like Google with a complete record of the entirety of human knowledge... and they're replacing it with Bob. Bob doesn't know everything and he can't do math but by god will he give it a go. He'll always give an answer even if he doesn't know. Is that a great idea? No.
With GPT they have a model that can understand human language. It's not an AI, it's not thinking, it can just understand language. But that's something huge in itself. I just asked ChatGPT to write me a love poem in a Shakespearean style, from a man to a lobster. And it did it. It did it well. That's a ridiculously good piece of software.
But now everyone is going crazy. They're ripping up functioning software and replacing it with the model because it can talk. Just because it can talk doesn't mean it can do things. It doesn't even know what a number is. Even if they were correct and it was now a sentient organism that can think and feel... that doesn't make it better than database. You could be the smartest organism in the universe but a biologically inspired brain is never going to be able to losslessly store 150b pages of content. So why are they trying to replace a database with Bob?
The correct way to use GPT is as a language model. It understands language. So use it to understand. Re-write Siri so that when I ask my phone to find me where I can buy tickets to the london zoo... it understands it. It doesn't try and bing it, it doesn't start playing "London zoo" by "the sheebles" on Spotify, it just does what I asked. If it can't do what I asked then tell me that. Then tell the developers so that they can know what to add next.
Re-write autopilot so that I can talk to my car. "Car, it's too hot in here." "Sorry about that steve, I'll turn the temperature down. By the way, the engine oil is getting a bit low. Do you know which oil you need to buy?" "STEVE WATCH OUT THERE'S A KID RUNNING INTO THE ROAD"
Imagine how good it would be if your existing software actually understood you and you could tell it what to do in normal language. But instead we get Bob, who doesn't know what a child is and keeps telling you that Mexico is a short drive away, take the next left at the cliff.","title":"Why is everyone using GPT incorrectly?","updated_at":"2024-09-20T13:18:11Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"vonnik"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["rippling"],"value":"Credit card fraud, faulty hardware shipped from China, startups attempting DIY shipping, and retailers ripping off their suppliers: these are just a few issues that Rush Order, a Bay area fulfillment house, has to deal with."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Seeking Fulfillment: An Interview with Rush Order\u2019s Dana Madlem"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["ai"],"value":"http://blog.airbriteinc.com/post/65507836090/fulfillment-guide"}},"_tags":["story","author_vonnik","story_6678822"],"author":"vonnik","created_at":"2013-11-05T22:16:51Z","created_at_i":1383689811,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"6678822","points":4,"story_id":6678822,"story_text":"Credit card fraud, faulty hardware shipped from China, startups attempting DIY shipping, and retailers ripping off their suppliers: these are just a few issues that Rush Order, a Bay area fulfillment house, has to deal with.","title":"Seeking Fulfillment: An Interview with Rush Order\u2019s Dana Madlem","updated_at":"2024-09-19T20:15:19Z","url":"http://blog.airbriteinc.com/post/65507836090/fulfillment-guide"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"dnttllmfrnds"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["rippling","ai"],"value":"Have you ever noticed that after binging on some TV show or podcast or by some other means exposing yourself to hours of other peoples conversations and interaction, that it rubs off on you? Maybe I'm just very impressionable, or there\u2019s some kind of perception bias afoot, but I notice myself doing this often. Sometimes they are just mannerisms, other times it is the way I put together sentences. And then there are times where I start to pick up pieces of other people's accents without meaning to.
For a while now I have been thinking about this, and wondering if there was any way to measure this effect. I am attempting to find as much content as I can with characters or real people I aspire to be like for an experiment. I am ripping the audio from videos and talks, collecting podcasts and finding radio interviews. I am cutting out the useless parts and putting together a library of material for my mp3 player, with the hope that repeated exposure to it all might leave some kind of noticeable effect.
I have not told my friends/family or colleagues as the idea is to use their reactions or comments as my most reliable and non-biased source of feedback.
So that's what I'm planning, but I'm having trouble finding sources of audio. Does anyone have any suggestions? Preferably of people or characters you find impressive or awe-inspiring. (hey, if it works at all I might as well aim for something I'd like)
(note: the idea isn't to learn anything from what these people are saying, but just to see if I will pick up any aspects of their (for lack of a better word) 'style')"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Audio of awe-inspiring and impressive people for an experiment?"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":""}},"_tags":["story","author_dnttllmfrnds","story_1751091","ask_hn"],"author":"dnttllmfrnds","children":[1751166],"created_at":"2010-10-02T19:01:33Z","created_at_i":1286046093,"num_comments":1,"objectID":"1751091","points":2,"story_id":1751091,"story_text":"Have you ever noticed that after binging on some TV show or podcast or by some other means exposing yourself to hours of other peoples conversations and interaction, that it rubs off on you? Maybe I'm just very impressionable, or there\u2019s some kind of perception bias afoot, but I notice myself doing this often. Sometimes they are just mannerisms, other times it is the way I put together sentences. And then there are times where I start to pick up pieces of other people's accents without meaning to.
For a while now I have been thinking about this, and wondering if there was any way to measure this effect. I am attempting to find as much content as I can with characters or real people I aspire to be like for an experiment. I am ripping the audio from videos and talks, collecting podcasts and finding radio interviews. I am cutting out the useless parts and putting together a library of material for my mp3 player, with the hope that repeated exposure to it all might leave some kind of noticeable effect.
I have not told my friends/family or colleagues as the idea is to use their reactions or comments as my most reliable and non-biased source of feedback.
So that's what I'm planning, but I'm having trouble finding sources of audio. Does anyone have any suggestions? Preferably of people or characters you find impressive or awe-inspiring. (hey, if it works at all I might as well aim for something I'd like)
(note: the idea isn't to learn anything from what these people are saying, but just to see if I will pick up any aspects of their (for lack of a better word) 'style')","title":"Ask HN: Audio of awe-inspiring and impressive people for an experiment?","updated_at":"2024-09-19T17:14:02Z","url":""},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"abalone"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["rippling","ai"],"value":"Private Cloud Compute[1] is insanely next level from a server engineering perspective. I really think it's on the order of the transition to stateless architecture 30 years ago or microservices 15 years ago.
Now that clouds are operating at planetary scale we need to turn our attention to the privacy and security vulnerabilities that have become a regular feature of web server architectures. Until now it's basically been "take an open system and lock it down". PCC is basically ripping things up and rearchitecting everything in from the perspective of "an airtight node that is cryptographically provable to not share data with any other node and leaves no trace of your data."
Here's how insane this is:
* Apple uses custom chips that it manufactures with secure elements, providing a hardware foundation of trust.
* There is a deployment trust ceremony that helps ensure data center hardware is authentic.
* Server binaries are publicly auditable and clients verify nodes are authentic and running audited binaries before sending requests.
* Client requests are anonymized and well distributed across the cloud to ensure attackers cannot target a specific user without compromising the entirety of data center hardware.
* There's no shell you can log into these nodes with or PII in server logs/metrics.
* All request data is encrypted with node-specific private keys that are impossible to read or share with other nodes, and also rotated regularly, wiping any inadvertently retained data.
* The only state that is even potentially kept is a caching layer that is encrypted with a public key provided by the client, thus unreadable without the client's private key provided on the next request.
From a SRE perspective it's Nightmare Mode (that's a Doom reference), so you better have very good metrics enabled.
Anyway, today is a big buttcheek clenching day for Apple server engineers as this is a major new 1.0 cloud architecture on custom hardware (impossible to buy GCP/AWS instances) getting deployed to tens of millions of users. This is no doubt the reason for the waitlist that iOS 18.1 upgraders see. They are controlling the rollout to ensure it is scaling in a healthy manner.
[1] https://security.apple.com/documentation/private-cloud-compute"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Apple Intelligence waitlist due to PCC rollout"}},"_tags":["story","author_abalone","story_41982112","ask_hn"],"author":"abalone","children":[41982147],"created_at":"2024-10-29T10:24:11Z","created_at_i":1730197451,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"41982112","points":2,"story_id":41982112,"story_text":"Private Cloud Compute[1] is insanely next level from a server engineering perspective. I really think it's on the order of the transition to stateless architecture 30 years ago or microservices 15 years ago.
Now that clouds are operating at planetary scale we need to turn our attention to the privacy and security vulnerabilities that have become a regular feature of web server architectures. Until now it's basically been "take an open system and lock it down". PCC is basically ripping things up and rearchitecting everything in from the perspective of "an airtight node that is cryptographically provable to not share data with any other node and leaves no trace of your data."
Here's how insane this is:
* Apple uses custom chips that it manufactures with secure elements, providing a hardware foundation of trust.
* There is a deployment trust ceremony that helps ensure data center hardware is authentic.
* Server binaries are publicly auditable and clients verify nodes are authentic and running audited binaries before sending requests.
* Client requests are anonymized and well distributed across the cloud to ensure attackers cannot target a specific user without compromising the entirety of data center hardware.
* There's no shell you can log into these nodes with or PII in server logs/metrics.
* All request data is encrypted with node-specific private keys that are impossible to read or share with other nodes, and also rotated regularly, wiping any inadvertently retained data.
* The only state that is even potentially kept is a caching layer that is encrypted with a public key provided by the client, thus unreadable without the client's private key provided on the next request.
From a SRE perspective it's Nightmare Mode (that's a Doom reference), so you better have very good metrics enabled.
Anyway, today is a big buttcheek clenching day for Apple server engineers as this is a major new 1.0 cloud architecture on custom hardware (impossible to buy GCP/AWS instances) getting deployed to tens of millions of users. This is no doubt the reason for the waitlist that iOS 18.1 upgraders see. They are controlling the rollout to ensure it is scaling in a healthy manner.
[1] https://security.apple.com/documentation/private-cloud-compute","title":"Apple Intelligence waitlist due to PCC rollout","updated_at":"2024-10-29T15:00:44Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"jdbohrman"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["rippling","ai"],"value":"Hey everyone, I wanted to share the project I recently launched called Oasis, which is a community-driven tech collective with the focus of driving social advocacy by creating a self-sustaining flywheel of open-core projects that feeds into our various social advocacy initiatives. The governance is set up much like Open AI, where Oasis is the non-profit that handles the social advocacy and acts as an umbrella for the various OSS projects, and we have a collective structure of contribution with shared ownership so everyone who is working on a project, while it being OSS, gets to share in the financial success.
We're 100% community driven, and anyone can join the Slack workspace now and contribute to any of the repos, but to actually be an "owner" we do require a $200/yr membership fee to help offset operational costs of adding users. All the projects we work on are thoroughly researched for profit potential and technology stack, and currently the angle we've been focusing on a lot of finding closed-source software and essentially ripping their features out into open-core versions. Tangentially, if you have a software you'd love to see a open-core version of then add a comment in here for sure. We're mainly been playing with simple CRUD apps but should the collective grow there's potential for other types of projects."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Show HN: Oasis, the community tech collective building an advocacy flywheel"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.getoasis.io"}},"_tags":["story","author_jdbohrman","story_39185413","show_hn"],"author":"jdbohrman","created_at":"2024-01-30T01:46:48Z","created_at_i":1706579208,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"39185413","points":2,"story_id":39185413,"story_text":"Hey everyone, I wanted to share the project I recently launched called Oasis, which is a community-driven tech collective with the focus of driving social advocacy by creating a self-sustaining flywheel of open-core projects that feeds into our various social advocacy initiatives. The governance is set up much like Open AI, where Oasis is the non-profit that handles the social advocacy and acts as an umbrella for the various OSS projects, and we have a collective structure of contribution with shared ownership so everyone who is working on a project, while it being OSS, gets to share in the financial success.
We're 100% community driven, and anyone can join the Slack workspace now and contribute to any of the repos, but to actually be an "owner" we do require a $200/yr membership fee to help offset operational costs of adding users. All the projects we work on are thoroughly researched for profit potential and technology stack, and currently the angle we've been focusing on a lot of finding closed-source software and essentially ripping their features out into open-core versions. Tangentially, if you have a software you'd love to see a open-core version of then add a comment in here for sure. We're mainly been playing with simple CRUD apps but should the collective grow there's potential for other types of projects.","title":"Show HN: Oasis, the community tech collective building an advocacy flywheel","updated_at":"2024-09-20T16:18:45Z","url":"https://www.getoasis.io"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"freedomben"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["rippling","ai"],"value":"What are some of your favorite claude code custom spinner verbs? Some of my personal favorites (written by me but feel free to steal):
"Hallucinating and spewing slop into your codebase", \n "Ripping off GPL'ed code", \n "Appreciating the elegance of this project", \n "Forging historical documents to rewrite history", \n "Deleting the entire filesystem", \n "Running amok with no guardrails", \n "Getting approval from Apple", \n "Spamming Github repos with bad pull requests", \n "Wasting time on HN", \n "Deleting all my social media", \n "Exploring the solar system", \n "Examining insects in the backyard", \n "Doing the kid's science projects for them", \n "Driving the kids to school", \n "Saying 'Working' like the TOS computer",\n "Hallucinating and spewing slop into your codebase", \n "Ripping off GPL'ed code", \n "Appreciating the elegance of this project", \n "Forging historical documents to rewrite history", \n "Deleting the entire filesystem", \n "Running amok with no guardrails", \n "Getting approval from Apple", \n "Spamming Github repos with bad pull requests", \n "Wasting time on HN", \n "Deleting all my social media", \n "Exploring the solar system", \n "Examining insects in the backyard", \n "Doing the kid's science projects for them", \n "Driving the kids to school", \n "Saying 'Working' like the TOS computer",\nHere's the product description:
Identity:\nYour identity becomes a permanent, unalterable part of the Bitcoin blockchain. Here\u2019s how it works:
Biometric Verification: LockChain uses your phone's fingerprint scanner to authenticate your identity and to prove you are human, creating an unforgeable digital identity.\nPublic Key Engraving: Your public key is securely engraved on Bitcoin's immutable ledger. No interaction with Bitcoin is required from your side \u2013 we handle everything for you off-app.\nDecentralized Authentication: Your digital identity can be verified anywhere and anytime without relying on centralized authentication services.
Data:\nProtect and verify your digital files with LockChain\u2019s data features.
Cryptographic Transformation: Convert your file's contents into a cryptographic representation and upload it to the Bitcoin network.\nTamper-Proof Verification: Verify the integrity of your files against the blockchain to ensure they haven\u2019t been tampered with or modified.\nShareable Transaction IDs: Send a transaction ID to others, allowing them to verify the file against the blockchain for free.
Privacy and Control:\nWorried about privacy? LockChain provides flexible options:
Private Verification: Your fingerprint is used solely to prove your humanity. You can choose not to link your identity to your public key, keeping it as an unrecognizable string of characters.\nSelective Sharing: Share your public key only with those you trust, or link it to your social accounts to prove your identity to a wider audience.\nDigital Signatures: Sign and verify content with your preferred method, ensuring authenticity in the age of AI and deepfakes.
How LockChain Proves Your Identity:\nSocial Media Integration: Currently, LockChain integrates with Twitter to link your identity to your public key. Sign up with your Twitter account, and LockChain generates a QR code embedding your Twitter name and profile link.\nQR Code Verification: Others can scan your QR code using our app to verify your signature with your public key, ensuring the authenticity of your digital identity.
Unlock Endless Possibilities!\nLockChain offers more than just QR code generation:\nAuthentic Digital Signatures: Whether you\u2019re a public figure, business leader, or simply safeguarding personal communications, LockChain ensures your digital actions are indisputably yours.\nFuture-Proof Security: From signing documents to posting tweets or tamper-proof URLs, LockChain provides the assurance of authentic digital signatures across all content.\nEmbrace the power of trust and step into a future where your identity is unquestionably yours with LockChain. Download LockChain today and secure your digital presence on the Bitcoin network!
Thanks for reading! Let me know if you have any questions and check the website out for more information!\nwww.lockchain.ca"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Show HN: LockChain's official launch Android only"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lockchainapp.lockchain&hl=en_US"}},"_tags":["story","author_gregnomis","story_40670106","show_hn"],"author":"gregnomis","created_at":"2024-06-13T14:26:41Z","created_at_i":1718288801,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"40670106","points":1,"story_id":40670106,"story_text":"After 8 months of grueling coding and ripping hair out, I am so proud to announce the launch of LockChain!! Please download (for free) and give me some feedback! I would truly appreciate it. Thanks! -Greg
Here's the product description:
Identity:\nYour identity becomes a permanent, unalterable part of the Bitcoin blockchain. Here\u2019s how it works:
Biometric Verification: LockChain uses your phone's fingerprint scanner to authenticate your identity and to prove you are human, creating an unforgeable digital identity.\nPublic Key Engraving: Your public key is securely engraved on Bitcoin's immutable ledger. No interaction with Bitcoin is required from your side \u2013 we handle everything for you off-app.\nDecentralized Authentication: Your digital identity can be verified anywhere and anytime without relying on centralized authentication services.
Data:\nProtect and verify your digital files with LockChain\u2019s data features.
Cryptographic Transformation: Convert your file's contents into a cryptographic representation and upload it to the Bitcoin network.\nTamper-Proof Verification: Verify the integrity of your files against the blockchain to ensure they haven\u2019t been tampered with or modified.\nShareable Transaction IDs: Send a transaction ID to others, allowing them to verify the file against the blockchain for free.
Privacy and Control:\nWorried about privacy? LockChain provides flexible options:
Private Verification: Your fingerprint is used solely to prove your humanity. You can choose not to link your identity to your public key, keeping it as an unrecognizable string of characters.\nSelective Sharing: Share your public key only with those you trust, or link it to your social accounts to prove your identity to a wider audience.\nDigital Signatures: Sign and verify content with your preferred method, ensuring authenticity in the age of AI and deepfakes.
How LockChain Proves Your Identity:\nSocial Media Integration: Currently, LockChain integrates with Twitter to link your identity to your public key. Sign up with your Twitter account, and LockChain generates a QR code embedding your Twitter name and profile link.\nQR Code Verification: Others can scan your QR code using our app to verify your signature with your public key, ensuring the authenticity of your digital identity.
Unlock Endless Possibilities!\nLockChain offers more than just QR code generation:\nAuthentic Digital Signatures: Whether you\u2019re a public figure, business leader, or simply safeguarding personal communications, LockChain ensures your digital actions are indisputably yours.\nFuture-Proof Security: From signing documents to posting tweets or tamper-proof URLs, LockChain provides the assurance of authentic digital signatures across all content.\nEmbrace the power of trust and step into a future where your identity is unquestionably yours with LockChain. Download LockChain today and secure your digital presence on the Bitcoin network!
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So it has electronic pins that are supposed to allow me to control the aperature of the lens and allow for image stabilization to work. The speedbooster adapter has four firmwares (which I've included in a google drive link below) each which have drawbacks that are purely bugs in the firmware.
The two best firmwares are 2.3 and 3.5. - Firmware 2.3 works flawlessly Except you have to take the lens off and put it back on every time you start the camera. - Firmware 3.5 works flawlessly EXCEPT that the image stabilization on my canon lense does not work (it does not get passed through the adapter to the camera).
I am sick of waiting for viltrox to make a new firmware that makes this adapter fully functional and want to make my own. When I open the firmwares in a basic IDE like notepad++ you can see the binary like in this example line: C\u00cc/\u00b2K<\u00c5\u00d8\u00a3\u00ff:zm\u00a3J\u2030P\u0161\u00d7O\u00b5=\u20ac\u00c9\u00adA\u00ec\u00d8d\u2122\u00eaY\u00fb\u00c6\u00b6 Y\u00a2\u00d9_Jo\u00ee\u00ec8M\u00ad\u00b4F\u00a6\u00da\u00ac\u00ec\u2030\u00ff?\u00bbw\u00b5\u20ac\u00b0\u00ea\u00c9\u00acs\u20140O}L\u00b5\u0153GC\u00c1\u00f5\u2021\u00b0\u00bc\u00b3K\u00c1\u00e56ON\u017e%\u00a2\u00b6\u00aeJ*\u201ez\u2039 \u00b6\u00d2\u00c2S.+
I understand reverse engineering software from binary is not easy but since these two firmwares are almost perfect after reverse engineering one would have to either fix the error in 2.3 (to get it to work without taking the lens and adapter on and off) or in 3.5 (get the image stabilization to pass to the camera which could be done by ripping code from the 2.3 firmware).
I am really interested in this and was wondering how much something like this would cost and who or where I could go to outsource this work?
Google Drive Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16_rssmmyjm5Ixt_xpM_M8X2F8Aaykl5s?usp=sharing"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Reverse engineering viltrox em2 ii Firmware"}},"_tags":["story","author_neoAnderson","story_26072446","ask_hn"],"author":"neoAnderson","created_at":"2021-02-09T00:44:49Z","created_at_i":1612831489,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"26072446","points":1,"story_id":26072446,"story_text":"So I am into cameras and bought viltrox em2 ii speedbooster that lets me put canon mount lenses on my blackmagic camera (it also does other things that's not important right now).
So it has electronic pins that are supposed to allow me to control the aperature of the lens and allow for image stabilization to work. The speedbooster adapter has four firmwares (which I've included in a google drive link below) each which have drawbacks that are purely bugs in the firmware.
The two best firmwares are 2.3 and 3.5. - Firmware 2.3 works flawlessly Except you have to take the lens off and put it back on every time you start the camera. - Firmware 3.5 works flawlessly EXCEPT that the image stabilization on my canon lense does not work (it does not get passed through the adapter to the camera).
I am sick of waiting for viltrox to make a new firmware that makes this adapter fully functional and want to make my own. When I open the firmwares in a basic IDE like notepad++ you can see the binary like in this example line: C\u00cc/\u00b2K<\u00c5\u00d8\u00a3\u00ff:zm\u00a3J\u2030P\u0161\u00d7O\u00b5=\u20ac\u00c9\u00adA\u00ec\u00d8d\u2122\u00eaY\u00fb\u00c6\u00b6 Y\u00a2\u00d9_Jo\u00ee\u00ec8M\u00ad\u00b4F\u00a6\u00da\u00ac\u00ec\u2030\u00ff?\u00bbw\u00b5\u20ac\u00b0\u00ea\u00c9\u00acs\u20140O}L\u00b5\u0153GC\u00c1\u00f5\u2021\u00b0\u00bc\u00b3K\u00c1\u00e56ON\u017e%\u00a2\u00b6\u00aeJ*\u201ez\u2039 \u00b6\u00d2\u00c2S.+
I understand reverse engineering software from binary is not easy but since these two firmwares are almost perfect after reverse engineering one would have to either fix the error in 2.3 (to get it to work without taking the lens and adapter on and off) or in 3.5 (get the image stabilization to pass to the camera which could be done by ripping code from the 2.3 firmware).
I am really interested in this and was wondering how much something like this would cost and who or where I could go to outsource this work?
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