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EvenKeel is an LLM-powered chatbot that helps with budgeting, financial planning, retirement savings, tax optimization, etc. It is a harness around Gemini 3 Flash Preview that prov…

I've been using the Edison V3 robot from Microbric ( https://meetedison.com/technical-v3/ ) to introduce my kids to programming. The provided web-based editor that uses WebUSB to f…

HackerNews - aka local news for residents of the Bay Area, Seattle & NYC I wonder what percentage of the world’s software engineers live in these 3 cities?

You're certainly more of an authority on it than I, so I trust when you say most schemes don't keep long-term keypairs around; but of the two companies I've worked at that use SSH …

This is a non-sequitur, even if you use SSH certificates you still need a public/private keypair, hosts just authorize the key by checking the signature from a trusted CA on the pu…

Re caching: I had a look into it, and it seems we set the following headers when retrieving user images: > cache-control: public, max-age=3600 So I believe your browser _should_ be…

Done - https://radiopaper.com/Stavros Being able to change your email address is a known gap, sorry about that. For now if you want to use a different email you'll need to make a s…

Yes! They will receive an email with the message, and some boilerplate explaining that it was sent from Radiopaper and that if they reply to the email the message will be published…

https://radiopaper.com/about It's helpful feedback that this isn't as discoverable as it should be. If you hover your cursor towards the bottom of the explore page, some links show…

We don't have usernames! You can log in with OAuth, or by Email. You can change your _display name_ on your profile page, and that's what appears publicly on the site (your email d…

Adding a feature to block specific accounts is on our short-term roadmap. We'll also endeavor to block accounts from the platform that violate our policies ( https://radiopaper.com…

Hacker News has definitely pushed us out of the free tier for today, but these services are still impressively cheap. We may have a $5 cloud bill this month.

The ability of the OP to accept or ignore replies is in addition to, not instead of, regular spam filtering techniques. Certainly we'll want to automatically block bots and other b…

Thanks for the feedback! 1. We're certainly looking into this, and other approaches to content discovery. 2. You can already add bios! Go to to your user page (link in the top-righ…

Michael, So glad that you're excited to use the platform. Would you like a custom alias (radiopaper.com/MichaelLeonhard or similar)? At the moment we provision those manually, on-d…

Thanks for taking a look! For now there are two ways to find an interlocutor: 1. Send a message to someone you already know, using their email address. 2. Comment on or start a con…

Fellow Seattle-worker here As a counterpoint- I take express bus 545 from Redmond to Seattle between 8 and 9am on weekdays, and there’s typically less than a half dozen people on t…

I use LastPass’s Emergency Access feature for this. You can designate people who can access your Vault, after a certain waiting period. If they request access prematurely, I can re…

You could achieve this with CSS by using “vw” units for everything, including font sizes

It's not pointless, but I do think it's reasonable to question whether this is the best thing one can do to have an impact. Could the time spent taking the neighbors trash away be …

If you're paying off every month, why does APR matter? Agree with finding good rewards and I'd substitute low APR for low/no annual fee.

I take it the author is not a fan of w3schools.com, a web site that's been around for a very long time and is highly ranked for many html-related queries. Personally I find most of…