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A little weekend project with my daughter to show her what computers can do and as an added bonus, help her practice this schoolyard finger counting game.

For those who've been tracking the Oh My OpenCode and Anthropic fight.

I literally started doing this like five days ago. I'm 43...

Great tool, found a couple of fun ones. Did it help you come up with the name? Also, I don't think too many people would mind if you linked up the resultant domains to some affilia…

This is one of the reasons I keep reading Hacker News. It's a great source for cutting-edge tech news; more importantly, it's also a great source for important news.

I feel like there two things that should be A/B test here: 1) Best length of trial to get someone to sign-up for a free trial 2) Best length of trial to get someone to convert to p…

Thanks for the extra feedback. I like focusing on the tags and interests. Some curation done by the system (or a human) could go a long way. I already get most of my views on the f…

to your points: 1. Yes. the homepage could you something more obvious. What about something where (1) a few story abstracts are listed along, or even possibly the first paragraph. …

The login thing was something I went back and forth with. Eventually, that will be add. For now, I went with this method because (1) most people hate creating new accounts (2) I wo…

Last week, I launched a new project, enstoria.com, and I didn't get much feedback or tractionfrom friends or family on it (aside from the usual, great idea! I'll get right on it!).…

Google Trends data is for search patterns, not unique visitors. It means that fewer people now search for "techcrunch.com," which is a good thing.

Great tale, and I like the approaches he suggest at the end that make cheating impractical. Hopefully, as a tenured professor, he can serve the likely storm of pressure he will get…

If it's something that you're spending your free time on, make sure it's something that you want to do. If you think you can make your product better, or even just simpler, I would…

he brings up about givign people what they want and not what you ask for. that is so hard to do. how many times have you built what you envisioned and then went, "This is what i as…

I think the best about this is interview is that DHH really sells and believes what he says. He's just not replaying the party line, but a core belief of his.

I really hope that's the URL he goes with.

Are you doing some testing, because the site comes up, but no results are visible for me (tried on Chrome and Safari on Windows) Nevertheless, I love the concept. Future feature su…

These are all fine tips for any sort of how to article. Just seems like something to get some views from the startup community.

This is definitely a chicken-and-egg problem. Until you get more users, you're not going to get the really interesting sways. You definitely want to make sure you create a feature …