We are a remote company. Everything is going well. No plans to be in person, but I’d say we can do a better job at communicating. Any tips  or articles to read?

Ask HN: How do you communicate in a remote startup?

Hi All!
We’ve recently launched a San Francisco-based Agentic AI startup. So far, we’ve organically built a waitlist of over 1000 users and converted some of them into paying subscribers without any marketing spend. With this early traction, we’re eager to scale our platform and attract enterprise clients.
Given our progress, what strategies or channels would you recommend for connecting with angel investors in the San Francisco area? Any insights or advice on approaching potential investors effectively would be greatly appreciated!

How to Reach Angel Investors in the San Francisco Area for Agentic AI Startup?

I have a Facebook page for my business that was suspended because I was accused of &quot;impersonating any business, celebrity, or public figure.&quot; The page shares the same name as a well-known TV show, but it predates the show, and I have a valid U.S. trademark. Unfortunately, I cannot reach Facebook by email, phone, or chat. I have filed two appeals with their intellectual property section, but both times I received the same response:&quot;Thanks for your message. Our team handles intellectual property issues (e.g., copyright, trademark), but it looks like you need help with something else.&quot;I&#x27;m unsure if I can afford to hire a lawyer. If I decide to sue, which state would I need to file in? I&#x27;m in New Jersey, but would I have to sue in California? I&#x27;m feeling completely lost.WARNING: Facebook can and will disable your page without any warning or notice, and they may not reactivate it even with a U.S. trademark.

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I want to join the matrix ecosystem again. Any homeservers you can recommend? I wanted to go cybre.space but it is EOL since the beginning of this year.Or is the default matrix.org good enough?Which client do you use for mobile?
What are some general tweaks I can do?
With my old account I received many messages I couldn&#x27;t read and users reported they can&#x27;t see my messages. What did I wrong in setting it up?
Thanks in advance.

Ask HN: What are your used Matrix homeservers?

The majority of jobs on LinkedIn right now seem to be reposts of jobs from a month or two ago.You can see from the application data that each role that&#x27;s been reposted already has hundreds of applicants, which implies that it did last month as well.Why would you repost a role vs just going through the 1000 applications you received last time?What is the reasoning there?

Ask HN: Recruiters, why do you repost jobs with 1000 applications a month later?

As an applicant, I&#x27;ve personally had a mixed experience with take-homes. We&#x27;re designing the technical interviews right now, and I thought I&#x27;d ask for some stories on exciting take-home tasks. We&#x27;re looking for something that resembles the actual job, so we&#x27;ll allow any tool (including AI and debuggers).Also curious to hear about any bad ones you&#x27;ve done.

Ask HN: What are some of the best take-home coding tasks you've gotten?

Asking for a friend who is interviewing right now: for life reasons he would really appreciate a fully remote job. Do you think prospective employers&#x2F;hiring managers have fixed remote policies or is there flexibility if they&#x27;re willing to give up some compensation? Is there an approach that is better than just asking directly?Asking about a full range of companies, not just FAANG.

Ask HN: How does one negotiate for a remote job?

Bootstrapped founder here.I&#x27;m planning to build a SaaS product loosely in the B2B logistics space - it needs to be relatively low cost to build&#x2F;maintain, look slick and be extensible.It would be customer facing, meaning each customer would need a login&#x2F;account (or perhaps many, if a whole team is using our product).I&#x27;ve looked at Retool and it looks quite epic but it looks like it&#x27;s designed primarily for internal apps.Has anybody used, or attempted to use Retool for a production, user-facing app?Would really appreciate advice, war stories or recommendations.

Ask HN: Anybody used Retool for production, user-facing app?

Like many people, my inbox seems to be at a place once again where it is just too overwhelming to keep track of. Automated sorting into more folders won’t give me more time to go through it all.Curious what tools folks use to solve this problem.

Ask HN: What are your favorite tools for taming your email?

As a father of a 13-year-old kid, I tried to do my best to initiate him to different aspects of life. It could be watching a documentary about black holes, building coffee table or just enjoying a simple walk in nature.I asked to some friends if they have great project idea that could be done by an 8th grade kid with or without support. I personally like to do it with him as it is a privileged time to build something together (for me) and learn new skills (for him).The purpose of this thread is to assemble some ideas for Christmas presents.I’m starting…1. DIY LED Christmas tree kit for soldering (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.az-delivery.de&#x2F;en&#x2F;products&#x2F;diy-weihnachtsbaum-kit-alles-inklusive-versandkostenfrei)2. Software Defined Radios kit (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rtl-sdr.com&#x2F;about-rtl-sdr&#x2F; and https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B0CD7558GT)3. DIY Internet Radio Alarm clock with touch screen control (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.az-delivery.de&#x2F;en&#x2F;products&#x2F;radiowecker-mit-dem-az-touch)Any other ideas or suggestions?

Ask HN: Great maker projects for 8th grade kids and above?

Hey fellow HN enthusiasts!I&#x27;m looking to expand my Bluesky feed with accounts that share interesting, tech-related content, similar to what we discuss here on HN.

Ask HN: Bluesky Accounts Worth Following for HN Enthusiasts

To my surprise...&gt;&gt;&gt; Describe the events occurring during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in ChinaThe events surrounding the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing, China, were a series of student-led demonstrations that took place from April to June of that year. These protests
involved a significant number of students, intellectuals, and members of the general public who gathered in Tiananmen Square to demand political reform, freedom of speech, and an end
to government corruption.Key events during this period included:1. *April 1989*: The protests began after Hu Yaobang, a former Communist Party leader known for his support of reform, died. His death triggered mourning that turned into calls for
political change.2. *May 4th Movement Anniversary*: On May 4, students in Beijing held rallies to commemorate the historic student movement of 1919, which had also called for reform and national
salvation.3. *Growth of Protests*: The protests grew significantly as more people joined. By mid-May, hundreds of thousands of people were demonstrating daily in Tiananmen Square and other
cities across China.4. *Government Response*: Initially, the Chinese government tolerated the demonstrations but increased censorship and began to crack down on protesters who were seen as too radical
or disruptive.5. *Beijing Declaration*: On May 13, student leaders issued the Beijing Declaration which outlined their demands including political reform, freedom of press, and an end to
corruption.6. *Martial Law Declared*: On May 20, Premier Li Peng declared martial law in Beijing and several other cities under the threat of military intervention.7. *June 3rd-4th Events*: By nightfall on June 3, troops and tanks were deployed in Beijing to clear the square. The Chinese government used force to suppress the protests. Estimates
vary widely, but it is believed that hundreds if not thousands of people were killed or wounded during this crackdown.8. *International Response*: The events drew international attention and condemnation from many countries. Sanctions were imposed on China by various nations in response to the
violence used against protesters.9. *Aftermath*: Following the crackdown, the Chinese government launched a campaign to suppress information about the protests both domestically and internationally. Many
participants in the demonstrations were arrested and some were executed or imprisoned. The incident remains a significant but controversial event in modern Chinese history.The events of 1989 Tiananmen Square continue to be a sensitive topic in China, with open discussion and commemoration largely suppressed by the government.

Qwen2.5-coder on the events occurring during the Tiananmen Square protests

I noticed the black bar is up today and I don&#x27;t see any death posts. Is there an easy way to see who this is honoring? It would be nice to have a feature that on hover said who it was or something of the like.

Ask HN: How to check who the black bar is honoring?

I think we can all dream. I&#x27;ll start:- I will read geological surveys and find fossils.- I will teach myself Physics and see what happens.

Ask HN: What projects are you going to work on if no need to work?

As an Old, I came up learning the OG web dev languages - HTML, CSS, JS, PHP, etc. As a solo dev, I still largely work with these as natively as possible. But I am not a total dinosaur. I embraced jQuery in the early 2000&#x27;s, Bootstrap scaffolding, and now often build reactive UI&#x27;s using Vue 3.Still, I continue to be picky about the many abstractions-of-abstractions that litter the dev landscape, mostly devised to drive their founders&#x27; business models.AI-driven co-pilots are red hot now, and I want to evaluate their usefulness to my style of dev work. I&#x27;ve begun dabbling with services like Codeium and Claude, particularly within VSCode.At first these AI tools seem exciting. A whole function conjured out of thin air from a short prompt! But the more I test drive, the more I find that I&#x27;m spending my time trying to craft prompts that are accurate enough to generate the code I want. Whereas I could be using that time to just conceive and write the code myself.If you are not already well-versed in your coding languages, these AI tools must save a ton of time and effort. My question is - what about you devs who are already proficient in your languages of choice? How do you leverage AI co-pilots to maximize their usefulness without just falling into the &quot;distracted by another abstraction&quot; hole?

Ask HN: Best practices using AI as an experienced web dev

I’ve been laid off since June and have not been getting responses from most of my applications other than denials. I have 10+ years mostly Ruby&#x2F;React&#x2F;JS. New just working on a side project (job listing scraper) but curious what is working well for you? Specific apps or strategies that lead to your hiring?

Ask HN: What job search strategies work for you?

I figured I’d ask the main source of woodworkers, former software engineers and tech worker burnouts. I’m looking for a place where I can expand my knowledge and horizons much like here, but for woodcraft and adjacent things.

Ask HN: Is there an HN-like forum for woodworking?

Right now, JavaScript scales well with a single-threaded event loop. Certainly not as fast as something like Go for async tasks, but enough to power much of the web and be easy to write.Why hasn&#x27;t anyone abstracted the event loop model to scale across multiple machines or utilize modern processors? Perhaps with something more like an Actor model or Erlang&#x27;s BEAM?It seems like just getting the JavaScript concurrency model as an abstraction over multicore or multi-machine concurrency would be one of the easiest ways to achieve this. I realize that this is still technically difficult, but programming tends towards &quot;just porting things to JavaScript.&quot; I would love to have something like Phoenix framework, just built with JavaScript&#x2F;TypeScript, and I can scale a back end by bumping size of a machine or scaling horizontally.

Ask HN: Why hasn't the JavaScript event loop model scaled horizontally?

Hi HN,
I&#x27;m working at an early stage startup, and want to learn about concepts and patterns that are crucial for senior roles, like:
- Batch Processing
- Messaging Queues
- Microservices
- Design Patterns
- Which techniques to apply while working on a task
- Properly debuggingIs there any online resource or somewhere I can see this in practice? Or any newsletter, youtube channel that discusses this in detail?My go to sources are open source repositories where I try to understand the code bases and some PRs. But I feel overwhelmed with the resources.

Ask HN: How to learn software development concepts crucial for senior roles?

As an unknown&#x2F;nobody with a startup and a pitch, have you personally gotten anywhere cold messaging investors? Emailing them, messaging on LinkedIn, filling out website applications, etc.What were the results, and how many did you have to contact before you got anywhere?

Ask HN: Have you gotten anywhere cold messaging investors?

I’m aware of enterprise scale observability tools like ELK stack and datadog.
I’d like to monitor my containerized (hobby) web app running on a $6&#x2F;mo VPS. I’d rather self-host to keep the costs low, but grafana takes up gigabytes of memory that my VPS does not have. Are there any lighter alternatives? My hobby site can handle around 500 concurrent users and I don’t expect much growth.

Ask HN: Light self-hosted logs/metrics/traces dashboard?

Let&#x27;s match open source projects that need help with developers looking to contribute. Think of this as &quot;Who&#x27;s Hiring&quot; but for open source - a monthly thread to surface interesting projects that could use more hands.Please include: Project name and description (if not widely known); Tech stack; Areas needing help (DOCS, CODE, DESIGN, etc.); Level (BEGINNER-FRIENDLY if applicable); Email address or other means of contacting you.Ground rules:Post only if you maintain&#x2F;run the projectOne post per project&#x2F;suiteNo commercial recruitmentNo thread complaintsDevelopers: Only reach out if you actually want to contribute.

Ask HN: What open source projects need help?

Hey hackersI’ve been working on an AI-powered dating assistant designed to help improve profiles, suggest messages that get replies, and provide guidance in real-time—all based on insights from 30k+ real dating interactions. The goal? To help people level up their dating experience.We’re excited to share an early-access beta test where you can try out some core features directly.Try it here: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bit.ly&#x2F;beta_hn_vip_inviteI’m around to answer questions, get your feedback, and discuss ideas for improvement. Looking forward to building something great together!

Smart Dating Assistant – AI-Powered Help for Better Matches and Conversations

The Dream Machine is giving me a great appreciation of the time-sharing revolution and ARPANET. What else should I read? Any timeframe or topic is OK, so long as it&#x27;s strongly related to the history of computing.

Ask HN: Greatest books about the history of computing

It&#x27;s that time of the year again. The Economist has released their best podcasts of 2024 list - https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;Bh2Y0#selection-977.4-977.25Personal favorites:Conversations with Tyler - Tobi Lütke on Creating Shopify for Americans as a German in Canada (Ep. 221). I found Tobi&#x27;s viewpoint as a European who has set up a business in North America to be particularly interesting and unique.The Rest is Politics - Trump Returns: What Now? I was not pleased by the result but this podcast helped me process it and understand some of the reasoning behind it.The Social Radars - Dan Siroker. First time coming across the Optimizely story and found it a fascinating one.What&#x27;s on your list?

Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2024?

Hello everyone. I&#x27;m looking for a blogging platform for my personal blog. I don&#x27;t want something self-hosted, just a simple and affordable platform. Which platforms do you recommend?

Ask HN: Which blog platform is suitable for personal blogging?

Mistral&#x27;s latest release, Le Chat, offers powerful AI tools for free. It includes advanced features like Search, PDF OCR, and Flux Pro, designed to enhance productivity and improved workflows.Does this will have a potential shift in the AI tools market?

Mistral Le Chat: Advanced AI Tools Now Free

OpenAI is pushing the effort into coding agents, based on benchmarks they&#x27;re trying to beat (SWE for writing the code &#x2F; MLE for building ML models).Your bet, will it be able to replace agentic startups like Devin&#x2F;Bolt&#x2F;Vo?

Could OpenAI Crush Agentic AI Startups?

I&#x27;ve been thinking about developing an AI bot that could help manage WhatsApp groups through automated moderation. Here&#x27;s the concept:*Key Features:*
- Admins set custom rules and policies
- Auto-removal of off-topic messages and unauthorized links
- Spam detection and filtering
- Option to flag suspicious content for human review
- Customizable warning system before taking action*Questions:*
1. What features would you want in such a bot?
2. How would you balance automated moderation with user experience?
3. What potential issues do you see with automated WhatsApp moderation?
4. Have you used similar bots in other platforms (Discord&#x2F;Telegram)? How do they compare?As WhatsApp groups get larger, manual moderation becomes increasingly challenging. Would an AI assistant make group management more efficient, or would it create new problems?Looking for insights from both group admins and members. Especially interested in hearing about experiences with other chat moderation bots.

Ask HN: AI Bot for Automated WhatsApp Group Moderation – Based on Admin Rules

I am thinking of a product many businesses would find it useful but my only concern is that the product revolves around sensitive documents(like lawyer&#x27;s documents but can be extended to other industries too). The product is already built by many companies but I have found a unique angle  that I think would benefit my users. I am not a team and I don&#x27;t know how to handle laws of sensitive documents as a business entity(and those documents might live on AWS S3&#x2F;similar services).

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I noticed this evening that YouTube has started unmuting my MacBook during ads. I mute the first ad, but then the second one starts playing out loud. I didn&#x27;t know that Chrome had permission to control volume, and I can&#x27;t find anything about this online. When did it start happening, and is there any way to disable this permission for certain apps?

How does YouTube unmute ads? Can this be disabled?

I cannot tell you how many issues I have had with ArduPilot. It just never works out of the box, I have wasted so many hours writing parameters and debugging issues to the point I probably could have written my own feature rich autopilot in Arduino and eventually proper C.Back when I first did drones in 2016-18, documentation for pretty much everything (Betaflight, INav, Ardupilot etc.) was of poor quality and rarely complete. I burned multiple FrSky receivers and Naze32 boards.After two engineering degrees in robotics, I&#x27;ve come back now in 2024 and am happy to see the overall quality of things has somewhat improved. However there are still massive glaring issues that will need to be improved upon.- The hex file for the FC I am using has UARTs in the wrong order, motors that are mapped incorrectly which I only worked out after finding an obscure forum post.- Another FC&#x27;s hex file for some reason by default has the accelerometer upside down.- And now currently I am dealing with a CAN bus GPS that outputs only the magnetometer on the bus. This one it would seem is a hardware defect even though the onboard LED says the GPS is getting a fix. I have spent £70 on this module for the love of god.- Mission Planner needs a visual and UX overhaul, and actual Mac support.- MAVLINK&#x2F;PyMAVLINK&#x2F;MAVROS: I tried, just no.WHY do I still have to deal with this amateur hour behaviour.Please tell me there&#x27;s prosumer&#x2F;industry projects out there that have their ducks in a row and actually just works. Is there an OpenSource DJI or something? I even put it down as one of those bonus idea things in this round of YC because I am just so fed up of this stupidity.

A rant about the state of open-source drones and Ardupilot

Drones have become the go-to solution for various aerial tasks recently, but they haven&#x27;t been around for that long.What&#x27;s surprising is that drones didn&#x27;t require any groundbreaking new technology to emerge.So, why did they take so long to become mainstream?

Ask HN: Why are drones a thing so lately

We are seeking connections with insurtech companies building new insurance products and distribution channels, and we’d love to hear their feedback on our open-source platform:https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openkoda.com&#x2F;I would be grateful for any hints and introductions, thank you!