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Show HN: A free site to explore and discover 6,000+ plants
I’ve loved keeping plants since I was a kid. But the online world of plants can be confusing - strange vocabulary, plants going by conflicting names, and hundreds of niche websites. I wanted to create a site that would organize all of this info and make it easier to explore and discover new plants. That’s why I created GetAnyPlant, which aggregates and matches plants from dozens of online stores. It includes huge amounts of data on these plants along with filters and categories to help you searc
Show HN: Hashquery, a Python library for defining reusable analysis
Hi all, we recently open sourced the first version of Hashquery, a Python library which lets you model analytics, DRY up common logic, and execute it against a database or warehouse.We were originally rendering SQL directly for all our queries, but that spiraled out of control with more complex analysis; the SQL needed to be changed sporadically for each new database dialect (BigQuery, Redshift, Aethena, Postgres, etc etc) and the SQL fragments were very challenging to reuse (and so fragments we
Assist: - Using LLM'S to automate call centres
For those of us who work in contact centres, have you noticed how manual everything really is. You have people auditing calls. There's biasness on audits.A QC an SME. If they audit a call or chat in 10 minutes, they can audit 5 in 50 minutes. Each SME if assigned with a team of 12 (call centers are very much on human resources) Literally 2 hours are being spent on weekly basis. Small number but works wonders if you are using those SME's on feedbacks etc.You also get to use this to make
Show HN: Knee, OSS CLI tool to reduce time for infra orchestration
Most infrastructure setups are not isolated; it’s rare to deploy only a PostgreSQL setup in the cloud. Typically, setups include a combination of technologies, such as a Ruby on Rails server with PostgreSQL and Redis, or a python FastAPI app paired with a React frontend, a database, and caching. While Ansible is excellent for orchestration, maintaining separate playbooks for each component can be cumbersome. With Knee, we aim to simplify infrastructure setup. You simply select the components you
Wasting time creating and solving tickets as a Startup
When we were building an app that reached 30k users, we communicated with our users via WhatsApp, Telegram, or other instant messaging platforms.One of our main challenges was that many users would reach out to report bugs, problems, opinions, questions, etc., and as a small team of just four people, we found it difficult to manage everything.We manually filtered through bug reports, feedback, feature requests, and other opinions. Sometimes, we had to prioritize launching new features over fixin
Ask HN: I think the world has gone crazy
Today we have a dozen frameworks to create a simple website, from React, T3, Blitz, Next, etc.<p>In the past, php + mysql was enough for me, today I need postgres.
But why?<p>Maybe it is worth looking back to see our mistakes? We create new frameworks daily, but do we need them?<p>Let's create one web framework that will be perfect for everyone!
Including fans of react, php, python, rust etc :D
Tell HN: Worst Amazon AWS customer service experience
In short, I spun up some servers to finish an urgent job, and now AWS has frozen access to my data for over 24 hours and it's wrecking my business.I.e. Spin up servers too quickly? AWS holds your data hostage indefinitely.Background:Had an urgent compute job 2 days ago, that I needed finished ASAP. So I thought great, temporarily spinning up a large amount of compute is exactly what AWS was made for.So, spun up a dozen c6a.48xlarge's, and things were looking great. Looked set to finish
Ask HN: How do you manage accounts receivable efficiently at your company?
I started a company again after I sold my previous one in 2022 and I've been in month 4 of company building now. I noticed common thread in our conversations with business owners, founders and finance executives that finance areas are often the last to get updated or innovated. Most businesses pay more attention to customer-facing parts like sales, marketing or product development.
They only look at finance when problems like missed payments or other money issues start to happen. Really sca
Neighbors react after 77-year-old allegedly killed with meat cleaver
Police are investigating after a man was killed Sunday morning in Roland Park.Baltimore police said Patrick Cromwell, 59, ...
Northern New York lawmakers react to delayed passage of the state's budget
Oakland University outfielders John Lauinger and Reggie Bussey combined on what could be college baseball's best catch of the ...
Fans React to Jamal Murray's Insane Game-Winner in Nuggets-Lakers Game 2
On Monday night, the Denver Nuggets defeated the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 2 after Jamal Murray drilled a step-back jumper ...
Tennessee school voucher bill failure: Supporters, opponents react
Reactions from supporters and opponents alike poured in Monday after Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee confirmed a bill to expand a ...
Netizens React As American Youtuber Urges Elon Musk To Hire THIS Delhi Barber: 'Tipped Him ₹3,000-5,000...Went To Space'
An American YouTuber recently received a head massage in Delhi's Nehru Place following which he recommended Elon Musk, the ...
Scranton residents react to activated flood siren
A number of people in Scranton were startled over the weekend when the Shawnee Avenue flood siren was activated, even though ...
Sharks do react to blood in the water. But as a CBS News producer found out, it's not how he assumed.
CBS News climate producer Chris Spinder got into the water as sharks circled below. In this producer's notebook, he shares ...
German frigate Hessen sailors were on watch 12 hours a day in the Red Sea with only seconds to react to threats in the 'worst case scenario'
The German warship spent several weeks deployed to volatile Middle Eastern waters to protect commercial ships from ...
Show HN: Composable (as in iGoogle, but modern) privacy-friendly new tab
I spent quite a lot of time working on this one over the last 1.5 years. It started as a small project for my personal use because I wanted to keep all my self-hosted services visible so I wouldn't forget they existed lol. Using a web page wasn't ideal because of the white flicker every time I opened a new tab, so I decided to make this into a browser extension. From that time on, it became a lot bigger and got some traction (which I'm very happy about).It's made with React,
Show HN: An app that takes your money if you don't reach your goals
My wife and I just launched this app because we had so much fun with a fitness challenge we did we some friends recently where everyone put in $100 and defined their goals, then only the people who met their goals split the pot. It made us realize there's really no better motivator than money.It's better on mobile screens right now as we just designed for mobile screens for now. And we did manage to put it up on both app stores - it's low in the ranks but you should be able to sea
Ask HN: Is anyone making consumer electronics with aesthetic in mind anymore?
When I look at modern PC's, I see a bunch of black rectangles with see through panels and enough rainbow LEDs to light up a strip club. It feels like the 90's beige box epidemic.<p>Other than the iMac, no one seems to be making computers fun to look at any more. There's no color, no shapes. It's all black and silver like an ocean of Honda accords. The same goes for smartphones, flip flop sized slabs that you throw away every 3 years.
Show HN: Jonline – decentralized social media and event platform, by a solo dev
GitHub: https://github.com/JonLatane/jonline
Protocol Docs: https://jonline.io/docs/protocol or https://github.com/JonLatane/jonline/blob/main/docs/protocol...
My Profile: https://jonline.io/jonBuilt with Postgres, Diesel (Rust ORM), Tonic (Rust gRPC), Rocket (Rust HTTP), React, Tamagui (TypeScript/React UI toolkit), and Flutter (native apps/alternative client at https://jonline.io&