# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
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# Usage:
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/users View list of users and latest twt date.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt View all twts.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri View all mentions for uri.
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# offset Start index for quey.
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# next = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://feeds.twtxt.net/hacker-news-front-page/twtxt.txt&offset=28863
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Show HN: Open-Source SlackAI app for those who don't want to pay $10/user/month**
The official Slack AI product looks great, but with limited access and add-on pricing, I decided to open-source the version I built. Especially for all the communities on Slack that would have to convert to paid and buy the upgrade to access the official SlackAI product/add-on which is not going to be financially viable in most cases.
There's no plan to sell anything, just something I built as a way to learn some new tools that I thought ... ⌘ Read more
Ask HN: Feels like Search results is weird on Google, You too?**
I've heard that Users are deleting posts after Stackoverflow announce to Sell their data to LLM Corp.
After this happened, it makes me feeling weird on Google search. when I search something, It should've show some related results, but nothing is present.
You too? (or just for Me)
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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40305614
Points: 3
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Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership
Article URL: [https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt](https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-indust ... ⌘ Read more
I'm puzzled how anyone trusts ChatGPT for code
I asked ChatGPT to convert a simple 12-line Python program to Lisp.
The result is broken by mismatched brackets. Yes. In Lisp.
I ask for correction and receive the errant bracket moved, still mismatched.
I ask again and the bracket gets removed. Fine??
No. A loop break has been mistranslated to a return from function, so execution is nonsense.
I wonder how much user faith in ChatGPT is based on examples in which the errors are not apparent ... to a certain kind of user.
... ⌘ Read more
Launch HN: Baselit (YC W23) – Automatically Reduce Snowflake Costs
Hey HN! We are Baselit ( https://baselit.ai/), a tool that automatically optimizes Snowflake costs. Here’s a demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls6VRzBQ-pQ.
Snowflake is one of the most widely used data warehouses today. It abstracts out the underlying compute infrastructure into “warehouses” for the user - compute units with t-shirt sizes (X-Small, Small, Medium etc.). In gene ... ⌘ Read more
Canada's Bill S-210: The Push for Widespread Age Verification
Article URL: [https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2024/01/bill-s-210-is-just-the-beginning-how-a-canadian-digital-lobby-group-is-promoting-a-standard-to-foster-widespread-adoption-of-age-verification-technologies-in-canada/](https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2024/01/bill-s-210-is-just-the-beginning-how-a-canadian-digital- ... ⌘ Read more