# 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.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/conv/:hash View all twts for a conversation subject.
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# Options:
# uri Filter to show a specific users twts.
# offset Start index for quey.
# limit Count of items to return (going back in time).
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# next = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://feeds.twtxt.net/hacker-news-front-page/twtxt.txt&offset=30163
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Do we need to pay billions in fees to Stripe, Block, PayPal and Visa/MC?**
In total these companies have profit in double digit billions! That's all coming from inefficiency and lack of real competition? is it totally necessary? does anyone think it possible to rival them in a decade with enough funding?
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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41275342
Points: 6
\\# Comments: 0 ⌘ Read more*
Show HN: an AI copilot for Next.js developers
Hey HN! I'm Andrew, one of the creators of Glass, a copilot for Next.js and React developers.
Glass appears as a chat bar on your locally running Next.js server, and you can tell it to make changes like "build a dashboard" or "add a login button". Glass makes the changes to your sourcecode in real-time. Our goal with Glass is to automate away the easy but slow parts of frontend development, like locating the right file to edit, writing tailwind by trial-and-error, and copy-pasting boilerplate from Cla ... ⌘ Read more
Ask HN: Why are AI generated images so shiny/glossy?**
I’ve noticed a lot of the time you can tell an image is AI generated because it has a shiny/glossy lighting look to it.
Has anyone figured out why this is the case?
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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41262547
Points: 7
\\# Comments: 1 ⌘ Read more*
Launch HN: Manaflow (YC S24) – Automate repetitive office work in tables
Hey HN! We’re Austin, Lawrence, and Wesley from Manaflow ( https://manaflow.ai). Manaflow is a spreadsheet where each column represents a step instruction of a task and each row represents an AI agent executing a case of the task. With one click, you can execute thousands of tasks involving data retrieval, gluing APIs, and taking actions.
Here’s a video demo: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwaaqjHGkT4](https://www.youtube.co ... ⌘ Read more
I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it
Article URL: [https://www.socratic-method.com/quote-meanings-interpretations/evelyn-beatrice-hall-i-disapprove-of-what-you-say-but-i-will-defend-to-the-death-your-right-to-say-it](https://www.socratic-method.com/quote-meanings-interpretations/evelyn-beatrice-hall-i-disapprove-of-what-you-say-but-i-will-defend-to-the-death-your ... ⌘ Read more
Show HN: COBOL-REKT, a toolkit for analysing and reverse-engineering COBOL
This is an evolving toolkit of capabilities helpful for analysing and reverse engineering legacy Cobol code. Currently, the following capabilities are available:
\\- Program / Section-level flowchart generation based on AST (SVG or PNG)
\\- Parse Tree generation (with export to JSON)
\\- Control Flow Tree generation (with export to JSON)
\\- Allows embedding code comments as comment nodes in the graph
\\- The SMOJOL Interpreter (WIP)
\\- Injecting AST ... ⌘ Read more
Show HN: SandFaux – Your Sandbox and Our Faux Data
After countless (TRULY COUNTLESS) hours of manually seeding and resetting Salesforce sandboxes for our sales demos and integration testing, we couldn’t take it anymore.
SandFaux started as an internal tool for this tedious process, but after a few customers asked for access, we decided to productize it & make it publicly available for anyone to use!
This was really just the starting point for our internal tool. We want to also add:
\\\\* Text Prompting for Scenarios
\\\\* Custom Fields
\\\\* C ... ⌘ Read more*