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Building a Custom CTA URL Shortener – Need Your Feedback
Hey everyone! I'm planning to build a URL shortener with a custom CTA overlay, similar to Sniply. Instead of just redirecting users, this tool will allow you to:
Add a CTA button to any page you share
Customize text, button color, and position
Track CTA clicks vs. link clicks
Display a small overlay or modal before redirection
Example Use Case:
A marketer sharing an article can embed a CTA like "Sign up for my newsletter" without modifying the original page.
Befo ... ⌘ Read more
Ask HN: Are chimps smarter than humans?**
How can I suggest such a thing?
For these reasons:
1) Chimps can speak human, but humans cannot speak chimp.
2) Chimps have incredible visual memory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsXP8qeFF6A
Their lack of "human-like world conquering" could perhaps be explained by other factors besides raw intelligence: missing written symbol system; possibly less dexterity for fine motor skills; "socially/morally crippled" by primitive tribalism over judicious cooperation
It strikes me we s ... ⌘ Read more
OpenTelemetry in Practice: Useful, but Not the Endgame for Users
Article URL: [https://sysrant.com/posts/opentelemetry-in-practice-useful-but-not-the-endgame-for-users/https://sysrant.com/posts/opentelemetry-in-practice-useful-but-not-the-endgame-for-users/](https://sysrant.com/posts/opentelemetry-in-practice-useful-but-not-the-endgame-for-users/https://sysrant.com/posts/opentelemetry-in-pra ... ⌘ Read more
Apples and oranges: AI's incommensurability problem
AI's struggle with incommensurable values—decisions like justice versus public safety—poses a significant challenge to agentic AI. Allan McCay's recent article delves into this issue, highlighting how AI's optimization focus may lead to choices misaligned with human judgment. Addressing this 'incommensurability problem' is crucial for developing AI systems that can navigate complex, value-laden decisions effectively. See here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s0 ... ⌘ Read more
Ask HN: Good small LLM for text correction?**
I’ve been playing with local models for handling text correction, aka grammar and spelling in multilingual text.
Most models with less than 20b parameters struggle to do that, even instruct models.
For example, they tend to answer questions from the text instead of correcting the mistakes. Strict prompting not to do so only partially helps. They always tend to add or remove sentences of there own.
Are there any good small models for text correction or is that just not a task L ... ⌘ Read more
Does ChatGPT copy stuff into my editor?**
I know I may sound like a nutjob, or I think I absolutely do, to be perfectly honest. This being my first post here, I feel like a Wicca teenager who calls the Vatican to ask for an exorcism. Am I under attack? What is this?
I've noticed it a couple of times before and I thought I must be paranoid, but it does happen and it's scary: Somehow ChatGPT stuff ends up in my editor magically, usually single lines, and right now I'm 100% sure I did not type this and I could not have copied ... ⌘ Read more
Show HN: An Almost Free, Open Source TURN Server
Hi HN,
I have been messing around with WebRTC for a few years now but when it comes to the TURN server I never quite got to my gold standard of free, self-hosted and open source. I decided to give it a go using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's free tier, meaning that my total spend got down to domain name hosting. I know plenty of people have been burnt by Oracle in the past, but I have had servers running on the free tier for 5 years now without so ... ⌘ Read more
Ask HN: Leaderboard for an HTML5 Game
What websites provide a free leaderboard service? I'm not looking for any that require uploading to their site like gamejolt, this is for an itch.io game.
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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43510666
Points: 1
\# Comments: 0 ⌘ Read more*
Show HN: LocalPics – A zero-dependency local media viewer written in Go
I have no found any simple, lightweight tools for quickly browsing media files on my computer. Sometimes I just want to view a folder of images, videos, or code files through a nice interface without uploading anything to the cloud or processing a lot of files for big directories.
So I built LocalPics, a portable Go application that creates a beautiful local web interface for browsing your media files. Point it at any directory, and it instantly serves a respons ... ⌘ Read more
Ask HN: What's your Best Advice for becoming a successful crypto/stock trader?**
I’ve been trying daily trading in crypto and have read several books on trading, including Trading in the Zone and on Technical Analysis.
If there are successful daily stock or crypto traders here, what other good books or resources would you recommend for becoming a better trader? What things have helped you improve the most?
Moreover, if you use software development to make better-informed trading decisions, what have you found to be the mo ... ⌘ Read more