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Show HN: DeepLinkNow, a privacy-first deferred deep linking SaaS for devs
by jascination | 2025-07-06 10:42:09+00:00
Hey HN! James from DLN here.

DeepLinkNow (DLN) is a deferred deep linking SaaS. For those who don't know, "deep linking" is when a URL is used to open an app to a specific page; "deferred deep linking" is used when you send a user a link, they click it, they don't have your app installed, they install it, and you "defer" the place they intended to go and launch it for them.

An example: I share a link a post in my cool new social app. You click the link. You don't have the app installed. If/when you install the app, DLN tells the app the link you were looking for and the app can route you where it needs to.

Why I built DLN: I wrote a blog post about it https://deeplinknow.com/blog/why-I-built-this .

Long story short, the leading platforms for deep linking are AD PLATFORMS. Their main value is MMP/PPC ad performance marketing, and they nefariously track users all over the internet to capture as much information about them as possible.

I track nothing. I don't care what ad your users clicked, I delete fingerprints as soon as they're accessed or expired. You can BYO analytics tools (you already use them anyway!) and use them. I'm just here to send your users to the right place.

I've got some video guides here to give you an idea of how it all works: https://deeplinknow.com/docs/guides

Anyway, that's my shpiel. I'm coming out of beta now and am ready for public users. Would love for you to check it out, and if you're a business who uses deferred deep linking - I want your business! I'm actively building features that my users request and want to make the world of cross-platform tracking both privacy and developer friendly.
by diggan | 2025-07-06 10:44:01+00:00
Right, but when actually working on UIs, do you need to replay the actual side-effects of those things, or just whatever happened before/after of that?

Personally I split those things up into two parts, and only iterate on the UI with "static data" that either exists before, during or after. So testing/iterating on things like "Click button, loading animation plays while network request is in flight, show success/failure" is essentially 4-5 "static" states, and you don't really have to care about what happens in-between much except for corner-cases.
by justinclift | 2025-07-06 10:44:36+00:00
Gen 11 HPE Microservers seem pretty decent:

https://buy.hpe.com/us/en/compute/tower-servers/proliant-mic...

Pity they're Intel cpu's though. :(

HPE have announced 12th Gen servers for their other lines recently, so maybe the Microservers will get a 12th Gen update this year too. Hopefully with AMD cpus rather than the Intel crap.
by haunter | 2025-07-06 10:45:33+00:00
There are 2 Volvos

- Volvo Cars, a chinese company owned by Geely. Formerly a part of Volvo Group/AB Volvo aka "The Volvo" people usually reference.

- Volvo Group/AB Volvo, which is still the original Volvo from 1927.

Volvo Trucks is part of Volvo Group not Volvo Cars

The two companies share name and logo
by bodge5000 | 2025-07-06 10:45:34+00:00
Price/income increases don't happen in a vacuum, it takes a while for it to become normal. If you got a £50 bonus and decide to get yourself to a McDonalds, only to find they've raised the price of their burgers to £50, would you still buy the burger? Your situation would be the same as before so logically you would, but of course you wouldn't. That price increase has overall lost Mcdonalds money, since now you're not buying anything (assuming everything else they sell also went up a proportional amount).

Obviously there are essentials that can effectively be at any price and you have to pay them if you can afford them, but everything else is fair game.
by GardenLetter27 | 2025-07-06 10:46:51+00:00
Europe.

Although I wouldn't pin it just on mass immigration, but also economic malaise from short-sighted decisions (stopping nuclear power and fracking and just importing energy) and being so weak on crime.

Like in Sweden we pay ~50% income tax plus 25% VAT, etc. so you can barely save up, so even as a professional engineer I can't afford a car or a house instead of an apartment (also as my wife is still looking for work). Meanwhile terrible criminals like the Nytorgsmannen got only ~5 years in prison for over 25 rapes, and was living in a rent-controlled apartment in central Stockholm! I wouldn't be able to afford that at market rates!

But the far-right party also sucks, just making it harder on decent non-Swedes like myself and my wife (doubled the time to citizenship for example), while doing nothing about the aforementioned criminals (the Nytorgsmannen is actually Swedish too).

There is no common sense party that'll just put criminals in prison and embrace economic growth (no AI act, etc.) and free markets and competition - hopefully Elon Musk's new party will do well, and a sort of Musk-Zubrin-Kuan Yew-Bukele pragmatism will become popular.

For closer to what the OP is referring to, see the riots in the UK last year.
by masklinn | 2025-07-06 10:47:39+00:00
While that is true (even if some people really want to stream read zips and will thus trigger tar-style conflicts) that is not what the article is about. The article is really more about software using the "size of central directory" field to find the central directory (a sin Python's standard library apparently commits) versus the "offset of central directory".

A commenter on an other post of that article noted that technically there's no reason for the central directory to be right before the EOCD so seeking backwards from the EOCD by the size of CD is just incorrect. In fact zip was designed such that the central directory could be split across multiple disks (and later files), so it was not possible to guarantee a simple backwards jump from the EOCD to the start of CD.
by audunw | 2025-07-06 10:48:21+00:00
“now”? At what point has there been good accountability of secret services? Given what we know of their history it has arguably been even worse before.

Perhaps some smaller countries have had secret services with an apparently clean record (would be hard to know for sure) at some point. But that could be more a matter of luck with who was in charge and hired at that point.
by bregma | 2025-07-06 10:48:50+00:00
You just wear your dirty clothes in the shower. No worry about shrinking or stretching either. They will even air dry while you're wearing them if carrying a second set of clothes is not an option.

The big problem with traveling without any bags at all is that you get flagged by security for extra attention. Turns out terrorists are too cheap to buy a set of luggage and a return ticket if they're just going to blow themselves up.
by spacecadet | 2025-07-06 10:48:59+00:00
My family has owned a excavating business since the 60s and you would see my pop and think he is some typical backwoods Mainer, but we have always purchased Volvo, Hitachi, Komatsu. A few times at our peak Volvo even invited us down to their US test facility to dig wholes all day. That was fun. Ive owned several Volvo cars, PV544, P1800, 240, 740. I tell you- Its great they are back in the hands of the Swedes. We love a classic Peterbilt, but they are not worth their cost in this day.
by jongjong | 2025-07-06 10:49:19+00:00
This is inferior to random selection because this still has the issue that the candidate could claim to hold certain positions, but once voted in, they may not follow through on any of them. The reality of our current democracy is that anyone who manages to even step onto the arena is likely already bought and paid for. There's a candidate with a prepared narrative to appeal to every kind of fool under the sun. With random selection, you'll get average people, their stated positions hardly matter because once all seats of congress and the senate have been filled with random people, their values will almost certainly reflect the true values of average citizens. That's how probability works.

With the current approach to voting; all the candidates you get to choose from have already been pre-screened for: 1. Thirst for power and 2. Alignment with the interests of big capital holders (who paid for their campaigns in order to get to this stage).

This is a horrible pre-screening process.
by rationably | 2025-07-06 10:49:28+00:00
The age of "vibe coding" is upon us.

- Introduction section in the privacy policy:

Flask App ("we", "our", or "us") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data.

- Contact us section, also in the privacy policy:

Email: privacy@worldnewsmonitor.com Phone: +1 (123) 456-7890 Address: 123 Main St, City, Country
by hnlmorg | 2025-07-06 10:50:07+00:00
It’s very common for organisations to only give expensive MS Office licenses to a subset of employees while the rest rely on O365 or Google Docs.

Then you have people on Linux or macOS who might also use LibreOffice, Apples Office suite, or something else entirely.

And given MS Office is the de facto standard, you’ll often see people open OOXML documents within non-MS office suites.

After all, OOXML is an open standard (sarcasm).

ODF (the document formats favoured by most other office suites) is also ZIP-based XML. So they too could be vulnerable.
by GardenLetter27 | 2025-07-06 10:51:14+00:00
The issue is the market. These things are possible because of the skewed market.

There are far more men than women on dating apps, women don't buy the boosts, etc.

So you are paying for exposure in that skewed market.

If it were a complete free-for-all then women would get thousands of messages a day and not use the apps at all.
by vladgur | 2025-07-06 10:51:40+00:00
Speaking of “complaining about stupid government rules”, I’m currently waiting to board a flight back to SFO from Europe and one thing that I have missed through my southern Europe vacation are the rules prohibiting smoking in or around the restaurant.

This is what I got used to in California but unfortunately should you find a fantastic outdoor restaurant table to enjoy the European sunset, chances are somebody will be smoking right next to you and your kid.
by noufalibrahim | 2025-07-06 10:52:19+00:00
I agree. I do have a bunch of aliases that allow me to send the output of a command into an Emacs buffer, that open a file, open a file as root, open a file on a specific line and things like that which smoothen out the flow. However, I'm much more comfortable in the Emacs+Terminal environment than in pure Emacs.
by dataflow | 2025-07-06 10:52:32+00:00
No stance on your conclusion but your arguments are... poor. "Why was nothing said about the western nation entering the war so late despite what they knew? Isn't the obvious answer that. Because that’s not justice, merely retribution." No, it's because you're presenting a false dichotomy? It would've obviously come with huge risks, costs, and more deaths. It's not like there was a big red "Deliver Justice" button they could've pressed to deliver justice anywhere anytime for free, and they somehow refused to press it. The world had already been through World War I, and you can imagine they neither wanted to get closer to another one, nor did people want to risk their own deaths or suicide. You can hate the west all you want for not entering the war earlier or whatever else, but at least maybe do it with something a little stronger than a strawman?
by Dylan16807 | 2025-07-06 10:53:05+00:00
"categorically wrong" is a rather uncharitable way to describe you and me using different connotations of the word "iterate". Especially when you pulled "on the added code" out of nowhere.

To stabilize the filesystem he needs to iterate on the code that has been there for a while, to add more debugging and fallbacks for error situations. In this case he wanted to add a new fallback.
by apples_oranges | 2025-07-06 10:53:22+00:00
You know I agree. And it made me win far less from crypto than I would have if I weren’t a skeptic from the start. But recently something changed my mind:

Friends from an occupied territory visited on their travels and they said they can only pay with cash since their cards do not work in the let’s say „free world“ (my wording not theirs). And they said how difficult it is to live without a CC. You can’t get a hotel room in many places.

This made me reconsider my stance on using cash and I started doing it again just so it survives.

But let’s say cash goes away, in that case we _need_ an alternative that cannot be censored, blocked or otherwise cancelled.

And this could be Bitcoin (or let’s say litecoin - my favorite)!

But yes so many scams and as you say misconceptions everywhere. People don’t understand money and they think whatever promoters tell them to think.
by daishi55 | 2025-07-06 10:53:51+00:00
ChatGPT is the 5th most-visited website on the planet and growing quickly. that’s one of many popular products. Hardly call that unwilling. I bet only something like 8% of Instagram users say they would pay for it. Are we to take this to mean that Instagram is an unpopular product that is rbi g forced on an unwilling public?
by zkmon | 2025-07-06 10:54:10+00:00
The layers are part of the evolution. We may like to credit ourselves with great inventions which built these layers, but it is like trees claiming to create the wind, rivers claiming to create water flow etc. Humans are just facilitators or vehicles that carry the wind of change. We don't cause the change. The change has selected the agents who showed least resistance to the change. Then the agents gloriously claimed that they caused the change.
by spacecadet | 2025-07-06 10:54:48+00:00
In short. Yes. Sorry- but you can and are able to contemplate the externalities of your creations before you create them... imo most people prefer a little delusion as a treat.

Obviously it is not black and white like this. In turn- we all have the free choice to not engage. I don't engage with 99% of contemporary market economy tech, for these reasons. Heck I still carry cash just so I can leave cash tips, or make small cash payments at stores, bribe an official, etc.
Show HN: TidyMind – I built a quiet productivity space to stop overthinking
by ddoemonn | 2025-07-06 10:56:20+00:00
Every time I sat down to work, I’d open a to-do app, a notes app, a timer, a doc, and then wonder where the day went.

So I built TidyMind — a small, clean productivity space with tasks, a focus timer, and reflection built-in.

Waitlist here if you’re into that kind of thing

Would love feedback. Still building this alone, so I’m listening.
by Eisenstein | 2025-07-06 10:57:20+00:00
No, because the money isn't being printed, it is being reallocated from whatever it would have been spent on either by the people we tax to get it, or by the government who would have spent it on other things. Proponents contend that the economy is better off when people have a baseline income so that they can invest their time in productive things which may be beneficial, like going to school, having more time to raise their children, or starting a business, or volunteering, whatever, without worrying about how they are going to feed themselves. This would be opposed to whatever tax breaks we would be giving that would end up in a trust, foundation, or a VC fund, or whatever the government would have spent it on.

Note, I have no position on whether or not it would work in this way, but that is my understanding of the position of the those in favor of it.
by talkingtab | 2025-07-06 10:58:53+00:00
The answer is yes. The answer about how bad is really bad. We humans have never before understood how essential our innate collaboration is nor. Nor have we ever understood how fragile it is. Here are some thought experiments for you.

Take a colony of ants and destroy their ability to use a pheromone trail. What happens?

Take a colony of ants and use the pheromone trail to generate "profit" for some of the ants at the cost of others.

Ants probably have little self consciousness. But add that awareness to them - essentially tell them they are being manipulated - and then perform the above two experiments again.

A good way to understand complex adaptive systems, like the ones we humans use, is to try to build some. See John Holland's "Hidden Order" for some hints on how to go about this.
by nordsieck | 2025-07-06 10:59:05+00:00
> States only believe in their own interests and the narrative always go towards the powerful and the one which won.

And depressingly, even that isn't true - states are plagued with the principal-agent problem[1], as is basically every organization.

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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...
by esperent | 2025-07-06 10:59:23+00:00
I downloaded a Quordle game on Android yesterday. It pushes you to buy a premium subscription, and you know what that gets you? AI chat inside the game.

I'm not unwilling to use AI in places where I choose. But let's not pretend that just because people do use it in one place, they are willing to have it shoved upon them in every other place.
by bell-cot | 2025-07-06 11:00:19+00:00
Larger context on that quote:

> “We didn’t know the Terminator was Ukrainian,” Fedoryshyn jokes. “But maybe a Terminator is not the worst thing that can happen? How can you be safe in some city if somebody tried to use a drone to kill you? It’s impossible. OK, you can use some jamming of radial connection, but they can use some AI systems that know visually how you look, and try to find you and kill you. I don’t think that the Terminator and the movie is the worst outcome. If this war never started, we will never have this type of weapon that is too easy to buy and is very easy to use.”

This guy's country has been locked in a brutal war, on their own soil, for how many years now, with no end in sight? I would not read that quote literally - but instead as an expression of emotional agony, for his world being a dystopian hellscape.
by ben_w | 2025-07-06 11:00:55+00:00
I think a gradual decline looks more like the Rust Belt expanding to cover the whole country, than like Germany and Japan in 1945.

But there's a few different ways that it could all come like that, and not just Trump or his team making a huge mistake: Despite how long it has been known that solar flares and HAEMPs could damage the power grid in a way that kills 60-90% of the population before it can be fixed, I have no reason to think the USA has actually hardened its infrastructure against such risks.
by danaris | 2025-07-06 11:01:14+00:00
...The Mac menu bar is what it is for a very good reason. Being at the top of the screen makes it an infinitely-tall target.

All you have to do to get to it is move your mouse up until you can't move it up any more.

This remains a very valuable aspect to it no matter what changes in the vogue of UIs have come and gone since.

The fact that you think that you've "minimized the application" when you minimized a window just shows that you are operating on a different (not better, not worse, just different) philosophy of how applications work than the macOS designers are.
Visual AI Brain Simulator: Create Synaptic Logic Paths from Natural Language
by symbol_reasoner | 2025-07-06 11:01:44+00:00
I built a logic engine simulator that generates sequence diagrams, variable networks, and formula flows directly from natural language input.

It's a visual tool for reasoning: users can input statements like "gravity(earth → object)" and see how variables propagate, even without predefined formulas.

This is the "safe version" — no core algorithm or AI logic is exposed, but it's fully interactive and designed to simulate how real reasoning works.

I'd love feedback on usability, potential use cases, and how this compares to LLM-based approaches.

Demo and code in the repo!

[Before learning(image)] https://i.postimg.cc/7Y8rdPFq/Figure-1-2025-07-06-3-54-57.png

[See the Brain Simulate Learning] https://youtu.be/5wTX7lzmPog

[After learning(image)] https://i.postimg.cc/mk7JBMvB/Figure-1-2025-07-06-3-56-34.png

Unlike LLMs that rely on massive training data, this system builds logical pathways from structured reasoning.
by Zambyte | 2025-07-06 11:03:01+00:00
> [...] when some ideas/marketing/vc people ideas become not realizable in the concrete world.

This is a single prediction of a problem that will occur. The tools not living up to the hype leads to disappointment, and people are likely to entirely abandon it because they got burned (throw the baby out with the bath water), even though the tools are still useful if you ignore the hype.
by protocolture | 2025-07-06 11:03:11+00:00
I remember trying to date a woman in college, she would drop what appeared to me as incredible hints, but if I acted on them she would just ignore me.

We once had a 2 hour conversation about how she just could not find a mexican restaurant in town and would do /anything/ to eat at one. So I found one (willed it into existence) and then she simply wasn't interested.

Thing was, I dont really care about the rejection so much as, it was super easy for me to have relatively deep and interesting conversation with a total stranger. This wasn't even the first one, previous conversations about "Why are cities taking up valuable agricultural land" and "The best gifts to buy a woman are power tools" went down much the same way.

If people are convinced that the conversation to be rejected in cant even take place then I guess I understand concerns about the birthrate a little more.
by msgodel | 2025-07-06 11:03:16+00:00
>If you open a government S&P 500 account for everyone with $1,000 at birth that’ll pay their social security cause it like…goes up…wait who’s creating this value again

It changes with production, if production shrinks it shrinks. This is exactly what you need with a retirement account, otherwise you end up with a situation like the UK where the pension system is crushing the workers.
by blincoln | 2025-07-06 11:03:46+00:00
Are you sure the extended warranty would have covered it?

I paid for an extended warranty on the first car I ever bought. Turned out it didn't cover any of the things the salesperson cited as good reasons to pay for it, and to maintain the warranty, I'd have to pay the dealer for all maintenance - even oil changes.

That car never needed any repairs, but seeing the list of exclusions convinced me to never pay for an extended warranty again.
by jFriedensreich | 2025-07-06 11:04:35+00:00
There is a sweet spot in between those two extremes if you stop trying to build a compromise of a UI for both, touch screens and desktops. (sadly we still do not have the reality demoed by apple and google 10 years ago, where touch screens have hover detection, maybe XR gaze detection will bring this) You can pack extreme amounts of features without cluttering the interface or sacrificing discoverability by only showing most features on hovering certain areas. This is risk and effort free from user perspective, as users are much more explorative when no clicking is involved and it is clear an interaction will not trigger features by accident in the discovery process.

Im especially passionate about this because having ADHD makes one sensitive to irrelevant stimuli in the periphery but being a power user for most software the dumbification of software happening since mobile apps drives me insane. I want software where a feature being used by the top 5 to 10 % power users once a month is not being ripped out if that once a month use provides high value for that group.