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Show HN: Slack group for SaaS teams to close deals with 0% customer financing
by jameslewis | 2025-07-14 13:09:49+00:00
Hey HN!

We kept seeing the same issue in SaaS sales: a buyer wants to commit to an annual deal but can’t pay upfront, and the deal stalls.

So we set up a Slack group where SaaS teams can: - Check if a customer is eligible for financing - Request 0% financing proposals - Offer monthly payments on annual contracts

All done through a simple Slack conversation. Why Slack? We’re starting here to learn quickly before building out the full platform.

It’s for SaaS companies in the US and UK selling contracts worth $15k / £15k and up.

Join here: https://lemon.co/join-community

Looking forward to hearing what you think.
by decimalenough | 2025-07-14 13:09:56+00:00
China is very affected and has been tightening the screws hard. The situation really blew up when a Chinese actor was lured to Thailand, kidnapped across the border and forced to work in a scam center:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Wang_Xing

There was even a Chinese blockbuster movie about this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_More_Bets

But the scammer choose lawless places like Myanmar for a reason and while China can exert pressure on individual bigwigs, they can't stop those small enough to fly under the radar.
by walrus01 | 2025-07-14 13:10:16+00:00
> I wish this article went into more details on what the "National Information Network" is.

It's AS12880, the state owned telecom company which all ISPs are obligated to be downstream of. It operates Iran's international links to other global scale ISPs via Turkey and other paths.

https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/12880

https://bgp.he.net/AS12880

And its also government run counterpart, the "TIC"

https://bgp.he.net/AS49666#_asinfo

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=AS12880+i...
by diath | 2025-07-14 13:10:29+00:00
This was the original sort function (it was meant to force "last" to be first on the list after the sort which obviously violated the requirement):

std::sort(entries.begin(), entries.end(), [&last] (const auto &a, const auto &b) { if (last && last->getID() == a.id) { return true; } return a.time < b.time; });
by hajile | 2025-07-14 13:10:36+00:00
I accept the pay I'm offered not because it is based on the value I add, but because I know I'm getting screwed over and have no real recourse. Businesses have all the power whether you are trying to negotiate your FTE salary or a short-term 1099 contract.

If US programmers were to organize into a union and add some level of credentialism to keep out the fake programmers with no skills, I'm fairly convinced that you would see salaries increase dramatically.

Instead, because there's no unified representation, you get Microsoft laying off 9,000 people then (allegedly) trying to apply for over 14,000 H1B visas to suppress wages even further knowing there's nobody able to speak out against it.
by Aachen | 2025-07-14 13:11:01+00:00
Similarly from a hacker's point of view, I also think vulnerability reporting is in a downwards spiral. Particularly the ones organised through a platform like this just aren't reaching the right people. It used to be pgp email to whoever needs to know of it and that worked great. I have no idea if it still would today for you guys, but from my point of view it's the only reliable way to reach a human who cares about the product and not someone whose job it is to refuse bounties. I don't want bounties, I've got a day job as security consultant for that, I'm just reporting what I stumble across. Chocolate and handwritten notes are nice, but primarily I want developers and sysadmins to fix their damn software
by randomtoast | 2025-07-14 13:11:15+00:00
That's true for browsers, but Google controls both the Android OS and Google Play Services, giving them access to hardware identifiers on Android smartphones. Given the broad adoption of Android devices and the potential to correlate data, this is not a case of "making stuff up." Even if your MAC address is spoofed/randomized, the remaining data points are still sufficient to track you.
by matwood | 2025-07-14 13:11:33+00:00
This thread is full of examples of people using the tools successfully. I'm also not sure where you're getting the 1-7 days from.

And someone who has the time may learn more by doing things without AI, but that's not what's being discussed. The person you originally responded to and I said we don't have the time.

It's a bit like arguing that AI audiobooks shouldn't exist because they are worse than human read. That may or may not be true, but that's not the discussion. AI may be the only reason an audiobook exist at all for certain books. AI coding is often the same way where someone can build a lot more than they could prior, even if it's imperfect, it may still solve their problem.
by voidUpdate | 2025-07-14 13:12:04+00:00
Sending a dudebro to mars would be much easier I think. It's still cold and you'd need a specialised quadbike (electric?), but seeing as martian travel is on the cards for some point in the future, you might see martian quadbike racing in your lifetime. However there are still the same food/water/oxygen issues, since it's a 9 month trip each way
by jandrese | 2025-07-14 13:13:04+00:00
Given the long life and low mass of solar panels it's not clear to me that recycling is a noticeable environmental win. I'm also surprised that they list the landfill cost as $1-$5 per panel. That's extremely expensive unless they're calculating the labor and gas cost of removing a single panel and driving it out to the dump one at a time.
by shadowtree | 2025-07-14 13:13:29+00:00
Canada: January 2026(!)

Novo lawyers messed up, didn't renew the patent filing over a payment dispute. Hilarity is ensuing.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/09/hims-hers-generic-semaglutid...

And once generics for GLP-1s are going in Canada, Section 804 of the FD&C act becomes VERY interesting: https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/reports/importation-program-un...

Reimports of generics from Canada into the US here. we. go.
by latexr | 2025-07-14 13:13:50+00:00
> You could charge a fee and give the money back if the report is wrong but seems well-intentioned.

That idea was considered and rejected in the article:

> People mention charging a fee for the right to submit a security vulnerability (that could be paid back if a proper report). That would probably slow them down significantly sure, but it seems like a rather hostile way for an Open Source project that aims to be as open and available as possible. Not to mention that we don’t have any current infrastructure setup for this – and neither does HackerOne. And managing money is painful.
by drweevil | 2025-07-14 13:14:26+00:00
>“In the world of conspiracy theories, evidence that disproves something happened becomes proof that something happened,” says Rothschild.

Forget conspiracy theories. This isn't acceptable in any setting (for example, as stated by Farid, in a chain of custody situation). There are entirely too many coincidences, but the obfuscations and evasions by the relevant authorities are baffling. It's as if they were inviting conspiracy theories.
by mvieira38 | 2025-07-14 13:15:10+00:00
This list manages to be mostly correct while still spreading FUD. These can all be tracked, but the threat actors are very much uncoordinated in exploiting this info, and much of it (especially things like keystroke and mouse fingerprinting) is expensive to track en masse.

Just using Firefox with uBlock, no history, and privacy settings on max, through a somewhat trustworthy VPN like Mullvad will make your data mostly useless. Yeah, "they" could still catch you in a million ways, but if your threat model revolves mostly around surveillance capitalism you'll just be too much of a hassle to matter
by randlet | 2025-07-14 13:15:19+00:00
Talk to your Dr obviously, but you may just be running too fast. There's lots of Couch to 5k programs that start off with 30s run intervals with walking in between.

With running you need to play the long game and slowly build up your pace, total mileage, and number of weekly training days. It's hard to be patient, but it seems to be the secret to minimizing training injuries.
by grimre4p | 2025-07-14 13:15:55+00:00
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by dylan604 | 2025-07-14 13:16:27+00:00
Aricebo did not produce the same kind of imagination inspiring images that Hubble or JWST do. Aricebo lost out on it was too nerdy in its science where the visible spectrum platforms can also reach a more artsy demographic.

Compare Arecibo: https://www.popsci.com/article/technology/historic-space-ima...

To JWST/Hubble: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&q=Hubble+and+JWST+images&ia=ima...
by bit1993 | 2025-07-14 13:16:49+00:00
AI slop is rapidly destroying the WWW, most of the content is becoming more and more low-quality and difficult to tell if its true or hallucinated. Pre-AI web content is now more like the golden-standard in terms of correctness, browsing the Internet Archive is much better.

This will only cause content to go behind pay-walls, allot of open-source projects will be closed source not only because of the increased work maintainers have to do to not only review but also audit patches for potential AI hallucinations but also because their work is being used to train LLMs and re-licensed to proprietary.
by footlose_3815 | 2025-07-14 13:17:56+00:00
>Esp when the lowest setting isn't even meant to be purchased

Yes, I'm glad they finally went to 16/18GB for the new processors.

M3 non-pro processors were shipping with 8GB. That was less than a year ago.

>People are still using OG M1 macs because they're still very capable machines.

If precedent holds up, they won't be for long. The 8GB M1s are already dead in enterprise. There's m1 8GB airs out there that are next on the obsolete block. Soon, some basic web browsing + the OS updates will throttle it to barely usable. (Still better life than a Chromebook, but low bar).

On an enterprise level, the 8GB M1s are no longer deployable for us. Add antivirus, a zoom call, slack, mail, calendar, and a few SaaS app tabs, and it's not usable.

Every yearly OS update there's closed-source overhead that's introduced to the users silently. After dealing with macs for 10+ years, it's the one of only things I can rely on.

Old macs work great until you give them updates, or run modern software on them. Or until a few years after they change chip designs.

As for trusting them to maintain the headroom a few years from now, I really doubt it. They will find a way to fill that headroom, they always do. My 16GB M1 pro practically dies trying to run Logic Pro now. All my shiny expensive intel macs of the 2019 series are now basically paperweights. They don't get extra years of good use like the M1 does. They're no longer deployed because they all started having performance issues right-on-schedule. i9, 32GB RAM goes for $400 on Ebay right now. Lower specced models going for ~$200. A huge loss in value and performance.
by anonzzzies | 2025-07-14 13:18:19+00:00
We already see it; the combination of job-hopping & AI are a perfect storm really.

From launch to failure is definitely getting fast-tracked; few months ago we had yet another hospital system that just lost data; reading the code (no tests, no peer reviews; they don't use versioning) shows clear signs of LLMs; many files that do almost the same thing, many similar function names that do almost the same thing or actually the same thing, strange solutions to trivial problems, etc. The problem was that there was a script ran at startup which added an admin user, but if an admin user already exists, it truncates the table. No idea why, but it wasn't discovered earlier because after testing by the devs it was put live, devs left (contractors) and it just ran without issues until the ec2 instance needed maintenance by aws and was as such rebooted after which all users were gone. Good stuff. They paid around 150k for it; that is not a lot in our field but then to get this level of garbage is rather frightening. This was not life threatening, but I know if it was, it would not be better as you cannot make this crap up.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-14 13:18:33+00:00
There’s more to this story than AI slop:

> The general trend so far in 2025 has been way more AI slop than ever before (about 20% of all submissions)

Of course that 20% of AI slop submissions are not good, but there’s an overarching problem with juniors clamoring for open source contributions without having the skills or abilities to contribute something useful.

They heard that open source contributions gets jobs, so they spam contributions to famous projects.
by Nasrudith | 2025-07-14 13:18:50+00:00
Ideologies have associated talking points. If you start spouting 'blood and soil' rhetoric don't be surprised or offended when people start to call you a Nazi.

In this case communism's obsession with talking about Capitalism as a proper noun as distributed process as if it was a monolithic discrete object with clear intentions and something which can be 'abolished' with no idea as to what the particulars would entail.
by oger | 2025-07-14 13:19:09+00:00
The topic of per-country pricing was mentioned several times.

I was wondering how big the price differences would be so I set up a quick form to collect some data points from several countries and for several products.

It would be cool if you could provide some data - I would then share it back as a reply to this thread within 1-2 days after closing the survey. The latest data entry will be possible on Sunday.

https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/DjDgH62s21
by tzs | 2025-07-14 13:19:18+00:00
The planet doesn't care about arbitrary lines humans draw on their maps. It just cares about the worldwide total emissions.

Unless you can make a good argument that some humans have a natural or divine right to a bigger share of whatever total worldwide emissions budget we decide we can accept any kind of per country instead of per capita base allocation [1] make no sense.

This can be seen by considering what happens if countries split. A large country that is over their allocation in a per country system can simply split into two or more smaller countries, with the split designed so that each of the new countries has about an equal fraction of the former country's emissions.

This results in no change in the total worldwide emissions, but now that set of people that were before over their total allocation and high on the list of people that need to make big changes now are all in countries under their allocation and in the "should do something about it eventually but no need for big changes now" group of countries.

If they are clever about how they split the original large country into smaller countries they can immediately make free trade treaties and travel treaties between them that effectively make a common market with free travel like much of Europe now has so the split into multiple countries doesn't even change life much for the citizens of the new countries.

Whatever countries have now moved to the top of the "need big changes now" list because of this now have incentive to split, and so on.

[1] By base allocation I mean whatever share they would be allocated in a world with no trade. Actual allocations need to take into account people emitting more because they are making/growing things for other people which reduces the emissions directly attributable to those other people.
by IAmBroom | 2025-07-14 13:19:41+00:00
In a static universe, they absolutely would.

In a shrinking univers, they absolutely would. (But neither of these things would necessarily have already happened.)

In an expanding universe, some things will eventually so far away from black holes that they won't get "eaten". Also, they won't see them anymore, nor most of the rest of the universe.

That third option is, to our best knowledge, the one we live in.

An interesting implication is that, if intelligent life evolves several billion years from now in any given galaxy, it's galaxy might be so far away from its nearest neighbors that light from them will never reach it. That civilization's Hubble will never be able to test their crazy theory that "there could be more than one galaxy in the universe".
by ghusto | 2025-07-14 13:19:55+00:00
> Please do not perpetuate the claim that putty.org is the PuTTY website.

Ah, okay I'll be vigilant. What is it then, something like putty.com? ...

> The PuTTY website is https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ and it always has been.

... ah, I think I see the problem ...
by appreciatorBus | 2025-07-14 13:20:34+00:00
They absolutely were. Front page newspaper headlines were the bait to get you to buy, and not all dissimilar to rage bait tweets in their tactics.

The differences in my opinion: - slower timescale - discourse and outage evolved over days and weeks instead of minutes and hours - much more muted feedback mechanism - sales numbers could not tell you which headline or article drove in particular conversion - much more muted comment mechanism - people could and did write letters to the editor, including idiots and assholes, but only a small percentage were ever printed. Those that were printed, were at the very least read by someone at the paper before being approved.
by Tangurena2 | 2025-07-14 13:20:37+00:00
Very easy.

"Huff Duff" is WW2 technology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-frequency_direction_findi...

The units used for detecting and locating clandestine transmitters started WW2 as large truck mounted facilities to hand carried units (with antennas) that fit inside suitcase-sized containers.

Modern ham groups engage in transmitter hunting as part of organized events. Bunny hunting and fox hunting are alternate names for such activities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmitter_hunting

How to do it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN-c5DQFuhI

Governments use much large automated facilities:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circularly_disposed_antenna_ar... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/FRD-10
by jimkleiber | 2025-07-14 13:20:51+00:00
I'd be fine with that as a counterargument if that were the counterargument such people made. I think that's a healthy debate and dialogue, where we could learn from each other. I often think the case is they say climate change is fake and that experts are lying and everyone who has a PhD is lying to you, and those ad hominem attacks often say to me someone who feels insecure about their knowledge or has some vested interest in, say, the oil industry, for example. That was more of my outburst.

With regards to whether a private company could maintain satellites (probably with government regulation and maybe subsidy), I'm open to that. I just worry sometimes that many of these decisions are made in the "Uh oh, this public knowledge might destroy my private profits, so let us get rid of the public knowledge."
by infecto | 2025-07-14 13:20:54+00:00
Huh? This paper is about the economics or gain from adding solar powers to vehicles hence my statement that it’s a gimmick and it adds complexity (cost) for a gain that is not beneficial. Now if we were talking about marketing the vehicle, sure it perhaps drives a fun idea for buyers.

From an economic standpoint solar panels on vehicles are a gimmick.
by tejohnso | 2025-07-14 13:20:59+00:00
Yes, this was about his thoughts on the matter, not a summary or analysis of the predicament we're in. It was nice to hear honest commentary on this topic from an esteemed science communicator.

For anyone who wants more specific information about the dire situation of humanity, that's very easy to find. He mentioned Johan Rockström so you can check out his work. Or Eliot Jacobson. Or James Hansen. Or the reports that the IPCC publishes. And on Substack, Richard Crim puts out The Crisis Report regularly. It's full of detailed analysis with references to published papers.
by ouked | 2025-07-14 13:20:59+00:00
slightly off topic: I wonder if in an equivalent interview, Craig Federighi would need the same hint in the title "Interview with Apple's OS Leader Craig Federighi ", or whether his name is considered well known enough: "Interview with Craig Federighi". I wonder when its considered "safe" for a personality to stop being referred to as their job title (Founder of FaceBook, CEO of Microsoft, CEO of Spotify, CEO of ___?), and instead using their name (Zuckerberg, Nadella, ___?, Karp)...
by stevenAthompson | 2025-07-14 13:21:25+00:00
I suspect that you're right, but only because of the rise in AI.

At a certain point we'll all have AI personal assistants that are easier to use, more convenient, and less harmful to us than smartphones have historically been. The cool kids will move to the shinier new format, and the poor will continue to use the moderately dangerous, addictive, less efficient legacy tech for a long while.

Maybe these things will come in smart glasses format that we interact with primarily by voice, better smart watches that don't require a phone at all, or maybe it will be something like the star trek communicator?
by perihelions | 2025-07-14 13:21:29+00:00
China is planning to attempt that one in the next few years, following their (NET) 2028 Mars sample return,

https://spectrum.ieee.org/china-venus-mission ("News China Plans to Bring Back Samples of Venusian Clouds / A gauntlet of engineering challenges await a search for evidence of alien life")

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jvl3hb5wle4igkd4qgzk2wrt/po...
by bell-cot | 2025-07-14 13:21:34+00:00
> The solution is a centralized knowledge system that actually captures information in your organization and makes time for people to own, read and write said documentation. Because if you don’t, every new project will have to tiptoe around yesteryears old mysterious baggage.

That central knowledge system sounds lovely - but I don't see it happening except at maybe a few huge and bureaucratic orgs. Or in some very-heavily regulated industries. And everybody's heard about Boeing's dubious documentation around their safety-critical screw-ups.

A much simpler approach, which can be implemented far below the CEO level, is to start including "how well is stuff documented?" in employee's Performance Reviews.
by Vvector | 2025-07-14 13:22:13+00:00
I calculate it at 52 cents per panel (40 lbs a panel)

Source for the cost:

https://docs.nrel.gov/docs/fy21osti/74124.pdf one study found that disposal tipping fees at non-hazardous landfills ($26/U.S. ton) can cost less than $1 per module and less than $5 per module at hazardous waste landfills ($175/U.S. ton)