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Show HN: I Built an AI C. Extension That Finds Perfect LinkedIn Leads in Seconds
by AppMaestro | 2025-08-04 15:19:14+00:00
After 7 days of non-stop coding (and too much coffee), I built a Chrome Extension to fix a personal pain: spending hours on LinkedIn trying to find good leads, writing awkward messages, and constantly second-guessing myself.

It’s called LinkedIn AI Lead Assistant — a lightweight Chrome extension that runs on Gemini 2.5 Pro (plus 2.5 Flash, 1.5 Pro, and more) to instantly tell if a LinkedIn profile is a good lead.

It’s fast, simple, and surprisingly smart. You can:

Auto-analyze any LinkedIn profile Get lead quality scores instantly Choose from 7 message tones Pick short, medium, or long outreach drafts See what the lead cares about based on profile signals

I built it solo in VS Code using `manifest.json`, `popup.html`, `popup.js`. No external database—just local storage and real-time AI.

The extension runs entirely on-device until you hit “Analyze.” Then Gemini 2.5 Pro does the heavy lifting.

If you’re in sales, recruiting, or just tired of guessing who to message on LinkedIn, I’d love for you to try it let me know what you think.
by hnlmorg | 2025-08-04 15:19:19+00:00
Interesting reading that because the trackers I used didn’t support sampling. If I recall correctly, they were just tone generators. So you had to define waveforms like you might for a VSTi in a modern (by comparison) sequencer. Albeit without the fancy UI of a VSTi, any piano roles, nor the drag-and-drop placement of bars of music.

It was kind of like writing music in hexadecimal.

I wasn’t particularly good at it though. I much preferred the workflow of a sequencer to a tracker.
by doubled112 | 2025-08-04 15:19:36+00:00
I have always had a hard time convincing people that I don’t have a headache, I have a migraine. The pain is not guaranteed, but I am still useless.

One of my worst examples was that I made it to work on the bus, and immediately had to take off. I was pretty nauseous by the time I made it home, and should I have been found throwing up in a bush, nobody would have believed “I have a migraine”. To the drunk tank with me, at 930am.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-08-04 15:19:42+00:00
Right so a single example proves your point and destroys the entire concept of trendlines. We should stop the use of trendlines immediately.

Why don’t you take a more realistic look at it. Trendlines predict things. They don’t guarantee things.

You want to make a prediction based off of bullshit? Or if you want to make a prediction based off of a trendline. I pick the later. You pick the former because of one example.
by harimau777 | 2025-08-04 15:19:44+00:00
I think that part of the problem is that life in rural areas tends to be worse than life in cities. Rural communities tend to be intollerant of people who don't match their ideal of acceptable humanity. Even if that could be fixed, you have the problem that rural areas simply can't have the concentration of amenities that cities do.

Certainly there will always be a certain percentage of the population that likes living in rural areas, but all things being equal I think that most people would rather live in cities.
by bumbledraven | 2025-08-04 15:19:48+00:00
Do you have a citation for this? The most Gemini could say is: "While research has not identified a specific tsunami stone located at the Fukushima Daiichi site that was directly violated, the spirit of these ancient warnings was undeniably ignored." (https://aistudio.google.com/app/prompts?state=%7B%22ids%22:%...)
by RankingMember | 2025-08-04 15:20:47+00:00
Ha, I've done the same. I never thought I'd become like my old grandpa, who didn't like when TV stations started adding crawls to the bottom of the screen for certain news/information so put electric tape across the bottom of the screen.

If they're going to do LEDs, at least do red ones, which don't obliterate night vision. Making them togglable is the ideal unless they're literally a life-or-death piece of equipment.
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by aarmenaa | 2025-08-04 15:21:01+00:00
Yes. I have a family member that has had many hospital stays over the last few years, and one of the most obnoxious things is that the staff just lets everything beep. The last time we were in the emergency room the blood pressure monitor did not work and the staff didn't notice for over an hour. Even when it does work, they're constantly in an alarm state because patient has chronic high blood pressure. They either can't or won't silence the alarms, so every room is beeping, the nurse's station is beeping, their phones are beeping, and it's all being ignored. It's the very definition of alert fatigue.
by kstrauser | 2025-08-04 15:21:07+00:00
PHP is so hard for me to describe. I used it a lot in the late 90s when we were migrating off mod_perl because it was a great way to add dynamic data to otherwise static pages, and no one really knew how to develop large sites yet. We were making it up as we went along. But ye gods, the language was bad. “A poor craftsman blames his tools” and all that, but imagine a screwdriver with 2 handles and 3 tips projecting at random angles. Sure, you could assemble an IKEA desk with it, but would you want to? And would you look suspiciously at anyone who claimed to love that weird screwdriver when the equivalent of a Snap-On was available for free from the same place they got the weirdo?

I think that’s the root of much of the horror. No one would bat an eye at using PHP to add little bits of server-side content here and there. It’s great for that! But then you see the giant castles of non-Euclidean horror built with it, and people pointing to them and saying “see what you can built with that weird screwdriver?”, and parts of the castles randomly fall off and kill their owners. No! While that’s impressive, it doesn’t exactly inspire confidence in the screwdriver, or in the people who keep using it to build things larger than it was clearly able to do well. But heaven help you if you point out that there are saner screwdrivers. “You’re just being close minded and out of touch! We added another handle to it and removed the razor blade so it’s much better now!”

Maybe so, but wow, it’s still one hell of an odd screwdriver.
by sofixa | 2025-08-04 15:21:38+00:00
> You mention "checks and balances" but which ones are you referring to? All three branches of government are controlled by the same party. Perhaps you can clarify if I'm mistaken, but you seem to be referring to anti-democratic putative "checks" within the executive branch. Those are nowhere in the constitution.

Didn't the Supreme Court, stacked by Republicans, decide that Presidents on official business are immune to prosecution, on a case against a Republican president? That's one massive check eviscerated for political reasons.

> Republicans defunding NPR, which spent the last five years calling republicans and white people "racist.

What the fuck are you on. Please provide sources, let's at least once a month, of NPR calling "republicans and white people" racist. I'd be shocked if you can find one single instance of that (other than, of course, legitimate cases such as JD Vance saying that Haitian migrants are eating pets, which was something he himself admitted to inventing, and clearly racist).
by fwip | 2025-08-04 15:21:43+00:00
Looking at their comment history - they're just a garden-variety conspiracy theorist who think Jews control the world.

Some selected comments:

* sarcastic use of "gentiles are evil": https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=43139725

* "dig deeper" with a Jewish-founded company: https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=39043221

* repeated sarcastic reference to "chosen people" : https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=42723812 , https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=43412398
by Traster | 2025-08-04 15:21:45+00:00
Woah woah woah woah woah. You've missed the obvious conclusion of what Adam Jackson CEO of Braintrust is saying. The obvious conclusion is that Adam Jackson is a liar. Oh yeah, you would think that this AI slop bucket at the front of our interview process would deter people - but the guy whose stock compensation depends on it working is very happy to lie that it doesn't.
by cnst | 2025-08-04 15:21:47+00:00
I'm happy for anyone who can make a use out of it, and it's nice to see one of the only examples where non-US users are ahead of the US, but…

Do you have any Amazon ASIN for any of these products, available for sale in the US?

There's a whole bunch of random no-name IP cameras available on Amazon US, often costing as low as $15 USD, possibly because some of them are subsidised by their cloud offerings, but I've never seen any of these brands listed on OpenIPC. I'm sure some of the brands we see, are simply whitelabels, but, how do you figure these things out, without a disassembly to look at the boards?
Show HN: Sweep – Cursor Tab Alternative for JetBrains IDEs
by williamzeng0 | 2025-08-04 15:22:18+00:00
Hi HN, we’re Kevin and William from Sweep. We’ve spent the last couple of months building a custom tab model (like Cursor/Windsurf) for JetBrains IDEs. You can use the plugin in your favorite IDE via the JetBrains marketplace.

Our autocomplete is aware of your recent changes, has full-codebase context, and is exceptionally fast (200ms P50 latency). We’ve deployed this across regions in us-west, us-east, and eu!

Because we have access to the IDE, we can also use the IDE’s code graph/index to automatically lookup definitions and references across your project. This helps the LLM see the exact definition rather than having to guess.

We’ve also shipped a strong coding agent that runs faster than Claude Code with minimal performance loss.

We’d love to get your thoughts and feedback!
by evklein | 2025-08-04 15:22:20+00:00
Okay so, I gave this a shot last week while studying for one of my finals for grad school. I fed it the course study guide and had it prompt me. I got the sense that it wasn't doing anything remarkable under the hood, that it was mostly system prompt engineering at the end of the day. I studied with it for about an hour and a half, having it feed me practice questions and flashcards. I believe that it really only pushed back on me on one answer, which made me feel like I had the thing in the bag. My actual result on the final was fairly bad - which was irritating, because I went in feeling probably a bit better than I should have. I don't know if I can lay that corpse at OpenAI's feet, but regardless I don't think there's enough there for me to keep using it. I could just write my own system prompt if I liked.
by talos_ | 2025-08-04 15:22:36+00:00
This analogy doesn't map to the actual problem here.

Perplexity is not visiting a website everytime a user asks about it. It's frequently crawling and indexing the web, thus redirecting traffic away from websites.

This crawling reduces costs and improves latency for Perplexity and its users. But it's a major threat to crawled websites
by jdc0589 | 2025-08-04 15:22:43+00:00
Hard pass. Interviews are two way streets. Sure, the hiring company is the larger of the two but it is a candidate's first impression of your company and their potential future coworkers.

I use AI every day, I build AI in to products at work. I would be on board with an AI assistant to help rate/categorize/summarize job applications, but this is too much.

Unless the expectation is that my coworkers will be mostly AIs, I'd hang up and end the interview probably.
by alganet | 2025-08-04 15:22:54+00:00
It seems that you're approaching this from a "mature" standpoint against a perceived "truth at all costs" standpoint, which is commonplace.

Although a little bit more verbose, you're answer could be summed up to "You're naive and idealist, little boy" without loosing meaning. It has more words but the same amount of basic emotional architecture.

It reveals what you believe I think about the press role in society. You filled in the gaps with your imagination of what I am and popular personas.

Let's say I'm less idealistic than you imagine me to be. I could even reverse this, right? Say that you're the idealistic for believing that a new platform could avoid the mistakes of the past, but I'll only mention that in passage (I'm not assuming you're naive).

If we're all adults here, there's no reason to hide or misdirect anything. Let's consider the whole history of press then, since you came up with it. Its many turns to questionable attitude and comebacks, the many interests that might be influencing it. Do you think HN deserves to be in that same category?

I think it's an interesting question if we exclude these obvious cul de sacs ("it's about censorship", "it's about naive idealism", etc). We should not avoid it.
by dragonwriter | 2025-08-04 15:22:55+00:00
> Why wouldn't you say what the meetings were about?

In a scrum update? Usually because the meetings in question have no bearing on tasks in the sprint, and daily scrum isn't a generic rambling all-topics team chat session it is a very short timeboxed focused update on sprint tasks and the only reason to mention meetings not directly related to sprint tasks is to provide context for the absence of progress on sprint tasks.
by nromiun | 2025-08-04 15:23:10+00:00
⊢×0≠∧˝˘∧⌜∧˝ # Marshall & Dzaima (tacit!) (≠⥊∧´)˘{×(⌾⍉∧)0≠} # Dzaima & Rampoina {×(∧˝˘∧≢⥊∧˝)0≠} # Dzaima

Call me old fashioned and stuck in C style syntax but I can't imagine anyone describing this as beautiful art.
by barrystaes | 2025-08-04 15:23:11+00:00
This +

Layer one also explicitly identifies stakeholders, and describes the current (AS-IS) situation with annonated screenshots so everyone quickly sees what we are talking about.

Layer two also lists alternative solutions considered and why not chosen.

Layer three is developers making a few notes on chosen tech design, most important is the choice reasoning here.

In all layers, add and use references. Less is more, a picture beats a wall of text.
by sc68cal | 2025-08-04 15:23:30+00:00
> For example, my washing machine has an obnoxious alarm when it completes a cycle, that can fortunately be disabled via a (hidden!) menu

This is why I really appreciate my GE washer which has adopted the Japanese aesthetic of a happy little jingle when it's finished instead of the ear splitting BUZZZZZZZZ of traditional American washers.

I honestly think that some thought needs to be put into these alarms, and maybe take a note from Japan when it comes to the _tone_ of notifications.
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-08-04 15:23:47+00:00
yes plz && ty, I listen to audiobooks at bedtime and I can't put my earbuds back in the case without them turning on a super bright blue light that has actually woken up my partner in the past. Why? I can see a little pinhole status light to show me that the connection is made correctly but why outline the whole case in blue and then start flashing the percentage charge remaining in the case while also animating charging bars to show that the buds themselves are also charging? Why turn my bedroom into the landing scene from the movie ET?
by troyvit | 2025-08-04 15:24:18+00:00
> If I now go one step further and use an LLM to summarize content because the authentic presentation is so riddled with ads, JavaScript, and pop-ups, that the content becomes borderline unusable, then why would the LLM accessing the website on my behalf be in a different legal category as my Firefox web browser accessing the website on my behalf?

I think one thing to ask outside of this question is how long before your LLM summaries don't also include ads and other manipulative patterns.
by yojo | 2025-08-04 15:24:19+00:00
I don’t subscribe to technological inevitabilism.

Cloudflare banning bad actors has at least made scraping more expensive, and changes the economics of it - more sophisticated deception is necessarily more expensive. If the cost is high enough to force entry, scrapers might be willing to pay for access.

But I can imagine more extreme measures. e.g. old web of trust style request signing[0]. I don’t see any easy way for scrapers to beat a functioning WOT system. We just don’t happen to have one of those yet.

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust
by shadowgovt | 2025-08-04 15:24:29+00:00
> Otherwise there is literally no reason for them to make any of it available on the open web

This is the hypothesis I always personally find fascinating in light of the army of semi-anonymous Wikipedia volunteers continuously gathering and curating information without pay.

If it became functionally impossible to upsell a little information for more paid information, I'm sure some people would stop creating information online. I don't know if it would be enough to fundamentally alter the character of the web.

Do people (generally) put things online to get money or because they want it online? And is "free" data worse quality than data you have to pay somebody for (or is the challenge more one of curation: when anyone can put anything up for free, sorting high- and low-quality based on whatever criteria becomes a new kind of challenge?).

Jury's out on these questions, I think.
by Rooster61 | 2025-08-04 15:24:38+00:00
This is something that has been bouncing around my head for a very long time. A company that manufactured even halfway decent products that don't have endless amounts of dark patterns/planned obsolescence would quickly drive me bankrupt.

I don't think we will ever see it though, at least not en masse. No startup would be able to afford the sheer number of lawsuits filed by the companies we have slowly allowed to become fat by selling products rife with consumer-hostile "features". Not to mention traditional advertising platforms would refuse to promote their products. Too much money already flowing in from the usual bad actors.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-08-04 15:24:43+00:00
I never said any of those things?

- Men aren't inherently bad and the majority of men don't fall under this group being discussed.

- Other categories of people can have problems too? Who said they can't?

- Of course the problems facing men have societal factors. Tens of millions of boy's across the world didn't wake up and suddenly decide to be regressive and self destructive.

- The idea that the system is rigged against men is absolutely absurd. In pretty much every metric, men still have a positive bias. From education to healthcare to politics to employment. That does not, to be clear, mean will always succeed or cannot be discriminated against.

- Andrew Tate isn't "acknowledging the problems" at all. He creates a conflict by pushing a worldview incompatible with basically any moral person - sold on easy answers and an idyllic hypermasculine past that did not exist - then leverages the social damage done to the boys who experiment with those ideas to push messages as profound as "it's gay to hang out with women, even your partner". He's already sex trafficker, this is more of the same. It's just this time he's grooming young men for fascist ideology as opposed to grooming women for sex work
by tucnak | 2025-08-04 15:24:48+00:00
The rage-baiters in this thread are merely fishing for excuses to go up against "the Machine," but honestly, widely off-mark when it comes to reality of crawling. This topic has been chewed to bits long before LLM's, but only now it's a big deal because somebody is able to make money by selling automation of all things..? The irony would be strong to hear this from programmers, if only it didn't spell Resentment all over.

If you don't want to get scrapped, don't put up your stuff online.
by dmonitor | 2025-08-04 15:24:49+00:00
> their efforts have been "lackluster" in terms of "AI integration" - as if "maximally integrating generative LLMs" is the goal in and of itself!

That does feel like the ultimate goal with many of these AI initiatives. I have a suspicion that a lot of the negativity thrown towards Apple's AI integration comes from people hoping Apple will legitimize their product, not from people wanting their phone to be better.
by dash2 | 2025-08-04 15:24:52+00:00
That is an extremely good question. It's certainly part of it. I don't know if we ever divided the subjects up by university degree, but one could do that. IIRC this paper looks at Estonia and finds that even within different levels of educational attainment (e.g. university degree) people with higher EA polygenic scores are more likely to move to the capital:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2025/05/18/202...
by wulfstan | 2025-08-04 15:24:54+00:00
Yes, this is the crux of the matter.

The "social contract" that has been established over the last 25+ years is that site owners don't mind their site being crawled reasonably provided that the indexing that results from it links back to their content. So when AltaVista/Yahoo/Google do it and then score and list your website, interspersing that with a few ads, then it's a sensible quid pro quo for everyone.

LLM AI outfits are abusing this social contract by stuffing the crawled data into their models, summarising/remixing/learning from this content, claiming "fair use" and then not providing the quid pro quo back to the originating data. This is quite likely terminal for many content-oriented businesses, which ironically means it will also be terminal for those who will ultimately depend on additions, changes and corrections to that content - LLM AI outfits.

IMO: copyright law needs an update to mandate no training on content without explicit permission from the holder of the copyright of that content. And perhaps, as others have pointed out, an llms.txt to augment robots.txt that covers this for llm digestion purposes.

EDIT: Apparently llms.txt has been suggested, but from what I can tell this isn't about restricting access: https://llmstxt.org/
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by phendrenad2 | 2025-08-04 15:25:41+00:00
I really, really, really want to get to the bottom of this one. There's speculation that it was done due to some auto industry regulation, or some idiotic court (redundant?) ruled that they were liable for something because they didn't warn the driver to "follow the laws". Possibly the worst possibility is that it's just a placeholder to hide the fact that the infotainment unit is loading 1GB of uncompressed bitmap data from eMMC or something.

If anyone inside the auto industry wants to spill the beans anonymously, please do!
by naasking | 2025-08-04 15:25:58+00:00
> That is how you make a big server crawl with just 100 users, regardless of the programming language of the backend.

This is a myth, servers and round trips can be way faster than most people seem to believe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K71AyAF6E4#t=21m21s

That's thousands of DOM updates per second being sent and rendered at 144fps.