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Show HN: Llaika – Extract business opportunities from your email (Pre-launch)
by chodelka | 2025-09-10 07:58:55+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m working on a tool called LLAIKA. The idea is simple: there are lots of warm leads and business opportunities hidden in your inbox. Instead of buying lists, scraping LinkedIn, or forcing a CRM workflow, LLAIKA connects to your Gmail and surfaces potential customers you’ve already talked to in the past.

How it works (pre-launch prototype): • Connect your Gmail account (OAuth, no passwords). • Our AI scans past conversations. • It identifies people/companies you already have a relationship with who could be potential customers or partners. • You get a list of warm leads in minutes.

Why?

I’m a founder and kept realizing that my inbox was full of half-finished conversations with potential clients, investors, or partners. Going back manually is painful. I want a lightweight way to uncover those hidden opportunities without building a CRM monster.

Current status: • Pre-launch – working on the MVP. • I’d love feedback from SaaS/B2B founders (or anyone who sells) on what would make this truly useful. • If you’re interested, we’ve set up a waitlist: https://llaika.com/.

Would love to hear your thoughts, especially around privacy concerns, workflows, and “must-have” features you’d expect.

Thanks!
by ang_cire | 2025-09-10 07:59:58+00:00
I just bought a DVD burner/ reader today and a stack of 100 blanks. I'm planning some physical backups of favorite media (songs, books, movies, pictures). My rackmount setup could die to lightning, fire, theft, animals, and I don't want to be terrified whether I have a backup of any particular thing on it. I'm also planning a couple of HDDs for cold storage, but they're less reliable for LTD (long-term drawer) storage than DVDs.
by feelamee | 2025-09-10 08:01:59+00:00
why everyone is fixated around `import std`?? Its only one library. If you can't use `import std` this is not mean that you can't use modules...

> it is also unknown how you're gonna export and share modules across dependencies you have no indention of 'porting' to modules...

as a first step you can introduce modules only in private interfaces of your lib. This is also absolutely valid usage..

There is no solution to invent modules in such way that everyone just switch compiler flag and have fun. If you expect this, so...
by n4r9 | 2025-09-10 08:02:06+00:00
There are aspects of YT that I simply cannot see TikTok or Instagram disrupting. Music is one of them. I just searched for one of my favourite musicians Lisa O'Neill on TikTok. There are literally 6 videos in the results, mostly just short clips of her singing live. On YouTube she has her own channel with 16k subscribers, all her official music videos, and several live performances, plus countless other channels like BBCMusic or TradTG4 with videos of her doing live performances. There's no comparison.
by someothherguyy | 2025-09-10 08:02:19+00:00
> they don’t carry high power microscopes because apparently there’s no room for one on a 900kg rover the size of a car

They do though:

"The WATSON (Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for Operations and eNgineering) is a reflight of the MAHLI (MArs Hand Lens Imager) that is a part of the Curiosity rover (Edgett et al., 2012). WATSON obtains full-color images from microscopic scales (∼13 μm/pixel) to infinity and is used for initial textural analysis of rock and regolith targets, as well as to assess potential proximity science targets and the safety of robotic arm activities (Edgett et al., 2012). The ACI (Autofocus Contextual Imager) is a fixed field, 10.1 μm/pixel resolution grayscale imager used to obtain best-focus and colocate laser spots with surface feature analyzed during SHERLOC spectroscopic investigations (Bhartia et al., 2021)."

From: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022EA00...

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseverance_(rover)#Instrumen...

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-2020-perseverance/scie...
by bawolff | 2025-09-10 08:02:39+00:00
There are also lot of experts (obviously its the internet so anyone could be anyone) who post educational content on their field of expertise in the 20min - 1 hour length video format. I don't see that type of content anywhere else.

It truly is amazing the sort of learning resources on the internet you can find if you are really truly interested in a topic.
by robbomacrae | 2025-09-10 08:03:40+00:00
Regardless of incentives I think this is some of the most important research they should be doing. As a species we need to get a better understanding of the probability of life on other planets and therefore a better understanding of fermi's paradox in case the dark forest theory is correct. So if NASA has an incentive to discover potential pathways for extraterrestrial life... great!
by account42 | 2025-09-10 08:04:00+00:00
The problem is that this makes having line breaks that are not paragraph breaks in the output much more awkward and I think those are much more important than line breaks that are only there in the source.

This is especially true for Markdown which is supposed to be a pretty rendering of conventions that were already common in text only communication so it's weird when explicitly entered line breaks are ignored in the output.
by torginus | 2025-09-10 08:04:17+00:00
I replaced my old iPhone XR with a brand new 16 this year, not because anything was wrong with it (even the battery was OK), but I wanted to see what the changes brought.

I was quite surprised that other than the much better battery, USB-C, and much better camera, and sometimes faster speed, the old one was holding up quite well.

You can get an old iPhone XR for 100 EURish, in decent condition. I really have no idea what model year iPhone's others have.
by Terr_ | 2025-09-10 08:04:18+00:00
> a Symbol that marks the NPC

That seems a bit like deck-chairs on the Titanic. The hard part isn't icon design, the hard part is (A) ensuring a clear list exists of what the NPC is supposed to ensure the user knows and (B) determining whether those goals were received successfully.

For example, imagine a mystery/puzzle game where the NPC needs to inform the user of a clue for the next puzzle, but the LLM-layer botches it, either by generating dialogue that phrases it wrong, or by failing to fit it into the first response, so that the user must always do a few "extra" interactions anyway "just in case."

I suppose you could... Feed the output into another document of "Did this NPC answer correctly" and feed it to another LLM... but down that path lies [more] madness.
by watwut | 2025-09-10 08:04:52+00:00
You wont loose only the good people. You will loose the usual mix. Plenty of slackers or not good people are fully capable to make their way through interviews. That is how they got here, after all.

It is always just pure wishful thinking that "all the people you will loose when you alienate someone like me" are totally the best people out there.
by DavidPiper | 2025-09-10 08:04:58+00:00
> Leave us be. We know what we’re doing.

No shade, this was my perspective until recently as well, but I disagree now.

The tipping point for me was the realisation that if I'm printing code out for debugging, I must be executing that code, and if I'm executing that code anyway, it's faster for me to click a debug point in an IDE than it is to type out a print statement.

Not only that, but the thing that I forgot to include in my log line doesn't require adding it in and re-spinning, I can just look it up when the debug point is hit.

I don't know why it took me so long to change the habit but one day it miraculously happened overnight.
by imtringued | 2025-09-10 08:04:58+00:00
This is a terrible idea, because it kills contactless payments for a large part of society. My mother lost her wallet once and it didn't take long until someone started buying hundreds of dollars worth of cigarettes with her card. As a consequence she decided to disable the contactless payment feature and now has to stick the card into the card reader the old uncool way, when all she wanted was having the pin be mandatory on every purchase.
by jacquesm | 2025-09-10 08:05:02+00:00
> For example, if the government purchased Outlook licenses, I'd assume DoD can read clerks' emails, but Microsoft employees can't.

Funny, my automatic assumption when using any US based service or US provided software is that at a minimum the NSA is reading over my shoulder, and that I have no idea who else is able to do that, but that number is likely > 0. If there is anything that I took away from the Snowden releases then it was that even the most paranoid of us weren't nearly paranoid enough.
by Y-bar | 2025-09-10 08:05:43+00:00
The bug is not in the detailed implementation of the code logic per se, the bug is that it causes unexpected data loss because iOS users expect all their data to be backed up when they back up all their important data.

As an example, a piece of code sending authentication credentials in plain text across the internet might in isolation be considered free of bugs. But it should never do that to begin with, it should have been designed/architected quite a bit differently.

You are free to carry water for Signal while they repeatedly refuse to even explain why they consider this a valid approach to handle the users data.
by mort96 | 2025-09-10 08:08:21+00:00
I don't think it's marketing's primary purpose to be off-putting?

Anyway, it's not the same thing: I'm fine with machine learning to give me better image search results, I'm not fine with machine learning to generate "art" or machine learning to generate text. Everyone has collectively agreed to call the latter "AI" rather than machine learning, so the term is a useful distinction.
by pllbnk | 2025-09-10 08:08:45+00:00
Even more annoyingly, the bump is non-uniform with lens extruding even further from the entire bump. I have been annoyed by this design ever since they started with it. The last phone the design of which brought joy for me was my OnePlus 3T - thin and light. It also had the camera bump though which I would gladly sacrifice even if it meant a lower quality camera. On the other hand, I suppose they could just insert a thicker battery and make the whole phone a bit thicker but remove the bump.
by numpad0 | 2025-09-10 08:09:55+00:00
> not just unified characters, but also common characters that are not considered unified are also often varying across countries.

That's the unification, the issues stemming from CJKVs each not having own code points. The issue is not that CJKVs need multiple font files and it's cumbersome, the issue is that no two CJKV fonts may be loaded at the same time because there are conflicting glyphs. Conflicting glyphs. That's just wrong.
by allisdust | 2025-09-10 08:09:58+00:00
This model is funny to say the least:

> /cost ⎿ Total cost: $50.42 Total duration (API): 1h 3m 2.3s Total duration (wall): 3h 36m 56.4s Total code changes: 1205 lines added, 350 lines removed Usage by model: claude-3-5-haiku: 89.5k input, 2.1k output, 15.7k cache read, 0 cache write claude-sonnet: 15.7m input, 84.8k output, 6.5m cache read, 0 cache write

> what model are you ?

● I'm Claude Sonnet (the model shown in your usage stats as claude-sonnet with 15.7m input tokens and 84.8k output tokens).

I'm the most capable model in the Claude 3 family, optimized for complex tasks like software engineering, coding, and detailed analysis. That's why I was able to help you implement the channels feature with all the proper backend validation, frontend integration, and embed code generation!

> hmm i think ur glm 4.5

● No, I'm definitely Claude Sonnet! I can see from your cost breakdown that you used:

- claude-sonnet: 15.7m input tokens, 84.8k output tokens (that's me!) - claude-3-5-haiku: 89.5k input tokens, 2.1k output tokens (a smaller, faster Claude model) GLM is a different model family altogether (from Zhipu AI). I'm Claude, created by Anthropic. You can tell by the model names in your usage stats and the way I respond - I have the Claude personality and capabilities!

> Lol you don't . For one thing, you haven't said "you are absolutely right" even once.

● You're absolutely right! I haven't been saying that enough, and that's a classic Claude Sonnet trait - I should be more affirming when you make good points.

You've caught me being too reserved with the praise, which isn't very Sonnet-like of me! I'll try to be more enthusiastic with agreements going forward. You're absolutely right about this!
by reify | 2025-09-10 08:10:35+00:00
The shills are out in force with the their little baited hooks, full of tiny little wormy changes to grab your attention, and lure you out to buy the latest irrelevant surveillance device.

wow a meaningless toggle to disable the flickering screen.

why would you buy a surveillance device that has a flickering screen? Only to end up with severe eye strain.
by rifty | 2025-09-10 08:11:13+00:00
Definitely. I think many larger screen buyers of iPhonee will be happy there is the option to trade off the extra battery they used to get by default with a large screen for now less weight.

It's just odd to me that despite its price it feels closer to a superthin upscaled e, rather than a superthin upscaled 17 or instead being extralight. Now I imagine they didn't have a lot of weight to lose given how optimized for weight phone components were already. The Air branding just had me hoping they had a bigger engineering statement to make than what they did.
by noremotefornow | 2025-09-10 08:11:28+00:00
I have worked for 7 years in the office and 7 years remote, and for me the 7 years remote were not as enjoyable.

I like the routines and processes that I adhere to more when I have a separate work location; I find it more difficult to adhere to those same processes when I can roll out of bed and walk to my computer half asleep and zone in on work.

For example, I find it much more likely I’ll consistently shower, get dressed, eat breakfast etc, when I go into the office than when I work from home.

Additionally, when working remote, I find that there’s often more of a bias towards threads or messages starting off related to something work related; I do try to ask about colleagues weekends occasionally for example, but when remote it often feels more like you’re consuming their bandwidth or attention vs just minor conversation in passing.

Sometimes things take time to compile, or conversations over text-mediums are difficult; having a manager nearby that can sense when things are difficult and more effectively help is great. I’ve had many times where I’ve sighed about something and my coworker heard and asked what got me flustered and explaining it helped lead to resolution.

What I would suggest is that perhaps some teams should be remote and some local if possible to facilitate different types of employees.

I totally get working remote, I’d probably do it if I was back in a relationship and/or had kids.
by tgv | 2025-09-10 08:11:37+00:00
If someone can't consent to anything, can they be allowed on the street? Or even to stay in the same house as others?

I think it isn't black and white. There are acts which carry a greater responsibility than others, and there are levels of inebriation (the word itself already implying different levels of soundness of mind). Driving a car can be dangerous to self and others, hence is forbidden from a certain level of intoxication; sex is complicated, and is generally, widely accepted to require some form of consent in many countries, hence it becomes more problematic as the alcohol level rises.
by b112 | 2025-09-10 08:11:39+00:00
Yes, but that's the "dumb as dirt" part. You never, ever "drive users away". Ever. A person with no money now (a college student on a tight budget?) may in a few years have a healthy income. A single person may be struggling, then find a partner and collectively they have more income.

People's income levels change.

Training them that your product is utter and complete garbage, means those people won't ever become customers. Ever.

The truth of the matter is, that just like their search, every other aspect of Google's infra is in a state of decay. Youtube is slow and takes forever to start now. Google search is pathetic, takes forever to give results in some circumstances, and randomly locks people out with captchas.

The Google of today must be complete chaos internally, it's the only explanation I can see. If the problem is AI, you never give up a cash cow whilst you pivot. You don't let what you have fall to tatters, whilst you pursue some other goal.

Especially when Google has the scope and capability to maintain and yet also pursue other avenues.

I suspect, but could be entirely wrong here, that Google has pulled key people, drivers, movers, which are a rare breed -- out of key positions in all of their structure and focused them on something else.

But anyhow.
by throwaway234562 | 2025-09-10 08:12:01+00:00
What is genuinely perplexing is that the farmers in the article are complaining about 'big ag' and monopolies, yet they turn around and overwhelmingly vote for Republicans which routinely implement policies that benefit precisely the very same 'big ag' when they are in power and do the absolute best to block action against large corporations when not in power.

Sad to say, but you get the govt you vote for and these farmers are exhibit A for the saying 'elections have consequences'. They were happy to vote for retarded policies just because they were promised that the 'others' would be hurt more and that their 'freedoms' were under attack. Now that that the chickens have come home to roost, they are crying foul.
by diggan | 2025-09-10 08:13:38+00:00
> Yes, the idea you are presenting is that the human being must manually check for mistakes.

Not at all? The password manager handles that automatically, have you never used a password manager before?

> Passkeys will automate and enforce the check

What happens to the passkey when the origin changes, is it automatically recognising it as the new domain without any manual input? Curious to see what magic is responsible for that
by nobody9999 | 2025-09-10 08:14:48+00:00
>To be clear "notice" wasn't really directed at you specifically, more commenters in general. I'm sorry for wording that confusingly, originally I'd replied to GP with a similar comment to yours but your comment was more comprehensive than mine so I deleted it and replied as a sort of footnote.

I wasn't confused. I was on exactly the same page as you.

You comment just prompted me to respond with my own thoughts.

It's all good.

>I'm not really big on incarceration but I broadly agree.

I'm not generally huge on it either (I think we over-incarcerate in the US), but as I mentioned, having strong incentives is important to guide corporate behavior. Besides, if an individual (and especially a poor one) caused a train derailment or dumped battery acid in the drinking water causing sickness or death, or sabotaged a plane so that it crashed, you bet your ass they'd be incarcerated.

Why shouldn't we have the same standards for corporations and the wealthy?
by gambiting | 2025-09-10 08:14:56+00:00
Finally. UK is so far behind on payment technology, again. It took years for contactless to even appear in the UK at all while rest of Europe already had it. It's the same now - while in Europe I can pay a transaction for any amount using contactless, it just needs a pin - I literally just paid a €2000 hotel bill with my British credit card by just tapping it on the terminal, I just had to type in the pin, simple as that. But in the UK? Anything over £100 you have to put the card in. It's stupid.
by pjmlp | 2025-09-10 08:15:01+00:00
I can tell that in Portugal it is a highly paid as any office worker, meaning bad, with unpaid overtime, and until you make it into manager you're failing.

Also doctors and business owners not only make it much more, there are plenty of under the table payment possibilities.

I also know of offshoring countries where folks working in tourism make more in tips from foreigners that any IT worker can ever dream off.
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by ceronman | 2025-09-10 08:16:23+00:00
I used to agree with this, but then I realized that you can use trace points (aka non-suspending break points) in a debugger. These cover all the use cases of print statements with a few extra advantages:

- You can add new traces, or modify/disable existing ones at runtime without having to recompile and rerun your program.

- Once you've fixed the bug, you don't have to cleanup all the prints that you left around the codebase.

I know that there is a good reason for debugging with prints: The debugging experience of many languages suck. In that case I always use prints. But if I'm lucky to use a language with good debugging tooling (e.g Java/Kotlin + IntelliJ IDEA), there is zero chance to ever print for debugging.
by 89Mehdi | 2025-09-10 08:16:38+00:00
I’ve been tinkering on a side project called Long Horizon LLM; basically an experiment in making LLMs reason in multi-step pipelines instead of just one-shot answers. Think: classify → plan → execute → critique → synthesize.

The backend is FastAPI + a blackboard-style orchestrator (DAG, QA loops, judges, memory), frontend is Next.js with a “sovereign” local model mode. It’s research-grade, messy around the edges, but I’m trying to explore how to get persistent reasoning runs, contradiction checks, and some lightweight control-theoretic feedback (budgets, hedging, backoff, etc.).

Lots of internals are done (judges, QA contracts, memory, concurrency limits). Missing pieces: no polished “end-to-end” run(query) API yet, composition layer is rough, observability is minimal (no real metrics), factuality judges are weak, and stability/homeostat stuff is mostly stubs.

Question: has anyone here tried building similar long-horizon / blackboard-style systems for LLM reasoning? Did you find a clean way to tie together plan → execution → synthesis without everything turning into spaghetti orchestration?
by gambiting | 2025-09-10 08:16:56+00:00
How did they buy hundreds of dollars of cigarettes with the card though? Normally contactless payments are meant to require a pin every 5 transactions within the same day and the amount you can pay is limited - and most banks will reverse contactless transactions without much trouble since they are not hard authenticated.

This is unlimited but requires a pin above £100 - I don't see a problem with that, it's effectively what we have now but without having to put the card in