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Sendnow – Free DocSend/Seismic alternative for file tracking and microsites
by sendnow | 2026-01-17 08:39:34+00:00
I got tired and frustrated of watching Highspot and Seismic charge thousands of dollars for something basic putting files in one place and tracking who opens them.

These companies charge based on how many employees you have. More employees = higher price. That shuts out startups and small teams who need this just as much as big companies.

I built Sendnow to fix this.

You upload your files. Create a page with your logo and a button. Share one link. When someone opens it, you get a notification. You see which pages they read and how long.

You can also share single files if you don't need the full page.

The whole point is to stop guessing. You know when people are looking at your stuff. You follow up at the right time instead of three days too late.

We're adding something in a few months that tells you when to reach out based on what pages they looked at and how many times they came back. But that's later.

Right now it's free until end of February. Try it. If something's broken or missing, tell me. If it makes sense, I'll build it in a week.

I'm Siraj. I do DevOps in India. I built this because the current options charge way too much for way too little.
by davsti4 | 2026-01-17 08:40:08+00:00
It was a bug. I have 3 screens, and it would disappear on the third. An update, sometime around middle of last year fixed it, if my memory is correct.

But, I still have occasional problems with my monitors not waking up when I return to my desk. With 3, I've never had all 3 fail to wake, and a simple disable in the monitor settings, then choose "revert" usually brings them back.
by oefrha | 2026-01-17 08:41:04+00:00
Yeah there's more to a browser than a couple of out-of-tree servo components, otherwise https://github.com/servo/servo wouldn't have 300k+ lines of Rust code, 400k+ if you count comments and blanks (I cloned the repo, nuked the tests directory, then did a count).

Plus that linked comment doesn't even say it's "nothing more than a non-functional wrapper for Servo". It disputes the "from scratch" claim.

Most people aren't interested in a nuanced take though. Someone said something plausible sounding and was voted to top by other people? Good enough for me, have another vote. Then twist and exaggerate a little and post it to another comment section. Get more votes. Rinse and repeat.
by whatever1 | 2026-01-17 08:41:21+00:00
I was hoping that 8k tvs at ~50inches would become widely available.

They were high enough density and tall enough for coding applications, but as first versions they had some rough edges (text rendering not great by default).

Instead they just disappeared from the market :(

I think Aliexpress has no brand panels, but at $600 it is a non trivial gamble.
by adityaathalye | 2026-01-17 08:42:02+00:00
Why I think this sort of "High-tech Computer Hardware Cottage Industry" stuff is significant (ignoring the fact that it's One Internet Rando versus One Trillion Dollars).

IMO, we --- as in someone somewhere who's seeing it coming --- stand to gain far greater indirect benefits, as and when GPU datacenter over-investments transmute into serving today's severely under-served but world-reforming science/industry application areas…

Think Massive GPU Infrastructure -> Industry application transmutations... "on-campus GPU supercomputers too cheap to meter".

My optimistic LLM-AI scenario is a hope that we get a version of what happened after the boom years of railroads, telecoms, and/or cloud computing (currently in progress)… Which was the decades after massive capital investments, the implosion of which unprecedently fuelled large-scale industrial and economic and socio-political phenomena, by way of infrastructure ownership re-allocations through write-offs, fire sales, and bankruptcy style M&A.

A hope that we get a disintermediation of datacenters. Back to the neighbourhood VPS provider. People shipping out containers to private industry and universities and so forth — stacks of supercomputers in your backyard... A whole new breed of Oxide Computer Company companies.

Interesting critique / counterarguments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46419416

Adding to that...

But this dream-like phenomenon is not going to happen in places in poverty of hands-on local neighbourhood "Computer/GPU hardware mechanic" expertise. (A poverty that is tied to zoning laws, tariffs, import duties, and public policy --- Are you pouring gobs of cash into making large datacenters, at the cost of all the other sides of the equation; education, training, small and medium businesses, precision manufacturing capacity, long-range sponsorship of the various sciences, R&D, arts etc. etc. etc.)

The revolutionary proliferation of mobile telephony in India (where I live), for example, was---and continues to ride---largely on the back of a mobile phone cottage industry that proliferated.

Mom-and-pop shops that can do pretty much everything you need to ... repair, update, un-bork your cell phone, your phone plans, prepaid sims etc. Print you your documents and photos, fix your broken screens, replace bloated batteries, do "whatsapp agent" stuff (government paperwork). This has been an unbroken trend from the early days of the Nokia 3310 to the now-a-days of cheap ubiquitous android devices, and even "feature phones" participating in money flows via zero cost-to-consumer UPI payments.

A similarly revolutionary thing did not happen for computers in India, because of decades-long protectionist policies. High import duties ("luxury goods"), and regulatory capture by computer hardware distributors who still maintain a choke-hold on imports and supply. We do have an equivalent cottage industry of computer repair people, but it's nowhere close to the ubiquity that it could have had because it's just so damned hard to sell computer hardware in India.

Stuff like that.

(edit: add clarification)
by wincy | 2026-01-17 08:42:53+00:00
For Mac I spent $0.99 a long time ago and bought Magnet on the App Store which lets me move windows and resize using hotkeys. For windows I aggressively use windows key + left/right to move the windows around, with 4 displays you just have to remember their ordering and eventually it becomes muscle memory to get it to snap where you want it. It mostly moves left to right, in my case.
by usr1106 | 2026-01-17 08:44:54+00:00
That's not fully correct. The West accepted only a single German citizenship. So everyone from East Germany could immediately be issued a "German" passport by the Western authorities.

For the East there were 2 citizenships. They had no adjectives, they only talked about "citizen of the German Democratic Republic" and "citizen of the Federal Republic of Germany".

The occupation view was not official politics after 1970. The West had recognized the East as a state. But citizens of both states were assumed to have the same citizenship.

Edit: recognized as state should maybe recognized as some kind of state. Like the citizenship there were numerous differences compared to other foreign nation states.
by dsfsdfsfddsf | 2026-01-17 08:45:00+00:00
“The geopolitical control of the Greenland–Iceland–United Kingdom triangle (GIUK) is of prime importance, since it determines access to the North Atlantic from the Arctic. Control over Greenland means control over Atlantic approaches.”
Aleksandr Dugin, Foundations of Geopolitics (1997)

“The United States must be weakened not only externally but by breaking the unity of its Western allies. Iceland, Greenland, and similar territories can act as leverage points to create divisions inside the North Atlantic community.”
Foundations of Geopolitics

“The Arctic and Northern regions are key geostrategic areas for the next century. Whoever dominates the Arctic rim will influence global trade and military balance.”
Foundations of Geopolitics

Now tell me Trump is not a Russian asset, American retards.
Show HN: A privacy-first, batch image blurring tool (runs locally)
by funny_ai | 2026-01-17 08:46:06+00:00
Hi HN, I built a simple browser-based tool to quickly apply various blur effects to images.

I often needed to redact sensitive info or create blurred backgrounds for UI mockups, but didn't want to upload files to a server or open Photoshop. This tool runs entirely client-side.

Key features:

Batch processing: Upload and download multiple images at once.

Multiple modes: Includes Gaussian, Pixelate (good for redaction), Motion, Radial, and Noise.

Fine-tuning: Adjustable strength sliders.

It’s free and doesn't require a login. I’d love to hear your feedback on the UX!
by wilsonzlin | 2026-01-17 08:46:43+00:00
Thanks for the feedback. I've addressed similar feedback at [0] and provided some more context at [1].

I do want to briefly note that the JS VM is custom and not QuickJS. It also implemented subsystems like the DOM, CSS cascade, inline/block/table layouts, paint systems, text pipeline, and chrome, and I'd push back against the assertion that it merely calls out to external code. I addressed these points in more detail at [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46650998
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46655608
by vaughands | 2026-01-17 08:47:26+00:00
This post seems to be haphazardly proposing that big tech will inevitably make everyone's lives miserable. And by working for them, you are enabling this.

It offers no constructive alternative and the author (yes, I know who he is) seems to have no issue with Google hosting their email.

It's hard to take this too seriously (even if there is some legitimate worry here)
by tristenharr | 2026-01-17 08:47:40+00:00
Really enjoyed reading this. Stuff like this is what inspires me to keep pursuing logos language and theorem prover. Things on the roadmap next include stuff like adding first-class inline ASM support. Adding great SPMD and auto-vectorization pipelines, and exploring making verifiable private computation a language primitive when you make things private. If interested, read about some of the planned upcoming enhancements here. :) https://github.com/Brahmastra-Labs/logicaffeine/issues
by sakshi11221 | 2026-01-17 08:48:18+00:00
The page discusses the global Military Aircraft Market outlook, emphasizing the role of defense modernization, technological advancements, and increased government spending on air power. It highlights how investments in next-generation fighter jets, transport aircraft, and surveillance systems are fueling demand. The report projects the market to grow steadily, reaching USD 150 billion by 2035, supported by a CAGR of 3.1%.
by seec | 2026-01-17 08:49:16+00:00
Well, that's a very hard question to answer without additional details.

If it's graphics/presentation heavy, you most likely will need something like InDesign.
If there is a lot of math, you'll need something like Latex (typist).
If there are a lot of tables, you probably need something like Word to auto-update embeds from Excel.
In general, Word will allow you to control features like footnotes/endnotes, tables of figures, etc, much better than Pages ever will.

If it's mostly literature, you can use something like Vellum (https://vellum.pub/)

I don't have a list of solutions ready, but maybe I should make one. This is a complex problem, and the safe answer is usually to just use Word.

The problem with Pages is that it is extremely mediocre at everything while still locking you down to Apple hardware.

The young, foolish version of myself was a rabid Apple fanboy and pushed people to use Pages (back in the day when the iWork suite was paid but cheaper). Then people came back to me with problems that could be solved in Word relatively easily, but I had no answer for with Pages.

After being tired of saying, "no you can't do that" or "that has to be done manually," I stopped advocating for Pages.

I don't do much document preparation nowadays, but I think the ideal solution would be a GUI to bridge between web publishing and paper publishing.
by MattGaiser | 2026-01-17 08:49:26+00:00
> Have you considered not participating? If you participate, we all lose. We will either all be in the underclass together or not.

This has been suggested a bunch of times in the comments of HN as well as on other social media, but what exactly would that look like?

As this seems like the ultimate prisoner dilemma and the winning solution there is always be first to make a deal, even if we accept the premise of AI turning us all into an underclass (a prediction often made with revolutionary technology I might add).
by ajb | 2026-01-17 08:50:08+00:00
Yes exactly. The only thing this article says about low level programming is that low level programmers have "no drive to innovate". So apparently the idea is to attract a bunch of new people to low level programming, tell them that all the existing low level stuff is crap, and that they should build a bunch of new frameworks as quickly as possible without learning from anyone.

Okay, this is an exaggerated description of the article. It doesn't literally say that. But you could come away with that impression, because the article is so poor. I mean, look at all the comments here trying to figure out what it's proposing. There may be a good initiative here, but basically they need to delete this article and start over.
by ggm | 2026-01-17 08:51:09+00:00
I do not see twins as hopeful. Higher feeding and raising burden on a mother, and genetic narrowing. Age separated sisters would permit future auntie-rearing, sharing of the roles.

There's always a risk of infant mortality. I don't want to feed a doomscroll, a primate birth is a wonderful thing. Saw a neonate chimp in a zoo 5 decades or more ago, very affecting. Proud mum!
by mmaunder | 2026-01-17 08:51:47+00:00
The premise is economically incoherent because labor is not a single task category that technology can delete. It is the input that continuously reconstitutes itself around whatever remains scarce, valuable and socially demanded as productivity rises.

This is the lump of labor fallacy- the belief that there’s a fixed amount of economically valuable work that technology and capital can eliminate through automation or capital accumulation instead of transforming it.

Middle class status anxiety manifesting as a rhetoric about neofeudalism.
by hulitu | 2026-01-17 08:51:47+00:00
> It's not because we're bad at design or planning

No, it is, code writers are bad at design, testing and debuging.
That's why LLMs are so popular: just throw together some code, see if it compiles.

How many (between them) incompatible GTK or QT versions are there ? Why someone has to come every few years with a new graphics library ? Is the JPEG, TIFF or PNG standard changed ? And who thinks that adding layers of abstractions solve problems ?
by Mikhail_Edoshin | 2026-01-17 08:52:00+00:00
I was a FileMaker developer and I wouldn't say that. The way to develop on FileMaker is to be an expert of workarounds that would stun an outsider.

It was a good data processing tool in earlier versions. I always liked its splash screen picture of v4: a file cabinet of the size of an office building. It was a very good metaphor. But even then were were always rather hard and strange limitations of what you can do and the main skill you developed was to invent a disgustingly clever way to overcome them.

(Example: sometimes people want to sort entries in a pop-up menu in a custom way, but there is no built-in capability to do that: the entries are always sorted alphabetically. So one of "solutions" is that: you give each entry a prefix that consists of zero-width spaces. First entry gets one space, second two spaces, and so on. As a result when they are sorted, they are sorted by that prefix, but since the prefix is invisible, the user only sees the entries themselves. If you are careful and lucky and the users aren't too inventive these spaces won't contaminate the data, although generally contaminated data is the normal state of most data in FileMaker.)
by pabe | 2026-01-17 08:52:50+00:00
Yes! Coding is just one of the tasks you've got to do when building a software business. You also have to find a good value preposition, identify a good channel to your customers, manage your resources etc.

Channels are becoming even more important as software has become easy to copy. But copycats always existed. When it wasn't created by AI, it was created in low wage countries.
by shomp | 2026-01-17 08:52:58+00:00
traveling more would inspire one to think positively of capitalism, rather than the reverse. to quote andrew carnegie roughly, the status quo has always been misery for everyone, and just recently have we begun to extricate ourselves from it. not to mention that it is sheer derangement of luxury to have plenty of funding for one's own family, and yet vocally dissuade others from taking the same steps, for some "end game theoretical" that certainly won't arrive in single digit generations
by re-thc | 2026-01-17 08:53:10+00:00
> there is no incentives for cloudflare to make astro better, or even keep it around

There is - to counter NextJs. NextJs is a pain to host outside Vercel and makes Cloudflare lose customers. In theory that's why Gatsby was bought out.

> same goes with bun, svelte, and i'm sure countless others

Svelte was also taken over by Vercel. To control frontend hosting. Bun isn't in the same bucket. There isn't such competition going on.
by Escapado | 2026-01-17 08:53:44+00:00
I hate the state of affairs. That said my guess is what we „gained“ is tons of telemetry, tracking and the likes, engineers not needing to think about performance to get a feature out, which absolutely lowers the bar to entry, high level abstractions and ux and visual bells and whistles of varying importance and quality (infinite scrolling, streaming updates, image blend modes, blur effects, scroll timeline animations etc). People creating Pokémon had to think about every bit in their texture atlas and carefully manage the hardware memory manually. Web devs now try not to forget to clean up event listeners in a useEffect that triggers on mouse move to generate data for an interaction heatmap for the marketing department while 25mb of 3rd party scripts make sure every data broker and their mother is well informed about your digital whereabouts.
by lillesvin | 2026-01-17 08:53:58+00:00
What kind of storage do you have backing your Elasticsearch? And how have you configured sharding and phase rollover in your indices?

I work with a cluster that holds 500+ TB logs (where most are stored for a year and some for 5 years because of regulations) in searchable snapshots backed by a locally hosted S3 solution. I can do filtering across most of the data in less than 10 seconds.

Some especially gnarly searches may take around 60-90 seconds on the first run as the searchable snapshots are mounted and cached, but subsequent searches in the cached dataset are obviously as fast as any other search in hot data.

Obviously Elasticsearch isn't without its quirks and drawbacks, but I have yet to come across anything that performs better and is more flexible for logs — especially in terms of architectural freedom and bang-for-the-buck.
by Traubenfuchs | 2026-01-17 08:54:08+00:00
> Inbox/Outbox/Worker Queue/Throtteling/tracing/

There exist stable solutions for all of this, at least in the java world. Spring Boot and the exhaustive Spring Boot auto configurations are all about this…

> What happened to the application servers of the past?

It‘s no called kubernetes. With the caveat of it not having first class integration for any language, but second class integration for all languages.
by vaughands | 2026-01-17 08:54:29+00:00
It's vogue on HN to sometimes criticize critically so I want to try and be as constructive as possible:

I work for one of these companies. I also have pay bills to pay. I'd like to understand what a real, good alternative is.

Frontier labs such as Google DeepMind are not just going to shutter their doors because 10% of the peons dropped their jobs. I believe, at least, that we should be demanding political accountability and safeguards for society. I only get to live once: if I am to spend it for social change, I best maximize by expected return.

And quitting a job in a capitalist society probably has negative return overall.
by harperlee | 2026-01-17 08:54:35+00:00
I think it is related to the physics of the mouth producing the sound, and we do a form of synesthesia: doing b-u-b seems (to me) quite smoother of a transition than k-i-k. If I stop blowing the u sound my lips close again; when I finish the i I have released the muscles and I need to hold again for the next k. It al feels more sudden an explosive with k. Also the b sound you voice it (otherwise it would be p).
Ask HN: Built a tensor + NN framework entirely in Mojo — feedback?
by ratulb | 2026-01-17 08:55:13+00:00
Tenmo
A lightweight tensor library and neural network framework written in pure Mojo.

https://github.com/ratulb/tenmo

Tenmo focuses on:

SIMD-optimization
explicit memory layout
zero-copy views
a minimal but practical autograd system
Status: Tenmo evolves alongside Mojo itself.
APIs may change. Not production-ready yet.

Performance
MNIST (4-layer MLP, 105K params, 15 epochs)
Platform Device Avg Epoch Total Test Acc
Tenmo CPU (Mojo) 11.4s 171s 97.44%
PyTorch CPU 14.5s 218s 98.26%
PyTorch GPU (Tesla T4) 15.2s 227s 97.87%
Notes

Tenmo uses SIMD-vectorized kernels on contiguous buffers.
No BLAS was used in the MNIST run — everything executes as pure Mojo code.
GPU overhead dominates for models of this size; larger models benefit more from GPU acceleration.
Quick Example
from testing import assert_true
from tenmo import Tensor

fn main() raises:
var a = Tensor.d1([1.0, 2.0, 3.0], requires_grad=True)

var b = a * 2
var c = a * 3
var d = b + c

d.backward()

assert_true(a.grad().all_close(Tensor.d1([5.0, 5.0, 5.0])))

Feedback highly appreciated!
by delis-thumbs-7e | 2026-01-17 08:55:19+00:00
I have a previous Master’s degree from art and I am after working years in tech doing a second degree in CS. Neither degree I need in my current job.

Personally I think what you gain from education comes from three things:

i. How much you apply yourself, how much are you willing to self-study, do research, your own projects, ask question.
ii. The structured pathway an educational institution gives you to learn certain skills and gain knowledge. In self-learning the problem comes knowing what to learn and in what order so that you can advance to a more advanced level.
iii. People you meet. Not just networking, but the fact that if you hang out with very clever people all day long, some of that prob sticks to you as well.

Even my art degree was extremely useful, although it provided absolutely no path to employment. I don’t know what the future brings, but I have absolutely loved my current degree so far, although it admittedly very hard at times.
by roenxi | 2026-01-17 08:56:38+00:00
And it isn't like people can't do still everything they could do yesterday. There are just more and better options. Economically AI is no particular threat to the median human and even knowledge workers are still going to have fine lives. Maybe not as knowledge workers.

The real risk here is the military implications of pairing AI and robots. If the army doesn't need lots of people then there is a real problem. But robotics will take a long time to get there even in an optimistic case. Labour will still have value for a long time to come.
by shomp | 2026-01-17 08:56:49+00:00
capitalism has always moved in the direction of automation, yielding booming progress and prosperity for much of mankind. the technological comforts we have today far exceed those of a thousand years ago, no one can dispute. but at some point, if there are no more jobs due to "full automation" then the promise of capitalism bringing most people out of poverty will start to fall short. it's a real question, what do we do then? short of adapting, as we always have, i don't see any viable alternatives. OP recommending not playing at all is peak derangement divorced from reality imo