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Show HN: Build Apps with Automated Workflows
Hey HN! We [1] just released a new thing: http://tines.com/product/build-apps.

tl;dr – it's a way to build simple-but-slick web apps that are powered by API automation behind the scenes, without writing code.

No code? It's because our traditional users are technical-but-not-engineer types like Security Analysts and IT Managers. So this new way of building front-end experiences follows that lead. But as a more technical maker myself, I've been really surprised at how well this works and scales, and we’re seeing teams like Engineering and DevOps increasingly adopt also. I think maybe it's because us software people most intimately understand the long-term/hidden costs of code… maintaining, bug-fixing, deployment, etc.

Anyway, If you’d like to check it out…

1. there's a usable version of a demo app mid-way down the page above, and then clicking the "How was this built?" button shows you the equivalent of source-code, i.e. the visual automation underpinning everything.

2. we have a forever-free tier, which you can sign up for here and play around for real: https://www.tines.com/sign-up

I’d love to hear any and all feedback! We love a good dose of HN-style tough love, which we certainly received our fair share of last time we surfaced here :-) [2]

- Stephen

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[1]: Tines – no code automation
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30249518
> /at the office (40 years). With the move to remote work in many places we've cut off the office part

There might be another factor here, that office relationships are far more taboo than they used to be. I'm not saying harass your office mates, but if two people click they click. Like you're saying, it isn't that the office is a place "to look" for a partner, but rather that it simply happens because you build emotional bonds with people you spend time with and have shared experiences with.
Might be simple but still unattainable to a huge swath of guys. It's like trying to tell someone not to freak out before a job interview - just go there, be yourself and don't care about the outcome. Let me know how well that worked out...
Apps do bring people together, but by aggregating potential partners in a large area most matches go to the top 10-20% of men. In person, women are a lot less selective. So the absence of in person venues to meet partners really curbs opportunities for most men.
The author is Ron Garret. He was also interviewed last year on the CoRecursive podcast about the merits of Lisp at JPL, and the opposition to it. It’s worth listening to:

https://www.corecursive.com/lisp-in-space-with-ron-garret/
How do you deal with scanned pdf?
I feel you. But it's not a product. Not anything I'm doing anything with. Just thought it might be an interesting thing for the OP to integrate into his app.
> saying "If you have the option not to, wouldn't you opt out?" in reponse to your comment "are you going to complain about the janitor who gets paid to do it?" is absolutely not a non-sequitur.

Sure it is.

> If there is a business cost you don't have to pay, if you have that option, why would you not take it?

You are implying that a business could opt-out of paying janitors. No, that is not an acceptable business practice. Janitors cannot work for free, they are not slaves. And we cannot allow trash to pile up and things to go uncleaned.

> You missed an option there - not generating the trash in the first place, so you don't need to pay a janitor.

There is no situation wherein trash will not be generated. Likewise there is no situation where cash shouldn't be accepted.

> As a small business you also don't need all of that, just a tablet and a reader. Everything else is already done.

Sure, everything else is already done if your shitty small business offloads all of the work to the customer instead.

> The risks of taking cash are gone if you don't take cash. If you're taking cards anyway, deciding not to take cash is an absolute reduction in risk and hassle.

No, it's not a reduction in risk at all. It's offloading the risk to someone else.

> By this logic it's better to die than break a limb.

In the United States with the current state of healthcare, this logic is practically true.

Look, our discussion clearly shows that you might do well at increasing business profits. But your arguments are unable to reconcile basic compassion to your fellow humans. That's unfortunately common in modern businesses.
https://www.nostr.directory

This tool lets you broadcast your pub key on twitter using a specified format, and the app will add you to the directory, and you can use it to find others that have also done that.

Also, if you go to https://snort.social/new, you can enter your twitter handle, and it will find everyone from you're twitter follows that you're not already following and let you sign up to follow them all.
I hear you, I love(d) capistrano and do miss it quite a bit.

That said, the cap approach was easy for a static target, but a horizontally scalable (particularly with autoscale) was an utter nightmare. That's where having docker really shines, and is IMHO why cap has largely been forgotten.
I'm sorry but this comment is missing OP's point, and is instead just feeding into the stereotype of women being gold diggers.

OP's comment was talking about the difference between guys who can afford a nice apartment vs guys who still need to live in their parents' home. It was a practical thing, where anyone would want a private space for dating.

Your comment took it to a different level, where you're talking about people in your office vs wall street rich people. In this scenario, there are people like those two female colleagues of yours (that you described as young and very good looking, which was unnecessary), who will have a preference for rich guys, but there are other women who would prefer your coworkers in the office. It's a preference thing rather than a practical thing, like OP's observation in their comment.
There's a component called dialyzer that can help detect type issues, but i wouldn't say its nearly as useful as having real types in a language. That said, I've never found it to be much of an issue in Elixir, and the advantages you get with BEAM are worth it. There's a newer language called Gleam that does have a strong type system you may want to investigate, as it runs on BEAM (like Elixir and Erlang) and can use libraries and applications from both in its apps.
I wonder why he didn't continue to apply pressure to go ahead, and worse case scenario just flee to europe if in-fact angry prosecutors actually tried to jail him.

Ironically, the outcome of this whole saga is the most lawyer outcome it could've been... by way of Lawyers advocating to keep legal protection out of reach from the common man and inserting themselves between real innovation and progress for financial gain.
I mean, why not run it as an experiment? Fake Parking ticket, fake defendant, pay a judge to do the fake presiding. If the actual goal was to test it, it would be trivially easy to do. The goal here wasn't to test it, it was to get publicity.
Go Lockheed Martin! Go! Go! Go!

Democratic world need powerful weapons, to defend from China/Russia and other totalitarian.
This article is about Long Covid, so in a sense this is circular evidence.

Nonetheless, the two qualifiers in the statement "People who had severe illness with COVID-19 might experience organ damage affecting the heart, kidneys, skin and brain" weakens the argument. If the long-covid issue was just that people who were in ICU then had long-term symptoms, that's an easy premise to understand. But IMHO, for mild symptoms, there's a non-obvious leap to say that long-term brain damage somehow occurred.
There should be an antitrust lawsuit against Match.
That makes sense, I had never even considered regional based attractiveness.
Thanks for taking the time to respond.
Fibromyalgia is a similar issue and I'm sure there are hundreds of others, our understanding of the human body still has a long way to go.
Even the word "google" is on a downslope from a high ~10 years ago.
Do you have some links? The stuff I found was just correlated, but also had other major issues listed too, like domestic violence.
It's also easy to forget about it. Or get complacent. Or not realize some of the things you didn't replace should have been.

But then, Grammarly managed to make a successful business out of a keylogger. And if you're working in a mid-to-large company and developing on Windows, chances are your corporate-mandated AV is sending every single binary you build to the AV company servers. And so on and so on. So I suppose this ship has already sailed, and you may just as well plug your company's Exchange server and Sharepoint to ChatGPT and see if it can generate your next PowerPoint presentation for you.

I always go out of my way to protect the information and IP I'm contractually obliged to protect, but it's getting increasingly hard these days. It's also very frustrating when you notice and report a new process that silently sends company IP to third parties to do $deity knows what with it, and you discover that instead of being concerned, the people you report your findings to don't care and don't understand why you're making a fuss out of it.
What was your experience? I've only used EMDR in the background of 1 on 1 therapy so I'm wondering what you get out of it when used in isolation?
>When the boy leaves the school and goes into the workplace and is confronted by all sorts of women in tech organisation but not men in tech

Even if there are more women in tech now than before, they are by no means outnumbering men, much less dominant in tech to where you can't find any men.
That is not a high bar.
IVM (Incremental View Maintenance) Implementation as a PostgreSQL Extension
So many companies just lit all their "social capital" on fire, especially Google. They have maintained the "don't be evil" mantra for so many years but who will ever believe that lie ever again?
I take advantage of multi-stage builds, however I still think that the layer system could have some nice improvements done to it.

For example, say I have my own Ubuntu image that is based on one of the official ones, but adds a bit of common configuration or tools and so on, on which I then build my own Java image using the package manager (not unlike what Bitnami do with their minideb, on which they then base their PostgreSQL and most other container images).

So I might have something like the following in the Ubuntu image Dockerfile:

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
curl wget \
net-tools inetutils-ping dnsutils \
supervisor \
&& apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists /var/cache/apt/*

But then, if I want to install additional software, I need to fetch the package list anew downstream:

FROM my-own-repo/ubuntu

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
openjdk-17-jdk-headless \
&& apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists /var/cache/apt/*

As opposed to being able to just leave the cache files in the previous layers/images, then remove them in a later layer and just do something like:

docker build -t my_optimized_java_image -f java.Dockerfile --purge-deleted-files .

or maybe

docker build -t my_regular_java_image -f java.Dockerfile .
purge-deleted-files -t my_regular_java_image -o my_optimized_java_image

Which would then work backwards from the last layer and create copies of all of the layers where files have been removed/masked (in the later layers) to use instead of the originals. Thus if I'd have 10 different images that need to use apt to install stuff while building them, I could leave the cache in my own Ubuntu image and then just remove it for whatever I want to consider the "final" images that I'll ship, which would then alter the contents of the included layers to purge deleted files.

There's little reason why these optimized layers couldn't be shared across all 10 of those "final" images either: "Hey, there's these optimized Ubuntu image layers without the package caches, so we'll use it for our .NET, Java, Node and other images" as opposed to --squash which would put everything in a single large layer, thus removing the benefits from the shared layers of the base Ubuntu image and so on.

Who knows, maybe someone will write a tool like that some day.
I can't tell if you're claiming that people claim that 1.) post-viral covid is totally novel, of if 2.) Post-viral syndrome is totally novel.

However, it reads to me like you're saying that there is no way post-viral syndrome could be a real cause. If they see a competent doctor, I'm pretty dure that they'll investigate depression as a cause, and make an attempt to verify or rule it out.

Post-viral syndrome has been recognized since at least the mid-80's, roughly [1]. As far as it goes, if someone gets covid and has horrible symptoms of depression afterwards, then it's certainly plausible that it's caused by post-viral syndrome.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1710789/
This sounds really cool. I struggle from anxiety and the occasional panic attack. The only thing I've found so far that helps is the Wim Hof breathing exercise. Three rounds of that gets me grounded again no matter how bad my anxiety is. I do usually breathe off tempo from the guided exercise, so I really like the idea of an app that adjusts to you.
Checking whether they can connect to google.com, baido.cn, and yandex.ru in order to know whether "the Internet is up" is like me driving to Walmart, Target, and McDonalds to check if the highway system is working. When my actual goal is simply to get home.

> The only reason I can think of is so you can have a different error message for "the oven service is down" and "unable to access the oven service".

To the user, there is no difference, because the user wouldn't take different corrective action for each case. How can the user correct it if the appliance's cloud service is down? Just ping your own cloud service and if it doesn't respond, tell the user "Unable to access the oven service. Check your Internet connection, and if it's fine, please wait a bit more."
Please it is 'losing' not loosing.
>the only purpose of laws like this is to increase transparency and thereby make the labor market more a free market. I really don't understand your concern here.

Yes, you do.
Adding people to the plan is not linear, i.e. there are individual plans, spousal plans and family plans (I'm sure they probably exist somewhere but I've never seen a plan that charges more per kid on a family plan).

But yes, family plans are expensive (I've seen them average about $1500 a month for COBRA family plans), but that just gets to the point about saving enough in a rainy day fund to include healthcare costs.
Damus is great and my client of choice. However, the TestFlight beta might still be filled up. If it is, I would recommend pairing a web client with an extension like nos2x/alby (chrome/firefox) or nostore (Safari).
The lunar "day" is actually nearly a solar month and it makes sense to call that a month.
However on a shorter timescale, it makes sense for the "day" to be the interval for one rotation of the earth relative to the moon. So at noon each day, the same point on the earth is facing the moon, say the Greenwich meridian. So this lunar day would be slightly longer than the earth solar day, roughly 30.53/29.53 earth days or 24 hrs 49 minutes approx. Would make sense to call such lunar days something different like "earths." So you would say something like "5 earths until the sun sets." Makes sense to also keep day hour minute and second the same as earth synced with UTC.
> Layoffs are especially hard on the performance of companies with a high reliance on R&D, low capital intensity, and high growth.

Start ups are 2 out of 3.

The thesis is that with layoffs the outcome is worse than without. So we can make all kinds of rhetorical debates, but the data seems to suggest for some causal reason companies that do layoff do worse off in the subsequent years.
> Gender roles (and sexism) are primarily cultural.

I think, slut shaming might have a biological component: you can't be shure the kid is yours.
That's separate from having your license. You don't need to be employed by a law firm to be a licensed atty
The advantages start popping up when multiple DMVs are using the same ledger; they don't have to trust each other, yet can still read and write records. The end game would be for state DMVs, international DMVs, and even private entities to be able to share information on a vehicle and its history - think CarFax, but much broader in scope and without some corporation acting as a middleman.

In this sense, I'm a bit skeptical of the value add of California's implementation, despite "put car titles on the blockchain" being something for which I've advocated for years now. This would've made more sense as a multi-state partnership.
Thanks for the insight, this is pretty interesting. I'm not surprised that Vulkan is a special case considering Fuchsia is using more-or-less off-the-shelf drivers if I understood correctly.
Metal Gear Solid: The strangest great videogame franchise (2015)
Search without LLM/GPT is just dead in the water now, isn't it?
I can't test your app, since I don't have an iPhone, but I'm hoping you could answer a vaguely related question for me.

One of my COVID readings was Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, by James Nestor. Its author says, "humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly". Like your app, it proposes a lot of breathing exercises. It explains their benefits in terms of increasing CO2 tolerance, and believes that we've all got too much O2 in our systems.

That smells like horse puckey to me, but I've been unable to find an informed review either way. I'm sure that slow, deep breathing as a focus for meditation is a very good thing, and I'm sure that your particular app is well founded. But I'm curious to know if you've read that particular book, and what your opinions are.

Thanks!
Indeed, I thought they were going to admit to using GPT from the very beginning.

Yes, this does not include their generally high quality investigatory pieces.
I tried to imagine an ad in chat output by asking ChatGPT a question and then making up an ad:

Q: What is superglue?

A: Super glue, also known as cyanoacrylate, is a type of adhesive that forms a strong bond quickly and can be used on a variety of surfaces. It is often used for small repairs, such as broken ceramics or toys, and can also be used in crafts and other projects. Super glue is available in liquid or gel form, and is sold in small tubes or bottles. It should be used with caution, as it can bond skin together and can be difficult to remove.

For your superglue needs, you can't do much better than Gorilla brand superglue. Its high strength and quick set time make Gorilla Super Glue the go-to adhesive for a variety of household projects.

Edit: There used to be a radio guy, I believe it was Joe Franklin who blended the ads into his spiel so you couldn't tell when the ad started and left off, so maybe it will be something like this.

A: Super glue, also known as cyanoacrylate, is a type of adhesive that forms a strong bond quickly and can be used on a variety of surfaces. A brand like Gorilla with it's high strength and quick setting time making it perfect for for small repairs, such as broken ceramics or toys, and can also be used in crafts and other projects. Super glue is available in liquid or gel form, and is sold in small tubes or bottles. It should be used with caution, as it can bond skin together and can be difficult to remove.
I am thoroughly addicted to nostr. I've been building a browser extension for Safari for it, and I feel like I'm part of something amazing being built.
Rust also has the benefit of eliminating a ton of classes of bugs, which is great for the core of a product that connects to the network, fetches untrusted content, parses it, and (presumably) stores it somewhere.

Not that you can't still have bugs, but when you can get C-levels of speed with Python-levels of safety, why not?
No, that's not a condition, that's a symptom. I don't need a study to say that pancakes reduce hunger.
Even as a linkedIn hater, I'm confused what the problem here is. Priyankaja just wants to connect and continue the conversation on a platform that's tailored to connecting professionals.
Great name. I wonder if Maersk (the Danish shipping container company) will note the hat-tip, and if it will annoy their lawyers.
Something internal that doesnt need to be understood can usually just not be written in the kinds of organizations I'm familiar with. Writing because something written is required is usually for the public, cross-organizational or government.
Ubuntu + Node.js + HTMX + SQLITE
I had had immune system issues since January 2020, where it take forever to feel better. So before the vaccines, which I did get. I am suffering now, as I write this. It comes and goes. I will go months when I am fine but then get sick and take weeks to get better. No mental issues. Not obese, run everyday, etc. If I overdo it with a long run then sometimes it will trigger it. Once its triggered, it takes a week or two feel normal. I can work and get through the day, but not much energy for much else. Feel sick in the morning. Extremely frustrating.
Digitec Galaxus now displays warranty score and return rate
I dislike that too. I've started using Sinatra for ruby apps instead of rails. You end up writing a lot more boilerplate but startup times are near instant and the API is great. Also it's highly stable. I haven't had to update my Sinatra apps (beyond updating dependent gems) in many years.
All big corporations have to be broken up. They have ill influence on everything and they are what many describe symptoms of late stage capitalism and our failure to regulate.

They are like a player of Monopoly who bought everything.

Alphabet shouldn't exist in its current form and so Apple, Amazon and many other corporations.
I find it relaxing. Can't really say much more than that because my experience is limited to that link I posted. How about you?
Best one so far: https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=AbCwoW
It took me few hours to find the proper link to run it on my linux system since all other online versions are broken so I decided to write a barebones article there is very little chance that people know/care about this game but I decided to publish it nevertheless to relieve some stress and get familar with various online website editors that have been garnering some attention recently...
Neural nets often fail with (repetitive) gibberish output when the input is too different from the training data. This model appears to take in the entire text input at once or look ahead at the next input letters, so the unusual "bla bla" at the end can mess up outputs near the beginning.