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Monetizing your browser bookmarks — yay or nay?

TL;DR: I built an automated website and Twitter profile, fed with content from my browser bookmarks, and a few months later, it has 500 pages, 750 niche followers, and some $130 profit from affiliate links.

==Problem==

I collected a large Brave bookmarks folder with Framer resources earlier this year. I wanted to share it with my design team and, instead of dumping a batch of links in Slack, I was looking for a more convenient way for them to be able to browse these.

(Disclaimer: I am a designer, not a developer.)

==Solution==

So, I came up with the following:

1/ A series of Python scripts that are executed through a bash script from a plist every hour on my computer.

2/ Those scripts basically extract the bookmarks from a bookmarks folder called "", then fetch metadata (description, og:image, favicon, etc.) and push those into an Airtable.

3/ A make.com automation takes the data from Airtable and publishes it to Webflow.

4/ Another automation schedules a tweet (should I say an "X post"), and a third automation translates YouTube videos to articles with some ChatGPT interventions (SEO).

== Maintenance ==

Adding new high-quality resources (links) is basically cmd+d (bookmarking) links and all the rest is automated. It costs me zero effort to maintain (I do follow the Framer community and how they develop the product out of pure curiosity anyway).

Yes, I could use the Notion or Airtable web clipper, but that's an extra click (to select the page/base to which you'd like to save the link, which I find very annoying given the speed at which I am used to browsing the interwebs).

== SEO?? ==

I recently began following the Google Search Console and occasionally make small enhancements to observe their impact on improving organic SEO over the next few months... TBD.

== Current Results ==

With zero marketing, 6 months later, I have close to 500 links on the website, an audience of 750 on Twitter, and I am about to rework the entire thing and try to monetize it (currently paying too much for services that can be either replaced with some coding or better utilized).

== Brrrr$$$ Bulls#$t ==

What if I create a script that does niche and keyword research, creates websites and fills them with content automatically —

imagine launching 100 "niche websites" with a few hundred articles in each based on some data in a spreadsheet (e.g. niche, domain name, target audience and the scripts take it from there).

I've never been into those "boring internet business" / "seo-ads-money" / "seo satelites" / "affiliate marketing" / "dropshipping" and other kind of sketchy stuff... However, out of curiosity, I would experiment with that for the fun (once I automate the rest of my house tho, almost there!).

Any thoughts?
very nice but i assume it’s going to be limited to cuda as a backend because nvidia
I think if the proper question is asked, you get the right answer. The issue is whether people understand what is the proper question.

The proper question is, "would you rather live near solar panels and wind turbines, or coal power plants?". Because someone is going to have to live near either.

The wrong question is if you merely ask, "do you want to live near a wind turbine?" Of course no one does.

It's like asking a toddler, "do you want to eat the broccoli or the peas?" Then they choose the right answer.
> Cars ... incredibly useful

Not where I live, in north western Europe. Here the subways are fast, and not many use cars inside the city. Many buses and bike lanes too.

Here, cars are slow: traffic queues, finding a parking lot. But the subway never runs into any traffic queues.

And the subway is many times cheaper than a car's monthly cost. And I can read HN on the subway
I'm genuinely curious, why so?

I don't live near any turbines but I don't see from my outside view why it would be a problem?
I don't know the details of this system, and it may well be complete trash, so don't take this as an apology for it.

It's challenging to measure the utility of a system for predicting very low likelihood events, especially when the thing being measured is very heavily influenced by the method of measurement. For example, in Minority Report, the accuracy of the crime predictions is assumed to be perfect, and the result is that they are always incorrect. No crimes are committed because the intervention is always successful (at least up to the point where the story starts). So you might consider 'never have to make an arrest' to be a perfect record for such a system, as in minority report. You might equally logically take 'always makes an arrest' as proof a system like this is working.

You also have to worry about crime moving around to avoid the police. Maybe the bank robbery was going to happen at BoA, but they drove by and saw a bunch of police and robbed the Wells Fargo 20 minutes away instead.

As silly as it probably sounds, probably the best heuristic to get a good idea of whether a system like this works is the feedback police give after spending time following it's leads. If they say this thing is predicting where they need to be better than whatever they did before, and there isn't an obvious correlation to the predictions (as in, it doesn't always send them to the black neighborhood) then it probably warrants more careful analysis. In this case the police thought the system was crap.
You don't really know, but you can be reasonably sure that they didn't sabotage the submissions themselves.
Wrote (about) more than just sci-fi. His timeline of the development from heliocentric to geocentrism, "The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown", is a fun read; table of contents:

* https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-great-ptolemaic-sma...

So is his five-part series laying out Aristotle's first way argument about the Unmoved Mover:

* https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2014/07/first-way-some-backgrou...

* https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2014/08/first-way-moving-tale.h...

* https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2014/09/first-way-part-ii-two-l...

* https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2014/10/first-way-part-iii-big-...

* https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2014/11/first-way-part-iv-casca...
The US annual budget is around 5.8 trillion dollars.

NASA gets around 33 billion

There is money.. it's just a matter of priorities
I was thinking Shpongle
Show HN: Creator Mind – Chatbots for blog/newsletter
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep35070

An interesting article on the topic. They measured temperatures over a year at 3 nearby sites (desert, parking lot, PV plant; Fig. 4 shows them on a map).
as a general rule when one makes statements that go against the common wisdom one should also make some sort of effort at showing the cause for ones arguments, but at any rate here is a stat that says 1 in 5 prisoners are in prison for a drug offense https://www.prisonpolicy.org/graphs/pie2023_drugs.html

yes I know a drug offense is not just simple possession but I mean, you didn't try to provide anything for your astounding claims, so I figure I could get the ball rolling here.

as far as Sweden https://www.statista.com/statistics/534214/sweden-persons-se...

3237 people in Swedish Prison for drug offenses

Sweden has a population of over 10 million
so less than 0.03%

going by this https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/01/16/percent-incarce... I figure the American rate must be 0.2%

It is not close. Which is what I think most people would predict - that it was not even close.

on edit: I see Bumby went and got some stats too, to clarify I don't doubt that violent offenses outweigh other offenses, what I doubt is that America does not have a large number of people incarcerated for drug possession.
So what was the alternative? Hide the measurement? Not measure at all? What specifically would you have done differently?

Once the excess mortality data came along it confirmed people lots more people were dying than normal, and therefore of covid, so how is it misleading? If anything saying with covid is the opposite of misleading since you are specifying the caveat of the measurement up front?
JPMorgan CEO says our children will only work 3.5 days a week thanks to AI
> So you're trying to say that because he's clearly insane from an abusive childhood that putting him to death would not be a deterrent?

That is not what they're saying. The claimed deterrence from the death penalty is to give pause to would-be murderers such that they don't actually commit murder. Putting Breivik to death obviously does not serve as a deterrent to Breivik's past crimes and, while it can ensure that future crimes also do not occur, so can putting him in prison.
>she pointed out that if you look at medical data (where people tend to be fairly honest about their drug usage) pretty much everyone in the metro area under study (SF) used drugs, or at least drug use was equally prevalent in pretty much every geographical area and among all demographics.

Any data on type and frequency of drug used?
Sure, but this was just a weird thing to hone in on.
I'm not even going to read this because you put the name of a lethal addictive drug in the title.

More than a poor metaphor, that's insensitive to people who are getting clean and have to deal with people who haven't decided to change yet.

That's a s****y drug, and that language is not.

"Narcotic painkillers prolong pain in rats, says CU-Boulder study" (2016)
https://www.colorado.edu/today/2016/05/31/narcotic-painkille...
> I don't follow your strawman.

how large are the DB migrations you've done? your experience is seemingly completely different to mine.
Hey guys! I'm from Estonia, living in Bay area, with 4 exits until now and this strong brain damage that I need to get back to this startup bog.

Anyway, asking for help to support my new venture - company Wois.io on producthunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/wois

Thanks for spending your time!
Research is very clearly covered under fair use.
Grass has an albedo of around ~0.2 which means that it converts ~80% of the incident sunlight into heat. Solar panels are pretty black and have efficiencies of ~20% which means that they convert ~80% of the incident sunlight into heat. The amount of heat produced by your friends' hill did not change due to the solar panels.
Parmesan: AI-based predictive tool finding new treatments for genetic disorders
Intel folks recommended
“Chip War,” by Chris Miller
If the NSA has back-pocketed exploits on the LWE submission from the CRYSTALS authors, it's not likely that a purely academic competition would have fared better. The CRYSTALS authors are extraordinarily well-regarded. This is quite a bank-shot theory of OPSEC from NSA.
Perhaps you're asking rhetorically. Perhaps not.

Of ducking bloody course!

Simply peruse Running services in Developer Options and proceed to purchase bulk quantities of Preparation H to ease the grievous pang.

Android is a surveillance framework. It merely happens to be useful to the products utilizing it.

Go forth boldly with your new understanding, oh lurker. And may your anonymity and dignity endure. But don't get your hopes up.
Want to make better decisions? Ask for less information, not more
> For the first 3 years of WW2 USSR was an ally of nazis.

Let's not forget Finland.
It's a good clarification. I initially assumed it was the other person.
Fairphone offers a "Fairphone Easy" plan (in the Netherlands only, for now) for €14 per month for the 60 months plan (€19 per month for the 36 months plan), which includes repairs etc. So if you're planning to keep it longer than 24 months, it'd be cheaper, yeah.
Formula 1: One step forward, two steps back (Miniatur Wunderland) [video]
"Sometimes you just sit in front of it for a week in despair, looking for the error."

Miniatur Wunderland is a jaw-dropping, enourmous model rail/road/air layout in Hamburg [1]. For 10 years they've been working on a new F1 racing layout based on Monaco. There have been... challenges. The linked video (English captions) on their Youtube channel discusses recent progess, especially obscure gremlins and glitches. I found it comforting to listen a while to someone else pull his hair out.

"For three weeks we have been looking for the reason why the cars just stop. Is it a software failure that we don't notice after all? There is no error message, but the result is crap." "When these errors occur so rarely you need to know how to provoke them." Hardware problem in a bad place: "We don't know exactly how to fix it, so I changed the software for now" with some hack details. Spoiler: toward the end of the video they got a lucky break and it looks like they know what's causing phantom-car-stop.

[1] https://www.miniatur-wunderland.de/
I remember this thread from hn.
Tire dust makes up the majority of ocean microplastics - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37726539

Link to the article -
https://www.thedrive.com/news/tire-dust-makes-up-the-majorit...
If you buy logs you probably can
> We could bring crime to near-zero if we give the government full, unlimited access to all of our communications, devices, and our homes.

Will not scale. They had full, unlimited access to all the communications, devices, home and working place of one citizen for four whole years, and the list of criminal charges is higher than the Trump tower
> changes the character of the town

What exactly do you mean by that?

- New arrivals bring crime and disorder? Enforce the law, lock criminals up, problem solved.

- Overcrowded schools/overused city services? Tax new residents as needed to support new services.

- Packed roads? Public transit is one option, there are others but I confess to not being an expert in this area.

- Just want to keep your town's culture the same? Legitimate desire, but consider how achievable it is—if young families can't afford to live in your area, it will just die out eventually.
I mean they care to some degree, if they _really_ cared presumably everything would be compressed with zstd and served to the more modern npm-cli installations, and npm-cli would refuse to upload binaries that are not explicitly allowlisted.
In my country, 3 minutes is not enough difference to miss a train (it's probably been cancelled already ;)), if you live in Japan, I can understand. Comparing your watch to another timepiece is a fairly common occurence imo.
Future of a vanishingly tiny proportion of music that will ever be performed there, maybe. Certainly not the future of music.
Thanks for outlining a defensive design. Could you recommend good references or example projects for learning how to design open hardware/software for sensor data acquisition, tamper-resistant signals storage, and decentralized analysis?
In addition to what others have said, the biggest issue is that RTOers want to force their will upon WFHers because they don’t want to work in an empty office. I get it, social people want to be social, but forcing us WFHers into your paradigm because you don’t want to be lonely is not the answer, it creates resentment from both parties. WFHers sit there with headphones on, blocking out the world while RTOers wander the halls looking for interaction.

It is absolutely a difficult problem for modern companies to deal with. Hybrid seems like the best/worst solution so that no one is happy and both parties compromise.
so if I want to sunset my api version X in 1 year for whatever reason and I am able to support an old schema X, which api X maps to, for that time period without any hassle (and not only during migration), this would be a much bigger feature / USP for me then everything else mentioned. I am really curious to look deeper into this :-)
I live near a windfarm south of Boulder, CO. It's fine. Better than the nuclear weapons plant that used to be there.
I think you're being downvoted because of your comment about the "low frequency sounds".

That's myth[0] that's typically shared by anti-renewables/NIMBYs.

[0] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-17/wind-farms-david-leyo...
It reminds me of doing Mandelbrot fractals on my C64. Debugging my code was really hard.
"High q-bit proprietary technology" and "specialized de-latticing algorithms" are made up terms that nobody uses.
This comment is factually incorrect on a number of levels.

1) single-handedly killed US government crypto export restrictions - Bernstein certainly litigated, but was not the sole actor in this fight. For example, Phil Zimmerman, the author of PGP, published the source code of PGP as a book to work around US export laws, which undoubtedly helped highlight the futility of labelling open source software as a munition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Criminal_i...

2) Bernstein "founded" the field of post quantum cryptography: Uh. Ok. That's not how academia works. Bernstein was certainly an organiser of the first international workshop on post quantum cryptography, but that's not the same as inventing a field. Many of the primitives that are now candidates were being published long before this, McEliece being one of the oldest, but even Atjai's lattice reductions go back to '97.

3) The dual_ec rng was backdoored (previously read was and is fishy, poor wording on my part), but nobody at the time wanted NIST to standardize it because it was a _poor PRNG anyway_: slow and unnecessarily complicated. Here is a patent from Scott Vanstone on using DUAL_EC for "key escrow" which is another way of saying "backdoor": https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/32/9b/73/fe5401e... - filed in 2006. In case you don't know Scott Vanstone, he's the founder of Certicom. So at least one person noticed. This was mentioned in a blog post as a result of the Snowden leaks working out how the backdoor happened: https://blog.0xbadc0de.be/archives/155

NSA have been caught in a poor attempt to sabotage a standard that nobody with half a brain would use. On the other hand NSA also designed SHA-2, which you are likely using right now, and I'm not aware of anyone with major concerns about it. When I say NSA designed it, I don't mean "input for a crypto competition" - a team from the NSA literally designed it and NIST standardized it, which is not the case for SHA-3, AES or the current PQC process.

DJB is a good cryptographer, better than me for sure. But he's not the only one - and some very smart, non-NSA, non-US-citizen cryptographers were involved in the design of Kyber, Dilithium, Falcon etc.
I'm having difficulty following this train of thought. How is any of this related to consumer level users wanting to keep IPFS data alive?
Its amazing how banks are offering reduced interest rates and more money if you are willing to rent out a building at a loss. If it's happening here, it's happening everywhere.
It would be gatekeeping if it was some flashy new upstart band of twenty-somethings. U2 has been around for about 900 years now. This is "old guy lamenting what the other old guys have done" which is something we need more of in general.
I don't actually know a lot about massively parallel libraries like CUDA. Does AMD have an equivalent technology associate with their GPUs? It feels like it should be fairly straightforward to create some kind of high level library that just uses CUDA or whatever AMD has on the back end.
Supposedly, wholesale chicken wings are lower than pre-pandemic prices.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/chicken-wing-price...

I've yet to find a restaurant, however, where menu prices for wings aren't at least 20% higher than 2019 or so -- often much higher. Similarly, I have a hard time believing that lower lumber prices will reduce new construction costs.
The sphere is the greatest concert innovation I have ever seen in my life. A gimmick? Maybe. Awesome? YES!
There are a number of text-only news sites. Aside from NPR, 68k News, CNN, and the Christian Science Monitor:

<https://blog.wturrell.co.uk/text-only-news-websites/>

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35313232>
I thought the same thing as well.
There is a final standardization step where NIST selects constants, and this is done without always consulting with the research team. Presumably, these are usually random, but the ones chosen for the Dual-EC DRBG algorithm seem to have been compromised. SHA-3 also had some suspicious constants/padding, but that wasn't shown to be vulnerable yet.
I think he understands it very well, too.

I was being sarcastic.

I apologise for the lack of indicators.
> I value my commute tremendously. It’s one of my favorite parts of the day.

My guess is that you either don’t live in the US or live in one of the small handful of cities that have decent public transportation.

Sitting in SoCal traffic for an hour both ways every day will certainly change your mind about commutes.
Chemical Brothers or Orbital for me.

ooh ooh or Nine Inch Nails. The visuals in this "Disappointed" track in this video is really mindblowing to me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3sp6Hwp3nk
The "v" in Rave stands for "visual". The author's point was simply that it was not Rock n Roll.

Though in all seriousness, I suspect the author might have been just capitalizing on the venue's recent opening, for traffic to his blog.

Though his other content looks fairly interesting. Can't blame him for the hustle.
Wind turbines are pretty noisy, so you might not want it right next to your house. That's a bit like living next to a high way.

Edit: OK, since this topic is fairly controversial I just wanted to say that it's probably not as loud as a highway, but it is noisy!
Others are free to provide proper C++ support on their GPUs.
NIST P-256 curve seed came from the X9.62 specification drafted in 1997. It was provided by an NSA employee, Jerry Solinas, as an example seed among many other seeds, including those provided by Certicom. Read this for more details: https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1018
For me the whole value prop for ULIDs is that they can be generated by any node in a distributed system without coordination, while roughly preserving time order. "Roughly" meaning: all IDs will be globally ordered at millisecond precision, subject to the accuracy of each node's system clock; and IDs from a specific node will be locally ordered, subject to the details of the monotonicity part of the ID generator. This is important for me, because most of the things I attach IDs to will happen many many many times per second.
Hrmm. Habermas and Germany. That's funny, because right now there are proposals there which would criminalize to publicly/online question or doubt the 'legitimacy' of anything what their shepherds do. A widening of the already wide applicability of 'hate-spech' laws.

*BAAAA!*
I've been using Yggdrasil to achieve something similar. Basically, my docker compose file includes a service for Yggdrasil that is configured to join the host Yggdrasil network listening at host.docker.internal. The service uses socat to forward ports from each of the other services. The end result is that each docker-compose.yml gets its own IPv6 address, and all the ports can be kept the same. No need for Let's Encrypt, unless maybe you want the network to be exposed publicly.

It just so happens that I wrote a gist recently that explains how to do this.

https://gist.github.com/Ravenstine/707180ef29e9d37a8f816e019...
As hard as it may be to hear, to some extent that is likely a “you” problem. Start a culture of not having to have the camera on, figure out good reasons to have to exit such wasteful calls, etc. Continuing the same thing and whining about it melodramatically is unlikely to be fruitful
it's the same AI girl voice you hear in like 30% of tiktok videos.

And she pronounced 'console' wrong. The noun should be pronounced /ˈkɑːn.soʊl/, not /kənˈsoʊl/.
Jekyllpad Online Content Editor
sounds amazing. Your tool is super useful for understanding recursive functions. Only thing I felt that I was missing when using this was a format button to fix the formatting of my code.