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Show HN: Orderling – A CRM for your personal orders
I order lots of things online all the time. I always have packages coming. I also return a decent percentage of the orders. It’s pretty annoying to keep track of everything. What was ordered, what I received, what I’m thinking about returning, and what I decided to return, but haven’t taken care of yet.

For a long time, I’ve had this idea to scratch this itch and build something that can solve this. The primary blocker was that it’s not practical to manually add everything to such a system. There is nothing like Plaid for merchants, where I can access order information. Building out native integrations for each merchant is too much work to do for an unproven idea. Even scraping the data from emails is a lot of work. Each merchant has its own email format, and could even have multiple email formats (A/B testing etc.).

What changed now are LLMs. Now, it’s easy to extract structured data from unstructured HTML. When an order comes in, I send it to the OpenAI API with an expected data schema, and it’s able to extract the information.

I built [Orderl.ing](https://orderl.ing) to solve this problem. You can think of it as a CRM for your orders.

What is different about Orderling over other products is that the focus is less about tracking the order coming to your door. It’s about tracking the order after. When you confirm that you actually got the item, you mark it as received. You can then decide if you want to keep it, unsure about returning, or want to return it. You can then easily come back to see orders that you still need to decide about, or that need to be packaged up and shipped. You can also quickly see a list of orders that are close to the return-by date, so you can make the final decision, or actually return it.

There are still lots of features on the roadmap. I’d love to get feedback from users to see if anyone else finds it helpful, and to see if there are any other features that would be useful.
One city took on rising car thefts – and brought the numbers down
Indeed, the posse is all that matters.
You might be surprised to learn that Enhanced LORAN recently became operational around the UK's coast, specifically because satellite-based PNT is so susceptible to interference and jamming.
I don't have infinite time and energy. It would be easier to just not support macOS rather than learn an entire stack just for them. Microsoft also has a Windows-only stack, but its perfectly fine to use others.
Covered pretty extensively on Thursday when we blogged about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39220528

Original blog is here: https://blog.cloudflare.com/thanksgiving-2023-security-incid...
Oh cool - I started looking into Qt a while ago but was confused by their license. Would you recommend it?
Mktg Stinx (Marketing Stinks) by Bob Hoffman
And then you hear stories like that one about french trader Jérôme Kerviel who did unauthorized trades with 5 billion losses.

And many more stories like that.

But yes, for small fish there is an approval process for everything, even to but a paper clip.
I use them for personal things
That's reason to be suspicious, but not a reason to dismiss it outright. Trials for covid vaccines were done by the manufacturers, who certainly have a profit motive in claiming they're safe and effective. Do you dismiss those trials for similar reasons?
Threat actor is the new term for hacker.
Bitsavers has a bunch of competitive analysis documents from 1980s DEC that are interesting to read:

http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/competitiveAnalysis/

You can feel the desperation..
We have just launched - would appreciate any feedback from the community.
There are a number of bag that pack down to self enclosed things smaller than a phone. When I lived in Chicago, and rarely drove anywhere, I had two of them in my coat pocket.

Summer time I was always biking anyway, and used my backpack.
I think the critical element in the UK hasn't been regulation, so much as the NHS putting a hard price floor under everything that private providers offer. The two systems worked symbiotically. As / if the NHS is killed, private medicine will enshittify as well.
I had always wondered whether there was a missile that was spin stabilized with minimal control surfaces like this one. They mentioned it only had two control fins, but not whether they are independent. It seems possible to steer a spinning missile using a single actuator if the control pulses are precise enough.
You throw them because something leaked. Why not clean it with a cloth?

I've used the same 3 long lasting plastic bags for the weekly shop for around 4 years now. I take a couple of thinner ones I reuse when just going to get a few things. Ive had some of those for years as well.

I'm in the UK, we went to Canada last year. It was crazy how much disposable plastic i saw walking out the doors of Costco and other large grocery stores. Also, Costco put milk in a plastic bag in Canada! Why not a rigid plastic container that can be recycled?
> In my country, single use plastic bags were replaced with thicker reusable plastic bags that many people discard after a single use.

What country?
It’s convenience. People are paying a $1.50 surcharge to avoid the advance planning. That’s a no-brainer.
What dark UX patterns are you referring to?
its hard to become a master at anything anymore in tech because its obsolete as soon as you master it.
Are you saying the state should dictate what you can do with the energy you buy?
This comment screams "I just want to be right about something".

Yeah the fov and the weight leave something to be desired so my comment isn't 100% accurate, sue me.

But you're purposefully ignoring the boatload of other things that ARE better.
I doubt it is true.

Apple's recent malevolent compliance with the EU anti-monopoly rulings, show that Apple at least cares a lot about the money these developers have to pay Apple (fees etc).
There is nothing magical about Wolfram. It's just a Lisp with different syntax and a whole lotta built-in functions.

Any language can have "native data access" by using an API, and that's what Wolfram is doing under the hood.

The best language/tool/method for any piece of software is usually the one that 1) provides the user interface you're after and 2) is in a language you're familiar and efficient with.
What is the ‘accepted’ view / model separation paradigm for Flutter? I do like the majority of Dart’s language choices.
Yes. There's nothing more in that article than what we said in the blog.
I think this is because Apple is a hardware company, that uses software to attract consumers. While Microsoft is a software company, that uses hardware to attract consumers.
• Bags aren't big or heavy

• What spur of the moment shopping are you talking about?
Instead they will wreck havoc on marine life because they decompose into loops of stringy rope that's difficult to break
A reasonable configuration language blog post. Explains the motivation, provides some meaningful examples and a happy accident, and concludes with an overview of prominent alternatives.

Worth a read, and worth trying out sometime, if nothing else because I too don't use jq often enough to remember more complex usages.
> the average Apple user is less capable

Do you actually have any evidence to back up this claim? I’m assuming the real reason is because the average Apple user has a higher income than the average non-Apple user.
Daycare costs are exactly what stopped my wife and I from moving to UK, and instead had me accept a significant salary cut in order to negotiate fully remote work.

Parallel reply asks where do you live now with cheap childcare, giving number like $1600/kid. Here in Kraków, Poland, it's more like 1400 PLN (~$325), and most private facilities are enrolled in a program that makes the city cover half of that. At kindergarten level, there's enough good, public facilities available, that you only have to pay if you want some usual/experimental facility.

Of course, there's a cost-of-living difference between Poland and UK/US, but it's not that big - relatively speaking, daycare here seems 2-4x cheaper anyway. It's one of increasingly many things that make me think Poland is the goldilocks zone of Europe - all the benefits of first-world development, with little to no drawbacks.
As for stats: at least in software you can definitely get independent sources of statistics.
So the solution to plastic bags, is heavier and sturdier plastic bags. Does anyone think this is a bit of a farce. I like the heavier bags, just feels bad to throw them out, since they keep piling up, I'll have to. My dog likes tearing them apart.
I associate reusable bags with communism, since I literally had to use reusable bags living in a communist country. And I now associate their introduction with a parallel decline of living standards, and inflation in Canada. Much like I experienced in a communist country which my parents escaped from.
This association is not just me, but many fellow Canadians equate the carbon tax with it as well. Since most likely the decline in affordability of life, people going hungry and cold will lead to voting people out that brought in these policies. Will the people that brought in these policies resolve to do away with democracy to keep them in place. It's something I'm not excited to see. So having a plan B to escape just like my parents did, would seem prudent at this point.
"no CFO would punish a finance person for disobeying an order to bypass a process intended to prevent financial fraud."

CFO are often involved in fraud. it is part of finance industry training to be wary of dealing with other financial institutions.

https://tax.thomsonreuters.com/news/enron-former-cfo-i-am-on...

https://www.accountancydaily.co/ex-countrywide-cfo-charged-f...

https://www.businessinsider.com/bed-bath-and-beyond-cfo-foun...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/01/nyregion/weisselberg-perj...

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndtx/pr/cfo-controller-corporat...

https://www.fraud-magazine.com/article.aspx?id=4294976271

https://core.ac.uk/reader/231825040

https://www.nydailynews.com/2023/10/05/former-ftx-co-founder...

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/former-company-chief-fi...

https://www.nydailynews.com/2023/10/05/former-ftx-co-founder...

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/w/worldcom.asp

whistleblowers get punished all the time.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warning/interviews/...

https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/2btg8yx4pcckb0...

https://www.marketswiki.com/wiki/Madelyn_Antoncic

https://www.wsj.com/articles/wells-fargo-fined-22-million-fo...

https://www.npr.org/2016/11/04/500728907/senators-investigat...

etc etc
An iteration of this Scam has also been covered by Coffezilla in the past: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Irh3ct6CFh0
IMO Hacker News needs a new rule to ban this tidal wave of wrapper spam.

The rule could be "If your paid website/startup does nothing more novel than common-sense prompting Bing or Bard or Meta would do for free, it doesn't belong here".

I'd be surprised if this website gets a single paying customer at all.
The war on plastic bags (in the USA) was dumb. They are a tiny tiny percentage of plastic pollution and paper bags actually take up more space at the landfill and a LOT more energy to manufacture to the same strength and usability. The truth is even more so for canvas bags. I live where the war never happened and I just stuff them under the cabinet until it gets full and then I take them to the grocery store where they are properly recycled, and the store reports how that happens.
> libjxl is written in C++ so undoubtedly will be full of undiscovered security issues.

There's the WebAssembly sandboxing trick (https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/12/webassembly-and-back-again...) which might mitigate that, but an image decoder might fall into the "too performance-sensitive to accept the modest overhead incurred" case.
>Most stores should simply not have any kind of bag whatsoever. If you don't bring something of your own, you should be mostly SoL.

Yeah, because driving back to your house to get a bag and then driving back is so much better for the environment than a using a few 0.1mm thin bags.
jsonnet[1] and kapitan[2] are the tools I currently use. Their learning curve is not optimal (and I tried to contribute to smoothen it with a jsonnet course[3] and a 'get started wit kapitan' blog post[4]), but once used to it it's hard to do without, and their combination makes them even more useful (esp. if you deploy K8s).

In Ruud's case, Jsonnet might have been worth looking at as Hashicorp tools can be configured with json in addition to HCL. But that would have been less fun I guess ;-)

I hope for Ruud it finds its niche, there's quite some competition in this field!

1: https://jsonnet.org/

2: https://kapitan.dev/

3: referal link: https://www.udemy.com/course/jsonnet-from-scratch/?referralC...

4: https://www.yvesdennels.com/posts/starting-with-kapitan/
How do you figure? Imagine a server component that runs in wasm (pretty common). Memory safety bugs could easily lead to information leaks and privilege bypass entirely within the wasm sandbox.
So open source models are OK? No corporation benefits from that. What about people who are learning to be artists? Should they have to license works before they observe them? They can't be incorporating elements from other artists without payingnthem, surely.

I see a lot of this knee jerk generative algorithm bad on twitter, reddit, and spaces like that. Hopefully HN can be more nuanced.

Information wants to be free. That doesn't stop being true when the information is art.
> Browser extensions remind us what it’s like to have deep control over how we use our computers.

Uh. Linux users would like a word here.

But more generally, there's a significant component of this that seems isomorphous to the question I was trying to discuss in a post I wrote several years ago called "Is Open Source a diversion from what users really want?"

There seems to be much more excitement about ways to "hack" software that do not involve build systems than the complete, open-ended and (theoretically) unbounded access provided by FLOSS. It's not hard to see some obvious reasons why that would be true, but still a little disappointing.

I tried to discuss that here, specifically in the contrast between Reaper's provision of scripting-but-closed-source versus Ardour's scripting-but-open-source.

https://discourse.ardour.org/t/is-open-source-a-diversion-fr...
Problem is, insurance contracts are only for a few years then employers shop around and it's usually cheaper to switch than to renew.
I think if we fill in the ellipsis it adds a bit more context:

“ feeling marginalized and discriminated against, had long been fighting to protect their civil rights.”

Further, looking at Demographics under https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagorno-Karabakh

It seems “Armenian minority” may have been meant in the context of all of Azerbaijan, not of that particular region, where it seems Armenians were a majority.
PostgreSQL gives the performance if you are not running it on AWS
I wonder what happened to Arch Linux's sub-architecture support.

There was talk years ago about this. Pacman supposedly got updates, and it was just a matter of kicking the building infrastructure into gear.

But years passed, and still nothing.
I see you've never had a young child. What you're talking about is something that doesn't work with children under 3. And tbose children are very mobile, boundary test and don't really understand death.

My 1 year butt checked a fireplace and got a 3rd degree burn. She understood what hot was. That heat could hurt her. Still burnt her butt when I wasn't looking and the worst part was the urgent care told me it was a common occurrence. I believe them because they guess exactly how it had happened.

My 2 year old nearly drowned. It was only a fence that stopped her from jumping into a pool when I wasn't looking. I found her right outside it after desperately wondering where she had gone. She'd been in a pool plenty of times and even knew she could sink. Didn't matter.

I can have frank discussions with my nearly 5 year old, but that was really recent. Even when she was just 4 just explaning and exposure wasn't alaays effective. It's easier to just lie for their safety.

And hell it must work because I still remember the stories my dad told me about the monster called Undertow that would carry you out to sea. I of course know it's a real thing, but I think it's telling I think of the story before the factual information and I heard the story over 25 years ago.
"Am I right guessing that UI frameworks do something similar?"

most of them try to avoid the update() loop because UI elements usually only change if the application state changes (and then you call paint() or invalidate()) or if the window moves or gets dis-occluded (then the OS calls invalidate()) or if the mouse cursor moves.

So typically, the UI framework will have a "dirty" rectangle flag which represents the pixel area that needs to be redrawn.
I was not able to find any paper on Google Scholar about a study on the effect of a low-histamine diet on obstructive sleep apnea. How many is "many" and where is this documented?

The few matches for low-histamine diet and apnea come from what I would consider fringe and untrustworth research, often suggesting a low-histamine diet helps a large number of medical issues, but not pointing to study giving numbers, describing the severity of the apnea, and other things I would expect.

I was able to find papers which studied the effect of anti-histamine drugs on obstructive sleep apnea, like https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.2500/ajra.2013.27.39... for when people also have allergic rhinitis. "adding [anti-histimines] to this treatment did not show improved effects compared with placebo treatment". I presume people taking anti-histamines would have a lower amount of histamines in their body, so if there were a correlation it would have been seen. (Alternatively, it says that a low-histamine diet is not effective for CPAP when suffering from allergic rhinitis.)

It is apparently quite hard to identify what "low-histamine diet" means. In "Low-histamine diets: is the exclusion of foods justified by their histamine content?" at https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/13/5/1395 , which specifically concerns "the symptomatology of histamine intolerance", notes the "great heterogenicity in the type of foods that are advised against for histamine intolerant individuals. Excluded foods were, in most cases, different depending on the considered diet. Only fermented foods were unanimously excluded."

> The design of a low-histamine diet is challenging due to different handicaps. One of these is the lack of consensus on the histamine level below which a food is said to be considered low in histamine. Thus, variable histamine levels in food ranging between 5–50 mg/kg have been pointed out as potential thresholds, while other authors are much more demanding and consider foods with low histamine concentrations to be those that contain amounts below 1 mg/kg [ 12 ,26 –28 ]. Moreover, there is no specific regulation for the food industry to declare the occurrence or absence of histamine in food labelling, which could help histamine intolerant individuals to make suitable and informed choices.

> Overall, providing dietary recommendations and guidelines in the frame of a low-histamine diet is difficult for healthcare professionals.

If it's difficult for healthcare professionals to even determine what is low-histamine - and that's for people who are specifically histamine intolerance - and no studies to back up your suggestion ... why should anyone think your proposal has merit?

There is a long history of using the "why the closed mind?" argument to sell snake oil treatments, so I would not advise using argument and instead point to supporting evidence.
I'm not aware of any scare walls on iOS. On Android is a site is installable a little banner is supposed to pop up and ask if you want to install it. On iOS one has to open the site's share sheet and pick an install option nestled in there somewhere. I suppose that counts as a hoop, but how else would you surface the functionality without it being invasive and annoying for most users?

I think a more pertinent problem is that most devs don't want to distribute their apps as PWAs because Apple deletes saved data at unpredictable intervals and PWAs can't push engagement notifications as effectively as native apps.

When I switched from the Uber PWA to their native app I suddenly started getting bombarded with ads from them in my notifications.
Swift and Apple APIs are the most pleasant environment I have ever experienced by far.

If only their documentation wasn't so often lacking though.
I cannot disagree more on just about everything you wrote.

In my experience, Xcode has been terrible, sometimes borderline unusable. The horrible project format, merging pains when working in a team, interface builder being trash in general but completely unusable when you use a lot of custom components with @IBDesignable properties across multiple modules - in that scenario it sometimes rebuilds everything in an endless loop, and brings even the most powerful Mac machines to their knees.

In that state even changing a simple property on a view takes 15 seconds of 100% cpu time.

Sure nowadays there's SwiftUI but IMO it can't be considered as anything more than an alpha until they fix the horrible navigation woes. And even then it still uses UIKit under the hood and you can see countless internally used constraints breaking all the time in the logs. At least that's how it was when I tried it a year and a half ago.

And that's not even touching on the cruel joke that is the xcodeproj project format.

Apple didn't even provide a package manager until relatively recently for God's sake. It was left to the community (cocoapods) to fend for themselves in this regard.
> no one really cares about faceless conglomerates of real estate developers.

I don't care about faceless conglomerates but neither do I care about hooligans covering buildings in graffiti. It is possible to dislike both and a lot of people do.
Like others here have mentioned, I reused the grocery store thin bags for lining small bathroom trash cans or when scooping cat litter. Now I need to buy special trash bags instead so no environmental savings. I also have a ridiculous number of the reusable bags as I forget to bring them when going to the store sometimes, or end up stopping by the store unexpectedly.

One thing I never figured out was why they made the original bags so thin that in the end, the clerk needed to double-bag everything.
Yeah companies directly running insurance is a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-funded_health_care
The license may look confusing, but it's pretty permissive. I highly recommend Qt. I developed a block editor[1] (similar to Notion) using Qt C++ and QML, and my development experience is pretty great.

[1] https://www.get-plume.com/
In a sane world, most distributions would have long switched to musl and libressl, from glibc and openssl.
A demostration of fixing a bug from Medley's debugger
> Commissioned by the American Recyclable Plastic Bag Alliance

AKA the lobbying group for plastic bag manufacturers, a group whose entire purpose is opposing plastic bag bans, quoted by the WSJ editorial board.

This is about as bad a source as one could possibly imagine.
> piracy is free marketing.

Windows and Adobe Products are clear examples of this IMO.
You don't have to do any of that. The older options never go away, and don't stop working unless they are so complex that they require a working npm-enabled requirements solving. (But then, if they do that, they are best avoided anyway.)
Because HOA owns that community. So "if you own the building" condition is not met, by definition.
On iOS/iPadOS Firefox and Chrome extensions seem to mostly work in the Orion browser.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberapay - Platform for recurring donations/OSS funding.