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Show HN: Laudspeaker – Open-source mobile push, SMS and email automation
Hey HN, we are sharing again, after a year of updates!

Laudspeaker (https://laudspeaker.com/) is an open source customer engagement suite (also called marketing automation software). If you've used tools like Braze, One Signal, Airship, Iterable, Customer.io or some others, Laudspeaker is an alternative to these. Here is a quick demo: https://www.loom.com/share/4b309390ee274ea491981e1394e9abc4. And here is a link to sign up and try free (no cc needed): https://app.laudspeaker.com/signup.

Or if you prefer to just jump in, go to https://app.laudspeaker.com/login and use this test account:

email: test94@laudspeaker.com
pw: test93@laudspeaker.com

The main things Laudspeaker lets you do are:

1. Define 'segments': which of your users should receive messages.

2. Define 'messaging journeys': when, where and with which channels you want to reach users. Right now we support push, email, SMS, and soon we'll also include in-app messages and WhatsApp.

For example, one customer of ours runs a journey like this: "Wait for a user to complete onboarding on our mobile app, then send a welcome push. If they complete an action the next day on the app, stop sending messages, otherwise send a followup email."

There are quite a few big updates since our last Show HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34835559):

We now have a mobile SDK for sending and receiving push notifications. We have revamped the journey builder, and made our segment builder much more comprehensive. Our application is also a lot more battle tested - we are deployed with a major fintech in Asia and are sending XX million messages a week to more than x million users.

We've seen a lot of demand from consumer focused apps and websites who find most of the existing solutions' pricing models prohibitively expensive so please reach out if that sounds like you. We have successfully migrated people over from Braze, customer io and others.

If you're interested in the mobile SdK, see our tutorial: https://laudspeaker.com/docs/getting-started/setting-up-mobi...,

and sample apps: https://github.com/laudspeaker/android-sample-app, https://github.com/laudspeaker/ios-sample-app.

Our Github is https://github.com/laudspeaker/laudspeaker. Try it out for free at https://app.laudspeaker.com/signup.

We'd love to hear your feedback and comments!
No it’s gone. We would need admin support to get it unflagged again, most likely.
Even "thinking out loud" we have seen these systems fall flat on their face and give very wrong answers.

Thinking out loud also only gets you so far, if the expectation is a certain type of response it can't always "think out loud". In reality that just proves it isn't really reasoning here and is more likely just self referencing.

That being said, I tried this personally allowing it to think out loud and it told me she has 212 sisters. Using your exact prompt.
Hard to tell if this is sarcasm, when it was posted the day before EU Parliamentary elections: https://elections.europa.eu/en/
Society has already been overthrown with a quasi-religion based on drugs. They're trying to make experimental gene therapy MANDATORY right now. Even though 3 million people mysteriously died after receiving the previous "vaccine".
I was able to get this to load by going to the blog site from an older post to antipope.org and then navigating to the latest blog post.

That or whatever was wrong was fixed just now.
Tunnelvision: Attackers can bypass VPNs and redirect data
Server: Monty Python's Life of Brian - Crack Suicide Squad, Electronic Regiment/0.1.0
At one point Windows had prototype UTF8 support as the ANSI codepage. Does anyone know where this went, or if it will be supported? The docs [1] indicate issues with GDI, which makes it sound still in prototype stage.

https://utf8everywhere.org/#windows may be outdated if that goes ahead.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/global...
If you should peruse the paper that they published, be aware that the actual meat of the paper is in the supplementary section, past the citations. I was extremely disappointed the paper until I realized that.
Peak Design Accidentally Leaked 10 Years of Client Data and Records
Where does it say that in the article?
Agile is about reacting to changing requirements. If the requirements never change, then agile doesn't promise to be better than other methodologies. It came from a rapidly changing crashing markets in the .com bubble. How would the other methodologies fare if requirements changed two or three times in the middle of the project? That's when you need to be agile.

How did they even measure "success" if the requirements weren't given up front? What did they expect at the end?
Even if this premise was true (it isn't), the executive branch is made up of members of national governments, all democratic nations.
https://archive.is/flNL0
"prevent developer burnout."

...Frankly I think all the standups & the pressure from constantly asking me if I am contributing (every single day?!) instead of trusting that I am... burns me out.

I don't mind 2-3 standups per week, 15 mins max.

But 5x 30 minute standups... Is exhausting. It feels like a lack of trust from product managers.

Oh yeah... and unqualified, zero engineering experience, diversity-hire product managers. That's super annoying-- being managed by people who did not obtain their role via the route expected of an engineer (having demonstrable engineering skills)
The ad industry, which is the core business of both Facebook and Youtube, tends to be very sensitive to certain types of content.

(I claim that) Even without any censorship laws, Facebook and Youtube would remove lots of content discussing violent topics.

Without further information, we therefore cannot tell how heavily the censorship on these platforms is truly influenced by government law.

> Which is to say, it appears that discussing the news of the world is a good way to get censored in the European Union.

This article quickly draws heavy conclusions without providing the necessary evidence. It is very sensationalized.
Open sourced apps are absolutely vulnerable to this “attack vector”

Did you already forget about the back door in xz utils?
You test models where they fail in any field.

The orbit of Mercury to discover GR as an example.

As all models are wrong, but some are useful, finding where they fail is how you figure out if they are useful.

As the 'AGI is near' camp has won the hype game, it is important to ground expectations for practical exploitation of the technology.

Over promising unabashed optimism is partly what caused the previous AI winters.

As the formal proof methods of mathematics proved impractical, counterexamples and the scientific method is what CS has used for decades.
LLMs perform well on “human knowledge” like you are describing. They don’t lack knowledge of simple relational facts like these.

Nonetheless it would be interesting to see the problem reformulated in purely mathematical terms, I suspect models would perform better.

That is the point though - models are showing an inability to generalize their capabilities from one domain (maths / abstract logic) into other domains (conversational reasoning).
Is that confirmed?

Microsoft have been boasting that it all runs on-device, so are they running RAG using an on-device model (Phi-3 or similar) as part of the Recall feature?
"robust requirements engineering process"

I worked on one team that had this and it was amazing. It implicitly helped with burnout too. It was an "Agile" team, but we followed more of a scrumifall model that worked well for that project.

I've been on a bunch of Agile teams (some more than others) since then, but the requirements processes are all garbage. Then the leaders wonder why things take so long, there's so many bugs, burnout is high, etc. It's really not surprising.
Microsoft (or any other FAANG) could leak all of our data, and not sure if it will face any real consequences. When was the last time a firm actually went "under" for a data security issue?

Some recent data security breaches:
- Snowflake
- AWS / Capital One
> You could call your restaurant "Big Mac"

This seems exceedingly strange to me. Is that really correct?

By analogy, you're saying I could open a computer store called MacBook Pro and Apple couldn't do anything about it? Or open a store called Mickey Mouse that sells plush animals, and Disney would be helpless to prevent it?

That doesn't seem plausible.
I don't think anybody who actually uses LLMs thinks they are general purpose AI.

Like you ask it to do one thing it's amazing, but then you try to modify or do something with extra steps, or just anything with any complexity to it and it falls over.
Microsoft's recently quarterly earning report showed a 17% rise in revenue, and their stock is up nearly 25% in the last year.
Oracle, like many others, moved in name only. In fact Oracle just changed the headquarters to Nashville.
The number of state secrets protected by a 20 year old E-4 whose only motivation is to not get chewed out (and/or jail) is probably staggering.
Sue Finley started at JPL in 1958 as a computer and is now an engineer working on Europa Clipper!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_G._Finley
> In many ways, this is very obvious and routine to people who use these systems with a critical understanding of how they work.

The last part of that is the problem and why a paper like this is critical.

These systems are being pushed onto people who don't understand how they work. CEO's and other business leaders are being pushed to use AI. Average users are being shown it in Google search results. Etc etc.

People are being told it can do far more than it really is.
Diamond industry 'in trouble' as lab-grown gemstones tank prices further
What I would like for law (which regulations are a type of) is for it to be stored in a public git repository. I want to be able to access that to see who drafted a law, when it was merged into ratified/voted law (and who voted it in), when it was repealed, and so on.
Well some of this is just getting used to MacOS though - Finder is a pretty huge adjustment (and honestly just not as good as Explorer). I agree that window management was probably the biggest sticking point for me. That being said - beyond being able to drag and snap windows side by side in Windows, I wasn't aware of any built-in management (or at least - thats all I missed when I switched a while back) that was missing in MacOS.
> The article does not state that the removed comments were removed for legal reasons.

This is correct but they do show large national variation in the report.

> There's a good chance that the removal of comments regarding killing and war is caused purely by ad regulations.

This doesn't explain the Facebook deletions.
>I don't know why this article seems to be presenting this as a fight over chicken sandwiches.

because it is. McDonald's has lost the trademark for Big Mac, specifically in regard to chicken sandwiches. Beef hamburgers are unaffected.
Last year at the peak of all the tech lay-offs someone said that the cheapest way to quickly pull an Elon Musk and fire huge swathes of employees is by buying them a Windows Surface device for work and then wait for the resignations letters shortly after. I wasn't sure if this was a joke or they were serious, I wouldn't be surprised if this was true lol
If market conditions allow it, you stand to gain a huge improvement to QoL of dev loop by getting a position that is on a modern version.

But I don't know your situation, just sharing that .NET Framework based products are dreadful to work with in 2024 over .NET 6/8.
That is false. As a life long texan the grid gets dicey with rolling blackouts every summer and the occasional shutdown every winter.

In fact hundreds of thousands of Houstonians lost power for extended periods just last month.
And to add to that : it was a fight started by mcdonald to impede supermac, not the other way around

(it wasn't supermac trying to "steal a trademark", but mcdonald trying to use an overly large trademark to stiffle competition)
> Texas actually has roughly average electric grid reliability compared to other states [...] having substantially below average electricity costs

The Texas grid is better compared to a third world country. It works great except when there is an emergency or any sort of edge case. Reliability numbers miss the context of a transmission line failing when it is 68 degrees and sunny vs a natural gas line freezing up when its -7 and everyone needs electricity to not die.

Pricing is handled exactly the same way: its $0.12/kWh when things are normal, but jumps to $7.00/kWh as soon as there is an emergency. Normal states split the difference and charge something like $0.14/kWh all the time so that when you're forced to run your heater 24/7 to stay alive you don't have to sell your car to pay your power bill.
The supply and demand of housing would be very different if a YIMBY policy agenda was in place.

Right now, it may be possible a rental company could own a large amount of apartments without fear of new units being added.

If YIMBY policies were in place, new apartments could be added within a year or two and in the long-term this would mean housing prices are met by supply and demand. The landlords only have power when supply is artificially capped.
Not because they can't, but because they need to stay suborbital.
This appears to be a report based on looking at all posts that have been removed for any reason and complaining that of the vast majority, the law did not compel their removal - and therefore the law is too harsh?

There's a bit of handwaving about how the law is chilling free speech by encouraging companies to remove it too aggressively, but I don't think it's very convincing.
This is indicative of defunct EU authorities.

The premise, the need to crack encryption isn't questioned at all, it has become a mission of fanatics that does more damage to the laws and rights of constituents than an approach that accepts realities like private communication.

Because this reality is carelessly denied, no effective work can be achieved.

It is a waste of talent, ressources and time while the authority itself neglects their raison d'être, while it also damages the legitimacy of EU institutions as a whole.

Also a hint of truth for those that believe it is public institutions against big tech companies. That is missing the point and strategy. You can be pretty sure that cooperation between both will be quite fruitful for several reasons, just not for you.

Their surveillance attempts are not justified by real threats. On itself it is just plainly illegal.
Agile vs. what? Who out there isn't claiming to be doing Agile these days?
I was waiting for: "but humans do that too" and bingo.

on another note: an entire paper written on one prompt - is this the state of research these days ?

finally: a giant group of data-entry technicians are likely entering these exceptions into the training dataset at openai.
In that case, they just need to create a Canadian company and create AI-generated programs...
> Even without any censorship laws, Facebook and Youtube would remove lots of content discussing violent topics.

There needs to be some sort of explanation for why there's so much variation between countries then.
A bunch of Windows Recall clones have already spawned
> whoever did it is blackballed by biggest recruiting agency in the world. way to get your life crazy difficult over reddit points

I think you're overvaluing the power of recruiting agencies
I'm sorry I didn't RTFA, but I wonder if there's a correlation / causation issue here. Did the "agile" projects fail because they were agile, or because their project management methodology was prescribed by management than is higher up than appropriate. Maybe they happened to choose agile because it's the flavor de jure at the moment, but it wasn't the "agile" that was the problem exactly, as much as the undue influence of the wrong layers of leadership.
Because agile has itself been made so heavy weight that it is no more agile. You have product managers and then you have scrum masters and then there are meetings about whether how pure and religious we were about our agile practices, how pure we were, would gods of agile be pleased with every single second that we spent in past few weeks or our hearts had some impurities deep down somewhere? And no kidding, there are then meetings about those meetings and their outcomes and action items and their evaluation.

The obsession with the process itself is a sight to behold. It is now a whole cottage industry, major technology journal and websites have whole sections devoted to just Agile. Consultants, Coachs, Gurus and what not.
Hmm... this is neat. I develop on MacBook so ARM64, and I do use GitHub Actions, which can not be ARM64, but unfortunately Google Cloud Run doesn't support ARM64 images yet:

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/303743857
Equating things that Israel has clearly, demonstrably, actually done with blood libel is not a great idea even from a practical perspective.
When I started in tech I worked for a storage vendor’s tech support. One of my first big cases was troubleshooting why a customer’s files older than a week were disappearing. Given the topic, I’m sure you can guess—they had it mounted under /tmp and the cleanup script was doing its thing.

Hopefully the new Debian version of this script is a bit smarter!
"One standout statistic was that projects with clear requirements documented before development started were 97 percent more likely to succeed"

The issue with a majority of projects are the requirements aren't always clear from the start or even if they are it tends to deviate while the project is in progress. Agile tries to mitigate that by allowing teams to be able to react more easily to changing requirements.

That being said not many companies understand or implement agile correctly, unfortunately.
Not a huge fan of scrum ceremonies (besides daily standup) but as long as people dont know what they want before they see it, agile is the best way.

The waterfall things we already tried, does not work too great
No they are using the best training ground they can find to teach AI to do your job.

Every exec right now is selling the story will transform their company into an employee less infinite profit future.
Democracy isn't transitive though. If a French politician does something to cause issues in Greece, there's nothing the greeks can do about it, and no reason for the french voters to care, since their national vote is primarily about local politics.

When was the last time the implications for the European Council was even mentioned in the context of (any) local election?

The problem is that there is no way to approve of a government locally, but disapprove of their performance in the EC; and given the two conflicting concerns, virtually everyone will favor the former over the latter. This means that de facto there is no voter accountability for the executive branch.
Don't you love it? Employers finally will be able to reassert the control they lost thanks to WFH.

Truly marvelous how people come together to solve the problems they're really worried about.
That may be true, but my biases are towards more professionalism in the industry, and the VC-backed HN community may not like that.
Sysadmins are also people. Also I've been pushing for informative security scoring for publicly used services for over a decade. If you're in the field, it's pretty obvious which services are at high risk of being breached, but that really should be something more accessible to the general public, like FDA letter grading for restaurants.
Of course, the initial mistake is assuming LLMs have any 'reasoning'...
If you end up switching to Ice, here's how you get menu items to always show.

https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice/issues/69

I'm sure author is overwhelmed right now and will eventually add that to readme.
I don't think you will find many people who argue that "Big Mac" is a bad trademark. It's unique, domain specific, and well known. Honestly, this court seems to have made the wrong decision IMHO. While the Big Mac doesn't use chicken, it's still fundamentally in the food service domain, and allowing some other company to use "Big Mac" for a chicken sandwich seems like a bad call.
Science has proven methodologies to it and those are explicitly taught, followed, and reviewed. Agile coaches offer no real guidance if the bulk of the advice is "do what works". No shit...
If you hold down an alphanumeric key in MacOS, it automatically pops up an emoji selector. This is fine, except if you are someone (like me) who occasionally holds down keys to take advantage of key repeat _and_ uses vim keybindings in a few specific non-terminal applications.

There is no GUI to disable this behavior, you have to drop to a terminal, run a command, and then reboot the machine.

This is the example I now use whenever a Mac user says Linux is a pain to configure.
Can you point to any of the 12 principles which says that we should do "barely any testing"? I can point to some that say "deliver working software" and "it's the only valid measure of progress". If testing helps you deliver working software, then do testing, that's agile.
> My audience is people who are sick of putting up with having to act a certain way to fit into the labor force.

> I disagree with you totally, I think the new age of entrepreneur will be totally authentic with how they feel and that is exactly why I put my face on it.

I think the problem is that we live in a society - you always have to interface with people somehow. Whether it's your investors, bankers, customers, employees, etc. If you act unkind then people won't want to invest, work for you, or lend you money.

You don't have to behave a certain way to be in the labor force, there are plenty of jerks in the world who are actively employed. And you're "playing the game", whether you want to or not. If you're trying to start or grow a business, you're absolutely having to behave in ways that other people have dictated. You have to follow regulations, you have to pay your taxes exactly like you're told, you have to pay minimum wage, you have to collect and remit sales tax, you have to hire people without discriminating against protected classes.

Allowing yourself to act like a jerk isn't the rebellious act you think it is. If anything, the opposite is actually what's counter-culture. Being kind and generous to your employees, paying them more than you have to or what the market dictates, not laying people off even if it's the best financial decision, giving less experienced candidates a shot even if there's a more obvious choice - these are the things that you "can't do" in business and basically never see. You should rebel against the system by being nice.
They bluntly say their notebook product is not private https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/1d7g3tu/notebooklm_... even for non-AI generated stuff like your notes and uploads.
pretty much all the big tech cos. since i jumped to top tier companies i don't think i've even heard the word agile
I don't really know what I'm talking about here, but haven't SPACs existed for like 30 years?
Cross-posted:

https://engmgrjobs.com/director-of-engineering-42040
Good for them. Doesn't really matter if their customers start refusing to do business with them because they are scared off by stuff like this.