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Show HN: Digital God: AI-powered client acquisition on autopilot
Hi all! Ibrahim, founder of Myuser here, introducing Digital God. We've been working hard to create a platform that equalizes the playing field for bootstrapped startups, especially those led by technical founders.

Briefly - Digital God is an AI-powered platform that helps B2B businesses based in the US to get clients on autopilot. The idea is simple: you chat with Digital God, and it learns about your business. Then, it builds a landing page, conducts intent-based cold outreach, answers client questions, and onboards your clients - all without any upfront fees or sales calls required.

We believe in a world where "If you build, they will come" should be true but it is not - this post is a proof. You shouldn't need to "sell" the thing you built or rely on VC funds for marketing. Just build it and let it grow. That's where Digital God comes in.

Some key features of Digital God include:

Cold/warm outreach on autopilot
Handling inbound emails and automatically assigning onboarding AIs to your clients, eliminating the need to hire humans for simple communication
Online awareness through automatic sharing of your product on multiple sites under various domains and names to maximize lead generation
No upfront fees - talk to Digital God, let it get 5 users and bring results, and only then will it ask for card information
Digital God charges $50 per lead and 20-40% of successful sales, depending on your product. It's designed specifically for B2B businesses based in the US that do business with other US businesses.

We've built this tech stack from scratch to help technical founders focus on what they do best - building great products. The genie is out of the bottle, and we can't wait to see how Digital God helps businesses grow.

If you have any questions or feedback, please feel free to reach out to me at ibrahim AT myuser.com (or god.new). We're always looking for ways to improve and better serve our users.
They don't, the software engineer does that. It is different since LLMs can't test the system like a human can.

Once the system can both test and update the spec etc to fix errors in the spec and build the program and ensure the result is satisfactory, we have AGI. If you argue an AGI could do it, then yeah it could as it can replace humans at everything, the argument was for an AI that isn't yet AGI.
Google's monopoly has stagnanted search progress just like Microsoft's IE monopoly stagnanted the web
This is great. I like the intuitive API. Perfect timing, too -- I needed to make a pie menu today for a virtual whiteboard. Currently thinking about how to incorporate hover effects and selection.

Editing nits:

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contant -> content

https://zumerlab.github.io/orbit-docs/layout/#:~:text=radius%20ranging%20from-,orbit0,-to%20orbit%2D12
orbit0 -> orbit-0

https://zumerlab.github.io/orbit-docs/elements/vector/#customization:~:text=size%3A%20Each%20.-,spke,-can%20be%20adjusted
spke ->> ??

https://zumerlab.github.io/orbit-docs/elements/orbit/#:~:text=latter%20one%20is-,abowe,-the%20former.
abowe -> above
I'm more of a WordPerfect guy;).
While late to the party, it will provide material support for the Baltics as they disconnect from the Russian grid over the next 6-12 months [1]. Synchronous condensers are being installed, and the Finland<->Estonia interconnect is being upgraded to support more current [2] [3]. This should also reduce Estonia's carbon heavy generation from oil shale [4].

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/baltic-states-seek-to-decouple-grid-fr...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39545607 (citations)

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37832343 (citations)

[4] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/estonia-turns-back-s...
Physician-owned (even for-profit) hospitals historically provided the best care. The ACA ("Obamacare") outlawed new physician-owned hospitals. Now we find that PE-owned hospitals both cost more and provide worse care.

Neither patient protection nor affordable care.
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The amount of people here that seemingly don't care about quality of life is shocking to me. What's the point of drawing out negative experiences to potentially infinity?

One of the tricks that immortality plays to you, is that no matter how much you screw up, you still have an infinite lifespan remaining to fix everything, including the fuckups of an infinite lifespan (uncountable infinities/cantor's diagonal argument).

For example, let's say your eyesight deteriorates every 100 years and there is a cure that will take 2 years of your salary to fix. Add this up until you spend most of your life maintaining your immortal body.
Title should be, "After private equity takes over a business, it is less able to produce value for customers"

Private equity is the customer. Once private equity takes over, you are the product, even if what you are getting isn't free.
Every time we've used something built on dpdk in production it was horribly bloated and slow.

I'm pretty sure this stuff is optimized for marketing benchmarks, not the real world.
Wow, can't wait. Love the 5V GPIO and security features.
And how many passengers are on those 10h+ train rides that you compare to?

Because your entire point is that most passengers in Switzerland travels on those short distances. How are the riders distributed in Germany?
You’re on a website run by venture capitalists who use this platform to increase the value of their portfolios… so unless you’re an agent provocateur, your comment needs to be read as ironic performance art because I hate to break it to you - you’re also part of the problem
The ruling class is a function of their social class. It is the immortality of the social class that is the problem.

If the children inherit their parents' wealth, it is likely that the ruling class will persists.

Also, stability and stagnation of social system be factored in. More dynamic society can outcompete and ultimately destabilize stagnant and morbid societies.

North Korea and South Korea came to mind. The dictator of North Korea is younger than South Korea's president who was born in the 1960 as opposed to the dictator being born in 1982. The dictator continues his family's legacy of ruling over a stagnant and increasingly irrelevant country while South Korea continues to be a vibrant and dynamic society.

South Korea definitely has problem, notably a looming demographic crisis, but it is not an inevitability in how they choose to deal with their problem.
Can anyone speak about plans for a Pico 2 W (or Pico W 2)? I've been playing around recently with mine and even just syncing with the current time over wifi opens up a lot of possibilities.
The Mascis effect
You don't even have to go that far back. Remember Juul in the 2010s?
Maybe (probably?), but back when I worked at Mozilla in ~2010 "Tree Style Tabs" was one of the most popular add-ons.

Here's a screenshot of what the feature looks like:

https://www.ghacks.net/2024/06/25/you-can-try-vertical-tabs-...
Great, I stand corrected! I still don't know how they convince firefox/chromium to use a pipe as a websocket transport layer.
Blogspam for https://engineering.fb.com/2022/11/04/video-engineering/inst... (2022).

The title is misleading enough that it suggests the author didn't really understand the article they were summarizing (or had an AI summarize?). This isn't a >90% reduction in the CPU used for transcoding in general, but just for a subset. Those freed up resources were then used for more advanced codecs.
Yea, because the math have stripped down the whole thing to : I have data I do operation on them. while in reality we deal with multi head attention / grouped query and the positional encoding.

That’s all without taking into account the broadcasting done on the batch dimension
Why in Heaven's name should Switzerland be (heavily!?) taxed to solve EU transportation issues? Should Switzerland then tax the EU as well to pay for its own transportation?

Until today I believed that the world had solved these problems by charging transportation fees but you seem to have very different ideas.

> Basically they have all EU rights and no obligations.

Switzerland certainly doesn't have all EU rights. For instance, they are not applicable for any EU subsidies. They do not have any voting rights. They are exluded from certain scientific cooperation programs (e.g. the ESFRI). And the list goes on.
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Yeah, I happen to see Adrian's Digital Basement on YouTube showing how it works. When he described that, I shook my head and called myself an idiot that I didn't think of it.
Except in this case, according to Steve Stich, it is NASA engineers vs. Boeing engineers. And the Boeing engineers are the ones who are "closer to the hardware", while the NASA engineers are just overseeing it.

I have no idea who is right in this case. And even if the crew comes down on Starliner successfully, it doesn't mean that it was the right call. Maybe they just got lucky.

My sense from the call is that, if NASA engineers insist on a Dragon return, NASA management will support them.
This is gonna end well…
Unequal or not, the the bottom quarter today have better health care than the top quarter 75 years ago. Technology filters down to the masses. We can discuss timelines, but the basic fact is indisputable.

You have provided no evidence that the diffusion of technology will be different under an extended lifespan regime. You just make a bald statement.
It seems they took a cue from Arc for the pinned tabs icons. Now they only need to add tab groups a la Tab Stash, Sideberry or Tree Style Tab, and combine that with Sync. Still a lot of work ahead, but this looks very promising.

Kudos to the Firefox team.
Monsanto isn’t forcing anyone to buy their product. Farmers use it because they’re better than uncopyeighted seeds.
I disagree. iFixit offering original OEM spare parts for the Steam Deck is amazing.

It's mutually beneficial: iFixit handles a service business that Valve would rather not be in, and customers get a more repairable product. It's also a source of revenue for iFixit that is probably more reliable than depending on advertising or selling tools.

A similar deal with Samsung or another phone maker would be amazing.
Well for one US corporations are not a monolith (or at least not yet) but yes some US corporations are like the same is this example, some German ones too, also Chinese, British, etc., and in all of these case this type of work culture is terrible and unproductive. But in this case we are very specifically discussing the German train company Deutsche Bahn so what other corporations are or aren't doing is complete irrelevant to the conversation, if you would like to discuss what other corporations with this same business culture I would suggest starting a new discussion thread. I hope this helps clear up any confusion you may have.
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One of the interesting things about testing is how you interpret the results.

e.g., you have to run three test cases with passing results to pass the overall test and certify the system.

So, you run the test. All three test cases pass with flying colors, but during test #3, something that you hadn't thought of came up and it could be a problem.

What do you do now? You've reached your stated qualification for passing the test but now there's this wrinkle. Which one should take precedence in certifying the system for use?
> People and organizations can be neutral with ulterior motives

Doesn't this mean exactly what the person you're replying to said?
> I guess this is in response to Arc browsers design. https://arc.net/

It's funny how we've gone full cycle. Early versions of Firefox get vertical tabs because the plugin system is very rich and you could do whatever you wanted with XUL. Firefox quantum comes around and kills XUL based extensions, vertical tabs are dead. Arc revives an ancient idea as something new and hip, firefox "responds" by reviving the very thing they killed.
> Once we stop motte-and-baileying this, then we can have productive discussions that identify cases where market capitalism actually does work and then fortify the cases where it doesn’t.

Well said, 100% this. It's also worth noting that so many things that one might abstractly think of as matters of life and death are currently being provided on a "sometime in the next several months if you're lucky" basis. There are surely some aspects of healthcare that can never really have a functioning market dynamic, like emergency care. But the vast majority of medical care is provided not at the speed of cardiac monitor beeping, but rather at the speed of scheduled appointments and billable events. What we really have is one big market failure due to criminal behavior of "insurance" companies (price fixing and restraint of trade) as well as providers (collusion and extortion). I'd say that no matter who may be ultimately paying, two critical first steps to restoring some patient agency are outlawing "insurance" "networks" and outlawing post-facto billing shakedowns.
> enshittified

This fad word can't die soon enough.
> are too unpunctual

ಠ_ಠ why not "aren't punctual"..
> It seems to me the underlying issue is that mistakes are punished and taking initiative to solve problems is not rewarded

This.

Context: born and grew up in Germany. Worked abroad for many years. Now living in Berlin, would still never work for an established German company for that reason.

Startups are usually better; until they're not startups any more.

Asking first "wer ist schuld?" ("whose fault was this?") is deeply rooted in German culture somehow though and sooner or later takes hold again.

It's the best way to ensure processes do not get improved but the paper trail attached to them grows steadily.
Hazard3 RTL: https://github.com/Wren6991/Hazard3
Oh my god, I feel exactly the same way. I am not a programmer, but I'm excited by the potential of LLMs in my work. So, I've dusted off my python skills that I haven't used since I was in an fMRI lab, and experimenting to see what works.

First of all, every library/framework I've found is moving so fast that all the tutorials and printed material (O'Reilly books etc) are already out of date. Many of the changes are out of necessity, as it's a rapidly developing space, but sometimes it just feels like someone got high and decided to add 3 more layers of abstraction. Although for many tasks, AI coding assistants would be a benefit for noobs like me, the code base and documentation are too loose for me to get the expected benefits I would find in a more established code base.

LangChain seems to be where a lot of the action is with regard to modularity, and using different components in each part of the pipeline. That's important for me, because I need either local or HIPAA-compliant tools (Azure OpenAI works, Anthropic won't return my requests for a BAA, and I need a bigger GPU).

But using LangChain is a pretty horrible experience because, at least for my uses and as a noob, it's much too buried in abstractions to make quick iterations. The GUI-based stuff like flowise and langflow are too limited with regard to available components, and mostly they hide the problems so that errors are tough to address.

I'm thrilled that there has been so much work on adding JSON output and agent stuff at the LLM level, as hopefully it can bring some of these astronauts back to earth (or at least in a low orbit).
I wish all browsers has first class vertical tabs support and split view. I am really tired of resource hog, unstable arc. Want to return back to traditional browsers but they are not supporting vertical tabs like arc did. And arc turn its face to AI instead of stability (I guess) because of investors.

So we are lonely in the dark :)
Not being surprised does not imply that we don't want the people in charge of these decisions to, once again, get away with violating ethical boundaries, and both intent and rule of law.

That is fundamentally what we're all tired of, even if that itself is also not a surprise.
There will be businesses cases written about what happens when any organization becomes completely over burdened by risk mitigation. This applies to government as well. One reason nothing can be done. (Also interestingly it correlates nicely with the average age of decision makers as they approach death).
Did you pay more when you went private?
I rather suspect you'd pay even more in the States.
At least in the uk and can, there are choices to be made.
Don't have sex with strangers you don't trust.
They can. But more often than not, you end up with OpenAI. I'd rather we just straight-up skip to business, and go the Anthropic Public Benefit route.
Not in the developer/beta edition yet.

I'm concerned it will conflict with Tree Style Tabs, and/or my custom UI CSS.

But it will be very nice to bring more folks into the Vertical Tabs Cult ;)
Thank you!

And, agreed - we should encourage (and help) people understand what's "under the hood", not hand-wave it as hard and magical :)
Previous discussion (462 points, 139 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26714831
So why do you assume that they'll be slopping and kill themselves? Why is that the only option? Couldn't someone make a mistake? Couldn't the person just be riddled with guilt and just abandon their career.
US elections have never been more secure, says CISA chief
The good news is that as far as I know, there is no plan to end death that doesn’t also involve ending aging. The bad news is that it might come too late for any of us talking here.
I'm beyond being shocked by this kind of behavior but it is still striking to me how some of the most profitable companies in history will go out of their way to do shady deals for a slight short term increase in their record profits.

The resulting reputational damage and future risk to their monopoly revenue has got to make deals like this -EV for the company in the long run, but decision makers at these companies are paid more for short term profits and they know it.
I mean, that's already the case in many places, the senior engineer / team lead gathering requirements and making architecture decisions is removing enough ambiguity to hand it off to juniors churning out the code. This just makes very cheap, very fast typing but uncreative and a little dull junior developers.
:wave: Hi, I'm the creator of Gazette.

> But this seems quite brittle if multiple writers write to one journal and one malfunctions (aside from possibly failing to write a delimiter, there’s no way to tell who wrote a record, and using only a single writer per journal seems to defeat the purpose).

Yes, writers are responsible for only ever writing complete delimited blocks of messages, in whatever framing the application wants to use.

Gazette promises to provide a consistent total order over a bunch of raced writes, and to roll back broken writes (partial content and then a connection reset, for example), and checksum, and a host of other things. There's also a low-level "registers" concept which can be used to cooperatively fence a capability to write to a journal, off from other writers.

But garbage in => garbage out, and if an application correctly writes bad data, then you'll have bad data in your journal. This is no different from any other file format under the sun.

> there’s no way to tell who wrote a record

To address this comment specifically: while brokers are byte-oriented, applications and consumers are typically message oriented, and the responsibility for carrying metadata like "who wrote this message?" shifts to the application's chosen data representation instead of being a core broker concern.

Gazette has a consumer framework that layers atop the broker, and it uses UUIDs which carry producer and sequencing metadata in order to provide exactly-once message semantics atop an at-least-once byte stream: https://gazette.readthedocs.io/en/latest/architecture-exactl...
‘PFAS toxic’ is about as sophisticated as saying ‘Nuclear bad’.

Western society isn’t scientifically literate enough to develop these things at the moment, so they will happen in APEC for now.
Commenting to follow this.

There is a step like this in ML. I think it's pretty interesting that topics from things like economics pop up in ML - although perhaps it's not too surprising as we are doing ML for humans to use.
I can’t help but feel this is part of a game being played.

“The capsule needs the crew!”

Some pressure to nasa to fly the crew back on this and also some ass covering if the really embarrassing occurs: the unmanned capsule does fail - “hey everyone it just failed because it had no crew! Nothing to worry about!”
That seems... poor? A one in twenty trains late stat will basically mean every person will have to deal with a late train roughly every week?

I bet, however, it's not uniformly distributed and some lines are late more than others.

Hopefully that 95% is them being honest about the current state, while they push higher.
Cheers, I hope this boosts Firefox's marketshare!
Edge is stable and has vertical tabs and split view support.
The PoC uses eBPF maps as their out-of-bounds pointer, but it sounds like it would also be exploitable via non-extended BPF programs loadable via seccomp since it's just improper scalar value range tracking, which doesn't require any privileges on most platforms.

And, of course, root -> ring0 is less of a problem with unprivileged user namespaces where you can make yourself "root", as we've seen in every eBPF bug PoC since distros started turning that on (and have since turned it off again, mostly)
Sure, but that approach forces you to consider/research just how much CPU your I/O tasks may or may not require. What if I'm not sure? How CPU-intensive is open()? What about close()? What about read()?

It would simplify my design process if I could count on io_uring being optimal for ~all I/O tasks, rather than having to treat "CPU-heavy I/O" and "CPU-light I/O" as two separate things that require two separate designs.
Water mitigation is very interesting, humans have been battling it forever. The Romans are famous for it.
Hey guys, we are a fractional real estate startup with Wall Street founders. TLDR: we allow people to invest in real estate for as little as $250 and leverage blockchain to tokenize properties, giving people monthly dividends, property appreciation, and tax benefits.

During the last year, we have seen a number of different people/groups join the platform, but one recently that we onboarded was a collective of 500+ NFL athletes.

Interesting to see how not only real estate investing, but more specifically fractional investing + the use of blockchain to change what for the most part is a fairly "traditional" industry, has led to a lot of athletes looking to think more about their post-career years.

While there are a number of other big players in the space (Arrived, Fundrise, RealtyMogul), we have managed to consistently deliver 18.8% average annual returns, with a 12% minimum hurdle rate. We also have a number of cool features within our website, such as allowing people to play around with what their investment might look like, dedicated investor relations people, and some really cool gamification features to make the experience more fun.

Would love any feedback from the community!
I don't blame people for trying to live longer, but I can't help feeling like there are underlying flaws within us that would really dampen the potential of immortality. Namely the inability to get along with one another, and our unwillingness to help one another.

Immortality would be a neat trick but it can't solve war and it can't solve starvation.
"Pre order - ships in late August"
Maybe? I haven't really heard of government sites shutting down as being that problematic. That also wouldn't stop Game Informer from shutting down.
A tech worker can get a job with a visa pretty much anywhere that has a sector.