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Show HN: Flows – User onboarding for modern SaaS
Hey there, we are building a user onboarding product similar to Appcues, Intercom, Usertiful and Chameleon. Our home page is https://flows.sh

After creating a color palette toolbox for UI designers (https://atmos.style) we needed an onboarding solution. We had to either use a rigid product like Appcues and settle for subpar experience. Or write a lot of code to get something beautiful. We settled on an IntroJS, primarily because we didn’t want to spend a ton of money on the solution and because we liked the customization options. The solution worked, however we knew there was a room for improvement. We searched everywhere and realized there are no really good tools for onboarding. So we decided to build it ourselves.

We want Flows to be a platform where you can create any onboarding experience you can imagine with simple UX and beautiful UI. Currently, we support floating elements like modals, tooltips and banners. These can be setup with waiting and branching logic to accommodate complex onboarding experiences.

Currently, we have a JavaScript SDK with built-in analytics, but you can also integrate with any of your favorite analytics tool like Mixpanel or PostHog.

In the future we will be adding support for static elements like cards, checklists, as well as support for completely custom elements. React SDK is coming soon. But we’d also love to hear what you’d like to see in your ideal onboarding tool.

Flows have a generous free tier so give it a spin and let us know what you think! https://flows.sh
There are much better designs like the Hoover Evolve out there for cordless vacuums.
I was having trouble imagining being satisfied with a 1500W chipper.
Breastfeeding is also a possible cause, although I think there's evidence that's pointing in both directions.

"They found those who were breastfed as infants had a 23 percent greater risk of developing colorectal cancer as adults. Even more troubling, a younger group within that cohort exhibited about 40 percent increased risk of developing high-risk colorectal cancer before they turned 55."

Breastfeeding rates have increased from ~30% to ~70% between 1970 and 2010.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/10/study-finds-l...
Both Australia and Singapore are very individualistic, capitalistic and materialistic, and yet you don't get robbed constantly.
It would be interesting to see a comparison to Zeitwerk[1]

Zeitwerk also supports reloading and is near enough a standard for Ruby.

1. https://github.com/fxn/zeitwerk
How about removing the incentive? Take down every package with tea.yaml in it, after say 1 month's warning, so legitimate packages trying to use it don't leave their users in the lurch. The tea protocol is clearly not going to accomplish what it set out to (see below), and is instead incentivising malicious behaviour and damaging the system it set out to support.

From https://docs.tea.xyz/tea/i-want-to.../faqs: "tea is a decentralized protocol secured by reputation and incentives. tea enhances the sustainability and integrity of the software supply chain by allowing open-source developers to capture the value they create in a trustless manner."
Intel's recent struggles are the result of a decade-long failure to diversify and innovate beyond its x86 stronghold. The company's delayed pivot to AI and smartphone SoCs, coupled with poor financials, make its current woes unsurprising. Cost-cutting measures might free up cash, but without groundbreaking changes, Intel risks becoming a cautionary tale of how not to manage a tech giant.
> I'm guessing, since they don't state it clearly, that the combined rate of all cancers is falling, it's only when you look at subsets that it's rising.

Sound's like Simpson's paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
Ceramic, it is as close as you can get to non stick without forever chemicals. I cook every day and that is the best I've found. Anything else requires more maintenance and cleaning. Cast iron has been a disappointment and I have made an honest effort with it multiple times.
The post about ears being an indicator of intelligence (and maybe propensity for crime?) is phrenology-level hysterical.
Exactly. A computer is a general computing device that can be made to do thousands of things through software. When a computer hardware manufacturer wants to limit what software I can run on my computing device, it is not a good thing.

It's odd that people will defend Apple for this, or laugh when you say that you want to use a 10 year old device, when on the same forum people applaud when someone blogs about getting their old Commodore / Sinclair / Toshiba 8bit to connect to the Internet. Wait, is the iPad too old to be useful, but simultaneously not old enough to be worth repurposing?

The iPad 4 has wifi, bluetooth, a retina screen and several days of idle battery life. If I could install a terminal and a VNC client, I could save this thing from e-waste for another 5 years. The way some people talk on here, it'll like they think that there's something wrong with that.
Technologies around sound and neuromodulation already exist since we started developing them some time ago. However, our approach differs in two key ways:
- We achieve measurable results on brain wave activity without using ultrasound, and with simple earphones/headsets.
- We are also working on a custom generation system for these sound frequencies, enabling altered states of consciousness based on the individual's needs and goals. For us, ultrasound is an additional component to the audible spectrum frequencies we have already identified.
- Additionally, we are developing a support method because our pilot study showed that it is difficult to achieve real life changes in people simply by altering their brain waves. We had to include the entire conscious experience of our pilot patients.

It is truly encouraging to see the field develop, and we are confident that these devices have a promising future in improving people's daily lives.

Well done, Nudge!
When climate change people have to change, this means migrations, war for resources etc, ANYONE wise do it's best to be as resilient and resourceful as possible. Accidentally this is the opposite of modern nazi-management paradigm.
Cast-iron, or enamel-coated cast-iron.
Big Tech's latest ploy: using live facial recognition to monitor and control riots. Surveillance overreach meets dystopian nightmare. Because nothing says "protecting democracy" like treating every citizen as a potential criminal under the watchful eye of an algorithm. Welcome to the future, where privacy is a relic and Big Brother is always watching.
Test driven development would have prevented this. Missed passing the 21st of 21 parameters when testing.

Red. Green. Refactor!
Water kefir is fun during summertime to have something a bit more healthy than soda. (Until a bottle flavored with raspberry explodes and turns your kitchen walls pink....)
Supposedly ceramic coatings are getting better.
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Time doesn't exist. This is a human concept to measure mutations. Brain preserves previous states - it is a feature of a brain. It doesn't require time - it just preserves previous states like a history pattern. What exist is constant change - here and now. There's no time.
Ah, understood :)

FWIW, I'm fairly sure the communists I know have a blind spot for all the failures of communist governments and not just the USSR's failures, they put Marx on a pedestal and insist the evidence to the contrary doesn't count somehow.

As I see equivalent blind spots in anarchocapitalism (any example of bad outcomes is dismissed as "not real free market"), that's why I don't think either communism or anarchocapitalism works.
May not be scientifically valid, but I've driven hub-geared bikes daily for years at a time without any problems at all. Usually the bikerack I store the bike ends up being stolen before the bike has to be repaired
The study seems US based only, I wonder if there's a similar trend in Europe -- that would help identifying if some of the potential environmental factors have been regulated out on the other side of the Atlantic.
Literally none of those things cause cancer.

In fact they would all reduce the incidence of cancer, because cancer rates can only rise if detection does. In the US healthcare system, this is even more unlikely if one is withdrawn from society - you can have cancer a long time before you'll think something is "wrong".
Chapter level detailed summary for quick overview of main ideas from the book: https://www.booksummary.pro/Never_Split_the_Difference_summa...
Were you unable to access the text of the article because of some paywall or barrier? Or are you reacting to the title alone?

The authors state very clearly that many of the victims lead a healthy life with enough movement and good food.

Why would be a 2x - 3x increase of cancers in young people unbelievable? The baseline was very low, so a two- or three-fold increase still amounts to a relatively small amount of extra cancer cases that you don't have to notice in your personal acquaintance bubble. The vast majority of cancer still happens in the elderly.
Some of this looks real bad though, like `if !found … else …`. Why the double negative, when you're going to have both branches anyway?
In my estimation they chose clarity over correctness; no reasonable person would mistake `CEO's` as a possessive usage, only a prescriptivist.
I’m not a physicist, but I think the comparison is made between gravity and e.g. strong nuclear force. In the latter, the “force” is modelled by interactions between hadrons, with virtual particles (distortions in various fields) mediating the interaction. With gravity, there are no particles (though graviton is a hypothesis).

One can say that space time is also “field”, and mass creates distortions, so gravity is just like other forces interacting via field distortions, but iiuc, unlike nuclear forces, gravity does not have a quantized mathematical model.
"Survival skill" is a matter of looking like a scary scumbag who's more trouble than he's worth to fuck with. I'm good at it, I size up the real scumbags like they're meat I'm going to chew up and spit out and I have the physical build to back it up. They cross the street to avoid me. But many people will just never have this "skill".
I certainly get the sentiment of your comment, but I'd be much more interested to hear your take on ParadeDB which the post is about?
Interestingly enough, cold storage (in a more limited way) was already used centuries before the invention of the electrical refrigerator. For example, in Germany beer was only brewed in winter to avoid spoiling it during the warmer months, and stored in underground beer cellars which were kept cool using ice "harvested" during the winter. To help keep the cellars cool, chestnut trees were planted over them. And from there it was just a small step to also serving the cool beer on benches under the shady chestnut trees (only the beer was provided, food was BYO) - and thus the traditional German beer garden was born.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_garden#History
You can't use cancellation or heavenly bodies:

"He is far away, or in some strange location, and he cannot see anything we can see. For instance, we cannot say, “Look at Ursa major; now see how those stars are arranged. What we mean by ‘right’ is …” We are only allowed to telephone him."
> but it's not possible to use clang's standard library with GCC

Of course it is. Both libc++ and GCC do make the effort to keep that compatibility going.

> in a standard conforming way

What is that supposed to mean here? GCC doesn't let you simply specify -stdlib=libc++ but while it's unfortunate it just means that you have to use -nostdlib++ and add the libc++ include and linking flags manually.

> There are some hacks that let you use some parts of libc++ with GCC by using the nostdlib flag, but this disables a lot of C++ functionality such as exception handling, RTTI, type traits. These features are in turn used by things like std::vector, std::map, etc... so you won't be able to use those classes either, and so on so forth...

-nostdlib++ is not a hack but the documented way for using a different standard library implementation. This doesn't prevent you from using exceptions and other runtime functionality.
This doesn’t help because you can say the same about space.
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It is more or less enough to in public say why you don't support Likud nowadays to be arrested in Germany.
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Perhaps your use case isn't large enough to warrant it, but we also have ARM-based dedicated servers. They have a setup fee, but you can cancel them on an hourly basis. https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-rx/ --Katie
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What makes you say that? Wasn't myocarditis mostly a problem for young men for example? Narcolepsy from the H1N1 vaccine was similar, you needed very specific genetics to get it. The body is complex.
I’m not a fan per se of TE, but I did get the OP-Z as a continuation of playing with the POs.

I still like it but I’m already trying to find something to eventually replace it with. But is there really something out there with similar size, features, and price as the OP-Z? I would like to find something.
Just asking: it'd be nice to have some discount based on committing (and maybe pre-paying) on resources.

I'm evaluating moving some of my personal stuff to Hetzner and if I do so I'd likely stay there for years.

It'd be nice to be able to commit to, say, keep a virtual server (or some block storage) for one year (or more?) and get a nice discount.

Any chance we'll see something like that in the future?
Of course, it's privacy "redefined".
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No, it doesn't happen all the time. Grocery prices are very sticky. Consumers notice when bread prices go up from $2.00 to $2.10, and they'll switch brands to avoid the increase.

That's why you get shrinkflation, small changes in quantity aren't as easy to notice as price changes.
musl and glibc are both compatible for the POSIX portion of the API they provide. GCC also has lots of GNU specific functions but so what?
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This is just one step away from "punishment of sins".

Let's not introduce unfalsifiable hypotheses into the ring, at least not at HN. There's plenty of them already on Facebook and X.
No, it actually says these don’t account for all of the increase.
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And that is a fair point. Sysvinit on the other hand was a total mess with almost all services being broken in some way.
Indeed. The point of a computing device is that it runs software. With the right software a 10 year old iPad could absolutely browse the web, play music and videos and post crap on Facebook. It did it 10 years ago, so it could do it today if Apple allowed the software to be installed.
But as far as I know, Aldi don't have any prices / catalogues online

There are a few here, but more along the lines of a flyer than a catalog:

https://www.aldi.com.au/groceries/

Aldi US has a more-or-less complete catalog online, so it might be worth crowdsourcing suggestions to the parent company to implement the same in Australia.
Not sure if I should stop staring at women in public.
Yeah this when I see one of our pipelines pull in 300 npm packages I wonder how much we really know about what our systems do.
I know many musicians who love using Teenage Engineerings products for making music, performing live etc.

However, I do think there is a case to be made for falling into the trap of being more interested in the gear than the thing you're meant to do with the gear.

At the very least, Teenage Engineering hardware is generally very well designed, high quality and built to last. At least this product has some creative spirit behind it. I'm in love with the merge of Medieval and Modern Electronic here!

For an example of excessive consumerism, look no further than the Eurorack[1] space. They don't call it Eurocrack for nothing!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurorack
>I feel like YC is a bit like the music biz. They only sign companies which would have a chance without them in the first place.

Yes, and also like book publishers.
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Wow. I had to fact-check this. Wow.

https://www.hoover.org/research/despite-spending-11-billion-...

> San Francisco is slightly smaller than Jacksonville, Florida. Yet San Francisco’s homelessness budget—$1.1 billion in fiscal year 2021–22—is nearly 80 percent of Jacksonville’s entire city budget.
The whole thing is covered in mock latin
Not currently doable with phone calls.

From what I understand, the caller ID feature is completely useless. There is no willingness to implement rules that guarantee the number the call is coming from is the owner of the number. The best you can do is call them back and hope the routing doesn't get screwed up.
Hi there, As a general rule, we don't publish roadmaps on upcoming new products/features/locations/etc. However, I can offer to send a +1 for you for our customer wishlist for Storage Boxes in Singapore. If anyone else would like this, please just upvote it, and I will pass that feedback on. (Several other people on reddit requested this, so you're not the only one.) --Katie
Would you be at all surprised? I'm fairly confident that like with browser addons, NPM package maintainers get offers from randoms to 'buy' their package in order to get backdoor access.

A secured registry is long overdue, where every release gets an audit report verifying the code and authorship of a new release. It won't be nearly as fast as regular NPM package development but that's a good thing, this is intended for LTS versions for use in long-term software. It'd be a path to monetization as well, as the entities using a service like this is enterprise softare and both the author(s) of the package as the party doing the audit report would get a share.
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which is a good hint that that benchmark sucks. No way 4o beats sonnet 3.5
>I'd like to think my perception is insightful or at least novel on a variety

If you read/listened a lot, ( I'll try and define that more concretely if you wish as to what is a 'lot') almost none of what you mentioned above is novel or insightful to me. It certainly might be novel/insightful to an average person out there, but they really don't care.

p.s 1 - let me look closely at your writing, An insight is something, but a cure is something else altogether. If you dig around my webpages, you might find something that may interest you including a link to pages on health on github.

p.s 2 - quickly skimmed (so do hold not me responsible if I missed something) though the autoimmunity page and saw Vitamin D mentioned. A fellow by name (Prof) Trevor Marshall has a very different take on Vitamin D. Summary: it good for some people in the short run. but nearly always bad for most people in the long run. It certainly is not the simple hyper-vitaminosis theory.
It doesn't matter whether it was incidental or not. If a company accidentally dumps toxic sludge into a river, people aren't just going to shrug and say "oh, it was an accident". If Asus releases a Windows laptop with hardware changes that make it near impossible to run Linux without years of software engineering effort, people aren't going to shrug and say "oh, it was incidental". It doesn't matter. Although I guess people like you would say "But they never said they would support Linux", which also is beside the point. The fact that Apple is happily creating their own platform which has, by design, no guarantees for longevity (whether from Apple or being able to install Linux as an end-user) is a flaw in itself that, from my perspective, does not deserve being defended.

You might not see the issue there. You might be willing to forgive Apple for it. Plenty of us aren't. And it has nothing to do with "hating Apple", rather it's an extension of hating how Apple makes decisions regarding things like this. I own an M1 Macbook, I've owned an iPhone, I have an iPad. There is no irrational hatred here.
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“Time is a flat circle. Everything we've ever done or will do, we're gonna do over and over and over and over again … for- ever.”
You might not see the issue there. You might be willing to forgive Apple for it. Plenty of us aren't. And it has nothing to do with "hating Apple", rather it's an extension of hating how Apple makes decisions regarding things like this. I own an M1 Macbook, I've owned an iPhone, I have an iPad. There is no irrational hatred here.

I see absolutely nothing wrong with the original comment. I see a person who wants to use their Mac long-term, but their attempt to use it that way is thwarted by Apple's decisions. You're arguing in bad faith by saying things like this

> people throw logic to the wind to come up with the most ridiculous theories

The user has legitimate grievances and you dismiss it because of this nonsense. You must be joking.
Can you really? IMO, time is immutable and irreversible. Space is permanent and shared.
From what I've read about the well-known commercial ones (namely Rohloff), basically the tradeoff seems to be that they're very reliable (thanks to the enclosed, sealed design), and have the nice feature of being able to change gears when not moving, in exchange for greater weight, a more limited gear ratio range, a little less efficiency, and a much greater cost.
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No they don’t say that, they are saying lifestyle factors do not account for all of the increase. What proportion of healthy people are getting ill the article isn’t clear if it is 5%, 20% or 50% it just says “many”…

If plane flights started having 2-3x more chance of fatal accidents I’m unconvinced you would be saying this isn’t a very bad situation…
We strive to always make our prices as fair as possible. We did the same when we set the prices for the new location in Singapore. We didn't want to offset the costs there by making other locations in Europe and the US more expensive. You can also see this philosophy at work in the pricing for our dedicated servers in Finland. The energy prices there are lower, so the monthly price for our dedicated servers there are lower too. --Katie