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Show HN: HiveOtter-Referral Marketing for Indies
HiveOtter (https://hiveotter.com) is a referral marketing tool we built to solve our own pain points as indie hackers. It automates coupon management, simplifies onboarding, and provides precise referral tracking.

Why we built it: Existing solutions were either too complex or not tailored for bootstrapped SaaS. We wanted to turn happy users into growth engines without the usual headaches.

How it works: 1. Generate unique referral links/codes 2. Track referrals and conversions 3. Automatically reward successful referrals 4. Analyze performance with built-in analytics

Tech stack: • Frontend: React with Next.js • Backend: Node.js with Express • Database: MongoDB • Hosting: Vercel (frontend), DigitalOcean (backend)

Challenges we faced: • Balancing feature set with simplicity • Ensuring scalability for high-volume referrals • Integrating with various payment platforms (currently support Stripe and Lemonsqueezy)

What's next: • More integrations (e.g., Paddle, FastSpring) • Advanced analytics and A/B testing • Customizable referral widgets

We'd love to hear your thoughts, especially on the technical implementation and potential use cases. Happy to answer any questions!
Why is there no default option to sort by new submissions within a post?
Doesn't seem to facilitate discussion. Ol site, yadayda but not too hard to implement, so what's the rational?

I know there are custom plugins one could get.

Cheers.
> Why not?

Unsure if this is a useful answer. But Searle/LLM could make something that looks like it has a creative spark, and that's it.

Why I think that's different is in the case of a human artist, they create something because they have something they want to say. Whatever they produce is a way of saying 'this is what the world feels like to me, is it the same for you?'. And if it is, it resonates.

But I cannot see how an LLM would 'want' to say anything. If we're talking psychoanlytically of where wanting comes from, and call it a desire to fill a void of how incoherent you actually are, then an LLM doesn't go through that process.

Maybe Searle does, and still wants the characters to make you feel a certain way, in which case the comparison doesn't fit.
You're assuming your questions are even answerable in the context you're providing.

We fundamentally do not agree on definitions. "Is useful to me" is subjective.
AFAIK they are the only explanation that requires no new physics.
It could possibly end civilization, but it wouldn't be guaranteed. Humans live in the Sahara and the Arctic. With temperature controlled greenhouses we can grow food anywhere.

If we co-operated instead of fighting over the diminishing resources civilization could survive. But if we were that good at co-operating we could mitigate the climate crisis in the first place...
This is also how many manga "scanlation" groups work. Some of the translations are incredible, especially of comedy manga. One, called Grand Blue, is ostensibly a manga about a young man joining a scuba diving club while in uni. In reality, it's a drinking gag manga with an incredibly funny and absurd sense of humor. I can't read Japanese, but apparently the main scanlation group is incredibly good at translating the japanese jokes into english, even going so far to completely rewrite the jokes but keeping the core idea of the joke intact with quite in-depth footnotes explaining and justifying their changes. The translation notes are fascinating in their own right.
Thanks for the constructive push back.You are definitely right. How important is self-hosting in your private VPC vs a managed solution with good tenant isolation? How sensitive are these documents you plan to upload.
> will it kill humanity in the long term

How is that a problem?
> They need to be publicly traded securities to be taxed as I understand it.

On the contrary, many variations of proposals (they keep popping up) cover partnerships or other forms of company holders as well.

Even in the Harris plan, though not usually talked about, even for the illiquid not-tradable group there would be a new deferred tax of up to 10% on unrealized capital gains upon exit. To be fair, "exit" implies an ability to pay that.
It's bigger than Linux?
Global warming, climate change is shifting weather patterns. While west coasts (California, the UK, Spain) are generally getting less rain, East coasts (Japan, Newfoundland, Florida) are generally getting hit with more rain and more storms.
Existing nuclear reactors are already extremely safe, and they still can't be built because of safety concerns.

The "you can't be 100% sure" argument is impossible to defeat, and I don't think this design will move the needle.

It also provides the argument that wanting to bury reactors 1 mile deep shows how incredibly dangerous nuclear power really is.
Most of my uncertainty is about licensing the process for humans, see for example discussion about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalking_Cat

All necessary steps regarding the bio-hacking itself (not safety and by extension also not licensing) will probably be demonstrated within a decade, perhaps by a group I'm currently following on YouTube: https://www.thethoughtemporium.com/
>Not to mention, is it even legal, let alone reasonably possible for a study to publish in a real journal the view that Intelligence is heritable, in particular when it concerns race?

What do you mean by race? Because race isn't genetically determined, its socially determined--two people of a very different "race," can actually be quite closely related genetically, its just that their appearances differ.

>does not give credibility to the side which continues to maintain that evolution has [by all significant measures] stopped at the neck.

Its not that evolution has or hasn't stopped at the neck, its that the IQ test as a single objective measure of intelligence, like measuring height, is incredibly flawed since it has changed dramatically in the decades when these studies have been conducted.

Whether or how someone is intelligent cannot be measured empirically by a single standard since purely intelligible things, like concepts, math, artistic ability, by nature cannot have an empirical appearance. But you know if someone is smart, and you know it because they tend to do things that are smart. But that's only helpful at the level of a single individual, its not something that can be measured population wide.

>post-modern science.

The most "post-modern" thing here is your comment, which you clearly wrote without having actually read the article thoroughly.
> I’ve worked with governments and companies in quite a few developing countries around the world where the average IQs are between 1-2 standard deviations below 100, and that problem is right up there with corruption when it comes to what’s holding these countries back.

Also consider how much brain drain contributes to this. Anyone in those countries who is smart enough to recognize this will just emigrate to more developed countries, and their home country will never get to benefit from their (relatively) smarter people.

So the country's IQs might be just about average, but if their top deviation is constantly leaving...you have a negative feedback loop through no one's fault.
There is no significant fission reactor in the Earth's core. If there were, we could detect the antineutrinos from fission product decay.

I'm not sure where this idea came from. Perhaps from the mistaken notion that uranium, being heavy, sinks into the core? Uranium is actually highly enriched in the Earth's continental crust, by a factor of about 1000 vs. the planet as a whole.
i'm pretty sure they just meant what they said, which was that they don't believe in anything metaphysical.
Certainly! I can see why you think that!
> "The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding." — AD/WJD
I started in the mid-90s, and though I didn’t use 95 much I did use 98SE (which is aesthetically very similar to 95) and 2000 plenty.

For releases with the classic Windows look, I think 2000 is best. It makes a few refinements to the theme that at least to me make it more pleasant to use than 95/98.
> that aren't easily apparent to humble people.

This is indeed a major problem. The stereotypical engineers is such a humble personality. A kind of almost idiot-savant syndrome.
This is pretty common FWIW.

Google revokes attestation keys for Android hardware a lot, especially Widevine Level 1 keys.

Ten years into that, the public doesn't seem very excised about it.
Samsung TVs will get 7 years of updates, starting with 2023 models
Computer industry moves so quickly that a number of good ideas was discovered, departed from, rediscovered, etc several times in the living memory.
And after that period, in one year and one day, any new installation of Finale will be impossible to activate without a keygen (and I am not aware of any having been released, so far, that work with the "final" version). This will make it impossible to recover the contents of .mus and .musx files by users who do not already have a previous working installation of Finale.
On clang, you can actually request that it gives a warning on missed vectorization of a given loop with "#pragma clang loop vectorize(enable)": https://godbolt.org/z/sP7drPqMT (and you can even make it an error).

There's even "#pragma clang loop vectorize(assume_safety)" to tell it that pointer aliasing won't be an issue (gcc has a similar "#pragma GCC ivdep"), which should get rid of most odd reasons for missed vectorization.
This argument is genuinely horrible. Many times we have two “dogs”, same litter, same love and care, and one will be depressed and the other won’t be. Still think it’s just a software issue now hmmm?

Seriously, can you not just comprehend that it’s a complex issue and there is no singular source you can blame? If your kid committed suicide should I levy child abuse charges against you? And where does someone “learn” depression or schizophrenia anyway, especially if their parents are not acting the same way?
It’s hard to put into pithy terms but check out Citibank’s former top trader on wealth inequality and why we need to find a way to tax back some of the wealth from the rich: https://youtu.be/TflnQb9E6lw
This is really awesome. A question for someone who knows more about this:
How much harder would it be to make this work using any number of photos? I'm assuming this is the end goal for a model like this.

Imagine being able to create an accurate enough 3D rendering of any interior with just a bunch of snapshots anyone can take with their phone.
What does it bring that https://github.com/cljfx/cljfx does not?
that’s not how it works. you can’t build long term wealth just by copying. this is why both china and japan had to innovate.
Its not genetically mediated. Indians are a "race" someone from Assam, someone from Rajasthan, and someone from Tamil Nadu may differ dramatically in terms of their genetic heritage and even racial appearance, simply because they are defined in terms of associations which are not purely to do with genetic lineage.
This seems as fruitful as debating whether my car brought me to work today because some connotations of “bring” include volition.
> Related discussion:

Not really related though, other than being messaging services.

One can't simply ignore the fact that a Russian oligarch controls Telegram. That's a far bigger issue than anything in that threat you linked, which focuses on Signal and glances over the link between Telegram and the authoritarian regime that threatens the free world as part of their daily business. In fact, this very submission points out that those expressing outrage over the arrest are high-level Russian officials and people openly compromised by Russia, which even bans YouTube for posing a threat.
I think this is a good thing to keep in mind. If you compare that to how much information a young human gets as input for example, it really puts things into perspective.
No, of course you're right, the "toy model" is exaggerated. I think it was more true in some countries than others and several decades ago, when there was no internet and the media were dominated by a few players (including the government itself, in many countries) all very much established.

Let's say that I suspect that democracy is a system that assumes public opinion to be directed so that it doesn't stray too much from a narrow range of possibilities. This can be done just by manipulating the Overton window.
Some day, "what is dark matter?" arguments will be recalled with the same amusement with which we view "what kind of substance is the ether?"

And then, people will say, "It was so obvious!" So let DM be a lesson the next time anyone claims that some breakthrough 50 years ago was obvious.
> Obviously 100 is calibrated to western populations.

How could you calibrate a cultrually-specific test like most IQ tests are by comparing with another culture?

I'm also pretty sure that people don't use the same tests across "the West", so that seems dubious to begin with.

> I believe IQ has also risen steadily with time in the west. It might have risen an entire standard deviation. It's called Flynn's effect, 3 points per decade.

That is more easily studied, as you can use the same test across generations and notice trends.
My business won't flee California like SpaceX or Chevron. But we do want changes
Of course, but not anything that we can use an IQ test to measure, especially at a population wide level.
The C extension authors did consider requiring alignment/padding to prevent the misaligned 32-bit instruction issues, but they specifically mention rejecting it since it ate up all the code size savings.
Well, the size of a very small pumpkin. It's not a good comparison, partly because pumpkins vary so widely in size. It does have a shape similar to an elongated pumpkin.

For volume, I'd say a pineapple is a better comparison.
It's a tool. It's never required. Even for complex code. But it's helpful to some. Even for simple code.
Geothermal - just want to plug https://www.quaise.energy/

Millimeter wave drilling should help make this more broadly useful
If the browser name is referenced in multiple places, it seems to me that by defining it in one place actually increases the maintainability.
This seems to be doing something like what the article is talking about with such a heavy emphasis on “slave-owning”. I’ve never seen Plato referred to as a “slave-society aristocrat”. The left is a very sad thing now, I guess.
You just sailed over managements and HRs heads.
It is accurate that the latest incarnation*, the supposed Harris version, within that $100 million club, you'd only pay taxes on unrealized capital gains if at least 80% of your wealth is in tradeable assets (i.e., not shares of private startups or real estate).

Not usually mentioned: even for this illiquid group there would still be an additional deferred tax of up to 10% on the unrealized capital gains upon exit.

* Once passed, anything like this is unlikely to escape tinkering until it matches most other versions, that are not limited to "tradable". Look at how worried farms are, for example, another relatively cash neutral but cap gain increasing growth (ahem) business.
Qt without slots and signals is a poorer experience. IDK if the Qt Designer can work without them.
So Japan has a stockpile...but is not competent to manage it. I'd guess that's the usual story of too-numerous and long-calcified bureaucrats, overseen by oblivious and uncaring politicians.

(From a few quick searches, it looks like rice will last 5+ years with proper storage.)
2ppm per year, so 200ish years is accurate, assuming a linear relationship (but is more likely to be slightly exponential, so 150 could be right.)
A mile down is, as already stated in the article, way below any water table. There is no groundwater there to contaminate.
You've just made a whole load of claims this without backing any of them up. But okay, let's take one which does make sense:

> When people understand the causes and consequences of past events, they are better equipped to navigate present challenges

To a small degree. Most of this boils down to the bleeding obvious, like "avoid war when you can because it's hideously expensive", treat people with decency etc. is there really much more to it than that?

And you talk about cultural continuity – some of these continuities are not good, q.v. the Taliban. Also cultures change very rapidly – the kind of homophobia that was acceptable or even encouraged when I was a kid is now seen very much as a serious transgression or crime (speaking as a straight bloke, I'm glad it; I'm very glad things have changed). We haven't achieved gender parity in pay, we getting there. You can't stick your hands all over a woman as you could in the 60s and expect to get away with it (ditto good).

Well I don't know. I can't say I'm convinced by what you've written but I appreciate the answer anyway. Thanks.
We're looking at cause here not 'cure' or treatment.

Regardless schizophrenic individuals probably would do better with being treated with kindness, respect, compassion, and love than with derision and rejection. At least observational that has been my experience.
I doubt most consumers ask for a native look. It's more like an HN meme.

I don't even think native macOS UI is so great cross-plat programs should target it. It's full of its own weird conventions like a "New item" button being a tiny "+" at the bottom of the left sidebar, the last place I always look.

Safari is an example of UX that has stuck to hard macOS conventions and was always worse off for it. Not until recently did it begin relenting, and now it's bearable to use as a daily driver. Xcode is another classic example of hostile native macOS UX conventions. Finder.app is another.

I'd rather software ask "what's the UX that makes the most sense?" rather than "how can I make my UI look native?" On HN people seem to think by solving the latter, you solve the former. But that isn't the case.
Your own code is typically at least a dozen modules, bundling is required even with zero dependency
The part that bothers me is that other forecasters have been feeding us mild predictions for a long time. They have in effect basically lying to us about how manageable things are going to remain. Slowly the forecasts have been catching up to reality.

As for the timeframe, the rise by 7.2C can come within a few centuries. Feedback loops can then slowly carry it to +13.9C over a longer timeframe of many hundred to a few thousands of years. This is for a single CO2 doubling.
There's no empirical evidence that South Sudanese people, as a population, have lower IQ, therefore this cannot be interpreted as anything but an attempt to denigrate an entire people
The limitations on processing letters aren’t in the math, they are in the encoding. Language is the map, and concepts are the territory. You may as well complain that someone doesn’t really understand their neighborhood if they can’t find it on a map.
You say that, but could you really resist pallets of assorted styrofoam misprints at $0.05/ton??
It is delusional to think that even the top 0.01% of interviewers can detect the difference in candidates that accurately.
What could possibly go wrong putting a tablet in easy reach of the urinal.
I'm starting to feel like the old man yelling at people to get off my lawn, but I don't understand why tools like this are desirable for something as critical as your infrastructure.

> Before that, I had only known pain. From renting a server, dockerizing, setting up a proxy, SSL certificates, monitoring—you name it!

Is this really so difficult? Especially in the age of docker I've never felt like deploying a new project was more straightforward. I have a handful of docker-compose files that I can copy-paste for any new project that get me spun up with a Node/Python server with LetsEncrypt SSL, optionally behind a reverse proxy. It takes me no more than 20 minutes to setup a new project which involves SSH'ing to the server, copying the files, and updating configs.

Why would I ever want to give up that level of control and reliability to saddle myself to a third party who does _magic_ to make my deployments happen? They can change their offering or their pricing at any time, and if I don't like it I now have to rip out all of their _proprietary magic_ in order to move to something more sensible.

I do think Coolify is an interesting exception as it's _self-hosted magic_, but that still leaves me with a single point of failure where I'm relying on someone else to make sure my backend keeps working. If your Coolify instance ever has a critical failure or your requirements are no longer compatible then you're right back to the same problem.

Am I out of touch? Are you really spinning up servers so frequently that this type of hard dependency is justified? Or are developers these days the ones who are out of touch (with their backend)?
To add on to what the sibling said, ignoring that CISC chips have a separate frontend to break complex instructions down into an internal RISC-like instruction set and thus the difference is blurred, more RISC instruction sets do tend to win on performance and power for the main reason that the instruction set has a fixed width. This means that you can fetch a line of cache and 4 byte instructions you could start decoding 32 instructions in parallel whereas x86’d variableness makes it harder to keep the super scalar pipeline full (it’s decoder is significantly more complex to try to still extract parallelism which further slows it down). This is a bit more complex on ARM (and maybe RISCV?) where you have two widths but even then in practice it’s easier to extract performance out of it because x86 can be anywhere from 1-4 bytes (or 1-8? Can’t remember) which makes it hard to find boundary instructions in parallel.

There’s a reason that Apple is whooping AMD and Intel on performance/watt and it’s not solely because they’re on a newer fab process (it’s also why AMD and Intel utterly failed to get mobile CPU variants of their chips off the ground).
In TypeScript land, module boundaries currently enforceable using eslint with nx rules: https://nx.dev/nx-api/eslint-plugin/documents/enforce-module...
I ended up using my wife’s card, and it worked fine. Her card is from outside the US. Seems Uber like it’s not as strict on non US cards. Maybe because chargebacks are less likely on those?
Nice use case! Can you elaborate a bit more on robotics piece? What role does the robot play? I assume it's required to turn the part around for inspection. If so, how do you (automatically?) compute the grasping pointing? Also feel free to find me on LinkedIn if you want to chat more about growing a robotics businesses and/or geometric reasoning for manufacturing.
Cognitive Computer
This is drilling.
Anything is small if you choose a big enough denominator (eg. GDP). What's the total value rice production in japan? This source[1] values all agricultural output at $29B, which means rice subsidy alone is 6.9% of agricultural production.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Agricultural_output_Japan...
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Hmmm:

"Maybe it isn't entirely a hardware issue."

Maybe read what I said first before going off.

"And where does someone “learn” depression or schizophrenia anyway, especially if their parents are not acting the same way?"

Man, I fear your family...
It's worse than that. The site isn't accessible at all. I can't get my screenreader to make heads or tails of it.