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AlphaSaaS, a pioneer in SaaS cost optimization, today announced the launch of its free AI-powered App Discovery tool, designed to help growing companies struggling with high SaaS costs and lack of clarity on software usage. The tool leverages AI-driven analysis to automatically detect usage patterns, identify redundant apps, and provide actionable insights—all without requiring complex integrations. This enables organizations to uncover hidden software costs, reduce redundancies, and optimize their tech investments for sustainable growth.

With the explosion of SaaS adoption, businesses are unknowingly wasting thousands on shadow IT, duplicate subscriptions, and underutilized software. A recent study found that 30% of SaaS spend is wasted, yet companies lack visibility into the full scope of their software usage. AlphaSaaS App Discovery solves this problem by providing immediate insights—without requiring API integrations or IT-heavy setups.

“With economic uncertainty, finance leaders are under pressure to cut unnecessary costs, and IT teams are battling SaaS sprawl,” said Mohd Azam, Co-founder & CEO of AlphaSaaS. “App Discovery gives them instant visibility to make data-driven SaaS decisions—without any integration headaches.”

Key Features of AlphaSaaS App Discovery:
AI-Driven App Detection – Identify all SaaS applications in use, including unauthorized shadow IT.
Zero Integration Required – Get insights without complex API setups or security concerns.
Cost-Saving Insights – Uncover redundant tools and unused licenses that inflate SaaS expenses.
Fast & Easy Access – A user-friendly experience that delivers actionable insights within minutes.

Who Can Benefit?
CFOs & Finance Teams – Gain clarity on SaaS expenses and reduce waste.
IT Leaders & CIOs – Identify unauthorized tools and streamline SaaS governance.
Procurement & Operations Teams – Optimize software contracts and vendor negotiations.

“Getting a grip on your SaaS stack shouldn’t feel like solving a mystery,” said Mohammad Amir, Co-founder & CTO of AlphaSaaS. “Most companies spend months wrestling with integrations, spreadsheets, and manual tracking—by the time they get the data, it's already outdated. We built App Discovery to fix that. It’s instant, effortless, and gives businesses the clarity they need right away.”

Availability
The AlphaSaaS App Discovery tool is now available for free. Sign up today and start eliminating wasted SaaS spend instantly: https://www.alphasaas.io/offer-app-discovery

About AlphaSaaS
AlphaSaaS is a leading SaaS optimization platform that helps companies maximize ROI on software investments. By providing deep insights into SaaS usage and costs, AlphaSaaS empowers growing businesses to make smarter decisions about their tech stack. Learn more at https://alphasaas.io/.

Media Contact:
Mohd Azam
azam@alphasaas.io
+91-9620000809
AlphaSaaS
https://alphasaas.io/
We extended the trial period to 30 days now.

The original intent behind 14 days was to force a deadline onto user to get set-up properly and realize value of the product. (Seeing their financials in real-time)

Though the comment above justifiably mentioned that some folks might want an entire accounting period to run books in parallel while evaluating. We'll keep looking into this.
Its not a crime to sue the government, but there are a series of executive orders, now, bullying law firms for participating in suits against Trump’s private and government interests.
Cloudflare already offers this feature

https://blog.cloudflare.com/declaring-your-aindependence-blo...
Maybe less has been written about these newer things, even if they had technically been released?
I read this article and was pleased not just with the community development, but with the spread of the word "stoop" all the way out to the West Coast.

It's a Dutch word brough over in the New Amsterdam era that was originally mostly confined to New York. It has the same etymology as English "step":

https://www.etymonline.com/word/stoop
Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I get the feeling that this is purely a theoretical exercise for you, life under those conditions is chaotic and complex, at the bare minimum, it limits the complexity of the kind of business you can run.

And that's ignoring other externalities.
I like that they used (and abused) standard ssh server features to implement this.

Is anybody aware of something like this that can be automated for things like ansible or see a way to use this there?
If anyone is interested in this, visit (or move to) Spain. Valencia and Madrid is full of experiences like this, even for foreigners/expats.
Connection doesn't need to be complicated to be meaningful
i have asked the direction of friction on ball rolling either up or down on an inclined plan - it gave wrong answer and was adamant about it. Surprisingly, similar to o1.

gave a problem which sounds like monty hall problem but a simple probability question and it nailed it.

asked to tell a joke - horrible joke ever.

much better than o1 but still no where near agi. it has been optimized for logic and reasoning at best.
Yep we've been seeing that on our random small scale site that used to be open (and mostly relevant to a very limited number of people).

It was nice for interested guests to get an impression of what we are doing.

First the AI crawlers came in from foreign countries that could be blocked.

Then they beat down the small server by being very distributed, calling from thousands of ips one or two requests each.

We finally put a stop to it by requiring a login with a message informing people to physically show up to gain access.

Worked fine for over 15 years but AI finally killed it.
I use an algorithmic question that I'd been working on for years and that I'm finally writing up the answer to.

It's basically: given a sequence of heap operations (insert element, delete minimum element), can you predict the left-over elements (that are in the heap at the end) in linear time in the comparison model?

(The answer is surprisingly: Yes.)
Oh boy, Joseph Epstein.
It wasn't even a tough prediction in 1995, 10 years after the first commercial RISC CPUs, and with PowerPC Apple Macintosh computers already in the hands of developers. Did they end up beating Intel's financial might? Not in the end, but they kept them on their toes for a dozen years and very likely accelerated or changed Intel's plans in the process.
> it made us look elsewhere, as it does not seem like Intel is serious about developing/maintaining this product line

Everyone has to find out eventually, that unless „product line“ is high-margin CPUs, Intel will cancel it sooner or later. I hope they aren’t stupid enough to do that with their GPUs (again).
Show HN: GitDox AI – A technical writer AI agent that lives within your codebase
With our growing codebase, our docs kept falling behind. So, I built GitDox as a hack to solve our team's documentation debt.

If you want to test it out jus add gitdox-ai username as a contributor in your repo.

Once added, gitdox-ai will keep:

1. Analyzing your repo's activity (PR, issues, commits)

2. Recommend documentation/changelog/readme changes, when it detects significant changes.

3. Create documentation update PR, that you can merge

Would love to hear your feedback and if it helps to solve your documentation needs.
This was not logic, this was recall from the training set disguised as logic:

Let’s quickly check the following well-known ambiguous triple:
• Numbers: 65, 39, 26
I only use a handful of official github and docker actions. This behavior is something that I (and many others) want in that case.

Here @v4 is very similar to how you'd tag docker image v4-latest.

Ultimately, it should be a choice. Like you can do with package.json. Pin an exact, allow patch updates, allow minor updates or always latest etc.
Do you also acknowledge the bad side?
What do you think a search engine’s crawler bot is doing exactly? I could sure be wrong, but I have a hunch that “downloading content and paraing the HTML tags in a programmatic manner” describes it.
To be fair, pacing as a big flaw of LLMs has been a constant complaint from writers for a long time.

There were popular writeups about this from the Deepseek-R1 era: https://www.tumblr.com/nostalgebraist/778041178124926976/hyd...
https://chatgpt.com/share/67e39ffa-3a98-8011-ab79-fe3ac76632...

Asking it to draw the Balkans map in Tolkien style, this is actually really impressive, geography is more or less completely correct, borders and country locations are wrong, but it feels like something I could get it to fix.
Ask HN: How are you using LLMs on daily basis?
Would love to hear about your cool workflows where you have been using different LLMs
Thst is sad, I use the em-dash wuite often — however — I dislike using it without spaces, maybe that saves me.
"I want to make cypherpunk friends, but none of them are on Facebook!"
But then the AI should tell you that, too, if it really understand the problem?
> Their biz is ads,

Yea, but, the FTC doesn't want it to be.
Now distribute 10,000 sided dice to 6 people, which will be an example just as relevant.

It sure makes sense to assume we're neither alone nor first, as until we actually prove it either way that's just what the odds are - but I'm tired of people acting like this means we're definitely not the first. If you gave 10,000 people a number between 1 and 10,000 in random order, the probability that any given person got number 1 is 1/10,000, and yet the probability that someone got 1 is 1.

(though there's another problem at play: "first" may not necessarily be a well-defined term at these scales)
No clue. Perhaps people object to the untranslated Chinese?
Doesn't the GitHub copilot do the same? What are the advantages of this?
And Hillary sat in front of Congress for 11 hours.
"No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones."

- Nelson Mandela
My experience with these announcements is that they're cherry picking the best results from a maybe several hundred or a thousand prompts.

I'm not saying that it's not true, it's just "wait and see" before you take their word as gold.

I think MS's claim on their quantum computing breakthrough is the latest form of this.
I actually enjoy when my work isn't just fun and good, but also contributing to a bigger picture. It's bot just that it gives meaning. It's also that the added design constraints are intriguing, and help me determine when I can stop polishing.

It's not about self promotion, but building with a clear goal set fir me I have found to be much more rewarding than when I have to think of my own goal. The worst is when a fake goal is set, it's the thing about university I liked the least. If I can't interrogate or question the 'why' for the goal, because it is just 'to test me' then it isn't a real goal, just an artificial constraint.
Why would you accept a lie?
DLT drives can saturate a 1Gbps link. Makes it hard to prevent shoe shining when backing up file servers.
Please, I don’t need my software experience to get any _worse_. It’s already a shitshow.
If you have a NAS, for one. Fill it with SSDs and you can even saturate 10Gbps.
There are but they all get you banned.
> There are literally 10000s of actual human written books out there

Tens-of-thousands is probably low by something in the neighborhood of four orders of magnitude.
It's not just about where you live, but how you choose to show up in that space
FSD is not really.

It's marketing BS that works in the USA but apparently not in China.

And the CyberTruck is more of the same. It really isn't all
that "cyber" and looks like a cheap prop for a Marvel movie --- and with quality to match judging from the recall history.
It's a complex proposition.
I think Satya was talking about actual gdp growth right ?
In theory lets say all knowledge work is now 50% faster due to A.I. Well then I would assume this should affect civil society as well - planning a bridge, a railway etc should happen faster and more efficiently (the actual building of thins won't, but a lot of time is spent on planning a red tape).
Healthcare in general should become way more efficient with people getting better treatment; this should have a positive economic effect.
It does seem to me like it should be able to speed things up in the real world but of course a lot will have to do with how well the models can reason / how often they make catastrophic mistakes + the will of the governments and people to start using them seriously.

But its more complex than that - if many people start losing their jobs we all take a hit on gdp because they can't consume as much anymore, so it could take perhaps a long time until gdp actually sees meaningful gains.

And one last thought - Satya likely hasn't spent much time thinking about gdp, it's just not his field. He's a smart guy for sure but this isn't what he does.
The government’s definition of work needs to be broad enough to keep people from gaming it. If she had to “work” to sustain her life, that should count as work in any definition, whether this is official employment or not. Any exchange of your time or skills for any type of benefit is work. Even if you don’t benefit. I guess if someone enslaves you while on a tourist visa, that is still work.
There have been a number of passes at embedded Smalltalks. Eg. https://hackaday.com/2020/07/12/making-smalltalk-on-a-raspbe...

Back in the day, Tek oscilloscopes ran ST on the metal.
The article wasn't saying to aim for the masses. It was saying, do at least some documentation, and make it pleasant to read for your peers. That way, they can find your work, understand it, and build uppon it.
In a society less influenced by religion, you might not be as concerned with these particular issues. Many secular countries, for example, demonstrate strong overall well-being and social outcomes, suggesting that emphasizing shared human values over religious or cultural divisions can benefit society as a whole. Rather than prioritizing one specific group, focusing on the common good can lead to more equitable solutions for everyone.
That was what I tried on the train [0] a few weeks ago. I used Groq to get something very fast to see if it would work at least somewhat. It gives you a PDF in the end. Plugging in a better model gave much better results (still not really readable if you actually try to; at a glance it's convincing though), however, it was so slow that testing what kind of impossible. Cannot really have things done in parallel either because it does need to know what it pushed out before, at least the summary of it.

[0] https://github.com/tluyben/bad-writer
> It's not really passing the Turing Test until it outsells Harry Potter.

Most human-written books don't do that, so that seems to be a ceiteria for a very different test that a Turing test.
I often read translations along side the original. So far the originals always were better.
Conversations in the car, last time about differences in electric motors, the time before skincare products.
Show HN: MCP Tools CLI Inspector
Can anybody suggest a simple cli tool (besides curl ofc) for calling REST endpoints, since this article didn't provide that ;)
It is an application that is installed. The Server is your computer
Most likely there was just a mangled symbol somewhere that it recognised from its training data.
I agree that this is unfair, and far violates constitutional rights.

I would willingly donate to their cause.

However, mass violation of the constitutional rights of citizens seems to me the venue for a class action?
This either ends at "better than 50% of human novels" garbage or at unimaginably compelling works of art that completely obsoletes fiction writing.

Not sure what is better for humanity in long term.
At least pocket id and keycloak support fido2/webauthn; I'm sure there are others. I'm not sure how involved a CLI interface for that flow would be though. (Maybe someone has already done it? If so I didn't immediately come across it.)

Keycloak for example provides an API for the password flow. So webauthn via API definitely isn't too far off of what it already provides.
Yeah I wasn’t very imaginative in my examples, with 4o you can also perform transformations like “rotate the camera 10 degrees to the left” which would be hard without a specialized model. Basically you can run arbitrary functions on the exact image contents but in latent space.
Is this about RISC? Or RISC-V? I think many are confusing the two.

And if anything over the past 30 years have shown CISC won performance computing. That is everything from PC, Smartphone or all the way to server.

We need RISC for embedded and stay embedded.

Right tools for the right job. We need to stop the constant ideological / fashion / hype fighting in tech space and more good old fashioned proper engineering.
I also use procmail still.
When I did my degree I tried to do as many courses unrelated to the things you listed as possible.

I signed up for as many mechanical and electrical engineering courses as possible, plus control theory, VLSI design, FPGA design, robotics and optimization.
It's wild how much we depend on and live alongside each other without actually knowing one another
They could hit Cloudflare’s caches and run with that. The problems are if your site is dynamic and your CDN has to hit the origin every time.
You are aware that 99% of the video mp4 containers you ever watched use AAC for the audio stream?

Maybe Apple is one of the few who use AAC for audio-only purposes, but as a technology AACs predominant use is in video (as a percentage of marketshare). And because literally everything can play MP4s, as such they can also play AAC.
The number is purely for marketing.

If you could get much better performance without changing the algorithm (eg just by scaling), you'd still bump the number.
I'm shocked by that they took the class/struct differentiation from swift. I HATED it when I had to deal with it in the past when working with swift. What's wrong with letting the programmer take the reference whenever they want to? Why do I have to change the whole class when I find something that makes me think it's better to have it passed by value? Why do I have to deal with the complexity of 2 kinds of custom types, with all the existing delicacies of a modern type system? Why on the earth would someone think this is a good idea that is worth taking? Can someone educate me on this?
My experience in Europe is that you are better off using other services. Booking.com's customer service and practices are nasty.
But if these things are because of Christianity, and it is often implied that western modernity is present in it from its beginning, almost an unavoidable consequent of it... then why are they not universal in Christendom? Why can I point to just as many Christian movements who are anti-science, pro-slavery, anti-individual?
audio dubbing and voice acting is a thing. They even do it in a way that takes into account the mouth movement length/timing, to make it look slightly more natural a dub.

of course, it's not super good imho, and personally i prefer subtitles with the original audio. Even if ai did a perfect job, including changing the film's frames to suit etc, i dont believe the outcome is sufficient. I want the original actor's voice timbre and intonations, which has meaning, and is lost when translated to a different language.
25 years ago computers were mostly interesting to "geeks", and those looking to program them were even more so (ok, that's really 30-35).

Yes, it started to shift 25 years ago already, but what has obviously changed significantly is that software development became a good paying job, which attracted even wider masses not caring about the fundamentals. There are certainly more self-taught programmers who dive into those fundamentals in absolute numbers, but relatively they are more of a minority. But that means that there are even more who do not care in absolute numbers.
I can't recommend such a co-author. Doesn't get anything done.
Updated Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to intelligence that which is adequately explained by stupidity
Going from English to Chinese, I guess? Because that would not be a compatible version for most previous users.
How reliable do you think research into the amount of undetected crime is?
we replaced them with DUI hires.
That’s vaguely what https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-labyrinth/ is about
That said, I think it's worth acknowledging that not everyone in the suburbs actively chose that setup
I routinely use em-dashes in technical/scientific writing. The GP was talking about a false accusation in university — a place where you generally produce formal writing.

>it's more complicated to insert them

Word automatically replaces the hyphen with it when between words surround by space — because it's the correct punctuation. I sincerely hope you don't believe it's too complicated when the task is done for you by Word — the most popular word processor. Additionally — just to test it out — long pressing hyphen yields the character on my phone. This has allowed me to effortlessly pepper this reply with slightly extended — and a touch controversial — horizontal lines.

Just because your writing style doesn't use em dashes — a rule taught to literal school children — doesn't mean it's not "normal."

Finally, I am sorry to report that my use of the em-dash has not allowed me to transcend humanity and become a cyborg — though I will return with a follow up post if I suddenly sprout a Serial port.
I agree with your general point that this "random person" is probably not representative of anything close to an average person off the street, but I think the phrasing "very very intelligent" and "exceedingly clever" is kinda misleading.

In my experience, the difference between someone who solves this type of logic puzzle and someone who doesn't, has more to do with persistence and ability to maintain focus, rather than "intelligence" in terms of problem-solving ability per se. I've worked with college students helping them learn to solve these kinds of problems (eg. as part of pre-interview test prep), and in most cases, those who solve it and those who don't have the same rate of progress towards the solution as long as they're actively working at it. The difference comes in how quickly they get frustrated (at themselves mostly), decide they're not capable of solving it, and give up on working on it further.

I mention this because this frustration itself comes from a belief that the ability to solve these belongs some "exceedingly clever" people only, and not someone like them. So, this kind of thinking ends up being a vicious cycle that keeps them from working on their actual issues.
PlanetScale vectors is now GA
Just add one more solar panel and your server is powered. This assumes you can sell excess production at wholesale rates (like we do here in Sweden). If you can not sell power and you're a tinkerer there's ways to build battery storage which can power both the lab as well as the house using a wide variety of batteries. Used EV batteries are one source, used LiFePO4 standby power supply packs another. This is the way we'll go if/when it is no longer possible to sell excess production. Until such a time well enjoy our negative electricity bills, we have not had a positive bill since installing the PV array even though there's a DL380G7 with a DS4246 storage array running 24/7 under the stairs.
it’s rolling out to users on all tiers, so no need to wait. I tried it and saw outputs from many others. it’s good. very good