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extraheadroom.com 1mo ago

Show HN: Reduce Claude Code token usage ~50% with Headroom

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extraheadroom.com 3mo ago

Show HN: Headroom – Get 2x Claude Code usage by optimizing input data

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www.criticaster.com 4mo ago

Some Tech Publications Consistently Score Products 5–7 Points Higher Than Others

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www.criticaster.com 4mo ago

The More You Spend on a Wi-Fi Router, the Worse It Gets

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www.criticaster.com 4mo ago

iRobot Went Bankrupt. Its Product Scores Explain Why

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www.criticaster.com 5mo ago

How Criticaster Works

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www.criticaster.com 5mo ago

Show HN: Analyzing ~10k professional product reviews to calculate a single score

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence – Live at TED2025 [video]

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www.glodollar.org 2y ago

Show HN: Glo Dollar – the antipoverty stablecoin

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inpubliq.com 3y ago

Show HN: Browsing in Public

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www.turfnft.com 3y ago

Show HN: Turf NFT Royalties

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edition.cnn.com 3y ago

The Deputy and the Disappeared

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equityacademy.secfi.com 5y ago

Snowflake stock options pre and post IPO: a case study

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: How do you keep track of who unsubscribed to your emails?

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: How many of your ex-colleagues would you love to work with again?

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wherat.com 7y ago

Show HN: Wherat – never skip celebrating your birthday again

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garmlucassen.nl 10y ago

Grimm User Stories

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garmlucassen.nl 10y ago

Join the experiment: improve your user stories

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garmlucassen.nl 11y ago

Show HN: User story survey for PhD research (5 minutes)

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garmlucassen.nl 11y ago

User stories improve work productivity and quality

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garmlucassen.nl 11y ago

Please stop writing poor user stories

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garmlucassen.nl 11y ago

Why writing user stories the right way is not childish

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garmlucassen.nl 11y ago

The Reciprocal Twin Peaks of product requirements and architecture

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: What are your big plans for 2015?

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www.washingtonpost.com 11y ago

‘You will not be arrested for using drugs’: What a sane drug policy looks like

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: What are your big plans for 2014?

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geyr-garmr.tumblr.com 13y ago

PaaS Ecosystem Health Analyzed

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garmr.posterous.com 13y ago

Where to join a startup? Analyzing 'Who is Hiring' posts on Hacker News

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creepy-cbd.frapp.it 13y ago

Creepy Crazy Blind Date || Learning to love the scrambled date

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www.iheu.org 13y ago

Global report on discrimination of the non-religious

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Claude Opus 4.7 3 months ago

Thanks for sharing your experiences. We incorporated changes in the latest version to improve this:

1. On install we explain what Headroom installs 2. We added an uninstall feature that removes all of this for you 3. On quit of the app, we immediately remove all items that may intervene with normal Claude Code behavior

Claude Opus 4.7 3 months ago

Thanks for the feedback, will work on making this more transparent so future users do not have this experience.

I did want to call out that headroom is not based on RTK - it includes RTK sure, but headroom cli has a lot more going on under the hood. For more see https://github.com/chopratejas/headroom

The best ones write in depth reviews, describe their thinking process and fairly weigh pros / cons.

Ultimately it’s imo more about avoiding bad products than it is about noticing whether a product is great. Criticaster collects all professional reviews to get to an average critic score, which will more quickly and more accurately get you to a satisfactory product than any other approach.

Interesting, thanks for sharing your perspective! I’ll do some more digging into the Orbi systems.

In my experience buying a product that gets mostly positive reviews from professional reviewers gets you a far better product than one with mixed reviews. I’m surprised that’s not your experience and that you don’t much trust those scores. What else do you make your purchase decisions on then? Purely specs?

https://www.criticaster.com/

A metacritic like website but for any product.

It analyzes thousands of professional critic reviews to find the best of the best.

I started building this because I adore how metacritic analyzes professional movie/game/tv show reviews and calculates a meta score for each title. In my experience it’s the best way to discover new things to watch or play, and I’ve often wished something like this would exist for when I want to buy a product.

This year, I decided to start building it myself and Criticaster is the result.

For a given product category we collect all professional reviews of a given product, analyze each to assign them a score and then calculate an average critic score.

The goal is to become the most trustworthy source to make product decisions.

Very curious what y’all think!

Your comment is probably tongue in cheek, but this level of detail is pretty standard for advanced cooking. Serious Eats, Chef Steps or What’s Eating Dan have published loads of recipes backed up by research and accompanied by great graphs.

Thanks for the great questions! Find answers below, let me know if you have any further questions :-)

1. Our issuing partner is Brale.xyz, a US regulated stablecoin company by Ben Milne, the founder of Dwolla. Brale works with partners on their end to invest in US Treasuries. More info here: https://www.glodollar.org/articles/brale-and-the-glo-foundat...

On audits: we're working with a big 4 auditor on audit readiness. Our goal is to publish audits regularly and be fully transparent in both our operations and treasury holdings. Brale will publish monthly attestations of the assets backing Glo Dollar, and we will have audit rights over those assets on a periodical basis as well.

2. While US Treasuries indeed have a maturity date, treasuries with a maturity date of up to 3 months are considered a "cash equivalent" because their market is so liquid. Because of this, they can easily be exchanged for cash in the event a lot of people want their cash back at once.

3. Glo's per-dollar impact is low at first. As adoption grows, it ramps up. At scale, we expect to lift 1 person out of extreme poverty per $20,000 of Glo Dollar market cap by generating approximately $480 in interest that we can donate to GiveDirectly. We're not there yet, as we need to ramp up market cap beyond $2m first. More info here: https://www.glodollar.org/articles/from-bootstrap-to-high-im...

4. Stablecoins provide actual utility to crypto traders (hence why there are $125B of them in circulation). So our thinking is that we can drive adoption by meeting traders where they are. We also think that Glo Dollar’s philanthropic mission will give it an edge for IRL stablecoin adoption. More on that here: https://www.glodollar.org/articles/vision-and-growth-strateg...

Happy to answer any other questions!

Secfi | FinTech Product Manager + Software Engineers | Amsterdam | 60-100k + equity

Secfi is a VC-backed fintech start-up that helps start-ups and employees better manage equity compensation. We do this by providing shareholders of private companies with liquidity so that they can exercise their options or access capital for personal use. We build technology products that help private company employees make the most of their equity and make more informed decisions. By simplifying their equity compensation, employees can spend more time on things they love doing most. We have offices in Amsterdam and San Francisco.

For example: one of the most complicated things for employees is figuring out how much taxes they need to pay when exercising their Incentive Stock Options or Non-qualified Stock Options. The tax planning tool inside our dashboard does just that: https://www.secfi.com/products/exercise-tax-calculator

An exciting challenge we’re working on next is an exercise planning tool that tells you what you should do with your equity based on your personal. Things have been going very well here at Secfi, and we’re looking to add 10 more people to our Amsterdam product and engineering team. We have a variety of engineering vacancies including DevOps Engineer, frontend and backend Python:

https://jobs.lever.co/secfi?lever-via=uIDfAQPGhi

Questions? Please email lucinda@secfi.com to get in touch.

Secfi | FinTech Product Manager + Software Engineers | Amsterdam | 60-100k + equity

Secfi is a VC-backed fintech start-up that helps start-ups and employees better manage equity compensation. We do this by providing shareholders of private companies with liquidity so that they can exercise their options or access capital for personal use. We build technology products that help private company employees make the most of their equity and make more informed decisions. By simplifying their equity compensation, employees can spend more time on things they love doing most. We have offices in Amsterdam and San Francisco.

For example: one of the most complicated things for employees is figuring out how much taxes they need to pay when exercising their Incentive Stock Options or Non-qualified Stock Options. The tax planning tool inside our dashboard does just that: https://www.secfi.com/products/exercise-tax-calculator

An exciting challenge we’re working on next is an exercise planning tool that tells you what you should do with your equity based on your personal. Things have been going very well here at Secfi, and we’re looking to add 10 more people to our Amsterdam product and engineering team. We have a variety of engineering vacancies including DevOps Engineer, frontend and backend Python:

https://jobs.lever.co/secfi?lever-via=uIDfAQPGhi

Questions? Please email lucinda@secfi.com to get in touch.

At Secfi we 100% agree. Employees should: (a) have the knowledge to fairly assess their equity, and (b) have the option to cash out before an exit. We're working hard to fix this information asymmetry, and try to offer a way out of the equity-golden-handcuffs with a win-win structure to as many people as possible. Our financing product is not cheap, but it's a great option for a lot of startup employees that aren't able to sell their stock today. Sadly, that's still the reality at the moment, and as other commenters remarked it's likely to stay that way because individual employees are at such a negotiation disadvantage.

With all that said, there's still heaps to be done to fix this issue and we'd love to get feedback from the community on some of our material:

1. Stock option starter guide: https://www.secfi.com/academy/stock-option-guide

2. Exercise guide: https://www.secfi.com/academy/exercise-guide

3. Exercise tax calculator: https://www.secfi.com/products/exercise-tax-calculator

Yeah - Mailchimp is great! But I'm not sure it's possible to enforce just one email marketing system? Feels like there's always forces to add yet another system. Intercom, for example, brings a nice little chat widget & an integrated email system. This will inevitably result in email subscribe/unsubscribe dynamics - or are we doing something wrong?

An app to re-connect with your favorite people you don't necessarily talk to quite often. It combines Tinder-like swiping with a LinkedIn-like profile that only highlights what you do best and are proud of.

Preview here: https://i.imgur.com/ZNdStSm.png

I imagine this being used by people to reconnect with acquintances that they really admire, who will naturally start new projects / bands / companies / skateboard crews after learning of each other's mutual admiration.

It's super early stages, but would love to hear from you on hello@gethelden.com if you think it's interesting :-)

Secfi | Software engineer(s) | Amsterdam, the Netherlands | EUR 40-80k + equity

Secfi is the pre-wealth advisor for startup employees. Figuring out what to do with your equity-based compensation is complicated and expensive and is therefore ignored and neglected. Secfi makes handling startup equity compensation simple and affordable. We build technology that helps employees make the right decisions for their equity compensation.

For example: one of the most complicated things for employees is figuring out how much taxes they need to pay when exercising their Incentive Stock Options or Non-qualified Stock Options. The tax planning tool inside our dashboard does just that: https://www.secfi.com/#gif-container

An exciting challenge we’re working on next is an exercise planning tool that tells you what you should do with your equity based on your personal.

Things have been going very well here at Secfi, and we’re looking to add 10 more people to our Amsterdam team in 2019. We have a variety of engineering vacancies including frontend and full stack JavaScript engineers: https://www.secfi.com/careers

Questions? Please email careers@secfi.com to get in touch.

Wherat is my evenings & weekends project to simplify throwing a party to such a degree that even the laziest of my friends will overcome their apathy and start celebrating their birthdays. Heck, they may even enjoy it for once.

I started working on this because last year I broke a promise to myself that I always throw a party for my birthday to celebrate life, love, happiness. Even I am apparently too apathetic sometimes. To prevent this from ever happening again, I started building Wherat.

Today, we help you: - Start organizing in time for your friends to join - Ask your guests questions - Calculate the number of drinks & snacks to buy

Secfi | Software engineer(s) | Amsterdam, the Netherlands | EUR 35-70k + equity

We're on a mission to increase employee’s private company ownership by helping them exercise their options - a complex and opaque process that typically comes with a lot of anxiety and unanswered questions. Our tools help you fully understand your stock options’ value and maximize their potential.

For example: one of the most complicated things for employees is figuring out how much taxes they need to pay when exercising their Incentive Stock Options or Non-qualified Stock Options. The tax planning tool inside our dashboard does just that: https://www.secfi.com/#gif-container

Complex challenges we’re working on next include: multiyear tax forecast analysis, recommendation engine based on various sources and fantastic UX and UI.

Things have been going very well here at Secfi, and consequently in 2019 we aspire to grow the team 3x. We’re looking for ten software engineers and two product managers to join us: https://www.secfi.com/careers

Interested? Please email careers@secfi.com to get in touch.