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DRAM Price Fixing Scandal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing_scandal
1•kamranjon•3m ago•0 comments

With crossplanes, Helm is all you need

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1•alonisser•4m ago•1 comments

Cogent France: « perform an orderly shutdown of your equipment »

https://www.mail-archive.com/frnog@frnog.org/msg80526.html
1•southerntofu•7m ago•0 comments

Did AI write this article?

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2026/06/16/did-ai-write-this-article
1•ijidak•13m ago•0 comments

Is AI Coming for Our Jobs?

https://jacobin.com/2026/02/ai-technology-productivity-growth-job-loss
2•one33seven•18m ago•0 comments

VSCode Blogs

https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs
2•saikatsg•18m ago•0 comments

The Tokenpocalypse:Companies Are Scrambling to Stop Spending So Much on AI

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1•Gedxx•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN:Another alternative against Codex Record and Replay

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Wikipedia advocacy shapes LLM values

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.24890
1•50kIters•21m ago•0 comments

Make AI Boring Again

https://charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/make-ai-boring-again
2•BerislavLopac•29m ago•0 comments

Robert Schiller: This Doommaxxing Has Got to Stop

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/opinion/ai-doom-jobs-economy.html
1•benwen•30m ago•1 comments

Questions

https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/PZDe3Z3Nzdhttps://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/PZDe3Z3Nzd
3•InjiChoe•35m ago•1 comments

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https://unihongo.com
3•trinhngocdieu•42m ago•0 comments

The Empty Field That Wasn't: GPS, OTAD and Two Decades of Encrypted Broadcasts

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Measuring Is Not Enough Anymore

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Vibecoded app giving you the vibes

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AI-website-cloner-template: Clone any website using AI coding agents

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4•vantareed•52m ago•0 comments

Half-Life 2 in a Browser

https://hl2.slqnt.dev/
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1•rkn7•53m ago•0 comments

Bad Epoll: The bug Mythos missed

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6•j-jaeyoung•53m ago•1 comments

How Big Tech Hides the True Cost of the AI Buildout [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrJzjC4kKCY
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Ask HN: What do you do to save tokens?

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India trades over four-fifths of the equity options. Nine in ten lose

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3•bahularora•1h ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?

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Faster KNN search in Manticore: 2-pass HNSW, batched distances, and AVX-512

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3•damethos•1h ago•0 comments

Nakba Exhibition in Canadian Museum of Human Rights

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2•xg15•1h ago•0 comments

Treat the Context Window as a Data Assembly Problem

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2•tank-34•1h ago•0 comments

Americans are inundated with suspected scams

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3•rawgabbit•1h ago•3 comments

The Ancient Horsemen Who Created the Modern World [pdf]

https://reich.hms.harvard.edu/sites/reich.hms.harvard.edu/files/inline-files/The%20Ancient%20Hors...
1•andsoitis•1h ago•0 comments
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Ask HN: A Common Dilemma for Startup Owners

4•TheRickyRed•1h ago
I think some startup owners face a common dilemma when they first start.

Like, even Max Kolysh himself said the first customers will likely come from your connections.

But what if your network isn't big? I know some of you may say, "Just go to some networking parties, startup events, etc." There is a conspicuous problem as well. I am building a B2C SaaS, GoDotWebs. That tactic may work well for B2B, but B2C is all about velocity and volume.

And some people may say, "Go for ads then." Well, I am running Google Ads on a small budget to figure things out. The numbers are great: 194 impressions, 6 clicks, but zero conversions. Perhaps it's the learning phase, so not everything is optimized. Still, I am lost.

Some of you may ask, "Why don't you just ask AI?" Bro, com'n.

I think posting on socials does work, but it's super unsustainable, especially if your team is small, technically solo.

What exactly is the secret ingredient to get, at least, more users for my product? As more users = more data = much clearer trajectory = better marketing. But you are at the kick-starting phase, and it's just hard to know what I should do.

Comments

rishabhpoddar•1h ago
It really depends on your product, but cold emails / DMs still works if you try enough times. Launching on product hunt, HN at least gets some eyeballs and maybe some of those eyeballs convert to people who try your product.
TheRickyRed•1h ago
Cold emailing could work. But I wouldn't say it's worth it, because the effort you put into building a mailing list could be spent on something more productive and effective. Really depends on the team size.

Product hunt is debatable. I feel like it's a platform for more established products rather than new ones. Launched once, went crazy on socials, and eventually I got 5 upvotes, which is pretty decent already for a small SaaS.

re-thc•1h ago
> What exactly is the secret ingredient to get, at least, more users for my product?

There isn't. If there was everyone would be rich. That's not how it works.

You're reading too much into media incensed stories.

No 1 really woke up, suddenly had this idea to save the world and became a millionaire.

What they didn't tell you is they already had rich connections, had 20x failed startups prior or something else.

(Of course, there are those 0.001% lucky 1s, but in general)

TheRickyRed•1h ago
That's interesting. And you're right. One thing I think is worth mentioning is that social media polarized this kind of thinking, which could be an issue; I am affected myself.

I think the secret ingredient is to stick closer to the benchmarks (e.g., views, installs...) and experiment; it could take a long time. I might be incorrect; that's why I am willing to look into more perspectives.

re-thc•51m ago
> I think the secret ingredient is

There isn't for normal folks. It's just survivor bias and "rewriting history".

Most just grind it out, e.g. cold calls, emails, etc.

> social media polarized this kind of thinking

Social media is a scam though. >80% of those were proven / caught to be fake, e.g. "influencers" never had a sponsor. They edited photos to make it look like they went abroad, purchased the "sponsored" product to claim sponsorship etc.

TheRickyRed•37m ago
That is actually insightful.

My friend actually got his first 200 users from cold DMs. But it's on his co-founder's side, so he didn't know much about it; I couldn't get much about it. I think the most difficult part is finding strangers who would use your product online.

There are only two scenarios that will get you users

- The user is a friend of yours - The pain you are eliminating is big enough that they want your product

As for the social media part, I didn't really expect that. I was so anxious seeing people going ahead of me on socials, especially since they have made more progress (more sponsors, winning on benchmarks).

Probably a mindset to fix after hearing what you've said.

Up until I realized you don't have to compare with people in different lanes, it gets better. Also, not everything is real on socials. So, I was like, meh.