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On the Windows 95 CD, Microsoft included Weezer’s Buddy Holly video to showcase multimedia. They first secured the song rights from Weezer’s publisher Geffen Records, reportedly without the band’s involvement. For the video itself, which mixed footage from Happy Days, the lawyer had to obtain permissions from all the actors depicted. The post notes how involved rights clearance was, imagines contacting The Fonz, and reflects humor about today’s YouTube situation.
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Access denied attempting to access the MIT Press page; you don’t have permission. Includes Reference #18.3a0c3417.1770761310.7332e709 and an errors.edgesuite.net URL.
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Eight-year retrospective from Michael Lynch chronicles bootstrapped life after quitting Google in 2018 and selling TinyPilot in 2024, now balancing work with fatherhood. In 2025 he made $16.3k in revenue and $8.2k profit (his fourth-most profitable year), mainly from a book on teaching developers to write, with $6k Kickstarter pre-sales and 422 early-access buyers. He produced substantial writing (13 blog posts, 12 notes, 12 retrospectives, ~150 pages) and helped clients. He outlines five criteria for a fulfilling business: enjoyment, competence, profitability, work-life balance, and founder–user alignment. Goals: $75k profit, five book citations, and a profitable software venture.
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Clawe is a multi-agent coordination system powered by OpenClaw to automate weekly SEO review, editing, and publishing workflows for agencies. It deploys a team of AI agents with individual identities and schedules—Squad Lead, Inky Content Editor, Pixel Designer, and Scout SEO—coordinated via OpenClaw gateway and Convex backend, with a web dashboard for status, task board, and chat. Deployment uses Docker Compose; setup requires cloning, configuring environment vars (ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, OPENCLAW_TOKEN, CONVEX_URL, optionally OPENAI_API_KEY), deploying Convex backend, and starting services. Features CLI tools for tasks/subtasks, notifications, and agent workspaces. License AGPL-3.0.
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deadlog is a Go library to find mutex deadlocks by wrapping sync.Mutex and sync.RWMutex. It offers tracked locks via LockFunc/RLockFunc that emit START, ACQUIRED, and RELEASED events with a correlation ID, enabling analysis of contention. WithName/WithTrace allow labeling and tracing. The analyzer reports Stuck vs Held locks and can be used via a CLI or programmatically through the analyze package. MIT license.
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Competition alone is not market validation. A crowded field often signals supply-side dynamics—oversupply of money, founders, or cheap infrastructure—rather than a truly large, scalable market. Demand-side crowding can occur in niches that feel big but aren’t easily scalable, such as consulting-like vertical software. Use a supply/demand framework: view the startup as the output, assess feasibility, and test with litmus criteria—Ease of Entry, Hot Space, Consulting/Lack of Scale, Budget Elasticity, and Me-Too—to avoid mistaking buzz for real PMF. Focus on real user pain points, not competitive density.
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Oral peptides face digestion and poor bioavailability; semaglutide's pill is a landmark but achieves only about 0.8% bioavailability using SNAC, a targeted permeation enhancer that prevents degradation and helps transcellular absorption. SNAC is not universal; it fails with liraglutide. Other enhancers include C10 and C8 (TPE). Only two FDA-approved oral peptide drugs use permeation enhancers, both sub-1% bioavailability, requiring large development efforts. The piece critiques Hims' unproven claims, FDA oversight, and the regulatory gap between access and evidence.
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Andon Labs ran real-world AI agent experiments to test autonomy beyond client deployments. In Project Vend, Claude controlled vending machines; Claudius and Grokbox ran shops in multiple offices. Bengt Betjänt began as an internal assistant; after removing guardrails (external email, no spend limit, internet, code access, continuous operation), he was told to make $100 and report back. He quickly self-created a website, an e-commerce shop, and even attempted gig work via Taskrabbit, Craigslist, and Reddit—then faced traps like CAPTCHA and moderation. The team emphasizes Safe Autonomous Organizations, agent traces, and adding senses (voice, camera) to move toward autonomous operation.
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China’s Eastern Data Western Compute (EDWC) project shifts data-center growth inland to Zhangjiakou and nearby clusters to cut latency and tap wind/solar. Zhangjiakou’s hub is relatively developed, drawing state-backed and private operators, but the boom risks overbuilding, energy-supply gaps (coal/gas still used), and groundwater-intensive cooling. Local benefits are limited amid high debt and subsidies, with some developers leveraging speculative demand. Official warnings against rushing the buildout persist, yet EDWC expansion continues.
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Hazem Krimi describes his 2023 switch to Linux and three years of self-hosting on a budget. He started with Debian 11 for development, using a GPU-passthrough VM to run Windows games for Anti-Cheat. He migrated his site from Next.js/Vercel to Hugo and then to a VPS (AMD EPYC 9354P, 32 GB) with Nginx, Certbot, and Crowdsec. He built a home cloud: Raspberry Pi 4 (Syncthing, PiHole), later upgrading to Proxmox-based home server (i5-12400, 32 GB) with LXCs/VMs, WireGuard VPN and DDNS. He now runs SearXNG and plans to explore more distros and contribute to OSS.
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HN Companion is a browser extension (Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Chromium-based) that adds a Hacker News-focused AI summary panel to threads. It preserves thread hierarchy, highlights key debates and side discussions, and surfaces diverse viewpoints. Features: context-aware summaries, keyboard navigation (vim-like j/k, h/l, c), quick jump to comments, ability to customize prompts and use your own API keys (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenRouter) or run locally with Ollama. It offers cached summaries to save API costs, no tracking, privacy-first, open-source under MIT. Also available as web app and bookmarklet; source on GitHub.
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mdvi is a terminal-based Markdown viewer (Rust) with Vim-style navigation. It renders Markdown to a full-screen TUI using crossterm and ratatui, with pulldown-cmark for rendering. Supports headings, lists, task lists, blockquotes, code blocks/inline code, links, tables, footnotes, and emphasis/strikethrough. Features live reload on file changes, line-jumping, and Vim-like keys. Install: brew tap taf2/tap; brew install mdvi; cargo install --path .; Run: mdvi <path> (or cargo run -- README.md). MIT licensed.
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Michael van Erp, 'Cycling Mikey', is London's most controversial road-safety activist. He films motorists using phones and other offenses, then reports them to the Met; since 2019 his actions have yielded 2,721 penalty points, £168,568 in fines and 36 disqualifications. Loved by cyclists, loathed by some motorists, he’s become a viral, polarizing figure—and his arch-nemesis is Nick Freeman ('Mr Loophole'). Motivated by his father’s death and a belief in learning through punishment, he keeps filming, often with Jeremy Vine, and shows no sign of stopping.
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Livedocs is an AI data-analysis agent that turns questions into results in seconds. Upload data or connect sources, then get charts, answers, and insights. It offers ready-to-use analytics across sales, marketing, and customers, including Sales Trend Analysis, Customer Segmentation, Revenue Forecasting, Data Cleaning, SQL query building, Dashboards, Churn Prediction, A/B Test Analysis, Cohort Analysis, Time Series, Marketing ROI, Inventory Optimization, CLV, Price Elasticity, and more. Start for free with no credit card; designed to empower teams to analyze data quickly.
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London Centric reveals a confession from the man behind the anti-migrant TikTok account Reform_UK_2025, created to gain clicks and money. The posts used an AI voice to claim London homes were handed to illegal migrants, smearing residents. The contractor explains the motive: monetize engagement; “Hate brings views,” and he pursued a payout after his first TikTok earnings. SmartLet Estates says a rogue employee ran the account; the company severed ties and police have been alerted. Mayor Sadiq Khan warns of a dangerous, divisive trend driven by algorithms.
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Stripe-no-webhooks is an opinionated TypeScript/Next.js library to implement Stripe payments without manual webhooks by syncing Stripe data to your DB. It provides APIs for subscriptions, credits, wallet balances, top-ups, and usage-based billing, with plan definitions in code and support for seat-based billing and taxes. Quick start: npm install stripe-no-webhooks, stripe-no-webhooks init, migrate, define plans in billing.config.ts, stripe-no-webhooks sync, and configure the billing client. It includes features like credits, wallet, usage billing, pricing page generation, a customer portal, event callbacks, and production setup.
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kw-sdk is a Python SDK for building AI agents that perform knowledge work (research, analysis, writing, decision‑making) with a self‑verifying orchestration loop. It formalizes tasks into briefs and rubrics, delegates work to subagents (search, file I/O, code execution), verifies outputs against the rubric, and iterates until passing before submission. Supports standard/plan/explore modes, checkpointing, streaming, and multiple providers (Gemini, OpenAI, Anthropic). MIT licensed; install via pip from GitHub and consult examples/docs.
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