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Hey HN, I launched nycnoisecameraticket.com to help New Yorkers automate disputes for the city's new "SoundVue" noise cameras. The Context: NYC has started deploying microphone arrays (acoustic cameras) that triangulate sound sources. If a vehicle emits >85dB at 50ft (roughly the volume of a lawnmower), it triggers a camera that snaps your plate. The problem? The fines are massive (800ドル–2,500ドル), and even stock vehicles (like standard Porsches or Jaguars) are triggering them just by accelerating normally. The Problem: The "Notice of Liability" is often vague, but the defenses are technical (calibration logs, microphone distance certification, ambient noise interference). Most people just pay the 800ドル because hiring a traffic lawyer costs more. The Solution: I built a specialized LLM workflow that: Ingests the ticket details (location, time, alleged dB reading). Generates a specific legal defense letter citing the NYC Noise Code (Section 24-237) and requesting the specific calibration records for that camera unit. (In progress) Automates the physical mailing via the Lob API so you never have to touch a mailbox. The stack is React/Lovable on the front end + Supabase. I'm looking for feedback on the "stock vehicle" defense logic if anyone here has experience with acoustic engineering or NYC administrative law.

Hey HN, I built WorkZoneSpeedingTicket.com to solve a specific problem: automated work zone speed cameras are popping up everywhere (NY, CA, PA, etc.), and the fines (~50ドル-100ドル) are in that awkward "too cheap to hire a lawyer, but too expensive to just roll over and pay" range. The Problem: States are rolling out automated enforcement in construction zones. Often, the signage is non-compliant, or the "work zone" is inactive, but the cameras issue tickets anyway. Disputing them manually is a hassle designed to make you pay. The Solution: I built a tool that takes your ticket details and generates a jurisdiction-specific dispute letter citing relevant vehicle codes (e.g., California Vehicle Code or NY VTL). How it works: User inputs ticket info. AI cross-references the location/time against state-specific defense templates (signage distance, equipment calibration requirements). Generates a PDF dispute letter. (Coming soon) We automate the certified mailing via the Lob API so you don't have to go to the post office. The goal is to democratize access to legal disputes for low-level infractions. I used Lovable to spin up the frontend quickly and am refining the backend logic now. I’d love feedback on the flow or if anyone knows specific state statutes I should add to the database next.

Hi, I’m the creator of fnPrompt.

I built this ecosystem because I was tired of context-switching between my IDE and browser just to craft a decent prompt for ChatGPT or Claude.

fnPrompt creates structured "System Prompts" (Persona, Context, Constraints) from raw ideas.

The ecosystem consists of: 1. VS Code Extension: Generates prompts directly in the editor (right-click refactor). 2. CLI Tool: For terminal-based workflow using token auth. 3. Chrome Extension: Injects prompts into active AI chat tabs. 4. Web: Central hub for managing the prompt library.

Tech stack: - Backend: PHP (Vanilla) + MySQL - Frontend: Tailwind CSS + JS - Extensions: TypeScript for VS Code, JS for Chrome - AI: OpenAI API for the prompt engineering logic.

It is currently bootstrapped and free to use. I’d love to get your feedback on the implementation, especially the VS Code workflow.

this is a spyware which does Webcam capture + microphone recording + keylogging + screenshots and sends the records to an Email . it was made for pentesting. Author: Ronny Rogers(Mugabo Rongin)

Each task is unique, unless we provide share memory for them. It means when you start a task, it will run the full evolutionary process from the start.

From an analytics perspective Exasol is excellent: high performance & MPP scale. They offer a free Personal Edition for download and testing (cloud and on‐prem options available): https://downloads.exasol.com/exasol-personal worth a quick benchmark with your own data.

TLDR: - get in contact with people programming embedded chips in a local hackerspace - use https://wokwi.com/ to get started

I was in the same situation. I've been programming high-level languages for decades now and wanted to get my hands on embedded. I've got friends in my local hackerspace and while you can teach yourself programming those chips, it's good to know whom to ask when you get stuck. You can find a hackerspace near you here: https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/Hackerspaces

I've been programming C and Rust on Wokwi. I even simulates electronic components and stuff like switch-bounce-effects. It's very easy and can be used free. You can even use a local IDE like VSCode(ium) and. I've used it with one project and it speed up my project a lot. https://wokwi.com/

Had a close call:

Apparently it's possible to bypass 2FA and do a password reset of a Google account without email access, if the account owner doesn't abort it within 30 days. I confirmed that it works by "pwning myself" afterwards. So keep an eye on your old Gmail inbox if it matters.

Well, yes. Narcissism, pragmatism, racism, etc are often commingled with being evil. the material effects order the general characterization. I suppose if you're particularly shitty at fucking over others you might sort out as not evil.

The people who run our society are happy to absolutely ruin our lives in order to get a nice house and a driver. But we will hang the worst regardless

Don't worry. Americans generally have no balls. Sleep tight

In the moment, it doesn't feel off, that's the most disconcerting aspect. It's the things that don't seem so critical or important that get you as well. Registration on a random site, and for a temporary reason was what got me once. In this case the browser extension seemed almost like an afterthought at the time for the author.

> Business books sometimes get a bad rap on here,

If they had something to contribute they would have figured a label to slap on

It's an extension that imports data from your workspace and automatically inserts relevant contextual information to your AI tools.

We’d love it if you’d signup if this sounds interesting to you, we’ll reach back out very soon with the link.

https://forms.gle/FxkzUnEnkfyTto347

Anthropic and all AI are playing chicken with each other. You need to win userbase and that is worth losing money for but if you sell discount tokens for Loveable clones to profit from that is not in your interest.

Anthropic is futher complicated by mission.

The CTO, obviously.

Interesting, would love to see the results. I'll be checking back here if you care to share them.

Here's how to get a refund on the website (all automated):

1. Profile Icon -> Get Help

2. Send us a Message

3. Click 'Refund'

Big corpos only talk money, so it's the best you could do in this situation.

If you can't refund, and need to wait till sub runs out after cancelling, go to the OpenCode repo and rename your tools so they start with capital letters. That'll work around it. They just match on lowercase tool names of standard tools.

Totally fair. I built this for people who don’t have that rhythm anymore (late work, screens, stress) and need an external nudge just to get out of bed. Like me!

It works like that for the agent SDK, you could connect open code to that

The call is only meant to break the first barrier - getting out of bed. Once you’re up, it ends. After that, it’s just your normal routine.

I built this because alarms didn’t work for me, I’d snooze without thinking.

They will need to sooner or later. Linux has more momentum than ever, and saying "players on steam deck/steam machine/bazzite can't play our game" seems like a losing long term strategy.

same here, tried few different voices including my kids and my own, the generated audio is not similar at all, it's not even a proper voice

Most TV's are full of bloated AndroidTV come pre-installed, and most of the apps preinstalled pays most of the TV

fork OC and use anthropics agent SDK that allows you to build on top of your subscription

The Agent SDK can piggyback on your existing Claude Code authentication

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/quickstart

FYI I just now caught a critical missing step of disabling IPv4 in your Tailscale settings to doom code via cell service. Many of you probably did not have an issue figuring out that missing step - but for those of you like me, apologies for not passing along the time-saving lesson learned!

So my default search engine was also in perl.. that's really great to know, thank you for your information

Still probably a lot better than Windows.

Just open source Claude Code and maybe it gets supported by fostering a community... Oh wait, no lock in? Sorry there's no stakeholder value in that.

I built I6P, an IPv6-only P2P connectivity + transport layer in Go. The goal is to simplify P2P by assuming globally routable IPv6 (no NAT traversal), while still providing a solid secure/fast data plane: QUIC over UDP (TLS 1.3), Ed25519 identity binding (PeerID = SHA-256(pubkey)), X25519 + ChaCha20-Poly1305, a symmetric-key ratchet for forward secrecy, plus a transfer pipeline with chunking, Merkle integrity, LZ4 compression, batching, parallel stream pool, and Reed-Solomon erasure coding.

Creator here. SHP treats memory as a network protocol, not storage.

 Key insight: Instead of rebuilding context from JSON every call,
 the protocol transmits executable knowledge directly.
 Benchmarks on standard hardware:
 - Context recall: 700x faster (3ms vs 2.1s)
 - Complex reasoning: 139x faster
 - 21k requests/sec throughput
 But numbers don't lie.