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Show HN: Clicknow – Unlimited LLM Access for Less Than $20

Hacker News - Wed, 04/16/2025 - 1:57am

I write about why I adopted a one-time payment model for Clicknow (clicknow.ai), with a built-in API key. The idea that "everything needs to be a subscription" is ridiculous, IMO.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43701958

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Is Product Hunt Dying?

Hacker News - Wed, 04/16/2025 - 1:31am

I've noticed a surge in low-effort launches, copycat products, and templated AI spam.

What’s worse? Paid upvotes are winning the day. Quality no longer equals visibility.

Real builders pouring months into crafting unique, valuable products are often buried under noise. Meanwhile, “Weekend hacks” with fancy landing pages and fake engagement top the charts.

It used to be a place where innovation got discovered. Now it’s a leaderboard of who has the better hype machine.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43701815

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Reverse Engineering ps2 slim in 2025

Hacker News - Wed, 04/16/2025 - 1:25am

i got a ps2 from a front the first thought when i got the thing in my hand was if i can port linux on it or not, I know people have done it and i am 20yr s late but i still wanna figure out how to reverse engineer this piece of tech and understand in and outs of it.

For past 2 days i'm running on 3 cans of redbull trying to do the same thing due to a faulty mod chip which was installed on the board it wasnt booting properly so i sat down with my multimeter going through every pin to see if every component is working and realised the whole video processing chip is bad but i still stayed up last night talking to diffrent reapir man i found from google trying to figure out whats the issue and one guy told me he would send me on for dirt cheap.

So how to do this properly this time? How to learn proper reverse engineering? How to understand how the CPU works? how to understand how the EE works? how can i port linux or DOOM into it..

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43701787

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Perhaps the fastest Gen AI search tool

Hacker News - Wed, 04/16/2025 - 1:19am

Article URL: https://oo.ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43701752

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Ask HN: How can sending emails cost Let's Encrypt five figures?

Hacker News - Wed, 04/16/2025 - 1:17am

https://letsencrypt.org/2025/01/22/ending-expiration-emails/

Quote:

> Providing expiration notifications costs Let’s Encrypt tens of thousands of dollars per year, money that we believe can be better spent on other aspects of our infrastructure.

I'm trying to come up with a scenario in my head where sending, let's say, 2M emails per month at scale with an essentially fully automated service infrastructure can cost more than a grand per month. I'm failing to do so.

My calc: SES pricing is around $0.1 per 1,000 emails. LE has around 550M active certificates. Let's say 5% receive an expiration notice (I never got one?), that's just over 2M emails per month on average.

How can that be? Am I missing something?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43701747

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Flat origami is Turing Complete

Hacker News - Wed, 04/16/2025 - 1:06am

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.07932

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43701693

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