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I was fascinated by ActivityPub because I feel the dominant social networks have evolved to doing more harm than good. It was great to see an alternative driven by an open protocol gaining some steam. However, I haven’t heard much about it recently now that talk about AI has taken over. Is Pinterest still using them? I’d been wanting to experiment with it and will embark on that adventure now that I’m “funemployed” for a little while. If anyone here has any pointers, I’d appreciate hearing them!

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Hello folks,

I am pursuing Computer Engineering and would like to know if I can somehow help other people and gain some knowledge from here, please direct me to the right direction :)

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Hi HN,

I recently built a platform called DiskusiPajak (https://diskusipajak.com), which is a Q&A community focused on tax-related questions in Indonesia.

The idea came from a very real problem: people here often don’t know where to turn when they have questions about taxes. There are regulations, but the language is confusing, and asking online usually leads to unhelpful or outdated advice.

This platform works like Stack Overflow, but for taxes — anyone can ask, answer, or upvote the best responses. So far it's very early, but we’re starting to see users asking questions ranging from freelancer taxes to company VAT and crypto taxation.

Some things I’d love feedback on: – Does this model make sense for niche topics like taxation? – Any suggestions for driving organic growth in a country-specific community? – How can I improve the UX or onboarding without over-complicating it?

I’d really appreciate any thoughts or critiques – I’m still figuring things out.

Thanks for reading!

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I rewrote the most common core string.h functions in pure C. I mostly did it to learn pointers and string. Would love to get any feedbacks:)

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Been working on an AI productivity tool and stuck on the name. One that keeps coming back to me is Cyntiq. It sounds sleek and kind of synthetic, which fits, but I’m not sure if it stands out or just blends in with the endless stream of short-techy-brandable names.

How do you decide when a name is good enough to commit? Do you just run with what feels right, or is there a deeper process behind choosing something to build around?

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Hey HN,

I've been a long time lurker of this site, and nothing i've built before felt "worthy" enough to share here. This one came pretty close. So here we go.

I've been playing around with the idea of "ai agent" collaboration. With protocols like MCP and A2A coming out, I think this is an interesting area to work on.

So I built, Microagents.

The idea is very simple.

1)Connect your tools (Gmail, Notion, Slack, and 100s more)

This will give you a "Micro" agent, which is specialized in that platform/tool. (Github Agent, Gmail Agent etc)

2) Group them into teams

You group these tiny agents into a team. For example. You can group GmailAgent and Google Calendar agent in a group that handles your meetings.

3) Assign tasks

The agents will collaborate and try to do your task in realtime.

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I'd say the final product is still in very early stage. There are lot of gaps. I'd love to hear your feedback/criticism.

The product hunt link is here https://www.producthunt.com/posts/microagents-beta

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Check it out here: https://un8.instalog.dev

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