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by abhi3 11y ago
Thanks for the support, I'll email you right away :)
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by abhi3 11y ago
I will reach out to you shortly and we'll work something out. :) What exactly do you need to build that isn't already available? A couple I can think of: 1) A community of people with diverse interests who can analyze articles a
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by abhi3 11y ago
The point of this service is not to replace actual self-reading; but rather - Give people some idea of what the article is actually about so they can decide if they can/should invest time to read it. Most people don't have time to
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by abhi3 11y ago
The idea of providing a summary was that many people are busy and knowing what an article is about will enable them to better allocate the small amount of time they can spend in a day on casual reading - on stuff that they are really intrig
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by abhi3 11y ago
The original post announcing Apply HN encouraged one to convince the community of the value of one's idea/application, I considered providing the service to HN (which is the initial target audience) as way of doing exactly that. Y
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by abhi3 11y ago
Thanks for your support and interest. This is could one of pg's "do things that don't scale" kind of oppurtunity. The idea is that when you have concentration of users with somewhat similar reading habits (like the HN co
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I never said that.
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Summary: Article tries to analyse why NYC is jumping spots on the top ten US startup cities list (Up to 2nd from 5th) and also what went wrong for seattle. Article concludes that while its conventional wisdom that successful IPO's and
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by abhi3 11y ago
I estimated from the number of people who clicked through the link in the post and further to the medium post on the headline links to. The number would be very close to 1000 at the very least, but most likely several thousand.
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by abhi3 11y ago
I have tried several summarizing services but none does as good a job as a real human. Try to take some article that you haven't read and run it through an algorithmic summarizer, most of the time it wil be a very poor experience, spec
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by abhi3 11y ago
Its in most content publishers interest to have headlines which give out enough information to make one curious but not so much that it make clicking through unneccesary. As a reader with limited time it is in your interest to get as much i
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by abhi3 11y ago
Summary: Various media sites claimed apple recycled $40 million worth of gold from iphones, they were dead wrong. What actually happened is that Apple is under statutury obligation to recycle a certain weight of e-waste depending on it mark
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by abhi3 11y ago
I did try to make it better within the 80 character limit :)
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by abhi3 11y ago
Is your Pocket reading list too long for you to keep up with? You find articles/news to read from multiple sources (twitter, facebook, rss, media outlets, Hacker News, Reddit etc etc.) but can't find time to read them all? Are you
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Apply HN: WiseGuy– Solving a problem of most Hacker News users: Too much to read(medium.com)
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The documents show links to 72 current or former heads of state in the data, including dictators accused of looting their own countries.
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by abhi3 11y ago
First Agriculture was automed, then manufacturing was automated, now we are starting to automate services with software/AI. One has to wonder what jobs would 10 billion people we are going to have in 2050 be doing.
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by abhi3 11y ago
TL;DR Greg Duffy accused Tony Fadell of "insulting" Dropcam employees who had joined Nest as part of the takeover. He also suggested Mr Fadell had "fetishised" some of the worst traits of Apple's Steve Jobs. Mr Fade
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Nest chief Tony Fadell attacked by Dropcam's founder(medium.com)
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What we know so far There were two explosions at around 08:00 (07:00 GMT) at Zaventem airport as people queued to check in Belgian broadcaster VRT says at least 13 people were killed and 35 were wounded at the airport Shots were heard befor
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by abhi3 11y ago
In addition to the lives lost in these attacks, what makes me just as sad is that this is probably going to push more people towards leaders like Donald Trump who'll take advantage of the fear/anger this creates.
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Multiple terrorist attacks in Brussels – Latest Updates(bbc.co.uk)
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by abhi3 11y ago
In your last AMA you mentioned something about doing a YC batch in a foreign country. Is that something you are still considering?
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Food companies distort nutrition science. Here's how to stop them(vox.com)
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How did governments lose control of encryption?(bbc.co.uk)
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iPhones 'disabled' if Apple detects third-party repairs(bbc.co.uk)
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Too bad that startups don't make profits
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Several in critical condition, one in coma after trial of new drug(bbc.co.uk)
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Saudi Arabia Bombs Iranian Embassy(bbc.co.uk)
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Ask HN: Is it viable to enable employees to diversify their stock compensation?
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