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m82labs commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025) · Posted by u/david927

m82labs · 6 months ago

An “everything” feed reader. Its a plugable framework that allows you to push anything into an RSS feed reader type interface. Email, Slack notifications, RSS, etc.

I want one place to manage ALL notification settings. So if I want to be notified of Slack messages that contain the word “cat”, I can do that.

I am also looking to add summarization and tagging using a local SLM. Trying to find a method that can run on older hardware.

m82labs commented on Sometimes Software Is Done, or Why Hugo Why (2024) commaok.xyz/post/on_hugo/... · Posted by u/eric_khun

m82labs · 7 months ago

I had a similar situation using Jekyll (before Docker) so I wrote my own SSG, and its compatible with Jekyll frontmatter.

Its been a great experience and completely solid to use. Need a URL shortener feature? Code it into the generator. Want some static search? Code it into the generator. Want to generate a newsletter for certain posts? Wire your generator up to SES and do it.

m82labs commented on The Missing Protocol: Let Me Know deanebarker.net/tech/blog... · Posted by u/deanebarker

m82labs · 7 months ago

I guess my first thought here is that I would just implement this on my blog platform as a series specific RSS feed. Generating an RSS feed per series and even per tag would be trivial to implement and make for a decent user experience. IMO.

m82labs commented on 12ft.io Taken Down newsmediaalliance.org/tak... · Posted by u/afeuerstein

0x5FC3 · 8 months ago

We all hate adverts, some of us don't like or can't pay. Those who pay, have access to a few publications they enjoy. It would be absurd to pay for all the publications, all the streaming services, but we don't want monopolies either. What could be a solution for this madness?

m82labs · 8 months ago

I want RSS with micropayments. I want to consume information in my own interface, and am willing to pay. I am not willing to pay for a full subscription to a publication when I only find a few articles a year that I want to read.

I want Spotify for text, but with a business model that makes sense for all involved.

m82labs commented on Data Story: Ethics, Productivity, Age and AI curiousaboutdata.com/2025... · Posted by u/m82labs

m82labs · 8 months ago

Data Story: Ethics, Productivity, Age and AI:How do these correlate with Developers’ Stances Towards AI at work, 2024

A smaller scale yet interesting look at how ethical issues impact stance on AI in developers. This post looks at data from the Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2024.

m82labs commented on What to build instead of AI agents decodingml.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

ldjkfkdsjnv · 8 months ago

This is all going to be solved by better models. Building agents is building for a world that doesn't quite exist yet, but probably will in a year or two. Building some big heuristic engine that strings together LLM calls (which is what this blog advocates for) is essentially a bet against progress in ai. I'm not taking that bet, and neither are any of the major players.

m82labs · 8 months ago

So for people building real things today are you saying instead of stringing prompts together with logic we should just sit on our hands for a year and wait for the models to catch up to the agent paradigm?

m82labs commented on The $25k car is going extinct? media.hubspot.com/why-the... · Posted by u/pseudolus

m82labs · 9 months ago

I’d be interested to see what this does to overhead costs of businesses that actually need a large vehicle.

I have a small horse farm and drive a 2010 F-150. I haul horses, 900lb. hay bales, feed, lumber for repairing fences and building shelters, etc.

If my truck breaks down I am going to have to scrape through used inventory to find something that fits my needs. I don’t need leather, 16 cameras, seat warmers, and a high end sound system. I need a truck that can get done everything I need around the farm, and I need it to be cheap enough that I’m not worried about it getting scratched.

All cars seem to be luxury vehicles now, I don’t know what folks are doing the just need something more utilitarian.

m82labs commented on Ask HN: How to regain the ability to read with focus and learn · Posted by u/albert_e

codingdave · 9 months ago

I'm going through that process as well, as I switch my projects away from coding and back to academic reading and research, which I have not done in 30 years.

What is working for me is to take it slow. To get actual books, not e-books, sit down with them in a cozy reading corner I set up, and read what I can. To go to libraries, browse the stacks, take a few books to a table, and skim through them. Basically, to avoid middle grounds and go all the way back to how I used to read before the web took off. It is not fixing my attention overnight, but I am improving over time.

It also helps to have a focus. Reading for its own sake doesn't give me the endurance I used to have, but deliberate reading to further some research goals helps me get more done.

m82labs · 9 months ago

So I discovered the opposite. My reading was always tied to a goal of some sort. I started reading on a kindle and turning off progress indicators and suddenly I had my attention back. I wasn’t worried about improving or reading a certain amount per day or finishing a book by a certain date. I just read.

m82labs commented on MailDock: Cold Email Infrastructure maildock.io/... · Posted by u/bernardohcr

bernardohcr · 10 months ago

After years battling Google Workspace for cold outreach — bans, poor deliverability, expensive pricing, painful setup, and scaling issues — we decided to build the infrastructure we always wished existed.

We previously built and scaled TheChecker, an email deliverability SaaS used by Netflix, Mojang (Minecraft), and 6,000+ paying users worldwide. It was later acquired and became Emailable.

Now we’re building MailDock — a fully-managed, plug-and-play mailbox designed specifically for cold emailers.

It replaces Google Workspace seamlessly, with no changes to your existing workflow.

It’s like having a deliverability expert on call 24/7, monitoring, optimizing, and proactively fixing issues — for just $2/mo per mailbox.

We’re still early, but some tests showed very promising results and cost savings.

Would love your feedback, questions, and brutal honesty.

m82labs · 10 months ago

I have no use for this but my first thought is wondering how safe the features like InfiniteSpin are from hallucinations. That’s assuming it’s using an LLM of course.