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wenbin
1,859karma·556submissions·August 31, 2014
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Maker of the best podcast search engine and podcast api: ListenNotes.com & PodcastAPI.com
Email: wenbin@listennotes.com
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Yea, good old days :) The catch was that old boxed software eventually breaks on new OS versions or devices. However, SaaS has the potential to "freeze" features while remaining functional 2…
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We should normalize "finished" software products that stop feature creep and focus strictly on bug fixes and security updates. It takes real courage for a builder to say, "It’s good eno…
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HN is full of tech savvy people. Yet an llm slop article is upvoted to the front page of HN... Imagine how deceptive llm slop contents are to the general population.
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Same for podcasts (and other types of online contents) - Here's a dataset of 26,000+ ai-generated "podcasts" https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/listennotes/ai-gen…
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if you use microfeed.org , you can use jsonfeed , eg, https://www.microfeed.org/json/
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It's similarly insulting to listen to your AI-generated fake podcasts[0]. Ten minutes spent on them is ten minutes wasted. [0] AI-generated fake podcasts (mostly via NotebookLM) https:/…
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Maybe some of them already embed some simple, secret marker to identify their own generated content. But people outside the organization wouldn’t know. And this still can’t prevent other companies fro…
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AI will create ever more AI-generated synthetic content because current systems still can't determine with 100% certainty whether a piece of content was produced by AI. And AIs will, intentionall…
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I really hope SynthID becomes a widely adopted standard - at the very least, Google should implement it across its own products like NotebookLM. The problem is becoming urgent: more and more so-called…
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missed the good old days of telnet bbs & newsgroup :)
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Earlier this year, we at Listen Notes switched to Better Stack [0], replacing both Datadog and PagerDuty, and we couldn’t be happier :) Datadog offers a rich set of features, and as a public company, …
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https://Transcript.New
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Let me guess - the keyword here is "Section 174", just from the title alone :) Dealing with Section 174 amortization in those first one to three years is a real headache (and your tax bill e…
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There could be a better system (for me): a read-it-later app with a strict limit—say, 3 or 5 slots. If it's full and you add a new article, the oldest one gets automatically deleted to make room.…
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One issue I've had with read-it-later apps is that I end up accumulating far too many articles and never actually reading them. Now my approach is simple: if I see something I want to read, I eit…
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Congrats on the launch. This reminds me of https://www.heavy.ai/ (previously MapD back in 2015/16?)
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besides speaking good english, what else do non-technical folks bring? maybe a good family name? /s
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Yes, if I need (relatively) accurate answers (with the sources / urls / web pages), I'd use keyword search on Google. Still have a trust issue with LLM/ChatGPT for facts. Maybe in …