Most SaaS founders build the dashboard first. It looks impressive in demos, investors love screenshots, and it feels like real progress. We did the opposite. Here's why. The real reason approvals fail When I started building TeamAutomation, I interviewed a dozen people about their approval process. Every single one said the same thing — approvals don't fail because people reject them. They fail because nobody follows up. The requester sends the request. The approver gets busy. Nobody wants to be the annoying person who keeps pinging. Days pass. Project blocked. A dashboard showing "pending approvals" doesn't fix this. The approver still has to remember to open it. Nudges are the product We ship automatic reminders at 24 hours, 3 days, and 7 days — directly in Slack where the approver already lives. No new app to open. No new habit to build. The accountability shifts from the requester to the system. That's the whole unlock. What we learned Build the thing that changes behavior first. The dashboard is just reporting. Nudges are intervention. If you're building any kind of workflow tool, ask yourself — what happens when nobody does anything? Your answer to that question is your core feature. What's next Still in early beta. Slack Directory approval pending. Zero users, full transparency. If you're dealing with approval chaos in your team, drop a comment — happy to give early access.

Two Hypotheses In the contemporary discussion about artificial intelligence, two distinct hypotheses intersect and are often conflated. The first hypothesis describes AI as a thin client between intention and result. Historically, a chain of translators existed between a concept and an artifact. A person formulated a task for a programmer, the programmer wrote code, the code became a program. A screenwriter passed an idea to a studio, the studio hired a VFX team, the team produced a film. A composer worked with musicians and a studio to record a track. AI shortens this chain, allowing a result to be obtained directly from a natural language prompt. The second hypothesis is more radical. It asserts that AI washes out not only performers but also apprentices. The main function of many professions was not the production of the current result, but the reproduction of knowledge. A junior was needed not because he is useful today, but because in five years he will become a senior. A student was needed not to create value now, but to become an engineer. A doctoral candidate was needed not for brilliant papers, but to undergo the school of scientific thinking. The Destruction of the Apprenticeship Mechanism The classical model of competence growth was built on review. A junior wrote code, a senior dissected it, extracted the substrate of experience, and transmitted professional intuition. Each review was an act of knowledge transfer. The new model looks different. A person formulates a prompt, AI generates the result. If code of acceptable quality appears immediately, the economic need for a junior declines. Along with it, the mechanism through which knowledge was transmitted disappears. A structural question arises that goes beyond the labor market. Where will the next seniors come from if the intermediate link does not undergo the path of learning through mistakes and reviews. This is a problem of competence reproduction, not simply automation. The Transformation of Educa

🚀 Try it now: Open the Arthas web app — create a room, share the code, chat with E2EE. No signup needed. TL;DR — Try It in 2 Minutes No signup required. A free public server is running at wss://arthas100-arthas-server.hf.space/ws . 1. Create an encrypted room (CLI) # Linux/macOS — download and make executable curl -L -o arthas-cli https://github.com/michaelwang123/arthas/releases/latest/download/arthas-cli chmod +x arthas-cli # Windows (PowerShell) — download the .exe # curl.exe -L -o arthas-cli.exe https://github.com/michaelwang123/arthas/releases/latest/download/arthas-cli-windows-amd64.exe # Create a room — generates AES-256 key locally, outputs share code ./arthas-cli create --server wss://arthas100-arthas-server.hf.space/ws --name "Alice" # Windows: .\arthas-cli.exe create --server wss://arthas100-arthas-server.hf.space/ws --name "Alice" # Output: # ✓ Room created! Share code: # QYEq9uxfKP9h-KCUsPUay:NlZezXoUErYr92grhif3Y-Hy3FOOK1ocb3WocCJJrQM # # The encryption key never leaves your device. ⚠️ Keep this terminal open — the room exists only while at least one participant is connected. 2. Join from another terminal (or send the code to a friend) # Linux/macOS ./arthas-cli join QYEq9uxfKP9h-KCUsPUay:NlZezXoUErYr92grhif3Y-Hy3FOOK1ocb3WocCJJrQM \ --server wss://arthas100-arthas-server.hf.space/ws \ --name "Bob" # Windows # .\arthas-cli.exe join QYEq9uxfKP9h-KCUsPUay:NlZezXoUErYr92grhif3Y-Hy3FOOK1ocb3WocCJJrQM --server wss://arthas100-arthas-server.hf.space/ws --name "Bob" That's it — you're chatting end-to-end encrypted. The server only sees ciphertext blobs; it cannot read, store, or parse anything. 💡 Prefer a web UI? Open the Arthas web app , create a room, and share the code. Bonus: Connect an AI Agent to the Same Room Every AI agent channel today (Telegram bots, Slack apps, Discord) transmits prompts in plaintext. With Arthas, your AI joins the encrypted room as a regular participant — the server can't tell human from bot (both are encrypted binary blobs). npm

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"This is the sixth post in my series on Emacs completion.... This one coins a term for a special case, Incremental Suggesting Read (ISR), where the candidate set produced by incrementally typed input is a suggestion, rather than a literal completion of that input. The ability to generate inferred matches in addition to literal matches vastly expands the scope of what a 'completion' system can do. Two conceptual sources supply the suggestions: 1) semantic retrieval and 2) generative synthesis. This post is more speculative than useful, so carry that pinch of salt with you as you watch the video or read this post." submitted by /u/misterchiply [link] [留言]

In the face of widespread backlash to the AI data center buildout throughout the US, Google is touting its efforts to minimize the environmental impact by actually increasing water for local communities. The company laid out five commitments around water use in a new blog post published Wednesday, including a goal to replenish more water […]

After migrating Spark pipelines to Azure Kubernetes Service, two infrastructure settings interacted destructively: spark.kubernetes.local.dirs.tmpfs=true backed shuffle spill with RAM instead of disk, and a hard podAffinity rule forced all executors onto one node. Together, they caused repeated OOM kills invisible to standard diagnostics. By Pranav Bhasker

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Hey everyone, I recently landed a freelance gig to build out a complete SaaS platform from scratch. The client is incredibly generous and is treating this as an opportunity for me to learn and implement things as we proceed with development. I want to make sure I choose the right architecture from day one. I can't reveal the exact idea, but it functions as a two-sided platform connecting service providers with end-users. I need to pick a tech stack that plays to my strengths while keeping infrastructure costs as close to zero as possible. Here is my profile and the project constraints: - My Background: I am a frontend-heavy developer. My backend knowledge is only "okay-ish," so I’m looking for a stack that minimizes complex backend boilerplate and dev-ops headaches. - Timeline: I have 4 to 5 months maximum to build and fully deploy the MVP. - Strict Budget: The monthly budget for deployment, database, and any necessary transactional emailing cannot exceed $40/month for the MVP phase. - Expected Scale: To start, the web app needs to comfortably sustain 100 service providers and roughly 1,000 active users. - Payments and subscription : Stripe - Team Size: It's just me (Solo dev). Based on current trends, I've been leaning toward a meta-framework (like Next.js) paired with a BaaS (like Supabase or Firebase), but I’d love to hear from folks who have recently shipped something similar. Questions for the community: What specific tech stack would you recommend that allows a frontend dev to move fast without getting bogged down in backend setup? - Are there specific databases, ORMs, or auth providers you'd suggest that will confidently keep me under that $40/month limit for my expected user count? - Any hosting or deployment "gotchas" I should watch out for when launching a two-sided platform on a shoestring budget? Appreciate any guidance you can share! Note : Used AI for articulation. submitted by /u/chutneypow [link] [留言]

Online publishers are getting more control over whether their websites appear in Google's AI Search features, thanks to a UK regulatory ruling. The new conduct rule imposed by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) requires Google to let website owners keep their content out of features like AI Overviews and prevent it from being used […]

MiniMax released M3 today and the API is already live. Worth separating what comes from their own official model page versus what comes from the launch announcement, because some of the numbers are sourced differently. From the official model page: BrowseComp 83.5, ahead of Claude Opus 4.7 at 79.3. PostTrainBench 37.1, which ranks third behind Opus 4.7 at 42.4 and GPT-5.5 at 39.3. From the launch announcement: SWE-Bench Pro 59.0%, Terminal Bench 2.1 66.0%, MCP Atlas 74.2%. The headline "beats Opus" is BrowseComp-specific, not a general capability claim across all dimensions. The context window is up to 1M tokens, implemented through their in-house MiniMax Sparse Attention architecture. They state 512K as the guaranteed minimum with 1M as the ceiling. The model was trained on 100T+ tokens and is natively multimodal rather than vision being added after the fact. Open-weights release is coming to HuggingFace and GitHub but listed as "coming soon." API access is available now through several paths, including OpenAI-compatible endpoints, while the weights are still pending. The model also supports native MCP tooling, which is where the 74.2% MCP Atlas number comes from. The demo claims are the part worth being skeptical about. A 12-hour autonomous ICLR paper replication run and a CUDA kernel optimization loop reaching 9.4x speedup are impressive if real, but these are curated showcase demos that are hard to evaluate from a screenshot. Whether sparse attention holds up at 900K+ tokens in practice rather than in controlled benchmarks is an open question. submitted by /u/Drysetcat [link] [留言]

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Every impressive agent demo skips the same three things: Auth. The demo target is open. The real one has a login and a 2FA prompt. Identity. The demo agent acts as the developer. The real one needs its own email, accounts, and a place to keep secrets. State. The demo is one clean run. The real one has to remember what it did last time and resume. These are not AI problems, which is exactly why they get skipped in AI demos. But they are most of the work to go from "cool clip" to "thing that runs unattended." The model is increasingly the easy part. The unglamorous identity-and-state layer around it is where products actually live or die. Curious whether people think this layer gets commoditized into the foundation models, or stays a separate thing you assemble. submitted by /u/kumard3 [link] [留言]