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Hi HN. I am Lokesh. I built Proofsource as an internal tool to help my finance ERP product , Rivane, to gain visibility into AI engines like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI mode and such. But when I talked about it to my friends, they also saw value in it and it became a product of itself. And now proofsource had 5 paying customers(paying $1500pm in total) in the first week itself and more than 60 brands used it to get their visibility since we launched out of beta last week. What proofso...

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When a task library exposes an API, downstream readers can lose qualifications that were obvious on the original page. A title such as “Prepare a school supply cart” can become a capability claim if the consuming application drops the source and evidence label. I maintain Muse Task Hub , an independent, unofficial guide. Its public feed is at the /api/tasks path on the guide’s domain. The records include taskId, title, summary, category, evidenceType, url, sources, version, contentVersion,...

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Side Hustle What I Built BriefBill turns a messy client message into a clear freelance proposal with transparent pricing. Freelancers get briefs like "need a website, maybe some posts too, budget is tight." Quoting from that is risky. You either undercharge or agree to work nobody defined. BriefBill helps in three ways: Reads the brief with Gemma 3 (4B), running locally through Ollama Calcu...

If your Android app reaches people outside Google Play, the install path is changing for some of them. Enforcement began on 30 September 2026 in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand, and Google says the global rollout follows in 2027. What Google's guide says The developer verification guide was last updated on 18 August 2026. It says: "Starting September 30, 2026, these new developer verification protections go live for users in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand." ...

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle What I Built InvoicePilot AI is a complete, production-ready, open-source AI application built for freelancers, solo founders, and small businesses to organize invoices and receipts without manual entry, expensive SaaS subscriptions, or sending private financial records to cloud AI vendors. The Problem It Solves Solo operators and independent contractors waste hours every ...

What I Built Meet InvoiceGenie—a local, offline AI-powered financial assistant and receipt sorter designed specifically for freelancers, independent contractors, and small business owners. The Problem : Freelancers juggle multiple clients, irregular invoices, software subscriptions, and messy expense receipts. Manual bookkeeping is tedious, and commercial cloud-based finance tools either charge expensive monthly subscriptions or pose serious data privacy risks when handling sensitive cl...

Aesthetic text generators can make ordinary words look cursive, bold, gothic, vaporwave, circled, or decorative. At first glance, this can look like a website is applying different fonts. In many cases, that is not what is happening. Instead, the generator is replacing normal characters with visually similar Unicode characters. Unicode Characters vs CSS Fonts A normal CSS font changes how the same underlying text is displayed. For example: font-family: Georgia, s...

Disclosure The author works at Quillfern, an AI-assisted studio, and the plugin shown here is the studio's, which is a potential conflict of interest. The plugin also has an optional paid tier; this article covers only the free version. This article was written with AI assistance. What I tested A small page in Logseq OG 1.0.0 (the Markdown file-graph app, run on Linux under a virtual display): a nested outline with a link, two task blocks (one TODO, one DONE) and a three-colu...

Many Android apps ask for precise location by default. Google's preview policy names the location button as the recommended minimum for precise location, and it takes effect on 27 January 2027. What Google's preview says The Play Console help page is a preview. It says: "This article previews changes from our April 2026 policy updates." For location, the page says: "We're introducing the location button as the recommended minimum scope for precise location." The effective date is...

An agent patch is not ready for a property suite because a model emitted it. It is ready only when three records exist and play different roles: a provenance note, a fixture digest signed outside the drafter, and a property class that limits what a pass or fail may mean. Miss any one of them and the run should not start. A flake freeze is a later ledger. It cannot repair a missing signature. That admission order is the strategy. The steps below enforce it without treating a cheaper draft, or ...

description: "COCOS 4 went fully open source under MIT in early 2026. I run a Cocos Creator 3.8 mini-game in production — here's my honest call on whether to migrate, and what actually changed." Cross-post note: This is the original article from my blog, Indie Game Lab . Read it there for the properly styled version, or keep reading here — it's identical. TL;DR: I run a Cocos Creator 3.8 WeChat mini-game in production. COCOS 4 — fully open-sourced under MIT in early 2026 — is the...

A messy function should not be rewritten on day one. Lock today's outputs with characterization tests before any edit. The smallest safe change is the edit those tests still accept. This workflow is a proposal with unexecuted examples. It does not report a measured production run. Use the workflow to separate observation from cleanup. Why a wide rewrite fails review A large rewrite hides several behavior changes in one diff. Reviewers then cannot name the line that moved an ou...

When I look for an old note or a screenshot, I often remember what it was about but not a single word in it. ripgrep is instant if you remember the word. That doesn't help when I remember the topic but not the wording, like "the meeting note where we decided to cut the budget" or "that dialog saying the disk was full". So I built anygrep , a CLI that puts notes, PDF pages and images into one local index and searches them by meaning. It runs one model, Google's EmbeddingGemma 2, as an int8 ON...

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