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Accident victims struggle to document evidence, gather witness info, and prepare claims properly. A guided tool could help non-lawyers organize accident data and auto-generate legal summaries. [Trending: "car accident attorney" with 200+ searches in US]
Google Trends1mo agoToolLegalUS
Truck accident claimants need to organize multiple-party liability evidence, injury records, and insurance communications. A tool could automate intake forms and timeline assembly. [Trending: "accident lawyer" with 100+ searches in US]
Google Trends1mo agoToolLegalUS
I might be the only SRE on Earth with his own bowling center. It's a more in-depth gig than you'd think.My family and I bought an abandoned 8-lane bowling center in the rural mid-west. In our small town there weren't many recreation options for families. You've heard of a food desert? This is an R&R desert.It had been abandoned for a good reason. The roof leaks, the electrical system was constantly surging, and my 70-year-old bowling equipment (still) doesn't work perfectly. The system that keeps your score is particularly interesting to me. It's the thing you watch during your game, but it fades into the background beyond that. Turns out these things are really cool, but absurdly expensive.Ours was installed in 2008 and cost six figures. It's calculating ball speed and trajectory, camera-based pin detection (object detection and trig, on ICs!), runs the fouling, the animations, the pinsetting machine and ball return. Very cool stuff for its age.From the business perspective, my facility only cost me $105k. To forklift-replace the score keeping system runs anywhere between $80-$120k, depending on features, vendor, and unit age. No upgrades or service contracts, mind you, and every feature and customization is a new line item. That's for a 1:1 replacement on a system installed in 2008. Incredible, given how fast the tech world moves.Replacement parts cost a shocking $4000 per pair of lanes. But wait, the bowling machines themselves are 70 years old, so what's this "advanced" system actually doing back there? Actuating a single relay to trigger that big old machine. Everything else is strictly mechanical. Meanwhile I've got a six-figure invoice in my hand. I'm upset.Given the state of open hardware, computer vision, real-time event streaming, and open source running megascale products worldwide, there had to be a way to do this myself.So far I've built an equivalent prototype for about $200 per
Hacker News1mo agoToolAI
India's 2026 ITR mandate now requires secondary address field, creating confusion for filers. Tool automates validation, guides address entry, flags missing fields before submission. [Trending: "income tax e filing" with 200+ searches in IN]
Google Trends2mo agoToolFinanceIN
Creators managing multiple TikTok accounts struggle with switching contexts, tracking analytics per account, and scheduling across profiles. A unified dashboard could streamline account switching, consolidated analytics, and batch scheduling. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends2mo agoToolMarketing & SalesUS
Real estate buyers strategically reduce offers last-minute. Sellers need early warning signals and contractual protections to prevent deal collapse and mitigate financial losses. [Trending: "bbc nees" with 500+ searches in GB]
Google Trends2mo agoToolReal EstateGB
Instagram scheduling is locked behind Meta Business Suite with limited features. Creators need better scheduling UX, bulk upload, optimal time suggestions, and multi-platform posting (Instagram + TikTok + LinkedIn). [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends2mo agoToolMarketing & SalesUS
New EU EES regulations tripling border wait times. Travelers need real-time queue estimates and strategic routing recommendations to minimize delays at airports during peak seasons. [Trending: "border control" with 200+ searches in GB]
Google Trends2mo agoToolTravelGB
Hi HN, I am co-founder of Kickstage, a software company specializing in solutions for the electrical industry and lately grid operators.We are hiring engineers from different backgrounds, a lot of them software developers with limited experience in the sectors. Deep domain knowledge is key in our industry however, so we are constantly teaching the basics of power flow analysis, active vs reactive power, transmission line properties etc.With Jupyter notebooks and the Python console only, that's a tedious task and hardly ever led to a deep understanding of the topics.So we built BambooGrid: a web-based editor on top of pandapower, a popular simulation library in our industry. You drag elements like buses, lines, loads generators and transformers onto a canvas, wire them up, set parameters and run power flow. It will print results directly on the canvas, color buses according to their voltages, even allows you to see an interactive admittance matrix.You can try it out without installing anything on https://bamboo.kickstage.com (thanks to our friends at Hostzero who sponsored hosting). Start with one of the included samples or draw your own. Just don't forget to add a slack element.Built on a Python backend (driven by the choice of pandapower mainly) and a React frontend. Fully MIT licensed, so feel free to use and modify to your liking. Even better: Give us feedback - we're extremely open to suggestions how to improve the tool and are glad about every user who learns a bit more about power systems through it.Šime, who built most of this, is also in the thread. We are both happy to answer anything about the implementation or power systems in general.
Hacker News2mo agoToolAI
Curated marketplace comparing free Canva alternatives (Figma, Piktochart, Pixlr) with feature matrix, ease-of-use, templates, and integrations to help small teams find right fit. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends2mo agoToolDesign & CreativeUS
Tool comparing health-backed alternatives to nicotine pouches (gum, patches, behavioral methods) with cost, effectiveness, and availability to help users make informed substitution decisions. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends2mo agoToolMedicine & HealthUS
Researchers waste significant time on repetitive data analysis tasks. AI tools can now automate statistical analysis, visualization, and insight extraction from research datasets.
YC Graveyard1y agoToolResearch/Science
First responders entering unknown or dangerous environments (tactical ops, disaster scenes, search & rescue) lack real-time visibility through walls/obstacles, leading to injuries, deaths, and inefficient operations.
YC Graveyard7y agoToolGovernment/Emergency Services
I feel like I’m going crazy, I’ve been hitting the strangest bugs across all my devices in the last 6 months. Is anyone else experiencing this too?
Hacker News2mo agoToolDev
Help homeowners plan grass removal and lawn maintenance with timing guides, equipment recommendations, and DIY vs contractor decision tools. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends2mo agoToolProductivityUS
AI-powered app that creates personalized cleaning schedules, tracks rooms/tasks, suggests optimal order, and provides time estimates to reduce cleaning overwhelm. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends2mo agoToolProductivityUS
Hey HN, we’re Xia and Varun, the founders of Traceforce (https://www.traceforce.ai/). Traceforce provides visibility and control over AI apps such as ChatGPT, Claude etc directly on all devices (laptops, sandboxes, virtual machines) by discovering not just which apps are being used but also how they are connected to other data sources via MCPs. We also have an open-source dynamic MCP pentesting tool https://github.com/traceforce/mcp-xray to detect vulnerable MCPs.The purpose of Traceforce is to:- Give a company’s employees a standardized way to ensure that AI software running on their device is operating safely- Give the company’s security team visibility of the activities of AI software on the company’s devices, and to detect and prevent unsafe actions and security breaches as early as possible.How Traceforce works1. Traceforce is installed on each device as a lightweight binary and browser extension.2. Within 30 minutes, the device is uploading live data to the company profile, displaying all the AI agents/apps running across all company devices on a dashboard.3. Company security staff can monitor the activity of all the agents in real time, implement controls, and be alerted to any security risks as soon as they arise.Here’s the video demo: https://youtube.com/watch?v=IdK2WKg7kaMThe inspiration for Traceforce came via Xia’s experience as Director of Engineering at a startup called Clumio (which was acquired by Commvault in Oct 2024). Being able to monitor how team members are using AI without slowing them down was a top priority at Clumio. After speaking with 50+ CISOs and CIOs, it became clear that this is a much-needed solution right now across industries. We keep hearing that new AI features are being adopted so quickly and so broadly that visibility and control just can't keep up.Traceforce is transparent about what we monitor and collect. By default, Traceforce collects only metadata and telemetry a
Hacker News2mo agoToolAI
GUI disk analyzers are great for figuring out what's filling up your laptop/desktop drive.On containers or remote servers, the options are limited to purely text based utilities (e.g. du) or list-centric TUIs (e.g. ncdu) which are usually limited to viewing one directory at a time.I created leaves to fill that gap.Inspired by classic utilities like WinDirStat and KDirStat, it uses a 2-dimensional treemap^1 visualization to show the entire directory hierarchy with proportionally sized rectangles.It's performant enough to handle millions of files, thanks to Rust and multi-threading. However, block characters aren't as suited as pixels for resolving a large number of items. Leaves can show file-type summaries per directory or partition the top-level directories by extension, allowing you to see not only where space is being used, but also how.For instance, I can see the largest chunk of my home directory is taken up by uv caches for python and old Linux ISOs that I could easily re-download if needed. Or in a particular container, +600MB is used by standard Rust documentation and tutorials, and that it is the only location with HTML/JS files, when only the libraries and build tools are needed (note to self: remember to use the minimal profile next time).^1: https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat/blob/master/doc/Tree...
Hacker News2mo agoToolAI
Hey HN, we’re Nitish and Prateek, the founders of Coasty (https://coasty.ai/computer-use). We’re building computer-use agents that can complete workflows inside legacy desktop software and web applications without usable APIs.Developers send Coasty a natural-language task either through our consumer app or through our API, select a machine or browser environment, and any relevant credentials or files. The agent then operates the interface through screenshots, mouse, and keyboard input, verifies the result, and returns a structured run record with screenshots, actions, outputs, and errors.Here is a raw demo of an agent completing a workflow in a legacy application(It’s a mockup): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZghU_3vsAYhHVz1bsvE0pkvZYk7...A lot of important software is still difficult to automate. Healthcare teams submit prior authorizations through payer portals, accounting teams enter data into desktop applications, and operations teams move information between internal systems, spreadsheets, and remote desktops. Many of these applications have no API, incomplete APIs, or integrations that take months to build.The usual alternative is RPA, record a sequence of clicks and replay it. That works when the interface and workflow are predictable, but it often breaks when a button moves, a pop-up appears, a page loads slowly, or the application enters an unexpected state.Coasty takes a different approach. The agent observes the current screen, decides what action to take, executes it, and then observes the resulting state before continuing. It does not require DOM access, an accessibility tree, selectors, or an application-specific integration, so the same API can operate browsers, remote desktops, and older Windows applications.A simplified request looks roughly like this: run = coasty.runs.create( environment="vm_123", task=""" Open the patient record in the billing portal. Ente
Hacker News2mo agoToolAI