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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Phished Microsoft account, recovery useless

Ask HN: Phished Microsoft account, recovery useless 3 by tgmatt | 0 comments on Hacker News. So my little brother (child) managed to fall for a phishing scam and got his Microsoft / Minecraft account stolen by some scumbag, and the recovery process has been denied by Microsoft. We provided previous passwords, address where it had been used, last 4 digits of a card used to make purchases on it, all to no avail. He is even part of the Microsoft Family I set up, with his mother as the owner. The password and recovery email have of course been changed, so we currently have no recourse to get the account back. Does anyone know any solutions to this, or a contact at Microsoft that we can get assistance from? This seems utterly outrageous that an account of a child that is part of a family account can have his account stolen, and the family owner can't recover the account. How is that a thing?
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Why do tools like customer.io abandon self-serve after their Series A?

Ask HN: Why do tools like customer.io abandon self-serve after their Series A? 2 by alessandroetc | 0 comments on Hacker News. Why can startups never hold true to the principles that they started with? When I first discovered customer.io I was the most excited person ever. I had finally found an email marketing system that felt designed for the data-savvy marketer. With a good analytics plan you could create amazing workflows. Building, editing, and previewing emails felt straightforward and intuitive. Signing up was easy and there was no need to talk to anyone. In two weeks the whole system was fully operational. Pricing wasn't cheap, but felt fair. I didn't feel locked into a long term contract and could scale pricing based on true usage of the product. I was so stoked about them that I'd bring it up regularly with co-workers and give demos for how we set up our system. THEN IT HAPPENED... I don't know if it was their Series A or a change in leadership, but everyth...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What business would you build if you couldn't use the internet?

Ask HN: What business would you build if you couldn't use the internet? 3 by spking | 2 comments on Hacker News. Not an apocalypse scenario. The internet still exists, but you can't use it. No website, no online ads, no e-commerce, no SaaS, no remote work. You have your current skills, savings, and city.
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New ask Hacker News story: I write my own Markdown

I write my own Markdown 2 by KenPainter | 0 comments on Hacker News. In the context of side projects, I've come to these rules for code and text: 1a) Code gets minimal review so long as I've architected the solution, built around the correct data structures (I've heard the code writes itself if the data structure is correct), and have specified the shape of the tests. 1b) Tests I review to check for overfitting, cheats, etc. 2) Comments in code can be chock-full of LLM-isms. Don't care. 3) But the Markdown files, which may be read by a person or an LLM, those must be heavily redacted, edited, and put into a human voice. The simple reason is that LLM's, machines built to generate text, are incapable of presenting a linear flow of relevant facts without sidebars, tangents, irrelevancies, duplication, gaps, well-known style fails like overuse of stock words and phrases, layers of historical cruft, over-explanations, and qualitative fluff. In other words, they can...
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New ask Hacker News story: Best Friendship Quiz

Best Friendship Quiz 2 by HPhammad123 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hello I want to Know Who is my best friend, through best friendship quiz, if anyone know about it then tells me. I also got a perfect friendship quiz but if there is any website more reliable then this then tells me.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Anyone set up ways to easily obtain and read transcripts from Ted, YT?

Ask HN: Anyone set up ways to easily obtain and read transcripts from Ted, YT? 2 by MollyRealized | 2 comments on Hacker News. I really absorb text a great deal better than listening to audio or watching video. I've heard others say the same and attribute to ADHD, so perhaps that's the case for me. TED very often has a transcript on their page, but it involves some clicking and then some copy-pasting, and the text result is often broken mid-clause after about 10-15 characters. I'm wondering if there's any useful userscripts, userstyles, or other methods that handle this. (I think TED often sues people who try to make transcripts easily available on a separate site. I may be mistaken, and TED, please don't sue me, it's just a general feeling.) The same request would apply to YouTube and/or other popular video sites, but I run into this issue most often with TED. My thanks in advance to anyone who can help me on this!
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New ask Hacker News story: Why can AI generate Super Mario but not a wedge ramp for my robot vacuum?

Why can AI generate Super Mario but not a wedge ramp for my robot vacuum? 2 by zhuchaokn | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've been puzzled by something: AI generation can produce an elaborate figurine, a cartoon character, even a convincing Super Mario — yet it can't reliably make a simple wedge ramp so my robot vacuum can climb a step. For context: I bought a Bambu P2S but can't model. I tried the "describe it and get a model" AIs — the output is unusable, you can't adjust it, it's never quite what I meant. I tried having an agent write Python to build geometry directly — it tops out at simple primitives. What finally worked: geometric decomposition. I break a complex part into ordered, grouped steps, describe each as a small spec, and let an agent execute them in Blender (via blender-mcp). That process turned out to abstract into a small engine — the key insight being it converts the 3D spatial reasoning LLMs are bad at, into ...
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