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An experiment: funding an independent dance theater piece like a startup

Hacker News - Thu, 03/05/2026 - 10:48pm

Hi HN,

I’m a dancer and small business owner who runs a Pilates studio in NYC. Recently I decided to do something slightly irrational and produce an evening-length dance theater piece independently.

Normally projects like this rely on grants or institutions, but I’ve been curious whether it’s possible to approach funding a piece of art more like a startup experiment.

The “product” is the performance itself. The costs are things like rehearsal space, paying the second performer, costumes, and building a small set.

Instead of waiting on grants, I started trying to raise the budget directly from people who believe in independent work.

It’s an unusual experiment and I’m learning a lot about what it takes to make something exist without institutional backing.

If anyone here has thoughts about creative funding models or ways artists might approach this differently, I’d genuinely love to hear them.

And if you’re curious about the project itself, I’m happy to share more.

Thanks for reading.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47270626

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Every Claim from Meta Child Safety Trials

Hacker News - Thu, 03/05/2026 - 10:45pm

Article URL: https://meta-trials.vercel.app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47270607

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Show HN: Chrome extension that tailors your resume to a job posting in one click

Hacker News - Thu, 03/05/2026 - 10:41pm

Job tailoring advice is everywhere but it all bottlenecks at the same place: actually doing it 50 times. Copy resume, paste into ChatGPT, rewrite bullets, reformat everything that broke, repeat. Ajusta sits on the job page (LinkedIn, Indeed, etc.), reads the posting, and rewrites your resume against the JD without touching your formatting or adding anything that isn't already there. The output is your resume with tighter language and better keyword alignment, not a new document built from a generic template. The constraint we cared about was hallucination. A lot of resume tools will invent responsibilities or rephrase something so aggressively it no longer reflects what you did. Ajusta only works with what's already in your resume. Still early. Would genuinely like feedback from anyone who tries it, especially on edge cases like non-standard formats or roles with heavy technical terminology.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47270574

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Friday, March 6

CNET Feed - Thu, 03/05/2026 - 10:37pm
Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for March 6.
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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for March 6, #529

CNET Feed - Thu, 03/05/2026 - 10:32pm
Here are hints and the answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for March 6, No. 529.
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McDonald's CEO Burger Video: Ketchup With This Bizarre New Meme

CNET Feed - Thu, 03/05/2026 - 10:17pm
The executive tentatively took a bite of his company's new "product," and now even McDonald's own social media is relishing the mockery.
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Bomb Drugs

Hacker News - Thu, 03/05/2026 - 9:50pm
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Show HN: I built an AI-assisted roadmap tool to prioritize SaaS features

Hacker News - Thu, 03/05/2026 - 9:49pm

I build SaaS products and WordPress plugins. One recurring problem kept coming up.

Feature requests everywhere.

Twitter replies. Emails. Support tickets. Random Slack messages. DMs from users.

The problem is not collecting feature requests. The problem is deciding what actually matters.

Votes alone don't solve that. The loudest users win.

So I built BuildVote.

It is a public roadmap + feature voting system, but with an intelligence layer that tries to understand the context behind feedback (yes, it is a constant improvement of teaching the system).

Instead of only counting votes, the system analyzes comments and feedback signals to help identify patterns and priorities.

The goal is simple: Help product builders prioritize features with better signal, not just noise.

Current features: - Public roadmap with feature voting - Context-aware feedback collection - AI-assisted prioritization insights - Changelog and roadmap transparency - Simple embed / hosted roadmap

The target users are: - Indie SaaS founders - WordPress plugin developers - small product teams

I built it because I wanted something I would actually use for my own products.

Still early. I'm still working on many things. In fact our product roadmap is the show-and-tell of the product.

I would love feedback from builders here.

https://buildvote.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47270230

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A Grand Vision for Rust

Hacker News - Thu, 03/05/2026 - 9:48pm
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Show HN: Automated Testing for AI Agents

Hacker News - Thu, 03/05/2026 - 9:47pm

Hi Hacker News! We're launching Zalor, an agent testing platform.

Agents often break when you tweak system prompts, swap models, or add tools. Zalor automatically generates test scenarios and evaluates your agent so you know it's reliable before deploying to production.

We currently support the OpenAI Agents SDK and are onboarding other frameworks. A GitHub integration is coming so you can get feedback on every update.

Looking forward to hearing feedback from people building agents.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47270208

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Show HN: Aidevshield NPM audit for AI coding tool workflows

Hacker News - Thu, 03/05/2026 - 9:44pm

I built aidevshield, a free open-source security scanner that catches vulnerabilities in AI coding tool configurations things like Cursor, Copilot, and Cline setups.

The problem: AI coding assistants are becoming attack surfaces. In the past year we've seen real exploits:

Clinejection (Dec 2025): Prompt injection via GitHub issue titles → AI triage bot executes shell commands → malicious npm package published to 5M users tj-actions/changed-files (Mar 2025): Tag repointing attack hit 23,000 repos via pull_request_target Shai-Hulud (2025): First self-propagating npm worm using postinstall hooks Rules File Backdoor (Feb 2025): Hidden Unicode characters in .cursorrules for invisible prompt injection Existing tools cover parts of this — Zizmor and actionlint for GitHub Actions, Socket.dev for npm — but nothing scans across all four domains: workflows + AI configs + npm packages + prompt injection.

aidevshield does. One command, zero dependencies beyond js-yaml, fully offline:

npx aidevshield scan . What it detects:

Dangerous GitHub Actions patterns (wildcard users, untrusted event field interpolation, unpinned third-party actions) pull_request_target with untrusted checkout (Pwn Request pattern) Malicious npm lifecycle scripts (postinstall curl | sh, node -e inline exec) Hidden Unicode in AI config files (.cursorrules, .github/copilot-instructions.md) Wildcard tool permissions (Bash(), Edit()) Exposed .env files without .gitignore protection Cache poisoning + credential exposure combos Outputs text, JSON, or SARIF (for GitHub Code Scanning integration).

56 end-to-end tests. Every detection maps to a documented real-world attack.

MIT licensed. No signup, no paywall.

GitHub: https://github.com/aidevshield/aidevshield

Happy to answer questions about the threat landscape or implementation.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47270193

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