My kid just started high school. The way they communicate information is absolutely insane. So I built a web scraper + MCP to aggregate it all, then layered on a snarky chatbot with a PG-13 Dave Chappelle personality. The number of communication channels are just insane: - email - Google Docs - Canvas - PDFs - School Messenger - the official school website - 5 different other websites that they don't tell you about (eg athletics website) - 22 (!) Instagram accounts for various school clubs & sports - district website & calendar Oh, and if you call the school office, they say "look at the webs…

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Hey HN, I've been working on this for about a year and figured it was time to share it. Visor started with my own kids. I actually think YouTube has a lot of good content for kids, but I was tired of the weird video recommendations, ads, and most of all YT Shorts! I was looking for a way to simply say: these channels are fine, everything else isn't. I couldn't really find one, so I built Visor. Parents approve channels, kids get their own curated YouTube experience, and they can request new channels when they find something they're interested in. No Shorts, no ads, and no algorithm rabbit hol…

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The company says no children under 13 can ride -- even with a parent. That's more restrictive than the Model Y SUVs it's using as robotaxis.

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The man was held captive and filmed being repeatedly assaulted before escaping, police say.

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With the risk of infection rising, parents and young adults are facing agonizing choices about being out in public as school starts back up.

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