Hello HN, I'm Leo, I built Minute of Fame as a weekend-size project, a joke that got out of hands. Each day has 1440 minutes in it. Each one of them have an owner. When your minute comes around, your profile goes live on the dial for 60 seconds, and whoever is watching can react and wave. Then the next owner takes over. And so on. Anyone can watch. Open minutes start at $5. If you want to buy a minute that already has an owner, you can offer a higher price. Another thing that makes it different is that you can cash out - via Stripe Connect. So if your minute got bought at 2x, you can actually…

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Scientists have achieved a major breakthrough in understanding the Universe’s earliest moments, measuring the amount of helium formed in the first five minutes after the Big Bang with unprecedented precision. Using one of the world’s most powerful telescopes, an international team studied 15 remarkably pristine galaxies that act as cosmic time capsules, preserving clues from nearly 13.8 billion years ago.

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