MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: PeerAds – A startup-first ad network for affordable advertising
by AkshayS96 | 2025-04-27 12:26:19+00:00
Hi HN,

I recently put together the landing page for PeerAds, a project aiming to help early-stage startups both advertise and earn in a way that feels fairer and more focused than traditional ad networks.

The core idea:

Startups can promote their products across a curated network of other startup websites, rather than spending heavily on Facebook/Google ads where attention is fragmented and costs are high.

Startup websites (especially SaaS, tools, indie projects) can monetize by displaying clean, relevant ads that fit better with their audience and brand than generic ad networks.

Why I'm building this: While working with small projects and founders, I kept seeing two problems:

Early-stage startups often can't afford the CPCs on big ad platforms.

Startup websites and blogs often have great audiences but few good monetization options outside of affiliate links.

I believe there's an opportunity for a lightweight, curated ad network focused purely on startups helping startups.

The early landing page is live here: https://peerads.vercel.app

I'm still validating the idea and would love to hear:

Does this concept make sense?

Would you consider using it (as advertiser or publisher)?

Any major pitfalls you see that I should be thinking about?

Would love your thoughts — critical or otherwise! Thanks for reading.
by sethammons | 2025-04-27 12:26:37+00:00
Context:

Musk: Yeah, [Gad Saad is] awesome, and he talks about, you know, basically suicidal empathy. Like, there's so much empathy that you actually suicide yourself. So, we've got civilizational suicidal empathy going on. And it's like, I believe in empathy, like, I think you should care about other people, but you need to have empathy for, for civilization as a whole, and not commit to a civilizational suicide.

Rogan: Also don't let someone use your empathy against you so they can completely control your state and then do an insanely bad job of managing it and never get removed.

Musk: The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy. The empathy exploit. They're exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response. So, I think, you know, empathy is good, but you need to think it through and not just be programmed like a robot.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/yes-musk-said-the-...
by kylebenzle | 2025-04-27 12:27:26+00:00
Important to note that she made VERY clear just a couple years ago that's she is NOT suicidal and if anything happens she said, "too many people want me quiet."

So yeh, someone in power just had Virginia Giuffre murdered and convinced the media to print it as a suicide.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/i-am-not-suicid...
Show HN: Blooming – Chain AI models on a whiteboard to turn text→images→video
by edrickdch | 2025-04-27 12:28:31+00:00
Hey HN,

I built Blooming, a visual AI workspace where you drag-and-drop “nodes” (text, image, video) onto a whiteboard and chain AI text, image and video models together.

It's kinda like n8n but for AI art:

• Node-based canvas

• Multi-model switching (test different models side by side and iterate multiple versions)

• Pipe text or image output to other nodes to refine prompts, turn them into videos or explain images

Demo link: https://youtu.be/TdFzhxeRFNg

I’d love your feedback on UI clarity, performance, and which models to integrate next.

What’s confusing or missing for AI image and video power users?

Everything here is live in prod (you can sign in to use it). Trying to see if this is useful to people.

For those interested in the tech stack I used see comment below

Thanks for checking it out – Edrick
by simion314 | 2025-04-27 12:30:03+00:00
>There are legitimate philosophical questions about the purpose of punishment, and whether it actually does what we want it to do.

But we are talking about stories, and I mean non commercial, people stories. The punishment can be that a baby bird ignores the mother advice , gets hurt and dies in the cold winter. The idea of the story is clear, children must lsiten to the parents or they can get hurt, now maybe in the stories with the bad wolf you might claim that in modern time it is bad to tell the story because the wolf gets the capital punishment s we need to "Disneyify" the story and have the bad wolf sent to therapy with therapy rabbits and he will become a productive member of society again.

Anyway from all this comments on this thread it seems americans only know of Disney and tghe Grim brothers, no one could concieve I am talking about a much larger diversity of stories.
by DaiPlusPlus | 2025-04-27 12:30:06+00:00
> Combining SSMS with 1-2 RedGate utilities and an Excel license [...] a complex data model and need to constantly engage the business regarding it

SSMS suffers greatly from not having a Jupyter Notebook-style mode; whereas SSMS' cousin in Azure Data Studio does feature it, it's still thoroughly compromised in other ways to make it useless, unfortunately.
by 47282847 | 2025-04-27 12:30:45+00:00
To me, “suicidal empathy“ (if that exists) is a lack of empathy (for self) — not “too much of it“. It’s not zero sum.

You could go as far as to say that empathy only occurs in moments where there is no me or other, just an “us“. Which includes me.

His statements and behavior make me question whether he really experiences empathy or whether he lost that too early in his life to consciously remember.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-04-27 12:32:00+00:00
Ideally, skillsets should align. If a person sells well, but the company can't deliver on that sale, something clearly is amiss. It could be that the salesguy overpromised, executives saw what they wanted to see, or that the delivering team failed.

FWIW, reading the article on that app, it did not sound particular awe-inspiring ( though kinda useful ) so it does not sound like level of technical challenge was the issue here.
by dangus | 2025-04-27 12:32:04+00:00
Tell me one way that your statement doesn’t apply to the US or many other wealthy developed nations.

The GINI coefficient is higher in the USA than it is in China.

China in recent years has reduced inequality while the US has done absolutely nothing to curb discontent, the same discontent that has led to the election of a fascist leader.

Don’t believe me, look up the data.
by amjoshuamichael | 2025-04-27 12:33:53+00:00
I think CSS tools like that appeal to people who learned web development in a kind of ad-hoc way. When I first started, I just wanted to make designs I had in my head. I kind of went from "header, text, and image on the page" to, "how do I center this?", "how do I change this color?", "how do I space these elements out?" It wasn't long before I had developed a toolkit of CSS ideas, but once you do that, you lose out on a lot of the finer details that make CSS work well. I knew how to work around weird issues using position: absolute and transform, but I wasn't familiar with block formatting contexts, or the intricacies of the box model. When all of your CSS knowledge is just band-aids placed on your other shoddy CSS knowledge, you're working on fumes. At that point, you could imagine the appeal of grabbing a prebuilt toolkit of composable styles that takes away your access a lot of the available CSS footguns.

What changed things for me was reading an short online book-style series about learning HTML/CSS from the ground up. It introduced everything from first principles, and had an approach where they explained why things were the way they were. They didn't just give you their "top 10 ways to center a div" and ask you to leave. I read the whole thing in an afternoon and it changed the way I think about web development. For the life of me, I can't remember what the book was called. If anyone's read something similar I'd love a reference, it was a while ago now and I'd still like to reference it. I specifically remember them saying "display: block is like a word document, and display: flex is like how you'd expect things to work," which illuminated a lot for me, not just about the display property, but generally about the way HTML & CSS were designed.
Ask HN: Memory-safe low level languages?
by hyperbrainer | 2025-04-27 12:34:30+00:00
I am looking for memory-safe languages that can be used for systems/graphics programming. I love Rust, but it often feels like too massive a language with too much stuff going on. Is there a language like C, which is simpler (obviously without all the UB and other problems)?

This is an especially hard ask, given how useful the FP-like features of Rust are, and I find it almost impossible to live without them. Basically, I am looking for a middle ground between C/Zig and Rust.

One such language I have found is Austral[0]. What other such languages are there?

[0] https://austral-lang.org/
by thelamest | 2025-04-27 12:34:53+00:00
(Maybe I’m reading too much of a narrative into what you wrote, but–) I don’t think it’s causal like that; it doesn’t have to be. In particular, “wealthy, modern urban cores” tend to be self-sustaining economic force multipliers rather than parasitic resource sinks or vanity projects. Each specific megaproject might be one of the latter, of course. In general, however, I’d be careful about mixing up different public choice failures. How easy it is to: (agree on a fair way to) collect public money, identify and agree on some kind of public benefit, allocate resources to further that interest, execute projects without snags – etc.
by DaiPlusPlus | 2025-04-27 12:37:28+00:00
> What's wrong with dbeaver?

The Apache-licensed DBeaver is too limited for my needs: it exists to advertise their "DBeaver PRO" commercial license and features, but even then you cannot get a perpetual license for DBeaver PRO: it's subscription-only; their Enterprise edition claims to not require Internet access - but is not intended as a single-user software product (and it's priced accordingly).

In short: DBeaver simply won't sell me what I actually want.
by kragen | 2025-04-27 12:40:08+00:00
It's worth reading John Mashey's post on why the VAX was displaced by RISC: https://yarchive.net/comp/vax.html

Basically, making VAXen go faster was too much work, so they fell farther and farther behind, and they were already behind MIPS on performance in 01988. Mashey was at MIPS at the time and tells his recollections of how DEC started buying MIPS chips to build DECstations around.

The 11/750 came out in October 01980; one of the last VAXstation 3100s came out in November 01989: https://gunkies.org/wiki/VAXstation_3100_Model_38/48 (not sure about the M76 specifically). The Dhrystone performance results from https://netlib.org/performance/html/dhrystone.data.col0.html puts the 11/750 at 0.50–0.62 MIPS (very close to your 0.65) and the last VAX listed, a VAX 8650, release date December 01985, at 5.0–6.3 MIPS.

A factor of 10 performance gain over 62 months was pretty amazing; that's 56% performance improvement per year, a doubling of performance every 19 months, slightly faster than Dennard scaling. But you'd expect it to be faster than Dennard scaling because the VAX 8000 was ECL, not CMOS; it ran at 18MHz in 01985!

And that's pretty much when the rotting VAX whale splattered at the bottom of the cliff. If you're right that in 01989 they were still stuck at 7.6, four more years later, they'd only gained an additional 35% in performance over those four years, about 8% per year. If we average over the 9 years in your comment, that's 14× performance increase, 34% per year. In isolation that would be staggering—it's faster than the precipitous drop in solar power prices over the last 20 years—but it's far slower than the performance improvement CMOS got from Dennard scaling.

Other architectures (RISC, and the less demanding CISC of the 80386) were speeding up much faster. The 20MHz 80386 released in 01985 had already very nearly caught up with the VAX 8650 in computrons (though not I/O), despite being mere CMOS instead of ECL. The Netlib page documents that an AlphaServer 8400 5/300 was getting 464 MIPS on Dhrystone 2.1 in, say, 01996 https://top500.org/system/166696/. That's 800× the speed of the 11/750 16 years earlier, a 52% speedup per year.

(This is a little bit personal for me because my first internet access was on a VAX, and I think a friend of mine committed suicide due to the failure of the VAX line.)

Speeding up has slowed down since the collapse of Dennard scaling in 02006. Roy Longbottom reports http://www.roylongbottom.org.uk/Raspberry%20Pi%20Benchmarks.... that his Raspberry Pi 3 gets 2469 VAX MIPS and his 3.9GHz "Core i7" gets 16356 VAX MIPS. The i7 is of an unknown vintage (the brand name covers chips from 02009 to 02017) but I'm going to guess it's closer to the end, about 02016, 20 years after the AlphaServer and only 35× faster, only a 19% speedup per year. But this time it's affecting RISC architectures too, and it's GPUs that have left conventional single-thread-focused CPUs in the dust.
by the_af | 2025-04-27 12:40:57+00:00
I'm not saying media is influencing this; this preference clearly showed before media! The media here clearly reflects a preexisting preference, but in my opinion, it also makes the world worse for old people, especially women and actresses.

I'm saying media could be changed from this tendency, since this preference is less relevant in modern society and it hurts actresses. Media is a human construct that can be adapted to new needs, it's not a tool of natural selection!

Changing media wouldn't change the sexual preferences of men, and nowhere am I arguing this. It's like inclusivity in media -- is it ever going to eradicate racism? No, but it will make the world a tiny bit fairer.
by zeta0134 | 2025-04-27 12:40:58+00:00
The rather simple solution is to keep children off the internet without adequate supervision. It horrifies me to see public school programs that now functionally require an Internet connection in the classroom and at home, often with Google Docs. If a parent quite reasonably wanted to keep their kids away from the unfiltered firehose, what are their options? To say nothing of the social pressure, as the kids these days are glued to their phones and socialize through online games. It's a big mess.
Ask HN: Building qApp: a minimal queue management platform
by muconto107 | 2025-04-27 12:41:16+00:00
Hi everyone,

I'm currently developing qApp, a lightweight queue and appointment reservation management system for businesses (banks, clinics, shops, etc.). The idea is to let customers join a queue through a simple online form and receive updates via SMS — no apps, no complicated logins.

qApp will support two queue modes:

Normal queue: first-come, first-served.

Reservation queue: customers choose from available time slots.

Each business will also have:

A simple dashboard for managing queues and customers.

A pay-as-you-go model for service usage.

Authentication and session control built-in.

Goal: Create a simple, secure, and affordable solution for small and medium-sized businesses, with minimal complexity both for users and businesses.

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I'm looking for:

Feedback and suggestions on the overall idea

UX and product improvement ideas

Potential collaborations or partnerships

Any comments, advice, or even tough criticism is very welcome!
by arrowsmith | 2025-04-27 12:41:30+00:00
No, the common criticism of Amazon (and companies like it) is that they cut deals with governments and/or use sneaky international accounting tricks (such as the famous "double Irish Dutch sandwich") to pay very low rates of tax relative to their profit (not revenue).

For example, Amazon UK paid zero Corporation Tax in the UK in 2023[0] despite recording £222m in profit. Meanwhile, a smaller UK bookstore has to pay 25% CT on its profits - and it can't afford the army of lawyers and accountants it would take to avoid this. And since Amazon is paying less tax, it can sell its books more cheaply, undercutting the smaller competitors.

Some might call this unfair. And I'm inclined to agree.

But to be honest, I still buy books off Amazon even though it makes me feel slightly icky. What's a boy to do?

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jun/01/amazon-uk...
by Sharlin | 2025-04-27 12:41:35+00:00
> Tables have existed as part of web standards since the HTML 3.2 standard (January 1997). The standard referenced an earlier RFC and was intended to be compliant with the table tags Netscape had already added to their browser, but this was their official addition to the HTML standard.

> The standard pointed out that tables could be used for tabular data or layout purposes, but cautioned that using them for layout would impact accessibility.

> In HTML 4 (April 1998), this warning was strengthened to "Tables should not be used purely as a means to layout document content", and we were pointed to the addition of CSS1 to help accommodate this. It was noted, however, that using deprecated features was expected to continue for a little while [heh] in order to support older browsers (browser listed above).

https://www.tiernok.com/posts/history-of-html-table-layouts....
by thiht | 2025-04-27 12:41:54+00:00
That’s both true and false. AI can definitely replace the "realization" part of art in some cases, not the "creativity/thinking" part. I’d AI art good? Sometimes, sometimes not. Is it good enough when you just want an illustration, with images serving no artistic purpose? Often yes. AI can also definitely replace part of the "writing code" bits. Can it replace all of it? No, some parts are still too complex for AI to grasp. Is it good enough for MVPs, throwing projects in the wild and see if they work? Of course yes.
by kragen | 2025-04-27 12:45:11+00:00
Right; if you claim Olsen should have listened to all the experts in 01989 telling him VAX was doomed because it was CISC instead of RISC, you are also pretty much claiming Andy Grove should have listened to all the experts in 01989 telling him the 80486 was doomed because it was CISC instead of RISC. They were right about the VAX and wrong about the 80486, but that wasn't clear for about five years. See my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43811508 for more details.

ECL vs. CMOS is a slightly different battle, but HPC companies (and Amdahl) kept shipping new commercially viable ECL processors until the mid-90s, and the VAX 9000 was sort of aimed at those markets. Tera shipped their first bipolar MTA in 01998, and if they'd managed to ship it a year or two earlier, it might have been commercially viable too. So it wasn't crazy to think that an ECL VAX 9000 would be the success that the ECL VAX 8000 series had been. It was just wrong.
by _heimdall | 2025-04-27 12:45:19+00:00
The more important difference in my opinion is that Facebook already has an access gate.

Unlike most search engines or the internet itself, Facebook requires an account and asks for your age to use most of their features.

Where I wouldn't want to see the internet put behind some universal age verification, I would expect Facebook to act reasonably with regards to content children see given that they already know how old you claimed to be.
by suspended_state | 2025-04-27 12:45:22+00:00
CSS at the time was still a leaky abstraction: in order to get things working, you had to include extraneous DIVs in the HTML code as anchors for the CSS rules. The standard body has attempted to address this issue with pseudo-elements and pseudo-classes as well as other features I may not be aware of.

At least though, these extra DIVs weren't disrupting the page layout (eg. when disabling the CSS - something that was still possible at the time), which was beneficial for accessibility.
by superkuh | 2025-04-27 12:46:14+00:00
You get what you ask for with LLMs. In this case though there were no children talking to the chatbots. It was all adults talking like adults but saying they were kids. This was in order to produce the result they wanted (something LLMs are very good at providing, if you ask correctly). It is not a surprise that the bots talked about what the adult humans told it to talk about. Would these same topics have come up with kids? No.

This is pretty much, "I bought this hammer from Facebook. Look what happens when I use it to hit myself in the head." ... "OMG! Facebook's hammer hit me in the head! I'm shocked! Think of the children!"
by WalterGR | 2025-04-27 12:46:42+00:00
I haven’t used CL recently so I can’t speak from experience. But it looks like:

CMU CL, SBCL, and LispWorks have steppers.

Clozure does not. (Edit: an answer on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37754935/what-are-effici... suggests it does...)

As I understand it, those are the big 4.

Clisp, ABCL, and Allegro also appear to have steppers.

Always cool to see a new implementation, though!
by cantrecallmypwd | 2025-04-27 12:47:08+00:00
Because Obama is/was a neoliberal, corporate salesman. D and R teams are different wings of the same overall property party. Obama 2.0 "Abundance" neo-neoliberalism like Gavin Newsom aim to expedite the privatization of America and weakening of regulations to celebrate trickle-down economics in a dressed-up new form.
by pavlov | 2025-04-27 12:47:44+00:00
I think you might want to elaborate on why this stack is good.

Right now it’s summarized as “typesafe fullstack monorepo”… But that’s so dense, it’s practically just three buzzwords together. A more realistic description of the pros and cons would be welcome.

I’ve never heard of Hono, and I’d personally need a lot more convincing to pick an unknown framework for a new app.
by casey2 | 2025-04-27 12:49:51+00:00
Require a Turing test before engaging with any chatbot; same as a driving license. Anyone attributing human qualities to machines is committing self-harm if they then choose to converse with them. Were it only that, I wouldn’t call for banning this behavior, but this form of self-harm exerts major deleterious effects on everyone that person interacts with.
by PaulRobinson | 2025-04-27 12:50:31+00:00
OK, I'll bite.

How long will it take until humanity is extinct based on the global birth rate of [checks notes] 2.51 children per woman[0]? Please show your working.

When you say "developed countries", I assume you mean the G20 with a birth rate of 1.65 births per woman, but that includes the most populous nations on Earth (China and India).

That means what people are actually talking about is "the birth rate is fine, but it's rich people who will soon be outnumbered". That's not a human extinction event - that's a call to action on equality and inclusion, and to ensure wealth is more evenly distributed.

A lot of people who make these extraordinary claims of extinction risk are themselves very rich (Musk) or people who adulate them (people on Twitter). By insisting birth rate in the G20 is the issue that needs addressing, rather than wealth inequality, they make their motivation pretty plain to see.

But none of this prices in climate change as a risk. Is a human extinction event (or tipping point event) going to happen sooner or later than an extinction event caused by climate change?

As the population decreases and human consumption of resources decreases, will climate change accelerate or decelerate?

Why is birth rate a problem for people of this generation to address urgently, as a higher priority than climate change?

If it is a priority that requires direct intervention, why should that action be - as per the person I was replying to originally - require women to have less choice and autonomy? What method will this take? What other choices are there?

Frankly, I don't know why I'm putting this much effort into arguing with a flawed "philosophy" straight out of the Andrew Tate handbook, that doesn't get backed up by numbers.

If you're scared of poor people having more children, do something about poverty, not telling women they should have a moral obligation to stay at home and bring up your children.

[0] https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/Fertility_rate/