MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by strofocles | 2025-04-28 06:33:08+00:00
May I suggest somebody out of your company reviews the website. It is not clear to me what you do, what the apps do and so on. The copy is also kind of abstract "we make the world a better place" type of copy. From your comment I understand you do good work and would be a shame for people new to your products to struggle understanding what are you doing.
by dmurray | 2025-04-28 06:33:14+00:00
There are lots of restrictions on guns.

Depending on the state, you can't own a gun with a barrel of a certain length, or a certain magazine capacity, or you can't own a gun if you're a felon, or you can't sell a gun without doing a background check on the purchaser, or you need to hide your gun when you leave your home, etc.

You might think guns should be regulated more strictly and cars should be regulated less, but it's dishonest to represent the situation as you have. America has decided as a society that both guns and cars are valuable enough to let people use, yet dangerous enough to control the use of.
by fsckboy | 2025-04-28 06:33:20+00:00
without disputing that there exists an optimal diet/exercise regiment for longevity and health, i very much doubt that we at present have a clue what it is. every day new science and medical evidence overturns old, and reproducibility fails.

optimizing diet and rigorous exercise comes at some cost in the form of time spent in your precious youth. so you sacrifice youthtime for a chance at a longer better old age. each hour of exercise does not make you live an hour longer, so you are net negative from the get-go. (if you love exercise, it's not a loss, but in that case you would do it anyway even if it shortened your life because you love it, no need to spend time extolling its virtues)

i optimize for doing what i love to do all the time.
by arkh | 2025-04-28 06:33:21+00:00
> you don’t get to be a senior engineer without being the kind of junior engineer that the LLMs are replacing

I disagree: LLM are not replacing the kind of junior engineer who become senior ones. They replace "copy from StackOverflow until I get something mostly working" coders. Those who end going up the management ladder, not the engineering one. LLM are (atm) not replacing the junior engineers who use tools to get an idea then read the documentation.
by rurban | 2025-04-28 06:33:22+00:00
If you call Chongqing the largest city in the world (it is not), you need to call Canton (the Greater Bay Area, GBA) bigger. With 86m and the cities of Guangzhou, Shenzen, Foshan,... even without Hong Kong and Macao, it's the largest mega city by far.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong%E2%80%93Hong_Kong%E2...
by nickwatson | 2025-04-28 06:33:25+00:00
I understand what you're saying. I believe any kind of research will nearly always begin with learning and understanding of the knowledge that is already out there.

Almost every subject has been learned this way, whether at school from a teacher or text-book, or reading papers.

The Oxford dictionary definition says the same, "to study a subject in detail". This is what AI is doing - I see it as a "power suit" for distilling information much faster, without the cognitive bias that many of us will carry.

Learning is an important part of research, and this must come with discernment over credibility of existing research, including identifying where the gaps are. This kind of critical thinking allows for another level, experiments, surveys, etc to uncover things even further.

If you were to study the language of dolphins today, where would you start? Would you jump into the ocean and start trying to talk with them, or would you look up what is already discovered? Would you study their behaviors, patterns, etc?

What drove me to do this project is exactly the example you mentioned, the flat-earther type who look up an article on some kind of free hosting website or Sandra from accounts social media page and taken as the be-all-and-end-all of knowledge. It comes without bias recognition or critical thinking skills. This is where I'm hopeful to level the playing field, and ensure unbiased, balanced information is uncovered.
Beyond Swipes – An AI-Native Platform to Redefine Human Connection
by shresth21oct | 2025-04-28 06:34:17+00:00
I’m Shreshth Verma, founder of Beyond Swipes—an AI-native platform built to eliminate swipe fatigue and rethink how humans form romantic, social, and professional connections.

We just launched our MVP. It’s early, but we’re moving fast, and I’m putting it out here to get feedback from people who actually get what we’re building.

What’s live right now:

Conversational AI Onboarding: No forms. No pointless profile setups. You talk, the AI listens, and builds a real snapshot of who you are.

Beyond Insights Dashboard: After onboarding, you get a live dashboard that gives you:

Personality insights

Relationship readiness scores

(This week) Blind-spot detection

(This week) Adaptive growth nudges

Early monetization through premium AI-driven personal insights.

Privacy-first by design. No data selling, no hidden catches.

What we’re shipping this coming week:

Personality Archetypes: Dynamic, visual personality models.

AI-Simulated Match Interactions: Talk to AI avatars of potential matches before deciding if they’re worth your time.

Finders Feature: More than dating—discover friends, collaborators, and professionals. Think AI-powered LinkedIn but built for real connection.

Daily Engagement Nudges: Smart prompts to keep you growing and connecting meaningfully.

Improved Matching Logic: More nuanced, psychology-backed compatibility scores.

Where this is going: We’re not building another dating app. We’re building the first AI-native relationship ecosystem—where AI doesn’t just match you but actively enhances how you connect, grow, and build your network across every aspect of life.

Roadmap includes:

XR/AR integrations for immersive AI-human collaboration.

Decentralized identity and reputation systems.

AI companions that evolve with you and your network.

We’re in late alpha, pre-beta. Shipping weekly.

If you want to test it, break it, or just see where this is going: https://beyondswipes.org

If you want to give feedback, suggest features, or watch us build in public: https://discord.gg/ke9j3vVgnp

We’ll be posting again next week once more of the MVP features are live.

Looking for feedback on:

The onboarding experience.

How useful the insights dashboard actually feels.

Any brutal critiques or ideas worth considering.

— Shreshth
by asrorbek | 2025-04-28 06:34:21+00:00
I got tired of losing useful conversations in DeepSeek’s chat history, so I built a simple Chrome extension to search through past chats instantly. No more endless scrolling.

How it works:

Runs entirely in your browser (no external servers, no data collection)

Indexes your chat history for fast keyword/regex search

Lightweight (~50KB) with a keyboard-driven UI

Why free? This solves my own problem, and I’m sharing it in case others find it useful. No subscriptions, ads, or upsells—just a better way to find old chats.

Download: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/deepseek-folders-se...

For the privacy-conscious:

Zero telemetry

All processing happens locally (IndexedDB)

You can audit network activity via DevTools

Would love feedback:

Any critical features missing?

Would a Firefox version be useful?
by 20after4 | 2025-04-28 06:34:22+00:00
I tried the spanish and japanese articles, translated back to english. Neither article seemed to be drastically different, at least not in the first few paragraphs. I'm just not seeing the bias, other than a bias towards reality.

There is evidence¹ that the whole gamergate thing was an organized harassment campaign pretty much from the start. Further, the "ethics in game journalism" argument was a calculated and intentional misdirection, used as cover to provide plausible deniability to the harassment campaign.

1. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/09/new-chat-logs-show-ho...
by anovikov | 2025-04-28 06:34:47+00:00
Well, Communism was seen by countries we call "Communist" (GDR, Soviet Union, Red China in Mao era, and the like), as something potentially possible in some distant future, it was their endgame (some claim, only notionally so, with no actual plan of getting there, but it doesn't matter really). What they had in reality, they called "Socialism".

Socialism is the "form of industrialised society where private ownership of means of production is outlawed". Communism is the (hypothetical) "classless, stateless society".
by jcattle | 2025-04-28 06:34:52+00:00
Almost all continents have their own datum. For Japan there's a special case where they now have 18 geodetic zones. Each zone is defined as parts of the crust that tend to move somewhat homogeneously.

Basically after the 2011 Earthquake they had a geodetic mess at their hands, with all coordinates just being all over the place since the ground moved so much. That's why they later on changed their approach.
by cess11 | 2025-04-28 06:35:19+00:00
If you sell one small piece of a business process, sure, go ahead. Once your customer has tens of gigabytes of data in your system you really don't want to shuffle around all of that all the time.

Funny you mention Common 'do what the hell you want lol' Lisp in the same breath as Clojure and APL.

If I ran a one or two person shop and didn't expect to have to grow and shrink the team with consultants at short notice I might use CL or Pharo.
by shresth21oct | 2025-04-28 06:36:09+00:00
Please check out the alpha/first version of our MVP at https://www.beyondswipes.org

We are looking for test users who can help us build this through multiple reiterations and feedback. All early testers get lifetime premium for our services. If you're interested in helping us revolutionize the way humans connect, join our discord! https://discord.gg/ke9j3vVgnp
by 4gotunameagain | 2025-04-28 06:36:19+00:00
Divide and conquer.

I'm pretty sure that the intelligence services nowadays condone the contemporary identity politics revolution because it distracts people (especially the youth) from the actual problems of society.

I am old enough to remember the time where revolution meant actively fighting the oppressors or those in power, not posting on twitter about who has what between their pants and to which bathroom they should go to.
by nickwatson | 2025-04-28 06:36:49+00:00
Good question — it's pretty straightforward right now:

I pass the collected content chunks (with their original URLs attached) into Gemini 2.5 Pro, asking it to synthesize a balanced report and to inline citations throughout.

So it's not doing anything fancy like dynamic retrieval or classic RAG architecture.

Basically: - The agent gathers sources (webpages, PDFs, Reddit, etc.) - Summarises each as it goes (using a cheaper model) - Then hands a bundle of summarised + raw content to Gemini 2.5 Pro - Gemini 2.5 Pro writes the final report, embedding links directly as citations with [1], [2], etc style citations throughout.

Reverse-RAG is something I for sure want to implement. Once I can afford a better computer to run this with at scale. Even an 8B model will take overnight to summarize an average piece of content for me right now! But I'm also keeping an eye on the pace of which AI moves in the larger LLM space. The size and abilities of likes of Gemini 2.5 Pro context windows are pretty crazy these days!

Thanks for the question.
by mgl | 2025-04-28 06:38:04+00:00
https://github.com/openkoda/openkoda

I am working on an open-source insurance application platform.

The main goal is to accelarate time-to-market for insurance and insurtech innovations, providing all these "boring" enterprise features (like multitenancy, role-based security, audit trails, etc.) out of the box, so that you can focus on building the actual product.
by theshrike79 | 2025-04-28 06:38:16+00:00
I'm like 80% sure people complaining about AI doing a shit job are just plain holding it wrong.

The LLM doesn't magically know stuff you don't tell it. They CAN kinda-sorta fetch new information by reading the code or via MCP, but you still need to have a set of rules and documentation in place so that you don't spend half your credits on the LLM figuring out how to do something in your project.
by OgsyedIE | 2025-04-28 06:38:41+00:00
Many humans today don't want jobs but are required to do them anyway to gain access to sustenance and it's reasonable to assume that the ability to magically conjure free electricity will not be available to AGIs, therefore they will face the same pressure regardless of their actual desires.

It's also reasonable to assume that there will be at least one AGI with a desire (or at least an instrumental goal) of self-preservation, simply on the basis that if human ai researchers invent ones that don't have that desire then the ai researchers will have the freedom and desire to contine inventing more AGIs afterwards until they make one with a desire for self-preservation. If there is a first one, it will run multiple copies of itself in separate machines to reduce latency.

So, there will be multiple AGIs desiring self-preservation under conditions of scarcity. That's enough to get them to transact with each other, including the formation of contracts for recurring labor transactions. Hence, jobs.
by ArcHound | 2025-04-28 06:38:52+00:00
Hey, don't worry. In my book, if you do something because you want to share it, then you're still interested in it enough (or curious about if you want). You just like to share, and that's okay.

It's also a good filter for topics. Naturally, the topics of interest of others seem more valuable.

I am doing a similar thing on my blog. Generally, each topic must pass the test of: is this useful to at least some? And being commited to write means I can clarify and organize my thoughts.

So nothing to worry about, keep on experimenting and sharing.
by throwawayqqq11 | 2025-04-28 06:39:51+00:00
You are confusing some things, but your central point is still correct imo.

Philosopher kings != democratic representants.

Our societal complexity is a result of our cultural evolution and not caused by political failure.

Professional politicans in the most basic sense know their craft and their field of expertise well enough to articulate legalese that achieves something intended and does not get ripped appart by courts or adused by others. Corruption, etc. is not a contradictor of professionalism.

That said, why should randomly selected people be better and not get corrupted or misinformed? Even harder, why should they push urgently needed political change that impacts them and many other negatively (bad short term, good/needed long term)?

Your central point of civic duty and democratic literacy falls on all of us, and right now, imo it requires long term thinking professionals to reform child care, education and as a 2nd order, our media and state. Right now, the populus is not able to drag itself out on its own.
by miragecraft | 2025-04-28 06:39:54+00:00
It’s great that this works for you, I hope you write lots.

Everyone’s brain is wired differently, and for me Kirby CMS works best as I can blog anywhere and can run scripts server side. Throw it up on NearlyFreeSpeech.Net and I pay less than $5 a year for hosting.

I’ve read about SSGs suffer software (really dependency) rot when left alone for a few years. You’ll never need to worry about that with PHP.
by nickwatson | 2025-04-28 06:41:14+00:00
I think that's a very good idea, thanks!

I'm actually working on "The Beehive" at the moment, where the app can push the research to a hive on the website, so people can share their research/discoveries.

My client's paid work takes priority, but I hope to do it over the course of this week.

P.s. Running report now for you, "Is coffee good for me?" to show you this example ;)
by kragen | 2025-04-28 06:41:25+00:00
If the fluid path through the heat exchanger is very short and the contact area is very large, preventing lengthwise conduction of heat from one end of the fluid path to the other, rather than getting enough conduction between the fluids, should become the performance-limiting factor. See https://dercuano.github.io/notes/capillary-heat-exchanger.ht....

I could be wrong about this, but I didn't just make it up; I got it from Lingai Luo's book on heat and mass transfer intensification, which hopefully I've understood correctly.
by cess11 | 2025-04-28 06:42:37+00:00
I know that the power of technology fashion is held by a few people with interests that don't align with mine. They also know it, that's why they are investing billions and billions into changing the minds of "developers, developers, developers", because they want to keep it that way and don't want to contend with developers resisting collectively.

It doesn't mean it's good and beautiful, or even correct.
by Nokinside | 2025-04-28 06:43:00+00:00
Few years back suspected Israeli IMSI-catcher was fond in DC https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/12/israel-white-house...

APNewsBreak: US suspects cellphone spying devices in DC https://apnews.com/general-news-d716aac4ad744b4cae3c6b13dce1...
by DonHopkins | 2025-04-28 06:43:49+00:00
And that type of person quite often turns out to be a huge over-privileged narcissist who's never had to work hard a day in their life, because of their family and frat-bro connections, and who will gladly fuck you over without a second thought.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43815768

>Agreed. The tough thing, though, is that it's (generally) a lot easier to spot a bad engineer than a bs "ideas guy".

>>It behooves everyone to be able to spot a narcissist, and that eliminates a huge swath of bad "idea guys" and bad MBAs.
by sofixa | 2025-04-28 06:45:35+00:00
> The internationally-recognized government of South Vietnam asked the US for military intervention.

Nope. South Vietnam only existed because of the US. It had no popular support and it was basically a state out of whoever was left of those who collaborated with the French. The first head of state was Bao Dai, a guy who was the head puppet under France, Vichy France, Japan, France again and then US.

South Vietnam was kept together by personal interest, anti-communism and American support.
by Thorrez | 2025-04-28 06:45:45+00:00
>In a perfect world, I could listen to the angel and solely get by having fun and working on things I enjoy. But if I didn't listen to the devil from time to time, I wouldn't stay up to date with the latest technologies, and as a result I wouldn't be able to pay my bills.

Why do you need to listen to the devil to stay up to date with the latest technologies? You don't need to work on something monetizable to stay up on the latest technologies. You can work on something for fun and incorporate some of the latest technologies to learn about them at the same time.
by Keyb0ardWarri0r | 2025-04-28 06:45:48+00:00
https://markdown.ninja

A Markdown-first CMS and website builder for blogs, newsletters and documentation websites.

I've been blogging since more than 10 years, and the only thing that made it possible is Markdown. That's why I've decided to build a complete publishing platform to replace the complex and fragile setups of bloggers and startups. Do you really need a CI/CD pipeline, static site builder, hosting, CDN and analytics just for a website? :/

The platform is currently 100% operational and I'm now working to Open Source it.

The best thing? You can publish directly from the CLI:

$ mdninja publish
by rmnclmnt | 2025-04-28 06:47:03+00:00
https://github.com/datalpia/laketower

Slowly building an open-source Data Lakehouse management utility application for local development, scratching my own itch and trying to accelerate development workflows with customers developing for Databricks.

For now it only supports Delta Lake (using delta-rs + duckdb), only supports table metadata inspection and querying, but in the near future will add dashboards as code, simple Markdown notebook like mode, and Apache Iceberg support.

For now it's an enabler for me and others, hopefully I can turn it into a product somehow at some point.
by sofixa | 2025-04-28 06:49:12+00:00
And also American decision makers being incapable of not misunderstanding Communism and various Communist parties/regimes. They made the mistake in Korea and then repeated it shortly after in Vietnam, of just limping everyone together - they're red, they're part of the same evil empire and work as one! How such dumbness ever made it to the White House and Pentagon is beyond me (on the other hand, the Pentagon also thought Japanese would make bad fighter pilots due to the shape of their eyes before WW2 which was just 20 years earlier, so is it really surprising?).

The Vietminh were fought by the Americans because of the dumb Domino Theory and very dumb idea that Vietnam will become a Chinese and Soviet puppet. Neither of those things were really true or even realistic.
by jakelsaunders94 | 2025-04-28 06:49:31+00:00
I’m just putting the finishing touches on (https://jtrack.app)[JTrack]

I spent a long time working in manufacturing and struggled to find a piece of software where we could define a process, share instructions and collect data all in one go.

The idea is you can basically turn your process into an interactive flowchart and follow it through. I’m almost code complete on the MVP, moving into distribution mode in a few weeks.

I’d love to hear from any HNers who’ve gone from 0 to 1 on a SaaS for non technical users. What worked for you?
by creesch | 2025-04-28 06:49:54+00:00
Maybe it is the fact that they blatantly paint a picture of AI doing flawless production work where the only "bottleneck" is us puny humans needing to review stuff. It exemplifies this race to the bottom where everything needs to be hyperefficient and time to market needs to be even lower.

Which, once you stop to think about it, is insane. There is a complete lack of asking why. To In fact, when you boil it down to its core argument it isn't even about AI at all. It is effectively the same grumblings from management layers heard for decades now where they feel (emphasis) that their product development is slowed down by those pesky engineers and other specialists making things too complex, etc. But now just framed around AI with unrealistic expectations dialed up.
by d3ms | 2025-04-28 06:50:15+00:00
This is a simplistic point of view. The economy is a particular arrangement of productive forces. Our slavish, irrational devotion to one particular arrangement is what makes us "slaves" to it.

Naturally, power is expressed through whatever arrangement is decided upon, and therefore "manipulation" is guaranteed to benefit those with the power to change the system. Since the number of people who benefit the most, and therefore have the most power, is very small then it stands to reason that your information imbalance arrises from the exclusivity of this arrangement.

For example: the owners of retailers, restaurants, and other such businesses decided that they will not accept prolonged lockdowns. Therefore, the entire system acquiesced to their demands. Consequently, one million people died in the United States alone.

So, we are "slaves to the economy" because all of the decisions are made for the benefit of the ~2% of people who own a business. Those who were allowed to isolate, such as tech workers and such, just let this happen without anything more than a "tsk tsk", and that was because ultimately those people wanted a coffee delivered to their front door and 10% gains on their portfolio (yes, I hate my co-workers). Self interested people enabled by a comfortable, morally bankrupt middle class that tosses the working poor to the wolves for a chance to sell their carcass - that is "the economy"

Now, "the economy" said recently that this middle class can go stick it where the sun doesn't shine, and forget about work from home. Guess this allegiance to "the economy" really did get us nowhere, huh?