MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: FeedMe – An RSS Reader to Reclaim Your Attention
by fs_software | 2025-04-02 14:22:49+00:00
Hi HN, I'm a solo dev and I've been building FeedMe, an RSS reader designed to help you take back control of your attention. I launched it today and would love your feedback!

I found myself overwhelmed by algorithmic feeds on platforms like YouTube and X, losing focus on what truly mattered. I missed the days when I controlled my information diet. FeedMe is my solution: an RSS reader that puts you back in the driver’s seat.

For those who still value the power of RSS, FeedMe lets you subscribe to any RSS feed (articles, podcasts, YouTube channels/playlists, subreddits, newsletters, even Hacker News). You can easily search, filter, mark items as read/unread, as well as mute feeds to temporarily hide distractions and catch up on your terms. It also includes a dark mode for comfortable reading, and device sync is included for everyone.

The mute feature has been a game-changer for me, letting me focus on what's important without the anxiety of unsubscribing and potentially missing out later. It's about reclaiming attention from the noise.

FeedMe started as a personal project to learn new tech stacks (I’d rebuild it every year or so), but it became a tool that genuinely improved my life. Now I want to share it with others who feel overwhelmed by algorithmic feeds.

Questions or critiques are more than welcome. Thanks for checking it out!

https://feedme.digital
by jodrellblank | 2025-04-02 14:23:10+00:00
I can only make sense of that saying in terms of how much trust to give, whether it's a high-trust or low-trust environment. Whether you assume good-will and basic competence or not.

e.g. you might assume that a sorting library from an internal developer at your company will put things in order but you might want to verify that it has reasonable worst-case performance for your use case. A no-trust situation might lead you to scrutinise everything about it - does it work at all, does it have horrendous performance in every case, is it a supply-chain attack with disguised errors leading to deliberate exploit holes.

In this case, "trust but verify" might mean assuming the Professor and TA are doing an experiment they have done before, which basically works, but might have made a mistake or missed something while setting it up, writing the slides, or explaining it to you. "Don't trust" might mean the TA got the experiment from ChatGPT, hates OP for being on a scholarship and is trying to sabotage their success, and the whole thing isn't an Electronics course it's really the Professor's practical joke/psychology experiment about stressing students.
by tsumnia | 2025-04-02 14:23:20+00:00
There's a great video essay series known as "Everything is a Remix" by Kirby Ferguson [1] if you have an hour to spare. Ferguson uses the trends of music sampling as a base for how artists draw inspiration from others. The controversy of sampling has been used across genres, include around minute 9 Ferguson points out that Led Zepplin were considered ripoffs for their appropriation of Jake Holmes. Axis of Awesome also has a "chord progression song" [2] that makes fun of how similar many pop songs are.

The video draws a nice parallel to how so much in our world serves as "inspiration" for our own works, but acknowledges the controversy around using a single source as "too much inspiration". Especially as we move into whatever copyright arguments are getting made toward AI right now, I think it serves as a nice outline on why this is such a complicated matter.

[1] https://www.everythingisaremix.info/everything-is-a-remix-20...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I
by totallynothoney | 2025-04-02 14:23:39+00:00
> Please don’t trivialize the suffering of others for the use of your argument.

I believe the people sent to a gulag would dislike more people not eschewing the sanctity of a internet forum, than someone 'trivializing' their suffering by using them for argument about how their situation should be discussed in said forum.

The value is that right now a HN user on a visa could be disappeared in to dungeon for months for political speech if Marco Rubio's goons notice him.
by jph | 2025-04-02 14:23:50+00:00
Fake deadlines suck. They cut against high-trust teamwork. They obscure real deadlines, including real commitments to customers.

The author writes "Once I became a manager, I finally saw why they were needed, but felt guilty about using them."

You SHOULD feel guilty. Truth matters. Trust matters.

If you're having problems with estimation and planning, then success looks like working on these areas-- not faking them.

Good tactics to try are work breakdown structures, planning poker, transparency for timelines, good project management tooling, critical chain scheduling, and above all trusting your teammates.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-04-02 14:23:52+00:00
Please introduce me to the fantasy world where everything else can survive without deadlines and schedules.

As an engineer, I don't like deadlines either given how unpredictable large scale software development can be, but the fact of the matter is that most software is in service to a business, and businesses need to run on schedules. If you don't like that, you shouldn't be working in a software business, you should be working in a research think tank or academia.
by duxup | 2025-04-02 14:23:56+00:00
I like that this article puts the onus on the individual to do the thing.

I think there are jobs that set unrealistic expectations, but I also think A LOT of Americans who never disconnected from work ... simply choose that lifestyle.

I recently had some free time and fired up my personal computer and realized that my personal profile was out of date on a lot of software and so on. But I'm on a computer a lot ... I'm on my work computer. I don't regret the work I put in on the work computer on and off hours sometimes, but it was pretty jarring to notice how "neglected" my personal computer was.
by assimpleaspossi | 2025-04-02 14:24:42+00:00
I was given my first real important project and asked how long it might take for me to complete it. I thought I could get it done in four months but I was scared. So I said six months.

After the project was done, I was told that management didn't believe my six month estimate and put down nine months for completion in their timeline.

I finished in three. Thinking I had three months to work on personal projects, good off, etc., I eventually gave in out of boredom and told them I was finished a few weeks later.
by globular-toast | 2025-04-02 14:24:47+00:00
I've never really understood what people mean when they talk about recovery. Is this something you can feel? Or does it mean you couldn't lift the same weights the very next day or something? I lifted consistently for years, no supplements, 1RM around 65kg OHP, 115kg BP, 140kg squat, 200kg DL and apart from immediately after the gym I never felt like I needed to recover. Maybe my volume wasn't high enough? I was very much a 3x5 compound lifts then out kind of guy rather than spending hours in there doing 10 rep sets and accessories etc.
by Johanx64 | 2025-04-02 14:25:43+00:00
> Just one more rep

It don't work like that.

The amount you can work out (at intensity) is limited by your recovery time.

Thus you take that "supplement" and can do one more rep, or go to gym extra time a week, especially if it comes to "regulated and risky" supplements, then you can do many, many more reps.
by klabb3 | 2025-04-02 14:25:57+00:00
Speculation: If not already, it will be a data broker market for public-ish data too. What I mean by that is a separation of entities where open ai and ”legitimate” AI companies will buy data from data brokers of shadily scraped data, and throw them under the bus if shit hits the fan to protect the mothership. This makes sense from a corporate risk perspective, creating a gray area buffer of accountability. OpenAI and Anthropic already pleaded to the government to not take away their fair use hall pass, (by invoking the magic spell ”China”), but if this won’t work and publishers win they’ll need to be prepared.

At the same time, publicly and easily available quality content is a race against time. Platforms like Reddit and Xitter already lock down with aggressive anti-bot measures and fingerprinting, and the cottage industries are following. Meanwhile, public data is being polluted by content farms producing garbage at increased rate using AI.

Together this creates a perfect storm of bad incentives: (1) the data hoarders are no longer just Google and Microsoft, but probably thousands of smaller entities and (2) they’re short on time, and try to scrape more invasively and at a fast rate.
by csdvrx | 2025-04-02 14:25:58+00:00
> Agree, I was also mislead by the submission title, which has been changed from the original article title: "Optical Discs From Japan – Part 6: TDK UV Guard, Fuji, LG/Sony, Maxell, CMC"

I changed the original title, to express it's testing "new old stock" of DVD-R and CD-R 25 years later, as in "writing to these DVD-R and CD-R that were made a long time ago, and kept in their box".

Quoting from the article: "The Fuji did well even after all these years – it’s likely that disc is at least 25 years old. "

I think this is more informative than the original title, because there is not much interest in testing how to burn optical media (we have figured that out by how), while checking in great detail if OLD optical media can STILL be burned is very interesting!

I was captivated by the spectrometer test to check the UV protection, as I would expect that to be the #1 problem for data longevity testing.
by jfengel | 2025-04-02 14:26:32+00:00
It's almost more like singing than speaking. When I teach it to actors, I start with having them sing a speech, and then making it progressively more like spoken words. Singing naturally encourages a smooth, constant flow of air, rather than the choppy way you naturally speak.

That said, the more tired you get, the harder it is to do that. You start straining your muscles, and your vocal cords start slamming together. For singers, who do this a lot, it eventually causes scarring, and it can end your career.

I don't think I could do 25 hours. And Booker is going to be out of commission for days -- he literally shouldn't talk for a week. He may just have learned all this by intuition and example rather than training, but either way, it's gonna rip him up.
by dkarl | 2025-04-02 14:27:07+00:00
I have to mostly agree with you, in the sense that the jocks were no less nice than anybody else, maybe even more so. That's a pretty low bar for teenagers, though. Furthermore, the jocks by and large didn't really understand the misery of bullying, so they treated it lightly, and they did more than their share.

In my typology of bullies, there's the archetypal "unhappy at home" kind of bully who is troubled and traumatized and takes it out on other people. After-school specials will teach you that all bullies are like that, but in my experience, they were relatively rare in real life. The more common type, who accounted for almost all of the bullying, were the "protecting community standards" bullies, who were happy and popular and bullied people as a public service, sometimes even for the good of the victim. When people did something disruptive or destructive to the community, like being gay, thinking they were as good as people that they weren't as good as, or talking to a jock's girlfriend, the community needed to be repaired, and the violator needed to be put on a more healthy path in life. As budding community leaders, the jocks naturally stepped into that role, especially when physical work was required.

I managed to escape bullying in high school by being incredibly bland and repressing any inappropriate social ambitions (i.e., any at all) but I could see from cases around me that if there had been anything socially disturbing about me, a strong effort would have been made to correct the situation.
by rcMgD2BwE72F | 2025-04-02 14:27:33+00:00
There a few European countries that publish daily details cars registration numbers. Here's Tesla in Norway: https://eu-evs.com/brands/TESLA/NO/Models-Daily

Looks like delivery of their most popular model took off once they've finished retooling the production lines (March 11).

They seem to prioritize specific countries, NO being the first maybe?

The big question now is: how long would it take to compensate for the weeks with near zero deliveries at the start of Q1?
by amiga386 | 2025-04-02 14:28:03+00:00
CD audio data is indeed lossless data, and has some form of spreading the data physically (CIRC), but has limited error correction. Data CDs have more error correction data than audio CDs, so are more resilient to media degradation, scratches, etc.

When CD audio has errors, more often than not, the CD drive conceals the error -- it interpolates for this unreadable data and doesn't tell the host. Some drives do report C2 errors, but many lie about their capabilities, or have poor implementations.

Secondly, when you ask for CD audio, you can't say "give me the samples from 00:01:23.567 to 00:49:20.211". You can say "seek to 00:01:23.567; start playing; give me the audio samples over ATA as you read them". You can also say "tell me where you think you are on the disc right now". CD drives do not do this reliably, or give reliable answers. Exact Audio Copy is looking to detect this and account for it.

EAC is best used with drives which reliably report wrong locations, i.e. are always wrong by a fixed amount, and EAC can learn by how much by comparing how your drive reports known discs to what's in the AccurateRip database.... but EAC can also work with drives that are unreliably wrong as well, it just has to read the same audio data multiple times over to get a good fix on where that audio really is on the CD.

See https://www.accuraterip.com/ for more details of how CD drives lie to you and let you down
by kkzz99 | 2025-04-02 14:28:07+00:00
No? There are a lot of studies showing positive benefits: >The primary benefit of creatine is an improvement in strength and power output during resistance exercise. Creatine is well-researched for this purpose, and its effects are quite notable for a supplement, both in the general population,[6][7][8][9] and specifically in older adults.[10][11][12] When used in conjunction with resistance exercise, creatine may modestly increase lean mass.[7][12][11][13] In trained athletes, creatine has been reported to reduce body fat and improve some measures of anaerobic exercise performance, strength, and power output.

https://examine.com/supplements/creatine/?show_conditions=tr...

And as a general rule of thumb: Don't take anything from 4chan seriously.
Show HN: Quickpoll.cc – AI-powered event polls from natural language
by alamparelli | 2025-04-02 14:28:25+00:00
Hey HN,

Three months ago, I decided to shift careers into software development and indie entrepreneurship. This is my second web app since then.

The idea came from a simple, frustrating experience: I needed to organize a meetup with multiple possible dates. I looked for a quick tool to create a poll... and finally decided to use a group chat instead...

So I built quickpoll.cc – an AI-powered tool that lets you create scheduling polls just by describing what you want in plain language. For example:

“A team dinner next week with options on Tuesday evening, Thursday lunch, or Friday afternoon.”

It instantly turns that into a shareable poll. No sign-up, no fluff, no waiting.

Highlights: - No account needed - Available in English, French, and Spanish - Totally free (just a small promo for my first mobile app) - Designed to be simple and fast - Works well on desktop and mobile

This was mostly built to solve my own problem, but I’m hoping it can help others too. I’d love your feedback on: - How well does the natural language processing handle your inputs? - Any bugs or usability pain points? - Ideas for improvements or other use cases?

Appreciate your time!

Br. Alessandro
by adrian_b | 2025-04-02 14:28:33+00:00
For myself, after switching to vegan food, taking a creatine supplement had very noticeably improved the endurance for things like weight lifting or short sprints at maximum speed.

However, that has just restored the level of performance from when eating non-vegan food.

The effects of creatine should vary both between humans, because they may have different capacities for internal creatine synthesis, and depending on the kind of food that they eat, i.e. whether it is naturally rich in creatine, or not.
by Hasu | 2025-04-02 14:29:09+00:00
This makes no sense at all. The business needs to make money to pay you. Your time is the development cost of the software. It is completely reasonable and rational for a company to say, "This is valuable to us if it can be built in three weeks, but if it takes longer, we don't want it." Because three weeks of paying your team costs a certain amount of money, and a cost higher than that puts the value of the work underwater.

If you cannot forecast whether it can be built in three weeks and then deliver against that forecast, you aren't doing your job.

> Wasn't agile created to solve this BS?

Agile sets regular deadlines for shipping to customers, that is literally the core idea. Instead of one big deadline 6 months from now, you have a small deadline every two weeks for the next 6 months. It's still a deadline.
by graemep | 2025-04-02 14:29:28+00:00
Search engines link to websites. They want the websites up, so its worth a little extra work to avoid harming them. LLMs seek to replace the websites.

Search engine crawlers are more mature and better written.

I suspect a lot of LLM crawling an development is done under time pressure to get things done while the investors money is still coming in to fund it. DO stuff in a hurry, and it will be less competently done.
by ModernMech | 2025-04-02 14:29:42+00:00
You said: "This kind of language is why these threads get flagged. "

But you don't know that, so the claim is projection. As a flagger, you only know why you flagged, but don't know why anyone else flagged. There are many alternative reasons any given story, political or otherwise, could be flagged. People can be engaging in tribalism as their reason for flagging. What's worse: engaging in discussion that is along tribal lines, or hiding discussion for tribal reasons? Which does more damage to this community?

Since we can't know why a given story is flagged, a better discussion might be: given that many people in the community want to discuss a topic despite a flag, how can HN better support those community members?

We have one signal: a low-fidelity binary flag we can't know the reason for and how many people voted for it; and another signal: the discussion, a high fidelity signal we can look into and see all kinds of useful discourse. So clearly your claim that these topics are not wanted on HN is false, given the community involvement in these topics.

Maybe there is some tribalism, but generally it's not at all like reddit, and I find those discussion insightful. Maybe you don't, and that's fine. But why does that mean you get veto over the many people who want to have those discussions here?

Why can't we support those discussions, that again people here want to have, in a way that doesn't involve treating the topic as verboten? Because you keep saying these topics miss the HN mark, yet the community is continually interested in these topics.

So maybe it's the guidelines miss the mark and need updating to meet the community where it's at.
by eli_gottlieb | 2025-04-02 14:29:46+00:00
Name: Eli Sennesh Location: Nashville, TN, New York, NY, or Boston, MA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: To New York or Boston yes, to other places maybe Technologies: PyTorch, Pyro, Jax, Numpyro, deep probabilistic programming, Haskell, C, firmware and embedded systems, etc etc Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eli-sennesh-412126b/ Email: <first name><last name> @gmail.com

Basically I'm something like a cognitive scientist with deep learning skills. Reach out about what you might be interested in working on!
by Spivak | 2025-04-02 14:29:52+00:00
Yeah, it's super weird that having been on the other side they don't see the normal agile-ish process as getting you all the benefits of fake deadlines with buy-in from the developer's themselves. We planned out the work, quantized it, estimated the time for each portion, and assigned them. If someone consistently isn't completing cards in the expected time and doesn't have good reason then you have a convo with them.

Ya know, basic manager stuff.
by techpineapple | 2025-04-02 14:30:00+00:00
Something I often think that politically naive people over-index on is the ability to bully people when you have no leverage. I see comments on the left all the time about this “why doesn’t Biden just pull Joe Manchin into his office and threaten him! Because Joe Manchin would come out of the office, tell his voters Joe Biden threatened him and he told him to f* off, and gain like 100k new voters!

It’s wild to maybe watch our president make the same mistake. This conservative attitude of throwing bout weight around in the world, leading through strength, not realizing everyone has other options.

In a weird way, I think some of this might be healthy for the world? To create a more anti fragile world order? But it’s not great for us.
by alickz | 2025-04-02 14:30:08+00:00
People thought "canned music" (aka prerecorded music) would be the death of music, and art in general

>The time is coming fast when the only living thing around a motion picture house will be the person who sells you your ticket. Everything else will be mechanical. Canned drama, canned music, canned vaudeville. We think the public will tire of mechanical music and will want the real thing. We are not against scientific development of any kind, but it must not come at the expense of art. We are not opposing industrial progress. We are not even opposing mechanical music except where it is used as a profiteering instrument for artistic debasement.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/musicians-wage-war-ag...
by aantix | 2025-04-02 14:30:13+00:00
Yeah, I feel like he sunk his entire post with this first learning.

What's the point if nothing happens?

It doesn't have to be "we ship to a million users".

It could be simply "The CEO will then test the flow and give their feedback".

Then, those stakeholders have to hold up their end of the bargain as well, actually use the feature, and give thoughtful feedback. If they don't reciprocate, the future of all fake deadlines is in jeopardy.
by duxup | 2025-04-02 14:30:14+00:00
Deadlines have to exist, and yet the idea that some drone said something on a call and decided on a date for work they aren't knowledgeable about or have to do and now you bust your ass / maybe take some blame if an arbitrary date isn't hit ... just kills motivation / trust / faith in other people and the organization.

Dates are important, but even outside the work, bad dates can kill a workplace.