MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwanem | 2025-04-16 13:51:01+00:00
Kids get a free head start on understanding humans. Yes, even us. The infrastructure's there. We just have to approach it differently. (Social wasps can smell whether a human is afraid or angry. Is it so controversial to suggest even infant conspecifics can do likewise?)

I believe you may be also overindexing on the circumstance in which attachment fails from the parental side. Again, if so I can empathize, but wish to note other outcomes do occur.
by xienze | 2025-04-16 13:51:04+00:00
Ah my mistake, I missed that this was referencing the Republican primaries here. Forgive me, the whole "Harris wasn't elected because Americans are misogynists" trope has been repeated so often I had that burned into my brain.

Addressing the primaries, no one was beating Trump, it has nothing to do with his closest but still far distant challenger being a woman.
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-04-16 13:51:54+00:00
Huge fan here, sad to see people so up in arms. Spotify offers two valuable things: of course, every song ever with no need to tag them, manage your library etc etc

But most importantly it’s insanely good for discovering new cool music.

It’s the latter - discovery - that I pay for. Song radio, artist radio, “discover weekly” get me through the day.

Spotify outages are rare enough no one thought it could go down. They’re doing well. Consider: if you manage your own music library there’ll be days the hard drive doesn’t work, vpn dies etc etc. - to operate at 99.99% reliability you’re only allowed 4 minutes’ downtime per month. If you dick around fixing your NAS for an hour you just blew your whole year’s downtime budget.

So for Spotify to go so long without downtime is amazing.

Looking forward to the postmortem!
by pavankamat24 | 2025-04-16 13:52:41+00:00
Dashboards are cool. But building ones that matter to your ideal customer persona-ones that surface insights they're not actively tracking or are tough to compute is the real deal.

In API-first businesses or deeply integrated products, the dashboard is just a reflection. The real product is the value your API delivers or the backend logic driving outcomes.

Now when we had to build dashboard at Panto AI, we put in all our learning to deliver a great experience.
by llm_nerd | 2025-04-16 13:52:53+00:00
Data centers do use a lot of water on average. Warmer climate data centers often use evaporative cooling and can run through millions of gallons of water to offload heat. Google's data centers combined chewed through some 6 billion gallons of water last year.

Closed systems are much more water-efficient, and are more common in cooler climates.
by tiffanyh | 2025-04-16 13:53:01+00:00
A lot of time & effort went into that write-up.

I realize what I'm about to say will get backlash ... but I can't help but think is the time to write this postmortem indicative of how the business was run.

Meaning, who benefits from the output of this postmortem? Seems like mostly strangers (who might not even live in UK).

What other time/effort/resources was spent on things that weren't directly engaging with their customer ... because it seems extremely clear without knowing much about that market that this isn't a technical challenge per se - but a regulatory / social problem and the modest amount of capital they raised won't even scratch the service on solving this problem.

Note: not intending to be negative. It just seems like the elephant in the room is that the team was so ill-prepared and not understanding what actual problem they are solving - that my heart goes out to them.
by thedanbob | 2025-04-16 13:53:08+00:00
> It was actually just yesterday when I decided youtube shorts are no longer a fun way to kill time. There's a lot of amazing stuff to watch, but it's no fun any more, because anything you see that seems amazing is likely to be AI Generated which, for me, ruins it.

And the ones that aren't AI generated are badly clipped scenes from movies / TV shows with the same 5 royalty-free songs playing over them, which might as well have been produced by AI.
by miningape | 2025-04-16 13:53:14+00:00
There has been efficacy for people with dyslexia. Fonts like comic sans are closer to their own writing and therefore are easier to read.

You can also look at the Geronimo Stilton book series, a lot of words appear in different colors / fonts to emphasise words. These books are often easier for children and those with dyslexia to read.

Note: I still feel like calling it a typeface that makes reading easier is inappropriate. No study has specifically been conducted on this typeface, and drawing conclusions from (limited, and arguably unrelated) studies and and anecdotes is dubious at best.
by KineticLensman | 2025-04-16 13:53:26+00:00
> (For someone else in the know, without giving away the company, do you remember any of the wacky phrases?)

The phrases from that company (late 90s) are now long-gone from my mind, mere flotsam on the subsequent sea of bullshit.

But later on I worked a lot with soldiers from the British Army and discovered to my delight that they also had some excellent phrases. Off the top of my head

Wolf closest to the sledge / Crocodile closest to the canoe = highest priority problem

Left and right of arc = the extreme ends of a spectrum of possible choices

Don't fight the white = in a test, answer the question rather than complain about it (in staff college exams, the question was on white paper, answer was a different coloured paper, apparently)

Interview without coffee = a dressing down from a senior officer

etc etc.
by nottorp | 2025-04-16 13:53:33+00:00
> To sell in Europe, we must register for their tax system and nominate a legal representative.

American companies? Register for EU tax system?

I can buy from anyone in the US and worldwide for that matter, and as long as they're willing to figure out shipping they don't need to register anywhere, I can handle taxes myself when receiving.

What "AI" did they use to write this?
by nobody9999 | 2025-04-16 13:53:46+00:00
>And this Chief Executive was elected by the majority of the country,

Except said "chief executive" was not elected by "a majority of the country."

He wasn't even elected by a majority of those who voted (~35-40% of the population), but rather a plurality of those who voted (~20% of the population).

Note that I am not claiming that there was anything nefarious (I have no evidence to support making such a claim), just that those who voted for that person represent only ~20% of the US population, not a "majority of the country."
by bluefirebrand | 2025-04-16 13:53:49+00:00
Broadly speaking Nintendo is competing with all forms of entertainment for people's time and money, certainty

But in terms of selling game consoles and games? I actually don't think anyone is really competing with Nintendo

While Sony and Microsoft have chased hardware power and "next-gen" consoles, Nintendo is exploring and solidifying different niches.

You can see this really strongly nowadays. Every game Sony releases eventually winds up with a PC port, and many of them are even released on Xbox. Meanwhile Nintendo has an incredibly strong library of games for Switch, many of which cannot be purchased for other platforms. Not just first-party titles either. Other studios make games that can only be played on Switch hardware

It really is impressive that Nintendo has managed to design game consoles that have maintained its individual identity, while Sony and Microsoft have both basically settled on "just a mid range PC with a custom OS" more or less
by jerf | 2025-04-16 13:55:02+00:00
Heh, I also think rather a lot of what is happening right now is the direct result of what I've frequently called "Silicon Valley Liberalism" coming home to roost, and the rage is basically the rage that their actions and beliefs had consequences other than what they desire, and the universe should conform itself to what consequences were "supposed" to transpire rather than what did. However, things do not work that way. I'm not about to try to inject that concept into the rage threads, though.
by Lazycathy | 2025-04-16 13:55:34+00:00
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by dcow | 2025-04-16 13:56:00+00:00
I agree with your ideal. I used to be one of those people who would just talk about whatever in any context assuming everyone was mature enough to have academic discussions and not get personal. Political viewpoint is a protected class in the US. But we all saw what happened to James Dramore. Real consequences for holding a political opinion that allegedly made him “unemployable at Google” where his politics were so threatening to the established order that Google just couldn’t operate with him in the mix. You’d think G has the most mature employees… and either they do but humans are just toxically unable to hold differing opinions, or they don’t and therefore have to maintain a safe space for the comfort of their sensitive workers.

The silliest part: what was his thesis? Well that using race and gender based quotas during hiring and leveling made Google less competitive. Certainly not a privileged white male tech bro just barreling through the company on a racist bigoted spree leaving tears in his wake. There is more interesting discussion to be had here about how the Civil Rights Act has been weaponized in the US and companies feel they have a legal obligation now to prove that their systems don’t yield “unfair distribution of protected classes”, or whatever the actual wording is. And how that is at odds with a world where you can openly discuss politics at a company without fear of falling afoul of the Chief Diversity Officer (ffs, there are executives installed to maintain the order now). And related: just look at how pockets of people respond to Trump’s second term insisting that he’s a fascist dictator and anybody who doesn’t see it is a de facto fascist. But I digress.

Nobody wants to bet their job on being on the losing end of a kafka traps and thought terminating clichés.
by mtlynch | 2025-04-16 13:56:09+00:00
Congrats on launching this! The design looks really slick.

This might be tough to hear, but I think you fell into a common indie founder trap. It looks like you've let engineering get way ahead of market validation. You have all these features and different plans, but it sounds like they're guesses rather than things that paying customers have asked for.

I did the same thing when I was starting out. I created an API as a service because it was something I wanted, and there weren't good solutions available.[0] But then I spent a few months building it and realized I didn't have a plan for how to find customers. I thought they'd just find me and recognize me as better than the competition, but they didn't.

If I were in your position, I'd think about who would be a good customer for your service. Is there a way to find someone who's doing this now but is paying too much / getting poor results? Can you reach out to them? Even if you have to reach out to people one-by-one at first,[1] that's fine and gives you valuable feedback.

Also, my more opinionated feedback about your product (take with a grain of salt because my feedback is worth way less than someone who's a real prospective customer):

- If I try the example curl command on your landing page, I get HTTP 403

- The landing page could do a better job of showing the result of the curl command or make it easy for user to just push a button and get a result in the browser (for an allowlist of example domains)

- "Powered by AWS Serverless" is meaningless to customers and shouldn't be something you advertise, much less the first thing

- "99% uptime" also doesn't sound very good. Customers for this product likely aren't comparing vendors based on uptime.

- "Offering 30+ Customizable PDF Options" seems like a meaningless claim

I think the product page would benefit from you talking to more customers and including language that they use and lets them know you're solving the problem that they're trying to solve.

[0] https://mtlynch.io/shipping-too-late/

[1] https://www.paulgraham.com/ds.html
by evgen | 2025-04-16 13:56:09+00:00
> I want them to know it was their lack of care and their negligence, I want them to take personal responsibility for that and for future work they do. But I also would want such a person to know it isn't a personal attack, just a very serious area of improvement and a mistake that can't be repeated.

You are an asshole. Your lack of care and negligence in your interactions with your peers has a detrimental effect upon your team's productivity and internal communication. Please take responsibility for this failure in intra-personal skills and acknowledge the impact your lack of empathy will have on your future work. This is not personal, I am just directing your attention to an area you need to improve and where future mistakes like this should not be repeated.
by YesBox | 2025-04-16 13:56:15+00:00
The majority of games released on steam are not serious games. There are tons of amateur, ugly, content-lacking games that are people’s first (toy) game.

Marketing (both the product part and the promotion part) are required, but in most cases all you (indie) need is a quality product (by far the hardest part) and some a small chunk of time or money devoted to marketing. Indie marketing mostly consists of social media posts, streamers playing their game, and trailer reveals (ign et al)

Steam then does its own thing and will promote your game internally after around 300 sales, and will continue to boost if it converts
by rchaud | 2025-04-16 13:56:45+00:00
It's an easy thing to slap on to a service with lots of users. Back in the day this would be called a 'message board'. "Social media" requires the use of iframes that can be embedded on 3rd party sites. OpenAI is a login-only environment so I can see them going for a Discord-type of platform rather than something that spreads to the open web.
by andsoitis | 2025-04-16 13:56:48+00:00
> Countries change policies all the time based on the whishes of industry lobby groups or voters, not just the US.

It is irrelevant what other countries do.

What matters is whether or not other countries and industries trust that a country has sufficient stability to do business in and with. If there are actual or perceived signals that suggest chaos, rational people will not be interested to be tethered to that dispensation.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-04-16 13:56:49+00:00
The money is there, it is being put into the wrong hands and into silly bureaucracy (for example by having to put out construction projects on the EU market, while local businesses collapse, ruining Germany's own economy).

The market does not regulate that, and everyone who takes a look can see that, no matter how often some FDP or CDU wacko will claim otherwise. That is the point I am making. The market is very short sighted, oriented towards short term gain, at the cost of the general public. The general public needs to deal with the fallout of it all. Terrible train service, bad infrastructure, expensive public transport, too many cars, bad air quality, bad health, lacking education, the list goes on. All those matters are matters, where spending does not directly benefit some already wealthy group of people.

It goes even further: The "market", consists also of lobbyists, who do everything they can to influence politicians and get policies implemented, that make people buy cars, even at the cost of worsening public infrastructure. They have delayed developing electric cars and are now clinging to the German market. They do not care about normal people having to get to work via public transport. Buy a frickin' car! Is their response. Instead of improving public transport, it gets noticeably worse every year. So the free market is not only responsible for not doing good things, it is also responsible for actively harming the population.

Now it may be, that the free market also has its upsides. But the view that it will solve all the problems if we only let it is very naive and proven wrong again and again.
by peeters | 2025-04-16 13:58:06+00:00
So the context of the quiz is software estimation, where I assume it's an intentional parable of estimating something you haven't seen before. It's trying to demonstrate that your "5-7 days" estimate probably represents far more certainty than you intended.

For some of these, your answer could span orders of magnitude. E.g. my answer for the heaviest blue whale would probably be 5-500 tons because I don't have a good concept of things that weigh 500 tons. The important point is that I'm right around 9 times in 10, not that I had a precise estimate.
by Festro | 2025-04-16 13:58:29+00:00
Article posits this argument:

"They’re not really about coffee anymore. They’re selling a lifestyle."

Then says of the old coffee "Coffee in Iran isn’t new—we were drinking it long before tea took over. Back in the Safavid era, coffeehouses were where people gathered for stories, debates, and a hit of something strong." - this is a lifestyle related to coffee.

And says about the new coffee "Walk in, and the menu reads like a novel: “Ethiopian Yirgacheffe with hints of jasmine and citrus.”" - this is the literal attributes of coffee, origin and flavour profile.

I'm sorry, but coffee is now, more than ever, about the coffee. People who enjoy coffee then make it a part of their lifestyle.

I'd love to hear more about the older Iranian coffee culture, that sounds wonderfully romantic. It's a pattern across the world that we've lost access to third spaces as everything gains a capitalised cost. And as media has intensified and technology poked into every waking moment we're less likely to gather amongst our community in those spaces to just sit and listen anymore. I think we've evolved new ways of doing things, like how we enjoy our newfound international access to coffee varietals but it's good to address what we've lost in doing so.

This article is a bit whiny about the new, and doesn't talk enough about the qualities of the old. There's a good point to be made, but the article makes it poorly.
by thenaturalist | 2025-04-16 13:58:42+00:00
First of all, Kudos to you, this looks for the most part well polished!

But I think your value proposition is not prominent on the website.

A couple of thoughts:

1. Your claim is: "From HTML to PDF, our API ensures precise and accurate conversions."

That is descriptive, but does not help to understand your two target groups why they should buy you.

1. Devs: They want ease of use, reliability and speed of integration

2. Business stakeholders: They want to know what they can generate using your tool, that it will look beautiful and that it is cost effective.

You should address these needs in the claim, not describe your product immediately I think.

This can come later.

A much better claim imo is found in your first FAQ below pricing:

"PageSnap allows converting documents to PDFs, capturing screenshots, and creating images. It's ideal for generating invoices, exporting documents, and more."

Make that the claim and spice it up, for example:

Generate pixel-perfect invoices, offers, [...] and other documents quickly, easily and cost-effectively at scale.

This should really be laser focussed on user needs in words THEY understand and think in.

Your quick step-by-step video is far too long at almost 3 minutes and, more personal taste, the AI voice does not inspire confidence or quality.

I'd much prefer a short video showing you filming yourself generating an invoice.

Also, for the first three claims I'd much prefer actual screenshots of GIFs showing how the results look like rather than the stylized comics.

They're communicating functionality, but not user need.

All that being said, with B2B and given that it is a niche product, it can be that it will just be a slow burn and take some time to build up a customer base.

Though it's an essential function, it'll not go away.

My advice would be to focus on making some few early customers really happy, engange with them.

If they feel loved, they will spread word of mouth about you and the service, helping you to scale.

For some B2B solo devs, this has taken years, so it's not necessarily you, but part of the nature of niche apps!
by TroubledTrumpet | 2025-04-16 13:58:52+00:00
I think it entirely depends on what audiobook you're listening to. If I'm listening to something that's lower complexity or aimed at younger audiences (e.g. The Martian by Andy Weir or The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams), I can miss bits and pieces of the narration without losing too much of the story. As long as you don't lose track of several uninterrupted minutes at a time, you'll probably get most of the relevant context. The same applies if I'm in the mood to listen to a story that's already familiar to me, like Lord of the Rings.

It definitely becomes more difficult to multitask with harder reads; which is where I prefer to have a book in hand. I'll have to rewind several times per chapter to catch everything. Though it's still doable for some, I'm sure.
by flusteredBias | 2025-04-16 13:58:57+00:00
This is anecdotal and I hope someone who has some research experience can say whether this is true or not generally, but I recently got a Kindle and found that if I use really large font sizes where there are fewer than 50 words on a page it's easier for me to stay engaged. Maybe this has something to do with cognitive load or chunking information. Some fonts look quite a bit better at these large sizes. So for me I don't think typography alone is sufficient. I think the interaction between a large font size and a typography that looks pleasing at a large font size helps with engagement.
by blululu | 2025-04-16 13:59:03+00:00
Being the leading power is about magnitude not intensity. The country that is twice as large and operates at a similar level of intensity will be the more dominant force (see also - China today). Per capita, I would bet on the Swiss (then and now) - though it will depend on the metric at that point and their output will be comparable to the Germans, British, French and the Americans.