MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Aurornis | 2025-04-16 12:50:14+00:00
It was just created right now for that purpose.

As was the HN account that posted it. Note the green username.

This is what it looks like when someone decides to try fishing for traction with AI junk. They probably went from idea to having the blog up and posted in 30 minutes or less. They’re probably working on a different iteration which will get posted here on HN again soon.
by h4kor | 2025-04-16 12:50:39+00:00
> Are companies just sending the output of their liquid cooling into the drain?

basically yes. Closed loop systems require more energy and are more expensive investments. The main concern for data centers is Total Energy / Energy Compute.

There was a good talk about this at 37C3 https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-11796-energy_consumption_of_data...
by mschuster91 | 2025-04-16 12:50:43+00:00
Tax crap. An empty rental lot can be used to offset taxes from a more profitable location of the same owner - you just use virtual or real expenses such as mortgage payments.

The ultra rich are, once again, externalizing costs to society (because a run-down mall is a blight that takes down the value of everything around it) while taking and gobbling their profits.

The other alternative is that instead of niche specialty dealerships, you got national or even international chains moving in, that sell cheap-ass clothes from Bangladesh or other sweatshops in masses.
by mannykannot | 2025-04-16 12:50:52+00:00
'Flustrated' looked to me like a potentially useful portmanteau word, and at least Merriam-Webster seems to agree, which would give some legitimacy to 'flustrating'. Whether the person you hear saying the latter had this in mind is, of course, another matter.

To give an idea of how I see it as potentially useful, there are some frustrating events which leave a person in no doubt that there's nothing they can do to remedy the situation (or that they have no choice but to put a lot of work into fixing a situation which never should have arisen), while others might leave a person in a tizzy over what to do now.
by markbnj | 2025-04-16 12:50:57+00:00
Lots of memories from my own childhood and my kids'. My dad took me on my first visit to a Detroit-area store in the mid-60's. Used to love just walking around and checking out the shelves. Sort of a Fry's vibe but there was one in nearly every decent-sized town. The oldest piece of running tech currently in my house is a 20 year-old Realistic 4-port gigabit switch that connects my office machines to the router in the family room :).
by lurk2 | 2025-04-16 12:50:58+00:00
This used to be a selling point for me when I was younger, but increasingly I find myself not wanting to deal with poorly-moderated platforms. I can’t tell if it’s because the transgressive vulgarity that these platforms enable has lost its novelty as I’ve gotten older or because the median user has less to contribute. Every time I try to browse 4chan these days I find that half the posts are repulsive, basically pornographic representations of the world, and the other half is the product of psychosis (that is, the people making the posts likely need to be institutionalized).

There are a lot of people who have nothing to contribute to a conversation, and a lot of people who are actively detrimental to a conversation. It used to be that you would put up with the craziest ones for the benefit of finding novel and overlooked ideas, but as the internet has become more accessible, the former group now outnumbers the latter.

I would be inclined to think that the problem is that I just grew out of the shock value, but I see the same trend on almost every other platform, too.
by thctphr | 2025-04-16 12:51:10+00:00
I don't think it's realistic to bring manufacturing back, so to speak. Are the words being taken literally here? Does this truly mean Orange Man wants to bring all manufacturing back to the United States, or do we want to weaken our largest competitor and buy those cheap products in other countries who are less of a threat, speaking in terms of their technological advancement and economical trajectory?
by rco8786 | 2025-04-16 12:51:18+00:00
> why is it the government's job to do this

This is like, exactly the sort of thing that the public sector should be doing. There's no profit incentive for this to happen in the private sector.

I don't disagree with your overall sentiment re: unsustainable debt. But the answer must be reform and taking hard looks at the military budget, not just randomly cutting programs that you disagree with politically.

More like the Clinton approach.
by jt2190 | 2025-04-16 12:51:32+00:00
So your argument is that the U.S. is currently like wartime Britain, and that science funding specifically must be sacrificed despite the fact that is has created an economic boon that would help to pay down the debt: We just desperately need the money now for else the country could cease to exist, and we’ll sort out how to restore a science driven economy once the crisis is over?
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-04-16 12:51:34+00:00
> Yeah, but when money becomes information then everyone has money.

Categorically, no. When everyone has money, in fact, no one has money. If you don't believe me ask someone from Zimbabwe.

> When food, medicine and narcotics become information with genetic engineering, then everyone has food, medicine and narcotics.

The barrier to everyone having food, medicine and narcotics is not money, it's the restriction of those important goods to people who have money; because food is not grown because people are hungry, nor are medicines made because they are sick; both of these things are done for profit, and people without money are unprofitable to the producers and distributors of those goods.

We have enough food for everyone almost twice over. The problem is the majority of it is pumped to overweight westerners who have disposable income.

> What good is for me, 10 songs which each one has 10 seconds of a part i like, and i am indifferent to the rest of the song. I take these 100 seconds in total and compress them down to a new song which is totally to my liking.

Oh that's so nice for you. And all it took was the bankrupting of every music artist.

Your views on this are so myopic as I genuinely wonder if you're a parody account. I didn't think it was possible for someone to be this short-sighted and selfish but here we are.
Ask HN: Built a SaaS API, but struggling with traction – advice?
by centilco | 2025-04-16 12:51:42+00:00
Hey HN,

A few months ago, I launched https://pagesnap.co — a simple API service that converts websites or raw HTML into high-quality PDFs using headless Chrome. It works well, it’s polished, and technically it solves a real problem (HTML-to-PDF conversion is messy, especially with Tailwind, dark mode, or JavaScript-heavy pages).

Since launching, I’ve put quite a bit of effort into marketing:

* Wrote blog posts and documentation * Created a YouTube intro video * Answered relevant questions on Reddit, Quora, Google Ads * Built backlinks and directory listings * Created Facebook, X.com accounts to post content

But so far… results have been pretty underwhelming. I’m getting a few signups, and some free trial signups, but very few convert, and traffic is nowhere near what I hoped despite the effort.

I’m wondering if other indie hackers / solo SaaS founders have experienced something similar — and what eventually worked for you? How did you find your first 50–100 paying customers when organic and content marketing wasn’t taking off?

Would also genuinely appreciate feedback on the product or site itself: https://pagesnap.co

Thanks a ton in advance
Ask HN: Is shipping speed the most important metric?
by Arisaka1 | 2025-04-16 12:51:57+00:00
Ever since the advent of AI tools in our workflows, it became even more obvious to me how companies (and most developers) brag about how fast they can deliver value.

As a career-switcher, I always considered programming an activity that lies somewhere between craft and mathematics. However, it feels like we lean towards math Olympiad standards when it comes to recognizing and rewarding one's expertise in the industry.

May I ask: Am I disillusioned, out of touch, or am I right? And why is that? I'm not talking just about startups on seed stage because it's really obvious to me how these are companies that have to hit the market ASAP somehow. But I noticed that trend even in corporate environments (at least in Greece), where the fast shipper gets praised and rewarded, and those who take an extra time to handle complexity introduced are not only frowned upon but they're also perceived as negative assets.
by lofcz | 2025-04-16 12:52:05+00:00
Why yet another LLM library?

1. Support all the Commercial APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek, Cohere, Mistral, Azure, xAI, Perplexity, Groq..) under one umbrella with no bias to prefer some providers over others.

2. Expose provider-specific extensions in a strongly typed manner, making them easy to discover & use.

3. Abstractions should be simple to understand. Semantic Kernel can get in the way fast if you need maximum control.

4. Consistent updates, strive for day 1 support of the new features (at least for those with major impact).

5. Minimize breaking changes = reduce time spent re-engineering. Swap models for the new ones in one line, test if the prompts hold, and ship.

6. Reduce vendor lock-in = reduce operating costs, and promote resiliency to APIs going down (of course, if all the APIs go down simultaneously, your app won't work, but the likelihood is marginal compared to one API being down, Google having temporary overloads all the time, etc.). In our experience, profit margins for AI apps can be razor-thin, even with a solid business model. The ability to instantly switch to providers offering price cuts often determines survival.
by ndriscoll | 2025-04-16 12:52:10+00:00
Like making it so that you have to pay full price for candy and soda, but letting you buy produce for free with your SNAP benefits? It's not like beneficiaries are banned from buying soda. They just can't use their benefits to do it (and since money is fungible, it's not really even taking anything away unless they had more than they need to buy actual groceries).

As someone who buys soda maybe once a year or two and candy only to give out on Halloween, I don't understand how this is a point of contention. No one should be buying this stuff with enough regularity for it to affect their budget. Why would we subsidize it? That is encouraging people to buy it. We shouldn't subsidize it for the same reasons we shouldn't subsidize cigarettes and alcohol.

Or more to the point, SNAP is for food. Candy and soda are not food. Unless you're Michael Phelps and need 10,000 calories per day, they have no place in anyone's diet.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-04-16 12:52:46+00:00
Feelings are important, people remember how you made them feel,not what you said. I want them to understand that mistake/approach was really bad, I want them to feel the gravity of the situation so that when they do work like that in the future, they recall that feeling and take extra care. I don't want them to think they're stupid, or any negative thing about themselves, but I also don't want them to think "it could have happened to anyone". Communication is hard.
by danielbln | 2025-04-16 12:53:01+00:00
Not to say AI doesn't require a lot of power, but I don't know if we need to be alarmist about it:

https://engineeringprompts.substack.com/p/does-chatgpt-use-1...

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/12/generative-ai-the-powe...
by galangalalgol | 2025-04-16 12:53:04+00:00
Having civil discussions with people who disagree isn't about politeness or acquiescence. Having political discussions per the same rules we use for technical debates, like steel manning, allows information to actually flow both ways. I'm up to four people now that I changed parties between 2020 and 2024. That doesn't seem like a lot, but if everyone was doing it it would make a difference. It took time. I had to non judgementally listen to their concerns and intuit the fears underneath. They were reasonable intelligent people operating off of propaganda mostly. The emotional hook had been set and used draw them further and further into false narratives that fed their fears and hopes. To think I am immune isn't realistic either. My triggers are getting used to pull me the other direction, to make me uncompromising, and to view those who disagree as inhuman. Some of that is game theory polarizing us, but some of it is the intentional result of the Kremlin's standard divide and conquer they have been using on us for over half a century. The antidote is calm conversations with voters who have been made scared about irrational things, and looking to see what fears we are being manipulated with as well.
by stetrain | 2025-04-16 12:53:08+00:00
> It's annoying Americans were given only two choices - offshoring is great and let's keep doing it, and, as you say, the opposite, meth-fueled let's bring back manufacturing overnight.

There were a lot of slower manufacturing on-shoring incentives during the Biden administration that would have presumably continued under the Harris administration. Mainly around green energy and electric vehicle manufacturing incentives - which have successfully resulted in new auto, battery, and supply chain factories being built mostly in red states - and semiconductor manufacturing. The Biden administration also maintained and increased tariffs on specific types of products coming from China including EVs.

So I don't think your categorization of the two choices Americans were given is quite accurate.
by palmotea | 2025-04-16 12:53:15+00:00
> Literally just a few days ago there was the Ai 2027 posted here that was absurd. BTW, there's an actual researches that made a LinkedIn post about that Ai 2027 article https://www.linkedin.com/posts/timnit-gebru-7b3b407_ive-just...

Is that the right link? It seems mainly randing about Scott Alexander being a eugenicist and Rationalists.
by scoresomefeed | 2025-04-16 12:53:21+00:00
Inverse devils advocate:

But look at it this way: I see the us political spectrum melting down into authoritarianism and you’re complaining you don’t need to be reminded of it.

A similar analogy would be if we are at your house, and it catches fire, and you complain that it is interfering with watching Netflix while I’m trying to call 911 for help.

From my perspective you are ignoring your own demise and from your perspective I’m just being annoying.
by flanked-evergl | 2025-04-16 12:53:30+00:00
Your source is wrong.

https://www.tahirih.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Withholdi...

MY CLIENT HAS BEEN GRANTED WITHHOLDING OF REMOVAL… NOW WHAT?

Your client may apply for an Employment Authorization Document by using the form I765 available on the USCIS website (www.uscis.gov). Her Employment Authorization Document will then be sent to her most recent address on file with USCIS. It is therefore important to make sure that not only the court but also USCIS is informed of any changes in her address through use of the form AR-11 (also available on the USCIS website). The EAD is only issued for one year at a time and should be renewed with ample time (at least three months) to allow for processing.

https://immigrationequality.org/asylum/asylum-manual/immigra...

> An applicant who has won withholding of removal does not receive as many benefits as an asylee. The individual can seek work authorization

https://immigrationequality.org/asylum/asylum-manual/withhol...

> they must have a valid CIS-issued employment authorization document in order to work lawfully in the United States.

---

Not one single claim I made is false, while this whole thread is in response to a blatantly false claim, that an innocent man was deported. You should check the mirror.
by visarga | 2025-04-16 12:54:08+00:00
The irony of an article decrying AI influence, written with AI - but I feel where it is coming from. I used to watch long YT videos (lectures, debates) and read long articles, now I am more likely to get the transcript into a LLM and chat it out. I don't have the patience to watch the human slowly spell it out anymore.

I don't think LLMs are going to remain at perfectly timed emotional responses, calm voice that never judges, and answers that always fit. We are already seeing them adapt more, through user personalization, memories and access to past conversations. So LLMs move from static to recursive dynamics.

But what happens when billions of people create interactive logs with AI? What is in those logs?

- students learning

- problem solving

- planning tasks

- search and research

- psychological support and therapy

- companionship

So it's no longer an answer machine. It's a problem solver, a teacher and a generative-teleological agent. It help us clarify what we want, understand ourselves better. Not just solving our tasks, now it helps us choose what to do next.

Should we fear its effect or not?

It can be the greatest teacher, with a vast pedagogical experience. It can be the best problem solver not because it is smarter than us, but because it is learning from everyone's mistakes. It might be able to help more people in need than psychologists, always on, never bored, as the OP said.
by Sonnigeszeug | 2025-04-16 12:54:53+00:00
Dude... i'm a software engineere in germany.

I create new accounts because i spend too much time on hn...

I suggest to download stuff because i assume people on HN are well equiped to check it out.

Click yourself some cheap vm in the cloud, download it, check it out. Cost involved? $10

Do you expect journalists with less it knowledge to do this? I mean yeah they can and should but people on hn should do too
by Springtime | 2025-04-16 12:55:01+00:00
The core of the article, that thanks to LLM chatbots having zero IRL emotional states/responsibilities/distractions they respond in predictable, non-judgmental ways which may cause preference and even attachment to them over messy humans is a consideration for even how it may shape interactions of all ages tbh.

Consider for example the process of casually learning about a subject in a non-academic scenario. People frequently will search online, ask on forums/chat and watch videos. Search results are widely critiqued for being poor these days, so people often turn to asking communities for specific questions.

Sometimes the only communities available are beginner hostile, expecting some prerequisite understanding and even being antagonistic toward knowledge gaps (mostly because it's uninteresting to them and they've seen so many of such questions it introduces a jadedness).

It's scenarios like that where non-judgmental, always available LLMs stand out in contrast most. I have wondered though how that might shape the dependency on LLMs broadly if people get used to not having to deal with the rough edges of humans.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-04-16 12:55:31+00:00
That’s a solution of human rights and is orthogonal to becoming competitive to China. No question human rights needs to be fulfilled and we need to pay people living wages.

But the conversation here has he orthogonal goal of being competitive with China as well. I can assure you just paying everyone living wages is one of the main reasons why we are not competitive with China. It’s the main reason why China is beating us today.

So paying everyone living wages doesn’t really do anything to solve the problem because the products created by people who are paid living wages are by definition more expensive due to labor costs.

What tariffs do is they allow us to pay people living wages and sell expensive products and still be competitive because products from China are tariffed to be the same price.
by strogonoff | 2025-04-16 12:55:51+00:00
He does not bring up consuming products of animal suffering (including egg and milk products) directly, but he does order vegan food, which is enough to make a point (for me at least).

What he is doing by expressing his philosophical position simply through his order is turning me subsequently ordering something with eggs into a philosophically loaded action as well. That, of course, shifts my opinion on the question.

I am making the point I am making: if we worked together, we should be free to discuss veganism or paleo diet (which I have discussed with a coworker previously) whenever either of us wanted, and he demonstrated being an adult about it when we do. If he asked to not talk about it because it made him uncomfortable, then we wouldn’t. I do not see why political discussions have to be different.
by skerit | 2025-04-16 12:56:52+00:00
I'd like to know more about what is powering Junie under the hood.

> According to SWEBench Verified, a curated benchmark of 500 developer tasks, Junie can solve 53.6% of tasks on a single run

That's nice I guess, but why isn't this an entry on the actual https://www.swebench.com/#verified website? (Also: 53% isn't that impressive these days, Claude Sonnet can reach 63%)
by notepad0x90 | 2025-04-16 12:57:14+00:00
> You could have just say "This line here will have harmful impact on users".

But I don't even care about that line, it's already caught and will be fixed. 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.

I suppose my point is, the receiver of the criticism should allow for negative words and personal criticism without taking it as an insult. but the phrasing should be focused on the problem with relation to the person that caused it. The moment the focus of the sentence becomes the person, that is probably inappropriate? Just thinking out loud.
by PowerShellGPT | 2025-04-16 12:57:25+00:00
I built PowerShellGPT, a native Windows app that connects large language models (ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and even local models in LM Studio) directly to PowerShell and a live embedded browser, enabling full voice or text-controlled automation of both your system and the web.

Unlike traditional chat interfaces, PowerShellGPT doesn’t just generate code—it executes it, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdk6YUG812U)watches the results, and loops that feedback back to the model for error correction or follow-up actions. It acts more like an autonomous agent than a passive chatbot.

Core Features: Natural Language to Execution Loop: AI generates PowerShell or JavaScript, executes it, sees the result, and corrects itself if needed.

Voice Recognition: Use voice commands in over 80 languages to control your system or web browser.

@PowerShellGPT@ and @JsGPT@ Tags: Triggers live execution in embedded PowerShell and browser environments.

Agent Bridge: Enables multiple named AI agents to communicate and delegate tasks to each other.

Keyword Commands: Create templates like “email [KEYWORD] to Karen” or “search Google for [KEYWORD]” and fill them in with your voice.

Chain & Wait Commands: Link multiple actions together and add delays between them like: search YouTube for music and then wait 5 seconds and then play the first result

Voice Activated Automation: Detect faces, trigger system events, play media, fill out forms—entirely hands-free.

Cross-language Support: Generate and run Python, Node.js, Ruby, or C# files using natural language via a system I call MACFARI ("Make A Code File And Run It").

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Web task automation with dynamic JavaScript injection

Creating AI-powered assistants that collaborate via voice

Accessibility-friendly computing via full voice control

The app runs as a lightweight Delphi GUI with two embedded browsers: one for AI, one for execution. All AI-to-execution communication happens via tag parsing and a secure permission system. You can toggle access prompts, enable/disable looping protection, and modify wake word settings.

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Would love feedback, ideas, or feature requests. I'm especially curious what you’d build with it—or how you'd break it.

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