MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bewal416 | 2025-05-20 18:03:27+00:00
I'm the only Customer Success guy at the company. Currently onboarding ~15 customers. I come from a more technical background and not the domain of my customers.

How would you augment them to keep the high touch experience you've had? If I had a wishlist, it would be another hire, and they would complement me by providing more domain knowledge than I do. Sometimes, Im anxious that I'm not "asking the right questions" during onboarding.

Do you need to keep that high touch experience? Our sales team really leans into our high touch experience, because that where our competitors fall short. Recognizing that "white glove support" is a real advantage, I'm trying to figure out if I can keep that. What I guarantee is that no customers would be live without my support (not trying to sound important- it's just that we seriously have no self-service abilities). Since our customers are so nontechnical (think floor operators in healthcare), the product team furloughed self-service in exchange for my white glove services.

Have you had an engineer roll with them through onboarding to see where technical efficiency gains through software and automation could be found? We have not done that! Our tech team is very flooded with tickets on future product creations, that it's been tough to capture their time.
by crznthndr | 2025-05-20 18:03:32+00:00
YC became valuable because of the ecosystem. YC enables so many varieties of exit options and inherently lowers the risk for the investors across various stages in the lifecycle of the startup company. If the only options are such that the companies have to become profitable in isolation or go IPO, starved off private capital otherwise then the risk is much higher. That’s why it may very well be impossible to create another YC that’s successful., unless you can replicate the entire ecosystem along with it.
by colesantiago | 2025-05-20 18:03:47+00:00
Definately plausible.

All this is in line with my prediction for the first entirely AI generated film (with Sora or other AI video tools) to win an Oscar being less than 5 years away.

And we're only 5 months in.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42368951
by hollerith | 2025-05-20 18:03:49+00:00
If the trade deficit becomes or continues to be unsustainably large, that would devalue the dollar so that Joe's dollar buy less imports than it does now.

There are hints of a strange energy to your questions, which does not bother me, but I am curious whether you feel hostile to me, e.g., because you inferred from my answers that I probably support a political faction that you regard as the enemy.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-05-20 18:04:11+00:00
Does your "worth it for society as a whole" account for people like my son who have moved extremely right as a result of it (and he is someone who previously did city year volunteering to help inner city youth with their schooling)? I think the motivations are good, but like lots of things driven by good intentions I personally am not happy with the outcome (I want my old son back).
by crote | 2025-05-20 18:04:24+00:00
> As for freight, the US actually moves a significantly greater portion of its freight by rail than Europe does. Rail has around 40% modal share for freight in the US vs only 17% in Europe.

Europe also has far more freight-friendly waterways. US rail is designed for dirt-cheap bulk transport for things like coal and grain. In most of Europe that's done by barge - but US geography doesn't really allow for that.
by bawolff | 2025-05-20 18:04:26+00:00
I suppose i don't understand the distinction you are trying to make between a court established by a treaty organisation and a court of a soverign state.

The reason i'm focused on this is you claimed national courts are legit. This naturally raises the question of what the difference is.

What specificly is the element that you think makes treaty courts illegitament? Are you opposed to them in general or the ICC specificly? I'm just not clear on the nature of your objection specificly.

From my perspective, if a state can make a court, then it stands to reason that a state can delegate to any court it feels like. If it wants to delegate some of its justice powers to the ICC, i don't see how that's any different than if it delegated those same powers to a court of its own making.
by mxuribe | 2025-05-20 18:05:00+00:00
This is interesting...when my partner and i watch films portraying an older, historic period, we use the term "timeless" or "classic-looking" to refer to some actors who mostly due to their appearance (and maybe a little makeup) can look like they belong in so many different periods. And, then there are other actors, who clearly don't seem like they would fit in periods outside of our own modern day...and this has nothing to do with whether any of the actors look attractive or not...its just a thing that some people have about their appearance (or not).
Show HN: GeniusPlants – AI-Powered Gardening Assistant
by eibrahim | 2025-05-20 18:05:34+00:00
I built GeniusPlants, an AI-powered gardening assistant that uses LLMs to solve practical gardening challenges. The app provides personalized plant recommendations based on your garden conditions, generates optimal garden layouts, and creates customized care plans.

Technical stack:

- Next.js (App Router) with TypeScript and Tailwind CSS - OpenAI GPT-4o-mini for plant recommendations and care plans - Prisma ORM with PostgreSQL for data management - Zustand for state management - Auth.js for authentication

Instead of maintaining a traditional plant database, I implemented a pure AI approach with structured prompts and response parsing. The system includes a block-based garden space visualization that calculates optimal plant placement and uses a natural language interface for adding plants (e.g., "I want to grow 3 tomatoes, some basil, and carrots").

The app handles interesting problems like:

- Garden space management using a block-based system (1 block = 1 sq ft) - AI-driven plant positioning within garden layouts - Intelligent care plan generation that adapts to automated watering systems - Plant age tracking for growth-stage-appropriate care instructions

I'd love feedback from the HN community, especially on the AI implementations, UX design choices, and handling garden space constraints.
by colah3 | 2025-05-20 18:05:50+00:00
> Circuits I find less compelling, since the analysis there feels very tied to the transformer architecture in specific, but what do I know.

I don't think circuits is specific to transformers? Our work in the Transformer Circuits thread often is, but the original circuits work was done on convolutional vision models (https://distill.pub/2020/circuits/ )

> Re linear representation hypothesis, surely it depends on the architecture? GANs, VAEs, CLIP, etc. seem to explicitly model manifolds

(1) There are actually quite a few examples of seemingly linear representations in GANs, VAEs, etc (see discussion in Toy Models for examples).

(2) Linear representations aren't necessarily in tension with the manifold hypothesis.

(3) GANs/VAEs/etc modeling things as a latent gaussian space is actually way more natural if you allow superposition (which requires linear representations) since central limit theorem allows superposition to produce Gaussian-like distributions.
by aristofun | 2025-05-20 18:05:58+00:00
in cases like that you can't really untangle and isolate all factors. Maybe it's not language, but culture, but then can you say culture is not influenced by language? Or language by culture?

Yes, boolean logic and math are language invariant. But "thinking" is much broader context and I definitely see strong signs of how people change their thinking with changing the language.
by gambiting | 2025-05-20 18:06:10+00:00
I dislike every single thing about this. Services like Spotify and others are now absolutely flooded with AI generated kids stories, it's so hard to find anything with even an ounce of soul among all the slop.

As a parent, I really see that as a cancer that keeps spreading among children media. I appreciate you probably thought this is a good idea for a business or a project in general but for the sake of our children and us all - please stop.
by austin-cheney | 2025-05-20 18:06:48+00:00
Latin had no word equivalent to the English "yes". Latin had sic which is very close to the English this, which means to speak in the affirmative requires a relation that qualifies an affirmation.

As a result thinking in Latin is absolutely different than thinking in English which has yes/no questions that could not exist in Latin. When asked a yes/no question without receiving a yes or no answer English speakers immediately assume deception and that assumption is almost always correct. The exception is when the answering party fully fails to grasp the question, or the question's intent if the question is vague or itself deceptive. In Latin language answers without a yes or no were the default and even though there is not an option to apply a direct yes or no answer many times deception was none the less assumed regardless due to differing cultural norms, especially in elevated classes.

https://latin.stackexchange.com/questions/1592/how-do-you-sa...

https://dcc.dickinson.edu/grammar/latin/questions
by roskelld | 2025-05-20 18:07:34+00:00
Trying to load it on Firefox (Floorp Browser variant 11.26.0) and the examples get stuck on the `Loading` screen. Moving my mouse over it draws the cursor and leaves it imprinted on screen so you get that permanent trail effect.

In the console I see:

Failed to load ‘https://90s.dev/os/fs/run? code=H4sIAAAAAAAACk2QMW%2BDMBCFd%2F%2BKa4QEKAiiKlMVs1Rqlw4dmy0GjsSNsRE2TVKL%2F16DSYq3d3ef797jTas6A6zlCVgIEnhFabBL4L1TfbtP4IMVKGb5BQPUnWogzJTOHJN%2B65AQdmF8%2BiJtOxR9hfqNS65PWBFSKqkNlKqXBigE0SaeS1yWrhDFQHPfTn%2BY6HG9vjMtkyjcyP%2Fv%2BqbThp3xc%2BxEFiRr8AVWJxRCwUV1olrBkBCAnTcBmv8itXc0GOUABSvPR%2BdGVtRurtvp1fWQO86R3jYcWUvtdi668pQCGLwaGi72PYWQPWbmiCb0%2BYG6RtEboyRocxNIQ90XDTchsNJwJal1QQx5KXh5hgZ3mR9e0IvV1gfFKtaaSI7JHSYQKwisHMDwBvUhHhZHZf6q2Z1X%2B1HtMh9STmJCpqzTWpW99uHGfz0j7XEYAgAA’. A ServiceWorker passed a promise to FetchEvent.respondWith() that rejected with ‘TypeError: Array(...).keys().map is not a function’.

Seems to work fine in Chrome though.
by AdrianB1 | 2025-05-20 18:08:51+00:00
I understand why they do it, but I am curious why there is nobody in this kind of position that is going for something that is better in technical terms, not just compatible. For example, 2 meters or even 2.5m would provide better load capacity and better stability for high speed curves, while keeping the width of the carriages the same in order to fit existing tunnels. For new freight lines even 3 meters may be much better that refitting to the relatively narrow standard.
by darth_avocado | 2025-05-20 18:09:58+00:00
It is most definitely going to be the unemployment line. When in the history of productivity gains, has it translated to more time for people to do other things that are not work? It always translates to more profits for shareholders and bigger pay for executive class, followed by more work for half the workers to fill up the time opened up by the said productivity gains, and unemployment for the other half.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-05-20 18:10:18+00:00
When I was young and renting we found the best landlord. She would buy properties and let them run down. Thus changing the neighbors from fighting against her construction permits to championing them. Because she wasn't looking for rental income but had lots of future development properties she rented to us because we were such easy renters to have. Lived in some amazing locations slated to be future exclusive properties around Santa Cruz county. So many weird games spring up around arbitrary rules/laws.
by pseudocomposer | 2025-05-20 18:10:20+00:00
Are there specific problems? I’ve been primarily Ruby at work the last 6 or so years (before, also doing Ruby, but also lots of Java, Kotlin, Swift, FE stuff, and some Python)… exactly that period… and haven’t really noticed any issues. Granted, I don’t typically use a lot of obscure binary-only dependencies, or things whose C/C++/machine code wouldn’t mostly cross-compile fine.

Granted, all this time I’ve always only used rbenv-managed Ruby versions (and rvm before that). I’ve long disliked/avoided Python because its ecosystem lacked any equivalent, but I know “uv” has gained popularity there, and perhaps Mise is good in Python land as well.
by Terr_ | 2025-05-20 18:10:29+00:00
> The laissez-faire proposition is that if we just resist the temptation to futz with the computer (to "distort the market"), it will select the best person for each position: workers, consumers, and, of course, "capital allocators" who decide where the money goes and thus what gets made.

I often like to bring up basic criminal laws as foundational "distortions" of the "free market." Consider murder/assassination: It's an externality, and the law creates a new "cost" to the actor that would otherwise not exist. That way, companies in a Q3 slump look at how to improve their product, rather than investing in sniper rifles and bombs to kill the competition.

This means that the qualitative battle has already been decided in favor of "yes, the people must tweak the machine." Unless one wants cyberpunk-y corpo death-squads, the remaining debate becomes where the quantitative "stop making rules here" line is drawn, and how to justify those boundaries.

> For the wealthy, this is the origin of the meritocracy to eugenics pipeline. If power and privilege are inherited – and they are, ever moreso every day – then either we live in an extremely unfair society in which the privileged and the powerful have rigged the game… or the invisible hand has created a subspecies of thoroughbred humans who were literally born to rule.

This dovetails with a segment of the non-rich population that crave authoritarian certitude, that somebody vaguely identifiable is operating in the kingly driver's-seat.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-05-20 18:10:34+00:00
>Soon, you should be able to put in a screenplay and a cast, and get a movie out.

This "fixes" Hollywood's biggest "issues". No more highly paid actors demanding 50 million to appear in your movie, no more pretentious movie stars causing dramas and controversies, no more workers' unions or strikes, but all gains being funneled directly to shareholders. The VFX industry being turned into a gig meatgrinder was already the canary in the coal mine for this shift.

Most of the major Hollywood productions from the last 10 years have been nothing but creatively bankrupt sequels, prequels, spinoffs and remakes, all rehashed from previous IP anyway, so how much worse than this can AI do, since it's clear they're not interested in creativity anyway? Hell, it might even be an improvement than what they're making today, and at much lower cost to boot. So why wouldn't they adopt it? From the bean counter MBA perspective it makes perfect sense.
by AustinDev | 2025-05-20 18:11:08+00:00
12:03 – 12:07 CEST – first period of oscillations in the grid detected and mitigated. 12:19 – 12:21 CEST – second period of oscillations in the grid detected and mitigated. Since then the grid appeared stable, with no oscillations detected. 12:32:57 – 12:33:17 CEST – a series of generation trips in southern Spain, the first near Granada, the second near Badajoz and the third near Seville causes a loss of 2200 MW in generation capacity. Frequency decreased and voltage increased. 12:33:18 – 12:33:21 CEST – grid frequency of the Iberian Peninsula drops below 48.0Hz. Automatic load shedding is activated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Iberian_Peninsula_blackou...

Looks like the first few oscillations were successfully mitigated. I'm not sure what type of generation got cutoff that led to the cascade. Not sure how reliable this infrastructure map is but that area seems to have a pretty good mix of Natural Gas, Hydro Storage and Solar. https://openinframap.org/#9.14/37.4625/-5.8656
Show HN: I made a zero-commission AI prompt marketplace
by bmadigan | 2025-05-20 18:12:11+00:00
I'm the creator of https://promptstand.io, a new platform that lets creators, devs, and AI prompt engineers sell their digital goods, without giving up 10-30% in fees to marketplaces like Gumroad.

PromptStand is subscription-based, not commission-based, so you keep what you earn. It’s designed for technical users who want speed, flexibility, and control over how they monetize their prompts, templates, or downloadable resources.

Key features:

No per-sale commission — flat monthly subscription instead

Clean storefronts with customizable product pages

Instant file delivery and Stripe checkout

Early focus on AI prompt engineers and dev tool creators

This started as a tool for my own AI workflows, but after realizing how fragmented and overpriced the landscape was, I decided to open it up.

Would love any thoughts, feedback, or ideas on where to take it next. Thanks for checking it out!

— Brad
by agentkilo | 2025-05-20 18:12:25+00:00
I think these are the most obvious differences between the two:

* By default, Komorebi uses dynamic tiling, while Jwno uses manual tiling.

* Komorebi has workspaces, Jwno works with Windows native virtual desktops instead.

* Komorebi uses IPC and native system command line to send commands, while Jwno usually operates all by itself.

There are definitely other details that are important to you, but these are the things that immediately came to my mind. I don't run Hyprland so can't really comment on that.
by methods21 | 2025-05-20 18:12:59+00:00
Dealing with this right now as a consultant. Also a 'semi-govt' company, with much more in annual revenue than in this article, running a highly critical production workload, and is having problems with a ESOL version Open Source software - that they are scared to touch/upgrade, and that is available in a fully up-to-date version, for purchase, with support etc., and indirectly asking us to support it, by essentially pawning off any and all changes related to said SW to me. Well, I recommended the upgrade path (to a current/supported and paid version) and I stopped making any changes to that component. They are still hemming an hawing, its unbelievable.
by neilv | 2025-05-20 18:13:08+00:00
It's with American companies in mind. Though I expressly addressed that it isn't about lawyers getting paid, and also how this might change things (motivate companies to behave responsibly, in this regard)

Basically, we have a high-corruption society, especially in 2025, but there's still vestiges of a system that can be leveraged in the public's interest, if you contort just so.
by thrance | 2025-05-20 18:13:21+00:00
OK, so I did a little digging on the guy behind the letter, Huỳnh Khương An [1]. Turns out he was born in Ho Chi Minh City, back when it was called "Saïgon" and a French colony.

He arrived in France between his 12th and 15th birthday, and then became a philosophy professor, and a communist one at that.

This guy was very much an intellectual, which explains the pretty and unusual "Aujourd'hui, j'aurais vécu" (Today, I will have lived). I don't think I've ever seen it elsewhere, so he probably came up with it himself.

His wife was arrested too but survived the war and went on to continue her communist activism.

So yeah, definitely an interesting couple.

[1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu%E1%BB%B3nh_Kh%C6%B0%C6%A1ng...
by scoofy | 2025-05-20 18:13:29+00:00
I'm not worried as long as Google keeps their generous revenue split. The way it's set up now, effectively 50-50, means that the incentives of the creators and the service are aligned. Both parties want as much viewership as possible. If Google stops sharing revenue, then Google has an incentive that doesn't align with the creators, as the quality of the product effectively isn't important, and the quality creators will leave to another platform.

When that happens, I'll likely just move to Nebula.
by Supermancho | 2025-05-20 18:13:44+00:00
Visual editing is how all UI is designed. It's not a waste of time. Visual editing is the primary way to prototype, which means it's heavily used at the beginning and less as development goes forward. Projects have some process to translate the prototypes into scaffolding UI in the Editor, then modify with state where necessary. This pipeline is common across all types of software.
by nsteel | 2025-05-20 18:15:01+00:00
Can you think of an example in history where labour was replaced with tech and the displaced workers kept their income stream? If a machine can do your job, (eventually) I'll be cheaper to use that machine instead of you and you'll no longer have a job. Is that not a given?

Anyway, it was probably just a joke... so not sure we need to unravel it all.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-20 18:15:03+00:00
> Wikipedia is more connected that you may think.

Actually I wrote this same idea 17 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44036737

So I don't know what you think I think, but I already said this is so. Nobody has said any different. The independent governance of the projects is nevertheless a fact, though; they all make independent decisions in terms of content retention as we are discussing in this thread. All the editors who "port" or translate bits of articles are operating independently, and there is actually no way to logically link the material using wikicode; if the text is edited in one place, then its content will diverge from every other place it appears. In other words, the projects are independent from one another, despite "cross-pollination", translation, or "porting" of text from one to another.
by corysama | 2025-05-20 18:15:54+00:00
The magic of Decoda is that you can download the debugger and immediately start debugging your existing program with no modifications. No libraries. No sockets. No changes at all.

Decoda uses your PDB to locate the Lua C library within your .exe and the Win32 API CreateRemoteThread to inject the code into your process to hook the Lua API.
by gthompson512 | 2025-05-20 18:15:58+00:00
I have been thinking a bit lately about how much sense that makes compared to just using word vectors, since traditional queries are super short and often keyword based(like searching for "ground beef" when wanting "ground beef recipes I can cook easily tonight") and so lack most of the context that BERT or similar gives you. I know there are methods like using seperate embeddings for queries and such, but maybe a basic word based search could be more useful, especially with something like fastText for out of vocabulary terms.
by xpe | 2025-05-20 18:16:03+00:00
I didn't say that, and I think you know I didn't say that. Want to engage on this in way that is more than trading one-liners?

On a human level, people are held to a set of laws and exist in a world of social norms. "Following orders" is of course not the most important goal in most contexts; it is not the way most people think of their own ethics (hopefully) nor the way society wants people to behave. Even in military contexts, there is often the notion of a "lawful order".

When it comes to public for-profit companies, they are expected to generate a profit for their shareholders and abide by various laws, including their own charters. To demand or expect them to do more than this is foolish. Social pressure can help but is unreliable and changes over time. To expect that a few humans will step up to be heros exactly when we need them and "save the day" from a broken system is wishful thinking. We have to do better than this. Blaming something that is the statistical norm is scapegoating. In many/most situations, the problem is the system, not the actors.