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Show HN: Most users won't report bugs unless you make it stupidly easy
by lakshikag | 2025-06-09 15:16:48+00:00
Most feedback tools are built like people actually want to report bugs. They don’t. Unless you make it dead-simple, or better yet - a little fun.

After shipping a few SaaS products, I noticed a pattern: Bugs? Yes. Bug reports? No.

Not because users didn’t care but because reporting bugs is usually a terrible experience.

Most tools want users to:

* Fill out a long form

* Enter their email

* Describe a bug they barely understand

* Maybe sign in or create an account

* Then maybe submit it

Let’s be real: no one’s doing that. Especially not someone just trying to use your product.

So I built Bugdrop.app - It’s a little draggable bug icon that users can drop right on the issue, type a quick note, and they’re done. No logins. No forms. Just context-rich feedback that your team can actually use — with screenshots, browser info, even console logs if they hit an error.

And weirdly? People actually use it. Even non-technical users click it just because "the little bug looked fun."

I didn’t want to build another "feedback suite". I just wanted something lightweight, fast, and so stupidly simple that people actually report stuff. If you've ever had a user say “something’s broken” and then ghost you forever, you probably get where I’m coming from.

What I’m most proud of? People are actually using it. And their users? They’re actually reporting stuff. Even non-technical ones.

Would love to hear if you’ve faced similar problems, and if this feels like something that would’ve helped in your own projects. Not trying to sell you anything — just sharing something I built to scratch my own itch.
by tsimionescu | 2025-06-09 15:16:55+00:00
Well, if there's one thing we're pretty sure of about human cognition, it's that there's very few GPUs in a human brain, on account of the very low percentage of sillicon. So, in a very very direct sense, we know for sure that human brains don't work like LLMs.

Now, you could argue that, even though the substrate is different, some important operations might be equivalent in some way. But that is entirely up to you to argue, if you wish to. The one thing we can say for sure is that they are nothing even remotely similar at the physical layer, so the default assumption has to be that they are nothing alike period.
by philipbankier1 | 2025-06-09 15:17:00+00:00
This week’s update showcases DINO-R1 enabling vision models to reason without language, Light-ColPali cutting memory by 88%, and NVIDIA’s surgical vision personalizing AI, signaling a shift to specialized efficiency. Check out the full newsletter for details: https://mixpeek.com/blog/niche-power-smarter-vision-models
by drphilwinder | 2025-06-09 15:17:15+00:00
Hi all. This is an announcement post for a project I'm looking to get very early feedback on.

I've been using an AI coding assistant for a while (Cursor, Cline, etc.) and found that quite a few problems are caused by the model not having up to date or relevant examples of problems I'm working on.

So I created Kodit, an MCP server that aims to index your codebases and offer up relevant snippets to the assistant.

This works well when you're working with new projects, private codebases, or updated libraries.

I'm launching now to get as much feedback as I can, so do give it a try and let me know what you think!

- [Docs](https://docs.helixml.tech/kodit/) - [Repository](https://github.com/helixml/kodit/) - [Announcement post](https://blog.helix.ml/p/helix-kodit-open-source-mcp-server?r...)
by int_19h | 2025-06-09 15:17:49+00:00
The more interesting question isn't "how many Abrams?" these days, but rather "how many drones?"

For example, Ukraine was planning to produce 1 million drones in 2024. They actually produced >2 million. For this year, they intend to produce 4.5 million (and appear to be on track for that).

What makes this especially interesting is that a single drone is cheap enough that it's possible even for individuals to own small swarms or to crowdfund larger ones. So there's no well-defined cliff of power here as there was with high-tech weaponry like tanks - you can gradually scale up to whatever resources allow. Meaning that it's much easier to be a "small feudal" type of an autocrat, for example.
by eyelidlessness | 2025-06-09 15:17:49+00:00
I would not presume to define the parameters of friendship for others, as it can vary wildly between people and even between a given person’s friendships.

There is certainly an imbalance between dog and human authority/autonomy/agency, but that is not the only dynamic in the relationship. And it’s not necessarily the defining dynamic, nor is it consistently applicable.
by jplusequalt | 2025-06-09 15:18:02+00:00
>Some of us realize this technology was inevitable

How was any of this inevitable? Point me to which law of physics demanded we reach this state of the universe. These companies actively choose to train these models, and by framing their development as "inevitable" you are helping absolve them of any of the negative shit they have/will cause.

>figuring out how society evolves from here instead of complaining and trying to legislate away math

Could you not apply this exact logic to the creation of nuclear weaponry--perhaps the greatest example of tragedy of the commons?

>prevent honest people from using these tools while criminals freely make use of them

What is your argument here? Should we suggest that everyone learn how to money launder to even the playing field against criminals?
by saurik | 2025-06-09 15:18:45+00:00
> As someone who has spent 25+ years working with legislation and legislators in the US, to me the point is not whether the comma is the problem (to Apple) but rather that the law is the law.

It is my understanding that this is a big difference between the US and the EU: the US leans heavily into textualism / literal interpretation, while the EU leans much more into purposivism / teleological interpretation.
by jchiu1234 | 2025-06-09 15:19:03+00:00
Those who still have boosted boards and have lost their remotes know that it can get crazy expensive to replace since YC company, Boosted Boards, is no longer around. Last year, I reverse engineered the pairing protocol with an ESP32 and open-sourced everything here: https://github.com/johnathanchiu/boosted-project.

Here's a blog detailing the process and specs: https://medium.com/@johnathanchiu1065/side-project-series-re...
by paxys | 2025-06-09 15:20:01+00:00
Neat find, though it's funny to me that a phone number is something people (including everyone on this thread I bet) have been handing out like candy their entire adult lives - to friends, stores, banks, employers, government agencies, random websites – but still expect it to remain some critical secret that no one should ever find out. A phone number is about as private as your name, and you should consider it as such.
by MentatOnMelange | 2025-06-09 15:20:13+00:00
In my experience this is dead on. People have short attention spans but this has been happning the whole 21st century. In 2008 Obama won the primary despite the best efforts of leadership to nominate clinton. They even scrambled the "super delegates" (delegates who vote for the candidate chosen by senior leadership) hoping that even if Obama won more delegates, they could override the voters choice.

Of course, they failed, and democrats won 2 elections in a row running a candidate labeled a radical socialist. Obama became the only 21st century president to win the poplar vote twice, and the DNC has been trying to drag the party back in the 20th century ever since, blaming their own voters when it doesn't work.

It boggles my mind that they refused to even engage with the "undecided movement", which created a grass-roots get out to vote movement out of thin air. In swing states no less.

The starkest contrast between the two parties is womens rights and to a lesser extent LGBTQ rights. Although I'm not even sure how true this is anymore with so many politicians backing Cuomo, who resigned because an investigation found overwhelming evidence he sexually harrassed and assaulted female employees. And I'm pretty sure people like Chuck Schumer and other centrists view the LGBTQ community as a liability.
by trunksuzieross | 2025-06-09 15:20:25+00:00
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Show HN: Focus Farming – A Small Focus Timer
by zackchen | 2025-06-09 15:20:33+00:00
I’ve struggled with motivation issues lately, so I’ve took a week off and created this small app from start to finish. Its helped me regain some of my motivation again, and now I want to share it.

Here is the link, I would be really happy if you check it out: https://apps.apple.com/de/app/focus-farming/id6746781932?l=e...
by larodi | 2025-06-09 15:21:18+00:00
my take from the paper is that the authors overstate the following:

LLMs cannot zoom in and out of certain details, while we humans subconsciously zoom in and out of context and even go through conceptual spaces in the very hermetic sense of it. LLMs do not. they work on the present context, which kickstarts them into expounding likeliness in the same contextual space.
by throwaway894345 | 2025-06-09 15:21:59+00:00
I think the idea entered the popular discourse around public universities providing designated, debate-free spaces on a public campus which certainly seems like government censorship.

Tensions were exacerbated because those universities frequently tried to reserve those spaces specifically for students of certain identity categories (obvious discrimination), and they were also trying to create designated "free speech zones" on campus, suggesting free speech was not permitted elsewhere.
by int_19h | 2025-06-09 15:22:22+00:00
LLMs allow for much subtler forms of manipulation. For example, those Trump supporters could see 100 pro-Trump posts that very much toe the party line on the surface while introducing subtle contrarian points.

And it's not that the LLM is going to generate something that we haven't seen before. The point is that it can do that at scale far exceeding what you can do with mere human troll bots. With LLMs you can literally have a bot assigned to every single person in the country that feeds them agitprop tuned for maximum agreement by that person.
by danaris | 2025-06-09 15:22:46+00:00
OK, sure; there is some evidence potentially showing that LLMs are constructing a world model of some sort.

This is, however, a distraction from the point, which is that you were trying to make claims that the described lack of consistency in LLMs shouldn't be considered a problem because "humans aren't very consistent either."

Humans are perfectly capable of being consistent when they choose to be. Human variability and fallibility cannot be used to handwave away lack of fundamental ability in LLMs. Especially when that lack of fundamental ability is on empirical display.

I still hold that LLMs cannot be consistent, just as TheOtherHobbes describes, and you have done nothing to refute that.

Address the actual point, or it becomes clear that you are the one arguing in bad faith.
by itsibitzi | 2025-06-09 15:23:15+00:00
Tech lead on the project here.

I would certainly recommend that readers not use a work phone, not only for the reasons you've stated but also that a lot of work devices use mobile device management software which is functionally spyware. To your point, dealing with having a very small anonymity set is tricky regardless of the technology used.

We do go to great lengths to make usage of the app to blow the whistle plausibly deniable. Data is segmented to "public" and "secret" repositories, where any secret data is stored within a fixed-sized/encrypted vault protected by a KDF technique that was developed by one of the team in Cambridge (https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1792.pdf)

But of course, all this could be for nothing if you've just got corporate spyware on your device.

This is certainly something we've talked about internally but I've double checked the in-app FAQs and I think we could be more clear about recommending users not use on a work device, especially with MDM. We'll get that updated as soon as possible. Thanks!

-- edit

I should add that we do some basic detection devices that have been rooted or are in debug mode and issue a warning to the user before they continue. I'd be interested in what we can do to detect MDM software but I fear it might become a cat-and-mouse game so it's preferable that folks not use their work devices at all.
by bwfan123 | 2025-06-09 15:23:26+00:00
There is a large number of wannabe hands-on coders who have moved on to become management - and they all either have coder-envy or coder-hatred.

To them, gen-ai is a savior - Earlier, they felt out of the game - now, they feel like they can compete. Earlier they were wannabe coders. Now they are legit.

But, this will last only until they accept a chunk of code put out by co-pilot and then spend the next 2 days wrangling with it. At that point, it dawns on them what these tools can actually do.
by dowager_dan99 | 2025-06-09 15:23:28+00:00
This is a really negative and insulting comment towards people who are struggling with a very real, very emotional response to AI, and super-concerned about both the real and potential negatives that the rabid boosters won't even acknowledge. You don't have to "play the game" to make an impact, it's valid to try and challenge the math and change the rules too.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-06-09 15:23:39+00:00
>If this is some cosmic-scale humor by nature

I would not blame nature for this. I'm not particularly conspiracy-minded (humans are generally too stupid for supervillain-style conspiracies), but people did this. The only question at all is whether they did it deliberately, or if it was accidental.

>then I’m afraid the joke is on us.

It's definitely on us.
by basisword | 2025-06-09 15:23:41+00:00
>> Code signing, provisioning profiles, entitlements, AppStore wizardry

Maybe it's because I've been doing iOS development since the original SDK, but this stuff is now super automated. I can't remember the last time I thought about any of it other than enabling some entitlements (and that's done in Xcode with a checkbox now).

>> Apple makes it difficult to maintain support for older devices.

I'm not sure I agree with this either. I work with a range of large iOS devs and they're all still supporting iOS 12 and 13 without much difficulty. Sure, you can't use the latest and greatest API's but there's nothing blocking you from using the API's supported by the older OS versions.

Regarding the iPhone 7 - it's very old. Nearly a decade old. And even at that it still supports iOS 15 which is only a couple of years old.

Generally I find indie shops will force you to use the most recent couple of OS versions because they want to use the new API's and don't want the overhead of maintaining support for older ones. Any app that's relying on having lots of users is supporting as far back as possible (particularly when it comes to iPad because those users keep their devices far longer).
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-09 15:24:00+00:00
The Metropolitan Museum has books of fabric samples for kimonos with colorful and complex patterns but unfortunately I could only find pictures of kimonos:

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/354838

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search?q=kimono+jap...

People had kimonos with crazy prints throughout the Heian, warring states and Tokugawa periods.
by iugtmkbdfil834 | 2025-06-09 15:24:07+00:00
I am sympathetic to this view even if I think it understates the value pets may bring. I do agree that people, as they tend to do, push the limits on what is socially acceptable to some silly degree, but, I also accept, that as long they don't hurt anyone in the process, it might be ok.

The issue is.. pets are still pets. And to your point, unbehaved dog can be dangerous to its immediate surrounding. I won't go into details, but our dog is very protective of our kid, so there are places I will not take it ( or at least not without precautions ).. and this is what I see less and less: responsible behavior.

But I will say this, dog was a great training for a kid, when it came for us, because we saw some very similar issues repeat themselves.

The issue is what it has always been: people.
by nerdsniper | 2025-06-09 15:24:32+00:00
Titanium - Chlorine fires are even more magnificent than titanium-oxygen fires. Wet chlorine (>150ppm water) is too corrosive for ferrous metals and titanium is often used for pipes carrying wet chlorine.

If something happens that ignites one of these pipelines there’s absolutely no way to put it out - it has the fuel (titanium) and oxidizer (chlorine) and burns mega-hot until one of them is fully consumed along the entire length of the pipeline. The pipelines can sometimes be shockingly long (1 mile-ish).
by r0ckarong | 2025-06-09 15:24:58+00:00
The hard lesson I've learned from having two kids is that apparently all these things I've trained myself to "love" for three decades are all just methods to waste time. Kids take your time and the distractions become few and far in-between. I "miss" my distractions because I miss my time. But there is probably nothing more worthwhile that I could do with it than investing it in these fresh beings.
by dtagames | 2025-06-09 15:25:02+00:00
The report is interesting in that shows all the typical ways humans are awful.

But none of their efforts (which they call "disruptions") have anything to do with AI or models. They're just trying to catch bad actors after the fact by analyzing the prompts and replies their tool gave people.

There is no such thing as AI safety, any more than we could have typewriter safety. Bad typewriter content (ie: Ted Kaszinsky) must be assessed by the people's actions and constrained the same way -- not by tool limitations, which isn't really possible.
your current iOS hardware is obsolete
by htk | 2025-06-09 15:26:05+00:00
The iPhone 4 was the first iPhone to sport a retina display. Beautifully animated at 60 frames per second. Then iOS 7 came out with transparency effects and the whole came crashing down to stutters, bugs and whatnot. It was clear you needed a new phone and your current one just became a lot worse for everyday tasks.

I predict the same is going to happen in the new version of iOS being announced today. Apple needs a reason to sell new phones but the current ones are plenty enough. So why not throw some computationally expensive bells and whistles to make everyone unhappy with their current hardware?
by JimDabell | 2025-06-09 15:26:06+00:00
> I mean, they should.

Yes, they should. They don’t.

There’s really no point talking about how the web could have almost as good UX as LLMs if users did things that they do not do. Users are still getting shitty UX from the web.

> The LLM UX is going to rapidly converge with the search UX as soon as these companies run out of investor funds to burn.

The point of the article is that these companies can be profitable as-is. If chatbots screw up their UX, it’s not because they need it to survive.

And again, I’m judging based on what is actually the case today, not a speculative future.

I’m pointing out that LLMs have much better UX than the web. Repeatedly saying “but what if they didn’t?” to me is uninteresting.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-06-09 15:27:07+00:00
>I disagree that your premise that pets are only valuable for children.

On r/poveryfinance and similar subreddits, one can always find someone complaining that they're about to become homeless because they can't afford rent, begging others to please tell them what line item can be cut from their budget to make it work, the conceit being that they consider every item essential. Mixed in among the electrical and water and costs of commuting to work will be $100/month for dog food or cat litter or whatever.

Not only is there no value there, there is, quite often, anti-value. And this is just the quantifiable stuff, these people follow their dogs around picking up their feces with their hands.
by 9d | 2025-06-09 15:27:23+00:00
Every few years I look into D and read it and think it's really good and want to write something in it. But then I come across comments on HN that make me feel like it's not good enough compared to something like C++ or Rust. I know I should ignore those, and I do like having a GC, so D seems like maybe a better Go. But one thing I always put ahead of everything else is developer convenience, for example, autocompletion and hover-docs in VS Code. I assume D has these, but I also assume that it's not as well supported as it is in Rust, mostly thanks to some sort of principle that probably has a name by now, where the more hype a language has, the more support its entire ecosystem has, regardless of whether it's a good language or not. Kind of like how writing TypeScript for the web is now amazing to work with, being a zeroeth-class citizen in VS Code (soon to be lowered to first-class after the Go rewrite), simply because JavaScript is the only native language the web speaks. Anyway, if D has wrapper libs for SDL3 and V8, decent docs, works well on both Win&Mac, and has good enough VS Code support, I'd be glad to give it a shot.
by elia_42 | 2025-06-09 15:27:41+00:00
Totally agree with the content of the article. In part, AI is certainly able to simulate very well the behavior and operations of a "way of expressing itself" of our mind, that is, mathematical calculation, deductive reasoning and other similar things.

But our mind is extremely polymorphic and these operations represent only one side of a much more complex and difficult to explain whole. Even Alan Turing, in his writings on the possibility of building a mechanical intelligence, realized that it was impossible for a machine to completely imitate a human being: for this to be possible, the machine would have to "walk among other humans, scaring all the citizens of a small town" (Turing says more or less like this).

Therefore, he realized many years ago that he had to face this problem with a very cautious and limited approach, limiting the imitative capabilities of the machine to those human activities in which calculation, probability and arithmetic are main, such as playing chess, learning languages and mathematical calculation.
by maxwell | 2025-06-09 15:27:43+00:00
Not at all, they had the votes. The public option was killed by Lieberman.

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/newsletter-art...

The ACA was the same market-based approach as the 1993 GOP healthcare plan. Republicans don't want to touch it because it was their idea.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2013/nov/15/ellen-qual...