MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by johngai | 2025-06-06 09:21:37+00:00
We’ve been running our mid-sized manufacturing business on a mix of spreadsheets, QuickBooks, and a patchwork of CRM tools for years. It worked — until it didn’t. Too many silos, too much duplication, and not enough insight.

A few months ago, we made the switch to Barawave, an AI-powered ERP/CRM system. I don’t usually post about vendors, but this one actually made a noticeable impact, and I figured others here might be dealing with the same mess of disconnected tools.

What stood out:

Automated workflows: We set up invoice generation, order confirmations, and follow-up sequences without writing any code.

AI reporting: The system surfaces insights like "which customers are most likely to churn" or "which SKUs are dragging margins." It’s not just analytics; it’s proactive.

Zero-maintenance integration: It played surprisingly well with our old systems — including legacy warehouse software we assumed we’d have to sunset.

Real collaboration: Our ops and sales teams now use the same platform. Tasks, status updates, docs — all in one place, synced in real time.

What’s not perfect:

The learning curve was real for our less tech-savvy staff (though they offer decent onboarding help).

It’s clearly built for cloud-native orgs; if you're heavily on-prem, expect some friction.

I’d love to see deeper integration with BI tools like Looker.

We’ve only been live ~90 days, but we’re already seeing reduced manual errors and a better handle on inventory, cash flow, and customer follow-ups.

If you're considering rebuilding or upgrading your business backend, it’s worth checking out. I’m happy to answer any questions about our experience.

(Not affiliated — just a paying user who finally feels like our tools are working with us instead of against us.)
by tumult | 2025-06-06 09:21:42+00:00
> Quick appeal grant of course, because it was more about sending a message and making people who want to talk about that kind of software think twice before the next video.

That was talking about a previous video, not the one that is the main subject of this blog post. For the video that is the subject of this blog post, which is just about running your own software to watch media you legally own, the appeal was apparently denied.
by ilyagr | 2025-06-06 09:22:09+00:00
An intelligence that reasons this way would be, in human terms, batshit insane and completely immoral. So, it seems unlikely that many or maybe any humans would experience it as "otherwise benign" if it had power over their lives.

And if we do get an all-powerful dictator, we will be screwed regardless of whether their governing intelligence is artificial or composed of a group of humans or of one human (with, say, powerful AIs serving them faithfully, or access to some other technology).
by 6510 | 2025-06-06 09:23:12+00:00
> Ideas are a dime a dozen.

This is one of those statements that say more about the person not having ideas than about ideas. One could say it was an idea in it self so poor it should have vanished in the pile of crap never to be heard about by anyone - if only they had two or three more.

History is full of accomplished people who thought everything was invented already. The truth is that we started rubbing sticks together two weeks ago. In the cosmic sense we don't even have a life span. Our average memory cant compete with a single sheet of a4 paper. It is a miracle we can find time to fit in an original thought in the cracks between earning a living, reproducing, eating, sleeping, house keeping, social interactions and personal hygiene.

And then we have this preference for keeping things the way they are. Something new, however adventurous, really has to make an effort to overcome that one! I bet 99% gets debunked by the person having the thought.

Patents are only interesting if what you are really looking for is money or fame. It's an inferior mind set compared to curiosity. You decide what counts, not the guy willing to give you a shiny dime for what could be that single awesome original thought you got to have in your life span but only after you share it. ha-ha

The stuff people discovered is actually so bizarre that if you described it to people 100 years before it would sound utterly absurd. In the future our fellow apes will descend from the trees and rub sticks together? Then the other monkey looks at you from the corner of their eyes while tilting their head. Of course before that one of them had to come up with the idea to go live in trees! Imagine what bad idea that was. Or how about crawling onto the beach and living on land. The other fish must have been like, dude?!?! stop eating the pink sea weed!
by acd10j | 2025-06-06 09:23:16+00:00
There is a loyalty if they keep winning, if they stop running their competitors will beat them. I don't switch between cursor or windsurf daily, i keep cursor only even if windsurf has some marginal improvement in workflow as i know cursor will have them in short time. No need to switch, But if they stop improving they will get eaten away. They have already taken lot of developer market share away from vscode and vscode copilot.
by flurdy | 2025-06-06 09:23:57+00:00
It is part of why people argue that Chess is a sport.

When grandmasters battle it out for hours in classic chess, thinking ahead of so many branches of moves that I would find unfathomable, they do burn through a lot of energy.

For what is quite a sedentary career choice, I rarely see overweight grandmasters. Though that is probably more correlation of other facts than causation...
by ZeroTalent | 2025-06-06 09:24:07+00:00
Yes, they did on Google Cloud:

"Custom Search JSON API: The primary solution offered by Google is the Custom Search JSON API. This API allows you to create a customized search engine that can search a collection of specified websites. While it's not a direct equivalent to a full-fledged Google Search API, it can be configured to search the entire web."

In my experience it's essentially the same as Google Search if configured properly.
by genewitch | 2025-06-06 09:24:50+00:00
Isn't the remedy for methanol ingestion... Ethanol? Just keep drinking?

I have two distillers and I've never distilled alcohol. I do distill water in my eletric one. I turn it on and leave the condenser part off until bubbles form, I blow the steam off to ensure it steams again, place the top on, set the timer for 3 hours and shut it off then. The pre-boil ostensibly let's the petroleum and the like escape, and the stopping before dry prevents anything with a higher phase temp than water from distilling.

I use it for coffee machine, kettle, and ice machine, just to cut down on maintenance.

Ten years ago I bought 3 copper five gallon distillers, and gave two to my in-laws and kept one for myself. I tried to distill water in it but it was not coming out clean, so I packed it away till I had time to use it outside on a propane burner after purging it with alcohol or some non-copper eating acid.
by eviks | 2025-06-06 09:24:59+00:00
It seems like it was supposed to do the exact opposite per cursory wiki reading:

> The concept of copyright first developed in England. In reaction to the printing of "scandalous books and pamphlets", the English Parliament passed the Licensing of the Press Act 1662,[16] which required all intended publications to be registered with the government-approved Stationers' Company, giving the Stationers the right to regulate what material could be printed.[20]

> The Statute of Anne, enacted in 1710 in England and Scotland, provided the first legislation to protect copyrights (but not authors' rights)
by jzellis | 2025-06-06 09:25:21+00:00
Unlike the asshole above, I know they're not sewers but storm drains, because I'm the journalist who discovered people were living in them twenty odd years ago. I'm also a full stack dev, but unfortunately I'm in London now, not Vegas.

I wish I could point you at somebody, but since the bottom dropped out of Tony Hsieh's little bro kingdom downtown, Vegas hasn't had much of a startup tech community. I mean, if you hang around the Arts District and strike up conversations with nerdy people, you might have some luck, but even housed people wouldn't be guaranteed and I couldn't even tell you who to talk to or which startups even exist in Vegas anymore, since I left five years ago.

As far as being homeless goes, you're in a hard town for it, but I'm sure you know that. Catholic Charities is one of the few places you can reach out to, they're just north of downtown near Vegas and Foremaster. If you had a car you could move around between Walmart parking lots. Shelter space is effectively nil.

I know you're probably scared shitless, because I've literally been exactly where you are - a homeless dev in Vegas. (If you're at a café using the wifi, especially downtown or down Maryland, I've been where you're sitting.) If I were still in town I could offer you more help, but everyone I knew in Vegas tech either moved away or died.

The Arts District, maybe Commercial Center these days, the UNLV area: those are places I would think you might meet people who can help and sympathize with your situation. Believe me when I say that I understand and I wish you the very best of luck.

You can do this and get out of that situation. I know because I did.
by k__ | 2025-06-06 09:25:38+00:00
I knew someone who believed in that. Morphogenetic fields, he called it.

Something about tribes living close to each other, but with no contact, inventing the same stuff. After the first one got a tech, the others would also invent it, but faster.

Seemed a bit far fetched to me. Like, they are living in similar conditions, so it seems reasonable that each of them develops similar tech.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-06-06 09:26:05+00:00
You are being incredibly disingenuous and missing out the very important points that ALL of those instances were designed to be provocative and make people feel in fear for their own safety.

e.g. the people being arrested for silent praying (wasn't it just two people?) were breaching specific PSPOs that are specifically designed to provide a safe buffer zone around abortion clinics so that people can receive their health services (i.e. abortion and related services) without fear of being harassed. By stating "silent praying", you make it look as thought they weren't being deliberately provocative in order to make a protest - the exact type of thing that the PSPO is designed to protect against.
by pu_pe | 2025-06-06 09:28:42+00:00
> You have to be careful with this line of thinking, because as you've stated it, this justifies concepts like Trump's tariffs based on trade deficits.

The difference is that if you are using tariffs to stimulate local industrial capacity, this can take many years and you might have competitive disadvantages (ie wages, access to supply chains, etc.). If you are replacing software like Windows and Office with open source alternatives and you put the money from the licenses into your local tech sector to develop a support ecosystem, I think this is both achievable and would make your country richer too.
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by dtj1123 | 2025-06-06 09:30:32+00:00
This is an inaccurate statement. Geocentrism makes identical predictions to heliocentrism, but clearly the two models offer differing explanations of the dynamics of the solar system.

From an engineering perspective, yes, predictions are all that you care about. From a scientific perspective, the end goal is the simplest and most general set of explanations possible.
by elric | 2025-06-06 09:31:10+00:00
The lack of (legal) recourse (in practice, if not in theory) against large multinational monopolists like YT is the real problem here. Imagine if a policeman came to your house every time you played the piano to fine you for nonexistent copyright infringement. That cop would be unemployed in very short order. You could take all sorts of against them, and there are protections in place to prevent such abuse of power.

Not so with YT. You have fuck all recourse against the arbitrary and often incorrect decisions of whatever they call this ridiculous attempt at moderation. It is incredibly difficult to even talk to a human being. You'd be hard pressed to find a lawyer who could help you in this. Let alone a judge who would spend time on this only to tell Google the obvious truth: "the composition is out of copyright, stop being ridiculous". They'd go back to making the same mistakes immediately.

My personal take on this is that it needs to be easier to talk to humans, to contest decisions, and to have humans in the moderation loop BEFORE handing out copyright strikes. If that means YT is no longer profitable, so be it.
by fer | 2025-06-06 09:31:15+00:00
> Pair everything to a €5/mo torrent-friendly VPN

Or a usenet subscription + sabnzbd, and you get direct download speed, plus the extra protection of a (nowadays) arcane technology that's too hard for legislators to understand.

Also, Soularr works with Lidarr for Soulseek (which is still alive and the only solution for rare releases and the bottom end of the underground).
by burnt-resistor | 2025-06-06 09:32:11+00:00
I know a guy that owns a cell phone repair chain who ostentatiously touts that he never returns anything out of a magical belief that everything is "owned" by "small business people". Sorry, but that's a self-defeating hipster boundary that only the very rich can afford and doesn't really reflect the reality of mega no-name overseas brands or megacorp brands.

In my view, anything advertised doesn't work, arrives broken through negligence, or misrepresents their specifications is going right back to where it came from.
by LinXitoW | 2025-06-06 09:33:06+00:00
I mean, this is just capitalism.

And while I loved old forums, they were constantly fighting with being underfunded, there was infighting between the "owners", and each one worked differently, making them a bunch of disconnected little silos.

Especially compared to Youtube, there's just NO WAY IN HELL any non-exploitative company could ever finance a project of even remotely similar scope. There are already, right know, alternatives for all the big monopolists. Most people aren't using them because they don't like the trade offs.
by simiones | 2025-06-06 09:33:41+00:00
I don't think trusting the Lean kernel is enough: you also need to trust that all of the Lean code is a valid translation of the informal proof. Given that the informal proof is already gigantic, and that there is no general mechanical way to verify if a formal statement corresponds 1:1 with an informal statement, it's far from trivial to trust that the Lean representation of the proof is the same thing as the original proof.

Now, if the proof works, presumably this problem goes away: Lean can show that based on this proof, the original statement holds. But if Lean says that this formal proof doesn't work, that doesn't tell you anything about the informal proof: the error may only be in the formalization.
by ivape | 2025-06-06 09:33:44+00:00
In retrospect, Bezos did the smartest thing by buying the Washington Post. In retrospect, Google did a great thing by working on a deal with Reddit. Content repositories/creators are going to sue these LLM companies in the West until they make licensing agreements. If I were OpenAI, I'd work hard to spend the money they raised to literally buyout as many of these outlets as possible.

How much could the NYT back catalog be worth? Just buy it, ask the Saudis.
by akdor1154 | 2025-06-06 09:33:58+00:00
> The reality is that Finland won't be any richer (nor poorer, of course) if it spent 1+ billion euro on some EU or even Finnish alternative to MS.

If Finland sends €1B to the U.S, then there's €1B more on a U.S. balance sheet.

If Finland sends €1B to Finish companies, then clearly Finland has €1B more in it than it otherwise would.

So 'Finland the government balance sheet' would be unchanged, but 'Finland the aggregate of people and businesses' would indeed be richer.
by peterclary | 2025-06-06 09:34:33+00:00
Even if you don't care about those people, what about the people who would be affected by them? A would-be bomb-maker might only blow themselves up, or they may kill many in a crowd. Somebody walking around with a deadly pathogen infects and kills others. Children die because their parents believe in anti-vax nonsense. Individual freedom ends at the point at which it causes real harm to other people.

Also, you know who tends to be most in favour of "let stupid people face the consequences of their poor choices"? Those who want to profit from those people and their choices.
by jakub_g | 2025-06-06 09:34:41+00:00
For me the mental fatigue is mostly related to context switching, being disturbed (slacks, meetings etc but also side quests to the original problem), and working on a fuzzy problem.

Working a few hours in such environment is very fatiguing.

On the other hand, when I work on a single thing, no disturbance, clear problem definition, having all necessary skills to do the thing, I can work 10h and it's not fatiguing.
by bubblyworld | 2025-06-06 09:34:53+00:00
Am I the only person who just runs claude code in yolo mode? Curious about these tools for fine-grained permission, did you get burned in a bad way?

I think I'm going to trigger half of hacker news with this, but honestly nothing claude does on my machine seems particularly scary, and it's way too far from AGI for me to worry about hostile takeover right now =P
by burnt-resistor | 2025-06-06 09:35:03+00:00
Needs a particle sensor like a PlanTower PMS5003 or it's not really worth the effort.

I made an Arduino + PMS5003 + LCD for use during the NorCal fires of 2020 when the readings were 900+ μg/m^3. At that time, I was wearing a full-face P100 respirator outdoors because the visibility was down to about 100' / 30m. That was about the same time I bought an overpriced BlueAir 680i because Consumer Reports rated the similar BlueAir 605 as the best air purifier they ever tested. (Unfortunately, that whole line they used cheap bearings in the fan motors that fail after a few years without replacement parts that you have to disassemble the motors and swap yourself. The bearings, thankfully, are generic parts: 608ZZ.)
by Barrin92 | 2025-06-06 09:35:49+00:00
It's extremely complicated. The original document he wrote up was 500 pages of maths introducing effectively an entirely new theory. I studied number theory in uni, tried to read it, and understood barely anything of it.

Which obviously leads to the epistemological problem that the article points out. You had extremely good mathematicians like Scholze look at it and thought he found a flaw, then one guy from Arizona disagreeing that it is a fatal flaw and claiming to have fixed it, which Scholze doesn't agree with.

So what do you really make of it if only a handful of mathematicians can engage with it, and they can't even agree with each other. Probably the biggest value of IUT is that it puts to the test what even counts as a proof.
by cornholio | 2025-06-06 09:35:50+00:00
If you try to build that platform, you will get swamped by far right content, people casually suggesting how one could hypothetically obtain child porn if they had such illegal and immoral proclivities, and so on.

You will then be boycotted by everyone, from your payment provider and advertisers to your more mainstream users, in a self-enforcing spiral until only unsavory content exists on your platform; nobody will lift a finger to help you, let alone offer you legal protection against such attacks. When you eventually run out of server money, the child pornographers will just move on to greener pastures.

Everyone censors because everyone is a business and they want to maintain their content inside the Overton window where revenue is maximized and it's unlikely a boycott or political action against them will be successful.
by al_borland | 2025-06-06 09:36:18+00:00
I do agree with some of this and often feel the same way. However, at the same time we need to be honest about what computers did as well. They had the ability to eliminate many jobs as well. Technologists also pushed forward with little to no regard for the jobs that would be eliminated by their products. It’s been going on for decades.

Programmers have also been trying to code themselves out of a job since the beginning. Low-code and no-code automation products are some modern examples of that, AI is the latest attempt.

This isn’t new, but it’s seen as more of an existential threat.

When we look at computer so far, it’s possible that they’ve created more jobs than they took. The big question is will AI do the same, and how what will the transition be like? Those are uncomfortable unknowns, but the world has been through many such transitions before and humans always seem to come up with something else to do.
by enricozb | 2025-06-06 09:36:36+00:00
I'm not a mathematician (but I've seen exact sequences and commutative diagrams) and to me the stuff out of his IUT papers[0] looks borderline LLM-generated. I can only imagine what the LaTeX source looks like.

[0]: https://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~motizuki/Inter-universal%2...