MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mi100hael | 2025-06-11 14:09:01+00:00
What's your goal with the project?

I built a web app that looked very similar a few years back: friends & family collaboration on a trip plan, itinerary with map view, packing list, notes/journaling, favoriting, private or public with commenting, that sort of thing.

My thesis was that the current common method of trip planning in a shared doc was messy, and a more structured, guided approach would make the process easier for users. And being able to share/show trip plans with others who aren't on the trip would be something people would want to do.

My goal was to scale it and get actual broad adoption, make it a social experience, but even getting a handful of users was an uphill battle.

I found that my thesis was likely wrong for a couple of reasons:

1. The messy shared doc approach had the benefit of being very low-friction. It's easier to just type a bulleted list than to click "add item" and fill out some form fields.

2. Browser usage was (I think) a limiting factor. I'm not sure if it would have worked as a native mobile app, but it definitely wasn't going to work as a web app.

3. When people want to show off their trip or look for travel inspiration, they turn to apps like Instagram and Tiktok. They want visuals with photos/videos, not a list with a map. It's very difficult to create a new purpose-built social network.

I ended up winding it down and moving on.

I don't mean this to be a Dropbox "why are you building this" comment, but more hopefully pointing out a few challenges that exist in the space that you'll likely need to think about if you want to scale.
by lipowitz | 2025-06-11 14:09:53+00:00
The next billion didn't live in London. (These companies didn't want to butcher their high price per user market for volume and BB was not much of the market a year or two later. Firefox OS existed from around when Android had 80% share with most of that being at least one version behind.. I was rather obsessed with the limits of the 3rd quartile mobile browser in 2014..)
by osigurdson | 2025-06-11 14:10:09+00:00
I felt the same way until recently (like last Friday recently). While tools like Windsurf / Cursor have some utility, most of the time I am just waiting around for them while I get to read and correct the output. Essentially, I'm helping out with the training while paying to use the tool. However, now that Codex is available in ChatGPT plus, I appreciate that asynchronous flow very much. Especially for making small improvements , fixing minor bugs, etc. This has obvious value imo. What I like to do is queue up 5 - 10 tasks and the. focus on hard problems while it is working away. Then when I need a break I review / merge those PRs.
by fhdkweig | 2025-06-11 14:10:19+00:00
As a clarification for the "I didn't do anything wrong, I have nothing to hide" crowd, most of the time when someone is pregnant and then suddenly not pregnant, the cause is a miscarriage. And most people would go see a doctor if there is a lot of pain or bleeding. An overzealous prosecutor (usually running for election) is going to make the claim that you went to a doctor and now you aren't pregnant, you must have made an abortion. And now you have to hire lawyers to argue in court. And all in a easily 3rd-party mass-suppeonable database. That's why this is such a big problem.

https://thegeorgiasun.com/news/woman-arrested-after-miscarri...

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/04/02/law-pregnancy-...
by DebtDeflation | 2025-06-11 14:10:31+00:00
>Agent is clear in that it acts on behalf of the user.

Yes, but you could say that AI orchestrated workflows are also acting on behalf of the user and the "Agentic AI" people seem to be going to great lengths to distinguish AI Agents from AI Workflows. Really, the only things that distinguish the AI Agent is the "running the LLM in a loop" + the LLM creating structured output.
by boole1854 | 2025-06-11 14:11:07+00:00
Even without including employer health insurance costs, real wages are up 67% since 1980.

Source: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1JxBn

Details: uses the "Wage and salary accruals per full-time-equivalent employee" time series, which is the broadest wage measure for FTE employees, and adjusts for inflation using the PCE price index, which is the most economically meaningful measure of "how much did prices change for consumers" (and is the inflation index that the Fed targets)
by sillystu04 | 2025-06-11 14:11:08+00:00
In hindsight, it would've been worthwhile for Microsoft to tolerate heavy losses for a decade on Windows phone. Like they did with Bing or Azure.

In the 2020s every serious app developer from Epic to Spotify to Facebook to Tinder is desperately concerned by the platform policies of Apple/Google, and would gladly support Windows phone as first class platform. And so would consumers - enterprises would love to have their AD groups work neatly on employee devices and many individual buyers would love to have more open freedom too.
by ralfd | 2025-06-11 14:11:46+00:00
Ah come on, you never saw this?

https://www.moevenpick-eis.de/media/u1elcdc3/moevenpick_fuer...

https://img.rewe-static.de/7845627/36211704_digital-image.pn...

Next time in supermarket buy some ice cream.
by kevin_thibedeau | 2025-06-11 14:12:30+00:00
They don't need apps to do this. I sat in a meeting with a data broker in 1998 where one of their managers was chuffed that they could determine menstrual cycles by analyzing purchasing records. And it wasn't hygiene products. Various foods and other spending patterns pop out after a 28-day correlation over groups of women that are artificially "synced" into cohort groups.

This invasiveness will continue so long as there are no consumer data protection laws.
by exceptione | 2025-06-11 14:13:08+00:00
The information operations do not focus on silly messages the sponsors will not profit from.

It is about intolerants demanding that their intolerance and inhumane views will be normalized. By the time enough regular people have shifted towards normalizing it, you are too late to come in action. Because you don't have the minds for stopping that.

That is how you burn Jews in concentration camps. That is how you deport Untermensche without due process. Regular people consent to it, and with that they block the anti-dote.

Autocracy is war for the mind. Because to few stand to benefit from it, you have to be lured in via moral degradation.
by bkolobara | 2025-06-11 14:13:46+00:00
The main issue with LLMs is that they can't "judge" contributions correctly. Their review is very nitpicky on things that don't matter and often misses big issues that a human familiar with the codebase would recognise. It's almost just noise at the end.

That's why everyone is moving to the agent thing. Even if the LLM makes a bunch of mistakes, you still have a human doing the decision making and get some determinism.
by RiverCrochet | 2025-06-11 14:14:17+00:00
If an attacker gains root privileges on your system, an attacker can modify the bootloader on your boot device to load a different kernel than the one you have installed, possibly one that the attacker uploaded that may have backdoors, etc.

Secure boot requires that the bootloader match a hash derived from a TPM-stored key.

Of course, you get the same protection (and update hassle) by storing the bootloader in something that can't be written except when you specifically enable it.

A better scheme than the UEFI secure boot/TPM junk is simply a 2GB SD card (enough to hold a bootloader, kernel, and initrd) in an SD card reader with a physical read/write switch. When it's time to update your bootloader or kernel, flip the switch to write mode, then flip it back - heck the system could even refuse to boot if write mode was enabled on boot.

Honestly I don't know why the whole PC firmware shouldn't be on that SD card. Corrupt unbootable BIOSes can be fixed with a new SD card.

For remote updates, the physical switch could be replaced with a GPIO pin and a Raspberry Pi that you connect to and log into separately. It's less secure than the physical switch but oodles more secure than what's there now - maybe not oodles but at least the software on a Pi is much higher quality than UEFI vendors.
Show HN: Investron
by kwojtanek | 2025-06-11 14:14:25+00:00
Hey everyone!

I started Investron as a personal side project because I wanted a simple, clean app to track my investments. Something that updates prices automatically and gives me a clear overview of how things are going.

Over time, I started exploring how AI could help me invest smarter. I tried using AI to analyze company or ticker data directly... but honestly, that didn’t lead anywhere useful.

What I did discover, though, is this: when AI has access to the internet, it can search web faster and based on our preferences, it can identify investment options that are a better match.

So I’d love for people to try it out, share feedback, and help shape where it goes next.

Wallet Features: - Investments tracking wallet. - Automatic prices updates with support for stocks, crypto, currencies, commodities, deposits, bonds. - Manual assets with date/price series. - Support and automatic conversion for 21 most popular currencies. - Charts for better tracking/understanding of investments AI Features: - deep integration with wallets - search agent for finding investments - search agent to check prices - Multiple prompts that i have tested that help to optimise our portfolio and search for new opportunities - Investments strategies prompts
by jrochkind1 | 2025-06-11 14:14:44+00:00
it was still pretty boring TV, honestly. Being in the audience in person was probably more thrilling. As a child, it seemed like a stupid trick to me even without knowing how he did it -- that's it? I guessed some kind of mirrors or something. Maybe I wasn't smart enough as a 9-year-old to realize how hard it would be to fool the in-person audience? It didn't seem hard to me.
by Hikikomori | 2025-06-11 14:14:55+00:00
He worked for Thiel and his political career was funded by Thiel, is friends with him and Curtis Yarvin, who is the originator of many of the things they're doing in project 2025.

He could be in it for himself and using them, but I think he's a believer as he keeps quoting and repeating ideas from Yarvin. I dont think that trump is a believer, he is using them to execute his revenge and gain power.
by eviks | 2025-06-11 14:15:03+00:00
What about the time it cost you to search the internet, read the docs, and use the one from std? How many seconds does each variant take (with hot/cold memory cache?)

And the behavior could also be worse, there is no guarantee of perfection.

The last argument is too generic to offer any guidance. Why is it better for this function be duplicated?? Should it not be part of std to avoid uniqueness?
by gk1 | 2025-06-11 14:15:46+00:00
> Overall, we are convinced that containers can be useful and warranted for programming.

Last week Solomon Hykes (creator of Docker) open-sourced[1] Container Use[2] exactly for this reason, to let agents run in parallel safely. Sharing it here because while Sketch seems to have isolated + local dev environments built in (cool!), no other coding agent does (afaik).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/live/U-fMsbY-kHY?si=AAswZKdyatM9QKCb... - fun to watch regardless

[2] https://github.com/dagger/container-use
by travisgriggs | 2025-06-11 14:16:05+00:00
Im a big fan of the Unix philosophy. But this article is not resonating with me. It reads like good engineering (Unix) mixed with meta physics bordering on some sort of new age spiritualism.

If anything, I see the dawn of LLMs as upending the “internet as we knew it” and also as having a step effect on the value of human literacy.
by kenrick95 | 2025-06-11 14:16:07+00:00
Several things, but wide adoption is NOT one of them.

First and foremost, it's for my own personal use. I like to organize things and I find that the messy doc/spreadsheet way is way too messy for my liking, especially when I find a need to coordinate plans with other friends overseas. That's why I started this.

Secondly, it's for fun and for learning. I enjoy build websites and explore what browser can provide. I learned that browser have API for drag-and-drop element to pass data to a target element

So at the end of the day, I see it as a fun side project and nothing more.

Thanks for sharing your experience too :)
by cosmotic | 2025-06-11 14:16:21+00:00
I can tell from a photo of a book that uses dark gray ink on light gray paper that that book would be hard to read, without actually having a copy of the book in my hand. As far as I know, there's nothing about the physical display of the iPhone that would make this easier to read in person. If it were 3D (like the Nintendo 3DS), with text popping off the screen, I think that would make it even harder to read.
by asim | 2025-06-11 14:16:22+00:00
The agentic loop. The brain in the machine. Effectively a replacement for the rules engine. Still with a lot of quirks but crawshaw and many others from the Google era have a great way of distilling it down to its essence. It provides clarity for me as I see it over and over. Connect the agent tools, prompt it via some user request and let it go, and then repeat this process, maybe the prompt evolves over time to be a response from elsewhere, who knows. But essentially putting aside attempts to mimic human interaction and problem solving, it's going to be a useful tool for replacing orchestration or multi-step tasks that are somewhat ambiguous. That ambiguity is what we had to code before, and maybe now it'll be gone. In a production environment maybe there's a bit of a worry of executing things without a dry run but our tools, services, etc will evolve.

I am personally really interested to see what happens when you connect this in an environment of 100+ services that all look the same, behave the same and provide a consistent path to interacting with the world e.g sms, mail, weather, social, etc. When you can give it all the generic abstractions for everything we use, it can become a better assistant than what we have now or possibly even more than that.
by malnourish | 2025-06-11 14:17:33+00:00
What do you base this claim on? I live very close to the epicenter of one of the major COVID-era US protests.

It was a dark week, no question, but that which you claim as normalized is anything but. Frankly, there's a much much louder push for "backing the blue".

I had out of state friends and family whose perspectives mirrored yours to the point where they denied the lived experience of me and my neighbors until they visited for themselves.
by math-ias | 2025-06-11 14:18:15+00:00
It measures PutObject[0] performance across different object sizes (1, 8, 100MiB)[1]. Seems to be an odd screenshot of text in the terminal.

[0] https://github.com/good-lly/s3mini/blob/30a751cc866855f783a1... [1] https://github.com/good-lly/s3mini/blob/30a751cc866855f783a1...
by duxup | 2025-06-11 14:19:11+00:00
>Digital IDs do not replace physical passports, and Apple warns that they cannot be used for international travel or border crossings. In these situations, a physical passport will be required, but for domestic travel, iPhone users won't need to pull out a passport and can instead pass through TSA checkpoints quicker.

That's a good start.

I wish more states supported the digital IDs for state IDs.
by voidUpdate | 2025-06-11 14:19:59+00:00
Complex argument parsing is something that I'd only generally be doing in python, which is handled by the argparse library. If I was doing it in another language, I'd google if there was a library for it, otherwise write it once and then copy it to use in other projects. Same with loggers.

Depends on how I'm extracting input from a config file, what kind of config file, etc. One of my favourite things to do in programming is parsing file formats I'm not familiar with, especially in a white-box situation. I did some NASA files without looking up docs, and that was great fun. I had to use the documentation for doom WAD files, shapefiles and SVGs though. I've requested that my work give me more of those kinds of jobs if possible, since I enjoy them so much
by yatopifo | 2025-06-11 14:20:08+00:00
Even if you could create such a law, at this point in time, no law can protect americans agains persecution by government-affiliated groups who are immune from court scrutiny thanks to their protections at the very top. You would first have to send corrupt SC justices to prison, impeach Trump and prosecute all his henchmen. Forgive me, but i doubt this is going to happen now that the US is officially a dictatorship. There is no point in laws if you have no independent courts and almost no one is willing to stand up for democratic principles.
by bilbo0s | 2025-06-11 14:21:48+00:00
If anything, their premises could lead to a strong argument that the best course of action is a well-rounded Liberal Arts degree.

This.

The obvious answer in an AI world is that the domain expert becomes the valuable employee. If you don't know enough to direct these models with the intelligence, wisdom, and judgement that only being a domain expert can confer, you're not going to get the results out that you need to actually get anything useful done.

So no, they won't need techies, but PhD level biologists are safe. In fact, PhD level biologists leveraging the advanced AIs to come in the future are likely to be exponentially more valuable than entire bio startups are today. So if you're young today, don't be foolish. Don't go to college and get some CS degree with an eye towards getting a job in tech. That's very likely not going to work out for you long term.
by jghn | 2025-06-11 14:21:54+00:00
The thing to look at is the shift of life expectancy at an older age, e.g. 65, and how that shifts over time. For instance: the UN has a dataset [1] demonstrating an improvement from roughly 12 years to roughly 16 years (i.e. total age 77 to 81) from 1950 to 2010.

[1] https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publicatio...
by ffsm8 | 2025-06-11 14:22:56+00:00
That must've been quite some time ago.

With multiple areas with >50% migrants you can count yourself lucky if ppl even speak German fluently enough to hold a conversation.

And the last holdouts that are still mostly natives are usually in the countryside... And the du/Sie rule has always been an urban convention.

Personally, I think your friend just noticed the phrasing and made an issue out of nothing
by LexGray | 2025-06-11 14:23:05+00:00
On the flip side it makes a company seem sparklingly inept when they use VOIP as a method to filter valid users. I haven’t done business with companies like Netflix or Uber because I don’t feel like paying AT&T a cut for identity verification. There are plenty of other methods like digital licenses which are both more secure and with better privacy protections.
by afavour | 2025-06-11 14:23:40+00:00
I think Windows Phone was just wildly mismanaged. I say this as someone who bought a WP7 phone very early on because I found the UI so compelling.

MS were obviously caught on the back foot. WP7 was based heavily on Windows Mobile because that was all they had ready to go at the time. Then they rebooted the OS entirely with WP8 (based on NT, should have always been that way), removing backwards compatibility for existing apps and phones. Personally I gave up on Windows Phone right there and then: they'd obsoleted a phone I bought (IIRC) a little over a year previously.

You might be right that as time went on they might have made it a success. Certainly, they had the resources to keep throwing money at it until they did. But those early missteps really hurt them. You need passionate evangelists for your product, I’m only half joking when I say they should have swallowed the cost and upgraded every WP7 owners phone for free.
by nipah | 2025-06-11 14:23:41+00:00
I don't think two wrongs make a right, tho. Looking down at formal education is not the same as embracing anti-intellectualism. And while I admit the software industry is absolutely full of bullshit anti-intellectualism, I also don't believe formal education is or should be the standard for the education, formalism is not automatically better than alternative means of learning.

The problem of anti-intellectualism in SE is just the consequence of the field being more "democratized". Or, to put in other words, the mass is stupid and the mass-man is stupidier and primitive.
by exceptione | 2025-06-11 14:25:01+00:00
Maybe they should look into a non-freemium business model. But that won't happen because they want to have as much personal data as possible.

- Parent talks about a paid product. If they wants to burn tokens, they are going to pay for it.

- Those phone requirements do not stop professional abusers, organized crime nor state sponsored groups. Case in point: twitter is overrun by bots, scammers and foreign info-ops swarms.

- Phone requirements might hinder non-professional abusers at best, but we are sidestepping the issue if those corporations deserve that much trust to compel regular users to sell themselves. Maybe the business model just sucks.
Show HN: RomM – An open-source, self-hosted ROM manager and player
by gassi | 2025-06-11 14:25:05+00:00
RomM is a self-hosted app that allows you to manage your retro game files (ROMs) and play them in the browser.

Think of it as Plex or Jellyfin for your ROM library: it automatically fetches metadata, artwork, and game information from online metadata sources to transform your folders into a browsable collection.

You can play games directly in the browser for consoles like the N64, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, and PlayStation 1, using the integrated web emulator (https://emulatorjs.org/). Members of the community have released integrations for Playnite (Windows), muOS (Anbernic handhelds) and Decky Loader (Steam Deck), with many more in the works.

The team has been working on RomM for just over two years now, and we're incredibly proud of what we've built so far. There's no company behind the project, just a bunch of friends building something together that we've wanted for a long time. And of course, the code is open-source and AGPLv3 licensed.

Check out the (kinda slow) demo running on an ultra-cheap VPS: https://demo.romm.app/
by skyzer | 2025-06-11 14:26:09+00:00
Global Launch - Unigox.

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Built by crypto industry pioneers with over a decade of P2P trading experience, Unigox addresses the three most critical pain points in cryptocurrency adoption: high gas fees, complex manual trading processes, and payment verification fraud.
by scblock | 2025-06-11 14:26:22+00:00
Then you haven't tried looking. Women are being arrested and even convicted for having miscarriages, including in the US.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59214544

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/georgia-arrest-miscarri...

https://churchandstate.org.uk/2015/01/conservative-dream-com...

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/health/miscarriage-criminal-c...

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/04/02/law-pregnancy-...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-increasing-risk-of-cri...