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Show HN: I built a tool that generates SaaS ideas from real pain points
by wasayybuildz | 2025-06-16 14:05:37+00:00
StartupIdeaLab helps founders find validated SaaS ideas by automatically scraping customer complaints and pain points from platforms like Reddit, G2, and Capterra. Instead of spending weeks manually researching what problems to solve, it gives you data driven insights in minutes. It also uses AI to generate validation reports and product roadmaps.
by neuroelectron | 2025-06-16 14:06:27+00:00
The speed of light is C, a constant. Mass is composed of these particles that are bound by C. Because they are vibrating, a lot of that speed is being wasted in brownian motion. So the denser it is, the more your average vector is going to be toward more dense brownian motion as the particles interact and induce more brownian motion. The gradient has a natural sorting effect.

Seems pretty intuitive to me. The question remains though, what is this density made of since gravity exists in a vacuum? Quantum fluctuations popping in and out of reality? Does this infer that quantum fluctuations are affected by mass as well? It would seem so since in Bose Einstein Condensate, what is "communicating" the state across the BEC if the particles are no longer interacting?
by philistine | 2025-06-16 14:07:24+00:00
You seem to ignore the historical reasons why testing agencies exist in the first place. There wasn't a consensus back then that they even needed to exist. People like Ralph Nader needed to hammer the point again and again and again to will those standards into existence. The pressure groups fighting against Tesla are doing the same harsh difficult job that Nader did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed%3A_The_Des...
by mrtksn | 2025-06-16 14:07:45+00:00
Does anybody have stats on how many people are O.K. paying for their core services, i.e. how many people pay for paid personal e-mail services?

I just don't want to believe that our services have to be paid for through proxy by giving huge cut to 3rd parties. The quality goes down both as UX and as core content, our attention span is destroyed, our privacy is violated and our political power is being stolen as content gets curated by those who extract money by giving us the "free" services.

It's simply very inefficient. IMHO we should go back to pay for what you use, this can't go on forever. There must be way to turn everything into a paid service where you get what you paid for and have your lives enhanced instead of monetized by proxy.
by major505 | 2025-06-16 14:08:00+00:00
Brazil, the more extensive police work like patrols and crime prevention is usually done by military police.

Crime investigation is part of civilian police.

But most polpulation have contact only with military police. IS no coincident they look like this in Brazil: https://www.reddit.com/r/MilitaryPorn/comments/10r02yp/black...
by TeMPOraL | 2025-06-16 14:08:05+00:00
> The difference is that a therapist works with you for years, takes notes, and builds an actual working model of your psyche. They may start with generics but build towards an actual understanding. A lot like an engineer building a domain model of the business they’re working in.

Ideally, yes. I wonder how that compares to actual, lived experience of people. Because as far as I can tell, it's hard to afford getting to that point these days even on a tech salary.

In my own lived experience, even half a year of therapy didn't go anywhere further I could get with ChatGPT or Claude over one or two frustrated evenings.

(But then maybe it's just me who was spectacularly bad at finding and retaining therapists.)
by demosthanos | 2025-06-16 14:08:41+00:00
Skimming the source code I got really confused to see TSX files. I'd never seen Ink (React for CLIs) before, and I like it!

Previously discussions of Ink:

July 2017 (129 points, 42 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14831961

May 2023 (588 points, 178 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35863837

Nov 2024 (164 points, 106 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42016639
by LorenDB | 2025-06-16 14:09:12+00:00
Who was in charge of listing the specs for this phone? https://trumpmobile.com/t1-phone says the phone has, among other things:

- 5000mAh long life camera - 12GB RAM of storage - 256 GB of internal storage for "memory"

Weird spec descriptions aside, this phone looks entirely reasonable spec-wise for a $500 Android.
by janjones | 2025-06-16 14:09:26+00:00
> From a user perspective, "dotnet run" does add a new scripting dialect.

By dialect I mean that in CSX, the C# language has subtle differences in behavior compared to CS files (e.g., top-level methods are compiled differently). In 'dotnet run app.cs', the C# is exactly the same, hence it can be converted to a project (and we have a command for that - 'dotnet project convert').

> It's just a preprocessor - not a change to the C# syntax.

Should #:load work in normal C# files as well then? If yes, we would have two ways to include files - the normal way (include them in the project) or via #:load. If not, how would 'dotnet project convert' work? (It could paste the text but that's not very DRY if it's imported at multiple places.)

That's in short why #:load doesn't play very nicely with existing C# (it's a different paradigm of including other files). So the current proposal is to just make files in the same folder visible (just like they would be for a .csproj), because that's consistent with current C#, 'dotnet project convert' works, etc. But this proposal is not final yet, there are other options including what you suggest - see https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/49193.
by ben_w | 2025-06-16 14:09:43+00:00
What happened to all the coal miners when the mines were closed: https://www.staffs.ac.uk/news/2025/04/legacy-of-inequality-a...

When the factories closed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_Belt#Outcomes

The Luddites may have been wrong about society as a whole, but they were doing the things for which they are famous because of rampant unemployment at the time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

But think about it this way: software engineers have a job where they sit at a desk and think, then type a bit, and earn far more than most people. Given how apparently easy our jobs are, why don't more people "just" apply for our positions and drive down wages? Answer: skill mismatch, you can't (today) just pick it up in a weekend and start earning double.
by gruez | 2025-06-16 14:09:57+00:00
>Yes. There is some variation but cops as an institution generally grew out of previous phenomena like state employed executioners and anti-union militias,

It really isn't, unless you're willing to ignore all the origins of policing prior to the founding of the US.

https://www.nas.org/academic-questions/36/3/did-american-pol...

Moreover the idea that some institution "grew out of" something shameful, and therefore it's irredeemable to this day is absurd. The Nazis created the autobahn, and even though it's pretty benign today, at least part of the motivation for creating it was for military conquest. Does that mean it's immoral to be an autobahn maintenance worker, or that the institution is irredeemably evil today?

> and its purpose is to protect capital owners from the threat of popular mobilisation against injustice and inequality.

It seems to be doing a pretty poor job at that, given how stores and even trains can be looted with impunity. Moreover how do you objectively define what a "purpose" of an institution is? Some right-wingers might say the "purpose" of the education system is to indoctrinate kids with liberal ideology or whatever. What makes that your claim about cops more valid than right winger's claim about the education system?

>Yeah, sure, forced labour camps aren't a nice thing and you aren't a nice person if you participate in enabling them, even if they're populated with germans or gays or whatever.

No, you said "camps". Now you're trying to pull a motte and bailey and retreating to "forced labour camps". I don't see the problem with POW camps that abides by international law, for instance. Being confined to a POW camp isn't anyone's idea of a good time, but war is hell, and there's far worse things that can happen.
by Nasrudith | 2025-06-16 14:10:30+00:00
You are referencing fiction unironically as an argument which is a rather worrying sign for your connection to objective reality. You also don't have to worry about logistics in RTSes, but that isn't an argument for revolutionizing military strategy.

As for why it isn't something you can figure out how to make a public good? In order for it to truly be a public good you have to either make it as one in the first place via the public sector or at very least pay a large sum of money in order to buy it out (which you have already objected to). Otherwise it is just plain stealing.
by dgb23 | 2025-06-16 14:10:50+00:00
I don't know what to make of this document and claim, is that a report, an actual conviction? I don't understand it. It definitely sounds horrible in any case.

However, the point of a program of hiring or educating people who are in prison isn't to judge them. They are already in prison. 10years is a long time, so it's likely they did something bad and have been judged for it.

This is to give people who are capable and willing a chance to grow and integrate. From the little knowledge I have about this, it seems like this is very effective.
by gspencley | 2025-06-16 14:11:13+00:00
I don't personally care about language choices in code, but I'll play devil's advocate and speculate as to why a business might be concerned.

1. Reputational harm in the event that code needs to be shared. Say, the code gets read in court, or an outside consultant is brought in who is given access to the code. The company likely wants to maintain the same standard of professionalism that they expect when their employees write or utter spoken language in the workplace for the same reasons.

2. Similar to #1 but nuanced enough to deserve its own mention: code is a business asset. It can be sold or licensed out. The company may fear that language that it deems unprofessional could depreciate the value of that code in the context of selling or licensing it to 3rd parties.

Personally I think that the fuss over "bad words" is deeply irrational to a religious degree. The idea that arbitrary sequences of phones or characters will cause anyone within ear or eye-shot to become offended is rather absurd. But you can't choose what planet you do business on and, on Earth, there are a lot of silly people.
by mrtksn | 2025-06-16 14:11:21+00:00
I don't know, I expect it to be at least %3 as this is the general conversion rate for "free" users AFAIK.

There must be some some number that makes it viable to have free users and paid users. For games, the free users are usually those who provide the "content".

People usually demonize freemium games but IMHO its much more benign than extracting huge sums by artificially making it worse and sell attention.
by foldr | 2025-06-16 14:11:22+00:00
We're allowed to form judgments about people based on evidence that wouldn't be sufficient to convict them of a crime. The consequences of me forming the opinion that this guy is a domestic abuser are far lower than the consequences of a court doing so. And of course, even courts use a much lower evidential standard than 'innocent until proven guilty' when deciding civil cases. Making a derogatory comment about someone on the internet is much more analogous to a civil court finding against the plaintiff than it is to a criminal court giving someone a jail sentence.

In any case, HN is very selective about this high evidential standard. People will make a lot of effort to give probable domestic abusers the benefit of the doubt, but pick one of HN's official enemies and suddenly any little scrap of evidence is considered quite sufficient!
by Spartan-S63 | 2025-06-16 14:11:29+00:00
So true. I hated using BIC ballpoint pens for this reason. I found the Pilot Rollerballs are my favorites to use. The 0.5mm size writes really smoothly.

I picked up a couple bolt action pens for some more heft and put the Pilot rollerball fillers into the pen to get a really pleasant writing experience.
by glommer | 2025-06-16 14:11:39+00:00
I am the CEO of Turso. We are free to negotiate any salary we want with him, the prison system doesn't put any caps, up or down. We are paying him well, and certainly not trying to enslave him or anything. There are some restrictions on how the payments are made but not the amount.

We also don't pay him healthcare, because he wouldn't be able to use it.
by cafard | 2025-06-16 14:11:52+00:00
>> You think the dramatic increase in school violence and shootings on the rise might point to targeted unending psychological stress/trauma being inflicted on children at vulnerable stages of development?

Actually, I think that it might point to the widespread availability of semi-automatic firearms.

>> You think people just bully out of the fun of things, its induced through clever techniques indirectly by teachers and they don't even know it because they are just parroting a technique without understanding the origin which was torture.

I can guarantee you that bullying was around before 1966. I have a very clear memory of sitting on a bully's back during the cold weather on 1960-1961 getting some revenge.
by jahnu | 2025-06-16 14:12:02+00:00
Signal have a few things that make it a hard sell.

It's really hard to clean up media. You have to go into every single chat and from there go about deleting stuff. At least they finally added a "select all" option in there recently.

So the size of it just grows and grows and grows until it's using all the space on your phone. Not a good fit for non-technical types.

Secondly, no web view. There is the desktop app yes, which is flaky, slow and wants to update every day or two.

I just can't see average people putting up with those inconveniences and that's just a couple of them.
by komali2 | 2025-06-16 14:12:06+00:00
> but if he's working the same hours and is just as productive as any other employee, shouldn't he be paid the same?

He should, but the median salary of engineers in Taiwan is like, 40,000 USD, vs SF which is 160,000 USD. Or London, if one wants to argue something about English language ability or whatever, is 80,000 USD. Literally half that of SF.

Salaries aren't determined by labor value, they're determined by how well employers can collude in a region to get the lowest possible rate while still being able to hire people. Thus they somewhat tend to correlate with cost of living, but not really, e.g. see London vs SF vs NYC. All correlations are used as excuses, when the core, real, reason always comes down to, employers will pay as little as they can get away with.

This annoyed me enough that I started a co-op about it, and we're doing pretty well. I'm still annoyed though. Apparently glommer, the CEO, pays him "full salary" (market rate?), which makes them a good person, but a bad capitalist. They could easily pay basically a slave wage and leverage this dude's ingrained passion for programming to get huge output for almost nothing - that's what the rest of the industry merrily does.
by pidgeon_lover | 2025-06-16 14:12:09+00:00
I thought it would be an HP computer driver archive, as HP are notorious for taking down the driver downloads for older models. Does anyone know of such a driver archive?

The Sony Vaio line of computers had a similar problem, and community members launched the Vaio Library (https://vaiolibrary.com/index.php/Welcome_to_the_VAIO_Librar... / https://archive.vaiolibrary.com/)
by qualeed | 2025-06-16 14:12:57+00:00
>Innocent until proven guilty doesn't extend to internet comments.

That's not a good thing.

Edit: I cannot really believe that this, of all comments, is controversial. Living life treating everyone as guilty until they prove themselves innocent is... just shitty, let alone exhausting. Do people forget about how many times reddit and other ruined innocent people's lives?

Sometimes HN amazes me with new technology, interesting conversations, etc. Sometimes it amazes me when people are arguing that we should go through life treating people as guilty first, until they are proven innocent. I think I'll go back to not participating for awhile.
by AlecSchueler | 2025-06-16 14:12:58+00:00
Signal seems to be booming right now in the Netherlands. I've been using it for years and never managed to grow my contact list beyond single digits, being a few friends in tech and a few who were very privacy conscious. All of those people were also available on WhatsApp and we'd often forget and message one another there.

But since January the trust in Meta has not only plummeted but it's become a mainstream enough talking point that I now receive invites to join Signal groups from--for want of a better term--normal people. Two of the local parenting groups I'm on are on Signal and no one ever mentions it or questions it, it's just "here's the group link" and the expectation that everyone has it installed.
by mapt | 2025-06-16 14:13:24+00:00
A lot of these observations about the miraculous soil caretaking of the elder Native Americans are in all likelihood just "Look at this garbage dump, so fertile, such agricultural skill!"

Broken half-fired terra cotta is effectively unusable rock. Terra cotta is semi-disposable, so lots of potsherds are produced per person-year before plastics/glasses/metals are introduced. It's the single most common and best-preserved archeological artifact. Broken pottery was used in place of sand to stabilize the clay in new pottery, but other than that it doesn't have many special qualities.
by oersted | 2025-06-16 14:13:25+00:00
Not an ordinary possession charge either, sounds serious!

> 15 to 30 years in prison for possessing a synthetic drug with the intent to distribute it

> like many synthetic opioids, the exact effects of U-47700 are little understood and a small amount could be fatal

> charged with possessing carfentanil, a powerful synthetic drug much more powerful then fentanyl
by irjustin | 2025-06-16 14:14:39+00:00
This is only true if they introduce them. i.e. FB doesn't have a paid service, but obviously Youtube does.

The problem is Whatsapp is a closed ecosystem so unlike email we can't just buy a provider.

And I do pay for youtube. The experience is well worth it and I'm thankful I can afford it (it's not a lot but many can't).
by AlecSchueler | 2025-06-16 14:15:05+00:00
> So the size of it just grows and grows and grows until it's using all the space on your phone. Not a good fit for non-technical types.

To be fair I've met plenty of non-techie types whose phones were "full" of stuff from WhatsApp or photos that had already been backed up, because the idea they could clear their local storage would never cross their minds. I've seen people buy new phones instead of clearing their cache.
by gruez | 2025-06-16 14:15:27+00:00
>To me civilisation isn't an inherently good term, and I'm not a believer in natural or god given hierarchies, or even the state as necessary.

You're right. The universe doesn't need us to be living in cities, with indoor plumbing, modern medical care, and iPads, but most people would prefer that to living in the savannah without any of that and a life expectancy of 30 years.

>by necessity it destroys cooperative forms of social life as a survival tactic.

???
by abxyz | 2025-06-16 14:15:27+00:00
Yes, it is. The courts are flawed, the courts get things wrong all the time. Many innocent people are found guilty. If we must apply the legal standard to internet comments, must we condemn people we believe to be innocent? The legal standards exist for the system, not for people. Saying that the standard of "innocent until proven guilty" should apply outside of the legal system is lazy and avoiding making decisions for yourself about how you treat people.

People proven guilty are not necessarily guilty. People proven not guilty are not necessarily innocent. The legal standard exists because a system needs standards.
by danso | 2025-06-16 14:15:42+00:00
Non-paywall: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/politics/doge-social-s...

> The Times’s investigation found that Mr. Musk became fixated on the program in early February after members of his team misread government spending data — a pivotal and previously unreported moment that DOGE believed had exposed massive fraud inside the agency.
by mapt | 2025-06-16 14:15:46+00:00
Digging in arctic climates is just difficult. Soils freeze and gel.

Digging in semi-degraded postglacial till filled in with a few conifers (the Great Slave Lake site is largely talus/scree) is not especially productive in terms of clay.

I would love to see them invite Primitive Technology's John Plant on the show. I do understand if North Queensland is more his climate though.
by doix | 2025-06-16 14:15:50+00:00
I remember WhatsApp costing money, 1$ per year or per lifetime or something. I paid for it, I think it was a WinRar situation though, where deleting and reinstalling the app gave it to you for free or something.

I'm guessing most people didn't pay though, since they scraped the fee (even before FB bought them). I guess it was just too little money to be worth the effort.
by nottorp | 2025-06-16 14:16:14+00:00
I remember paying 0.99 for ... something ... before Whatsapp was acquired by Facebook.

Wouldn't mind doing it again.

Unfortunately now they're owned by a Silicon Valley company so I guess 0.99 is too little for them, they'll charge the price of a SV latte... how much is that? 59.99? 99.99?
by catigula | 2025-06-16 14:16:29+00:00
I agree with this sentiment but I'm also willing to explore/consider the possibility that "innocent until proven guilty" isn't strictly only useful as an esoteric legal construct, but a philosophy that could potentially have applicability to an individual's worldview.

That being said I wouldn't have much patience for a "merely" accused murderer or child predator in my personal life, just as I also don't have much patience for a doctor who refuses to prescribe me antibiotics because the chance they could help me is "only" 1%. I don't really care that it's socially irresponsible when it comes to my personal assessment of risk.
by charles_f | 2025-06-16 14:16:30+00:00
Whatsapp used to be paying (and pretty cheap) before it was bought out, and I was happy to pay for it. I'd much rather have that than starting to get ads. They're going to be hidden in a feature no-one uses, they're not going to use private data, but given Facebook's invasive behavior, how true is it and how long will it last?
by pickledoyster | 2025-06-16 14:16:35+00:00
Other comments note how it creates fatigue within an hour of writing, which is also my experience. Whether that's a result of low quality ink holders, tips that force overgripping, weight or something else, I do not know.

I have a pen cup for when I need to jot something quickly and can't be bothered to get my primary pen from another room, and I've noticed that I rarely, if ever, choose the Cristal. Granted, it is far from being the worst pen out there, but I wince at the thought of using it as my daily pen.

Furthermore, I don't think that selling 100 billion copies of a thing is a sign of quality, e.g., see Microsoft's product line.

As for superior design in a similar price category (i.e., get it free at every conference room), hands down, it's the Schneider K15. Solid ink holders, comfortable tip, a nice weight balance (albeit I find it too light overall), with an imo beautiful modernist design as a cherry on top.