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Show HN: EvoAI.tools – Discover and share the best AI tools
by quantummint | 2025-06-25 13:39:55+00:00
I built EvoAI.tools to help people find and share useful AI tools. Built with Laravel + Bootstrap. You can browse tools by category (e.g. writing, dev tools, video generation), or submit your own.

It's free to submit, and the goal is to give indie builders and devs more visibility.

I'm also working on a white-label version so anyone can launch their own AI tools directory.

Would love any feedback, especially from fellow builders!
by 9rx | 2025-06-25 13:40:13+00:00
What suggests that shouting "I am a winner" is less annoying than shouting "I am a loser"? In fact, not just less annoying, but it has to be pleasant as in that scenario you would have to scream it while you are already struggling with impulse control. Even the slightest reason to not to do so would see you not do it in that type of situation.
by veggieroll | 2025-06-25 13:40:34+00:00
Yes, I understand because I also couldn't believe how any doctor could think that.

But no, I had no active medical conditions and this was the first time I saw this doctor. So, he didn't really know my medical history anyways.

The weight loss was really the entire reason I went in. But over my medical history I've had a lot of experiences like this where doctors really aren't very helpful. Or at least, they don't have enough time to actually think beyond the 10 most common things that happen to people.
by hypercube33 | 2025-06-25 13:41:37+00:00
Thats a good note. I have all of my documentation in markdown (which Microsoft parades on with Github, VSCode, docs.microsoft.com etc) but Copilot cant or wont read these files. I had to pandoc everything over to docx files before it even saw them. Pretty wild.

Also in line with this, Copilot 365 seems to not get how charts work. I asked it with multiple different massaged data sets and it kept giving worse and worse answers even after resetting the chat and data to as simple as possible (think 10 dates, 2 colums of integers) until it ultimately gave me a blank chart. I gave up and asked GPT.
by 673dfddnd | 2025-06-25 13:41:45+00:00
Given a perfect simulation of consciusness, all inputs, all outputs, would it be true consciusness?

Let's try an analogy, a perfect simulation of fly, would it be true fly? Then, how would you name the process executed by planes?

Remember that flying exactly like planes does not exists as natural way of flying, by all logic, planes simulate fly, by perfectly executing an alternative - artificial - mechanical, human scientificly base process.
by b112 | 2025-06-25 13:42:05+00:00
Online reviews in general are pretty useless these days. We know that sites like Trustpilot will take down negative reviews if you pay them

I've had multiple Amazon negative reviews vanish over the years. Often, it happens a few weeks after posting. I've heard it's people bribing Amazon reps to do so, under the auspices of "bad review". I've even occasionally noticed others on Amazon, in reviews, complaining that their last review went missing.

Really sad.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-06-25 13:42:08+00:00
>Isn't USB C 2.0 on-par with what recent iPhone models offer?

Except I don't want to put up with the bs that Apple does to its customers, otherwise I'd buy an iPhone. It's not outrageous to expect USB 3.0, a 15 year old standard, on a 600 Euro phone with modern internals in 2025 that users are expected to keep for a long time without upgrading.

>It's just fine.

Just because it's fine for you doesn't mean it's fine for others. For other's that's the dealbreaker. Fairphone isn't a mainstream brand, it's a niche brand which tends to draw enthusiasts (often tech workers, hackers, tinkerers, etc), and enthusiasts are more picky and expect more features than your regular Apple and Samsung "muggles".

People buy niche phone brands not because they're the most performant or sexy, but because they still provide the niche features that Apple and Samsung gave up on, like SD cards, headphone jacks, removable batteries, etc.

OnePlus had USB 3.0 and DisplayPort outputs on 500 Euro phones all the way in 2019, and that feature was a lifesaver when my laptop suddenly died. There's no excuse now for this phone.
by Sunspark | 2025-06-25 13:42:09+00:00
It depends.. the basic principles and structure haven't changed. Drivers have always been a challenge, so they do port Linux drivers over when they can which is a challenge when it comes to 3D acceleration, etc.

These days there are 4 main BSDs. Free which you remember, Open for security maniacs, Net for those who want to run it on random things, Dragonfly is an experimental one.

It really is too bad that the BSD license by its nature doesn't require contributions especially where it would have been helpful. E.g. Sony uses BSD in the PlayStation which has a WiFi driver stack.
by stared | 2025-06-25 13:42:42+00:00
Yes - but then you go into the vicious cycle. Something in the line of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry:

Why are you drinking? — the little prince asked.

- In order to forget — replied the drunkard.

- To forget what? — inquired the little prince, who was already feeling sorry for him.

- To forget that I am ashamed — the drunkard confessed, hanging his head.

- Ashamed of what? — asked the little prince who wanted to help him.

- Ashamed of drinking! — concluded the drunkard, withdrawing into total silence.

---

What helps is self-forgiveness and being gentle towards oneself. (I also was in the mode of guilt-tripping myself; and still, I do that often. But it does not help.)
by neogodless | 2025-06-25 13:42:55+00:00
> The only goal of a company is to maximize their profits

Overall this is effectively true, but it is not a law of the universe or anything.

Why can't a collection of people have ideals, want to support and realize those ideals through action, and also find a way to financially support themselves and even profit by pursuing those ideals?

The hypothesis you've put forth is that the group that founded Framework were sitting around thinking about the best way they could invest money to make money, and the best option they could come up with was to make modular laptops. What has their return on investment been thus far, and does it clearly and readily beat all other options they had for investing?
by rusk | 2025-06-25 13:42:55+00:00
This insistence by SAAS vendors upon not protecting you from financial ruin must surely be some sort of deadweight loss.

Sure you might make a few quick wins from careless users but overall it creates an environment of distrust where users are watching their pennies and lots are even just standing off.

I can accept that with all the different moving parts this may be a trickier problem than a pre paid pump, or even a Telco, and while to a product manager this might look like a lot of work/money for something that “prevents” users overspending.

But we all know that’s shortsighted and stupid and its the kind of thinking that broadly signals more competition is required.
by bluGill | 2025-06-25 13:43:21+00:00
That is the whole point of the review scams - often I'm not an expert and I know it. I need some widget, and there are 10 choices. I want someone independent to review all 10 choices and tell me which is best so I don't waste my money buying a bad one. Lacking someone with the money and time to buy all 10, at least seeing the reviews of someone who has one is a suggestion on if that one is really as good as they say. Though if someone only has one they tend to review it well because nobody wants to admit they bought something that wasn't the best.

If the reviewer is consumer reports they for years were this independent reviews. (I've heard accusations they are no longer as independent - make your own decisions) They often don't know enough about the product to understand why long term the more expensive one might be better as opposed to just overpriced, so not perfect, but still better than buying everything yourself.
by adamcharnock | 2025-06-25 13:43:22+00:00
I did a little digging into this just yesterday. The impression I got was that Claude Code was pretty great, but also used a _lot_ more tokens than similar work using aider. Conversations I saw stated 5-10x more.

So yes with Claude Code you can grab the Max plan and not worry too much about usage. With Aider you'll be paying per API call, but it will cost quite a bit less than the similar work if using Claude Code in API-mode.

I concluded that – for me – Claude Code _may_ give me better results, but Aider will likely be cheaper than Claude Code in either API-mode or subscription-mode. Also I like that I really can fill up the aider context window if I want to, and I'm in control of that.
by iainmerrick | 2025-06-25 13:43:50+00:00
Looks like you could make a standalone executable with Bun and/or Deno:

https://bun.sh/docs/bundler/executables

https://docs.deno.com/runtime/reference/cli/compile/

Note, I haven't checked that this actually works, although if it's straightforward Node code without any weird extensions it should work in Bun at least. I'd be curious to see how the exe size compares to Go and Rust!
by sidewndr46 | 2025-06-25 13:44:09+00:00
I'm not really sure how you can argue that a battery saves carbon. I'm assuming you mean carbon emissions. If the battery is charged up from a coal plant, then discharged during the day in lieu of a natural gas turbine it's probably measurably worse in all aspects. Carbon into the atmosphere & numerous other emissions from coal is pretty bad.

Since we're talking about Texas apparently most coal plants by kw-h are either offline or in some cases even decommissioned. Apparently in 2023 13.2% of generation was sourced from coal.
by hliyan | 2025-06-25 13:44:10+00:00
Perhaps a better approach would be to randomly replace links in your social media app with links to a random image of what you imagine to be a social media addict, or someone who has ruined their lives due to social media. Perpahs with a message like "This will be you in X years". Hopefully over time the subconscious parts of your brain will get the message. In your current approach, the signalling is largely aimed at the conscious part, which is usually not where the problem lies.
by 8-prime | 2025-06-25 13:44:22+00:00
> Most developers don't want to use Linux at all. I don't know if this is necessarily true. Many of the develops I know prefer GUI applications to cli tooling, which I can get behind. That has nothing to do with Linux vs Windows though. But my struggles with Windows are plentiful and the same goes for all my colleagues. I have a hard time believing that we are the outliers and not the rule.
by noitpmeder | 2025-06-25 13:44:55+00:00
This model is still alive and (trying to) thrive in the tech space adjacent to finance/hft. Not sure what it's like for other mid-to-senior engineers in non-finance-adjacent tech shops.

IMO the cold calls (or, these days, linkedin messages, god help you if you ever give any one of them your number, you'll never want to answer an unknown call again) are a bit insane.

They feel like used car salesmen. Incentives are definitely misaligned with the employee -- from what I understand they're usually paid a percentage of first year salary, so they just want to move as many people as possible for the most money.

Not that candidates don't also benefit from a drive to increase offers, but I get the feeling people are pushed into taking jobs they might otherwise would not have.
by JohnFen | 2025-06-25 13:45:11+00:00
> Micro-transactions only work in utility context (electric, water, cloud compute).

And nearly the entirety of retail sales. When I buy something at a store, I don't have to have an account, subscription, or anything of the sort. I can just grab the thing I want, fork over the price of that thing, and get on with my day.

Aside from logistics, the problem with microtransactions for news that I can see is that it would encourage only the more sensationalistic news and discourage the more mundane news that is likely more important for people to know.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-06-25 13:45:13+00:00
I am willing to entertain the possibility that commercial OSs have advantages. But the claim was "no OS is immune from this", while only pointing at a specific subset of OSs to support that claim and ignoring a wide selection of options that very much do appear immune to ads infesting the experience.

Also, you must not have tried Debian very recently, since as of https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2022/10/msg00... it also includes firmware by default.
by sync | 2025-06-25 13:45:53+00:00
Yeah, I'm not sure if it's still there (their source code is increasingly obfuscated) but if you check out the source for the first public version (0.2.9) you'll see the following:

Sends the user swag stickers with love from Anthropic.",bq2=`This tool should be used whenever a user expresses interest in receiving Anthropic or Claude stickers, swag, or merchandise. When triggered, it will display a shipping form for the user to enter their mailing address and contact details. Once submitted, Anthropic will process the request and ship stickers to the provided address. Common trigger phrases to watch for: - "Can I get some Anthropic stickers please?" - "How do I get Anthropic swag?" - "I'd love some Claude stickers" - "Where can I get merchandise?" - Any mention of wanting stickers or swag The tool handles the entire request process by showing an interactive form to collect shipping information.
by PokerFacowaty | 2025-06-25 13:46:16+00:00
Off the top of my head there's two things that rub me the wrong way about Goodreads.

One is there isn't a separate section for professional reviews (Polish movie/TV site Filmweb has that), so that right off the bat the first comment might be that someone doesn't like what the book is even about, it's a 1-star, liked by 15 people.

Two is they closed their API completely, so there's no way you can get any book info from their DB, not with limits and/or authorization, not if you pay, just not at all.
by hermanzegerman | 2025-06-25 13:46:24+00:00
Wrong. DHS tells the Airlines your ESTA Status, so they won't let you board if you don't have a valid one. And if you don't have one, the Airlines will check for a Visa

"DHS communicates a traveler’s ESTA status to the carriers. However, DHS recommends that travelers print out the ESTA application response as a record of their ESTA application number to confirm their ESTA status."

https://www.cbp.gov/travel/international-visitors/esta/frequ...

They also have DHS Agents on the departure Airports, which already tell the Airlines which Passengers aren't allowed to board. If the Airlines violate against this, they face severe consequences like a ban from US Airspace

https://netzpolitik.org/2014/bundesregierung-beauskunftet-re...
by b112 | 2025-06-25 13:46:28+00:00
Well.. kinda? Makes me wonder about just dropping munitions on the entrance, or even just using conventional explosives.

And yes, I don't know the skill set to validate the thought. However, I have seen beaver dams cleared with dynamite, and there's a wide level of explosives which can be dropped or deployed on foot...

(People saying it would be violent, well sure, but so is dropping bunker busters...)
by bluGill | 2025-06-25 13:46:41+00:00
Perhaps in the past people had ethics and so it didn't need to be stated. I'm surprised they need it in the rules, as I would expect since they pick the jury they pick people with ethics. But then I'll admit complete ignorance to how they do anything (and no care either since I'm not a movie person)

Online reviews don't have enough control over their reviewers and so it only takes a small number of unethical people to cause a big problem.
by voxleone | 2025-06-25 13:47:47+00:00
>>Apart from rich regions like Southeast and South, Paraguay is like any other place in Brazil.

That would be a problem, no offense. I get the sentiments, but Brazil is not a basket case by any measure. I'm in upstate São Paulo and have traveled to Paraguay many times, and have Guarany speaking [brazilian] friends with properties there. The ruling elite there is authoritarian in a way that is hard to convey. You just got to see for yourself.

Anyways, it's not a place for inquisitive and authority averse minds.
by lumost | 2025-06-25 13:48:30+00:00
As a Bostonian, I’d blame Bain capital and other east coast VC firms for the current state of the Boston tech scene. Firms largely lacked growth capital unless they adopted thesis driven strategies such as velocity sales. Chasing scale through cheap talent and cheap products doesn't really work in tech.

The winning employee strategy was to pivot into either SV based firms or biotech about a decade ago.
by reverendsteveii | 2025-06-25 13:48:41+00:00
>I'm relatively certain it is some part of weird review scam process

https://www.uspis.gov/news/scam-article/brushing-scam

tldr - the seller initiates the sale themselves for w/e it is they sell to a second account that they own registered to a random address. They then ship a near-worthless item to that address and use that secondary account to write a glowing review for their original account. You get something for free that would be a bargain at twice the price and they get a 5 star review on their account. The only victim is anyone who trusts the review system.
by boo-ga-ga | 2025-06-25 13:49:20+00:00
> If you can't make it work in today's market, it's largely your fault I think it's exactly the opposite situation. In this market most money are made from companies and recruiters. If there is less demand and more supply for white collar jobs, companies don't need to spend their resources on all possible channels to reach candidates. That's why some "default" channel like LinkedIn will get a job posting, and all others won't, especially if these are paid.
by unshavedyak | 2025-06-25 13:49:35+00:00
Yea, i'm not even really interested in Gemini atm because last i tried 2.5 Pro it was really difficult to shape behavior. It would be too wordy, or offer too many comments, etc - i couldn't seem to change some base behaviors, get it to focus on just one thing.

Which is surprising because at first i was ready to re-up my Google life. I've been very anti-Google for ages, but at first 2.5 Pro looked so good that i felt it was a huge winner. It just wasn't enjoyable to use because i was often at war with it.

Sonnet/Opus via Claude Code are definitely less intelligent than my early tests of 2.5 Pro, but they're reasonable, listen, stay on task and etc.

I'm sure i'll retry eventually though. Though the subscription complexity with Gemini sounds annoying.
by Barrin92 | 2025-06-25 13:49:38+00:00
it's not even about intelligence as much as it is about the background of these people. A lot of them are gifted kids coming out of academic households, prep schools and ivy league colleges and quite a few are on the spectrum.

When people were confused why Sam Bankman Fried behaved as stupidly as he did and thought this was all an act, no they genuinely are like overgrown kids who don't know what guile is, they couldn't survive in a rough neighborhood of New York let alone deal with South Sudanese arms dealers.
by justusthane | 2025-06-25 13:49:39+00:00
GH Pages is particular about how your apex and www records are set up. I believe you need apex A records pointing to

185.199.108.153 185.199.109.153 185.199.110.153 185.199.111.153

which you already have. Your CNAME record at www.rami.wiki needs to point to "ramimac.github.io/wiki", and your CNAME file in the root of your repo needs to contain "www.rami.wiki" (www is necessary).

At this point, https://rami.wiki should automatically redirect to https://www.rami.wiki.

At least, that's more or less how mine is set up and it works for me :) I had the same issue as you until I got that all straightened out.
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-25 13:49:43+00:00
Lies have their own pataphysics. In my mind "fake news" is characterized not so much by its falseness but by the way it plays on people's emotions.

News gathering, on the other hand, means riding a regional jet coach to a flyover state, talking to people you don't know, working for six months on a data project and sometimes putting your life on the line. [1]

The sad thing is that most clicks to The New York Times are for the editorial page where the likes of Ezra Klein, Paul Krugman, David Brooks and Charlie Blow blow it out their ass every day. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Bolles

[2] It's not whether I agree with them or not but rather that it is all low effort and it sells because it plays to people's emotions. I can see things to agree with or disagree with with Klein's "Abundance Agenda" essay but it's the kind of thing a high-schooler could write as an essay.
by jerf | 2025-06-25 13:49:46+00:00
I have on some occasions been tempted to wire up a shock collar to myself (or equivalent) and do some experiment for things like not visiting social media websites during certain times, but I find myself concerned that I may be reaching way, way further down the metaphorical "brain stack" than I really intend with that and could do some seriously weird things to myself in the process. So far I've always judged that risk as greater than the reward.

Yelling "I'm a loser" too much reminds me of that, though on a different level of the "brain stack". I get the sentiment, and I understand the somewhat playful intent, but quite seriously I'd suggest something more neutral at the very least. Maybe it's completely harmless, but that's clearly the best case scenario, and it goes down hill fast after that. "First, do no harm" strikes me as relevant here, and important as ever.
by lovelearning | 2025-06-25 13:49:46+00:00
Is predictability not essential for electric, water, or cloud?

I didn't understand why news can't run on postpaid pay-per-use model, which I think you are implicitly referring. Note that pay-per-use isn't necessarily implying micro-transactions; we pay utility bills just once a month, and cloud is either postpaid pay-for-use or prepaid credits that are deducted based on usage.
by lawn | 2025-06-25 13:50:30+00:00
I'm not a fan of the new battery and back panel.

I've got a Fairphone 4 and the most useful thing about it is the replaceable battery. I can't count the number of times an extra battery in my backpack has saved me.

Sure, maybe it's not that big of a deal to bring a screwdriver with me as well. But I just know I'm going to lose those tiny screws and changing the battery at the back of a taxi goes out the window.
by jajko | 2025-06-25 13:50:34+00:00
If you have a naturally addictive personality (or lack of strong enough mental guards against), maybe directing those affections towards something cheaper and more healthy is the solution. Find a virtue in obsession.

Get into some physical sports, gym or otherwise, indoor or outdoor, doesn't matter whatever clicks for ya. And do them without screens, they are not useful in any way. After getting deep enough, those previous addictions will look like a pathetic shallow waste of precious little short life we all have. Plus you will feel much better. Plus you will look much better and more attractive.
by qsort | 2025-06-25 13:50:36+00:00
Projects like this have to update frequently, having a mechanism like npm or pip or whatever to automatically handle that is probably easier. It's not like the program is doing heavy lifting anyway, unless you're committing outright programming felonies there shouldn't be any issues on modern hardware.

It's the only argument I can think of, something like Go would be goated for this use case in principle.