MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by swsieber | 2025-06-30 15:13:53+00:00
I'm building a budget app for my wife and myself.

Basic goals:

- Web based for zero update latency

- Have it work offline

- Automatically import transactions from my banks

- No running/hosting cost

- Secure

Tools used so far:

- InstantDB for the datastore, providing the offline capability too

- A gmail account that automatically gets forwarded bank alerts for purchases

- Gitlab.com w/scehduled pipelines for cron based email-syncing

- Netlify for the free hosting

- InstantDB magic codes / email links for securing the data

I'm at the point where I can track and categorize purchases, including split transactions.

Next steps:

- Add in date ranges for reporting / data views; e.g. show expenses incurred in a one month period instead of for all time.

- Add in planned / project transactions for month forecasting

- Statement import & import reconciliation and statement reconciliation

- Scrape company specific digital reciept emails (like Amazon) to autopopulate more transaction data

And that'll be the end of the stuff I can do for free. I think I will add features that require money and/or dedicated hardware though:

- OCRing receipts -> autopopulated transaction data / description

- Using chatgpt to suggest categorizations

- Scrape extra data from my bank sites, like physical addresses of entities involved in charges.
by polski-g | 2025-06-30 15:14:04+00:00
Funny story about this.

There was a woman who backed over her own kid in the driveway. For some reason, she was not imprisoned for vehicular manslaughter. So instead of not being in prison, she spent the next half decade lobbying congress to make backup cameras mandatory. And it happened. So now everyone's car costs $3k more.

It would have been cheaper to put her imprison than impose a $3k cost per every car sold in America since 2018.

Lots more people need to be imprisoned for manslaughter, and lots of people need their license taken away for "backing crashes".
by timacles | 2025-06-30 15:14:24+00:00
> capitalism ensures that a dynamic and ever-shifting set of companies is thriving based on demand and efficiency

That form of capitalism is dead. There is no free market anymore (if there ever was). We currently have crony capitalism that operates on being able to secure cheap capital through "other" means.

There is no more efficiency in the current markets. Everything is massively over valued. Financial engineering is the name of the game. Major banks gamble with our money and when they collapse they get bailed out. That is not market efficiency.

> The train keeps going.

The only train that keeps going form here on out, is larger companies swallowing smaller companies. And the top siphoning wealth from the bottom.

Real capitalism would have had several market correction in the last 15 years, but the USA just keeps on printing money.
by proc0 | 2025-06-30 15:14:43+00:00
> To succeed, you’ll probably need all the skills of an engineer, some of a PM, and even a bit of design taste. It’s not just about shipping code anymore.

It hasn't been about shipping code for at least a decade. What's frustrating to me is how it seems only engineers have to see their roles constantly evolve over time, shifting responsibilities and changing what you focus on day to day. There's no reason why it has to, even with AI. Engineers could simply take on bigger tasks with AI, but instead the expansion of the role is horizontally across other disciplines. Why bother studying CS anymore? Anyone who wants to be an "engineer" has to instead study business and then just learn some code on the side. That is a much better fit for what companies want... except the interviews are highly technical. It's such a contradiction and a huge mess.
by vinhnx | 2025-06-30 15:14:47+00:00
I'm putting the finishing touches on VT[0] - a minimal AI chat client focused on privacy. No tracking, clean interface, with support for deep research, web search grounding, tool calls, and RAG... and more.

The code is all open source on GitHub[1]. Really close to shipping now - hope to share launch details soon.

These monthly HN threads have been great motivation for me to keep building consistently. Thanks everyone!

[0]: https://twitter.com/vtdotai

[1]: https://github.com/vinhnx/vtchat
by eawgewag | 2025-06-30 15:14:52+00:00
> I have a theory, based on many years of research and practice with Anki, that true healing from any kind of psychic illness only starts to set in place when you start to genuinely forget what it was ever like to be ill at all.

I found this line thoughtprovoking.

From 5-20 I was severely depressed. Now it's been 10 years, and I'm not depressed anymore. In fact, those years feel like a factual moment in my life, not something whose emotional state I can really recall and bring in my present life -- unlike, for example, the grief of losing any pet in my life. That still comes back with raw power.
by superdocs1 | 2025-06-30 15:15:33+00:00
Building an app that extracts key information from PDFs + highlights citations. You provide a PDF and a JSON schema defining what to extract, and it returns the extracted values, the citations and their precise locations in the document.

This is especially valuable in workflows where verification of LLM extracted information is critical (e.g. legal and finance). It can handle complex layouts like multiple columns, tables and also scanned documents.

Planning to offer this both as an API and a self-hosted option for organizations with strict data privacy requirements.

Screenshot: https://superdocs.io/highlight.png
by jeroenhd | 2025-06-30 15:15:50+00:00
MS is trying to limit kernel exposure: https://www.theverge.com/news/692637/microsoft-windows-kerne...

I doubt they'll end kernel-level AC, though. At best, they'll get more stable kernel-level anti cheat because better APIs are available. Anti-cheat software would run as a hypervisor if it could, and even then it wouldn't have enough access to catch all cheaters.
by matthewolfe | 2025-06-30 15:16:44+00:00
Agreed. A former mentor of mine told me a nice way of viewing software development:

1. Make it work. 2. Make it fast. 3. Make it pretty.

Transformers & LLMs have been developed to a point where they work quite well. I feel as though we're at a stage where most substantial progress is being made on the performance side.
by jrockway | 2025-06-30 15:17:03+00:00
A lot of these ARM boards use custom (read: outdated) kernels and proprietary boot methods, so I'm not really sure how applicable they are to people developing Linux distributions that work everywhere. NixOS, for example, is only supporting UEFI booting on ARM64 going forward. If Redhat has the same policy, then there is only a limited set of arm64 boards available. I researched this recently as I'd like to move my k8s cluster from renting expensive cloud machines to running them on cheap machines at home, and the situation is ... difficult. (I have tested the Orange Pi 5 Max and the Radxa Rock 5B+. Both required me to hack edk2-rk3588, but they do work well now that most rk3588 support is merged in Linux 6.15/6.16-rc1. But, this is an old CPU and is just now getting mainline kernel support, and that is always how arm has felt. It is, however, kind of neat to see a "BIOS" on an ARM board. I hope it catches on.)
by Spivak | 2025-06-30 15:17:04+00:00
Or if you come with your own financing. I usually talk to the "finance guy" at the dealership because (so I've been told) they sometimes run promotions and can give you a rate better than your bank but lord heavens I've never seen it.

They once offered me more than double the rate of my bank and for 2.5 times the term length. I'm sure that $150/mo or whatever payment for the rest of our life is attractive to someone but I just laughed. They really don't like people who are looking to minimize total interest paid.
by ascales | 2025-06-30 15:17:59+00:00
Been working on a small team exploring what the intersection of coaching, employee engagement, and AI looks like. (https://engage.myemmaai.com/)

Most employee engagement software is just placation for HR. When it's common that the lowest scoring question on feedback cycles is "I believe that action will be taken based on the results of this feedback," there's something fundamentally broken with how companies handle feedback, and how the tools their given enable them to react to it.

Our end goal is to help leaders and managers identify problems with trust and communication within a team. The reality is, 90% of the time, the problem lies with the leadership itself. We're trying to provide both the tools to diagnose what the problems are, and frameworks for managers to fix them.
by andelink | 2025-06-30 15:18:59+00:00
While I agree with the spirit of your message, you picked the wrong artist for this particular line:

> every piece of song writing […] is micro-managed by an entire team of people

No doubt this is true for many many pop artists, where there are literally teams of people with song writing credits, but for Taylor Swift, it is almost always just her and Jack Antonoff credited with songwriting and composition, and not uncommonly just her alone. Say what you will about her, but she writes her own songs.
by teucris | 2025-06-30 15:19:06+00:00
Fantastic work. This is great example of how good execution is what really matters - not just good ideas. I’m sure I’m not the only one who had an idea similar to this at some point - mine was called “nanowriter” and was meant for NanoWriMo (RIP)[0] but I lacked the coding ability and executive function to actually make it.l at the time. Enso is gorgeous and… exists, and therefore is infinitely better.

0: https://storyempire.com/2025/04/28/nanowrimo-closing-what-we...
by serial_dev | 2025-06-30 15:19:43+00:00
Just thought about it jokingly yesterday that every developer's first blog post is how they set up the blog or how they wrote a blog engine... :)

Long story short: Sign up for Scaleway, get your account approved, launch an instance, they have affordable "learning" instances that still feel "real" and can later run real services that need backend. I don't expect lot of traffic and I don't care if my stuff would go down from time to time, it's for fun. Set up SSH. Buy a domain, set up the DNS records to point to your instance. Run Caddy on the server to serve a dummy HTML file. Set up HTTPS. Verify you see your stuff in the browser. Now, create an actual site. Install hugo, pick a theme, install locally, build locally. Set up a script that copies the build folder onto your server where Caddy is serving, then restart Caddy. Write some content, check the limits of the theme / your set up, make sure everything works correctly. Even with the best of themes, you'll want to fix or change something, do that, if it looks good and you still have energy to work on your blog, start writing posts and let the world know.
by inslee1 | 2025-06-30 15:19:43+00:00
Just built a last-mile logistics management solution to replace a SaaS solution for a delivery company I used to be involved with.

Handles everything from real-time driver tracking, public order tracking links, finding suitable drivers for orders, batch push notifications for automatic order assignment, etc.

Backend: Feathers.JS, Postgres + TimescaleDB & PostGIS, BullMQ, Valhalla (for multi-stop route optimization although most of our deliveries are on-demand)

Frontend: SvelteKit

Mobile App (Android only for now): React Native/Expo, Zustand, Expo push notifications, and two custom native modules for secure token storage and efficient real-time GPS tracking. The tracking was probably the toughest to get right to find the best balance between battery/data efficiency and more frequent updates.

Been testing it for a couple weeks and as of last week, that company moved their operations over to it with 50+ drivers and thousands of orders processed through it so far (in a country with pretty unreliable connectivity/infrastructure).

I built it initially as a favor but open to other applications for it.
by jeroenhd | 2025-06-30 15:20:03+00:00
Games hardly eat up more than a megabit of bandwidth in practice, unless you start streaming. Even streaming games from the cloud to your computer will usually take less than 20-30mbps.

Latency is the real killer, though. A 10ms round trip + a few ms of simulation time at 144Hz will have physics objects "correct" their position after 4-5 frames have already been rendered. Bump that up to 30ms (still a perfectly common amount of latency) and you're reverting objects after 10 frames of animation.
by scarface_74 | 2025-06-30 15:20:10+00:00
A 2024 Hyundai Kona. It was the cheapest car at around $25K that we could settle for.

After I started working remotely in 2020, I gave my car - a 2011 Chevy Sonic - to my adult son. Two years later when we decided to travel full time, we sold our other car - a 2011 Ford Fusion for peanuts to a friend of our sons because he needed a reliable car. Once we decided to make our nomadding seasonal, we got another car.

I absolutely hate spending money on cars. We have one car now.
by mmarian | 2025-06-30 15:20:44+00:00
Hmm, interesting. I launched a blog a few months' back; one of the reasons was to talk to people about things I care about which, in my case, involves the struggles of launching a bootstrapped startup.

I put a link to my linkedin and a contact form, just for that. No one contacted me. But funnily enough, when I speak to people they often tell me they've read my blog. And I'd like to think that I'm pretty good at giving startup advice - mostly thanks to my failures and a podcast that I've been listening to.

Might end up trying this.
by detourdog | 2025-06-30 15:20:57+00:00
Nothing. I have an 8 unit building that is relying on heat pumps in New England. Tomorrow workers will start installing a solar thermal array to complement an existing solar PV array.

I'm doing it to minimize the growth of utility cost in the future. The only reason it's not wide spread is inertia and poorly informed consumers.

This only reason this works for me is a large investment in insulation.

Investing in insulation, renewable energy, and heat pumps. That is all it takes.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-06-30 15:22:07+00:00
The true killer is latency; the dominance of WiFi, and now the rise of home 5G internet.

People who play Counter-Strike with their wifi router 3 floors below them in the basement under a pile of laundry will go on a crusade to complain as loudly and relentlessly as possible for Valve to "fix the fucking hit reg".

People have -zero- technical knowledge and get incredibly angry that they died to someone they didn't even see.
by gregmac | 2025-06-30 15:22:19+00:00
And you're used to the weight of the glass, which you instantly recognize when you pick it up. If it was a different weight than you were expecting, you'd probably slow down and be more deliberate.

If you were to just do the exact same robotic "throw" action with a glass of unexpected weight you'd maybe not throw hard enough and miss, or throw too hard and possibly break it.
by Joker_vD | 2025-06-30 15:22:21+00:00
You also need to remember that back when those classic CS papers were written, the CPU/RAM speed ratios were entirely different from what they are today. Take, for instance, a Honeywell 316 from 1969 [0]: "Memory cycle time is 1.6 microseconds; an integer register-to-register "add" instruction takes 3.2 microseconds". Yep, back in those days, memory fetches could be twice as fast as the most simple arithmetic instruction. Nowadays, even the L1 fetch is 4 times as slow as addition (which takes a single cycle).

No wonder the classical complexity analysis of algorithms generally took memory access to be instantaneous: because it, essentially, was instantaneous.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell_316#Hardware_descrip...
by Justsignedup | 2025-06-30 15:22:43+00:00
Reminds me of the argument of "cars used to be more sturdy than today, where any hit is a total"

Um... Looking at videos of crashing old cars into new cars, the old cars DO NOT hold up to new cars in terms of breaking. The only difference is in old cars the engine would stay intact and the occupants not, while in the new cars its the opposite.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-06-30 15:22:54+00:00
It's their money and I agree that they have a right to use it however they want, or change its use for their own reasons.

That said, I think you're grossly underestimating how hard it can be for some of the families that were using this school to find an alternative that doesn't cause their kids problems.

With that in mind I'd say there is a sort of moral imperative to preserving a context you created when it's designed for helping vulnerable kids and families. Not a legal rule I'd agree with, but an ethical imperative that shouldn't cut things off without more sustained effort and only a modest cash payoff as compensation.

Given the absolutely colossal fortune of the Zuckerbergs, they could have funded and worked to improve this program for as long as they wanted to, with nary a visible dent in their assets, but (in my opinion during one very convenient space of time) they just decide "nope, fuck it. Here's some cash kids"
by cogman10 | 2025-06-30 15:23:05+00:00
There are certainly safety devices that I elided over. For example, checking the battery temperature is pretty crucial.

But, my argument is that EVs aren't complex. I could even grant your 2x number for safety measure and you'd still end up with a much simpler device than you can pull off with a comparable ICE engine.

I'd also point out that a lot of the parts are already "off the shelf".

There's a reason we saw a slew of pop-up BEV manufacturers all at once. It's because the manufacturing complexity is simply a lot lower than it is for an ICE line. There are far fewer parts, far less complex parts, and the parts are more readily available.
by ivape | 2025-06-30 15:23:31+00:00
Jane Austen loved novels, but was also dissatisfied with what she saw as the flaws of a lot of the novels around her

I always got the sense that she disliked the length and pacing of other books of her time. She has absolutely no qualms about moving the story from step to step with very little exposition in between. She’s just really dope, treats the reader in a very accelerated way.

Romance is corny stuff to write but she does it in such a cut throat, sharp and fast way that you don’t really get a chance to not get invested. Before you even realize what you’re reading, she already has you at the ball with the two characters dancing.

To put it shortly, she tells entire love stories in pamphlet sized books. Masterclass in brevity.
by deafpolygon | 2025-06-30 15:24:33+00:00
Not just “2 weeks”, most offer 10 days - and that has to include sick time off.

I once had 4 days sick, and my manager had to call me into a meeting with HIS manager to impress upon me that there was 6 months left to the year and I could only take 2 more sick days before they would have to count it against me on my performance review.
by looofooo0 | 2025-06-30 15:24:51+00:00
In Switzerland there is some neat established method for finding out the needed heating power. Consumption/year x Efficiency / 2000h/year = Max heating power. This should work for most moderate climates, although you should consult your local climate table. https://pubdb.bfe.admin.ch/de/publication/download/2781

Further even if you undersize your heat pump to only 70% of the max heating power, then you still will get out 99% from your heating from the heat pump on average.
by triceratops | 2025-06-30 15:25:10+00:00
I wasn't aware it was a "slur" as much as it was a statement of fact. A tiny minority has disproportionate control over our economy and everyone else's lives. Depending on your ideological leanings you may find that ok or not ok.

Others (retirement savers) using the same tools as that minority doesn't make them the same as that minority. Degree of control matters. That's what I was responding to.

"You know the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire? About a billion dollars"
by anon025 | 2025-06-30 15:25:11+00:00
My wife and I recently started sharing our passion for cooking at https://soulfulsabor.com. Got WordPress set up to get things running and focus on the cooking and photos. Wordpress turned out to be hyper complex for my taste and needs plugins for a lot of things, so I'm starting to develop my own static site for specifically for food blogs, not wanting to turn it into a product but just to add simplicity to our own workflow. The cooking side of the project is really fulfilling after a long day in the computer, it feels great to do something tangible with quick results. Got a bunch of bread recipes to upload soon.
by ativzzz | 2025-06-30 15:25:13+00:00
> Which means you should need fewer of them, no?

I've never worked at a company that didn't have an endless backlog of work that needs to be done. In theory, AI should enable devs to churn through that work slightly faster, but at the same time, AI will also allow PMs/work creators to create even more work to do.

I don't think AI fundamentally changes companies hiring strategies for knowledge workers. If a company wants to cheap out and do the same amount of work with less workers, then they're leaving space for their competitors to come and edge them out
by ceejayoz | 2025-06-30 15:25:14+00:00
https://www.cars.com/articles/lawmakers-to-jump-start-backup...

> A 2012 Harris poll suggests that the public agress with the mandate despite the technology’s costs. NHTSA says adding a backup camera to a car without an existing display screen will cost around $159 to $203 per vehicle, shrinking to between $58 and $88 for vehicles that already use display screens. The Harris poll found that consumers care more about safety features like backup cameras than they do about multimedia systems.

I'm not sure where you're getting your $3k backup cameras from; the camera is a $30 part, and pretty much every new car has a screen in it already.
by superkuh | 2025-06-30 15:25:26+00:00
Two things combined: uncertainty if the heat pump can handle cold regions making purchasing decisions much more difficult than with normal heating solutions which just work everywhere all the time. And that combined with the huge initial capital cost of in ground heat pump loops required in much of the country due to the cold winters.

This second, the large capital cost from ground excavation or drilling, etc, means heat pumps really only make sense and will see adoption in new houses, not existing houses. At least in places where it actually gets cold regularly. I expect much stronger adoption where simple above ground units are feasible.
I built a tool that helps you launch on Product Hunt
by eibrahim | 2025-06-30 15:25:40+00:00
Over the years, I’ve launched many products on Product Hunt and helped friends do the same. One recurring pain point: writing all the launch copy and prepping everything the night before.

So I built a tool to solve that and its included with my EliteSaaS template (you get all the source code)

Product Hunt Launcher

It helps you:

• Generate your tagline, description, and first comment

• Draft maker bios and tweets

• Preview your post before going live

• Export all your launch assets

Would love feedback or ideas for what else to include.

You can see it at https://www.elitesaas.dev/product-hunt-launcher
by jasonthorsness | 2025-06-30 15:26:41+00:00
FWIW I have a heat pump with natural gas backup installed in Washington state in 2016 and it's been great. As I recall even in 2016 there was no huge argument against it when you have to replace an existing natural gas furnace. Even in Washington it's nice to have AC and with a heat pump you get a more efficient furnace AND AC in one package.