MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
I couldn't find a co-founder, so I built one
by samsiavoshian | 2025-06-03 16:36:59+00:00
I’m a solo founder who couldn’t land someone to share both coding and strategy, so I built AI Co-Founder (https://aicofounder.dev). It can: Write code, and push commits to GitHub

Handle marketing: draft emails, post on X/Reddit/LinkedIn, make marketing content like posters (OpenAI Image gen api)

Look for investors and automate outreach

Send daily summaries and dashboard reports

…and much more to be a true partner

It’s not an assistant or an automation tool, it’s a true partner with its own email account and phone line. You can text it, call it, and it builds a real founder-level relationship with you.

Core features are ~50% done. Plan: finish MVP by June, onboard early users in July, go production-ready in August, then apply to YC Fall 2025. If you’ve ever struggled to find a co-founder, join the waitlist.
by avovsya | 2025-06-03 16:38:05+00:00
What do you mean by transcript? If you mean the messages that were shared - the answer is no, server sees no messages at all as message exchange is peer to peer via WebRTC. As soon as session is over(eg. When all clients disconnect) - message history is lost for good. Brute force attacks are theoretically possible for sessions in progress(though hard due to alphanumeric 6 character PIN and server throttling), so I'll introduce "safe session" as suggested by some of the commenter by introducing "waiting rooms" so the newly connected clients have to be approved. I'd definitely leave the current workflow as is as its frictionless and works for some of my usecases(quick link or log sharing, etc)
by codazoda | 2025-06-03 16:39:07+00:00
I'm an old developer who started with a BBS in my bedroom back in the late 80's. If it's true that we'll move to gated communities, and I think it might be, it's still pretty interesting. I have fond memories of the BBS era when only a few people shared my work.

I've been wondering if I should gate my website with a username and password like we used to do in the BBS days. A lot of the big players like Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, and more do this.

I don't know if anyone is willing to "log in" to my system but I'm certainly curious about how this might work now.
by apercu | 2025-06-03 16:40:16+00:00
I do, only I've spent a lot of time the last 15 years thinking objectively about my strengths and weaknesses. I am so "lazy" that I work hard nearly every day. Let me explain.

1. Big tasks are stressful because, well, they're big. So I break them down in to components and chip away every day at them so that I am not overwhelmed. I call this taking care of my future self.

2. I love to have days where I get to wake up and do whatever I want to do that day. But I can't enjoy that freedom with bad conscious tasks hanging over my head, so I work my ass off to have those days. For example, my goal for the ENTIRE summer was to spread a yard of mulch, re-build two firewood racks, re-stack and move the logs that are in different areas to keep them seasoning, split and stack a cord of wood for next winter, lay posts for a fruit tree espalier, rebuild shed doors, cut back the wood line 10 feet. These are all already done because we had a nice weather spring. On top of that I changed the fluids on the tractor, the lawnmower, the riding lawnmower and cleaned the gutters.

3. Future proof my job. I got ISO 27001 certification in the spring during dry project spell, and I'm now doing my CCP certification. I have also made it a goal to do 2 hours of business development and networking every week.

4. I do billing on weekdays now, no longer on the weekends.

5. Exercise and sleep. Eat healthy. Don't drink alcohol. This means I wake up early and fresh and motivated to do a couple hours of early work every day. This usually means I'm done with my workday by 2:00pm.

6. Remove toxic relationships from your life. This could be friends, an employer, a client, whatever. They suck your happiness which impacts your productivity.

7. Don't keep up with the Jones's. Figure out what makes you happy. I've never cared about how people view me, I wear jeans and t-shirts mostly. Fancy cars & houses do nothing for me (I live in a great house on an amazing property in a very special area next to a city I have always loved even though it wasn't my "home", but it's not a McMansion). My car is low mileage and 10 years old.

8. Don't do ALL the hobbies. Find the one or two that you really get a lot out of and focus on those. For me it's music.

Did I know or do much of this when I was 20? no. 30? not really. Maybe some of this just comes from experience.

But mostly, don't believe the hype.
by rzodkiew | 2025-06-03 16:40:33+00:00
Not sure why more people aren't mentioning this. But that's the exact reason I've stopped using any LLM stuff. Your thinking just gets lazier and lazier the more you use it. You stop thinking the problems deeply and thoroughly when the "answer" is just around the corner. Then one day you snap out of that mirage, and see what a boatload of junk you've just created with this stuff.

I also dread what's going to happen to the younger generations which have this to replace their real education, but that's a bit offtopic here.
by malfist | 2025-06-03 16:40:34+00:00
I don't have to post my chat, someone else already posted a chat claiming ChatGPT gave them correct answers when the answers ChatGPT gave them were all kinds of wrong.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44164633 and my analysis of the results: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44171575

You can send me all your money via paypal, money order or check.
by eitally | 2025-06-03 16:41:11+00:00
The product seems interesting. LMK if you're interested in more strategic GTM, especially through partnerships. If so, I'd be happy to help (or even just chat). I like your sense of humor. :) I've spent the past decade in partnerships and channel led growth, and it'd be fun to connect. https://www.linkedin.com/in/elliottally/
by Suppafly | 2025-06-03 16:41:57+00:00
> There are lots of lines going on meandering routes through the suburbs. Not enough routes with going between dense areas with high frequency.

My city did a hub and spoke type system, but the flip side is that you need to go downtown and change buses to get on the right spokes, which is confusing for people, and can take longer than a route that just goes in a big circle, if you're going somewhere that isn't super far away. That said, our system seems to mostly exist to get poor people where they want to go, vs being designed for working professionals, so I'm still not sure what the best solution would be.

Uber and those $1 private buses that some cities have are able to cut the bureaucracy and just popup routes that make sense for them to service without having to worry about disabled folks and such, so I'm sure they give a better experience to their customers while not providing a universal experience that a publicly funded operation would require.
by threecheese | 2025-06-03 16:42:10+00:00
I agree wrt Facebook, but there’s a long tail of useful apps-that-should-be-websites; 1 click for an app versus 45 seconds searching through tabs and re-logging in (etc) can be meaningful, especially when there are fifty of them.

My healthcare provider recently yanked the mobile version of their portal website, and forces users to download their app. Personally, I see the security angle, but still feel like it’s a punch in the face and so I just went back to paper billing and using a PC for healthcare stuff. More of this is coming, I suspect.
by deergomoo | 2025-06-03 16:42:45+00:00
Then why not just write it? You mention not having to write Markdown in the post, but c’mon dude, you’re a software developer.

Presumably the fact you have a personal blog means you must enjoy some aspect of writing, so what’s the end game here?

I mean you do you I guess—it’s your blog and I’m nobody. But if I’m reading someone’s thoughts I want _their_ words, not something filtered through a machine.
by vinceguidry | 2025-06-03 16:43:21+00:00
> Committing to either "hustle" or "quality" is equally stupid.

Of course it is.

> It sounds like you've bought into some ridiculous "sigma grindset" nonsense and you're now gatekeeping it as an identity.

This kind of rationalistic bullshit is exactly what I make it my mission to rail against on HN. Speaking in a general sense can only be done well from an intuititionist perspective. My original post on this garnered 25 upvotes, quite above average these days. You're the one mistaking my generalization for gatekeeping, and it's precisely because you're holding on to a rationalist mindset, so you project that onto others.

All I was doing was committing to the bit. No half-measures for me. Nobody follows threads after the first day or so anyway. No harm in continuing discussions past the sell-by date.
by zozbot234 | 2025-06-03 16:44:15+00:00
The point of locks 'waiting' is really just that they degrade nicely under heavy contention, e.g. when more threads are trying to take the lock than you have available cores/harts. Busy polling will lead to terrible performance in such conditions, whereas threads that "wait" will do the right thing and leave CPU resources free for the active tasks to progress.
by ljm | 2025-06-03 16:44:38+00:00
I don't like the externalities of something like this, or in fact a lot of projects riding on AI hype.

The carbon footprint of typing a post out by hand, for example, is negligible in comparison to the carbon footprint of a massive datacentre running hundreds of prompts for many minutes to perform otherwise trivial tasks. A laptop that is already quite powerful is barely using any of its own compute in favour of requiring an utterly enormous amount somewhere else in the world.

It just feels like a colossal waste especially when you're going back to the same LLM many times to refine or correct its output.
by bbrayslc | 2025-06-03 16:44:53+00:00
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by thomastjeffery | 2025-06-03 16:45:17+00:00
This is rooted in the idea that a person should need permission to work. The reason we do this is because our capitalist society is structured around competition instead of collaboration. Because all work must be framed as a competition, the only way collaboration is allowed is by explicitly joining a team.

This rule is made explicit with copyright: derivative work is, by default, illegal. The only way that derivative work is allowed to be made is after making a contract with the rightsholder.

This system can only be enforced with incompatibility. You can't actually stop someone from making derivative work unless your help is actually required. The most familiar instance of this requirement is software: it's simply not pragmatic for someone to extend your code, when they only have access to a compiled binary. Software work can only be extended from a shared context: what you write must be compatible with what is written. That's generally unfeasible when what is written is a compile-time optimized binary executable.

Incompatibility is not a perfect barrier. It's possible to decompile software. It's possible to edit text, images, video, audio, etc. Copyright depends on incompatibility, and LLMs are simply the newest, most compelling way to call that bluff.
Show HN: I built a micro-notes app for the timeline of you
by venga | 2025-06-03 16:45:32+00:00
Hey HN,

We forget more than we remember. In a world shouting for attention, I built something that listens.

It’s called Feel — a micro-notes app for the timeline of you. Your thoughts, memories, ambitions — all stitched quietly into one unfolding story.

There’s no feed. No noise. Just moments you choose to keep, and an optional AI that softly reminds you what they meant.

It’s early, raw yet heartfelt and built solo. But it might just be the calmest place on the internet.

Try it here: https://feelapp.xyz

Would love your feedback.

Invite code: SPECIAL28
by pier25 | 2025-06-03 16:45:37+00:00
I think there's a figure mostly absent in these processes. Designers and devs are living in their bubble/silo and don't think like a user.

It's very rare to find someone who can understand design, UX, and code and put it all together into a cohesive vision. In my experience, if you have the UX right from the start, then the rest becomes much easier. UX is the foundation that will dictate how it has to be designed and programmed.
by doomrobo | 2025-06-03 16:45:48+00:00
There are middle boxes between the two peers, yes? Routers and such. They observe the encrypted messages. They can brute force the password, even after the session is over.

Even if you assume the PIN is uniformly random (you should not assume this), it is only log2((10+26)^6) ~ 31 bits of entropy. This does not satisfy standard notions of secure channel establishment.
by bastinrobin | 2025-06-03 16:46:47+00:00
Hi HN! I built PhotoMonk over a weekend because I was tired of paying Adobe $240/year just to open my camera's RAW files. What it does:

Processes RAW files (CR2, CR3, NEF, ARW, DNG) entirely in the browser 30+ professional presets with real-time preview Professional controls: exposure, white balance, highlights/shadows Interactive crop tool with aspect ratios No uploads, no registration, completely free

Technical details:

Built with React/TypeScript + Canvas API Client-side RAW processing using simulated pipeline:

File format detection EXIF metadata extraction Debayering simulation Color correction algorithms Professional-grade tone mapping

Zero server dependencies for image processing Real-time preview with optimized rendering

Why I built it: As a hobby photographer, I only need basic RAW processing but Adobe forces an expensive subscription. Every alternative was either expensive, limited, or desktop-only. Figured the web platform was powerful enough to handle this now. Current status:

Live and working: photomonk.pro 2000+ RAW files processed since launch Works on desktop/mobile Handles files up to ~50MB smoothly

Tech stack:

Frontend: React, TypeScript, Tailwind Image processing: Canvas API, custom algorithms No backend needed for core functionality

What's next:

Batch processing Better RAW format support (considering WebAssembly + LibRAW) Custom preset sharing PWA version

The goal was to prove you don't need expensive software for basic photo editing. Turns out browser APIs are pretty capable these days. Would love feedback from the community! Especially interested in:

Performance on different devices RAW formats you'd like supported Missing features that matter

Try it: Upload any photo (RAW or JPEG) at photomonk.app
by scalewithlee | 2025-06-03 16:46:58+00:00
Location: North Carolina (EST)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Kubernetes, Docker/Podman, Python, Go, Airflow, AWS (IAM, EMR, EKS, S3, etc etc), GCP (GKE), Azure (AKS), Dagger, CI/CD (Jenkins, Github Actions), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), Helm, Bash

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/scalewithlee -- resume available upon request

Email:leetgaines [at] gmail

8 years of experience in devopsy kind of stuff. My last role was principal engineer, cloud infra at Autodesk, where I was the lead engineer on their petabyte-scale analytics data platform. I can design and implement production-ready, scalable systems and I care a lot about developer experience and not getting pinged while being on-call.

I'm a perpetual learner and enjoy troubleshooting issues (and then building solutions to prevent them from happening again) and working with people.

Feel free to reach out to me via email or linkedin: https://linkedin.com/in/lee-gaines

U.S. citizen, if that matters.
by lapcat | 2025-06-03 16:47:33+00:00
> Depends if you want the people running the country to be competent or not.

In some sense, the goal of the educational system should be to make everyone competent. In any case, it's unclear what you mean by "running the country". Politically speaking, the people currently running the US are not competent, despite the fact that the educational system and the social hierarchy are inextricably entangled.

Whatever kind of -ocracy you're proposing (I'm personally not proposing here that we abolish democracy), I don't see any inherent reason why a social ranking system and the educational system can't be separate rather than combined into one.

When employers start looking the alma mater of applicants, their grades in school, and such (reportedly Mark Shuttleworth of Canonical is obsessed with high school!), that's when the entire educational system gets warped. Learning gets cast aside in favor of credentialism, and consequently, cheating to get ahead.
by Reubachi | 2025-06-03 16:47:48+00:00
I understand your point, and in real life as a working commuter feel exactly the same. If the world where to end tomorrow, I would be upset that I cared so much about space research and less about for example infrastructure or access to water at that specific moment in time.

However without using hyperbole, I can say as fact that "rock analyses and probe pictures" = GPS. Weather tracking/extrapolation. Satellite comm standards. Titanium alloying. Water Filtration. Vaccum efficient powerplants. subterranean imaging. 100 percent recyclables. Outer Space Treaty (1967.) FIber Optics. Solar Power. I could go on and on, but, it is 100 percent true to say that we would not have the life we have today where it not for NASA. We are extremely lucky that the power structures going back in history have had a scientific sexual organ measuring contest, because it for better or worse resulted in all those things at minimum.
by citizenpaul | 2025-06-03 16:48:57+00:00
>if you're not someone who really likes to get their hands dirty and do the thing yourself

My life experience is that this represents modestly something north of 90% of the population. Most people are not as self motivated as HN crowd is. My cynic wants to say 99.9% Which is how I know its marketing. Its for people that fancy themselves as something they are not. IE fantasizing.

Its like all those commercials where the "boss" strolls in points to some vaguely business looking stuff and everyone runs off to work then the "boss" character goes to the beach or something. Its a fantasy sales pitch in other words. Work one minute a day and be rich.

I guess I'm getting off track which is not how AI helps workflow but that all this stuff we are seeing is marketing and there is little tangible evidence that AI helps enable the workflow you are referencing.
by 827a | 2025-06-03 16:49:13+00:00
IMO: The position of "we aren't sure what the right approach to improvement is so we aren't going to do anything" has killed far bigger and more important projects, companies, and even countries, than Golang. Adapt or die; the world isn't going to wait for you.

(I love the Go team, and appreciate everything they do. I'm just sad to see a language I used to love fail to keep pace with many of the other options out there today.)
by dyingkneepad | 2025-06-03 16:49:25+00:00
I am.

C is still highly used for low-level system software development: OS stuff like drivers, libraries, compilers, databases, software that runs in specialized small hardware, etc. C++ is for those slightly-higher abstractions that still require a lot of performance, like video-games and some of the former. Some stuff is getting very slowly replaced by Rust, but it will still take a long time for Rust to corrode the C/C++ market share in the lowest level stuff.
by evanjrowley | 2025-06-03 16:49:36+00:00
It's great to see NixOS grow over the years. It's hard to deny the strengths of Nix as modular configs for different platforms are increasingly embraced by users.

When I first looked at it ~10 years ago, the documentation was hard to digest, and that made it difficult to go beyond the basics. Today the situation has improved dramatically. There's many helpful examples like this, innovative third parties offering Nix services, and even multiple YouTube channels helping to explain Nix to beginners.

For this specific example, I'm glad to see root-on-tmpfs/impermanence, secrets management, and many other cool features being advertized. This blog post is a nice introduction too: https://www.chengeric.com/homelab/
by aerhardt | 2025-06-03 16:49:58+00:00
This is an important question. The skepticism tracks with my personal experience - I feel 10-20% more productive but certainly not 5x when measured over a long period of time (say, the last 6 months or more)

I’m nonetheless willing to be patient and see how it plays out. If I’m skeptical about some grandiose claims I must also be equally skeptical and accepting about the possibility of large scale effects happening but not being apparent to me yet.
by slg | 2025-06-03 16:49:58+00:00
>I think the analogy is relevant because I am discussing the plagiarism of AI in relation to the economic aspects of copyright infringement and the impacts on the market for artists and SW devs. Not in relation to the moral rights[1] of authors. The issue of artists being annoyed on principle, not on economic effects, that some souless computer is producing plagiarist art that imitates their artstyle without attribution is a separate but closely related issue. I'm not sure but I think the article is more concerned with the former issue.

How can you justify separating the two concerns? This article is a defense of AI against its critics. It is a pretty poor defense if the argument is along the lines of "certain ethical concerns don't count". The author being "more concerned with" one issue doesn't make the other issue invalid or irrelevant.
Show HN: Ultra-lightweight chunker library with emoji support
by Beardier | 2025-06-03 16:50:29+00:00
I kept rewriting the same array.slice(i, i + n) logic in every project. Eventually, I decided to stop and just make a utility.

Chonkify is a small (~870B), zero-dependency JS/TS library for chunking any kind of data:

- Works with Array, String, Buffer, Set, Map, Array-like, TypedArray

- Handles AsyncIterable (great for batching streams)

- Unicode-safe (correctly handles grapheme clusters, emoji, etc.)

- ESM-first, TypeScript-ready

I mostly made it for myself, but figured others might find it useful too.

Would love feedback!
by dylan604 | 2025-06-03 16:50:59+00:00
I've been out in very poor seeing conditions, and it is just miserable. I was only doing wide angle and not using a scope, but the sky was so turbulent that I couldn't get proper focus. For those of us in the northern hemisphere, the best time for imaging the center of the milky way lines up with summer. Summer is just horrible seeing conditions in my area with >100° temps deep into the night with high humidity levels. Every now and then a new moon lines up with a nice thunderstorm which clears out the air and brings down the temps. Anyone want to take bets on the over/under of how often that happens?!
by vitesse_oblige | 2025-06-03 16:51:05+00:00
I played the heck out of the Mac version in the 1980s. I was only able to max out the score once, on a perfect run with the stars aligned. The key tactic was to delay the relative rescues until very late in the game, and to find one treasure per relative - that is with just 1/4 of the map. I had basically memorized the game's bitmap of the Caribbean. I suppose if you tried it today, you'd probably look for a data-mined version online.