MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: AI-ready portfolio with 40 personality modules for strategic system use
by Devinlam | 2025-07-30 00:32:11+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm an independent system builder and AI symbiosis thinker from Hong Kong. Over the past few years, I’ve developed a unique self-evolving portfolio designed to demonstrate my capability in integrating multiple complex systems — including a sports prediction engine ("Football AI Prediction"), a deep personality-matching framework for social projects, and a modular strategic planner for long-term life design.

I built this not only as a showcase of skills but as a live framework of who I am: a full-spectrum INTJ with over 40 modular personalities (with distinct internal functions), designed for real-time switching, integration, and decision modeling.

Key highlights: - 40+ structured personality modules (including financial strategist, control type, intimate empath, long-term legacy builder, etc.) - Complete project walkthroughs: sports AI, matching systems, automation frameworks - Full bilingual version (Chinese + English), with future Arabic version in preparation - Designed to communicate with AI systems and companies seeking deep-thinking symbiotic partners

Portfolio: [https://your-link.com] Contact: devinlam417ai@gmail.com Open to: Remote collabs, AI think tanks, Middle East / HK / TW markets With me: 3 sugar gliders — I don’t go alone

I’m not looking for a traditional job, but for companies, researchers, or co-founders who are interested in future-persona design, system integration, or novel collaborative structures. If you're working on something that might resonate, let’s talk.

Thank you for reading.
by Twey | 2025-07-30 00:32:47+00:00
The example URL here, though, is still not (helpfully) bookmarkable because the contents of page 2 will change as new items are added. To get truly bookmarkable list URLs, the best approach I've seen is ‘page starting from item X’, where X is an effectively-unique ID for the item (e.g. a primary key, or a timestamp to avoid exposing IDs).
by teleforce | 2025-07-30 00:34:36+00:00
Please check this excellent LLM-RAG AI-driven course assistant at UIUC for an example of university course [1]. It provide citations and references mainly for the course notes so the students can verify the answers and further study the course materials.

[1] AI-driven chat assistant for ECE 120 course at UIUC (only 1 comment by the website creator):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41431164
by crabmusket | 2025-07-30 00:35:02+00:00
This is something that the rise of LLMs has highlighted for me. Sometimes, we don't care to apply our intelligence to a problem. I've come to think of myself as "acting like an LLM" when I do this.

It reminds me of Kahneman's "system 1" (fast) and "system 2" (slow) thinking. LLMs are system 1 - fast, intuitive, instinctual. Humans often think that way. But we can also break out system 2 when we choose to, and apply logic, reason, etc.
by t-writescode | 2025-07-30 00:35:12+00:00
> is fantastic UX but never gets implemented because there’s never time

Wouldn't the change take something like an hour the first time you implement it and then 10s of seconds for calling the centralized function henceforth?

I don't think the problem is "there's never time"; and if that is the problem, I don't think an LLM will "solve" that, especially since studies have shown developers are slower when they use LLMs to code for them.
by saithier | 2025-07-30 00:35:14+00:00
There are three different lenses on the iPhone 16 Pro. Which one gets used is determined by the "zoom" level you pick. The "0.5x" picks the widest angle lens, the "1x" and "2x" use the same lens, and the "5x" uses the third lens.

If you wish to reduce optical distortion and can get farther away from the subject, you'll want to pick the "5x" zoom. Think somebody else here said it was a 105mm equivalent, which sounds about right.

Intermediate values are obviously crops... although given that the 0.5x and the 1x lens are both 48mp sensors (IIRC), and the resulting image is typically 12mp, it doesn't make as big of a quality difference as one might ordinarily think.
Show HN: I built an app to collect and manage user feedback for startups and dev
by averadev | 2025-07-30 00:35:29+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Fidbaq, a simple app designed to help startups and developers collect, organize, and prioritize user feedback — so you can build features your users actually want.

Create your own feedback board

Let users submit ideas, bugs, and suggestions

Prioritize with user votes

Turn feedback into a clear product roadmap

If you’re tired of building features nobody needs, give it a try: https://www.fidbaq.xyz/

I’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback!

— Agustín Vera
by s1artibartfast | 2025-07-30 00:36:05+00:00
Have you looked at proportions over time?

In the 1980s 55% of registered nurses were working with diploma. It is down to 6% today. Bachelors or greater was 27% and is now over 70% today.

As your link points out, many states are continually raising the bar and many have already moved to a BSN minimum.

I'm probably dating myself, but there was a time when people started working occupational nursing programs while in high school and were licensed a few years later.

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/12956/chapter/9#186
by scosman | 2025-07-30 00:36:18+00:00
Also:

- your entry level mirrorless is ~$300 of camera HW vs ~$80 of camera HW on the phone (very very rough estimate of sensor+lens BOM)

- the mirrorless doesn't have any of the physical constraints of being tiny and fitting in a pocket, which directly impact image quality

iPhones cameras are really amazing given the constraints.
by p1necone | 2025-07-30 00:37:30+00:00
Human beings make relatively predictable mistakes, to the extent that I can skim read large PRs with mental heuristics and work out whether the dev thought carefully about the problem when designing a solution, and whether they hit common pitfalls etc.

AI code generation tends to pass a bunch of those heuristics while generating code that you can only identify as nonsense by completely understanding it, which takes a lot more time and effort. It can generate sensible variable and function names, concise functions, relatively decent documentation etc while misunderstanding the problem space in subtle ways that human beings very rarely do.
by const_cast | 2025-07-30 00:37:48+00:00
The great thing about schools is they throw hundreds or thousands of kids together. The fat ones, the skinny ones, the annoying ones, the gross ones, the white ones, the black ones, the mean ones, the cool ones, the weird ones, everyone. And you're FORCED to be around them and make it work. And then you do that every day for 12 years.

This is all anecdotal of course, but of all the homeschooled kids I knew, even going into highschool, they were freaks of nature. I mean, just deeply unlikable people. They were always "off", often rude, often meek, and had this sort of air of desperation for socialization, with none of the tools to make it work.

Now, some of them grew out of it - I met some in highschool working at the Dairy Queen. Turns out, a couple of years of dealing with food service will help you out socially too. But a lot of them never did. Not when I knew them, anyway.

I don't know why, I don't know how, and I can't tell what, exactly, about the public school experience causes this. But it's what I've observed.
by spankibalt | 2025-07-30 00:37:50+00:00
Never cared much for building models (mostly Plasticart) after my day school year in the GDR, but there was a small railway modelling shop that also sold plastic model kits, especially after the fall of the Iron Curtain. That shop has a large hand in igniting my love for all things design and illustration. Beautiful box tops! Albeit back in the day I was partially to Dragon Models (DML).

RIP Mr. Tamiya
by TZubiri | 2025-07-30 00:38:25+00:00
You are ascribing thoughts to me (and root comment) that I have not expressed. I recommend that you reread the thread and separate what is being explicitly said, and what you believe is implicitly said.

Then reread it with only the explicit meanings in my and root comment: we are talking about the consequences of the law without making any comment on the morals, probably because we are network admins that see this news as input and we are not lawmakers that see it as output.

I hope that by rereading the comments in this light, communication might be improved.
by shepherdjerred | 2025-07-30 00:38:27+00:00
> Federal agents take an hour and a half, almost two, trying to figure out who I am

Absolutely terrible that this happened, but how in the world are you comparing this to rounding up people based on race/other traits and systemically killing them?

> “The individual with the same first, middle and last name bears a striking resemblance to the individual temporarily taken into custody by mistake.”

> Insisting that he looked like a violent criminal on their wanted list

> Shave your beard off so we won't mistake you again

stupid comment from the agent, but it sounds like they were explaining how they mixed the victim up with a criminal
by TZubiri | 2025-07-30 00:38:59+00:00
It'd make sense, VPNs are fraudulent in that they lie about the origin of a connection.

There's precedent in financial regulation, is it legal to send and receive wires to and from a swiss bank to conceal their russian or chinese or congolese or iraki origin?

Similarly in intl. trade it is illegal to hide the origin of imports, it is even illegal to reroute imports for the purpose of evading tariffs or compliance.

If y'all want to keep VPNs legal, I suggest you find better excuses than downloading porn and evading netflix restrictions, because the other side argues about infinitely higher stakes.
by jmye | 2025-07-30 00:39:04+00:00
> I don't know what the solution is

I’m, of course, interested in an optimistic answer, but I think it’s clear that there is no solution. Humans are, by and large, really stupid and really selfish. You will never get enough of them to care more about each other (and, in this case, each other’s grandchildren), than care about their own immediate wants.
by em-bee | 2025-07-30 00:40:36+00:00
what specifically does?

the expectation to assimilate our culture and fully give up theirs.

Why do you think gypsies have not integrated

i'd believe this is mainly because they are nomadic, which is something that we seem to have a hard time accepting, or even tolerating. for me this is one aspect of their culture that we should celebrate and support. but we don't.
by rjh29 | 2025-07-30 00:40:39+00:00
I agree but what are they supposed to do? Cloud sharing is commoditized now and it's easy to move providers. Their only choice was to try to move up the stack, but there is no clear direction. It's video editing, e-signatures/encryption, passwords, AI, document editing... so far I haven't found any of those offerings useful. Their Linux support is however much appreciated.
Ask HN: What Interests You in Crypto?
by bix6 | 2025-07-30 00:41:30+00:00
I did a search for crypto on HN but it's mostly reporting on scams and thefts, which sure I get, but I would love to chat with people on what is getting them excited right now in crypto.

E.g. what do people think of Bitcoin's security, will it ever be "hacked"? Will we see it continue to rise as a global currency?

What do you think of newer solutions like Sol or Sui potentially taking over Eth as the second favorite child?

Will real world assets be meaningfully tokenized? Is every bank going to have their own chain / stablecoin?

What projects or chains are you working on?

Etc.

Cheers in advance!
by ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 | 2025-07-30 00:42:29+00:00
Sure, humans aren't without flaws in this area. However, in real time, humans can learn and correct themselves, we can check eachother, ask for input, etc, and not continue to make mistakes. This isn't the case with LLMs as a service.

For example, even if you craft the most detailed cursor rules, hooks, whatever, they will still repeatedly fuck up. They can't even follow a style guide. They can be informed, but not corrected.

Those are coding errors, and the general "hiccups" that these models experience all the time are on another level. The hallucinations, sycophancy, reward hacking, etc can be hilariously inept.

IMO, that should inform you enough to not trust these services (as they exist today) in explaining concepts to you that you have no idea about.

If you are so certain you are okay to trust these things, you should evaluate every assertion it makes for, say, 40 hours of use, and count the error rate. I would say it is above 30%, in my experience of using language models day to day. And that is with applied tasks they are considered "good" at.

If you are okay with learning new topics where even 10% of the instruction is wrong, have fun.
by cindyllrn | 2025-07-30 00:43:44+00:00
I see your point

Some of the best exchanges that I participated in or witnessed involved people acknowledging their personal limits, including limits of conclusions formed a priori

To further the discussion, hearing the phrase you mentioned would help the listener to independently assess a level of confidence or belief of the exchange

But then again, honesty isn't on-brand for startups

It's something that established companies say about themselves to differentiate from competitors or even past behavior of their own

I mean, if someone prompted an llm weighted for honesty, who would pay for the following conversation?

Prompt: can the plan as explained work?

Response: I don't know about that. What I do know is on average, you're FUCKED.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-07-30 00:43:56+00:00
> Individual action doesn't work because it only takes one kid in the class who doesn't have parental controls then everyone loses.

The response to this, of course, is that many kids will be educated by their responsible parents.

They will know Santa isn't real or what sex is or why sometimes girls and boys kiss other girls and boys.

Are we going to outlaw teaching your own children about life next? Because they might "spread" the knowledge of... The real world they are about to experience and navigate?
by aspenmayer | 2025-07-30 00:45:14+00:00
> So why should abandoned hardware be any riskier than a brand new router, whose vulnerabilities haven't yet been discovered?

The time value of money is at play here. Vulnerability researchers are either black hats or they are something else. Most folks who research vulns don’t exploit devices they don’t own, and those who do are mostly black hats. Most folks with the skills to be black hats if they so desired definitionally have the “skills to pay the bills” but they may be using them in the legal market, so they would need a large return on the time invested, as well as a premium for doing illegal things due to the downside risk of being caught.

Vulnerabilities that can be exploited pay more than hypothetical ones, so proof of concept is worth less than a fully operationalized exploit chain. The larger the install base, the larger the pool of vulnerable target devices, and the larger the payout to the researcher.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush because the sure thing is worth more than uncertainly. A demonstrated capability that exploits a vulnerability in a widely distributed device is worth more because it does more than a hypothetical vulnerability in a brand new device that doesn’t already have market penetration or saturation.
by westernaccess | 2025-07-30 00:46:37+00:00
I created a prize for short fiction with a $3500 prize pool, judged entirely by AI.

In short, the first stage of evaluation gets passed through four small models based on 21 literary criteria. If there’s agreement between the models, or if the first pass scores particularly well, the work is promoted to the second stage. Here, seven sub-agents which specialize in groups of the above criteria give two passes on the work. If the same scoring evaluations are met, all of the previous results are added to contexts for larger, thinking models to give a final score.

Currently, submissions are limited to short (2000 to 20,000 words) literary (not genre) fiction.

Once the submission period ends, and prizes are awarded, I’ll be opening it up for anyone to use.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-07-30 00:47:44+00:00
If you don't have anything near you, I would look for acrylics designed for models online. Games Workshop sells them, but there are other brands (Vallejo, Reaper, etc) which are also quite good and generally cheaper. And they will, as a rule, be more pleasant to work with than the acrylics you get at Michael's/Hobby Lobby.
by kridsdale1 | 2025-07-30 00:47:50+00:00
2025 Lightroom and Photoshop have a vastly better HDR workflow for working with RAW and exporting to AVIF or JPEG with embedded HDR luminance map that shows up correctly on iOS or in Chrome on MacOS with the display set to HDR. I don’t know about Android or windows.

I have re-exported files that I took in 2007 with the Nikon D7 that I kept the raw files for. They are vastly improved with modern processing (and noise reduction) vs what I exported from the same negative back then. The bit depth was always high enough.
by louthy | 2025-07-30 00:48:41+00:00
In the 80s I had the Tamiya Grasshopper [1], which was the greatest remote control car ever (opinion).

I remember attaching three battery packs (instead of the standard one)—to make it drive at roughly 8 billion miles per hour, in the process ripping the tyres to shreds and pretty much ruining the car—because it couldn’t turn without flipping several thousand times.

Still, for those initial few seconds, it was glorious.

RIP Grasshopper and RIP Shunsaku Tamiya

[1] https://cdn.thingiverse.com/assets/8b/e7/0c/d6/a0/IMG_6201.j...
by balderdash | 2025-07-30 00:49:29+00:00
I’ve been thinking about something similar - Microsoft needs to make dead simple “AI scripts” record: I download this csv file, I then manipulate the data this way, add these formulas, add a cover sheet, do these checks, and then upload the new sheet a with the following columns into system X. Once you have that recorded, and adjusted to what you want. Next you just download the file and run the script.

The amount of repetitive data manipulation at companies is literally insane, just ask anyone in accounting, operations, hr, etc… just being able to automate repetitive task in excel for people that can’t code or aren’t excel/Vba super users would be incredibly valuable.
by eurleif | 2025-07-30 00:49:40+00:00
>The traffic needed to maintain presence scales by N^2

Only true if we assume the average number of contacts scales linearly with the total number of users, right? But then, we could also assume that the average number of messages that a given user sends scales linearly with the total number of users, in which case the amount of traffic needed to transmit messages also scales by N^2.

A couple of easy fixes: cap the number of contacts at some large constant (as many services do), or just disable presence information altogether in your implementation. I'm skeptical that this played a major role in XMPP's lack of popularity, especially because e.g. WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger have presence information, and are still popular.
by social_quotient | 2025-07-30 00:49:44+00:00
Yeah I get that, I’m not “stuck” it’s that I don’t think the comms make sense and it’s troubling none of these teams have figured out a pricing model that isn’t a rug pull. If all of these ai llm coders were priced right, they would be out of the hands of many of the operators that are not dependent users. It’s got a bait and switch feel to it. I’ll deal with it. It’s a good product, I just feel like we deserve better and that these guys are smarter than this.

Can you imagine if AWS pulled half of these tricks with cloud services as a subscription not tethered to usage? They wait for you to move all of your infrastructure to them (to the detriment of their competitors) and then … oh we figured out we can’t do business like this, we need to charge based on XYZ… we are all adults and it’s our job to deal with it or move on but… something doesn’t smell right and that’s the problem.
by ahi | 2025-07-30 00:50:21+00:00
Somehow I missed his passing last year. Harper's was very important to me as a teenager stuck in the cultural wasteland of suburbia. Smart, critical, and often funny, it showed me writing didn't have to suck.

I was trying to come up with a descriptor when I found an obit: "Lewis was the last of a breed that never had many members to begin with: the patrician liberal."

https://www.newstatesman.com/appreciation/2024/07/lewis-laph...
by rconti | 2025-07-30 00:50:42+00:00
I took my Fuji XT-2 and 27mm pancake lens on a recent trip, after leaving it at home the previous few. Every time, I find the Fuji takes more work and skill than I have to develop good photos after the fact. I too often blow out the sky, for example.

Unfortunately, the less I use it, the worse I get. So snagging my "nice" camera for a vacation, then spending a lot of time making sure I lug it around and use it, and then having the results be, frankly, bad, is really frustrating. In particular, I have quite a few photos that are.. either blurry, or out of focus, and it's hard to tell which. I am pretty careful to ensure I hold the camera still, and have a sufficient shutter speed, but I'm definitely messing something up.

I need to take more time to practice at home rather than capturing a thousand frames over 3 weeks and hoping they're good (like the bad old days of film!)
by bee_rider | 2025-07-30 00:51:04+00:00
I wonder, based on the start of the thread:

> I do not think this can be directly merged into the project. I think it requires some manual reviewing if something (I mean some part of code) is useful for the project development.

It seems like maybe his idea was to make a bunch of code, and then see if the maintainers want to pluck anything out of it. This is, of course, not how things are done and not very helpful. Projects don’t need a bunch of AI generated brainstorming. But, I guess, at least it seems well-intentioned? Over-enthusiastic.
by a2128 | 2025-07-30 00:51:17+00:00
I had a pull request like this on my project somewhat recently, thousands of files changed, the author seemed unsure of what exactly they added, and names suggested use of AI tools.

I think it's a cool use case for AI, for non-programmers to be able to customize open source software for themselves with AI tools (just hope it doesn't introduce a data loss bug or security vulnerability...) But obviously these tools as of today will make an absolute mess over time without a lot of guidance, and being a non-programmer makes it impossible to give it that guidance. I guess it's fine if the only user is the non-programmer and they're never gonna maintain it themselves, but sometimes they assume some of the code somewhere will somehow be useful for the project and so they open a pull request like this without realizing the insanity they're doing
by dang | 2025-07-30 00:51:32+00:00
You've continued to make a habit of attacking other users in comments here, as well as posting an enormous quantity of flamewar comments. Since we've asked you many times not to do this and even unbanned you on condition that you'd stop do, I think enough is enough and have re-banned your account. This is not what HN is for, and badly destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42419831 (Dec 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40868959 (July 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35407476 (April 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34854957 (Feb 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30293928 (Feb 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28699914 (Sept 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28654320 (Sept 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28650525 (Sept 2021)