MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chriskrogh | 2025-07-27 11:35:10+00:00
Hey HN! I'm the founder behind Vings, and I built this because I was tired of losing my Saturday mornings to fragmented finance apps that didn’t tell the full story.

After months of switching between my banking apps, investment apps, crypto wallets, and spreadsheets just to get a complete picture of my net worth, I decided to build something that connects both worlds seamlessly.

*What makes Vings different:*

- Connects to 10,000+ banks AND 50+ blockchain networks in one dashboard - Net worth, spending, and budget tracking across all your assets (fiat + crypto) - AES-256 encryption with row-level access to your data - Clean, fast interface that doesn't feel like enterprise software

As someone who spends most of their time solving web performance problems, I had a fun time growing my technical skills syncing data from various providers and optimizing the system for security and performance.

Also, the rise of AI agents supercharged my development velocity by allowing me to delegate tasks for background execution. This let me focus on the product while agents handled 70% of the tedious but critical work (the remaining 30% was me getting things across the line).

I'd love your feedback, especially from fellow developers who manage both traditional investments and crypto. What features would make this actually useful for your workflow?

Vings is live on ProductHunt and I’d appreciate an upvote if you get a min.

Thanks for checking it out!
by rs186 | 2025-07-27 11:36:02+00:00
While disliking most of Jeff Bezo's philosophy including "leadership principles" nonsense, I agree with this hard. Docs/memos are just better. Too bad it's all PowerPoint at my company, and in some cases, we would already have internal document as "formal specs", then create a separate PowerPoint file for review discussions. Any modification is done twice. This is just ridiculous.

One thing I don't see mentioned: in internal technical presentations, I often find myself working hard to make something fit into one PowerPoint slide or manage the layout, and think about whether something should be on slide A or slide B. All of that is just time wasted, and a problem that does not exist with docs (mostly).
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-07-27 11:36:20+00:00
I would expect that in this case it would go even beyond that. In many European countries there are protections against unjustified layoffs. I could imagine the law and judges in various countries to be rather unsympathetic towards "yeah we just hired you but we're now laying off 80% of staff because fuck you that's why".

Especially in cases where there is any evidence that the layoffs were planned before the contract was signed - wouldn't that be problematic even in the US?
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-07-27 11:36:32+00:00
A classic interaction from Usenet (I suspect the Reddit comparison is apt), was someone coming upon a really nasty fight between a couple of trol- er, users.

They expressed horror, and said something to the effect of “My god! I came to discuss cats!”.

Another user commented something along the lines of “You have mistaken this forum for a place to exchange information. It is not. It is a public toilet. Jump on in.”
by fidelramos | 2025-07-27 11:37:27+00:00
Right, that's why the whitepaper is titled "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System". The idea is to bring many of cash payments features to the digital world, which are not possible with payment systems with intermediaries: uncensorability (nobody can keep you from transferring cash); non-reversability (no chargebacks, escrow systems are optional); low fees (contentious because BTC decided not to scale on-chain, but that was Satoshi Nakamoto's idea.
by supriyo-biswas | 2025-07-27 11:37:32+00:00
It's not a "lazy attack" on the tool, but rather the fact that presentations are mostly used for a unidirectional storytelling and thus most typically suited for all-hands or sales meetings with a specific agenda that is meant to be accepted without discussion or argumentation.

For design documents, strategy discussions and the like, it is very useful for both the author/presenter to be able to think through the entire thing and present it as a consistent, interconnected document that does not lend itself to a list of bullet points; bullet points typically imply that there is a cutoff between the individual concepts being addressed, whereas things often occupy some position in the latent space and it is helpful to be able for authors to find inconsistencies in their reasoning, discovering new ways of doing things, and for other reviewers to be able to validate the presented reasoning and data points and reach the same conclusion as a way of ensuring that the document is in fact, correct, and thus arrive at an agreement regarding the topic at hand.

There are many organizations which mostly see document writing as a way to satisfy the bureaucratic machine, and therefore reasoning often turns out to be not as important. These places love presentations; and in an ironic twist, the very blog we're discussing offers such a product that is mostly aimed at said bureaucracies.
by pentamassiv | 2025-07-27 11:39:25+00:00
"The patches check for the gxtp7380, ite_8291, ite_8291_lb, ite_8297, ite_829x, stk8321, tuxedo_compatibility_check, tuxedo_io, tuxedo_nb02_nvidia_power_ctrl, tuxedo_nb04_keyboard, tuxedo_nb04_wmi_ab, tuxedo_nb04_wmi_bs, tuxedo_nb04_sensors, tuxedo_nb04_power_profiles, tuxedo_nb04_kbd_backlight, tuxedo_nb05_keyboard, tuxedo_nb05_kbd_backlight, tuxedo_nb05_power_profiles, tuxedo_nb05_ec, tuxedo_nb05_sensors, tuxedo_nb05_fan_control, tuxi_acpi, tuxedo_tuxi_fan_control, clevo_wmi, tuxedo_keyboard, clevo_acpi, and uniwill_wmi kernel modules and will taint if they are present."

That's not what I would describe as "resolving a license compatibility issue"
by jboggan | 2025-07-27 11:40:13+00:00
I got a CAC scan for $75 just to catch anything crazy and I found out that I don't have a right coronary artery and also that I have 2 superior vena cava. My calcium score was 0 though so that's awesome.

One close friend died of a heart attack at 42 and another found a 95% blockage after his CAC scan came back north of 900 at age 40. I'd get it if it's available, the ability to catch certain catastrophic conditions is invaluable.
by onion2k | 2025-07-27 11:41:36+00:00
I'm not so sure about that. Specifically in the case of PowerPoint (or decks in general really) distilling ideas down to 4 bullet points that are 6 words each means you lose a lot of detail. People will fill those gaps with their own assumptions. That leads to a lot of confusion.

Jeff isn't really anyi-powerpoint. He's pro-detail. Rather than a deck he asks people to share a doc, and has time in meetings to make sure everyone has read it.

I wouldn't be that surprised if people having the same understanding of goals, projects, and ideas in detail had a material impact on Amazon's success. It leads to much better collaboration and far less waste.
by proactivesvcs | 2025-07-27 11:43:14+00:00
I was also Komooted - by Komoot. They brought out ViewRanger, who I had paid money to provide a service. Month by month they removed the features and access that I had paid for, and made the app less useful. I am not sure I can feel any pity for Komoot, an organisation that met a fate down a path it seemed to choose.
When reading a book how do you validate the thesis in an unknown field for you?
by L0in | 2025-07-27 11:43:51+00:00
When reading a book on a topic/field you are unfamiliar, how do you validate that what you are reading it's not BS? For example, i want to read a book about geopolitics that makes statements about a certain phenomenon. How do i know the arguments are not completely BS vs different position/views/opinion of the phenomenon?
by pentamassiv | 2025-07-27 11:44:53+00:00
Before the Tuxedo, I used an old Lenovo. I didn't check before if it works well with Linux, but it worked flawlessly. I am so used to devices working well and not having to think much about drivers. That's probably why I am disappointed by Tuxedo. They market themselves to Linux users but until recently they did not emphasize upstreaming and embracing standards.
by wkat4242 | 2025-07-27 11:45:35+00:00
Another thing I had issues with cheap small time colocation was that people were using it for spamming/phishing and they got the whole ISP IP range blocked with spamhaus. I was running a legit mailserver so it was really annoying.

I rooted around on the block for a bit and I found several phishing sites, it was a mess.

The problem is the more serious colocators don't really want you if you just want 1U. And if they allow it it's definitely not for a good price.
by cluckindan | 2025-07-27 11:46:31+00:00
”This is much more likely related to gut microbia metabolism than it is to histidine”

Yes and no: the study linked to in the El Pais article suggests that certain bacteria are converting histidine to imidazole proprionate.

More histidine -> more food for those bacteria -> bacterial overgrowth, dysbiosis and increased ImP levels -> eventually atherosclerosis.

There are probably some microbe(s) capable of outcompeting the ImP-producing ones even in the presence of increased histidine, which would serve as a mitigating factor.
by actualwitch | 2025-07-27 11:46:59+00:00
Start perusing https://news.ycombinator.com/active as your hn frontpage and make note of a very obvious flagging bias there. Vouch and upvote the information that is getting hidden while not breaking the guidelines. Hulk Hogan's death being front page news while MechaHitler getting flagged tells you everything you need to know about this site.
by dathinab | 2025-07-27 11:47:37+00:00
> PowerPoint is for selling not truth seeking

so true, but they can also be good for "overviews/shallow introductions"

the main issue is that some presentation programs are just way to clunky to use them for use cases like 6 times a year with low time investment create shallow introduction presentation (without needing to spend a lot of time to "learn" how to use the tool, that wouldn't be worth it for 6 times a year)

so outside of "selling" (or conferences etc.) the introduction/shallow overview point kinda dies, too.

As a side note how the f* did MS manage to make (web) Powerpoint in their Office360 suite so bad?
by em-bee | 2025-07-27 11:47:38+00:00
how are you disagreeing? self-hosting is not being ruled out. do you think me, my siblings, our parents and children, each of us should self-host their stuff when we could perfectly well just share one machine? we are going to trust each other. but why wouldn't we. it's easier to share our photo albums this way. it's that or facebook. pretty much.

and again, self-hosting is not ruled out, it's still an option. what robert says is that regardless of the choice we need self-sovereignty. that is orthogonal. you are still free to self-host. but we have to face the reality that not everyone is going to do it. even if we have the tools to make self-hosting easy.
by noisy_boy | 2025-07-27 11:47:50+00:00
I think there is a stupid propensity to overcorrect in the mainstream media about polarizing issues for profit which has been normalized by repeated messaging and has spread into our normal lives like a disease.

Violence again women is very real and men have been the main inflictors of it. However violence against men isn't physical because just biology. So it takes more insidious forms which combined with expectations of masculinity makes it so much more worse.

If we chose to selectively condemn the former kind of visible violence without protesting the more hidden kind, it is equally toxic as condoning violence against women.

Proudly lauding an app that enables scaling up of this kind of toxicity without any recourse by giving women carte blanche is another form of extremism.
by microtonal | 2025-07-27 11:48:44+00:00
I used to be quite cynical about these posts. I used Linux as my main desktop from 1994-2007 and switched to Mac then. I would periodically try on laptops Linux again, but there were always things broken in bad ways.

Early this year I bought a ThinkPad T14 Gen 5 AMD. In contrast to when I had a T14 Gen 1 AMD early 2020s, everything just works. All the hardware works, suspend/resume works, all the hardware comes up after a resume, etc.

Lately I have been using my ThinkPad much more than my MacBook Pro. NixOS is a superpower to me and having NixOS on a laptop is living the dream.
by hansmayer | 2025-07-27 11:48:44+00:00
It was a long-standing policy of Bezos to force this approach to explaining your ideas and I think it had contributed a great deal to Amazon's success. For all the complaints about Bezos, one cannot deny he actively built that company and is far from your typical corporate, employed manager, who spills their perls of wisdom on Linked. You see, powerpoint can be a great tool, but it can and will be misused by your typical grifter. Why explain a concept in detail and expose it for discussion, when you can tack on a few vague lines in combination with a few cool pictures and please the so-called 'reptilian brain'? I suspect the liberal usage of powerpoint enables the current dominance of grifters accross tech, and consequently causes a reduction in overall quality of the product (or service).
by grues-dinner | 2025-07-27 11:49:45+00:00
Same for schools. We only had one teacher use the shiny new digital projector regularly and his lessons were a complete waste of time. Now it's the default lesson format, it seems. Good for teachers, as you can just recycle the same slides forever, good for admins as you can see the teacher's lessons via email, good for schools because it looks high tech, so it must be good, but on average, crap for learning. Not least, everyone is watching the screen, not the teacher.

Even acetate-based overhead projectors and premade transparencies are better than just clicking though slides. If you worry about facing the class while teaching, and OHPs the modern solution is ones that have a camera facing down and you draw on paper are quite neat and a lot less bulky.

I'm not talking about the occasional video or animation or detailed drawing, obviously there are good things you can put up on a high-res digital screen. But most slideshows are just "click, narrate, click, narrate".
by bsenftner | 2025-07-27 11:51:41+00:00
I hate Powerpoint, it's pointless. It forces linear flow, when in a meeting presenting ideas, linear flow works against being clear, presenting new ideas to people with the authority to stop and ask clarifying questions from earlier. Far too often, a presenter interrupted and asked to reverse their presentation gets discombobulated and the presentation goes south.

For this reason, almost 30 years ago, I abandoned PowerPoint and I only use web browsers and web pages, with links on the pages providing non-linear flow through the material. I can be as verbose or high level as the audience desires, and the presentation material works regardless.

I really don't understand why this perspective is not more widespread. Anytime I discuss it with someone that does presentations for a living, they act like the sun just rose for the first time.
by tialaramex | 2025-07-27 11:51:55+00:00
> wildly less intuitive than anyone originally realized and likely remains so for pilots without specialized training

AIUI the specific problem was that humans are bad at "calling it" and the parachute isn't magic. If you used the chute on time you're saved, if you spend that time working through all other options which don't save you, then deployed the chute with no time, you're still dead. So the training was to teach people to call it - yes maybe I could restart the engine (but if not I die), maybe I could keep looking and see that state road (but if not I die), however I could pull the chute right now and almost certainly live so I need to make sure I do that before it's too late.

Suppose in a board game you have three choices. One is worthless, we'll lose, one is 80% chance to draw but otherwise lose, one is a utter gamble maybe 5% chance to outright win otherwise lose. Many players will take the 5% chance. In fact in professional sports not taking that risk often annoys fans - they're here for the thrill. But flying an aeroplane isn't a game, the "outright lose" case is you die and if you have passengers they die too. You should take the draw when it's offered, and if we have to train people to do that then I guess that's what it takes.
by drflorl | 2025-07-27 11:53:58+00:00
> far less waste.

While it’s much faster to create presentations today with AI, every time I’ve worked with PowerPoint on my own and especially SharePoint PPTs, it’s been a massive waste of time.

However, I’ve only seen a doc presented on big screen in a large company meeting once. It worked, but looked unprepared. I assume that the alternative is sending out the memo ahead of time and then just discussing it?
by ath3nd | 2025-07-27 11:54:01+00:00
It's just a rumor atm but Claude weekly limits seem to be coming:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1ma3wm6/weekly_...

> Like many of the companies that have gone before them, if / when the value proposition is gone, and I get less than 10x the amount I spend, I will be gone.

Seems you'd soon be going. Well it was fun while it lasted (all 3 months of it).
by magicalhippo | 2025-07-27 11:54:11+00:00
Yes, the docs[1] tells you to match the redundancy level of the pool, but you could technically do something else.

Note the docs say level and not type. So if you have raid-z1 the a mirror would be appropriate as they both tolerate losing a single disk, and if you have raid-z2 you can use a 3-way mirror etc.

[1]: https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/man/master/7/zpoolcon...
by felixgallo | 2025-07-27 11:54:40+00:00
You're missing the fundamental point. Early Amazon succeeded because it created an evangelical corporate culture of (my words) not permitting inane bullshit, falsity, dress-up, and cargo culting to infect its communications and processes. The Leadership Principles were set up as an intentional immune system to stave off what we now call enshittification. The rigid document and meeting structures were set up to focus on the facts and details rather than fonts and colors and theater.

All of that is orthogonal to diversity in thinking. I spent nearly a decade at Amazon, and I encountered a great deal of diverse thought and communication styles; the systems enhanced that, rather than suppressed it. As long as the baseline standards of clarity, factuality, and logic were upheld, people were free to make arbitrarily creative arguments. Standing in front of a 50-word powerpoint slide with colors and reciting it would not have improved anyone's thought process or enlightened the audience any faster or better.
by looping__lui | 2025-07-27 11:55:37+00:00
I do not know how widespread Rotax engines are in Australia and how large the GA is there. Also, I do not track standardized failure rates of engine models around the world - but shared anecdotal evidence. Except two instances, ALL reports or stories from friends and acquaintances around engine failures involved Rotax engines (probably 5:1 ratio). Tracking planes with up to 800kg in the study eliminates all Pipers and Cessnas - which I admit I used as a baseline comparison for my statements. I guess the only plane with a Lycoming/Continental engine below 800kg that comes to mind is the Pa18 from the 1940s/1950s.

Last year, the LSA association in Germany started a large survey across its members because of the high number of failures with Rotax engines: https://www.daec.de/news/news-detail/service-bulletin-zu-sto...

Now, I definitely do not say that these are bad engines, but there is a lot of chatter in Europe how these engines are plugged into a wide range of airframes and there are more complex system interactions than meets the eye which can cause some problems. Or put differently: C172 and Pa28 are probably among the most common airframes to stuff the Lycomings and Continentals into. I suspect we kind of figured out how to make these work reliably.

Rotax works in MANY many different combinations and many different airframes - so there is that.
by raffael_de | 2025-07-27 11:55:41+00:00
I've been using Komoot a lot for bike tours in Germany and never have been particularly happy with it. It served the core purpose of telling me where to go but there were so many obvious flaws about it that I sometimes wondered if the people at Komoot actually even use it themselves.

Then there is the obvious Geschmäckle of taking advantage of OSM (a free open source project) while not providing a way to give back to it. For example marking a bridge or path as no longer functional or existent.

The main feature of importance for me was a convenient way of visual representation of the trip on a map + being able to easily take pictures and have them added into the tour route visualization. This is provides for a really neat trip summary. Maybe someone has an app or service suggestion for such a feature?

> Couchsurfing, Reddit, Twitter, and many more were similarly komooted.

I'd like to add another company to the list: carpooling.com aka mitfahrgelegenheit.de

> Capital does not invent interesting new ideas like gravel and bikepacking. It swoops in from the outside to appropriate.

That seems a little warped. Bikepacking (isn't new) is as old as the bike and gravel biking is pretty much a capitalist rebranding of bikepacking. Selling the idea that you need a "gravel bike" to for bike packing. Pretending that the tried and tested way of laterally attached baggage is not good enough anymore and now has to be attached medially and you need those special tires yada yada
Show HN: Competitor Finder – Paste your domain, get your top competitors
by maximedupre | 2025-07-27 11:55:54+00:00
I built a simple tool to help founders figure out who their actual competitors are! You know... the ones your potential customers already know and compare you to.

Just paste your domain, and we generate a focused list of 10 competitors with names, sites, and a quick positioning note for each.

Why I built it: I run a competitor monitoring tool (https://champsignal.com), and I realized that before people can monitor competitors… they first need to find them. This is harder than you think for people that have not been around for years aha

(It's free and doesn't require signup)

Would love feedback, especially if you don't think it's giving you the right competitors. Happy to improve the product.
by azhenley | 2025-07-27 11:55:59+00:00
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23164614

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34843306

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28255116

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28850861
by wkat4242 | 2025-07-27 11:56:31+00:00
I agree in terms to how it's mostly used. I think PowerPoint can be PowerFul when it's used as a visual tool to explain things that need complex diagrams.

However those situations aren't that common. And even when they occur the person making the ppt might not have the skill to design it properly, it needs some graphical design chops and ppt is a pretty poor graphical tool with a ton of nasty quirks.

But how I see it mostly used is for endless rows of standard template slides full of text. This is where the term death by PowerPoint comes from.