MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TOEDOK | 2025-07-31 01:32:11+00:00
Hey everyone

I'm a solo developer from Korea and just released an Android app called *Toedok*.

It uses AI to analyze *chat screenshots (WhatsApp, Messenger, etc.)* and suggests the most natural reply, considering the tone and context.

Example use case:

- You get a confusing message and don’t know how to reply?

- Just take a screenshot → upload it → AI gives a smart suggestion.

I built this because I often found myself overthinking replies in chats

Here’s the app on Google Play (free):

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.toedok

Would love your feedback – especially from Indian users

Curious if this kind of tool would be useful in daily messaging situations.

Thanks!
by bko | 2025-07-31 01:32:14+00:00
One thing I thought would have been incredibly useful for me is to go from HTML -> Figma

There is a ton of focus on going from Figma to something you could presumably dump into react or html. But I found nothing in the reverse.

Realistically, for a lot of applications, there are more things in production than in Figma. It's just not practical to spec everything out when you're moving fast. But when you do want someone to look at it or tinker, it's a huge lift to migrate your current production to Figma. I wish they would use some AI for that. Just take a webpage, and build the Figma design docs. Doesn't even have to be perfect, just good enough to get help from designers
by presentation | 2025-07-31 01:32:17+00:00
I use Linear - it integrates with GitHub so that when PRs go in the status moves to shipped. I spec the linear tasks out, copy the generated git branch name and make a branch on my computer (auto moves to in progress status); copy paste the contents as markdown to Claude code, have it do its thing, then push up the code to a PR and review it/run CI. If alls good merge it in and then the status moves to shipped automatically.

Since otherwise this is a solo side project I don’t need anything more complex than that, though I also use Linear for my day job and so I know you can automate it more if you need to.
by dmix | 2025-07-31 01:32:38+00:00
Adobe has always been targetted at profressionals price wise. Making it SaaS made pirating harder and the high monthly price (and annoying dark patterns) excluded and alienated the general public which upset people who decided to pay for it for the first time in their life. The problem there is mostly the lack of good competition in spaces like Lightroom but that's starting to change. The everyone-pirates-photoshop so don't bother trying to compete idea is now over.
by namibj | 2025-07-31 01:32:57+00:00
We're at the point where we could easily fit so large a fraction of the rail length covered/overshadowed by the train with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_brake that we could pull around 4 G deceleration if we cover the bottom in that brake chains (chain strong; chain flexy enough to just wiggle over humps in the track).
by smeeger | 2025-07-31 01:33:06+00:00
there is no type of farming that will beat t bills? none? people arent working on ideas to make farming more profitable? i just dont believe that american farms, which cover unimaginably vast areas and are unimaginably numerous, could be continuously funded by banks if they were losing money. thats impossible. subsidies cant explain it. i think youre lying or leaving out some context
by ilamont | 2025-07-31 01:33:10+00:00
But what we can do is be the change we want. Just make my own little oasis. Find other oases and hook ‘em all up. Which then got me thinking about if there could be a special Web Classic experience we could voluntarily hook into.

Webrings!

See "We need to bring back webrings", https://arne.me/blog/we-need-to-bring-back-webrings and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38268706
by cloudbonsai | 2025-07-31 01:34:35+00:00
I think one solution is to embed a self-adjusting feedback mechanism into the transit fee.

- If the rush hour contines to get more crowded, the transit fee would raise until people avoid commuting on peak hours.

- If the rush hour disappears, the extra premium fee would fall to zero.

It is not unrealistic as it sounds; JR East (the biggest railway operator in Japan) recently introduced "Off-peak Commuter Pass", which is 1) 15% cheaper than a normal pass 2) and cannot be used between 7:30 - 9:00 AM.

So they are beginning to implement a dynamic policy based on how crowded their trains are.
by mindslight | 2025-07-31 01:34:57+00:00
Setting up an LLC as foreign to the state you're living in likely won't save you on fees (since you'll register it as a foreign entity in your own state, especially for holding title to real estate), but it can open up additional features not offered by your state's laws, like series LLCs. Although as far as I know it's an open question as to whether the protections of Series LLCs will be respected by other states or just discarded when you try to use them.

(I'm not a member of any guilds)
by egonschiele | 2025-07-31 01:35:25+00:00
Build your own! It's a great way to learn, keeps you interested in the latest developments. Plus you get to try out cool UX experiments and see what works. I built my own interface back in 2023 and have been slowly adding to it since. I added local models via MLX last month. I'm surprised more devs aren't rolling their own interface, they are easy to make and you learn a lot.
by II2II | 2025-07-31 01:35:30+00:00
> If you didn’t realize that making teens verify their age online meant that everyone had to verify their age and identity online, that’s just a dangerous level of stupidity.

And it is completely unnecessary in many cases. There are many cases where a third party cannot give access to something to a minor, but the parent is able to give consent anyway. So give parents the tools they need to tell online services, "hey, this is a child so act accordingly" rather than having the government enter the loop. For example: a web browser can ask the operating system for an age verification token, then relay that token to the website. Given that most operating systems these days have the notion of privilege and most operating systems make it difficult for unauthorized users to gain administrative privileges, it should be reasonably secure.

Of course, there are going to be weaknesses in such a system. On the other hand, there are going to be weaknesses to any system. There are also going to be situations where that level of protection is inadequate, but we're talking about access to controlled substances levels of concern here rather than kids getting access to age inappropriate videos. And chances are it doesn't have to be 100% effective anyhow. It just has to be effective enough to discourage people from targeting minors with age inappropriate content.
by atq2119 | 2025-07-31 01:36:05+00:00
This is a disingenuous response because I made it plenty clear what I meant with "fast": interactive response times.

And for that, we absolutely do have points of comparison, and yeah, pretty much all web apps have bad interactivity because they are limited too much by network round trip times. It's an absolute unicorn web app that does enough offline caching.

It's also absurd to assume that applications are as fast as they could be. There is basically always room for improvement, it's just not being prioritised. Which is the whole point here.
by quantumsequoia | 2025-07-31 01:36:15+00:00
It's called pooled hiring, and it makes sense when a company is hiring lots of people for lots of teams. Most large companies do this when hiring rates are high. You end up with better employee-team match when you interview a candidate first and then match them based on their skills/interest, rather than contacting them for a specific role they may or may not be interested in.

Has nothing to do with whether hiring is for headcount or other reasons
by throwaway290 | 2025-07-31 01:36:20+00:00
No I can't, please post proof. I know journalists who rot in jail and I have a pro Ukraine friend who shares stories about different беспредел but not about random regular people jailed for things online. And that friend travels from Russia with no issues

> cannot apply for asylum as I left Russia many years before the war, so I technically wasn't "prosecuted"

you CAN apply for asylum if there is evidence that you will be prosecuted if you return. Really bro. I think even gay/trans people for example used this. But for being pro Ukraine anti war I don't think there's evidence you would be prosecuted unless you are famous or something
by dmix | 2025-07-31 01:36:32+00:00
There's always smart ways to do things. The government will choose the cheapest and hire the most generic IT consulting firm to do it which won't get close. Or if they don't do it themselves, they'll just fine big companies unless they follow an overbearing and forever expanding checklist of requirements where the companies lawyers will be forced to choose the most extreme options or risk exposure.

Meanwhile kids will use VPNs, browser extensions, ID spoofing, piracy, etc will become the norm to bypass it and law abiding adults (including good parents and people without kids) will be burdened with the results.
by RogerL | 2025-07-31 01:36:46+00:00
Go check out VxWorks or the like. only 20K a seat, build tools at a similar price, and then oh joy, runtime licenses required to deploy the sw you wrote.

Which are reasonable prices when lives are at risk.

Yes, I know RTOS are not general purpose, this is NOT apples to apples, but that is what that kind of reliability, testing, safety certification, etc. costs.
by rendall | 2025-07-31 01:38:24+00:00
> it would likely be able to gain majority support in the UNGA

LOL. The UNGA that in 2022 issued 15 resolutions against Israel versus 6 against Russia, 1 against North Korea and 0 against China who is actually committing genocide, and is comprised of 22 Arab Muslim nations among others who, like you, think this is eminently reasonable and not at all obsessive? They wouldn't know a solution if it bit them.

Well, if you had a solution, you would have stated it by now. War it is, then, even though people like you will completely unseriously call it genocide. You have a lot of company, unfortunately.
by scarface_74 | 2025-07-31 01:38:53+00:00
A majority or at least large minority of Adobe users were/are on Macs.

The Mac version has lived through 68K MacOS pre and post System 7, PPC Mac pre and post OS X, x86 Macs pre and post Carbon support and now ARM Macs. After each transition , there was a limited amount of time that you could use the same version and even a smaller amount of time that you would have wanted to.

But the same argument applies that applies to Figma. It’s a professional tool that should help you generate income far greater than the cost
by tguvot | 2025-07-31 01:40:15+00:00
- learning basic facts facilitates fact based discussions. you avoid going and learning facts that may not correspond to your worldview

- fatah was beaten down. it doesn't say "stopped". it says "lost". hamas wasn't knocked down into oblivion and they were always more popular than fatah

- no go zones means that PA doesn't go there because Hamas/PIJ will kill them there.

- rockets not thrown from there not because due to generosity of local population but because of work of shin bit. in fact since oct 7th there been significant increase in arms smuggling from jordan to west bank to a point that IDF is unable to prevent or monitor it. including heavier weapons. this is probably for cultivation of famously fertile west bank soil, according to you ?

- map showing that hamas won in most areas of west bank as well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Palestinian_legislative_e...

- recent polling on elections: But if new legislative elections were held today with the participation of all political forces that participated in the 2006 elections, 62% say they will participate in them, and among the participants in the elections 43% say they will vote for Hamas, 28% for Fatah, 8% for third parties, and 19% have not yet decided. In the Gaza Strip, vote for Hamas among voters participating in the elections stands at 49% , and vote for Fatah among voters participating in the elections stands at 30% . In the West Bank, vote for Hamas stands at 38% and Fatah among voters participating in elections stands at 27%

- link that i posted above more certainly show that population engages in armed and not armed but violent resistance and attacks israeli population and constantly attempts to perform terror acts in Israel. and you still didn't tell me how much exactly israel expanded it settlements. you just claim that it did without any factual backing.
by ryandv | 2025-07-31 01:40:34+00:00
> It's a condition of the mind, not the 'soul'.

As stated in my previous post these are classically synonyms that refer to the exact same entity. This use of language goes back to at least Descartes (translation by E. Haldane):

to speak accurately I am not more than a thing which thinks, that is to say a mind or a soul, or an understanding, or a reason, which are terms whose significance was formerly unknown to me [0].

This use of the term "soul" even goes back to Plato and Socrates, who used the Greek term psyche to refer to this concept [1] [4]. I leave the remainder of the inference to you.

> LGBTIQ+ is not an ideology.

Why not?

> We don't convert people.

No, the LGBTQ+ just bifurcate the world into "allies" and "enemies". They mandate the use of neopronouns and neodemonyms, using letters not even in the alphabets of other languages, and try to correct perceived "gendered language" in languages that have no concept of gender in their grammar to begin with. People who refuse to prostrate themselves before your linguistic imperialism get cancelled and/or fired because they are obviously deplorable bigots.

Just look at how the LGBTQ+ was pushing "Filipinx" on people they have nothing to do with, an entire fucking ocean away, despite Tagalog already being ungendered and not having a letter X in its alphabet. [3]

There were a bunch of whites who came to the Philippines and then installed not one, but two (Spanish, English) languages in the populace, to the point where time is still told in Spanish to this day, and native Filipinos cannot even speak pure Tagalog any more, resorting now to a hybrid of Tagalog and English. [2]

Call them by any other name but those all look like instances of cultural imperialism and proselytization to me. Will whites ever learn? Or are they so blinded by their self-professed virtue and ~crosses~ pride flags that they think, certainly, that they are in the right, and all the homophobes and transphobes from all those other Conservative countries need to be enlightened to 21st century morals (those godless heathens)?

> And I don't care about what the SCOTUS says.

I'm running past my point of caring too, since all you do is write falsehood without citation.

[0] https://yale.learningu.org/download/041e9642-df02-4eed-a895-...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyche_(psychology)

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYLFoUTJuGU

[3] https://opinion.inquirer.net/133571/filipino-or-filipinx

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato%27s_theory_of_soul
by k310 | 2025-07-31 01:40:54+00:00
Exactly the reverse for me, with the potential for professional grade photos, which I get roughly 25% of the time with a camera. Some sessions are close to 100% pro quality.

Zoom or cropping is horrible in phones, and I carry a Lumix with 8x zoom, smaller than a phone, everywhere. And every car trip, a very old Coolpix with 42x zoom (24-1000mm effective) small enough to fit in a small shoulder bag. I used the Coolpix Monday to get close up photos of two county police being helicoptered on a long line to a drug bust before anyone knew what was going down.

Phone photographers (I am one) look for scenes within the phone's limits. I used the Coolpix for over 10 years, capturing everything without limit.

For real fun, take photos in Yosemite with an iPad. It looks like a view camera, with the very large display. Add a western hat and a beard, and impersonate Ansel Adams. :-)
by eightysixfour | 2025-07-31 01:45:21+00:00
> shaming isn’t compatible with arguing in good faith

I don't believe the behavior that is analyzed here was done in good faith, it is in fact a direct attack on things that I strongly believe in. Striving for good faith argument is only effective when both sides agree that they gain mutual benefits through agreement, otherwise your good faith is used as a tool to stall, disrupt, and do harm.

In that case, shaming is an appropriate response.
by QuadmasterXLII | 2025-07-31 01:46:33+00:00
Vibe coding started working in summer 2023, see e.g. https://github.com/HastingsGreer/jstreb/blob/1ccedf82ec463dc...

the spectacular overcommenting has been here the whole time

Progress since then has mostly been people and tools catching up to the models, the limit of what the models can code has been pretty stagnant the last couple years
Show HN: EveLock – A 100% Offline Period Tracker (No Cloud, No Account)
by kian_sage | 2025-07-31 01:47:48+00:00
I built this for people who want a private, offline way to track their menstrual cycles — no cloud, no account, no data collection.

EveLock is a lightweight, browser-based PWA you can unzip and run locally (index.html).

Works offline No login, no tracking Mobile + desktop friendly One-click PDF export Open and inspectable code

Built for privacy-conscious users who don’t trust typical app store options.

https://onionwave7.gumroad.com/l/otakp

Would love feedback or suggestions for improving it. Thanks!
by api | 2025-07-31 01:48:19+00:00
My favorite is that there are probably primordial black holes, which is exciting because they are a good dark matter candidate. They could have other neat implications too, like being common enough that we might some day find one within visiting range. Being able to examine one directly could allow us to “finish physics.”

Note that many if not most variations on the Big Bang and inflation predict them but we have yet to directly see them. What JWST has found is indirect evidence they’re out there.
by resonious | 2025-07-31 01:50:01+00:00
As a counter example (re: agents), I routinely delegate simple tasks to Claude Code and get near-perfect results. But I've also had experiences like yours where I ended up wasting more time than saved. I just kept trying with different types of tasks, and narrowed it down to the point where I have a good intuition for what works and what doesn't. The benefit is I can fire off a request on my phone, stick it in my pocket, then do a code review some time later. This process is very low mental overhead for me, so it's a big productivity win.
by throw234234234 | 2025-07-31 01:52:55+00:00
In the long run that's the promise of RL; build the verifications vs the model. As a SWE we could be relegated to doing what many consider the "boring part" of software development, which is just writing case by case test cases rather than the code/model of the world interaction. The "math/intellectual" part may get rarer which sadly devalues the skill/intelligence part of software development assuming the AI can come up with a code model that meets requirements.

Personally however I've found more luck generating requests from the "code model" rather than generating code from the "tests" at present. Only because tests are usually much more code than the code itself under test (one code has many scenarios) w.r.t. productivity. Everything still needs review, manual tweaking and understanding of course for now.
by tomrod | 2025-07-31 01:54:05+00:00
Let's ignore FOSS contributions for a moment, which very much contradict your claim that private companies don't contribute research to the public.

Outside software technology: there is a series of papers from Grossman (going back to the 80s!) that analyzes basic versus applied research in a macroeconomic framework. Basic research _can_ be a public good, applied research can be crowded out. Combined with microeconomic research that monopolies can be dynamically efficient (investing in applied and basic R&D, like Bell Labs) and you get several examples and theories that contradict your statement that "there is no private market entity with an incentive to provide research to the public."

Another real world example in hardware that contradicts this claim is the evolution of building control systems. Before the advent of IOT, so, circa 1980s - 2010s, you saw increasing sharing and harmonization of competing electronics standards because it turned out to be more efficient to be modular, not have to re-hire subcontractors at exorbitant rates to maintain or replace components that go haywire, etc.
by sudomateo | 2025-07-31 01:54:45+00:00
It's tough on both sides. I understand the disdain of receiving a "no" after putting in hours or days of effort on the materials. Candidates are welcome to ask for feedback on their application but must understand that Oxide is limited in what we can say due to legalities. Hiring is a tricky balance on the legal front. I also understand that it's impractical to give every candidate a synchronous screening call just to confirm whether they should continue applying. Not only for time's sake but also bias. Is it enough for 1 person to do a screening call and decide someone's fate?

No hiring process will ever be perfect but at least, as the experience mentioned previously touched on, the candidate is left with an artifact that they can then use in future applications. Candidates walk away having learned something about themselves. Open roles are also limited, applying for such roles is also optional, and it's up to each candidate to decide how much time and effort they wish to put into the materials.

We're humans here at Oxide too, and we're doing the best we can to ensure the hiring process is fair and humane as well.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-07-31 01:54:46+00:00
The title is "Big Tech killed the Golden Age of Programming"

But the author spends zero time explaining why he thinks internet-based data collection and surveillance is the "Golden Age" of programming.

A golden age, according to one definition, is a period of "peak achievement"

What exactly is the author's concept of achievement

Perhaps it is financial (not programming)

For example, the period may have been noteworthy for the so-called "tech" industry's ability to pay so many salaries from zero interest loans

Historically, data shows that interest rates fluctuate over time (Can we blame Big Tech for an increase in interest rates)

With respect to _programming_ some agree that innovation, improvement, progress, was actually stalled during this period (and still is) due to Big Tech's anti-competitive practices

From this end user's perspective the software created during this period, what the author calls a period of "fake jobs", is not the pinnacle of achievement in programming

To me, software quality is at an all-time low, and this "Big Tech" period does not stand as a "Golden Age of Programming"

Compared to the software I am using originally created in the 1970s it stinks

But opinions may differ
by iTokio | 2025-07-31 01:56:06+00:00
That’s the tool that is used everywhere nowadays, from prototypes, mockups, concept designs to specs from designers to developers.

I personally think that a key fact that is driving adoption, is that from the very beginning they used a web app instead of going native with a heavy desktop app.

Thanks to this, you can share designs with just a link and everyone can access it, users interact with a mockup, devs look up the styles and components.

…and everyone is learning Figma, that’s a viral adoption mechanism that is not possible with Adobe products.

Their secret sauce seems to be making a complex web app fast and snappy with webassembly and an ecosystem of plugins secured with quickjs sandboxes.