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Show HN: Dashport.ai – AI-Powered BI Tool for Professional Dashboards
by ErkanCevher | 2025-07-16 13:58:30+00:00
We developed an AI-driven program for data reports. I have seen the problem with founders, analysts and directors not having the control over their own data. They either waited too long for data reports from their team or struggled with complex coding. We wanted to fix this by creating a tool that works in seconds and requires no coding. The users can upload their data (Excel, CSV, MySQL files etc) and they can ask any question they want in a natural language. They will get interactive dashboards with changeable colors, sizes, type of charts etc. Please leave your feedback if you try it out, thanks in advance.
by mc32 | 2025-07-16 13:58:51+00:00
Does that mean in a few decades we'll see old men in tight "skinny" fitting jeans that we used to normally see worn by college girls --albeit girls would wear the ankle high versions with the slits.

Pair that with dad bodies/pot bellies —Holy Moley!

One exception to this is I don’t see older women wearing “backpack” purses.
by Bender | 2025-07-16 13:59:48+00:00
DNS has been used for exfiltration of data, command and control and malware distribution for some time. It's popular because DNS is rarely blocked even when a network is locked down and forces everyone through a corporate monster-in-the-middle proxy.

DNS would also have to be forced through recursive servers that put size and rate limits breaking RFC's in place or at least alert on suspicious behavior which some over-priced corporate firewalls do. The alerts then have to be aggregated where a SOC will detect them and send someone to inspect that persons laptop.

Home users are at the mercy of their DNS provider or setting up their own recursive DNS and putting rate limits in place and their own monitoring. If a home user had no need to fetch TXT records they could censor some or possibly all of them using Unbound.

Example from one of my formerly public recursive DNS servers for their pro-DDOS massive TXT records. I believe this could be done for all domains but have not tested it. The examples below are commonly used in DDoS-Amplification attacks among many other domains with large TXT replies.

local-zone: ebay.com typetransparent local-data: 'ebay.com. TXT "[ddos redacted]"' local-zone: tmz.com typetransparent local-data: 'tmz.com. TXT "[ddos redacted]"' local-zone: google.com typetransparent local-data: 'google.com. TXT "[ddos redacted]"'
by vladvasiliu | 2025-07-16 13:59:49+00:00
As a user, what usually matters to me is what software I'm able to run on it. So even if people don't actually care about the OS itself, they will care that X runs on it but Y doesn't, which, given enough users, may push X to support that OS.

I actually daily drive Linux (Arch) because Windows is a PITA I'm not willing to put up with. But there are things I use which still don't run on Linux (Photoshop and Lightroom), so I'm actually thinking of getting a Mac again instead of having a second PC / dual boot, even though I know that can also be irritating (though less so than Windows).

"Who controls the OS" isn't that important to me. What matters is that it gets out of my way and lets me do what I want to do with as little friction as possible. I know Linux being free means I can go and hack on it however I like. But I also have to contend with reality: I can't reasonably think that I (personnally) am going to hack on the kernel or on some desktop environment in any meaningful measure, so I still have to put up with whatever other people figure is best.

But if there are enough people like me, including those who don't actually care about what OS they're running, maybe the apps I want to run will adopt Linux. But that only matters because, as it turns out, it's the OS which I find the less irritating to use. If tomorrow Windows 12 finally became sane, I'd switch in a heartbeat. I'm not married to Linux.
by strangescript | 2025-07-16 14:00:17+00:00
I feel like this is more about Linux remaining reliable and the other platforms getting worse, rather than Linux getting substantially better.

I no longer have a windows machine. If I can't get a game to run on Linux then I don't bother with it. I played Clair Obscur start, to finish, in Mint on a 3090 with zero issues. I just forced it to load in steam since linux isn't officially supported.
by accrual | 2025-07-16 14:00:23+00:00
I agree with others about the search bar, kind of looks like a fallen tree in an otherwise pristine field of aero grass.

I love the translucency look of "Fluent" design though. Windows Terminal has a "Use acrylic material in the tab row" which I like to enable. It feels like a callback to Windows 7's Aero which I miss.

Perhaps together with Microsoft's Fluent/acrylic design and Apple's WIP Liquid Glass UI, and with projects like this Thunderbird theme bringing the design to OSS projects, we can bring back some of the optimism and beauty of those early glass designs.
by palata | 2025-07-16 14:00:29+00:00
If someone runs Linux Desktop without caring that it is Linux, it still means that they use software that runs on Linux. Say if governments move to some Linux distro, they will need an office suite, and they may pay for its development.

If someone runs SteamOS, it means that they play games on Linux. So it becomes interesting for game devs to test for Linux. And then if someone runs SteamOS, instead of a dual boot with Windows maybe they just go to the Desktop mode. Which means that instead of Microsoft Office, they use something that runs on Linux, etc.

This is good for the Linux ecosystem. And the reason I like the Linux ecosystem is because, as you say, it's not fully controlled by TooBigTech.
by jalapenos | 2025-07-16 14:00:46+00:00
Simpler than this: how long does an unwanted pregnancy remain unwanted? Basically 9 months tops. After than it's automatically into rearing mode and don't have time to mull such crap. Then as the shock peters off after a year or so, any original thoughts or utterings of "unwanted" get code-of-silence buried til the end of days, and don't ever come back.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-07-16 14:01:04+00:00
They can be as excited as they want, but we are decades away from that even being a sliver of a chance of happening. None of the science or groundwork is there to actually make that happen.

Any manned trip to Mars is a guaranteed suicide mission, if they even get there at all.

And that's without even discussing the politics of a system like that. We can't even agree children should have food in this country. Our population is getting poorer, less healthcare, losing hope and gaining debt. And somehow we're ready to create a colony that is entirely dependent on us that can never be abandoned that requires resupplies so expensive that they could feed every child in America multiple times over for no known benefit?
by simion314 | 2025-07-16 14:01:13+00:00
>Net Russian gains in June 2025 were 572 km^2.* In order for your statement to hold true, Russia would have suffered over half a million casualties in June alone. Where is your evidence to support such an assertion?

Or my average is not a daily or monthly, do it again for the last 1 year. 2 years.

Can you also calculare for us how many years until Ruzzia reaches Kyiv and how many casualties ?
by Gormo | 2025-07-16 14:01:22+00:00
The answer is "A". Perhaps some people are avoiding saying this too explicitly because it might sound a bit elitist, but I'll put how I see it as frankly as possible for the sake of clarity.

Gemini is not trying to solve a technical problem with the web. Is trying to solve a cultural problem that arises from the web having become a mass medium, in which every site's focus gradually erodes under pressure to optimize to the lowest common denominator.

Creating a new protocol from the ground up, and requiring users to install a distinct client to access it, isn't just about keeping the software aligned with the project's goals, it's about creating a sufficient threshold of thought and effort for participation that limits the audience to people who are making a deliberate decision to participate. It's about avoiding Eternal September, not about creating a parallel mass-market competitor to the web.

It's not about blocking the annoying ads, popups, and trackers, just to access sites where the content itself is full of spam, scams, political arguments, LLM slop, and other assorted nonsense, and instead creating an ecosystem that's "air-gapped" away from all that stuff, filled with thoughtful content produced deliberately by individuals. It's about collecting needles together away from the hay.
by ForHackernews | 2025-07-16 14:01:35+00:00
It's eventual consistency: Latest-write wins after the dust settles.

As I understand it, this is a wrapper on top of Postgres' native logical replication features. Writes are committed locally and then published via a replication slot to subscriber nodes. You have ACID guarantees locally, but not across the entire distributed system.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/logical-replication....
by orbital-decay | 2025-07-16 14:02:01+00:00
This likely keeps normal people from seeing this way better than it keeps away any hackers or bots, as Russian citizens are mostly using DPI circumvention tools. And this was a thing since the first days of the war, it's not something new.

>that clearly doesn't change the situation in Russia

Giving up is the easiest thing to do. Last time some people did, it was blamed on stereotypes like their "learned helplessness" and "fatalism".
by aredox | 2025-07-16 14:02:06+00:00
>Warren Buffett had this line that we would have no budget deficits if it we're required that every Congress person who voted for such would be ineligible for re-election.

Yeah, and the USSR would have won.

>When Reagan entered office, the debt was less than $1T (about $3.5T in today's dollars).

Well, guess who won the Cold War? Who pushed the USSR to bankrupt itself?

It would be like saying "no private company should ever raise capital".
by QuadrupleA | 2025-07-16 14:02:19+00:00
Recently moved to Arch Linux after 25+ years on Windows. It was a LOT of work (my whole career is on the computer and I have a lot of custom scripts and tools), but I'm so happy with the result.

No more hundreds of background processes sapping my battery life and performance.

No more blatantly manipulative ads every time Windows updates, about how I won't be "safe" unless I sign up for OneDrive, switch to Edge, and subscribe to Office Live Dynamics Pro Limited 365, because now word processing and spreadsheets are a subscription for some fucking reason.

No more 3 different generations of UI styles sloppily bolted together (though Linux desktop styling can be plenty sloppy).

No more news feeds in my start menu and task bar filled with the outrage and statistically improbable evil human acts of the day, no doubt with MS ads, alongside prods to install Candy Crush and other crap.

No more whack-a-mole MS telemetry I have to read obscure guides to find out how to turn off.

No more needing to sign in to a FUCKING CLOUD ACCOUNT to use my own computer.

No more stupid crap like copilot, sucking screenshots and forwarding them to MS and OpenAI, and other sparkly AI icons on every damn thing.

Haven't booted Windows in a month or two. So happy to have switched - my computer belongs to me again, for the first time in a long while
by queuebert | 2025-07-16 14:02:26+00:00
Anecdotally, I have two gaming desktops for my kids in the same place, side by side. They don't know much about computers, but they greatly prefer to use the Linux one and only use the Windows one when forced to, like because Microsoft bought Minecraft and only puts out Education Edition for Windows. They seem to navigate Ubuntu much easier than Windows, and that machine gives them less trouble and is snappier.
by ceejayoz | 2025-07-16 14:02:28+00:00
> I never hear anyone speak of the radiation outside of our atmosphere very often when it comes to 'moonshot' ideas like this, and how we would be incapable of preventing it or surviving it once we arrive, in our current biological form.

Eh, it's not that out of the realm of possible. It's about twice what ISS astronauts experience, without any mitigation efforts like shielding. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia04258-comparison-of-marti...

> How much would it cost to get all the lead or H20 you would need to generate a barrier against it into orbit? Do we need to have a moon base extracting materials for us to even think about transferring orbits?

The astronauts will need water either way. Might as well have it be useful in transit.
by jraph | 2025-07-16 14:02:51+00:00
> There is a point to the whole "I'd like to interject for a moment..." copypasta and Android's situation is the clearest illustration of it.

Well… :-)

With you in spirit, but to add to the mess, one could argue Alpine (and Postmarket OS) is a standard Linux distro, but non GNU.

"GNU/" cannot be used for clarifying things anymore.
by rickcarlino | 2025-07-16 14:03:01+00:00
Regardless of the technical shortcomings of the protocol, a grassroots group of individuals has managed to create a viable new network protocol. The user base is small, but it is not tiny and it is not nonexistent and it has been going for years now. You can download a Gemini client and find regularly updated blogs on a Gemini search engine. You can have discussions on Gemini applications like Antenna or Station. It has managed to solve many of the problems it intended to solve (privacy, resource bloat, protocol specification bloat, etc.).
by Fokamul | 2025-07-16 14:03:18+00:00
Yes, top of the list, it shows :)

Latops and desktops, it's a mix here. Older people had mainly desktops in the past. That's my experience, at least.

Banking, yeah mainly phones because of ridiculous forced banking apps from corporate masters, like everywhere else? (certain bank even lost a lot of customers because of that)

Taxes, if you are just an employee, taxes are done by your employer for you, by law. (I presume it's a post-communism BS, so people doesn't pay attention how much taxes we pay.)

If you have other types of income, you do it yourself, you have app/website to click through it, easy. Not automatic though. Self-employed IT pay less taxes than normal employees :D and overall lower-income people pay bigger taxes by percentage, what a great country :D

We call your country Holland, great country imho, If I would thinking about moving, that's top option for me.

Only thing that keeps me here are best gun laws in EU (I have Glock, AR15 clone, Bren3 ordered), you can conceal carry nearly everywhere, you can even use gun for self-defense, sadly very low criminality here :)

Hell, I can even legally carry katana, not kidding.

Linux is used only by IT people, friends cannot switch because they play MP games with invasive Anticheat running on kernel.

Personally, I'm only switching people to Linux if they cannot afford new PC because of Win11 upgrade. Zorin OS usually.
by infecto | 2025-07-16 14:03:39+00:00
You’re sidestepping the core point. Of course some companies had fundamentals, even Kozmo had product market fit in a narrow sense. But the broader ecosystem was bloated with capital chasing flimsy ideas, and most dot-coms had no viable path to profit. That’s not “too broad a brush”, it’s backed by the collapse itself.

Kozmo is a great case study: decent demand, terrible unit economics, and zero pricing power. They didn’t just scale too fast, they scaled a structurally unprofitable model. There was no markup, thin margins, and they held inventory without enough throughput.

Many of these companies may fail but it’s a much different environment and the path to profitability is moving a lot quicker.
by mrob | 2025-07-16 14:03:43+00:00
I checked for "upleveled" in Google Ngram Viewer ( https://books.google.com/ngrams/ )

Although the word alone is found, there are zero matches for it combined with various articles and determiners:

>Ngrams not found: upleveled a, upleveled the, upleveled fewer, upleveled less, upleveled more, upleveled fewest, upleveled least

>Ngrams not found: upleveled most, upleveled this, upleveled that, upleveled these, upleveled those, upleveled each, upleveled every

>Ngrams not found: upleveled any, upleveled some, upleveled either, upleveled neither, upleveled enough, upleveled sufficient

>Ngrams not found: upleveled what, upleveled which, upleveled you, upleveled all, upleveled both, upleveled certain, upleveled several

>Ngrams not found: upleveled various, upleveled few, upleveled little, upleveled many, upleveled much

>Ngrams not found: upleveled my, upleveled his, upleveled her, upleveled its, upleveled our, upleveled their, upleveled your

This suggests all the supposed matches for the word alone could be OCR errors or typos. If "upleveled" is a real word it's so rare that it has no place in any writing that you expect to be broadly understood.
by ascagnel_ | 2025-07-16 14:03:49+00:00
One significant difference between WW1 and WW2, at least in the US -- the country realigned itself for wartime in a way it did not the first time around. You had women entering the workforce in ways they did not during WW1, which meant you had some families earning dual incomes. At the same time, the US instituted a rationing scheme, so even though households were earning more money, they couldn't spend as much.

Two other significant differences: the GI bill for returning vets (which made it significantly easier for them to get higher education) and the rise of automobiles (which in turn unlocked suburbs and mass home ownership) gave households somewhere useful to put their money.
by moralestapia | 2025-07-16 14:04:29+00:00
>the amount of absolutely vile commentary she had to push through from fellow trainees and program supervisors was absurd

I believe you, it happened to me as well. I'm glad you both pushed through that; it actually is a Level 0 attack, but at the right time it can be quite demoralizing. You are way better than those pieces of filth.

My best wishes to you and your family, may you have a blessed life :D.
by therealpygon | 2025-07-16 14:04:32+00:00
I’ll never cease being amazed at how much people whine about scrolling past a post they don’t want to click on. It’s the tech equivalent of “my kid shouldn’t have to see ‘those’ types of books on the shelf in a library”. At the time of writing this, 16 of the top 20 stories on my feed are not AI related in any way.
by rich_sasha | 2025-07-16 14:04:40+00:00
How very interesting. Only a few days ago I was reminiscing about scipy.weave, a horrendous hack and miracle of productivity in Python at the same time. It let users write inline C++, which would get compiled/cached into ephemeral extension modules. For certain jobs, and C++ users, beats numba, cython etc cleanly out of the water. It is sadly deprecated and long time not maintained. Is this a suitable replacement?

AFAICT this does not quite produce true binaries, but rather interprets C++ via Cling, is that right? And the docs only offer that C++-like speeds are achieved for PyPy. If there are any performance benchmarks for CPython3, I can't see find them. Thats the real question - few people combine Python and C++ just for the fun of it.

EDIT some benchmarks are available in this paper, linked from TFA: https://wlav.web.cern.ch/wlav/Cppyy_LavrijsenDutta_PyHPC16.p... But they don't really answer my question. The benchmarks seem to mostly look at the overhead of wrapping C++, rather than comparing to a Python implementation. There is some I/O involved in some of them, which is maybe not so interesting, and some of the benchmarks don't even have a pure CPython implementation. Where they do, speed is very close. But then the paper is from 2018, a lot may have changed.
by ziml77 | 2025-07-16 14:04:47+00:00
It doesn't have em-dashes and although a list where each line starts with an emoji is very LLM-coded, the lack of capitalization after the dashes does not feel like LLM output. And if something isn't plainly LLM generated, I do not want to accuse it of such. That's incredibly insulting to the author if they didn't actually use an LLM.
by pjc50 | 2025-07-16 14:05:54+00:00
> how long does an unwanted pregnancy remain unwanted? Basically 9 months tops

An unwanted pregnancy can remain unwanted for the rest of your life.

(everyone then walks back to "oh I didn't mean abortion should be banned in cases of rape or medical risk to the mother", at which point we have to point out that the religious conservatives very much do want that.)
by throwawayffffas | 2025-07-16 14:06:02+00:00
I think your assessment is only partially correct.

The Europeans are getting their act together and increasing their cooperation and defense spending.

Sweden and Finland joined NATO, placed large defense orders and started integrating with the British.

France has started talking about expanding its nuclear arsenal to cover the defense needs of the entire continent.

While the Russian military has gained tremendous military experience, they have lost huge amounts of top tier kit.

They are now essentially dependent on China.

No one came to aid Iran during the Israeli air campaign, the Russians were too busy and the Chinese didn't care enough.

The main winner has clearly been China, but the US and the EU have not really lost anything. If anything everyone that is not a party to the war is coming of a bit stronger.
by vonneumannstan | 2025-07-16 14:06:12+00:00
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/24/openai-miles-brundage-agi-re...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ControlProblem/comments/1iyb7ov/key...

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2024/5/17/24158403/openai...

https://fortune.com/2025/01/28/openai-researcher-steven-adle...

https://www.centeraipolicy.org/work/openai-safety-teams-depa...
by constantcrying | 2025-07-16 14:06:30+00:00
>Having your phone in the same room while doing cognitive work reliably drops your memory, attention, and overall cognitive performance.

>People are forgetting their intentions when scrolling, with TikTok being the most effective at doing this. It takes 25 minutes to get back to focusing on a task, but only a few seconds to lose that focus.

>You can reverse up to 10 years of age-related cognitive decline simply by blocking mobile data on your phone for 2 weeks.

>Using ChatGPT on cognitive tasks can reduce your brain connectivity by up to 50% and reduce your ability to recall information about the task by 8x.

>Developers actually take up to 19% longer when coding with AI than without it, but self-report that they were able to complete tasks 20% faster.

All of these are obviously not true. At best some are very strained interpretations of the papers at worst they are very clearly false.

If you believe that "Using ChatGPT on cognitive tasks can reduce your brain connectivity by up to 50% and reduce your ability to recall information about the task by 8x." or "You can reverse up to 10 years of age-related cognitive decline simply by blocking mobile data on your phone for 2 weeks.", then I have a bridge to sell you. These are so laughably false that it makes the entire sentiment look ridiculous.

People need to be honest about the problems that exist and actually engage with the psychology which drives negative behavior. But to do that the starting point needs to be a clear understanding of what the intentions are. Is TikTok bad, because using it makes you loose focus on other tasks or because you are forgetting your intentions? Certainly a great book does the same exact thing, yet somehow I never see book reading in these articles. So why is one significantly worse than the other? This is obviously a question about values. And unless society can clearly articulate why spending time on reading books is more valuable than spending time scrolling TikTok no change is possible.