MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Jugurtha | 2025-07-15 13:20:02+00:00
The ability to find and reach your ideal customer is paramount, and you're having trouble doing that. You've tried LinkedIn so far, but it's worth your while to experiment with other distribution channels.

You're trying to book meetings by reaching out ("cold") on LinkedIn in order to do what exactly? To have a conversation in which you could ask questions, and validate or invalidate hypotheses. One way to do that is to go public with your hypotheses in appropriate fora. The internet abhors someone being wrong, and your target customers will come out of the shadows and write essays proving just how little you know on the topic, and how wrong you are.

There's an old Algerian saying: "يرمي الراشي باش يجيب الصحيح", or "Throwing the brittle to pick up the solid" (meaning people who say something wrong (brittle) in order to get the correct (solid) information).

There's also "Cunningham's Law": "The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."

Or this: https://xkcd.com/386/

Now, you're not doing that out of deception of course. The very reason you're trying to develop a product for your target customers is that you believe some things to be broken and believe certain things to be true. You can write about those and get to validate or invalidate these beliefs. In any way, you'll get feedback and strike up conversations.

That is but one way.

>I have offered Lunch and coffee as an incentive.

That would be a courtesy, not an incentive. An incentive would be to pay them consulting fees and get them as consultants to answer your questions.

There are other ways: trade shows, conventions, subreddits, Quora, etc. Where do these people gather?

You also could think of changing your messages and state the questions in your email. This might lower the activation energy: someone might not want to meet you for coffee/lunch with an open agenda, but if you state your questions clearly in your email they might think "What the heck, I can write a reply in 10 minutes and get done with it. Good action of the day: check".

The bottom line is to respect their time, and one way to show that respect is to have your thoughts and questions in order. This helps get responses.

They might not be interested, but if they know someone who might be, they might refer you to that person.

If you have a way to be useful for the person, don't hesitate. There are so many opportunities to be useful for people by connecting them to your network and solving problems for them. Someone sells something, you know someone interested? Offer to connect the two. Hook people up.

Do a Show HN here with your product, however rudimentary it may be. Also, make yourself reachable (put your contact information and your product in your profile) so people can reach out to you even after it's no longer possible to reply to this thread. Keep channels open.
by Hikikomori | 2025-07-15 13:20:20+00:00
Also littered with actual corpses killed by the people trying or being successful in stopping the pendulum from swinging away from them. Its pretty clear that this administration is gearing up to do just that, and going by what the people behind it are saying (federalist society, project 2025, Yarvin and their billionaire funders) they're not afraid of bloodshed either.
by mfro | 2025-07-15 13:20:23+00:00
While the premise of 'draws are boring' is debatable, I do think the discussion on unequal finances in prem clubs needs to continue. For some years parachute payments have helped with the relegation issues, but there seems to be a recurring issue of the top 4 clubs ignoring their spending limits and overall compounding their power transferring top players.

Also, nice article. I enjoyed the interactive graphs.
by code51 | 2025-07-15 13:21:15+00:00
Anthropic is actually a good point to focus on since Claude is very good proof that it's not about the scaling. We are not quite there yet but we are "programming" through how we shape and filter the input data for training it seems. With time, we'll understand the methods to better represent.

Current situation doesn't sound too good for "scaling hypothesis" itself.
by pron | 2025-07-15 13:21:16+00:00
In this case, by "arbitrary" I meant anything we would ask of it. But I don't understand why a machine that is able to reliably write code would be unable to reliably design software. Currenly, LLMs do neither, but if we're imagining what they could do some day, I don't know why we'd think it could do one but not the other. And a machine that can reliably write code can also probably reliably run a company as well as if not better than a human CEO.
by nyarlathotep_ | 2025-07-15 13:22:02+00:00
I do wonder where in the cycle this all is given that we've now seen yet another LLM/"Agentic" VSCode fork.

I'm genuinely surprised that Code forks and LLM cli things are seemingly the only use case that's approached viability. Even a year ago, I figured there'd be something else that's emerged by now.
by fendy3002 | 2025-07-15 13:22:19+00:00
Well recently cursor got a heat for rising price and having opaque usage, while anthropic's claude reported to be worse due to optimization. IMO the current LLMs are not sustainable, and prices are expected to increase sooner or later.

Personally, until models comparable with sonnet 3.5 can be run locally on mid range setup, people need to wary that the price of LLM can skyrocket
by niemandhier | 2025-07-15 13:22:24+00:00
I’d give people the opposite advice: take longer for your bachelors, masters, PhD. At least when you want to become a professional scientist.

The reason is simple: a semester extra in your bachelor does not really matter, but if you manage to publish a paper or do a lab visit at an elite institution this is highly visible and pays of for the rest of your career. Same goes for the master.

For the PhD it’s even smarter to take a bit longer: you’ll be judged by your publication list and the skills you have, not for the years, in addition many early career grants are for people working the first 7 years after their PhD.

For me there are only 2 reasons to rush your PhD: you are a genius and they want to give you a professor position, you need a higher salary.
by HenryBemis | 2025-07-15 13:22:36+00:00
> If your team always wins, why do you care?

Betting/gambling. Also talking shit to your friends in the pub which support the 'other' team (in a (friendly) banter).

I remember when I was betting (a lot) with Ladbrokes 15-20 years ago, I _loved_ statistics. But win/lose/draw was never my cup of tea. I would study the numbers and find teams who score/receive a lot and would bet on Over/Under. It didn't even have to be the 'premier' leagues. There were teams in Finland and Netherlands that would have an aggregate of 6-8 goals in most games. This was as certain as it could be. Low yield but steady yield. It just took time. I assume now with LLMs, one could write a prompt that would get an LLM to scour the interweb and give it "the games with over/under of x1.5 or more and teams that do so-and-so.. but.. who has time for that!
by bell-cot | 2025-07-15 13:23:46+00:00
Um...obviously yes? Though I might disagree with some bits like

> true resilience also requires genuine public involvement in city planning and decision-making.

- which will be very culture- and situation-dependent.

Related: I've kinda wondered whether the local culture around this month's Central Texas Floods was so broken that the locals really couldn't bootstrap some sort of warning system. (That ain't rocket science: "It's up 15 feet! Call anybody you know downstream, and tell them to start pounding on doors of everybody living close to the river!") Or, is that just not the sort of narrative that my usual news sources want to sell?
Ask HN: Do you still build terminal tools for fun?
by FerkiHN | 2025-07-15 13:24:16+00:00
Lately I’ve been exploring how far we can still push the terminal — both for fun and for practical tools.

I recently ended up writing a small utility that displays images inside the terminal using only ANSI color blocks. It’s not fancy, but it made me realize how flexible the terminal still is — even without GUI libraries or modern frameworks.

Just wondering: do others here still build CLI or terminal-based tools for side projects, retro use cases, or just for fun?

Would love to hear your favorite hacks or experiments.
by latexr | 2025-07-15 13:24:21+00:00
> I think that people often project their own assumptions.

I agree. It is unfortunately also a fact that people often don’t accurately read what was written and don’t respond to the argument.

> How do you know how much of it (lyric-wise) was AI generated?

You said it:

> Most of the lyrics are generated using chatgpt

Most.

> If prodigy created track based on samples from other songs they cannot use word "create"?

> If I create a "collage" art, am I not creating something?

> I think that some people are fixated on creation part. "You didn't create this picture, because you used Adobe filter on you digital art", "You didn't create this picture because you are digital artist, and was not using real brushes", "You didn't create Hellblade Senua game, because you just used Unreal Engine, and it did the heavy lifting for your, so you didn't really create the game".

None of those are the same thing. Your examples all require skill to do well. You, by your own admission, have eschewed learning a skill. That is a gargantuan difference.
by dvfjsdhgfv | 2025-07-15 13:24:21+00:00
> If they stopped today to focus on optimization of their current models to minimize operating cost and monetizing their user base you think they don't have a successful business model?

Actually, I'd be very curious to know this. Because we already have a few relatively capable models that I can run on my MBP with 128 GB of RAM (and a few less capable models I can run much faster on my 5090).

In order to break even they would have to minimize the operating costs (by throttling, maiming models etc.) and/or increase prices. This would be the reality check.

But the cynic in me feels they prefer to avoid this reality check and use the tried and tested Uber model of permanent money influx with the "profitability is just around the corner" justification but at an even bigger scale.
by chasd00 | 2025-07-15 13:24:41+00:00
The raw milk thing is funny to me in a semi-morbid way i guess, i find it for sale all over the place and more expensive then just regular, even organic, whole milk. Pasteurization doesn't seem to be some evil ultra-processing of milk, it just kills bacteria that can make you sick. There's no preservative or other additives that i'm aware of. Pasteurization just doesn't seem like something anyone would get worked up about but here we are.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-15 13:25:36+00:00
In my pod we've got the theory that more people in the US like anime than domestic pop culture. All the time my son and I have random encounters with people who like Goblin Slayer or Solo Leveling or Bocchi The Rock but never find anybody who is interested in new movies and TV shows. They say Spongebob Squarepants has good ratings -- of course it has good ratings because it is on all the time. People mistake seeing ads for a movie for anyone being interested in the movie.
Show HN: Zzz – IDE for Kotlin mobile development on Windows
by manuelcabanzo | 2025-07-15 13:26:14+00:00
My mobile app experience with Kotlin was overwhelming and slow, so I decided to build something better from scratch.

The result? An IDE written from the ground up for mobile developers who want something faster, leaner, and more focused. It's not a wrapper, plugin collection, or fork — it's built specifically to prioritize performance and simplicity.

RAM usage stays between 200MB-1.2GB, even on resource-heavy tasks. Fast startup (boots in seconds, not minutes), minimal lag, and no distractions. More resources for your code, less waiting around.

The setup includes everything needed to code and test mobile apps, with one-time configuration to run builds directly on your physical Android device — no emulator overhead or workarounds.

It's built for Kotlin apps on Windows and designed to stay out of your way. Every feature is mobile-first, every decision aimed at making your development loop faster and more focused.

Try it out at s0mbra.com. First 100 users can use code f100s0mbra for 50% off.
by mark_l_watson | 2025-07-15 13:26:34+00:00
I agree. I was experimenting with tool use with Kimi K2 APIs yesterday - very effective, and so incredibly inexpensive. I am retired, now doing independent research, so my requirements are very different than most people here who are still in the job market or growing their own business.

I find a combination of local Ollama models, with very inexpensive APis like Moonshot’s Kimi with occasional Gemini 2.5 Pro use, and occasionally using gemini-cli provides extraordinary value. Am I missing out by not using one or more $200-$300 a month subscriptions? Probably but I don’t care.
by Neywiny | 2025-07-15 13:26:46+00:00
Yeah I mean it was an ok article, and I understand we're all trying to make a living, but it could be summarized in one sentence. "The reporters made up a story and he couldn't convince them to report the truth: that he had been picked up in a lifeboat." Because yes the mystery is solved by knowing he was in a lifeboat, but it's also critical to determine how the falsehood originated.
by rwmj | 2025-07-15 13:27:07+00:00
For sure, but the membership fees these companies pay are really quite small (bottom of this page https://www.eclipse.org/membership/prospectus/), and they mainly go towards infrastructure, running the working groups, and conferences. The projects get some benefits, but they don't get a lot of full time developers (in fact, I'd be surprised if they get even a fraction of 1 FTE), and are largely run either by volunteers or by people doing this in their 20% time in regular day jobs.

In any case, Cursor didn't pay any money here, so they get to keep all the pieces when the code they used for free breaks.
by rickyhatespeas | 2025-07-15 13:27:40+00:00
The value is the UX/DevX. Though, they are essentially just a fork of VS Code so it's hard to justify using instead of VS Code + Copilot or Continue which is almost the same UX now.

That's the problem with most "AI" products/companies that still isn't being answered. Why do people use your tool/service if you don't own the LLM which is most of the underlying "engine"? And further, how do you stay competitive when your LLM provider starts to scale RL with whatever prompting tricks you're doing, making your product obsolete?
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-07-15 13:28:55+00:00
What incentive does an insurance company with an expected coverage period of 4 years have to prevent a drug with long term harm from reaching its patients?

What about drugs that people do not buy via insurance? Just have a free for all there?

Why wouldn't pharma just release the drug to the public at very low cost to use the unwitting public as its test subjects instead of running trials to satisfy insurance companies? If a bunch of people die then welp, you know not to pursue "insurance approval?"

Can't see how we could go wrong by making it very difficult to sell a working, expensive drug, and make it extremely cheap to sell a mass-market ineffective/unsafe drug...
Show HN: BYOK Node Based Image Gen Playground with OAI, Flux, Geminin
by Jonovono | 2025-07-15 13:29:08+00:00
Been using OAI image gen a fair amount lately for misc assets.

I found the chat interface quite slow for doing exploration.

Check out a demo here: https://x.com/Jonovono/status/1944057188475187329

Try it out here: https://www.hitslop.com

My plan is to support more than just image gen, but lmk anything else you think would be cool! (Or submit a PR)
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-07-15 13:29:39+00:00
similar to closed and open source software there is room for societies that arbitrarily imprison and kill members of their society based on decisions of often insane ruling classes, and societies that try to prevent that kind of thing from happening.

Right, I mean, wrong.

before you go trying to do the HN thing of explaining why your open/closed source analogy was super brilliant, and my response was reductive and clueless, please consider that societies are composed of living people and software is composed of 1s and 0s.
by gus_massa | 2025-07-15 13:29:48+00:00
In https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44549549 I get a login wall. You should make a landing page with info about the project, perhaps a copy of what you wrote here.

From https://github.com/Ramanujan-Computing/Ramanujan it looks similar to javascript. How different is it?
by ghc | 2025-07-15 13:30:03+00:00
> In order to break even they would have to minimize the operating costs (by throttling, maiming models etc.) and/or increase prices. This would be the reality check.

Is that true? Are they operating inference at a loss or are they incurring losses entirely on R&D? I guess we'll probably never know, but I wouldn't take as a given that inference is operating at a loss.

I found this: https://semianalysis.com/2023/02/09/the-inference-cost-of-se...

which estimates that it costs $250M/year to operate ChatGPT. If even remotely true $10B in revenue on $250M of COGS would be a great business.
by jplusequalt | 2025-07-15 13:30:03+00:00
>Reducing friction, increasing the scope of what is possible given a unit of effort, that is just increasing autonomy

I, with a car, can drive to other side of the US and back. I am able to travel to and from to places in a way my ancestors never could.

However, the price our society had to pay for this newfound autonomy was that we needed to sacrifice land for highways, move further away from our workplaces, deal with traffic, poison our breathing air with smog, decrease investments into public transportation, etc.

I think people are too gung-ho on new technologies in the tech space without considering the negatives--in part because software developers are egotistical and like to think they know what's best for society. But I wish for once they'd consider the sacrifices we'll have to make as a society by adopting the shiny new toy.
by bell-cot | 2025-07-15 13:30:52+00:00
Depends on how well (or poorly) you handle it. Immigrant-heavy America fought extremely well together against WWII Germany - even though a great many of the Americans fighting, and their military leaders, were of fairly-recent German or near-German decent. (Actually, quite a few had themselves been born in Germany.)

Vs. the uber-secret Manhattan Project had 4+ Soviet spies inside its "Top Secret" tent right from the start - all for ideological reasons.
by eXpl0it3r | 2025-07-15 13:30:58+00:00
It sounds great until you have a few hundred pages (e.g. a blog). Nobody wants to manually update layout changes or fix navigation items across so many pages.

Of course there are plenty of static site generators that will help with that.

For (internal) web applications, frameworks still win, because the difficult part isn't layout rendering, but the dynamic interactions on the screen. I don't think reloading the whole page on every click, even if it's super fast, is the way to go.
by aldousd666 | 2025-07-15 13:31:00+00:00
AI is the future, I don't care who is dubious of it. LLMs in their Transformer variations may not survive the long run, but LLMs are not the whole of AI. lets do keep in mind that today's limitations become yesterdays speed bumps. Perhaps there's a new architecture or a tweak to the existing one that gets us the rest of the way there. There has never been this rapid of a dislocation in capital investment that didn't make a big dent in the long run. You can swear up and down that it may not happen, but do you think all of these companies, and now countries, are going to just take a hit and let it go? No friggin way. It's AT LEAST as prevalent as nuclear was, but I'd argue more since you can't run nukes on your laptop. The other thing about AI is that it can be used to different degrees in tech. you can't incorporate half of a supersonic jet's supersonic-ness into something that is less than supersonic. You can incorporate partial AI solutions that still mix with human control. The mixture will evolve over time to an optimal balance. whether that is more AI and less humans or vice versa remains to be seen.
by theSherwood | 2025-07-15 13:31:24+00:00
I'm not pretending to any novel insights. Most of us who don't have much use for theology are generally unimpressed by its discourse. Not novel at all. And the "centuries of work" without concrete developments that exist outside of the minds of those invested in the discourse is one reason why many of us are unimpressed. In contrast, AI development is resulting in concrete changes that are easily verified by anyone and on much shorter time scales.
by infecto | 2025-07-15 13:31:27+00:00
Hey guys we have a guy here stating pretty clearly it isn’t true. He clearly is the authority on the topic because he said so.

The shell of the IDE is open source. It’s true there is some risk on the supply of models and compute but again none of those, except MSFT which does not even own any of the SOTA models, have any direct competition. OpenAI has codex but it’s half baked and being bundled in ChatGPT. It is in nobodies interest to cut off Cursor as at this point they are a fairly sustained and large customer. The risk exists but feels pretty far fetched until someone is actively competing or Cursor gets bought out by a OpenAI.

Again, what proof do you have that there is zero complexity or most being driven by the sandwich filling. Most of OpenAIs valuation is being driven by the wrapper ChatGPT not API usage. I have written a number of integrations with LLM APIs and while some of it just works, there is a lot of nuance to doing it effectively and efficiently at scale. If it was so simple why would we not see many other active competitors in this space with massive MAUs?
by jsnell | 2025-07-15 13:31:30+00:00
They'd be profitable if they showed ads to their free tier users. They wouldn't even need to be particularly competent at targeting or aggressive with the amount of ads they show, they'd be profitable with 1/10th the ARPU of Meta or Google.

And they would not be incompetent at targeting. If they were to use the chat history for targeting, they might have the most valuable ad targeting data sets ever built.
by stared | 2025-07-15 13:31:45+00:00
Coauthor here.

We got frustrated that creating custom dashboards is more work than it should be - especially the boring and tedious parts, like sifting through 150 columns to check which ones contain more than just NULLs, let alone figuring out which are relevant to the problem.

We created a small internal CLI to explore data. To some extent, it works - and we are happy to share our insights (especially on balancing LLM-generated steps with boring yet reliable deterministic ones). If there is interest, we are happy to polish it and share it one way or another.

Do you use or create Grafana dashboards? What's your experience? What are the most tiresome and time-consuming steps you wish were automated?
by Doxin | 2025-07-15 13:32:26+00:00
Star trek generally doesn't really take the effort to actually explain how things work. They'll just invent a word and pretend that's an explanation. E.g. how do the teleporters deal with the Heisenberg principle? Why by using Heizenberg compensators of course! It's a pretty efficient storytelling device to avoid the audience looking at details that are irrelevant to the story too hard.

Similarly, how is the gravity generated? By grav-plating of course![0]

[0] https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Gravity_plate
by 4gotunameagain | 2025-07-15 13:32:35+00:00
I did not by any means want to discourage you from developing things and sharing them, if anything I thank you for that.

My intention was to highlight that the SW supply chain nowadays is an insecure mess.

Regarding your last point, for the vast majority of open source SW releases, we can never be sure if the release we get is produced from the same code we see. I do not know if that is the case with VScode addons, but you get my point