MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
If macOS is so easy to use, why do I hate using it so much?
by pcarroll | 2025-07-01 15:54:25+00:00
I am a developer who writes software for three major platforms: Linux, macOS, and Windows. I am a firm believer that it is the developer/designer's responsibility to cater to the end user. In this case, that's me! So, why am I having so much trouble using a Mac?

My biggest beef is with the keyboard. Windows and Linux have embraced usability and made the key mappings pretty much identical. Or, maybe Windows is the 800-lb gorilla, and Linux just followed its lead. Either way, I can go back and forth between the two platforms without upsetting my muscle memory. Then there is the Mac... "being different." Being different is a great plan for trying to entrap your users in your walled garden, but it's terrible for universal UX. How many IT people need to deal with different OSs? Pretty much all of them? Why must we be forced to change our mental programming whenever we need to touch a Mac?

Why must it have Cmd/Opt instead of the ubiquitous Ctrl/Alt? I don't actually care that you call them. But when I do ctrl-C, ctrl-V for copy and paste, those keys need to be in the same place. And Home/End? They are there, but do completely different things? Why do I need to do a 3-finger pretzel move for something I need to do all the time? I know you can remap opt-C to ctrl-C. But then, what if I am in the terminal and need ^C? It's messy. Where is the UX??? I have been fighting with Karabiner and VScode keymappings for years trying to come up with a universal recipe. But just end up hurting myself more. Why can't the macOS keyboard (and applications) respond to a universal keyboard mapping? You know, for us humans?

If Apple wants to increase its market share in the PC space, how about embracing usability? Please give us an option to put the keyboard into compatible or universal mode and make the device interoperable with the rest of the world.

If anyone has a universal recipe for addressing this problem, please let me know...

I could really love this thing if I didn't hate using it so much... Thanks for listening...
by janmo | 2025-07-01 15:54:37+00:00
I was in the same situation as the OP 2 years ago and because of the migration nightmare I kept both accounts, new subscriptions would occur in the new account while old ones would stay in the legacy account.

Stripe has many issues, the missing migration is one. In my case there is alos the fact that there is no "company name" field and there is no way to issue an invoice correction for subscriptions... This makes it problematic for B2B use cases. I have alrady contacted them multiple times to ask them to add these very basic features but to no avail.

Had I known this before I would probably not have used them.
by finkin1 | 2025-07-01 15:55:27+00:00
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Show HN: We just made automation runs/tasks unlimited and Launched agen
by Kareem-nofal | 2025-07-01 15:55:42+00:00
We observed two main points in the AI automation industry that led us to these decisions:

1. *Compute is so much cheaper now compared to 15 years ago. Why are users still paying like it’s 2010?*

So, we made tasks/runs unlimited on all our paid cloud plans. We still have an open-source, self-hosted version, but for cloud users, they will now pay for premium features and have the freedom to use them as much as they want.

1. *Building a good AI agent is a knowledge transfer task, so everyone should be able to build their own agents.*

If every time I need to automate something or build an agent I have to call a “ specialist ”, so much of my knowledge will be lost in translation. That’s why we made an agent builder that is easy to use yet has all the powerful capabilities. (We are already planning the next version, so please give me your feedback.)

Give it a try here and share your feedback, please: https://www.activepieces.com/ Check out our new pricing: https://www.activepieces.com/pricing
by timr | 2025-07-01 15:56:24+00:00
Varoa mites are incredibly hard to control. Back in undergrad I worked in a fruit fly lab, and we would periodically have outbreaks, despite being about the most isolated, sterile population of insects you can imagine.

I doubt that there's any hope at all of controlling mites in free-roaming honeybees. I'd wager that we've done damage with overuse of miticides (which are insecticides, btw -- the article doesn't connect those dots) in a misguided attempt to control nature.
by rustyparts | 2025-07-01 15:56:37+00:00
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by joshstrange | 2025-07-01 15:56:39+00:00
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by AngeliqueB | 2025-07-01 15:56:55+00:00
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Show HN: HackerNewt – Breadth-first exploring HN client for iOS
by hnand | 2025-07-01 15:57:23+00:00
I made a HN client that allows you to explore comments in a breadth-first manner. Compared to the classic depth-first approach, it works much better for the larger threads - you don't lose the context and can easily skip discussions you're not interested in.

Video preview: https://imgur.com/a/tzBdpXw
by seanwilson | 2025-07-01 15:57:30+00:00
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by robotelvis | 2025-07-01 15:57:52+00:00
New Public (https://newpublic.org) | Senior+ Software Engineer | REMOTE (US, Canada) | Full-time | 160-175k

We are working with a consortium of public broadcasters around the world to create a publicly-owned public-interest online space that helps people with different viewpoints understand each other and relate to each other. This project has a lot of momentum behind it, particularly as recent political changes in the US are getting countries interested in the idea of digital sovereignty.

Our partners have a combined regular audience that collectively includes a substantial fraction of the western world, so if we get the product to a good enough state that they can promote it aggressively, it has the potential to be one of the biggest and most important platforms in the world.

The New Public dev team currently consists of me, Rob Ennals (ex Google, Meta, Quora), Blaine Cook (created Twitter), and Daniel Bachhuber (ran Wordpress.com), so it's a fun team to be on. We also have very strong experienced Designers and PMs.

Particularly interested in people with experience working on social products, experience being a core developer of a large product with lots of external contributors, or a deep interest in helping people with different viewpoints relate to each other.

https://newpublic.org/jobs/software-engineer-psi
by myfonj | 2025-07-01 15:58:17+00:00
Not any more "sentient" than existing LLMs even in the limited chat context span are already.

Naturally, »nothing new of interest for you« here is indeed just a proxy for »does not involve any significant concept that you haven't previously expressed knowledge about« (or how to put it), what seems pretty doable, provided that contract of "expressing knowledge about something" had been made beforehand.

Let's say that all pages you have ever bookmarked you have really grokked (yes, a stretch, no "read it later" here) - then your personal model would be able to (again, figuratively) "make qualified guess" about your knowledge. Or some kind of tag that you could add to any browsing history entry, or fragment, indicating "I understand this". Or set the agent up to quiz you when leaving a page (that would be brutal). Or … I think you got the gist now.
by nottorp | 2025-07-01 15:58:18+00:00
> You're paying to a broker that distributes how much you've paid to all websites you've visited that have opted in

That does make sense. Although that broker is going to push for a subscription.

> prorated based on how much time you spent on them

If it's text, I wouldn't mind, I'm a very fast reader. But that's incentive to lengthen the "content" or maybe go all video, insert animated page transitions and stuff like that.

Slow readers and people on slow internet will be penalized.
by 98codes | 2025-07-01 15:58:56+00:00
It's funny -- before social media, I was more likely able to go find someone to chat with on IRC, a Usenet group, or some purpose-built forum. I knew where my friends were (ICQ, then AIM, then Skype, then GChat), and it worked.

Now, it's all fragmented into 1000 Discord servers, and who has the time to dig through it all?
by briandoll | 2025-07-01 15:59:10+00:00
I've been looking to replace Superhuman recently. None of their AI or Team features matter to me. I just wanted what they originally set out to build -- a super fast, keyboard driven, desktop email client. There are daily paper cut bugs and search issues that have persisted for many years, and I'm not going to stick around through this transition which will surely make the product worse.

What do folks like for desktop email that's keyboard driven? At this point I almost want to go back to Pine ;)
by manish_gill | 2025-07-01 15:59:12+00:00
ClickHouse | Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure / Kubernetes | Remote (US / EU preferred)

ClickHouse is a popular, Open-Source OLAP Database. We are ClickHouse Inc, the company behind the database aiming to build the best in class real time data warehouse.

What we are looking for:

Cloud / Kubernetes Operator engineers to build the AutoScaling infrastructure. We also maintain our own ClickHouse-based Data Infrastructure. Bonus points if you've worked on autoscaling or other data-driven forecasting challenges in the past.

Can work in an early stage startup environment. Proactive and hands on. Senior/Staff+ Engineer. You must be independent and self-organized. Good at Go, Kubernetes (Understanding how to manage stateful services in a multi-cloud environment) We have a Python service in our Recommendation pipeline, so some ML/Data Science knowledge would be good. SQL / ClickHouse SQL (goes without saying) You'll need to be able to do On-Call - debugging production infra or db issues If you can do low-level database programming (C++, ClickHouse) that's added bonus.

If you want to work on operating production critical databases in the cloud on k8s + write data-driven algorithms for autoscaling, consider applying! Send me an email: manish.gill [at] clickhouse [dot] com [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFoMsLMZKik

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufY_JFPpzRI
by gs17 | 2025-07-01 15:59:56+00:00
I'm convinced the people who decide on features for YouTube don't use it. Auto-dubbing sounds like it could be great... until you click on a video with it applied.

> Speaking about shit features, let's throw "Stable Volume" into the pile.

"Ambient Mode" too. It's a big waste of resources. It won't hurt your ears, but it eats up battery for no reason.
by datameta | 2025-07-01 15:59:58+00:00
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by gruez | 2025-07-01 15:59:59+00:00
>Because it doesn't have to compete with third-party distributors like MacOS?

Who are the third party distributors for the playstation or xbox?

>They already are, through their developer fees.

It's $100/developer. Considering Microsoft used to charge thousands for Visual Studio, it doesn't seem too unreasonable to claim that $100/year is too low.

>If Apple can't compensate themselves without forcing people to use their services, then they need to redesign their business model.

What's wrong with royalty fee based business models?

>Installing software is not a service, arguably Apple has no right to demand compensation for it in the first place.

Right, which is why Apple characterizes the fee as "core technology fee", ie. for access to its tools and SDKs, not for access to the store.
by ffsm8 | 2025-07-01 16:00:09+00:00
Google is auto translating their videos unless the content creators explicitly opts out. The worst about this feature is that it depends on the language setting of the user, so the creator will likely never find out it's happening, because they're probably using YouTube in the language they're making the videos in.

It's a toggle in their creator profile that I believe was auto enabled at some point.

It's especially horrendous when the short has foreign language music. I was a following some Japanese cooking/baking channels some time ago, until this feature made them intolerable through the music translation.

Anyway, you can easily see wherever YouTube ruined it via this feature: it gets a small "dub" badge next to the title - and you can manually switch the audio via the gear icon... Which isn't available for shorts, so you need to open these via the regular video URL... Which is way too much effort, obviously.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/15569972?sjid=1621...
by nancyminusone | 2025-07-01 16:01:02+00:00
I like to bring this up in regards to livestock. "If we shouldn't eat chickens, then why are they food shaped?" Well, they are food shaped! Most of the animals we eat are designed to be eaten, born and bred over thousands of years to achieve that goal. A chicken is a most unnatural animal. No other bird has any reason to lay 300 eggs per year.

Livestock is as GMO as they come, just on a longer scale.
by throwaway843 | 2025-07-01 16:01:04+00:00
REGEX that's incompatible with Office doesn't win users.

> powerful spreadsheet functions like TEXTSPLIT and VSTACK...

...won't matter to almost anyone when you still can't right-click a row and press 'd' on a keyboard to delete that row. Everyday stuff like that matters, not an oblique function.

I still cannot find my way around the semi-ribbon interface, while half the options are still in menus. It seems like pot luck whether or.not the right-clicked 'format' will have the option. Perhaps it's not even 'format'.

Fancy functions to learn don't matter when ChatGPT can string together existing functions to do the job and leave an average-lay-power-user happy. 365. Meanwhile, python's python-XXXx libraries provide a superior UI, a UI that's entirely in my head, than LibreOffice.
by rcleveng | 2025-07-01 16:01:07+00:00
That was my thought as well, but one of my college age kids still likes Grammarly over just using ChatGPT for grammar checking and rewriting, says it does a better job.

Excited to see what they are doing now after the "acquisition" of Coda (seems like a bit of a reverse acquisition or acquihire since they buy Coda and have Coda leadership take over Gramarly.
Show HN: We built an open source BYOK CLI that supports any model and any MCP
by pzullo | 2025-07-01 16:01:20+00:00
The latest CLI releases from google and anthropic are sweet, we wanted build one that can run any model.

mcp-use-cli lets you `/model` hop between providers instantly.

npm i -g @mcp-use/cli && you're done

What's cool:

- BYOK (your keys, encrypted locally) - Slash commands for everything - MCP protocol support for custom tools - Works with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, Groq, local Ollama...

The whole thing's TypeScript and open source.

Built this on top of our Python + TS mcp-use libs, so it speaks MCP out of the box. You can hook up filesystem tools, DB servers, whatever you want.

The "frontend" is written with "ink" https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink that lets you write react for your CLI, it's so cool!

There is soo much nice stuff to do here, here is the roadmap: - add server from prompt, basically you ask the model to add and configure servers for you - search MCPs from remote registries so you can pull configs more easily - auth support (wip)

Repo with demo video: https://github.com/your-org/mcp-use-cli

Please let me know how you find it, I am going to be around all day! :hugs :hugs
by k1w1 | 2025-07-01 16:01:26+00:00
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* Devops engineers with Ruby experience. We focus on the "dev" and all of our operations driven by code.

Aha! is profitable, you can work from anywhere in North or South America, and we offer excellent benefits. We use our own product to manage our work (which is especially rewarding) and we deploy continuously.

Our entire team has always been 100% remote - in North American timezones so we can collaborate during the work day.