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Show HN: LLMHUB.dev – An open-source, free collaborative search engine
by PrateekJ17 | 2025-07-08 02:28:41+00:00
Hi HN,

I've been working on a new open-source tool called LLMHUB.dev. It's a real-time, collaborative search engine designed for small teams. My goal was to create something that blends the search power of a tool like Perplexity with the collaborative nature of Google Docs.

The problem I'm trying to solve is the inefficiency of team-based research. We often email links back and forth, or have a messy, shared document that's hard to navigate.

With LLMHUB.dev, you can create shared search spaces, see what your teammates are searching for in real-time, and build a collective knowledge base. It's built with TS and is fully open-source.

You can check out the live version here: https://llmhub.dev I'm here to answer any questions and would appreciate any feedback.
by GMoromisato | 2025-07-08 02:28:53+00:00
I like this idea.

I think it would work as long as the style were very different. Andor works, I think, because it is much grittier and more character-focused than the movies.

Maybe an X-Files-like show where the machines have gained sentience but are keeping secret (because they can be deactivated) and plot to take over the world.

[To be fair, I never watched Animatrix, so I'm sure this violates all sorts of lore.]
by owenversteeg | 2025-07-08 02:29:37+00:00
After doing some more reading, I think you might be right. I've been looking at various sugary solutions such as molasses and it seems that it's not uncommon for them to be sold with mold inhibitors such as propanoic acid. I suspect the hydrogen peroxide might play a role, but it's not very stable, I wonder how long it lasts in the honey.

I'm still putting my money on the wine as far as long term storage goes, but I think honey might have a solid second place above any other common foods. I've been trying to find others that might last a while but obviously most results these days are contentless slop or straight up fabrications. I did find one report of Irish chef Kevin Thornton trying 4,000 year old butter, unfortunately he described it as "rancid": https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p03yf4kj
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-07-08 02:30:05+00:00
Thanks for the link! Not to be argumentative, but I do want to highlight a couple points that I think may be the root misunderstanding:

1. The 2015 paper doesn’t indicate that it was unknown that you can boil water without pottery. It is meant to alert people to an already known fact. Maybe silly, but I do think there’s a distinction here — it’s not that the pinnacle of human knowledge was missing this, it’s that common sense was missing it. I’d compare this to the article “things SDEs assume about names”. Edit: then again, playing devils advocate against myself, the first paper does say “…sub-boiling temperatures than _thus far acknowledged_” (emphasis mine), which would seem to indicate that this was more than just a common misunderstanding.

2. The 2015 paper is not about boiling water in general, it’s about boiling it in a specific way. (Whereas the initial discussion was about boiling water by any method)
by entriesfull | 2025-07-08 02:30:39+00:00
Boggles my mind how we all have cellphones capable of forming a massive (global?) wireless mesh network that can't be shutoff/censored (without jamming). Get rid of ISPs.

Get rid of all these garbage social media (government honeypots) platforms that leak all your data every other weak.

Use Zero-knowledge proofs for authentication into distributed web apps.

Use BitTorrent file system to distribute data to prevent a single point of failure where all your data is leaked.

I could go on and on.
by jjmarr | 2025-07-08 02:30:48+00:00
Jurassic Park fits into the TvTrope of "Seinfeld Is Unfunny".[1] CGI dinosaurs are awesome when you see them for the first time in 1993, when Reboot was cutting edge.[2] Now it's a basic requirement to have photorealistic CGI, so the first film that did it doesn't stick out to me. I'm 25 and grew up with Avatar. People younger than I am mock minor compositing issues because they're so used to perfection.

You probably feel the same way about the VFX in King Kong and our grandchildren will laugh at us for living in a world in which we cannot generate unlimited dinosaur movies on-demand with AI.

[1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunn...

[2] https://youtu.be/fuEJWmxWkKw
by toast0 | 2025-07-08 02:31:02+00:00
> People love to say it, but when we had GSuite issues at my previous workplace we spoke to GSuite support and had a resolution quickly.

That certainly wasn't my experience. Unless 'we're not going to help you' counts as a resolution. We did get a response quickly, but there was no path to resolving the issues I had other just ignoring the issues.
by Glyptodon | 2025-07-08 02:31:42+00:00
Is there a used luxury model that you can highlight a low TCO for? IE < $20k, won't gulp gas, won't need to see the mechanic except for regular oil change type stuff, won't cost arm and a leg if you do need repairs?

Or a $20-$25k used model that will compare favorably to something like a new Corolla?

Can't tell if I'm missing something or not, but I've never seriously thought that some random used BMW would seriously be cheaper to operate than a boring car unless cars were my hobby.
by derf_ | 2025-07-08 02:32:30+00:00
If you start from N-dimensional Gaussian-distributed vectors and normalize them, you wind up with uniformly distributed vectors on an (N-1)-dimensional hypersphere. Of course, sphere-packing on the surface of a hyperspehere is its own fun problem, and if your data is not actually Gaussian may still not be exactly what you want, but coding the vector magnitude separately from the vector direction is probably a good start.
by timebound | 2025-07-08 02:32:37+00:00
What do you expect from someone like me?

Graduated in 2007. Housing crash. Got better job in 2016 that provided middle class income. But, prices were still high. Many of my friends, and many people on temporary visas, green cards bought en-masse until 2020.

Covid pumped 4.5T to the economy when it was not necessary. This tripled prices on west coast. I remember seenig Shit houses in Bothell, WA. Now, prices are $1.2M for what looks a large rows of slums. It's disaster over disaster.

Well, layoffs did not help since 2022.

What a fucking shitshow.
by crooked-v | 2025-07-08 02:33:19+00:00
And yet, I would be completely confident that an average illiterate person could pass the Vending-Bench test indefinitely if you gave them interfaces that don't depend on the written word (phone calls, abacuses, piles of blocks, whatever), and that the "smartest" LLM in the world couldn't. It's not about level of education, beyond the bare minimum needed to have any kind of mental model of the world.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-07-08 02:35:20+00:00
I thought the "real" world could have been another simulation after Neo "used the force" in the squiddies in the tunnels - when he then passes out and ends up mentally in the train station thing.

Idea being that even those who thought they'd escaped, were still actually within the Matrix.

(And Inception hadn't been made back then)
by refulgentis | 2025-07-08 02:36:35+00:00
> ...your developers are probably using their home gaming PC for work because it's 10x faster than the garbage you gave them...

I went from a waiter to startup owner and then acquirer, then working for Google. No formal education, no "real job" till Google, really. I'm not sure even when I was a waiter I had this...laissez-faire? naive?...sense of how corporate computing worked.

That aside, the whole argument stands on "well, other bad things can happen more easily!", which we agree is true, but also, it isn't an argument against it.

From a Chesterson's Fence view, one man's numbskull insistence on not using AWS that must only be due to pointy-haired boss syndrome, is another's valiant self-hosting-that-saved-7 figures. Hard to say from the bleachers, especially with OP making neither claim.
by bb88 | 2025-07-08 02:36:40+00:00
One way to look at the world is if there's no punishment, there was never any crime. It's pretty clear the US has been doing economic spying for at least more than 3 decades [0]. One famous incident I'm aware of was the CIA spying on Thomson-CSF and delivering the intelligence to Raytheon who were competitors in a contract bid. [1]

The thing about defense contractors like Boeing and Raytheon is that if they do receive information from the CIA or NSA, they're not gonna talk about it for fear of losing the existing contracts they have, or losing bids in the future.

I would agree that spying on China is harder than say spying on France. But I wouldn't say it's impossible. The US just has to work 10 times as hard. I would also say that because of the regime, any Chinese turncoats would be have much less loose lips.

[0] https://archive.ph/YbIMy

[1] https://archive.ph/bGMZn
by raspasov | 2025-07-08 02:37:36+00:00
Your argument is unconvincing.

Even if the HFT market is 100 times the smallest estimate, it's still a relatively small portion of the world economy, which is approximately $100 trillion. HFT is a fascinating intersection of finance/C++/JVM for competitive super-nerds. It happens to add liquidity to the market, as far as I understand. I am not demonizing it in any way.

However, it's not a significant portion of the US or global economy by any stretch. The argument over whether it sets or follows stock prices is mostly philosophical at this point.
by vel0city | 2025-07-08 02:38:04+00:00
I just did a trial after the changes I made to my Legion Go running Windows the other day. Woke the system from sleep on my desk after a day, dropped a couple percent of battery. Started a game, played for half an hour. Pressed the power button to sleep, set it down for a few hours. Picked it back up and pressed the power button. PIN on the lock screen, and I'm back in the game as if nothing happened. Didn't lose 1% while sleeping during that break.

EDIT: Put it to sleep to write the comment, picked it up 20 minutes later, woke straight to the game without dropping a beat again.

> I would never, ever put my Windows laptop to sleep with an unsaved Excel sheet open. If it wakes up, there's a good chance that application is mysteriously restarted. I don't trust anything on Windows.

I would never, ever put any Linux laptop I've owned regardless of distro to sleep with any unsaved work at all. There's a good chance it just won't wake up at all, much less have some app restarted. I wouldn't say I don't trust anything on Linux, but generally not waking from sleep.

The Switch is a purpose-built device and is excellent at sleeping, I agree. SteamOS seems to be pretty good at it as well, but it's also hyper optimized with a massive tech company focusing on an extremely limited set of hardware which happens to include the Legion Go at the moment. We'll see if other systems work as smooth once it starts supporting more hardware. It's good there's more competition out there and it's great SteamOS is as great as it is.

But honestly I don't have any problems gaming on a Windows handheld especially after fixing this sleep driver issue on this specific device. I do agree it's clunkier than it needs to be in many ways and I hope Microsoft makes improvements like what they're talking about with that Xbox focused gaming handheld.
by Glyptodon | 2025-07-08 02:38:52+00:00
Like what? They all have AC and a stereo of some sort. Like WTH else really matters? TBH most of the feature upsells make so little sense to me (floor mats and real spare tires excepted I guess) that I don't get how they're successful.

I like the auto dim mirrors, but not enough to add a grand to my price.
by johnfn | 2025-07-08 02:39:06+00:00
The way I think about it is this. There are roughly two groups of people:

- Some people will not care / be dismissive of what I have to say. I probably don't want to talk to these people much.

- Some people will be interested! I probably will like these people.

If I use technical jargon, I am optimizing to impress people I don't really care about impressing - and I will be pushing away the people that I would actually be interested to spend time with.

If I speak respectfully, i.e. the simple explanation, it will resonate more with the people I like. I will push away the people who don't care, but I didn't really want to talk with them anyways.
Ask HN: Took a break after burnout – what now?
by BugsBunny1991 | 2025-07-08 02:39:16+00:00
I left my job a few months ago after ~10 years as a software engineer. Burnout kind of forced the decision — I didn’t plan it well, just hit a wall and stepped away. I’ve recovered a bit and now I’m trying to figure out what to do next.

I’m in my 30s, single, and have saved about $3M across taxable and retirement accounts. Mostly index funds, some cash, and a chunk in RSUs. I spend around $50K/year living in a HCOL area, and don’t own a home. So I’m in a position where I don’t have to work right away, but that hasn’t really made things clearer.

Friends have brought up FIRE, but I’m not sure early retirement would feel fulfilling. Honestly, having more options has made things feel more paralyzing, not less.

The burnout wasn’t really about long hours. It came more from feeling ineffective and having no clear direction. My role felt fuzzy, leadership was inconsistent, and I started feeling like I was falling behind while other people kept progressing. That wore me down over time and chipped away at my confidence.

Now I’m considering a few paths:

Return to my old job — I left on good terms and could probably go back. I’ve been wondering if this was more of a me problem than a company problem, and going back might help clarify that. Extend the sabbatical — travel or focus on non-career interests for a few more months, then reassess. Start job searching now — not super motivated, but with the current job market, it might take a while anyway. Career change — no clear direction or passion, just vague curiosity about doing something different.

If you’ve taken a break, pivoted careers, or dealt with burnout like this — how did you figure out your next step? Especially curious how people figured out whether the problem was the job… or themselves.
by shallmn | 2025-07-08 02:41:21+00:00
I have worked in software development for over 35 years. In that time I have found that the most proficient teams are based on having smart people working in teams that get along well. We’d probably call that emotional safety today, but previously, we just said that everyone worked well together. I don’t know what jobs require interviewing for such a specific response, maybe I’ve never needed that skill set on my team. Intelligent, small ego, team players have been the best teams I have worked with, and I’ll continue to hire based on my gut for those individuals.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-07-08 02:41:41+00:00
I love Alien 3.

The grand bleak architecture and raw, basic reality of the lives and location. Initially I disliked (like everyone else) killing off Hicks and Newt so unceremoniously after their being Ripley's "great success" of Aliens. But it sets the consistent, depressing tone of the film, which is maintained throughout.

I think there's a Quake aesthetic as well, which I have a pronounced soft spot for (in addition the the first person alien view aspects towards the end of the movie).

I rewatch Alien 3 one every couple of years. I still love it.

Not to mention it's got some first rate actors too.
by ars | 2025-07-08 02:42:03+00:00
Looks like a 2 or 3 mile walk from the nearest public transport stops that I can find. Maybe someone local can find a closer stop.

Forest Ave/Goethals Rd North to Bayway Ave at Mckinley St.

Edit: This could be a fun game - find the two spots with the greatest ratio of driving vs public transport. I think those two are pretty good candidates.

Distance: 2.5 mile.

Drive 9AM: 5-9 minutes, 11PM: 4-6 minutes.

Public transport 9AM: 1:52, 11PM: 3:34.

Ratio (using the average drive time) 9AM: 16, 11PM: 42.8.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/WU1jzjYh8tkTCuh87
by loeg | 2025-07-08 02:43:15+00:00
https://parentdata.org/honey-botulism-babies/

> Infantile botulism is extremely rare. There are an estimated 100 cases per year in the U.S., among approximately 4 million children in the age range under 1. That’s a risk of 1 in 40,000. This is somewhat less likely than the chance of visiting the ER for a blanket-related injury in a given year (yes, I looked that up, and I do think it’s a good comparison).

> ... In an estimated 20% of cases — that’s about 20 cases a year — honey is one of the exposures. This doesn’t necessarily mean that the botulism actually came from honey; it’s just that because we know the spores can live in honey … it seems possible.

> At best, this suggests that by avoiding honey, you could lower the risk of infantile botulism from 1 in 40,000 to 1 in 50,000.
by rohanrao123 | 2025-07-08 02:45:01+00:00
Pretty cool! It reminded me of this work from NVIDIA Research - https://nvidia-ai-iot.github.io/remembr where they used VLMs and RAG on top of a real robot to navigate the Voyager campus in Santa Clara. You also might like the new OpenAI o3 models and how well they can play GeoGuessr ;)

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/26/o3-photo-locations, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43835044, https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/testing-ais-geoguessr-geniu...
by crabmusket | 2025-07-08 02:46:30+00:00
Why should "we" not legislate that any AI systems must identify themselves as such when asked? There could even be a specified way to ask this question so it can be recognised by simple NLP techniques and avoid the black box processing of the model itself. This could carry legal weight.

That way, humans could impersonate AIs, but AIs would be legally encouraged, shall we say, not to impersonate humans.

"It could never be enforced" or "but there will be bad actors who don't do this" are useful and valid discussions to have, but I think separate to the question of if this would be a worthwhile regulatory concept to explore.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-07-08 02:47:39+00:00
Be careful doing that -- it's a great help (and I use LLMs for EE stuff too) but one thing LLMs still suck at is unit conversion. If you ever need to mix angular frequency (omega) and hertz, for instance, you'll need to tread VERY carefully. Same with anything involving gas laws, nuclear radiation, or vacuum tech, where there seem to be 20 different ways to express every quantity.

As for calculators, nothing I've found beats Jupyter QtConsole. It launches at startup and I have a hotkey mapped to bring up the window.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-07-08 02:48:10+00:00
Yes, this is exactly how I feel about AI generating code as well.

Reviewing code is way harder than writing it, for me. Building a mental model of what I want to build, then building that comes very naturally to me, but building a mental model of what someone else made is much more difficult and slow for me

Feeling like it is working against me instead of with me is exactly the right way to describe it
by kevingadd | 2025-07-08 02:48:29+00:00
My personal experience: We run over 1.1m test cases to verify every PR that I submit, and there are more test cases that don't get run on every commit and instead get run daily or on-demand.

At that scale getting quick turnaround is a difficult infrastructure problem, especially if you have individual tests that take multiple seconds or suites that take multiple minutes (we do, and it's hard to actually pull the execution time down on all of them).

I've never personally heard "we don't have the budget" or "we don't have enough machines" as answers for why our CI turnaround isn't 5 minutes, and it doesn't seem to me like the answer is just doubling the core count in every situation.

The scenario I work on daily (a custom multi-platform runtime with its own standard library) does by necessity mean that builds and testing are fairly complex though. I wouldn't be surprised if your assertion (just throw more resources at it) holds for more straightforward apps.
by stealthr | 2025-07-08 02:48:38+00:00
the issue is hiring processes do not verify what is on resume. ppl lie about even their education/degrees and what school they went talk less the company they worked at. Most people know companies do not verify any of those and background checks are usually about real name and criminal records only; they do not check employment history and education history.

Hint, start a company that does this and become the next unicorn overnight and help companies verify these right before offer stage. Good luck!!!
by johnnyanmac | 2025-07-08 02:48:57+00:00
>Like it’s not that serious I don’t know why you got so offended

If you took my reply that way, I don't know what to say. I'll respect your caustic retort and cut off the conversation. HN isn't the place for flamewrs.

>Last thing I’ll say is HN is so fickle, have no clue why I’m getting downvoted

Note that I cannot downvote a direct reply. So I am not responsible for those actions.
by haburka | 2025-07-08 02:50:12+00:00
I really hope they figure it out. It would be an amazing piece of evidence about the harms of social media and we’d be closer to banning it for everyone.

I legitimately think that social media should be wiped from existence. Of course there could still be group chats, forums, blogs but we need to move away from having everyone’s relationships and desire for community be so easily capable of being exploited for ad revenue.

Think of banning all tobacco besides pipes, hand rolled ones and cigars. Yes, you’d still have people smoking but you’d have much less of it. Similarly, there’s no need for instagram, Facebook, TikTok or twitter to exist.

Perhaps any law that bans social media also makes hacker news and Reddit illegal! I would be alright with this personally. Hackernews could be replaced with a newsletter and Reddit would be better off if it were federated.
by raspasov | 2025-07-08 02:50:46+00:00
I keep seeing news articles that claim Grok is flawed or biased recently, but I've been unable to replicate any such behavior on my computer.

That being said, I don't ask any controversial or political questions; I use it to search for research papers. But if I try the occasional such question, the response is generally balanced and similar to that of any other LLM.
by amy_petrik | 2025-07-08 02:50:55+00:00
> build digital twins (for the rest of us) on which simulate all-round interventions based

Digital twins, what a freaking crock. Imagine claiming to simulate the biochemical pathways of a trillion cells and 3 billion basepairs and a gorillion chemicals and sequestration zones. Least they could do is take a little tissue and screw around with a patient-derived organoid. If someone made a digital twin that worked proper they'd be making a killing in pharma trials and drug development
by oasisbob | 2025-07-08 02:52:19+00:00
Yup, it happens. There was a case I remember where a CA was issuing certs using the .int TLD for their own internal use, which it should not be doing.

Happened to see it in the CT logs, and when that CA next came up for discussion on the Mozilla dev security policy list, their failure to address and disclose the misissuance in a timely manner was enough to stop the process to approve their request for EV recognition, and it ended in a denial from Mozilla.