MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by badmuddafadda | 2025-07-01 20:53:23+00:00
That's the one that I received. "You can work from anywhere for 60 to 90 minutes a day and earn anywhere from $200 to $500 each day, with a guaranteed $800 base every four days. There is a paid five-day trial period, and monthly earnings could exceed $5000 with bonuses included." So, everyone can look forward to having scammers like this checking in with you from time to time as you age. Checking your cognition, seeing if you have a trusting nature--these types will be checking up on us forever, trying to determine if our mental capacity has been ravaged by time, or if we are just ignorant of scams. It's worse than the temporarily financially embarrassed Nigerian prince, because it came through a text rather than an email. So, passively, you are going to see it. The security breaches are non-stop and it's beyond irritating to be targeted by such low life scammers. Anyone have an opinion of companies like Incogni --that are supposed to get your data removed from data brokers?
by niwrad | 2025-07-01 20:53:24+00:00
Thank you!

Maxwell's "color wheel" experiment (https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PH-CAVENDISH-P-02000/1) is more commonly known, which preceded this experiment I wrote about. (Which by the way is also a very clever experiment which blends color by spinning a wheel with different ratios of primary colors).

Here's a link to Maxwell's original paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstl.1860.000...

You can see some diagrams of his original apparatus that I worked off of in the last two pages!
by storgendibal | 2025-07-01 20:53:46+00:00
The interest and actions are there now: Hiring Fidji Simo to run "applications" strongly indicates a move to an ad-based business model. Fidji's meteoric rise at Facebook was because she helped land the pivot to the monster business that is mobile ads on Facebook, and she was supposedly tapped as Instacart's CEO because their business potential was on ads for CPGs, more than it was on skimming delivery fees and marked up groceries.
by apai4 | 2025-07-01 20:54:11+00:00
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by thdn | 2025-07-01 20:54:29+00:00
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by nithyags | 2025-07-01 20:54:30+00:00
Thanks so much! Love that you leaned into the time travel idea—“Pie-rates of the Caribbean” is a prompt masterpiece in itself.

Totally agree on the need to view past prompts. I am working on adding a “Prompt History” feature so players can revisit and learn from their previous entries as well as just simply view what their 1st or 2nd entry was to improve their 3rd one—great for tracking creativity over time or remixing your own gems.

Stay tuned, and keep the brilliant prompts coming @jennykaypollock !
by Ajedi32 | 2025-07-01 20:54:47+00:00
> Unless you're arguing that Apple has a monopoly.

Exactly this. There's no competition, because Apple blocks iPhone owners from installing apps through any method other than their App Store (in the US, where this lawsuit is being filed). It's a programmatically-enforced monopoly.

Frankly I'd much rather change that situation than quibble about exactly how much Apple is allowed to charge for their services. Let them charge whatever they want in a free market where they have to compete on a level playing field with everyone else. If developers don't like it, they can use a competing app store to sell their software to iPhone users.
by tomjuggler | 2025-07-01 20:55:21+00:00
Location: Durban, South Africa Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: PlatformIO, Flask, PostgreSQL, IOT, ESP32, Aider AI assisted development, MCP Résumé/CV: (old one) https://circusscientist.com/cv - more up-to-date stuff in the blog there. Main freelance website at https://devsoft.co.za Email: tom@devsoft.co.za

I am nearing completion of a years-long IOT project and am interested in finding out if there are any companies looking for a self-taught IOT enthusiast with extensive self-hosting api experience (Flask), Embedded development experience (PlatformIO) with web integration as a focus (MQTT, api, jwt authentication, local and wan interfacing).

I have been following the recent developments in AI closely and would love to be involved somehow with a new project on the cutting edge of AI integrated IOT. If you think I might be the guy to fill out your team, send me an email!
by tartoran | 2025-07-01 20:55:58+00:00
Should be free first of all, HN is free after all and with it's old tech it is still working well and is also friction free. I've seen plenty of show HN:HN and most don't have traction because the original is just too good. It's probably one reason why it withstood the test of time and why we still have a community here.
by ff4 | 2025-07-01 20:56:17+00:00
PlanetScale's move is intriguing, but sharding data across nodes is where the real challenge lies. Are the trade-offs similar to Vitess with MySQL, or does Postgres's feature richness complicate things further?

When data grows beyond a single machine, the hard work begins. Distributed systems sacrifice features like complex joins, extensions, and strong consistency. Maybe they should get Jepsen to poke at their setup. Who can show us what we lose compared to standard Postgres?
by taylodl | 2025-07-01 20:56:29+00:00
I've been a software developer, engineer, architect - whatever you want to call it - for 40 years. Here's one simple truth that’s held up my entire career:

Stay current with technology, or your career will stall (or worse).

That’s it. But staying current gets harder with age:

- Family responsibilities reduce time for learning.

- Workload increases, leaving less time to explore.

- Developer community isolation makes it harder to stay connected.

- Learning new tech gets slower with age.

- You get jaded, most “new” tech is just old ideas repackaged with a lot of hype.

That said, you should try vibe coding. For someone like me, experienced but not always hands-on, it’s incredible how fast and well you can produce code. But here’s the catch: the more experience you have, the better your results. That’s why junior devs are falling behind. Veterans intuitively understand complexity, architecture, and their role in the process. They can “vibe” good solutions with little training - just experience.

And that’s the problem. You need experience to thrive in this new paradigm. But with students leaving CS programs and companies freezing junior hiring, we’re killing the pipeline. That’s dangerous. LLMs aren’t general AI, they’re tools. And tools are only as good as the craftspeople using them.

Meanwhile, if you’re still in the game, you can’t afford to get lapped.
by timr | 2025-07-01 20:58:16+00:00
That's cool, in a "better living through chemistry", 1950s man-in-a-white-labcoat sort of way. But when it comes to this stuff, I tend to be a bit like Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park: they're so focused on whether they could, that they never considered if they should.

Probably the better solution here is to stop trying to do industrial farming of bees, and move to a system where local populations of pollinators are cultivated and maintained year round. But sure, RNAi is probably better than the chemicals they're using now.
by daxfohl | 2025-07-01 20:58:43+00:00
I'm surprised there isn't already an ecosystem of libraries that just do this. When building agents you either have to roll your own or copy an algorithm out of some article.

I'd expect this to be a lot more plug and play, and as swappable as LLMs themselves by EOY, along with a bunch of tooling to help with observability, A/B testing, cost and latency analysis (since changing context kills the LLM cache), etc.
by sss111 | 2025-07-01 20:59:16+00:00
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by realityfactchex | 2025-07-01 20:59:46+00:00
Ideas:

Here's a YC Startup School video called How to Launch (Again and Again) wiht Kat Manalac (YC): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u36A-YTxiOw&list=PLQ-uHSnFig...

Figure out where people who would want to use your project hang out online. Share it there (if those places allow sharing projects and don't have a policy against it).

Offer helpful advice in subreddits, Discords, Telegram, and other channels where people who would like your project hang out. Don't spam your project, but do keep your project link in your profile, so that people who are really impressed by your helpfulness check it out, they will see it.

If you have $, maybe see what people search for who would be interested in your project, and experiment with Google, Meta, or other (AI?) ad platforms. But start small, it is easy to spend a lot.

Or else just write prolifically about it. Once a day/week/month, make sure your log gets indexed by search engines and gets back links.

Put your project on Product Hunt if it is made into a product and launches.

Always be launching.

Give informational content that is succinct and helpful, and better than other educational content on the topic, and put that on YouTube. Incorporate your product or at least link to it in the Description if it is indeed related, which it should be for this.
by joshstrange | 2025-07-01 21:00:32+00:00
I used PlanetScale or a year or two before switching to Neon. I needed 1 database per tenant and PlanetScale didn't support that (you had to pay $30/mo per database, now it looks like $39/mo). My use-case is weird and I also don't need powerful servers (in fact I'd just as well prefer to run multiple databases on 1 server, I don't have a noisy-neighbor problem in my business). Neon let me do that but I couldn't on PS.

I get it, I'm a small fish trying to pay a little as possible for fully managed postgres (or MySQL before I switched to Postgres when I moved to Neon) to run my small, bootstrapped company with spiky [0] but fairly predictable load.

Best of luck to PlanetScale with this new offering, one day I hope I can use them again. I enjoyed the product and the support was great.

[0] I write software for food festivals, 9 months out of the year there is no traffic, ~2 months of the year there is a tiny trickle, ~3 weeks seeing high (but not "high" by any definition) and then 1-5 days (depending on how long the event is) there is a good deal of load but still not more than the lowest tier can handle most of the time. Like I said, I'm a _small_ fish and I don't expect them to cater to me, I just know what I want and almost no one provides it directly.
by kamsiddiqui | 2025-07-01 21:01:52+00:00
I’ve been working on Lexa ( https://cerevox.ai/ ) — a document parser that reduces token count in embedding chunks by up to 50% while preserving meaning, making it easier to build high-performing RAG agents.

The idea came from building a personal finance chatbot and hitting token limits fast — especially with PDFs and earnings reports full of dense, noisy tables. Our chunks were bloated with irrelevant data, which killed retrieval quality. So we built Lexa to clean and restructure documents: it clusters context intelligently and removes any spacing, delimiters, or artifacts that don’t add semantic value. The result is cleaner, more compact embeddings — and better answers from your LLM.

Next up, I’m exploring ways to let users fine-tune the parsing logic — using templates, heuristics, or custom rules through UI — to adapt Lexa to their domain-specific needs.
by rjsw | 2025-07-01 21:01:59+00:00
STEP is capable of capturing what you describe, it is down to the "user group" of customers of the CAD vendors to ask for it to be implemented by each CAD system in terms of what they import and export.

We put in for some funding for the next edition of STEP AP242 for me to be able to work more closely with the user group to improve this area.
by SirMaster | 2025-07-01 21:02:01+00:00
I tried PhotoSync, but it feels like a really misleading name. When I delete photos from my phone, they don't delete on the sync destination, so it's not actually a "sync".

So my photo storage on my home server is getting filled with a bunch of useless images that I only have on my phone temporarily and that I end up deleting shortly after.
by jfagnani | 2025-07-01 21:02:45+00:00
Interesting server framework! It looks very similar in some ways to a server I started last year out of frustration with Koa and Express called Zipadee: https://github.com/justinfagnani/zipadee?tab=readme-ov-file#...

The templates look basically identical. html-tagged template literals that support streaming and async values and automatically escape values.

What Koa does will allowing strings by be returned with a default HTML mimetype is security malpractice, IMO. It's way to easy to just interpolate user-controlled values.
by smitelli | 2025-07-01 21:02:45+00:00
Percy Livermore: We must rid our speech of slang. Now, besides "OK", I want you all to promise me that there are two words that you will never use. One of these is "swell" and the other one is "lousy".

Lucy Ricardo: OK, what are they?

Percy Livermore: [with emphasis] One of them is "swell" and the other one is "lousy".

Fred Mertz: Well, give us the lousy one first.
by tallytarik | 2025-07-01 21:02:50+00:00
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by rhines | 2025-07-01 21:02:50+00:00
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by tharkun__ | 2025-07-01 21:03:01+00:00
What leads you to believe that?

I haven't been there but the plaque seen in the picture just says:

Have you ever wondered what one million dollars looks like? You don’t have to wonder anymore because you can see it right in front of you!

That does not say nor in my mind even implicate that these would be valid dollars. It just wants you to be able to "see" what a million would look like. For all we know they printed fake money for it that uses the right paper for thickness and such and the right face value print but is otherwise fake. It would still meet the stated description.

I would hope they at least used real bills they just took out of circulation for whatever reason but there can't be any real expectation.

It's a "stunt" only anyway coz a million in $1 coins would look way different. As would a million in 20s or 100s.
by tonymet | 2025-07-01 21:03:10+00:00
accounting / auditing is a good example. I review public finances. Many public agencies don't pass audits. Even those that do, wouldn't pass the smell test.

An audit just means "it looks like you are recording things" but it doesn't mean "it looks like you are spending money wisely.".

Patrons see "passed audit" and assume the agency is run well.
by soulofmischief | 2025-07-01 21:04:10+00:00
> As an Australian citizen, I can't "fix" US politics. I can't and I wouldn't want to try

That's great, but I didn't ask you to, and I am pretty confused where you got this notion that I was.

> if your president says he wants to largely ignore the rest of the world and do whats best today for americans, it weakens your moral standing when you lecture others about doing the same.

It absolutely does not weaken my moral standing. I did not vote for the traitors currently making a farce of my country. That has absolutely zero to do with what I've mentioned here.

I'm really not sure the purpose of your comments or what value you're attempting to add to this thread.
by Nextgrid | 2025-07-01 21:04:29+00:00
You need to re-evaluate your threat model and change your approach. As others have said here, a TOTP that doesn't work would attract more attention that one that does or one that outright doesn't exist, all the way up to escalating the encounter from casual privacy-conscious user to alleged spy.

The best way is to legitimately not have anything on the phone or your online presence that would cause problems, and then just be transparent (honestly, they're not after your nudes or embarrassing texts). A lot of border checks are based on feelings and if you look the part they'll quickly flick through the phone for obvious stuff they're after and will let you go once they don't find it.

If you are actually doing something that would cause issues, then you keep this off the local device and onto a remote one. Use a YubiKey or other dual-use authenticator (that gives you plausible deniability for having it - you can use the same key on benign social media accounts, etc) to access it from a secure device once you're through.
by jwoodbridge | 2025-07-01 21:04:41+00:00
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About the team - I'm Justin (CEO). I'm a multi-time, technical founder. My last startup, Bayes, went through YC in 2019. It was acquired by Airtable in 2021. Before that, I built a bootstrapped fundraising tool that processed >$100M of GMV. Other members of the team include ex-Airtable engineers and an exited healthcare platform founder.

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by taeric | 2025-07-01 21:05:02+00:00
Reminds me of the excitement I got on seeing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tyTgyzUJqM. I still get excited about trying something like this again pretty much every time I see it. Have yet to really get any traction on anything. :(

A lot of folks had fun watching Minecraft built using a live code session, if I recall.
by Quarrelsome | 2025-07-01 21:05:06+00:00
> the Abrahamic monotheism was a result of the successful marketing campaign

I thought it was because everyone was accepted, technically equal, and sins were seen as something inherent and forgivable (at least with Christianity) whereas paganism and polythiesms can tend towards rewarding those with greater resources (who can afford to sacrifice an entire bull every religious cycle), thereby creating a form of religious inequality. At least that was one of the somewhat compelling arguments I heard that described the spread of Christianity throughout the Roman Empire.
by wl | 2025-07-01 21:05:47+00:00
> personally, the exhibit concept I'm more interested in is "$1M dollars in $100 bills fits in this area" not "Here's $1M in bills." The first concept is mildly interesting while the second is just a stunt.

They have that maybe 50 feet away. It fits in a briefcase. Also, $1 million in $20s.
by scalewithlee | 2025-07-01 21:05:56+00:00
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