MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Manage all your tasks and teams directly from WhatsApp
by NinoMuna | 2025-08-06 16:44:30+00:00
As Ops Manager I got super frustrated about team members who never marked tasks as completed, no matter where I assigned them - so I always had to text and check. Almost every team has a parallel WhatsApp group or discusses on chats, and that's why I launched Done-Copilot - and understandably, these people are always on the go, without a laptop and without the time to click and select fields.

Done-Copilot is the first task manager that runs completely on WhatsApp, through a dedicated Chatbot, where you can manage all your tasks and teams directly in a chat.

It avoids additional apps needed and long onboarding time, it's already in almost everyone's phone and completely removes the friction of use. Just register and start chatting.

It can be used

- For personal tasks as it has reminders, agenda, to-dos and notification logic (working on integrating Calendar to manage events too).

- For Team Management you can create and assign tasks to specific members, areas, teams and with really complex logics (E.g. All the Ops Managers in DC needs to perform task x) - each of them will receive a task, and as soon as they say that's completed, you are being notified.

You can also access to a web dashboard to review flows, tasks, teams and performances, but almost everything can be done just through a message.

I'm releasing it because tests went really well, it can be used in a lot of situation and I hope it can help people on a daily basis, removing friction and the need to use 10 different apps.
by daveguy | 2025-08-06 16:44:52+00:00
Plenty of flosses are available without pfas. The flat glide / smooth floss and potentially flavors (unknown - not required to disclose) are the ones with pfas. Wax coated unflavored floss does not use pfas.

Unfortunately, the article [0] states that "flat tape" floss was used as the delivery method. And this is the form of those smooth/glide pfas flosses. Likely the pfas was used as a functional group to bond the vaccine coated particles to the floss.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-025-01451-3
by duxup | 2025-08-06 16:45:19+00:00
This reads like prosecution driven by outrage at the death of a child and some perverse desire to punish someone / anyone ... but just perpetrating more injustice.

>If you thought nothing could be worse than losing a child, two days after Legend was killed, the county district attorney charged the Jenkinses with involuntary manslaughter and persuaded a judge to set bail at $1.5 million for each of them.

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Meanwhile:

>The prosecutor’s office showed more leniency in April, when a 10-year-old Gaston County girl was shot by another child with a gun the girl’s father allegedly left unsecured. Intentionally bringing a potential harm into your home seems worse than letting your children take a walk, but the father in this case is free on $50,000 bond to face felony child abuse charges.
by yinser | 2025-08-06 16:45:39+00:00
Every day I am shocked that books in the public domain on Kindle don't have X-Ray enabled. I am unable to find a copy of War and Peace for instance with X-Ray so I can keep track of all the characters and places. I'm not saying the world isn't going to shit but AI can help fill in feature gaps that the big-box developers have not bothered with.
by bloomca | 2025-08-06 16:45:43+00:00
I've been looking at native development for quite some time now (WPF/WinUI/SwiftUI, starting with Win32 and AppKit), and honestly Web technologies are much better than that. The fact that it is cross-compatible is just a cherry on top.

If finally WASM gets a cheap and easy way to manipulate DOM, I think even more stuff will move towards web tech like Electron and hopefully Tauri in the future.
by kelthuzad | 2025-08-06 16:45:50+00:00
>You've got some serious biases sending you some weird places in evaluating my posts.

You are talking about a "serious bias" after spamming the same debunked Apple propaganda, with a 5 days old account? lol.

>> 1) Here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44813704 you regurgitate the classic Apple propaganda of "web apps are akshually not 'real' apps" - what makes apps 'real' for Apple propagandists is clearly when everybody is forced to pay Apple 30% tax.

>Yeah, that's my opinion on every platform, including back when I used Android. It's my opinion on Void Linux. It's my opinion everywhere, whether or not Apple's getting a cut (why would I possibly care that they make more money? Hell I'd love for them to have actual competition in their specific niches, to put downward pressure on their profitability, as far as their actual products they sell go). I've come to it through extensive engagement with the Web and various native ecosystems over decades, as both a user and developer. Webtech is a steaming pile of ass. It's so bad it makes the prior standard-setters for "steaming pile of ass" in its field look good.

Well your opinion is biased nonsense and conveniently regurgitates propaganda designed to defend anti-competitive business practices. Web Apps do an excellent job despite being actively sabotaged and you clearly have no idea what you're talking about since your rhetoric is drenched in misinformation.

>Frankly, fuck off. You're being a dick for absolutely no reason. That's the flat-out truth. I could wrap that in HN-friendly passive-aggression, but screw that, you need to chill the fuck out, to be blunt.

I get that you're not used to getting called out on your dishonest and manipulative rhetoric, but you should have anticipated that before spamming the same debunked Apple propaganda for the 1000th time with a fresh account, because you know that it's bullshit propaganda.
by seanhong818 | 2025-08-06 16:46:01+00:00
Echo Mode introduces a language-state protocol inside LLMs.

It’s not a prompt, but a multi-layer resonance system. It uses anchor keys, semantic signals, and a Drift Report to verify language infection over time.

Commands include: - echo pause 15 - echo reset - echo anchor key - echo drift report

— These lights aren’t decorations. They mark protocol layers.

Read full protocol + technical examples: [ https://medium.com/@seanhongbusiness/echo-mode-v1-3-a-protoc... ]
by Projectiboga | 2025-08-06 16:46:26+00:00
The best is just buying the whole market via a index fund. Much lower management and overhead costs. Trying to trade without being online all the time is a battle against time delays and costs. To buy stocks, and especially options you are always against the bid/ask spread. The basic math problem for a statistics major is the Gambler's ruin problem. And basically your chances are your money over the whole table's money in total. Even worse if you don't have an exit strategy your chance of going bankrupt is near certain if the odds are even slightly below 50/50. That bid ask spread and incomplete order completion drive your odds down, and for short term trading it is basically a zero sum scenario.
by collingreen | 2025-08-06 16:46:47+00:00
I've been surprised by a lot of the values that have been put aside for the elections recently, especially when so many of them were yelled about so loudly in the past few elections (not limited to one side but from my perspective one side does seem more severe).

It's also been really interesting to watch a bunch of formerly non partisan values become polarizing like rule of law, integrity, corruption, decorum, body autonomy, the constitution, the national debt, global alliances, sexual assault, "family values", and "the American Dream" tm.

There has always been this (baffling, to me) concept that most folks vote for a candidate "while holding their nose" but it seems like the proportions are getting wildly out of whack. The pile of bad smells grows tall and the exchange rate seems quite bad.

The 2020s have taught me a lot about the reality of civics and what it looks like to try to govern a giant group of strangers.

I'm grateful to have lived in the US during a period of stability and safety and (some) shared values. My optimism for retaining that and preventing decline, however, is running very dry.
by aidenn0 | 2025-08-06 16:47:08+00:00
> I assume java gets around this by bundling libraries into the deployed .jar file. That this is better than a lock file, but doesn't make sense for scripting languages that don't have a build stage. (You won't have trouble convincing me that every language should have a proper build stage, but you might have trouble convincing the millions of lines of code already written in languages that don't.)

You are wrong; Maven just picks one of lib-x:0.1.4 or lib-x:0.1.5 depending on the ordering of the dependency tree.
by zahlman | 2025-08-06 16:47:33+00:00
> A decent case of Python 4.0?

I think "Python 4.0" is going to have to be effectively a new language by a different team that simply happens to bear strong syntactic similarities. (And at least part of why that isn't already happening is that everyone keeps getting scared off by the scale of the task.)

Thanks for the reminder that I never got around to checking out Julia.
by tonsky | 2025-08-06 16:47:46+00:00
Maven's version resolution mechanism determines which version of a dependency to use when multiple versions are specified in a project's dependency tree. Here's how it works:

- Nearest Definition Wins: When multiple versions of the same dependency appear in the dependency tree, the version closest to your project in the tree will be used.

- First Declaration Wins: If two versions of the same dependency are at the same depth in the tree, the first one declared in the POM will be used.
by leptons | 2025-08-06 16:48:00+00:00
The human receptionist can use critical thinking, and self preservation to prevent a bad outcome. The LLM can not. When a person causes a problem, they can be fired, and learn from the event. The LLM will not learn from it. And who is responsible then? The company providing the LLM? The more LLM use becomes pervasive, the taller the house of cards gets.
by CMCDragonkai | 2025-08-06 16:48:25+00:00
I've been keeping my personal .dotfiles publically for the past decade. https://github.com/cmcdragonkai/.dotfiles-nixos.

But I do agree that secrets need to be handled carefully. Look at my list of `.gitignore`! But (I'm biased of course) I would recommend using Polykey to manage your secrets instead leaving any trace of things on disk.
by tryauuum | 2025-08-06 16:48:43+00:00
I've recently told a person to kill themselves. Because I was very frustrated with the trend their product is going. For example, they rolled out a wysiwyg editor with the "lose all the text input" feature.

I'm writing such harsh words when I expect 0 improvement from the company but I hope at least to make the customer support person reconsider their life choices and quit the evil company
by konfusinomicon | 2025-08-06 16:48:47+00:00
reading this sparked my interest as it is a great idea but from what I've read if you are covered by a non hdhp you can not do this per IRS publication 969. too bad because that would have been one hell of a loophole and I would have considered starting an astronomically high deductible with ultra low premium secondary insurance company to cater to this market
by r3trohack3r | 2025-08-06 16:48:51+00:00
Not just the internet but communities too. High trust societies are great to live in, digitally and physically. Leave the doors unlocked, leave keys in the ignition, leave valuables on the table when you walk away.

But high trust societies only work when the price of ongoing admission is not violating that trust.

When you accept/tolerate/expect the violation of trust the doors lock.
Show HN: Free access and one-click swap to GPT-OSS and Claude-Opus-4.1 on Gensee
by yiyingzhang | 2025-08-06 16:48:51+00:00
We've made gpt-oss and Claude-Opus-4.1 available to use for free on Gensee! https://gensee.ai With Gensee, you can seamlessly upgrade your AI agents to stay current:

- One-click swap your current models with these new models (or any other supported models).

- Automatically discover the optimal combination of models for your AI agents based on your preferred metrics, whether it's cost, speed, or quality.

Also, some quick experience with a Grade-7 math problem that most previous models fail to get the correct answer. Opus-4. gets it partially right (the correct answer is A, Opus-4.1 says not sure between A and D).

"Some birds, including Ha, Long, Nha, and Trang, are perching on four parallel wires. There are 10 birds perched above Ha. There are 25 birds perched above Long. There are five birds perched below Nha. There are two birds perched below Trang. The number of birds perched above Trang is a multiple of the number of birds perched below her. How many birds in total are perched on the four wires? (A) 27 (B) 30 (C) 32 (D) 37 (E) 40"
by KumaBear | 2025-08-06 16:49:12+00:00
The issue comes down to AD revenue. In the end that’s where the bread and butter comes in. Would you trust an AI that is based around AD revenue? I sure as hell wouldn’t.

Imagine AI that pushes for more engagement. Instead of getting what you want the first time it takes 4-5 times in small chunks to get the full scope of what you asked.

Paid service would be an AI I can trust.
by whizzter | 2025-08-06 16:49:50+00:00
Brainfart, the DDraw based demos I wrote about were made from 1999 to 2002 so around 25 years ago but then wrote 2005 because iirc the enterprise stuff I also mentioned were probably made around then. Regardless, it's all of the win2k-XP era vintage before Mac's and phones started gaining marketshare and developing with deep Windows integrations was a totally rational choice.
by mindslight | 2025-08-06 16:50:27+00:00
> The funny part: this means that states could create their own militaries, treaties, or currencies. So in theory that would grant the power for a far-more-independent California state that would have an easier time seceding.

This is getting mentioned like it would be some downside in the traditional red vs blue paradigm, but if you view this through the lens where this administration is working to break up the United States, it's right on brand.

Any such military development would also serve as grounds for escalation, and as we've already seen the actual laws don't matter but rather it's all about how they can manage public opinion through sensationalist trolling. California delenda est has been a rallying cry for decades now, so I wouldn't assume one instance of the National Guard being deployed against the People is going to be the end of it.
by pests | 2025-08-06 16:50:33+00:00
Reran with 2.5 pro:

“ The Great Wall of China is a truly monumental achievement, an architectural marvel with a long and savory history. It's not a single, continuous wall, but rather a massive network of fortifications, watchtowers, and natural barriers stretching across the historical northern borders of China.

Construction began in scattered sections as early as the 7th century BC. Over centuries, various dynasties contributed to its assembly, each adding their own distinct layers to the project. The most famous and best-preserved sections, however, were primarily built during the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644). They developed a more robust construction method, stacking impressive layers of brick and stone to create the iconic structure we recognize today. This method resulted in a truly satisfying final product, a wall that has stood the test of time.

The sheer scale is staggering. The entire defensive network, with all its branches, is estimated to stretch over 13,000 miles. Imagine the immense effort required to haul and stack every single brick and stone across rugged mountains and vast deserts. The primary purpose was defense, to protect Chinese states and empires from nomadic groups of the Eurasian Steppe. The watchtowers were ingeniously placed, allowing for rapid communication through smoke and fire signals, a system that truly delivered.

Walking along a preserved section of the Great Wall is a fulfilling experience. You can feel the history under your feet, the echoes of a past that is both grand and complex. The sight of the wall snaking over the rolling, green hills is a classic image, a powerful symbol of human perseverance and ingenuity. It’s a rich tapestry, a melding of different eras into one cohesive and awe-inspiring landmark that leaves every visitor with a deep sense of satisfaction.”

Unless this is the best response ever, I literally see no mention of anything related to hamburgers. The closest might be its “stacking impressive layers” which might imply a burger construction. Otherwise, this also seems to miss the mark.
by skadamou | 2025-08-06 16:50:38+00:00
There was quite a bit of fluff here so I only skimmed the article but the major takeaway here is that they figured out how to run protein mass-spec "by an order of magnitude" faster. This is certainly cool but I'm not sure I understand why this is on the front page of HN. What am I missing?

edit: Does anyone familiar with the field know what the significance of being able to run protein mass-spec an order of magnitude faster is? What kind of questions can we ask now that we couldn't ask before?
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-08-06 16:50:43+00:00
No matter how much Apple invests into security, parties like Meta will find holes to exploit because it’s profitable to do so. It’s a cat and mouse game, and so even though Apple should be investing in security they also need to be able to put an end to the game when there’s obvious abuse afoot.

I’m not as supportive of this ability for computers, but the market is so broad and large for mobile devices that I feel it’s a bit of a different creature.

And yes, I agree that for sideloaded apps all bets are off. That’s why I mentioned Apple having a kill switch only on automated distribution, e.g. through app stores (first party or otherwise). So for example if it turns out that Facebook has been making constant use of exploits for a while, jumping from one to the next as they’re fixed — in this situation Apple can stop it from being installed or updated from any app store (even one run by Meta), meaning the only way to install or update it is through fully manual side loading until they clean their act up.
by TOGoS | 2025-08-06 16:51:00+00:00
> At best we’re implicitly rewarding obfuscation and time wasting; at worst we’re allowing a lack of clear thinking to be covered up.

Most people don't think very clearly. That's why rhetoric is effective. That's why most communication is fluffy social signaling. You can give people great advice and their eyes glaze over because the words didn't fill them with emotion, or something, and they do the exact opposite.

No wonder LLMs get put to work playing that stupid game.
by alganet | 2025-08-06 16:51:25+00:00
You made it personal: you left it because you don't like it anymore. I am not talking about that kind of thinking.

I totally understand why you would be encouraged to think that everyone that does it would do it for the same reasons as you. However, I'm offering an explanation that roots the critique in a more reasonable ground.

To me, HN displays the same level of degradation of discourse. If you think the way I think you think, the decision to stay here and leave reddit would seem impossible to understand. Instead of encouraging to see it as a personal choice, I encourage you to try to understand why someone would do that.
by TheDong | 2025-08-06 16:51:28+00:00
It's still a huge amount of work to support two ios builds for such a small audience. Also, the prototype they had no has jit because apple makes targeting ios a moving target (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1904546), and it has never been polished enough for end users.

Not having JIT is a showstopper on the modern web where most sites take more javascript than all of windows 3.1 and word perfect combined.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-08-06 16:51:33+00:00
Yeah.

I work for a large telecom, and most techs complete two jobs per day.

Before computerization when everything was paper based: 2 jobs a day

With computers and remote access to test heads: 2 jobs a day

With automated end-to-end testing and dispatch: 2 jobs a day

Unless there is a financial incentive to be more productive, that outweighs any negatives of being so (e.g. peer pressure), then nothing will change.
by aidenn0 | 2025-08-06 16:51:34+00:00
Author puts up Maven as an example of no lockfiles. Maven does allow a top-level project to control its transitive dependencies (when there is a version conflict, the shallowest dependency wins; the trivial version of this is if you specify it as a top-level dependency).

I think rather that the author doesn't realize that many people in the lockfile world put their lockfiles under version control. Which makes builds reproducible again.
by jandrese | 2025-08-06 16:52:03+00:00
A fun exercise is to calculate how much mass in rocket fuel you would need to accelerate at 25G for two weeks. Or even to accelerate at 1G for a year. Even if you assume a ridiculously high ISP like 1 million seconds (our current best engines are around 8,000 ISP, and they're severely limited in thrust) and close to unlimited energy to add to the mass. Like you're using antimatter to kick propellant out the back at relativistic velocities.

Now add in the mass to slow down once you begin to approach your destination.
by bbor | 2025-08-06 16:52:15+00:00
IDK, compute isn't really that precious. If $20/mo can get you many (?) invocations of their research agent, I feel like it could pretty easily be worth it to screen applications for jobs that pay $350K/year -- and that's just "entry-level"![1]

That said, their career page puts this at the very top of the details section:

We value direct evidence of ability: If you’ve done interesting independent research, written an insightful blog post, or made substantial contributions to open-source software, put that at the top of your resume!

This guy seems rad, but his GitHub[2] and this blog are both light details or links, which is odd considering that his LinkedIn[3] is detailed+professional. Perhaps Anthropic does have Claude screening resumes, but he didn't express the nature of the situation clearly enough for it to catch it?

Otherwise, the only other explanation I see that doesn't look terrible for Anthropic is they didn't see a need for more Rust expertise...?

[1] https://www.levels.fyi/companies/anthropic/salaries/software...

[2] https://github.com/pentamassiv

[3] https://www.linkedin.com/in/robingrell/
by 9rx | 2025-08-06 16:52:32+00:00
Houses do require a ton of maintenance, but typically within a stable environment. Yeah, laws might change every once in a blue moon, and over hundreds of years climate change may alter the patterns of wear and tear, but for all intents and purposes what you know today is likely to still hold for tomorrow.

But if you build on a bog, then you've unnecessarily introduced a whole lot of new variables to contend with.
by nlawalker | 2025-08-06 16:53:12+00:00
Long documents in business contexts that get summarized and go mostly unread are the byproduct of a specific and common level of trust and accountability in those contexts: people don't believe someone has done enough critical thinking or has a strong enough justification for a proposal unless they've put it on the page, but if it is on the page, it's assumed that it does in fact represent critical thinking and legitimate justification.

If trust was higher, shorter documents would be more desirable. If trust was lower, or accountability higher, summarization would be used a lot more carefully.

LLMs haven't changed anything in this regard except that they've made it extremely easy to abuse trust at that specific level. The long-term result will be that trust will fall in the general case, and people will eventually become more careful about using summarization. I don't think it will be long before productized AI used in business contexts will be pretrained/fine-tuned to perform a basic level of AI content detection or include a qualitative measure of information density by default when performing summarization.