MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Product Hunt Scraper /w EmailS (daily new leads)
by maximedupre | 2025-08-03 11:24:35+00:00
I made a super simple scraper for Product Hunt. Pick a day (default is today) and it will return all of the products from that leaderboard, including the makers and their links and all the scraped emails from that website.

What it gives you for each product • name • url • short and long description • makers list with their links (X, LinkedIn, other) • emails

Why I built it • All the others were full of bugs, or slow, or didn't get the info I needed

How it works • Rotates IPs on each request • Time-zone aware (PST cutoff time) • Built with Playwright + Crawlee • Works with Apify and pay-per-event pricing so super cheap

It's great to get leads (cold DMs on X or LinkedIn)

Link: https://apify.com/maximedupre/product-hunt-scraper

LMK if you would like me to add a field! I'm also looking to scrape each product's website to get emails.
by throwaway290 | 2025-08-03 11:24:58+00:00
"The" means the lesson we are talking relevant to this sort of circumstances, not the only lesson:)

> since if the crime already happened you cannot undo that

Prosecution is not just making victim feel okay but making it very damn clear to others thinking of doing it

> have you ever tried imagining yourself losing your friends, your job, your house, all your savings etc etc for something you didn't do

It sucks a lot if you are innocent but as I said in another comment it is still a big inconvenience by comparison. Did he even lose a house? in the letter he just said he can't pay rent. move in with parent, solved

Saying in these cases "we must believe the man" is not OK because we all know 9 out of 10 times it is a man. Saying "hard proof or it didn't happen" is not OK because the way this crime works unless you put entire society under cryptographically signed cctv 100% of the time so that you have proof what everyone did when. Even just online as soon as government makes a sound about e2ee chats every techbro (almost always it's a bro, coincidence) goes bananas. So yes this is the alternative and it sucks but is the least bad if you are privacy conscious.

What we can do is work to have this not happen. Goading "don't put your dick in crazy" (where not crazy = a victim who shuts up) like in comments of this thread is not how you do it tho
by mtrovo | 2025-08-03 11:25:23+00:00
That's not how a global policy works is it? The process was closer to a central guidance with enough notice for local councils to override it if they had the means to justify it.

You don't need additional policing as you can reuse most of the speed limit infra that's already in place, just the baseline that has changed. It's orders of magnitude easier compared to the effort to catch a single unlicensed uninsured driver.

And regarding the stats: the official report is just one google away https://www.gov.wales/police-recorded-road-collisions-2024-p.... The numbers are declining in the last decade but it accelerated to rates not seeing in the past apart from the pandemic.

> These collisions on 20 and 30mph road speed limits (combined), resulted in 1,751 casualties, the lowest figure recorded since records began. This was a 20% decrease from the previous year, the largest annual fall apart from 2020 (during the COVID-19 pandemic).

About collisions: > ... It is also 32% lower than the same quarter in 2022 (the last quarter 4 period before the change in default speed limit)

And casualities: > ... The number of casualties on roads with 20 and 30mph road speed limits (combined) in 2024 Q4 was the lowest quarter 4 figures in Wales since records began.

There's no mention of widespread licence or insurance compliance problems on the official report so not sure where you're taking this as a significant problem.
by aziaziazi | 2025-08-03 11:25:39+00:00
For those not aware of the circonstances (as me), here’s Tesla defence:

> this driver was solely at fault because he was speeding, with his foot on the accelerator—which overrode Autopilot—as he rummaged for his dropped phone without his eyes on the road

There’s lots to blame in auto makers « security marketing » and phone addiction but it seems obvious that driving a 1ton+ vehicle while not constantly looking at the road can lead to bad outcomes.

I’m all in for (mass surveillance) onboard eye tracking. Make it optional with 50% bonus on your car insurance and driving state tax. I see many, many drivers every day that are looking at their phone in very inappropriate moments like intersections and line changes.
by mmis1000 | 2025-08-03 11:26:58+00:00
As a chinese user. This story is somewhat confusing to me. Because in my language system. Pronounce is the mapping of some Character combination that express certain meaning. Pronounce may be hugely different or completely unrelated in different area. But meaning of word is the same. So you are forced to link some image (a fixed group of characters) to meaning (there is no other way anyway). Does the technics in this article still applies? Or it's just different in different language?
by bryant | 2025-08-03 11:27:00+00:00
This is by far the correct outcome. Given how long Tesla has been giving users the impression that the software would be superhuman (since 2013 with "Autopilot", and unrelatedly since 2016 with "full self driving"), they're overdue for the consequences, even if in this case they were only found partially liable.

The driver took the fair share of the blame for actually making the decision, but the driver's defense that a feature called "autopilot" would supposedly intervene is exactly the kind of marketing gimmick that needs to be penalized.

It shouldn't have taken injury and death to get to this point.
by master-lincoln | 2025-08-03 11:30:12+00:00
You make it sound like it would be unreasonable to dunk on people wasting our society resources. Why not hit on people driving 4 seat cars when they drive alone most of the time? If it affects me it should be normal that I voice an opinion. Those cars use public space, roads, bridges that are affected more the heavier your car is. That also drives up the motor power needed which in turn increases public air pollution.
by rainonmoon | 2025-08-03 11:30:21+00:00
The problem (exhibited all over this thread) is the conflation of protocols and apps. You misled yourself by overthinking it. This happened a lot a couple of years ago when people fled Twitter for Mastodon, putting themselves off by assuming they needed to understand nuts and bolts irrelevant to their use case. Did you need to know how HTTP works to use a web browser? Of course not. Likewise, most people confused about Mastodon would be better served if they understood they just had to sign up on a website and start talking to people, same as anything else. In this case, if all you wanted was to try a chat app, you should’ve started at Element and you never needed to even know about Matrix. People using these things interchangeably has done enormous harm to the decentralisation movement.
by nkrisc | 2025-08-03 11:31:58+00:00
I’m painting with a broad brush here, and there are certainly exceptions, but in my experience what you described has resulted in the only people left patronizing those dirt cheap bars being people who don’t make for good company and not always very pleasant to be around. Which then feeds back into the original issue.

On the other hand those kinds of bars tend to be pretty enjoyable in neighborhoods that are above poverty-stricken but not yet gentrified. Basically a working class neighborhood of old, which rarely exist anymore - or not for long.
by bryant | 2025-08-03 11:32:25+00:00
Do cars normally allow people to prevent emergency braking with the throttle depressed? I haven't actually tried this for obvious reasons, but if their defense is that the safety mechanisms were disengaged with the throttle being fully depressed...

(Clarified my comment to "prevent" from "override" since overrides broadly exist - per jeroenhd's comment - but it seems in this case the argument was that the feature never engaged)
by mywacaday | 2025-08-03 11:33:13+00:00
I completed my degree over 20 years ago and due to dot com bust and the path I took never coded as a full time role, some smallbits of dev and scripting but nothing where I would call myself a developer. I've had loads of ideas down through the years but never had the time work to complete them or learn the language/stack to complete them. Over the last 3 weeks I've been working on something small that should be ready for a beta release by the end of August. The ability to sit down and work on a feature or bug when I only have a spare 30 mins and be immediately productive without having to get in the zone is a game changer for me. Also while I can read and understand the code writing it would be at least 10 times slower for me. This is a small codebase that will have less than 5k lines and is not complicated so github copilot is working well for me in this case.

I could see me paying for higher tiers given the productivity gains.

The only issue I can see is that we might end up with a society where those that can afford the best subscriptions have more free time, get more done, make more money and are more successful in general. Even current base level subscriptions are too expensive for huge percentage of the global population.
by microtonal | 2025-08-03 11:33:45+00:00
We had watercooler meetings some at remote companies I worked at, but yeah they usually don't really work. One problem is that the stream always attenuates to one person (which is good in normal meetings to not pick up too much random background noise), but it completely kills spontaneity. Also, there are always people with horrendous mic quality or background noise.

As a result 1:1s tend to work much better technically for socializing, but it of course doesn't bring the group vibe.

The idea in the article sounds really nice! Unfortunately does not really scale to larger companies than maybe 5-10 people.
by lupusreal | 2025-08-03 11:33:49+00:00
I agree. Ridiculing Christians for worshipping a zombie, after all their god was a man who was killed then rose from the dead, isn't a productive approach. All that will really do is make Christians feel besieged which is a position they are very comfortable being in, feeling besieged by mean people actually just makes them feel vindicated.

A better approach is to maintain a respectful tone while not giving ground to them. Don't call Jesus a zombie, but do say that you don't think people can rise from the dead after three days. When they say that belief in a god is a necessary foundation for moral and ethical behavior, don't accuse them of only acting good because they're scared of punishment, but instead explain how secular bases for ethics and morality can work.

Skeptics should be able to explain their positions without throwing down with insults. Instead of trying to shame the other guys into silence, explain your own position respectfully. And when that doesn't immediately produce satisfying results, let it be. Some people will only come around after they've had a long time to think about it. Some people will go to the grave believing. That's fine. Becoming impatient and trying to force a satisfying conclusion to the confrontation might make you feel good but it isn't actually doing any net good in the long run.
by ath3nd | 2025-08-03 11:33:52+00:00
Dude, LLMs are a very sophisticated autocomplete with a few tricks down their sleeve. From that to AGI or Zuck's "superintelligence" is just light years... LLMs are a dead end for "intelligence".

We are talking about the promises of the same crop of people who brought you full Autopilot on Tesla (still waiting since 2019 when it was supposed to happen), or the Boring Tunnel, the Metaverse, and their latest products are an office suite and "study mode".

https://www.computerworld.com/article/4021949/openai-goes-fo...

https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-study-mode/

This is EXACTLY the same as NFTs, Crypto, Web3, Mars. Some gurus and thought leaders talk big talk while taking gullible investors' money and hope nobody asks them how they plan to turn in a profit.

My edgy prediction is that blunder after blunder (Metaverse, LLAMA, the enshittification of whatsapp, instagram losing heavily to tiktok and facebook having mostly dead accounts) and now giving 250M in vapor-money to youngsters, this is Meta's last stab in the dark before they finally get exposed for how irrelevant they are. Then no amount of groveling to Trump or MMA would be able to save the Zuck from being seen for what he really is: an irrelevant morally bankrupt douche (I could say the same about Elon as well) just trying out random stuff and talking big.
by quectophoton | 2025-08-03 11:34:27+00:00
Related, but this is something that I would like if browsers gave more importance to.

Literally a few moments ago I was playing a video from a Nitter instance (Twitter proxy), and wanted to save it with Firefox but nope. Firefox already has the video there, I can see in the developer tools that it's playing from a blob. Even if the blob is then modified on-the-fly, why can't I right-click it and save that blob that you already have? If it's a stream, why can't I dump it? You are already playing it, you already have the bytes, you can "cache" the whole playback into a local file and then let me Right Click -> Save that "cache" file. Had to use `yt-dlp`.

Similar with bookmarks. When I bookmark something, it would be nice if the current state of the page were saved as a fallback (or at least have a checkbox for this behavior). You already have the rendered page right there. I can literally do `Ctrl+S` and save this page as it is right now, even with this half-typed comment. The code for saving the current state of a page is already there. And you can already link binary data to a bookmark (favicon), and text data (description, tags, etc). I wouldn't even mind if I have to give up the description field in exchange for a base64-encoded version of the bookmarked page, I'd be willing to accept that additional storage requirement.[1]

Sites like YouTube that actively work to prevent easy downloads and archiving might still need extensions like the one linked in the submission, but browsers don't make it easy to save some data that they already have, and it's difficult enough to contribute to (or patch for yourself) those massive codebases unless you are already familiar with them.

I'm willing to patch things for myself and repackage them for myself, but unfortunately for these things it's easier and more reliable long-term to just do workarounds.

(Disclaimer: I'm using Firefox.)

[1] EDIT: Having history enabled doesn't seem to do save an offline version, either.
by bell-cot | 2025-08-03 11:34:50+00:00
(2023), and article seems to be solely based on a linked (and more interesting) New York Post story: https://nypost.com/2023/02/09/lawyer-dead-after-mri-discharg...

The juicy bit:

> “Both the patient and his companion were properly instructed regarding the procedures for accessing the examination room and warned about the removal of any and all metallic objects,” they [a spokesman for the MRI facility] declared.

> The facility’s PR added that both Novaes and his mother signed a form regarding the protocols, but that the lawyer failed to mention his weapon and entered the unit with it “by his own decision.”

> A police probe confirmed that the [concealed and undeclared] weapon was registered and that the attorney had a valid license for it.

Too bad about the lawyer lingering for 3 weeks in a hospital, before he finally died of his wounds. But otherwise, this sounds like cut-and-dried case of "exercised his own fully-informed free will in taking the risk, and no bystanders nor innocents were injured".
by makeitdouble | 2025-08-03 11:34:51+00:00
TBH one of the best part of watercooler talk was the limited range (only the people who're there) and no trace of the exchange (all verbal)

We also tried scheduled casual talks with the whole team, but didn't have more success than you.

I think the closest we get was the small talk before meetings start, but as we're starting to get auto-transcript for all our meetings that also became very bland.
by marginalia_nu | 2025-08-03 11:35:06+00:00
This type of writing down ideas and half-thoughts is useful even if you work alone. Thoughts are very fleeting, the instant you put them to paper (or bits) they materialize and it becomes much easier to evolve them.

When doing deep work in some problem domain, often I find the brain starts to drop these highly ephemeral fragments of ideas (that are sometimes downright ingenious). Caveat is they often only come once, and then they're gone if you don't grab them.

I often keep an envelope or scrap paper next to my desk where I write down any idea I have, whether it's "I should fix this" or "what if I did that", really no matter how small I try to put it to paper.

What usually ends up happening is I somehow end up with a fairly concrete todo list of easy improvements.
by crote | 2025-08-03 11:35:33+00:00
> And the technologies for fast connections to 2.5" drives keep failing to get a foothold in consumer products.

Not surprising, considering the vast majority of consumers don't need more storage than you can easily fit in an M.2 form factor. Why mess around with expensive enterprise U.2 drives when it gives you zero benefit and gains you the hassle of dealing with extra wires and finding space for an ugly bulky rectangle?

Once you get to storage sizes where 2.5" becomes a need, you are well beyond the consumer price range. Very few people are willing to spend more on a single SSD than on the rest of their gaming computer combined.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-08-03 11:35:41+00:00
My main objection is the temptation to mix real and fabricated data. Your entire dataset becomes much less useful if it's got nonsense mixed in with it, and if historical examples are anything to go by, it can be hundreds of years before someone identifies and untangles the nonsense from the fact. Any minor benefit is not worth this risk imo.
by jeroenhd | 2025-08-03 11:36:00+00:00
Many automatic safety features do allow user overrides, either by braking (hard) or by accelerating (fast). You may find that your accelerator pedal is harder to press than normal, or that full throttle doesn't do what it normally does. If a normal car does a Tesla and starts doing an emergency brake in the middle of the freeway for no reason, you want the driver to be able to intervene.
by lproven | 2025-08-03 11:36:27+00:00
My first, second and even 3rd laptops had 640×480 in 16 greys, with passive matrix LCDs. They also didn't have pointing devices.

I still use 15+ year old Thinkpads with 1366×768 pixel screens (a bit cramped) and a W520 with a 1920×1080 screen. Twisted nematic screens.

For me, given the 20th century laptops I started on, I think they're great. Not perfect, but good enough to put in 2 weeks working 9-5 on one of them, no problem at all.
by sprinkly-dust | 2025-08-03 11:36:30+00:00
That is one of the possible outcomes right? Producers have an incentive to collude and not compete with one another. They could create a consortium to fix prices, and use tactics such as acquisitions or _dissuasion_ to prevent new, more efficient competitors from undercutting their prices, thus distorting a free market equilibrium.

The consortium creates an oligopoly which prevents mutually beneficial deals that would have otherwise taken place in a regulated competitive free market between consumers and producers.
by lonelyasacloud | 2025-08-03 11:37:35+00:00
It is very hard to think clearly about driving too fast given both how much fun it is and the monumental amounts of money that the car industry has pumped over decades into promoting their empty road, drive fast without consequences propaganda within our societies.

However, as with tobacco, the evidence cannot be papered over forever and there are many studies that indicate they are a bad idea (tm) in urban environments. And in particular with respect to the setting of speed limits that they should be lower than many of us have been influenced to think because the rate of injury and death increases disproportionately with speed.

For instance https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/road-traffi... states that a "1% increase in mean speed produces a 4% increase in the fatal crash risk and a 3% increase in the serious crash risk". And that for pedestrians "The risk of death for pedestrians hit by car fronts rises rapidly (4.5 times from 50 km/h to: 65 km/h.".

So yes, slower is safer - not in some reductio ad absurdum sense that implies '0mph', but in a public health sense where a fair and practical compromise should be sought.

To my mind, 15 - 20mph in urban areas is that compromise.

It allows practical vehicle use, while also respecting the rights of other road users - especially pedestrians and cyclists - to exist and move about without significantly elevated risk.

The idea that some people should be granted the ability to move through shared space at speeds that make them dangerous beyond anyone else simply because they're encased in a car is not just unfair - it creates noisy, dangerous, and ultimately unliveable environments.
by xlii | 2025-08-03 11:37:35+00:00
I agree with the article. I was trying to statically type event calculus in OCaml and didn't found any sustainable way to implement it.

In order to even get a piece of system tracking the amount of boilerplate was enormous.

It won't help in delivering complex logic and might even be a costly mistake. E.g. if exploratory attempt costs 3 days of refactoring to implement and then it uncovers unexpected behavior those 3 days on type adjustment is just time lost.

Today seeing many complicated systems in both non-static typed and strongly typed languages I have opinion that's only matter of preference. Dragons live everywhere.
by mananaysiempre | 2025-08-03 11:37:58+00:00
Uh, how?.. It’s a conversation window with a contact list to the left, with GNOME-standard (libadwaita) look and feel. If you want separate conversation windows (like ICQ or Pidgin), then I understand the desire, but it’s pretty much orthogonal to web-view-ness (also very rare these days regardless of protocol).
by lenkite | 2025-08-03 11:38:41+00:00
> It's complicated, yes, but simplifying somewhat the "US" does not subsidize pharma startups.

This is utterly false. Agencies like NIH, BARDA, and NSF fund early-stage biomedical R&D by providing SBIR/STTR grants to biotech and pharma startups. They also fund basic research and clinical trials as well as translational studies.

There is the Orphan Drug Tax Credit and R&D Tax Credit. Also, access to NIH labs, etc.

There is a whole plethora of funding. Moderna’s mRNA platform was heavily backed by NIH and BARDA even before COVID.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-08-03 11:43:35+00:00
> Wouldn't you yearn for any more impact given how much that amount of resource could improve the lives of many, if used wisely?

Cynical take: increasing Meta's stock value does improve the lifes of many - the many stock holders.

Thus: when you talk about improving lifes, you better specify which group you are targeting, and why you selected this particular group.