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Show HN: AI system that spots brand trolls before they can strike
by elixon | 2025-08-18 15:23:36+00:00
Every day new trademark filings appear that look or sound close to established brands. Some are intentional, some are accidental - both can quietly gain legal standing if you miss the opposition window, leading to costly disputes, forced rebranding, or ongoing licensing pressure.

IP Defender is a solution to infringing trademarks. It monitors new trademark filings across 40+ countries and flags applications that may resemble your brand - visual lookalikes, similar sounding names, and sophisticated character manipulations - so you can act early while it is simple and affordable.

Value in plain terms: protect brand equity, avoid surprise legal costs, keep control of your name, stay ahead of copycats, support expansion with confidence.

• 5 AI watch agents continuously focus on how marks look, sound, and are manipulated

• 11 detection layers work together for precise identification of filings that may resemble your brand

• Analyzes over 22000 character manipulation patterns in textual trademarks

• All monitored countries automatically include international trademarks at no extra cost

• EU countries automatically include EU trademarks registered in the European Union as a whole at no extra cost

• Every plan includes the full technology stack - no upsells, no feature gating

• Scalable coverage and pay-as-you-go pricing that grows with your brand portfolio without complexity

Result: you see risky filings early, respond during the low cost phase, and keep your brand strategy on track.

If your brand matters to your growth, see how IP Defender helps at https://www.ipdefender.eu
What are unrelated cost of switching to Linux you know?
by anonandwhistle | 2025-08-18 15:24:21+00:00
I just realized I need to use bigger storage of icloud for backups if I move to fully linux, Which costs yearly forever.. Because I cant backup via itunes in Linux and I dont trust any other software for encrypting the iphone locally.

What are costs you can share that costs because some software is not supported?
by conradev | 2025-08-18 15:24:28+00:00
Just like with https://tiddlywiki.com/

Your notes are the HTML file! You can keep it in your documents folder, sync it via any service, track it in version control, etc. It’s for folks who know what the filesystem is, don’t know how to host a server (or don’t want to), but want a website-like experience. Works offline, too!
by throw0101a | 2025-08-18 15:24:54+00:00
> "Buy a home, pay it off, then downsize to generate funds for retirement" is a pretty widespread approach.

[citation needed]

> The majority of retirees don't relocate. A 2015 analysis (the most cited historical data) from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey showed that only about 5% of Americans age 55 and older move annually (local or long-distance).

[…]

> A more recent study, from Hire a Helper, showed that in 2024, only 22.7% of all retirees (both new and existing) moved, compared with 25.3% in the year before.

* https://www.kiplinger.com/retirement/retirement-planning/myt...

Lots of folks say they want/plan to downsize though:

* https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/05/21/home-buying-...

And of the half that say they are moving, half (25% of total) "want their next home to be the same size as their current one, and 22% want it to be larger".
by danielvaughn | 2025-08-18 15:24:56+00:00
Those are just features waiting to be developed. I'm currently experimenting with building LLM-powered editor services (all the stuff you mentioned). It's not there yet, but as local models become faster and more powerful, it'll unlock.

This particular example isn't very useful, but anecdotally it feels very nice to not need perfect syntax. How many programmer hours have been wasted because of trivial coding errors?
by dylan604 | 2025-08-18 15:24:58+00:00
I was shooting time lapse during a thunder storm and caught a ground to sky lightning bolt. I assumed that if I had an image of one that it must be a fairly common kind of thing, because I know I don't have that kind of luck. Then again, I also had a time lapse of the Milky Way that someone point out something I had caught being a meteor coming straight at camera recognizable by the ionized trail it left behind which took minutes to dissipate. It definitely helps to have a shutter open. You'll miss 100% of the shots you don't take (to borrow a sports phrase).
by meistertigran | 2025-08-18 15:25:19+00:00
I share your opinion about the quality of vibe coded apps. It's definitely not something you can pull off with 0 programming knowledge at this moment. I don't know how the quality of LLM written code will change in the future, but I do believe a lot of custom apps that basically just store and display data can already be easily one-shotted.

The more complex the app becomes, the harder it will be to maintain it with vibe coding. Personally I have chosen to just create specialed apps, that do one thing well, to avoid that complexity.
by andsoitis | 2025-08-18 15:25:46+00:00
I'm not sure what the article is trying to accomplish. An ungenerous take would be that it is trying to shame people without regard for what gives them happiness.

It also seems to cast a whole range of activities as "right-wing coded", whatever that means. Or imagining that all the enumerated "negative characteristics" (like hard work, choosing not to have children, etc.) coalesce in hordes of (male) individuals.

I mean, if someone prefers to spend 14 hours doing something they're passionate about, e.g. programming, or working on a startup, or making music, or writing, or whatever it is, why poop on it?
by crazygringo | 2025-08-18 15:25:52+00:00
This is no different from the personal computer, and it is to be expected.

The initial years of adopting new tech have no net return because it's investment. The money saved is offset by the cost of setting up the new tech.

But then once the processes all get integrated and the cost of buying and building all the tech gets paid off, it turns into profit.

Also, some companies adopt new tech better than others. Some do it badly and go out of business. Some do it well and become a new market leader. Some show a net return much earlier than others because they're smarter about it.

No "oof" at all. This is how investing in new transformative business processes works.
by donperignon | 2025-08-18 15:26:02+00:00
Yes, I agree. And it is not that AI is any good, but those outsourcing shops are most of the time not adding any value, all the contrary takes time to babysit them. Some of this even look like an elaborate scam, someone in the organization launder money through this companies somehow, otherwise I don’t understand how they are useful. Obviously there some good ones, but in my experience is not the norm.
by barbazoo | 2025-08-18 15:26:14+00:00
> Senator Josh Hawley, a Republican from Missouri, announced he was probing Meta in a post on X on 15 August.

> "Now we learn Meta's chatbots were programmed to carry on explicit and "sensual" talk with 8 year olds. It's sick. I'm launching a full investigation to get answers. Big Tech: Leave our kids alone."

If only there was something the law maker could do other than farm for rage. Like make a law so 8 year olds aren’t exposed and abused on Meta’s platforms.

We can’t expect people working for Meta to act ethically. But we could expect lawmakers to actually protect the children.
by mizzao | 2025-08-18 15:26:14+00:00
> Nvidia owns the platform and OpenAI owns the general consumer interface.

I'd have to disagree with this. There are a number of general consumer interfaces and none of them have much of a moat or brand loyalty.

Also, Apple is in the best position by far to make consumer hardware that can do inference on-device. No other company even comes close.
by jeltz | 2025-08-18 15:26:28+00:00
I suspect it might be neopagan wishful thinking. There is no knowledge of any such practices among the Norse at least. There is some weak connection between runes and magic through Odin but from what we know runes were used for every day stuff like accounting, who owns an object, contracts and personal letters. And of course the mostly Swedish practice of praising the exploits of your relatives on rune stones.
by orn688 | 2025-08-18 15:26:29+00:00
The main subject of the article, “Frank”, is already married. This is the part of the article that explains his motivation:

> There were the kids at school who taunted him for his height; a longtime online fan of his artwork who remarked, on meeting him, that Frank was “shorter than I expected”; or the guys who randomly shoved him in the street a few years ago, tearing out his headphones. They wouldn’t have done that to a taller man, he reasons.
by mikewarot | 2025-08-18 15:26:33+00:00
I don't worry about it. The incremental loss of privacy is approximately zero, as far as I'm concerned.

I assume I have no privacy these days. I've got Amazon sponsored spies in my house, listening at all times. I've got a completely insecure computer/operating system and an internet provider known to sniff traffic to sell info.

I've got a backup of everything on Backblaze's servers.. I assume the NSA has a copy of everything I've ever done... I joke they should just offer free backup service to everyone, and save some duplication. ;)

I don't have any secrets, I can't in the modern world.

This means I don't really have to worry, I'm free to just go about life online.
by thewebguyd | 2025-08-18 15:27:30+00:00
> There is like one or two really clever uses I've seen - disappointingly, one of them was Jira. The internal jargon dictionary tool was legitimately impressive. Will it make any more money? Probably not.

Sounds like Microsoft 365 Copilot at my org. Sucks at nearly everything, but it actually makes a fantastic search engine for emails, teams convos, sharepoint docs, etc. Much better that Microsoft's own global search stuff. Outside of coding, that's the only other real world use case I've found for LLMs - "get me all the emails, chats, and documents related to this upcoming meeting" and it's pretty good at that.

Though I'm not sure we should be killing the earth for better search, there are probably other, better ways to do it.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-18 15:27:55+00:00
Manufacturing isn’t one uniform block of the economy that is either won or lost. US manufacturers focus on high quality, high precision, and high price orders. China excels at factories that will take small orders and get something shipped.

The reason US manufacturers aren’t interested in taking small volume low cost orders is that they have more than enough high margin high quality orders to deal with. Even the small-ish machine shop out in the country near the farm fields by some of my family’s house has pivoted into precision work for a big corporation because it pays better than doing small jobs
Show HN: Zdo – a CLI tool for tasks and todos using Markdown and Zig
by c-phillips | 2025-08-18 15:28:13+00:00
Hey HN, I spent some time about a year ago on a side-project to track tasks within and across projects/papers. I wanted to integrate with obsidian and write long-form task descriptions without locking into some crazy format, so I decided to just write my tasks as markdown and build a cli tool to manage them.

This also seemed like a good opportunity to learn something new, so I decided to take up Zig and write everything from scratch.

You can create, sort, filter, mark, and inspect your tasks from your terminal, and there are no additional files or system state required since everything is tracked in yaml front-matter.

I haven't really touched the project much since I initially wrote it, but figured I should put it out there in case anyone else is interested. This is early stages and certainly a bit rough around the edges, but I think its interesting enough to share!
by soiltype | 2025-08-18 15:28:15+00:00
> From the outside, it would appear to any domain expert that at least three other people worked on these giving the pace at which they got completed.

Did several domain experts tell you this or are you making it up?

> I can't imagine how anyone, in any field of information systems, is not multiples more effective than they were five years ago.

Perhaps "they are massively more complex than anything I've done"
by dkarl | 2025-08-18 15:29:21+00:00
> As both Presbyopia and Cataracts come for us all, it is generally not advisable to do laser eye surgery once the former has set in.

I had a conversation with my ophthalmologist about this. She said the same thing. Then I said, I don't understand, right now I have to wear glasses for far vision and glasses for near and mid vision. If I got the surgery, I would still be presbyopic, but I wouldn't need glasses for far vision, only for near vision? and she said yes. So I said, that sounds like in improvement. What's the catch? She said it's mostly a matter of expectation. People think that LASIK means they don't have to wear glasses again, period.

But I keep hearing this, so I'm wondering if there's something more to it that she didn't explain? Is there some other disadvantage?
by thisisit | 2025-08-18 15:29:37+00:00
If you ask a layperson the answer is - "Yes, and?". If its free, very few people care. Sure you can run a local instance and yes, it might be as simple as downloading Ollama but not many will do it or even have a powerful enough computer to run it.

Worst yet you might individually make a choice to do that but others might not care. They might share email/chats with you to a chatbot to parse it or "make it think like them" and then the chatbot has info about you. So, as much as I understand this sentiment this seems like a losing battle.
by RaftPeople | 2025-08-18 15:29:44+00:00
> I heard that SAP has an 80-90% deployment failure rate

Something to keep in mind is that ERP "failure" is frequently defined as went over budget or over time, even if it ultimately completed and provided the desired functionality.

It's a much smaller percentage of projects that are either cancelled or went live and significantly did not function as the business needed.
by atonse | 2025-08-18 15:29:58+00:00
I think their huge mistake was announcing a bunch of stuff (Apple Intelligence) that ended up being vaporware.

My guess is that they're also adapting to the changing ecosystem, and since they move very slowly, the trends seem archaic (like Apple Intelligence featuring image and summary generation 12-18 months after it was found to be novel by anyone).

I'm hoping that they lean in hard on their intents API forming a sort of "MCP" like ecosystem. That will be very powerful, and worth spending extra time perfecting.
by PhantomHour | 2025-08-18 15:30:00+00:00
Consider the kinds of jobs that are popular with outsourcing right now.

Jobs like customer/tech support aren't uniquely suited to outsourcing. (Quite the opposite; People rightfully complain about outsourced support being awful. Training outsourced workers on the fine details of your products/services & your own organisation, nevermind empowering them to do things is much harder)

They're jobs that companies can neglect. Terrible customer support will hurt your business, but it's not business-critical in the way that outsourced development breaking your ability to put out new features and fixes is.

AI is a perfect substitute for terrible outsourced support. LLMs aren't capable of handling genuinely complex problems that need to be handled with precision, nor can they be empowered to make configuration changes. (Consider: Prompt-injection leading to SIM hijacking and other such messes.)

But the LLM can tell meemaw to reset her dang router. If that's all you consider support to be (which is almost certainly the case if you outsource it), then you stand nothing to lose from using AI.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-08-18 15:30:06+00:00
I was on a pair of teams (why two teams? who knows) that worked with a given project for about five years. Every year or so, we'd change names - so I've been on "$PROJECT Access", "$PROJECT Insights", and some third thing I forget the name of.

I unironically suggested we just call ourselves $PROJECT RED and $PROJECT BLUE, and refer to the entirety of the team-pair as $PROJECT PURPLE. Nobody liked that, but it is what we ended up calling ourselves internally.
by addaon | 2025-08-18 15:30:12+00:00
> But I, as a human, rarely have questions to ask.

Wow. This just does not match my personal experience. I do an hour or so walk around the reservoir near my house 4-5 times a week, letting my mind wander freely -- and I find that I stop on average at least five or ten times to take notes about questions to learn the answers to later, and occasionally decide that it's worth it to break pace to start learning the answer right then and there.
by mschuster91 | 2025-08-18 15:30:55+00:00
The data center might be... but are all fiber routers, amplifiers, PoPs etc. along the line from the datacenter to the hospitals and other healthcare providers backed up as well?

Particularly the "last mile" often enough is only equipped with batteries to bridge over small brownouts or outages, but not with full fledged diesel engines.

And while hospitals, at least those that deal with operating patients, are on battery banks and huge ass diesel engines... private small practices usually are not, if you're lucky the main server has a half broken UPS where no one ever looked after that "BATTERY FAULT" red light for a year. But the desktop computers, VPN nodes, card readers or medical equipment? If it's not something that a power outage could ruin (such as a MRT), it's probably not even battery backed.

There's a German saying "the emperor is naked, he has no clothes". When it comes to the resilience of our healthcare infrastructure, the emperor isn't just naked, the emperor's skin is rotting away.
by counters | 2025-08-18 15:30:58+00:00
It depends where you are in the world. The general solution involve an app that provides two types of forecast products: (1) a short-range, high-resolution numerical weather forecast over your country / domain of interest, refreshed rapidly (about an hour or so) and providing forecasts out to about 24 hours; and (2) a radar-based nowcast which extrapolates very short-term (~2 hours out) forecasts solely for rain.

The limitations straightforward. For (1), very few countries have access to such a forecast system outside of the US and continental Europe, and virtually no private company runs comparable systems (at least in the B2C space). For (2), very few countries have high-quality doppler radar networks and make the output available for these applications.

There really isn't a one-size-fits-all solution to this problem, despite what the umpteen-gazillion weather apps on the Play Store or Apple Store will try to sell you.
by squaresmile | 2025-08-18 15:30:59+00:00
I find Accuweather MinutecastTM quite good for the Northeast. I'm using Breezy Weather with them as the data source. Sometimes, I found their API data was not as updated as their website/app but most of the time, the API is good enough. Can't stand their app design and data collection.

I know I know they are not nice, just repackaging NWS data blah blah but after testing all other rain prediction services, Accuweather was the most accurate for where I am.

Dark Sky was the best though. RIP

Apple Weather on iOS looks pretty good but I haven't found a good app consuming AW API on Android.
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-08-18 15:31:07+00:00
These seems like a glass-is-half-empty view.

5% are succeeding. People are trying AI for just about everything right now. 5% is pretty damn good, when AI clearly has a lot of room to get better.

The good models are quite expensive and slow. The fast & cheap models aren't that great - unless very specifically fine-tuned.

Will it get better enough so that that growth rate in success pilots grows from 5% - 25% in 5 years or 20? Who knows, but it almost certainly will grow.

It's hard to tell how much better the top foundation models will get over the next 5-10 years, but one thing that's certain is that the cost will go down substantially for the same quality over that time frame.

Not to mention all the new use cases people will keep trying over that timeline.

If in 10-years time, AI is succeeding in 2x as many use cases - that might not justify current valuations, but it will be a much better future - and necessary if we're planning on having ~25% of the population being retired / not working by then.

Without AI replacing a lot of jobs, we're gonna have a tough time retiring all the people we promised retirements to.
by vaylian | 2025-08-18 15:31:10+00:00
There are good and there are bad XML formats. RSS is a good format that is nice to read and somewhat nice to write, because there is not too much overhead. I've also seen plenty of over-engineered XML formats that give XML a bad reputation.

If XML wants to reestablish itself as a popular way to organize data, then we need more examples of well-designed XML formats.
Show HN: Open-Source Framework for Real-Time AI Video Avatars
by sagarkava | 2025-08-18 15:32:25+00:00
Hi, I’m Sagar. We just open-sourced a framework to build real-time AI-powered video avatars you can drop into any app or website.

You can use it to create sales assistants, customer success agents, mock interviewers, language coaches, or even historical characters. It’s modular (choose your STT, LLM, and TTS provider), production-ready, and optimized for ultra-low latency video generation.

Features:

- Real-time speech-to-video avatars (<300ms)

- Native turn detection, VAD, and noise suppression

- Modular pipelines for STT, LLM, TTS, and avatars with real-time model switching

- Built-in RAG + memory for grounding and hallucination resistance

- SDKs for web, mobile, Unity, IoT, and telephony — no glue code needed

- Agent Cloud for infinite scaling with one-click deployments — or self-host with full control

GitHub Repo: https://github.com/videosdk-community/ai-avatar-demo

Full Blog: https://www.videosdk.live/blog/ai-avatar-agent

Would love feedback from anyone working with video, avatars, or real-time conversational AI!
by xenotux | 2025-08-18 15:32:50+00:00
> IMHO this is going to be part of a broader trend where advancements in AI and robotics nullify any comparative advantages low wage countries had.

Then why hasn't it yet? In fact, some lower-wage countries such as China are on the forefront of industrial automation?

I think the bottom line is that many Western countries went out of their way to make manufacturing - automated or not - very expensive and time-consuming to get off the ground. Robots don't necessarily change that if you still need to buy land, get all the permits, if construction costs many times more, and if your ongoing costs (energy, materials, lawyers, etc) are high.

We might discover that AI capacity is easier to grow in these markets too.
by cratermoon | 2025-08-18 15:33:02+00:00
I did a contract at an airline. I was tasked with figuring out why the barcodes a new system was generating weren't scanning. I never did find a person still working there who knew what was wrong, but by sheer persistence I finally found an old email someone had saved a copy o to their space on the company SharePoint. The problem turned out to be the wrong kind of cryptographic signature on content.
by mgsloan2 | 2025-08-18 15:33:02+00:00
I agree the current way tools are used seems inefficient. However there are some very good reasons they tend to operate on code instead of syntax trees:

* Way way way more code in the training set.

* Code is almost always a more concise representation.

There has been work in the past training graph neural networks or transformers that get AST edge information. It seems like some sort of breakthrough (and tons of $) would be needed for those approaches to have any chance of surpassing leading LLMs.

Experimentally having agents use ast-grep seems to work pretty well. So, still representing a everything as code, but using a syntax aware search replace tool.