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Show HN: Creao – Vibe coding product for founders
by north_creao | 2025-08-23 01:41:27+00:00
Hi HN! I'm North, DevRel from the CREAO team. We are a 15-20 person startup, and we spent a couple of months building this vibe coding product. We've been exploring the possibilities of how agents should assist people's work for productivity in various scenarios.

Three months ago, we noticed that all small teams and companies are struggling with subscribing to multiple SaaS tools that never fit their exact needs. Pretty much all founders and SMB professionals need customized productivity tools that fit their daily work routines, but they don't have developers to build these lightweight tools for them. So we thought we needed to build a vibe coding product that allows them to ship their own tools in minutes and get rid of these SaaS subscriptions.

For our product features, we built it differently from all the other vibe coding products. We want our users to build something actually useful instead of just a product prototype. But the current well-known code agents are performing poorly at building complex data schemas and integrating APIs. So we fine-tuned a small model for the following features:

1.Automatically builds complex relational data schemas

2.Automated MCP/API connections with existing systems

With these core capabilities, our code agent can then build internal tools that connect with existing systems with state persistence. For example, I built a dashboard to track my X engagement and export results to a CSV file.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FBBOdrtonlj_56jgQuAoPpGnABB...

This productivity boost is specifically designed for small team founders—you can build your own CRM workflows, data dashboards, revenue tracking, etc. Each of these could cost you $20-50/month in SaaS subscriptions.

We are still in the early stage and improving our user experience. Our team is delivering new features pretty much every week, and we would love to hear from HN to give us some suggestions on how we can do better. You can always reach me at north@creao.ai. I love to shape the product together with community users. I hope you can find our work very helpful for your productivity.

Thanks!
by andsoitis | 2025-08-23 01:41:31+00:00
> This is not an equivalent comparison. It's not like there's a grassroots movement of Hamas sympathizers in America

Counter evidence from, for example, 2024 news report: “Pro-Hamas group that helped organize college protests is a 'sham charity,' Treasury says”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/-hamas-group-helped-org...
by Aurornis | 2025-08-23 01:43:09+00:00
> Then you have accounts that are age verified and accounts that are not age verified.

Creating an immediate market for age-verified accounts.

18 year old want some spare cash? Create a few dozen age verified accounts on your phone and sell them off for $1-2 each.

The next step is then tying logins to devices, and devices to identities. Then by using a website you must volunteer your identity. Dream come true for ad serving.
by pizzly | 2025-08-23 01:44:03+00:00
I hope this is not the reason. I think x86 is a deadend technology. ARM's energy superiority makes it a better choice. x86 only still being used due to legacy/backwards compatibility but thats changing. Apple moved completely away from x86. Theres more and more ARM based windows computers being sold. Theres no x86 chips in phones.
by J_McQuade | 2025-08-23 01:44:55+00:00
Last year I decommed our last couple of servers that ran processes configured using runit. It was a sad day. I first learned to write runit services probably about 15 years ago and it was very cool and very understandable and I kind of just thought that's how services worked on linux.

Then I left Linux for about 5 years and, by the time I got back, Systemd had taken over. I heard a few bad things about it, but eventually learned to recognise that so many of those arguments were in such bad faith that I don't even know what the real ones are any more. Currently I run a couple of services on Pi Zeros streaming camera and temperature data from the vivarium of our bearded dragon, and it was so very easy to set them up using systemd. And I could use it to run emacsd on my main OpenSuse desktop. And a google-drive Fuse solution on my work laptop. "having something standard is good, actually", I guess.
by angarg12 | 2025-08-23 01:46:57+00:00
This isn't discussed enough. One argument I've heard is that "this only applies to people who break the law".

One thing to consider is how easy is to make minor mistakes that technically count as an infraction. When acting in good faith, the administration can acknowledge this and promptly fix it, as it happened to me during my immigration process.

Then there are random mistakes out of your control. For example, when I first moved to the US and tried to get insurance for my car, I received extremely high quotes from the insurer. When I inquired why, they replied that my file showed several traffic infractions years ago in a different state. Simply clarifying that they'd mistaken me for another person was enough to fix it. Imagine if instead they deported me to a prison in El Salvador without a chance to defend myself.

And this is not talking shadier practices, such as changing the rules so that certain things suddenly become offenses, or simply fabricating evidence against someone.
by shadowgovt | 2025-08-23 01:47:30+00:00
Meanwhile, nothing has changed on Mastodon.

(I personally don't think Bluesky is a bad idea and I'm glad for more things in the ecosystem. But the point of decentralizing isn't just to protect against editorial constraint by the service owner; it's to protect against government pressure too. Mississippi could go after Mastodon service providers, but it'll cost them a lot more to find and chase 'em all).
by DirkH | 2025-08-23 01:47:34+00:00
Rationalists and effective altruism have reasoning under uncertainty as cornerstones of their respective movements.

There is an entire philosophical theory called deep cluelessness which is far more nuanced than just "unsure" which was built on by an Oxford EA philosopher.

I personally know multiple people in the movement who say they are deeply clueless on matters where they can altogether affect where hundreds of thousands of dollars under their care is directed.

And guess what, it does give them pause and they don't just follow some weird entirely untested or nonsense set of axioms. They consider second order effects, backfire risk and even hedging interventions in case their worldview is incorrect. All this careful reasoning I just never ever see in any any other social movement that has money it can direct where there is clear uncertainty with how best to allocate it.
Anonymous breaks code of Collatz system
by kevinswag | 2025-08-23 01:47:35+00:00
Proof with only two coordinated number lines in less than 2 hours. The method is a living version of set theory. Broke a book cypher in 2 hours without the key. Singled out the list of only primes that lead to perfect numbers in 20 minutes. I don’t know if this method has limits on organizing sets of sets on its own.
by neilv | 2025-08-23 01:47:36+00:00
For an open source Android app for OpenStreetMap data, I like Organic Maps, and it normally works great with locally-cached maps. I've had better luck with it than with Google Maps or Apple Maps on phones.

(Though, I should mention that twice in the last year I've had Organic Maps become hopelessly confused about where I was, and where I should go. Both times, it had gotten a good GPS location, but then got confused while being out for an extended period of time, like maybe it was dead-reckoning only after that initial lock.)
by colechristensen | 2025-08-23 01:48:09+00:00
There's an option for the US to buy an additional 5% if Intel sells so it doesn't have majority ownership of its fabs.

But I think the real strings are a soft, private insistence that Intel won't be allowed to sell itself overseas.

The Defense Production Act and the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States would be used to prevent the sale. The carrot is the whatever $18B in grants and investment, the stick is legislation that allows the government to prevent a sale.

https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/international/the-co...
by sarchertech | 2025-08-23 01:48:42+00:00
2,000 years ago the accepted belief of nearly every culture we have records for was that rich people were morally superior to poor people because they were favored by whatever gods you believed in, and that slavery was justified because you must have done something to deserve it.

But then the books of the New Testament were written with themes like this:

“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”
by antichronology | 2025-08-23 01:49:12+00:00
This is really interesting - I'm going to be honest I'm not an immunologist so this is my (LLM assisted) understanding of your comment:

The immune system recognizes a sugar as a PAMP, or Pathogen-Associated Molecular Pattern, which is a signature of a potential microbial threat.

This initiates pyroptosis an inflammatory form of programmed cell death causing the cell to burst. This rupture releases tumor antigens and DAMPs (Damage-Associated Molecular Patterns), which are "danger signals" from the dying cell

The release of DAMPs shifts the Tumor Microenvironment (TME) from an immunologically "cold" to a "hot" state, promoting a potent Type I Interferon (IFN-I) response.

The release of DAMPs shifts the Tumor Microenvironment (TME) from an immunologically "cold" to a "hot" state, promoting a potent Type I Interferon (IFN-I) response.

This response recruits Antigen Presenting Cells (APCs), which engulf the newly released tumor antigens.

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mRNA vaccines are somewhat of a parallel approach where the antigen selection and delivery happens manually. An mRNA vaccine delivers the encoding sequence for specific tumor antigens to drive production and presentation, training the immune system. One of the big challenges of this space is optimal antigen selection from the patient's tumor.

One thing I'm not fully clear on is why only tumor cell react to PAMP instead of healthy cells. Could be a promising approach but molecular biology is pretty tricky and the devil is always in the details.
by kragen | 2025-08-23 01:49:17+00:00
Intel's wafers are made of silicon, which is a semiconductor. Silicon on sapphire hasn't been widely used for a long time, if that's what you're thinking of. Photolithography prints resists on semiconductor wafers which are then used to pattern the next process step, such as wet etching, plasma etching, oxide growth, epitaxial polysilicon growth, ion implantation, etc. These mostly remove semiconductor from the wafer or alter its properties.
by UncleOxidant | 2025-08-23 01:49:19+00:00
Apple & Nvidia switching to, say, Samsung as their foundry would likely take at least a year before they'd start to see production. Meanwhile, little to no revenue. It is a risk for them. And if China went for Taiwan, why not also cause some trouble for S Korea while they're at it? (Wouldn't have to invade, just block shipping, etc. - if China decided to do maximal damage. It's also quite possible that N Korea would take advantage of the situation)
by hodgehog11 | 2025-08-23 01:49:29+00:00
This is a genuine concern, which is why it is a very hot topic of research. If you're giving a probabilistic program the potential to do something sinister, using a commercial model or something that you have not carefully finetuned yourself would be a terrible idea. The same principle applies for commercial binaries; without decompilation and thorough investigation, can you really trust what it's doing?
Show HN: HypeVortex: Combining Crypto and AI in the stupidest way possible
by seedlessmike | 2025-08-23 01:51:28+00:00
I work at a so called "hyperscaler" in billing and invoicing and learned that LLM use is metered and billed in "tokens". I had never really used LLMs at the time. Now that I do (including to make this site, with heavy oversight), this is obvious because they all tell you how many tokens some query is using.

This reminded me of "Token Mania" of 2020-2021 so I decided to combine the two concepts in an absolutely useless way - enter the HypeVortex.

I made a token on Polygon (contract here: https://polygonscan.com/address/0xf06bEedB6B21B3072b424919be...). This token CANNOT be exchanged, it can only go from me to users and back to me. It's worthless.

You login with email (sorry), and get a code emailed to you (again, sorry). Then a wallet is made for you, you claim HypeVortex tokens and spend them on AI. Your email is stored as a hash, I don't know what it is and I can't see what anyone does.

All in a geocities style page. With midi.

I have no profit motive here, it's entirely silly fun. For those of you born early 90s and before, I hope you have some nostalgic fun with it.

sign the guestbook! it actually works!
by Aurornis | 2025-08-23 01:52:01+00:00
Note that CNN isn’t in trouble for reporting this, the person who exfiltrated the footage is.

Stealing security camera footage and giving (or possibly selling) it is a problem. This article tries to make a case that the law applied wasn’t correct on somewhat pedantic terms, but I don’t know enough about the law to know if they have a point or not.

I do know, however, that if you take private data from your employer and leak it (or sell it) you’re not going to be on the right side of the law. I have a hard time buying this article’s point that it was just “violating company policy”
by npinsker | 2025-08-23 01:52:09+00:00
IIRC Epic Games internally calculated that for their store the break-even point was around 9%. (They mostly run it as a loss leader at a default 12%, but with tons of giveaways and deals, so that percent can go as low as 0%.) So I think somewhere around 15-18% might feel “fair” to me, trying to take into account the value of the platform.
by sgnelson | 2025-08-23 01:52:54+00:00
Everyone is talking about "bailouts" and "owning a company that the government funds."

This isn't about that at all. This is about the breakdown of the rule of law, a unitary executive bypassing all other branches of government and demanding a private enterprise give itself over to the government.

If you don't think there was an "or else" as part of this deal, you're largely mistaken. If you don't think that there will be other questionalbe demands placed on Intel in the future from this government, you are largely mistaken.

But y'all go ahead and can keep arguing over whether we should "get something back" from this deal. Because that's really going to maker ameraica graet agian.
by MisterMower | 2025-08-23 01:53:11+00:00
Cyclists contribute to congestion and occupy road space that was created through taxes on motorists while paying nothing for these benefits.

Cyclists are not licensed and their bicycles are not tagged or inspected for safe operation on roads, unlike motorists.

Cyclists are rarely subjected to traffic law enforcement despite demanding all of the rights that motorists pay for and are licensed for.

Cyclists are a danger to themselves and others while operating in the same area as motorists, but are not required to carry insurance or wear safety equipment, while motorists are held to more stringent regulation.

In a nutshell, cyclists are free-riding risk takers who are arrogant to boot. When they start acting like motorists and pay taxes like motorists and are fined like motorists for violating the law, I will happily change my opinion.
by shirro | 2025-08-23 01:54:41+00:00
Companies provide a legal framework for co-operative ventures between people. Companies are people. They are a legal construct that serves a useful purpose in society. They are not inherently evil. People who believe they are evil have been bleating about it for over a century and had multiple opportunities and the support of revolutions and empires to find an alternative and have failed every time.

Companies exist within a society and it is up to that society to engage politically for the common good or the bad companies will bribe law makers, buy votes and evade taxes and regulations. People never want to recognize their own culpability. They hate company practices but keep purchasing from them. They hate politicians but refuse to vote for alternatives.
by ericd | 2025-08-23 01:54:51+00:00
Heh yes, it's not as controlled, but there are repeated tasks like analysis, communicating, intuiting things, creating things, etc. And the tasks have more variability, but if you're better at these skills, you'll tend to do better. And if you do much better at a lot of them, then you're more likely to succeed than someone working on the same business who isn't very good at them. Starting a business is also a long game with a lot of these subtasks.
by TylerE | 2025-08-23 01:55:54+00:00
It wasn't close to 51/49. The south doesn't work like that. I've lived here my whole life.

In 2024 Mississippi went 61/38 for Trump. They haven't sent a Democrat senator to DC since 1982. In their most recent state house/senate cycle, 2023, overall voting was 62R vs 34D.

They voted for this.
by Spooky23 | 2025-08-23 01:58:33+00:00
I think AI is going to help accelerate standardization of processes and make bigger businesses more efficient and profitable. Smaller firms are toast as the behemoths diversify as growth is capped.

End of the day, I see it as repeat of the 1920s, good and bad. Technology will drive discontent until we figure out how to tame it.
by hajile | 2025-08-23 01:58:42+00:00
I'm not talking about the plane. I'm talking about the weapon itself.

Imagine a next-generation fire-and-forget weapons with radar and broad-spectrum camera arrays and an AI trained on a fused version of all this data. Typical defenses like chaff or flares would be rendered almost entirely useless.

This kind of visual approach also renders modern stealth almost completely useless. When an unexpected plane is found on L-band (or some other low-frequency radar), the AD would simply fire a couple of missiles into the area with instructions to visually identify the large objects moving at fast speeds using the fusion of these different sensors (and ground+air-based radars) while in flight.

We are getting pretty close to being able to do this in realtime with cellphone-level chips.
by hluska | 2025-08-23 02:02:16+00:00
You’re proposing that the United States government force Apple to invest in Intel? Apple chose a different supplier than Intel; at this point it’s hard to consider Intel a competitor to TSMC but let’s pretend they are.

You have proposed a “free market” system in which if you choose the wrong competitor you can be forced to bail out the chosen one. The economics of that don’t work at all.
by ekianjo | 2025-08-23 02:05:35+00:00
Notice their stance is that they are not against these kind of checks but it costs too much to implement. Basically if it becomes cheap to implement Bsky will be happy to oblige.

> Unlike tech giants with vast resources, we’re a small team focused on building decentralized social technology that puts users in control. Age verification systems require substantial infrastructure and developer time investments, complex privacy protections, and ongoing compliance monitoring — costs that can easily overwhelm smaller providers.
by koakuma-chan | 2025-08-23 02:06:07+00:00
Oh. The thing is, I really like my code formatted symmetrically, aligned evenly, etc. I go as far as adding empty comments to prevent the formatter from removing my custom line breaks. I thought you were the same, in a way ;)

e.g., https://github.com/mayo-dayo/app/blob/0.4/src/middleware.ts
by makeitdouble | 2025-08-23 02:06:10+00:00
The article has no mention of how the crime rate is going outside of the park...is there good sources on the subject ?

Looking around, Numbeo keeps an index every year, and for South Korea in general it went from 25.5 to 24.9 for 2023->2024, with a general downward trend since 2021.

Cute story, but looks like crime rate is going down more broadly ?

https://www.numbeo.com/crime/rankings_by_country.jsp?title=2...

https://www.numbeo.com/crime/rankings_by_country.jsp?title=2...
by YZF | 2025-08-23 02:06:34+00:00
I think a better way of putting it is the collapse of western style free and democratic societies. This is the post-truth era where reality doesn't matter and you can consume any version of "reality" you feel like on Internet.

China is not impacted because it has a tight grip on what its citizens can consume. Society will not collapse all over the world it will just become an authoritarian dystopia.
by bawolff | 2025-08-23 02:06:53+00:00
Since this seems to be about the recent proposal to remove xslt, i'd point out you can do the same thing with CSS

https://bawolff.net/css-website/index.xml is Evidlo's example but using a css stylesheet instead of xslt. I changed some of the text to explain what i was doing, but otherwise the XML is unchanged with one exception. Unfortunately you do have to put the <a> tags in the xhtml namespace to make them clickable. Other than that no changes to the xml.

Obviously there is a lot that xslt can do that css cannot, but when it comes to just display, CSS is an option here.
by Esophagus4 | 2025-08-23 02:08:05+00:00
Absolutely agreed.

I start with a simple problem with several answers of varying difficulty and literally instruct the candidates to code the first correct solution they can think of.

Nested for loops, brute force, it’s absolutely fine.

I just want to see you translate what’s in your head to code. I want to see you structure code, use data structures, etc. Then we will talk through optimizations, refactoring, testing, edge cases, etc later.

You want even the under qualified candidates to feel like they got some pieces right and had a fair shot.

As you start probing deeper, the top candidates stand out. They answer your questions about the differences between data structures, how you would test this piece, how you would monitor that piece in production, how you could parallelize it, etc.
by ksec | 2025-08-23 02:08:44+00:00
From a cloud perspective I guess that would make sense. But if you are actually owning the hardware you would be looking at Performance per Watt over single and multiple core and its balance across I/O both in Sequel and Random. Because at the end of the day you are still limited by power budget. And single core boost are not sustainable over a long period of time especially in a multiple core CPU scenario.

On that note I cant wait to see 256 Core Zen6c later this year. We will soon be able to buy a server with 512 Core, 1024 vCPU / Thread. 2TB of Memory, x TB of SSD all inside 1U.
by ath3nd | 2025-08-23 02:08:47+00:00
With stock prices divorced from reality, the ones who benefit are the having the funds to buy in volume, the gamblers, and the ones hyping the stocks and creating the illusion of profitability and growth. Years ago it would have been unthinkable to have so many unprofitable companies with unclear path to profitablility having such a high valuation, but we have normalized frenzied gambling as a society.

The current absolute balloon of a market is about to pop, and sadly, the people who hyped the stocks are also the ones knowing when to jump ship, while the hapless schmucks who believed the hype will most likely lose their money, along with a lot of folks whose retirement investment funds either didn't due their diligence or were outright greedy.

In a way, as a society we deserve this upcoming crash, because we allow charlatans and con people like Musk, Zuck and Sam to sell us snake oil.