MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: PLATO5 – AI-guided social engine to turn strangers into IRL friends
by goldsteinnick | 2025-08-01 15:44:25+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m a solo founder who rebuilt my social app from the ground up after realizing something obvious: most “social” platforms are optimized for engagement, not real connection. Loneliness is rising, and I wanted to build something that actually helps people meet offline.

PLATO5 is a social engine (not media) with one purpose: moving people from strangers to groupchat to IRL friendships all guided by AI to reduce reluctance and friction.

Here’s how it works:

1. *Matching* Each day, users are matched into private groups of 4, based on the Big Five personality traits, interests, and location. The AI explains the reasoning behind each match.

2. *AI-Coached Groupchat* Once matched, you enter a chat assisted by *Zen*, our embedded AI Chat Manager. Zen suggests personalized topics, balances participation, and can ghostwrite in your tone when things feel awkward. This is all to prevent stalling conversations.

3. *Meetup Coordination* When your group is vibing, the *Nearby* applet helps you find or create virtual/IRL events. Zen also surfaces weekly suggestions tailored to your group’s dynamic.

You’ll need to create an account to access the matching, chat, and event features but it’s live now and fully functional.

I’m not trying to build the next addictive feed. I’m trying to build tech that actually leads to friendship. PLATO5 measures success by real-world outcomes, not ad engagement.

https://plato5.us

Would love your feedback, ideas, and questions. Thanks in advance for checking it out!
by legitster | 2025-08-01 15:44:37+00:00
I think you have those number backwards - home ownership and stock ownership are both over 60%.

Even so, the housing market problem is largely a modern one - we went from a society where the majority of homes were multi-generational to one where homes are nuclear. So per capita, the demand for homes has skyrocketed. But also as baby boomers are retiring and shedding assets, I would anticipate this situation could improve itself in 10-20 years.

The administration is doing some pretty horrible stuff by modern first world standards, but is not actually out of alignment with how politics existed before the Cold War. We'll probably witness the end of Pax Americana, but society can continue to exist even in illiberal times where war and violence are more common.
by jsnell | 2025-08-01 15:45:08+00:00
XAI does not include Twitter, as far as I know? Aren't they separate entities? But Twitter can't be worth more than a couple of tens of billions at the most.

Things OpenAI has that XAI doesn't:

Hundreds of millions, if not already a billion, active users. A household brand-name. >$10B in revenue.

In comparison XAI's revenue appears to be in the hundreds of millions/year and their brand is currently in the gutter after the recent spate of scandals. Their main differentiating factor is using their AI to power an anime waifu[0] companion app.

[0] I don't think it's judgmental to use this term when they were doing so in their own job ad titles
by OldfieldFund | 2025-08-01 15:45:31+00:00
The same with OP's post.

So far, I see that this post caused quite a few forks, the opposite of what the author asked for.

I don't have a solution.

I think as a man who runs conferences you shouldn't sleep with people who attend them. Or any other things like that, for that matter.

Should you be cancelled for that? No. But humans are humans.

There is no solution to this. Courts are also wrong all the time (look at OJ) and victims of SA almost never see justice.

The answer is: we don't know the truth.
by vaylian | 2025-08-01 15:45:32+00:00
> obvious perverts who should know better anyway.

Why are these perverts obvious?

> They can, and will, readily ban VPNs later, since those have no legitimate purpose for individuals, and will only be allowed for licensed operators like banks, hospitals, and defence manufacturers.

This is not true. All kinds of companies and private people use VPNs to safeguard their computer infrastructure.
by howard941 | 2025-08-01 15:45:49+00:00
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by dempsry | 2025-08-01 15:45:53+00:00
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Our founding team comes from Uber and the construction industry. We blend modern tech with a strong understanding of customer needs. We have grown quickly and profitably. We just raised our seed round of financing to accelerate growth and further develop our product.

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by PaulHoule | 2025-08-01 15:45:59+00:00
It's different now. If you look at the top results vs /new it is clear there is a huge mismatch in supply vs demand of slop about AI on a level that we never saw with those other things. So many people want to ask "why is vibe coding working for everybody else but not for me?" or "Show HN: I vibe coded something that almost worked", "Show HN: Another Tool to Fill the World With AI Slop", or "Tell HN: I put up a stupid anime girl on my site to protest AI crawlers" on a scale never seen before.
by reissbaker | 2025-08-01 15:46:36+00:00
Maybe when you come to Europe adjust to the culture.

We're in the middle of a thread in which hundreds of Europeans are complaining about American culture, which is to tip at restaurants. In fact, the original post I responded to was:

It’s crazy that this still happens in the US. Tipping is a thing of the past. Pay for your meal and have the restaurant pay their people for their work. End of story.

I think it's a little ironic that when an American complains about European culture — which is to be slow — suddenly there's a bunch of tut-tutting from Europeans about "adjust to the culture" (and you're not the only one!).

We're in a thread where people are debating the relative advantages of different cultural practices. I think America's practice of tipping has distinct advantages that make it better. And no, you're not "eating with the clock in your hand' or whatever in America: is just that when you want the check, you get it.
by bee_rider | 2025-08-01 15:46:42+00:00
I don’t think it really is MAD; for example in a war (I mention this because the comment a couple up talks about anti-satellite weapons) where one side has a major satellite advantage, the other side would probably be tempted to kick off Kessler syndrome. It is a long term problem but the potentially pro-Kessler side doesn’t care much unless they win, and it doesn’t actually cause them major destruction until they want to go start exploring space again (which would probably be put on pause until the war is over).

And, it would be really bad. But to some extent, can you blame them? If they are getting whacked every day by GPS guided bombs or drones, or they are being outsmarted by satellite-gathered intelligence, why should they take it? If we’ve put parts of our weapons in space, we’re the ones weaponizing it, right?
by schnable | 2025-08-01 15:46:44+00:00
I think this analysis ignores that the Republican party is winning because they expanded their coalition outside of their base of religious and upper-income voters. Trump pulled in lots of either non-voters or formerly Democrat voters. That's hurting the Dems it has made them more uniformly the party of the educated and upper-middle class and losing broader appeal The flip side is that the GOP now needs to manage a more diverse (racial, religious, cultural, income) coalition along with that. Trump is unifying to across the coalition to a large degree but its hardly assured that his successor will be able to continue that.
by exasperaited | 2025-08-01 15:46:44+00:00
I mean, in the second or third round of this with the tories in 2016, Aylo (Mindgeek) were offering up their own solution for age verification. So they are not exactly unconflicted.

But the fact remains here that the world's largest porn company is not presenting this as a big civil liberties issue; they have moved on from that.

I think it's important to understand that Ofcom isn't just imposing nonsense policies without any consultation with the very people they are trying to regulate.

They may not be succeeding, and people can disagree with the policy outcome, but there's a huge amount of misinformation suggesting that this is simple thoughtless autocratic censorious wishful thinking, when it is in fact an attempt at a policy of industry self-regulation backed by penalties, which is how the ombudsman system is meant to work.

Also I think a lot of US commentators don't understand that mobile phone providers in the UK block adult content by default and have been moving to that position over the long term because it is the only practical parental control mechanism that exists in a market of devices with different operating systems, menus, and often absence of on-device parental control mechanisms at all.
by savanaly | 2025-08-01 15:47:09+00:00
This is a great article; not the first time Asterisk has published an article that has important implications for the growth of poorer countries, the other one I recall being the provocatively titled "Want Growth? Kill Small Businesses" [0]. I think this topic of what approaches will let Africa grow quickly over the next century is among the most important for world prosperity and peace we can be discussing.

[0] https://asteriskmag.com/issues/07/want-growth-kill-small-bus...
by VWWHFSfQ | 2025-08-01 15:47:17+00:00
Housing in Greenwich Village (the broader area including the West Village) has become outrageous in recent decades. A significant reason, but not the only reason, is because the main NYU campus is located in the middle of the small area and doesn't provide nearly enough housing (only ~20%) for the on-campus enrollment.

NYU's on-campus enrollment is also roughly 50% foreign students. I don't have any data about it, but just from experience I've suspected that foreign students are willing and able to pay higher prices for housing.
by bell-cot | 2025-08-01 15:47:37+00:00
> Superintelligence, which Mr. Zuckerberg defined as an A.I. model more powerful than the human brain, will improve “nearly every aspect of what we do,” he said on a call with investors. The A.I. will help Meta’s advertising business by improving its social media feed to keep users on its apps longer, which is already happening, he said. A.I. will also serve as a personal tool for users to create “a new era of individual empowerment,” he added.

Sure sounds like the only individual he wants empowered (and enriched) is himself.
by Western0 | 2025-08-01 15:47:44+00:00
uv not working no clicking no torch

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Cannot access gated repo for url https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-Krea-dev/res.... Access to model black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-Krea-dev is restricted. You must have access to it and be authenticated to access it. Please log in.
by todsacerdoti | 2025-08-01 15:47:50+00:00
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by radicality | 2025-08-01 15:47:56+00:00
Nice, I came up with something similar when trying ghostty. Were you able to replicate/setup continuous key hold for resizing? The way I have it it tmux is that doing leader,Shift+hold h/i/k/j continually resizes a pane while I keep holding for example Shift+h. But I wasn’t able to replicate it in ghostty
by innocenat | 2025-08-01 15:47:58+00:00
> They're not just small luxuries, but actually better-performant and more practical than the popular alternatives in almost every way.

Most of us who use fountain pen feel this way too.

I literally just an hour ago tried picking up a gel pen for writing and 3 minutes later it went back into storage. It's Uniball One so it's not a bad gel pen either.
by fsckboy | 2025-08-01 15:48:00+00:00
if the job goals entail lots of coding to get the code out the door, that's a live coding test, or it's falling behind with your coworkers annoyed with you. if you find that stressful, you definitely won't like the job.

the issue here is the pernicious idea that this is unfair, and that the conditions need to be changed to suit the people not getting these jobs. Now: that is a perfectly good POV if your hypothesis is that there are alternative ways of achieving equal quality and productivity, by hypotheses require testing. let the market decide, let different kinds of companies and employees flourish and thrive side by side. but the relentless assault on and bitterness toward the impatient non-nurturing approach reads like sour grapes.
by lisacombinaut | 2025-08-01 15:48:02+00:00
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by alephnerd | 2025-08-01 15:48:21+00:00
> I really don't see a way they could ever justify a $300B valuation

Their ARR is around $13B. A 23x multiple is acceptable when compared against peers with a similar ARR.

> unless they get everyone on the planet to subscribe to their $200/month plan

I used to be a sceptic as well, but OpenAI successfully built their enterprise GTM. A number of corporate AI/ML apps are using OpenAI's paid APIs in the background.
by zhengiszen | 2025-08-01 15:48:33+00:00
Bias, double standard, you name it, a majority of western media adopts the Israeli media language (or propaganda or hasbara) by default. It comes with a price : reiterated multiple times people tend to remember lies/fabrications and tend to believe social media in place.

See TikTok role in the genocide and its targeting by US pro-Zionist politicians.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2024/10/13/w...

https://institute.aljazeera.net/en/ajr/article/3081
by superkuh | 2025-08-01 15:48:39+00:00
Not unexpected. The FBI has generally been a gang filled with thieves for at least 20 years. I'm not old enough to know if it was always like this.

It takes a lot of guts, and some real resources, to fight back when the FBI violates you like this. I never even considered it after some FBI stole all my computers(*1) and then, when 10 years later they gave them back, all my bitcoin was missing (the files and OS and everything there; the wallet was just wiped and replaced w/blank one with no transactions).

ref 1. My apartment was raided and burgled by the FBI as part of a 50+ person cross-country fishing expedition warrant looking for wikileaks members to squash political dissent in 2011. I was never charged with a crime or even indicted.
by ramesh31 | 2025-08-01 15:48:50+00:00
It's the money. It's all about the money. Things are pretty low stress and low stakes when you're hiring for a 50k pure salary role. When things blew up into the mid six figures with stock incentives, it became a whole thing. This pervades the work environment too. Everyone is scared to death of saying the wrong thing or messing something up or sounding stupid because it means your 800k mortgage won't be getting paid next month. I hate it.
by arp242 | 2025-08-01 15:49:04+00:00
I don't really understand Keir Starmer on this. Or well, on anything really. The public has been pretty clear what they want most of all is a competent government that will take care of basic core tasks like cost of living, NHS, etc. Instead he takes a massively unpopular Tory culture war bill and implemented it as if it was his own idea (in addition to a number of other unforced baffling choices over the last year).

I understand Boris Johnson. I understand Tony Blair. I even understand Liz Truss, mad as she may be. I just don't get Starmer at all. I almost suspect he's somehow in league with Nigel Farage to make him the next prime minister.
by AdamH12113 | 2025-08-01 15:49:16+00:00
From an API designer's standpoint (especially if that API has paying customers), Hyrum's Law is something that has to be taken into account. But from a user's standpoint, it is engineering malpractice, plain and simple. At the very least, relying on quirks of someone else's implementation is a risk that should be understood and accounted for, and no one has any reasonable grounds for complaint if those quirks suddenly change in a new version.
by AznHisoka | 2025-08-01 15:49:35+00:00
Hot take, but I don't care. There's not much I can do if it does collapse. I have emergency food, water, but it's not like I can do anything else if people start pillaging. In the meanwhile, I have far more things to worry about that i can control such as taking care about my family, making sure my finances are in order, am eating healthy, etc.
by wrs | 2025-08-01 15:49:49+00:00
(1) and (2) are correct (well, I don’t know specifics of Everlaw). Fine tuning is something different, where you incrementally train the model itself further using more inputs, so that given the same input context it will produce better output in your use case.

To be more precise, you seldom directly continue training the model, because it’s much cheaper and easier to add some more small layers to the big model and train those instead (see LoRA or Peft).

Something like Everlaw might do all three, by fine tuning a model to do better at discovery retrieval, then building a RAG system on top of that.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-08-01 15:50:05+00:00
There are places on earth where life is unhabitable and on mars its absolutely nonsense really.

But maybe its a dunning kruger effect, I asked an actual aerospace engineer and he said its doable but he's a bit of an elon fan too, and I did read on HN an article on how life on mars is impossible..

Still, it would be most likely be very bad life on mars compared to earth but nope, we all are ready to burn our earth so damn quickly... and listen Elon has a band around him and you could say that he was a salesman in the sense that he had a lot of hype around him which inadvertedly helped tesla

But one shouldn't live life on rocks floating in water [hype] since that might just be a dream or you are crashing down.

And he's a little pathetic in the sense that maybe when I think of all, that could actually be done to help people and with all the influence he had, he fulfilled his agenda really but the agenda was never to better us humans but to get him more power..

So lets call spade a spade shall we?
by Syzygies | 2025-08-01 15:50:05+00:00
Would you sit on a stool with legs three inches apart?

For a statistician, determining a plane from three approximate points on the plane is far more accurate if the points aren't next to each other.

When we offer examples or associations in a prompt, we experience a similar effect in coaxing a response from AI. This is counter-intuitive.

I'm fully aware that most of what I post on HN is intended for each future AI training corpus. If what I have to say was already understood I wouldn't say it.
by jajko | 2025-08-01 15:50:21+00:00
But you are infringing on others property rights just because you consider your rights higher and better than others and your cause holier than theirs. May be true or not, not something I nor you can judge objectively. Your rights end where others' begin and so on.

If by property rights you mean your right to have house/apartment where you like it, otherwise no idea what you mean.
by steveklabnik | 2025-08-01 15:50:45+00:00
Yes, this was a social issue more than a technical one.

At the same time, I was affected by this breakage, and it took me all of ten minutes to fix. So I both understand the outrage, and agree with it in general, but also, it was a tad overblown, I think.

Should they have done a slower rollout, like the IpAddr change? Probably. Is it the end of the world that they made a mistake? Nah. But if it happens more often, that's cause for concern.