MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wim | 2025-08-11 17:33:10+00:00
Combining the feel of plain text with real structure is also exactly why we're building an "IDE but for tasks/notes" [1].

With structured apps (task managers, outliners) you lose the illusion of editing plain text, but plain text alone lacks things like structure, links, dates, and collaboration. We've spent the last few years building an editor completely from scratch to keep the ease of text editing while adding planning and structure.

[1] https://thymer.com
by smm11 | 2025-08-11 17:33:26+00:00
I record stuff I want to have around in TXT files, by week every week over 10 years. The files lived on OneDrive for a time, but now on my desktop, backed up daily. Advantage is I can search.

My to-do list was sticky notes forever, moved to new ones when the old was getting too worn out to read. Now it's Rite notebooks as needed.
by btilly | 2025-08-11 17:33:26+00:00
You give a long list of features that I don't want. And then go on to encourage everyone to switch text editors, and adopt a specific plugin that happens to work in the way that you personally like.

As a vim user, this is kind of what I have come to expect from emacs users. Honestly, I'm glad that you've found something that works well for you. But I hope that some day you internalize the fact that other people aren't you, and they shouldn't always be "encouraged" to give up their existing solutions to do things in the way that you've decided is perfect.
by JustExAWS | 2025-08-11 17:33:43+00:00
Everything you suggested gives customers a worse user experience - see Android vs iOS and Windows vs Macs - and higher prices because each component in the chain needs to make a profit and slower product cycles than when one company can offer an integrated experience.

If I want a regionally redundant infrastructure do I now have to negotiate with multiple companies in a region (multi AZ) and multiple regions? Do I have to negotiate with thousands of Points of preference for my CDN?

Do all of these companies who want their own TPUs have to negotiate with TSMC?
by darepublic | 2025-08-11 17:33:48+00:00
if you want your app to be automated wouldn't you just publish your api and make that readily available? I understand the need for agentic UI navigation but obviously an api is still easier and less intensive right. The problem is that it isn't always available, and there ui agents can circumvent that. But you want to embrace the automation of your app so.. just work on your API? You can put an invisible node in your UI to tell agents to stop wasting compute and use the api.
by supersrdjan | 2025-08-11 17:34:15+00:00
I spent my 20s searching for the perfect todo solution but my search ended when I discovered org-mode. It's not that I'm the most productive person you'll meet, it's just that there's nothing further to look for. Should I decide to be my productive self for a while, I know org-mode will support me and not stand in my way :)

Oh, and I love the Denote package.
by jandrese | 2025-08-11 17:34:26+00:00
And for people on the Internet every waking moment of their lives it's hard to explain how people got by at the insane price points those services had. AOL for example gave you 5 hours of dialup time per month. They billed by the minute. Every additional hour cost you $1. And they exploded in popularity because that was a far better price than their competitors (GEnie, Compuserv, Prodigy, etc...)

Once internet ISPs entered the scene offering unlimited unfiltered Internet for $20/month all of those services were doomed.
by bubblyworld | 2025-08-11 17:34:30+00:00
I think this can kinda be explained by the fact that agentic AI more or less has to be given documentation in order to be useful, whereas other humans working with you can just talk to you if they need something. There's a lack of incentive in the human direction (and in a business setting that means priority goes to other stuff, unfortunately).

In theory AI can talk to you too but with current interfaces that's quite painful (and LLMs are notoriously bad at admitting they need help).
by torium | 2025-08-11 17:34:56+00:00
> halflife

> 50% of all the Jews worldwide were wiped out by their own countrymen during the holocaust. Less than 5% of Gaza was killed. Russia lost more than 10% of its population in WW2, would that be considered holocaust?

If you wanna throw numbers at me you need to first clarify what percentage of innocent killing you find acceptable.
by mockingloris | 2025-08-11 17:35:29+00:00
That's golden. I will say, there are certain UI use-case that v0.app (previously v0.dev) accomplishes that the others don't quite get right. Oh and I tested the link, it almost unnoticeable if I hadn't been informed prior. Even kept my auth context; For those who don't follow - I didn't have to reauthorize on the new domain*.

I find that I keep coming back.

What prompted the DNS switch? Care to elaborate?

I love your product.

└── Yarn me
by metalman | 2025-08-11 17:36:37+00:00
I was one hair from squishing a scooter dude who darted across in front of my truck useing a pefestrian crosswalk...... I see the scooters piled up on street corners....and someone on an electric bike basicly charged me while I was walking across the street, so I made him dodge hard.....I was going to grab his hat....fucker..but he did grin.....so
by newtwilly | 2025-08-11 17:36:45+00:00
I run with the dangerous option on my work computer. At first I was thinking I would be good if I just regularly kept full disk backups. But my company at least pays lip service to the fact that we want to protect our intellectual property. Plus I think it might be irresponsible to allow an AI model full internet access unsupervised.

So now I use a docker compose setup where I install Claude and run it in a container. I map source code volumes into the container. It uses a different container with dnsmasq with an allowlist.

I initially wanted to do HTTP proxying instead of DNS filtering since it would be more secure, but it was quite hard to set it up satisfactorily.

Running CLI programs with the dangerous full permissions is a lot more comfortable and fast, so I'm quite satisfied.
by xfeeefeee | 2025-08-11 17:36:58+00:00
I recently discovered a static site generator called Astro, which supports many syntaxes but the .astro is a nice mix of TypeScript and JSX-like syntax. Content can use MDX which is like Markdown but with {JSX} style markup for variables and etc. The static components are used very similar to React, with familiar import statements and <ComponentName props=etc> patterns. It is extremely easy to pick up. Best of all, it has plugins to support all sorts of other interactivity, so you can create interactive 'islands' of content using React or Preact or SolidJS or Vue etc. That way you have most of your content statically generated, and then the dynamic parts can be done from the client side.

Best of all, if you use simple unchanged files for other dynamic stuff like JSON etc, you can just generate those on build and serve those files in the host directly as the 'response' to a simple REST request, which is sometimes overlooked despite being the most fundamental form of a REST API.

https://astro.build/

I came across this after researching various options for a website that had, mostly for my own entertainment, restrictions on wanting to be mostly statically generated but customizable easily without learning a lot of new syntax / etc, something JSX-like with Markdown support etc, and MDX was an immediate find - and astro was the easiest SSG I found for it after trying with 11ty and several others. Actually felt like a delight playing with it.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-08-11 17:37:02+00:00
Pascal strings have the issue that you need to agree on an int size to cross an ABI boundary, unless you want to limit all strings to 255 characters and what the prefix means is ambiguous if you have variable length characters (e.g. Unicode). These were severe enough that Pascal derivatives all added null terminated strings.

Took a bit for languages to develop the distinction between string length in characters and bytes that allows us to make it work today. In that time C derivatives took over the world.
by mapotofu | 2025-08-11 17:37:06+00:00
> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

@dang and team

I think the community would be interested to know the activity around this post, including moderation efforts. I’ve been doing cursory refreshes and seeing what I would consider “brigading”, but I could just be paranoid.

Anyone else have the same questions? I’ll be emailing later and encourage others to do the same.
by nosianu | 2025-08-11 17:37:08+00:00
But if it's AR you can have a cute hamster run up to you and holding an urgent note. Or the hare from Alice in Wonderland. And it can just sit on your desk (virtually) and do cute things while you continue to finish what you were working on. Better than a boring annoying beeping alarm.

We have not even started combining digital an real world, and the last few idea, e.g. from Meta, were devoid of anything useful, showing how little actually useful imagination some super-rich have, putting so many resources into bad or even destructive ideas when sooo much useful stuff needs to happen. We still have this tiny viewport, behind which another world - our digital world - awaits, and people think it's normal that we use this tiny port and awkward indirect devices (mouse) to manipulate things in there. We could do soooo much better soon!

Okay, the access device still is missing. Few people want to wear the current generation of AR devices. But that just shows that neuro-computer interface needs investment on the level of AI, it's not magic (actual neurons are just very complex to work with, never mind finding the right one's to connect to), we could slowly build something there.

Somebody asked what the advantage is of having this computerized instead of actual matter, e.g. physical paper notes. It's all the general computer advantages of course, like sharing stuff. Never mind being able to reorganize everything in an instant.

Imagine having a software project not viewed with one tiny viewport, but like a physical project, even over several rooms. You don't need to click, you go to the place representing some module and physically (virtually physically) take out the code, edit with your fingers. Watch the data flow around you. Have a bunch of flying piranhas show up when something goes wrong. Work with all your body in a real 3D space instead of sitting in a chair all day, all week, all month, all life, watching that vast digital world and/or just your project through that tiny viewport.
by freedomben | 2025-08-11 17:37:17+00:00
I also think it makes a difference that an AI agent can read the docs very quickly, and don't typically care about formatting and other presentation-level things that humans have to care about, whereas a human isn't going to read it all, and may read very little of it. I've been at places where we invested substantial time documenting things, only to have it be glanced at maybe a couple of times before becoming outdated.

The idea of writing docs for AI (but not humans) does feel a little reflexively gross, but as Spock would say, it does seem logical
by vrnvu | 2025-08-11 17:37:32+00:00
I use Apple Notes and Reminders for work.

- Reminders: I just have a few simple lists: TODO, WIP, and BLOCKED (for stuff I'm waiting on others for).

- Notes: I keep daily, weekly, and monthly notes. At the end of each day, I clean up my daily note and move anything important to the weekly one, and then do the same into monthly.
by butlike | 2025-08-11 17:38:51+00:00
Humans are societal creatures. That avoidance as self-preservation can be considered a weak trait. Society only really works if we know we have each other's backs when the chips are down, so with you abandoning situations when the chips are down demonstrates you won't be there when I need you to be, so it's probably better to cut you out now, right?

Or, why would I put food on the table for the slowest gazelle?
by PaulHoule | 2025-08-11 17:39:44+00:00
What they're really afraid of is that people will read content using LLM inference and make all the ads and nags and "download the app for a crap experience" go away -- and never click on ads accidentally for an occasional ka-ching.

Yeah, the front end for de-enshittification looks a lot like that other archive site,

https://archive.today/

In the summer of 2020 I was driving to Buffalo a lot with my son and getting cheap hotel deals thanks to the pandemic and thinking about missile defense systems and I was sick and tired of the awful shape of the web and dreaming up a system that would "archive" 100% of web pages before I read them. I spent two weeks on a spike prototype and concluded that an "archiver" can never really know if a modern web page is done loading so it at best uses heuristics to make the page load completely and waits a long time -- which makes following a link even slower than waiting for all the ads and trackers to load. I finally got Fiber-to-the-Node at home so downloading all the trash of the annoyances economy became more tolerable, a lot of the ideas I had that the time made it into my RSS reader a few years later.
by jandrese | 2025-08-11 17:39:50+00:00
They predated the web browser by several years. Even once they added a browser a lot of people didn't have computers powerful enough to run them. Netscape for example needed 8MB of RAM, which was a lot in the early 90s. Plus back then the Web wasn't nearly as dominant. A lot of discussion happened on the Usenet, which AOL also provided access to much to the chagrin of the existing Usenet users. Email of course was also huge. Mostly it was expected that you would stay within the walled garden of AOL's service, using the keywords in their fat client to load topics of interest. More like a corporate version of a BBS.
by rkuodys | 2025-08-11 17:40:08+00:00
I actually built the app myself. And for one simple reason - recently started learning to better plan my time. Started with paper version, and up to 5 most important task - my personal goal is to have consistency rather than squeeze every minute of every day.

And paper version is great. However, the vacation came and I wasn't really keen on dragging the book everywhere. Additionally i noticed that while planning, I don't really respect my long term goals - so I build an app for that: Simple thing that does several thing: - 1. Keep only 5 slots for most important tasks. - 2. Have calendar view in the same view (like google tasks) to make sure that I havent' forgotten some important meeting - 3. (Unlike google tasks, or clickup) - have short-term and long term goals in the same view , to make sure that every important task is related to long term goal - Bonus: I see stats on how much of important tasks I have completed. Goal is at least 80% avg for 7 days. - Bonus2: I've added my values to make sure that these are not forgotten in other places.

So single view to address todays work and relate it to long term vision. But I believe it depend on what you're optimising for. Dumping things or makeing sure that signal to noise ratio is better.
by fabrice12 | 2025-08-11 17:40:12+00:00
Hey everyone,

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How it works: A website owner signs up for an account.

They register their website and get a script.

They paste the script into their website's code.

The feedback widget appears on their site.

Their users can submit feedback directly through the widget.

The website owner can then see all the AI-categorized feedback and recommendations in their Slentix dashboard.

I'm selling the entire project for $700, but I'm open to negotiation. If you're interested in owning a complete, ready-to-go SaaS product, send me a DM and let's talk.

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by _DeadFred_ | 2025-08-11 17:40:30+00:00
FYI, humans using their brains and corporate for profit products are two different things. How humans human doesn't matter and is in no way relevant. How a corporate product is made useful (in this case, by using other people's work) is what is up for discussion. If AI doesn't have a product without using other peoples work I don't see how you can claim that AIs output is not derivative. AI wouldn't be a useful product without without other peoples works, therefor AI is derivative. Doesn't matter how the human brain works, it matters if a product's value is derived from protected works.

If my product wouldn't exist without yours, it is derivative of it.
by DavidCanHelp | 2025-08-11 17:41:00+00:00
I have Claude Code max, and asked it to write a book for me in a style I'd enjoy. Here's what my prompt was: "We're in a folder where we can write markdown, one file per chapter in a cool new book where you're the author! The book is called I Svelte That, and it needs to teach Svelte in a clever way. Svelte is cool, and reading the book should feel cool, too. Examples should be cool. Take your time, we're not in a hurry."
by dennisthemenace | 2025-08-11 17:41:00+00:00
Things3 has also worked incredibly well for me for the past 4 years. My only wish is that they would roll out a version for Windows. I have been in the Apple ecosystem for quite some time so it was never a problem until I built a gaming PC that I also started using for work. As a result of this switch, I have to rely heavily on my phone to manage tasks. I still think this beats a todo.txt file that I would have to put quite a bit of effort in to manage every day and set up exactly how I want it, but is a big pain point for sure.
by dmoy | 2025-08-11 17:41:12+00:00
> large monorepo features (allow user to view a slice of a repo)

I am reminded of this discussion between fb devs and git devs from 13 yrs ago:

https://public-inbox.org/git/CB5074CF.3AD7A%25joshua.redston...

git has definitely made improvements since that thread, e.g.:

https://graphite.dev/guides/git-monorepo#tools-and-strategie...

but it could still be better for the truly gargantuan of code bases. Might not be worth it? Idk. Maybe with llm generated code churn, suddenly it becomes worth it? haha.
by impossiblefork | 2025-08-11 17:41:14+00:00
Here in Sweden programming a feature allowing this or participating in the activation of this feature would be a crime called allmänfarlig vårdslöshet. The crime would be regarded as serious, due to the detailed planning, and would lead to everyone involved going to prison for two years.

Why haven't the people who did this been arrested? Surely the US too, has laws against public endagerment?
by leach | 2025-08-11 17:41:14+00:00
I'm a little confused how these models run/fit onto VRAM. I have 32gb system RAM and 16gb VRAM. I can fit the 20b model all within vram, but then I can't increase the context window size past 8k tokens or so. Trying to max the context size leads to running out of VRAM. Can't it use my system ram as backup though?

Yet I see other people with less resources like 10GB of vram and 32gb system ram fitting the 120b model onto their hardware.

Perhaps its because ROCm isn't really supported by ollama for RDN4 architecture yet? I believe I'm using vulkan to currently run and it seems to use my CPU more than my GPU at the moment. Maybe I should just ask it all this.

I'm not complaining too much because it's still amazing I can run these models. I just like pushing the hardware to its limit.
by bee_rider | 2025-08-11 17:41:16+00:00
Apple and Microsoft seem very different companies. Apple is stylish and cool by default, with occasional stumbles. Even among tech people, they have good will even though they seem to regard the Open Source community with total ambivalence at best.

Microsoft is the Walmart of operating system providers, that happened to buy a popular Git hosting site and briefly made noises that seemed not awful.

In terms of coolness, Microsoft peaked right around the time they were hiring the cast of Friends to promote their OS.
by mikestorrent | 2025-08-11 17:41:50+00:00
I wish that we didn't always have to phrase things like this. Yes, it's true that the aforementioned folks may likely have more of a need for anonymity than I do as someone who isn't a member of any protected class; but that doesn't mean I don't have a legitimate right to it too. And, if this is the way we phrase things, when a government is in power that doesn't care about this (i.e. the present American regieme), the argument no longer has any power.

We shouldn't have to hide behind our more vulnerable peers in order to have reasonable rights for online free speech and unfettered anonymous communication. It is a weak argument made by weak people who aren't brave enough to simply say, "F** you, stop spying on everyone, you haven't solved anything with the powers you have and there's no reason to believe it improves by shoving us all into a panopticon".

Totalitarian neoliberalism sucks; your protest petition with six million signatures is filed as a Jira ticket and closed as WONTFIX, you can't get anyone on the phone to complain at, everyone in power is disposable and replaceable with another stooge who will do the same thing as their predecessor. Go ahead and march in the streets, the government and media will just declare your protest invalid and make the other half of the population hate you on demand.
by empath75 | 2025-08-11 17:41:53+00:00
When I worked at AOL about 10 years ago, dialup was _still_ responsible for 100% of their profits. Literally every other part of the company lost money (Mapquest, AIM, Huffington Post, their ad network, etc). They were making literally billions of dollars from it and it was like 90+% profit margin or something absurd. It was like a single server running millions of virtual modems.
Show HN: CandySe4arch – AI Reddit auto customer finder and replies for lead gen
by bear2024 | 2025-08-11 17:41:58+00:00
Excited to share something I've been building recently called CandySearch. I made it to solve a personal pain with a SaaS product I built, which was that we were always monitoring Reddit and Twitter to see if anyone had mentioned keywords indicating they were looking for us. Before, we had to go manually respond to posts, often missing good mention opportunities. Would love for HN folks to try it and let me know what you think!
by icw_nru | 2025-08-11 17:42:06+00:00
I emailed the moderator and asked them why this post was constantly getting flagged and locked.

Here is their reply (quote): "Looks like user vouches outweighed user flags, at least for now."

I am not familiar with how hackernews works, but this is what ChatGPT returned on this:

""" On Hacker News, not all users have the ability to vouch for others. Typically, vouching is restricted to users who have achieved a certain level of trust or reputation within the community. This means that only established users, often those with a higher karma score or a longer history of positive contributions, can vouch for others.

If you find that you cannot vouch for someone, it may be because you haven't met the necessary criteria set by Hacker News. The platform aims to maintain the quality of endorsements, ensuring that only credible users can influence the reputation of others. If you're looking to vouch in the future, focusing on contributing positively to discussions and building your karma can help you reach that level. """