MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jFriedensreich | 2025-08-08 14:44:28+00:00
I run https://bye-tracker.net and am also working on https://lanes.pm (still closed beta but open for more users soon). I just retested all of them and it really seems none are fully usable. I also see few improvements since April, it seems many of the teams either burned out trying to finish in time, were overwhelmed seeing what it really takes to make the details work after the fun parts are over or were disappointed seeing how low user numbers are from direct switchers.

I disagree with your 2010 theory, back then it would have been even less fruitful to make a viable alternative with the limited time and resources available. Especially as things like the UI state handling and some of the architecture was unheard of back then, years ahead of its time and even linear now does not fully match many aspects.

Similarly "Any half-skilled indie dev could have made a killing on making a good replacement" is just wrong, a) you need to be a really great developer to make something that even nearly matches PT, there is more than is obvious to someone not deeply familiar with the internals of the product and 15 year of refinements that went into it. A few of the cloning teams were some of these indie developers who thought it would be fun and easy which was obviously very naive.

b) "Make a killing" is equally misleading. I would be surprised if its possible at all to break even on something like a pure PT clone. There are maybe 200 original users who are super loud and "in love" but this can easily mislead to thinking there are millions of users that would be immediately jump on and start paying. It takes probably 2 orders of magnitude more addressable market to make the financials work just by providing a PT clone (Which is why lanes.pm is focusing on making what tracker would need to be today not just catching up on what it was.)

Just give it a bit more time, there are at least 2 teams including lanes working on this and we all decided not to launch something half baked and buggy that loses your data.
by toast0 | 2025-08-08 14:45:20+00:00
IMHO, first it needs to be stated that feature flags are only truly useful when you have a process to change the flags that's faster than deploying a new version of code. I've seen some environments where a flag configuration deployment is the same work as a code deployment, and so why bother.

Also, these things need to be temporary, and you should enforce that somehow. Otherwise, chances are very few permutations are being tested, which makes it hard to use the flexibility you tried to build. Some teams automate this in some fashion... require an expiration date comment, fail the build if it's in past the date, or if you like things spicy, have a bot remove it on expiration.

Sometimes you end up with a feature that's done in your code but waiting for something else and you end up with the behavior disabled for a long time. That's not fun, but it's life.

Otherwise, I like feature flags to live for about one release... Put it in, push the feature, once it works, remove the ability to turn it off. That should be part of the post-release acceptance process.
by neographikal | 2025-08-08 14:45:33+00:00
The intellectual capacity is a factor for sure, but indeed there is more to life than that. Things like hard work, creativity, social skills, empathy, determination, ability to plan and execute are as much factors as high IQ.

Went to the equivalent of a mensa meeting group a couple of times. The people there were much smarter than me, but they all had their problems and many of them weren't that successful at all despite their obvious intelligence.
by jeffyang | 2025-08-08 14:45:36+00:00
In an attempt to have a positive framing around this, with the disclaimer that I haven't actually fully tried this, one idea might be to spend the extra time on all the politics stuff and marketing yourself and figuring out how to get in good with your manager and get promoted. And that stuff is not easy and you might not be good at it, but spending time on it is good practice and will slow you down in the areas you are good at so there's nothing to hide.
Show HN: LessonQuill – Generate editable lesson notes from your curriculum
by pelumi_peter | 2025-08-08 14:45:43+00:00
Hi HN,

I just launched LessonQuill, an AI-powered tool that helps teachers and instructors generate aligned lesson notes instantly — based on any curriculum or topic you provide.

Why I built it: Teachers spend hours preparing lesson plans, often retyping the same content in different formats for different classes. I wanted to create a tool that does the heavy lifting in seconds, so they can focus more on teaching and less on paperwork.

How it works:

Paste your curriculum or topic.

Set class duration, age group, difficulty level, and number of classes/week.

Click Generate → LessonQuill outputs a complete, structured lesson note you can edit directly in the app.

Notes are auto-saved and organized for future use.

Key features:

Supports any subject or education level

Editable lesson notes (not locked PDFs)

Generates in seconds, not hours

Light, modern UI with collapsible sidebar

Tech stack: TailwindCSS, JavaScript, Gemini API (multimodal support planned) Why HN might care:

Demonstrates a real-world, non-trivial AI use case in education

Lightweight, already getting close to 100 daily users

integrate with Gemini AI, video generation

Live: https://lessonsquill.com

Would love your feedback on:

Features to make it more useful for educators

Edge cases you think AI might struggle with in lesson generation

Integrations or APIs that could make this more powerful
by sim7c00 | 2025-08-08 14:45:48+00:00
afaik military and likely police radios dont talk to a central server or anything like in the world of internet. hence some things logical on the internet ate very impractical if not impossible or too risky (single points of failure).

its an interesting domain but hard to get solid info on unless you are working on these types of projects or for some MoD somewhere. most info out there on the net is about old tech.

as far as i know preshared keys are common. hard to rekey ofc in case of compromise so likely they have some tricks up their sleeves to make sure if for instance a unit is overtaken by enemy not all coms are compromised by this key in the device. (guesswork here ofc..) dont think much of this stuff uses priv/pub keys and https or vpn like auth schemes etc.
by hypeatei | 2025-08-08 14:46:05+00:00
I'm not saying MAGA supporters are insane or that Trump himself is insane. I'm merely pointing out that the response to the extraordinary levels of corruption in this administration is insane along with the actions themselves considering what scandals plagued previous administrations.

You can try to steelman their view all you want, what we're seeing is bold-faced corruption: Trump coin crypto investor dinners, Trump mobile, receiving a $400M jet from Qatar, Tech executives donating to him in various ways to curry favor, and revoking security clearances from law firms who represent things he doesn't like. Just to name a few.
by jasperry | 2025-08-08 14:46:25+00:00
I quit Wordle when NYT bought it and started asking me to make an account. But I started again using the app because one of my kids does it and, as the article says, it does give something to talk to people about. So far, you don't have to make an account to use the app. I'll never make an account to be tracked just to play a word game.
by teekert | 2025-08-08 14:46:44+00:00
LinkedIn tells me I have so many (ex) co-workers that play these games and I always think about the collective time wasted by all those people and close LinkedIn in disgust.

I started monitoring LinkedIn for assignments and networking opportunities. But it's just FaceBook with more AI cringe. I don't know what I hope to find anymore when I open it out of habit.
by epistasis | 2025-08-08 14:47:13+00:00
The rises in health care costs were happening long before Obamacare, and if anything Obamacare reduced the rate of rises or kept them at the same level.

We have chosen this to have high access, high quality care, while also choosing to reduce health with the way we subsidize our food system and force indolent lifestyle with car-dependent urban planning.

The best primer on the choices that make our healthcare expensive, and where the money goes, are in this video:

https://youtu.be/QqrpFICtqpQ?si=JOR3COojPD9iLn94

Unfortunately our national discussion of health care is not centered on the reality of the discussion, and is several levels of technical depth too shallow for us to have a public discussion that could reduce costs without reducing the care level for many peopl.
by seanw265 | 2025-08-08 14:47:15+00:00
> Now they rewrite their frontend in react and it feels sluggish and slow.

I find this is a common sentiment, but is there any evidence to find that React itself is actually the culprit of GH's supposed slowdown? GH has updated their architecture many times over and their scale has increased by orders of magnitude, quite literally serving up over a billion git repos.

Not to mention that the implementation details of any React application can make or break its performance.

Modern web tech often becomes a scapegoat, but the web today enables experiences that were simply impossible in the pre-framework era. Whatever frustrations we have with GitHub’s UI, they don’t automatically indict the tools it’s built with.
by binarymax | 2025-08-08 14:47:25+00:00
Sure. This seems a cultural difference between US and EU. I've lived extensively in both. EU is known to be burdensome in terms of tech regulations. Normally I find this egregious. However when children are involved I am far more tolerant of their requirements. 10% OpEx overhead to make sure children are protected seems entirely reasonable to me. If you're not prepared to meet their requirements then skip the EU.
by AlexandrB | 2025-08-08 14:47:26+00:00
Sadly I think a wealth tax would make us all poorer in the end. Most of the wealth held by the top 0.01% is in the form of equities/investments in various industries. Taxing this would literally just suck capital out of the economy. I think taxing real estate holdings is a good idea though (something like Georgeism).
by belter | 2025-08-08 14:47:30+00:00
> Even now, no one reputable is claiming AGI in two years.

LOL...You really underestimate the intellectual dishonesty of these people...Its all about the greenback...

AGI by 2025...

Sam Altman - "AGI by 2025, potentially during Trump's term" - https://firstmovers.ai/agi-by-2025/

AGI by 2026...

John Schulman (OpenAI Cofounder) - https://youtu.be/Wo95ob_s_NI?t=1040

Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) - "AGI by 2026-2027 based on capability progression trends" - https://cointelegraph.com/news/human-level-ai-as-early-as-20...

AGI by 2027...

Daniel Kokotajlo (Former OpenAI Researcher) - "Ex-OpenAI researcher predicts AGI by 2027" - https://www.theneuron.ai/explainer-articles/an-ex-openai-res...

Leopold Aschenbrenner (Former OpenAI Researcher) - AGI by 2027, superintelligence by 2028-2029 - https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/ai-timelines-and-nation...
by nothrabannosir | 2025-08-08 14:47:50+00:00
I did use Time Machine, but thankfully wised up and left for restic instead. Using Time Machine is worse advice than case insensitive filesystem if you ask me. Inscrutable logs and silent failures.

I’m sure there are those who found problems, but fact remains that in ten years I never have. What I have found is a lot of warnings against it by people who don’t use it themselves, like the person in the second link.

I recommend it, and the more people use it, the more people can help fix bugs they encounter (if any?) like in that last link you posted.

PS the Time Machine error in your third link is apparently about a CI source to a CS target. I hope it’s fair to say: don’t do that?
by crazygringo | 2025-08-08 14:48:11+00:00
> If I buy a house for $100k, and next year some idiot pays $1M for a very similar house three streets down, did I just magically make $900k?

Of course you did! Assuming that "some idiot" is actually representative of the market.

Go sell your house for $1M ASAP, move somewhere else for $100k and keep the $900k profit.

> You simply can't establish value without an actual transaction.

Not perfectly, but you can definitely estimate it pretty decently for tax purposes. And you talk about the highest bidder in a market, but remember it's also the lowest seller. Markets are not generally distorted by "idiots" paying 10x. That's a straw man.
by self_awareness | 2025-08-08 14:48:23+00:00
It always comes down to the same set of arguments. The rich doesn't pay the price because money is nothing to them. The poorest have additional grants, so life is not that bad for them, even if they don't work. And who pays the most expensive fee for this? Middle class. The actually working class. The class that nobody thinks about, and the class that always funds everything.

In your world, the worst place to be is to be the middle class, because they don't deserve any grants, but still they earn just barely enough to sustain themselves.

Also, the difference between freeloaders in companies and freeloaders in your model of financing the poor is that we generally want to get rid of company freeloaders and we identify them as an unwanted behavior, and you want to encourage social freeloaders and defend their existence.
by aosaigh | 2025-08-08 14:48:58+00:00
I’m just today after having my first real success with Claude (and generally with coding agents). I’ve played with Cursor in the past but am now trying Claude and others.

As mentioned in the article, the big trick is having clear specs. In my case I sat down for 2 hours and wrote a 12 step document on how I would implement this (along with background information). Claude went through step by step and wrote the code. I imagine this saved me probably 6-10 hours. I’m now reviewing and am going to test etc. and start adjusting and adding future functionality.

Its success was rooted in the fact I knew exactly how to do what it needed to do. I wrote out all the steps and it just followed my lead.

It makes it clear to me that mid and senior developers aren’t going anywhere.

That said, it was amazing to just see it go through the requirements and implement modules full of organised documented code that I didn’t have to write.
White Paper: Contribution-Based Governance for Developer Communities
by ff12wq111 | 2025-08-08 14:49:08+00:00
Hi HN! I've been thinking about why developer communities are controlled by corporate boards instead of the developers who create the value.

This white paper explores a new governance model where: - Every contribution (posts, code reviews, helpful answers) earns "Stars" - Stars = voting power on platform decisions (features, policies, algorithms) - Community votes on everything from tech stack to moderation rules - Transparent, democratic process with public voting records

The core insight: developers deserve platforms where their voices actually matter in decision-making, not just engagement metrics.

I'd love your thoughts on the governance mechanisms, potential abuse vectors, and whether this could work at scale.

AMA
by Herring | 2025-08-08 14:49:11+00:00
Agreed, but I suggest that's only part of the story. For some reason, workers in the west don't organize/vote by class any more.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/why-americans-dont-v...

In the US, the last time democrats tried to tackle healthcare, they lost scores of seats all down the ballot.

https://www.quorum.us/data-driven-insights/under-obama-democ...

I remember tracking Trump's poll numbers on 538 (before it got taken down) during the pandemic. They barely budged, despite not having universal healthcare. He then proceeded to get the most votes of any sitting president.
Show HN: Wordle" with the first 1000 Digits of Pi
by bezo226 | 2025-08-08 14:49:41+00:00
Hey HN! I built this Wordle-inspired web game over the past ~6 hours. It’s a quick project, but I think it’s fun to play and would love any feedback, especially on the game mechanics. Visually, it’s definitely a bit rough and could use some polish, but I wanted to share it early and see what people think!
by mfcorgi | 2025-08-08 14:49:57+00:00
The prior comment is not using the definition of sane/insane as in: "the leadership of the White House is composed of people that are insane." Rather: "the decisions and policies set forth by the White House are insane." That's an important distinction.

To "sane-wash" is to take an extraordinary break from liberal order/american historical norms and treat such break as normal politics.

I completely agree that there are rational actors at the White House who have an incorrect sense of a Deep State at the BLS, and are taking what they would describe as a rational step and firing it's leader. But simply because they are rational does not mean that their subsequent decisions are rational.

If am a rational person and I have an incorrect belief that my house has cockroaches, then I burn down my house to get of the cockroaches, then the news media reports I "took bold new steps to rid my house of cockroaches," I have been sane washed.
by garciasn | 2025-08-08 14:49:57+00:00
Just look at the name of each of the primary groups in the US:

- Progressives

- Moderates

- Conservatives

Progressives, by definition, want 'progress'. Conversely, Conservatives do NOT want progress; if anything, they want regression and thus their desire to roll everything back done in the name of Progress(ives).

Moderates just want to play both sides and find some sort of middle ground; something that doesn't really play well in the US in the current political climate.
by SkyPuncher | 2025-08-08 14:50:25+00:00
"Worse" model is largely subjective. Often, task specific.

For me, I find model upgrades frustrating as they often break subtle things about my workflows while not clearly offering an improvement. It takes time to learn the nuances of each model and tweak your prompts to get the best outputs.

For example, Sonnet 4 is now my daily driver for Cursor - but it took me nearly a month to tweak my approaches I was using for 3.5 and 3.7.
by os2warpman | 2025-08-08 14:50:47+00:00
> The novel's plot centers on journalist Doremus Jessup's opposition to the new regime

Here in the real world, the number of professional journalists who would stick their necks out and risk losing access or a paycheck to "fight the powahhh" is exactly and precisely zero.

It is, however, a supremely self-righteous profession full of people who THINK they would...

As far as a liberal rebellion goes, they're too busy dividing themselves over foreign matters they have absolutely no chance of changing or even slightly influencing to even the tiniest degree to see that they are letting themselves be fucked. Russia and Iran spending a tiny amount of money and other peoples' lives was the best investment they ever made and the only smart one of the last decade.
by gloosx | 2025-08-08 14:50:56+00:00
Yes I did some maths and we should be able to...

...reach highest phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of man to the division of labor has disappeared; when the antithesis between mental and physical labor has disappeared along with it; when labor has ceased to be merely a means of life, but has itself become the first need of life; when, together with the all-round development of individuals, the productive forces have also grown and all the sources of social wealth have flowed in full flow, only then will it be possible to completely overcome the narrow horizon of bourgeois law, and society will be able to inscribe on its banner: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”
by rtp4me | 2025-08-08 14:51:05+00:00
Speaking as someone from the US, how is this a meaningful comparison in anyway? Honest question. Sure, wage growth sounds good in an upward trending market, but let's say the market has gone down 30% over the past five years. Would you expect everybody to take a 30% pay cut? If Walmart had a blockbuster year because their suppliers charged less (more efficient means of production), how are Walmart employee wages interconnected to the supplier charges?

I suppose what you are saying is the profits of the company should be poured back into worker salaries. I agree to an extent. But, what if the company undergoes very hard times (3-5 years of negative growth)? Should the company take back wages? I think this is a double-edge sword.
by me-vs-cat | 2025-08-08 14:51:14+00:00
I use Bitwarden in Firefox and passkeys "just work" on Linux, Android, Mac, and Windows. Previously, I used the extension in Chrome (Linux, Android, Windows).

The only relevant Bitwarden setting appears to be "Ask to save and use passkeys" under Notifications. I do turn off the browser's built-in password manager, though I believe anything else relevant I have at default. If you have those and they still aren't getting saved, then I'm at a loss, but wish I knew why they don't work for you. In Bitwarden, you can see if there's a passkey saved in an entry, as the creation timestamp is shown right under the password field and editing an entry also allows deleting a passkey.
by boston_clone | 2025-08-08 14:51:25+00:00
Thank you for your reply.

To explore this, I'd like to hear more of your perspective - did you feel that most CEOs that you met along your journey were similar to you (passionate, technical founder) or something else (MBA fast-track to an executive role)? Do you feel that there is a propensity for the more "human" types to appear in technical fields versus a randomly-selected private sector business?

FWIW I doubt that a souped-up LLM could replace someone like Dr. Lisa Su, but certainly someone like Brian Thompson.
by conartist6 | 2025-08-08 14:51:45+00:00
I'm working on a new (unauthorized) iteration protocol (Symbol.streamIterator) to bridge the yawning chasm between sync and async iteration. After reading this I thought perhaps I might be able to flatten out my protocol to get rid of the objects, but funny enough they serve a much more concrete purpose in stream iteration than they do in either normal sync or async iteration: they allow you to distinguish between `next => Promise.resolve({ done, value })` which means "wait for this before continuing" and `next => ({ done, value: Promise.resolve() })` which means "the data being yielded is a promise, but the iterator is ready to proceed immediately." Huge stacks of pointlessly complex kludges (like the web streams API) have already accumulated as a result of this bedrock protocol being absent from the language.
by gruez | 2025-08-08 14:51:59+00:00
>And it really is as simple as that.

It really isn't, because your "simple" comparison is bunk. For one, it's measuring stock vs flow. Stock prices measure stock, eg. the size of a piggy bank. Salaries measure flow, eg. your annual salary. Directly comparing the two results is meaningless. It's easy to demonstrate this with the piggy bank example. If your salary was 50k/year, you saved 5k/year, then your piggy bank would be growing much faster than your salary growth, but it doesn't say much about the economy, or whether you could quit your job or not. In fact, if you started with $0 in savings, your piggy bank growth would be infinite, which really shows how absurd stock vs flow comparisons can be.

Moreover stock prices incorporate a variety of factors that are irrelevant to wealth distribution. Low interest rates makes stocks more valuable by reducing the future discount rate, and corporate consolidation makes stock indices go up, but neither of those factors directly affect inequality. For instance, a simple DCF model would value a company with earnings of of $1/share/year at $16.67/share if the risk free rate was 6%, but $33.33/share if interest rates were at 3%. However it's unclear whether such drop in interest rates would double inequality, as a direct comparison would imply. After all, most people hold on to debt (eg. mortgages) as well savings.