MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by righthand | 2025-09-29 16:59:00+00:00
Sifting through just means you don’t know how to use the man interface to search/grep (which from a discoverability perspective is fair). However I think reeling through an Llm (using an agent or not) for a task that probably could take <10mins at $0, demonstrates enthusiasts disregard for a good set of research and reading habits.

All of this is an attempt at circumventing RTFM because you’re privileged enough to afford it.

Just lay yourself down on the WALL-E floating bed and give up already.
by ma1ms | 2025-09-29 16:59:02+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m excited to share FlashVU, a micro-SaaS built to help agencies (especially marketing / analytics / consulting firms) work smarter with client data.

What is FlashVU? FlashVU lets you upload client CSV files, ask questions in plain English, and get immediate insights — complete with charts, trends, anomalies, and exportable results. No SQL, no dashboards to build from scratch.

Why I built it In past projects, I saw agencies struggle with manual CSV wrangling: spending hours in spreadsheets, building repetitive dashboards, and scrambling to answer ad-hoc questions during client calls. I wanted a tool that cuts through all that friction and gives value immediately.

What I’m looking for from HN:

- Honest feedback: usability, feature gaps, edge cases I’m missing - Ideas for making it more valuable for agencies or consultants - Help spotting B2B / growth channels - Early adopters (agency folks reading HN) who’d like to try it & push the limits

Challenges I’m facing - Handling messy / inconsistent CSVs (unknown schemas, missing fields) - Ensuring speed at scale (large files, multiple clients) - Balancing simplicity vs power — not overwhelming non-technical users - Retention: how to make this “sticky” beyond the first few queries

Thanks for checking this out. I’m happy to answer questions, or walk through use cases.

Would love to hear what you all think, especially if you run or work at an agency. :)

Best, Mehdi
by squigz | 2025-09-29 16:59:44+00:00
> the common assumption has historically been that the Internet giants like Google assumed the mantle of facilitating, and to a lesser degree, preserving, the digital commons

A role Google was happy to fill for so long. We shouldn't forget that, and we shouldn't let them simply throw away the responsibilities they endeavoured to undertake, just because it's no longer beneficial for them.
Ask HN: Is anyone else having AWS issues?
by 120bits | 2025-09-29 16:59:48+00:00
Hi,

I noticed some S3 503s few days ago and my ECS services are acting up. EC2 instances status are unhealthly. MSK Connectors are having issues.

Thanks.

EDIT: AWS dashboard showing everything up. But folks are reporting issues.

https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/
by wongarsu | 2025-09-29 16:59:58+00:00
Actual nudes are even worse than AI nudes. With AI nudes

- the victim knows they are fake, which provides some emotional distance (similar to when actors choose to use prostetics or doubles for a nude scene: the viewer doesn't know but the actor still feels more comfortable)

- most of them are bad enough that the discerning eye can spot it as an AI image (many chronically online people are scarily good at that)

- they can be proven to be fake because they are just an imagined version of your body ('look, I have a tatoo/mole/scar/blemish here that isn't in the nude, it's obviously fake')

AI nudes are still pretty bad, but services that turn up nude images of you by indexing the internet with face-detection are way worse
by busymom0 | 2025-09-29 17:00:08+00:00
In weightlifting, it's similar to progressive overload giving enough stimulus for the muscles to grow. If you just keep lifting the same weight over and over again, your muscles get used to it and no longer grow. However, if you slowly keep increasing the stimulus by either increasing weights, or increasing the reps/sets, or slowing the tempo, then it gives your muscles a reason to adapt and grow to be able to handle the new load.
by isk517 | 2025-09-29 17:00:15+00:00
While hitting 100% utilization will probably never happen in any significantly large application, in my experience almost every application has a good 10-30% of it that remains unused because they are extremely unintuitive to anyone who isn't on the development team, has a absolutely awful and inefficient workflow, or is so basic that it would only be of value to companies that would in no way be able to afford that application in the first place.
by HankStallone | 2025-09-29 17:00:44+00:00
Right. If you had a swimsuit malfunction on the beach in 1995, a few people got an eyeful of your unmentionables before you could grab a towel, someone might whistle or laugh, you'd blush, and then the world would move on and you'd forget about it.

If the same thing happens in 2025, there's a decent chance your unmentionables will end up posted online for anyone to ogle in perpetuity. If you find out about it, it could really eat at you.

I don't have a solution to it, or even know if there should be one. But I think it's undeniable that it's causing a fundamental shift in what "private" and "public" mean, in people's minds if not legally. We used to be more private in public than we are now.
by CraigJPerry | 2025-09-29 17:01:01+00:00
There's a product called Context7 which among other things provides succinct examples of how to use an API in practice (example of what it does: https://context7.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com )

It's supposed to be consumed by LLMs to help prepare them to provide better examples - maybe a newer version of a library than is in the model's training data for example.

I've often thought rather than an MCP server of this that my LLM agent can query, maybe i just want to query this high signal to noise resource myself rather than trawl the documentation.

What additional value does an LLM provide when a good documentation resource exists?
by lukevp | 2025-09-29 17:01:04+00:00
Yes, but… The AI has way more context on our industry than the raw programming language does. I can say things like “add a stripe webhook processor for the purchase event” and it’s gonna know which library to import, how to structure the API calls, the shape of the event, the database tables that people usually back Stripe stuff with, idempotency concerns of the API, etc.

So yes you have to specify things but there’s a lot more implicit understanding and knowledge that can be retrieved relevant to the task you’re doing than a regular language would have
by al_borland | 2025-09-29 17:01:17+00:00
I find photos and videos to both be invasive and unwanted.

I’ve been a member and gyms where the owner will start taking videos and pictures of the class that ultimately end up on social media or in marketing material. I’m not ok with it and I get incredible uncomfortable when I’m in some weird position to do an exercise and a camera starts heading my way.

Any time an unwanted camera is around there is some level of anxiety that starts creeping up. Maybe this is, in part, why so many of today’s youth have anxiety disorders. How can anyone just relax if they have to worry about anything they might say or do being on camera, and then posted for the world to see.

I was at a party not too long ago where most people were 45+, and some kids that were too young to have phones. No one was on their phones, and people seemed free to dance and whatever. The second one person took out their phone to take a picture/video the vibe shifted drastically, and the owner of the house told them to put it away, so people could go back to enjoying themselves instead of being worried about an embarrassing picture of video that might surface later.

I’ve seen so many good times destroyed by cameras.
by zahlman | 2025-09-29 17:01:20+00:00
I refer you back to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45386018. What you say is "obvious" is your completely unsubstantiated perception.

> There is no genetically pure or distinct native British phenotye to set apart other europeans.

Nevertheless, such ancestry can be reliably determined by genetic testing, and Europeans do recognize it by sight. https://blog.23andme.com/articles/23andme-adds-more-detail-f....
by sdoering | 2025-09-29 17:01:38+00:00
If it’s me, in Germany, I would instantly tell this person to stop filming and to delete any recordings. And if they streamed live to expect a letter from the (German equivalent of the) DA soon, as I would - as soon as back home - I would press charges and search damages.

Because in German publishing images/recordings of an individual without consent violates basic constitutional rights. And that’s nothing to f** with.

If minors were involved you’d be in a whole different can of soup even.

So while I don’t advocate for violence - as others have hinted in this thread - a black eye could actually be the lesser negative outcome for such a person.
by dunham | 2025-09-29 17:01:43+00:00
Yeah, I don't leverage LLMs much, but I have used it to look up APIs for writing vscode extensions. The code wasn't usable as-is, but it gave me an example that I could turn into working code - without looking up all of the individual api calls.

I've also used it in the past to look up windows api, since I haven't coded for windows in decades. (For the equivalent of pipe, fork, exec.) The generated code had a resource leak, which I recognized, but it was enough to get me going. I suspect stack overflow also had the answer to that one.

And for fun, I've had copilot generate a monad implementation for a parser type in my own made-up language (similar to Idris/Agda), and it got fairly close.
by nilslindemann | 2025-09-29 17:01:58+00:00
In Germany, they have to ask him for his permission. If he insists, the video has to get deleted. If they publish the video without his consent, he can sue them and – aside of deleting the video – they may face penalties ranging from fines to imprisonment, though both are improbable in that context.

https://www.prigge-recht.de/filmen-im-oeffentlichen-raum-was...
by stackskipton | 2025-09-29 17:02:09+00:00
Because attractiveness of Workers/Lambdas/Functions is whole "write simple amount of code and pay pennies to run it." Downside is cold starts, twisting yourself into knots you will do at scale to make them work and vendor lock in.

If you start to say "If you are using this for production, 5-10/month is real cost you need to pay + transactions" Well, now the cost is about to same to deploy fly.io shared CPU container and it does not come with cold starts, vendor lock in and can run as long as you want. Cloudflare knows that so they don't want to introduce that charge or even talk about it.
by cryptoz | 2025-09-29 17:02:12+00:00
I've really got to refactor my side project which I tailored to just use OpenAI API calls. I think the Anthropic APIs are a bit different so I just never put in the energy to support the changes. I think I remember reading that there are tools to simpify this kind of work, to support multiple LLM APIs? I'm sure I could do it manually but how do you all support multiple API providers that have some differences in the API design?
by brudgers | 2025-09-29 17:03:34+00:00
Liabilities don’t transfer, Corporate structure doesn’t transfer, and as you point out investors don’t either.

Soft liabilities may be significant. For example here we are talking about the move. The headline “Sunshine launches Dazzle” is about a failing company and we wouldn’t be talking about it on the HN front page.

And if you are adequately capitalized (you probably are not), starting a new company is an easy business decision. And if you are a serial entrepreneur, starting new companies is what you do.
by anavat | 2025-09-29 17:03:42+00:00
Holy... That just unlocked a memory. When I was a 10 y.o. kid and a member of Young Pioneers organization in the late Soviet Union, we had a routine elderly care assignment. There was literally a task "to help N lonely elderly people next week"! We were split in pairs and provided with a list of addresses of nearby "targets" and a general guidance on what this help may constitute, like helping them with groceries, walking a dog, house cleaning, etc. And I remember there was a nice old lady who were treating us with tea and pies, and showing us some old photos, and who we then visited few times outside of the assignment just because she welcomed us and we liked it there. For me it was just some secondary quest that I barely registered and completely forgot about until now, but now I wonder if it was a big deal for her
by churchill | 2025-09-29 17:04:29+00:00
>ebitda

Beautiful turnaround if those figures are reliable, but like Munger calls them, EBITDA tends to bullshit metrics derived by cobbling up bullshit to hide that a company is losing cash.

Just like Figma booking $700M in 2023 profits which was only possible because of the $1b Adobe breakup fee. Proceeded to lose $732m on $749m in revenues the very next year.
by rowanG077 | 2025-09-29 17:04:54+00:00
I think most people who seriously use Yosys already know that ABC is the foundation it’s built on. But let’s be real, this plugin is just twelve C++ source files. Calling that a “synthesis suite” just isn’t accurate. What it actually does is build on the synthesis suite provided by Yosys (and indirectly ABC), adding some extra algorithms and support for your FPGA family.

That said, this work is important, you do need it to get your FPGA running. And from the table, the reported optimizations look good (though I haven’t dug into them in detail). Still, describing it as “a synthesis suite” when it’s really “a plugin that adds FPGA support and a few optimizations to Yosys” does indeed leave me with a bad taste in my mouth.

Of course, you don’t have to agree with me. It’s clear from other comments that not everyone does, and that’s totally fine.
by tootie | 2025-09-29 17:04:58+00:00
I didn't dig in to every cite but a few seemed suspicious. One linked on digital interventions specifically said it showed no positive results. Another on pet ownership having 100% success rate was sponsored by the pet industry. I think the author is tripping over a lot of data and cherry picking. We know that loneliness can cause problems and interventions can help but this post seems like it is indeed a rambling jumble and not a cogent argument for anything in particular.
by adornKey | 2025-09-29 17:05:16+00:00
Well, the shapes look very seasonal... Do you know something about epidemiological curves?!

The wave 2020 in Europe was often smaller than 2018. And the data was perfectly seasonal. If you know people working in nursing homes and hospitals, you can ask them what happened later in 2021...

I heard a lot of stories - from first hand... They parked old ladies in the cold in front of open windows for fresh air - until they were blue... They vaccinated old people right into an ongoing wave and of course they had more problems caused from a wrongly trained vulnerable immune system - sane doctors don't vaccinate into an ongoing wave. What was going on in hospitals and nursing homes was a crime for money. Just ask the people that were there. A combat medic I know that now works in a hospital called 2021 a crime.

And still - solid Epidemiological data - wherever you could find it - was still perfectly seasonal. You could see some perfect mathematical curves. Just very high because they actively killed people. Even pupils in school spent all day in front of open windows in the cold... To remain healthy... How stupid is that...

Not all places are equal, but I've taken a look at German all cause mortality. 2020 was not special. In 2021 it started rising synchronous with vaccinations.
by mrguyorama | 2025-09-29 17:05:30+00:00
The problem is that voters will say "I care about X" in a poll, and even while talking to family members, but they refuse to break rank when filling out a ballot.

It doesn't matter how many Republican voters say they want weed to be legal or want to end civil asset forfeiture, as long as they keep voting for people who back the blue, it doesn't matter what they want, it matters what they vote for

America's terrible political funding system and two parties mean that breaking ranks for a "small" thing like ending civil asset forfeiture would guarantee you end up getting the "other" guy, so people don't.

Then our primary system has such little engagement from the average voter that it only serves to make politicians more extreme, not more representative.
by tshaddox | 2025-09-29 17:05:46+00:00
> I occasionally see people saying “well, if you don’t want to be in photos published online, don’t be in public spaces”.

> This is nonsense, for a number of reasons. Clearly, one should be able to exist in society, including going outside one’s own home, without needing to accept this kind of thing.

> Clearly, one should be able to exist in society, including going outside one’s own home, without needing to accept this kind of thing.

Well, here is the heart of the disagreement. I suspect everyone agrees that the social norms are "clear," they just vehemently disagree about what those norms are.

I don't know anything specific about the implicit cultural norms of airsoft, but it sounds like the author is playing at a privately owned facility which I would expect to have very explicit rules and liability waivers. I'd be surprised if those rules don't cover photography.
by abdalim01 | 2025-09-29 17:06:27+00:00
Hii! HN Creator of Crazzy here! The Problem: As a Flutter dev, I found myself wasting ~90% of my time on repetitive boilerplate (auth, UI scaffolding, assets, build prep) and only 10% on actual creative logic. The big AI tools are too generic and don't solve the full, Flutter-specific workflow. The Solution: I built Crazzy, an "AI co-pilot" and toolkit specifically for Flutter. The goal is to automate the entire setup process. You describe what you need in a prompt, and it generates not just the UI code, but also handles asset generation (icons, splash screens), keystores, and prepares your build files. Why Open Source? I'm building this in public and believe the best dev tools are built with the community. The core desktop app (built with Flutter Web) is fully open-source. The GitHub repo is linked. There's also a cloud version at crazzy.dev which will house more advanced, managed features in the future, but the heart of the project is open. The tech stack is Flutter, Dart, and Gemini for the core generation. I'm here all day to answer questions. Looking for your brutally honest feedback and technical critique. Thanks for checking it out.
Show HN: Cueit – Project Management with LLMs over MCP
by billy_jones_75 | 2025-09-29 17:06:29+00:00
Hi there, I built Cueit, a minimal Kanban board that uses LLMs to manage projects and tasks vic MCP.

The MCP server provides tools for:

* Project management (list, create, manage) * Task/subtask CRUD operations * Bulk task/subtask creation * Board backups and restores

Repo: https://cueit.sh
by nonethewiser | 2025-09-29 17:06:31+00:00
>Publishing someone’s photo online, without their consent, without another strong justification, just because they happen to be in view of one’s camera lens, feels wrong to me.

Why?

I dont ask this dismissively. Im not suggesting he's unjustified. That's just the interesting question to me and the author doesnt explore it. I believe this feeling is a new trend.

I dont think people had these qualms, say, 20 years ago. The world was a very different place back then. At the end of the day I suppose it's because 20 years ago, even with a totally permissive policy, you'd never expect footage of you to reach any significant amount of people. It would rarely happen and when it did there wouldnt be a huge audience to share it with.

But does it go beyond that? Would people have cared even if it did reach a wide audience? Is it possible people seek more privacy and control over their image than before? And not just as a reaction to how global everything is because of the internet? Gen Z being afraid of answering phone calls, etc.

This strikes me as similar to the attitude towards phone number privacy. People used to publicly share their phone numbers by default. You were included in the phone book unless you specially requested not to be. Now it feels invasive for parties to ask you for it, even when they have some plausible reason.
by phkahler | 2025-09-29 17:06:53+00:00
Maybe the internet is complete. Programming was not that big until the internet came along. Writers started writing for web sites, some of them even started learning to code. Huge hoards of people were needed to "build the internet" as we know it today. That process has IMHO been stabilizing for a while now. Every local restaurant has a web site of some sort - some even have an event calendar that is updated regularly. It's not just Google and Amazon, the electronic version of the entire world has been built out. Payment systems are in place - even hobbyists or crafters can take payments online. It took 30 years with countless dead ends and restarts in a number of areas, but we finally have a stable functioning internet with common development tools and practices. Maintenance of this thing is going to take fewer resources than building it took. It kinda makes sense that jobs are getting harder to find.

I've been working in product development and embedded software most of this time, and I don't see too much change.
by DrewADesign | 2025-09-29 17:07:01+00:00
Wiretapping laws are set by states, and different states have different criteria. For example, the two-party consent in MA involves 'intercepting' the conversation so even listening on a microphone and not recording it is considered wiretapping, but not all states use that criteria. Some people, like public officials performing their duty in public-- e.g. cops and politicians-- can't have any expectation of privacy.

Expectation of privacy is
by AnonymousPlanet | 2025-09-29 17:07:43+00:00
Why single out one company? Microsoft's mobile platform was just as locked down. Microsoft's hold over boot keys is a lock down that even spreads to other OSes and will be very relevant in the future I foresee. All pieces are falling into place for the final rag pull.

And like I said, I do not believe this move is because Apple paved the way. If they hadn't, Apple would make a similar announcement to Google now in 2025.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-09-29 17:07:58+00:00
Lawyers approach arguments from both sides (so that they know where they are weak, where they are strogon), and know how to identify/tear apart BS. Engineers know how to present 'the correct position' once. The best engineers I knew benefited from having someone else in the company do their 'political' work for them. They were horrible at it themselves.
by blamestross | 2025-09-29 17:08:12+00:00
The moonlander's firmware approach is the critical feature for me.

Its a customizable ergonomic keyboard that requires zero special software on the host machine. It enables me to use the full features of the keyboard on highly restricted work machines.

I also bounce operating systems a lot, so I programmed multiple layers (and light color pallets) to unify all the different os keymaps. If I am on a mac, hit the useless red button until the keyboard turns green. On windows, until it turns blue. On debian, until it turns red. Then just go.

Its a lot of work to setup initially, but then it works everywhere forever.
by NickC25 | 2025-09-29 17:08:25+00:00
Yeah. They don't have a good track record, and that's before the (partially justified) Islamophobia kicks in.

Before anyone thinks I'm Islamophobic, I equally detest and mock all religion.

I do find it funny that if there is an afterlife, Abraham is there, and absolutely befuddled as to why all of his disciples seem to hate each other and want to kill each other.