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Show HN: BodhiGPT – Become a Better Human with AI
by whatcha | 2025-10-03 14:01:55+00:00
Hey HN — Like many here, watching the capabilities of LLMs and AI advance over the last few years has been the most exciting stretch of my tech/data science career.

And while I am not an AI doomer, it’s become clear to me that as we become more reliant on AI to automate larger and larger portions of our lives, certain aspects of our humanity become even more important to develop (consciousness and awareness, mental and physical health, personal knowledge to form your own perspectives on topics, etc) and AI can actually help us do just that in ways that haven’t been easy or even possible before.

So I built BodhiGPT for myself to do that in as streamlined a way as possible. I didn’t originally intend to share, but it’s become such an integral part of my daily routine that I decided to launch it as a side project. Feedback welcome and I am going to continue to add more tools over time (already have a few in mind, but would curious if folks had other ideas within this theme). Cheers.
by AbsintheLabs | 2025-10-03 14:02:01+00:00
Absinthe Labs | Full-Stack Engineer | REMOTE / NYC Hybrid | Full-Time

About us: Absinthe is building the most sophisticated gamification engine for crypto-native incentive programs. Since 2022, our products have reached 50M+ visits and 2M+ active users. We’re a 10 person, well-funded team shipping fast.

The problem we’re solving: Tracking per-user activity across DeFi protocols sounds simple but is surprisingly hard. Want to know how long someone held an LP position, or which users provided liquidity for more than 30 days? That data is on-chain but can’t be efficiently queried today.

We built an indexing framework that turns protocol events into time-weighted balances and point-in-time actions. Adapters map protocol-specific semantics (Uniswap ≠ Aave ≠ Morpho) into a unified model. The engine handles state, TWAP pricing, and exporting data anywhere. With ~100 lines of adapter code, you can track user balances and contributions at a fidelity no one else supports.

Why it matters: This infrastructure underpins analytics, loyalty, and incentive programs across Web3. We see the Absinthe Adapter Library becoming the default developer layer for embedded finance.

The role: We’re hiring a Full-Stack Engineer to own features end-to-end schema design, wiring GraphQL, polished frontends, and deployment. Our stack: Next.js, Hasura, dbt, MotherDuck/DuckDB, GraphQL, and in-house Web3 indexing. See open positions here: absinthe.network/careers#open-positions

Get involved: - Explore product functionalities at: https://guides.absinthe.network

- Explore the Adapter Library docs: https://docs.absinthe.network/

- Join our Slack community to hack on adapters and connect with the team: https://join.slack.com/t/absinthecommunity/shared_invite/zt-...
by ilaksh | 2025-10-03 14:02:15+00:00
I had one client who made their whole thing about knowledge graphs, which I worked on because I needed money and it was interesting, but I am still a little suspicious that they may have had "knowledgebase" and "knowledge graphs" mixed up and did not know about vector search.

I think for the particular use case, something like filtering the vector search based on tags for each document and then (maybe) a relatively inexpensive and fast reranking LLM step could have worked as well or better. But the reranker is not necessarily important with a strong model and including enough results.
by softwaredoug | 2025-10-03 14:02:45+00:00
I think there's a crisis of ineffectiveness in Center-Left institutions

They are too deliberative, and take excessive time including voices of every stakeholder. So you don't just go do the "obvious thing". You cater to trying to listen to every voice in an effort to be as inclusive as possible. Committee after committee and an obsession with process. You can spend years placating NIMBYs and people living with their own alternate reality.

Meanwhile real people are suffering from lack of action.

This level of ineffectiveness just enables authoritarianism ("at least they get something done") and gets people to seek the private industry for their solutions.
by jrmg | 2025-10-03 14:02:53+00:00
iOS 26 can sort-of do what you suggest in your second paragraph. The device answers the call, asks who is calling and the purpose of the call, then (if the caller doesn’t hang up) presents the answers textually in the call-answering UI to allow you to decide whether to answer or not.

At the moment, most spam callers just hang up so I never even get to the choice to answer, although I do wonder if that’ll change if the feature gets popular.
by bradrn | 2025-10-03 14:03:10+00:00
> "this is text translated to a phonetic version" goes to "ðɪs ɪz tɛkst trænzˈleɪtɪd tuː ə fəʊˈnɛtɪk ˈvɜːʒᵊn" in British pronunciation and "ðɪs ɪz tɛkst trænˈsleɪtɪd tu ə fəˈnɛtɪk ˈvɜrʒən" in American.

These samples are using the International Phonetic Alphabet, which isn’t really designed for the purpose of being a practical orthography — it’s used as a language-independent transcription method which can represent any sound. (That’s also why the British and American versions are different: different accents use different sounds, so they’re transcribed differently.) So this isn’t really a ‘phonetic spelling of English’, though it’s easy to see where the confusion comes from.
by dahart | 2025-10-03 14:03:45+00:00
PTX is sometimes referred to as assembly, and it is an ISA, much lower level than C++. When people talk about writing inline assembly for CUDA, they mean PTX, and the C++ compiler’s inline assembly “asm” statement assumes PTX. For the most part you have much more control and ability to produce exactly the SASS you want when using PTX compared to when using C/C++.

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/understanding-ptx-the-asse...

https://eunomia.dev/others/cuda-tutorial/02-ptx-assembly/
by jqpabc123 | 2025-10-03 14:03:55+00:00
India's biggest enemies are it's government employees.

Sorry, I have to disagree. Government employees are just an extension of the culture.

I've never been to India but I know from experience that corruption is deeply engrained in the culture and also the people.

I know this from working with Indian immigrants --- from what they tell me but also from how they operate.

Like you, these immigrants will complain and tell you that they left India because of the corruption. Yet one of the first things they will attempt to do is replicate it in their new environment.
by rfrey | 2025-10-03 14:04:35+00:00
Question for those conversant in blender: I'm pretty good with parametric CAD (solidworks and fusion) but have never touched Blender. I've been curious about Blender but I have no artistic or sculptural skills. I use 3D cad for both 3d printed objects and machining.

Is Blender worth learning for somebody who probably couldn't make a snake out of playdoh?
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-10-03 14:04:44+00:00
There's 8300+ homeless people in San Francisco.

That's 1% of the population. Maybe not a big deal to you.

There's only 13,000 city blocks in SF.

That's a homeless person every 2 blocks.

Kind of dangerous to be walking past people in all different states of desperation multiple times every trip everywhere you go, is another way to look at it.
by itnerd | 2025-10-03 14:05:07+00:00
The market is FULL of hosted providers. Every single one has its ups and downs.

I’d like to take a moment to acknowledge the technical knobs that Google Workspace and MS Office 360 provide over mail routing. Clearly they have enough large customers with in-house IT staff that demand this level of control and “the rest of us” get the benefit. Once you leave their platforms it’s easy to be disappointed. I can’t say that their platforms are good just technically feature rich; Google’s insistence on silently discarding “duplicate” messages is infuriating but other platforms will have a different set of problems.

If you don’t need enterprise control… Lately, I’ve been on MXroute.com, mostly because the team seems dedicated to trying to make something good. It’s not polished yet. They are opinionated. It’s designed for you to point your MX at them and check your mail via IMAP and send via Authenticated SMTP, that’s it, nothing more. Sure, they have extra features that will work but clearly that’s not their focus.

iCloud+ is also worth looking at and is often underrated. Many folks already have a paid iCloud+ account. Here, you can just turn on “Custom Email” as a set it and forget it option.

While I’m writing non-sense, I’ll ask what others are doing for inbound mail control and spam filtering. Prior to moving to MXroute, I was using SpamStopsHere that offered incredible flexibility and control. It was acquired by Zix and then dismantled.
by derbOac | 2025-10-03 14:05:46+00:00
I guess I had the opposite reaction sort of? I'm not sure I was expecting to disagree with it but I was skeptical that they could make a reasonable argument, and came away thinking that their core argument was fundamentally sound, even if someone might disagree with it in the end.

I'm not sure their examples are really the best but for me you could cut out the examples and I think the argument would still stand. Maybe put differently, I'm not sure anyone would be talking about Bob Dylan's work if it were not for the music; that's a counterfactual that's impossible to determine but I suspect it is true. Given that, you have to ask yourself about the role of the music and whether or not you're comparing apples and oranges at some level when you compare poetry with and without music. There's lots of examples throughout history of written poetry and other works that would probably be forgotten were they not integrated into more famous musical works (Schiller's Ode to Joy is a good example, being part of Beethoven's 9th Symphony).

I can see why someone would disagree though. For me the decision always seemed off, and this rationale put into words for me why. I think there was a pattern around that time with major awards but that pertains to several slightly different issues.
by lachiflippi | 2025-10-03 14:06:08+00:00
> Why does Apple want to feel so frickin special and require a working iPhone for 2FA and passkeys, instead of adopting standards?

Mind elaborating on this? I used a Mac without an iPhone for years when the M1 came out. SMS 2FA, and then later enrolling two Yubikeys, worked just fine for 2FA, as did using the Mac itself as a passkey.
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-10-03 14:06:26+00:00
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/hillary-clin...

>We need to be elevating the Pied Piper candidates so that they are leaders of the pack and tell the press to [take] them seriously.

It's the "tell the press to take them seriously" that's the giveaway here.
From GitHub to Codeberg: Architecture Decision Record
by jph | 2025-10-03 14:06:41+00:00
I maintain a popular repo "architecture-decision-record" and I'm exploring copying from GitHub.com to Codeberg.org.

https://codeberg.org/joelparkerhenderson/architecture-decision-record

If you're keen to learn about Codeberg too, I'd like to know your viewpoints because the copying that I'm considering involves 1000+ free open source repos, and I want to be sure the setup works as well as can be across both companies.
by 0_____0 | 2025-10-03 14:07:09+00:00
771K people isn't a small number. 0.23% isn't a small number when it comes to homelessness. This also doesn't consider people who are housed but are overcrowded or living in otherwise very poor environments.

You also ignore that it's a rapidly growing problem.

Comparing it to DUI numbers doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
by jodrellblank | 2025-10-03 14:07:28+00:00
Nothing warty about functions named "car, cdr, caar, cadr, cdar, cddr, caaar, caadr, cadar, caddr, cdaar, cdadr, cddar, cdddr, caaaar, caaadr, caadar, caaddr, cadaar, cadadr, caddar, cadddr, cdaaar, cdaadr, cdadar, cdaddr, cddaar, cddadr, cdddar, cddddr"[1]

a domain specific language for walking into nested lists based on an implementation detail of how linked list pointers and values were packed into a single 36-bit memory location on an IBM 704 computer from the 1950s.

[1] https://franz.com/support/documentation/ansicl/dictentr/carc...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAR_and_CDR
by osigurdson | 2025-10-03 14:07:51+00:00
>> An aside but the Director of ML at a company I worked for kept telling us "We need a Graph! We need a Graph!"

It depends. Maybe they knew something that the team didn't but couldn't articulate it. Maybe it would have been great. Alternately (and this seems to be a common tactic unfortunately), is they don't really know what they are doing but use the strategy of introducing a large / time consuming change and promise incredible things once the change is complete. The longer the change takes, the better in this situation as they can just chill while the change is taking place and polish resume for the next gig if it doesn't work out. If they jump to a new job before failure is obvious they can claim that they affected some large change at previous company and repeat the process. The other strategy is to performtatively claim success in the face of failure and move on to the next big thing.
by DennisL123 | 2025-10-03 14:08:05+00:00
OSRM founder, here. Yes, you are right, many of the speedup techniques are related. My personal opinion is, tho, that looking at the identification of important nodes is best captured by the ideas of applying partitioning to multi-level dijkstra and by what’s called hub-labels. The latter has a close relationship to Contraction Hierarchies.
by dylan604 | 2025-10-03 14:08:27+00:00
Like Dallas that rounds up the homeless and puts them on busses to drop off in Houston?

"The success in Houston and Dallas came from building operational infrastructure to make encampments disappear permanently instead of temporarily."

This is 100% BS. I drive past tent encampments every day. All that happens is the city comes in and disrupts the encampments so they are clear for a couple of days, and then everyone just returns. They have even started placing signs at the intersections where the people from the closest encampment under the bridge pan handle that discourages "street charity".

If this is what is considered success, then it must be really bad elsewhere. At least on the west coast the homeless do not have to worry about the weather as much
by insane_dreamer | 2025-10-03 14:08:38+00:00
You make a good point, and it extends to other disasters besides famine. As humans we have evolved to the point where there are certain problems that we can eliminate -- starvation being one of them as you pointed out -- thanks to technological solutions. And yet, we deliberately choose not to. There are millions of people who die each year whose deaths are wholly preventable -- we have the technology and the resources to prevent them (without harming anyone else) -- but we choose not to, mostly so that some relatively small group of people can amass more wealth than they need. Humans have always been that way, I suppose, but never have these solutions been more within our grasp and yet, we choose not to use them. It's a terrible indictment against the human race.
by makowskid | 2025-10-03 14:08:46+00:00
https://SharpAPI.com/ is an AI-powered API platform designed to automate and optimize workflows across various industries, including E-Commerce, Marketing, Content Management, HR Tech, Travel, and more.

What Problems Does It Solve? - Manual Processing Challenges: Automates tasks like resume parsing, product categorization, and sentiment analysis, reducing the need for extensive human intervention. - Language Barriers: Provides real-time translation and analysis across 80+ languages, facilitating global business operations and customer engagement. - Inefficient Workflows: Streamlines processes by automating repetitive tasks, enhancing productivity, and allowing teams to concentrate on strategic initiatives. - Content Quality Issues: Offers tools for paraphrasing, proofreading, SEO optimization, and spam detection, ensuring high-quality and consistent content across platforms.
by Egor3f | 2025-10-03 14:08:55+00:00
I think this post is the best place to "promote" my open-source pet project

It converts any dynamic website to rss feed

It's self-hosted and stateless

https://github.com/Egor3f/rssalchemy

It's however not in active development state, but if there will be some pull requests I'll review them, so it's not abandoned

Demo page is not working now, but if there will be some activity, I'll bring it back up
by sethammons | 2025-10-03 14:09:08+00:00
> it’s baseless to call homelessness a crises for the U.S

Sure, a quarter of a percent is not a big percent, but that sure is a lot of people. It is _more_ than the entire population of Alaska, Wyoming, or Vermont. It is near the population size of several other states.

An entire US state's worth of people are unable to find adequate housing and not just because they are off their meds. According to the 2024 Point-in-Time count, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development estimated 22% of homeless are facing a severe mental illness. So nearly 4 out of 5 homeless are regular people who simply cannot secure permanent housing.

That sure as hell sounds like a crisis to me.
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-10-03 14:09:35+00:00
The beer can feels a bit like stacks I’ve worked on. Connects everything together, is cheaply made, often requires Herculean effort to keep functional at ground level, has a utility elevator only for special things, and becomes an object of cult-like obsession by anyone who has to labor under its cover.

Could say that pretty much all of my projects have some kind of beer can or other.
by freakynit | 2025-10-03 14:09:40+00:00
You have encountered a small minority carrying the absolute worst in them.

I have never once faced corruption in private enterprise space. Not once. And I have been working for over 15 years.

And, the same is the experience of my friends.

But with anything related to governmental business, corruption is 100% present everywhere. We know this because we face this every single time we have to deal with these pathetic disgusting people.
by evilduck | 2025-10-03 14:09:51+00:00
OpenAI hasn't released their training cost numbers but DeepSeek has, and there's dozens of companies offering inference hosting of open weight models for the very large models that keep up with OpenAI and Anthropic, so we can see what market rates are shaking out to be for companies that have even less economies of scale. You can also make some extrapolations from AWS Bedrock pricing and can also investigate inference costs yourself on local hardware. Then look at quality measures of quantizations that hosting providers do and you get a feel for what hosting providers are doing to manage costs.

We can't pinpoint the exact dollar amount OpenAI categorically spends but we can make a lot of reasonable and safe guesses, and all signs points to inference hosting being a profitable venture by itself, with training profitability being less certain or being a pursuit of a winner-takes-all strategy.
by 1718627440 | 2025-10-03 14:10:40+00:00
Monarchies are autocratic, but I don't think it's fair to throw them in the same bucket as modern autocracies. They came in many flavours and shapes. Often they had some checks and balances and due to the ruler not fearing for loss of power, they often had the intention to actually invest in their country and make their peoples live better.

A modern autocracy has the incentive to keep the population dumb to stay existing. Old monarchies have the incentive to make their population more intelligent, so it has more power than the neighbor.
by hackinthebochs | 2025-10-03 14:10:56+00:00
Scrolling through attractive women (generally the thirst-traps are women) doesn't imply forming a parasocial relationship. I agree that parasocial relationships are bad, but this is independent of them being thirst-traps. Internet thirst-traps are just the modern equivalent of sneaking a look at a playboy mag or a lingerie catalogue. Nothing inherently damaging about it. The scale of modern social media can make otherwise innocuous stimuli damaging, but this is also independent of it being content of sexy women.
by jrmg | 2025-10-03 14:12:12+00:00
I kinda think that most commenters here haven’t read the article, and are not appreciating the scale of the problem here.

An iPhone 1 wouldn’t have met their needs either. Old keypad Nokias had already been deemed unsuitable because they couldn’t use them safely.

From the post:

none of them could understand how to unlock the phone. Entering a passcode was a nightmare because they kept forgetting it, even though it was a birthday they knew, lol.

…

I left there achieving nothing because they couldn’t figure out their old Nokia phones. The unlock thing on the keypad was too difficult, and if I turned that off, they kept dialing 999 in their pockets for some reason. That’s why I was there: they were calling emergency services 100 times a day, lol.
by rolandixor | 2025-10-03 14:13:07+00:00
Personally, I'd say yes. I started out with Merlin 3D and Autocad way back in the day, and of course, Blender is a whole other beast. Took me some time to get used to it, but once I did, I found 3D made a lot more sense than it ever had in those other applications.

Of course, YMMV, but I'd say you should give it a shot. Even just poking around is a start.
by coryrdb | 2025-10-03 14:13:08+00:00
Location: Singapore Remote: Yes, including EU and (some of) US time. Willing to relocate: No Technologies: PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB, Redshift, and any other SQL-like dialect. Python, shell, AWS. Email: coryrdb at gmail

I’ve coded or led dozens of data projects over the years including:

Integrating 30 systems that didn’t talk to each other yet managed 4m orders/day, into a united view (we found 10,000 missing orders on various warehouse shelves). Building out a 10TB DWH for a $1trn/year exchange, and building a data team to go with it. Turning many, many daily hacked together scripts into live, correct tables (I found and fixed one that ran an unsecured, unmonitored lending program). Making reporting up to 1000x faster through simple query tweaks. You might not need that $100k/month “big data” setup. Architecting a market maker entirely made of PostgreSQL triggers that made markets on 6 pairs for the 180 days it took for the pros to come over with their C++. Setting up Mechanical Turk like labelling to reclassify an online shop’s entire catalog overnight for $400; we found 10% were misclassified (I could do this with, or for AI today).

I also built https://gutensearch.com/ - mostly as an experiment to show the power and simplicity of Postgres FTS. It is somehow still running, and remains (AFAIK) the only way to look inside Project Gutenberg books.

After a stint running a startup and doing a lot of conference hand shaking, I am returning to my roots getting my hands dirty with data problems. Give me your gnarliest queries, your query planner nightmares, your long departed intern’s trail of duct tape, your favourite jazz standard, or let me build you a team and unfreeze your data customers.

Equally happy with consulting or full time work.
by bdcravens | 2025-10-03 14:13:22+00:00
Whether it's homelessness, DUIs, or fentanyl deaths (only 75k per year!), measuring the impact of something by ignoring the blast radius is disingenuous. All who are touched are part of it. In the case of homelessness, it's a burden on emergency services, creates unsafe environments, impacts businesses, etc.
by bogwog | 2025-10-03 14:13:23+00:00
I too am not looking to move to something that doesn't support Wayland (mostly because of Nvidia, who I doubt will support Xorg forever), but I don't share the negativity in the comments. This looks great, especially since it seems to be part of a larger effort to create a cross-platform UI toolkit (https://fyne.io). The world needs more developers tackling ambitious projects like this, and less OpenAI API wrappers.

Keep up the good work!