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Show HN: AstroBee – AI-Generated Semantic Layers
by galenmarchetti | 2025-10-02 16:06:40+00:00
Hi,

I’m a cofounder of AstroBee and I wanted to share our work with the community.

AstroBee is an automatic semantic layer generator for your business. It brings data together from different locations, storing it either in your data warehouse or in one we host. Then, AstroBee scans your data and models it to create an integrated source of truth (we call it an ontology because it’s structured like Palantir’s ontology). Once you have your source of truth, you can either build applications on top of it, or chat with directly to answer analytics questions.

If you don’t like AstroBee’s original suggestions, you can provide your own context and define your semantic layer as you wish. Then, AstroBee will hydrate your semantic layer definition your data.

We imagine AstroBee can become the data layer for AI-generated internal applications. While it’s easier than ever to spin up light internal apps with “vibe-coding” tools, getting an integrated and reliable data layer to service those applications is more complicated.

You can try it out on demo data or upload your own if you want. Would love your thoughts and feedback if you’re willing to try it out!
by legitster | 2025-10-02 16:06:43+00:00
I run each on different PCs.

Windows 11 fixed a lot of issues I was having, particularly in things like driver support and bluetooth connectivity. It also has a lot of little UI touches that are improvements (like volume control or game management) - particularly on a laptop. Also, the settings and configuration menus have gotten usability updates for the first time since Vista.

I haven't noticed any bugs or problems (or even the intrusive advertisements that I have heard so much about). But then again, I didn't try Windows 11 until two years after it was released, so it could be that I just missed out on a bad launch.

At the end of the day, it's like 95% the same as Windows 10 (although on my other PC I am still running an unactivated free version!)
by Der_Einzige | 2025-10-02 16:06:56+00:00
I dismissed him over his radical optimism. You claimed I dismissed him over master-slave morality. We are not the same. Also I’ve covet to cover read all of his work. Almost all of it is trash and ontologically bad.

You try to quote fashionable nonsense charlatan grifters like deleuze as though they are worth reading a single word of. Their works, the people who read them, and the entire field of critical theory are direct reasons for the rise of trump and right wing authoritarianism world wide.

Kill critical theory or its hateful children will kill us all

But instead you patronize me by acting like I don’t read. This mentality is why the world collectively hates leftists right now.
by saghm | 2025-10-02 16:07:03+00:00
If the only argument behind why Europe should exist is that you don't like people who look like the people from Sudan or India, then maybe it shouldn't.

(If you instead want to claim that you're not trying to talk about ethnicity and are instead talking about economies or whatever, consider whether the ancestors you mention drawing those imaginary lines over places like Sudan and India were motivated by their desire to colonize and extract wealth from them at the expense of the local populations, and whether that's more responsible for the economic differences between them and Europe than the lines themselves)
by culturestate | 2025-10-02 16:07:14+00:00
I haven’t bought a car in a hot minute but those options usually also included different in-dash displays, etc. If Ford standardized the hardware, eliminated the option, and bumped the sticker, nobody would bat an eye and they would capture that revenue from every buyer, not only the ones who choose to subscribe.

It feels like such an obvious win that I know I must be missing something, I just don’t know what it could be.
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-02 16:07:18+00:00
It's not even "offline", it is "online with a slow connection". On some level docker is a machine that turns 50kb of I/O into 3GB of I/O.

Over my slow connection I was completely capable of downloading 20GB games onto the XBOX, Playstation, Steam and such, it just took a while and the downloading software had caches and resumable downloads and all the facilities to deal with that.

It never did, I think because reliability is a "enterprise feature, call to talk to sales" kind of feature.
by tux3 | 2025-10-02 16:07:39+00:00
I know some users held back on the upgrade while Windows 10 still had support, but there's many improvements to privacy & consent in Windows 7 that are worth considering, now that both are about to be equally out of their support window.

It's one of the last versions where the modal dialogs ask "Yes" or "No", instead of "Yes" and "Not now", "Maybe later", or "Ask again tomorrow".
by bearjaws | 2025-10-02 16:08:01+00:00
I work for a large mail order pharmacy and I will tell you we make no money on over 90% of our prescriptions. Our margin is less than 4%. The space is hyper competitive and obviously consumers are price sensitive. We are incredibly lean - less than 50 staff to run the pharmacy and a fully robotic dispensing line doing the vast majority of the dispensing.

The drug manufacturers are making massive profits, and nobody is stopping them.

Hilariously the whole TrumpRx card is kind of a step in the right direction, I've screamed for years that manufacturers blatantly rip everyone off and if just use a made up discount card system all of a sudden the drug is 30-90% off.

Ideally the government just says the global price is the US price, and eliminates discount cards entirely.
by lanfeust6 | 2025-10-02 16:08:29+00:00
> if this is an issue I can't really believe awards have anything to do with it

That wasn't what I intended to convey. They're altogether not published to the same degree they were.

> I haven't heard this concern

do a search

> I don't feel like I'm having any trouble finding masculinity here.

What were the exact words I used? They're right there. Read them again.
by kartoffelsaft | 2025-10-02 16:08:33+00:00
I don't think you understood their point at all. "Don't use it" isn't necessarily a valid choice when it's where all of your friends and/or family are. The "investment" is not monetary; instead, it takes the form of having connections on the platform. You are invested in the platform if your primary connection to someone is hosted there, and it costs a ton of time and effort to transfer that somewhere else.
by maerch | 2025-10-02 16:08:36+00:00
> The agent follows references like a human analyst would. No chunks. No embeddings. No reranking. Just intelligent navigation.

I think this sums it up well. Working with LLMs is already confusing and unpredictable. Adding a convoluted RAG pipeline (unless it is truly necessary because of context size limitations) only makes things worse compared to simply emulating what we would normally do.
Ask HN: Went to prison for 18 months, lost access to my GitHub. What can I do?
by joshmn | 2025-10-02 16:08:40+00:00
Hi friends,

The skinny is this: I went to prison, all my personal items were stolen IRL and the same person changed a bunch of my passwords. Subsequently, I can't recover my GitHub account.

I have recovered most of my digital assets by proving I am me. Recovering my GitHub has proven to be more painful than Google's treatment regarding my Google Workspace.

I have the original phone number associated with my account, and can verify a bunch of private repos that are associated with my account—even the number of commits on one of them (almost 6900). I can't, however, provide any 2FA codes or backup codes because they are printed on paper that has, I assume, been destroyed.

I maintain two relatively popular Ruby packages that have gone stale since I've been gone, and there are projects my GitHub there that I was working on prior to my incarceration—including a SaaS I had hoped to launch post-prison and two books I was ready to publish. Having said, just opening another account isn't exactly the option I want to take.

I've opened a ticket, but I'm getting the "shit out of luck because we don't know you are you" treatment. I understand that security is important, but if one can prove they are them, what's the point?

Are there other avenues I have that I haven't explored yet?
by joshuantaylor | 2025-10-02 16:08:45+00:00
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by sbuttgereit | 2025-10-02 16:08:54+00:00
If you like thinking about the possibilities of the worlds of Minecraft and LLMs colliding I recommend the YouTube channel @EmergentGarden (https://www.youtube.com/@EmergentGarden) it's not exclusively agents and Minecraft, but there's a fair amount of stuff tested over time.

Most recently: Can AI (actually) beat Minecraft? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh4abvcUj8Q
by joshcsimmons | 2025-10-02 16:09:09+00:00
Thank you so much for writing this. I have a feeling there's way more of us that we realize.

I have lived very similar to what you're describing during a few periods in my career.

> it goes over my sensory limit (which varies a lot)

This line hit home. Some days I feel randomly very "thin" for no apparent reason.

> When I get home I am beyond exhausted. Can't sleep because of anxiety or adrenaline or something.

This is the worst and it doesn't make any sense so nobody understands when you explain it to them. With anything else autism related ymmv but CBT-I is the best tool I found for this. It didn't totally unfuck my sleep but it at least made it a tenable balance.

I didn't really have a point in writing this I just found your story touching and my heart goes out to you.

I'd love to interview you (anonymously or by name) for my blog if you'd be open to that. You can contact me at d+rjoshcs+immons@+gm+ail+.com (remove the + signs, my crappy attempt at bot-defeat)
by guywithahat | 2025-10-02 16:09:16+00:00
To be fair, France implemented a wealth tax in 1989 and it ended up costing them more in lost tax revenue than they raised. This is the story of most countries that implement a wealth tax (such as Netherlands, Sweden, etc), and is why they end up removing them. Not only do many consider them immoral, they tend to cost the government tax revenue and simply don't work.
by givemeethekeys | 2025-10-02 16:09:42+00:00
It sounds like you're implying that doctors in the West have a more relaxed work schedule and really prefer their pace over an Indian doctor.

What you may not be taking into account are:

- The massive amount of soul crushing paper work in the West.

- Having to deal with insurance companies.

- Having to deal with the demands of patients who think they know better.

What compensates for the shit job:

- How much more one can buy with USD / Euro. But, this is changing rapidly.
by gertlex | 2025-10-02 16:10:08+00:00
>> The bulk of the rents is captured instead by providers of health-care services such as hospitals and the system’s true money-makers: insurers, pharmacy-benefit managers and other middlemen taking advantage of its opacity.

> As always, no one reads anything.

The implication of the article was the "bulk of the rents" applies to healthcare costs in total, not just to drug costs. I.e. drug costs are not a huge part of the healthcare costs.

That by itself doesn't guarantee an understanding of why specific medication costs are sometimes 10x or whatever of other 1st world countries.

(but I didn't read the article; just the rest of the comments)
by 9question1 | 2025-10-02 16:10:17+00:00
The problem with this argument is that pharmaceutical companies are private businesses trying to make a profit, not charities. If it were truly unprofitable to sell drugs in, say, Canada or France, pharmaceutical companies would just not sell their drugs in those countries. It is _less_ profitable to sell drugs in those countries than America but still profitable, which is why they still try to capture those markets. If America fixed this imbalance by forcing a lowering of drug prices in the American market, there's no reason to believe that this would cause raising of prices elsewhere. The only way this would be possible is if it were truly unprofitable to sell the drugs elsewhere, which can't be the case since these are corporations not charities. The real impact would be to slow down new drug development, since existing drugs are already profitable to sell everywhere in the world even in countries with more regulation, but if America fixed its market by lowering drug prices for Americans, the total profitability of pharmaceuticals would decrease, decreasing the incentive to create new pharmaceuticals. That's a totally different and very plausible impact. Rising drug prices for existing drugs in other countries is not a plausible impact.
by tptacek | 2025-10-02 16:10:23+00:00
You only get access to the government-negotiated discount, which is from the pharma company list price, if you buy without insurance. But your insurance company already negotiated a discount from that list price (they're not dumb, and any excess dollar they give to Pfizer is a dollar they don't get to deploy elsewhere). From what little we know of the government discount, it is likely in most cases to be a worse price than what you already have access to.
by savorypiano | 2025-10-02 16:10:28+00:00
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by DrScientist | 2025-10-02 16:10:29+00:00
> But companies should have the right to decide how they conduct their business.

Nope - not if it is to the detriment to society ( as decided by society via democratic means ).

In the UK - when radio and TV came along, society recognized the power of these platforms and the danger of how they could amplify single voices with money in an anti-democratic way. As such political advertising on such platforms very tightly controlled.

In addition there are overall limits on campaign spending.

Then along comes companies like Facebook and money powering political ad campaigns comes in through the back door, and in addition a lack of transparency on the overall spend as it's now much easier to hide.

Moves to curb this is simply society re-asserting it's existing rules, not some new imposition.
by abeppu | 2025-10-02 16:10:34+00:00
> The bulk of the rents is captured instead by providers of health-care services such as hospitals and the system’s true money-makers: insurers, pharmacy-benefit managers and other middlemen taking advantage of its opacity.

This category of "providers of health-care services" is rather over-broad, and I wish they had split it up more. Shouldn't hospitals (which actually _provide health care_ and are necessary parts of the healthcare system) be in a separate bucket from the "middlemen"?

And within the hospital category, don't we need to draw some distinctions? Currently in the US there's been press about how recent funding changes are causing a bunch of rural hospitals to shut down. It seems that some hospitals are major money losers, though we as a society may want them to continue to exist (or else a rural person in a medical emergency has no chance of getting care in time). But what's happening at the hospitals that _are_ collecting "rents", esp since in more urban contexts there are often multiple hospitals and one might expect more competition?
by mytailorisrich | 2025-10-02 16:10:35+00:00
> I’m talking about real aid - military, logistical, and strategic support

So do I.

> That would effectively cede East Asia to China.

Not at all. Taiwan is Chinese territory as recognised by everyone. The dispute is the continuation of the Chinese Civil War, i.e. which side controls Taiwan.

China has no expansionist views in East Asia, and the last occurence was when they invaded Korea in 1636 (taking into account that this was right after the Manchu seized control of the whole of China). In fact, the last invasion of East Asia (that continues to this day) was by the US...
by Semaphor | 2025-10-02 16:10:38+00:00
I'll join the choir. We use weasyprint for ebooks and invoices and it's a joy to use. Massively new support for features over the last few years (partially thanks to some monetary sponsorships), it started pretty bare bones, and is now close to commercial solutions.

The maintainers are also very responsive, and helpful.

Amazing project
by somenameforme | 2025-10-02 16:10:48+00:00
Here [1] are the data on spending per student PPP adjusted. It doesn't really change it much at all. US is 6th in the world in spending per secondary pupil. They seem to lack data for primary, but it's not going to be some radically different story one way or the other. The initial link I gave (where US is 5th in the world) offers a breakdown of various spending - I was referencing the first table - which is elementary/secondary only. Also, religious schools in the US (Catholic at least) also substantially outperform public schools by a range that widens over time. [2]

In any case private schools will always perform better than public schools because they can be selective with who they admit. A handful of very bad students can easily derail the education of an entire class, and in public schools it can be somewhat difficult to get rid of these kids. And so I do think things like education vouchers, tax rebates, and other incentives to allow more middle and lower class families access to private education is a very good thing.

Lastly, on the woke stuff. Would you be happy if your child was taught creationism and intelligent design? Probably not. Why? Because it'd be ideologically motivated, rather than educationally motivated. If people want to teach their children that in their own time - more power to them, but it has no place in the classroom. And I'd feel exactly the same if my children were taught that e.g. math is racist, or the contemporary 'reimaginings' of history that mix critical theory and contemporary values, and retrofit them into the past in an antagonistic fashion. We went from a real problem of white washing history, to just inventing these sordid tales that are even further off base.

[1] - https://databank.worldbank.org/indicator/UIS.XGDP.1.FSGOV?id...

[2] - https://ncea.org/NCEA/NCEA/How_We_Serve/News/Press_Releases/...
by whamlastxmas | 2025-10-02 16:11:34+00:00
It is mental effort to have to recognize what is triggering you and to take positive action to fix it. The radio is more symbolic of having to do it 40 times a day across all the things you find triggering, or having to find ways to live your life outside common neurotypical ways that take more energy. For example, finding dishes clinking to be really triggering means I have to use ear protection to unload the dishwasher, and if I can’t find ear protection that I have to spend time looking around for it, and now dishes have taken me 3 minutes longer than it would someone else. Over a dozen instances a day of something like this adds up
by Glyptodon | 2025-10-02 16:11:40+00:00
Friend pointed this out: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37074176/

But also noted that they find a lot of the research lacking - they view research, even that using the "profound" label, as not doing a sufficient job of mapping severity bands: the DSM now has three levels of severity, but research going back decades is hard to map to the evolving buckets. And they view the profound label as probably too narrow for fully encompassing kids who needs high levels of support in the educational setting.

Friend also says the way they would probably look at it in their school district is by label and support level: ASD, and then whether they need para pro support, or require a self contained classroom (IE a specialized classroom environment), and in terms of the ASD labels needing para pro or self contained setting going up in quantity even while district overall enrollment declines. And those support levels pretty much guarantee that either kiddo has severe behaviors or parents have lawyers, and the vast majority of parents don't have lawyers.

They attribute some of this to non-exceptional-education kids being drawn off to charter schools (which despite theoretical obligations basically do a good job of not providing real services for special needs kids to get them back to publics rather than reducing profits), but not remotely all of it.

Separately, one of my relatives has kiddos with what I'd colloquially call severe autism (like I don't see their kids ever living independently) and their district tried to move a big chunk of their elementary high support kids to a middle school because they "ran out of space" for elementary self contained / autism classrooms.
by mstngl | 2025-10-02 16:11:58+00:00
io200[1] might be worth a look - a CMS for photos with low requirements for self-hosting (shared hosting is sufficient), nice themes, a powerful backend for managing photos and a proper free tier for more than testing. This CMS started its journey as Koken[2] which some might remember.

[1] https://www.io200.com/

[2] https://www.koken.me/
by diego_moita | 2025-10-02 16:12:27+00:00
> Insurers make even less money than Pharma companies do.

In the whole or in relative terms? Source, even if personal or anecdotal?

I am willing to consider your point because, to be fair, the article doesn't show any data that indicts the insurers. They just blame them at the end without any evidence.

> all health care spending goes to companies that deliver health services directly.

Well, that wouldn't explain why medication alone is more expensive in America, right?

But accepting your argument: is it because of greed and oligopolies, incompetence or excess of regulation?
by bgwalter | 2025-10-02 16:12:45+00:00
The usual argument at the bottom of the article "the wealthy will leave" only applies if you let them take their money with them. If you can sanction Russian oligarchs, you can sanction French people who got rich in France and then flee or move their money elsewhere.

And that does not even include the number of rich families who own vast amounts of real estate which they cannot take with them. If the argument is "they'll increase the rent" then implement rent caps (and crack down on fake renters who run AirBnB ops or sublet).
by delfinom | 2025-10-02 16:13:14+00:00
Yea in fact the ACA law caps insurers to a maximum of 15% profit. Anything extra must be rebated back to the customers.

The debatable part is the rebate is back to the employer who is allowed to simply pocket the money, though one could argue its returning the amount the employer is covering, often more than the employee. :shrug:

Believe or not, I get yearly notices from UHC about rebates for the prior year.