MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by manukall | 2025-10-13 07:11:37+00:00
Working on Langoustine (https://www.langoustine.dev), a feedback loop layer for AI agents.

It’s designed to plug into frameworks like CrewAI, AutoGen, or LangChain and help agents learn from both successful and failed interactions - so instead of each execution being isolated, the system builds up knowledge about what actually works in specific scenarios and applies that as contextual guidance next time. The aim is to move beyond static prompts and manual tweaks by letting agents improve continuously from their own runs.

Currently also working on an MCP interface to it, so people can easily try it in e.g. Cursor.
by upmostly | 2025-10-13 07:12:06+00:00
I’ve been working on DB Pro — a modern desktop database workbench built with Electron, React, and Drizzle ORM. It’s designed to feel fast, cohesive, and genuinely enjoyable to use — something that sits somewhere between TablePlus, Notion, and VS Code.

Right now it connects to local and remote databases like SQLite and Postgres, lets you browse schemas and tables instantly, edit data inline, and create or modify tables visually. You can save and run queries, generate SQL using AI, and import or export data as CSV or JSON. There’s also a fully offline local mode that works great for prototyping and development.

One of the more unique aspects is that DB Pro lets you download and run a local LLM for AI-assisted querying, so nothing ever leaves your machine. You can also plug in your own cloud API key if you prefer. The idea is to make AI genuinely useful in a database context — helping you explore data and write queries safely, not replacing you.

The next big feature is a Visual Query Builder with JOIN support that keeps the Visual, SQL, and AI modes in sync. After that, I’m working on dashboards, workflow automation, and team collaboration — things like running scripts when data changes or sharing queries across a workspace.

The goal is to make DB Pro the most intuitive way to explore, query, and manage data — without the usual enterprise clutter. It’s still early, but it’s already feeling like the tool I always wanted to exist.

You can see it here: https://dbpro.app

Would love to hear feedback, especially from people who spend a lot of time in database clients — what’s still missing or frustrating in the current landscape?
by pankajtanwar | 2025-10-13 07:12:28+00:00
I’m building a small side project called https://www.localgeoguessr.com/ — a fun geography game that tests how well you know your local area. It’s still in a very early stage, not polished yet, but it’s somewhat playable.

The idea is to eventually add more categories like “restaurants,” “theaters,” “roads,” etc., so you can play based on local themes.

I’d love to hear your thoughts - any feedback on what you’d like to see, what feels off, or any issues you run into would be super helpful.
by sgt101 | 2025-10-13 07:12:50+00:00
I have always wondered if we would be capable of writing down the mechanisms that power our thoughts. I think that this was one of the ideas that bubbled up from reading Godel Escher Bach many years ago. Is it possible for us to express the machine that makes us using the outputs of that machine in the way that it's not possible to write second order logic using first order logic.

Of course, also there are processes that are not expressible as computations, but those of these that I know about seem very very distant from human thought, and it seems very very improbable that they could be implemented with a brain. I also think that these are not observed in our universe so far.
by 8note | 2025-10-13 07:12:53+00:00
ive got a couple ai scripts on the go, and i want to see if i can get the inference to run on my phone.

1. is something that can poll a bunch of websites workshop/events pages to see if theres any new events [my mother] wants to go to and send a digest to her email

2. is a poller to look up the different safeway/coop/save on flyers and so on to see whats on sale between the different places, then send a mail with some recipes it found based on those ingredients

Im most of the way through 1, but havent started on 2 yet.
by bruce511 | 2025-10-13 07:13:45+00:00
>> People care about the license

The % of people who could name a license (any license at all) is a rounding error from 0. Imagine just about anywhere outside SV, say Nashville, Tennessee. Imagine going into a supermarket there and asking 100 (or 1000) moms, workers, shoppers, kids to name a license. Imagine visiting every worker in every shop in the mall. How many do you think could even tell you what software they use?

So yeah. A rounding error of people care. And the programmers among them will wax lyrical on the 4 freedoms, and why source available is not as good as MIT which is not as good as GPL etc.

99.9% of people doing see "look inside" as worth anything. Unless you have a very special set of skills, it's a meaningless proposition.
by munchlax | 2025-10-13 07:14:36+00:00
Take a chill pill.

I did, in fact, read the fine article.

If you did so too, you would've read the message from github which says "...disallow usage of camo to disclose sensitive victim user content"

Now why on earth would I take all the effort to come up with a new way of fooling this stupid AI only to give it away on HN? Would you? I don't have a premium account, nor will I ever pay microsoft a single penny. If you actually want something you can try for yourself, go find someone else to do it.

Just to make it clear for you, I was musing on the chord of being able to write out the steps to exploitation in plain english. Since the dawn programming languages, it has been a pie-in-the-sky idea to write a program in natural language. Combine that with computing on the server end of some major SaaS(s) and you can bet people will find clever ways to circumvent safety measures. They had it coming and the whack-a-mole game is on. Case in point TFA.
by Zarathruster | 2025-10-13 07:14:45+00:00
Not sure I'd use those criteria, nor have I heard them described as hallmarks of consciousness (though I'm open, if you'll elaborate). I think the existence of qualia, of a subjective inner life, would be both necessary and sufficient.

Most concisely: could we ask, "What is it like to be Claude?" If there's no "what it's like," then there's no consciousness.

Otherwise yeah, agreed on LLMs.
by simquat | 2025-10-13 07:14:53+00:00
I'm working on a tool[0] to address how hard it is for non-technical people to understand the text-based code from vibe coding tools.

Our approach is to make the complexity more readable by using three simple block types to represent logic, data, and UI, which are connected by cables – a bit like wiring up components on an electronics breadboard –.

Instead of spitting out a wall of code, the AI generates these visual blocks and makes the right connections between them. The ultimate goal is to make the output from LLM more accessible and actionable for everyone, not just developers.

[0] https://breadboards.io/
by Gedalge | 2025-10-13 07:15:00+00:00
A personal webradio.

It’s fast, free, keyboard-only, cross-platform, and add-free. It’s been my only source of music for the past 6 months or so.

I’m not sharing the link because of music copyright issues. But I think more people should do that, to break free of the yoke of greedy music platforms.
by throw-10-13 | 2025-10-13 07:15:03+00:00
“Here is a collection of arcane incantations and humiliating prostrations I use to get my AI homunculus to serve me.”

Having to beg and emotionally manipulate an agent into doing what you want goes so far beyond black-box that I find it difficult to believe these people actually get useful work done using these tools.

I generally consider myself pro-ai in the workplace, but this nonsense is starting to change my mind.
by ricardobeat | 2025-10-13 07:15:04+00:00
After the edit in the second question, it’s clear the author’s command of English is not that great, so they used AI as grammar correction.

Unfortunately this is becoming more and more common, even here in HN; I don’t think non-english speakers doing this realize how obviously ChatGPT-ish the results are, and how much of its own “thoughts” it injects into the text.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-10-13 07:15:27+00:00
Despite all the noise renewables make up 90% of new capacity in the US.

We are witnessing the complete transformation of the grid to renewables. The question is if it takes 10 years or 20 years depending on how quickly we deploy incentives to phase out existing capacity.

https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2025/10/solar-and-wind...
by testdelacc1 | 2025-10-13 07:15:36+00:00
Strange that you’d feel entitled to how they spend their money. Imagine if they spent most of the money sipping pina coladas instead - would it make sense for a teetotaller to be upset about that?

You paid them for services rendered. They’ve offered an additional service they didn’t previously for no extra charge. Now you’re upset, even though you’re still getting the same service you were previously at the same price?
by vinhnx | 2025-10-13 07:16:24+00:00
Thank you for your kind words. This is my own research into how coding agent works in practice, I love to explore the underlying technologies of how Claude Code, and Codex and coding agent works in general.

I choose Rust since I have some familiarity and experience with it, VT Code is of course, AI-assisted, I mainly use Codex to help me build it. Thank you again for checking it out, have a great day! : )
by nsonha | 2025-10-13 07:17:02+00:00
Claiming AI regresses is like claiming that computer chips are getting slower. It's way less believable than you sucking at the basic skills of using AI (keep context poisoning I'd imagine) and get to the point that YOUR AI set up degrades. Instead of learning how to do things properly you just keep expecting magic and blaming technology for, again, somehow, going backward.
by generic92034 | 2025-10-13 07:18:23+00:00
> I take the same position on countries - it’s why I no longer live in Africa, where I grew up. And why I soon won’t be living in the US any more. Life is too short to waste it having other people’s mistakes inflicted on you.

You have my applause. But that certainly looks like you are in for a lot of moving around, going forward. I guess it is not an option for everyone.
by mrb | 2025-10-13 07:19:29+00:00
You are right. It's amusing how this pattern emerges often: an unoptimized tech stack gives mild performance results. This is "good enough" for most people. Over the years everyone seems to assume that's just the way it is and it will always be because the tech is inherently "complex". Then a competitor comes out of the water and their performance blows everyone out of the water, so everyone realized the tech could have been optimized all this way if anyone had just tried to.
by pndy | 2025-10-13 07:19:35+00:00
They tried once - they released interface guidelines with Vista and for a while it worked but soon they started to flip everything over as usual. W7 was relatively a polishing up release but they mangled everything with W8 - not only because it didn't had Start button but also because they tried to combine Aero with Metro and it just look awful. It's hard to not see similarity in Apple's Liquid Glass on top of flat elements from previous releases.

All in all, Windows still comes with that 90s-early 00s flat 9x widgets buried deep beneath fancy W11 interface for compatibility reasons. Because Microsoft never could have their OS9 to OSX transition equivalent. They swapped DOS based 9x line but interface was still same - hell even NT got sprinkled with 9x and dropped old 3.x one
by andriesm | 2025-10-13 07:19:48+00:00
I use Windows 11 exclusively for games. When will we get steamOS with nvidia support!!

Just want out of the box 4k hdr 120hz vrr and 5.1 surround sound over hdmi on nvidia gpu, it can boot straight into steam for all I care. Performance should not be worse than windows.

Is this possible? Install and it just works out of the box; of course games will have to be compiled for this... but if this becomes a major market.... then games will support it.

I would LOVE this.

Would be drop in OS replacement for my dedicated windows gaming PC on LG OLED tv. ps: These things are amazing for gaming due to fast pixel response times. Great for couch co-op!
by gsf_emergency_4 | 2025-10-13 07:20:17+00:00
Within the mobile space there are other possible Schwerpunkte and appstoretech is the most obvious one to work on. It's also one where superior technology could win out over feelings--> why NLNet wants to fund:

https://nlnet.nl/mobifree/eligibility/

>‘decentralized app stores’, a technology that uses the F-Droid app store architecture, for organizations or other entities that wish to distribute their apps to a select user population (e.g. employees), plus an app distribution system that makes it simple and cost-effective for developers to distribute their applications to multiple app stores.

For mixed approaches, I like to think about why Google et al haven't beaten Apple at the appstore game (outside China)

You mention chicken and egg which suggests that there's a 2-sided-market type of problem to try to solve here even if one isn't well-versed in marketing
by ben_w | 2025-10-13 07:22:18+00:00
Drop a few nines there if you want "unambiguous".

I mean, hyperandrogenism is definitely a source of ambiguity as it induces somewhat masculine features like facial hair etc., and that affects about 5%(!) of women of reproductive age, and that's ambiguity without being trans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperandrogenism

> The number of trans people who can pass is vanishingly small anyway.

Not from the ones I've met.

From what I've seen while people do the transition, transitioning is like a second puberty: during the period while your body changes in various ways, your voice sounds funny for a bit, it takes a while to develop a good sense of style for your new shape, and if you're turning into a woman rather than a man it takes ages to learn how much make up is the right amount and doesn't make you look like a clown — and transitioning also has those things.

The trans people who are noticed are those who fail to pass. People don't have a magic sense telling you objective truth, and the same lack of magic sense does also mean cis people sometimes don't pass as their own gender. Like the wife of the French president*, though I've also experienced similar with a butch cis former girlfriend. Heck, my pony tail has confused people from behind, and I keep a beard partially because without it I look really girly.

* One of the more harmless conspiracy theories going around at the moment, IMO
by overgard | 2025-10-13 07:22:51+00:00
If you want to get stuff shipped though, you need a good engineering culture. If you want to move fast you need experienced people. This feels like the argument against automated tests. "It'll slow us down!" So will debugging the slop your coworker thoughtlessly tossed in without bothering to see if it will work!

(I harp on the "experienced people" thing because I see a lot of startups that seem to be 23 year olds vibe coding. That hits a brick wall fast.)
by christoph123 | 2025-10-13 07:23:00+00:00
An app to track my work automatically by feeding screenshots to LLMs and analyzing those. https://donethat.ai

Obviously this is quite sensitive data so architected it to never store raw data, allow for bring-your-own-key, and even in team settings be fully private by default, everybody keeps control of all their results.

Started about six months ago, have some first users, and always looking for feedback!
by Freak_NL | 2025-10-13 07:23:18+00:00
A good IMAP client (in combination with my own domains) gives me freedom. I use Fastmail, I like it, and your support is great, but I don't want to tie my usage of your service to your UI. That would tie me down to your service.

So I use Thunderbird and K-9 Mail, and occasionally the Fastmail web UI to manage masked e-mail addresses etc. That is my happy path.

I want to be tied to Fastmail because of your stellar support and good service, not because I am trained to use your UI.

By the way, fastmail.com is now in full advertising mode for this new app. It's hard for potential customers to see that you support IMAP just fine. Please show potential customers that the app is just one option as you say; not a requirement. Your website currently does not communicate that message clearly.
by densh | 2025-10-13 07:23:46+00:00
For example let's say I want to go to display settings from search. I enter 'monitor' in search since I forgot how it's called. First results: accessibility, privacy and security, control center, and only 4-th category Displays. It's 8-th line if you count sub-categories.

I usually google where a particular setting is now since I don't use the exact same words and the settings search is very literal.
by loafdev | 2025-10-13 07:24:01+00:00
https://pond.sh

I have been working on a one week side-project that ended up taking over a year… Working on it periodically with friends to add new features and patch bugs, at the moment I'm trying to expand the file sharing capabilities. It's been a journey and I have learnt quite a lot.

The aim of this is to be a simple platform to share content with others. Appreciate any feedback, this is my first time building a user facing platform. If the free tier is limiting, I've made a coupon "HELLOWORLD" if you want to stress test or try the bigger plans, it gives you 100% off for 3 months.
by watwut | 2025-10-13 07:24:25+00:00
Better housing is not the same as larger house. US tends to build large houses far away from everything where you have to drive just to get the groceries. For many people, having smaller house/apartment somewhere you can walk to shop, school, visit friends, whatever and take car out only for longer trips is massively preferable. Likewise, smaller house with better insulation is better.

At some point, bigger house translates to "more chores" and that is it.
by koiueo | 2025-10-13 07:25:18+00:00
These days people rather switch to a browser window, open an LLM of their choice in a new tab and in verbose English ask "how do I do X in this popular program Y?".

Then get a hallucinated answer and come to you to complain about a missing cli option, while it's literally there, in their terminal, just one -h away. True story (had to vent out, thanks for listening).
by andersmurphy | 2025-10-13 07:25:51+00:00
I mean the reactions to posts on HN when a developer dares to make their OSS/MIT project sustainable by adding paid extensions is part of the problem. Almost to the point where I believe most developers are acting in the interest of the large corperations by bullying OSS developers into keeping their work free as in gratis.

The same people lose their minds if a project is GPL or copyleft.
by fathermarz | 2025-10-13 07:26:14+00:00
I do appreciate what’s being said here and I think there is a balance to strike. Is it a good idea to plan and design before jumping into code? Absolutely. Is it worth spending a month thinking of the perfect system when you don’t have customers actively using it or how they will use it? Probably not.

I also think it’s important to not get stuck in the sunk cost fallacy to avoid a rewrite. Take your lessons learned and bite the bullet.

I am in a position right now watching 3 years of tech debt get refactored into the same spaghetti garbage because leadership waited too long before calling a rewrite, and now they are under immense pressure to get it done but picked a warm body to rewrite it because everyone else is busy on other important things.

In another life, I was able to see the writing on the walls after initial implementation and spent two weeks rewriting the MVP to then be able to add new scalable features at a much higher velocity.

Needs analysis is crucial here, but I don’t disagree with OP.
by kijin | 2025-10-13 07:26:30+00:00
Why should Fastmail invest in Thunderbird, an open-source email client run by a completely unrelated organization? Of course they could, out of good will. But you can't demand that they do.

This is just their webapp wrapped in an off-the-shelf browser engine. Hardly any development resources needed. It could have been quickly put together to tick a checkbox for some big client, the revenue from whom could help them work on features that actually matter more. None of us needs to use it. But somebody must have needed it, so here it is.
by Franklinjobs617 | 2025-10-13 07:26:42+00:00
This is amazing feedback, thanks for sharing your deep experience with this problem space. You've clearly pushed past the 'download' step into true content analysis.

You've raised two absolutely critical architectural points that we're wrestling with:

Official Subtitles vs. LLM Transcription: You are 100% correct about auto-generated subs being junk. We view official subtitles as the "trusted baseline" when available (especially for major educational channels), but your experience with Gemini confirms that an optimized LLM-based transcription module is non-negotiable for niche, high-value content. We're planning to introduce an optional, higher-accuracy LLM-powered transcription feature to handle those cases where the official subs don't exist, specifically addressing the need to inject custom context (e.g., topic keywords) to improve accuracy on technical jargon.

The Automation Pipeline (RSS/RAG): This is the future. Your RSS-to-Website pipeline is exactly what turns a utility into a Research Engine. We want YTVidHub to be the first mile of that process. The challenges you mentioned—pre-processing long live stream audio—is exactly why our parallel processing architecture needs to be robust enough to handle the audio extraction and cleaning before the LLM call.

I'd be genuinely interested in learning more about your approach to pre-processing the live stream audio to remove pauses and dead air—that’s a huge performance bottleneck we’re trying to optimize. Any high-level insights you can share would be highly appreciated!
by Gedalge | 2025-10-13 07:27:15+00:00
- I create channels that play tracks in a defined order, on repeat, but with a duration of at least 80 hours (and ever-growing). Old-school album-based listening.

- I think learning of new stuff is twisted in the current environment. "New stuff" in the sense of radio/Spotify is mostly "same stuff as I know and like, but slightly different so it feels new". You don’t discover truly new stuff unless by actively searching for it. No radio or service is going to passively do that for you.
by jeduardo | 2025-10-13 07:27:16+00:00
One sidenote is that the Twilio part is harder than it looks. Not because of technical factors, but because of the paid requirement. Twilio refused to take my money and upgrade me to a paid account, even though they forced me to go to their confusing KYC procedure, where they asked me many times to provide the same set of documents. Support was useless, it looked like an AI bot repeating the same thing, but this was before the widespread usage of AI bots.

Eventually I gave up and went to Telnyx, which had a better KYC process and actual humans behind support that could resolve any quirks with KYC. Apparently not being born where you live breaks a lot of the automation behind some of these processes, go figure.
by jph | 2025-10-13 07:27:18+00:00
I pay for Fastmail and I'm using the Fastmail desktop app right now.

It's much faster than Thunderbird so far for me, and more convenient than a browser tab for me, and I'm especially liking the interconnections among mail, contacts, and calendar. The best feature for me is being able to click an email link anywhere on any web page, and have it lead to the Fastmail app.

I do have two questions. The app on my macOS system is using 700MB RAM; is that for Electron? The majority of RAM is showing as GPU rendering; is that for font smoothing?