MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Monetizing Voice AI
by Olivia8 | 2025-10-17 12:08:28+00:00
There are several ways to turn this into a real business: • Per-call pricing: Charge clients for every call the AI handles. • Subscriptions: Offer monthly plans with a set call volume. • Performance models: Take a percentage of qualified leads or successful bookings. Start small - maybe a few pilot projects — and grow from there. Each success story becomes a case study to win your next client. For your AI to actually deliver value, it needs to connect with real systems — your client’s CRM, ticketing tools, or scheduling apps. When an AI books an appointment or resolves a case, the data should instantly update across platforms. Coldi AI handles most of this for you, offering API and telephony integrations so you can focus on growth instead of wiring things together manually. Scale and reinvest - once you have a few happy clients, scaling is simple. AI doesn’t need to sleep or take lunch breaks — you can handle thousands of calls at once. Reinvest profits into better models, multilingual voices, and advanced analytics. https://coldi.ai/ worth checking.
by danaris | 2025-10-17 12:08:37+00:00
> High minimum wages are making it nearly impossible to run small restaurants.

Another way of putting this:

"Small restaurants can only operate at a profit if they're allowed to pay people so little they can't afford to live off of it."

Any business that can only survive by exploiting its workers does not deserve to exist.

The fact that there were many small restaurants that were operating just fine when the minimum wage was, relatively speaking, much higher (ie, you could work full-time waiting tables at minimum wage and still afford a house and kids) strongly suggests that this claim does not hold water.
by nicoburns | 2025-10-17 12:09:27+00:00
EVs are simply immature products. The first truly mainstream models (car manufacturers making EVs their flagship model) outside of Tesla were released this year, or maybe last.

The first few generations of smartphones didn't last very long either (1-2 years). But now they last much longer (5-7 years). EV lifespans will expand in the same way as they mature as a product.
by xienze | 2025-10-17 12:09:30+00:00
> Always waiting for "better options" is often irrational. You should buy what's best for you today.

If you're trying to get people to switch en masse to EVs, it's not good for everyone to be in perpetual "ehh there's gonna be way better ones around the corner" mode.

> If the value of your EV has dropped to $10k and you get paid out that much for an accident, then in theory you should be able to buy a similar condition EV on the used car market for $10k. What's the problem with that?

The problem is when your loan balance is $20K and you're only getting a $10K payoff...
by astrobe_ | 2025-10-17 12:09:36+00:00
Yes, I remembered that some MUDs touted much more rooms. I've found Aarchon (15K) [1] and SlothMUD (23K) [2]. And that's just the number of rooms, the other numbers (8K mobs, 7K items, 12K NPCs) are massive as well.

But big MUDs usually have "builder" teams so the comparison is unfair. However, these numbers have hardly been matched by game studios - WoW or Runescape comes to mind. And then there's Dwarf Fortress which reaches the infinite in some categories thanks to procedural generation.

[1] https://www.aarchonmud.com/arc/features

[2] https://www.mudportal.com/listings/by-genre/hack-slash/item/...
by understandwp | 2025-10-17 12:10:01+00:00
I cannot comment on the closed systems, as I have not used them, but I do think that WordPress is a viable option.

If you just want to write and for the writing to be seen by Google, then you really do not need more than a couple of plugins and you should have a working blog that you do not need to spend any time on maintaining.

I would go with GeneratePress - https://wordpress.org/themes/generatepress/ and its companion plugin GenerateBlocks - https://wordpress.org/plugins/generateblocks/ for some simple blocks to design the blog. Both of them are well-coded and fast/lightweight.

In addition to them I would use SEO Framework - https://wordpress.org/plugins/autodescription/ as the SEO plugin and you are set. Just set everything to auto update and there should not really be any issues.

No affiliation to any of those plugins/themes, but have been using GeneratePress, GenerateBlocks and GeneratePress Premium for years and not one update has broken anything for me.
by b3lvedere | 2025-10-17 12:10:03+00:00
Oh nothing fancy i'm afraid. The WD disk it was on just died. There was no RAID of any other rebuild back then, just a single disk. Luckily we got about 80% of the pictures back via family and friends. Rebuilding that from various sources was a pain though. It taught me to use backups the hard way :)
by xpe | 2025-10-17 12:10:06+00:00
Even if you don't use KDL, you might enjoy seeing its use of "slashdash comments" -- this is a great idea to steal if you ever write your own language! [1]

package name my-pkg version "1.2.3" // ... rest of example at https://kdl.dev // "Slashdash" comments operate at the node level, // with just `/-`. /-this-is-commented { this entire node { is gone } } }

KDL v2 spec : slashdash comments: https://github.com/kdl-org/kdl/blob/main/draft-marchan-kdl2....

[1] Other languages have it -- this first one that comes to mind is Clojure which allows commenting out of an expression with `#_` (a reader macro): https://clojure.org/reference/reader#_dispatch
by ozim | 2025-10-17 12:10:21+00:00
Applying security patches on time is not much problem. Ones that you need to apply ASAP are rare and for DB engine you never put it on public access, most of the time exploit is not disclosed publicly and PoC code is not available for patched RCE right on day of patch release.

Most of the time you are good if you follow version updates for major releases as they come you do regression testing and put it on prod in your planned time.

Most problems come from not updating at all and having 2 or 3 year old versions because that’s what automated scanners will be looking for and after that much time someone much more likely wrote exploit code and shared it.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-10-17 12:10:53+00:00
Why do they use AI?

Because they lack knowledge of the subject matter.

Why do they struggle to spot misinformation?

For the same reason.

The AI paradox --- Results are probabilistic and inherently unreliable. The only rational way to spot inevitable shortcomings is research and learn the subject matter --- so you don't need to rely on AI results.

If the results are really important, accepting what AI provides at face value is a recipe for catastrophe.
by Ekaros | 2025-10-17 12:11:27+00:00
Depreciation is huge factor if you buy something for utility.

I think we can say that EV and ICE has nearly same utility, perks on either side. Faster refuelling vs. being able to do it at home.

Now next we can compare operational costs, what is the cost of fuel/electricity and maintenance. With home charging yes EVs are ahead.

But if we take into account Purchase price minus price you get when selling. Well EVs are often more expensive to start with. And then they depreciate more so you get less as an percentage from original purchase price.

Now it can very well be that you come lot of ahead in scenarios where you replace car with new one every 3 or 5 years with ICEs.

So total cost of ownership does matter. And big chunk of that is depreciation. Unless you are one of the few who buy new and then drive it to junk yard.
by rcMgD2BwE72F | 2025-10-17 12:11:33+00:00
> Tesla’s look very safe but seems like you can not replace body parts

What?

https://parts.tesla.com/en-US/landingpage

https://epc.tesla.com/en-US/catalogs/dab210aa-2a7d-43b3-9e9b...

Anyone can by them directly from Tesla.
by bob1029 | 2025-10-17 12:11:59+00:00
Also, ES modules:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guid...

You basically have the same capability you have in python or other ecosystems if you can be bothered to attempt what the OP suggests. Determining an appropriate way to organize your code is actually a really hard problem to solve if you've been leaning on 3rd parties to solve it for you. It's definitely a skill worth developing. Once you have it you will begin to dislike the organizational suggestions of others because they'll never fit your problem as well as a hand tuned strategy.
by TechRemarker | 2025-10-17 12:13:00+00:00
"which is influenced more by recharge cycles and straight up passage of time" would seem similar to "mileage" since both increase in general the passage of time and driving. But yes, driving two cars equal amount of time presumably the ICE will wear down far more than the equivalent EV so the title is quite misleading to those looking at a glance.
by stego-tech | 2025-10-17 12:13:44+00:00
From my IT POV, that’s what this is all about. It’s why none of these major players produce locally-executable LLMs (Mistral, Llama, and DeepSeek being notable exceptions), it’s why their interfaces are predominantly chat-based (to reduce personal skills growth and increase dependency on the chatbot), it’s why they keep churning out new services like Skills and Agents and “Research”, etc.

If any of these outfits truly cared about making AI accessible and beneficial to everyone, then all of them would be busting hump to distill models better to run on a wider variety of hardware, create specialized niches that collaborate with rather than seek to replace humans, and promote sovereignty over the AI models rather than perpetual licensing and dependency forever.

No, not one of these companies actually gives a shit about improving humanity. They’re all following the YC playbook of try everything, rent but never own, lock-in customers, and hope you get that one lucrative bite that allows for an exit strategy of some sort while promoting the hell out of it and yourself as the panacea to a problem.
by instagib | 2025-10-17 12:14:02+00:00
I’ve noticed hybrids are filling up dealers lots as well. They can’t sell them or won’t take a big loss on them. “Too heavy, expensive, less cargo space, and not enough benefits.” per sales.

There aren’t many EV’s on the lots either as the configuration team doesn’t see a need to order them from manufacturers if people aren’t buying them.
by YetAnotherNick | 2025-10-17 12:14:02+00:00
You are doing calculations all wrong if you think saving $500/month is 75% of your cost.

Also first three lines of new stack is a sure shot way to get PTSD. You shouldn't manage database in your plane, unless you really know the internals of the tools you are using. Once you get off AWS then you really start to see the value of things like documentation.
by wood_spirit | 2025-10-17 12:14:31+00:00
This story doesn’t really gel with my understanding as an EV owner in Europe.

The post says that Tesla hold their value better than Chinese newcomers but that absolutely isn’t the prices I’m seeing in Europe.

In Europe Tesla resale value has plummeted due to brand destruction. Tesla was super popular when they launched as the first realistic EV to hit the main time. But they quickly got a poor reputation for build quality and never delivering on self-driving, and that was before the political damage the owner did which seems never recoverable in at least a generation.

Meanwhile comparable Chinese entrants are so new they aren’t yet at the 3 year mark where fleets sell off to second hand market.

Another interesting thing about non-Tesla EVs is that there aren’t a lot being resold; if you got one, you likely hang onto it. Personally I’ve just not yet let go of my Kia EV6 even though it sailed past the normal trade in point recently.
by andirk | 2025-10-17 12:14:42+00:00
Web components, copy/paste CSS that does crazy stuff, all of these Web APIs [0]. However, Vue is my go-to. It's just reactivity with files that don't break "separation of concerns". Plus a community if I get stuck. However however, making something super slim bare bones is the most rewarding.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API
by RickJWagner | 2025-10-17 12:14:47+00:00
I’d love to have an EV. I’m not even too frightened about the battery.

It’s just that the cars are aging like iPhones. Last years hardware package, hardware compatibility with latest software, etc are all people seem to talk about on Reddit. I think that’s a factor in the steep depreciation.

I just bought a new Corolla hybrid, it gets 60 miles per gallon and should last a good while. Maybe next purchase.
by comboy | 2025-10-17 12:15:06+00:00
Just keep your cameras on separate vlan and access through eg. wireguard. Any company can have the best intentions but gov can just come to them, tell them to implement whatever is needed - even if that means lying to their users - and have access to everything. Probably even with plausible deniability for all parties involved, but not sure anyone even still cares about that.
by conartist6 | 2025-10-17 12:15:06+00:00
Programming is managing a pile of complexity that wants to fall over.

Going without a premade framework means it's a fight between you and the pile of complexity. Code will tend to become ugly and slow and hard to change the more you add, so you'll have to go into a cycle that's more like add-refactor-add-refactor. Forward then sideways, forwards then sideways. Do this long enough and you'll will end up with your own libraries and frameworks to manage the complexity.
by mexicocitinluez | 2025-10-17 12:15:47+00:00
> the go to solution was the facebook maintained CRA which is now deprecated

Not only did they deprecate it, they refused to acknowledge it's existence in the new docs which is wild to me.

It may have changed in the last year, but if you searched for "CRA", it would get 0 results. Again, mind-blowing considering it was the recommended way to build apps with React.

Instead, it was replaced with a section driving you towards adopting Next. Which then had to be whittled away at and updated to include other options all the while the React team acted hostile to any criticism of it. You either used Next or you were shit out of luck.

> I have been outside the ecosystem for a year and looking at the shit show that is nextjs it seems things are even worse than before.

My thoughts about CRA aside, you don't have to use the frameworks (I still don't). And if you remove Next from the equation, things are actually pretty cool. Suspense is cool, and you'll have to rip React Query from my cold, dead hands.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-10-17 12:16:00+00:00
Batteries generally are holding up better than expected, but I'm interested in what happens when a problem shows up.

Are these dealers doing the test before they buy the cars? Do they have a formula for adjusting buying and selling price based on results? Is there any kind of guarantee associated with buying a tested car?

Is there a company that the dealers can take the failing cars to to get repaired? Does this make economic sense? Do they rip the packs apart to salvage the good modules for reuse?

Are the independent ratings accurate, and who rates the raters? Seems easy enough to compare them if there are multiple competitors, but is anyone doing it?
by adamcharnock | 2025-10-17 12:16:07+00:00
I cannot overstate the performance improvement of deploying onto bare metal. We typically see a doubling of performance, as well as extremely predictable baseline performance.

This is down to several things:

- Latency - having your own local network, rather than sharing some larger datacenter network fabric, gives around of order of magnitude reduced latency

- Caches – right-sizing a deployment for the underlying hardware, and so actually allowing a modern CPU to do its job, makes a huge difference

- Disk IO – Dedicated NVMe access is _fast_.

And with it comes a whole bunch of other benefits:

- Auto-scalers becomes less important, partly because you have 10x the hardware for the same price, partly because everything runs 2x the speed anyway, and partly because you have a fixed pool of hardware. This makes the whole system more stable and easier to reason about.

- No more sweating the S3 costs. Put a 15TB NVMe drive in each server and run your own MinIO/Garage cluster (alongside your other workloads). We're doing about 20GiB/s sustained on a 10 node cluster, 50k API calls per second (on S3 that is $20-$250 _per second_ on API calls!).

- You get the same bill every month.

- UPDATE: more benefits - cheap fast storage, run huge Postgresql instances at minimal cost, less engineering time spend working around hardware limitations and cloud vagaries.

And, if chose to invest in the above, it all costs 10x less than AWS.

Pitch: If you don't want to do this yourself, then we'll do it for you for half the price of AWS (and we'll be your DevOps team too):

https://lithus.eu

Email: adam@ above domain
by liendolucas | 2025-10-17 12:16:28+00:00
What is an actual and solid reason to choose or stay AWS these days?

The topic of paying hefty amounts of money to AWS when other options are available has been discussed many times before.

My view of AWS is that you have bazillions of things that you might never use, need to learn about it, you are tied to a company across the Atlantic that can basically shut you down anytime they want for whatever reason and finally the cost.
by vanviegen | 2025-10-17 12:16:30+00:00
> based on comments here on HN and otherwhere, the quality and speed of support is really uneven.

Can you name one tech company that's scaled passed the point where the founders are closely involved with support that has consistently good tech support? I think this is just really hard to get right, as many customers are not as knowledgeable as they think they are.
by cdfsdsadsa | 2025-10-17 12:16:37+00:00
> Should we maybe focus on the more fundamental problem of our democracies being vulnerable to propaganda campaigns

Step 1 is reduce your attack surface :) As a second point, democracies are propaganda campaigns - it's a feature, not a bug.

I believe that national cultural and societal norms play a key part in self-regulation. I think it's too much to ask for those balancing forces to work as effectively without first turning down the firehose.
by andybak | 2025-10-17 12:16:43+00:00
I love how few comments on this and similar posts give much context along with their advice. Are you hosting a church newsletter in your spare time or a resource intensive web app with millions of paying enterprise customers and a dedicated dev ops team in 3 continents?

Any advice on price / performance / availability is meaningless unless you explain where you're coming from. The reason we see people overcomplicating everything to do with the web is that they follow advice from people with radically different requirements.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-17 12:17:36+00:00
> In interesting implementation of this is the Grafana Flow plugin: https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/andrewbmchugh-flow-panel...

Woah, been using Grafana for a long time, always wished for something like that, wasn't aware of that plugin! Thanks a lot for sharing.

That 3rd example looks really useful for debugging purposes!
by debazel | 2025-10-17 12:18:17+00:00
Hetzner will almost immediately nuke your data if you miss a payment and often outright ban you and your business from ever using them again.

Hetzner is great for cheap personal sites but I would never use them for any serious business use-cases. Other than failed payments, Hetzner also has very strict content policies and they use user reports to find offenders. This means that if just a few users report your website, everything is deleted and you're banned with zero warning or support, whether the reports are actually true or not. (This also means you can never use Hetzner for anything that has user uploaded content, it doesn't matter if you actively remove offending material because if it ever reaches their servers you're already SOL.)
by rupas | 2025-10-17 12:18:29+00:00
I've used a few of these KVM products. Some quick thoughts:

ipkvm, I really like my 2 JetKVMs. It works very well, physically feels substantial, and the ATX power add-on makes remote management as good as any IPMI solution. I also have a sipeed NanoKVM and that works well, but I don't use it much at this point, just use the JetKVMs instead.

For usb KVM I'm trying to find something that works as a KVM so that I can use the nice display on my home computer but also control my work laptop. This is purely a convenience thing. I'm not trying to use the work laptop remotely or fool my employer. I just prefer my 4k oled display on my personal thinkpad over the crap 1080p dell display on the work laptop.

So I've tried two usb USB kvms.

Cytrence Kiwi - this is the one I settle on to use. The software works well and has had regular updates. It does keyboard capture which I never could get to work with the NanoKVM. The video quality is much better. Except for the inability to capture alt-tab is my only real complaint. :( However, they just (yesterday?) released a new software build that can map another set of keys to alt-tab. Maybe I can train my fingers to do windows-tab or something similar.

NanoKVM-USB - This one has some good ideas. I like the form factor. I like the USB port you can easily switch between host and target to copy images or whatever. As a crash cart type thingie, this is probably just fine. However, as stated above. Trying to use it full time with my work laptop was simply too frustrating. Video quality and lack of keyboard capture (maybe I just couldn't find it) just made it impossible.

So, in summary: JetKVM for ipkvm, cytrence kiwi for usbkvm.
by sehansen | 2025-10-17 12:18:41+00:00
No, the laser printer was revolutionary. Xerox' previous business was photocopiers that could only make copies of existing physical documents you'd already typed out or pasted together. The laser printer was connected directly to your mainframe and allowed customized mass printing at a speed and quality not seen before. Before the laser printer, the alternatives were dot-matrix printers, plotters, automated typewriters, all at least an order of magnitude slower than the first laser printers and only the plotter had any chance of looking nice.

Laser printers were a central part of the computerized mass-customized printing of things like insurance policies and bank statements that happened in the 70's and were definitely a revolutionary change in what kind of problem Xerox was solving for their customers.
by owenversteeg | 2025-10-17 12:18:53+00:00
The GGP comment is sort of all over the place, but I will try my best (there will be a few simplifications.)

Electric charge of anything is both absolute and relative, but we mostly discuss it in a relative sense. In this case, you could apply (say) 600 mV potential across a 3mm wound, with (say) one electrode on the left and one on the right. Let's say you have a battery taped to your arm with wires leading to the wound (DO NOT try this at home! Playing around with electricity and open wounds is generally insane and could be deadly in nonintuitive ways!) - the relative potential of your body, relative to the surroundings, does not change. The left _of the wound_ is at +600 mV relative to the right, and the right -600 mV to the left, but your body's overall potential relative to your surroundings is unchanged, because again, everything is relative.

In the sense of absolute electric charge (of the body and the wound) essentially nothing changes. The electric current of the wound stimulation is a _flow_ of electrons, but there is no net movement.

"Grounding" (see "energy medicine", "earthing" etc) is mostly based around the sales of overpriced "healing" products that plug into the wall. Like many conspiracies there is a kernel of truth there - there _is_ actually a real, measurable difference (in potential, current flow, and how electric fields behave in your body, among other things) when you are electrically grounded vs. insulated from the ground - but the mechanisms and effects are a bit complex to explain in a comment. For more on the subject you might want to read on capacitive coupling.