MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-10-13 03:04:14+00:00
Traditional banks are required to conduct deeper reviews, often looking at UCC filings, lien searches, and bank statements. Private debt lenders may not apply the same level of scrutiny unless explicitly required by their internal policies

>"increased regulations and capital requirements made it more challenging for traditional banks to issue certain types of loans."

Basel III requirements post-GFC made it expensive for banks to hold riskier loans so private credit was born.
by billy99k | 2025-10-13 03:05:12+00:00
"Prisoners for slave labour in the US, and is routinely discussed in US legal reddit and the like: It's normalised in the states which depend on this kind of labour to get some things like road construction/maintenance done. Historically it was field work as well. I am unsure if this continues."

While it is used in some US industries, it's not nearly as pervasive as it is in China. I also think it's a much different situation in the US. In the US, it might be someone in prison for life getting a lower wage to pick up garbage on the road (as opposed to being locked in a cage all day).

In China, it's the way of life for many people in many provinces. The article you linked to is a good example of this.

I wasn't just talking about slave labor, though. It's regular labor with no regulations and long hours, which leads to children working and other horrific conditions.

It's pretty easy to get ahead, when you don't have to follow the same rules as the countries you are competing against. The irony also isn't lost on me that Republicans have wanted to get rid of regulations for years and many in the tech industry support China without hesitation.

"even if you stand very little chance of a just outcome as a foreigner."

This was my point.
by davidm123 | 2025-10-13 03:05:36+00:00
I wouldn’t quite make that analogy. Nango has a great open source culture and does what it does really well but self hosting their entire infrastructure would be hell. The difference with Databite is that I’m trying to make the idea of managing integrations with data syncs as easy as spinning up an Express server.

Appreciate you taking the time to read the docs. You’re right the example app’s implementation is currently incomplete and parts of the docs describe the intended dev experience rather than what’s currently implemented in the repo.

I’m pushing a major update to both the packages and docs in the next half day and would love your feedback once it’s live. I'll try my best to make the READMEs and docs as simple to follow as possible!!
by arecsu | 2025-10-13 03:05:59+00:00
The whole system and apps are half-baked overall, filled with bugs, and obvious UI/UX mistakes. I do believe [speculation warning] there's plausibility in the idea it has been pushed by C suite, even against the advice from designers and engineers at Apple. It is inconceivable to me as a designer myself that they let so many amateurish readability and usability flaws, all over the place across the entire system.

I experimented with SwiftUI recently to get my hands in the Liquid Glass system itself, just by curiosity. Customization of the amount of blurriness is non existent at all, it is very hard to control aspects of it, super opinionated, bugs that had to be overcome with workarounds which didn't happen with previous versions of the toolkit.

To add fuel to the fire... nobody is talking about "the lack of AI" in latest macOS & iOS, and everybody seems to focus on the, overall, bad experience of Liquid Glass. So... if the strategy of serving as a distraction was true, it... worked? Not that I wanted "AI" personally (rather, I would love if they let people install any apps they want in their own phones they purchased with their own money...) but I can understand they having some pressure from certain segments of society and/or investors to have something, given the current state of affairs.
by yellowcake0 | 2025-10-13 03:06:02+00:00
I think you misinterpreted the tone of my original comment as some sort of gotcha. Presumably you're overloading the addition symbol with some other operational meaning in the context of vector embeddings. I'm just calling it addition because you're using a plus sign and I don't know what else to call it, I wasn't referring to addition as it's commonly understood which is clearly associative.
by tpmoney | 2025-10-13 03:06:11+00:00
> Annotation configuration makes this (near?) impossible to dynamically wire and configure these scenarios and make them tailored to the environment or deployment scenario. Annotations are generally "static" and do not follow a configuration-as-code approach to application deployment.

Off the top of my head, you could drop a `@Profile` or `@ConditionalOnProperty` annotation on each of your different schedulers and pick them at launch time simply by adding the profile you want to the arguments or the environment. That assumes you want to choose one for the whole app. If you want to have different ones in different locations, you can dynamically load beans in code. Or if you want them loaded entirely with annotations, you could define differently named beans for each context, and include `@Qualifier`s on them and in the locations they're being used.

Which isn't to say that annotations are perfect, but dynamic runtime configuration is sort of core to how spring operates, and annotations are no exception to that.
by Garbage | 2025-10-13 03:06:36+00:00
I’m currently working on https://www.dreamly.in - automated, personalized, and localized bedtime stories for kids.

My daughter loves stories, and I often struggled to come up with new ones every night. I remember enjoying local folk tales and Indian mythological stories from my childhood, and I wanted her to experience that too — while also learning new things like basic science concepts and morals through stories.

So I built Dreamly and opened it up to friends and families. Parents can set up their child’s profile once - name, age, favorite shows or characters, and preferred themes (e.g. morals, history, mythology, or school concepts). After that, personalized stories are automatically delivered to their inbox every night. No more scrambling to think of stories on the spot!
by anigbrowl | 2025-10-13 03:07:18+00:00
a computer is a digital processor that works work with raw data, and tends to be entirely static when no processing is happening.

This depends entirely on how it's configured. Right now we've chosen to set up LLMs as verbally acute Skinner boxes, but there's not reason you can't set up a computer system to be processing input or doing self-maintenance (ie sleep) all the time.
by langitbiru | 2025-10-13 03:11:09+00:00
- Working on Kanji Palace (https://kanjipalace.com): We're going to publish the iOS app on the App Store and adding vocabulary. Currently, the app converts single Kanji (e.g., 生) into vivid mnemonic images. We aim to support vocabulary like 先生.

- Writing a book about Claude Code, not just for assisted programming, but as a general AI agent framework.

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-agent-sdk-python/commit...

Claude Code used to be a coding agent only, but it transformed into a general AI agent. I want to explore more about that in this book.
by scubbo | 2025-10-13 03:11:19+00:00
How coincidental - I needed exactly this just a couple days ago. I ended up vibecoding a script to feed an individual URL into yt-dlp then pipe the downloaded audio through Whisper - not quite the same thing as it's not downloading the _actual_ subtitles but rather generating its own transcription, but similar. I've only run it on a single video to test, but it seemed to work satisfactorily.

I haven't upgraded to bulk processing yet, but I imagine I'd look for some API to get "all URLs for a channel" and then process them in parallel.
by softwaredoug | 2025-10-13 03:11:20+00:00
> “The IEA has, consistently over the last couple of decades, way underestimated how fast renewables are growing,” said Robert Brecha, a senior climate and energy adviser at Climate Analytics,

> The policy outlook for renewables in the United States is so bleak that the IEA lowered the country’s renewable capacity growth expectations by 50 percent compared to last year’s projections.

Maybe room for optimism they are underestimating what non govt supported solar growth would be in the US?
by mhh__ | 2025-10-13 03:11:41+00:00
I don't know what it would be, e.g. pretty major dislocations go untouched because the banks can't deploy capital into them like repo in 2019.

It's quite possible that the drive towards central clearing kills someone e.g. by warehousing too much in one place/lack of discretion in margin requirements for a central house etc
by vannevar | 2025-10-13 03:11:43+00:00
>I don't like PE firms but there's no doubt that they force businesses to operate better, and ultimately that benefits people like you and me...

They do not force businesses to "operate better." They force businesses to operate at a higher EBITDA, purely for their own benefit. Sometimes by chance this results in improvements for the employees or customers, but more often it ultimately results in a worse experience for both and the eventual demise of the business after the PE firm has taken sufficient profit to generate its target returns.
by davidm123 | 2025-10-13 03:12:13+00:00
Thank you for bringing Handshake to my attention, I'll try implement it when I get the time. From a quick readthrough of their readme, Handshake looks like such a great project and definitely solves one of the hardest parts of building integrations which is auth but I'd like to take Databite a step further and include scheduling of syncs, calling of actions and the handling of webhooks.
by wahnfrieden | 2025-10-13 03:12:38+00:00
https://reader.manabi.io

iOS/Mac app for learning Japanese by reading, all in one solution with optional Anki integration

I went full-time on this a couple years ago. I’m now doing a full iOS 26 redesign, just added kanji drawing, and am almost done adding a manga mode via Mokuro. I’m also preparing influencer UGC campaigns as I haven’t marketed it basically at all yet.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-10-13 03:13:02+00:00
I feel like it adds a huge layer of opacity. If you buy a private company, you have to monitor its financials and potentially report them. If you buy a private fund, you have to report the valuation of the fund. If the valuation of the fund just tends to go up (as many such funds do), you won’t necessarily know if this actually reflects the prospects of the underlying companies or just the impression of other investors. The impact of adding these layers is not necessarily efficiency (each layer of management adds more cost), but it is increasing distance from the messy short-term ups and downs of real businesses.
by Hammerhead12321 | 2025-10-13 03:13:29+00:00
> The amount of electricity going into the Internet and AI is wild.

I know these things use a lot, but relative to the national usage is it a significant number? I’ve read this statement a few times but the amount is never quantified to something that makes sense. Like, how much has electricity usage increased in the last two years and can be directly attributed to data centers?
by ayanb | 2025-10-13 03:14:05+00:00
Currently, I am working on Ampersand (https://withampersand.com/)

It's a sync infra product that is meant to cut down 6 months of development time, and years of maintenance of deep CRM sync for B2B SaaS.

Every Salesforce instance is a unique snowflake. I am moving that customization into configuration and building a resilient infrastructure for bi-directional sync.

We also recently launched a pretty cool abstraction on top of Salesforce CDC which is notoriously hard to work with: https://www.withampersand.com/blog/subscribe-actions-bringin...
by waxycaps | 2025-10-13 03:14:27+00:00
I have my hands in a few side projects.

https://www.PAGE.YOGA - Link sharing website

https://www.GamesNotToPlay.com - A couple video games

https://www.ce0.ai - CEO Replacement

https://www.CellularSoup.com - Cellular Automata

https://www.fuck.investments - putting together a fine art gallery
by vannevar | 2025-10-13 03:16:29+00:00
Your tiny indirect share of the PE firm's profits will not match your direct loss of service as a customer and/or loss of compensation as an employee. Contrary to popular myth, wealth does not trickle down in any meaningful way. In an unregulated capitalist system, wealth flows toward the centers of wealth, just as surely as gravity pulls toward the centers of mass.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-13 03:16:45+00:00
I know that. That's why I mentioned

> in "defense" of Unicode, it has several principles that directly contradict each other

Unicode wants to do several things, and they aren't mutually compatible. It is premised on the idea that you can be all things to all people.

> It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.

It is a bug. It directly violates Unicode's stated principles. It's also a feature, but that won't make it not a bug.
by ttruett | 2025-10-13 03:19:57+00:00
I'm building decision-making software: https://orgtools.com

Not sure what the market is for something like this but it's something I've been thinking a lot about since stepping down as CEO of my previous company.

My goal is two-fold:

1. Help teams make better, faster decisions with all context populating a source-of-truth.

2. Help leaders stay eyes-on, and circumstantially hands-on, without slowing everything down. What I'd hope to be an effective version of "Founder Mode".

If anybody wants to play around with it, here's a link to my staging environment:

https://staging.orgtools.com/magic-share-link/5a917388cf19ed...
by netcoyote | 2025-10-13 03:21:21+00:00
I'm playing around with sandboxing techniques on Mac so I can isolate AI tools and prevent them from interacting with files they shouldn't have access to -- like all my dotfiles, AWS credentials, and such.

I've created two open-source solutions, one which uses a VM (https://github.com/webcoyote/clodpod) and another which creates a limited-user account with access to a shared directory (https://github.com/webcoyote/sandvault).

Along the way I rolled my own git-multi-hook solution (https://github.com/webcoyote/git-multi-hook) to use git hooks for shellcheck-ing, ending files with blank lines, and avoid committing things that shouldn't be in source control.
by tengbretson | 2025-10-13 03:21:25+00:00
I won't discourage anyone that wants to take things into their own hands, but this level of DIY seems too deep for me. I've gotten a great balance of reliability and open data/DIY spirit by using an off-the-shelf consumer weather station and just intercepting its signals with an RTL SDR running RTL_433 and piping the data into a prometheus instance.

Honestly, if you're in town, you're probably within radio range of someone else's station already for free.
by tasty_freeze | 2025-10-13 03:22:10+00:00
I find the Chinese room argument to be nearly toothless.

The human running around inside the room doing the translation work simply by looking up transformation rules in a huge rulebook may produce an accurate translation, but that human still doesn't know a lick of Chinese. Ergo (they claim) computers might simulate consciousness, but will never be conscious.

But is the Searle room, the human is the equivalent of, say, ATP in the human brain. ATP powers my brain while I'm speaking English, but ATP doesn't know how to speak English just like the human in the Searle room doesn't know how to speak Chinese.
by morshu9001 | 2025-10-13 03:23:13+00:00
Headphone jack on phones. Maybe some day Bluetooth will get fixed, until then this is just a way to milk customers via Airpods/Samsungpods.

Sorta related, iPod car interface was a reliable way to play and control music, now replaced with CarPlay which has problems and also messes up your nav.
by conditionnumber | 2025-10-13 03:23:29+00:00
Project is super cool.

If you're adding more LLM integration, a cool feature might be sending the results of allow_many="left" off to an LLM completions API that supports structured outputs. Eg imagine N_left=1e5 and N_right=1e5 but they are different datasets. You could use jellyjoin to identify the top ~5 candidates in right for each left, reducing candidate matches from 1e10 to 5e5. Then you ship the 5e5 off to an LLM for final scoring/matching.
by cjflog | 2025-10-13 03:25:31+00:00
Thank you for your questions!

1. I'm still working to make results more digestible and actionable. This will include the %TDI toggle (total daily intake, for child vs adult and USA vs EU) as seen on PlasticList, but I'm also tinkering with an even more consumer-friendly 'chemical report card'. The final results page would have both the card and the detailed table of results.

2. I have not found any regulation-violating levels yet, so in some sense, I'll cross that bridge when I get there. Part of the issue here is that many believe the FDA levels are far too relaxed which is part of why demand for a service like laboratory.love exists.

3. This is part of the challenge that PlasticList faced, and additionally a lot of my thinking around the chemical report card are related to this. Some folks think a single test would be sufficient to catch major red flags. I think triplicate testing is a reasonable balance of statistically robust while not being completely cost-prohibitive.

4. Yes, I suppose one could do that, as long as the funded products can be acquired by laboratory.love anonymously through their normal consumer supply chains. Laboratory.love merely acquires three separate batches of a given product from different sources, tests them at an ISO/IEC 17025-accredited lab, and publishes the data.

5. I suppose any project can be shut down by a lawsuit, but laboratory.love is not currently breaking any laws as far as I'm aware.
by coderenegade | 2025-10-13 03:27:20+00:00
Yeah, I meant more in the sense of businesses being the primary consumers for everything, but maybe you're right. In the same way that everyone owns a car today, maybe everyone will own one or more robots that do what they otherwise would have done, and get paid on their behalf. I think it's unlikely because machines are a lot more fungible than people, and I don't see businesses offloading ownership of the means of production in that way unless you're also covering hardware and running costs. You would also have to compete with very large corps that will almost certainly own vast worker capacity in the form of frontier ai and robots.

But that kind of gets back to my original point, which was that I think the vast majority of economic interaction will be business to business, not just in value (the way it is today) but also in volume. I.e. in the same way that everyone has a license, maybe every family also has a registered household business, for managing whatever assets they own. The time it takes for self hosted models to approach frontier model performance isn't huge, and maybe we see that filter in to households that are able to do decent work at a cheaper rate.
by toast0 | 2025-10-13 03:27:22+00:00
> Private equity hoovers up existing businesses that are mostly well functioning.

There's many flavors of private equity, but the predatory ones tend to buy businesses that are slowly failing, and turn them into something that hits a brick wall and completely fails.

If it was a mostly well functioning business with good prospects, likely the current ownership would be less interested in selling or a sale to similar ownership could be made.

Dental clinics owned by a dentist sell to a new dentist all the time. If they're being sold to PE firms, it's because the business of being a dentist is changing and not in a good way. Dental insurance is a hassle and doesn't pay well, finding customers can be hard without accepting insurance, hiring staff is hard (at least in my area), young dentists may not have the capital to buy out retirees, new equipment is expensive but patients like being wowed.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-10-13 03:28:50+00:00
I don't understand the argument about paying all artists a fixed amount per stream when customers aren't paying a fixed amount per stream in an unlimited subscription model. If I listen to artists X, Y and Z, it makes a lot more sense to me that the only people who get paid from my subscription money are artists X, Y and Z. As opposed to the situation we have now, where, as a sibling comment points out, if I never listen to Taylor Swift the largest portion of my subscription fee still goes to her.
by Kim_Bruning | 2025-10-13 03:29:14+00:00
Oh, I've always wanted to debate him about the chinese room. I disagree with him, passionately. And that's the most fun debate to have. Especially when it's someone who is actually really skilled and knowledgeable and nuanced!

Maybe I should look up some of my other heroes and heretics while I have the chance. I mean, you don't need to cold e-mail them a challenge. Sometimes they're already known to be at events and such, after all!
by bryanhogan | 2025-10-13 03:29:18+00:00
I'm making an app for self-tracking. Combining elements from habit trackers, health logging and journaling. Built for rich customization and local-first. Want to be free of rigid structures of many existing apps while providing a better UX / usability than using a spreadhsheet.

Updated the landing page just yesterday!

Landing page + waitlist: https://dailyselftrack.com/
by margalabargala | 2025-10-13 03:30:05+00:00
> The implication of "voting for something means you knew what was going to happen" is disingenuous at best.

Oh certainly. Voting for $thing and then being genuinely surprised when $thing happens to you is a story as old as voting.

It's not that they knew they would be the ones drawing the short straw, it's that I lack sympathy for people who vote for someone to hold the short straw, and then are upset when it's them.
by Franklinjobs617 | 2025-10-13 03:31:22+00:00
That is some fantastic validation, thank you! It’s cool to hear you already vibecoded a solution for this.

You've basically hit on the two main challenges:

Transcription Quality vs. Official Subtitles: The Whisper approach is brilliant for videos without captions, but the downside is potential errors, especially with specialized terminology. YTVidHub's core differentiator is leveraging the official (manual or auto-generated) captions provided by YouTube. When accuracy is crucial (like for research), getting that clean, time-synced file is essential.

The Bulk Challenge (Channel/Playlist Harvesting): You're spot on. We were just discussing that getting a full list of URLs for a channel is the biggest hurdle against API limits.

You actually mentioned the perfect workaround! We tap into that exact yt-dlp capability—passing the channel or playlist link to internally get all the video IDs. That's the most reliable way to create a large batch request. We then take that list of IDs and feed them into our own optimized, parallel extraction system to pull the subtitles only.

It's tricky to keep that pipeline stable against YouTube’s front-end changes, but using that list/channel parsing capability is definitely the right architectural starting point for handling bulk requests gracefully.

Quick question for you: For your analysis, is the SRT timestamp structure important (e.g., for aligning data), or would a plain TXT file suffice? We're optimizing the output options now and your use case is highly relevant.

Good luck with your script development! Let me know if you run into any other interesting architectural issues.