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Show HN: AI Cookbook – A social media-like platform for AI prompts
by grenish | 2025-10-06 17:59:53+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm excited to share a project I've been working on: AI Cookbook. As I've dived deeper into using AI models like GPT, Gemini, and Midjourney, I found myself constantly saving, tweaking, and losing track of prompts. It felt like everyone was reinventing the wheel in their own private notes. There wasn't a central, community-driven place to share what works, discover new techniques, and collaborate.

So, I built AI Cookbook to be a "Social media for prompts." It’s an open platform where anyone can share, discover, and remix high-quality AI prompts. The goal is to move beyond scattered blog posts and create a living library that we can all build together.

Key Features:

* Create & Share: Post your prompts with text, images, and metadata like the model used (e.g., "Grok Imagine"), category ("Image", "Brainstorm"), and tags.

* Explore: Discover new prompts through a feed, explore by tags, or filter by specific AI models.

* User Profiles: Build a profile that showcases your contributions, and follow other creators to see their latest work.

* Modern Interface: The UI is built to be fast, clean, and responsive, with customizable themes to personalize your experience.

The project is built with Next.js (App Router), TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, and Supabase for the backend. It's fully open-source.

The app is still under active development, so you might encounter a few bugs or rough edges. I'm actively working on fixing and improving things.

I'd love for you to check it out, share a prompt you're proud of, and give me your feedback. What features would make it more useful for your workflow?

Thanks for taking a look!
by smsm42 | 2025-10-06 17:59:58+00:00
> In the subprime crisis 10 million American families lost their homes

When you say "lost their homes", do you mean "I owned the house and somehow I now own no house and have no money for it, it just evaporated", or do you mean "I took a loan I could not afford, on a house I could not afford, while investing a tiny amount of money or none at all into the deal, and hoping to profit from ever increasing prices, and using my equity as an infinite-money ATM, and when that stopped, the bank took the house back"? If the latter, then what was lost is not "homes" but unrealistic prospects of profits from the thin air. If the former, I'd like to know how exactly a subprime crisis could cause something like that.
by Rochus | 2025-10-06 18:00:38+00:00
Thanks for the hint. vocho/openqnx has about 200 forks, and many seem to have been maintained. The original vocho/openqnx repository is the result of the MONARTIS (MONitoring Application for Real-Time Industrial Systems) project conducted in 2009 at HEIG-VD (https://heig-vd.ch/), Switzerland. The _NTO_VERSION define in <sys/neutrino.h> indicates that it was based on QNX version 6.4.1. I've created my own fork and am currently studying and minimizing it.
by vthriller | 2025-10-06 18:00:47+00:00
> On linux there is gajim that is "okish"

In my book it only got worse. Way worse. Sure, it looks more familiar to those who is used to iMessage/Whatsapp/Telegram, but I bet it would still look quite alienating for that audience. And for those who remember Gajim 1.x, disastrous UX doesn't outweigh introduction of reactions, history syncing and whatnot. Last time I checked it a couple of months ago:

- It was not possible to close group chat without leaving MUC.

- I had to constantly open separate search dialog to write to someone who's already in my roster but is not in the list of active chats.

- Speaking of active chats: what annoys me the most about modern IM clients (and that includes Gajim 2.x) is that list of chats is sorted by the last activity date. I don't even know how Whatsapp/Telegram users live with this, I got so fed up with hovering my mouse/finger over one chat and tapping it only for the whole thing to reorder in the last jiffy and opening something completely different, I just dropped my account from one of those centralized mass-market services altogether. It is that annoying.

- It had lots of smaller warts like nickname autocompletion requiring way more key presses (especially after someone mentions you).
by nonethewiser | 2025-10-06 18:00:49+00:00
I guess the argument they make for why "Be Different" doesnt work any more is because people can use AI to copy it.

I actually think AI just makes products converge onto whatever the AI averages out to.

It would be interesting to see this explored further. It seems like being different might actually have an even more pronounced effect now (for good or bad).
by thankyoufriend | 2025-10-06 18:00:51+00:00
No disagreement from me. I just think that the argument that the state shouldn't offer Healthcare because the president could cancel it is interesting to think about. Maybe I misunderstood you, but that's how I interpreted it. As the other poster said, he's basically canceling it now anyway for millions of people so it seems to me that presidentual power is irrelevant to the concept of state run Healthcare. Sent from my bidet.
by munchbunny | 2025-10-06 18:01:00+00:00
> I try to interview promising resumes even if they don't have the perfect experience match. Something that becomes obvious when doing this is that many developers have only operated on relatively simple projects. They would repeat things like "Everything is just a CRUD app" or not understand that going from Python or JavaScript to C++ for embedded systems was more complicated than learning different syntax for your if blocks and for loops.

I agree and disagree here. IMO the sign of experience is when you understand which details really matter, and which details are more or less the same across the different stacks, and also when they don't know enough yet to differentiate and need to ask someone else.
by rtkwe | 2025-10-06 18:01:21+00:00
I think you could make an argument either way and have an equal chance of being right. Either Trump et al get bribed/flattered/are personally exposed to the fallout and bail out their fellow class members or he gets angry about it and decides to make heads roll via his increasingly captured and controlled DOJ. I still agree it's more likely the former than the latter but I can see the path that leads to the latter.
by smsm42 | 2025-10-06 18:01:28+00:00
I lived through dotcom boom and bust, and there had been a lot of craziness, but when the dust settled, we have now a functioning internet economy, and I am able to sit at home in my pajama pants working for an international company that has employees all over the globe, while enjoying many other conveniences the internet brings me - and all this is enabled by what started during dotcom era. It is true that it did not match the most wiled-eyes predictions, but also a lot of things did change, and a lot of things did improve. If the AI boom followed this trajectory - which is of course no guarantee of, but if we assume that - then there is going to be a lot of crazy stuff to come, but at the end of it, the dust will settle and we will be mostly better off from it. Some people would become billionaires, some undeservedly so, some people would be ruined, some also unfairly so, but for most people, at the end it won't be that huge.
by benz145 | 2025-10-06 18:01:51+00:00
Hello fellow productivity-minded ADHD friends. I'm building a little tool for Google Calendar that I've always wanted but didn't seem to exist. It's in closed alpha now (you can preview it through the URL here and request alpha access if you're interested).

Reverse Scheduler lets you make a simple itinerary by planning backwards from a major event (like a flight, party, or important meeting).

If you have a flight at 1:30PM, the tool lets you write down all the things you need to do beforehand and how long they should take (like packing, driving, getting to the airport early; hell, maybe you need to mow the lawn before you leave for your flight). The tool puts all of this on your calendar for you with a single button press. So you end up with a list of what you need to do and how long it should take, and you can keep an eye on the 'Day' view of your calendar to make sure you're on time as you go.

This approach has delivered me from the usual hair-on-fire rush that happens before important events.

Reverse Scheduler doesn't just 'put things on your calendar' with a little less friction. The real power is the exercise of sitting down and taking 5 minutes to plan what actually needs to happen before your event, and actually consider how long it will actually take. This saves me from forgetting about something important until I'm already rushing around to get ready. And it helps me make a realistic estimate of how long things will take. A shower doesn't actually take "5 minutes" (as some of us would like to think)... it really takes 20.

I know many people will say "who on earth needs this?" But for the handful of you out there who have a brain that works like mine, I hope this tool can help you as much as it has helped me.
by segmenta | 2025-10-06 18:01:59+00:00
Context: Posting this after today’s OpenAI visual agent builder announcements. The link is not vendor specific; it isolates one design choice in the visual layer: static flowcharts vs runtime handoffs with full history.

Scope: We are comparing a pure visual flowchart to a handoff model built around one primitive: handoff(agent, history).

Each agent takes the full conversation history H, updates it, and decides which agent should act next (or halt). The entire history travels with control, so routing happens dynamically.

Takeaways:

• Topology: flowchart = fixed graph; handoffs = graph generated at runtime from H

• State: flowchart stores state in the diagram; handoffs keep it in the shared data (H)

• Routing cost: flowchart needs explicit branches (many edges or a large router); handoffs keep routing as a small function over H

• Extensibility: flowchart adds edges; handoffs add a function

COI: We built Rowboat around handoffs using OpenAI’s Agents SDK. The code is open source: https://github.com/rowboatlabs/rowboat
by baggachipz | 2025-10-06 18:02:27+00:00
Do you mean car title loans? Because that's basically what the GPU-backed loans are. Car title loans have terrible terms due to the diminishing value of the car. These GPU-backed loans are being booked at much, much more favorable terms, as if the GPU holds its value for a long time. This simply isn't the case, so if the loan is defaulted on, the loaner will have a rude awakening when all they get are worthless GPUs.
by pessimizer | 2025-10-06 18:02:58+00:00
Ejabberd has been around since forever, and people have been saying that forever. Why would it suddenly happen now?

One thing I do agree with is that collaboration tools have to come first. We've become unable to do anything without a company/boss, completely atomized. Three or four programmers/designers who hang out should be able to do anything together. Put them in a downtown office with some MBA prick alternately yelling at them and kissing their asses, and they can build empires that they get to share 5% of.
by leptons | 2025-10-06 18:03:12+00:00
>The value to humanity of Starship succeeding at its goals is extremely high.

This does not benefit "humanity" at all, even if they do succeed. If a human colony on Mars is established, and all of humanity is wiped out on Earth, does it really benefit "humanity" or only the 0.000000001% of "humanity" located on Mars?

And life on Mars is going to be difficult, it isn't habitable, and is in fact quite hostile to life. I seriously doubt any colony on Mars would be viable long-term. If life on Earth is wiped out, the colony on Mars will very likely wither and die soon after without continued support from Earth.

Any colony on Mars is going to be so exponentially more fragile and fraught with problems for sustaining life, that the suggestion that it's somehow going to save humanity is ridiculous.
by CyanLite2 | 2025-10-06 18:03:14+00:00
The barrier of entry is too high for traditional SV startups or a group of folks with a good research idea like transformers. You now need hundreds of billions if not trillions to get access to compute. OpenAI themselves have cornered 40% of global output of DRAM modules. This isn't like 2012, where you could walk into your local BestBuy, get a laptop, open an AWS account, and start a SaaS over the weekend. Even the AI researchers themselves are commanding 7- and 8-figure salaries that rival NFL players.

At best, they can sell their IP to BigTech, who will then commercialize it.
by cs702 | 2025-10-06 18:03:15+00:00
I disagree. My argument could not apply to other companies, because AMD is the only other maker of GPU hardware that could conceivably compete with Nvidia at scale in the AI market. Intel's GPUs have never been in the same league. New alternatives like Cerebras, etc. are too small, too different, and too unproven at scale.

I'm not betting on anyone's goodwill, I'm betting on OpenAI's and AMD's self-interest. Please don't attack a straw-man.
by amatecha | 2025-10-06 18:03:22+00:00
Hellz yeah. I'm at ~10 active users on my XMPP server and going strong. Finally something that won't unilaterally lock us out if we don't update every week, and we can chat from using any OS. We really do not care about "reactions" or stickers or all that other shit people complain about being lacking. "It doesn't look nice enough".. We just want to talk in private with a secure protocol that lets us actually use whatever we have, up to and including no mobile device at all.
by runarberg | 2025-10-06 18:03:28+00:00
I would like to see stats how many people got new connections via traditional infrastructure. I bet that number is much higher, probably even an order of magnitude higher.

This is HN, so I should probably look for the data my self...

EDIT:

In 2024 global internet usage grew from 5.3 billion users to 5.5 billion. Starlink grew by only a 1/100 of that in absolute terms, from 2 million users to 4 million over the same time period, majority of users in the USA already had access to the internet via traditional infrastructure.

I tried to find how many StarLink users got internet access (or even high speed internet access) that didn’t have one before, but I couldn’t find the numbers. Somebody could correct me, but I very much doubt that number is high enough to consider StarLink to make even a blimp in providing internet to new users.

EDIT EDIT: I was off by a factor of 100 in initial EDIT, see child post.
by tech_ken | 2025-10-06 18:04:04+00:00
After reading the blog post, it seems like there's two issues:

1. This type of question (return a desired emoji) requires a high-degree of "accuracy" on a single token. Contrast that with more typical LLM tasks which tend to emphasize more holistic "correctness" of multiple output tokens.

2. The (mode of the) token probability distribution converges to a "hole" in the token corpus, but the model is designed to "snap to" the token nearest the hole. So it returns the wrong emoji. Normally this isn't a problem, since token embeddings are constructed so that things near the "hole" have similar semantic meanings, so perform equivalently in most sentences. But this is where Issue 1 rears its head: exact 1-token accuracy is the performance metric for evaluation, so something "similar" to a seahorse emoji is as bad as something totally unrelated.

These two core issues are particularly problematic as production models are fine-tuned to be "self-reflective", so the model reasoning chain then causes it to keep retrying the task, even though the problem is ultimately an issue with the tokenizer/token embeddings. Some models are capable of converging to the "correct" answer which is to spit out a sequence of tokens which can be read as "none exists"; this is probably heavily influenced by the prompt ("is there a seahorse emoji" vs. "show me the seahorse emoji").

I think the real way we need to reason about this is via the topology(/homology) of the underlying embedding space; seems that our current tools assume a Cauchy-complete token space. In reality some tokens simply are undefined. While intuitively that seems rare for natural spoken/written language (as an undefined token is a semantic meaning without a word, and people tend to just make up new words when they need them), in the world of "hard languages" (coding, math, pictograms/emojis) these topological holes are actually meaningful! A coding language might have a truly undefined token, even though it is semantically similar to other tokens in the corpus. Moreover the topology near these holes can be super misleading (everything is infinitely continuous up until you fall into it), so it's basically the worst corner-case for the kinds of iterative gradient descent algorithms we use to build NNs. It seems like we need a richer set of constructs for representing language tokens than Banach spaces; a super thought provoking area of work for sure!
by pizzathyme | 2025-10-06 18:04:19+00:00
A shocking statistic is that YTD, 1/6th of the 2% rise in US GDP this year is attributable to AI Datacenters alone.

Source: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/08/18/h...

So I think if there was an AI crash, US economy goes with it in the short term
by concinds | 2025-10-06 18:04:23+00:00
Me as a consumer:

- browsers having to go through Apple means slower updates (including for bugs or security), not needed on Mac or any other platform

- Apple forces every alternative-engine browser to use a pretty broken framework that Safari does not use, not needed on Mac or any other platform

- Apple's restrictions on alternative engines in the EU are a vast list of malicious compliance[0], making those engines a theoretical academic exercise, so they're definitely still fucking you as a consumer.

[0]: https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-browser-engine-ban...
by joules77 | 2025-10-06 18:04:37+00:00
Putin the magnificent has said "whoever leads in AI will rule the world". So it is a war. An arms race. Weirdly being run by private capital cuz there was no incentive(unlike during WW2/Cold War) to fund a state run Manhattan Project for AI.

Watch what happens if a breakthrough comes out of China, Russia or a shed in Nigeria. What is happening on Wall Street or who is loosing cash or jobs will drop instantly down the list of priorities. Money will be printed to the moon.
by delusional | 2025-10-06 18:04:42+00:00
The traditional "efficient market" theory would be: synergies. The market believes that AMDs value increased BECUASE OpenAI now owns it. That is to say, the market believes that OpenAI taking a stake in AMD increases the value of AMD.

There are a host of different hypothesis you could pose to explain that. Maybe OpenAI has some secret sauce they'll share with AMD now that they have a stake. Maybe OpenAI will be more likely to buy from AMD in the future. Maybe AMD can use the experience they get serving OpenAI to better their products. Heck, maybe OpenAI will pump the stock by having Sam Altman talk about it on some podcasts.

It's impossible to disentangle all of those theories, because different investors will have different beliefs and you only get an aggregate.
by thibley | 2025-10-06 18:05:11+00:00
Def true. I often mark up math papers and books with DIY-hyperlinks. It's very easy for me to skip over an important, foundational clause just because some term isn't immediately familiar, and if that happens frequently in some reading, then I'm mentally checking out.

For the Napkin book, if the underlying metadata were in the latex source, we could have PDF annotations in a sidebar, e.g., ("def: p.123, key application: p.234, ..."), as well as live tooltips for a modern web experience. That would be totally wonderful for this text and its audience.
by addaon | 2025-10-06 18:05:36+00:00
> I wonder how many years need to pass after a company removes a user-hostile pattern before it should stop being lambasted for it.

Why would there be a statute of limitations on this. A company doesn’t have an inherent right to customers. A lot of us gave up on Windows with XP (a second strike, after ME). Maybe it’s better now, maybe not, but why would I be motivated to give a company who screwed up already (due to making choices I hate, not just incompetence) another chance? NYT absolutely permanently lost customers by placing revenue above civility; which of us benefits from hoping people forget that?
by perihelions | 2025-10-06 18:05:56+00:00
It's postulated that the high aluminum content of satellites (for perspective, Bennu samples are only 1% Al), as oxidized Al2O3 particles in the stratosphere, catalyze chemistry that destroys ozone. But that's far from a quantitatively meaningful problem, at the current scale.

This source[0] says satellite reentries are about about 12% of the space industry's contribution to ozone depletion (the big one is chlorine from solid rockets), which in turn is 0.1% of the entire anthropogenic contribution; i.e. satellite reentries are ~0.01% of the total.

https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-reentry-pollution-dama...
by rich_sasha | 2025-10-06 18:06:09+00:00
I think this is a disingenuous take.

Will AI of today definitely become AGI of tomorrow? No, for sure not, and anyone who claims this is at best crazy.

But is it imaginable? I think totally. Andrej Karpathy' blog post about RNN writing Shakespeare 1 character at a time was 10 years ago. GPT-2 was released 6 years ago. In that time we went from something that barely speaks English, never mind any other language, to something that, on a good run, is an excellent language tutor (natural and programming), can play games, can write moderately complex programs, goodness knows what else. For some people, the romance of a ChatGPT-4 was unmatched.

Even if it doesn't become "AGI", it might just get so good at being sub-AGI that the question is irrelevant. We're seriously contemplating a near future where junior devs are replaced by LLMs; and I write this as an AI sceptic who uses LLMs to write a lot of the kind of dumb code a junior dev might do instead.

I don't like AI, in that it nibbles away at my competitive advantage in life. But it's IMO crazy to pretend it is not even potentially a game changer.
by syspec | 2025-10-06 18:06:17+00:00
I think one thing they need to focus on is making extensions easier to create.

I'm a big fan of Intelli-J, but VS Code is eating their lunch with AI agent plugins. I'm assuming it's because it's much easier to create them on that platform.

The same pluginm from the same team, on Intelli-J always works much slower, feels clunkier and is prone to crashing.

It's a shame
by vouwfietsman | 2025-10-06 18:06:28+00:00
AFAIK its theorized much of the GDP growth of the US, as well as the stock market growth of important index funds, is mostly as a result of select tech companies surfing the AI hype.

In that case, a prolonged recession may occur (that would've occurred anyway), and the effect will be felt throughout the economy.

But, again, that's just a general recession being triggered by the AI bubble bursting, i.e. AI no longer propping up the economy, so that's not a bad thing. What the results of that are in terms of severity or impact I wouldn't know, I don't think anyone knows.