MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mfrye0 | 2025-10-13 01:08:13+00:00
I'm working on Plaid / Perplexity for business data.

The basic idea is that integrating business data into a B2B app or AI agent process is a pain. On one side there's web data providers (Clearbit, Apollo, ZoomInfo) then on the other, 150 year old legacy providers based on government data (D&B, Factset, Moody's, etc). You'd be surprised to learn how much manual work is still happening - teams of people just manually researching business entities all day.

At a high level, we're building out a series of composable deep research APIs. It's built on a business graph powered by integrations to global government registrars and a realtime web search index. Our government data index is 265M records so far.

We're still pretty early and working with enterprise design partners for finance and compliance use cases. Open to any thoughts or feedback.

https://savvyiq.ai
by ecshafer | 2025-10-13 01:08:35+00:00
SB79 is a great step forward for California. Hopefully other states implement similar (and more aggressive) bills in their states. My dream world would see an elimination of local zoning as we do in the US, and a move to a zoning system more like the Japanese use. I would also love to see states adopt a Land-Value Tax to help incentivize development. Similar to SB79 I have always hoped for a bill that enforced something like within 1 mile of a school, all roads need to have cross walks, lights, and side walks to help kick start walkability in the US.
by eru | 2025-10-13 01:09:32+00:00
> Because some information affects the stock market. So Regulation FD already applies, for financial news.

Sure, but that has everything to do with what information you are allowed to make public, not with whether you should be allowed to bet on arbitrary other markets.

> You might as well as cut out the middleman, don't call it a "market" anymore, and just call it "crowdfunded-will-pay-reward-for-insider-information-website". [...]

The commodities markets in the US used to have no prohibition on insider trading until fairly recently. They still called it a market.
by cornfieldlabs | 2025-10-13 01:09:41+00:00
Thank you!

-Many say they want to stop doomscrolling and clout-chasing but I don't know how many are actually willing to do so

-Individuals may move here but their friends won't. So the feed will be initially empty by design. Introducing any kind of reward is against our ethos so we are clueless about how to convince existing friend circles to move.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-10-13 01:09:45+00:00
The ability to run our own software in all contexts is absolutely essential for our dignity and safety.

It is the only thing that allows us the chance to resist their surveillance capitalism. Being surveilled and having algorithms extract value out of us is exploitation which absolutely goes against basic human dignity. It also creates the potential for information leaks which are safety risks.

Think about it. The only thing that separates corporate software from literal malware is a huge terms of service document filled with legal boilerplate that nobody actually reads. Everybody theoretically "agrees" to this stuff.
by richbl | 2025-10-13 01:11:12+00:00
I've been using my own videos, but any good first-person video will work (cycling preferred, but jogging or even first-person automobile videos work well).

Technically, any video that is playable via a media player will work. The project natively uses the mpv media-player (mpv.io), though VLC (VideoLAN) integration is a priority.

For some ideas, query YouTube for "POV cycling" or "first person cycling."
by danielvaughn | 2025-10-13 01:12:13+00:00
I'm trying to turn code into a design tool. Kind of like if you ask yourself - what if Cursor had been built for designers?

Currently it looks like this:

- code editor directly in the browser - writes to your local file system - UI-specific features built into the editor - ways to edit the CSS visually as well as using code - integrated AI chat

But I have tons of features I want to add. Asset management, image generation, collaborative editing, etc.

It's still a prototype, but I'm actively posting about it on twitter as I go. Soon, I'll probably start publishing versioned builds for people to play with: https://x.com/danielvaughn
by tylerdavis | 2025-10-13 01:12:44+00:00
The surface area for supply chain attack with Helix is vanishingly small compared to nvim + n extensions. You’re dealing with a single vendor, versus one per extension. Helix also runs a very slow, deliberate release process, so while it’s certainly possible that a supply chain vulnerability could be shipped, the process in place appears to work well to mitigate it.
by OutOfHere | 2025-10-13 01:12:59+00:00
Let's face it. We live in a police state -- where the police have absolute power and zero liability. Now what. The best thing to do is to pay fewer taxes in every way possible. This applies particularly to businesses. Already we're paying tariff taxes too now. In many ways, the more people pay in aggregate, the more militarized the police get, and the more the people get abused.
by lleymrl651 | 2025-10-13 01:14:22+00:00
The most annoying thing about switching games is mismatched sensitivity — when I switched to CS:GO before, I either overflicked (swung my crosshair too far) or couldn’t keep up with aiming. All the muscle memory I’d worked so hard to build was totally messed up. But after calculating the equivalent sensitivity with battlefield 6 sensitivity converter, I instantly got my familiar feel back as soon as I started playing. No more wasting hours tweaking settings blindly — it’s a huge time-saver for gamers who switch between titles often!
by CuriouslyC | 2025-10-13 01:14:24+00:00
I've done research on this, and have considered it but it's capital and time intensive even if I think it's viable.

There are two reasons I think it's viable now:

1. It's possible to wire an agentic system management service into the OS to handle a lot of the routine stuff, so non-technical users will be able to just talk to their computer and it'll be fine tuned to be good at fixing system issues, installing/removing software, managing windows, etc. I developed a scheduling inversion of control executor for enterprise agent control that I've looked into adapting for this use case.

2. The steam deck has proven a new model. Game friendly and a simplified UI is enough to carry Linux. New Arch rices like Omarchy are pushing the envelope of usability. I've been ricing desktops since enlightenment on slackware 96, so I'm pretty familiar with this world.

Regarding form factor, I'm not a huge fan of phones, too many tradeoffs. I think with strong AI voice systems, the optimal setup is buds + tablet. That's a better setup for mobile linux anyhow, and it makes the hardware almost a non-issue.
by Spooky23 | 2025-10-13 01:14:43+00:00
I remember my dad who was a great investor always said that and it was one of the things that disturbed him about QE and letting some of the big banks survive.

What we’re seeing today with these quasi-public markets and even the AI mania is exponentially worse. We’re playing chicken with the whole economy, and the marginally effective regulatory regime has been completely gelded.

On the other side of the coin. Two of the most powerful barons of the era believe they are eradicating the Antichrist and colonizing mars, respectively.
by tombert | 2025-10-13 01:14:53+00:00
I've become a bit addicted to online education. I finished my first masters degree in Computer Science in July, and I started a masters in Mathematics from The Open University at the beginning of October. I've wanted to really get into the weeds of obscure and arguably-useless math for about as long as I can remember, and I figure that getting a masters in it is as good a way to get that knowledge as any way else.

Other than that, I've been doing a lot of fixing of tech debt in my home network from the last six years. I've admittedly kind of half-assed a lot of the work with my home router and my server and my NAS and I want these things to be done correctly. (In fairness to me, I didn't know what I was doing back when I started, and I'd like to think I know a fair bit better now).

For example, when I first built my server, I didn't know about ZFS datasets, so everything was on the main /tank mount. This works but there are advantages to having different settings for different parts of the RAID and as such I've been dividing stuff into datasets (which has the added advantage of "defragging" because this RAID has grown by several orders of magnitude and as a result some of the initial files were fragmented).
by shomp | 2025-10-13 01:15:00+00:00
Right now the API is nonexistent, relying entirely on people using the web interface to make listings, upload photos, and set prices. But if you would find this useful I can happily build it out. Our stack is Elixir and building APIs is very straightforward. Our code is open-source, too!

When you say "algorithmically driven print-on-demand" do you mean that prices would automatically adjust based on inventory? Or like, how do you mean.

Also, when you say "see them show up in a request on sale" — can you clarify? I interpret this to mean you want a webhook triggered when an order comes in.
by hlieberman | 2025-10-13 01:15:16+00:00
I really like this... except you should add a special case for 911. I strongly believe that all phones, and anything that looks like phones, should be able to dial out in an emergency.

Obviously, this can raise its own problems -- you'll have to train the kids not to randomly dial 911! -- but you never know what circumstances might exist where someone in a panic reaches for the nearest phone.
I Almost Quit
by Blarckat | 2025-10-13 01:16:25+00:00
I almost killed Syio Labs

I thought I wasn't ready to run a design lab. Imposter syndrome hit hard.

That was 5 years ago.

Since then: - 4 startups built solo (3 validated, 2 reached PMF and making revenue), - 27 partnerships helping other founders ship their MVPs.

The lesson isn't that I was ready. I wasn't. Not by a long mile.

It's that I built anyway. ...well, I haven't figured out everything...yet.

But I'm just getting started.

Keep building!
by echelon | 2025-10-13 01:17:05+00:00
You can track readers and the spread of your content AND decry the the unfair market powers and advantages big tech has simultaneously.

Big tech is shaping public discourse. Big tech is censoring public squares. Big tech is forcing us to continue buying new devices. Big tech is killing open standards and platforms. Big tech is hurting democracy. Big tech is enabling monitoring. Big tech is using societal scale antipatterns to generate more profits than most countries. Big tech is engaging in anti-worker practices ...
by wilkystyle | 2025-10-13 01:17:16+00:00
> I'm currently using vim8 because it's what is available within my LTS distribution.

I have come to love modern Neovim so much that I wrote a simple Python package[0][1] to solve this issue, at least for folks who already have to work within the Python ecosystem and use tools like `uv` or `pipx`.

You can install Neovim 0.11.4 (latest version as of building that package) with `uv tool install binwheels-neovim` or `pipx install binwheels-neovim`, and quickly be up and running with a modern Neovim on Windows, macOS, or Linux.

The package just wraps the official Neovim releases and relies on uv or pipx to select the right binaries for your operating system and architecture. The exception is Linux, where I actually build the binaries from source in a manylinux container[2] because I wanted older GLIBC support than the official Neovim releases are compiled for. Was tired of the official releases not supporting the older Linux systems I often need to work on.

[0] https://pypi.org/project/binwheels-neovim/

[1] https://github.com/wilkystyle/binwheels-neovim

[2] https://github.com/wilkystyle/binwheels-neovim/actions/runs/...
by hopelite | 2025-10-13 01:17:56+00:00
These are not hard things to understand or solve, it's just that the majority of people don't want to understand them or face reality and the politicians will always serve up these kinds of con artist lies to placate people.

You cannot add ~60 million foreign national people to the US population in the last 25 years without severely impacting the housing situation when the USA has only built 1.1 million housing units on average over that period; most of those being locked into high prices due to the massive inflation over that time.

What makes it even worse is this obsession with both concentrating populations and jobs in urban centers, while at the same time being concerned with climate change and environmental protection. They are mutually exclusive things. This is an iron triangle issue, you can only have two of three things: affordable housing, immigration, climate/environment protection.
by leakycap | 2025-10-13 01:17:58+00:00
> Got tired of all the ads, cookies etc when reading my news on my phone or web browser.

I don't see how the service reduces ads when reading your news on your phone or in your web browser, since it is for Kindle.

I don't use Amazon apps or sites when I'm trying to avoid ads & cookies.

How are you getting away with calling it "Kindle News Daily" without rights to use the trademark? I would think saying "Daily News for Kindle" might be OK, but Kindle News Daily initially made me think this was from Amazon just looking at the web address.
by LorenPechtel | 2025-10-13 01:18:26+00:00
I see no difference. What is important is whether that's your intent or not, I do not care if the means involves another person or not (assuming adequate controls to ensure it's what you wanted. That's why Switzerland has become the place to go--under their law it is not illegal for an uninvolved person to provide aid assuming the person provides the actual trigger. I recall one in a documentary, guy had almost no motor control but he could still bite--a trigger that would start a timer that would turn off IIRC a respirator. They then sedated him so he wouldn't be struggling for air when the ventilator switched off--but without his triggering the timer it was just sedation, he would wake up in time.)
by pixl97 | 2025-10-13 01:19:08+00:00
While the majority of people invoking the idea of a machine god are being irrational the idea in itself has at least some merit. Some animals are more intelligent than others. Humans far more intelligent than the vast majority of animals, and with tools and cooperation in large societies we live in an existence they are not equipped to comprehend. This invites the question of what are the limits of intelligence. Is it far beyond our capabilities? If so, what does that look like to us.
by spartanatreyu | 2025-10-13 01:19:12+00:00
Hard disagree.

1. Accessibility is easier to build in at the start rather than trying to tack it on at the end.

2. Building a browser around an existing webview is fairly easy compared to all the other parts that go into the finished product.

3. Making the webview integration better means more than just a single browser are using it (which would increase the user share that you deemed as important).
by sarchertech | 2025-10-13 01:19:48+00:00
So much software is “open source”, but it’s either de jure or de facto controlled by a single company.

Sure you could fork it, but for complex projects you’re not gonna. 99.99% of users of open source software will never meaningfully contribute. So the only option most people have is to hope someone else forks the project if something goes wrong, and for complex projects maintaining a fork requires serious resources.

We really need to distinguish between generic “open source” and actual community built and controlled projects.

The term open source itself was popularized by the open source initiative. A group funded by Tim O’Reilly and big tech to co-opt the free software movement and make it more business friendly.

They’ve spent so much time and money promoting the term, that there’s an enormous amount of good will around it. To the point that any project that doesn’t use an OSI approved license is widely considered dirty.

You could have a project controlled by the community with a nearly completely free license with the caveat that companies making more than $100 million in annual revenue can’t resell it, and the majority of devs would trust it less than an “open source” project completely controlled by a trillion dollar company.
by landtuna | 2025-10-13 01:19:55+00:00
I switched to Helix 2 years ago after 28 years of emacs and didn't look back. My emacs config was huge, and I didn't enjoy all the tweaking I was doing to get LSPs to work the way I wanted. I had tried evil mode (and vile before that) without really getting comfortable. I think the Kakoune-style order clicked much better for me than vi descendants. Also, the multiple cursors in Helix work so much better than the equivalent emacs plug-ins. The only thing I really miss is tramp. I liked magit a lot, but jujutsu obsoleted that for me.
by martin-t | 2025-10-13 01:20:39+00:00
I am usually not a fan of analogies but i really like this one.

OTOH, don't underestimate how different other people's values might be.

I suspect people who do this do it for status. Just like having a bookshelf full of books they have never read, this is a cheap 80:20 optimization to appear well-read without putting in the time.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-10-13 01:20:51+00:00
Pointless. Silicon fabs currently cost billions of dollars. They are single points of failure. Even if the market starts trending towards openness, governments can just regulate a backdoor into these fabs. They have every incentive in the world to do it. Democratized access to cryptography is subversive.

We need some kind of 3D printer that can print computer chips. We need the ability to make our own hardware at home, just like we can make our own software at home. Democratized electronics fabrication. That's the only way we'll be saved.
by hamasho | 2025-10-13 01:20:51+00:00
"It wasn't my intention. i3 works well with the default config, except the keybindings for moving are jkl; instead of hjkl, but I customized it extensively. I'm not an 'apple enthusiast' (I used Arch on Macbook btw). I know it lacks so many thing and it was frustrating. I'm not intended to criticize Linux; I've just gotten used to macOS.
by GMoromisato | 2025-10-13 01:21:15+00:00
100% agree. Regulation is part of the answer. For instance, we trust that a gas pump is accurate because we know the government inspects it.

But I think we need more companies where trust/privacy is a brand promise. Apple, I think, is trying because they can. As long as they make money selling hardware, they don't have to rely on ad revenue.

In my opinion, the reason there aren't more companies that brand themselves as privacy-protecting is because people aren't willing to pay that much for it--at least not as much as the companies can make by selling data.

Part of my reaction to the article, however, is that the people who most value privacy are the least willing to pay for software--their solution is always about free-as-in-beer software. That obviously shrinks the market for privacy-respecting software.
by cyclotron3k | 2025-10-13 01:21:31+00:00
Until you click the "accept" button, you haven't agreed to accept any cookies, so if you instead click through to settings, it shows you the current state: cookies off. I think the toggles could be a bit clearer, but I don't really have a problem with it.

Having worked at AI (a long time ago), I can assure you this isn't some mastermind plot to sneak a couple of cookies onto the computers of the one or two people who click through to settings.
by skydhash | 2025-10-13 01:22:36+00:00
The last 60 years of software gave us amazing projects, and if you go through their code, you'll see the same principles that is outlined in every good software engineering book: Good organization, hackish when needs be to resolve some accidental complexity, good comments,...

Most of those things rely on having the right mindset/philosophy first, then having a good grasp about the domain and the technologies (programming languages, platforms, libraries,...). After that you need to start thinking about the tools you used to help you (editors, test runners, static analyzers, debuggers,...). Most LLM users put the latter above all others. Like using the agent precludes knowing about the domain, the technology, and the tooling. And what philosophy? Craftmanship? Sir, here it's all about YOLO.
by phs318u | 2025-10-13 01:22:37+00:00
Are you able to source all (or even the majority) of goods and services that YOU use, within the crypto ecosystem? Are you getting paid directly in crypto (or if you offer goods/services, do you only accept crypto)? i.e. direct exchange of crypto for goods and services? If not, you are using an intermediary to convert crypto into fiat and vice-versa. Do you invest in ANY non-crypto assets? If not, you are relying on a financial intermediary. Do you practice true self-custody of your crypto? If not, you are relying on intermediaries.

For all the theory about the being financially independent of intermediaries, in practice it is nigh on impossible for most folks living in the real economy. Meaning that for most of them, even the crypto-knowledgeable, "embracing crypto" means a compromise with the "absurd" as you put it.
by morshu9001 | 2025-10-13 01:24:13+00:00
Wish I had an answer. I never ended up buying an easy replacement. When I was in college years back, I set up Unifi for my parents, which did work well but had a weird setup that they had 0 chance of handling if I wasn't visiting home.

Now I just have a single basic wifi+router, no mesh. It doesn't really cover my whole house, but one more AP would do. My parents' house needs more APs to the point where management is a concern.
by discordance | 2025-10-13 01:25:10+00:00
The US is ranked 14th in terms of standard of living in (in order):

Luxembourg, Netherlands, Denmark, Oman, Switzerland, Finland, Norway, Iceland, Austria, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, United States, Estonia.

Based on these metrics: Quality of Life Index, Purchasing Power Index, Safety Index, Health Care Index, Cost of Living Index, Property Price to Income Ratio, Traffic Commute Time Index, Pollution Index, and Climate Index.

Source: https://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/rankings_by_country.j...
by compumike | 2025-10-13 01:25:36+00:00
For fun, playing with Meshtastic https://meshtastic.org/ and contributing to the open source firmware and apps. They have something cool but need lots of help. I've patched 3 memory leaks and had a few other PRs merged already.

For work, https://heyoncall.com/ as the best tool for on-call alerting, website monitoring, cron job monitoring, especially for small teams and solo founders.

I guess they both fall under the category of "how do you build reliable systems out of unreliable distributed components" :)
by pixl97 | 2025-10-13 01:26:12+00:00
> They are mutually exclusive things.

Source: You made it up.

Being closer to where the things are so you can walk significantly drops the amount of fuel needed for transportation and opens up public transportation as a workable option.

> USA has only built 1.1 million housing units on average over that period;

That's a government issue, not a practical one. How many housing units did China build in that same amount of time?
by greesil | 2025-10-13 01:28:38+00:00
I bought some furniture from a guy in Ben Lomond and he told me that after the CZU fires, permitting was the bottleneck for most folks, to the point that even four years after the fires some people still were waiting. It's insane. IMO the bottleneck here is likely staffing. If someone wanted to streamline this they'd actually allocate some emergency funds statewide for this.