MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
AI second brain apps, thoughts?
by BarnardSihem300 | 2025-10-03 04:14:46+00:00
Just curious, what are you guys using for knowledge management? (like notes, docs, newsletter ...) Been seeing these kind of AI second brain everywhere and trying out some names like notion, mem.ai, saner.ai, fabric... Haven't decided what to use yet, so would love to hear how folks are using AI for this use case
by YZF | 2025-10-03 04:16:48+00:00
This is the equivalent of "some of my best friends are Jews".

So the Satmar anti-Zionist Jews are ok? But the other Jews? Also met with love? Do you love the Jews that have opinions that differ than yours on this conflict? Why do Palestinian protests where I live (Canada) target Synagogues, Jewish owned businesses, Jewish neighborhoods?

Do Zionists control the US? The Media? Not Jews... nono. "Zionists".

I'm not necessarily talking about you specifically. But it is a fact that antisemites use this technique and this is being normalized. Why does it matter than you have a token Jewish person in your protest at all? Who cares if someone in your protest is a Satmar Jew or an Iranian Bhaii?
by gyomu | 2025-10-03 04:17:25+00:00
Is there an example of a platform that serves almost 2 billion users, across 40+ languages and many more geographic locales, countless possible hardware configurations etc., introducing dozens/hundreds of new features a year, without falling into all those traps?

Of course I wholeheartedly agree with your critiques. But the original iPhone - or even macOS circa 2005 - were very different products, much more limited in scope and capability.

It's already hard enough to make a product a paragon of simplicity when the number of things it needs to do are so limited (as evidenced by all the products out there that are even more confusing than Apple products, doing even less), but I'm not sure it's even possible to do it when you reach such planetary scale.

Seems to me that the only way to have a product that's a paragon of simplicity is to have a product that does much, much less. But you don't become a trillion dollar company with 2 billion active users by doing less.
by jimmaswell | 2025-10-03 04:17:59+00:00
I tried for quite a while to do the "100 pushups" program but I could never get past 7 pushups. They can be a deceptively very difficult thing to get right.

For one, you find it takes great concentration and continuous form checks not to do things that route 100% of the exercise through your shoulders instead of chest. Your elbows will want to flare out all the way, because our body just prefers shoulders for some reason and really really doesn't want the chest to be exercised, and pretty soon you'll have a shoulder impingement. At this point you have to give up on the exercise for a while to not inflame it further and make the injury permanent. Even trying my hardest to do the form perfectly I start feeling something in my shoulder eventually.

Besides the form, I just found them very hard to progress on compared to other exercises. For half a year or so a few years ago, I did them all the time wherever I was to pass the time, usually to failure. But I just never found that point where I could keep going and going like most people reach easily. When I started my form was wrong and I think I could get to 8 but once I corrected the form I never got that far. The number just rose to 6 or 7 and wouldn't budge. I tracked all my calories and macros - I was only very slightly below maintenance while making sure I had at least 1 gram of protein per kilogram of body weight, every day. Here's the log from when I tried the 100 pushups program at the end:

Failed week 1 and had to redo it 1 time, failed week 2 4 times and had to go back to week 1, passed week 1, failed week 2 and gave up.

I got an optional free testosterone test recently out of curiosity. It was only 326 which is in "reference" but the consensus online seems to be that this is too low for 30 and men tend to feel much better at a level of 500+. So I'm strongly considering starting TRT and trying again, maybe with a generous calorie surplus this time to make sure there are no possible obstacles? Not sure what else I could do to move past such a plateau. I hit a similar one in the bench press too.
by rixed | 2025-10-03 04:18:00+00:00
> I care that software I depend upon survives long term. > "Fair" source does absolutely nothing to allievate those concerns.

Of course it does ! Git clone, problem solved.

I'm all in favor of free software, but it sounds a bit disingenuous to pretend that the GPL or even, to a lesser extent, the Affero variant, are providing a safe haven for sustainable software. The reality is, sadly, that free software depends on the good will of very few idealistic people who manage to somehow make a living while spending a lot of time on working for free ; and i must know since I've been lucky to be able to do this most of my life. This is no guaranteed survival or innovation.

While I believe it's very useful to remind users of the freedom they should ask for, I don't think it's useful to oppose free software with fair source, exactly like in the past it was important to remind users of the differences between free software and open source, yet it was counter productive to oppose them.
by bawolff | 2025-10-03 04:18:16+00:00
> I think "if their authorities can kick down the door of the house you were born in" is a good enough guide here to see the problem as distinct from other military interventions, not like the invasion of Iraq was a good idea.

The US had troops in iraq that were going around kicking in doors. I'm not trying to make any claim as to wether the invasion was a good or bad thing (actually i think it was a bad thing), but it clearly meets your definition of when people should get a vote.

At the same time i think most americans would view the proposition that iraqis should vote in us federal elections absurd.

> The US was not established in Iraq long enough for generations of adults born in Iraq to have grown up under US control.

This is a bit of a goal post move but what time frame do you think is relavent? America invaded iraq in 2003. They left briefly but then came back. They still have a small number of troops there right now. There is a generation of iraqis who have grown up never knowing a time where american troops werent in their country.

> The border between US and Iraq is not like the border between two suburbs, and there were never Iraqis crossing that border daily to drive a taxi or clean someone's house or see a doctor.

I'm not sure the relavence. Most borders in europe are like this, they dont vote in each others elections. I don't think at present this would describe the border situation in Israel/Palestine.

> They had enough control over Gaza before October 7th to deny Gaza a port, an airport, and even the right to do peaceful commercial fishing without getting their boats lit up.

Sure, and that's an argument people use to claim that the territory is under Israeli occupation (or sometimes they argue that would not be enough to start an occupation but its enouth to make the occupation not terminate). I think everyone agrees that Israel exerts significant military control over occupied Palestinian territories. That is why they are called "occupied".
by nofriend | 2025-10-03 04:18:43+00:00
If that opinion had legal weight, then it could have been laundered through a legal instrument like a court order. It is complete nonsense legally. People who have wanted to find ICE agents to attack have succeeded in finding their headquarters and attacking them there. The more obvious purpose of the app is to identify ICE agents in order to avoid being victimized by them. Regardless of the actual purpose of the app, simply identifying a person's location does not legally constitute a threat, and is protected by the first amendment.

There's a irony here. Google recently was stuck in front of congress and had to apologize for censoring people at the behest of the previous presidential administration despite not being legally required to. Now we have the current administration pressuring companies to censor their users, and those companies readily complying. Nothing has changed except for the political orientation.
by StarterPro | 2025-10-03 04:19:06+00:00
Its a completely optional purchase, and there's no clear way for ads to be included without it muddying up the actual answer.

"The most popular brand of bread in America is........BUTTERNUT (AD)"

Its a sinkhole that they are destroying our environment for. Its not sustainable on a massive scale, and I expect to see Sam Altman join his 30 under 30 cohorts SBF and such eventually.
by sherry-sherry | 2025-10-03 04:20:13+00:00
I'd love for all tech reviewers at future product launches to go: "Yeah cool new iPads thanks... why did you guys block and remove an app that wasn't illegal? One that helped people know if armed forces that could search them and tear apart their homes were in the area?".

Just refuse to report on or post about new product launches without mentioning it.

Press is an large thing for Apple. Multiple times now they've only sprung into action when the press got on their arse about something (faulty HDD cables/video cards in Macbook Pros, faulty keyboards, etc). Press getting on them could push them to take an actual stance, or at least explain why (bowing to the dictator in this case).
by saurik | 2025-10-03 04:20:56+00:00
I lost--not on the facts, or even on the relevant law, and not even in the district court where we were being heard, but in appeals on a narrow technicality of statute of limitations that we bet our case on (I am explicit about this as Apple didn't "win", so much as "we failed"; I even feel like our case just wasn't argued very well once we got to that level, which hurts)--over a year and a half ago... so, never :(.
by 1659447091 | 2025-10-03 04:21:05+00:00
> but everyone knows that it's almost always used for an illegal purpose

And I would argue that to the general population (non-HN/tech types) a VPN is the "Pirates Bay" of banned or ID law content. Porn ID law goes into effect, tens of thousands of people suddenly sign up for a VPN. If they thought of it as "shielding your traffic while using a public network" they wouldn't be signing up en masse when laws happen that they want to circumvent; they would have already been using it.

As for ICEBlock et al, knowing they are raiding in a part of a city that happens to be on someones running or cycling/walking route while being a darkly pigmented citizen is a valid use of the app to know to stay clear of the area. It should not be a thing, but it is.
by microsestudios | 2025-10-03 04:21:17+00:00
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by 9rx | 2025-10-03 04:22:44+00:00
Cruise control also doesn't need human intervention for the vast marjory of its operation. Yet, the human remains the operator. But it seems we're just playing a silly game of semantics at this point, so let's return to the actual topic at hand.

There was a time where people believed that everyone would buy a new car with self-driving technology, which would be an enormous cash cow for anyone responsible for delivering the technology to facilitate that. So the race was on to become that responsible party. What we actually got, finally, decades after the bubble began, was a handful of taxis that can't leave a small, tightly controlled region — all while haemorrhage money like it is going out of style.

It is really interesting technology and it is wonderful that Alphabet is willing to heavily subsidize moving some people from point A to point B in a limited niche capacity, but the idea that you could buy in and turn that investment into vast riches was soon recognized as a dead end.

AI is still in the "maybe it will become something someday" phase. Clearly it has demonstrated niche uses already, but that isn't anywhere nearly sufficient to justify all the investment that has gone into it. It needs a "everyone around the world is going to buy a new car" moment for the financials to make sense and that hasn't happened yet. And people won't wait around forever. The window to get there is quickly closing. Much like self-driving cars, a "FAANG" might still be willing to offer subsidies to keep it alive in some kind of limited fashion, but most everyone else will start to pull out and then there will be nothing to keep the bubble inflated.

It isn't too late for AI yet. People remain optimistic at this juncture. But the odds are not good. As before, even if AI reaches a point where it does everything we could ever hope for, much of the dreams built on those hopes are likely to end up being pretty stupid in hindsight. The Dotcom bubble didn't pop because the internet was flawed. It popped because we started to realize that we didn't need it for the things we were trying to use it for. It is almost certain that future AI uses that have us all hyped up right now will go the same way. Such is life.
by dlubarov | 2025-10-03 04:23:02+00:00
The strawman is that Hamas is intercepting all the aid. Sure people occasionally say that, but you're attacking an oversimplification of the real underlying points, which are that

- Groups of men with rifles tend to be belligerents in the conflict, even if we can't say definitively if they're with Hamas, PIJ or some smaller gang. Israel doesn't want an aid program where the bulk of the aid goes to their literal war enemies.

- Even if some of them are "civilian armed gangs" and not actual belligerents, the aid they steal still isn't getting to civilians (except when it's sold at extortionate prices). Hence the shift to GHF which, while it has its own problems, does actually deliver most aid to ordinary civilians for free.
by Agentlien | 2025-10-03 04:23:22+00:00
> it's usually more "cost efficient" to write normal fast-to-write code that isn't maximally effective, let the compiler do its magic, and call it good enough.

For the last six years my full time job has largely been optimizing games where most of the team has been working with this mindset. Sometimes someone spends a few days of just getting things done, followed by others building on top of it. This leads to systems which are not fast enough and take me weeks or even months to optimize.

We even got together at my last job and created a series of lectures on performance and best practices for everyone, including artists, to get ahead of this type of issues. It was apparently very appreciated, especially among the non technical staff who said it was valuable and they had no idea.
by cwyers | 2025-10-03 04:24:13+00:00
Retrosheet is a project which reconstructs historical baseball games from old newspaper accounts, scorescards purchased at estate sales, and other means. They actually have an ASCII scorecard format:

https://www.retrosheet.org/eventfile.htm

Originally to parse these out people used MS-DOS utilities written by the guy who made the Diamond Mind Baseball game. There's a more modern set of utilities called Chadwick now so you don't have to use DOS.
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by bawolff | 2025-10-03 04:25:14+00:00
It probably doesn't matter much. I agree that both the PA and especially Hamas are despotic dictatorships. So are a lot of countries. That's tragic for Palestinian citizens but ultimately doesn't matter much for determining if a piece of land is independent, occupied or annexed.

Much of it just comes down to drawing a line in the sand at roughly the start of when the United Nations started, and saying this is what the borders are and no one is allowed to change them by force (one of the conditions of joining the UN is to give up the right to acquire territory by force). So from that view, it was egyptian and jordan territory who in turn, supported by the UN, gave it to the palestinian people as respresented by the PA. In a certain way that's pretty arbitrary but i guess its sort of an, it is what it is, sort of thing.
by raincole | 2025-10-03 04:26:16+00:00
And we (average users) are really luck for that. Imagine a world where Google had been pushing AI products in the first place. OpenAI and other competitors would not stand a chance and it would have ads in 2024. They'd have captured hundreds of billions of value by now.

The fact that we had Attention Is All You Need was freely available online alone was unbelievably fortunate from hindsight.
by geuis | 2025-10-03 04:26:25+00:00
I've never been an artist but I love 3d printing. So 5 years ago I went through the struggle of learning to use Blender. Best choice I ever made. I still struggle to understand even the most basic CAD app.

I probably spend more time for some projects in blender than I would in a proper cad environment, but it's a toolset I understand somewhat deeply now.

So far, Blender is one of the most successful open source projects I've ever worked with in the last 30 years. Even with major changes, every change has mostly been for the better. The introduction of geometry nodes completely changed my workflow a few years ago. So much room for activities after that.

Unlike any other modern software package, I have no regrets or doubt when I upgrade to the latest Blender release.

If you're on the fence about picking up Blender I highly recommend taking the deep dive.
by mingtianzhang | 2025-10-03 04:27:36+00:00
Many RAG systems handle in-document references (like “see appendix for details”) by building graphs or other preprocessing structures. The idea is to make sure cross-references are resolved before retrieval.

But with reasoning-based RAG, you don’t need that extra layer. The LLM itself can read the document, notice the reference, and then “jump” to the appendix (or wherever the reference points) to extract the answer. In other words, instead of pre-building structure, the model reasons its way through the content.

An example of reasoning-based RAG with PageIndex MCP is attached. In this example, the query asks for the total value. The main text only provides the increased value and refers to the appendix table for the total value. The LLM then looks up the appendix to find the total value and explains its reasoning process.

This raises an interesting question: how much preprocessing do we actually need for reasoning-augmented RAG, and when is it better to just let the model figure it out?
by captainkrtek | 2025-10-03 04:27:55+00:00
I found when I was eating things like burgers at the office, I was also commuting (reducing free time to exercise or cook healthy in the evening), and waking up early for work/commuting made me generally more tired.

So the burger for lunch maybe wasn't the issue in isolation, but then when I got home I'd still be tired and hungry, maybe eat something else unhealthy/processed, and be too tired to exercise, either way still not in a calorie deficit. I think it's a chain reaction between these things, at least in my experience.
by aeonfox | 2025-10-03 04:27:59+00:00
Thank you! It means a lot that someone's out there enjoying it. I put a lot of love and care into the interface. I left it bit of a mystery so that people might explore and learn its secrets, so I hope you look a little further :) You can do a lot of thing that can't be done on news.ycombinator.com (or Algolia).
by wltr | 2025-10-03 04:28:04+00:00
Even I often tell I chatgeepeeteed the result, in the same fashion when I continue saying I googled the result, while actually I used Duck Duck Go. I could ask another LLM provider, but I have no idea how to communicate that properly to a non-technical folks. Heck, I don’t want to communicate that _properly_ to tech peers either. I don’t like these pedantic phrases ‘well, actually … that wasn’t Google, I used DDG for that.’ Sometimes I can say ‘web search,’ but ‘I googled that’ is just more natural thing to say.

Same here. I tried saying ‘I asked LLM’ or ‘I asked AI’ but that doesn’t sound right for me. So, in most conversations I say ‘I asked Chat GPT’ and in most of these situations, it feels like the exact provider does not matter, since essentially they are very similar in their nature.
by saurik | 2025-10-03 04:29:54+00:00
> Tim Cook is a very shareholder-friendly CEO.

I feel like John Sculley of all people praising Tim Cook on this point was pretty damning ;P.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/03/ex-apple-ceo-john-sculley-co...

> “Steve Jobs created a loyalty with users that is unparalleled in the consumer technology world. What Tim Cook has done, he’s built a loyalty with shareholders,” Sculley said on “Squawk on the Street.”

> Regardless, if shareholders care about long term instead of short term, shareholders - as a whole - put the wrong CEO in charge.

FWIW, while I keep wondering just how different the entire world would have ended up if Scott Forstall had ended up in charge of Apple instead of Tim Cook, I believe he was also one of the big reasons the App Store ended up as evil as it was (not Steve) :(. Is there anyone whom we could take seriously as having been in serious contention who actually would have done a better job?
by CamperBob2 | 2025-10-03 04:30:16+00:00
The governments will always have the power, that's pretty much built into the definition of government.

Not the definition of our government. Our founding documents state that "Congress shall make no law" along the lines of what Apple is being pressured to do here.

And the executive branch isn't supposed to be making laws at all, even though that's what they're doing.

As the GP says: the problem is the power. But when some of us argue that maybe the government shouldn't have this kind of power, we get shouted down with "HURR DURR MOVE TO SOMALIA THEN," and worse.
by riku_iki | 2025-10-03 04:30:30+00:00
that list is catchy, but if you dig into details, there are many caveats, for example many product were not killed, but replaced with low friction, for example hangout, many products were created at period of time when there was that google labs which launched many strange low quality products which never gained traction.

If you check some core business products (ads, cloud), google usually provides reasonable deprecation timeframe (years).