MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by eminfaliyev1991 | 2025-10-01 16:17:09+00:00
While fundraising, I got frustrated with pitch deck tools:

PDFs = no version control or visibility.

DocSend = pricey, limited analytics.

Others felt rigid or overpriced.

So I built PitchRaft — think DocSend + Hotjar for pitch decks:

Heatmaps: see what slides investors read, skip, or re-watch.

FOMO overlays: subtle nudges like “10 investors are viewing.”

Engagement metrics: time per slide, replays, click-throughs.

Always updated: change decks without breaking links.

Not just tracking views — it helps founders craft better decks based on real investor behavior. Using it ourselves has improved our fundraising and led to more follow-up meetings.

Curious what this community thinks: would you use this over PDFs / DocSend? Any pitfalls you see in investor-facing analytics?
by Smarkets-Talent | 2025-10-01 16:17:26+00:00
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by alexbilbie | 2025-10-01 16:17:27+00:00
We just let someone go during their probation period. In hindsight, it feels like we did this too late. By the time we had enough data points to be confident in the decision, we had already invested a lot of time, money and productivity.

It seems like our feedback loops during probation aren’t tight enough, so clarity only arrives much later than is useful.

I’m curious how other companies approach this. Do you have processes that surface signals earlier in probation? How do you reduce the lag between hiring and realising whether there’s a mismatch?
by vel0city | 2025-10-01 16:17:34+00:00
I actually see robot food delivery services around me, so it might not even be long before those Doordash jobs get replaced by automation. Now I see neighbors starting to get drone deliveries from time to time. Starship used to deliver to the datacenter I used before (it was technically on a college campus but unaffiliated), and I had a coupon for free ice cream delivered through Wing the other day.

https://www.starship.xyz/

https://wing.com/
by eterm | 2025-10-01 16:17:37+00:00
We were still in the EU when GDPR came along, and we haven't repealed our implementation of it, the Data Protection Act ( 2018 ), which has mandated disclosure in line with GDPR.

Even pre-GDPR we had much stronger data protection than most countries with the Data Protection Act ( 1998 ), although I don't remember that having disclosure rules, it did have a lot of things that companies only freaked out about post GDPR and the weight of the EU behind severe penalties.
by Jonovono | 2025-10-01 16:18:01+00:00
Thanks! Ya, I love it for concerts especially. If I use the default camera app I end up spending half the time swiping over to the video section and then finding the red button to start recording, by that time I missed the part of the song I wanted to record ;p

I can take a video on mine without even looking at my phone.

It has zero dependencies, not even tracking any analytics haha
by ceejayoz | 2025-10-01 16:18:36+00:00
Making Trump the de-facto leader of the territory seems intended to give them at least one reason.

> "Gaza will be governed under the temporary transitional governance of a technocratic, apolitical Palestinian committee… with oversight and supervision by a new international transitional body, the "Board of Peace," which will be headed and chaired by President Donald J. Trump"
by SkyPuncher | 2025-10-01 16:18:40+00:00
Eh. No not really. There is a threshold to even be considered on the spectrum.

Most people have 2 legs and 2 arms. Some people don't (birth defects, injuries, accidents, disease, etc). There is a spectrum of missing appendages, but to say everyone is missing at least part of an appendage is not correct.

This is currently how autism is viewed.
by imtringued | 2025-10-01 16:18:45+00:00
>So there you have it. On a panel on how Europe might build its own AI Stack, we heard highlights from the last decade of an intellectual orthodoxy that has contributed upstream to a politics through which Europe talks itself out of its own future. How to build the Eurostack? Their answers are: hold out for the eventual return of an idealized state socialism, declare that AI is racist statistical sorcery, “resist,” stop the construction of data centers and, of course, “communism.” By the end, I think the panel did a very good job exploring exactly why Europe doesn’t have the Eurostack that it wants, just not in the way the organizers intended.

What exactly is the goal of the morality game?

When it comes to adopting technology and catching up in development the Chinese don't give a damn about morality. They don't see western technology as some sort of imperialist or colonial plot that is going to subvert their nation, they ruthlessly copy, steal and acquire western technology/IP and think the westerners are stupid for letting them get away with it. You sanction them and prevent GPUs from entering their border? They'll thank you for supporting their domestic semiconductor industry.

If the Africans were as cutthroat as the Chinese, they wouldn't have anything to worry about.
by cfiggers | 2025-10-01 16:18:57+00:00
> the label has no value in-itself

Yes. And, as you have eloquently said in your other comments in this thread, the label CAN (not DOES but CAN) readily become value-NEGATIVE, if it becomes in itself an object of fixation that draws time and emotional energy away from the basic, brass-tacks work of living life as best as one can, whatever that has to look like for each individual.

It is an obvious error to pretend that this does not or cannot happen—an error no more and no less obvious than to pretend that it must or always happens.
by chasil | 2025-10-01 16:18:57+00:00
Please bear in mind that there are [now] two distinct rsync codebases.

The original is the GPL variant [today displaying "Upgrade required"]:

https://rsync.samba.org/

The second is the BSD clone:

https://www.openrsync.org/

The BSD version would be used on platforms that are intolerant of later versions of the GPL (Apple, Android, etc.).
by card_zero | 2025-10-01 16:19:09+00:00
I respect you, fellowniusmonk, but all we ever get about aphantasia is self-report, anecdote, self-assessment questionnaire, subjective impression. People want me to be nice about this and acknowledge that the thing exists because they all say it does. The best I can offer is acknowledgement that you all say it does.

On the other hand, you have a special claim to plausibility because of the surgery. Oh wait cardiovascular surgery? So, are we saying anaesthetic side effects? Or brain damage from reduced blood flow maybe.

I'll note that a lot of people's impressions and feelings about ... what it's like to be alive, generally ... undergo a radical transformation at about age 13, because hormones.
by munificent | 2025-10-01 16:19:15+00:00
Autism is called a spectrum disorder not because it ranges on a smooth continuum from "no autism" to "lots of autism".

It's because there a handful of associated symptoms for autism and different people have a different mixture of them. You don't need an equally large amount of all symptoms in order to be autistic.

Think of it more like a light spectrum where there are different mixtures of hues for the symptoms, but autism still implies some amount of significant overall intensity. In short, it's a spectrum, not a continuum.

If you experience some or all of the symptoms associated with autism but at a level that doesn't significantly impair your overall functioning, then that's not a diagnosis of autism. Just like everyone who gets sad isn't depressed and everyone who worries doesn't have generalized anxiety. That's just normal human variability and life challenges.
by growingkittens | 2025-10-01 16:19:21+00:00
I estimate that at least 1/8 of all people I have ever met are on the autism spectrum. Around 1/4 to 1/2 of all people I have ever met have some form of executive function disorder.

Psychiatry is in its infancy. To see autism as an "excuse not to deal with life" is just plain bigotry.
by causal | 2025-10-01 16:19:44+00:00
Addressing 2) first: That's good, I totally misunderstood then, and guess I'll need to try it to understand what's new since I thought that kind of tabbing had been there a while.

Back to 1): The type of bug I see most often is where conversation history seems incomplete, and I have trouble rolling back to or even finding a previous point that I am certain existed.

Git shares some features but I think Git was not made for the type of conversational rapid-prototyping LLMs enable. I don't want to be making commits every edit in some kind of parallel-git-state. Cursor's rollback and branching conversations make it easy to backup if a given chat goes down the wrong path. Reapply is tedious since it has to be done one edit at a time - would be nice if you could roll-forward.

I haven't put much thought into what else would be useful, but in general the most value I get from Cursor is simplifying the complex state of branching conversations.
by chrisco255 | 2025-10-01 16:19:56+00:00
I think it's just the huge corpus of fiction that centers around that time frame. Our modern culture is directly descendent of that. Concepts like master bedroom, inheritance, formal titles like sir, King James bible and its older English wording, Shakespeare, King Arthur, etc etc. There are massive stone works and cathedrals from that timeframe still around today in Europe. Many fairy tales and myths and legends were created in that time that colored fiction for the next 500-1000 years into modern day.
by oldjim798 | 2025-10-01 16:20:19+00:00
-->could you name some positive things the Internet has enabled

This interaction? Honestly much much harder to list the positives.

I think much more regulation much much earlier. Cypto-currency should have been shut down immediately never allowed to grow. Same with Uber and AirBnB. Social media companies should have been banned from during algorithmic feeds and been required to moderate content much better.
by quickthrowman | 2025-10-01 16:20:30+00:00
> psychedelics definitely give me visuals. However it‘s more like shifting and warping stuff I and not very pronounced.

At least with LSD and psilocybin, that’s what visuals are. You don’t hallucinate things out of thin air on either one of those drugs, things morph and shift and wobble and waver and shimmer and so on.

At least in the dosage ranges I have explored, 7g dried mushrooms and 10 ‘hits’ of LSD which was probably at least 500mcg?
by maayan-crux | 2025-10-01 16:20:42+00:00
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by Fokamul | 2025-10-01 16:20:52+00:00
Bro, I'm not autistic, but 99% events in this game would trigger me even more than in your game.

Eg.: party near my desk (near my office, even in my office) I will personally cancel their "party", or message each of their bosses etc.

I think, the best thing you can do is to don't care about anybody, "I'm (we're) here to work, if you're not here to work then GTFO".

"Let's have camera's on"...ehm no thanks ;-) etc.

I'm still polite though, I would say highly polite, but if anyone behaves like an idiot, then they will have a problem with me.

Is really being autistic, meaning you take shit from other people all the time? I'm not sure.
by mtalantikite | 2025-10-01 16:20:53+00:00
Yeah, for sure, thanks for pointing that out. For them it seems like fluency is defined as the ability to work comfortably in a professional setting in that target language. I self studied some of their French courses and found them helpful. I've never taken a course of theirs before, but a family member did do a year immersion in Arabic as part of their training for the foreign service, and of course it was a lot more intense than self-study.
by frumplestlatz | 2025-10-01 16:21:02+00:00
My experience has been the opposite — a shell prompt is too many degrees of freedom for an LLM, and it consistently misses important information.

I’ve had much better luck with constrained, structure tools that give me control over exactly how the tools behave and what context is visible to the LLM.

It seems to be all about making doing the correct thing easy, the hard things possible, and the wrong things very difficult.
by b3lvedere | 2025-10-01 16:21:30+00:00
Nice game, but indeed simplified. Did not make it to day 2. Autism is a huge spectrum. I have a family member who needs constant care in a facility because he will try and destroy everything he does not like, but also another one who has light Asperger’s syndrome and functions like society would like him to be as long as you respect his social capabilities. As with most mental things, because people can’t see or sense it, they don’t understand and it gets very very difficult to even acknowledge or respect it.
by w10-1 | 2025-10-01 16:21:40+00:00
To reinforce this: pandoc has been the go-to for a long, long time and they have encountered and addressed tons of issues, which is especially important for two underspecified and over-provisioned formats like HTML and pdf.

Go through the revision and bug history to see a sample of issues you're avoiding by using a highly-trafficked, well-supported solution.

The only reason not to use it is when they say they don't support a given feature that you need; and the nice thing there is that they'll usually say it, and have a good reason why.

The other reason to use pandoc is that while you might currently want PDF as your outbound format, you might end up preferring some other format (structured logically instead of by layout); with pandoc that change would be easy.

Finally, pandoc is extensible. If you do find that you want different output in some respect, you can easily write an plugin (in python or haskel or ...) to make exactly the tweak you need.
by UI_at_80x24 | 2025-10-01 16:22:05+00:00
I will agree and disagree with this comment.

In my experience, I find that it depends on the 'type/cause' of the pain. For soft-tissue related I find it helpful, while for hard-tissue related it does not.

Here are my anecdotes.

I've got 3 different types of back problems. (a) deteriorating cartilage between vertebrae causes bone-on-bone grinding -Cannabis does not help with that

(b) muscle spasms in 'other parts' of back from another cause. -Cannabis does help

(c) neuropathy -Cannabis helps quiet the nerves too

IMHO b & c are related, it's a sedative-like effect. AND related to the points in TFA; it helps me to sleep when B & C are active.
by _ink_ | 2025-10-01 16:22:10+00:00
> I feel like there's more to aphantasia than just "can you see the apple or not?".

There is. I think the definition is still being worked on. Here is an overview, but I don't see your particular case: https://aphantasia.com/article/science/aphantasia-definition...

Since you can recall scenes you saw, it might not be Aphantasia. Not being able to create visuals of random stuff might be called differently.
by al_borland | 2025-10-01 16:22:12+00:00
Had I paid more attention to that, I probably would have skipped them instead of saying I’d take the normal dose.

Some questionable doctor prescribed me something like that a couple months ago as a precursor to dealing with ADHD. He said it would take a few weeks to build up in my system with once daily pills. I took a single pill and didn’t sleep for 3 days, and felt “off” for a good week or three. Never again.
by Brajeshwar | 2025-10-01 16:22:39+00:00
I used to write on a plain-text with YYYY.txt (or .md), with the day/dates as headings. I’ve moved to pen-paper. I do not have strict daily journal or anything of that sort. But I do found myself writing quite a lot.

The most fulfilling one is a dedicated A5 Physical Notebook that I started in 2019, with all writing addressed to my daughters. It is Open and readable by the family, and I have found myself reading my older writing pretty often.

https://brajeshwar.com/2025/notes/
by vlucas | 2025-10-01 16:22:44+00:00
This headline reminds me of a great movie made on this exact subject:

S1m0ne ("Simone", or "Simulation One") https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258153

> A producer's film is endangered when his star walks off, so he decides to digitally create an actress to substitute for the star, becoming an overnight sensation that everyone thinks is a real person.
by stackskipton | 2025-10-01 16:23:08+00:00
> Broadcom seems really determined to drive everyone away from VMWare at this point.

They are but this a shit ton of money to be earned while doing so. VMWare is so cemented at companies that migration for many is going to be almost impossible.

>pre-1990's IBM that locked everything up into service contracts top to bottom

IBM still has a ton of those service contracts. It's small amount of their overall revenue but it's not nothing. 10 years from now, big F500 will still be on VMware paying insane amounts of money.
by collinmcnulty | 2025-10-01 16:23:09+00:00
I think the most useful distinction is between “opinions” and “beliefs” rather than opinions and facts. A belief represents your confidence in the truth or falsehood of a statement. While an opinion has no underlying objective reality. “Apples are better than peaches” is an opinion. “More people ate apples than bananas in 2024” is a belief; it may be a true belief or a false belief but there is an answer.
by lupusreal | 2025-10-01 16:23:26+00:00
The light switch moment for me is when I realized I can tell claude to use linters instead of telling it to look for problems itself. The later generally works but having it call tools is way more efficient. I didn't even tell it what linters to use, I asked it for suggestions and it gave me about a dozen of suggestions, I installed them and it started using them without further instruction.

I had tried coding with ChatGPT a year or so ago and the effort needed to get anything useful out of it greatly exceeded any benifit, so I went into CC with low expectations, but have been blown away.
by thangalin | 2025-10-01 16:23:37+00:00
Is this an xy problem? If you have the original document (in Markdown), one possibility would be to use my software, KeenWrite[1], to convert Markdown to XHTML then typeset XHTML to PDF via ConTeXt. See the user manual[2] for an example of a Markdown document typeset in this fashion, along with usage instructions.

If you only have HTML to work with, you can also use Flying Saucer[3], which is what KeenWrite uses to preview Markdown documents when rendered as HTML. Flying Saucer uses an open-source version of iText[4] to produce PDF documents (from HTML source docs).

Another possibility is to use pandoc and LaTeX.

[1]: https://keenwrite.com/

[2]: https://keenwrite.com/docs/user-manual.pdf

[3]: https://github.com/flyingsaucerproject/flyingsaucer

[4]: https://itextpdf.com/
by goostavos | 2025-10-01 16:24:01+00:00
One of the surprising things about working inside of $MegaCorp is that if you knock on enough doors, you'll eventually find that each org has, like, one dude* with a spread sheet that powers everything else. Teams will get spun up to try to "automate" this spreadsheet, but, on a long enough time horizon, the spreadsheet wins.
by alephnerd | 2025-10-01 16:24:14+00:00
So you are saying your gut feeling is a better source of truth on the state of the entire industry in North America without any proof?

> I probably won’t buy another Honda

I mean that is your perogative. You can find another brand that better aligns with your needs. I think Nissan has come to own that market, and their American cars are fairly reliable now.

> answer to that even if people like bigger cars. One of the biggest successes now is the Ford Maverick

Yep. But it's not a subcompact hatchback like the Honda Fit. Which is what I am getting at - the subcompact hatchback just doesn't have significant PMF in the US by the 2020s.

Small cars are an opportunity, but it will primarily be CUVs and compact pickups.
by femiagbabiaka | 2025-10-01 16:24:33+00:00
https://www.counterterrorism.police.uk/man-from-harlow-jaile...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yl7p4l11po

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_R%C3%BCmeysa_%C3%...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_Mahmoud_Khalil
by Aurornis | 2025-10-01 16:24:37+00:00
> The people on the party committee. The networking event. Your mom who has called three times. Just imagine those activities boosting all of your stats.

It’s a problem when our definition of “normal” is the blended combination of every more outgoing and more successful person we see combined into one composite super-person.

Most people don’t do anything like a party committee. Most people don’t go to networking events and of those who do, many don’t network or socialize much. Most parents don’t call three times per day.

Yet it’s easy to see (or imagine) all of these behaviors and mentally blend them up into a composite idea of what “normal” means in a way that is far from average.

I see this a lot in students self-diagnosing with ADHD right now: Their mental model of “normal” is actually more like a 99th percentile studying and self-discipline machine, not a typical student. The way they describe “normal” or neurotypical people is more like superheroes with super abilities who have infinite motivation to study for 8 hours per day after cleaning their house to spotless precision and never touching their phone for a break. They have mentally erased the average person from their minds and replaced it with a hypothetical super person who doesn’t exist.
by duxup | 2025-10-01 16:24:45+00:00
I worked at a company that for a very short time had engineering, tech support, and sales and such all follow a person from another department around for a little while. It opened up communication and understanding far beyond anything ever had, but it of course ended after a short while. It was inconvenient, and I think it upset some managers who were the gatekeepers of communication and process and otherwise useless humans.

I still fight regularly for a meeting with clients that isn't a list of ideas or features, but is a "why do you want to do this thing" explanation from the very top. I don't always get it, but when I do the new feature right out of the gate, almost every dang time.