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Show HN: TheNext.CEO – Discover your CEO Archetype in 15 minutes
by ajanthanmani | 2025-11-26 13:07:46+00:00
I've been obsessed with a simple question for years: "what kind of CEO am I really built to be - and how does that shape the way I make decisions, hire and build companies?"

Most founders / CEOs content is generic. Yet in practice, very different archetype win: * some CEOs are visionary storytellers. * Some are executions-obsessed operators * Some are product monomaniacs * Some are community / Culture builders

So I built TheNext.CEO - a free, web based CEO archetype assessment platform that tries to capture how you lead, not just "your personality type".

What it does

* Asks you 98 questions across areas like:

- Decision-making style - Risk appetite - Product vs sales vs ops focus - People / culture priorities - Time horizon and ambition

* Maps you into a CEO archetype (e.g. “Visionary Builder”, “Operator-in-Chief”, etc.).

* Gives you:

- A short, skimmable summary of your archetype - Key strengths and blind spots - Suggestions on what kind of team or co-founder might complement you.

The core test is free and runs fully in the browser (no tricks, no paywall required to see your archetype).

What I’m looking for from HN

I’d really appreciate feedback from this community on:

1. Scoring and archetypes

- Does the result feel directionally accurate or completely off? - Are there any questions that feel leading / confusing / redundant? - Any archetype description that feels like hand-wavy fluff?

2. UX / flow

- Is 98 questions “too much”, or is it acceptable if the value is clear? - Any rough edges where you felt like dropping off?

3. Technical / product ideas

- If you’ve built similar assessment tools, what went wrong for you? - Is there anything obviously dangerous or naive in the way I’m approaching this?

4. Future directions

- I’m considering: team-level reports (e.g. “your founding team’s archetype mix”), more granular reports, and anonymized aggregate “state of CEOs” reports. - What would actually be useful vs just “fun”?

It’s an MVP, so I fully expect rough edges. Please be brutal and honest – especially about the questions, the logic, and the usefulness of the result. I’ll hang around in the comments to answer anything and iterate based on feedback.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-11-26 13:08:39+00:00
I recently had to write a simple web app to search through a database, but full-text searching wasn't quite cutting it. The underlying data was too inconsistent and the kind of things people would ask for would mean searching across five or six columns.

Just the job for an AI agent!

So what I did is this - I wrote the app in Django, because it's what I'm familiar with.

Then in the view for the search page, I picked apart the search terms. If they start with "01" it's an old phone number so look in that column, if they start with "03" it's a new phone number so look in that column, if they start with "07" it's a mobile, if it's a letter followed by two digits it's a site code, if it's numeric but doesn't have a 0 at the start it's an internal number, and if it doesn't match anything then see if it exists as a substring in the description column.

There we go. Very fast and natural searching that Does What You Mean (mostly).

No Artificial Intelligence.

All done with Organic Home-grown Brute Force and Ignorance.

Because that's sometimes just what you need.
by igtztorrero | 2025-11-26 13:10:00+00:00
The most common catastrophic failure you’ll see in SSDs: the entire drive simply drops off the bus as though it were no longer there.

Happened to me last week.

I just put it in a plastic bag into the freezer during 15 minutes, and works.

I made a copy to my laptop and then install a new server.

But not always works like charms.

Please always have a backup for documents, and a recent snapshot for critical systems.
by gambiting | 2025-11-26 13:10:08+00:00
I mean, it can be done with legislation too. Poland where I'm from used to be absolutely plastered with giant bilboards everywhere you looked, you literally couldn't go anywhere without seeing some ad in your perhipheral vision. But recently a new law was passed that banned all advertising in public spaces unless it's literally a banner above your store, and we suddenly got our public spaces back. It's almost weird not seeing ads on every tree and every 10 meters by the side of the road.
by evelant | 2025-11-26 13:10:15+00:00
Alien: Isolation truly is an under appreciated masterpiece. One of the best video games ever made IMO. Aesthetic, sound design (put on headphones and watch the reactor purge scene or the spacewalk near the end it’s phenomenal sound design), emotional design, storytelling, it captures the setting in a way I don’t think anything has done since the first two films.
by bossyTeacher | 2025-11-26 13:10:22+00:00
This hinges on his company achieving AGI while he's still alive. He's 38 years old. He has about 4 decades to deliver AGI in his lifetime. When he dies, there is no guarantee whoever takes over will share his values.

"If you think that AGI is not possible to achieve, then you probably wouldn't be giving anyone money in this space." If you think other people think AGI is possible, you sell them shovels and ready yourself for a shovel market dip in the near future. Strike while the iron is hot.
by eisbaw | 2025-11-26 13:10:30+00:00
Programming and CS is the art of solving problems - hopefully problems that matter.

AI lets you do that faster.

AI may suggest a dumb way, so you have to think, and tell it what to do.

My rate of thinking is faster than typing, so the bottleneck has switched from typing to thinking!

Don't let AI think for you. Do actual intensional arch design.

Programmers that don't know CS who only care about hammering the keyboards because they're artisans have little future.

AI also give me back my hobby after having kids -- time is valuable, and AI is energy efficient.

We are truly living in a cambrian explosion -- lot of slop will be produced, but market and selection pressure will weed those out.
by seec | 2025-11-26 13:10:40+00:00
In my opinion you are just more likely to run into bad influences that not only won't bring value but might as well send you a pretty bad path. The socialisation aspect of school is very largely bullshit, just like the diversity propaganda nonsense. There are actually studies on this is you want to look it up. Homeschooled children, do better in social settings later in life, not worse.
by fschuett | 2025-11-26 13:10:57+00:00
Of course! This is actually very straightforward and easy, what you need is just:

- One MongoDB collection (`government_stuff`) to store employees, rodents, cardiac arrest surgeries and other items as JSON

- Core `/handler` API that forwards all requests to ChatGPT, figuring out if you're tracking a rodent or processing payroll

- AI Vision to analyze CCTV feeds for rodents, monitors employee productivity and verify hospital equipment status

- Blockchain layer for transparency (every rodent sighting minted as NFT).

Estimated timeline: 2 weeks, 1 junior developer. Cost: ~$10k including token credits. Should I start implementing the main.js?
by EliteGadget | 2025-11-26 13:11:29+00:00
The point being made is that he has plenty of income (it is in the 10s of millions I am sure).

If he has that many employees for his YouTube channel he is letting his expenses get out of control. It is as simple as that.

If he fired everyone tomorrow and stopped making videos, he would probably still be making six to seven figures a year just from people (re)-watching the existing content. I wouldn't be surprised if he has other holdings / properties that generate him income outside of YouTube.

You see this happen a lot on YouTube where someone starts getting a lot of money in via YouTube Ad-revenue and they start trying to operate it like it is a television station and paying for co-hosts and researchers etc. Costs then increase ten to twenty fold. Then once inevitably YouTube change how monetisation works or people get bored with their content and their revenue dips they resort to clickbait, scamming, and other nonsense.

This could all be avoided by just keeping control of their costs. So I have little sympathy for him saying "I have to do the click bait guys", when it was his decision to make those hires and he was already rolling in cash.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-11-26 13:12:15+00:00
> This sounds magical though

Not really, this is just the way that evolution works - survival of the fittest (in the prevailing environment). Given that the world is never same twice, then generalization is a must-have. The second time you see the tiger charging out, you better have learnt your lesson from the first time, even if everything other than "it's a tiger charging out" is different, else it wouldn't be very useful!

You're really saying the same thing, except rather than call it generalization you are calling it being the same "if you use the correct similarity measures".

The thing is that we want to create AI with human-like perception and generalization of the world, etc, etc, but we're building AI in a different way than our brain was shaped. Our brain was shaped by evolution, honed for survival, but we're trying to design artificial brains (or not even - just language models!!) just by designing them to operate in a certain way, and/or to have certain capabilities.

The transformer was never designed to have brain-like properties, since the goal was just to build a better seq-2-seq architecture, intended for language modelling, optimized to be efficient on today's hardware (the #1 consideration).

If we want to build something with capabilities more like the human brain, then we need to start by analyzing exactly what those capabilities are (such as quick and accurate real-time generalization), and considering evolutionary pressures (which Ilya seems to be doing) can certainly help in that analysis.

Edit: Note how different, and massively more complex, the spatio-temporal real world of messy analog never-same-twice dynamics is to the 1-D symbolic/discrete world of text that "AI" is currently working on. Language modelling is effectively a toy problem in comparison. If we build something with brain-like ability to generalize/etc over real world perceptual data, then naturally it'd be able to handle discrete text and language which is a very tiny subset of the real world, but the opposite of course does not apply.
by magicalist | 2025-11-26 13:12:17+00:00
> In medicine, we're already seeing productivity gains from AI charting leading to an expectation that providers will see more patients per hour.

And not, of course, an expectation of more minutes of contact per patient, which would be the better outcome optimization for both provider and patient. Gotta pump those numbers until everyone but the execs are an assembly line worker in activity and pay.
by jorvi | 2025-11-26 13:12:32+00:00
Interestingly enough the same happens on both Spotify's desktop and Chromecast / Apple TV application when you "song surf".

If you rapidly keep skipping through a song, then to the next one and repeat, the performance will keep on tanking. After a while it'll take 5-10 seconds just to load a song, going to other UI sections will take 3-5 seconds to load, and eventually the application completely locks up and soft reboots itself.

Probably JavaScript garbage collectors getting overwhelmed.
by ozim | 2025-11-26 13:12:32+00:00
There is no solution because these projects are not failing because of technical reasons.

They are failing because of political scheming and bunch of people wanting to have a finger in the pie - "trillions spent" - I guess no one would mind earning couple millions.

Then you have "important people" who want to be important and want to have an opinion on font size and that some button should be 12px to the right because they are "important" it doesn't matter for the project but they have to assert the dominance.

You have 2 or 3 companies working on a project? Great! now they will be throwing stuff over the fence to limit their own cost and blame others while trying to get away with as least work done cashing most money possible.

That is how sausage is made. Coming up with "reasonable approach" is not the solution because as soon as you get different suppliers, different departments you end up with power/money struggle.
by wbolt | 2025-11-26 13:12:34+00:00
At this moment there are 8 security issues open on GitHub (2 of them marked as High) and more than 190 issues in general. So it does look like a work-in-progress thing to me.

The application seems very cute and handy and it still might be very useful in a lot of specific use cases. Just keep in mind that it might not be production ready for you.
by matu3ba | 2025-11-26 13:12:44+00:00
What would be more sane alternatives, when it becomes obvious that any side-effect of timing is a potential attack vector? See https://www.hertzbleed.com/ for frequency side channels. I do only see dedicated security cores as options with fast data lanes to the CPU similar to what Apple is doing with Secure Enclave or do you have better suggestions that still allow performance and power savings?
by cowsandmilk | 2025-11-26 13:14:07+00:00
We’re also still at a point where security is a big question mark. My employer won’t let us hook GenAI up to office 365 or slack, so any project or product management use of GenAI first requires manually importing docs into a database and pointing to that. Efficiency gains are hard to come by when you don’t meet people where their “knowledge” is already stored.
by phantasmish | 2025-11-26 13:14:54+00:00
Iraq had one of the largest militaries in the world at the time of Desert Storm. They had tons and tons of arms and equipment and a huge standing army to counter the persistent threat (and/or to provide their own threat) of resumed hostilities with Iran (that war was still pretty recent when Desert Storm took place)

I would agree that the US is notably terrible at occupations and getting involved in civil wars, at least since WWII, but Desert Storm was pretty much an unqualified slam-dunk take-a-victory-lap success against one of the top armies in the world that wasn’t an ally or a nuclear state—carried out on the other side of the planet from the US, to boot. Like I think Iraq was ranked top-10 at the time by many ways of reckoning military strength, and that wasn’t enough to effectively resist the US effort at all, really.

If that war seems small, it’s only possible for it to seem that way from the victor’s perspective, and only because we did such an amazingly good job of totally destroying Iraq’s substantial capacity to fight in a matter of weeks. In terms of deployed and engaged men and materiel it was really big, just fast because it was so very one-sided, and “cheap” in terms of casualties on the US side for the same reason.
by codingdave | 2025-11-26 13:15:13+00:00
98 questions is too much.

I kinda like psych tests, so might be willing to try it anyway, except your landing page says all you get is a summary, and in the future you may be able to "unlock" the full report. Which sounds like a "collect your emails and try to charge you for the results" business model.

Also, be wary of bucketing people into archetypes. That is pretty much the entire reason Myers-Briggs and other psych assessments are completely debunked.
Show HN: Give your AI coding agents the full context, ship production-ready code
by riktar | 2025-11-26 13:16:32+00:00
Hi all, we built Artiforge.ai because we saw the same frustration everyone coding with AI agents feels: AI often produces boilerplate code, misses project-specific context and forces you to fix or refactor anyway.

With Artiforge you automatically connect your IDE, your entire codebase and your AI models so your agents understand architecture, dependencies, conventions and context.

Here is what you get out of the box

Task orchestration: complex feature requests become structured actionable tasks. Artiforge Documentation

Multi-agent workflow: different agents for code generation, testing, documentation, reviewing — each with its role.

True context awareness: AI sees project-wide structure, patterns and dependencies, not just isolated files.

Seamless integration: works with tools you already use (any IDE with MCP support).

Getting started takes few minutes: create an account, install the MCP plugin in your IDE, then ask the AI to “use Artiforge tool to do this task: …”. From there you can build features, generate docs, run scans or refactoring with full context.

We offer a free trial so you can try it on a real project before committing.

If you care about shipping production-ready code instead of spending more time debugging AI output, Artiforge could be worth your time. Happy to answer questions or feedback from the community.
by medstrom | 2025-11-26 13:16:58+00:00
Also thinking about this. Requirements I've identified -- and this is why people give up and just run Emacs on Android:

1. Able to natively edit and view same file type on both devices, be it .md or .org or whatever you choose (there are more apps supporting .md, if you can stomach that)

2. Links must work on both devices! That alone means it's not trivial, even if you have a lightbulb moment and use .md files for access to more apps, together with one of Emacs' filetype-independent links like Hyperbole or Denote, because no .md app will support those links. Conversely in .org, not all apps even support Org-ID links... especially not making it easy to insert such a link.

3. App must have satisfactory editing facilities. I know at least one app that doesn't even let you indent/dedent list bullets...

4. If you use TODO tasks, the app needs to make it convenient to see them at a glance across all files. Many Org apps fail here and either basically assume you have like one "todo.org" file and need no hand-holding, or even if they list all TODOs, there's no way to sort or filter, or it only lets you see them but not toggle them to DONE!

5. If you use a wiki-style workflow such as org-roam, so that you have far too many small files to keep track of, the app needs to make it easy to browse. Many apps fail here, just showing you a file list on the assumption that you even know what your files are named or what's in them. Count your blessings if there's at least a good search facility.

6. Instant & reliable sync. Logseq Sync is too buggy (at least it was in 2023). Things like Syncthing just aren't good enough if you don't also host a server that is always on. If sync conflicts are frequent, I'll be so wary of editing that I stop altogether.
by mrgaro | 2025-11-26 13:17:09+00:00
At least in Nordics (I'm from Finland) heat pumps are rapidly replacing other forms of heating. One can get a big enough heat pump for a 200m^2 house (including heating hot water) for around 10-15k, with a few thousand more for installation price.

Adding 10-15kWp of solar panels to the roof is around 6k more. It's definitively a no-brainer as it will recoup the investment in 5-10 years.
by erincandescent | 2025-11-26 13:17:21+00:00
> Sure some few adults can learn languages as fast as kids, but you completely missed my main points around gatekeeping that language skills always has on adults and less so on kids.

Adults in general are actually way faster at learning languages than kids if you control for time actually spent learning the language, but generally adults are required to fit language learning in around a full time job (and are also full of shame/embarrassment)
by srean | 2025-11-26 13:17:46+00:00
They do. There are enormous redundancies. There's a manifold over which the parameters can vary wildly yet do zilch to the output. The nonlinear analogue of a null space.

Parameter instability does not worry a machine learner as much as it worries a statistician. ML folks worry about output instabilities.

The current understanding goes that this overparameterization makes reaching good configurations easier while keeping the search algorithm as simple as stochastic gradient descent.
by Ensorceled | 2025-11-26 13:18:03+00:00
> We can build huge things like airliners, massive bridges and buildings without starting small.

We did start small with all of those things. We developed rigorous disciplines around engineering, architecture, material sciences. And people died along the way in the thousands[0][1]

People are still dying from those failures; The Boeing 737 MAX 9 crash was only two years ago.

> Incremental makes less sense to me when you want to go to mars.

This is yet another reason why a manned Mars mission will be exceedingly dangerous NOT a strike against incremental development and deployment.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_building_and_structure...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incident...
by boriskourt | 2025-11-26 13:18:23+00:00
I like the idea of being more physical, I wonder how it will work in practice. But would love to visit and see.

Great products don’t happen in isolation. They are shaped by the people who use them. That’s what this space is for: a place where Kagi users and our team members can share feedback, ideas, and a cup of coffee in person. Kagi Hub is an extension of our mission to humanize the web, creating an offline space where people who care about a better internet can meet.
by libraryofbabel | 2025-11-26 13:18:50+00:00
True, but this does not particularly apply to the Birkin, which was famously created for the actress Jane Birkin after she complained to the CEO of Hermes that she couldn’t get a bag big enough to hold both scripts and baby diapers. Sure, it’s not as good at carrying things as a backpack, but it’s not bad either.

It does delight me no end to see a whole thread on handbags on HN. I agree with one of the parent posters though, handbags are an unusual category with long-lived brand status (like cars and watches) and not really comparable to lububus.
by cb321 | 2025-11-26 13:19:46+00:00
For a while now, I've been summarizing the ease with which everything turns into a "Humanity Complete" problem via: "Delegation affords so much, but trust sure is tricky."

This has been observed forever in various forms/contexts. Planning & policy people call them "Wicked Problems" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem). The Philosophy of Science one goes by the Demarcation Problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demarcation_problem) { roughly, in the sense that the really hard nugget connects to "trust" }.

At least one aspect of all of it is that trust is a little like money/capital and "faking it" is a bit like "stealing". The game theory of it is that since faking is virtually always vastly cheaper there are (eventually) huge incentives to do so, at some point by someone(s). So, almost any kind of trust/delegation structure has a strong pull toward "decay", from knock-off brands to whatever. It just takes a sadly small fraction of Prisoner's Dilemma defectors to ruin things/systems thereof. 2nd law of thermo makes order cost energy and this decay feels like almost an isomorphic (maybe even the same..?) thing. It's not just product/tech enshittification, but that might be yet another special case/example.

Anyway, I have no great answers or as some responder to me a while back said, if I did, I'd "have a Nobel and possibly be the first president of the united planet".