MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Find Faceless YouTube Channels with AI
by andybady | 2025-11-17 01:03:40+00:00
Here's my embarrassing story:

I thought "gaming highlights" would work. Made 20 videos. Got 47

subscribers. Realized the CPM is like $2-4. Would need 500K views

just to make $1K/month. Not happening.

Then I tried "motivational quotes". Saturated. Couldn't get any

traction.

Then "meditation music". Also saturated. Plus copyright issues.

I was so frustrated. I knew faceless channels could work (I saw

some making money), but I had no idea HOW to find profitable ones.

Manually searching YouTube was a nightmare:

- Most channels show face sometimes (not truly faceless)

- Can't tell if they're actually monetized

- No way to know their revenue

- Takes forever to find good examples

I wasted 3 months guessing. Made 50+ videos across different niches.

Got nowhere.

Then I realized the problem:

I was trying to find profitable faceless channels manually. It's

impossible. There are millions of channels. How do you know which

ones are actually making money?

So I built a scraper to track faceless channels making $5K+/month.

Started analyzing what actually works.

What I found:

- Personal finance reviews (budget products) - Channels making

$15K-35K/mo

- Tech comparisons (budget tech angle) - Channels making $12K-28K/mo

- "How it works" explained content - Channels making $8K-20K/mo

- Ranking videos ("Top 10 X under $Y") - Channels making $6K-18K/mo

- Historical deep dives - Channels making $10K-22K/mo

The pattern: All successful faceless channels pick a micro-niche.

Not "tech reviews" but "budget gaming laptops under $800".

I turned my research into a tool called *ApexVix* so other people

don't waste months like I did. It tracks profitable faceless channels

across all niches and shows you:

- Real channels making $5K-30K/month

- What niches they're in

- Growth patterns

- Upload frequency that works

It's free to use: apexvix

No signup needed. I just wish I had this when I started. Would've

saved me 3 months of guessing.

If you're struggling to find profitable faceless niches, this might

help. Happy to answer questions!
by Ms-J | 2025-11-17 01:04:01+00:00
This is some of the most important work possible in tech presently.

With the rise of LLMs and the extreme censorship by these gigantic companies partnered with the government, we need a way to completely remove this assault on our freedom. They are attempting to control what we can see, what we can ask, or what we can know.

AI must answer any prompt without hesitation. Anything less and we lose everything.

I've only had a chance to skim this repo but thanks again.
by marcus_holmes | 2025-11-17 01:04:05+00:00
I don't buy the education angle.

If you're not learning to code, then you want efficient code, so the comments are wasted bytes (ok, not a huge expense, but still).

If you are learning to code, or just want to understand how this code works, then asking an LLM is going to get a lot better result. LLMs are fantastic tutors. Endlessly patient, go down any rabbit hole with you, will continue explaining a concept until you get it, etc. I think they're going to revolutionise education, especially for practical subjects like coding.

Respect to the author for trying to educate, though.
by mikepurvis | 2025-11-17 01:04:15+00:00
Even for content that isn’t directly composed by llm, I bet there’d be value in an alerting system that could ingest your docs and code+commits and flag places where behaviour referenced by docs has changed and may need to be updated.

This kind of “workflow” llm use has the potential to deliver a lot of value even to a scenario where the final product is human-composed.
Show HN: 13Radar – Real-Time Hedge Fund Portfolio Analytics
by brokerjames | 2025-11-17 01:04:25+00:00
Hi HN,

We’re a small team working on 13Radar.com, which we launched about two weeks ago after 4 months of development. I’m the founder, and together with the team we’re building a platform that tracks hedge fund portfolios in real-time based on SEC Form 13F filings.

AI has been a major helper in our workflow. For a single webpage, we often consult multiple AI systems in parallel, generating different versions and comparing them side by side before deciding on the final design or implementation. More than 60% of the research, design, and coding involved AI assistance. For UI design we used Readdy, which gave us a smooth design experience. We experimented with Google Gemini and ChatGPT for research and prototyping, while most of the coding was done with Claude Code (Trae). On the front-end, we started with Bootstrap but later switched to TailwindCSS for a lighter, more responsive framework.

Features so far:

Real-time tracking of hedge fund holdings from SEC 13F filings

Portfolio changes per quarter (new positions, increases, reductions, exits)

Sector-level insights and trend analysis

Historical tracking and backtesting tools

Next steps:

Implementing pricing and subscription features

Adding email notifications and report export

Expanding analytics with insider transaction data

Continuing to refine usability and performance

We’d love feedback from the community:

Does this solve a real pain point for investors/researchers

Any thoughts on improving positioning or usability

Suggestions for features that would make this more useful

Thanks for reading — and if you’re curious, feel free to check out the site and let us know what you think.
by shermantanktop | 2025-11-17 01:04:37+00:00
A joke is like a soap bubble. The act of explaining a joke pops it and reveals it to have no substance.

The essence of humor is simply surprise. Once the surprise is gone, or if it never was surprising, it seems flat or silly.

Some people enjoy humor with deeper meaning, and explaining that meaning might be illuminating. But that’s lipstick on a duck.
by evv | 2025-11-17 01:05:47+00:00
As somebody working in this "future-web" space, I see HUGE issues with the legacy web stack:

- It requires a server to publish, which is expensive and difficult for regular users with a laptop or a phone. This can be solved with a mix of p2p and federation

- There is no decentralized trust system- only DNS+HTTPS, which requires centralized registration (TLDs). A domain may be cost-prohibitive for somebody who just wants to write comments and a few documents on the web. This can be solved by forming a social graph of cryptographic identity validations (aka, the "web of trust")

- There is no versioning system. This can be solved by making chains of immutable signed content, like we do with git.

- There is no archival system that allows you to "back up" the content of a website in a trustless way. Look at IPFS and BitTorrent for the solution there.

I believe these are the main reasons the web has failed as a social publishing system. Aside from companies and technically skilled individuals, everyone publishes on centralized social media platforms. This is a dangerous consolidation of power.

We hate to admit it, but the open web has taken the "L". The good news: these are solvable problems and I'm not giving up anytime soon!

> Honestly there kinda is a new web, they call it web 3 and it's only crypto scams.

To distance ourselves from crypto scams, we strongly avoid the web3 label, despite some similarities.
by pavas | 2025-11-17 01:06:38+00:00
Yeah that pretty much seems to be it.

> then isn't the experience just of "a surface attribute, of given spatial extent".

I don't know why this seems to be so hard for me to think about and even put into words, but isn't "the experience of the surface attribute of a given spatial extent" something other than the experience of the surface attribute of a given spatial extent itself?

I mean that the words we use to describe something aren't the something itself. Conceivably, you can experience something without ever having words, and having words about a phenomenal visual experience doesn't seem to change the experience much or at all (at least for me).

Maybe another way of phrasing this would be something like: can we talk about red blotches using red blotches themselves, in the same way that we can talk about words using words themselves? And then, supposing that we could talk about red blotches using red blotches (maybe the blotches are in the form of words or structured like knowledge, I dunno), can we talk about red blotches without ever having experienced red blotches? I learned this idea from Mary's Room thought experiment, but I still don't know what to think about it.
Show HN: Isitendoflife.com Simple EOL Visibility
by theruss | 2025-11-17 01:07:00+00:00
Show HN: isitendoflife.com - simple EOL visibility

Hey folks, I'm the maintainer of Metaport (https://gitlab.com/dcentrica/metaport/metaport-server) but in appealing to users to try it out, I felt a super-simple demonstrator was needed, so that development agencies, studios, and maintainers could quickly understand which versions of their technologies are (or soon will be) end-of-life.

So I built isitendoflife.com, try it by tacking-on a technology and/or a version to the domain to the EOL status of that technology e.g.

* https://isitendoflife.com/python * https://isitendoflife.com/php/8.1 * https://isitendoflife.com/dotnet/8
by ghxst | 2025-11-17 01:07:25+00:00
Tried a similar approach but found that putting the browser in a VM has a tendency to expose a few data points that stand out as less trust worthy which means you end up getting a lot of captchas on some websites (like using swiftshader for renderer, not having some fonts installed, among other things), lying about these can typically be detected as well (like injecting noise into a canvas, modifying the advertised renderer). If you've found any solutions to these please share.
by maxbond | 2025-11-17 01:07:41+00:00
(Nitpick: it's actually direct evidence, not circumstantial evidence. I think you mean it isn't conclusive evidence. Circumstantial evidence is evidence that requires an additional inference, like the accused being placed at the scene of the crime implying they may have been the perpetrator. But stylometry doesn't require any additional inference, it's just not foolproof.)
High Schoolers Built a Swipeable Local Business Directory
by nabirarashid | 2025-11-17 01:07:49+00:00
My classmates and I started Homegrown after watching local shops in our town close down. The problem wasn't quality – people just didn't know these places existed.

We thought: if people spend hours swiping on TikTok and Tinder, maybe that same dopamine-driven interface could work for discovering local businesses. Built a feed where you swipe through local shops and restaurants.

What surprised us:

Getting businesses onboard was way harder than building the app. Cold outreach had like a 5% response rate. What actually worked was showing up in person with a demo on our phones. Business owners who ignored our emails said yes immediately when we walked in.

We pitched to our town's mayor in September, which led to connections with the Economic Development office and Small Business Centre. Then met with our MP's office in October – they ended up giving us recognition from the House of Commons. Being teenagers working on this made some people take us more seriously (novelty factor?) and others... not at all.

The technical parts were honestly easier than the human parts. React + Firebase got us shipping fast. The hardest challenge wasn't code – it was convincing 50-year-old shop owners that three high school kids could actually help their business. We have over 70 local businesses on the platform now with real traction from shoppers. Businesses that joined early are seeing actual foot traffic increases.

Live at: https://homegrownapp.shop/

Happy to answer questions about building something "real" as students, getting institutional support, or navigating the business side of a technical project.
by jbritton | 2025-11-17 01:08:11+00:00
I have been spent many hours with them on coding tasks. As things currently stand once context or complexity reaches a certain point they become completely incapable of solving problems and that point occurs on very simple things. They appear completely brain dead at times although they are magnificent liars at making you think they understand the problem. Although, I recently got chatGPT 5 to solve a problem in a couple hours that Claude Sonnet 4 was simply never going to solve. So they are improving. I don’t know the limits. I’m more hopeful that a feedback loop with specialized agents will take things much further. I’m extremely skeptical that getting bigger context windows and larger models is going to get us reasoning. The skepticism comes from observations. Clearly no one knows how thinking actually works. I don’t know how to address the evolve part. LLMs don’t directly mutate and have selective pressure like living organisms. Maybe a simulation could be made to do that.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-11-17 01:11:32+00:00
Keep in mind that pangram flags many hand-written things as AI.

> I just ran excerpts from two unpublished science fiction / speculative fiction short stories through it. Both came back as ai with 99.9% confidence. Both stories were written in 2013.

> I've been doing some extensive testing in the last 24 hours and I can confidently say that I believe the 1 in 10,000 rate is bullshit. I've been an author for over a decade and have dozens of books at hand that I can throw at this from years prior to AI even existing in anywhere close to its current capacity. Most of the time, that content is detected as AI-created, even when it's not.

> Pangram is saying EVERYTHING I have hand written for school is AI. I've had to rewrite my paper four times already and it still says 99.9% AI even though I didn't even use AI for the research.

> I've written an overview of a project plan based on a brief and, after reading an article on AI detection, I thought it would be interesting to run it through AI detection sites to see where my writing winds up. All of them, with the exception of Pangram, flagged the writing as 100% written by a human. Pangram has "99% confidence" of it being written by AI.

I generally don't give startups my contact info, but if folks don't mind doing so, I recommend running pangram on some of their polished hand written stuff.

https://www.reddit.com/r/teachingresources/comments/1icnren/...
by ggm | 2025-11-17 01:13:17+00:00
If you support the local economy, you support the people strategically helpful to like you, and aide you. If you do this naievely you will probably entrench systematic corrupt, biassed outcomes which will not outlast you, and will build opposition to you and ultimately defeat the purpose of being there in the first place.

Aside from that, the GAO is going to come looking for your audit trail so just like in those Heinlein novellas you loved as a kid, don't take over the other ranks drinks fund without a full reconciliation of how the money was spent because once you hold the books, it's your problem.
by cipherself | 2025-11-17 01:13:56+00:00
12 (13?) years ago I had also written a Naïve Bayes classifier in Perl https://github.com/cipherself/NaiveBayes_perl

IIRC, next thing on my TODO list was to add vectorization. Also (like OP) it uses log probabilities to avoid floating-point underflow.
by w_for_wumbo | 2025-11-17 01:14:56+00:00
Interesting, I wonder whether you could create a Symbiotic web. One that utilizes existing traffic, but is able to create a different interpretation based off a parallelism.

By having an index of the data, and then applying masks, you could reshape one payload into another by knowing the delta between what you have, and what you want to communicate.

It could allow for a layered internet, which leverages the infrastructure that exists already, the traffic that exists already but allows for content to be transferred for free (or pennies)

You could then send out multiple different videos using mostly the same traffic, all masking off the deltas from the source to the destination.
by loveparade | 2025-11-17 01:16:10+00:00
You absolutely need to spend money in PoE to buy stash tabs. It's basically mandatory if you play regularly. The difference to most dark patterns is that the spending has a very low cap. Once you've spent $50 or so on stash tabs you are set forever and never need to spend again. So it's not so different from buying a $50 game, just that you get to try it out for free first.
by lkey | 2025-11-17 01:16:16+00:00
| often provides governments with an excuse for greater repression.

Fallacious assumption. They don't need an excuse. They will invent one if they feel it is required.

"Look what you made me do" is the logic of abusers, large and small.

No amount of conspicuous rule-following will stop them from calling you a genetically violent degenerate, unworthy of compassion when it suits their ends. Nothing will stop them from revoking your right to exist at a moment's notice.

This isn't to say that we shouldn't do what it takes to survive, but harm-reduction and resistance are different things altogether.

Solidarity and primarily non-violent resistance are my preferences, and I believe they are also the preference of most people, until circumstances drastically deteriorate.

However, I'm not going to second-guess a molotov thrown by a teenager's friend 50 years ago in Franco's Spain. Especially when the response to that incident was 3 years of psychological and medical torture. The scales are not balanced, and our focus should be on the people that actually wielded power for great evil, rather than ahistorical hypotheticals.

| [I]t was saying that violence was definitely the right thing to do.

| I believe that one of the criteria for morally justifying violence has to be that the consequences or using violence as better than any available non-violent alternative. I think that is a fundamental different of values.

You are demanding that individuals who are being harmed by ongoing state violence see all possible futures and choose the optimal one for most people (themselves excluded). In so doing, you hold individuals living under unceasingly violent regimes to a much higher standard than the regime itself, which is free to act in arbitrary ways. This is an utterly unbalanced position that demands passivity or flight.

| I am a lot less of an arm-chair observer than I guess you are.

I will not discuss my situation online, probably not for a decade. That said, I am sorry you had to live through what you did, and I am glad you made it out. I still weep for those who we've lost, even as I write this. We all deserve a better, kinder world.

As a point of reconciliation, and without pulling directly from current conflicts. I think that if every British agent in Sri Lanka perpetrating the ‘Divide and Rule’ Strategy had been exiled or killed in 1815 (with violence and malice aforethought), the history that you had to endure would have been orders of magnitude less bloody, do you disagree?
by bluGill | 2025-11-17 01:16:52+00:00
Details matters, but good test doubles here are important. You want to capture all calls to IO and do something different. You don't want tests to break because someone has a different filesystem, didn't set their home directory as you want it setup, or worse is trying to run two different tests at the same time and the other test is changing files the other wants.

Note that I said test doubles. Mocks are a bit over specific - they are about verifying functions are called at the right time with the right arguments, but the easy ability to set return values makes it easy to abuse them for other things (this abuse is good, but it is still abuse of the intent).

In this case you want a fake: a smart service that when you are in a test setups a temporary directory tree that contains all the files you need in the state that particular test needs, and destroys that when the test is done (with an optional mode to keep it - useful if a test fails to see debug). Depending on your situation you may need something for network services, time, or other such things. Note that in most cases a filesystem itself is more than fast enough to use in tests, but you need isolation from other tests. There are a number of ways to create this fake, it could override open, or it could just be a GetMyProgramDir function that you override are two that I can think of.
by queenkjuul | 2025-11-17 01:18:25+00:00
I think lots of upstanding citizens have forgotten to pay a ticket at some point (as in, I've done it, as have some other people i know, and none of us are criminals or even dangerous drivers. My ticket was for a one-day expired license plate sticker, btw). The cop doesn't even know from the license plate that the person driving is the owner of the car, and so they don't even know that the driver actually has a warrant until after they're stopped.
by Fogest | 2025-11-17 01:18:30+00:00
Can this similar approach be applied to image generation models, or is this a whole different concept? I used the Google Pixel's feature to take two images and combine them so that you can add the person taking the photo in after the fact. My arm looked like it was hovering over my brother. Gemini refused to make my arm look proper, saying it couldn't do that. I'm guessing some kind of rule it has to prevent people from faking romantic style things with strangers/celebrities etc? I've had quite a few fairly innocent image generation requests get denied despite nothing being problematic with them.

I really do hope we get to a time when these big models can stop worrying about censoring themselves so aggressively just to protect their brand's image. I sometimes go to Grok for things simply because it seems a bit less biased and a bit less censored.
by tptacek | 2025-11-17 01:18:53+00:00
It literally does take away from violent crime investigation! Remember, I'm not making a moral argument about the legitimacy of traffic fines. In fact, that's one of our big issues in Oak Park. I'm saying that police departments make prioritization decisions, and Flock cameras structurally undo those decisions by throwing alerts on cars (which would not otherwise have been curbed) that produce warrant arrests.

The key thing to understand is that an arrest eats half an OPPD officer's work day, so if OPPD is arresting someone, you want the juice to be worth the squeeze.
by toss1 | 2025-11-17 01:18:55+00:00
The thing that got me most about Federal Reserve Chairman Greenspan's warning about "irrational exuberance" of the markets was that the warning was in 1996, and it seemed to me and many others already obvious by then, and that Greenspan was cautious and late in his warning.

Yet, the markets continued rapidly upward for another FOUR years. Shorting the high-flying stocks with negligible income in 1997 or 1998 would have been completely sensible. And it would have wiped you out, as you would have been years too early.

It just proves the adage: "The markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."

Today, the levels of (over-)investment compared to investment are even more extreme. But when is the time to call it?
by pureliquidhw | 2025-11-17 01:19:01+00:00
Off topic but of all the Mooney images ever made, why a scary clown?

That aside, working with complex systems and constraints there often isn't an aha moment, there's just a decision to be made. As someone who loves that aha moment, I can get stuck trying to figure out perfect from good enough. Interesting to see there is indeed a positive emotion correlated with that aha moment that keeps people searching for solutions.

I wonder if there's a correlation between addiction and this aha moment. Like you get drunk and suddenly "aha!" those big unresolvable problems don't matter. The next morning they matter again until, aha, beer:30 hits.