MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
How do you manage user feedback and early adopter input?
by VladCovaci | 2025-12-01 15:11:55+00:00
I’ve been building a couple of small tools to solve a problem I kept running into: finding early users and actually managing their feedback in a structured way.

The first is firstusers.tech, a place where early-stage startups can get their first users and where early adopters can discover new products before they launch.

The second is usercompass.tech, a lightweight feedback tool that integrates with FirstUsers. It gives you a public feedback board, anonymous submissions, a simple kanban workflow, and a public roadmap. It’s meant for founders who want something minimal but functional to collect and organize feedback.

I’m curious how others handle this:

Where do you collect feedback?

How do you prioritize it?

Do you use public roadmaps or keep everything internal?

Would love to learn how different teams approach this.

links:

https://www.firstusers.tech/

https://www.usercompass.tech/
by jillesvangurp | 2025-12-01 15:12:05+00:00
I don't think it's a meaningful distinction.

Robbing implies theft. The word heist was used here to imply that some crime is happening. I don't think there is such a crime and disagree with the framing. Which is what this is, and which is also very deliberate. Luddites used a similar kind of framing to justify their actions back in the day. Which is why I'm using it as an analogy. I believe a lot of the anti AI sentiment is rooted in very similar sentiments.

I'm not missing the point but making one. Clearly it's a sensitive topic to a lot of people here.
by dagmx | 2025-12-01 15:12:37+00:00
Firstly, this is not due to inflation. The price increase is explicitly (per the article even) due to increased market demand that is causing raised prices.

Secondly, Computing has always been subject to inflation. It cannot escape inflation. You may not notice it , perhaps due to the increase in performance but the cost of parts definitely has risen in the same tiers if you look over a long enough period to avoid pricing amortization
by ben_w | 2025-12-01 15:13:09+00:00
The UK Supreme Court ruling went out of its way to say that it wasn't vindicating any such position, saying:

It is not the role of the court to adjudicate on the arguments in the public domain on the meaning of gender or sex, nor is it to define the meaning of the word “woman” other than when it is used in the provisions of the EA 2010. It has a more limited role which does not involve making policy. The principal question which the court addresses on this appeal is the meaning of the words which Parliament has used in the EA 2010 in legislating to protect women and members of the trans community against discrimination. Our task is to see if those words can bear a coherent and predictable meaning within the EA 2010 consistently with the Gender Recognition Act 2004 (“the GRA 2004”). (Para 2)

and

The court also concluded that a biological sex interpretation would not have the effect of disadvantaging or removing protections from trans people. This is because, in addition to protection based on the protected characteristic of gender reassignment, they would also be protected from discrimination based on being perceived as or associated with a sex which differed from their biological sex (paras 249-261).

- https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...

Unfortunately, it was taken as vindication of the anti-trans position by all public commentators regardless of the commentators themselves were pro or anti.
by cstuder | 2025-12-01 15:13:41+00:00
> A feature known as the Download Monitor plug-in created a webpage with the clear URL which provided a link to the live version, which bypassed the need for authentication. This rendered the protections on the ‘future’ function of WordPress redundant as it bypassed the required authentication needed to gain access to the pre-uploaded document.

WordPress is a nice piece of software, but the plugin situation is getting worse and worse. (Too many pending updates, premium features and constant upselling, selling of plugins to new sketchy owners...)
by dtgriscom | 2025-12-01 15:13:42+00:00
The article lists a "Snake Bridge on the Macclesfield Canal". Here's a spiral bridge on that canal, but not the same one:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Spiral+Bridge/@53.2849203,...

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Spiral+Bridge/@53.2850202,...
by zozbot234 | 2025-12-01 15:14:25+00:00
There's not a strong case for redoing the RISC-V encoding with a new RISC-VI unless they run out of 32-bit encoding space outright, due to e.g. extensive new vector-like or AI-like instructions. And then they could free up a huge amount of encoding space trivially by moving to a 2-address format throughout with Rd=Rs1 and using a simple instruction fusion approach MOV Rd ← Rs1; OP Rd ← etc. for the former 3-address case.

(Any instruction that can be similarly rephrased as a composition of more restricted elementary instructions is also a candidate for this macro-insn approach.)
by weebhek | 2025-12-01 15:14:46+00:00
Most agents still force the LLM to re-write large JSON tool outputs (sometimes 10k+ rows) on every turn — just to pass data to the next tool.

This means you’re paying for thousands of tokens the model already saw.

We fixed it by treating tool outputs as variables ($cohort, $weekly_visits, etc.). The model passes references, and the orchestrator injects the real data.

Same behavior, but:

~82% fewer tokens

~93% lower latency

~87% cheaper

No prompt tricks, no custom memory — just removing LLMs from the data pipe.

We made this a default behavior of our agent architecture, like passing tool descriptions by default.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-12-01 15:15:46+00:00
> It’s truly depressing to have to accept that the only way to make a living in a field is to compromise your principles.

Isn't that what money is though, a way to get people to stop what they're doing and do what you want them to instead? It's how Rome bent its conquests to its will and we've been doing it ever since.

It's a deeply broken system but I think that acknowledging it as such is the first step towards replacing it with something less broken.
by mckn1ght | 2025-12-01 15:15:48+00:00
This feels like one of those PEMDAS posts on facebook where everyone comes to different results and argues endlessly about it. So let me add my 2¢:

if you have 100K in equity and owe 200K on your mortgage, then you’re net -100K on your house

that combines with the 100K in the retirement account to produce a net worth of $0

Where is my mistake?
by shagie | 2025-12-01 15:16:11+00:00
Because despite being more reliable and energy efficient the other costs associated with it were higher. It is one thing to dunk 14.3m L x 12.7m D in the ocean for a 240 kW setup in the ocean. It is another to scale that up to a "full scale" data center that is about 200x larger that has additional electrical supply challenges.

Let's say that pod needs to be serviced once every two years. That means having a ship that services one pod every 3 days when scaled up.

From the standpoint of a single pod data center and "does this work?" - the answer is "yes, it works better than we thought it would." From the standpoint of "can we scale this to a full data center?" - the answer is "we'd need a ship servicing a twice a week, with the logistics that entails for the ship (and backup ship)." That second part becomes less practical compared to building a data center on terra firma where it's much easier to walk into a building to service it and hook up the power.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-12-01 15:16:12+00:00
The printers for these used a special vacuum tube for memory derived from the kind in television cameras.

They were massive and printed a whole page at a time, similar to the thermal page printers from Perkin-Elmer for their model 3600 Intelligent Terminal of the early 1980's, but P-E printers were much smaller by then.

3600 had vector graphics too, these were very expensive but introduced the form factor of a horizontal box with two 5 1/4 floppies, monitor on top and wired keyboard with the first row of "F" function keys people had seen. Which is the desktop form that was later adopted by IBM when they issued their first PC.
by Tepix | 2025-12-01 15:16:13+00:00
The article mentions "the $10 Raspberry Pi Zero". I feel this is rewriting history. The Raspberry Pi Zero was $5 when it was released back in 2015. It was mostly out of stock, but I did manage to get one unit at that price eventually.

Nowadays you can no longer get the Raspberrry Pi Zero for less than 12€ or so. I consider the $5 Raspberry Pi Zero to be among the best values on the market and there hasn't been anything else that came close.
by evantbyrne | 2025-12-01 15:16:16+00:00
How am I supposed to know what specific niche of AI the author is talking about when they don't elaborate? For all I know they woke up one day in 2023 and that was the first time they realized machine learning existed. Consider my comment a reminder that ethical use of AI has been around of quite some time, will continue to be, and even that much of that will be with LLMs.
by adgjlsfhk1 | 2025-12-01 15:16:30+00:00
IMO the riscv decoding is really elegant (arguably excepting the C extension). Things like 64 bit immediates are almost certainly a bad idea (as opposed to just having a load from memory). Most 64 bit constants in use can be sign extended from much smaller values, and for those that can't, supporting 72 bit (or bigger) instructions just to be able to load a 64 bit immediate will necessarily bloat instruction cache, stall your instruction decoder (or limit parallelism), and will only be 2 cycles faster than a L1 cache load (if the instruction is hot). 32 bit immediate would be kind of nice, but the benefit is pretty small. An x86 instruction with 32 bit immediate is 6 bytes, while the 2 RISC-V instructions are 8 bytes. There have been proposals to add 48 bit instructions, which would let Risc-v have 32 bit immediate support with the same 6 bytes as x86 (and 12 byte 2 instructions 64 bit loads vs 10 bit for x86 in the very rare situations where doing so will be faster than a load).

ISA design is always a tradeoff, https://ics.uci.edu/~swjun/courses/2023F-CS250P/materials/le... has some good details, but the TLDR is that RISC-V makes reasonable choices for a fairly "boring" ISA.
by listenallyall | 2025-12-01 15:16:53+00:00
> Workers represent more of an investment in time and training

Not really, post a job opening and you'll likely get plenty of applicants, many of whom are indeed qualified. You taking the time to vet them and choose one is a benefit of having too many options. Getting customers is harder, you have to advertise and market your product, "acquisition cost" is a real thing.

> As long as they're getting a good value on a quality product

But especially early on, how do new customers know the product is quality? Someone has to be the first to eat at a restaurant or to hire you to paint their house, whatever. Even established companies - ordering clothes online when you can't actually feel the material, picking a dentist when you dont actually know how he/she will treat you, letting Uber decide who will drive you to the airport, how a pair of skis will perform from looking at them on a carpeted floor - most customer purchases and decisions are made with far-from-perfect information and they just have to put faith in the seller or service provider - and that's what I'm suggesting is worth future compensation.

> if I get beat on prices today they're gone tomorrow

If this is the case you really havent built much of a business, you're just selling commodities, and your employees have failed in differentiating your company from your competitors.
by Atlas667 | 2025-12-01 15:16:58+00:00
> The only way to have a large central government but not have a small handful of people with an outsized amount of power would be to make the decisions through direct democracy, which is the thing that doesn't scale to organizations that size.

Why not? Councils at different scale can certainly achieve direct democracy and if any conflicts arise the president would help determine the best course of action. There are many ways of organizing the fine details like majority or consensus, presidents decisions require voting or not, etc.

Most direct decisions don't even need to go all the way up. There could be a period of determination and direct voting, followed by a final plan that will be enacted and this is what is spread throughout the whole govt.

It could even be cryptographic voting and traceable blockchain finance (where applicable) could help undo many ills and corruption.

> Nearly by definition the only types of organizations are public (i.e. government) and private (i.e. capitalism, any organization that isn't a government). If you don't like private organizations, and the government is corrupt, then what are you even proposing?

I am proposing a world with an economic system that CANNOT overtake the government AND at the same time where the people are directly the government. So no capitalism, because like I said, and has been evidenced, capitalism is just oligopoly with extra steps.

So, yes to actual people ownership, but no to individual ownership. As individual or small group ownership leads to having interests that go against your society, incentivizing corruption for profits.

This way we can all benefit from the goods of production, we can all have an interest in keeping production going and making it better, as it increases our pay, and the corruption incentives are subdued by our collective vested interest.

This is logically the only way to solve this power imbalance which stems from the organization of production and not any mental faculties like morality or ideological leanings. This, of course, requires a culture of collective ownership if you want to keep your society free. This is also socialism.
by lostmsu | 2025-12-01 15:17:24+00:00
> Do not download SmartTube from any app store, APK websites or blogs; these were uploaded by other people and may contain malware or ads. SmartTube is not officially published on any app store. Sadly, the Google PlayStore does not allow ad-free Youtube apps using unofficial APIs.

Maybe should actually switch to releasing via F-Droid.
by soulofmischief | 2025-12-01 15:17:49+00:00
So many of these kinds of people also struggle to realize they're invoking panpsychism with their arguments. They lack a framework for describing intelligence. Such a framework allows us to separate "intelligence" from "experience".

"Intelligence" in the universe is actually quite common, more common than life. You can argue that any stable, complex process exhibits intelligence. After all, it needs to be able to sample its internal and external environments and carry out physical computations in order to regulate itself and maintain stability. And we can interpret things like the good regulator theorem to argue that such complex dynamical systems must also maintain at least a partial memory/mapping of their environment. That mapping can live abstractly within the structure of system itself.

But what a stabilized solar system doesn't have is the incredibly complex neurochemical structures present in the brain which support the insanely rich experience I am having now. It's one thing for a system to classify and label colors by wavelength. It's quite another for me to "see" and experience red in my mind's eye. To activate related emotional pathways that I associate with various colors and shapes, which are exploited in signage and architectural design. I'm not claiming my experience is separate from simpler dynamic systems, but it's got magnitudes more going on. Layers upon layers of things such as archetypes and instinct which create a possibly emergent conscious experience.
by ajross | 2025-12-01 15:17:57+00:00
I have! But the lack of a testable procedure tells me that's not a question worth asking. Look, if "qualia" can tell me something practical about the behavior of AI, I am here for it. Lay it on me, man. Let's see some of that "science" being promised.

It can't, because it's a meaningless word. It's not "discrediting" an idea to point out that (by its own admission) it's unfalsifiable.
by Yizahi | 2025-12-01 15:18:32+00:00
I agree, but here we are veering into more complex decision making. I was talking about much simpler cases, like for example going through a handful of simple steeps for simple task. For example addition, ask a person to sum two numbers and then ask to explain what he just did step by step and a person would be able to do it. Person may even make a mistake in process but the general algorithm will be matching what actually happened. Query LLM for the same, and while LLM answer will be correct for a human, it won't match what LLM actually did to calculate. This is what outs LLM "thinking" for me, they just generate a very plausible intermediate steps too.
by jjcob | 2025-12-01 15:18:33+00:00
> Where do you collect feedback?

Using every possible channel. Feedback button in the app, email, Github issues, ... I make it as easy as possible for people to tell me what they want.

> How do you prioritize it?

When multiple people independently request the same thing I start working on it.

> Do you use public roadmaps or keep everything internal?

I think public roadmaps are stupid because I never know how much effort something is ahead of time. It often happens that I realise after starting a project that it is way harder than I thought. I also often realise after some time has passed that something I thought was useful is actually not necessary and I remove it from the roadmap. I don't want people to buy my product expecting feature X and then I strike it.
by ljm | 2025-12-01 15:18:35+00:00
If I felt the need to optimise things like infra setup and config at an early stage of a project, I'd be worried that I'm investing effort into the wrong thing.

Having an LLM churn out infra setup for you seems decidedly worse than the `git push heroku:master` of old, where it was all handled for you. And, frankly, cheaper than however much money the LLM subscription costs in addition to the cloud.
by svieira | 2025-12-01 15:18:43+00:00
> After 6 months I let them go, the improvement was far too slow.

The bit that's missing from this story is the "why" the improvement was far too slow. Was it primarily a failure to hire the right people, a failure to teach them what you wanted them to learn, a failure to understand what you needed to teach, or a deliberate lie on the part of all three of them to steal from you?
by theshrike79 | 2025-12-01 15:18:43+00:00
This is also what's preventing the EU from stopping messing with clocks twice a year.

1) everyone agrees that it's stupid to move the clocks, we have electric lights now

2) NOBODY agrees which timezone everyone should be when we stop messing with the time.

Because solving 1&2 at the same time is about impossible, nothing will happen. What they should do is agree on 1. Write it into irrevocable law. THEN start arguing about 2.
by cogman10 | 2025-12-01 15:18:44+00:00
L1 instruction cache is backed by L2 and L3 caches.

For the AMD 9950, we are talking about 1280kb of L1 (per core). 16MB of L2 (per core) and 64MB of L3 (shared, 128 if you have the X3D version).

I won't say it doesn't matter, but it doesn't matter as much as it once did. CPU caches have gotten huge while the instructions remain the same size.

The more important part, at this point, is it's idiomatic. That means hardware designers are much more likely to put in specialty logic to make sure it's fast. It's a common enough operation to deserve it's own special cases. You can fit a lot of 8 byte instructions into 1280kb of memory. And as it turns out, it's pretty common for applications to spend a lot of their time in small chunks of instructions. The slow part of a lot of code will be that `for loop` with the 30 AVX instructions doing magic. That's why you'll often see compilers burn `NOP` instructions to align a loop. That's to avoid splitting a cache line.
by chrismorgan | 2025-12-01 15:19:15+00:00
> I even did the Card Verify thingy for $30 additional Credit.

I hadn’t heard of this, only seen the “14 day free trial” thing, so I checked: the trial gives $20 of credit, and verifying a card gets you $30 more, but it’s all trial credits which expires 14 days after you create your account. In other words, completely useless for people looking to spend under the $1/month minimum.

Pity, free for 2½ years sounded good.
by gus_massa | 2025-12-01 15:19:32+00:00
> The expert never earns a dime.

Humanware is hard, super hard. I'm not sure if this idea is brilliant or not. Do you have a few experts to seed the pool?

Perhaps the experts can get a discount if they want to talk to an expert in another area. But it must be written very carefully so people don't think you pocket all the unclaimed discounts.

How do you filter scammers and idiots?
by ben_w | 2025-12-01 15:19:33+00:00
Marxist definition: class struggle, abolition of capitalist property, collective ownership, systemic change.

Starmer’s record: social-democrat, pragmatic, incremental reforms, accepts market economy.

Why he's not Marxist: avoids ideological rigidity, no revolutionary agenda, shifted toward center-left, compromises for governance.

I suggest reading the Communist Manifesto, so you know what to argue against if nothing else. It's, y'know, free.
by ipdashc | 2025-12-01 15:19:39+00:00
> or stayed flat

But that's not what they said, they said they want to work less. As the GP post said, they'd still be working a full week.

I do think this is an interesting point. The trend for most of history seems to have been vastly increasing consumption/luxury while work hours somewhat decrease. But have we reached the point where that's not what people want? I'd wager most people in rich developed countries don't particularly want more clothes, gadgets, cars, or fast food. If they can get the current typical middle class share of those things (which to be fair is a big share, and not environmentally sustainable), along with a modest place to live, they (we) mainly want to work less.
by menaerus | 2025-12-01 15:19:41+00:00
I have but that was not the point? My first point was exactly that there are more ISA registers and not only 8, and therefore the question mark. My second point was about register renaming which, contrary what you say, does mitigate the artifacts of running out of registers by spilling the variables to the stack memory. It does it by eliminating the false dependencies between variables/registers and xor eax, eax is a great candidate for that.
by duffyjp | 2025-12-01 15:20:09+00:00
I looked at sold listings on eBay recently, very little was actually going for the crazy market rate. Plenty had sold at the old prices from sellers who hadn't gotten the memo though.

I have some ram I could live without if it's worth its weight in gold, but if you're going to get ripped off I think people want to avoid the used market and its extra risk.
by FitchApps | 2025-12-01 15:21:07+00:00
170k after taxes leaves you with about 130k net, maybe 140k; if you live in a big city and have a family, it's almost impossible to save 100 grand of that 140k. More realistic you would save about 50k and still come out ok, but lets be realistic noone is saving 100k from 170k gross salary