MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Bassbullyvst | 2025-12-09 06:59:48+00:00
Hi, I am the developer of Bass Bully Premium and I wanted to clarify a few things from my perspective.

I chose to protect only the installer with a simple lock-door method because my priority has always been stability and performance, especially at runtime. In the VST and plugin world, heavy or aggressive DRM can cause glitches or failures during a live performance. That risk felt far more harmful to my paying customers than the risk of casual piracy.

I understand that reverse engineering is part of how some people learn, and I am not here to criticize that. But when a post becomes a look-at-how-I-cracked-this thread, especially one that singles out a small independent developer, it starts to feel like a hit piece rather than a technical discussion.

The protection was minimal. It could be cracked. Maybe I should have done more. But this was not about being stingy with security. It was about delivering a stable and reliable plugin to real users without introducing bugs, system conflicts, or performance issues that can come from heavier protection systems.

I appreciate honest technical discussion and feedback. I also hope people understand that not every developer has a large team or a big budget. Many of us have to balance protection with usability, and for me, making music was more important than building an unbreakable DRM wall.

For some context, the original Bass Bully plugin started as a free release. It unexpectedly went viral, and users reached out asking for a more premium version with more sounds and features. I created Bass Bully Premium because the demand was there. It ended up being used in the production of Playboi Carti’s music, which later led to a collaboration VST with his producer wakeupf1lthy. The plugin also made its way onto Lil Wayne’s Carter album through producer Keyboard Kid.

If you like the plugin and it helps your workflow, supporting it by buying a legitimate license goes much further than any crack-test ever will.

Thanks for taking the time to read this.

Josh, Director Bass Bully VST https://www.bassbullyvst.com/
by vasco | 2025-12-09 07:00:35+00:00
I disagree, pictures are easier to remember than words and I'm much faster (several hundred miliseconds) at quickly spotting an icon in the 12th place down a list and clicking it because I memorized it visually than reading the actual words.

So icons make power users faster. It's not "clutter". Your argument about "don't use it for aesthetics" is ironic because you're making it because of aesthetics. For me it's about user speed.
by Antibabelic | 2025-12-09 07:01:08+00:00
The author treats the Copenhagen interpretation as if it shows that there are no observer-independent things, when in reality it simply states that quantum theory is not about them.

"Bohr (1937), Heisenberg (1947), Frank (1936) and others explained carefully -- but did not prove -- that the theory makes no assertions concerning autonomous, i.e. observer-independent, things: that all its statements are about experimental situations. (This is why Bohr, and initially also Rosenfeld, stated that no special theory of measurement was necessary: they believed that quantum mechanics was already a theory of measurement.)" From Mario Bunge (1979) "The Einstein-Bohr debate over quantum mechanics: Who was right about what?"
by duffmancd | 2025-12-09 07:01:25+00:00
We even use aluminium on "dumb" transformers for power transmission. Dry-type transformers tend to be physically larger because they use air and resin (rather than a tank of oil) to insulate, and so the major downside to aluminium conductors (needing a larger cross-section to carry the same current for the same loss) is no longer a limiting factor performance-wise. In most substations, and extra 20-30% physical size of the transformer is a fine trade-off for cheaper construction.
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-12-09 07:01:31+00:00
Why does this get less attention than LLMs? This is AI literally “taking” a human drivers job today that will never go back and the numbers are indeed skyrocketing.

Someone told me to my face recently “there’s no AI in a Waymo”

All that tells me is that people have no idea what AI is and are completely missing what’s going on, especially when they ignore stuff like this and then blow off AI warning because all they know about AI is chatgpt.

This level of ignorance about the state of technology is the danger.
by gcanyon | 2025-12-09 07:02:00+00:00
I had the app installed way back when, and it was fun. I reached my limit around 60-90 step solutions. The numbers are a little deceiving: in many cases there are sequences of moves 3, 4, or 5 (or more?) long where only one move is possible, and therefore in a sense they qualify as only one decision as a unit, even if they are multiple moves. I think this same aspect is sometimes true of Rush Hour, but less so.

As far as I know it was iOS-only. I think the author created the puzzle as a phd paper, and once I found the paper itself online. It was interesting reading.

It should be possible today to vibe code the mechanics as a web app, right?
by davnicwil | 2025-12-09 07:02:18+00:00
I've put this in more words on the about page [0] but in my mind it all about the structure being first class for the regular meeting note use case, rather than a general document.

That means

- meetings notes are structured as entries, new entry in 1 click, with a template, with responsive structure

- easy to see who wrote what, everyone gets their own section

- first class action tracking and management of actions in one place

- distraction-free editor optimised for one-hand typing with only minimal formatting necessary to make notes tidy

- easier to search and navigate through history of notes

I think this applies for google docs but also other 'general' note taking tools and editors.

[0] https://withdocket.com/about
by thomassmith65 | 2025-12-09 07:04:20+00:00
Bluetooth and is nice, but it's probably a better buy to get an antique portable cassette recorder. It's really something how primitive these look in comparison to the what was on the market in the 1980s.

Probably of interest to people here is this article from the dawn of the Walkman: https://time.com/archive/6697378/living-a-great-way-to-snub-...
by winternewt | 2025-12-09 07:04:36+00:00
The worst part about MS Office isn't the direct user experience, because I can usually choose to use other software. The worst part is that I and everybody else are subjected to the documents that Office produces. Their defaults and their UX inevitably produce stuff that is hard to read and inconsistent, unless you fight the software really hard and make sacrifices with your desired output. And there's no escape from it. Another specimen of Word's 2.5 cm margins, 200-character lines in poorly designed knockoff Helvetica will probably find its way to my mailbox before the end of the day.
by skissane | 2025-12-09 07:04:57+00:00
B2C businesses need consumers. If AIs take all the jobs, then most of the population-minus the small minority who are independently wealthy and can live off their investments-go broke, and can’t afford to buy anything any more. Then all the B2C businesses go broke. Then all the B2B businesses lose all their B2C business customers and go broke. Then the stock market crashes and the independently wealthy lose all their investments and go broke. Then nobody can afford to pay the AI power bills any more, so the AIs get turned off.

And that’s why across-the-board AI-induced job losses aren’t going to happen-nobody wants the economic house of cards to collapse. Corporate leaders aren’t stupid enough to blow everything up because they don’t want to be blown up in the process. And if they actually are stupid enough, politicians will intervene with human protectionism measures like regulations mandating humans in the loop of major business processes.

The horse comparison ultimately doesn’t work because horses don’t vote.
by skrebbel | 2025-12-09 07:05:00+00:00
That’s totally the same thing, they’re about what to do with the staging area but using 2 words for it (index and cache). The third term is “staging area” or the flag --staged for other commands.

Any sane tool uses one word for each concept, not three. The Git CLI is full of this sort of shit and it drives me mad.
by omnicognate | 2025-12-09 07:05:06+00:00
Minidiscs proved that people were comfortable with lossy compression. It was to be many years before lossless audio became a thing again.

It always amused me how we were told the difference between lossless and lossy compression was undetectable to the human ear up until the big streaming services started providing lossless and even high res, at which point it was suddenly the best thing since sliced bread. However you feel about the audio, one way or another it's gaslighting.

Personally, on most music I can't tell decent quality lossy from lossless, but I listen to a lot of choral polyphony and also perform it so I have a good ear for it. When you're listening to 16 or in some cases up to 40 voices and can follow individual lines (single voices recognisable as particular people) you can hear it, and I disliked minidisc and mp3 players for that reason. High res, though, makes no difference at all as far as I can tell.
by tirant | 2025-12-09 07:06:49+00:00
That’s not a good summary of capitalism at all because you omit the part where interests of sellers and buyers align. Which is precisely what has made capitalism successful.

Profit growth is based primarily on offering the product that best matches the consumer wish at the lowest price, and production cost possible. That benefits both the buyer and the seller. If the buyer does not care about product quality, then you will not have any company producing quality products.

The market is just a reflection of that dinámica. And in the real world we can easily observed that: Many market niches are dominated by quality products (outdoor and safety gear, professional and industrial tools…) while others tend to be dominated by non-quality (low end fashion, toys).

And that result is not imposed by profit growth but by the average consumer preference.

You can of course disagree with those consumer preferences and don’t buy low quality products, that’s why you most probably also find high products in any market niche.

But you cannot blame companies for that. What they sell is just the result of the aggregated buyers preferences and the result of free market decisions.
by locknitpicker | 2025-12-09 07:07:02+00:00
> It's not about its ability to churn out lots of code quickly: it's an extra set of eyes/brain that works much faster that human developer.

This is the key take right here. LLMs excel at parsing existing content, summarizing it, and use it to explore scenarios and hypotheticals.

Even the best coding agents out there such as Claude Code or Gemini often fail to generate at the first try code that actually compiles, let alone does what it is expected to do.

Apologists come up with excuses such as the legacy software is not architected well enough to be easily parseable by LLMs but that is a cheap excuse. The same reference LLMs often output utter crap in greenfield projects they themselves generated, and do so after a hand full of prompts. The state of a project is not the issue.

The world is coming to the realization that the AI hype is not delivering. The talk of AI bubble is already mainstream. But like IDEs with auto complete, agents might not solve every problem but they are nevertheless useful and are here to stay. They are more a kin to a search engine where a user doesn't need to copy/paste code snippets to apply a code change.

The sooner we realize this, the better.
by frm88 | 2025-12-09 07:07:03+00:00
I disagree. I have seen many such Excel applications in many companies, paticularly in the finance and controlling departments that were delivering key numbers to the C-class which would never have allowed the sheets, applications or calculations out of the house, let alone to a cloud service or an out-of-company consultant/programmer. There were always backups managed by the department themselves and in one case, even entry to the room with the relevant machine was restricted to authorised personnel only. If I have learned anything in my 30 years of consulting, it's that you always take Finance at its word when they tell you No to your SaaS or ERP solution.
Current tech scenario in Miami and future potential?
by samyadn12 | 2025-12-09 07:07:43+00:00
i will be starting a phd there, and will move to miami. whats the current tech ecosystem of miami like? should i stay there beyond my phd if i intend to start a company? whats its overall potential for the future? my partner is from there and i will probably end up staying for a good few years, which is why i was asking. thanks
by seinecle | 2025-12-09 07:08:23+00:00
Claude Code, thank you!

I hesitate trying Claude Code, there is a bit of fatigue installing new tools :-)

By the way: ChatGPT 5.1 Codex Max pro, which was rubbish when used directly inside Cursor, is actually very good once I access it via the OpenAI Codex extension installed within Cursor!

Mysteries of toolchains...

Anyway, that proved so useful when I maxed out my Claude credits.
Orderzup best shipping aggregator in India launching soon
by orderzup | 2025-12-09 07:08:24+00:00
We’re building OrderZup, a shipping and order automation platform for D2C brands in India. After months of development and testing with early users, we’re getting ready to launch our beta.

Most small and mid-sized D2C brands in India still struggle with issues like high RTO rates, courier mismatch, unreliable delivery timelines, and hours lost to manual order processing. We’re trying to solve these problems with:

Automated courier selection

Real-time tracking across carriers

RTO prediction and reduction workflows

A unified dashboard for all orders

Tools to lower shipping costs

Faster label generation and processing

We’re opening limited early access to gather feedback from real operators before the full release.

If you’re running a D2C brand or working in e-commerce logistics and want to try the beta, you can check us out at www.orderzup.com . Feedback—positive or critical—would help us build this the right way.

Happy to answer any questions.
by potluri | 2025-12-09 07:08:27+00:00
While I end up taking paper notes for your exact reason, I have trouble porting such notes regularly into productivity software because of the level of effort required to retranscribe my notes. As a result, paper notes suffice for short term details but once the pile of notes on my desk builds up the information is effectively lost. Something like OP's app would be perfect if handwritten notes could be used as input. Input methods via tablets/wacoms are personally cumbersome for me, so I don't know how else to rapidly preserve paper artifacts.
by reeredfdfdf | 2025-12-09 07:08:42+00:00
"The only reason to reduce headcount is to remove people who already weren’t providing much value."

I wish corporations really acted this rationally.

At least where I live hospitals fired most secretaries and assistants to doctors a long time ago. The end result? High-paid doctors spending significant portion of their time on administrative and bureaucratic tasks that were previously handled by those secretaries, preventing them from seeing as many patients as they otherwise would. Cost savings may look good on spreadsheet, but really the overall efficiency of the system suffered.
by anematode | 2025-12-09 07:09:23+00:00
JavaScript has a whole definition of equality for this particular case called SameValueZero: https://tc39.es/ecma262/multipage/abstract-operations.html#s... Everything is compared bitwise equal (so to speak), except 0 == -0.

> new Map().set(-0, -0).set(0, 0).set(NaN, NaN) Map { 0 → 0, NaN → NaN }

I don't really understand the reason for this instead of Object.is equality (aka SameValue), which would distinguish -0 and 0.
by Kerrick | 2025-12-09 07:10:13+00:00
"We use AI to build the tools because we use them in cursor or Visual Studio or code or wherever else people are making our stuff. I use AI a bunch." https://37signals.com/podcast/listener-questions/

"Today we’re introducing Fizzy. Kanban as it should be, not as it has been. [...] we’ll host your account for just $20/month for unlimited cards and unlimited users. [...] And here’s a surprise... Fizzy is open source! If you’d prefer not to pay us, or you want to customize Fizzy for your own use, you can run it yourself for free forever." https://x.com/jasonfried/status/1995886683028685291
by reeredfdfdf | 2025-12-09 07:11:24+00:00
"I suspect the same will be true with this automation - if we can create and scale organisations easier and cheaper without employing all the admin staff that we currently do, then maybe we create more agile, responsive, organisations that serve their customers better."

I'm not sure most of those organizations will have many customers left, if every white collar admin job has been automated away, and all those people are sitting unemployed with whatever little income their country's social safety net provides.

Automating away all the "boring jobs" leads to an economic collapse, unless you find another way for those people to earn their living.
by dotancohen | 2025-12-09 07:12:07+00:00
This looks great.

Almost as good as Emacs Org mode. I use Org mode with Evil, to get VIM keybindings. This way I can quickly navigate and edit the document, not just append to the end of it. And of course, Emacs is completely local.

I suppose there is supposed to be a collaborative element that Emacs won't provide. In my experience people in meetings already have workflows and are seldom interested in using the tool somebody else asks them to.
by pm-security | 2025-12-09 07:12:58+00:00
Infomaniak is launching Euria, a free and sovereign AI assistant fully hosted in Switzerland. Powered by 100% renewable energy, all the heat generated by Euria is recovered and used to warm up to 6,000 homes. No data is used to train AI models, and an ephemeral mode ensures zero retention. Euria is free to use on mobile and at euria.infomaniak.com
by fzeroracer | 2025-12-09 07:13:15+00:00
I worked for a company that was starting to shove AI incentives down the throat of every engineer as our product got consistently worse and worse due to layoffs and the perceived benefits of AI which were never realized. When you look at the companies that have shifted to 'AI first' and see them shoveling out garbage that barely works, it should be no surprised that people both aware of how the sausage is made and not are starting to hate it.
by tirant | 2025-12-09 07:13:15+00:00
I wonder what would be the proportion of answers between different society economic levels.

What we know so far though is that many of the traditional values were bound to the old society structures, based on the traditional family.

The advent of the sexual revolution, brought by the contraception pill, completely obliterated those structures, changing the family paradigm since then. Only accentuated in the last decade by social media and the change in the sexual marketplace due to dating apps.

Probably today many young people would just prioritize reputation (eg followers) over wealth and life philosophy. As that seems to be the trend that dictates the sexual marketplace dinámics.
by 256_ | 2025-12-09 07:14:12+00:00
I think this reflects one of the biggest fallacies behind LLM adoption; the idea that reducing costs for producers improves the state of affairs for consumers too. I've seen someone compare it to the steam engine.

With the steam engine, though, consumers made a trade-off: You pay less, and get (in most cases, I presume) a worse product. With LLMs and other machine learning technologies, maybe if you're paying for the software there's a trade-off (if the software is actually cheaper anyway), but otherwise it doesn't exist. It costs the same amount of money for you to read an LLM-generated article as to read a real one; your internet bill doesn't go down. Likewise for gratis software. It's just worse, with no benefit.

Hacker News is full of producers, in this sense, who often benefit from cutting corners, and LLMs allow them to cut corners, so obviously there are plenty of evangelists here. I saw someone else in this comment section mention that gamers who are not in the tech industry don't like "AI". That's to be expected; they're not the producers, so they're not the ones who benefit.
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by orthoxerox | 2025-12-09 07:14:49+00:00
I love it when people push syntax to its limits. The only thing I do not like is how `^` points in the wrong direction when you stack it vertically, like in the example:

local _ = 5 % arrow(function(x) return -x end) ^ arrow(function(x) return x + 10 end) ^ arrow(function(x) return x * x end) ^ arrow(print) -- 25
by socketcluster | 2025-12-09 07:16:11+00:00
Depends on the size and complexity of the problem that the system is solving. For very complex problems, even the most succinct solution will be complex and not all parts of the code can be throwaway code. You have to start stacking the layers of abstractions and some code becomes critical. Like think of the Linux Kernel, you can't throw away the Linux Kernel. You can't throw away Chromium or the V8 engine... Millions of systems depend on those. If they had issues or vulnerabilities and nobody to maintain, it would be a major problem for the global economy.
by genuser | 2025-12-09 07:16:29+00:00
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