MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by coreycascio | 2026-02-08 14:11:02+00:00
For 6 months, I was that person with 15 browser tabs open just to publish one YouTube video. vidIQ for competitor research. Runway for video generation. Descript for voiceover. Canva for thumbnails. Buffer for scheduling. ChatGPT for scripts. $127/month in subscriptions. 20+ hours/week in busywork.
Got fed up and spent 3 months building one tool that automates the entire workflow.

--- viralvelocity.app

## What It Does:

* Competitor Intelligence* - Type your niche → instantly see top 5 creators - Analyze their viral videos, hooks, thumbnails - Data-driven content strategy (not guessing)

* AI Script Generation* - Analyzes competitor patterns in your specific niche - Generates scripts based on proven formats - Not generic ChatGPT—niche-specific scripts

* Video Creation (2 Methods)* - Image slideshow with transitions - OR Veo 3.1 AI video generation - Auto voiceover with multiple voices

* Thumbnail Generator* - AI creates thumbnails automatically - Or upload your face image once → adds it to all thumbnails - (Even faceless channels use face thumbnails for higher CTR)

* Channel Optimization* - Overall channel score (0-100) - Specific improvement suggestions per video - SEO optimization (tags, titles, descriptions)

* Auto-Scheduling* - Plan entire content calendar - Publishes videos automatically

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## Screenshots:

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## My Question for This Community:

As fellow YouTubers—would this actually help you? Or am I solving my own weird workflow problem?

Specifically: - What would you actually USE vs what's "nice to have"? - Is $79/mo fair to replace vidIQ ($39) + Runway ($30) + Descript ($30) + Canva ($13) + Buffer ($15)? - What am I missing that would actually matter for your channel?

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## Full Transparency:

Solo dev, first SaaS product Built it for myself first, now testing if others need it Just launched this week—some features still rough around the edges I use it for my own channel (eating my own dog food) No fake testimonials or "make $10k/month" claims Early beta, bugs exist, support is slow (it's just me)

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I'm not here to sell. Genuinely trying to figure out if this is worth continuing or if I should pivot/kill it.

Honest feedback appreciated, even if it's "this is stupid and here's why." Thanks for reading viralvelocity.app
by bonoboTP | 2026-02-08 14:11:08+00:00
I find working with LLMs much more fun and frictionless comprated to the drudgery of boring glue code or tracking down nongeneralizable version-specific workarounds in github issues etc. Coding LLMs let you focus on the domain of you actual problem instead of the low level stumbling blocks that just create annoyance without real learning.
by fatherwavelet | 2026-02-08 14:11:15+00:00
It is an objective fact though that the lack of DVD sales on the backend has completely changed the economics of movies and what gets made.

You also can't really compare the 90s to now when music and the movies were the dominate art form and there was no way to get rich and famous from just the internet.

I watched an interview with Jerry Cantrell from Alice in Chains and he said in the late 80s Seatle, he worked at a giant 50 room rehearsal space, almost apartment complex, that was opened 24/7. Music can't be the same as a time when being in a band was so popular that the economics could support a 50 band room rehearsal space that never closes. It is night and day different to now. Same with movies.
by microtonal | 2026-02-08 14:11:40+00:00
I have a ThinkPad besides my main MacBook. I recently switched to KDE, a full desktop environment, and it is just insane how much faster everything renders than on macOS. And that's on a relatively underpowered integrated Ryzen GPU. Window dragging is butter smooth on a 120Hz screen, which I cannot say of macOS (though it outright terrible with the recent Electron issue).

Apple Silicon is awesome and was a game changer when it came out. Still very impressive that they have been able to keep the MacBook Air passively cooled since the first M1. But yeah, macOS is holding it back.
by baxtr | 2026-02-08 14:12:07+00:00
I definitely recommend to watch this video with Reinhold Niebuhr.

Sure some things deteriorate, but many things improve. Talking about a net decline (or net gain) is very difficult.

Every age has their own set problems that need to be solved.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93EJJVAinRc
by nerdsniper | 2026-02-08 14:12:20+00:00
My work MBP also can drain the battery in a couple hours of light use. But that's because of FireEye / Microsoft Defender. FireEye has a bug where it pegs the CPU at 100% indefinitely and needs to be killed to stop its infinite loop. Defender hates when a git checkout changes 30,000 files and uses up all my battery (but I can't monitor this because I can't view the processes).
by hnarn | 2026-02-08 14:12:51+00:00
"First we write the bad code, then we write the good code."

Your concerns are valid but not unique to AI generated code, the same feeling has existed for as long as open source software has existed: is my code good enough, will I just look stupid when people suggest oversights and mistakes?

The fact of the matter is that if you have created software that solves an actual issue, especially if that issue was previously unsolved, you have created something valuable. Making it open source only means that the code is now open to contribution, forks, or other modifications by anyone using it.

The performative idea of open source software being a part of your resume and written only to increase your personal brand is a perversion of what the open source movement originally was about. It's about learning, and you learn by making mistakes, regardless of whether your bad code was written completely from your own brain or from the suggestion of an LLM.

Don't ever be afraid to open source your code, nobody has any right to expect anything from you, and if they do they are just too stupid to understand that free and open code is always a gift, regardless of how bad it is, if it solves a problem for real people.
by manuelabeledo | 2026-02-08 14:12:59+00:00
After re-reading the post once again, because I honestly thought I was missing something obvious that would make the whole thing make sense, I started to wonder if the author actually understands the scope of a computer language. When he says:

> LLMs are far more nondeterministic than previous higher level languages. They also can help you figure out things at the high level (descriptions) in a way that no previous layer could help you dealing with itself. […] What about quality and understandability? If instead of a big stack, we use a good substrate, the line count of the LLM output will be much less, and more understandable. If this is the case, we can vastly increase the quality and performance of the systems we build.

How does this even work? There is no universe I can imagine where a natural language can be universal, self descriptive, non ambiguous, and have a smaller footprint than any purpose specific language that came before it.
by TheTaytay | 2026-02-08 14:12:59+00:00
Thank you for matchlock! I’ve got Opus 4.6 red teaming it right now. ;)

I think a secure VM is a necessary baseline, and the days of env files with a big bundle of unscoped secrets are a thing of the past, so I like the base features you built in.

I’d love to hear more about the red team breakouts you’ve seen if you have time.
by llm_nerd | 2026-02-08 14:13:06+00:00
Nowhere in the submission or even the comment you replied to did anyone say "fastest". The incredibly weird knee-jerk defensiveness by some is bizarre.

It was a discussion about how the P cores are left ready to speedily respond to input via the E cores satisfying background needs, in this case talking specifically about Apple Silicon because that's the writer's interest. But of course loads of chips have P and E cores, for the same reason.
by flohofwoe | 2026-02-08 14:13:08+00:00
> C++ doesn't take longer to compile if you don't abuse templates.

It actually does though, unless you also drop C++ stdlib usage completely (have you looked at how many lines of code just <vector> alone pulls into each source file? - it's upward of 20kloc and growing with each new C++ version).

And at that point you get into discussions with various C++ camps about why you don't use the C++ stdlib and instead prefer to reinvent the wheel (and this friction with other C++ coders is the main problem of carving out your own subset - it works ok in complete isolation, but software development work hardly happens in splendid isolation)... and at that point it is much less exhausting to just write plain C. And the C community (if it can be called that) seems to be much less concerned about coding style dogma and generally a nicer bunch to interact with.

FWIW, I switched around 2017 and each time I have to interact with a C++ library for lack of alternatives it's usually not a pleasant experience (with the notable exception of Dear ImGui - but even there I started to prefer the C bindings so that I don't need to strictly separate the UI code from the rest of the code base, which sometimes makes sense, but often not, especially with an immediate mode UI framework).
by madeofpalk | 2026-02-08 14:13:19+00:00
I think this shows an unfettered optimism for things we don't know anything about. Many see this as a red flag for the quality of opinions.

> R1 is definitely an upgraded replacement for smartphones. It’s versatile and fulfills all everyday requirements, with an interaction style akin to talking to a human.

You seemed pretty certain about how the product worked!
by daviddahuang | 2026-02-08 14:13:33+00:00
Are you using a computer? It works on my phone. It just scrolls down to the phrase section.

The idea is to setup a buyer and seller marketplace for discounted gift cards and then once that market is liquid, I'm going to pivot into a browser extension. Think Honey. Users will be able to purchase products and services at a fraction of the full retail price by buying discounted giftcards.
by mothballed | 2026-02-08 14:13:46+00:00
There's option to opt out of social security if you are of the right religion that existed before, I want to say, by the 1960s was the nominal date in the statute -- and registered as such by some gatekeepers in the religion. The Amish won't let those who didn't grow up in the community register although some Mennonites might. Or are working as a preacher.

It should probably be challenged because it's a clear religious discrimination. I looked seriously at renouncing my right to social security but eventually I found out they've gamed the system in favor of a few insular religions.
by mikkupikku | 2026-02-08 14:13:59+00:00
Everybody here probably already has an opinion about the utility of coding agents, and having it manage your calendar isn't terribly inspired, but there is a lot more you can do.

To be specific, for the past year I've been having numerous long conversations about all the books I've read. I talk about what I liked, didn't like, the ideas and and plots I found compelling or lame, talks about the characters, the writing styles of authors, the contemporary social context the authors might have been addressing, etc. Every aspect of the books I can think off. Then I ask it for recommendations, I tell it given my interests and preferences, suggest new books with literary merit.

ChatGPT just knocks this out of the park, amazing suggestions every time, I've never had so much fun reading than in the past year. It's like having the world's best read and most patient librarian at your personal disposal.
by PKop | 2026-02-08 14:14:47+00:00
What's that got to do with burning thousands of dollars producing nothing of value, and a lot of useless code created by agents you turn loose while advocating not reviewing it? "Used LLMs" is a non-sequitur here. What did your agent build with you spending thousands of dollars and not reviewing the code? If you have something high quality to show that followed this process link it here, else what are you even talking about?
by graemep | 2026-02-08 14:15:02+00:00
They already do and always have. They never stopped hiring butlers (who are pretty well paid BTW), chefs, chauffeurs, maids, gardeners, nannies.....

The terminology may have changed a bit, but they still employ people to do stuff for them

One big difference is while professional class affluent people will hire cleaners or gardeners or nannies for a certain number or hours they cannot (at least in rich countries) hire them as full time live in employees.

There are some things that are increasing. For example employing full time tutors to teach their kids - as rich people used to often do (say a 100 years ago). So they get one to one attention while other people kids are in classes with many kids, and the poor have their kids in classes with a large number of kids. Interesting the government here in the UK is increasingly hostile to ordinary people educating their kids outside school which is the nearest we can get to what the rich do (again, hiring tutors by the hour, and self-supply within the household).

They also hire people to manage their wealth. I do not know enough about the history to be sure, but this seems to be also to be a return to historical norms after an egalitarian anomaly. A lot of wealth is looked after by full time employees of "family offices" - and the impression I get from people in investment management and high end property is that this has increased a lot in the last few decades. Incidentally, one of the questions around Epstein is why so many rich people let him take over some of the work that you would expect their family offices to handle.
by pbhjpbhj | 2026-02-08 14:15:11+00:00
We have a lot of people, capitalism values them as approaching zero, anything that alters that valuation (without reducing population) is contrary to capitalism. Capitalism means the rich must get richer, they own the resources and means of production, they take the reward.

It comes to a point where they need an underclass to insulate them from the masses; look how cheaply Trump bought his paramilitary though, he only had to spend the money taken from those he's suppressing, didn't even have to reduce his own wealth one bit; the military and his new brown shirts will ensure the rich stay rich and that eventually there is massive starvation (possibly water/fuel poverty first).

Or USA recovers the constitution, recognises climate change and start to do something about it.

It seems like the whole of humanities future hinges on a handful of billionaires megalomania and that riding on the coattails of Trump's need to not face justice for his crimes.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-02-08 14:15:45+00:00
> Because then the companies that have been given legal license to monopolize this technology (through the legal technology known as "patents") could charge whatever price they wanted and insurance companies would have to pay for it? The ability for an insurance company to say no is literally their only negotiation leverage.

Insurance companies have to pay $100k+ per month for medicine for anemic people, and many other much higher cost medicines. Why is a couple hundred dollars to fix THE single biggest cause of future healthcare expenses (diabetes, high blood pressure, and cholesterol) not covered?

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/health/2017/05/...

Insurers routinely pay for $1M+ NICU babies, $100k+ heart surgeries, yada yada, but the US government draws the line at medicine that costs $200 per month that prevents hundreds of thousands of dollars in future spend?

I can’t make it make sense, unless the junk food/alcohol/restaurant/sugar caffeine drink lobby has their tentacles deep in the government.
by ajross | 2026-02-08 14:16:45+00:00
> It doesn't really make much sense to compare per-cycle performance across microarchitectures as there are multiple valid trade-offs.

That's true in principle, but IMHO a little too evasive. In point of fact Apple 100% won this round. Their wider architecture is actually faster than the competition in an absolute sense even at the deployed clock rates. There's really no significant market where you'd want to use anything different for CPU compute anywhere. Datacenters would absolutely buy M5 racks if they were offered. M5 efficiency cores are better than Intel's or Zen 5c every time they're measured too.

Just about the only spaces where Apple is behind[1] are die size and packaging: their cores take a little more area per benchmark point, and they're still shipping big single dies. And they finance both of those shortcomings with much higher per-part margins.

Intel and AMD have moved hard into tiled architectures and it seems to be working out for them. I'd expect Apple to do the same soon.

[1] Well, except the big elephant in the room that "CPU Performance Doesn't Matter Much Anymore". Consumer CPUs are fast enough and have been for years now, and the stuff that feels slow is on the GPU or the cloud these days. Apple's in critical danger of being commoditized out of its market space, but then that's true of every premium vendor throughout history.
by seanhunter | 2026-02-08 14:16:48+00:00
The last public ranking of chess centaurs was 2014, after which it is generally held to be meaningless as the ranking of a centaur is just the same as the ranking of the engine. Magnus Carlsen’s peak elo of 2884 is by far the highest any human has ever achieved. Stockfish 18 is estimated to be in excess of 4000 elo. Which is to say the difference between it and the strongest human player ever is about the same as the difference between a strong club player and a grandmaster. It’s not going to benefit meaningfully from anything a human player might bring to the partnership.

Magnus himself in 2015 said we’ve known for a long time that engines are much stronger than humans so the engine is not an opponent.

https://stockfishchess.org/blog/2026/stockfish-18/

https://www.dw.com/en/world-chess-champion-magnus-carlsen-th...
by roryirvine | 2026-02-08 14:16:55+00:00
Net land area suitable for arable production may well remain roughly constant, but only over timescales much longer than a human lifespan due to the speed at which ecological succession operates.

For instance, when permafrost melts the land left behind is extremely uneven, covered in marshy hollows and collapsing pingos. Where soil exists, it is thin and biologically inert. Primary succession to the point where it is suitable for intensive arable production will take at least a millennium, even if there are no further changes to the climate.

Now, it's likely - human ingenuity being what it is - that we'd be able to use that new land for some form of agriculture well before that, perhaps even within a century or two. But if we do, it'll be through something like genetically-engineered moss and sedges, not intensively growing wheat and corn in northern Siberia!
by butvacuum | 2026-02-08 14:17:37+00:00
where do people derive replay value in factorio? I found It got entirely formulaic after my first run, and with SPM as the common measuring stick- its just "who sank the most time into a map."

I understand many people self sooth using it, and thats fine. Doesn't make it a good game for replay.

-- Somebody with more hours in ONI than Dosh has in Factorio
by llm_nerd | 2026-02-08 14:18:07+00:00
I don't get your first line. When people talk about Apple's core speeds they're not talking about cycles per instruction or something, they're talking about single-thread performance on a benchmark like Geekbench. Geekbench runs various real-world code and it's the gross throughput that is measured, and it's there that Apple cores shine.
by 9rx | 2026-02-08 14:18:25+00:00
Words are something made up to express whatever the speaker/author intends them to, so there is really no such thing as correct or incorrect there. A dictionary can hint at the probability of someone else understanding a word absent of other context, which makes for a useful tool, but that is something quite different to establishing correctness.

As for things that can actually be incorrect, that has always been impossible, but we accept the human consensus to be a close enough approximation. With that, verifying 'correctness' to the degree that is possible is actually quite easy through validating it across many different LLMs trained on the human consensus. They will not all hallucinate identically. If convergence is found, then you have also found the human consensus. That doesn't prove correctness — we have never had a way to do that — but it is equivalent to how we have always dealt with establishing what we believe is correct.
by fragmede | 2026-02-08 14:18:33+00:00
The creme rises to the top. If someone's shit-coded program hangs and crashes frequently, in this day and age, we don't have to put up. with it any longer. That lazy half-assed feature that everyone knows sucks but we're forced to use it anyway? The competition just vibe coded up a hyper-specific version of that app that doesn't suck for everyone involved. We start looking at who's requiring what. What's an interface and what's required to use it. If there's an endpoint that I can hit, but someone has a better, more polished UI, that users prefer, let the markets decide.

My favorite pre-LLM thing in this area is Flighty. It's a flight tracking app that takes available data and presents it in the best possible wway. Another one is that EU border visa residency app that came thru here a couple of months ago.

Standards for interchange formats have now become paramount.

API access is another place where things hinge on.
by paganel | 2026-02-08 14:18:54+00:00
> We're literally living in the 1980s fantasy where you could talk to your computer and it had a personality

The difference is that the computer only talks back to you as code because you’re paying its owners, with you not being part of the owners. I find it really baffling that people put up with this. What will you do when Alphabet or Altman will demand 10 times the money out of you fir the privilege of their computer talking to you in programming code?
by throwa356262 | 2026-02-08 14:19:13+00:00
Even at the time of announcement M5 was not the fastest chip. Not even on single core benchmark where apple usually shines due to the design choice of having fewer but more powerful cores (AMD for examples does the opposite). For example on geekbench Core i9-14900KS and Core Ultra 9 285K were faster.

The distance was not huge, maybe 3%. You can obviously pick and choose your benchmarks until you find one where "your" CPU happens to be the best.
by lagrange77 | 2026-02-08 14:19:30+00:00
> The real question is what happens when the labor market for non-physical work completely implodes as AI eats it all. Based on current trends I'm going to predict in terms of economics and politics we handle it as poorly as possible leading to violent revolution and possible societal collapse, but I'd love to be wrong.

Exactly and the world has to start talking about it. Eventually everybody will, including all sorts of politicians who advocate to 'finally tackle the problem', which will be too late.