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Show HN: Video Forms – turn any YouTube video into an interactive questionnaire
by juanviera23 | 2026-02-10 22:05:56+00:00
Hi HN

I built Video Forms: a tool that lets you attach questions to specific timestamps in a video, optionally with branching/skip logic.

Motivation: I kept getting “looks good” feedback on demo/onboarding videos, but the useful feedback was always “at 0:42 I got confused” — and it was hard to collect that in a structured way. Surveys lose context; comments are unstructured.

How it works (high level):
- You create a “video form” by placing questions at timestamps (e.g., 0:18, 0:42)
- The video can pause to ask the question, then continue
- Answers can branch to different follow-up questions based on responses
- You get responses tied to the exact moment in the video (and can export/share results)

Use cases I’m aiming at:
- UX research on product demos
- Onboarding: “did this step make sense?” checks
- Training/L&D comprehension checks

I’d love feedback on:
1) What question types would you need first (free text, multiple choice, rating, etc.)?
2) Is “interrupting” the video a deal-breaker, or does pausing at key moments feel acceptable?
3) Any workflows/tools you’d want this to integrate with?
by xboxnolifes | 2026-02-10 22:05:59+00:00
You have functions

void callNumber(string phoneNumber);
void associatePhoneNumber(string phoneNumber, Person person);
Person lookupPerson(string phoneNumber);
Provider getProvider(string phoneNumber);

I pass in "555;324+289G". Are you putting validation logic into all of those functions? You could have a validation function you write once and call in all of those functions, but why? Why not just parse the phone number into an already validated type and pass that around?

PhoneNumber PhoneNumber(string phoneNumber);
void callNumber(PhoneNumber phoneNumber);
void associatePhoneNumber(PhoneNumber phoneNumber, Person person);
Person lookupPerson(PhoneNumber phoneNumber);
Provider getProvider(PhoneNumber phoneNumber);

Put all of the validation logic into the type conversion function. Now you only need to validate once from string to PhoneNumber, and you can safely assume it's valid everywhere else.
by spiewart | 2026-02-10 22:06:01+00:00
I have to chime in here. The full text is paywalled but if you have a subscription or institutional access the devil is in the details.

The "pilot study" the authors performed was an n=20 with 30% dropout, meaning 14 finished the study, 6/10 in the non-semaglutide arm and 8/10 in the semaglutide arm. They did not include participants who dropped out in their final analyses which is a big methodological flaw. I could go on about their choice in and measurement of outcomes, but suffice to say with only 14 participants these results should be taken with a grain of salt.

Further, they did extensive molecular biological studies in mice. There have been MANY (dozens) of murine (mouse) studies showing beneficial effects of various compounds / interventions on mouse knee osteoarthritis. None of them have translated into a therapy for the human disease. Mice live 2-3 years and have very different knee biomechanics than humans.

Appreciate the authors investigative efforts, but more confirmatory studies are needed before I'll be injecting semaglutide into my knee.
by HxG | 2026-02-10 22:06:33+00:00
The 2022 expulsion of 700 Russian intelligence officers from Europe was the largest counterintelligence action since the Cold War, but Russia's response has been unprecedented. Recent reports show that Russia is recruiting teenagers across Europe through Telegram to spy for it, through gamified missions, and is redeploying its intelligence officers to Latin America, arming them with fake Latin American identities to enter Europe and the US.
by aspenmartin | 2026-02-10 22:06:40+00:00
In sonnet 4 and even 4.5 I would have said you are absolutely right, and in many cases it slows you down especially when you don’t know enough to sniff trouble.

Opus 4.5 and 4.6 is where those instances have gone down, waaay down (though still true). Two personal projects I had abandoned after sonnet built a large pile of semi working cruft it couldn’t quite reason about, opus 4.6 does it in almost one shot.

You are right about learning but consider: you can educate yourself along the way — in some cases it’s no substitute for writing the code yourself, and in many cases you learn a ton more because it’s an excellent teacher and you can try out ideas to see which work best or get feedback on them. I feel I have learned a TON about the space though unlike when I code it myself I may not be extremely comfortable with the details. I would argue we are about 30% of the way to the point where it’s not even no longer relevant it’s a disservice to your company to be writing things yourself.
by SirMaster | 2026-02-10 22:06:55+00:00
I feel like this is merely an anecdote.

I am on the apps too and have my range set to 29-38. About 80% of the women I'm seeing have selected as "wants kids". I don't want kids and I can barely find any women to match with who also don't want kids...

I think we both have anecdotes though and unless we have data from the entire company, we can't make any real accurate claim here.
by rolph | 2026-02-10 22:07:14+00:00
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,[a] against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

>>no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation<<

that means there must be affirmation of probable cause to an overseeing body [i.e. judiciary]

administrative warrants are a process of "i know im right i dont need someone else to look things over"
by CuylerM | 2026-02-10 22:07:32+00:00
You’d think in 2026, with all the apps and websites, planning a trip would be fun or at least easy. Nope. It’s a full-time job. Flights on one site, accommodations on another, activities scattered across half a dozen platforms. Every time you find a good deal, it doesn’t sync with your other plans. Want to compare options? That means dozens of tabs. Want to book everything at once? Good luck coordinating calendars, confirmations, and changing prices.

Planning a single weekend getaway can take hours. A proper vacation? Weeks, sometimes months. By the time you finally lock everything in, the trip you imagined months ago has already changed—or your budget has evaporated chasing deals.

There are too many options, too many sites, too many steps. It’s chaotic, exhausting, and unnecessarily stressful. Travel should be exciting, not a logistical nightmare.

That’s why I’m building Vialo. One place to see all your travel options, coordinate your itinerary, and actually enjoy the anticipation instead of losing sleep over spreadsheets and tabs.

You shouldn’t be spending weeks planning a trip—you should be able to focus more on the journey than the planning.
by ActorNightly | 2026-02-10 22:07:39+00:00
Its pretty clear that the problem of solving AI is software, I don't think anyone would disagree.

But that problem is MUCH MUCH MUCH harder than people make it out to be.

For example, you can reliably train an LLM to produce accurate output of assembly code that can fit into a context window. However, lets say you give it a Terabyte of assembly code - it won't be able to produce correct output as it will run out of context.

You can get around that with agentic frameworks, but all of those right now are manually coded.

So how do you train an LLM to correctly take any length of assembly code and produce the correct result? The only way is to essentially train the structure of the neurons inside of it behave like a computer, but the problem is that you can't do back-propagation with discrete zero and 1 values unless you explicitly code in the architecture for a cpu inside. So obviously, error correction with inputs/outputs is not the way we get to intelligence.

It may be that the answer is pretty much a stochastic search where you spin up x instances of trillion parameter nets and make them operate in environments with some form of genetic algorithm, until you get something that behaves like a Human, and any shortcutting to this is not really possible because of essentially chaotic effects.

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by teo_zero | 2026-02-10 22:07:39+00:00
You shouldn't take a sci-fi writer's words as a prophecy. Especially when he's using an ingenious gimmick to justify his job. I mean, we know that it's impossible for anyone to tell how the world will be like after the singularity, by the very definition of singularity. Therefore Herbert had to devise a ploy to plausibly explain why the singularity hadn't happened in his universe.
by BugsJustFindMe | 2026-02-10 22:07:40+00:00
> We lock up innocent people all the time, as the court system is imperfect. That doesn't make something the Gestapo.

Correct. The methods, the scale, and the targets do. Refusing to ever show any identification or proof of orders at all when that definitionally makes them a secret police does. Repeatedly violating federal court orders does (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46965333). Repeatedly violating habeas corpus rights does. Assaulting people in the streets merely for witnessing does. Let us not forget that a woman was violently shoved backward to the ground while she was backing up in the lead-up to the killing of Alex Pretti, and the government's immediate response was repeated shameless lies and hiding or destroying evidence, just like they did with the killing of Renee Nicole Good, just like they did with the killing of Geraldo Lunas Campos, just like they did with Alberto Castañeda Mondragón, ... The list doesn't end.

It's very weird of you to just ignore all of that.
by cstever | 2026-02-10 22:08:05+00:00
People will pay for quality craftsmanship they can touch and enjoy and can afford and cannot do on their own - woodworking. Less so for quality code and apps because (as the Super Bowl ads showed us) anyone can create an app for their business and it's good enough. The days of high-paid coders is nearly gone. The senior and principals will hang on a little longer. Those that can adapt to business analyst mode and project manager will as well (CEOs have already told us this: adapt or get gone), but eventually even they will be outmoded because why buy a $8000 couch when I can buy one for $200 and build it myself?
by pessimizer | 2026-02-10 22:08:12+00:00
Or just understand that Debian stable can be moved to Debian testing (or even Debian unstable if even 2 weeks is too long) trivially. The best decision that Debian has ever made is not to distribute or advocate for testing as a rolling distribution, because if you're too ignorant to change your repo to testing, you're really too ignorant to be using testing.

Admitting that getting 6.18 on Debian is some sort of insurmountable mountain is not something I would do in public while trying to show off my expertise. I'm not running it, because I don't need a kernel that's been out for 5 minutes and offers me nothing that can't wait a month or two. I'm running what's current on testing, which is 6.17.13. It's about a minute of work to switch to testing. I run stable on all my servers, and testing on my laptops, it is a triviality. But to all you bleeding edge software people, it's somehow rocket surgery.

> Many people with more modern hardware want the most modern Linux kernel

To run the latest version of Progress Quest. Need biggest number available.

> Arch and Fedora can't come to WSL2 soon enough.

So, it's really still Windows, then. I assume you've moved from spending years ranting about how Linux people were purist server admins and Windows was for users and just worked, and now you've chosen the same posture after being pushed out of Windows.

> Debian stable is for purists or server admins. Not for users.

You're not a typical user. Most users want a functional computer, not the largest numbers they can find.
by zippyman55 | 2026-02-10 22:08:28+00:00
ChatGPT: Summary of the tweet by Matt Shumer (@mattshumer_)
• He posted a message emphasizing that when people ask him “what’s going on with AI,” he usually gives a safe, simple answer.
• He said the real truth about what’s happening in AI sounds “insane,” and that he’s “done holding back.”
• He mentioned writing something he wishes he could personally sit down and tell people he cares about, and suggested people share it with others who need to read it.
by theamk | 2026-02-10 22:08:53+00:00
Not sure what you mean that Xorg does not "actually work"? I am using it on all my computers, works fine.

(That said, I am pretty sure there is some exotic hardware out there where the Xlibre works and Xorg does not, just like the opposite direction where only Xorg works. But I don't know the numbers... I suspect once people get a working X server, they won't try another one)
by llm_nerd | 2026-02-10 22:09:03+00:00
It was much worse than just adding it to your library as a gift. The cover art for the album[1] would appear in seemingly random places on your phone. And there was literally zero way to remove it, until there was such an uproar that Apple had to make a special tool.

Apple spent money on this and they really, really wanted to force feed it to every Apple user (not unlike their F1 movie venture). It was incredibly obnoxious.

1 - And it isn't homophobic to note that the Songs of Innocence cover art looked a bit like you were browsing Grindr or something. People have the right to have the opinion that having that image suddenly being featured on their phone might be misinterpreted by others.
by AlexandrB | 2026-02-10 22:09:38+00:00
> Can you make your living as in food, money, housing, etc, right now, solely from your own property? Statistically not. Capitalists own most of what you require.

You can't survive from your own property in a communist society either because the state own all of it. Instead of power accruing in the hands of a few capitalists, it accrues in the hands of a few politicians/dictators. What's the fundamental difference here? Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
by kstrauser | 2026-02-10 22:09:49+00:00
To amplify what yakshaving said, this may be the worst forum in the entire industry to title drop in. Half the people in any given article's comments are a CxO or Chief or Head or Director or Founder or whatever, or wrote the article, or invented the technology in the article, or are otherwise renowned for something or another.

See also: "Did you win the Putnam?"
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-02-10 22:10:10+00:00
So tired of this sort of complaint (and I'm 62).

The computing the author enjoyed/enjoys is still out there, they are just looking for it in all the wrong places. Forget about (typical) web development (with its front and backend stacks). Forget about windows and macOS, and probably even mobile (though maybe not).

Hobby projects. C++/Rust/C/Go/some-current-Lisp. Maybe even Zig! Unix/Linux. Some sort of hardware interaction. GPL, so you can share and participate in a world of software created by people a lot more like you and a lot less like Gates and Jobs and Zuckerberg and ...

Sure, corporate programming generally tends to suck, but it always did. You can still easily do what you always loved, but probably not as a job.

At 62, as a native desktop C++ app developer doing realtime audio, my programming is as engrossing, cool, varied and awesome as it has ever been (probably even more so, since the GPL really has won in the world I live in). It hasn't been consumed by next-new-thing-ism, it hasn't been consumed by walled platforms, it hasn't been taken over by massive corporations, and it still very much involves Cool Stuff (TM).

Stop whining and start doing stuff you love.
by soperj | 2026-02-10 22:10:11+00:00
I've been using Fedora since 2011, haven't had any monitor or bluetooth issues.
Originally had a wifi issue when I first got a Ryzen computer, but it was solved fairly easily and haven't had an issue since. The upgrade from 42 to 43 borked my local postgres, but it seems that they understand what their mistake was there.

edit: I use it on a thinkpad, ymmv
by stickfigure | 2026-02-10 22:10:15+00:00
PPP is misapplied here; you literally get more PPP by having less economic power.

You think a hot war won't happen over Taiwan? I mean, I hope you are right. But if China wants to invade, it's going to turn into a hot war including the US and probably a number of other regional neighbors.

My guess is that MAD will keep the war conventional even though people have nukes. After all, Russia has nukes and they haven't used them despite their failure on the battlefield.

I'm curious where you are from? You don't sound like you understand the mentality of Americans. Your reasoning sounds quite a lot like the theories of victory circulating among Japanese leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
by burnerToBetOut | 2026-02-10 22:10:47+00:00
There's been a couple other threads here recently about the apparent "existential crisis" some people are having these days.

A lot of commenters tell those people that the reason they're struggling is because they made the mistake of having their identity be defined by their job.

Your post made me wonder if stories like yours is how that whole I-am-my-job-and-my-job-is-me entanglement starts.
by apparent | 2026-02-10 22:10:52+00:00
Maybe it's just me, but it seems kind of weird to say you earned $8,200 in "profit" when there was no salary. Profit is typically the excess a business earns above its costs. For a solo founder, it can be a little tricky because the more you pay yourself in salary, the less you have in profit (and vice versa). But here, there was no salary. Maybe "earnings" or "income" would be a better term to use? Otherwise someone might (particularly for other years) think that the business earned $PROFIT dollars beyond all other costs, including presumably some sort of salary for all employees/contractors.
by srean | 2026-02-10 22:10:56+00:00
> I just don't like this characterization

That's ok. It's a personal value judgement.

However, the fact remains that rotations can "emerge" just from the desire to do additions and multiplications on tuples to be able to do polynomials with them ... which is more directly tied to its historical path of discovery, to solve polynomial equations, starting with cubic.
by Archelaos | 2026-02-10 22:11:07+00:00
> chat control

The Danish proposal for indiscriminate chat control did not receive enough support and was retracted last autumn. Similar proposals have been put forward regularly over the past 30 years and have so far come to nothing just as regularly.

For the conservative (and sometimes not so conservative) non-experts things like this sound like an easy win. So every new generation of politicians has to be educated about it again.
by LightBug1 | 2026-02-10 22:11:45+00:00
Get real. Even the US right and much of MAGA hate Israel now. Not because they love Palestine, but because they hate Israel sucking away US taxpayer money to slaughter women and children and bring them nothing but hassle.

Frankly, watching Israel has been the closest we've come to having a petri dish to understand how Nazi'ism developed and rose. I have a better understanding now of how the Hitler Youth developed, and how cultural blindness, manipulation, nationalistic obsessives and ideologues enable a cancer to spread among its politics leading to full blown Nazism. I have a better understanding of all of that from watching the current Israeli state and reading about it's history.

It's a disgusting tale and shouldn't have been funded by US taxpayers.
by Nasrudith | 2026-02-10 22:11:55+00:00
In the favor of improving living conditions? If and only if it is through their ideology. If it is through something which goes against their ideology the goalposts move at the speed of light and out comes some rationalization like "it wasn't really important, what we need is community".

When communism had claims to being more productive growth was the most important thing in the world and why we should adopt their ideology. Now look at the 'degrowth' people what a coincidence and they are literally arguing for worsening living conditions....
by dylan604 | 2026-02-10 22:12:11+00:00
> You would think that there would be one single point of contact with whomever made the video, cause it's not like they were using the footage of the actors in a new way.

That depends. Licensing is a weird nuanced beast. The original video could have received a license to broadcast on something like MTV. MS didn't want to broadcast it, but distribute it. That's an entirely different thing in the licensing world. The fees also change depending on broadcast/distribute. The number of units would be considered and fees based accordingly.
by XorNot | 2026-02-10 22:12:17+00:00
The most interesting thing about everyone trying to position themselves as AI experts is the futility of it: the technology explicitly promises tomorrows models will be better then todays, which means the skill investment is deflationary: the best time to learn anything is tomorrow when a better model will be better at doing the same work - because you don't need to be (conversely if you're not good at debugging and reverse engineering now...)
by avianlyric | 2026-02-10 22:12:26+00:00
> Chip and pin and NFC transitions took off much quicker outside the US because merchants generally owned more of the chargeback risk than in the US, and therefore were willing to update their POS equipment accordingly.

Not really. The risk of all fraud is initial borne by banks issuing the cards, after all they’re only parties that have an actual financial relationship with the person providing the cash/debt. If something which results in that person cash/debt being stolen, it’s between that person and their bank to figure out who’s liable for the lost money. Chargebacks are just a mechanism for banks to recover some of that lost money, once the liability between the card holder and the bank has been settled.

One of the big reasons why Chip and PIN etc took off outside of the US, is that the US is very accepting of fraud, and charging crazy high interchange rates (up to 10x what they are in Europe) so the cost of fraud is spread over many individuals. Other parts of the world have regulations capping interchange rates, and providing better consumer protection, demanding that banks and payment networks tackle fraud, rather than increase the cost of everything by 1-2% to cover fraud losses.
by dunder_cat | 2026-02-10 22:12:28+00:00
There's nothing new or original in a lot of things that get posted here. Reading about someone starting a journey provides an interesting catalyst for discussion. What they did right, what they did wrong, other things to try, or even just providing a push to someone else to also try.

I'll take my turn on the soapbox to say I hope people keep posting about their adventures and misadventures in trying something new. I'd much rather be reading that than seeing yet another post on LLM-based agentic startups or pelicans riding bicycles.
Ask HN: What do you think about the recent Slack UI change?
by 1e1a | 2026-02-10 22:12:33+00:00
Slack recently added extra icons to the left of the "Channels", "Direct messages" and "Apps" sections in the sidebar. Previously, this space was left blank until the item was hovered, at which point it would display an arrow indicating collapsibility. Also, DMs with 3+ participants now just feature a single participant count to the left, as opposed to a profile picture of one of the participants with the participant count overlayed off-center.