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Show HN: I built a LLM-powered Ask HN: like Perplexity, but for HN comments
Hi HN!

I'm Jonathan and I built Ask Hacker Search (https://hackersearch.net/ask), an LLM-powered version of Hacker News' Ask HN.

Unlike Ask HN, Ask Hacker Search doesn't solicit new contributions from HN readers. Instead, it leverages Hacker News' historical data to answer questions, and offers LLM-generated summaries of those. I've used it for questions like "Should I use Drizzle or Prisma?" or "What is a good screen capture that allows easy zooming effects on Mac?".

It is particularly useful when you're interested in understanding HN readers' sentiment about a topic, or when looking for expert insights on topics of interest to HN readers. I've been using it continually while building it, and have found it particularly useful to find software libraries recommended by HN or get quick vibe checks on hot topics.

This builds on my release of Hacker Search two weeks ago
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40238509), which offered a semantic search engine over top HN submissions. It's not just a small upgrade: covering comments was the #1 requested feature after that launch, so I rebuilt the near entirety of the product to support that.

Please try it out and let me know what you think of it! I have to limit the number of LLM summaries each person can get for free, as this is entirely self-funded. If you hit the limit, you can subscribe for more summaries generated by a better model ($8/month), or bring your own compute by running inference on Ollama on your machine!
If they make the spellchecker flag this, then yes, they might effectively change the English language over several years.
The world in general tend to not work in extrema.

I think there is a good reason Haidts work is disputed, but that doesn't mean there is no truth in it either.
I thought the consensus was that corvee labor was used, rather than outright slavery.
This is kinda crazy considering the tremendous effort Google has gone to over the decades to shave milliseconds off their response time. They invented a whole TCP replacement to reduce page latency, and now this?
The Downfall of DeviantArt
Walmart's profit last year was $15.5B and it is doing a ghost layoffs
Sounds like it's based on a good model for the problem space, but a model that's alien to other day-to-day ones.

Which is an interesting problem!

Is it better to optimally model ones problem space?

Or suboptimally model it, but create a model that's closer to developer/user expectations?
I wish one of these languages (where you can prove and confirm that your code follows the formal spec) would aim for production use. I was really interested in Lean 4 when I found out that it aims to be a general purpose language, but then I saw that the language manual still has a section titled "Should I use Lean?" that emphasizes it's just a research project not a product and still expects a bunch more breaking changes, and so on.

Some day, I'd love to write proofs instead of tests in some places.
Any idea how close Apple is to shipping stable WebGPU? They are the main bottleneck in terms of marketshare, Chrome has shipped it on Windows and Android already.
I only did one bigger project with D3 and had the same experience! I was thinking about the same thing before I read your post. Not really sure why, but when I was doing it regularly it felt smooth, but now I can't remember anything.
Discussion about the announcement yesterday at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40366062
So the AI search generally provides correct results, but the guy… just doesn’t want to hear anything about AI?

I suppose it’s an interesting psychological example.
Glad I am not alone in thinking react router has always been a disaster. Jumped ship ages ago to Vue - this was partly the reason - and I find vue router to be pretty great.
“Kochland” includes a chapter on warehouse operations that tracked workers’ activity down to the minute (each conversation and bathroom trip had to be accounted for) and posted their performance rankings on a bulletin board.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/13/books/review-kochland-sec...
What a ridiculous proposal. Eliminating corporate bankruptcy and making employees personally liable for business debts would wreck the US economy. If debtors take a haircut then it's their own fault for lending in the first place; no one is forced to buy corporate bonds and vendors always have the option of requiring cash on delivery.
I would also assume that good pay is a strong incentive, and public works have been used time and again as a form of welfare.
I was disputing the notion that Egyptians CAN'T build monuments. I think my tone might have been too tongue in cheek.

> which was built in England yet no one can explain how Brits did it

To quote one of my favorite Adult Swim shows (China IL) - "F**ing people figured it out ... Nerd don't estimate all of humanity by the limits of your capabilites"
I agree and I think that’s why I end up re-learning d3 over and over.

But having to do it yourself is a lot of work so you have to make an executive decision between shoehorning some plotting library that can’t do a chart feature that honestly should be supported versus building an entire chart from scratch.
That new national network ("the NBN") is so hit-or-miss that it's not funny.

My current connection in Brisbane is 1GbE download (incredibly fast for Australia), but only 50mbps upload. That 50mbps upload is the fastest commonly available speed in the whole country. Most ISP's don't offer anything faster than 20mbps. :(

Reliability isn't great either. Had an 8 hour (!) outage overnight about a month ago, then a ~2 hour outage last week. Both caused by NBN Co, rather than my ISP.

The concept of hosting anything actually useful or important from home infrastructure is just laughable when there are commonly multi-hour outages. It's just fucking stupid. :(
X has Community Notes. This is a beautiful feature. They target both regular posts and, most importantly, ads. False advertisement is a problem for all social media platforms out there, except X. As a quick example, I regularly see ads about a certain type of game that in reality does not exist. These ads are running everywhere. However, on X, the community notes add a banner right next to the ad saying that this is a fake game, so don't bother buying it. From the financial perspective, such banners do harm the platform. But from the user's perspective, it's amazing.
Not to mention the 3D print files.
>He obsessively pursued the ‘continuum hypothesis’, which states roughly that the infinitude of real numbers is next largest to that of natural numbers.

That sounds backwards? There are infinite real numbers between just 0 and 1, alone.

EDIT: my respondents so far seem to be stating the same thing I was. I interpreted the phrase "next largest" from TFA to mean that the infinitude of real numbers was a smaller than that of natural numbers. (So: not the largest, but rather the "next largest"). That, to me, is what sounded backwards.
How so? I have my US number on an eSIM. If I went abroad, the hardware slot is available. Or, pretty sure I can just add a second eSIM, no?
Are your 28 and 42 tires the same type (e.g., the Rene Herse standard tires are the same construction across the entire size lineup), or is the 28 a road tire and the 42 a gravel tire?

I've got a road bike and a gravel bike. A while ago, I did the same workout, 12 reps of a local hill, 2.5 hours or so, once on each bike, separated by a week.

The road bike is 8kg and 25mm tires, the gravel is 12kg and 650bx42 or 48 tires. (might have been either, as I switched tires around then). The difference in time was 6 seconds.

The gravel bike doesn't feel as fast. It doesn't reward spinning, and the gearing jumps are just a little big for me (1x11). The road bike beats me up with vibrations, but it feels better climbing and standing. It's got closer gear ratios, so it's just a bit better matching. Now, to be fair, the gravel bike is running far better tires, so there's less resistance there. (and, that's basically why I bought it) But overall, they are basically the same speed, even on a hilly climbing workout.
Libertarians are not known for their strong logical arguments.
> proper data storage

Excel is second after Access for bottom-up developed data storage. And since Access is all but gone, it's absolutely not surprising people reach for Excel.
Almost nobody is posting on Facebook anymore. Instagram has taken over that niche. Facebook is in free fall and has to fill in the feed with anything - anything! Meaning many more ads, AI slop and complete garbage from all over the world.
Lies, Damn Lies, and Benchmarks
In all fairness, we’re not wrangling in a megacorp or small company / bad actor type.

These are usually tiny businesses where the owner is busting their ass in the hot sun alongside their crew. These are usually the smallest of small biz, and oftentimes just a young guy and a single helper.

I don’t believe we can expect lawncare prices to 4x, but this is a perfect example of targeting those who we should be supporting. If anything, structure the regulations to tier controls by size of the operation.

We absolutely should not be making the lives of a 20 year old kid trying to start something up any harder than it already is.
What sort of things will compute shaders on the web unlock that wasn't possible before? Asking as someone with only a little graphics programming experience
I don't want to hear anything about AI either, especially if it takes an extra 3 seconds to load.
I love the visualizations created but something about D3 syntax has just never clicked for me. It seems overly convoluted, verbose and from an old era. We've thankfully moved to a more declarative way of doing things.
I should have been more clear.

My idea was to tread it like gambling (and to be more clear that doesn't mean classify it as gambling).

Which in case of the country I'm from means it's not allowed for children, and in general with some subtle exceptions neither for teenagers.

But is allowed for adults.

But is also regulated quite a bit when used by adults (e.g. regarding to transparency, advertisements, age verification and other topics).

That still would kill Ticktok and YT Shorts their main mode of operation had been to capture new users in the teen and child age range and then beet on them staying around.
Department of Education. https://www.ed.gov

I can only assume a typo in the comment.
Sony Music warns tech companies over unauthorized use of its content to train AI
I can imagine a "3 squares a day" meal offering could possibly be a big draw.
"79 percent of developers are either actively seeking new job opportunities or are open to the idea"

I mean yeah, I don't know a single developer (employed or not) who ever wasn't "open to the idea" of a new job. This is kind of a meaningless statement.
> 1- Zoning is a *national law*, not a municipal by-law

A national zoning law is very interesting.

My biggest complaint about every city in TX I lived in (Houston, Austin, SATX, Dallas) was the lack of MDUs (among other things) causing them all to be painfully sparse. I lived in the densest neighborhoods I could find, usually Uptown or with Austin right off Guad by UT and 5th/Comal and my life now living in Denver which has a HUGE amount of MDUs/Duplexes/etc everywhere is so drastically different even though Denver has nowhere near the population of those. I haven't driven my car in months and nearly everyone I know lives in a 1-10 block radius.

What was my previous mountain view from my 4 story townhouse is now an 11 story office building directly behind me that glares down at my patio, though, so there's that. I think it's coming with 400-1000 car parking spots (underground garage).

We've been trying to get this (currently) low-traffic, low-mph throughfare street to completely ban car traffic and be turned into pedestrian/restaurant walking only, which it was during COVID and was wonderful, so that's probably dead in the water now.
Or.. use calculus?

It has gotten quite impressive at handling calculus word problems. GPT-4 (original) failed miserably on this problem (attempted to set it up using constant acceleration equations); GPT-4O finally gets it correct:

> I am driving a car at 65 miles per hour and release the gas pedal. The only force my car is now experiencing is air resistance, which in this problem can be assumed to be linearly proportional to my velocity.

> When my car has decelerated to 55 miles per hour, I have traveled 300 feet since I released the gas pedal.

> How much further will I travel until my car is moving at only 30 miles per hour?
It's really simple, this is VC pyramid scheme at play. Say you put $100M into a company at $1B valuation. A year later you put $250M at a $3.25B valuation. Your $350M is now valued at made up $580M. When the company later sells for just double, $7B, your $350M became $1.2B.
Nice but the tricky part is the training data.
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No.

part of it is that its hard for many to believe that civilization can regress for very long periods of time. They were the tallest man-made structures for 3800 years. The engineering and quality of construction was mostly unmatched throughout that duration.

Another issue is that 'scientists' refused to acknowledge that Egypt and most of Northern Africa was lush and green for some time. The people claimed the gods pulled the sun accross the sky and changed the climate. 'scientits' were like "wow you are so stupid, it doesnt work like that, it was never green and you killed what ever green there was by over farming". Turns out, it was a change in Earths tilt.

going along with that theme, we tend to ignore what we are told. The egyptians left depictions of how they did it, by rolling the blocks on large logs and throwing water in front of them, and they left notebooks describing how they sourced the blocks and shiped them down the nile on the river. turns out, after 4000 years, we still don't read the f'ing documentation.
I'm unsure about the time scale in question, but something of this magnitude occurred to the indigenous populations of North and Central Americas, with the introduction of urban diseases (smallpox, influenza, chicken pox, bubonic plague, etc.) from Western Europe that they had no prior exposure to.

If you narrow the geographic scope and widen the temporal scope, the tolls were much higher than 50%.

The consequences are difficult to de-correlate from the other effects of colonization, but no it wasn't pretty.
Not enough. My middle name has a space in it. Still problems.
do you know how easy it is to get to a million bucks a year in revenue? Do you know how easy it is to have that pass 50% margin? 75?

If you know how to build a stack, and have a useful service finding people to pay 20 bucks a month for it is not that hard.

5000 users is a fairly low target...
Google now offers ‘web’ search — and an AI opt-out button

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/14/24074314/google-now-offer...
I don't know, get out of retail hardware and potentially increase market share by allowing manufacturers to tailor devices to their respective markets? I'd just like to see more variety tbh (look at the plethora of handheld PCs), brought with a heavy dose of nostalgia for the home computer days.
Time to switch your default search engine I guess then, dude? You can do that, even if you're using Google's browser, it's the first thing in the 'search' pane of the prefs of Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.
This speaks of the mathematical notion of cardinality, which is the number of elements in a set. For infinite sets, it turns out there are multiple sizes. The natural numbers have the smallest infinite size, and it is the same size of set as the integers and perhaps surprisingly, the rationals. But the real numbers have more elements. A quick proof is called Cantor's diagonalization argument, I recommend looking it up!

In fact, I recently learned there is one cardinality for each possible way to order an infinite set. This is slightly confusing because there are many ordinals of each cardinality, but there are just that many cardinals I've decided.
I was (probably overly) optimistic there for a few years thinking some new internet type project would come along that would restore some of the balance in the direction of the average person, but it doesn't seem to be happening. I mean, fingers crossed and all that, but it doesn't seem to be here.

The other thing that could feasibly happen would be a bit of a mass exodus away from these things. There seems to be glimmers of that, but again, it is still a niche thing.

There doesn't seem to be a straw that breaks the camel's back, with this whole social media / internet freedom thing. Monopolies concentrate, rights dwindle, stability flounders, war flares up, climate crisis accelerates worsens, and just glimmers of resistance.
That was debunked, the same erosion was found in the rock at the quarry site where the stones for the Sphinx were originally taken from.
Not gonna lie, when I see that someone is banned on X, I assume credibility
You may want to look into dropper seat posts. They have road versions that are relatively stiff.

Suspension weighs like 2 lbs (_very_ heavy) and can fail/needs maintenance, and for small bumps the shock absorber moving around loses a lot of power transfer. Nicer suspensions have lock outs so you can disable the suspension on roads and flip it back on when you're back in the mountains.

Fir road only, I don't think suspension ever would make sense. Fatter tires and a (for road) dropper seat post will likely give you all the suspension you need with little penalty
I recently switched from DDG back to Google, but now I need to switch back to DDG because it's quicker and easier to get to Google Maps via the !gm bang via DDG than it is through any direct typing mechanism made available by Google.
Agencies like CPS have to walk a very fine line on the false positive vs false negative optimization.

It’s a really horrible reality that they need to make decisions like this. But which is worse - letting an abused child slip through the cracks, or take a child away from an innocent family?

There’s no good answer here. If there was negligence and a cover up, then yeah to hell with them, if not then mistakes have aweful repercussions. CPS must be one of the hardest jobs in the country.
> Okay, let's say we're going to break backwards-compatibility; how should the user kill the running program, and how should they input character literals, and how are we going to implement your change?

Please don’t take it personally, but I find it a bit sad that your imagination ends here. These two questions depend entirely on the chosen implementation. If we’re talking about a new implementation, should we really start by accepting the limitations and constraints of the existing system as requirements for the improvement?
This is utter nonsense. Let's take the Vietnam war protests of 1969 that are so remembered to this day. They were massive and culturally influential. Yet they gave Nixon one of the biggest victories in US history.

The problem is that protesters are often delusional and don't understand complex problems. The civil rights protests were very carefully and accurately led by MLK and this very careful narrative to educate white people was indeed successful.

But the obvious hint is at the student protests about Palestine. That's one of the bad protests. First, it targets only Israel without laying any blame or responsibility on the Hamas (which started this specific conflict and is still holding civilian hostages). This also targets the entire country instead of the current leadership, which again is a bad target. The result of these protests is obvious from miles away:

* The Israeli right gains power and becomes more aggressive - they use the protests to show how everyone hates Israel and there's no point in trying to satisfy the "antisemites" and the idiots.

* Trump gains power - Biden can't control these people... He will make matters worse for the Palestinians.

* Hamas is emboldened - they are the reason Palestinians don't have a state (which Israel offered twice to two separate Palestinian leaders).

* Putin and Iran are emboldened by the weakness of the West.

I understand why people are protesting. They want to help and have good intentions, they are also deeply misinformed (e.g. the UN just updated its casualty statistics which were VERY wrong and are probably still pretty far off). Also the Israeli government is indeed terrible, but Hamas is even worse. Uninformed protesters like this are making things worse for the moderate Palestinians and Israelis.
That's simultaneously true, and misleading to the point of being wrong. The earliest parts of the layers date that far back, yes. The features of Gobekli Tepe that people who aren't archaeologists actually care about like the obelisks date much later around the second phase of the neolithic (PPNB).

Also note that Gobekli Tepe is neither the oldest site we know of nor unique in having monumental architecture. Even within the Tepler culture, Karahan Tepe dates earlier and I'm sure you heard of the older site of Jericho.
> The thing that sells me, besides the erosion, is the absolutely astonishing artifacts that were left behind. There is no way I could be convinced that hand-driven bronze tooling was cutting diorite to a precision we would struggle to meet today, carving schists so thin you can see light pass through, absolutely perfect symmetry, and creation of granite stoneware with multivariate surface geometry that we'd be unable to do without a precision-destroying tool change.

The explanation is pretty simple: with sufficient effort and skill, it's possible to produce extraordinary works of precision. You cannot underestimate what people can do with sufficient patience and expertise.

However, each artifact is going to be different, because they're hand-made. If you found half a dozen objects that matched each other to extreme precision, you'd have a more serious case- that's the sort of thing you expect to need machine tools for.

One very good way to debunk this stuff is to look at the best stuff that came out of the Renaissance: we know, for certain, that they weren't carving that stuff with power tools.
What I look for in empirical software papers
Back in the day adware was free at least.
Why? Are many credible people banned on Twitter?
No, but languages that use glyphs that are monophonemic and non-phonetic (one-sound per-glyph/character) don't have contractions, which are a function of removing some component part of a word when combining them.

For instance, both Chinese and Japanese use kanji/hanzi, but Chinese is monophonemic, and does not have a phonetic alphabet that characters can be broken into (radicals aside, which are not related to sound). Japanese does (kana).

As a result, combining 2 characters in Chinese never changes the sound of some sub-portion of a character; it's either the whole sound that changes, or nothing. In Japanese, on the other hand, individual kana within a character can change (e.g. Rendaku), so for instance 'hito' (person) put twice in a row becomes hitobito instead of hitohito, because hito is comprised of 2 kana characters: 'hi' and 'to', and 'hi' becomes 'bi'.

Emoji have no subcomponent characters, so you either would need an emoji for a contraction word in addition to the source words, or, more realistically, you just wouldn't have them at all.
Could you share what you mean by that? I suppose it was sarcasm, but I didn’t get the point.
There's been plenty of discussion about cutting a canal to deliver blocks to the build site, but this makes more sense.
In the specific case of the Great Sphinx, there is evidence that it was an existing structure repurposed by Khafre and may have predated the rest of the Giza complex by thousands of years.

Atlantis and 11.5ky is crazy talk though.