skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Idea validation – G2 and Capterra reviews hub
Hey, I need an honest opinion about my latest project idea - Trusted reviews hub.

The idea came from a personal challenge I faced as a product designer. I wanted to analyze reviews and feedback about my company and our main competitors. What seemed like a simple task quickly became frustrating — managing reviews, switching between platforms, and finding meaningful insights was much harder than I expected.

It was hard to manage reviews even for my own company, and competitors were in the line. So, I decided to solve this issue with my own solution.

My main requirements for this platform are:
- View combined reviews from different platforms in one place.
- Filter, sort, and search reviews by specific parameters.
- Get insights and summaries with AI assistance.
- Compare companies based on key metrics.
- Use custom AI tools to work with specific sets of reviews.

As a product designer, I believe that company user feedback is valuable. There are data to dive deep and analyze, but it is to complicated right now, so I hope to solve this.

My main concerns:
- No one cares about users feedback on these platforms, companies just want to be listed and get badges.
- Platforms can be against collecting and publishing open data from their websites to another website.
- It could be too expensive for me to allow users limitlesly play around with AI assistance :)

Please let me know what do you think about this idea? Any feedback now is really important, thanks. (landing page https://reviewpower.io/)
Nvidia-Backed Ubitus Eyes Data Center Near Japan's Nuclear Power
It's not universal but some of this stuff seemingly stems from the framework level -- Gtk and Qt.

For example, QGIS and FreeCAD are very good indeed on the Mac, and the quirky problems FreeCAD has on the Mac are generally Qt problems (font mapping, some window handling stuff, very occasional high-DPI things).

Command-line/server-based FOSS stuff is usually not a great challenge.

I guess this is kind of what one could predict, comparing Linux and the Mac. Though it's also the case that Qt and Gtk get more portability eyeballs on Windows, which again is probably what one could predict.
How about we start by introducing time, interactions with things exterior to the subsystem modeled?
I guess I'm old but in many of these games, they don't get any better if just more stuff is added. It's already complex enough.

Civilization: add more civics and techs and special resources, more civs, more units... It doesn't bring anything to the game. It just makes the excel more annoying to deal with. I paid for Phoenix Point (from the creator of XCOM). Nice game but when they asked for feedback it was just about wishing either more units or more maps or more factions, which would you prefer? None! How about making the core mechanic more fluid so there's less "oh I didn't mean that"? Or the crashing and having to start over after many updates.

What would really make Factorio better? I don't know. Maybe a simplified interface? There's so many ctrl-click things and having to place and stock turrets in a hurry that it just makes me not want to start the game etc.
Distributed Systems in One Lesson [video]
Hello! I built a Chess AI also named Chessmate in high school (2005) that made it into a Minecraft mod 10 years later: http://petrustheron.com/posts/chessmate.html

Java source code here: https://github.com/theronic/chessmate
Comparing statistics like this between countries isn’t as easy as comparing the numbers though, the ratio of registered cases can vary and definitions of crimes can also be different.
Probably because most of those don't line up with how humans experience the world. Storytelling has a long history in the human experience, while haiku or epigrams aren't really the sort of thing one can "wrap" a life around.
It's a knowledge distillation. You can then use this smaller, more efficient models instead of the larger one.
I can't remember the last time I disagreed with a HN post as much as this one. The reason the "tax the rich" debate has become such a hot topic is down to the fact that governments are currently not doing so, and they're not doing so because they're scared to. When a country's government is scared of a single individual, that individual wields unconstitutional power over every other person in the country (cf: Musk). As for whether billionaires could ever be a "good person" - I'd argue that if you become a billionaire and then stay a billionaire, you are by definition not a good person because you've become that unconstitutional power and decided to hold on to it.
Strict hierarchies are indeed too rigid. What about using a tag-based file manager like TagSpaces (which is free and open-source)?
Mess with the best, die like the rest.
take millions of games of human players of certain rating only as your learning data?
The prospect of discarding 25 years of muscle memory in Adobe Illustrator is unfathomable to me, as much as I loathe what Adobe has become.
For me it is a data vs code thing.

If I run my application/code v1 right now, I generate data. I expect that if I move to application/code v2, I can leave my data in place and it will automatically apply changes to my data.

I do not get that with postgres. If I am on postgres 16, and I want to upgrade to postgres 17, I want to leave my data folder untouched. When I then start postgres 17, it should just work (tm).

It should also work with code that assumes postgres 16, so I can upgrade my database separate from my application. I can not wait 10 days for a large database to be migrated from 16 to 17 without being able to run it. However, I can wait 10 days before updating my code to support features in 17.

The current upgrade process does not give me such confidence in restoring data and uptime. So I don't upgrade until I really have to.
Is it only me that, when I open Inkspace, I really cannot get anything done without watching a tutorial or reading docs / blog posts?
Running 'optimize table <table>' reclaims the space on MySQL/MariaDB.
> Doing similar for my Linux VPS with only a terminal is much more complicated.

sudo apt-get install p7zip-full
> Some had been pooling their money together

Why is this against the rules exactly?
I think there's a balance to be struck there. On large databases, upgrade time can be very slow. Is it worth upgrading iteratively at great expense if there are no benefits to be gained (e.g. no bugfixes that affect you, no critical security issues)? Maybe, maybe not.
Yeah, i was thinking more about why it looks like it works so fast when you browse your photo library
Amazon indicates employees can quit if they don't like its RTO mandate
Cool, thanks for the information! I did not realize the curves were that different.

3000 definitely bumps it up but it would still be worse than the top humans. stockfish is better by a lot.
I Made a Tool to Access Blockchain Testnet Faucets Easily
Hey HN, after months of development, I created FaucetHub.org, a simple platform that lets developers quickly find and access faucets across multiple blockchain testnets like Ethereum, Solana, and Bitcoin. It’s built to save devs time during testing.

Would love your feedback and suggestions!
They also divorced the H4 renewal process from the H1B process.

USCIS had consistently renewed H4 visas along with the primary H1B application. Since H1Bs can pay for premium processing this meant both would usually be renewed within a month.

The Trump administration added a completely unnecessary biometrics requirement to the H4 renewal application (even if you had literally got your biometrics done a week ago) which meant the H4 application was now separated from the H1B application and now took at least a year to process.

Considering one can only apply for a renewal 6 months before expiry this led to tens of thousands of H4 visa holders losing the ability to travel, and having their EADs expire forcing them to quit their jobs.

This was a completely malicious action with the only purpose being to make people’s lives worse.
You are assuming that's going to be a reliable proxy, what would make you think that?
That's how I feel when I jump back into CK3 for a bit every few months and there's a new mechanic in my existing playthrough
In TDD spec is converted to behaviours that can be ran as automated tests so if the logic of the code changes, it breaks the spec and in turn the tests

Whereas documentation can (inevitably) go stale with no feedback or build failures
"It Wasn't Luck: God Wants Me Here" Perceptions of Luck Among US Patients
Consider Dolphus Raymond in To Kill a Mockingbird. He weaves one narrative for his birth Tribe, but when Scout looks on the other side of the fabric, there's a plot twist for himself and his adopted Tribe.

INCONCINNVM SED LIBERVM
You mean there is some other way to install postgresql in Debian?
Understanding Web Scraping in Python
Same for me, if I want to get something done, I need illustrator (which i don't know well too, but it's way more intuitive)
The expansion is extensively described in the Factorio blog entries. There are a lot of new mechanics there, they tried to avoid having the new planets to be just more of the same. We'll see how well they succeeded.

There are also a lot of Quality of Life changes in the new version.
Hedge funds currently trying to work out how long they expect the developers to be enthralled with the Factorio update.
Mastering Raycast
These 8 laboratories shared the same sample collected from a corner of the shroud. The priests handling the shroud would always hold it by its corners. So the explanation is not as weak as it may sound.
"Sure, you end up beating them about half the time if you cut the search down enough but it generally feels like they were still outplaying you for much of the game and you won because they made one or two blunders."

That is what winning in chess is. Minimising blunders.
That's something I have noticed with a lot of really good games. The edges are all lovingly smoothed off by hand. It's a lot of work.
This is a horrifyigly bad idea.
LinearBoost for Classifcation [pdf]
>We’d all probably be happier with a solid narrative underlying our senses of self and society.

Religion, at its most fundamental core, is about providing a set of guidelines and contexts with which to make sense of life and the world around us so we can spend less time bickering and worrying about things that we ultimately can't do anything about.

I feel the mad rush to reject and remove religion from society in the 20th century onwards has caused significant damage that we should address. It's not like religion is gone either, we've simply found impromptu replacements that are inferior and repeat a lot of problems religion dealt with already (eg: politics, "science", fanboyism, etc.).
Note that this type (which Rust will/ does in nightly call "f16" and a C-like language would probably name "half") is not the only popular 16-bit floating point type, as some people want to have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bfloat16_floating-point_format
Agreed. Adding more choices doesn't make a game more complex if the choices aren't meaningful: to me it feels like adding fake depth.
The MO5/MO6/TO7 were based on the 6809:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson_MO6
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson_TO7
Since I met the engineers, I believed that they implemented their own Basic, but I might be wrong.
Thanks. I ended up going with Lemon Squeezy a couple of weeks back. Had a lot of account verification problems (500 errors on various screens), but eventually got that sorted after their support realised there was an actual product problem. I like their product, but wish the product setup & cart was more flexible.
The logical fallacy at the core of patent law, what does non-obviousness test?
I don't know how VACUUM works, I couldn't tell you about the differences.

The OPTIMIZE works almost exclusively with online DDL statements. There's only a brief table lock held during table metadata operations, but I haven't found that to be a problem in practice. (https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.4/en/optimize-table.html#...)
Pareto is well known for his 80-20 split; he's less well known for dividing bases for action into residues (sentimental bases, differing largely by whether one is conservative or progressive by inclination) and derivations (the logical rationales one gives for proposed or taken actions).

Homo sapiens or Homo praetexendo?
Replicating OpenAI's Assistant Tools Using Node.js
Essentially all medium to high-end ham radio brands are Japanese. Cheap Chinese radios only dominate at the low end, and often have emission issues. I doubt the Japanese manufacturers are interested in competing here...

Chinese radios do not dominate in Japan, I suspect almost nobody in Japan uses a non-domestic radio. Possibly the primary reason being that they generally have not passed the local emission certifications (which is annoyingly required for all ham radios).

I don't see the incompatible microphone thing as an issue unique to Japan. Pretty much every 1980s computer had weird propriety interfaces. I suspect it was competition that forced them to standardize. You can find similar issues more recently (Apple/Lightening port, Dell/IBM laptop chargers, docking stations etc.)

If you want to point to issue with ham radio in Japan, I'd go with the certification issue, which helps lock non-domestic players out of the market...
This is perfect timing - just when Space Age is about to come out.
Everybody is doing something wrong.
Which globally influential movement?

Stallman's credit for the creation of the GNU operating system was stolen by Linus Torvalds, and most of the community even claims that GNU isn't an operating system, essentially deleting his biggest achievement and denying him any and all recognition.

He created and championed Free Software, but that movement was replaced by the Open Source ideology, which is diametrically opposed to what he believed in. The FSF struggles to get new members and funding, while the Linux Foundation and open source projects flourish with billions of dollars from volunteers and corporations alike.

GCC and Emacs are largely irrelevant today. Stallman himself gets no respect; he's mocked and harassed by open source advocates and corporations alike.

He has expressed the isolation he is in during an interview: "I am the last survivor of a dead culture. And I don’t really belong in the world anymore. And in some ways, I feel like I ought to be dead."

What Drew DeVault did with this hit piece is despicable. He wanted to shame and bully the FSF board into removing Stallman and resigning so his people can take over and push for his deranged idea of 'free software.'
Have you ever tried putting a leash harness on a cat? We did that a few times and every time the cat would just constantly walk backwards until we took it off. It was like being stuck in reverse gear.

Cats also tend to be extremely picky about the feel of the litter in their litter boxes because their paws are extremely sensitive (like walking on your finger tips). Not to mention their sensitivity for smell (flehmen response and affection for well-worn clothes or backpacks).

I think cats just generally tend towards some form of hypersensitivity and the distress of anything you put on them can come from any number of places. No wonder so many seem to suffer from some kinds of neuroses.
Given Llama is currently heavily associated with LLM, especially on this site, and Vortex sounds very AI this could do with a longer title.
Disagree. I'm not suggesting the person in question does not have potential or merit and that anyone can do it. It's just that the wealth of a family can pour rocket fuel on that person to enable them to reach their potential.

Yes, that's debatable in each case, everyone has a different story. But it's very likely.

You do get the counterfactual, the plucky upstart who came from nothing. But I'd wager big that that's much rarer and more difficult.
I agree, people not only "buy products" for novelty, people crave novelty in general, from products to relationships.
Google is cracking down on ad blockers, but here's how you can fight back
> crysis

He needs a graphics card which is not yet on sale. /s
How many WPM (Words Per Minute) can you type? Run Raycast's Typing Practice command to find out!

I had no idea this existed. Reminds me of the typewriting course I had to do as a teen.
Peaaks – Create Personalized Fitness and Nutrition Plans Without a Coach
Hi HN,
I’m excited to introduce Peaaks, a web app designed to help people build their own custom fitness and nutrition plans without needing to hire a coach. The idea came from wanting to make professional-level guidance accessible, fast, and affordable for everyone.

Key features:

Tailored workout and nutrition plans based on your preferences and goals.
No need for a coach—you have full control to create and adjust your program.
Affordable alternative to traditional coaching.
I’d love to hear your thoughts, feedback, and ideas on how to improve! I’m especially curious about how we can better serve users who want to take charge of their fitness journey.

Feel free to check out the site: peaaks.com
Looking forward to your feedback!
The World of Warp – Warp's refreshed, reimagined brand
Run a rails server, a DB and you'll probably not need to worry about scale until you're earning millions a year.
Searched only once. If this can be applied to other knowledge with this efficiency we're onto something
To be fair to PostgreSQL, it has multiple replication setups because they have different inherent properties. For instance, it comes with built in streaming and logical replication setups. Which should you use? It’s impossible to say without knowing your own exact use case.

By analogy: should a database cluster optimize consistency or availability? Answer: there’s no way its author can guess which is more important to how you want to use it.
>and to handwave that away in favor of “perspectives” just results in you adopting a different narrative

The point isn't to hand-wave anything. Freeing yourself from narratives is a lot of work. The person who probably took this idea most seriously was Stirner, often pointing out that people who leave religious faith just sacralize human nature. ("leaving Man with a capital M intact"), making the oppression even worse.

To be free when rejecting narrative is also to be on the lookout to not chase freedom in a naive way, but it is an achievable process, and it is exactly that. You're obviously never done if you take the idea seriously.

But it is probably the most single liberating thing a human being can do. Personally speaking I come from a blue collar household, I had drilled into me that I must learn a vocation. I didn't, I went to uni and got a CS degree because I loved computers. Some choice as simple as this many people don't make because of how strong the narrative is that their parents tell them about who they are supposed to be. And there's millions of decisions like this. A lot of people think they must buy a house in the suburbs, just because everyone else says so. They actually despair if they don't. The extent to which people imitate desires of others in societies that are supposed to be free is incredible.
To take it one step further, mathematical ideas which do not nicely fit within one of the highly developed theories then feels underbaked and less attractive to other mathematicians.

Knuth thinking about algorithms led to all these research questions about combinatorics, that have turned out to be very interesting, but are much more messy and disjointed results.
> just results in you adopting a different narrative, the “I reject narratives” one.

This is like saying that atheism is just another religion because it's the belief in nothing. In a a hairsplitting way it may arguably be true but atheism does not provide a consistent(-ish) narrative about the world like religions do and therefore is fundamentally different.
> Is there any reason to think this is anything but great?

like in 75X great, or what ? /s
What makes it less distracting than email?

Email is async already, and as long as you don't enable any notifications, you check emails at your preferred time. Same for Slack in principle, except maybe some coworkers expect quicker responses, but that depends on company culture (many are clear about Slack still being for async communication without immediate replies).
Depends on your physical media.
> Doing similar for my Linux VPS with only a terminal is much more complicated.

Debian/Ubuntu:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

Fedora/RHEL:

sudo dnf update

Arch:

sudo pacman -Syu

Alpine Linux:

apk update
apk add --upgrade apk-tools
apk upgrade --available

Of course, if the package you need isn't available in the standard repos, then you'll need to look elsewhere (e.g. PPAs or third party repos). There's also options like Flatpak and AppImage if you want something that's a bit closer to how you'd choose to install new releases on Windows.

If I wanted to update all of the installed software I have on my Windows install, there'd basically be no way for me to do this, outside of shady update manager software.

At the same time, I get the appeal of being able to just download a new release and install it, both AppImage on Linux and the way you install software on macOS (just drag the file into Applications) seem similarly pleasant to me in that regard.

To expand on the latter (the response got deleted), you can very much do something like https://peazip.github.io/peazip-linux.html (I wish 7-Zip was available on Linux natively, but as far as GUI software goes, PeaZip is pretty nice) however that's not the most common approach. You should generally prefer using the package manager when you can.
It's not a caveat since checking is a prerequisite to the law that shall not be violated.

If you are "fixing" a Schroedinger's Cat, my dude the Supreme Court of the Universe will not be kind.
https://www.chessprogramming.org/

Is the portal to go. From there, you can dig deeper in many relevant themes.
Interesting, that's a great point. Last I checked the negative effects of fatherlessness were well studied, but I don't know if it's been compared with the alternative, i.e. being raised by someone who rather would have left!

IIRC a low quality father is still better than none (barring abuse, though emotional neglect is now finally coming to be recognized as developmentally impactful), but I really don't know...
Space exploration, the mod, added so much more than just more, it added new kinds of logistics and an exciting setting of exploration and gradual conquering of a solar system.

I would say, still, that SE was the missing expansion so I've already had the expansion and I'm not that tempted by the new updates (Except for elevated rails!)

The SE author also showed impeccable taste in game design, improving on the base game, their beacon change being a good example, running over pipes another one.
I took back control over my time by using my calendar as a todo list
That is truly impressive. I have a hunch though, that it is not well suitable for proper diagrams, due to all the things like wrapping text that is too long for a line inside a shape, inside the shape onto more lines. Dynamically wrapping text when a node's size changes. Moving edges when nodes are moved. All those things one takes for granted in an actual diagramming tool.
Filestash: File Manager/Web Client for SFTP, S3, FTP, Git, MySQL, Backblaze
>haven't followed closely

Don't worry, most people complaining about C++ complexity don't.
Permalink (press 'y' anywhere on GitHub): https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/4d939780b70592e0f4bc6....
Yes. Forsyth's book titled Group Dynamics is a great one if one wants to know more about this kind of thing.