skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This startup stuff wasn't some Silicon Valley dream. Please don't belive or take decision after seeing some twitter threads.

It is messy, painful, and born from my mom constantly asking, "What if we change this couch?"

I'm not a design guru. I'm just a guy with a full-time job, a new marriage, and zero patience for endless Pinterest scrolling. When my mom kept redesigning her living room, something clicked.

Inspired by a viral Twitter thread claiming you could "build a startup in 60 minutes," I dove headfirst into creating Styly.io. The guy had 50k followers and made it sound so simple.

"Just use these no-code tools," he said. "AI is easy," he promised. Spoiler: They're full of sh*t.

Reality hit hard.

The first version of Styly.io? A complete disaster.

I burned through $15,000 of my savings. Hired a seasonal developer who disappeared mid-project. Spent countless sleepless nights coding after my full-time job. My honeymoon? Forget about it. I was debugging and designing.

The low points were brutal:

- Depression crept in

- My wife watched me spiral

- The "simple" AI tool became a complex nightmare

- Every feature seemed to require another $500 to $1,000 investment

But something unexpected happened.

We hit 5,000 users. Not through fancy marketing, but through pure, stubborn determination.

Lessons learned:

Building an AI startup is NOT a 60-minute job

Technical complexity is real

Sustainable development takes time and money

Never trust viral Twitter "experts"

My mom? She became our first and most brutal tester. "This looks terrible," became her catchphrase. And she was right, most of the time.

What saved me?

- Genuine user feedback

- Persistence

- My mom's continuous support (ironically, the project's original inspiration)

Today, Styly.io is going 0 to 0. But the cost wasn't just monetary - it was personal. I am not sure how many months- years I need to get back this on my bank account but your support can be appreciated=)

To anyone thinking of building a startup:

- It's going to be harder than you think - You'll question everything - Your relationships will be tested - But if you're stubborn enough, you might just make it

pleaasseeeeeeeee, think deeply. it is a complete business not jus a website.

I'm not here to sell you anything. I'm here to say: It's okay to struggle. It's okay to fail. Just keep learning.

Who else is fighting their own startup battle?
Also if you want me support I have chrismas living room, you can support me and let me alive for a while.

Thanks for reading.
The Orangutan Theory of Intelligence
On the Enterprise-D in “Star Trek: The Next Generation”, they don’t have WiFi or any other kind of local wireless except for voice calls.

So when the android Data needs to access some information, he reads it from a GUI terminal, but at 1000x speed.

(It seems like the iPad-like touchscreen tablets don’t have WiFi either because they are frequently used to “sneakernet” information inside the ship.)
Do you have new software managers/directors who are encouraging such behavior? From my experience new leaders tend to lean on this tactics to grab power.
Show HN: CSS Advent Calendar 2024
I made an advent calendar for CSS features. Most of the code was created using AI prompts in Windsurf (which uses Claude 3.5 Sonnet).
Do you really think in caves is more to be found, than on the seabed?

Most caves you will find, will look exactly like the cave before. Different types of rock. If you are lucky, crystals. In the deep sea, you have chances of finding entirely new species. (Only some caves have life at all)
Needs an actual photo of a salmon hat:

https://assets.iflscience.com/assets/articleNo/76971/aImg/80...
Interesting why i get downvoted for appraising LLM and clapping-up that it grows my productivity? Very interesting...

Good one:
I read the article about this Fintech yesterday as well :)
To your questions:
It works because it can see it?
(For sure, every software has some bugs which may be never enconutered, but in this case its a fairly simple application, doint exactly 4 functions for me)

The link to the Knight story, thanks for pointing out on that, interesting read! Well, they are some magnitudes above what we are doing here with our own trading infrastructure, apart from that: we are using our own money on our own risk.
C++ doesn't require any of this. Everyone implements it this way because it is cheap and improves performance. And people don't take (const) char * they take const std::string &.
What do you think about the tooling that @neonsunset mentioned: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42286681
I don't, and never said that I did.

However, if such a state didn't drive you to suicide, then you haven't experienced the furthest extent to which such states can drive some one. Try extrapolating: what if that experience of yours had been 10x more intense; 100x; 1,000x.

You don't know the limit of any other human's suffering, and neither do I. Lucky us.
...which is only a problem on Linux though (turns out that system-wide shared locations for headers and linker libraries are not a great idea). Most Slang users will probably be on Windows, and apart from that there's also most likely not much overlap with S-Lang users.
I'm not questioning what you said, I'm saying that you are wrong.

It's obviously not true that "adaptive cruise control or FSD" could explain your anecdote. Adaptive cruise does not engage in a Tesla unless the road is marked and painted. FSD is not available in Germany. Even if it was, it's far too cautious around pedestrians, it wouldn't allow itself to get within 1 metre of a pedestrian let alone 0.1 metres.

It's also obviously not true that "Tesla used" anything, because the car in your anecdote was owned and operated by a (presumably) licensed driver and not by Tesla.

A better hypothesis for your anecdote is that the driver was French and not that driving a Tesla vehicle somehow reprograms human brains to drive dangerously.
Not bad, but call me when they also make 100% OSS switches and also have beefier hardware with fully OSS firmware.

If you wanna do the open thing, go all the way. Before that there's not much point.

Also 1x1Gbps and 1x2.5Gbps, why?! I get it, the SoC, but could they not get something a touch more powerful? :(
>The truth is that kind of research can only happen with a very rich monopoly.

A classification which includes government funding, note.
I used to always get Pink Lady, but in the past couple of years I've found Kanzi to be better. And somehow my partner gets less allergic from Kanzi as well.
The "winner" solved it in 9 seconds using AI so I don't understand how you can claim that.

https://adventofcode.com/2024/leaderboard/day/1
It has a lot to do with diet and metabolism.
Cat's sleep 2/3 of the time, have a very high metabolism and spend a very short amount of time eating or catching prey. (compared to say, Cows who are chewing for as long as humans are sleeping)
So it's likely to conserve energy in situations where there is a limited food supply or constraints on what and when you can eat.
Then there's animals that hibernate, for similar reasons, over winter.
But that's only one aspect of sleep, there's also the file indexing and disk defragging that goes on when you're not running any applications.
You probably got an out of season New Zealand grown version which doesn't make the boat ride... https://applerankings.com/sweetango-apple-review/
You really shouldn’t be updating primary key values though.
Color ls output by file extension, without installing a thing
Wanna join me for a code/QA flight, i'm open for external audits :)

But actually you are somehow right: Without LLM this wouldnt have been possible, e.g. The platform uses Hibernate - for this, you need to create your entity class, a mapping class and a SQL script, and these things have to be somehow in line to each another to make it work; before LLM, you had to type those files.

Its just about automating those things which you had to type earlier & timecostly on your own.
I wasn’t actually thinking of scalability. I was thinking that Cloudflare’s Tunnel is a handy, and often free, way to make a LAN service available from outside, and the combination of Tunnel and Workers could make for a nice, easy to deploy, solution.
This doesn't always get a lot of traction, but I have medically diagnosed ADHD. The meds cause terrible and dangerous side effects for me, so I cannot take them.

I decided to actively train my focus in my early twenties. Over time I got better and better at it. I require a few prerequisites: well rested, recently exercised, not too hungry, have no meetings coming up, and keep my phone away. I'm able to engage my hyperfocus at will. Most days it lasts for 4-6 hours straight. I am able to engage it at least once a day.

This took many years to build up. It's fragile - easily prevented by distractions. But with the right set and setting, once it engages it's an incredible tool. I've accomplished things in 4-6 hours that would normally take me weeks.

I wish I could get the benefit with meds, but here we are. Maybe what I've built is the generic crappy equivalent, but it's all I've got and I'm proud I've gotten it this far.

For how I trained it, I started programming on the train ride home. I worked through low stakes programming puzzles from SICP. I found it worked best if I sprinted to the train station and ate something an hour before departure. I would open my laptop and just try to engage the hyperfocus. Many days I couldn't: people talking, train noises, being hungry, etc. Over time though I got better and better at it. Eventually I would be engaging as the laptop screen was opening. To this day ten years later opening a laptop screen engages the hyperfocus if all the rest of the requirements are met. Over a year I finished SICP, doing about one exercise a day. I then picked up another book of homework problems, then another, and another. Over a few years the skill strengthened, I found I could hold it for the drive home from the train station and keep going after.

It's harder at a desk, often I'll burn an hour or two before I can make it click. But once it does I can hold it even when getting up to go get food or going for a walk. I've gone to a cafeteria with coworkers or driven home while still in a "work trance" that picks right back up when I log in again. It's very strange being in hyperfocus on a programming puzzle while talking to someone over food. I can release it, but then I might not be able to engage it again that day so I often leave it running. Rude to my coworkers at lunch, perhaps, but I gotta make money somehow and this is how I do it.

I credit a large amount of my success to this tool. It's fantastic for just getting epic amounts of work done. I can spend hours tracing down a detailed bug, or building out a whole new module. In this trance state reading code feels as natural as reading English. Big transformations make perfect sense in ways I cannot describe outside the effect.

I've used it to write two books, build my own business, and make a living.
People can and do write assembly code for others to read.
I’ve gotten SweeTangos twice (in season, from Washington) and found them totally unappealing. No sourness to add interest to the flavor, not very crispy, just intense sweetness with a tiny bit of a mealy feeling.

Even if I just got duds, they fail the consistency test that honeycrisps pass.
Not a live preview and not a button-counter demo at the end, but the overall structure and the whole O(n) vs O(n^2) argumentation was in this blog post from a now defunct domain. Maybe this is what you were looking for:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150414080539/http://hackflow.c...
"Why did you touch that button? What if it would make the car explode?" - my father.

I never touched an undocumented button again, nor understood why someone would add a button that exploded the car when clicked.
we put them straight into the refrigerator as soon as we get them home, and this works for any apple variety we buy, to preserve quality and flavor.
That's a bit weird. There's a ton of people playing it and loving it...
I’ve had some very gross SweeTangos grown in Washington.
Its a proprietary trading app which is used for our own activities only:

For a "standard user" its too complicated, its not made for the retail world. Would be tricky to sell this, esp. as it works only with one specific broker currently.

But if i make a retail version, i will post it here :)
> You seem to have a terrible job, you should fix that.

You hiring?

Because what your parent commenter describes are at least 90% of all programming jobs. Everywhere. And I am being generous by not saying 98% because it's likely closer to that number.

"Many people" could be true only in the absolute numerical sense of the world. Say, 500K out of the dozens of millions.
One click push and pull
AoC would be more stressful if you had to solve a problem in 30 minutes for a highly competitive job.
Organic labeling is one of the largest and most disastrous failures of USDA to protect small farmers.

Kroger's simple truth, sunkist's line of organic citruses they sell in "whole foods", etc.

the label means nothing, and when you see it in a big name grocery store it's probably a bad thing
The Christmas theme is fun and it’s nice to do one problem per day with a large community.

With leetcode you’re off in the woods by yourself. Stuck on a problem? Here’s a cold write up. Finished a problem? Do another, monkey.
Most Certificate Authorities have manual issuance†, at least as an option. There's a UI where an authorized employee can issue whatever they want, the UI may be fairly crude or something quite polished used in ordinary business processes.

So an employee can type in google.com and check any boxes about did you verify this is the correct name and it's OK to issue, and then they hit issue and the certificate is minted, just like that.

Why google.com? Well, if you're testing something, say a web browser, what web site comes to mind? Maybe google.com? Doesn't work. Oh - the cable is unplugged. Doesn't work. Wait, this checkbox isn't checked, try again. Aha, now it works... Oops we issued a certificate for google.com

This is a "Never" event, there should be countless things in place to ensure it doesn't happen. In practice, just like safety guards on dangerous machinery, too many people just can't be bothered with safety, it's a cultural issue.

† Let's Encrypt famously does not. As part of the Mozilla application process they need to show their certificates expire properly, usually people either manually issue a back-dated certificate which has expired already, or they manually issue one with a deliberately short lifetime to expire. Since they can't issue manually Let's Encrypt obtained an ordinary certificate from their own service and then waited ninety days for it to expire like a fucking boss.
As evidenced by the reaction to Devin, no, it’s not real.

There’s a limit, beyond which agent generated code is, in general, not reliable.

All of the people who claim otherwise (like the Devin videos) have shown to be fake (1) or cherry-picked.

Having agent generated code is arbitrary code to solve arbitrary problems is. Not. A. Solved. Problem.

Yet.

…no matter, no matter how many AI bros claim otherwise, currently.

Being able to decompose complex problems into part small enough to be able to be solved by current models would be a big deal if it was real.

(Because, currently the SoTA can’t reliably do this; this should not be a remotely controversial claim to people familiar with this space)

So tldr; extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Which is absent here, as far as I can tell. They specifically call out in the paper that generated actions are overly specific and don’t always work; but as I said, it’s doing well on the leader board, so it’s clearly doing something, which is working, but there’s just noooooo way of seeing what.

[1] - https://www.zeniteq.com/blog/devins-demo-as-the-first-ai-sof...
It isn't weird it started inside NV and folks from there are still working on the project.
Hahah, i heard that sub-tone :)

Well, the thing is, the application does only a few things and it is very well structured, i'd say - i could line out the architecture with a few sentences. For sure: To understand how the internal mechanics are working, you need to have some background knowhow on several layers.
COBOL developers also get stuff done
That's somewhat arbitrary, don't you think? I think of "programming" as just writing code, "engineering" is coming up with what to code.

Rather, this is about capitalism. You want more freedom in going about your business. You cannot have that in a profit-oriented company. (Rare exceptions apply.) We're so focused on delivering, what we deliver becomes less of a concern, even though it should be the number 1 concern. The rest follows.
This site is misrepresenting itself as open source and free, while simultaneously having an affiliate program and pricing page, which, as I've said, isn't free. It's unverifiable whether or not it's open source, as you don't even download/run the software yourself: it's a web app, which is beside the point, as web apps could also be open source, but as there's no way to self-host this, let alone download it and/or run it, for free or otherwise. I think it's safe to avoid this scammy site.

None of my ire is directed at you, as I don't assume you knew any of this. I just wanted to let you know, in case you were mislead as to what the site does by its ad copy.

https://archivarix.com/en/affiliate/

https://archivarix.com/en/#show-prices-wbm
I'm Dutch. In case it matters, my opinion of our own relatively progressive euthanasia/end of life care system is quite positive.
> Life is too short to stay in bad situations for a long time

Life is also too short to get evicted of "your" house (that the bank actually owns) when you miss 3 mortgage payments because you left because "life is too short to stay in bad situations".
Why would a phone with the dial intentionally disabled be connected to anything?
I'd assume that end-to-end encryption would mean the traffic is encrypted between the camera and the app, which it isn't. That would require an app in the camera to support the system (which could be done on many cameras).
Some people like x/twitter. I saw a funny clip of MSNBC the other day where they were discussing media bias and looking at the party affiliation of the followers of various platforms and were horrified to see x/twitter was about 50/50 dem/republican whereas MSNBC was like 80/20 dem and so more biased looking which is not what they were hoping to argue.
Maybe he's confusing it with PET scans or perhaps gamma ray imaging with technetium (used for cancer imaging).

Interestingly, the gadolinium in MRI contrast agents, while composed of stable isotopes, is a ferociously good thermal neutron absorber. The element is used in burnable absorbers in some reactors to keep reactivity level as the fuel is burned down.
Normal spaced version:

$2000-$3fff was made for the Ludum Dare #31 Game Jam in December 2014. It is actually more than just a game. Some of you will say it's crap, but we would point out that it's both a game and a piece of art. The idea and concept is actually great.

$2000-$3fff is a Commodore 64 program which displays its entire memory on the screen, then draws missiles into it. Use a joystick in port 1 to target your dangerous explosive weapon. If you don't have a C64 handy, feel free to use an emulator like VICE. Defend program data and program code.
Do you do that with your apples too?
No, actually not:

The thing is - i have 20+ years of IT & SWdev experience, i'm an old guy in your eyes: If you can check and QA, what the LLM gives you, you are very-pretty save.

Also, just sharing some of your current thoughts usually leads to new ideas when applying LLM; its very inspiring because they usually point you out to new contexts & ideas.
That's one thing I'm very curious about: is there a way in english to differentiate between "(my new) car" (a used car which is new to me) and "(my) new car" (a new car which is mine)?
Fashion is always cyclical. Salmon hats are super retro
Even if EVs are 100% powered by coal-generated electricity, the efficiency gains are massive, both at the generation end and the consumption end. EVs have up to double the efficiency in terms of power delivered to the wheels, and coal generation units are highly tuned and scaled to extract power as efficiently as possible. Even units balling straight out of the 70s thrash vehicle engines in terms of efficiency. You do lose some electricity due to transmission loss, but even the leakiest of grids aren't enough to cause coal power to be less efficient per joule of fuel than vehicle engines. This ultimately means that EVs contribute far less greenhouse gases than ICEVs, even when all electricity comes from coal.
Same. Using it at work (although with React/Rails) and it works great. Best of both worlds with minimal drawbacks.
If you lived in a western country and thought WeWork seemed like a nice place to work, and Starbucks was a nice place to get coffee...
> There’s even a point where things switch from your boss telling you what to do to your boss asking you what to do.

How? Actionable step by step, please. Measurable, with before-and-after descriptions.
My guess is this has to do with future wearable tech like Vision Pro.
There must also be a related law stating that managers will never accept the validity of Gall's law.
A few seconds. It's a news webpage, that has mostly text, links and images.

And of course now it loads a ton of useless widgets, probably much bigger images (sometimes they load a video to serve the same purpose, just because they can), and a whole lot more code. And that's with uBlock origins; if I disable it it's a lot worse.

Objectively, in 25 years they have been paying people to make it an order of magnitude worse. And it's not only them: the vast majority of websites have followed that trend.
> I encourage anyone who gets value from this to donate to support it if they can. It is a passion project but nonetheless comes with real costs.

With the sheer amount of sponsors and AoC++ users I do believe that this is not quite a small 'passion project' struggling to pay the monthly subscription to a VPS.

That being said, adventofcode is absolutely great and people should support it if they can. But I do think the author is doing quite well with the amount of support he is currently receiving.
macOS does have a built-in antivirus, XProtect: https://support.apple.com/guide/security/protecting-against-...
Is there any particular correlation between pessimism and depression? I'm sure there would be something on the extreme edge but I don't see why there would be anything particularly powerful there in the median case.

Pessimism is more of an understanding that things will go wrong (which is often just factual correctness; any vague understanding of risk makes most people sound like pessimists). Depression is more of an "it is hopeless" take which is not logically sound - even if life is meaningless the sensible thing to do is leave a peaceful & cheerful existence as best can be managed.

There'd be a bit of an overlap in some cases (depression would make someone an extreme pessimist), but the pessimism that comes from being realistic doesn't lead to depression.
Similar in Norway. One source of frequent misdiallings were from housewives dusting off the rotary phone, accidentally dialling 111.
Single-purpose phone; you pick it up and are automatically connected to somewhere (e.g. help line next to a kiosk).
For those like me who haven‘t heard of ASML before. There was a recent NPR Planet Money episode (26 minutes) about the company. I found it quite interesting:

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/13/1212604208/asml-euv-extreme-u...
The open source/degoogled alternative to that is UnifiedPush, did you take a look at this?

https://unifiedpush.org/

https://ntfy.sh/