skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One key difference is that those businesses had to pay with Trump's money. While these employees will be paid with our money.
Show HN: We Built an AI Agent to Recover Past-Due Accounts
We built an AI agent platform to automate accounts receivable and debt recovery for businesses. The idea came from a commercial lender friend who struggled to find a collection agency willing to take on their $300K in unpaid loans—most agencies only work with $1M+ accounts. That made us wonder: How many businesses are simply writing off smaller debts because collections isn't accessible?

Originally, we were selling compliance AI software to fintechs, banks, and collection agencies, but the sales cycle was painfully slow. While working through that, we saw how inefficient collection agencies were and realized there was a better way. Instead of agencies, we started working directly with SMBs, SaaS companies, and commercial lenders—businesses that often struggle to recover unpaid invoices.

So far, the reaction has been strong: decent close rates, real traction, and clear ROI. But top-of-funnel is a challenge because our ideal customer profile (ICP) is broad.

We’re wondering how others in B2B AI automation handle this:

Do you niche down aggressively, or let the market pull you toward a vertical?
What’s worked for you when refining ICP for a broad solution?
Would love to hear thoughts from other founders who’ve tackled this problem!
It's always greed. Companies will charge as much as they possibly can while maximizing their profits. It doesn't matter if the price of something goes up or down this week, in either case the change only happens because the company thinks they'll make more money by offering the product at that new price.
Show HN: PulseBeam – Simplify WebRTC by Staying Serverless
WebRTC’s capabilities are amazing, but the setup headaches (signaling, connection/ICE failures, patchwork docs) can kill momentum. That’s why we built PulseBeam—a batteries-included WebRTC platform designed for developers who just want real-time features to work.
What’s different?
Built-in Signaling
Built-in TURN
Time limited JWT auth (serverless for production or use our endpoint for testing)
Client and server SDKs included
Free and open-source core
If you’ve used libraries like PeerJS, PulseBeam should feel like home. We’re inspired by its simplicity. We’re currently in a developer-preview stage. We provide free signaling like PeerJS, and TURN up to 1GB.
Of course, feel free to roast us
Where I'm from, racial statistics and profiling are forbidden since they're antithetic with republican universalism ; but even taking the US culture into account, this point of view seems extremely bigoted.
I am not a cartographer or any type of a data visualization expert, but isn't the advantage of the hexagon map - the fact that it "highlights trends that are often masked by the geographical quirks of actual state boundaries" per the article - negated by hexagon county maps?

For example, California has 58 counties, but Kentucky has 120. That means that the "resolution" of the data in California is half as accurate as the data in Kentucky despite having ten times as many inhabitants and 4 times the land area.

Basically, by switching to hexagon county maps, aren't we actually amplifying the problem that hexagon state maps try to solve and making it worse, not better?

(A good article and good examples OP but I just don't personally see how the hexagon county map is an improvement, but again I am not an expert in this field)
Docling has worked well for me. It handles scenarios that crashed ChatGPT Pro. Only problem is it's super annoying to install. When I have a minute I might package it for homebrew.
When one of my nodejs based sites experienced DoS, I installed & configured "express-slow-down" as middleware and it resolved the issue.
It does if every comment saying "Just use" has a different arcane incantation after it, and three comments under it saying why that specific version sucks and you should actually use something else.
Profiling in production with function call traces
Drinking too much coffee or even water can kill you. Too much sugar can kill you (albeit not too quickly). Obsessive eating or shopping can derail your life pretty quickly. Obsessive use of social media can induce depression. Some people kill themselves because of what they read or see in social media.

So it's not the legalization at fault, it's people who are overdosing any stuff that's available to them. Casual smoking a weed once a week won't harm you that much.
White House says it will cancel $8M in Politico subscriptions
>meticulously fact-based

Interesting...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_New_York_Times_con...

I'm not picking on them specifically. If you'd said this about any news outlet, I wouldn't believe you.
Tesla is abundantly wealthy mostly on the back of it's delusional investors creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The table you link shows that execs/senior level managers are 63% White (over-represented 1.09x compared to US population) and 24% Asian (over-represented 4.08x). Mid-level officials and managers are 50% White (under-represented 0.87x) and 19% Asian (over-represented 3.29x).

My claims that the main beneficiaries are Asians, and that Whites are generally under-represented, are accurate.
Trump's statement that the USA should take over Gaza fits this thesis. It would be darkly amusing if somehow this was swiftly enabled, so that the consequences would be fully visible with plenty of his term left.
Works great until you're not using it anymore. We're on our third system, all the cases from the first one and most from the second one are long since gone. Meanwhile the commit messages survive it all, even across cvs -> svn and svn -> git migrations.
I do something similar where even for something substantial, I'll start out with "what's the simplest thing that might work".

Of course with past experience, my first 'simple' thought is usually quite practical or sensible. In the same way it's hard to invent an inefficient algorithm that does no useless busywork--we've wired our brains toward good.
I don't have an opinion on the political aspects of this, but I find the choice of uploading all your data to a central server by default an insane choice, and I hate that this is the default in the modern world.

Why can't software come in a box, like it used to - then it can run on a machine that I control, and only talk to machines that I control too.

Then it's not a matter of belief and blind trust and hoping against hope that nobody's spying on me - it's the matter of basic common sense and due diligence.
Java and .Net/Avalonia are right there... Electron is not the only cross platform solution.
Of Course It's a Coup
Leftover spaghetti and red sauce is hilarious when chickens get a hold of it.
This must depend on some settings of the browser and perhaps also on the locally installed typefaces.

On my Firefox on Linux, this HTML page is not rendered with any custom typefaces, but it uses those specified by me as defaults for serif/sans serif/monospace.

The C++ code is rendered in my browser with my default, i.e. with JetBrains Mono and there is nothing weird.

The code quoted by you is indented as expected, not as in your posting.

On my computer, I have mostly typefaces that I have bought myself and which are seldom encountered in most computers. I do not have any of the typefaces that are typically specified in CSS rules, i.e. none of the typefaces that can be found in default installations of Windows, Linux or MacOS.

So perhaps there is a bug in their CSS at the definition of "wp-block-code", which on other computers selects a bad typeface that is proportional, so that the narrow spaces make the indentation disappear. (Their wp-block-code says "font-family:inherit" and I have not searched further to see from where the wrong font-family may be inherited.)

Here, perhaps because that bad typeface cannot be found, the browser uses my default monospace font and the code is displayed fine.

Or else, perhaps you have not set in your browser a proper default for monospace fonts and it just takes Arial or other such inappropriate system font even for monospace.
They couldn't drop it as it would have affected their ESG rating, which impacts the ability to get loans and raise capital, etc.
Not an industrial farmer, but we had chickens, horses and goats growing up.

Chickens suck because they poop on everything, and it dries into a glue-like substance caked onto things. The straw ends up caked in poop, the walls get caked in poop, the floor gets caked in poop, the chickens poop on each other. Getting it off requires a paint scraper, and getting way closer to it than you want. It's also liquid-y. It's a lot like bird poop on your car, but bigger because the bird is bigger.

The horses were less bad. Their poop was fairly "clean" as far as things go. They stayed pretty structurally intact (it's basically a ball of half digested fiber, kind of like a hairball) so it wasn't a big deal to get them with a pitchfork, and they were almost exclusively on the ground. It's not a job I wanted to do, but it wasn't awful. The heat in the non air conditioned barn was honestly worse than the work.
I think that's a legitimate question. I can float a possible explanation, though I can't come up with more than a lot of circumstantial evidence (anyone following this line of politics will be aware of all that).

You mention Russia, and I think it's Russia, but you're wrong that it becomes their problem. It's their opportunity and their revenge for the Cold War and the collapse of the USSR.

Trump's run by them, in some fashion, and doesn't really know anything about the systems he's dismantling. He's just being instructed where to do the most damage, and to run his mouth in any sort of way to provide justification. It doesn't matter if he's believed.

All the stuff he's breaking is fundamental to American power, notably soft power exerted on the world, but also the R&D, the health system, the whole nine yards. Russia wishes all of that to be destroyed and not brought back. They would like it if the dollar is not the world's reserve currency. They'd like it if the world behaved as though Russian claims of the CIA lurking behind every tree overthrowing every government, were accurate and legitimate descriptions of what the USA really is.

So that's Trump and the relatively few people firmly in his corner, 'Freedom Caucus' types who've been known to openly threaten their peers with Russian blackmail, and of course Russia itself which publically made an announcement about how they expected great payback from the help they'd given Trump in this election.

Now, to Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their ilk. Unlike Trump, they are not completely dependent on Russia. In fact some of them like Musk actively collaborate with Russia as equals. There's a catch: Russia doesn't want to deal with equals and won't help people who are too powerful. So, Elon Musk is in some ways going rogue even in this context. He is probably trying to execute Russia's goal of ruining the US because he's imagining some kind of reinvention of society, and he probably believes he'll have Russia's help behind him as he transforms society into some godawful mess he'd like, perhaps like one from his childhood.

He's likely to be horribly surprised to discover that he has not gained Russian trust, even though he's served them well. Trump is completely theirs, but Elon can't be trusted unless he's completely ruined, so what Elon wants is Bond-villain power, and no matter what happens he's not getting that fantasy fulfilled. This is his high point, while he is still doing the damage his allies need. Once that's done, he's on borrowed time.

That's what they want. None of them expect it to be 'a functioning government' for various reasons.
Friend, I accept that there is a level of snark, when it comes to this stuff, but even rudimentary check of the website in question[1] will tell you that there are two pieces to this program:

- ACTIVE SOCIAL ENGINEERING DEFENSE (ASED)
- LARGE SCALE SOCIAL DECEPTION (LSD)

I presume you are being snarky about ASED. I was thinking about the other one.

https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_FA865018C7886_970...
I see absolutely zero comments in this thread about how it affects tech companies. Please elaborate.
Was the Patriot Act patriotic?
> If an LLM output is like a sculpture, then we have to sculpt it. I never did sculpting, but I do know they first get the clay spinning on a plate.

That’s pottery, not sculpture. Traditionally in sculpture you start from a block of marble or wood, but you can also make sculptures of cast bronze or welded steel (or clay, but you don’t use a spinning plate).
Completely destroying a government so that contracfors from the US private sector could sweep in and take over? I fail to see the parallels.
How can something be illegal before any judge ruled on it?
> it wasn't an incentive to change the behavior, it was a loan to deal with the problems caused by the behavior.

You are both incorrect in different ways. Bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador was not a well-adopted initiative and thus they were okay with axing it. The loan was not to deal with the problems of their behavior, but to push more important things in El Salvador's agenda.
It didn't take them this long.

Several studios have done this for years. Paramount literally did it more than a decade ago.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/...
Everything's Illegal
I did many times. Has he ever affiliated himself with nazis is any other way?

How about videos like Macron doing exactly same salute?

How about Netanyahu standing up for him?

Trying to cancel him for feelsies is just reinforcing his stance on anti-woke.

Defacing Tesla offices, charging stations and cars with actual swastikas is doing far more damage than imaginary boogeyman.
The thing with cars is that this is one of few things where Europe can do a MEGA. We can buy our own and the reasons to do so seem to grow by the day.

I honestly have found it always very lame to virtue signal by means of buying a car or to cancel by not buying one. Common people generally don't think that way. Real life is not Twitter. At least not where I live.

But that's changing. 3 years ago Musk was just edgy and annoying but everybody still wanted a Tesla. Now when I talk to people in the market for a car they openly dismiss the "Nazi car".

Lucky for Musk that his stock is a fan stock, not a business stock.
I have a signed copy of the first-edition
Yes, but there should probably be some kind of separation between the AI weapons and surveillance parts and something having to do with providing communications and search services.

It's not really appropriate for an AI weapons firm to be an integrated part of something which has access to information from which sensitive information such political beliefs etc. can be easily extracted.

It's a problem if someone is looking at sensitive user data one day and at how to categorize people so they can be put on kill lists the other.
The broken part is the idea that the legislative and judicial branches can act as checks and balances for the executive branch. In the end, the executive branch is the only branch with the ability to do something. The other two are just a bunch of talking heads.

Many other republics have split the executive branch into multiple semi-independent centers of power. The head of state and the head of government can be separate roles. A directly elected president may be responsible for signing laws and appointing senior officials, while a prime minister subordinate to the parliament may be in charge of running the executive branch. And government departments may have dual leadership with a politically appointed minister setting the directions and a career director appointed by the president running the department. Because the director's term is independent from the political appointees, they can refuse to comply if the minister asks something illegal.

Republics have all kinds of failure modes. For example, Hungary was supposed to be a robust parliamentary republic. But due to non-proportional elections, slightly over 50% of votes were enough for a sufficient supermajority to rewrite the constitution.
Not that I know of.

I do think you could do some analysis to associate code with implementers and create graphs, where you account for additional things like time. I could see LLMs being helpful in maybe doing part of that analysis. But I would use that to see where the biggest "bus factor" is, i.e., finding subsystems where there's really only one active contributor.

For planning or task assignment, it might just help to say "ask X for more detail" when there's no other docs or your LLM is spewing jibberish about a topic
"It has no native DOM API bindings"

I wish we'd get direct DOM access from WASM anytime but I have little hope.
We do not have another substance as effective as opioids for treatment of acute and chronic pain. Yes, Americans deal with chronic health issues and chronic pain, partially attributed to CCP chemical lobbying efforts. They were over prescribed, that practice has changed due to regulatory effort, and lawsuits were brought and won against the worst offenders. Some think that the addiction crisis was amplified or exported from China to begin with as an act of covert warfare.

Shipping mass amounts of fentanyl precursors to organized crime agents to flood our streets is a whole different matter, surely you can see the difference? Street pills laced or cut with fentanyl KILL people. Addiction to street availability causes mass mental health issues and homelessness.

What about... doesn't make for debate in good faith.
I agree with your statement but your general calculation of growth is off imho, it should be:
Growth = (New Customers Acquisition + Install Base Growth) - Churn
This also assumes that churn = Customers that leave completely and those that downgrade plans

IB growth can fuel business growth, especially during times of low new customer acquisition and or high to moderate churn
"Mute words" goes a long way. Every platform should have it.
Well, yes, that's what I was saying. But a West without the US is not a tiny change.
Meanwhile:

Playstation

Playstation 2

Playstation 3

Playstation 4

Playstation 5
> On the other hand, without Cloudflare I'd be seeing thousands of junk requests and hacking attempts everyday, people attempting credit card fraud, etc.
>
> I honestly don't know what the solution is.

The solution is good security-- Cloudflare only cuts down on the noise. I'm looking at junk requests and hacking attempts flow through to my sites as we speak.
Got me. I saw Samsung and 75" and inferred "TV" which was never stated.

> The downside, of course, is that the technology is not suitable for moving pictures such as movies.
8 minutes a day is very specific and I struggle with that, maybe it’s an average? Do they have the exact same schedule all days of the week?

How big are the books? Are they “junk food” books or dense? All subject matter or strictly sci-fi or whatever?

I’m a big reader. Reading for 8 minutes at a time would either be a whole chapter or half a page depending on the book.
Moving from Slow Sales to faster, is this the right move?
Pivoting from Slow Sales to Faster Wins – Right Move or Risky Bet?
We started by selling compliance AI software to fintechs, banks, and collection agencies. The problem? Enterprise sales cycles were painfully slow. Deals dragged on for months, budgets were tight, and getting a “yes” was a grind.

Then, a commercial lender friend shared a problem: They had $300K in unpaid loans but couldn’t find a collection agency to take them on because most only work with $1M+ accounts. That got us thinking—how many businesses are quietly writing off debts because traditional recovery solutions don’t fit?

So, we built an AI-driven accounts receivable platform that automates recovery. Instead of targeting banks or collection agencies, we started working directly with SMBs, SaaS companies, and commercial lenders—businesses that need to recover past-due invoices but lack the tools.

What’s working:
Faster sales cycles – Decision-makers move quickly, and the value is clear.
Decent close rates – Businesses get immediate ROI, making conversion easier.
Real traction – Companies are adopting it, and it’s working.

What’s challenging:
Top-of-funnel struggles – Our ideal customer profile (ICP) is broad, making outreach inefficient.
Market positioning – Should we niche down aggressively or let the market guide us?

For those who’ve built B2B AI automation or SaaS businesses, how did you approach this?

Did you narrow down early, or let traction dictate your focus?
What’s the best way to refine ICP when your product serves multiple industries?
Would love to hear thoughts from founders who’ve made similar pivots!
In this use-case the customer just wanted data not currently in the warehouse inventory management system capatured, so here we converted a JSON response to a classic table row schema (where 1 row = 1 document) and now boom, shipping data!

However we do very much recommend storing the raw model responses for audit and then at least as vector embeddings to orient the expectation that the data will need to be utilized for vector search and RAG. Kind of like "while we're here why don't we do what you're going to want to do at some point, even if it's not your use-case now..."
Don't forget the OG, "Beta".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Gmail#Extended_beta...
It depends about what you need.

Rocketchat is mostly a clone of Slack for a quarter of the price.

Teams may not be the exact solution but brings Sharepoint, OneDrive and Outlook into a same place. For most companies using Microsoft 365 is great as you can comply with security policies and easily collaborate and join meeting groups with other companies without extra accounts.

Slack works fine for engineering teams, but still very expensive and not much professional for the corporate world.
as a person who thought they were arbitrary names when i first discovered them and spent an hour trying to figure out the difference i disagree. it gets even more confusion when you realize that opus, which according to their silly naming scheme is supposed to be the biggest and best model they offer is seemingly abandoned and that title has been given to sonnet which is supposed to be the middle of the road model.
Was that for Yore?
C was hardly seen as systems language in 8 and 16 bit home computers, just one more to chose from, as most compute intensive stuff was actually still written in Assembly.
A good chunk of inflation is just price gouging, in today's modern world.

There are more tools to understand data and squeeze every penny from customers.

It's admirable when a company isn't trying to bleed customers dry.
It's a dagger symbol! Which... I guess doesn't entirely avert that implication.

(But really, it's the traditional second tier footnote symbol after an asterisk, which I couldn't use here because it triggers italics.)
The great firewall, but in reverse.
4o is a more advanced model than o1 or o3, right!?
The actions are right out of Hitlers playbook. Find a group or groups, to blame and demonise, that are powerless. Deflect and encourage the wider populations grievances and dissatisfaction onto them to provide a common enemy and warning to others that they could be next if they don't join in. That together with establishing a cult and encouraging extremes echos the establishment of the Natzi party surely?
> At this precise moment in time, if anybody seriously thought the above was the way the process works or should work, they should be advocating for firing all the juniors and replacing them with LLMs.

Sadly, I think this is happening at some places. Like Salesforce. Sigh

https://www.ktvu.com/news/salesforce-cutting-1000-jobs-hirin...
But at this moment what's happening is that Capital is completing what Reagan started by finalizing the realignment of government totally toward its interests, at the expense of labor and the precariat. But sure, it all started a while back.