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Show HN: Desi Founder – A Community Platform for Startups
The BETA site is live now, and the site is being built from scratch. That is why many tools and features are still not present, and are being added on a weekly basis.

For now people can create posts with text/link/image type, comments and comment replies, edit, delete, and also vote.

The whole site can be browsed without creating an account, and only needs account to interact. UI part isn't top priority as of now, and we're currently focusing more on building the core features.

Future plans are to integrate additional tools which can be useful for founders such as co-founder matching (YC tool exists but ours is region specific to have more localized co-founders), startup spotlight, job board, grants and investor details, and other necessary tools with the help of user feedback.

Come try out the platform and give us necessary feedback to make the site better.
This comment made me wonder if some folks have been compelled to find a way to block shorts.

My use of YouTube predates shorts, and I haven’t been a huge shorts consumer on social platforms, and I seem kind of indifferent to them. Anyone else?

Maybe there is something we can figure out and share with our friends who want to manage their shorts use.

Also, apps like opal can be really helpful.

https://www.opal.so/
I'm having trouble making sense of anything in this comment.
Having just one other person in the trenches is so helpful. I hadn't thought about the social altruism angle but I think there's a lot of truth to it.

I also agree about time. I think new products follow a model similar to compounding interest. It's very small at the start - sometimes negligible but over time things add up.

Lastly, I think we get desensitized to success. Getting the first user, the first ten, etc. These are not small milestones. They're meaningful.

Lastly lastly, if it's something you want to make money from then focus primarily on user acquisition and secondly on product. Commonly difficult for builders to do but not doing so cements delayed failure.
Show HN: A retro audio player made in C++
The hoarding began once they decided to abandon the DVD market, paranoid about file ripping and sharing. Now TV shows are like videogames now, can't watch without an internet connection phoning home.
> I hope there are no attempts at replacing physical keyboards by touchscreens in laptops.

There have been many. Laptops that are just two touchscreens hinged together. Every review absolutely demolishes them for the obvious.
I bet it would burn just fine. Lots of blubber.
> I have rarely heard of any similar initiatives to secure government data.

Healthcare records seem to be hugely regulated around the world: eHDSI, HIPAA etc. In the UK disclosing health records (deliberately or due to a security breach) can result in criminal liabilities - up to 2 years imprisonment and/or an unlimited fine, which probably makes sure those implementing security take it seriously.

The biggest issue with much 'sensitive data' privacy is usually human error/corruption - I believe all breaches of police records in the UK have been caused by trusted people accessing/selling records or errors handling legitimate data (lost USB drives, publishing unredacted data etc), which have resulted in prison sentences or people losing jobs/getting demoted and departments being fined.
Again i'm comparing with two-wheel two-stroke mopeds, not with cars... Using cars for delivery is all but impractical anyway because they stand in traffic ESPECIALLY in a city "not like mine", i'd hate to get my food ordered at 6pm, by 7.30, inedibly cold.
Fabio from the GraalVM team here.

You may want to take a look at this: https://blogs.oracle.com/ateam/post/want-to-use-llm-python-f...
Slowing down certain domains bandwidth can help too.
This looks amazing! Thank you for making and sharing it. Being able to run it locally is fantastic for work, where one may not be allowed to share "internal details" with unvetted 3rd party companies.
Zeekr launches first door-to-door Level 3 autonomous driving technology
The way it assumes one and exactly one venv per project was a big one. The one that broke me however was trying to get it work with external build systems, specifically trying to compile C++ code as part of the build process. Another important one was that it doesn't play nicely with older code built on pip and pip based workflows. You basically have to start from scratch, while uv makes it much easier to slowly transition.
Wired seems to have a few free stories before the paywall rises, i.e. a "soft paywall".
There was the tarpit that sends out markov-chain-generated random words, loading very slowly . If the client has a limited number of concurrent requests, that could theoretically choke the client.
I'm a little confused... You're citing the existence of the government subsidy as a way to question its existence?
what? who is sending me those alerts, and where is this glacially slow and confusing dashboard came from them?
Show HN: 1.32 Petaflops hardware for local prototyping
I’ve been working on Vanta, a scalable AI hardware solution powered by 2–8 NVIDIA RTX 4090s, delivering up to 1.32 petaflops FP32 in a compact form factor.

It’s built for startups, developers and researchers to prototype, fine-tune and run models up to 70B parameters locally. So you can own your computer instead of renting.

- A 2-GPU setup costs $9k and breaks even in 9 months vs. cloud rental at $0.69/hr (ex: RunPod).

- The 8-GPU at $40k saves $12k in year one compared to $48k in cloud costs.

This can handle different AI framework: TensorFlow, PyTorch, ONNX, CUDA-optimized libraries, VLLM, SGLANG, llama.cpp...

I can get it built in a day and shipped out quick. Let me know what you think!
I really enjoy writing Python, but I’ve noticed a recurring pattern in organizations where it slowly turns from a productive tool into a frustrating mess. The more Python spreads across teams, the more fragmented it becomes—every group has its own way of using it, dependency management spirals out of control, and deployment workflows end up duct-taped together.

I wrote up my thoughts on why this happens, based on what I’ve seen in different companies. This is just my perspective, but I’d love to hear how others have tackled these challenges. Have you seen similar problems and how did you deal with them?
I still find it amazing that:

- Businesses pay the cloud providers to allow them to use compute/disk/network

- Businesses pay to hire the engineers who can work on cloud

- Businesses pay to hire security engineers who can secure the applications in cloud

- Businesses pay to hire FinOps to optimize their cloud usage

- Businesses hire security companies to secure their cloud usage (e.g. Wiz was one such company)

- Now cloud provider has to acquire the security company to secure their own cloud?

Either I am too old, or there is something wrong here. Let's not forget that at the same time many big businesses do just fine by not using AWS/GCP/Azure.
Recyling a OnePlus 6T into a Kubernetes Node
Another cooperation approach - something like voting for each decision. E.g. majoriry must open a cell for it to really open.
Hey HN,

I’m Omri, and I’ve just launched EzReply, an AI-powered Chrome extension to solve a problem I faced while growing my personal brand on X/Twitter.

Engagement is crucial to beat the algorithm, but crafting replies that sound authentic takes a ton of time.

I tried generic AI tools, but they churned out robotic responses that didn’t reflect my voice.

So, I built EzReply. It’s a tool that lets you train an AI on your writing style in just a few minutes by replying to sample tweets. Once trained, it generates 1-click replies that sound like you—not some canned GPT output.

It’s saved me 9+ hours a week, letting me focus more on my business other than on growing my social presence.

It’s free to try, and I’d love for you to check it out and share your thoughts.

Looking forward to your feedback!
> it’s just as possible that readers will recognize this sacrifice and reward these outlets with more traffic and subscriptions in the long run

These hybrid models don't work. Depend entirely on generosity, e.g. Wikipedia. Sell your damn product. Or sell your readers' eyeballs.

I've hands down seen the best journalism from categories 1 and 2: folks focussed on the mission or confident enough in their quality to paywall everything. I've rarely seen it from 3. I've almost never seen it from those who try mixing. (The exception being those who sell traditional, i.e. non-targeted, ads.)
I think that a problem with generalized uses of "blockchain" to support some $USE_CASE is that you need a decentralized system to reward miners/stakers in order for it to be worthwhile, so you end up reinventing a cryptocurrency with whatever $FEATURE tacked on.

The best case of this is something like filecoin or namecoin. Two very old projects as well.

To a lot of groups, inventing another redundant cryptocurrency is a feature not a bug. A lot of these companies (big ones like Ripple Labs come to mind) essentially want to use the excuse of "cryptocurrency" to release an unregulated funding coin that essentially acts as a security.

Even as a cryptocurrency supporter, it is easy to see how this is detrimental to "real" cryptocurrency because is diluting the purpose of decentralized money with centralized funding tokens and nonsense. It's obvious that blockchains have little use outside of decentralized money due to their obvious inefficiencies.
You're deriving 'controversy' and then something about the preferences of forum participants as a whole from the small vote changes (ending with a non-downvoted comment!) of a tropey, generic comment in reply to a very tropey bombastic comment.

I don't think you can really do that accurately from those inputs.
Me too! Also, whiteboard tape exists: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NBL3UMU . I've started using it on storage bins (easier to get over the mental hurdle of labeling when I don't have to worry about the label changing later), and homeprod network switches (I'm terrible at recording port assignments electronically).
I used and am now using plain git over ssh. I only hosted gitea to have my code accessible for anyone interested.

My "main" projects I want to keep public are moved/cloned to GitHub, the rest I just don't bother with any longer.
Tailscale just-in-time network access, now generally available
The screen is yours, the content displayed is not. Same reason you can "buy" a movie, game, audio, ebook and have it disappear overnight. Same reason your security camera, car, oven may suddenly cease to work if the company shuts down their servers. Do we support it? You do because you paid for it.
Tell me everything about it! Can he do an AMA on HN? ;)
There's no peak. Just an eternal slowing down clibing that still tends towards AGI, but probably not before the heat-death of the Universe.
Yeah, but we bomb those.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shifa_pharmaceutical_factor...
he literally did it not once, but twice. i've been alive for thirty two years and done my fair share of autistic shit (programmer). But yknow what I've managed to never accidentally do? Anything even vaguely resembling a nazi salute. And yknow what? Fine, suppose for a moment it was an accident or whatever. If i were a billionaire figureheard of my company on national television in the seat of power of the free world, I would ensure I had media training and knew how to not have the international audience go "wow he just did a nazi salute, twice" if I didn't intend it. Remember George W stopping himself from saying the sound bite of "shame on me"? Elon is either literally, genuinely stupid, or he meant to do a nazi salute. And I honestly don't believe Elon is stupid from an intelligence perspective.

One last remark: if I did accidentally do a nazi salute on live television, do you know what I would do at the soonest available opportunity? Clarify that I'm not a nazi, it was an accident, and that nazis are bad. It's a surefire way to ensure you're not accidentally perceived as a nazi. Similar to how "Nazi Punks Fuck Off" really helped Dead kennedys in this regard.
Right, if you hadn't said it yourself, I would have said that this is just another form of "you're holding it wrong ".

But my point is that if this is actually the target market for these products - people who are gonna run their own nodes - then that market is like five orders of magnitude smaller than the crypto industry wants it to be.
They aren't removing your boss, you still have one, except your new boss (who was your former skip level) will expect all the outputs that your previous boss produced.

From you.
By having "the best credit" you mean literally it can borrow money at low rates?

What does that have to do with the fact that most citizens are struggling financially and fewer people than ever are able to buy property?
I meant to 17 so they would see the warning.
> Conference does not imply gatekeeping.

Nor do journals.

I think it's straightforward to make an argument that many of today's conferences are as bad as journals, accepting submissions is only one way conferences filter. IRL they are prohibitively expensive to enter, let alone attend (but again, see "Zoom"), and therefor eliminate all but the elite, they are run by commercial entities in all cases with more than ~200 people, they are more or less required venues for networking and therefor selling yourself for a tiny chance at academic permanence, they give plenaries to elites (filtering to one voice), they have special symposia by invite only, with other submissions dumped to inaccessible parallel sessions (which one will you choose to see?), the submissions you make are published in much more ephemeral ways, and tend to be more difficult to discover in the long term, making the event important but the research not as much (at least in my experience), etc.
The overlay system is an even worse paradigm than global variables within a program. And one I too am very familiar with.

What happened here was that this payroll system of yours was written by people who saw clearly the danger of BASIC's many footguns and mitigated it the best way they could, by supplementing their code with vast quantities of english prose. This is not an argument in favor of BASIC.

> Just as one can write spaghetti code in any language, one can equally write good clean code in any language.

This is only half the truth. It's like saying it's equally possible to drive well or poorly in a 1990 Yugo as it is in a 2025 Accord. The car actually does matter in a lot of cases. I despise Python's tooling, but if one were to do a thoughtful rewrite of your old payroll system in Python, all those code comments would be completely unnecessary (it would be impossible to commit the kind of error that the comments were needed to warn against), and the code itself would be far easier to read and maintain.
The next best option is to version the api and support all old versions going back 10+ years

I agree, what they are doing with proto is much better
`.io` is `.com` equivalent for the market it addresses.
YouTube is hard to watch with ads once you’ve watched it without ads for a long time.

Neat post to learn about the current way the video stream works.

Has anyone else found enough utility in paying for a YouTube premium acct maybe for their entire household vs other streaming services?
I have a standard password that I know has been leaked, and I don't care. I use it only for accounts with no value. Accounts that don't hurt me if they get hacked. Obviously my email, bank and primary social media use strong passwords.

Maybe someone should investigate how many sites require a password but really shouldn't.
There's the other hybrid approach of depending on government funding and generosity (i.e. NPR.) Though I'm not sure that's a great option in this climate either.
Probably only those data sets which do not include furry porn but it's also possible that it could be used in negative data set.
I have read it but it does not make sense.

This work is destructive for no reason.

But I am curious how classloaders will work now!?
A while back I had made my own alternative to s-exprs that works with Racket. I have no idea if it still works, but I still think it looks nice, and at a glance I feel it's "purer" than shrubbery: http://breuleux.net/blog/liso.html
Second only to SQLite. HN loves SQLite.
They too are undermining our existence they just do it in a different way. I'm not sure which kind of parasite is more offending to the people doing all of the work.

To stick with the topic, the author argues for voting "openness may be too much, as we can see how each and every person votes, and thus can influence them" How is this different from putting a gun to your head and having you transfer your crypto currency to my account?

I find the topic really boring and unproductive. We have a few dozen kinds of robber barons and no amount of superficial conversation is going to change anything.

Everyone agrees really, everyone wants more for themselves or for the things they consider important.

The thing I'm curious about is what it should actually cost to run a country. Can we even simplify the topic to a point where the different configurations are few enough for mere mortals to understand?

I don't see how I'm to judge your road tax without understanding that. You can do roads on many different scales. 200 years ago the people living in a street had to organize the pavement of it. The road to the next city was financed on a city level.
People working in cloud environments or cybersecurity absolutely have heard of Wiz.

Working in a company adjacent to Wiz, I’ve encountered many organizations working with it.

Don’t project your lack of knowledge onto others.
I actually like it; but I think the point is more to demonstrate cool tech than to be true to Half Life's mood. It kind of reminds me of when in the 90s games started supporting colored lightings, and briefly everything was uh, very colorful. Although I think this is a lot more tasteful than that!
Well, in my experience lack of English was more of a small bump rather than having to learn a whole new language. The number of keywords used was fairly limited (if, for, while, begin, end, goto, etc) and not that difficult to memorize. I certainly didn't come out of it with some newfound understanding of English language. It did help that English (and Latin alphabet) is so pervasive in the society that words are easy to sound out even without knowing the particulars. If programming in Hindi or Mandarin was the standard, a lot of us would be out of luck :)

I do agree with your last point - majority of documentation is indeed in English. I learned programming before Internet, with little access to books (they existed, but were hard to find), and mostly relied on translated help files. Growing up these days, I'd definitely be soaking up English to be able to navigate all the available information - feels like a fair trade-off! I do think it's convenient that there's a lingua franca, so to speak, in software dev - there's enough variation in programming languages that it's nice not to have to deal with additional fracturing along spoken language lines.
Show HN: I released our project on DevHunt
The project implemented a minimal set of functions that can compete with similar modern UI libraries. It seems to me that something great can really be done from a template language!
True, but we could move to lip-reading for that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43400636
...and that's great for the rest of the world.
ChatGPT vs. Social Surveys: Probing Objective and Subjective Silicon Population
I sort them into shoe boxes, that sit on shelves.
I’m not really sure about this but would love to undestand how can this run multiple different workloads at once? How fast?
In 3.4 you can now do

x.map { it + 3 }.sum

which I'm still getting used to
two things:

1) it needs a certain perimeter to allow all the pins to go from the silicon to the package, which mandates a certain sized square-ish die
2) only the cores are duplicated (and some switching thing is added)

so yes, there is enough space to just add another two cores without any worries, since they don't need more IO or pins or memory or anything.
> Not a single one of them respects that request anymore

AI companies have seen the prisoner's dilemma of good internet citizenship and slammed hard on the "defect" button. They plan to steal your content, put it in an attribution-removing blender, then sell it to other people. With the explicit purpose of replacing human contribution on the internet and in the workplace. After all, they represent a reality-distorting amount of capital, so why should any rules apply to them?
Google's AI 'co-scientist' cracked 10-year superbug problem in just 2 days
Google's AI Army Urged to Work 60Hour Weeks as Cofounder Demands Full Commitment
I just subscribed. They had already been on my radar as having done some good reporting lately, and this was a good nudge to get a subscription.

Along very similar lines I’m a longtime subscriber to lwn.net even though realistically I tend to catch up there every couple of months and am almost always reading content that is free by that point. I find the service they provide valuable and the subscription fee very reasonable and I’m happy to support it.
Except those are over 90% of the population. This move is not going to win moderates over at all. It’s a feel-good move like a nice heroine shot.
So what happened to make it not as commonly used anymore?
Oh no, our Oligarchs! Maybe Trump will save them.
The VCs in DEEL (per Crunchbase):

Y Combinator
Andreessen Horowitz
SV Angel
General Catalyst
Spark Capital
Soma Capital
Coatue
Quiet Capital
AltaIR Capital
Elad Gil
Franklin Templeton
Alexis Ohanian
Four Cities Capital
Emerson Collective
Justin Mateen
Lachy Groom
Neo
Altimeter Capital
Mubadala
La Famiglia
Nat Friedman
Sinai Capital Partners
Firebolt Ventures
Y Combinator Continuity Fund
Daniel Gross
BAM Elevate
Avichal Garg
Incisive Ventures
Ryan Petersen
Darian Shirazi
Counterpart Advisors
Worklife
Weekend Fund
Recursive Ventures
William Hockey
Green Bay Ventures
Esas Ventures
Jeffrey Wilke
Roosh Ventures
Cem Garih
Fresh Ventures
Dara Khosrowshahi
Nick Raushenbush
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Bouaziz & Partners
Alexandre Scialom
Ben Lang
Vinay Hiremath
Rex Salisbury
Terrance McArthur
Pierre Bi
John Zimmer
Anthony Schiller
Talal Chedid
Raed Malek
At least it shouldn't be nonlocal just because of the erroneous rumor that Bell proved that quantum physics is nonlocal or because randomness, nonlocality and retrocausality are just directly observed.
They've already scraped my Github.
AI Safety and Robustness at Scale – What's Next?
I've been working on scaling my LLM system to production but I'm struggling to meet all of the privacy, security, safety, and ethics standards.

I found this "corrective layer" called Pegasi online. It was founded by some researchers at Carnegie Mellon/ Oxford and Boston Consulting Group.

After running it through some tests, it blew all the benchmarks out of the water.

Just curious if anyone else has heard of them? I really like their nuero-symbolic AI approach.
How many amps, how many volts, what will the rail be made from, how big will the pickup 'shoes' be?
>"We told Microsoft but they consider it a UI issue, not a security issue. So it doesn't meet their bar for servicing as a security update, but it might be fixed in a later OS version, or something along those lines."

This reads like someone at Microsoft looked at the issue and decided that this issue is technically "not my job".