skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This guy is blunt... but he's correct.

This company focused all it's effort in reinventing the part of multi-player games that did not need reinventing.

40 engineers for 5 years. I'm guessing at least 20 million dollars spent. 1 million trailer views... Let's say 100k wishlists, 10,000 sales at 30 LTV. 300k in revenue

This company will need to pivot if the game is not successful.

I would say the db could be pivoted for multi-player Figma style apps rather than games, but the coupling of server and db means you can't scale the db layer the same way you could do with literally every other db solution available s your company scales
And ANZ tap-on plugs
If you're ever in LA (Culver City), see if you can get into The Museum of Jurassic Technology. Some things are well documented, if not believable.

https://www.mjt.org/themainpage/main2.html
I looked at the referenced study. This a meta-analysis and the number of studies contributing to the findings in each section appears to be rather low (2-8 studies in the sections I looked at), although the sample sizes of some of the studies are large.

The main thing that jumps out at me is that in most cases the moderate drinker comparison groups were, as they say, "at the lower end of moderate alcohol consumption". Their example (in the section on all-cause mortality): "five of the eight studies compared an average of about 0.7 U.S. drinks/day (8.4 g/d) with never consuming alcohol". So this is comparing the difference between teetotalers and people who drank very little. Although definitions of "moderate drinking" can allow up to 2 drinks a day, they had no findings comparing the effects of abstinence vs. consumption at the higher end of that range.

The meta-analysis is pretty formulaic and a lot of text in the main chapters is boilerplate. This isn't a bad thing as it can indicate a systematic approach not tempted by fishing expeditions, but it does mean the ultimate findings are only a tiny portion of the size of the document. To my eye most of the effects appear rather moderate.

This is an area I've been reading up on lately and it's rather fascinating to me that there seems to still be so much uncertainty about this question, given its obvious relevance to public health. I wonder if we'll ever see a durable conclusion on this matter.
Ziplink is now supporting deep linking
Ziplink now comes with deep linking functionality—making it easier than ever to send your audience directly to the exact page they’re looking for.
Germany, but I believe it is less about location and more about time.
Maybe it is a thing of the past but for some time it was almost a requirement to do an unpaid internship before you (maybe) got a job offer for certain industries.

In Germany it was like that for BMW and Siemens.
You go to the bank to deposit a cheque into your account. But you need to have an account. Cheque cashing services will essentially buy the cheque from you for a bit less than the value written on it. It's mainly for people without bank accounts.
Yeah, and way much too! I wanted this so bad for my kid but it’s breathtakingly expensive (while still being quite an underwhelming set).

https://www.lego.com/nl-nl/product/lego-education-spike-prim...
Yeah it’s bullshit, but it’s still true that you can minimize the suspicion. Not having any kind of phone these days is likely very rare for people entering a US border crossing, a clean but used phone not so much. The goal is to blend in.
Ledgers are simple, stop spreading FUD
Most of us here took their education before AI. Students trying to avoid having to do work is a constant and as old as the notion of schools is. Changing/improving the tools just means teachers have to escalate the counter measures. For example by raising the ambition level in terms of quality and amount of work expected.

And teachers should use AIs too. Evaluating papers is not that hard for an LLM.

"Your a teacher. Given this assignment (paste /attach the file and the student's paper), does this paper meet the criteria. Identify flaws and grammatical errors. Compose a list of ten questions to grill the student on based on their own work and their understanding of the background material."

A prompt like that sounds like it would do the job. Of course, you'd expect students to use similar prompts to make sure they are prepared for discussing those questions with the teacher.
Ask HN: Building a habit app with social features – what would you want in it?
I'm building a habit tracking app with community-driven features like challenges and leaderboards.
Curious what you'd actually find helpful — or annoying — in a social habit tracker. What would make you want to stick with it?

One of its earlier version is on PlayStore named Habithook.
Congrats on shipping and selling!

Countering some recurring feedback here: I find the design decisions you’ve made strike a good balance between simplicity and inviting the player in to find their way round. I’m viewing on mobile.

- I can’t easily parse a top-level clue structure but the lack of colours keeps it neat
- Guess history would have been useful but omitting it keeps each guess low stakes for a first time user
- The keyboard is fine, don’t let the unicode universe in for an ascii input field
Another obvious downside of the idiosyncratically American system that forces university students to take irrelevant classes to make up for the total lack of rigorous academic high school education.
Maybe; I have no opinion about that. But China's human capital advantage in the coming century seems pretty clear just from the numbers.
OS/2 was created by the biggest computer company in the world at the time, yet even it couldn't get enough traction.

In the world of OSes, "the same as what everyone else is using" is much more important than "new takes on old concepts".
The LLM returns a message called ToolMessage which then describes which function to call and the parameters (you register these functions/tools as part of the initialisation step, like when you pass it temperature, or whatever other options your LLM allows you to set). So think of it as instead of steaming back text, it’s streaming back text to tell you “please call this function with these args” and you can do with that what you want. Ideally you’d call that function and then give the output back to the LLM. Nothing magic really.
Yes, this - OS X wouldn't have become a near-ubiquitous developer desktop. That would have been very bad for Apple.
> The actual value is still generated by the labor.

The labour _needed_ the money. In other words, the labour doesn't want to take on capital risk (aka, the output turning worthless, or something like that).

Investors aren't leeching, they are taking risks - risks that the labourers dont want to take (otherwise, they would've been the one fronting the cost, rather than expecting to get paid for labour!).

The old idea of capital being leeches only happens when your capital comes from lords who granted you ownership (of the land).
Happy ~liberation~ market manipulation day!
Create a new landscape for your own life. You may be feeling low right now, but that's okay—once you sort through your emotions, you'll begin to see a new and beautiful view ahead.
The content is only partially downloaded to the servers, and only on demand.
Storage is limited — old, inactive cached data is removed when space is needed for new requests.

There’s also the ability to revisit previously used content via direct links like
https://webtor.io/{infohash} — this lets users bookmark a stream or return to it later.
However, availability still depends on whether the content is cached or needs to be fetched again.

I actually experimented with making content indexable in the past, but many torrents turned out to be pirated — and eventually triggered DMCA notices. So I chose not to publicly expose anything on the hosted version.

Automation is possible: there’s a public API and a lightweight SDK for embedding content into external websites.
> Every class I sophomore on

What does this mean?
I agree, it feels like an advertorial trying to sell me products even when it isn't, which is a shame as the underlying content is detailed, original and long form.

> I tracked the vocals in my apartment in the Mission, San Francisco

This has no relevance at all to what is being said at that point in the article. But it feels very much like dropping in references to a specific guitar brand or plug-in before it's relevant elsewhere too. Like an LLM has based the style on SEO blogspam.
The labs put themselves in the system prompt at inference time. Without that the model will hallucinate a creator, most likely ChatGPT
Where did you go to? Like I said for all the flaws of London and the UK (and I agree there are many), Europe is largely comparatively shit too. I live in Germany’s richest city and it’s also quite shit and everything is falling apart and nothing works.
In some countries, it’s illegal to pay interns in certain situations. For example in Belgium, university interns may not be paid due to university restrictions.
Show HN: Time to Decimal Converter – Simple Tool, Clean Design
I wanted to share a recent project I've been working on - a Time to Decimal Converter (https://time-to-decimal.org). While the concept is simple, I put a lot of thought into making it both functional and visually appealing.

Key Features:
- Convert batch hours, minutes, seconds to decimal format
- Mobile-friendly interface
- No sign-up required
- Free to use

Design Philosophy:
- Minimalist approach to reduce cognitive load
- Clear visual hierarchy
- Consistent color scheme
- Responsive design that works seamlessly across devices
- Focus on accessibility and readability

Would love to get your thoughts on:
1. The overall visual design
2. User experience flow
3. Mobile responsiveness
4. Accessibility considerations
5. Any design improvements you'd suggest

Any constructive feedback would be greatly appreciated!
I've been doing mobile development client work for over a decade, if I remember correctly, around 2012-2016 money was flowing everywhere.

Every company, client just wanted their own app. App for medicine sales people, internal company Android launcher, an app to adjust your window blinds, fitness app, bible/Muslim apps, timer. All these random stuffs.

Comparing it from the past several years, majority of the projects didn't even make it to MVP because of the cost is just too much for them.
Show HN: I made a simple web app that save money
Hey HN.

A few months ago, I realized I was still paying for 3 tools I hadn’t used in over a year.
Worse? I had no idea when my free trials were ending, and my inbox was full of random invoices.

So I built Subly — a simple tool to manually track all your subscriptions, trial periods, costs, and invoices.

No bank syncing

No email scanning

Just a clean dashboard for full control

Andrei
This is about the yuan not the euro. Devaluation doesn't make it easier to pay debt. It helps foreign countries to pay down dollar denominated debt more easily. Meanwhile, the DXY is structurally way higher than average right now. The USD remains very strong compared to historical exchange rates despite its recent drop.
Sleeved pins have been required in the UK since 1984.
Did you forget to switch back to your jethronethro account?
This is kind of an ironic comment as Japan was very isolationist - that is, resisting foreign influence, sticking to their own culture / traditions / etc - at least up until the time period of this photo, which is when the Meiji Restoration started and they opened up more to foreigners.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiji_Restoration
> Am I missing something about modern economics?

yes you have.

The home took someone money to build, the land cost money to buy (from the previous owners) - thru the long chain of title ownership that would stem from the conquerors of this land (who ultimately took the land from either natives, or whoever that previously owned it by force).

The previous owners who now got paid by you will use this money for other investments. It is not slept on. Your house is also providing utility (of being a shelter).

You just stopped thinking about the money as soon as it left your bank when you buy the house, and thus you feel that the value of the house is merely being "slept on", when in actual fact, this transaction that is your house is a small cog in a very large system.
> These are very ideological people with deep seated feelings (hate mostly) connected to those ideological views. Most people don’t think or feel that way, and the closest thing they can relate to is racial hatred.

This is a very interesting point.
Most of the federal budget is wealth transfers from income earners to the poor and elderly; these were not federal functions until the 20th century. The US federal government spends didn’t have a standing army until well after the founding.
> Today, China is competitive with or ahead of America in key technology areas, including nuclear power, AI, EVs, and batteries.

I can’t tell if you’re brainwashed by propaganda or just spreading propaganda.

China is great at making things flashy. But the quality things like EVs is low. The battery quality is not good. The promise of long range cars is often 30% of the promise. Cars leaking. Rusting like American made cars.
Having lived in both countries for a while, I find the Swiss plugs nowhere near as satisfying, and the flat (non-recessed) wall outlets are also prone to plugs becoming loosened due to weight, similar to the US/CAN/JP plug.

I do quite like the compactness and aesthetic of the three-prong plug with three plugs in a typical wall fixture, and the compatibility with the two-prong Europlug is convenient. However, using even one adapter with a foreign plug often obstructs the other two plugs in a three-plug fixture, particularly as the adapter usually isn’t reversible if grounded, which is quite annoying if that’s the only socket in a room.

I guess the UK plug being large enough to subsume most foreign plug adapters is one silver lining of its size.
I believe this is a more powerful and versatile approach than MCP.
And which one this overlaps?
Trump only simulates madness [Stock Insider Trading]
> In the last week, Trump has gone wild on the global economy, saying tariffs are the key to American prosperity.

> As a result, global stock and bond markets tanked.

> The reversal prompted the S&P 500 stock index to climb over 7 percent in just minutes.

> Traders with inside information about what Trump was about to do — some of them, presumably, Trump family members and cronies — just made a fortune.
Certainly with maths you’re marked almost totally on written exams, but even if that weren’t true you’re also required to go over example sheets (hard homework questions that don’t form part of the final mark) with a tutor in two-student sessions so it’d be completely obvious if you were relying on AI.
SE will one day realize they are as screwed as the average worker and unionize in some way. The endless money pits are not for every SE, even today the majority does not work for the creme-de-creme of well paying companies. While specialists and smooth talkers might profit from the current model, as always is the case, most won't.
Good question.

Even though Webtor doesn’t host or index any content itself, users can generate direct links like https://webtor.io/{infohash} to access specific torrents.
Sometimes these links get shared publicly — on forums, blogs, or aggregators — and that’s usually how DMCA notices find their way to me.

When that happens, I remove access to that specific infohash from the hosted service.
It’s not about removing stored files (since there’s no persistent storage), but about disabling further processing of that particular torrent.
Show HN: Broswerable- open source browser automation library for agents
Hi HN, Sid here. I made Browserable, an open-source and self-hostable JS library (MIT license) for building agents that can execute web tasks, track status and fetch results: https://github.com/browserable/browserable.

It allows you to build agents that can navigate sites, fill out forms, and extract information. It is currently at 90.4% on the Web Voyager benchmark.

With this library, you can:
- Run a browser agent suite in your local machine with one command- npx browserable.
- Integrate into existing code with REST APIs/ SDKs.
- Self-host the browser agent and scale without being tied to any single browser/ browser infrastructure/ LLM provider.

It comes with a UI to run a task and an admin interface to trace, track and debug LLM calls (and costs). Works with multiple browser providers (Steel, Hyperbrowser, Browserbase) and concurrency restrictions.

We built Browserable because we enjoyed building AI agents to automate tasks for our B2B SaaS startup, but we were frustrated at how hard it was to set up and maintain reliable automations even for simple tasks since the groundwork did not exist. We had to integrate with multiple browser providers with various concurrency restrictions, multiple LLM providers with various rate limits and there was no easy way to tie all the logs back to one single task to analyze the accuracy, latency, and cost of the implementation.

We are hoping to make it easier to build, test and improve agents without having to write all of the infrastructure from scratch.

We would love to know what you are building and if this library would be useful, or how we could make it more useful for you!
ANZ plug prongs are SO easy to bend: it's much thinner metal than UK plugs.
> impending loss of America's stature

Impending cause of loss of stature.
The “free market” cannot exist. It’s impossible.

All you can ever do is trade manipulation. By who and to what agenda.
i've seen certain groups defend war (really cannot imagine this) and now i'm hearing from the same group i'm a part of, well it's okay to off-shore all this because the president doesn't like offshoring? for years fashion forums have bemoaned the offshoring of american clothing. if the president said he supported communism, would certain groups suddenly become free market capitalists?

have people always been like this? was this 'anything but agree' position common back in the 70s and 80s? is this an american thing or christian society thing?
They are also more dangerous, as they don't have a good grip on the plug, and usually don't have shutters.
I thought you were about to have an epiphany but the only takeaway is that you just never met the right client.

It's possible, not sure how many clients you have had. But over the long run it should be less and less likely that it's always the darn client.
Fully agree. He must have been itching to use the term "chart junk" :-)
I believe we need to practice critical thinking through actual effort. Doing arithmetic by hand and working through problems ourselves builds intuition in ways that shortcuts can't. I'm grateful I grew up without LLMs, as the struggle to organize and express my thoughts on paper developed mental muscles I still rely on today. Some perspiration is necessary for genuine learning—the difficulty is actually part of the value.
LLM Benchmark for 'Longform Creative Writing'
There's something about seeing real people from that far back
If insider trading is proven true, what are potential consequences for Trump? Is such behavior a no-no even for presidents or he'll get away with it until his term ends?
Why not just skip everyone else to start with
This reminds me of my first "paid" job. I was contracted with a friend to fix the decaying IT infrastructure of a mid-sized local business. We were 18, early 90s. The contract was through a friend of my friend and was a shady affair from the start: nothing in writing or signed.

We agreed upfront to get about 600$ each, which was woefully little for the ordeal we had to go through. The place was a mess of DOS PCs, AIX workstations and ancient early macs. The backups were a cardboard box of unlabeled 5 1/4 inch floppies. We even had to solder our own cables to get some ancient serial printers to work and get the new IP network talking to stuff that wasn't built for it at all.

The owner was paranoid about security so we passworded everything that could be and compiled a long list of passwords.

When everything was working we sat with him to get our money, and then he said he had understood that the deal was $600 shared between us. He didn't budge, so we got nothing and he didn't get the password list.
What is the security difference of someone injecting something into your page vs injecting something into external ressource?
A fuse? The plug accepts fuses rated from 1A to 13A. It can be tailored to the requirements of the appliance
Not unlike how it went in a lot of places at the time; the problem with history is that they mainly focus on and make records of the upper echelons, the pretty parts. Few historians / writers / etc make notes of the common people. Some exceptions, of course, but you'd be forgiven for thinking Europe was mainly castles, knights and political intrigue back in the middle ages.

It hasn't changed much; in theory everyone has a camera in their pocket now to record the mundane, but in practice a lot of it is "content", where people put on a show for the camera.

My grandpa was an amateur photographer, he'd go out and make photos of local events, scenes, people, etc. His work has been donated to a regional museum and digitized, because there was little other visual records of these old (well, 50's) traditions.

I can't find them though. Some were uploaded to a Facebook page but that's a really poor platform for archiving / displaying works. I should reach out to my dad and start a project to build a website for this collection or something like that.
There's "lost decade" periods in the US market as well, that's why you shouldn't invest in a single market, and should apply unit cost averaging instead of dumping all your money at once.
Americans have to worry about chaining power strips, or overloading them with the Christmas lights.

That's much less of a concern in 230V countries.
This looks pretty interesting! Will keep it in mind in my next browser automation project.
I live in UK so biased, but yeah, I mostly love British plugs and sockets.

They do take up too much space, and are painful to stand on if you leave one unplugged.

But they are still just really satisfying. Plugs just don't fall out of sockets. They are solid and feel reliable. The safety feature of the longer pin opening the socket for the live wires is good. Always found EU and US style plugs and sockets to be worryingly flimsy and the plugs sometimes dangle a bit out of the socket.