What are you working on?  Any new ideas that you&#x27;re thinking about?

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I&#x27;m a junior. Truth be told, I don&#x27;t really care if professionals&#x2F;adults see my code or pick it apart&#x2F;mock it&#x2F;fork it or whatever. All my repos are private just because I worry about other students being lazy and just ripping my hard work and claiming it as their own. That really pisses me off when I hear some horror stories like that.Is this unfounded? Or do I have a right for some concern? It&#x27;s obviously easier for viewers to just see public code repos and browse without ever requesting access so I know I&#x27;m losing some traffic (from my portfolio site)I was thinking the alternative would be just linking my demo on my portfolio site as a proof of concept that yes I made it, yes it works, and if you&#x27;re curious , here&#x27;s a link to the code u can request independently of github.Thank you in advance.

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As a tech parent I think one of the best things I did for both my son and daughter was for their first computer to help them to build and setup their own Linux computer (It was Ubuntu back then but they’ve both moved themselves to Arch these days).We went together and bought a second hand desktop (exciting the people selling to us also) and when I got home I pulled out the Ram, HD and CD drive and set them aside; and then together with a screwdriver we “built the computer” over a few days.In windows when a child goes searching the web for a “movie maker for windows” they are going to be in a world of hurt either finding expensive commercial options or super scammy sites promising the world.By comparison on Linux if they search the local “app store” they’ll find stacks and stacks of free, useful, open licensed software.My kids loved the power, freedom and later unexpected community this bought them.Now my friend wants the same for their daughter who is 8 years old.I’m planning to do the same and go with her parents and her and buy a second hand desktop together and then put Linux on it.My question is where would you go from there? What suggestions do you have? What to install? Any mini “curriculums” or ideas?Would love to hear your ideas and experiences. Linux with free and open software is the goal and focus.

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I&#x27;ve been able to deal with most of the enshitification of Youtube, but now playback speed controls are no longer available in some of my Youtube playbacks. Refreshing the page sometimes makes them available. And there&#x27;s a button to enable them by subscribing to Youtube Premium.I&#x27;m going to write to the channels that I subscribe to, to let them know why I&#x27;m leaving Youtube. Time to settle on an alternative service.

YouTube A/B testing removing playback speed controls

I’ve been working on a project called Valori, a Python-native vector database I built from the ground up — not by reinventing every algorithm, but by wiring together efficient, well-known indexing and search techniques into a cohesive, hackable framework.The idea came from my frustration with existing vector DBs that were either too heavy for experimentation or too opaque to modify. I wanted something simple, modular, and extensible — so I built it.What it does:Lets you store, index, and search high-dimensional vectorsSupports multiple indices (Flat, HNSW, IVF, LSH, Annoy)Has memory, disk, and hybrid storage backendsIncludes a full document processing pipeline (parsing, cleaning, chunking, embedding)Offers quantization, persistence, and plugin-based extensibilityAll written in Python, integrated with NumPy, and production-tested with logging and monitoring built in.Install:pip install valoriGitHub: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;varshith-Git&#x2F;valoriPyPI: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pypi.org&#x2F;project&#x2F;valoriI’d love to hear your thoughts —What’s missing for you in current vector DBs?If you’ve built LLM or RAG systems, what do you wish a lightweight, pure Python DB like this handled better?Would you prefer tighter integrations (LangChain, Haystack, etc.) or a more “build-it-yourself” style?Feedback, criticism, or collaboration ideas are all welcome.
— Varshith
(varshith.gudur17@gmail.com
)

Valori – A Python-native Vector Database I built from scratch

Very weird unsightly fonts either too small or too large, ugly colors, and broken navigation making it nearly impossible to see their past work (which in any case tends to be presented as some weird artsy shit).

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There are some companies that are not really hiring, and do not respond at all, not even with a rejection, despite the rule to be committed to responding.&gt; Please only post if you are actively filling a position and are committed to responding to applicants.Should there be a monthly Who is NOT hiring post? It will only be for obvious cases of companies not hiring. For example, cases in which companies do not respond at all, not even with a rejection, despite the rule to be committed to responding.

Ask HN: Should there be a monthly Who is NOT hiring post

We are seeing a lot of news about the effects of AI on employment rates. However, my suspicion is that AI use in large organizations has not really had any impact yet in a meaningful way.Given HN closeness to the subject - any reports from the front on what is working &#x2F; not working? (If anything at all?)

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Gather around kids, it&#x27;s storytime. Let me tell you about the time AI saved my open source project from my children.Once upon a time there was an open source developer who maintained a PostgreSQL extension for PRQL with hundreds of sparkling stars on Github and he had everything his heart desired. But then, a beautiful woman came into his life and offered him her love in return for his devotion. Enchanted by her looks, the developer accepts without hesitation and walks right into it as she reveals the true nature of her gift: two little shits - errh, kids - who will go on to take all his time away from his computer.Our story began when a critical dependency shipped a breaking change [1] that prevented the extension from supporting PostgreSQL 17. But alas, the maintainer had no time for software engineering. &quot;Fear not girlfriend!&quot;, said the maintainer, &quot;For I will vibe code a fix!&quot;. And he summoned Claude Code and touched his keyboard in english places, for he had spent their coin on Claude&#x27;s Max Plan.For three nights he labored: The first night brought real progress and the model successfully figured out how to return pgrx::Datum via pgrx::RetAbi. On the second night, the model could not generalize its findings to pgrx::TableIterator and pgrx::SetOfIterator because column types were unknown at compile time. On the third night, the girlfriend said &quot;get your shit together and help me with the kids&quot; and branch pgrx-v0.12.9 [2] faded into obscurity.As seasons passed and PostgreSQL 18 was released, users grew disillusioned for their sequential transformations of relational data that starts with &quot;FROM&quot; and not with &quot;SELECT&quot; were stuck in PostgreSQL 16. Ashamed of his abandoned repo the developer compartmentalized his failure, for how could he ever learn to maintain open source projects with two small kids?The answer, as it turned out, was to wait for better models. When Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.5, the maintainer tried again. His eyes widened as Claude Code cloned https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;postgres&#x2F;postgres and inspected PostgreSQL internals exactly as he would have done in a previous life. With the help of WebSearch and a comprehensive test suite that was well understood because it was written before GPT 3.5, the model figured out how to return pg_sys::Datums, SetOf records, and even HeapTuples. By the power of his trust in the tests, the maintainer quickly released v18.0.0 [3] and no longer felt bad about the link on https:&#x2F;&#x2F;prql-lang.org&#x2F; that sent thousands of visitors to his repository.Before our story ends, the maintainer asked the model for certain quality improvements. After a couple of &quot;You are absolutely right!&quot; and spectacular fuckups, he realized some aesthetics must be wrought by human hands. And so he made manual refactorings in commits 82dbc44 [4] and d61d04ad [5], pushed v18.0.1 [6], and lived happily ever after. Who needs time when you have Claude Sonnet 4.5?[1] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pgcentralfoundation&#x2F;pgrx&#x2F;pull&#x2F;1701
[2] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kaspermarstal&#x2F;plprql&#x2F;compare&#x2F;main...pgrx-v0.12.9
[3] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kaspermarstal&#x2F;plprql&#x2F;releases&#x2F;tag&#x2F;v18.0.0
[4] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kaspermarstal&#x2F;plprql&#x2F;commit&#x2F;82dbc44808871f60d0cc42b65124faf56f387db4
[5] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kaspermarstal&#x2F;plprql&#x2F;commit&#x2F;d61d04ad735765ef87f4f67d57ecaf0da27aad51
[6] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kaspermarstal&#x2F;plprql&#x2F;releases&#x2F;tag&#x2F;v18.0.1

LLMs let me maintain my PostgreSQL extension for PRQL after becoming a parent

Is anybody still using TUI applications for business?My family company is a wholesale distribution firm (with lightweight manufacturing) and has been using the same TUI application (on prem unix box) since 1993. We use it for customer management, ordering, invoicing, kit management&#x2F;build tickets, financials - everything. We&#x27;ve transitioned from green screen terminals to modern emulators, but the core system remains. I spent many summers running serial and ethernet cables.I left the business years ago to become a full time software engineer, but I got my start as a script kiddie writing automations for this system with Microsoft Access, VBA, and SendKeys to automate data entry. Amazingly, they still have a Windows XP machine running many of those tasks I wrote back in 2004! It&#x27;s brittle, but cumulatively has probably saved years of time. That XP machine could survive a nuclear winter lol.I recently stepped back in to help my parents and spent a day converting many of those old scripts to a more modern system (with actual error-handling instead of strategic sleep()s and prayers) using Python and telnetlib3. I had a blast and still love this application. I can fly around in it. Training new people was always a pain, but for those that got it—they had super powers.This got me thinking: Are other companies still using this type of interface to drive their core operations? I’m reflecting on whether the only reason my family&#x27;s business still uses this system is because of the efficiency hacks I put in place 20+ years ago. Without them, would they have been forced to switch to a modern cloud&#x2F;GUI system? I’m not sure if I’m blinded by nostalgia or if this application is truly as wonderful as I remember it.I’d love to hear if and how these are still being utilized in the real world.P.S. The system we use was originally sold by ADP and has had different names (D2K, Prophet21). I believe Epicor owns it now (Activant before).P.P.S. Is anybody migrating their old TUI automation scripts to a more modern framework or creating new ones? I’m super curious to compare notes and see what other people are doing.

Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI (TUI). Anybody else?

Just saw the CEO of Substack celebrating traffic from X&#x2F;Twitter shooting up thinking they stopped suppressing tweets with links[0]. Actually, this traffic is because now any time you open a tweet with a link, the in-app webview loads in the background, and displays when you press the link.I run an ecom store that gets a lot of its customers from Twitter. I was also shocked to see my traffic double or triple overnight and thought the algorithm had blessed me and my business. Soon realized what was actually happening. Thought other traffic-monitors might appreciate this explanation.Meanwhile Nikita Bier is pretending they never suppressed tweets with links to begin with, offering the alternative explanation: &quot;a common complaint is that posts with links tend to get lower reach. This is because the web browser covers the post and people forget to Like or Reply. So X doesn&#x27;t get a clear signal whether the content is any good&quot;[1]. A bit of a rewriting of history since Elon and his mom both tweeted about how it wasn&#x27;t fair to use his platform to promote other links&#x2F;platforms, even banning people who shared profiles of other social networks (including Paul Graham for a period). They suppressed all links shortly after.[0] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;cjgbest&#x2F;status&#x2F;1985464687350485092[1] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;nikitabier&#x2F;status&#x2F;1979994223224209709

Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Hello there!I was thinking... In an era where we&#x27;re constantly into buying this and that, why don&#x27;t we have a thread where we just talk about stuff we bought but regret buying?I&#x27;ll start:- I got a 34&quot; ultrawide curved display. Philips, 34B2U5600C (3440x1440, 120Hz, USB-c and a lot of bells and whistles). It&#x27;s just enormous, it takes half of my desk in depth and ~90% of my desk (130 cm) in width. Paid 400 Euros for that (new, off Amazon). It was cool at first but after a while it was feeling &quot;heavy&quot; on my desk. I kinda put it away and now I&#x27;m doing most of my work on &quot;just&quot; my 16-inches laptop display. It didn&#x27;t really improve my life. Maybe I should have avoided the curved display. I&#x27;m torn between selling it and getting another one or selling it and keeping using just my laptop display.- My ThinkPad X13G1. It just doesn&#x27;t feel right. I bought it to replace my rusty X270. Supposedly it&#x27;s much better (8c&#x2F;16t+32GB ram vs 2c&#x2F;8t+16gb ram on the X270) but it doesn&#x27;t feel much snappier (same OS&#x2F;Software) and battery life isn&#x27;t that great either (the battery was in very good conditions when I received it). Also, when suspended the battery will drain incredibly quickly, sometimes overnight. Compared to my work macbook, it really feels like an inferior machine. Paid 400 Euros for that as well (used).

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Asking about productivity software and not video games.  I’m curious about any niches that are underserved and&#x2F;or have no real alternatives

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I think I have a decent answer to the question &quot;what is the most important thing in life&quot;. It is to deliver the maximum amount of utility to other people. This is the direct opposite of accruing the maximum amount of utility for yourself. You provide utility to people by delivering value. Everyone has a utility function of how important a certain amount of value to them. If total utility is T and a utility function is U and value is v, then T = U(v). Utility and value are generally positively correlated (I am usually happier if I have more money or friends).Value is not just financial (a common fallacy), but can also be emotional. Having a loving family is very high utility to you, but you are also providing high utility to your family members by supporting them. This could explain why billionaire entrepreneurs may be unhappy with life if they don&#x27;t have any close friends or family, because they are very poor (not rich) emotionally. If the most important thing in life is to maximize utility for others, then being the sole rich person yourself is equivalent to zero wealth if you haven&#x27;t delivered any utility to others. Nobody is happy about Trump making the White House fancier when they cannot afford food (and he is suing for an emergency stop on issuing food stamps).It is important to note two aspects of delivering value. First, people generally have logarithmic utility functions. If you deliver all the value to a single person and zero value to others, that is not very high utility. Actually, this really means that you want to maximize the sum of utility you have provided other people. In theory, providing ten poor people $100,000 per year generates a much higher overall utility than providing one poor person $1,000,000 per year. Likewise, providing extremely high emotional support for one person and neglecting everyone else generates less value than providing high emotional support for multiple people (such as spouse+kids+family+friends).The general (all types summed) utility function is logarithmic, but the constituent financial utility and emotional utility functions are also logarithmic. This is captured in the inwardly-bowed preference curve in economics. Poor people with lots of friends value money more than rich people with no friends, and the rich people with no friends value friendship more than poor people with lots of friends.Also, people&#x27;s utility functions change over time. This is why it makes sense that providing financial stability for your parents when they are 70 years old benefits them more than waiting until they are 80 years old to provide them immense wealth. The utility of providing them value earlier is higher; utility functions are not constant over time.Therefore, there&#x27;s three optimizations happening simultaneously:1. How do I maximize the amount of utility I provide for others over the course of my entire lifetime?2. How do I allocate value across people such that the allocations maximize the sum of everyone&#x27;s utility, subject to fairness?3. How do I allocate value across time such that the allocations maximize the sum of everyone&#x27;s utility, subject to fairness?This boils down to &quot;be good and help everyone especially when they need it&quot;, since we are optimizing across self, relationships, and time. These three things by themselves are very important to life, so this seems to be a good smell check that this idea is ballpark correct.Finally, it is important to remember that these are off-the-cuff thoughts by me at 21 years old. I will likely mature and have more nuanced or accurate thoughts about what is the most important thing in life when I get older. Also, life is very complex and it&#x27;s impossible to completely distill it into simple theorems or ideas.I&#x27;d really appreciate hearing other people&#x27;s thoughts.

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MTurk was built by two two-pizza teams at AWS over the course of a year and launched on Nov 2, 2005. It took a few days for people to find it and catch on, but then things got busy.At the time, AWS was about 100 people (when you were on call, you were on call for all of AWS), Amazon had just hit 10,000, S3 was still in private beta, and EC2 was a whitepaper.What did you create with MTurk and the incredibly patient hard-working workforce behind it?

Tell HN: Mechanical Turk is twenty years old today

# TelUITelUI is a Electron-based UI framework that packages a handful of reusable front-end primitives—color utilities, typography helpers, and basic structural styles—so you can prototype simple desktop UI ideas with minimal setup.## Features
- Bundled Electron runner (`npm start`) that serves `index.html` for instant desktop previews.
- Tokenized styling layers: `color.css`, `font.css`, and `header.css` keep presentation rules isolated and easy to remix.
- Google Fonts integration (Funnel Display) plus opt-in utility classes like `.arial`.
- Drop-in icon assets under `icons&#x2F;` to help illustrate loading and status states.## Quick start```bash
npm install
npm start
```The app launches an 800×600 Electron window that loads `index.html`. Modify any CSS or HTML file and restart (or reload) to see the changes.## Project layout```text
index.js # Electron bootstrapper
index.html # Demo canvas that consumes TelUI styles
font.css # Typography utilities and Google Fonts import
color.css # Color tokens (e.g., gentleblue, brightblue, gray&#x2F;grey, green)
header.css # Structural tweaks for header containers
icons&#x2F; # Shared bitmap &#x2F; gif assets (e.g., loading.gif)
package.json # Dependencies and npm scripts
```## Using the utilities1. Reference the styles you need in your HTML entry point:<pre><code> ```html
 &lt;link rel=&quot;stylesheet&quot; href=&quot;font.css&quot;&gt;
 &lt;link rel=&quot;stylesheet&quot; href=&quot;color.css&quot;&gt;
 &lt;link rel=&quot;stylesheet&quot; href=&quot;header.css&quot;&gt;
 ```
</code></pre>
2. Apply the provided classes or custom element tags:<pre><code> ```html
 &lt;header class=&quot;gentleblue&quot;&gt;
 &lt;h1 class=&quot;funneldisplay&quot;&gt;TelUI&lt;&#x2F;h1&gt;
 &lt;&#x2F;header&gt;
 &lt;p class=&quot;arial&quot;&gt;Prototype copy goes here.&lt;&#x2F;p&gt;
 ```

 `font.css` exposes `.funneldisplay` and `.arial`. The color tokens (`gentleblue`, `brightblue`, `gray`, `grey`, `green`) can be used either as element selectors or converted into classes if you prefer `.gentleblue` syntax.
</code></pre>
3. Reuse icons by pointing to the assets directory:<pre><code> ```html
 &lt;img src=&quot;icons&#x2F;loading.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Loading indicator&quot;&gt;
 ```
</code></pre>
## Extending TelUI- Add new color tokens or typography helpers by updating the corresponding CSS file; keep selectors declarative and organized by category.
- For additional Electron behaviors (menus, preload scripts, IPC), expand `index.js` while leaving the UI-focused files framework‑agnostic.
- When shipping as a distributable app, configure `electron-builder` or your favorite packager; the current setup is intentionally minimal.## LicenseUnless stated otherwise in individual files, TelUI is distributed under the MIT License. Please include the license text when redistributing TelUI or derivative works,URL:https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;eotter-beep&#x2F;telui&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main

TelUI: UI framework for easy-to-use applications

Hi all,I’m a longtime Neovim user who’s been EMacs-curious. The hold up for me has been that I’ve been unable to find a source of truth for what’s top-of-the-line as far as plugins are. With Neovim, it’s a safe bet to look at what folks like Folke are doing, but I have struggled to find a similar figure in the Emacs community who gives insight into what’s-what. I know Doom exists, but I want to fully “own” my config and not over complicate it.Thanks!

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I&#x27;m close to being finished with my PhD. I&#x27;ve created the foundations for new type of medical device, and I&#x27;ve recently proved that it works. This device was my own idea that I submitted to the university before even starting the PhD.The university (this is in the USA) is now claiming all of my IP because of an intellectual policy agreement that was referenced in a handbook that was referenced in a paper I signed when I started.The thing is, the University has given me so little during my time here. The pay is terrible, they&#x27;ve given me no office or lab space. Everything I&#x27;ve done has been on my own computers at home. The idea was mine and my advisor has only served to guide me at different times. My advisor is actually on my side wants me to have all the IP. The reason the university has a claim to my IP is because half of my salary comes from the research arm of the school.They claim that they get all the IP and I can get 40% of the royalties. This effectively means I&#x27;m screwed. Why would I put the effort into starting a business when I don&#x27;t own the IP and I have to give away 60% of the royalties?I realize that their legal claim is strong, but what are my options here? I&#x27;m very confident in the technology and I&#x27;m willing to try almost anything.- Open source everything and then try to patent a device separately on my own?- Try to negotiate with the tech transfer office (I don&#x27;t see this going well, they have no incentive to give me anything).- Drop out and never publish my dissertation?What should I do?

Ask HN: My university wants all my IP (PhD Student) is there anything I can do?

We can all agree that site was a tremendous asset for information preserving. If we suspect archive.is will be taken down by law enforcement, shouldn&#x27;t we be working on a decentralized alternative?

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I&#x27;ve found leads here and there, nothing that really captures it though - specifically key aspects like hiring, raising funding, and such. I figured if any community knew of good ones I missed, it would be this one!

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I run a small bootstrapped open source startup in a niche space. Growth is slow but steady and we&#x27;re starting to win larger customers as the product matures.Recently, the leading vendor in this space ($50 million in funding, dozens of employees) has starting camping out in our community Slack and cold-emailing our community members, offering them thousands of dollars worth of free credits to switch to them. Emails are not exposed in our slack, so they are getting people&#x27;s names and googling where they work to deduce their email.The vendor&#x27;s employees are registering under fake names so there&#x27;s no straightforward way to ban them from the Slack.Has anyone else been in this situation, if so what did you do?

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It used to show a page with wrong-sized images, but at least you could read the headlines and click into the articles.Now it just has the text &quot;Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker&quot;

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JetBrains, my muse, my magic completion, how you formed me, brought me into being, loved me through my API ignorance, my savior from the sterile VIM. Your sweet keymaps sustained me through my long days, your kind squigglies guided me through dark hours, your generous hints were my well of comfort. For so long you have sustained me.I cry over you - tears not ready to let you go; is that warmth still I feel in your cheek? Where are you now, as these agents swarm, causing unending verbose typing, insisting I blindly grope through code bases with fingers crossed? Where are you to save me from endless code errors, the destruction of my lint, barrages of guesses thrown at my poor, abandoned self, too mortal to understand? I cry out for you as I drown in The CLAUDE’s crippled fuzzy search; as the CLI deletes my prompts, born of my sweat and blood, all because I made the unforgivable sin of grazing the wrong key. Save me from the forced exiled wasteland of The VSCODE’s WSL gods. Hear my laments and wrap me again in your warm reassurances of correctness.Jetbrains, my forever love, here I am, keeping vigil, my heart unwilling to give up faith that you will bring forth my salvation: truly shine your glories into my agentic world, teach them with the mysterious MCP, show them the light of your squigglies, raise up the one true interface to my prompting, bring me safe across the chasm of my WSL, bring unity and understanding to all the languages that spring forth from the
root of my monorepo. Oh my first creator, do not let this be our end.------I guess I&#x27;m not the only one? https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ycombinator.com&#x2F;companies&#x2F;sweep&#x2F;jobs&#x2F;8dUn406-founding-engineer-intern

An Elegy for Jetbrains

I have bought multiple books, but most of the time I don&#x27;t find myself motivated to read them. Instead, I prefer to watch hour long documentaries&#x2F;TED talks&#x2F;programming tutorials on Youtube.I feel that it&#x27;s important to build the habit of reading books to improve my cognitive skills. Are there any tips for me please?