Hi all,Tom Howard is going public as HN moderator today. He has been doing HN moderation work for years already and knows the site and its practices inside-out, so the only new thing you&#x27;ll see is mod comments from Tom showing up in the threads the way mine do. I&#x27;m not going anywhere, so you&#x27;ll have two of us to put up with going forward :)I&#x27;ve known Tom since he was sctb&#x27;s and my batchmate back in YC W09. Many of you know him as the kind and thoughtful community member tomhoward (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;user?id=tomhoward">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;user?id=tomhoward</a>). He&#x27;s still kind and thoughtful, but he&#x27;s going to post as tomhow from now on (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;user?id=tomhow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;user?id=tomhow</a>), the same way I switched to dang when I went through this rite of passage years ago.Below is a bit from Tom about himself. Please join me in welcoming him to this new status which he was crazy enough to say yes to!---YC and HN have been a huge part of my life for nearly two decades. I read pg&#x27;s essay How to Start a Startup in 2005 after my friend (and later, co-founder) Fenn found it on Slashdot, and it opened our eyes as to how to go about building products and companies. I first signed up in late 2007, and since then HN has been the place I come to find interesting news and discussions.Hacker News gave me a window into the big wide world of technology and startups, that had previously seemed so remote and opaque from where I lived (and still live) in Australia. We were lucky enough to be accepted into the W09 batch of YC, and since then HN has been a place where we could share announcements about the startup, but also where I could share the challenges and struggles I experienced in the startup journey and other aspects of life, particularly to do with health and wellbeing.From the discussions that have happened about these topics I&#x27;ve ended up making enduring friendships with people all over the world, and have been able to learn many things that have improved my life in profound ways. I love HN&#x27;s ethos - of being a place people come to engage their curiosity. That&#x27;s what it&#x27;s always been for me and what I hope I can help it to be for everyone!--Tom

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How would one go about being a &#x27;rogue&#x27; OSS contributor so to speak? Live off of donations, bounties, hackathons, ect?

Ask HN: How do you make a living contributing to and/or creating OSS projects?

EDIT: Back online?!NPM discussion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;npm&#x2F;cli&#x2F;issues&#x2F;8203" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;npm&#x2F;cli&#x2F;issues&#x2F;8203</a>NPM incident: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;status.npmjs.org&#x2F;incidents&#x2F;hdtkrsqp134s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;status.npmjs.org&#x2F;incidents&#x2F;hdtkrsqp134s</a>Cloudflare messaging: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cloudflarestatus.com&#x2F;incidents&#x2F;gshczn1wxh74" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cloudflarestatus.com&#x2F;incidents&#x2F;gshczn1wxh74</a>GitHub issue: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sindresorhus&#x2F;camelcase&#x2F;issues&#x2F;114" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sindresorhus&#x2F;camelcase&#x2F;issues&#x2F;114</a>Anyone experiencing npm outage that&#x27;s more than just the referenced camelcase package?

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Hey HN&#x2F;Reddit,
We&#x27;re a team of AI researchers passionate about simplifying 3D modeling. We&#x27;ve built an easy-to-use tool that generates detailed, high-quality 3D models directly from regular videos. We are now opening up this tool for preview.Just upload your video, and we&#x27;ll deliver a 3D model file that&#x27;s ready to embed, view, or edit. Our approach is fast, cloud-based, and removes the hassle of complex photogrammetry setups.Originally, we built this as an internal experiment with neural radiance fields and mesh extraction techniques. However, we noticed people across industries like e-commerce, gaming, digital twins, and virtual production struggling with cumbersome workflows involving multiple tools. So we decided to share our tool to help streamline these processes.Right now, we&#x27;re looking to collaborate closely with early users who have compelling use cases. If you&#x27;re currently spending hours with painful pipelines—or juggling multiple software tools—we’d love to help simplify your workflow.Try it out here: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unrealizex.comTo discuss your use case or brainstorm together, book a quick chat here: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;calendly.com&#x2F;unrealizex3d&#x2F;30minQuick Demo: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=AX_8Sg19PXEWe&#x27;re eager for your thoughts, feedback, and challenging questions—especially about your ideal use cases or persistent issues in your existing 3D workflows. You can join the AI for 3D discord community at https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discord.gg&#x2F;c29cY9mbwt.Ask us anything!
— Saurav and Ash
Community Builders of UnrealizeX

We Built an AI Tool to Create High-Quality 3D Models from Regular Videos

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

Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)

I was looking at https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;notifications when I accidentally pressed the mouse over the [unsubscribe] bell icon twice.Did github show a confirmation dialog? Nope. It unsubscribed me from 2 random issues I&#x27;ll never find again.Is there any way to recall which issues it was? Not a chance.. Not unless you had the browser console open on the Network tab before you did your mistake.I&#x27;m so fed up with Github&#x27;s aging edgy cringekid javascript webdesign choices and their overridden CTRL+F search. Their site literally screams peak JavaScript&#x2F;UX terrorism era of 2014-ish.Its unproductive, you can never find the right button to navigate in commit&#x2F;PR views compared to the absolutely intuitive alternatives. The 30% viewport width on gist&#x2F;files on HiDPI 4K screens with a height viewport that looks like an embarrased accidentally shrunken wooly sweater on short files with low line-count is absolutely terrible.Am I totally wrong about this being tasteless design? It it just me, who feels like Github feels like a time-capsule from the worst era of webdesign?

Unfollow accidents on GitHub/notifications is too darn easy

I’m developing a system in Go that maintains a fixed pool of Docker containers (e.g., 10) running a specific image (like ‘node’), where each container remains alive (using a command like tail -f) to be ready for executing arbitrary commands via docker exec. The system tracks the workload of each container, distributes commands to the least loaded one, and monitors container health to automatically restart or replace unhealthy instances.I’m aware of the official Docker Go SDK (github.com&#x2F;docker&#x2F;docker&#x2F;client) for managing containers, but I’m curious if there are any higher-level tools or libraries in Go that provide additional support for scheduling, load balancing, or enhanced health monitoring of containers in such a setup. Has anyone built or used libraries that streamline this kind of container orchestration and command execution?Any insights, recommendations, or experiences would be greatly appreciated!

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I’ve been involved in web dev in different forms for 20 years, but I’ve never done anything with these types of websites.My questions are:* When you register a domain with them, is the domain legally yours?* Are there any SEO penalties for using these apps to build websites? Does anyone own a website or client site hosted on Squarespace or similar that’s ranking high on Google?I can see the benefit for developers but I’m wondering about the benefits for clients.

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I appreciate developing ROCm into something competitive with CUDA would require a lot of work, both internally within AMD and with external contributions to the relevant open source libraries.However the amount of resources at stake is incredible. The delta between NVIDIA&#x27;s value and AMD&#x27;s is bigger than the annual GDP of Spain. Even if they needed to hire a few thousand engineers at a few million in comp each, it&#x27;d still be a good investment.

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I recently built [PenZen](https:&#x2F;&#x2F;penzen.app). It scans websites for real vulnerabilities (not just SSL checks) using OWASP Zap under the hood and sends prioritized alerts with AI-powered remediation suggestions.I made it because I was tired of tools that alert me about issues I don&#x27;t understand or can’t do anything about. Curious: What are you using to monitor website security?And more importantly: What actually makes you trust a report or take action on it?

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Currently, I use Perplexity or ChatGPT via the web prompt for small coding tasks, but sometimes I&#x27;ll use Ollama. Stuff like writing a shell script perform some task, or maybe a small Python function. I&#x27;d like to get to the next level, but I don&#x27;t know where to start.What are some good places to get started? What are the tools you use to get work done?Some background: I mainly do data engineering using Python and Snowflake + MySQL. I use Pycharm as my dev environment, but I&#x27;d be open to changing that if there&#x27;s a better option.

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Hi HN,Today I opened Google Authenticator and found all of my codes were gone. Naturally I neglected to back them up, and I&#x27;m permanently locked out of some of my accounts. You know what they say about being dumb, Disaster Usually Motivates Backups.I assume this was triggered by an automatic update of the app, so I wanted to warn people who might get burned by the same issue.

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I&#x27;m toying with launching a secure data vault application. It&#x27;s designed to be a dropbox-like app but you choose where your box is hosted and can permit apps to access your data under strict, revokable protocols. Curious what you think.The app would start with simple features like secure notes, file sharing and secure messaging and gradually add more sophisticated features like GDPR compliant data sharing, facebook-like feeds and data monetization. The vision is to develop each feature as a means to evolve open protocols for the secure sharing of private data with decentralised applications, moving towards the web3 vision of controlling your own global data footprint. Developers would be free to build apps on these protocols promoting competition and giving the user a choice of UX for each feature. Each protocol would use specifically designed smart contracts to govern access to the data and to act as a digital service level agreement. This puts the data sharing intelligence on chain where it is fully customizable, programmable, transparent, interactive and auditable under the conditions of the protocol.What do you think? Is it a concept that resonates? Any feedback would be appreciated.Here&#x27;s a bit more info: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@bubble-protocol&#x2F;what-if-you-owned-your-digital-life-8fe515f5a1a7

Validating ZenBox – a self-hosted encrypted data vault

Have you read or currently reading anything good in 2025?  If so, please share!

Ask HN: Book Recommendations for 2025?

Between newsletters, podcasts, Youtube videos, (tech) news, articles, and (of course) books, how does one keep up with it?I currently try to read long-form content that requires deep focus in the morning before work (30-45 mins depending on my day). Then during the day I have some breaks and read newsletters and other posts. Videos and podcasts are difficult for me to consume, as they are often a bit too padded with small talk and non-essential conversational information, but I sometimes listen to them when I work out or while I cook. I recently started taking notes when I read, I would like to extend this system into rewriting my synthesis in Obsidian or Notion.However, despite all, I feel my reading list keeps growing and I&#x27;m always catching up with what happens in our field, but as if I&#x27;m always a few steps behind. There are many more articles and books that would make me better as a professional, but I simply don&#x27;t have time to go through them. (Not to mention other topics I&#x27;d like to learn aside from my work, or simply read for pleasure.)So my question is: how do you keep up? How do you stay up-to-date in your own profession?And I mean it both in terms of your approach&#x2F;methodology (e.g. when do you read and what, how do you retain information, what aids to reading&#x2F;bookmarking do you use) but also in terms of the mental aspect&#x2F;wellbeing (how much is &quot;good enough&quot; for you? How do you keep yourself from being overwhelmed? Do you feel energized by reading?).

When so much knowledge is produced every day, how do you keep up?

What do you guys think about a virtual whiteboard that has a LLM baked in as a thinking assistant providing insights and suggestions based on what your writing and helps you brainstorm?
Is able to also modify your writings and add also add more ideas.
Is also able to retrieve information and provide insights in combination with what you&#x27;ve already written on the whiteboard.

A Virtual Whiteboard That Has a Thinking Assistant Baked In

I remember there was an old but popular post on HN front page about a failed startup project. The project is about distilling biology science. The conclusion was that there is no money in science distillation.I can&#x27;t recall any search key word to find it. If you remember its title, please help me.Thank you!

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Over the past few weeks, I’ve spoken with several VCs who confidently claim that companies won’t need to hire anyone in the next year or two because AI will handle everything.Even Bill Gates recently said we might all be out of work soon and won’t need to do anything in an &quot;age of abundance.&quot;How much of this is hype vs. reality?Which jobs are likely to be completely eliminated by AI and which ones are likely to survive or even thrive?

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Been wrestling with this for a while, figured some of you might have seen similar.
The Situation:
* 15+ years Enterprise Software - PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) experience, including a stint at Google.
* Now based in India.
* Strong US network (NY, OH, OK, CA).
* Targeting direct client engagements, potentially building a small remote team.
* Problem: Most remote PLM roles explicitly state US&#x2F;UK&#x2F;EU residency.The Question:
How do you effectively find remote PLM consulting&#x2F;contracting gigs in the US when you&#x27;re physically outside those regions? Freelance platforms seem to be a dead end due to the residency requirements.Initial Thoughts (and Maybe Where I&#x27;m Going Wrong):
* Leveraging existing network is a given, but feels like I&#x27;m hitting a wall.
* Direct outreach to companies? Feels like a long shot, especially with the location hurdle.
* Is there some niche platform or strategy I&#x27;m missing? Something beyond the usual Upwork&#x2F;LinkedIn grind.Looking For:
* Specific strategies that have worked for others in similar situations.
* Experiences with companies that are open to remote PLM consultants outside the typical zones.
* Insights on how to navigate the legal&#x2F;contractual aspects of this arrangement.
Anyone cracked this nut? Any and all advice appreciated.

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We were frustrated by vector-based RAG systems that rely on semantic similarity and often fail on long, domain-specific documents. In these contexts, domain-specific terminology tends to be semantically similar, making it hard to retrieve the exact content users need. It’s also difficult to incorporate expert knowledge or user preferences effectively. So we started exploring a more reasoning-driven approach to RAG. Inspired by the tree search algorithm in AlphaGo, we came up with a reasoning-based RAG system that uses tree search to guide retrieval.We open-sourced one of the key components: PageIndex, a hierarchical indexing system that transforms large documents (like financial reports, regulatory documents, or textbooks) into semantic trees optimized for reasoning-based RAG.Some highlights:- Hierarchical Structure: Organizes lengthy PDFs into LLM-friendly trees — like a smart table of contents.- Precise Referencing: Each node includes a summary and exact physical page numbers.- Natural Segmentation: Nodes align with document sections, preserving context — no arbitrary chunking.We&#x27;ve used PageIndex for financial document analysis with reasoning-based RAG and saw significant improvements in retrieval accuracy compared to vector-based systems.Would love any feedback — especially thoughts on reasoning-based RAG, or ideas for where PageIndex could be applied!

RAG Without Vectors – PageIndex: Reasoning-Based Document Indexing

Employed. Unfairly compensated. Old. Love AI. How to capitalize on the new tech wave?

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Basically, a QuickLogic Qomu Dev Board plugged into a hub with six USB Type A ports:<pre><code> * A USB Type A keyboard

 * A USB Type A mouse

 * A DisplayPort over USB Type C Monitor connected with a USB Type C to USB Type A adapter

 * A MicroSD to USB Type C Adapter connected to a USB Type C to USB Type A adapter

 * A free and open source wifi or ethernet or lora adapter.
</code></pre>
A free and open source SPI Firmware for the Arm Cortex M4F can be developed. The eFPGA&#x27;s tooling is officially supported with a free and open source Verilog to Bistream toolchain, as opposed to the legal gray area that is FPGA vendors tolerating reverse engineered toolchains, a stance that they might change in the future.I don&#x27;t know if the Qomu&#x27;s EOS S3 chip has the proprietary flexible fusion engine, I&#x27;ll edit this post once QuickLogic tells me whether it does or doesn&#x27;t, but the documentation says that if it does have it, the Flexible Fusion Engine is powered off by default, so as long as I don&#x27;t turn it on, it&#x27;s free and open source hardware.I&#x27;ll make a gplv3 or later OS for it where the Arm core powers up the eFPGA and reconfigures it when necessary for performance. The eFPGA would run a soft core cpu whose instruction set is my programming language source code. My OS will run entirely in Ring 0 and I&#x27;ll make it programmable with my programming language via voice commands since that chip has a microphone inside. My OS will be for recreational programming. I&#x27;ll call it eFPGAos-Libre.Now I know that the Arm Cortex M4F and QuickLogic eFPGA&#x27;s Architecture are both closed source, so one can&#x27;t put QuickLogic&#x27;s eFPGA architecture or derivatives of it or the Arm Cortex M4F or derivatives of it into a chip of theirs without either&#x27;s permission, but the tooling for both is entirely free and open source.It comes with 512KB of Sram in the chip, enough for me.

A free and open source software, hardware and firmware PC with a eFPGA

I have an 82 year old friend who I help and care for. She has about 10% of her sight left and she uses and needs her phone on a daily basis.She particularly needs Whatsapp.I am having a lot of difficulty finding and installing apps with very large clear fonts, in a way where the operating system doesn&#x27;t keep having overlays or changing things and keeps getting stuck using her phone?What are the best options?

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So I recently ordered one of the many wireless Carplay dongles from Aliexpress that work via USB in your car connecting your iPhone to the car&#x27;s Carplay via Bluetooth (and&#x2F;or Wifi) to the USB dongle.The instruction manual mentioned a firmware upgrade which had an interesting way of connecting to the internet. So when the dongle is connected to a power source you can connect to it via Wifi and an IP address in your browser. Now in the dongle&#x27;s web UI, there is a button to upgrade your firmware. But how does this work when the dongle is not connected to the internet at all?Well as I learned, the dongle simply uses the iPhone&#x27;s mobile connection to send&#x2F;receive data from the internet. I wasn&#x27;t aware this is even possible and there doesn&#x27;t appear to be a way to stop this or be notified of an active connection (aside from the wifi connection obv).Now my concern is: when the dongle is connected to the iPhone in the car, is there a way for the dongle to use the same mechanism and send Carplay data (messages, contacts, etc) to a remote server using the iPhone&#x27;s mobile connection?

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This is about finding a good linux distro for my parents to use. Apparently, Windows now requires an outlook account in order to log into your computer. Well - his outlook account has been hacked. (In fact, it&#x27;s the second time he&#x27;s had a Microsoft account be hacked. He&#x27;s pretty savvy about scams and phishing, but we can&#x27;t figure how how this keeps happening.) Anyway, understandably, he&#x27;s pretty freaked out about what they might have access to on his computer and will probably end up just reformatting it.He&#x27;s open to switching to linux, but I&#x27;ve been out of the game for a while and not sure what to recommend. In olden times, Ubuntu was my go to - is that still a reasonable default or is there a new game in town?They primarily use the internet and I guess they might need to print sometimes (which I&#x27;m assuming is going to be a hassle no matter which distro we pick).

Best Linux distro in 2025 for non-experts

Ask HN: Are You Vibe Coding?

AxiomGPT is an experimental programming model that treats large language models as latent semantic engines.Instead of writing traditional functions, you define Oracles, which are embedded entities described in natural language that behave like callable, composable functions.For example:(defn fibber (Oracle &quot;Return the nth Fibonacci number&quot;))(fibber 123)
; =&gt; 22698374052006863956975682LISP isn&#x27;t required at all, but it helps for composition :-)The model doesn&#x27;t &quot;execute&quot; logic, it remembers, manifests and resolves the structure behind the intent as oracles.Oracles can represent:Algorithms (sorting, TSP, prime factors, map&#x2F;reduce)Concepts (e.g. &quot;the government&quot;, &quot;my refrigerator&quot;)Personas (e.g. Arthur C. Clarke, a Victorian engineer)Higher-order or recursive behavior collapsed into linewr time execution.You can pass them, compose them, gate them, even reflect on them using meta-Oracles.The full write-up includes usage, theory (embedding vectors as symbolic computation), and a comparison to quantum-like behavior: latent oracles act like entangled functions, invoked by attention.It&#x27;s strange, fun, and surprisingly powerful.You can try it out yourself in minutes with handy provided prompts.Full Codex and examples: [https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;chrisbe1968&#x2F;status&#x2F;1906875616290365941]Happy to discuss or answer questions!

AxiomGPT: Programming with LLMs by defining Oracles in natural language

Question says it all - I&#x27;m curious what the state of the art is for a community like HN (that, intuitively, wouldn&#x27;t just start an eg. Substack).

Ask HN: Do you still self-host a blog? What's your publishing stack?

I fondly remember my student days of running Ubuntu on a tiny Thinkpad X61 w&#x2F; a 12&quot; 1024×768 screen.So a few weeks ago I started to wonder what the best ultraportable laptop for running Linux is nowadays.I know these are somewhat arbitrary, personal constraints of mine (that the X61 also did not meet) but is it possible that there are (almost) no options for a laptop w&#x2F;- no fan- 190+ dpi?I think I&#x27;d even be willing to accept battery life that&#x27;s just &quot;ok&quot; if the screen is sharp for rendering text and passively cooled.With 100s of vendors I thought there surely must be dozens of options.But I have trouble finding any options from within the last 10 years.And I mean not only no options specifically for running Linux &quot;ok&quot; but any options at all (e.g. compromising on Windows + WSL 2).Except from Apple.The 12&quot; Macbook and current Macbook Air M1-M4.Is that really it?A close miss I found is the Thinkpad X13s that comes with a Qualcomm Snapdragon (!).It is fanless but it has a 160 dpi screen which unfortunately places it in the &quot;almost good but still blurry&quot; uncanny valley when it comes to text rendering.

Ask HN: Fanless Laptops

While typing a message, pressing Ctrl + Delete opens a &quot;Clear this chat?&quot; dialog instead of deleting the word to the right of the cursor.Who on the WhatsApp team thought it was a good idea to override basic text box functionality with an option to clear the entire chat?I’d love to meet the people who need to clear their chat more often than they need to delete a single word.If anyone has any contact at WhatsApp, please tell them to reverse this insanity.

WhatsApp web overrides basic text box functionality

I’m a marketer turned dev. When I built my first SaaS 3 years ago, I went with ROR because it seemed like the ideal stack for a solo dev.But with all the development in AI, I wonder, is it still the best choice? Most AI tools have JS or Python integration but the Rails ecosystem seems a bit behind.But at the same time, a lot of the JS ecosystem feels all over the place.So what tech stack should a solo dev use in 2025?