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You are the reason I am not reviewing this PR

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/479442
2•midzer•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: FamilyMemories.video – Turn static old photos into 5s AI videos

https://familymemories.video
1•tareq_•3m ago•0 comments

How Meta Made Linux a Planet-Scale Load Balancer

https://softwarefrontier.substack.com/p/how-meta-turned-the-linux-kernel
1•CortexFlow•3m ago•0 comments

A Turing Test for AI Coding

https://t-cadet.github.io/programming-wisdom/#2026-02-06-a-turing-test-for-ai-coding
2•phi-system•3m ago•0 comments

How to Identify and Eliminate Unused AWS Resources

https://medium.com/@vkelk/how-to-identify-and-eliminate-unused-aws-resources-b0e2040b4de8
2•vkelk•4m ago•0 comments

A2CDVI – HDMI output from from the Apple IIc's digital video output connector

https://github.com/MrTechGadget/A2C_DVI_SMD
1•mmoogle•4m ago•0 comments

CLI for Common Playwright Actions

https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-cli
3•saikatsg•5m ago•0 comments

Would you use an e-commerce platform that shares transaction fees with users?

https://moondala.one/
2•HamoodBahzar•7m ago•1 comments

Show HN: SafeClaw – a way to manage multiple Claude Code instances in containers

https://github.com/ykdojo/safeclaw
2•ykdojo•10m ago•0 comments

The Future of the Global Open-Source AI Ecosystem: From DeepSeek to AI+

https://huggingface.co/blog/huggingface/one-year-since-the-deepseek-moment-blog-3
3•gmays•11m ago•0 comments

The Evolution of the Interface

https://www.asktog.com/columns/038MacUITrends.html
2•dhruv3006•12m ago•1 comments

Azure: Virtual network routing appliance overview

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/virtual-network-routing-appliance-overview
2•mariuz•12m ago•0 comments

Seedance2 – multi-shot AI video generation

https://www.genstory.app/story-template/seedance2-ai-story-generator
2•RyanMu•16m ago•1 comments

Πfs – The Data-Free Filesystem

https://github.com/philipl/pifs
2•ravenical•19m ago•0 comments

Go-busybox: A sandboxable port of busybox for AI agents

https://github.com/rcarmo/go-busybox
3•rcarmo•20m ago•0 comments

Quantization-Aware Distillation for NVFP4 Inference Accuracy Recovery [pdf]

https://research.nvidia.com/labs/nemotron/files/NVFP4-QAD-Report.pdf
2•gmays•21m ago•0 comments

xAI Merger Poses Bigger Threat to OpenAI, Anthropic

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-02-03/musk-s-xai-merger-poses-bigger-threat-to-op...
2•andsoitis•21m ago•0 comments

Atlas Airborne (Boston Dynamics and RAI Institute) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNorxwlZlFk
2•lysace•22m ago•0 comments

Zen Tools

http://postmake.io/zen-list
2•Malfunction92•24m ago•0 comments

Is the Detachment in the Room? – Agents, Cruelty, and Empathy

https://hailey.at/posts/3mear2n7v3k2r
2•carnevalem•25m ago•1 comments

The purpose of Continuous Integration is to fail

https://blog.nix-ci.com/post/2026-02-05_the-purpose-of-ci-is-to-fail
1•zdw•27m ago•0 comments

Apfelstrudel: Live coding music environment with AI agent chat

https://github.com/rcarmo/apfelstrudel
2•rcarmo•28m ago•0 comments

What Is Stoicism?

https://stoacentral.com/guides/what-is-stoicism
3•0xmattf•28m ago•0 comments

What happens when a neighborhood is built around a farm

https://grist.org/cities/what-happens-when-a-neighborhood-is-built-around-a-farm/
1•Brajeshwar•28m ago•0 comments

Every major galaxy is speeding away from the Milky Way, except one

https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/every-major-galaxy-is-speeding-away-from-the-milky-wa...
3•Brajeshwar•29m ago•0 comments

Extreme Inequality Presages the Revolt Against It

https://www.noemamag.com/extreme-inequality-presages-the-revolt-against-it/
2•Brajeshwar•29m ago•0 comments

There's no such thing as "tech" (Ten years later)

1•dtjb•30m ago•0 comments

What Really Killed Flash Player: A Six-Year Campaign of Deliberate Platform Work

https://medium.com/@aglaforge/what-really-killed-flash-player-a-six-year-campaign-of-deliberate-p...
1•jbegley•30m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Anyone orchestrating multiple AI coding agents in parallel?

1•buildingwdavid•32m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Knowledge-Bank

https://github.com/gabrywu-public/knowledge-bank
1•gabrywu•37m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: Dumbass Business Ideas

https://dumbassideas.com
42•elysionmind•2mo ago
Discover hilariously terrible business ideas that probably shouldn't exist. Get inspired by the worst startup concepts, share them with friends, and submit your own dumbass ideas!

Comments

doppelgunner•2mo ago
Try one of this, you never know which one will work.
elysionmind•2mo ago
I was really bored 2 days back and ended up creating this.
Esophagus4•2mo ago
Out of curiosity, it has 10,000 votes and 100 ideas and was created 2 days ago, which is impressive!

Are those real users? Or some bootstrapped content?

elysionmind•2mo ago
I know right!

see this: https://snipboard.io/DyxiNm.jpg

It got featured in morningbrew.com newsletter somewhere and traffic blew up lol

Philpax•2mo ago
This has an aggressive amount of designed-by-AI. Can you turn it down a bit? It's quite visually distracting right now.
elysionmind•2mo ago
I suck! :(

it was just a hobby project...

mym1990•2mo ago
I did not think of it as over AI generated, it just looks like a fun site with an aesthetic that goes along with that theme. Cool project!
elysionmind•2mo ago
thanks! ^_^
Esophagus4•2mo ago
Love it.

If you open up an API for idea submission, I can send you a FIREHOSE of dumbass ideas.

elysionmind•2mo ago
oh man.. dont have the infra for that most probably :P
system2•2mo ago
It does look and read like AI-generated ideas. Did you include any of your own ideas?
elysionmind•2mo ago
It got featured in morningbrew.com newsletter somewhere and traffic blew up lol

I have been monitoring google analytics for past 6 hrs lol

system2•2mo ago
Sorry, I didn't understand your answer. Are the "dumbass business ideas" featured on morningbrew.com? Or did you find an article that was featured with the ideas you turned into a website?

It is normal to get a spike for a frontpage HN post; unsure if you added that part as an answer. Or after posting it on HN, did morningbrew.com pick up and post an article about it? I know I am reading into it too much, but I kinda hate vague answers. :) I am asking: Did you create these ideas with AI, or found somewhere, or did you sit down and write them yourself?

elysionmind•2mo ago
People are submitting their ideas and im approving them (i dont generate them): https://snipboard.io/JjyGUh.jpg (current backlog)

about morningbrew, the initial traffic as per GA was from here (but couldnt find the article tbh.. https://snipboard.io/OT3s4X.jpg

system2•2mo ago
I see, thank you. I believe morningbrew people are following HN for juicy blog posts.
elysionmind•2mo ago
i believe they monitor reddit... this was ranking on r/InternetIsBeautiful for a while
hijp•2mo ago
i’d love it more if they were ideas people actually tried, like quibi!
elysionmind•2mo ago
try it!

would be useful tbh... mine was unfortunately intended to be humorous.

akudha•2mo ago
And that juicer, can’t remember the name now. It cost like 400$ or something like thst
bigfishrunning•2mo ago
Juicero!
sema4hacker•2mo ago
I was expecting a list of actual business failures with maybe some facts or history, but it's essentially a joke site.
elysionmind•2mo ago
unfortunately, it was never planned that way :(

it was a result of boredom from day job.

faster•2mo ago
Sounds like you were expecting fuckedcompany.com.

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

burnt-resistor•2mo ago
I miss FC. That was /. standard reading in 2002-5. Obligatory waves to all who had <= 6 digit user ids and posts back then.
CodeCrusader•2mo ago
A funny idea, I like it
projektfu•2mo ago
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chind%C5%8Dgu but with the caveat that the Chindougu inventions actually were prototyped.
rekabis•2mo ago
If enough people are willing to pay, is it truly a dumbass business idea? Because I have seen plenty of premises that I would have WTF-ed over, and yet enough people are paying for it to keep someone gainfully employed doing it.

I think that is the real threshold: not how stupid it sounds, but rather how few people stump up the money to have it done.

burnt-resistor•2mo ago
In the subset of possible physical objects, it reminds me of Halfbakery and Chindōgu.

https://www.halfbakery.com/category/Product

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2018/10/chindogu-japanese-art-...

This of course leaves out impossible products and services like:

- Tardis

- Unlawful goods and services sales platform, now with physical vending machines for assassination contracts

sphars•2mo ago
One suggestion (feel free to ignore) is to hide the vote counts until after a choice is selected, just to prevent some sort of bias. But again it's your site, thanks for the fun!
elysionmind•2mo ago
done!