MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: I built a simple tool to track real-time crypto rates
by madjidbr | 2025-04-22 08:34:04+00:00
Hey HN, I’ve always found it annoying to jump between exchanges just to check live cryptocurrency prices, especially when I just want a fast, clean view of the top coins without distractions. So I spent a few hours building a minimalist site that shows real-time crypto rates with no fluff, popups, or login walls: https://CryptoRates.io

It pulls data live and focuses on simplicity (no ads, no widgets, just raw numbers). The idea is to have something you can keep open in a tab and glance at throughout the day, or even use as a lightweight reference when building something crypto-related.

Would love feedback if anyone finds it useful or has suggestions!
by lurking_swe | 2025-04-22 08:34:58+00:00
well sure, they won’t understand sex if nobody every explained it to them. Learning through osmosis isn’t possible. :) They are definitely capable of understanding how a baby is made if you get a textbook and show them.

Whether or not they should learn that as a pre-teen is certainly up for debate, and many people / cultures have different opinions on that.
by dredmorbius | 2025-04-22 08:35:24+00:00
I still love the example some here may recall, where HN itself was hit by this with two disks within a RAID array AND THE BACKUP SERVER all failed within hours of one another:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32048148>

Resulting in, FWIW, my top-rated-ever HN comment, I think:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32048149>
by makeitdouble | 2025-04-22 08:35:43+00:00
> AMD has 75% of the console market (Xbox and Playstation) and 30% of the PC market.

Looking at these numbers[0] for the console market:

> Sony has sold 61.94M units of PS5 and Microsoft has sold 30.14M units of Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch sold 143.49M units.

Nintendo (NVidia chip) sold 1.5x of Sony and Microsoft combined. Given Switch's success the numbers look reliable to me, then Switch 2 is of course also from Nvidia, and I wouldn't be against it selling well.

[0] https://hookedontech.com/switch-vs-ps5-vs-series-x-console-g...
by xnorswap | 2025-04-22 08:36:03+00:00
Even before the takeover accounts could be "unverified", which makes a mockery of the concept of verification.

Verification should always have been "This is who they say they are", not an endorsement.

The "algorithm" boosting tweets from verified accounts also showed it was an endorsement rather than verification.

When people lost verification for being distasteful, it reinforced the blue checkmark as being an endorsement.

The takeover sold-out the "value" build up from blue checkmarks by just straight up selling them. It explicitly made the platform "Pay for reach".
by jlaternman | 2025-04-22 08:36:06+00:00
Just throwing this out there. Is it possible that in some way, it does have a MacBook Pro M2? For example, that the tools the ChatGPT UI have are exposed to it through access to one, which is can run whatever tools it wants through? That might actually be quite a sensible way to expose a “tools” UI to an LLM. If what it’s saying is technically accurate on the “flagship product” (ChatGPT), it could be the API version is simply confused about its differences (no access to tools).
by refulgentis | 2025-04-22 08:37:59+00:00
Oh my. I had no idea until now, that was exactly the same flavor and apparently, this is no coincidence.

I'm not sure it was prophetic, it was a good survey of the field, but the claim was...a plot of grade schooler to PhD against year.

I'm glad he got a paycheck from OpenAI at one point in time.

I got one from Google in one point in time.

Both of these projects are puffery, not scientific claims of anything, or claims of anything at all other than "at timestamp N+1, AI will be better than timestamp N, on an exponential curve"

Utterly bog-standard boring claim going back to 2016 AFAIK. Not the product of considered expertise. Not prophetic.
Show HN: CreateMVP.app – First open-source tool to generate MVP specs for LLMs
by rohitghumare | 2025-04-22 08:38:57+00:00
What the Platform Delivers:

AI Plan Generator – Accepts a short requirements brief or a PDF; outputs a complete implementation bundle (technical spec, architecture, user‑flow diagram links, task breakdown, and a polished PRD).

Multimodel Chat Console – One pane to converse with GPT‑4o, Claude 3, Gemini 1.5 Flash and other public as well as open source large models, keys stay local.

AI Tool Comparison Hub – Curated cards for 100 + dev‑centric AI tools to accelerate due‑diligence.

MCP Servers & Rule Packs – One‑click copies of community‑maintained server endpoints plus Cursor & Windsurf rules to supercharge IDE workflows.

Open‑source PRD Creator – Apache‑licensed codebase; self‑host or fork without restrictions.
by BeetgeK | 2025-04-22 08:39:02+00:00
Taint analysis lets you trace the flow of potentially harmful or tainted data through a program. It identifies paths where untrusted input or sources might reach sensitive operations or sinks without proper validation or sanitization, which helps prevent security vulnerabilities like SQL injections, cross-site scripting (XSS), command injections, and path traversal.

The core goal of taint analysis is to determine if unanticipated input can affect program execution in malicious ways.

Taint analysis is supported by the Qodana for PHP and Qodana for JVM linters under the Ultimate Plus license.

How it works Tainted data is called a source, while a vulnerable function that may contain a source is called a sink. In this case, tainted data travels to sinks via propagators, such as function calls or assignments.

To prevent such propagation, the taint analysis applies several approaches like data sanitization or data transformation to a safe state. Here, tags are removed to resolve the taint. Data validation conforms to a required pattern.

JetBrains will discuss taint analysis in a roundtable later this month. The link will take you to the sign-up page.
by darkwater | 2025-04-22 08:39:50+00:00
I built my own NAS loosely following this tutorial [1] (mostly for the bill of materials), currently with just 3 4TB disks. Installed NixOS w/ ZFS + K3s on it (I want to use it as a learning playground as well), and deployed a lot of software on it using TrueCharts helm charts, or some other random/self-written charts, and deployed with ArgoCD. Yes, I don't have a nice UI or a nice cloud integration, I have to do almost everything by hand but it's a side-project in itself and fun. For example, now I'm playing with a Postgres operator to manage the databases resources.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNMtmUOCtwI
by crote | 2025-04-22 08:40:01+00:00
I'd say that proves the point, doesn't it?

Those Gen3 x1 slots are limited to 7.88Gbps so they are pretty pointless for anything beyond a sound card, and you only get a single Gen4 x4 slot. All the other x4 connections are taken up by M.2!

Want to add a capture card and a HBA? Not enough slots. Want to add a capture card and a 10G/25G NIC? Not enough slots. Want to add a capture card and a USB-C expansion card? Not enough slots.
by xattt | 2025-04-22 08:41:20+00:00
My wife and I worked a six-week shift work schedule for a long time. We got second-gen nest thermostats when they first came out (2012) thinking they were neat.

Nope! The smart learning feature was the biggest pain in the ass. You’d be sleeping during the day for a night shift, only to find yourself freezing because it decided no one was home.
by zeristor | 2025-04-22 08:41:46+00:00
Is this how people ended up burning witches?

How on Earth did things get to this state? Luther and the reformation did give rise to challenging authority.

There was a report that some of these measle cases appeared to be due to the physicians mistakenly using the wrong medicine.

However at the root of it seems to be that not enough children are being vaccinated.
by lordofgibbons | 2025-04-22 08:43:33+00:00
> but they forecast that AI can replace the human physical economy in a few years

I guess it depends how many years YOU mean. They're absolutely not claiming that there will be armies of robots making chips in 3 years. They're claiming there will be some semblance of AGI that will be capable of improving/speeding-up the AI development loop within 3 years.
by formerly_proven | 2025-04-22 08:44:32+00:00
For a BYOD product it would be fine to add a blacklist of DM-SMR drives imho. Or have a big red banner and a taint flag.

But that's not what Synology did.

Also, if the image on the Synology page is accurate, they are relabeled Toshiba drives. Which doesn't really seem a good choice for SMB/SOHO NAS devices, because the Toshiba "Machine Gun" MGxx drives are the loudest drives on the market.
by louison11 | 2025-04-22 08:44:37+00:00
If it's always been this way, can you explain why most people today live in far greater conditions than 2000 years ago, or even 100 years ago? Or the dramatically declining global extreme poverty rate during that same period? If being rich always meant you took it from the poor, then you'd never have any improvement for anyone that does not result in worsening for someone else, mathematically.

It seems to me economic growth is the proof that money is not a zero-sum game, and that one can create value, that creates jobs, opportunities and a betterment in life across the board. A tide that lifts all boats.

You can validate that by looking at world economies. The countries with no innovation/entrepreneurship aren't better off for having less people building wealth: everybody is just poorer. In contrast, more capitalist wealth-oriented economies tend to create more opportunities.
by makeitdouble | 2025-04-22 08:44:52+00:00
That's actually the lack of freedom that killed it for me.

Drawing a diagram, it frustrated me to no end to come at the bottom corner of the page and need to either redraw it all on some bigger canvas, or try patch a sheet to extend it, or continue on another page while looking back at the previous one. Same for the max length of a single line.

In figjam or miro the canvas just expands infinitely, it's near A3 size yet I never run out of paper, never run out of color ink, never run out of post'its etc.

It's slower, but I never have to think about the material side of things, which is incredibly freeing to me.

To each their own of course, at this point I think the options are just a lot more balanced than 5 or 10 years ago.
by once_inc | 2025-04-22 08:45:39+00:00
Large black holes do have significant accretion disks that do impact their visibility and can and will spew forth vast amounts of radiation. Anything caught in their event horizon gets pulled in and is never seen again. Anything near it bumps into other things in orbit around it, which lights it up like a candle.

Note that there is also a 'weight class' of black holes that are significantly large that their event horizon would be visible to the naked eye, but which don't have an accretion disk. We currently don't know enough to make scientific estimates on how many of each weight class exists.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-04-22 08:46:22+00:00
I think Australia is doing well compared with the average country (and also US is doing things wrong).

Discussion of what Australia is doing well here from a solar expert:

https://bsky.app/profile/solarchase.bsky.social/post/3lmz5rb...

"hypercompetitive and relatively low-regulation installation industry, roofs well suited to work without scaffolding, fairly standardized systems of average size ~8.1kW so not small"
by Jolter | 2025-04-22 08:47:03+00:00
Jokes aside, the EU page about the GDPR right to be forgotten [1] states:

“ Here are the reasons cited in the GDPR that trump the right to erasure:

The data is being used to exercise the right of freedom of expression and information.[…]”

[1]https://gdpr.eu/right-to-be-forgotten/
by apetrovic | 2025-04-22 08:47:40+00:00
What are "competitive options"? It's a genuine question. Before Synology, I had some DIY server in a Fractal Design case, and noise and, to be honest, bulk were a problem. Also, maintenance of the server wasn't funny.

I switched to Synology about six years ago (918+). The box is small, quiet, and easy to put in the rack together with the network gear. I started with 4TB drives, gradually switched to 8TB over time (drive by drive). I don't use much of their apps (mostly download station, backup, and their version of Docker to run Syncthing, plus Tailscale). But the box acts like an appliance - I basically don't need to maintain it at all; it just works.

I don't like all this stuff with vendor lock-in, so when the time comes for replacing the box, what are alternatives on par with the experience and quality I currently have with Synology?
by immibis | 2025-04-22 08:49:11+00:00
This is a good plan when switching away is trivial. When they're in charge of something like a supermarket and they have sufficient competition. If the supermarket manager's an asshole, shop across the street and let it fail.

It doesn't work when they're singular entities. If the president is a massive asshole your options are to flee the country, lick his asshole, get permanently imprisoned, or treat it like a guerilla civil war and live in hiding. (As a consequence we invented democracy, which is supposed to prevent those people becoming president. But the 0days in democracy are not being patched.)
by eesmith | 2025-04-22 08:49:16+00:00
Apple is too an advertising company.

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-is-an-ad-company-now/

> Oct 20, 2022 - Apple Is an Ad Company Now

> There’s a side to Apple most iPhone owners don’t know. There's Apple the hardware company, the one that has spent the past several weeks showing off new phones, a more rugged Apple Watch and some confusing new iPads. Then there’s the other, quieter Apple, focused on something of a dirty word: advertising. And that part of Apple is getting bigger by the day.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/04/14/apple-rebrands-it...

> Apr 14, 2025 - Apple rebrands its advertising business as 'Apple Ads'

> As Apple expands its advertising business, the company has renamed its former "Apple Search Ads" to "Apple Ads," reflecting the expansion of ad placement.

> Previously, when a business bought ads on the App Store, they would be suggested at the top of the search screen. In 2022, Apple began expanding its advertising practices adding slots in the Today tab and in the "You Might Also Like" slot below individual app listings.
by deng | 2025-04-22 08:50:15+00:00
No. It's for giving credit where credit is due. And yes, that includes the question if the people who generated the training data in the first place have given their consent that this can be used for AI training.

It's quite concerning that the community around here is usually livid about FOSS license violations, which typically use copyright law as leverage, but somehow is perfectly OK with training models on copyrighted work and just labels that as "fair use".
by miki123211 | 2025-04-22 08:50:32+00:00
Yeah, Eleven Labs must be raking it in.

You can get hours of audio out of it for free with Eleven Reader, which suggests that their inference costs aren't that high. Meanwhile, those same few hours of audio, at the exact same quality, would cost something like $100 when generated through their website or API, a lot more than any other provider out there. Their pricing (and especially API pricing) makes no sense, not unless it's just price discrimination.

Somebody with slightly deeper pockets than academics or one guy in a garage needs to start competing with them and drive costs down.

Open TTS models don't even seem to utilize audiobooks or data scraped off the internet, most are still Librivox / LJ Speech. That's like training an LLM on just Wikipedia and expecting great results. That may have worked in 2018, but even in 2020 we knew better, not to mention 2025.

TTS models never had their "Stable Diffusion moment", it's time we get one. I think all it would take is somebody doing open-weight models applying the lessons we learned from LLMs and image generation to TTS models, namely more data, more scraping, more GPUs, less qualms and less safety. Eleven Labs already did, and they're profiting from it handsomely.
by pabs3 | 2025-04-22 08:51:05+00:00
Depends how savvy your users are, and what your users lose if they do send your patches upstream. For example, GRSec or RedHat both drop you as a customer (so no security updates) if you republish their patches publicly. Or a paid iPhone app's users probably wouldn't know what source code is, let alone where/how/bother to republish it for the benefit of other users.
by constantcrying | 2025-04-22 08:52:42+00:00
What a strange article.

>There is a worldwide shortage of semiconductor talent.

Why is there no source on the central premise of the article? Surely to write such an article you would start out by figuring out whether the problem measurably exists. The Deloitte estimate misses the point.

>What is needed is a practical-first approach

What a total bizarre take. The premise is that the industry requires wildly different areas to come together. The best way to accomplish that are strong theoretical foundations, learning something new from a solid theoretical foundation you deeply understand is easy. Learning something "practical" without that foundation is often an impossible task. What is needed the most are obviously people who have that solid theory and then can learn practical skills on their jobs.

>The bias towards post-graduate degrees stems from the lack of a practical-first education in semiconductors at the undergraduate level.

No, it stems from the fact that mostly those people are qualified. There are no "practical skills" without a solid theoretical foundation. So obviously people with the solid foundation are needed.

>lack of re-skilling resources and undocumented knowledge means that there is a career lock-in based on your choice of early-career specialization.

Do you know what reduces specialization? Solid theoretical knowledge, because it makes it easy to adapt.
by sersi | 2025-04-22 08:52:59+00:00
I had some 12TB WD ultrastar that I happily replaced with some Toshiba MG09ACA18TE. To my ears at least the toshiba sound signficantly more bearable than the ultrastar were (lower pitch so less disturbing). Due to living in a small apartment my NAS is in my living room so noise matters.

That said, I've since added an ssd and moved almost everything to the ssd (docker, the database and all apps) and it's much nicer in term of noise.
by pjc50 | 2025-04-22 08:53:45+00:00
> Does this mean that AI will be able to replace basically all human labor by the end of 2031?

Betteridge's Law: no.

Even the much more limited claim of AI replacing all white-collar keyboard-and-email jobs in that time frame looks questionable. And the capex is in trouble: https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-pulls-back-more...

On the other hand, if that _does_ happen, what unemployment numbers are you expecting to see in that time period?
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-04-22 08:54:05+00:00
> this might prevent exfiltration

Eh, I'd say it limits the exfil landscape, but it does not prevent it. As long as LLMs share command & data on the same channel at their core, leaking data is pretty much guaranteed given enough interactions.

So it would be useful as a defence in depth tool, but it does not guarantee security by itself.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-04-22 08:55:07+00:00
This is well studied so it is you that is confidently wrong.

The government funded research and market incentives preceded the mass manufacture.

> In terms of government policy, Trancik says, policies that stimulated market growth accounted for about 60 percent of the overall cost decline, so “that played an important part in reducing costs.” Policies stimulating market growth globally included measures such as renewable portfolio standards, feed-in tariffs, and a variety of subsidies. Government-funded research and development in various nations accounted for roughly 30 percent — although public R&D played a larger part in the earlier years, she says.

"Explaining the plummeting cost of solar power

Researchers uncover the factors that have caused photovoltaic module costs to drop by 99 percent."

https://news.mit.edu/2018/explaining-dropping-solar-cost-112...
by fc417fc802 | 2025-04-22 08:55:59+00:00
> sare capacity and the impact of (not) keeping it open is more about relative than absolute sizes

I don't think this is correct. At least btrfs works with slabs in the 1 GB range IIRC.

One of my current filesystmes is upwards of 20 TB. Reserving 5% of that would mean reserving 1 TB. I'll likely double it in the near future, at which point it would mean reserving 2 TB. At least for my use case those numbers are completely absurd.
by b112 | 2025-04-22 08:56:27+00:00
Not disputing this, but hanging around and waiting isn't the same as performing tasks for the same.

Again cats are harder to train than dogs, and that's with treat enticement too. Yet they will certainly make a face when given lesser food.

Also, keep an eye out for one crow watching for you to appear with treats. Once you do, he'll call the rest of the tribe.

I noticed a ypunger crow doing this. Unclear if it was assigned the task as a junior, or did so for street cred.

Adults were busy at this time of year showing juveniles how to find food and such.
by m4r1k | 2025-04-22 08:57:09+00:00
As a Synology user, I don’t just feel a huge letdown by such a short-sighted company but I’m compelled to boycott them. And it’s not about the money but the major lock-in and nonsense decisions. My DS1821+ is full, no more purchases from Synology, no further expansions, and no good publicity.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-04-22 08:57:16+00:00
I'm still of the opinion that a dial works best. Especially in modern homes (in Europe at least), there seems to be a school of thought that you should just leave your thermostat at the same temperature at all times - the theory being that warming up a cold house in the morning costs more energy than maintaining a stable temperature.

Anyway, my ideal setup would be to install 'smart' thermostat taps on every radiator in the house, either manually turn them down when you're not in the room or have them automatically detect activity or open windows and adjust accordingly. But each one has the authority to trigger the central boiler if needs be, instead of only the master thermostat in the living room.
by trod1234 | 2025-04-22 08:57:55+00:00
If this wasn't happening prior to an update, could it be related to the Secure Enclave/Coprocessor SEP operations?

Its not immediately clear to me if the Apple Studio Display, or your hardware includes the same co-processor that other Apple Silicon now have.

You've pretty much ruled out what you can do in software. Next steps would probably be voiding the warranty, finding the offending circuit branches or probing with a logic analyzer.

If you have an SDR handy, you might be able to get more information from RF emissions. I remember a fairly recent -thon talk where SDR was used as a side channel for debugging hardware/software. Not finding the talk now, but there was a tutorial on doing something like that here (below). The talk I saw used a Kraken SDR array with some customization to isolate signals to those emitted by the circuits being examined. Was pretty cool, really wish I could find it now.

https://www.rtl-sdr.com/video-tutorial-on-debugging-rf-emiss...

The juice might not be worth the squeeze.
by iriomote | 2025-04-22 08:58:48+00:00
I backed the Ugreen NAS on Kickstarter and I'm using it since. The Hardware is great, it is build like a tank. But the Software is not there after almost a year. No iSCSI support as of yet and snapshots work in some weird way. I can only access snapshots over the WebGUI and I am not able to get a simple list of available snapshots.

Shoutout to openmediavault. Just yesterday I installed it on my DXP8800 and now it works like a charm. But to install another OS you have to deactivate the watchdog timer in the BIOS, otherwise it resets the NAS every three minutes. Press CRTL + F12 to get into the BIOS and look for something like "watchdog" and disable it.