MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hobofan | 2025-06-30 11:11:03+00:00
For anyone looking to get into those storage systems I can also highly recommend "Hands on Katie"'s Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@handsonkatie - There are a few videos that go into different storage systems and how to combine them to cover different storage needs and vertical/horizontal surfaces.

Her Discord is also quite active with people interested in the space, and Underware (under the desk cable management system), Neogrid and Deskware are all storage systems that have came out of her community.
by bravesoul2 | 2025-06-30 11:11:04+00:00
At least there is this:

> For those who would like to continue receiving expiration notifications, we recommend using a third party service such as Red Sift Certificates Lite (formerly Hardenize). Red Sift’s monitoring service providing expiration emails is free of charge for up to 250 certificates. More monitoring options can be found here.
by rrampage | 2025-06-30 11:11:47+00:00
I've been building small programs in Zig, C and ARM64 assembly without relying on libc and only using Linux syscalls directly.

Some examples:

- A minimal C shell with built-ins like cd, pwd, type: https://gist.github.com/rrampage/5046b60ca2d040bcffb49ee38e8...

- Terminal Snake game which fits in a QR code using Linux syscalls for drawing: https://gist.github.com/rrampage/2a781662645dc2fcba45784eb58...

- HTTP server with sendfile support in ARM64 assembly: https://gist.github.com/rrampage/d31e75647a77badb3586ebae1e4...

I learned to handcraft a static ELF binary using just GNU assembler (no linker): https://gist.github.com/rrampage/74586d0a0a451f43b546b169d46... . Trying to see if I can craft a small assembler in ARM64
by Shobika_k | 2025-06-30 11:11:48+00:00
We have been working on optimizing performing web platforms that scale for businesses primarily engaged in eCommerce or custom web apps. One idea we have been exploring closely is greater emphasis on mobile-first UX and ERP/CRM backend integration for clients that want to have accelerated growth. At eGrove Systems, we are also refining our process around Core Web Vitals and modular development to increase delivery speed and optimization while maintaining flexibility. Would be delighted to connect with others if there are similar challenges.
by throw0101b | 2025-06-30 11:12:17+00:00
> (context: I used to be involved in the design of military radar systems for the Dutch navy) […] Most "stealth" aircraft are actually fairly visible from other directions.

Is that different than ships, which in recent years/decades have tended to look a certain way (a 'finite' number of fixed angles):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knud_Rasmussen-class_patrol_ve...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absalon-class_frigate

Do ships have to have a low return (?) at more angles?
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-06-30 11:12:27+00:00
The government expires your driver's license because they want to charge you for a renewal. You can tell that this is the only reason because it's the only thing they want in order to give you a new one. They do nothing to confirm that you still know how to drive.

But Let's Encrypt doesn't charge anything. All they want is to confirm that you still control the domain. So why doesn't "the DNS record they had you add to begin with is still there" satisfy that requirement and allow you to repeatedly renew the certificate until it stops being there?

Tie the DNS challenge to the public key in the certificate. Then as long as it hasn't changed you can update the certificate without giving the update process modify access to the DNS server.
by potato3732842 | 2025-06-30 11:13:23+00:00
It's not so much ground pressure as axle group loading.

You can think of roads as basically retaining walls as they're a hard compacted mass of stuff "floating" in otherwise fairly fluid ground. Sure, high point loads can damage the top surface (not really a problem since anything on tires is fairly low point load) but it's the overall weight you're asking it to bear that causes the pressure to just kinda mush the wall over.
by ben_w | 2025-06-30 11:13:23+00:00
Interesting idea.

People will of course endlessly debate if it is or isn't "really" self-aware, but this is certainly the most serious effort I've seen at putting any, let alone every, theory of consciousness into practice.

That said, the %-done isn't really knowable until (1) some theory of consciousness becomes testable, and (2) people stop mixing up the 40-or-so definitions of the word.
by daitangio | 2025-06-30 11:14:02+00:00
i am working on GenAI email-based service in my spare time. It is still in its infancy but let me explore LLama3 feature on Ollama. I plan to open source its core if no similar ideas are out of there.

My Misterio docker based tool is searching new feature request... https://github.com/daitangio/misterio/

Also, I am playing a bit with Zulip Chat, which I find quite well done and easy to self-host, considering its complexity: https://github.com/zulip/docker-zulip

Last but not least, I suggest a new Murderbook novel... https://amzn.to/3TMJdlh because there is not only coding!
by adev_ | 2025-06-30 11:15:08+00:00
> France has a separate high-speed train network, so speed differences between high-speed (TGV) and low-speed (freight, low class passenger

Yes 100% right. Japan has the same where the Shinkansen uses dedicated track. If I do not say a mistake, China does the same too.

The fact it never has been done in a modern country like Germany with a dense high speed train traffic like the ICE is clearly a sign of planning deficit from the authorities.
by linkshof | 2025-06-30 11:15:22+00:00
Sometimes you wish you had best of hn summarised somewhere but that 'best' may be different to different people based on their interests. I'm therefore collecting links I find important, from hn and beyond.

https://linkshof.com

Thinking about:

How will various Human Computer Interaction change as many of current apps (which are screen based UI with some background code) simply get replaced with chat/voice/gesture based requests to LLM
by barqawiz | 2025-06-30 11:16:00+00:00
This PyData tutorial walks through building multi-agent AI systems using directed acyclic graphs to orchestrate NLP, vision, recommendation models, and any model.

Key sections:

- When to use multi-agent systems (6:37) - IntelliNode framework demo (9:35) - Hands-on labs with nutrition assistant (19:42) - MCP integration patterns (34:30)
by Anonyneko | 2025-06-30 11:16:29+00:00
You can still remove DRM with Calibre and the PC Kindle app (not sure if it works for the latest versions of the Kindle app, but the older versions can still download books fine anyway).

That said, I've switched to Kobo a long time ago. It's easy to de-DRM, and under the encryption there's a bog standard EPUB with some minor Kobo-specific extensions - and no additional image compression, which is important for comics and manga. I have a Kobo reader too, but these EPUBs work everywhere and don't suffer from any AZW->whatever conversion issues.
by mrkramer | 2025-06-30 11:16:29+00:00
I'm not a reverse engineer or a white hacker but I like reading about it. Most of the malware is made for Windows OS because of the Windows' enormous market share.

Majority of information about Windows malware I get from big computer security companies' research blogs like:

https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research.html

https://www.proofpoint.com/us/blog

https://research.checkpoint.com/

https://blog.talosintelligence.com/

https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/

Microsoft also got good security research blog: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/

Majority of the research combes down to researching malware's capabilities regarding malware persistence, anti-VM techniques and anti-debugging techniques.

Here is for example good compilation of malware's anti-debugging and anti-VM techniques:

https://anti-debug.checkpoint.com/

https://github.com/CheckPointSW/Evasions
by gwd | 2025-06-30 11:16:42+00:00
I don't see that quip in that link? It seems to think that Mr. Elliot is the most dangerous of rakes, and I'm inclined to agree.

But there's an unexamined assumption in that piece that good characters should be rewarded and bad characters punished by the author. That's exactly the sort of thing that Austen hated. She wanted things to be things like real life, where adultery and cheating and lying and defying the law can bring you hundreds of millions of loyal followers and a second presidency.

Why was Henry not punished like Julia was? Because he owned land and she didn't. That's the beginning and end of it. It's unfair because society is unfair.

And it's not just men who get away with things. Lucy Steele lies and schemes and manipulates her way all the way through Sense and Sensibility, and is rewarded by being not only an heiress of a great fortune, but a favored daughter-in-law. The difference between Lucy and Julia aren't their morals -- Lucy is far less moral than Julia. She's just a lot smarter and more disciplined.
by sfn42 | 2025-06-30 11:17:15+00:00
That's because people don't get it. You see people saying things like "It's pointless to memorize these algorithms I'll never use" - you're not supposed to memorize the specific algorithms. You're supposed to study them and learn from them, understand what makes them faster than the others and then be able to apply that understanding to your own custom algorithms that you're writing every day.
Show HN: Brabus Recon Suite – Modular CLI Toolkit for Infra Recon
by easyprotech | 2025-06-30 11:17:29+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Brabus Recon Suite (BRS) — a CLI toolkit for infrastructure reconnaissance and security auditing.

It's Bash-based, modular, and works offline without external dependencies. No Node, no Python stack — just Nmap, Hydra, SQLMap, Nikto, and other real tools.

Multilingual, result-logged, and privacy-respecting. Designed for sysadmins, redteamers, and anyone tired of bloated scanners.

GitHub: https://github.com/EPTLLC/brs
by level09 | 2025-06-30 11:18:46+00:00
"Nosy Agent": A stateful life-optimization AI built on Anthropic’s API with a “Memory Trinity” (SQLite, ChromaDB, evolving brain files), time-aware context and secure CLI/Telegram interfaces; it proactively reminds you of projects, learns your energy rhythms and adapts its tone, dynamically evolves its memories and goals..
by intended | 2025-06-30 11:18:55+00:00
Well then it should dishearten you to know, that the 2024 Economics Nobel, was won by people who showed that good institutions cause nations to be wealthy, not just correlate.

You’re obviously educated and on HN, so you can appreciate how much harder showing causation is.

Sadly, that does mean, the citizens need to get together and make their system more trustworthy. Getting more money in the hands of workers will not result in a better overall system.

Or in simpler terms - Distrust in the government is the enemy, and all the factors that cause it, real and perceived. Corruption, weak information economies, weakened judiciaries, depleted citizen capacity to build consensus.

We need those systems to work.
by throw0101b | 2025-06-30 11:19:28+00:00
> https://github.com/jgaa/openvalify

I don't begrudge people writing a tool to learn, but it should be noted that this wheel has already been invented:

* https://github.com/matteocorti/check_ssl_cert

* https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Security/check...

* https://github.com/narbehaj/ssl-checker

* https://github.com/Matty9191/ssl-cert-check
by TFYS | 2025-06-30 11:19:33+00:00
The number was just an example. My point was that even if we provide a basic income that covers all basic needs, you'd still get a much better life by working. Housing, food and healthcare is already provided for everyone in many countries, even to people that refuse to work. The only difference between that an a basic income is some bureaucracy. Some people do choose to become NEET, but it's a very small minority, as that kind of life is not very satisfying in the long term.
by matthewowen | 2025-06-30 11:19:43+00:00
> netflix and co

Standard plan is £5.99 in UK, €7.99 in france, $7.99 in the US. So the US is the cheapest of those after currency conversion

> cinema

US median price in 2022: $10.53. In the UK, £7.69 == $10.54 (uncanny tbh)

> groceries

https://www.lovemoney.com/gallerylist/360768/what-a-basket-o... puts the US at $52.80, France at $51.08.

I'm genuinely struggling to understand where you are pulling these conclusions from because they don't fit the trivially searchable data, nor do they fit the anecdotal conclusions that I think most people would make from spending time in these places.

> Are interest rates favourable? There are multiple concerning trends (like car payments being one of the top household expenses and people struggling with that, people owing more on car loans than what the vehicle is worth, etc. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/15/american-consumers-are-incre... )

Yes, they're more favorable. The interest rates available to US consumers on auto purchases are lower than those available to UK consumers. And again, it's a case where your need to moralize is getting in the way of the topic: I'm saying that easier access to credit is a contributor to Americans spending more on cars. You are saying "oh, but Americans then struggle with auto loans". Yes! These are not conflicting statements. You seem to be attaching a value judgement that isn't there to the statement that "Americans are able to spend more on cars". It doesn't have to be a good thing, but that doesn't necessarily make it untrue.

> I'm not ranting, I'm correcting a wrong comparison using a wrong metric incorrectly. I don't know what is it with Americans reassuring themselves with GDP metrics, but it's very confusing why anyone would throw in GDP numbers when talking about disposable income and the car market.

You were the first person in this thread to bring up GDP per capita! The person you are replying to said "richer". You're the one interpreting this to be a GDP reference, but it doesn't need to be since it's also true with regards to disposable income.

I also don't understand why you think it's people "reassuring themselves". I don't need reassuring of anything on this topic, and I'm not sure why you think you know what beliefs I might hold about the relative merits of living in MS versus various European countries. I think it's a pretty basic ability to be able to decouple the question of "is the median american is willing and able to spend more money on a car than the median german?" from "which country has an overall higher standard of living?".
by potato3732842 | 2025-06-30 11:20:09+00:00
Cash for Clunkers was important not because of the volume of cars it took off the market but because price points are sticky.

Before C4C garbage cars that ran but probably needed something were "I want it gone, $500". After C4C the same vehicles sold at the C4C price and the price point has more or less stuck. It completely turned the beater car market upside down.
by rapnie | 2025-06-30 11:20:12+00:00
License texts formulated by Bradley Kuhn and Richard Fontana, both of whom were involved with GPLv3 Drafting Committees.

> "We learned much from what was done right and (frankly) what was done wrong in drafting GPLv3"

Read the full announcement at:

https://fedi.copyleft.org/@next/114769761806288554
by zelphirkalt | 2025-06-30 11:20:28+00:00
It is still very much WIP, and by that I mean, that any changes in model or "architecture" could still happen, but here you go: https://codeberg.org/ZelphirKaltstahl/web-app-vocabulary-tra...

Currently working on getting filtering working and it might require me to change the model again significantly.

And no worries about "credentials" in the repo. It is all just dummy data.

Currently one needs to employ the Django admin to add data to the database. I might add another way later. Or an ability to import JSON files or something.
by trainerxr50 | 2025-06-30 11:20:33+00:00
This is just not true.

There has never been as many ways to make money off being creative as individual as right now.

This board just loves to romanticize the past to an absurd degree and then conclude free money fixes everything.

It is basically every non-software discussion on here. The present sucks, the past was better, free money.
by mysterydip | 2025-06-30 11:20:54+00:00
Impressive if it works, but I wonder if there's an electricity grid that could support it?

Quick napkin math:

- The Hyundai Ioniq 6 gets 4.2mi/kWh (6.76km/kWh) [0]

- 3000km/6.76 = 443kWh

- 443 kWh in 5 mins = throughput of 2200 kWh, times however many charging stations at a refill stop. As EVs get more prevalent every charger at a station could be in use at the same time.

0 - https://insideevs.com/news/709706/electric-cars-energy-consu...
by lelanthran | 2025-06-30 11:21:34+00:00
> That isn't getting "deal" unless you plan to never liquidate... cars generally don't get used up like a can of soda, so the dent actually matters when you go to sell it.

Yes, but it mattered already when you bought it!

In other words, the dents were already priced in when you paid for it, so you paid less. They'll like be priced even lower when you sell it after 5 years of usage.
by hobofan | 2025-06-30 11:21:49+00:00
The example you bring up is for a single one-off extension. Yeah, for that case it doesn't make a lot of sense.

However, for initial setup of the system (e.g. filling up multiple drawers with baseplates and basic bins, as you will see in many videos online), it would definitely jump start the process a lot, where you'll otherwise spend weeks printing everything. Additionally, if you also go for the fancier baseplates/bins that include the magnets you'll also spend quite a bit of time on assembly and will require external hardware anyways.

I personally didn't think it was a big deal as for me adopting the system incrementally over time worked quite well, but I think there definitely is a niche of people (and possibly businesses) that would like to adopt Gridfinity for its other benefits and appreciate faster initial setup time.
by melicerte | 2025-06-30 11:22:24+00:00
A hackernews clone, using sqlite3, nestjs for the backend and svelte5/sveltekit/flowbyte svelte/tailwindcss for the frontend.

I must say it has been more challenging than what I though it would be, specially if you are looking to put it onto production. I'm doing it for fun though.

Nothing published yet, I'm not sure if it will ever be. What do you think ?
by incomingpain | 2025-06-30 11:23:22+00:00
Regulation is regularly increasing the cost of a car by demanding more. For example, if you demand all new cars have a rear-backup-camera, then you added a cost.

Govt is intentionally trying to cause at least 2% inflation. If you assume only 2% average over 50 years. A $25,000 car then is only about $9000 today; an untenable proposition. Lets be realistic, do you genuinely think no government in 50 years will exceed 2%?

The $25k car is extinct.
Ask HN: Where do you host your Go apps
by asim | 2025-06-30 11:23:31+00:00
Simple question. Where and how do you host your Go apps? I feel like either you have to run a VM or pay for the complexity of a Google cloud.

I'm sure some people will now say things like Fly or Railway but curious to know firsthand.

Personally I'm still using DigitalOcean, I git pull, compile from source and run the Go binary, occassionally with a shell script. It's fronted by nginx and certbot/letsencrypt. That's it. For some reason I wish this was some simple solution instead of the endless variety of hosting out there. I always worry about Fly, Railway or someone else going out of business. I find other tools really complicated, and dedicated app hosting too expensive. A VM plus some open source works well. But I guess when you offloading that hosting to someone else you start expecting all sorts of tools. Maybe if there was just a dedicated CLI based thing. Who knows.
by pjmlp | 2025-06-30 11:23:32+00:00
Side note that WebGL only doesn't have compute, because Google sabotaged the effort, asserting that WebGPU was right around the corner, so there was no need to adopt Intel's work into Chrome.

This was back in 2020,

https://github.com/9ballsyndrome/WebGL_Compute_shader/issues...

Thankfully we are all now writing easy, portable, WebGPU computer shaders, even ShaderToy supports them now. /s
by cornholio | 2025-06-30 11:23:52+00:00
> It is by the simple physics

Is this a personal theory, a hunch, or do you have data or citations?

> of having more distance to dissipate force over and less distance between the occupants and stuff in the cabin.

So what we need are bigger vehicles made out of lighter materials, to increase the distance and reduce the forces, perhaps some comically large Styrofoam bumpers protecting our bikes? Now, I can get behind that.

> safety is only a "nice to have"

Buyers are a diverse group, you know. There is a substantial segment that rates safety as a the top priority, and there is very little doubt the SUV mass race is strongly related to the "perception of safety" larger vehicles provide, of course not to the actual safety reality and externalities they incur to the rest of society.

Another substantial segment is driven by the "perception of masculinity" their large vehicles provides. You couldn't make up this level of lameness.
by rapnie | 2025-06-30 11:24:30+00:00
It is the copyleft-next project itself that has been restarted:

> We excitedly announce that the two of us (Richard and Bradley) have been in discussions [1] for a few months to restart, revitalize, and relaunch copyleft-next!

> Today, GPLv3 turns exactly 18 years old. This month, GPLv2 turned 34 years old. These are both great licenses and we love them. Nevertheless, at least once in a generation, FOSS needs a new approach to strong copyleft.

https://lists.copyleft.org/pipermail/next/2025q2/000000.html
by sfn42 | 2025-06-30 11:24:30+00:00
I completely disagree. If the program doesn't have "hotspots" then it's probably pretty fast and it's following Knuth's advice. But in my experience most applications are completely littered with "hotspots" - endpoints taking 5+ seconds to respond, reports taking minutes or hours to generate, stuff like that. I've never worked on an application where I didn't quickly find multiple easily avoidable hotspots. The average developer, at least in my area of the world, just really doesn't understand how to write performant code at all. They write algorithms with terrible time and/or space complexity, they write inefficient database queries, design their database schemas in ways that don't even allow efficient queries etc.

Then they add caching to compensate for their crappy system design and stuff like that, bloating the system with lots of unnecessary code. They store the data naively then spend significant processing time preparing the data for delivery rather than just storing the data in an ideal format in the first place. Lots of stuff like that.
by vel0city | 2025-06-30 11:24:48+00:00
I don't live in California, taxes are less. There is no risk from a job loss, I could pay it off tomorrow. You're also only looking at one year of a several year loan.

Sure, more expensive buying a new car. But I was going to get a new car anyways, the question is loan or no loan.

I don't care too much about depreciation. It'll probably be in my garage for a decade or more so that's just paper losses today, and once again I was going to buy new anyways.
by jdietrich | 2025-06-30 11:25:03+00:00
Here in the UK, the price of the base-spec Dacia Sandero (and comparable cars like the Kia Picanto and Hyundai i10) has more than doubled in six years. The C1, 108 and Up! have been discontinued, as have a raft of other cheap small cars.

That's partly explained by inflation, but also by the massive amounts of extra safety equipment mandated by the General Safety Regulation. The bill of materials for cheap cars has increased by thousands of euros, because they're legally required to have cameras and radar.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2014_2019/plmrep/COM...