MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kolp | 2025-06-04 09:01:38+00:00
These Cloudflare WAF rules (not my creation) should help mitigate some of the threat by blocking TOR traffic, blocking bots and blocking datacenter IPs (eg bots running on a VPS). The rules are granular so you can tweak them when you start to identify the traffic sources of the bad actors.

You'll probably need to block entire ASNs. I assume most of your legitimate customers aren't using VPNs or eg DigitalOcean droplets to access your site.

https://webagencyhero.com/cloudflare-waf-rules-v3/

In addition, you should start looking for alternatives to PayPal in case they decide to drop you.
by myrmidon | 2025-06-04 09:03:30+00:00
Yes, but even 90% is completely insufficient for a datacenter, and you would have to substitute power for days or weeks (during refueling/maintenance), which makes backup systems unsuitable for the task.

Taking this approach would also basically lock your datacenter power use to the exact output power of the reactor, preventing you from scaling either side of the setup freely.

I think looking at moves like this from a power perspective is wrong, and I strongly believe that this is just minimum effort hedging against increasing CO2 costs (both monetary and reputational), i.e. greenwashing.
by magic_hamster | 2025-06-04 09:03:33+00:00
I'm just a little surprised when I see a post like this, not because of the change in career and possibly lifestyle, but because I would never imagine to post stuff like this online.

Even if I were in an incredibly visible position, I just can't imagine who out there would care that I'm leaving to have fun in my hobby farm. This sounds like something I'll share with a friend over a beer. Publicly, I'll just post about leaving.

I do wish the author best of luck and well regards.
by herbst | 2025-06-04 09:04:49+00:00
Personally I've had way less issues with stripe, especially in terms of fraud detection.

Also not sure what and where business is but in Europe it's common to just use a proxy provider where credit card is just one of many options and you use a central gateway (similar to stripe)

You'd have to check your local options. At least one of my local banks offers something more advanced than PayPal. And there are several of these proxy providers in my country.

Edit:// if you just want low fee, fast and risk free transactions we all know there is only crypto
by ljm | 2025-06-04 09:05:50+00:00
> lack of vision and direction.

I've seen this play out more than once during my career and startups with otherwise great concepts end up treading water because the founding team or leadership fails to execute.

Being a charismatic sales person might work wonders in terms of attracting funding and talent but it's not enough if you lack the capability to follow through with it. I'd wager that lots of the latest batch of startups that want do-it-all 'product engineers' will collapse for the exact same reason: delegating vision.
by bhattisatish | 2025-06-04 09:07:15+00:00
[eBird](https://ebird.org/home) has exactly what you are looking for:

- https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ebird-by-cornell-lab-ornitho...

- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=edu.cornell.bi...

Even merlin does some of it:

https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/download/
by Zoethink | 2025-06-04 09:08:40+00:00
I genuinely feel like we’re living through another big shift — like what smartphones did in the 2000s, AI is doing now.

I’m not a developer, but I can already feel how the way I use the internet is changing. I used to search for things, now I just ask — and the AI replies like a person. It’s subtle, but powerful.

I really think in a few years, most of us will have some kind of personal AI. Not just a tool, but more like a life companion — helping us plan, decide, learn, even reflect. Kind of like how we can’t imagine life without Google now.
by bestouff | 2025-06-04 09:10:17+00:00
You are not "car people". You are "ICE people".

I understand the joy of an ICE (the noise, the vibrations) but for driving I now purely prefer EVs. I live in the mountains, and always having the maximum power available whatever the speed is soo much fun in the winding roads. Now I find ICEs underperforming and boring.
by cookiengineer | 2025-06-04 09:10:27+00:00
> Something that's mostly aluminium, glass, silicon and silver can't be recycled?

There's no point in engaging him, he already is moving the goalpost of the discussion however it fits for his opinion.

I mean, we're talking about solar panels that are made of standard materials vs. uranium-enriched fuel rods that have to be stored at least a 100 years in salt mines in the middle of nowhere, without any possibility to recycle them anyhow. Let alone leaving what happens with those power plants after they've been shut down.
by nehal3m | 2025-06-04 09:10:44+00:00
I’m always tempted by the idea. I like the focus on attention span, compartmentalizing functionality (a phone is just a phone, not a notebook, camera, movie theater and encyclopedia) and less tracking by third parties. The thing is modern smartphones are just so damn useful. I find it hard to swallow that I’d have to let go of all that usefulness because it’s detrimental in some respects. Setting it up such that it works only in your favor is relatively simple (grey scale, notifications off, insert strategy here) but then keeping it that way and preventing feature creep back to square one is hard. It requires constant vigilance. It feels like the ol’ “adversarially wrestling usefulness out of a trillion dollar company”.
Show HN: Velatir - Human Decision Layer for AI Agents. Compliance made easy.
by michaelsorensen | 2025-06-04 09:12:09+00:00
Co-Founder of Velatir, Michael here.

We built Velatir to make it easy to add human-in-the-loop (HITL) decision points inside AI workflows and agents and help companies adopting AI workflows remain compliant.

Velatir lets you pause the flow, route the decision to a human through your preferred channel (email, sms, slack, teams), and then resume automation instantly. Everything is quick, seemless, logged, customizable and with a pricing model.

We're currently working with teams in high-stakes environments (manufacturing and finance) where a bad decision can be costly and where compliance (e.g. EU AI Act, NIS2) accountability, logging and human oversight.

Happy to answer questions or share more, we’d love your feedback.

Web: https://www.Velatir.com Doc: https://www.velatir.com/docs/introduction pypi: https://www.pypi.org/project/velatir/ Q3 Roadmap: https://www.velatir.com/blog/velatir-s-q3-roadmap-what-we-re...
by mytailorisrich | 2025-06-04 09:12:33+00:00
If Reform is far right then Corbyn's Labour was definitely far left. Certainly it is completely incorrect to label Farage "far right", he is nothing of the sort. Overall the most accurate description for Reform is probably right-wing populism.

You can't simply put a label "far right" on anything and everything on the right while, at the same time, claiming that everything on the left is only "mild social democracy" when similar left-wing populism exists if not, indeed, far left.
by csomar | 2025-06-04 09:12:42+00:00
> Do I program any faster? Not really.

This really got my attention. I use Claude heavily and although I am sure it is saving me considerable time, I feel like my "delivery" speed is roughly the same. I think the realization that will come from this is that writing code is not that consuming after all; unless you are doing cryptography or math.

Most of your time is spent testing, deploying, figuring out some weird bug, writing docs somewhere, signing up to some service, etc...
by ale42 | 2025-06-04 09:13:40+00:00
Well, maybe that also needs to change. Try to check how much time you need to spend to solve something with chatting, vs. how much it takes with a phone call. In many cases the call is 10 times quicker, and it's a more natural interaction. Sure, chats have their uses cases too and are a great function to have in addition to calling, but the fact that people now tend to use chats for just everything IMHO needs to be reconsidered.
by tlb | 2025-06-04 09:14:16+00:00
The most general and unambiguous way to represent a diff is to just include the contents of the two files. It's more data, but that's rarely an issue these days.

So instead of `diff a b | patch c`, where the data through the pipe needs to be in some interchange format, you'd run `apply a b c` and the apply command can use whatever internal representation it likes.

Diffs also aren't great for human reading. A color-coded side-by-side view is better. For which you also want to start with the two files.

There's really no need to ever transmit a diff and deal with all the format vagaries when you can just send the two files.
by rollcat | 2025-06-04 09:14:29+00:00
Our dominant culture's "year zero" (aka the Common Era) is based on an estimated date of birth of a messiah of the currently-dominating religion. That calendar has also seen a major revision in October 1582.

Long before and after that religion became dominant, many people have used different calendar systems - and many still do. Rome was founded in 753 BCE, and the Western Roman Empire fell around 476 CE. That's over 1200 years.

It's more likely that another "year zero" event will happen in less than 8000 years. If the history survives that, we will probably just call the current era "Gregorian" or so.
by mronetwo | 2025-06-04 09:14:37+00:00
I get being optimistic but there’s a lot of ethical considerations that we’re choosing to ignore. The result is techno feudalism.

Sure AI can help me with small things but it’s weird to be the guy preaching the gospel. In the end this is a product, sold by people who have more power than a single person ever had. They can do the marketing and hype, my interest lies in staying skeptical, especially in the incoming storm of AI generated misinformation or wave of students getting through university by cheating with AI.
by hildolfr | 2025-06-04 09:14:37+00:00
It's one of my favorite short stories, but it gets 'squicky' pretty fast given that one of the first sexual encounters explored in the new system is about getting finger banged by an animated skeleton during a torture-fuck session..

To be honest I think the sex adds almost nothing to the story except detail and world embellishment--one could skip the scenes entirely and not miss much.
by dgb23 | 2025-06-04 09:16:00+00:00
First off all, I appreciate your comment. Yes, it‘s fucking amazing. (I usually imagine it being „light“ and not „sand“ though. „Sand“ is much more poignant!)

But I think people aren‘t arguing about how amazing it is, but about specific applicability. There‘s also a lot of toxic hype and FUD going around, which can be tiring and frustrating.
by archagon | 2025-06-04 09:17:01+00:00
> Key to the far-right worldview is the notion of societal purity, often invoking ideas of a homogeneous "national" or "ethnic" community. This view generally promotes organicism, which perceives society as a unified, natural entity under threat from diversity or modern pluralism. Far-right movements frequently target perceived threats to their idealized community, whether ethnic, religious, or cultural, leading to anti-immigrant sentiments, welfare chauvinism, and, in extreme cases, political violence or oppression.

I don’t know, that sounds pretty spot on for the current global wave of right-wing populism, including Reform.
by Frieren | 2025-06-04 09:17:22+00:00
While writing code I think about what I am doing, improvements, etc. To write easy boilerplate code helps me to find improvements or even realize that there is some risk I overlooked. It is a zen state that helps with the deep thinking part.

Not writing code forces me to read and reread the code to get the same realization. That is why it is harder to work with code written by other people.

In the age of AI all code is code written by someone else that I have to maintain, it looks like a nightmare.
by myrmidon | 2025-06-04 09:17:32+00:00
I call this greenwashing because Meta throws minor amounts of money at an existing plant, then basically claims all the credit for all the CO2-less electricity that is produced there.

This is IMO just a CO2 accounting trick, basically, and does not really achieve anything, because all that happens is that the average electricity user in that area gets a bit "dirtier" (on paper) while Meta becomes "zero emission" (on paper), meanwhile nothing actually changed.

Don't get me wrong, this is not harmful, but building new emission free power or replacing fossil plants is much more useful than paying some cash to basically shift blame around.

> For example, there is a data center being built in New Zealand that will be grid connected but the power will be supplied from a huge hydro dam

Sure-- but you still really want that grid connection, both to sell power when you have too much and also to buy power when the turbines are being maintained or water is running low. My point here is just that it almost never really makes sense to couple plant and datacenter directly and skip the grid connection.
by enricozb | 2025-06-04 09:18:07+00:00
Thanks! The main thing that I had difficulty with, which you can see from the typst source, is the rendering and spacing around inline math symbols. They are rendered as SVGs, which is fine but then copying them doesn't work. Their spacing is sometimes unpredictable so I'll add something like $thick x + y$ to pad on the left hand side. I'm not sure what parts of the math symbol contribute to the dimensions of the SVG and I'm sure it's rather complex, but other than that the experience has been solid.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-06-04 09:18:19+00:00
>some require a smartphone

Mandating the need of smartphone apps to access critical services and basic life necessities like payments, parking, refueling, charging your car, public transport tickets, etc should be banned under accessibility laws.

All this only benefits the service provider, not the consumer, since if the service is broken in some way (LTE/internet issue, payment processor issue, backend/cloud outage, etc) or has terrible UX, then the externalities and negative effects of that are all on the customer to deal with. Because what else are you gonna do on the spot? Not charge your car? Leave it in the middle of the road? Not board the bus to get to work? The problem they caused becomes your problem to deal with even though you have the money to pay but no easy way to do it because of their crap.

Governments need to hold service prodivers accountable for the misery they cause and have them offer payment solutions and alternatives to smartphone apps for such critical services.
Ask HN: What are the pros/cons of a startup listing on Cloud Marketplace?
by serbancon | 2025-06-04 09:18:35+00:00
We are a small startup having a very fancy cloud-based solution. We are engaging directly with key customers but also looking into Google Cloud Marketplace and AWS Marketplace.

What are the pros/cons of listing on the Marketplace vs a direct sales motion?

(I think I have a good understanding of the general principles and I am more interested in war or success stories.)

Thanks
by herbst | 2025-06-04 09:19:33+00:00
For me chatting and not calling is about distraction. Very few people are allowed to distract me on their own terms. Sounds weird but I got used to it after a burnout and plenty of travelling.

The thing is that a call disrupts me whatever I am doing while on a chat I can answer whenever I have time physically and mentally. Usually the next time I run by my phone.

I would not want to go back
by al_borland | 2025-06-04 09:19:51+00:00
From what I’ve read fasting is more of an intervention for metabolic issues, helping to reduce insulin levels more dramatically. The study you linked to seems to support this.

> However, FBS improved insulin sensitivity, with significant reductions in fasting insulin

The issue, and why I think we’ve seen several high profile fasting advocates stop, is because they weren’t metabolically unhealthy, but were on extreme fasting protocols as if they were.

The way I read it, if you’re significantly overweight and have high insulin levels (type 2 diabetes or pre-diabetes), fasting can help get things under control quickly. However, once a person has regained metabolic flexibility and health, moving to something more balanced is likely a good idea. Just avoiding going back to a lifestyle that leads to chronically high insulin levels. Some amount of fasting probably makes sense, as has been practiced by most major religions in some form for thousands of years, but not to the same extreme as during the intervention.
by lrvick | 2025-06-04 09:19:55+00:00
Everyone says their bank or doctor, or favorite restaurant, or whatever requires an app. It is basically NEVER true. You just have to insist you do not own a compatible device and do not want one as you do not wish to accept the terms of service of Google or Apple, and/or say it is against your undisclosed religion. Works every time. Even at theme parks like Disney that insist you need an app for the map or fast pass... a manager can always override that requirement and give you the magic edge case privileges.

Source: Not had a cell phone carrier or carried a phone in 5 years and never been restricted from doing anything I did previously, as a frequently traveling tech business owner.
by the_mitsuhiko | 2025-06-04 09:20:01+00:00
> Most of your time is spent testing, deploying

I became hyper attentive to iteration speeds as a result. This is not just something a human runs into, the agent runs into it even more because it loves to run tests etc. The quicker that goes, the more efficient the agent is. Obviously the same should be true for humans but because the agent doesn't make breaks quite like a human does, it becomes more noticeable.
by thibaultamartin | 2025-06-04 09:20:04+00:00
It's exactly that. And I also have come to the realization that I don't have to give up the convenience my smartphone offers. I only need to add friction for what causes distractions.

In particular, the Personal Time mode of iOS has been a game changer for me: https://ergaster.org/til/ask-smartphone-attention/
by jfritsch1984 | 2025-06-04 09:20:22+00:00
I‘ve got an iPhone and I use the focus mode and App Limits to great success. If I start Instagram during the day, for example, a gray screen appears and reminds me to think again. It works great against my reflexes. Also no push notifications from these apps.

Probably not for total addicts, but it got me back into focus mode for the last 6 months. I built 3 apps while working a main job.
by ARKhoshghalb | 2025-06-04 09:21:06+00:00
Hypothesis: if you define the basic bricks of your branding and UI design, an LLM can build (not code) the UI on the fly, based on the particular user request.

We are used to static layouts (you go to this page, then you can click on that button, ...). But seeing it from this POV feels like all apps are slow, and we are forced to learn how their operations work instead of them doing what we want.

Unfortunately, Vercel has widely tied the term "Generative UI" with "coding agents focused on frontend". But this Medium post explains it many times better than I could: https://medium.com/user-experience-design-1/an-introduction-...

I've started building an MVP for just one app, and it hasn't disappointed so far. It doesn't replace the entire app, but it does replace the main graphical parts the user interacts with. I've put a couple of mockups on the website linked above.

I'm planning to make it a generic framework for any app to be generative. Looking for thoughts, comments, ideas, or interest in trying it out as an early user (you will need some coding skills, it's not fully no-code).
by huksley | 2025-06-04 09:21:45+00:00
Social media apps can have notifications turned off, so you check them when you voluntarily go and open them.

Unfortunately for email the problem still persists, tons of newsletters and updates and other not so important emails and really urgent ones get drowned in that.

What I typically do is I snooze everything for 2 hours and have a productive session without interruption.
by Fredkin | 2025-06-04 09:21:48+00:00
I've never had a smart phone and all my work is in front of computers. I was a bit worried during COVID lockdowns that I'd be forced to get one, but didn't have to in the end. Occasionally it can be annoying in other ways for example:

1) you buy a piece of hardware (printer, cctv cameras etc.) that can only be set up with a phone or you have to work harder to find the web interface.

2) Banks - banks really suck.

3) Companies I work for who use VPNs where you need a SMS or authenticator, however this is usually easy to get around with a web authenticator and some companies have let me use a YubiKey instead which is actually much less hassle.

4) Car parking meters where they discriminate - I tend to avoid these ones.

5) QR code restaurant menus - hate these but usually can get around it by just asking somebody for a paper menu.

6) Phasing out of 3G causing low reception - this is annoying because there are fewer good dumbphones that have 4G modems. Also I hate Android and Android based phones which come with facebook app and social media stuff installed so I'm a bit more limited in options. However, I managed to get an Alcatel flip phone which has 4G and it's a bit buggy but reception is now good.

I'm surprised that I'm able to get by, given the enormous pressure everyone is put under to use a smart phone, but it gives me hope that it hasn't worked and you can still get by in society without them. It would be pretty terrible if everyone HAD to agree to a google or Apple EULA just to be a functioning citizen.
by Meekro | 2025-06-04 09:23:05+00:00
It sounds like an offhand comment that we shouldn’t read much into.

Bitcoin’s creator demonstrated an impressive mastery of cryptography—- it was made to be extremely resilient (including to quantum computing) and no one has ever broken it despite billions of dollars being on the line. Maybe Musk meant to say that he thinks his product will be similarly resilient.

He might also mean that the secp256k1 elliptic curve (which Bitcoin uses) is also used by their product in some way, such as for a key exchange.

You can read anything with the assumption that the writer is an absolute idiot, but I’d give the world’s richest man more credit than that.
by ljm | 2025-06-04 09:23:13+00:00
> We received a €100K donation. Which was amazing, but we decided to give it all to the community so they can continue developing their projects. Not to sustain the organisation itself.

It seems a lot of the problems they described are self-inflicted and go a step beyond simple mistakes or errors in judgment.

To be honest, I think the request for extra support would be more sincere if the leadership involved in those situations also stepped down and, instead of promising a 'version 5', looked at solving the problems in the org itself.

The due diligence just doesn't check out and there is zero indication that the organisation has learned from these problems and not merely acknowledged them. How would you know it's not a scam?
by go_elmo | 2025-06-04 09:23:16+00:00
Its like trying to ban cars to stay with horse cariages. The wheels of time wont be turned back. Imo the issue is not Smartphones but addicting UX patterns implemented - those should be banned. Its possible to make Smartphone usage non addictive - add friction to "candy" eg uninstall social media apps (use web only) use a quiet launcher (no app icons), remove all notifications except emergency ones etc.