MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mattigames | 2025-06-27 08:15:55+00:00
> proportionality threshold for copyright to matter.

This is the part I have a problem with, that threshold was put there for humans based on their capabilities, it's an extremely dishonest assessment that the same threshold must apply for a LLM and it's outputs, those works were created to be read by humans not a for-profit statistical inference machine, the derivative nature were also expected to be caused by the former no the later, so the judge should have admitted that the context of the law is insufficient and that copyright must include the power of forbidding the usage of one's work into such model for copyright to continue fulfilling it's intended purpose (or move the case to the supreme court I guess)
by isoprophlex | 2025-06-27 08:19:06+00:00
Thanks for writing this. The youngest is 1.5 years old, and going from two in the same age range to three (where the youngest throws you back into diaper world) has been pretty intense.

The oldest go to bed later and later & I also like to hang out with my wife for a few hours each week... finding the energy and motivation for "me time" has been tough indeed. I should just do something I like, and stick with that on a regular schedule. It's as simple as what you write.
by weinzierl | 2025-06-27 08:19:30+00:00
I worked in aerospace for a couple of years in the beginning of my career. While my area of expertise was the mechanical design I shared my office with the guy who did the thermal design and I learned two things:

1. Satellites are mostly run at room temperature. It doesn't have to be that way but it simplifies a lot of things.

2. Every satellite is a delicately balanced system where heat generation and actively radiating surfaces need to be in harmony during the whole mission.

Preventing the vehicle from getting too hot is usually a much bigger problem than preventing it from getting too cold. This might be surprising because laypeople usually associate space with cold. In reality you can always heat if you have energy but cooling is hard if all you have is radiation and you are operating at a fixed and relatively low temperature level.

The bottom line is that running a datacenter in space makes not much sense from a thermal standpoint and there must be other compelling reasons for a decision to do so.
by JimDabell | 2025-06-27 08:19:47+00:00
I used XSLT as a build system for websites way back in 1999–2000. The developer ergonomics were terrible. Looking at the example given, it doesn’t seem like anything much has changed.

Has there been any progress on making this into something developers would actually like to use? As far as I can tell, it’s only ever used in situations where it’s a last resort, such as making Atom/RSS feeds viewable in browsers that don’t support them.
by mike_hearn | 2025-06-27 08:19:52+00:00
Fil-C has advanced a lot since I last looked at it:

> Fil-C is currently 1.5x slower than normal C in good cases, and about 4x slower in the worst cases.

with room for optimization still. Compatibility has improved massively too, due to big changes to how it works. The early versions were kind of toys, but if Filip's claims about the current version hold up then this is starting to look like a very useful bit of kit. And he has the kind of background that means we should take this seriously. There's a LOT of use cases for taking stuff written in C and eliminating memory safety issues for only a 50% slowdown.
by mbirth | 2025-06-27 08:20:36+00:00
This, I remember a time where each and every bank in Germany supported HBCI - the Home Banking Computer Interface. Later renamed to FinTS.

There were several generic apps that allowed you to add any of your banks and pull transactions, setup transfers, and all other basic things you can do with a bank account.

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

Then, banks discovered that they can lock their customers in an own app where they don’t hear about other banks. And also, where their developers don’t need to read and understand (and implement) the HBCI/FinTS standard.
by noirscape | 2025-06-27 08:21:05+00:00
Most smaller companies aren't in the markets this legislation is written for anyway. This primarily places demands on four types of software/digital products (not a lawyer):

* Banks

* Webshops

* Operating Systems

* Software designed for Communication

The rest is all hardware devices (ATMs n such), public government services (the public transport schedule), relates to TV or isn't software in the first place (ebooks).

Banks and OSes are markets with only a few players and none of them are small. It'll be interesting to see if this on a technical level will demand changes for Wayland, afaik it's story on accessibility is pretty shit still.

Webshops overwhelmingly either use larger third parties as intermediaries (ie. Etsy) or stuff like woocommerce, an off the shelf solution developed by Automattic (who will obviously have to accommodate by updating woocommerce, which they probably will since iirc they offer a commercial solution for woocommerce themselves).

And communication software really is the big one, but most people aren't making new ones of those either. That's gonna be a pain for Slack/Salesforce, Meta, Reddit and so on, but they'll have legal pressure to comply (which opens up a lot more room to accelerate and give money to that sort of thing). If you start out in this market in particular, it'll probably be easy to comply with this regulation "from the ground up", just like how it's pretty easy to not build a data slurper from scratch after the GDPR got passed into law.

The thing they all have in common is that there's relatively few actual competing products.
by digitalions | 2025-06-27 08:21:25+00:00
Hello again, everyone. This is the author of the app. To be honest, I did not expect such a strong reaction. Thank you all for the feedback. I would like to clarify a couple of things.

Yes, I have ADHD. I'm making this site primarily to help me and my friends.

Yes, there's a paid subscription. By the way, it's the cheapest of all these apps. Well, and it's a fremium model. Most of the functions can be used even without registration. And no, I'm not trying to make money off of ADHD people for nothing. I really want to help.

Yes I use AI generated images for blog posts. They were agreed with the authors of the posts as reflective. I didn't realize that a lot of people didn't like it so much.

No I didn't use AI to mindlessly come up with self-help techniques. I've been collecting them for years of my life. I looked them up in magazines and so on. It's evidence-based. I'll add a page of proof.

Yes I absolutely need to better the UI as well as add a dark theme. I've already found a designer I know.

Yes the app is already being used by ADHD and it's already helping.

So thank you all very much.
Show HN: 10x Kubernetes Cluster on Hetzner Cloud
by jceb81 | 2025-06-27 08:23:08+00:00
I created this terraform/tofu module that provisions a k8s/k3s cluster on Hetzner's cloud. If you compare the price to popular hyperscalers you get 10x the value for your buck.

Quick overview of the most important features: - hosts are managed in node pools, like you'd do on AKS, etc - the cluster configuration has been hardened according to k3s hardening guide (https://docs.k3s.io/security/hardening-guide) - the cluster is private by default and can not be accessed from the internet - you decide what to expose - nodes are auto-installing security updates - Kubernetes updates are managed from within the cluster via upgrade plans - an Ansible inventory is generated so commands can be easily invoked on all systems / selected node pools simultaneously - just the bare minimum of charts (hcloud-ccm, hcloud-csi, cilium and system-upgrade-controller) is installed so you can select what is deployed as ingress controller, gitops solution, etc - extensive documentation is provided to configure, maintain and troubleshoot the cluster

Would love to hear your feedback. A number of organizations are already using the module in production.
by strogonoff | 2025-06-27 08:23:46+00:00
Immediate mode GUIs are cool but it seems that accessibility support is somewhat lacking. In native frameworks you often get it for free, on the Web you can follow ARIA and get it for free, but with immediate mode GUIs it seems that it is always a bit of an afterthought. For example, it seems that egui supports AccessKit, but not when used on the Web. With Dear ImGui it seems worse, there is some effort in that direction but tickets about accessibility are open (this is based on a quick scan, I may be wrong).

I guess it makes sense since immediate mode focuses on speed and applications like games, but if only there was best of both worlds.
by muzani | 2025-06-27 08:24:15+00:00
Sadly, OP, your reply was killed by the sockpuppet algorithm, so I'll respond here.

"...LLMs are good if you tell them the specifics (about the tone / context). Is it what you meant?"

They're inconsistent. I believe they were better 3 years ago. Today, they seem to be combining multiple sources and sometimes picking the wrong one. They are better at responding but translation took a slight decline.

You do need to give specific instructions on how to respond. Some of the cheaper ones seem to ignore instructions... GPT, Claude, Gemini, all three make this mistake.

I also mean there's a lot of room for improved quality and nobody is tackling that either.

"And any idea why people still use GT/DeepL? Is it the speed and cost? Risk of hallucinations? Or some features LLMs miss?"

I guess for the reasons people use Wikipedia. GT is verified by humans, including some experts. DeepL appears to be an AI and it does some languages well. It's a safe choice and popular brand.
by Sesse__ | 2025-06-27 08:25:05+00:00
Not really; ISC dhcpd supported DHCPv6 just fine.

Kea's new thing is scaling up for very large/complex installations (multithreading, database backends, a fair amount of plugins for specialized use cases). Which almost nobody really needs to do, so it's a shame ISC dhcpd was discontinued before Kea was at full feature parity.
by volted | 2025-06-27 08:26:01+00:00
Thank you for this feedback! I pushed an update to prss.co to prevent a new page from displaying when direct download is chosen.

Regarding the static_themes missing, you are correct.. I will submit a new store build for this one! Hopefully folks are not having issues that prevent them from loading the app, and not consistently.

On the topic of window state, the goal of dismissing the app to "Tray" is to lessen the perf hit of startup cycles, for example when the configuration is fetched (which contains the theme list, bought addons and so on) and to support the Autoblogger addon (which, when enabled by the user, can be configured to create posts at a schedule). I do send an OS notification right away (something to the effect of "PRSS is still running in Tray"), but I agree that the UX is not perfect yet. Based on your feedback I will explore better ways to support these scenarios. Thank you!

By the way, as you keep exploring the app. Please do continue to send your feedback on here or the email attached in my profile page. Feedback like yours is really appreciated, I generally get very vague feedback in Feedback forms. Thanks again.
by visarga | 2025-06-27 08:26:16+00:00
That has nothing to do with promoting progress and creativity, and all to do with privacy. Remember that photographs of people already have copyright protection. Why did they lump a privacy law into copyright? It's already dysfunctional as it is.

We moved past content scarcity decades ago and we are squarely in the attention scarcity regime. We use copyright against itself to have open source. We prefer interactivity and collaboration, as in open source, social networks or online games. Copyright stands in the path of collaboration and interaction.

Will companies now need to license "the likeness" of people too? Will "likeness" be property to be sold or rented?

- either the famous person cannot use their look if a lookalike refuses to agree

- or they have to pay all lookalikes to use their own image

- or the lookalikes get less protection under this law

- a person might lose their look-rights if they change their appearance to look like someone else

- someone who wants to go into acting might not get hired if they look too much like a famous actor
by reconnecting | 2025-06-27 08:27:09+00:00
Thank you so much for sharing this! This is absolutely exactly how it feels.

I believe the most important point here is the internal business politics that allows such an approach in development. Once I was curious and tried to find out how private banks' front ends look, and I was surprised to learn that they used minimal frameworks (sometimes none) and obviously zero external resources.

One thing is clear: if the business structure allows 10MB for a login page, this is not only about the front-end, this could be about all services and could spread much wider.

BTW, the bank that we use (with the 10MB login page) totally sucks in every aspect of business relations as well.
by westpfelia | 2025-06-27 08:27:16+00:00
Backblaze is a perfect example of parts failing.

https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/resources/hard-drive...

Yes it was ONLY 1,000 out of 300,000. But that is only harddrives not other hardware failures/replacement. But it goes to show that things do fail. And the cost of replacement in space is drastically more expensive. The idea of a DC in space as it stands is a nothing burger.
by simoncion | 2025-06-27 08:28:07+00:00
> You have to explain to me how it couldn't have been the window system giving me the uplift in video playback in the browser...

My instance of Firefox has been configured to use only software rendering. This YouTube video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO01J-M3g0U> runs fine in both Firefox and mpv. This YouTube video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjoplqS1u18> drops many frames when played at 8K in Firefox (making it choppy and sluggish), but zero when played at 8K in mpv.

There are a great many variables in play when playing something through a web browser. That's why I suggested you re-run the test without the web browser.

Speaking of "a great many variables"...

> The machine went to sluggish and painful to use, to being reasonably decent.

Then something seems to be wrong with your Xorg config. Whether it's the drivers, the configuration of the system, or both, I don't have enough information to know. Are you running Xorg on an ARM Apple machine? That's apparently known to work very, very poorly because Apple's graphics hardware is "special". Are you running an un-accelerated Xorg video driver (like the VESA or fbdev drivers) or are perhaps using the nouveau driver on Nvidia hardware? The former would certainly be very slow. The latter is known to work fine for some folks and work really, really poorly for others.

> I don't appreciate your snark.

It's not snark. It's an earnest request to reduce the number of moving parts to make troubleshooting easier. And (as we've discovered from further testimony) the web browser wasn't even involved in the slowness... the problem is a misconfiguration of your Xorg install. We would have discovered this if you'd run the requested test, but incidental self-report works just as well.
Show HN: Zeptaframe – Open-source click-and-drag precision for AI video gen
by Pablerdo | 2025-06-27 08:28:11+00:00
I built Zeptaframe to solve a major issue with AI video generation: the lack of precision with prompting video models.

Why it matters:

Controllability is one of the main constraints in the adoption of AI video for serious tasks. Thus, precise prompting interfaces must be explored.

Zeptaframe implements an image canvas with automatic segmentation using in-browser SAMv2, and a click and drag interface. This allows the user to precisely define the motion of any object, human, as well as camera motion to the video diffusion process.

The back-end pipeline implements the Go-with-the-Flow paper (Oral Presentation at CVPR 2025) where I was invited to demo it (I built this for a college project).

I still have some funds from the conference, so you can have 2 free generations with the CVPR2025 code. You will NOT get a confirmation email.

The demos in the Github repo show how to use the platform. Here is my favorite one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHrVIavRmkk

Here is the link to the live site: https://zeptaframe.com/

Excited to see what HN thinks!
by red_admiral | 2025-06-27 08:28:14+00:00
Brett has said in his past reviews of the battles of Minas Tirith and Helm's Deep that the important part of a film is that it works _on screen_. So he points out differences between the book and the film, but says this is not meant to be criticism of the film. Except the bit where they get the logistics wrong.

He absolutely tore into Rings of Power, but that only makes me like him more.

He does get a bit worked up, understandably, when the Romans attack with an M777 howitzer firing napalm shells. Rome wiped everything that stood in their way for a long while, but not like that.
by tialaramex | 2025-06-27 08:28:44+00:00
> It should be blindingly obvious that /performance/ is table stakes.

Nah, there's a famous WG21 (the C++ committee) paper named "ABI: Now or Never" which lays out just some of the ever growing performance cost of choices the committee has made to preserve ABI and explains that if this cost is to be considered a price paid for something the committee needs to pick "Never" and if they instead want to stop paying the price they need to pick "Now" and, if as the author suspects, they don't actually care, they should pick neither and C++ should be considered obsolete.

The committee, of course, picked neither, and lots of people who were there have since defended this claiming that this was a false dilemma - they were actually cleverly picking "Later" which that author didn't offer. Each time they've repeated this more time has passed yet they're still no closer to this "Later" ...
by less_less | 2025-06-27 08:30:00+00:00
The data-dependent prefetcher is a cool feature, though you do have to be careful with side-channel issues, so some of them can disable it with the Data-Independent Timing bit or similar.

At this point I'm kinda expecting CPU vendors to stop putting as many Spectre mitigations in the main core, and just have a small crypto core with full-fat arithmetic, less hardware for memory access, less speculation, and careful side-channel hardening. You still have to block Meltdown and other large vulnerabilities on the main cores, but if someone wants to protect elliptic curves from weird attacks? Try to set the DIT bit, trap into the OS, and get sent to the hardened core.
by reify | 2025-06-27 08:30:41+00:00
for me its the praise you recieve as children, from significant adults, teachers, parents etc, that set you up to follow through with your dreams.

people still manage to acheive their goals in life, but it does seem to be more difficult.

During my training as a psychotherapists, I reflected back on this exact same theme.

I had been a martial artist when I was a young man and wondered why I had only acheived a brown belt in both JKA and Aikido. I was very capable of a black belt in both.

I started looking at other areas of my life, like education and work.

I had been extremely intelligent as a child but did not go to school for the final year. So failed to take any school GCSE's.

Same thing, I had no drive to acheive anything higher than my socio-economic status allowed, pre-determined by societies expectations. how can a working class boy become part of academia and get a degree. its not easy.

I came from a very poor family, so poor in fact, I never had a coat and had holes in my shoes until I left home at a very young age of 16.

I went back to college at 36 years old. My therapist at the time supported and guided me through this period. To deal with this exact issue.

I had this overwhelming feeling of never being able to be late. So I arrived far too early for all appointments. I would arrive at least an hour early. The vacuum of unused time, waiting for an appointment, was a hell for me. it got so bad that I turned around and went home. This could be for a work interview or even a date. I missed out on so much of life.

The trick I learned, was to find something productive to fill in that vacuum, like go to a coffee shop and do the times cryptic crossword, while people watching. until the time of my appointment had arrived. such a simple application of filling in time.

Throughout my 6 years of study as an undergraduate, almost all of my peers experienced the dreaded final months of our degrees. Both as under graduates and post graduates. it never seemed to get easier. the stress, the doubt, the feelings of giving up, were a daily struggle.

Out of the 12 peers that underwent my last post graduate degree, all of us experienced this. yet we all went on to acheive our goals.

It is linked to the fear of success. but more in the realm of "not being good enough".

Society has great difficulty accepting "being good enough" as a valid way of being, its all a human being can aspire to, yet society wants us to be more and better.

is it no wonder that the youngsters of today are struggling with more depression, anxiety and other psychiatric issues, than in my younger years in the 60-70's.

They are set up to fail by constantly being fed that they are not good enough.
by inglor_cz | 2025-06-27 08:30:59+00:00
This looks so weird.

There is no creativity involved whatsoever. Plenty of people look similar enough that they share "copyrighted" features. Cartoons of prominent people = copyright infringement? (Europe has a long history of judgments and precedents that prominent people can be parodied etc., how will that square with a fancy copyright protection.) You can principially make money on your copyright, so if a twin "sells" their face rights and the other twin demands a share, then what?

Just make deepfakes a specific crime and do not mess with IP any further. It is already a mess.
by 6P58r3MXJSLi | 2025-06-27 08:31:43+00:00
> A healthy lifestyle improves outcomes pretty much regardless of genetics

to be able to afford a healthy life depends a lot on luck, much more than good DNA.

secondarily: modern western societies make it almost impossible for a large portion of the population to live such a lifestyle.

It's more probable than an African lives a healthy life style, even in poverty, than an American working 70 hours/week, with no paid holidays, trapped in stressful groundhog days in highly polluted cities.

That's why I never left my country, even though it costed me a lot monetarily wise.
by Mawr | 2025-06-27 08:32:34+00:00
I was about to respond to your comment above by saying landmines are 1000x worse, but you just said the opposite, which is completely incomprehensible to me. Are you perchance thinking of literally just the environment, not the fact that countless lives will be harmed and lost for decades to come because of the indiscriminate nature of landmines?