MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by motorest | 2025-06-20 07:18:12+00:00
> You don't, but plenty of people don't care and ask for this shit. This is probably another way of saying "buzzword-driven" as people ask for "buzzwords".

That's a fundamental problem with the approach OP is trying to sell. It's not solving any problem. It tries to sell a concept that is disconnected from technologies and real-world practices, requires layers of tech that solve no problem nor have any purpose, and doesn't even simplify anything at all.

I recommend OP puts aside 5 minutes to go through Cloudflare's docs on Cloudflare Workers that they released around a decade ago, and get up to speed on what it actually takes to put together stateless functions and durable objects. Dragging Kubernetes to the problem makes absolutely no sense.
by eddythompson80 | 2025-06-20 07:19:16+00:00
> I’m not talking about writing monoliths again. I’m talking about writing only the tiny little bits of kubernetes that you really need to do what you need done, then deploying to that.

Don't limit yourself like that. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. You will have your monolith in no time

Re-implement the little bits of kubernetes you need here and there. A script here, an env var there, a cron or a daemon to handle tings. You'll have your very own marvelous creation in no time. Which is usually the perfect time to jump to a different company, or replace your 1.5 year old "legacy system". Best thing about it? no one really understands it but you, which is really all that matters.
by sdoering | 2025-06-20 07:19:25+00:00
I love your selfishness. Learned a lot, while sipping my second coffee and eating my breakfast before diving into work. Thanks kind stranger.

I loved astronomy as a kid and the town I grew up in has a "solar system way", basically a long street where a kind fellow (who in his freetime taught astronomy to nerds like myself and had built his own oberservatory in his backyard) had - with the blessing of the city - built a scale model of the solar system on a length of about 1.5 kilometers (a bit less than a mile).

I always found it fascinating when walking "through our solar system" with about 13 times the speed of light (normal walking translated into the distance at that scale) how veeeeeeeeeeery far apart things get in the solar system.

Sadly only in German: https://www.muenchberg.de/erleben/tourismus/tourismus-und-fr...

Edit: And yes - Pluto is still in there. It was built before the demotion - and they kept him in when doing the renovation last year (I was not in my home town since then - I so need to see it, when I visit the next time).
by Llamamoe | 2025-06-20 07:19:25+00:00
> Also you never go through a puberty in exactly the same way as a cis woman. A lot of the effects are reversible, especially if you start at 18, since I don't think maleness fully develops until at least age 25. Treating people under 18 is a politically losing issue.

Imagine trying to make the same argument about forcing cis women to go through male liberty to "understand men better". It's ridiculous.

Further, studies show that the main predictor of bone structure is whether you started HRT before or after the beginning of puberty, and that outcomes get worse the more it progresses. At 18 you still get some change, but you really need to either block puberty or start HRT before it for optimal outcomes.

And if you don't want to give HRT to trans children, at least get them on puberty blockers. There's pretty much zero evidence suggesting they do anything worse than temporary and reversible reductions in bone density.
by temp0826 | 2025-06-20 07:19:45+00:00
Nothing will get rid of the hangover (unless you count being high all the time). Why not dabs? There are also suppositories. Eating it implies the digestion process which makes it massively variable (fat solubility, how recently you ate, how good your liver is etc...). I would think sublinguals would be decent but I've never tried (and probably won't...quit cannabis for other reasons years ago. I was a very heavy user, 3-5 grams of concentrate dabbed a week).
by juped | 2025-06-20 07:20:05+00:00
Erlang gen_statem permits you to postpone an event, putting it in a queue that's retried after the next state change (before moving to new events). So the MAIL FROM would put you in handle_mail_from state, and while you're in it you postpone any RCPT TOs.

Of course this might be a dumb example in this case because the process mailbox will do the right thing and be a queue if you just blockingly make the dns request in your handler process. (It also might not be, I don't know enough about the smtp state machine to say.)
Show HN: Mailfrom.dev – a cheaper MailTrap alternative
by danielebuso | 2025-06-20 07:20:40+00:00
Hi HN,

Two months ago, we launched MailFrom.dev, a fake SMTP server for developers who want to test email sending without hitting real inboxes – think of it like a simpler, cheaper alternative to Mailtrap or Mailhog with a focus on ease of use.

Since then:

- We’ve had 55 developers sign up with 4 paid subscription active and 821 test emails sent

- Improved stability, speed, and small features our early users needed

- Worked hard to add roles (wich will be released later next week)

What's improved:

- Better UI to inspect headers, bodies, and attachments

- Faster inbox refresh and sync between team members, now near real-time

Lessons learned:

- Developers do care about price and simplicity over enterprise features (almost all came from MailTrap)

- People love tools that “just work” with minimal config

What’s next: - Roles (coming next week)

- Webhooks (to test what happens after the email lands)

- Test by sending a real mail to a MailFrom.dev team address (something like a shared inbox)

- A blog to help spread the word

If you’ve used tools like Mailtrap, Papercut, or Mailhog before — we’d love for you to give MailFrom.dev a try and tell us what you think.

Link: https://www.mailfrom.dev

Happy to answer any questions or feedback here. Thanks again!
by codebeaker | 2025-06-20 07:20:42+00:00
Why is an article from Jan 2025 being recirculated on HN now?

It's not Europol's role to push for this, and the European commission has suffered setbacks with ChatControl and other measures already since that time with excellent politicians such as Patrick Breyer doing an outstanding job of informing about and advocating for privacy.

- https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-control-eu-ombudsman-c... [Feb 2025 criticism of the "revolving door" and more context about how this is received] - an excellent resource overall curated by Mr. Breyer about Chat Control, it's advocates, sponsors, the due-process, alternatives and more https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/
by defrost | 2025-06-20 07:21:17+00:00
And there are many windows insiders publishing ways to bypass secure boot checks in order to install (or create check free installers) Win 11 on Win 10 capable hardware that lacks secure boot or Trusted Platform Module 2.0

Starting with this in 2021 https://christitus.com/update-any-pc-to-windows11/ and likely (I'd have to check) integrated into Chris Titus's WinUtil by now.

Some combo of tweaking registry values or zero sizing a DLL has done the trick so far (but perhaps not into the future with upgrades and patches).
by scrapheap | 2025-06-20 07:21:59+00:00
Alternative view - Open Source projects have the freedom to do what they want to do. Which in turn gives me the freedom to choose how I set up my desktop environment. How many changes have been pushed on Windows users over the last 15 years with the only option being to change and get security updates or stay on an old insecure version?

And while there are lots of desktop environments for Linux you can usually run applications targeting one in any of them (I use Gnome's file manager in Enlightenment as it supports accessing CIFS shares directly).
by eesmith | 2025-06-20 07:22:21+00:00
'America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow' (https://waterwatch.org/america-is-using-up-its-groundwater-l...) to support that stunning irrigation infrastructure.

You should not interpret that historical success to imply future success as it depended on non-sustainable groundwater extraction.

Eg, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogallala_Aquifer

> Many farmers in the Texas High Plains, which rely particularly on groundwater, are now turning away from irrigated agriculture as pumping costs have risen and as they have become aware of the hazards of overpumping.

> Sixty years of intensive farming using huge center-pivot irrigators has emptied parts of the High Plains Aquifer.

> as the water consumption efficiency of the center-pivot irrigator improved over the years, farmers chose to plant more intensively, irrigate more land, and grow thirstier crops rather than reduce water consumption--an example of the Jevons Paradox in practice

How will the Great Plains farmers get water once the remaining groundwater is too expensive to extract?

Salt Lake City cannot simply build desalination plants to fix its water problem.

I expect the bad experiences of Okies during the internal migration of the Dust Bowl will be replicated once the temporary (albeit century-long) relief of using fossil water is exhausted.
by pipeline_peak | 2025-06-20 07:22:42+00:00
Because of years of dabbing in my early 20’s (a lot of reckless high temp ones especially) my lungs are hyper sensitive to any sort of inhaling and I’ve been told by pulmonologists that I have asthmatic symptoms.

I get chest pains from car exhaust,cig smoke, high fume cooking, cleaning products etc. so yeah…that’s why I seem so adamant on edibles.

I only did sublingual rso which didn’t feel very euphoric. It does seem promising to people with Parkinson’s or anyone who wants medicinal benefits with minimal impairment.
by lavelett36 | 2025-06-20 07:23:14+00:00
I went through several sections of the article and I am still none the wiser about what this project is. Is it a software emulator? If so, on which platforms does it run? How do I download it? Or is it a hardware device? The article jumps right into the middle of things and bombards the reader with jargon without explaining anything for the HN user like me, who just stumbled upon the link on the home page and is trying to understand the project.
by baobun | 2025-06-20 07:25:12+00:00
This again? Flagged as dupe of dupes. These were all today. Is this drive part of pushing the audience to passkeys?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44325070

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44322288

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44322588

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44322822

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44322822
by jankeymeulen | 2025-06-20 07:26:47+00:00
Storage densities these days are kinda amazing, it's not that much of a datacenter. Assuming you chunk it with triple redundancy, that's 220k TB raw. 10k 22 TB disks, you put them in one of those 4U 50 disk storage pods. 200 pods, 10 of those in a rack with some space left for a switch and power, so that's only 20 racks.
by arch-choot | 2025-06-20 07:27:32+00:00
Interesting! I'd done something similar in Typescript to learn more about BT, and then redid it in rust to learn rust (https://github.com/ckcr4lyf/kiryuu).

However I decided to just use redis as the DB. It sounds like your entire DB is in memory? Any interesting design decisions you made and/or problems faced in doing so?

(My redis solution isn't great since it does not randomize peers in subsequent announces afaik)
by baobun | 2025-06-20 07:28:37+00:00
Same "story" already posted a few times today.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44325026

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44322288

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44322588

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44322822

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44322822
by temp0826 | 2025-06-20 07:30:36+00:00
Ah wow, yah I understand that, I for sure torched my lungs a few times (ever been so high you forgot to put water in the dab rig...sigh). Was a smoker (tobacco) for about a decade as well but luckily have recovered from all that without any long term breathing related symptoms.

I don't know how economical they are these days (or how loaded with sugar they might be) but the thc-infused drinks were nice when I gave them a go.

Maybe the sublinguals were just too much cbd? I really liked rso capsules.
by pipeline_peak | 2025-06-20 07:30:58+00:00
I was only using Vicodin as an example of something that’s consistent. I could’ve mentioned almost any other well known psychoactive pharmaceutical

I should probably try oil based tinctures. I’d imagine they’re the same deal as gummies, but I’d have to see.

I tried ethanol tinctures sublingually. Not only did they burn like hell but they were leaving cuts under my tongue.
by blensor | 2025-06-20 07:31:55+00:00
I meant as a resource for others to use, like shutterstock and artlist but solely for AI generated b roll to be used by others.

If you generate videos that are then sitting in some walled garden why not make them available for others to use.

I am pretty sure there are endless hours of similar videos in all accounts, and instead of recreating it from scratch every single time why not check with a public database first if there is already something for you to use
by motorest | 2025-06-20 07:32:02+00:00
> I'm not a Kubernetes expert, or even a novice, so I have no opinions on necessary and unnecessary bits and bobs in the system. But I have to think that container orchestration is a new enough domain that it must have some stuff that seemed like a good idea but wasn't, some stuff that seemed like a good idea and was, and lacks some things that seem like a good idea after 10 years of working with containers.

I've grown to learn that the bulk of the criticism directed at Kubernetes in reality does not reflect problems with Kubernetes. Instead, it underlined that the critics are actually the problem, not Kubernetes. I mean,they mindlessly decided to use Kubernetes for tasks and purposes that made no sense, proceeded to be frustrated due to the way they misuse it, and blame Kubernetes as the scapegoat.

Think about it for a second. Kubernetes is awesome in the following scenario:

- you have a mix of COTS bare metal servers and/or vCPUs that you have lying around and you want to use it as infrastructure to run your jobs and services,

- you want to simplify the job of deploying said jobs and services to your heterogeneous ad-hoc cluster including support for rollbacks and blue-green deployments,

- you don't want developers to worry about details such as DNS and networking and topologies.

- you want to automatically scale up and down your services anywhere in your ad-hoc cluster without having anyone click a button or worry too much if a box dies.

- you don't want to be tied to a specific app framework.

If you take ad-hoc cluster of COTS hardware out of the mix, odds are Kubernetes is not what you want. It's fine if you still want to use it, but odds are you have a far better fit elsewhere.
by camgunz | 2025-06-20 07:33:52+00:00
> i know it used to be "known" that school districts go after the former

Maybe, but this sounds like some ideologically opposed groups slandering each other to get the moral high ground to me. The papers linked show a pretty typical racialized pattern of CPS calls (Blacks high, Asians low, Whites and Latinos somewhere between) that maybe contraindicates this, for example.

> also i wasn't considering "confirmed maltreatment" - just the fact that 4k/day isn't "impossible"

Yup I think you're right here. I think there's something fuzzy happening with conflating "CPS investigation" with "abuse", but I'm not sure where the homeschool abuse rate comes from.
by QRY | 2025-06-20 07:35:15+00:00
My aspirational heroes! There's so many people underserved by our current level of technology, and for no good reason other than what I imagine is "business sense"? What are we doing with all this tech if it can't reach so many? Did we really advance as a species? I lose so much of current tech if I take a walk in the woods, it's ridiculous.

Even just keeping their views in mind as I'm learning and experimenting, I'm noticing there's so much cloud-dependence without good reason, beyond "convience"? Really glad to have discovered their work early in my career, it's been nothing but quality learning!

I don't want to be bound to the "modern world" and its city centers. I want to see the rest of it too, to stray from the fire of a broadcast tower without being left in the cold. I have a torch, I just need to light it.
by NetRunnerSu | 2025-06-20 07:35:25+00:00
Thanks for your thoughts!

Regarding meditative "emptiness," IPWT argues its function lies in high-level predictive integration—the seemingly contentless state reflects the workspace instance (WSI) minimizing prediction errors (an extreme expression of FEP). The vacuum analogy fits: meditation isn’t non-functional but restructures high-Ω by suppressing low-level sensory predictions. This "void" retains dynamic PI, sustaining self-experience continuity (∫Ω).

Regarding AI qualia: Current LLMs lack temporal ∫Ω and synergistic information (Ω), failing qualia criteria. Speculatively, artificial qualia might only emerge transiently during backpropagation — when weight updates create fleeting high-Ω states as the system globally minimizes prediction errors. This aligns with IPWT's view of qualia as epiphenomena of optimization pressure.

https://dmf-archive.github.io/docs/posts/PoIQ-v2/
by DidYaWipe | 2025-06-20 07:36:36+00:00
Yeah there was no excuse for it. Daley lied repeatedly about his motivation. The real story? That's where downstate politicians flew in, and to spite them he destroyed the coolest GA airport in the country. Meigs was the default starting point for MS Flight Simulator for its entire existence until then.

We're about to see a similar crime now in Santa Monica. This time a lame-duck outgoing FAA administrator, Michael Huerta, struck an illegal back-room deal with the corrupt Santa Monica city council to let them seize and destroy the airport after 2028... if citizens let them get away with it.

Meanwhile, in the Matrix they weren't pretending that it was Chicago. They just kept the street names and so forth in the script when they called for extraction. They're all pretty well-known streets in Chicago. I was looking for a list, when I found something I didn't know: Neo's name came from the club where I had the first shot I really enjoyed (a Kamikaze). There's a timestamp for ya: https://www.reddit.com/r/chicago/comments/cf0uv3/til_neo_fro...
by motorest | 2025-06-20 07:36:41+00:00
> When Kubernetes was in its infancy, it was quite difficult to do the PKI and etcd setup required to run a cluster - and managed services didn't exist.

I agree, but it's important to stress the fact that things like etcd are only a pivotal component if you're putting together an ad-hoc cluster of unreliable nodes.

Let that sink in.

Kubernetes is a distributed system designed for high reliability, and depends on consensus algorithms to self-heal. That's a plausible scenario if you're running a cluster of cheap unreliable COTS hardware.

Is that what most people use? Absolutely not.
by jicea | 2025-06-20 07:38:01+00:00
Ah sorry for both, the README sample is here from the start (4 years) ago that I didn't take time to read it with a fresh eye:

POST https://acmecorp.net/login?user=toto&password=1234

In the README is doing a POST request with user and paasword parameter in the URL.

POST https://acmecorp.net/login [Form] user: toto password: 1234

Is a more traditional POST with user and password in the body. Probably going to update the READMEs sample Issue created here [1]!

[1]: https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl/issues/4151
by vidarh | 2025-06-20 07:38:07+00:00
People get emotional about free will because if you come to believe there is no free will it makes you question a lot of things that are emotionally difficult.

E.g. punishment for the sake of retribution is near impossible to morally justify if you don't believe in free will because it means you're punishing someone for something the had no agency over.

Similarly, wealth disparities can't be excused by someone choosing to work harder, because they had no agency in the "decision".

You can still justify some degree of punishment and reward, but a lack of free will changes which justifications are reasonable very substantially.

E.g. punishment might still be justified from the point of view of reducing offending and reoffending rates, but if that is the goal then it is only justified to the extent that it actually achieves those goals, and that has emotionally difficult consequences. For example, for non-premeditated murders carried out out of passion rather than e.g. gang crimes, the odds of someone carrying out another is extremely low and the odds that the fear of a long prison sentence is an actual deterrence is generally low, and and so long prison terms are hard to justify once vengeance is off the table.

And so holding on to a belief in free will is easier to a lot of people than the alternative.

My experience is that there are few issues where people so easily get angry than if you suggest we don't have free will once they start thinking through the consequences (and some imagined ones...).
by 9dev | 2025-06-20 07:40:51+00:00
The idea in itself seems good, but I have a lot of hesitation due to the prompt used to rewrite the commit messages. Even looking at the example in the repo there’s this sycophantic, pompous way of describing mundane things that adds nothing, but only makes it harder to understand what has changed. The commits mentioned don’t "implement a complete auth system" and did not add "comprehensive test coverage". They added parts of an authentication system and some tests.

I’m all for proper commit messages, but only if they add clarity, not take it away.
Show HN: Gridogram – Find the quote of the day, hidden in optimised letter grid
by jap | 2025-06-20 07:40:54+00:00
I had a lot of fun playing an Android game where you find words in a random grid of letters (like Boggle). Challenge for me was to find the longest word... and seeing which I missed was a way to learn new words.

I've iterated on the concept, and made a game you can play in the browser, Gridogram: instead of being random, for each day a grid of letters is created from a quote that relates to the day.

For example, here's a grid where you can find the Y Combinator motto [1]:

E G I W L H N A P T M K S O E P

Finding words: connect horizontally, vertically or diagonally adjacent letters, without using the same letter twice.

On the development side, an interesting challenge is figuring out the smallest grid a quote will fit in. I create an undirected graph with the letters in the quote, count the nodes, ensure the number of edges each node has can work in a grid... but have found that such a graph still won't necessarily map to a grid, so next step is to learn more about the subgraph isomorphism problem.

Grids vary between 3x3 and 5x5 (computationally, 5x5 can take a lot of time to generate). Some are quick to play, with players solving them in tens of seconds, some are very difficult indeed.

Would love to hear your thoughts on the game.

[1] "Make something people want"