MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jbstack | 2025-08-28 11:37:30+00:00
I can't comment on the US, but as a legal professional in the UK, this isn't my experience at all. The vast majority of cases aren't novel - they're issues that have come before the courts many times before. Everyone knows what they're doing and which precedents are the important ones and lawyers who try to deviate from the well known and accepted position will most likely lose their case.

Every now and then, something interesting and unique comes before the courts and then you might see a bigger variety of arguments as each side tries to control the narrative. The court will decide the outcome and, if it's a sufficiently high level court, that decision becomes the new precedent and you don't need to refer to the earlier ones again because the issue is no longer novel.
by crinkly | 2025-08-28 11:38:41+00:00
The biggest problem with this is near zero communications from Microsoft. But what do I expect these days? Shovel AI in everything at any cost.

I’ve had repeatable data loss recently from windows 11 under a specific condition copying directories in explorer. The case works on windows 10 LTSC fine. I have absolutely no idea where to even raise this as an issue now. I’m not sure I even give a fuck.
by vitonsky | 2025-08-28 11:38:45+00:00
Huh, I just checked stats on ecosyste.ms

It looks they consider as maintainer only those people who listed on package.json, not a real number of contributors on github or anything.

So all conclusions in this post is based on wrong assumption and incorrect data interpretation. That's all you need to know about it.

I think you could list random people on github in your package.json to looks cool in eyes of stats cultists.
by yurishimo | 2025-08-28 11:38:55+00:00
Yea it can be done, but it requires thoughtful implementations and planning if you are working within a mature system.

We had/have a similar problem where things began with "a sprinkle of js here/there" and then over time those islands became much bigger and encompassed more and more functionality. Entire backend templates were ported to the JS framework and then the page with load and then stuff would pop in after the DOMReady event was fired and the JS booted.

I've been working backwards to remove many of these changes and handle them server side if possible or at least give a better UX while the frontend is getting ready. It's not easy!

In a perfect world, we could run the output of the PHP backend through a JS SSR endpoint and hydrate the few necessary components into full HTML, but unfortunately, many of today's JS SSR tools are only available if you use the meta framework as well.

What's going to be fun over the next year is finally deciding if we should go "all-in" on a JS frontend (using Inertia.js for the communication with the backend) or go back to PHP entirely and try to leverage more browser capabilities. There's not really a right/wrong answer but if marketing want's to keep adding flashy features, having the flexibility of JS would be handy.
by manu_trustdom | 2025-08-28 11:39:11+00:00
We’ve been working on Trustdom, a WordPress hosting platform built on top of Kubernetes.

The idea came from our frustration with traditional WordPress hosting — scaling is limited, updates and maintenance often cause downtime, and agencies managing multiple sites don’t get much flexibility. Kubernetes gave us a way to approach it differently:

Each site runs in its own namespace for isolation.

MySQL is clustered and replicated

Pods can scale horizontally (multiple per site) when traffic spikes.

Media is stored in S3-compatible storage so pods stay stateless.

CDN is handled via BunnyCDN for global speed.

Right now we’re targeting developers and agencies that want:

Git-based workflows

Zero-downtime updates

Almost limitless scaling

High availability without managing infra themselves

We’d love feedback from the HN crowd:

Does this solve a real pain for you (or your clients)?

What would you want in a “developer-first” WordPress host?

Are there technical choices here you’d challenge?
by omnimus | 2025-08-28 11:39:58+00:00
It depends on type foundries. Some of even the high quality ones (Grilli Type, Florian Karsten) keep the licensing fees pretty fair one time perpetual licenses.

Dinamo is most hyped top tier foundry that just understands that they can make more money by focusing on high end luxury clients. So the licensing is ained at them so they won't leave money on the table.
by zaphar | 2025-08-28 11:40:59+00:00
The problem I think is that all the easy infrastructure problems have been solved and the market is crowded with those solutions. Solving the hard problems is probably where you could have a viable business but I don't really see that many companies trying to solve those:

* Making mono-repos work for large companies.

* Mixed language builds are still a ci/cd unsolved problems for most companies.

* Testing strategies for Iac deployments.

And more that I won't bother to list here.
by wink | 2025-08-28 11:42:44+00:00
I had not used bitnami images for.. probably 5 years at this point and they always seemed servicable in a pinch, usually used for testing and I when I brought this up recently I was also told (by k8s users) that the helm stuff is probably what actually has most people up in arms because it is very common. We're the minority who remember bitnami as a non-critical choice among many.
by Mallowram | 2025-08-28 11:42:57+00:00
No my approach is there is no model. Nothing is reducible. It's a neurodynamic approach. The idea of a world model is oxymoronic, the brain doesn't reduce anything to models, making math and logic irrelevant. Nothing you are talking about is really a first principle, how can it be, it's retrofitted using symbols. Yours is a psychodynamic approach, the post-hoc representations brains create is enough for you. You expect reason to be the threshold. I see no reasons for anything, simply actions. The computer I expect uses no math.
by jbstack | 2025-08-28 11:43:08+00:00
Out of curiosity, what is it you don't like about the UK system given that you're saying that it's "eerily similar" to the US system?

As someone who works in the UK system, I can point to two things I don't like about the US system. Firstly, the inability to recover costs in most cases. This leads to an abundance of litigation (because a party with a weak case has little to lose by trying anyway). It also produces unfair results (because the principle of justice should put the winner in the position they would have been if they hadn't been wronged, but it doesn't because they have to bear their litigation costs). Secondly, the politicisation (and in my view corruption) of the judicial system. We don't have "Conservative" or "Labour" judges here, and it's extremely weird to me that you can have "Republican" or "Democrat" judges given that a judge is supposed to just interpret the law in an unbiased way without regard to their political opinion. To me it seems that Supreme Court decisions are openly corrupt given how often the opinions are divided straight down party lines: statistically you should expect a random mix of Republican and Democrat judges adopting each side.
by BoredPositron | 2025-08-28 11:43:31+00:00
Asking an LLM about itself is not an reliable way to find out with which model you are interacting with. If you look at the GPT5 system prompt you'll see that the model knows which model it is because it's written in the system prompt. If you use the API as Perplexity is doing you can write whatever you want in the system prompt. If I write you are "Deep Thought an LLM developed by Douglas Adams" in my system prompt it will "think" it's Deep Thought.
by DanielHB | 2025-08-28 11:43:43+00:00
Balancing multiple battery packs at different wear levels is a huge nightmare. You have to run rebalancing operations all the time and on used packs it can be quite dangerous to trigger a thermal runaway.

If they do it with different types of batteries it is even more complicated, like you need to write some custom software to sync all that up. This is not a trivial project.
by JustFinishedBSG | 2025-08-28 11:44:02+00:00
I would love to love Zed. In practice it’s everything I want.

But it’s a text editor first. And what I want, and it’s non negotiable, in a text editor is good text editing. Except font rendering is atrocious and broken on Linux ( what I use ) and on Windows ( what my employer force me to use ).

I understand it’s an alpha / beta. But still
by aspenmayer | 2025-08-28 11:44:04+00:00
> It is possible, but very unlikely.

Life, uh, finds a way, after all.

> Even if you do, I think it’ll take about one chargeback to get your merchant account blocked.

Well, someone's merchant account might be blocked, but carders don't necessarily use their own accounts; in fact, I would doubt that many do, but criminals are often underestimating risks and overestimating rewards. It's almost a truism at this point that folks who do crime are not usually acting rationally, but I don't want to stereotype.

> It’s already here! Stripe has supported it for a while now, and I’ve seen a bunch of other payment providers have it, too: https://stripe.com/terminal/tap-to-pay

Finally! This feature is going to help a lot of small businesses in isolated areas where mobile phones are the primary (or only) computing devices that are commonly owned. This can create virtuous cycles that are somewhat unpredictable, which should help make these markets more dynamic and competitive.

Thanks for posting that Stripe link. Here's some more tap to pay links I was able to find, eventually. The search terms match too much, so it is a bit hard to disambiguate legacy NFC payment flows that use traditional or modern terminals from the new device to device payment flows. I remember hearing about Stripe's work on this feature, but since I didn't hear much after that, so I wasn't sure if the feature had ever shipped. I'm glad that this tech is getting in the hands of end users.

Apple-specific roundup of apps and vendors that support the feature:

https://apps.apple.com/story/id1620226212

https://www.apple.com/business/tap-to-pay-on-iphone/

These two are available on both iOS and Android, in case that is important for folks:

https://squareup.com/us/en/payments/tap-to-pay-android

https://www.paypal.com/us/business/pos-system/tap-to-pay
by usrme | 2025-08-28 11:46:27+00:00
This is covered in the official GitHub issue: https://github.com/bitnami/charts/issues/35164

Q: What will happen to the existing OCI Helm charts? A: The already packaged Helm charts will remain available at docker.io/bitnamicharts as OCI artifacts, but they will no longer receive updates. Deploying these charts will not work out-of-the-box unless you override the bundled images with valid ones. *except for the BSI images included in the free community-tier subset.
by ionwake | 2025-08-28 11:47:01+00:00
Reminds me of the HN user who commented along the lines of " I am writing a script to remove double dashes. Not because he wanted to use AI output and pass it off as more human, but because he - and I paraphrase -- "wanted to make sure he could apply double dashes as per his usual vernacular".

tldr; There are people even on HN covering up their own AI output under the guise of taking back ownership of literature. Im still taken aback by the audacity of these hoops.
by vintermann | 2025-08-28 11:47:34+00:00
So from what I understand, it predicts the next pixel by looking at the two previous pixels and counting what has appeared in that context earlier in the image. I'm not 100% sure, but I think it processes the pixels line by line.

It then encodes with arithmetic encoding. Along with the palette, I think that does most of the heavy lifting in the compression, an adaptive model looking at just two pixels of context shouldn't make especially good predictions. PNG (sort of) looks at 4, the three above and the one to the left.
by Sesse__ | 2025-08-28 11:48:07+00:00
> And why does the SSD allow this to happen? A SSD has its own onboard computer, it's not just allowing the OS to do whatever it wants.

If the device is DRAM-less, much of its central information (large parts of the FTL, in particular) resides in the host's RAM, where the OS could presumably touch it. If that area of RAM is _somehow_ being overwritten or out-of-sync or otherwise unreliable, you can get pretty bad corruption.
by 542354234235 | 2025-08-28 11:48:09+00:00
Also, you lose the ability to mold your battery along the bottom of the car, using dead space and keeping the center of gravity low. Gas tanks aren't even boxes, they are molded to fit around other parts with no dead space. So, add that space efficiency loss to all the additional space needed for access panels, installation foolproofing, additional waterproofing, etc.
by 4ggr0 | 2025-08-28 11:48:40+00:00
Even though I professionally work with Linux I still don't trust it enough for gaming. I know that Steam does great things with Proton, my issue is that I'm not the type of gamer who constantly plays the same game - Play a game for how long the story or my interests lasts, then switch to the next game.

And after a whole day of debugging and hair pulling at work I just don't feel like then also debugging why a game is not running like it should.

But I heard I should give it a try again, last time I gave it a shot was 2-3 years ago. Big plus would be that I'd be completely free of Windows...
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-08-28 11:48:52+00:00
Defining concepts before addressing them often helps.

> Evidence (noun): the available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid.

Absence of evidence doesn't increase your available body of facts that can validate a proposition. That's the gist of the saying.

The classic example is sampling one bucket of water from the ocean, and declaring there is no life in the oceans, because there is no life in your bucket.
by smokel | 2025-08-28 11:48:59+00:00
Perhaps I should've made myself more clear.

Monitors, keyboards, programming in textual representations, all seem quite unnatural. They were all the result of incremental technical progress, not the result of an ideal thought process. Just look at the QWERTY layout, and the limited number of people actually able to do programming.

If one reads science fiction novels from the 1970s, this is typically not the way people envisioned the 21st century.

I agree that the solutions have value, but I'm certain that we are stuck in a local optimum, and things could have been wildly different.
by gyomu | 2025-08-28 11:49:53+00:00
> This is why I utterly detest media outlets who amplify those people by reporting on petty "shitstorms", giving them way more power than they deserve

My thoughts exactly when “highbrow” outlets like the NYT started making headlines out of every silly thing Trump said in 2015/2016. All those media sources who professed to be against what he stood for didn’t realize that the words were meaningless, and merely by reporting on his inanities, they were implicitly endorsing exactly what he stood for.
by artemisart | 2025-08-28 11:51:22+00:00
I don't understand what's not optimized on 5090. If we're comparing with Apple chips or AMD Strix Halo yes you will have very different hardware + software support, no FP4 etc. but here everything is CUDA, Blackwell vs Blackwell, same FP4 structured sparsity, so I don't get how it would be honest to compare a quantized FP4 model on Spark with an unoptimized FP16 model on a 5090 ?
by david_allison | 2025-08-28 11:52:30+00:00
> But on topic: why not create docker.io/bsi and let /bitnami as is without new updates?

If people are relying on you for automatic security updates, and you've decided to no longer provide these updates [for free], users should opt in to accept the risk.

This would normally require user action (after a period of warnings/information), and having the fix look 'obviously' unsafe (`/bitnami ` ->`/bitnamilegacy`) feels reasonable.
by em-bee | 2025-08-28 11:52:36+00:00
that and, i would argue that npm in particular is filled with lots of small projects and only very few large ones simply by the nature of the ecosystem. it is the wrong place to look. something better would probably be to eg count the contributors on github, or, on npm, analyze project dependencies and distinguish projects that are directly downloaded vs those that are loaded as a dependency. arguably, dependencies can be replaced by the developers of the project using it, so a developer of a dependency disappearing is less dramatic than if you use that project directly.

technically speaking, if you have a large project with many contributors, every contributor is often still only responsible for one small part of the project. linux kernel drivers and subsystems most have their dedicated developers. and very few of them each.
by hattmall | 2025-08-28 11:52:49+00:00
Yeah, I'm sure having previously done psilocybin is a pre-requisite. I could never imagine that someone only using light and sound who then takes psilocybin would rate the experiences similarly. Alternatively, I can (involuntarily) re-experience psylocibin just by being overly tired in a particular setting at times, it's not pleasant.
by sfn42 | 2025-08-28 11:53:40+00:00
I think there are (at least) two types of programmer - I am the kind of programmer who wants everything done right. Others don't care as long as it works and the boss is happy.

I suspect that the type of programmer who enjoys vibe coding is the latter. For me it's pretty tiring to explain everything in excruciating detail, it's often easier to just write the code myself rather than explain in English how to write it.

It feels like I am just doing the hard part of programming all the time - deciding how the app should work and how the code should be structured etc, and I never get those breaks where I just implement my plan.
by wink | 2025-08-28 11:53:57+00:00
ESL here, not Chinese. I find meticulous to be a perfectly normal word, I think I don't really use it, but I think I read it from time to time, but maybe I just read some sort of publication by a fan of the word? :)

Same for surpass and boast, I think I use "surpass expectations" and I had to think for a moment, I would use 'brag' these days but pretty sure in school I learned boast, which sounds more formal BE to me, but of course I'm just guessing here.
by anthk | 2025-08-28 11:54:21+00:00
That's the Israel's Hasbara for you. I hate both these nuts and Hamas indoctrinating children in Palestine too, they are a different side of the same fundamentalist coin.

Abrahamic religiouns should had already learnt that the Chinese/Koreans/Japanese and the Indians didn't give a shit on milenia old tales and they didn't get "God generated punishments" the Bible told us will happen. Ditto with the native trives from Canada to the Patagonia until the Europeans arrived. Or Australia, too.
by micw | 2025-08-28 11:55:22+00:00
I wonder what the effect of their helm charts will be. As far as I know the charts play well together with their own images but not necessarily with other images (like the official images). Also in some cases particular versions of helm charts are needed for particular versions of the application/images.

So then there are no tagged versions of the images. How will this affect the future of the charts? The old (existing) charts can easily point to the old images in the legacy repository. But how about future development? Will this be stopped, so the charts will remain in the existing state? Or will it be continued but point to the new "latest" images - which means the chart/image combination could break at any time?
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-08-28 11:55:30+00:00
Spot reduction / targeted fat loss is considered "disproved" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spot_reduction, https://www.yalescientific.org/2011/04/targeted-fat-loss-myt...

General fat loss will remove fat anywhere, area specific exercises will tone said area (like abs) which will make them feel firmer which gives the impression of fat loss in a specific area.
by majkinetor | 2025-08-28 11:55:52+00:00
It depends on context really. Security is a feature like anything else. In an ideal world I would agree with you, but professional security costs a lot of money and the stakeholder is not necessarily willing to pay for it versus actually observable features. Also, security might be irrelevant in a bunch of contexts, particularly with great recovery options (and absence of PII) that you need to have anyway and people are actually willing to pay for it as it covers grounds that overlap with security partially or totally.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-08-28 11:56:02+00:00
> Side A has 10 examples of case law that support their position, which they use in their motions and filings -- and Side B has 10 counterexamples of caselaw that support the opposite position, which they also use

Yes. Then you figure out in what respects the current case resembles the precedent and which is more unique. There are not twenty cases where the facts and circumstances are identical to the present one because that’s not how reality works.

> Judge, who is a very busy man, simply cannot research the issue in exhaustive detail

Literally the lawyers’ jobs to do this.

I don’t think it’s a coïncidence that the oldest continuous legal systems in the world are precedent-based.
by wtmt | 2025-08-28 11:56:28+00:00
> Why would a justice in India serve the interests of a few rich foreign companies, while ignoring the needs of Indian students and researchers?

Because they’re used to serving the interests of large companies (domestic and international) as well as bowing to any executive comments or opinions. Indian judges rule first with their own opinions and moral views, then maybe look at the law, and then maybe consider the constitution (in that order).

As the article notes, people will just use a VPN or Tor to access the sites. The courts in India do not understand technology (like in many other countries). They just acquiesce to the demands from large companies.

With the indirect pressure through US tariffs, I wouldn’t rule out the executive finding ways to not annoy the US even more through some means.

I have a longstanding pet peeve with it (the judiciary): the entire validity and legality of the Aadhaar biometric identity program has been in limbo, pending hearing by a constitutional bench (the conclusion of “Rojer Mathew v. South Indian Bank”). This bench hasn’t been constituted for several years. Chief Justice after Chief Justice in the Supreme Court has ignored it and let the executive bulldoze everyone to submit, get this “voluntary” (that’s the official definition) number and link it in more and more databases.

Long story short, depending on the Indian judiciary for justice on large enough matters that affect the entire country and its future is futile. If it’s a simpler matter affecting one or two companies or a political party, the justice will be swift.
by gosub100 | 2025-08-28 11:56:41+00:00
There needs to be a clear, succinct name for this phenomena of accusing a person or their work of being AI without proof. This is going to do more damage than AI performing human tasks. Just the mere suspicion that they probably didn't do-the-thing themselves. Anyone, particularly artists, who are "too good" at their craft are going to have their recognition stolen from them.
by Puller28 | 2025-08-28 11:56:55+00:00
I’ve been working on a micro SaaS for digital artists and Etsy sellers who spend hours resizing, creating mockups, and writing listings by hand. I ran into this problem myself and thought: why not automate the boring parts?

So I built ImageUpscaler.app — an all-in-one tool that turns your artwork into ready-to-publish Etsy listings in under 5 minutes.
by vbezhenar | 2025-08-28 11:57:07+00:00
This is such a weird state.

> The Photon images provide many other benefits not previously available to users of Debian images, including:

> Drastically reduced CVE count (e.g., 100+ CVEs to in some cases 0)

How can Debian image contain 100+ CVEs? It's nonsense. Surely Debian is as secure as most other "commercial" distros.

This CVE scanning stuff is clear FUD to promote commercial distros.