MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kokau | 2025-08-19 09:00:00+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Brandolia , an AI tool that generates a complete brand identity in ~30 seconds from just your brand name + industry.

It gives you:

Professional logo (HD, ready-to-use)

Full color palette

Font pairing suggestions

AI-generated slogan & brand story

Packaged in a PDF brand kit

Right now, we offer:

One-time purchase: €3.90 per brand kit

Subscription: for freelancers/creators who want unlimited brand generations

I’m trying to validate pricing and would love your feedback:

Is €3.90 too low, fair, or too high for a one-off brand kit?

Would a $5–10 range feel more “right”?

For freelancers/indie makers, what subscription price would make sense for unlimited brand identities?

Any thoughts on pricing or positioning would be super valuable
by fennecfoxy | 2025-08-19 09:00:44+00:00
Yeah, for sure. In NZ I used to see cops on the beat, just walking around and showing a presence. It also means that people see them as there to help out.

You can kinda see that in some parts of the UK still, but certainly lack of staff really affects them; particularly when UK seems to have higher incidences of more violent crimes, more drug related crimes, etc. Turkish gangs shooting little girls in the middle of London.
by necovek | 2025-08-19 09:01:12+00:00
Note that I am not disputing the order is "inversed": all I am saying is that there are other common language features in most languages where things don't flow the same way, yet nobody finds it a huge problem.

It's like discussion of RPN or infix for calculations: both do the job, one is more rigorous and clear with no grouping/parentheses, yet we manage just fine with infix operators in our programming languages (or maybe not, perhaps all bugs are due to this? :)).
by budududuroiu | 2025-08-19 09:01:23+00:00
Thought this could be a full replacement for Dataview but it’s just not there yet.

I love the dataview flexibility and multiple display options.

I’ve moved my Chinese vocab list to Bases (I already had all data in front matter so it was easy) and it’s much much nicer and faster than Dataview

However, for task lists, Dataview still works better imo
by atoav | 2025-08-19 09:01:36+00:00
Well everything comes in shades. Lets say you write meetingnprotocols of your meetings down with obsidian. The markdown/freeform and cross-linkable text body of obsidian is perfect for this. But you'd now be able to have a bit richer search over the notes based on who was present. This allows relatively normal people to do that, without having to dive too deep into databases plus it already lives in the app where you take the notes.

As someone who uses Sqlite for a ton of things I don't think the exietence of sqlite makes this useless.
by DigitalNoumena | 2025-08-19 09:02:33+00:00
Coincidentally I recently watched these videos about this topic. Both great channels!

3D Guide - How to Build the Perfect Medieval Castle https://youtu.be/Syjg6PHYFBo?si=JceRfeOks3hOVqWu

How to Lay Siege to a Medieval Fortress (1000-1300) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ7hTNoK-OA&t=1900s
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-08-19 09:03:09+00:00
That is so real man. I was a massive push in pushing everyone to use signal but I could only convince 2-3 of my friends and literally now there is only 1 single friend of mine who is on signal..

Whereas on insta dm, literally all of my friends are there, mostly 24x7 active. I just used bleeper to sometimes interact with them. I think it made my mental health definitely more saner/net gain

I care about my privacy enough but I can't have it make me lonely. I hate meta with my guts but the sacrifice that I found was using bleeper or something that doesn't have anything extra of insta related except just chats

Sometimes Sacrifices must be made
by heeton | 2025-08-19 09:04:14+00:00
It’s not a tool for signatures. It’s also hard to sign documents with a paint roller.

But this UI is much better at, e.g. drawing a smooth, symmetrical heart symbol, with a crisp turn.

Different UI for different tasks, and it’s very cool to see something that intuitively lets you control something that is normally hidden under your finger.
by thecupisblue | 2025-08-19 09:04:17+00:00
Holy shit the amount of overcomplications to serve simple HTML and CSS. Someone really has to justify their job security to be pulling shit like this, or they really gotta be bored.

If anyone can _legitimately_ justify this, please do, I'd love to hear it.

And don't go "booohooo at scale" because I work at scale and am 100% not sure what is the problem this is solving that can't just be solved with a simpler solution.

Also this isn't "Netflix scale", Tudum is way less popular.
by account42 | 2025-08-19 09:04:43+00:00
Even if enforcement was "unfair" (let's ignore for a fact that this is not a binary determination and not being able to be perfect isn't an argument for not trying) then everyone having the potential to experience the same hurt from the unfair system is still more fair than a corrupt society where some people can have their lives destroyed by an unfair fine but others can just shrug it off.
by pyman | 2025-08-19 09:04:47+00:00
This is actually a great time to launch a product for 13-18 year olds who'll be looking for something else to do on their phones during the 6 hours they used to spend watching porn.

I'm thinking of an AI tool that automatically dresses people in porn videos, turning them into 12+ content. The Pro+ plan could even replace the moaning with actual dialogue. That way they can keep watching their favourite movies without needing to verify their age or use a VPN.

The only thing I need for VCs to invest is to put the term "10x" on my website.

"10x fewer moans and 10x more dialogue"
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-08-19 09:04:50+00:00
Can vouch for beeper. My mind was blown when it JUST WORKED. I use beeper to chat with my friends on insta and its definitely a really good method to communicate with the insta friends instead of using the app. Though when they send reel I can't really see it natively and it opens web browser but that's what I want and I don't watch the reels the guys send anyway.
by appstorelottery | 2025-08-19 09:05:40+00:00
No it's not a troll comment.

Google "Coin Toss" or "Toss a coin", before the search results you'll find a google-written in browser-app which allows you to toss a coin and get a result. Google literally entered the coin-tossing software solution market! Lol. But not lol.

Back then I was furious about it, and yet, did nothing. Forget legal action, I didn't even gripe about it online. This is the first time I've posted or told anyone about it outside of a few friends that didn't understand. I felt powerless to do anything about it.

Further - look at AI generated search results being introduced now... same pattern. Why click through when you're got what you need before search results...
by panick21_ | 2025-08-19 09:06:08+00:00
I don't really buy it. First of all you can easily have both. Second, even if you think community servers are an issue, the concepts of server rooms with the server being on the standard company platform is totally feasible.

As for server uptime, if anything I think communities manage to provide excellent service and servers. Because the people running the infrastructure actually play with that infrastructure and know if something is wrong pretty quickly.

As for player retention, I played Dota in the Warcraft 3 days and it was the most played game on the planet while having horrible matchmaking on a terrible server system. And players continue playing.

And communities and particular matchup and games increase retention. I used to always play particular types of matches and rule-sets on servers I knew had a configuration and mod-set that I liked. One of the reason this doesn't exist anymore is part of the reason playing is less fun.

And again, you can have ranked match making primary servers as well if you feel like it.

> Most game companies choose the route of building and running dedicated server infrastructure.

You can still have hosted rooms on dedicated infrastructure, or have both.
by throwaway290 | 2025-08-19 09:06:39+00:00
> You can see how a lot of good karma is accrued.

FYI there's no "good karma" in Tibetan buddhism. There is just karma. Karma is not good because it will cause samsara.

Maybe it is supposed to be a fun cheat to remove karma not "accrue good karma" but surely no one uses it seriously lol
by account42 | 2025-08-19 09:06:59+00:00
If anything, jailing a low income worker means they loose their job and have trouble finding another one after getting out while jailing a business owner or stock trader etc. will mostly mean they are in the same position when they get out as when they were jailed.

Similar, even fines proportional to income are still unfair because to determine how much a fine hurts you need to compare it to whats left of the income after basic needs have been paid for. For someone that has much more than they need, getting fined 50% of their income will suck but not immediately change their lifestyle while someone who is living paycheck to paycheck is going to be ruined by the same percentage fine.
by abc123abc123 | 2025-08-19 09:07:12+00:00
At least in politics, I'd argue that it is not shamelessness. It is a reaction to the fact that our political nobility have sunk so low in terms of achievement and results, that they made a mockery of democracy.

As a reaction, the public makes a mockery of them. As a bonus, getting a politicians that speaks his mind in the common way, is an added spice! Seeing the revulsion in the faces of the political nobility when Trump opens his mouth, gives many satisfaction.

So in politics, this is a sign of health. It is a kind of catharsis. Trump was one of the first in the modern era, and he'll get copy cats, and the strategy will then start to lose its efficiency, but, it will have recalibrated politics away from the previous state where it was a toy for the nobility and commoners were not welcome.

This is also something they fear. That commoners, not part of the nobility, might gain entrance to their domain.

So this is a healthy sign for democracy!
by heeton | 2025-08-19 09:08:10+00:00
Not to speak for OP, and this library is very cool, but:

It’s ~20 commits done in two batches. 2018 for the initial release then some more work on it in 2023.

Zastai: you could have that kind of progress on any lib you wish to release, and it’s a nice feeling to have something out in the wild.
by adrian_b | 2025-08-19 09:08:33+00:00
The use of the word "processing" is ambiguous.

There are 3 kinds of processing, with very different effects. One kind is separating a product into its components. Another is mixing various ingredients. The third is applying some treatment to the product that modifies its structure, heating being the most frequent method.

I consider only mixing ingredients and applying various treatments as belonging to "ultraprocessing", because these processing methods remove the control of the end consumer about what is being eaten, as they are normally irreversible.

On the other hand, any separation method cannot have a harmful effect by itself and separation of the edible components is absolutely necessarily for human food, because we have reduced digestive systems, which are unable to extract as efficiently the nutrients from food as those of most other non-carnivorous mammals.

The only harmful effects of well-separated food ingredients, like seed flour, oils or protein powders, happen when the end consumers choose to mix them in unhealthy proportions, like when adding too much sugar or too much fat to some dish, but then they can blame only themselves for this.

With food that has passed through the other kinds of processing, nothing that the end consumers do with it can make it healthy, when it has not originally been so, which happens frequently because for its producers it is more beneficial to try to make it addictive instead of healthy.
by appstorelottery | 2025-08-19 09:10:01+00:00
I think it's as simple as "if you have a platform - be it OS, marketplace or search engine" - it should be illegal to compete with your platform participants.

For example, this law would have played out with Microsoft not being able to create Word (look at the history of what they did to the Windows version of WordPerfect). Amazon would not be able to introduce their own products and compete with their platform sellers. Apple wouldn't be able to take great independent app ideas and assimilate them into their OS. Google wouldn't be able to make a coin tossing app when its core business was successfully creating discovery for mine.

Perhaps a law like this would have prevented the formation of the mega-tech corporates that we see now? It's so easy to compete if you own the platform.
by suchoudh | 2025-08-19 09:10:03+00:00
sometime back i downloaded a phrack zip on my ubuntu and noticed it had some special character which did not allow me to delete the files once unzipped.

perhaps some safety measure. i am used to only drwxrwxrwx or lrwxrwxrwx on dirs and files never seen srwx.....

Can someone pls point me to some doc that explains how to deal with it.
by TheDong | 2025-08-19 09:10:29+00:00
StateDirectory looks like it's also always the environment variable 'STATE_DIRECTORY', regardless whether it's a user or system unit, right?

systemd-run -p StateDirectory=test -t sh -c 'echo $STATE_DIRECTORY'

works fine with both `--system` and `--user`, so seems like that's the same too.
by lukan | 2025-08-19 09:10:37+00:00
Anything having lots of rpm ain't silent. Especially not at night.

So they surely ain't as loud as a combustion lawn mower and are pretty silent in comparison, so maybe you won't notice them in the city with its background noise. But in rural areas I perceive them as noisy even on daylight with normal noise level. And I never saw anyone using them at night - for a reason.

And as for gp .. he is already shadowbanned and you likely cannot see his answer (I have showdead=true). He reacted poorly I think.
by poszlem | 2025-08-19 09:10:45+00:00
Calling Hell is the Absence of God a critique of religion misses the point. Chiang isn’t saying “religion is false.” He imagines a world where God’s existence and Heaven and Hell are undeniable, and shows that even certainty doesn’t solve the problem of suffering or the struggle for meaning. The story critiques the idea that proof would make faith easier, not religion itself.
by myfonj | 2025-08-19 09:10:47+00:00
In my perspective, for truly "self-contained", "portable" and "self-updating" and even "un-hosted" web apps, the only option nowadays are prehistoric data-URIs, that are slowly losing abilities anyway (basically can live only as bookmarks or direct URL pastes, and their only persistence option is location #hash that needs re-bookmarking):

data:text/html;charset=utf-8,<body id=b onload=b.innerHTML=decodeURIComponent((l=location).hash.slice(1)) onkeyup=document.title=b.innerText.split('\n')[0]||'.' onblur=try{history.pushState({},document.title,'\u0023'+b.innerHTML)}catch(e){l.hash=b.innerHTML} contenteditable bgcolor=darkslategray text=snow link=aqua vlink=lime style=text-align:center>#Hello, HN!<br><br>Do you like this %E2%9D%9Dun-hosted%E2%9D%9E&nbsp;app?<br>With persistence<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=44944112">%E2%80%A6?</a>
by Digit-Al | 2025-08-19 09:11:45+00:00
Facebook mobile tip: if you click on the burger menu and select "Feeds" you will be taken to a page with a list of different feeds at the top. If you then select the "Friends" tab you will see only posts from your friends. Doesn't get rid of ads, unfortunately, but it does get rid of all the crap from recommended pages, etc...
by panick21_ | 2025-08-19 09:12:18+00:00
Halo was defiantly big outside of the US. I was prime age for gaming when Halo came out and Halo was the most talked about game and everybody loved it.

The X-Box was less common as the first X-Box never really sold all that well. But Halo came out for the PC as well and many people played it.
by 999900000999 | 2025-08-19 09:12:38+00:00
Realistically, we would need to raise like 10 million so we could work full time on it and buy quality art. Outside of that it's just a pipe dream.

If someone who actually knows how to run a business, wants to start this up I would gladly work at half of my corporate rate.

If I was a billionaire I literally would do nothing but fund to open source video game projects. And then maybe pull a Red Hat and monetize it somehow.
by hildolfr | 2025-08-19 09:12:45+00:00
If you don't think parasite ridden flesh is gross then your meter needs recalibrating.

Even ancient man avoided parasites when possible. Parasites can kill you, regardless of how natural they are.

Dog shit and nightshade are part of the circle of life too, but they seem to be avoided by most.

Something being good because it's 'part of the circle of life', whatever that means, is as blind and irrational as 'all upf is bad by virtue of being defined as upf.'

Life isn't as simple as black and white.
by rashunain | 2025-08-19 09:12:55+00:00
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by deadbabe | 2025-08-19 09:13:02+00:00
Are you sure you guys want to tackle this problem?

This isn’t the type of thing where you build a product doing a lot of work up front, and then spend the rest of its life offering support and new features and relaxing a bit.

You are committing to a cat and mouse game. You will constantly have to stay on top of ever improving tech that gets harder to beat, you will never know peace. You will have to exert more and more effort each year.
by logifail | 2025-08-19 09:13:07+00:00
> probably get another 5-15% by upgrading from oldoldstable Debian 11/Bullseye with kernel 5.10 to something modern like Debian 13/Trixie

For the on-prem/homelab crowd: I upgraded my desktop from Debian 12 to 13 yesterday only to discover my Mellanox ConnectX-3 NIC wasn't supported by the Trixie kernel. From 10GbE to 0GbE in one reboot :/

Have ordered a ConnectX-4 so that should get me going again, of course 100GbE is severe overkill for my needs but since I already have a 100GbE switch I figured why not...
by rich_sasha | 2025-08-19 09:14:19+00:00
Can you use the oxygen trick to practically extend snorkelling dives?

I used to do a little scuba, but overall didn't like the reliance on often poorly maintained kit. But I do love snorkelling - the lightness and simplicity of it.

Can I breathe pure oxygen for half an hour on the boat and be able to repeatedly snorkel longer?
by pram | 2025-08-19 09:16:59+00:00
I’m gonna take a wild guess: the actual problem they’re engineering around is the “cloud” part of the diagram (that the “Page Construction Service” talks to)

There is probably some hilariously convoluted requirement to get traffic routed/internal API access. So this thing has to run in K8s or whatever, and they needed a shim to distribute the WordPress page content to it.
by philipallstar | 2025-08-19 09:22:36+00:00
> _Docker_ is a security hazard, and anything it touches is toxic.

> Every single package, every single dependency, that has an actively exploited security flaw is being exploited in the Docker images you're using, unless you built them yourself, with brand new binaries. Do not trust anyone except official distro packages (unless you're on Ubuntu, then don't trust them either).

> And if you're going to do that... just go to _actual_ orchestration. And if you're not going to do that, because orchestration is too big for your use case, then just roll normal actual long lived VMs the way we've done it for the past 15 years.

I think this works well as a confident statement in a meeting full of subordinates and non-technical people, but it betrays a lack of understanding of the fundamental problems, and how they affect everything, not just Docker.
by oytis | 2025-08-19 09:25:39+00:00
I wouldn't say it is necessary by design, as it is not forbidden and definitely possible. It's just Germany can't handle the complexity of its bureaucracy. Every new government promises to alleviate the bureaucratic burden, but in the end only adds exceptions on top of exceptions making the burden even heavier. So for remote work setup either the worker or the employer should carry it, and it's rarely worth it.
by rebuilder | 2025-08-19 09:25:41+00:00
This is very nice, not just for finger/mouse painting! I tried it on my Cintiq and it was actually a lot better for me than brush stabilization usually is - I think the logic is the same as seen in e.g. Krita, but the visualization of the cursor and where the paint will appear is very helpful. Usually painting software doesn't have such an indicator of where the actual stroke will be placed and when it will move.
by hnthrow20938572 | 2025-08-19 09:25:58+00:00
>However, due to the caching refresh cycle, CMS updates were taking many seconds to show up on the website. The issue made it problematic for content editors to preview their modifications and got progressively worse as the amount of content grew, resulting in delays lasting tens of seconds.

This seems superficial, why not have a local-only CMS site to preview changes for the fast feedback loop and then you only have to dump the text to prod?

>got progressively worse as the amount of content grew, resulting in delays lasting tens of seconds.

This is like the only legit concern to justify redoing this, but even then, it was still only taking seconds to a minute.