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Ask HN: Help with my project ( should I continue) ?
by robomiri | 2025-08-24 19:56:08+00:00
Hello! For some time I am working on a Photos app as alternative to Google Photos, but hosted in EU and with E2E encryption. The development is going good, already have an android app and a web version (it is a solo project, I am the developer and all).

My question is, do you think it would be feasible? Is it there enough space to market and sell it?

I did it because I wanted an encrypted system, hosted in EU and, as I have children and lot of photos, I want them to be safe and private.

I want to mention that even if that there is no way to sell it as subscription, I am still happy to have built it, I can use it for me and my family in cloud with a home server backup. (as every developer, I have a ton of project like this :) )

I just want to give me an idea (as I know how big this community is) as if there is any value in it.

Thanks!
by oliveiracwb | 2025-08-24 19:56:12+00:00
I live in Brazil. We have broad access to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. Even the best-known medicines have unexpected and unknown adverse effects: in general and specifically in people with unexpected genetic, enzymatic, and protein variations. This has no solution. The medicine acts differently in each body, which is subtly diverse from the others. I see a lot of research criticizing any "old" general medicine and introducing the "new" one. I don't know if this is the case. Every medicine has its rush, half-life, and side effects, and its actions are not fully mapped. My preference for long-term treatments is: dipyrone. Short term: ibuprofen. Lymphatic pain: paracetamol. It may not make sense, but that's how I use it.
by jacquesm | 2025-08-24 19:56:40+00:00
The only place where you could conceivably store this without having another conversion or lossy transport loop is under the house. It's not exactly trivial to excavate that much space under an existing structure without having the whole thing come down. I think I've figured that part out but it would still be legally quite shaky and it might destroy the resale value of the house unless it can be made compact enough that it would fit within a standard basement. Insulation is the key problem to solve here.
by famouswaffles | 2025-08-24 19:56:52+00:00
>But as of August 2025, we are on pace to see fewer games in 2025 than in 2024.

No we're not. Use Wayback machine or whatever and this year is 1k+ ahead at the same date.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240822090931/https://steamdb.i...

>Also the jump in 2024 is only around 10-15% more games than we would have expected from the previous trend. Assuming all of that is directly down to AI, I wouldn’t call that an explosion.

How many games do you imagine can be released per day even with the help of current Sota LLMs ? Nevermind the fact that you have to pay $100 to distribute your game on Steam. You're not making a game you'd pay $100 to distribute in 3 days, LLM help or not.

But fair, exploded is probably overstating it.
by keybored | 2025-08-24 19:56:56+00:00
> Using less is always an individual choice. But not a realistic one to expect 8 billion+ people to take. That's also why fossil fuel usage is still increasing.

Thanks. This mindset is not always made this explicit.

That it is an individual-choice is just as true as the claim that it is a choice made by governments, corporations, non-profits, executives, etc. But this atomized fiction is the only one that is given focus. Why?

You said it yourself: the perspective is not even conducive to making any change! (“not a realistic...”) We can’t expect 8 billion to make atomized decisions for the betterment of the planet.

But that’s not what people with this mindset want. They want a scapegoat that (conveniently) cannot change. Or they want an excuse to keep doing what they are already doing. Because hey the entities “that are doing it” cannot change in the aggregate.
by noosphr | 2025-08-24 19:57:24+00:00
Algebra has nothing to do with long hand multiplication, people who say otherwise can't do either.

We know, because we taught computers how to do both. The first long multiplication algorithm was written for the Colossus about 10 minutes after they got it working.

The first computer algebra system that could manage variable substitution had to wait for Lisp to be invented 10 years later.
by delduca | 2025-08-24 19:57:31+00:00
Thank you all for the feedback!

If you ever get stuck forever, it’s probably an issue with Cloudflare Pages. Trying again might work—the game is made entirely of static files.

For now, there’s nothing beyond the second scenario. Pixel art is a slow and expensive process, and I’ve been working on this game since the beginning of the year. Please be patient!

Thanks again!
by bgnn | 2025-08-24 19:57:32+00:00
I don't have those numbers, but here is AMD's on results on Cadence Spectre X with different gen EPYC CPUs, maybe this helps for you to understand the issue: https://www.amd.com/content/dam/amd/en/documents/epyc-techni...

About the technical problem: it's ODE solution for a sparse matrix of 10s of millions elements. Sparsity comes from the locality of interactions within a chip: not every transistor is connected to thd others. So the modern simulators make use of this sparsity to divide the circuit to independent chunks and spread over to multiple independent threads.

Scale of the compute time is not objective, but typically anywhere from couple hours to couple of months. Most top level chip integration verification jobs take weeks. Because of this we spend months for verification after the design is pretty much finish before the tapeout. This applies for every single reasonably complex chip.
by tnkuehne | 2025-08-24 19:57:57+00:00
What would be a good incentivizing strategy to prevent over spending on hardware? I can think of giving a budget and the amount not spend is payed out to them (but when the salary is that high it might not make sense) or like having a internal dashboard where everybody can see every body’s spending on hardware, so people feel bad when they order to much.
by treesknees | 2025-08-24 19:58:09+00:00
We operate VMware and Proxmox environments at my workplace. The pricing for Proxmox is so significantly lower that it's essentially free, even if we were to purchase support for every host/socket (which we currently don’t).

I’m intrigued to see how they price the new Proxmox Datacenter Manager product [1]. One of the primary challenges in retiring our VMware environment has been the absence of centralized management.

Proxmox could charge us 50% or more than vSphere’s pricing, and we would still be willing to pay it. That’s how much our VMware bill has increased. We are not alone in this; virtually every VMware customer is seeking more affordable alternatives. Proxmox has an opportunity to generate substantial revenue if they can successfully license PDM for business customers.

Honestly, I doubt that Proxmox is even considering home users in terms of subscriptions and payments at the moment.

[1] https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-datacenter-manager...
by Telaneo | 2025-08-24 19:58:25+00:00
I don't consider textual communication less real than person-to-person interactions. Different, yes. Less real, no. On the contrary, communication over the phone is usually hindered by the horrible quality of most phone calls I experience, forcing me to use additional effort just to understand what's being said, rather than spending that energy actually answering. Textual commuication also has several advantages I wish real life had, like a log of what's been said.
by bevr1337 | 2025-08-24 19:59:03+00:00
> Congress passed an expansive relief package with an unprecedented $600-per-week supplement for jobless workers. The goal was to replace their wages so they could survive the economic lockdown.

> As a result, though, many people may now be eligible for substantially more money while unemployed

According to your source, "Some people were paid more in benefits than they made working" was only true for the very poor.

The link to shitcoins is dubious. It strikes me like the 21st century equivalent of complaining how folks spent money on nice cars.
by karmakaze | 2025-08-24 19:59:30+00:00
[No comment on the drama angle]

I wouldn't call Racket a 'tiny niche' language--its influence is much greater. It is a direct modern descendent of Lisp-1 languages.

I used it to do SiCP and learned a lot about what a language or program can do (as I imagine many others have as well).
by runjake | 2025-08-24 20:00:51+00:00
> It definitely sounds like you're trying to excuse the labor exploitation of multinational corporations.

That was not my intent. I probably worded my thoughts poorly. Indeed, though I am far more advantaged than those data laborers I’m feeling a bit exploited myself lately.

> Are you suggesting that if something is common across the globe then we shouldn't complain about it?

No. I guess the crux of my comment is what would they be doing for income otherwise? And which would they choose, given the fact they’re being exploited.
by the_sleaze_ | 2025-08-24 20:00:55+00:00
I have to admit I do the same as GP here. However I would always do both - index and keep a count on the parent as a first step.

> increase contention and harm scalability

Contention, concurrent connections, high-throughput and the associated race conditions are absolute table stakes for RDBMs. They just won't be taken seriously if they can't handle thousands of concurrent updates. So imho for 90% of projects this just won't be an issue.

> PostgreSQL you increase bloat as every update creates a new row version

This is true, but the complexity has to live somewhere. There will be as many rows added to a materialized view as there will be in the original table.

> Most of the times the solution is not pre-aggregation

This is wrong. Caching = pre-aggregation and is almost always either the solution or a part of the solution to scalability, latancy etc. Don't compute what you can retrieve.
by HelloUsername | 2025-08-24 20:01:00+00:00
Related?

U.S. eyes building nuclear power plants on the moon, Mars https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23954190 26-jul-2020

UK backs Rolls-Royce project to build a nuclear reactor on the moon https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35214491 19-mar-2023

NASA to announce nuclear reactor on the moon https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44791800 04-aug-2025
by Terr_ | 2025-08-24 20:01:30+00:00
"Any medicine can be poison" is kinda missing the point.

There is a rich and varied multidimensional field of danger, from aspects like the safety-margin between regular/dangerous dose levels, the chronology of how it can spike or accumulate, whether there's feedback in advance of damage, etc.

Yeah, I can poison myself drinking clean water, but it's hard.
by Veedrac | 2025-08-24 20:01:41+00:00
The article never frames this as off-grid storage for individual homeowners. They say

> A typical site is a factory, power plant, or town with a large earthen mound at the edge. The mound might be the size of a house for a smaller factory, and up to many football fields for a large power plant. Surrounding the earthen mound will be high-density, low-profile solar arrays.

I agree that trying to give every suburban house its own rock pile would not be very practical.
by riwsky | 2025-08-24 20:01:50+00:00
> For those who’ve built coding agents: do you think LLMs are better suited for generating structured config vs. raw code?

Raw code. Use case was configuring a mapping of health data JSON from heterogeneous sources to a standard (also JSON) format. Initial prototype was a YAML DSL, based on the same theory as yours. LLMs had difficulty using the DSL’s semantics correctly, or even getting its syntax (not YAML-level syntax, but the schema: nesting levels for different constructs, and so on). It’s possible that better error loops or something would have cracked it, but a second prototype generating jq worked so much better out of the box that we basically never looked back.
by jacquesm | 2025-08-24 20:02:26+00:00
> I've found that lots of people get viscerally mad when it's pointed out that solar pv is not reliable year long

Solar PV is very reliable year long. It is the day-night cycle that requires batteries, for seasonal offset they do not work and probably never will.

In the off-season they still work just fine, they just make much less power. Which you can offset to some degree by a good balance between wind and solar at the grid scale (not at the private dwelling scale, unless you live rurally).

I'm on PV during the day time all year round in a densely built up region in Western Europe. In the summer we overproduce a ridiculous amount that we can't consume ourselves (though I'm getting better at finding good uses for it), in the winter it is touch-and-go during the day. Netmetering is enough to give me a negative electricity bill which goes towards paying whatever NG we still buy (which isn't a lot, we spent a good bit of money on insulating this house as much as we could without rebuilding it).

> I wonder if they have had issues trying to solve a problem so many people insist doesn't exist.

Nobody who knows anything about PV is going to insist the problem does not exist.
by anon84873628 | 2025-08-24 20:02:41+00:00
In the analytics world, BigQuery MVs seem pretty cool. You can tune the freshness parameters, it will maintain user-specific row-level security, and even rewrite regular queries to use the pre-computed aggregates if possible.

But I don't think there is anything similar in the GCP transactional db options like Spanner or CloudSQL.
by Spooky23 | 2025-08-24 20:02:42+00:00
That’s really high. There’s either a big problem in your city, or they are making generous estimates to justify asking for more capital. 10-15% is more typical.

In my region, the street trees are usually getting sewer water. Residential service in older houses are usually clay pipes with lead solder that the tree infiltrates. It’s not a problem until the clay pops and roots clog it.

It varies a lot by region and jurisdiction. One of the cities near me made the mistake of using riveted pipe from rolled steel to save money 75 years ago, and regularly has catastrophic main breaks as the rivets aren’t as robust as a regular pipe.
by alphazard | 2025-08-24 20:03:03+00:00
The AI doesn't have a self preservation instinct. It's not trying to stay alive. There is usually an end token that means the LLM is done talking. There has been research on tuning how often that is emitted to shorten or lengthen conversations. The current systems respond well to RL for adjusting conversation length.

One of the providers (I think it was Anthropic) added some kind of token (or MCP tool?) for the AI to bail on the whole conversation as a safety measure. And it uses it to their liking, so clearly not trying to self preserve.
by themafia | 2025-08-24 20:03:06+00:00
That's what started the incident.

It was prolonged by the fact that Cloudflare didn't react correctly to withdrawn BGP routes to a major peer, that the secondary routes had reduced capacity due to unaddressed problems, and basic nuisance rate limiting had to be done manually.

It seems like they just build huge peering pipes and basically just hope for the best. They've maybe gotten so used to this working that they'll let degraded "secondary" links persist for much longer than they should. It's the typical "Swiss Cheese" style of failure.
by altairprime | 2025-08-24 20:03:12+00:00
I wouldn’t equate trigonometry, which underpins the classic parabolic example you’re referring to, with critical reasoning in human conversation. One is situationally useful at best; the other is mandatory to prevent exploitation by malicious people. Mental quadratics may be appealing, but the ability to reason is the bare minimum. Besides: if you’re using a calculator or AI in a board meeting, you’re likely unprepared for the board meeting.
by luckylion | 2025-08-24 20:04:52+00:00
But globes aren't really that practical for navigation. You can plan your voyage, but when you're at sea, how do you make sure you're going in the right direction? Mercator has the advantage that you can use your compass and as long as you stay on course, you'll arrive at your destination.

Keep in mind: that's 500 years ago, not 50 years ago. There's no question that we have better tools today but the question was why the mercator projection was so successful it became the default. I think "it was super useful at the time because it made navigation easy, reliable, and available to everyone, at any any weather" is a much more compelling explanation than "the would-be colonizers spread it because their home-countries were enlarged and they liked that and used it to oppress the equatorial countries".
by psd1 | 2025-08-24 20:04:58+00:00
The court will take a dim view of your fatuous semantics, and I'll get summary judgement in my favour.

It is damning of your shithole country that, out of freedom of speech, the right to bear arms, justice for all, and the equality of all men, you picked the lies and the violence. You misunderstand "founding myth", but the sense of "falsehood" does also apply.

You believe that any compromise in free speech results inevitably in tyranny, while your Project 2025 gang takes office by way of twitter. They have implemented martial law. They are taking citizens off the streets. Neither yourself nor your benighted country has the intellectual tools to address that.

Your nation has a pipeline for sending blacks into chattel slavery for the enrichment of prison owners. You reckon you have something to say.
by PaulKeeble | 2025-08-24 20:05:56+00:00
This is certainly the solution in somewhere like Australia where the winter production is about half of the summer production. It gets more problematic in places further north/south where its 5x or worse and then you need quite a bit of land to produce enough power and battery storage than can go multiple days at least.

The difference between net zero across the year and 95% unlikely to need the grid on solar and batteries is a staggering difference, about 10x the panels and battery storage. But the equation changes drastically depending on local weather patterns and the solar irradiance difference from summer to winter.
by derriz | 2025-08-24 20:06:08+00:00
> Nowhere in the world is nuclear subsidized per unit of production.

Not true. Basically every nuclear plant ever built has been, if not directly financed by government, backed a guarantee to purchase every MWh produced at a fixed (or index linked to inflation) price. Hinkley Point C - under construction in the UK - are guaranteed £92.50 per MWh produced (in 2012 prices index linked to inflation - so already this has risen to £133.81/MWh and the project is still years from operation). This guarantee lasts 35 years once the plant becomes operational. For comparison, current wholesale prices in the UK are roughly half this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_Point_C_nuclear_powe...
by LauraMedia | 2025-08-24 20:06:45+00:00
The blogpost is from February, since then, the CUII switched from arbitrarily decide on blocks through an internal group "until the court order arrives" to strictly include the domains from court orders.

So yes, they USED to just block whenever they wanted, based on "previous similar cases" but without a court order (or a pending one). They then got a lot of flak from the regulatory bodies and switched to actually only include court ordered blocks.
by echelon | 2025-08-24 20:06:48+00:00
The vast majority of humans would fall to bad security.

I think we should continue experimenting with LLMs and AI. Evolution is littered with the corpses of failed experiments. It would be a shame if we stopped innovating and froze things with the status quo because we were afraid of a few isolated accidents.

We should encourage people that don't understand the risks not to use browsers like this. For those that do understand, they should not use financial tools with these browsers.

Caveat emptor.

Don't stall progress because "eww, AI". Humans are just as gross.

We need to make mistakes to grow.
by fusl | 2025-08-24 20:06:51+00:00
I think you misunderstand the flow of traffic here. The data flow, initiated by requests coming from AWS us-east-1, was Cloudflare towards AWS, not the other way around. Cloudflare can easily control where and how their egress traffic gets to the destination (as long as there are multiple paths towards the target) as well as rate limit that traffic to sane levels.
by moritzwarhier | 2025-08-24 20:07:19+00:00
Interesting how you put metamizole at #1 for long-term treatment. As far as my experience goes, many doctors do the same in Germany. On the other hand, I've heard that the medication is banned in many other countries.

I guess the safest way is to take up the treatment in a hospital, to check for immediate bad reactions.

On the other hand, like with many medications, severe allergies and individual sensibilities causing side effects often don't show up often in the short term, but rather suddenly after many dose intakes.

So I'm back where I started. Not disagreeing with what you say. It seems like these non-steroidal pain relief medications are poorly understood regarding their interaction with the whole body though.

Many OTC medications and even some prescribed ones (especially psychiatric medications) suffer from a very poor understanding and apparent lack of effort in improving the understanding of their mechanisms of action.
by themafia | 2025-08-24 20:07:39+00:00
> but it's one of their most dominant traits

Always has been. What has changed is they now have the power to force their constituency to live with their hypocrisy and lies. Any effort to challenge the "leader" results in claims that you are now a "terrorist."

The internet was supposed to empower the citizenry. It's been captured and is now a tool used to suppress them. So now we see leaders completely unchallenged when their darker habits are exposed.
by anon84873628 | 2025-08-24 20:08:03+00:00
I mean, everything you said sounds exactly like the definition of "new fangled" to me. I don't think the term is meant to be so pejorative or dismissive, just that the tech is currently intimidating to people not on the cutting edge. (Edit: e.g. taking graduate level database courses, as mentioned by a sibling comment :-)

There is constantly so much new stuff in software, you have to be a bit willfully ignorant of some things some of the time.
Show HN: Amazon has a 'Buy Now' button, so I built a 'Think Now' button
by pjcodes | 2025-08-24 20:08:10+00:00
Hi again, HN.

Three weeks ago, I showcased my impulse control PWA, "Nope It," here on HN. The discussion and feedback I received were incredible, and I'm hugely grateful to this community for it.

The single most valuable piece of feedback I got was about friction. Many of you rightly pointed out that in that critical 5 second window on a shopping page, the mental energy required to open a separate app is often too high. The impulse wins by default.

You were right. So, I spent the last couple of weeks building the solution.

Today, I’m launching Nope It for Chrome.

It's a lightweight browser extension that uses JavaScript and DOM manipulation to inject a "psychological speed bump" directly onto product pages (I'm starting with Amazon, as it's the biggest culprit for me).

The core of the extension is the real time "Work Hours Psychology" engine. It shows you that a $200 gadget doesn't just cost money, it costs you a full day of your life. When you see that, you can log the impulse with a single click without ever leaving the page. It then syncs everything back to the core PWA.

I'm back here because your initial feedback is what created this. My main question for the HN community is, Does this frictionless, point of sale approach feel like the right solution to the problem you helped me identify? I’d love your thoughts on the UX and the overall strategy.

You can grab the new extension from the Chrome Web Store here: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/imamiekokcjioidbpbp...

The main PWA is still here: https://www.nopeit.app

Thanks for helping me build this. I’ll be in the comments all day.