MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by taeric | 2025-08-25 15:17:53+00:00
I agree it can be workable. It can be amusing to consider how much more area people cover today than in history. I specifically remember walking 5 miles to a friends house somewhat regularly from back in the day.

For the kinds of people that want space, though, it is a very short radius. For families with kids that they want to do activities, it can be crippling.

I think it is fair to argue that many of the things that make me support that statement are themselves very problematic. I largely agree. But that is also largely against the point I was intending.

My point is only that you will get more and more people actively driving as long as you don't take steps to keep it specifically expensive to do so. NYC is the poster child example for what I mean, here. Has good transit by US standards. Still saw measurable increases in use from congestion pricing for tolls.

Being more clear, here. My point is not that you can replace design considerations with pricing strategy. My assertion is that you can't ignore pricing strategy with design considerations. And the opportunity/convenience cost of vehicles is such that you have to be somewhat aggressive on that control, as you have to cut into the natural benefits of a modern car.

My template for this thought is largely NYC's congestion pricing success. And knowing that Tokyo does a pretty aggressive policy of not letting you register a car if you don't have off street parking. Which is very expensive.
by kiitos | 2025-08-25 15:18:15+00:00
every single IPv4 address in existence receives constant malicious traffic, from uncountably many malicious actors, on all common service ports (80, 443, 22, etc.) and, for HTTP specifically, to an enormous and growing number of common endpoints (mostly WordPress related, last I checked)

if you put your server up on the public internet then this is just table stakes stuff that you always need to deal with, doesn't really matter whether the traffic is from botnets or crawlers or AI systems or anything else

you're always gonna deal with this stuff well before the requests ever get to your application, with WAFs or reverse proxies or (idk) fail2ban or whatever else

also 1000 req/hour is around 1 request every 4 seconds, which is statistically 0 rps for any endpoint that would ever be publicly accessible
by _mlbt | 2025-08-25 15:18:38+00:00
Per the MacFUSE documentation…

> macFUSE 5.0 supports multiple APIs for mounting file systems.

> By default, macFUSE uses the VFS API to mount file systems. When specifying the mount-time option -o backend=fskit, macFUSE will use FSKit to mount the file system.

https://github.com/macfuse/macfuse/wiki/FUSE-Backends
Looking for Other "Grandma-a-Preneurs"
by FWKevents | 2025-08-25 15:18:40+00:00
Hi! I'm over 60. I just launched an online marketplace in the corporate events industry, eventnation.com, and in another few weeks will be launching an AI Agent, GotchaFinder, as part of EventNation's offerings. GotchaFinder will find hidden fees in the dense language of hotel contracts. Here's my question - Does anyone know of other women over 55 years old who are establishing start-ups? I know I can get media coverage if I find at least 5 other women like me, and we join together to fund a publicist to seek media coverage of a story on "Grandma-a-Preneurs"!
Show HN: Cairo – Open-source multi-tenant data segregation for GTM
by anianroid | 2025-08-25 15:18:43+00:00
Hi HN! I've been working on Cairo, an open-source platform for managing outreach campaigns across Lemlist, Smartlead, and other tools.

The latest feature solves a problem every agency faces: keeping client data separated without complex configuration.

How it works:

- Name campaigns with client identifiers: "ACME Corp - Q1 2024" - System automatically detects "ACME Corp" and routes to isolated tables - Each namespace gets its own {namespace}\_user_source table - Complete API for managing namespaces programmatically

Technical highlights:

- Node.js + PostgreSQL - Dynamic table creation with proper indexes - Smart caching layer (5-min TTL) - Zero-downtime migration from single to multi-tenant - ~3ms overhead for namespace detection

We're dogfooding this with 12 clients and it's eliminated hours of manual data wrangling weekly.

Happy to answer questions about the architecture, multi-tenancy patterns, or anything else!
by mothballed | 2025-08-25 15:18:49+00:00
If police have QI to stop your speech with impunity, and actually do so, that is just regulating that speech with extra steps.

>The case you cite doesn't appear to make your point.

It does if you go on and read the judgement, which cites that that it is reasonable to initiate a stop for obscenity, which was part of the reasoning used to grant QI.
by GuB-42 | 2025-08-25 15:19:01+00:00
Is it wrong for Norway to protect its domain? They don't want the ".no" domain to be the target of "domain hacks" from people who have nothing to do with Norway.

So if you want a ".no" domain, prove that you are Norwegian, the limits are to prevent the kind of abuse we see in most other TLDs (domain squatting, etc...). All that seem reasonable to me. Some countries put less restrictions on their own TLDs, especially tiny countries with interesting TLDs which they see as a revenue source, that's fine too, but to each his own.

If you don't like it, use any of the generic TLDs. AFAIK, Norway doesn't put any restriction on them.
by giantrobot | 2025-08-25 15:19:29+00:00
Flickr used to apply an auto-enhancement (sharpening, saturation, etc) effect to photos[0]. It would be really weird seeing a photo locally and then see the copy on Flickr that looked better somehow.

Aside: The mention of Technorati tags (and even Flickr) in the linked blog post hit me right in the Web 2.0 nostalgia feels.

[0] https://colorspretty.blogspot.com/2007/01/flickrs-dirty-litt...
by markusw | 2025-08-25 15:19:39+00:00
I've just tried it out, looks nice!

I've been using TablePlus a lot, but there are some SQLite-specific features I'd really like to have in an app:

- Foreign keys enabled by default, so I don't have to remember to enable that in every session.

- Support for loading extensions automatically. I'm using sqlite-vec for example. Right now, browsing virtual tables for that just doesn't show that much, and executing a query just results in "no such module: vec0"

I'll keep an eye on the project. :-)
by lproven | 2025-08-25 15:20:09+00:00
Now that is the most interesting question anyone here asked.

It looks likely it could take all the big software companies with it, and all the big cloud providers. It may well kill most GPU vendors, most datacentre and hosting companies. Industrial-scale LLMs are propping up the entire cloud business, and that itself was bloated and overgrown. SaaS was a mistake. Anything -aaS was a mistake.

I'd _like_ to see this kill off MS, Oracle etc.

Intel is teetering. NVidia is probably screwed. AMD may follow.

There's geopolitics here too. China wants Taiwan and has actively been divesting from Western hardware and software. So has Russia. Lots of Linux growth there: it's free, it works, they can just take it.

And there's rapid climate change too, which is starting to become visible.

Everyone who manufuctures in Taiwan may well be doomed. But ditto everyone in the tropics, in the newer tech centres: Malaysia, Thailand, etc.

Everyone who gets chips from Taiwan is probably screwed. Everyone who assembles in PacRim and SE Asia too.

That will take down most Western companies.

Apple might weather it: it sells hardware, and it has its own unique OS family. But others make its hardware for it -- in those areas.

Chinese tech may bloom.

Small scale individual FOSS will be OK.

Stuff reusing legacy tech, that can run on old kit.

Everyone's deprecating x86-32. That may bite them hard.

Everything dependent on virtual stuff and public cloud, everything dependent on K8s and remote datacentres, everything you can't run locally on kit you own that sits in premises you own.

That includes a lot of the games industry.

Non-commercial OSes will be OK.

Bad times for RHEL and the clones. Bad times for SUSE and maybe Canonical.

Maybe OK for Debian. Good for Arch & Alpine & Slackware.

Stuff that needs GPUs, bad. Stuff that works fine in standard def on CPU graphics, good.

But I am just indulging my own biases and skepticism here, I freely admit.
by rurp | 2025-08-25 15:20:55+00:00
A 100% increase in software development velocity is a wild claim to assert at this stage. The industry as a whole is not seeing anything like that and the handful of people making claims to that end are executives with a vested interest in boosting the hype. LLMs probably increase prototype or ad-hoc script development by that amount, but that only accounts for a minuscule amount of actual work being done in the industry.

Also whatever LLM productivity gains are currently happening are being massively subsidized. Once companies switch out of lighting money on fire mode most of these products will get dramatically worse and more expensive. Maintaining a cutting edge LLM isn't a railroad that you build once and can run and manage for centuries at a fraction of the initial price, they require constant expensive investment.
by __bb | 2025-08-25 15:21:37+00:00
That's a good point and something I'd not considered.

I'd say the main benefit is that it's tailored only to SQLite's features.

You don't have to tweak a UI tailored for remote connections to work with local files. You don't need to have extra sections dedicated to user management or stored procedures which are inactive. I guess I'm saying that in this case less is more!
by ilaksh | 2025-08-25 15:22:15+00:00
Seems like a great concept. Hope they are commercially successful.

It reminded me about another geothermal energy idea: dig about 3 or so miles straight down and harvest the heat that is there already. I guess that's a lot harder than making a dirt pile. But maybe it could become practical if there was enough commercial effort and large scale manufacturing of the equipment.

Kind of brings it around full bore though. Why do that kind of project when you can just harvest actual fuel like oil or gas?

I think this stuff can become practical with more scale and wide manufacturing of equipment and development of efficient techniques. But it requires you to do a lot of upfront work based on principal rather than the bottom line.

So anyway again great idea because it eliminates a lot of challenges and costs that come with concepts like "Journey to the Center of the Earth" etc.
by hvb2 | 2025-08-25 15:22:29+00:00
If the caller puts it in the query string and you log that? It doesn't have to be valid in your application to make an attacker pass it in.

So unless you're not logging your request path/query string you're doing something very very wrong by your own logic :). I can't imagine diagnosing issues with web requests and not be given the path + query string. You can diagnose without but you're sure not making things easier
by reaperducer | 2025-08-25 15:22:40+00:00
The goal of this app is to provide a comfortable native GUI for SQLite, without it turning into a massive IDE-style app.

As an aside, feature bloat is a massive problem with macOS database tools.

I'd happily pay for something basic, native, and pretty like Sequel Ace†, but all of the other options are Swiss Army knives for power users who need to tweak every little thing. I just want to do some queries.

† I'd pay for Sequel Ace, too, if it didn't crash every time I close a tab.
by techpineapple | 2025-08-25 15:22:44+00:00
Ok, it was -1.75 instead of -2.75. I'm not even on the right, but sometimes I think our bias extends to what it means to be on the other side. No offense to your efforts, but if the goal is to help people lessen political polarization, it feels like this might make it worse.

It is never ok to force someone to keep a child they don't want. -3 Social Bias Also, this was a fun one: Gay marriage is ok, except in cases where it risks the life of a child. (-2.5 social bias)
by whatamidoingyo | 2025-08-25 15:22:52+00:00
I had the same problem with Stripe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44679406

It wasn't for adult/NSFW material, though. They still banned my account. So Stripe most certainly wouldn't save you even if it was available in your country. You can check out the thread above, there are some helpful replies. If you can afford ~$2,000, you have some options like CCBill.

I think the solution should indeed just be crypto. Fook it. If more people start implementing crypto payments, maybe we can normalize it and take just a sliver of power away from these corporations that decide which businesses are allowed to exist.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-08-25 15:23:02+00:00
That's a terrific article!

I spent the majority of my career at an optical equipment manufacturer, and we wrote a color management system to handle 48-bit color, before any OS manufacturers had it.

Non-trivial stuff, but powerful.

I know of at least one technology that works by converting to an esoteric color space, messing with image data there, then converting back.
by IlikeKitties | 2025-08-25 15:23:03+00:00
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Edit: you might also need some beryllium for the neutron gun, you can get that on ebay https://www.ebay.de/itm/266979263956?_skw=beryllium&itmmeta=...

Anyway, i'm on a whole lot of fbi lists now
Show HN: Compress-san, simple batch video compression and SRT subtitle creation
by CameronBanga | 2025-08-25 15:23:18+00:00
Greetings all,

Just released a new iOS app called Compress-san. It's an easy-to-use utility to compress videos taken on iPhone, and then generate SRT files with transcriptions of any spoken word inside of the clip.

Had a friend who was creating work instructions and using videos to insert clips into the work instructions. This app allowed him to generate on-device subtitle SRT files to pass along into another LLM for creation of the general work instructions. He can then use the compressed video to create small video clips of key processes and throw on a shared drive.

Some additional nice features include batch processing of up to 10 videos at once, iPad UI support, local on-device translation of SRT files into 23 languages, and native support of the UI for Spanish and Japanese languages.

Welcome to any feedback or additional ideas.
by camgunz | 2025-08-25 15:23:22+00:00
> I say the tools are better and reading than writing.

No way, models are much, much better at writing code than giving you true and correct information. The failure modes are also a lot easier to spot when writing code: it doesn't compile, tests got skipped, it doesn't run right, etc. If Claude Code gave you incorrect information about a system, the only way to verify is to build a pretty good understanding of that system yourself. And because you've incurred a huge debt here, whoever's building that understanding is going to take much more time to do it.

Until LLMs get way closer (not entirely) to 100%, there's always gonna have to be a human in the loop who understands the code. So, in addition to the above issue you've now got a tradeoff: do you want that human to be able to manage multiple code bases but have to come up to speed on a specific one whenever intervention is necessary, or do you want them to be able to quickly intervene but only in 1 code base?

More broadly, you've also now got a human resource problem. Software engineering is pretty different than monitoring LLMs: most people get into into it because they like writing code. You need software experts in the loop, but when the LLMs take the "fun" part for themselves, most SWEs are no longer interested. Thus, you're left with a small subset of an already pretty small group.

Apologists will point out that LLMs are a lot better in strongly typed languages, in code bases with lots of tests, and using language servers, MCP, etc, for their actions. You can imagine more investments and tech here. The downside is models have to work much, much harder in this environment, and you still need a software expert because the failure modes are far more obscure now that your process has obviated the simple stuff. You've solved the "slop" problem, but now you've got a "we have to spend a lot more money on LLMs and a lot more money on a rare type of expert to monitor them" problem.

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I think what's gonna happen is a division of workflows. The LLM workflows will be cheap and shabby: they'll be black boxes, you'll have to pull the lever over and over again until it does what you want, you'll build no personal skills (because lever pulling isn't a skill), practically all of your revenue--and your most profitable ideas--will go to your rapacious underlying service providers, and you'll have no recourse when anything bad happens.

The good workflows will be bespoke and way more expensive. They'll almost always work, there will be SLAs for when they don't, you'll have (at least some) rights when you use them, they'll empower and enrich you, and you'll have a human to talk to about any of it at reasonable times.

I think jury's out on whether or not this is bad. I'm sympathetic to the "an LLM brain may be better than no brain", but that's hugely contingent on how expensive LLMs actually end up being and any deleterious effects of outsourcing core human cognition to LLMs.
by gwbas1c | 2025-08-25 15:23:22+00:00
> Create and modify tables with ease using Base's visual table editor. No need to write complex CREATE or ALTER statements.

I'm trying to understand who your target audience is? Normally, I think of SQLite as something that only a programmer would use. (And thus these kind of statements happen within an application.)

What kind of use cases are you handling where someone is manually creating / changing a schema?

> Import data from CSV and SQL dump files. Export your results to SQL, delimited text, JSON, and Excel formats.

IE, who's using SQLite in this way, and what are they using it for?
by metalliqaz | 2025-08-25 15:23:24+00:00
In my humble opinion, this kind of thing is the largest blind spot in the current tech economy.

Massive LLMs had a breakout moment with chat, and now everyone has invested HARD into that technology while in fact there is really no good reason to think that massive models (billions of parameters, requiring billions of dollars to train, and requiring power-gulping servers to run) are needed or even preferred for most AI tasks.

We had algorithmic automation for all kinds of things in the 80s, and that has been steadily improving for everything from chess engines to computer vision to content suggestion ever since. Photo touch-up runs on handheld devices and is nearly instantaneous. Self-checkout is ubiquitous. Digital CNC and 3D printing is no longer to relegated to professionals, the point that amateurs can buy off-the-shelf solutions and start creating products with a few mouse clicks.

Billions is being spent on shovels in the current gold rush but are they really needed?
by JohnFen | 2025-08-25 15:23:50+00:00
I've been having great luck avoiding the AI slop videos by avoiding all videos that aren't by youtubers that I already know and trust. A few of them have already posted videos about how YouTube is making their videos look AI generated even though they're not.

If this becomes the normal aesthetic, that would basically make YouTube videos intolerable to watch, whether they're actually AI generated or not.
by SkyPuncher | 2025-08-25 15:24:14+00:00
As someone who worked in fast food in high school, I completely disagree with this.

Order taking via drive through can be surprisingly hard.

* Often lots of background noise

* Sometimes multiple people try to order (often with one of those being way away from the mic)

* People don't always know exactly what they want or what it's called. Sometimes things have a regional or local name that's not on the board. Right now, I order a "$5 meal deal at McDonals". This is often not listed on the board and it's not called "$5 meal deal" - but literally every cashier knows exactly what I'm talking about. I doubt AI would figure this out.

* People often have custom requests that don't follow the "official menu".

* The actual food ticketing system that gets sent to the grill has significant limitations in resolution. If you're doing anything other than a basic deletion, it's likely just coming through to the grill as "ask me".

* It's extremely hard to handle edge cases like makeup meals, incorrect orders, coupons, etc. These generally require human judgement and a bit of contextual understanding. Generally, these are things you only understand by actually looking at the real world. For example, is there an unaccounted burger now sitting at the end of the grill line - looks like someone grabbed the wrong food.

* Human cashiers are really good at hearing someone shoutout something like "ice cream machine is down" or "hold on fries" or "we're out of chicken" or "no fire sauce" and understanding what the means in terms of orders. It's a pain to get an AI system to be able to understand all of this nuance.
by magicalhippo | 2025-08-25 15:24:29+00:00
> Lots of very hateful, negative content too. It didn’t take me long to find the video “why this new artist sucks.”

If you're referring to his video I'm Sorry...This New Artist Completely Sucks[1], then it's a video about a fully AI generated "artist" he made using various AI tools.

So it's not hateful against anyone. Though the title is a bit clickbait-y, I'll give you that.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKxNGFjyRv0
by bryanlarsen | 2025-08-25 15:24:35+00:00
That'd just annoy the 99% of people that agree with McDonald's on what plain means. People at McDonald's are often in a hurry, and some would get really annoyed at stupid questions. Better to piss off the 1% than the 99%.

If you're clarifying at this level, there are likely many other questions that you'd ask.
by adrian_b | 2025-08-25 15:25:03+00:00
Most colors are differentiated in the segment between yellowish green and reddish orange, passing through yellow and orange.

Inside the green segment, there is little color differentiation. All the green hues between 510 nm and 540 nm wavelength look pretty similar, while in the yellow-orange segment a change in wavelength of 1 nm may cause an easily noticeable change in hue.

Also in the blue-green segment, between blue and green, there is easy color differentiation, with the hue changing strongly even for small wavelength differences.

Inside the red, green and blue segments there is little ability to differentiate the colors, unlike in the regions between these segments. This is exactly as expected, because only in the segments between the primary colors you have 2 photoreceptors in the eye that are excited simultaneously, in a ratio that is a function of the color frequency/wavelength. In the frequency/wavelength segments where only 1 of the photoreceptors is excited, the ability to differentiate hues is lost.